PIER Photonics is an international, premier open-access journal dedicated to publishing transformative research at the forefront of light science and technology. Our mission is to advance photonics as the foundational discipline enabling next-generation solutions in information technology, health, sustainability, and fundamental science. The journal provides a unified, high-impact platform for work that bridges fundamental discovery, technological innovation, and interdisciplinary application. PIER Photonics has a focus on several dynamic and strategic domains where photonics is driving paradigm shifts:

• Fundamental Science: Exploring novel light-matter interactions, quantum and nonlinear phenomena, and generating breakthrough tools.
• Materials and Nanostructures: Engineering metasurfaces, 2D material platforms, and novel photonic materials for unprecedented control of light.
• Integrated Photonic Systems: Advanced silicon photonics and hybrid integration for chip-scale systems in communications, computing, and sensing, including emerging applications such as hyperspectral imaging chips (on-chip spectrometers), LiDAR, and intelligent photonic processors.
• Healthcare and Life Sciences: Harnessing light for breakthroughs in bio-imaging, biosensing, diagnostics, and therapeutics.
• Sustainability and Information Technology: Developing efficient light sources, photonic solutions for energy, and next-generation technologies for optical interconnects, computing, and displays.
• Emerging Frontiers: Dedicated to other visionary work that defines the next paradigms of photonics.

We seek original research, authoritative reviews, and forward-looking perspectives that demonstrate scientific rigor, high novelty, and clear potential for broad impact. By connecting deep physical insight with engineering application across these strategic domains, PIER Photonics aims to be the essential forum for research that will shape the future of photonics and its role in society.