Preface

Since 2011 the Portuguese Society for Optics and Photonics celebrates Optics and Photonics and its remarkable contribution to the development of our societies and humankind organizing the Applications in Optics and Photonics, AOP, international conferences. Our conferences are designed to foster the establishment of the widest range of cooperation projects and relationships with colleagues and institutions from all around the world while increasing the external visibility of Portugal' Optics and Photonics research.

After two and half years of confinement and major constraints due to the global Covid19 pandemic, the Portuguese Optics and Photonics community and friends from all over the world meet again in-person in another exciting most enjoyable and highly successful AOP conference.

With the renewed and recharged enthusiasm and commitment of the Portuguese Optics and Photonics community and all the over two hundred participants, the 5th International Conference on Applications in Optics and Photonics, AOP2022, toke place July 18 to 22, 2022, at the welcoming UNESCO World Heritage historical city of Guimarães in the beautiful northwest of Portugal.

Five plenary, twenty three keynote and seventeen invited lectures by world renowned researchers and scholars as well as top level young researchers in all fields of Optics and Photonics, set the high quality standard of a varied and exciting scientific program. The proceedings book herein reunites a good number of interesting papers in different fields of Optics and Photonics contributing to assess the state-of-the art on a range of O&P subjects in Portugal and abroad, and to foresee the future of research in Optics and Photonics and of its remarkable contribution to the development of our societies and humankind.

Braga, October 21, 2022.

Manuel Filipe Pereira da Cunha Martins Costa (Editor and chairperson of the AOP2022 conference)

List of AOP 2022 Committees are available in this Pdf.