All Year All Special Issue: Rare earth luminescent materials 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. Hongjie ZhangHong Zhang Editorial Open Access 02 Sept 2022 Shipborne oceanic high-spectral-resolution lidar for accurate estimation of seawater depth-resolved optical properties Shipborne oceanic high-spectral-resolution lidar for accurate estimation of seawater depth-resolved optical properties Yudi ZhouYang ChenDong Liu Article Open Access 02 Sept 2022 Light People: Professor Baohua Jia Siqiu Guo articles Open Access 31 Aug 2022 Creating and moving nanoantenna cold spots anywhere Alex J. VernonFrancisco J. Rodríguez-Fortuño Article Open Access 30 Aug 2022 NaBiF4-based hollow upconversion nanoparticles for temperature sensing Lining Sun News & Views Open Access 25 Aug 2022 Upconversion FRET quantitation: the role of donor photoexcitation mode and compositional architecture on the decay and intensity based responses Upconverting FRET assays show complex behavior of luminescence kinetics and spectra for various NPs chemical architectures and excitation schemes. Agata M. KotulskaAleksandra Pilch-WróbelArtur Bednarkiewicz Article Open Access 19 Aug 2022 A multichannel optical computing architecture for advanced machine vision We develop Monet: a multichannel optical neural network architecture for a universal multiple-input multiple-channel optical computing based on a novel projection-interference-prediction framework, solving real-world advanced machine vision tasks optically. Zhihao XuXiaoyun YuanLu Fang Article Open Access 18 Aug 2022 Fourier Imager Network (FIN): A deep neural network for hologram reconstruction with superior external generalization A deep learning framework, termed Fourier Imager Network (FIN), performs end-to-end phase recovery and image reconstruction from raw holograms, achieving unprecedented success in generalization to new types of samples. Hanlong ChenLuzhe HuangAydogan Ozcan Article Open Access 16 Aug 2022 Frequency comb-to-comb stabilization over a 1.3-km free-space atmospheric optical link Our remote comb-to-comb stabilization expedites diverse long-distance ground-to-ground or ground-to-satellite applications for 6 THz bandwidth molecule spectroscopy and microwaves generation with phase noise of −80 dBc Hz–1 at 1 Hz. Jaewon YangDong IL LeeSeung-Woo Kim Article Open Access 12 Aug 2022 An excellent deep-ultraviolet birefringent material based on [BO2]∞ infinite chains Fangfang ZhangXinglong ChenShilie Pan Article Open Access 12 Aug 2022