10^th Anniversary of Light: Science & Applications: Highlighted Papers

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Light: Science & Applications (LSA) publishes high quality optics and photonics researches, including fundamental research and the important issues in engineering and applied sciences. LSA is an open access fully peer-reviewed publication by Springer Nature (formerly known as Nature Publishing Group).
LSA has received its latest Impact Factor of 17.782, ranking No.3 among all optics journals indexed by SCI.
The scope of LSA covers, but not limited to, the following areas:

Biophotonics and Medical Optics
Fiber Optics and Optical Communications
Green Photonics
Integrated and Optoelectronics Devices
Lasers and Laser Optics
Micro- and Nano-photonics
Nonlinear Optics and Ultrafast Optics
Optical Imaging and Display
Optical Materials, Metamaterials and Photonic Crystals
Optical Memory and Data Storage
Optical Metrology and Detection
Optical Spectroscopy
Quantum Optics and Quantum Information

Coding metamaterials, digital metamaterials and programmable metamaterials
Tie Jun Cui, Mei Qing Qi, Xiang Wan, Jie Zhao & Qiang Cheng

Ultra-thin, planar, Babinet-inverted plasmonic metalenses
Xingjie Ni, Satoshi Ishii, Alexander V Kildishev & Vladimir M Shalaev

Generating optical orbital angular momentum at visible wavelengths using a plasmonic metasurface
Ebrahim Karimi, Sebastian A Schulz, Israel De Leon, Hammam Qassim, Jeremy Upham & Robert W Boyd

Ultrafast laser processing of materials: from science to industry
Mangirdas Malinauskas, Albertas Žukauskas, Satoshi Hasegawa, Yoshio Hayasaki, Vygantas Mizeikis, Ričardas Buividas & Saulius Juodkazis

Optical vortices 30 years on: OAM manipulation from topological charge to multiple singularities
Yijie Shen, Xuejiao Wang, Zhenwei Xie, Changjun Min, Xing Fu, Qiang Liu, Mali Gong & Xiaocong Yuan

Helicity dependent directional surface plasmon polariton excitation using a metasurface with interfacial phase discontinuity
Lingling Huang, Xianzhong Chen, Benfeng Bai, Qiaofeng Tan, Guofan Jin, Thomas Zentgraf & Shuang Zhang

Phase recovery and holographic image reconstruction using deep learning in neural networks
Yair Rivenson, Yibo Zhang, Harun Günaydın, Da Teng & Aydogan Ozcan

Liquid crystal display and organic light-emitting diode display: present status and future perspectives
Hai-Wei Chen, Jiun-Haw Lee, Bo-Yen Lin, Stanley Chen & Shin-Tson Wu

Metallic nanostructures for light trapping in energy-harvesting devices
Chuan Fei Guo, Tianyi Sun, Feng Cao, Qian Liu & Zhifeng Ren

Celebrate a decade of publishing: ten things in ten years
Jianlin Cao

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