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Prof. Stefan Hell was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2014 for being the first to propose that the optical diffraction limit can be broken, and for successfully developing the STED super-resolution fluorescence microscope.
Prof. Martin Booth, as one of the first people to explore the practical use of adaptive optics in microscopy, shares with us his valuable experience and insight
Prof. Thomas G. Brown from the University of Rochester introduced the term “cylindrical vector beam” to describe unique and unconventional polarization states.
Prof. Xi-Cheng Zhang, as a pioneer in the field of terahertz technology, has successfully generated terahertz waves using water, changing how we see water with THz wave forever.
This special issue covers a series of cutting-edge works on exploring novel rare earth luminescent materials and their applications in lighting, display, information storage, sensing, and bioimaging as well as therapy.
Prof. Yang Gao, a true “Space Explorer”, has more than 20 years of experience in AI Robotics research and development for extreme environments such as space.
As a “pioneer” in the field of terahertz in China, Academician Songlin Zhuang has cultivated many constructive results on this “Frontier”, let us to see his optical road.