Light Manipulation and Applications (LMA) seeks high-quality submissions that advance the understanding and practical use of light manipulation across diverse scientific, technological, and engineering domains. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
• Structured light: generation, manipulation, transformation, characterization and detection
• Techniques for tailoring and characterizing structured light fields
• Optical physics: propagation, interference, diffraction, and angular momentum of light
• Optical coherence and partially coherent light fields • Statistical optics, including speckle phenomena and light scattering
• Vector beams, singular optics, and optical vortices Spatiotemporally structured light: space–time coupling, time-varying fields, and polychromatic pulses
• Topological properties of light: singular optics, optical vortices, Skyrmions, Hopfions, and others
• Structured light in quantum optics, ultrafast optics, and nonlinear optics
• Advanced metasurfaces and nanophotonic platforms for light field structuring
• Applications of structured light in light–matter interactions, imaging, holography, communication, sensing, metrology, information processing, high-energy physics, and beyond