The article presents key principles of an approach to writing impactful review articles.

The editorial introduces the theme issue on orbital angular momentum.

The editorial provides a retrospective glance at 2022, with a bright for the year ahead.

To spotlight advances in thin film lithium niobate technology, we present a special collection.

Advanced Photonics Co-Editors-in-Chief Anatoly Zayats and Xiao-Cong (Larry) Yuan provide a retrospective glance at the journal and share exciting news for the coming year.

Guest editors Chao-Yang Lu (Univ. of Science and Technology of China) and Mario Agio (Univ. of Siegen and CNR-INO) present an Advanced Photonics collection spotlighting quantum science and technologies.

Co-editors in chief Anatoly Zayats and Xiao-Cong (Larry) Yuan look back on Advanced Photonics in 2020 and welcome the new year.

Advanced Photonics Co-Editors-in-Chief Anatoly Zayats and Xiao-Cong (Larry) Yuan introduce the special issue celebrating 60 years of laser.

In this editorial, the co-editors look back on the journal’s first year.

Welcome to a new home for your best optics and photonics research. Advanced Photonics is a highly selective, open-access, international journal that publishes innovative research in all areas of optics and photonics, including fundamental and applied research. Photonics underpins the most impactful technologies of the twenty-first century, contributing and defining such diverse areas as information processing, internet and communications, imaging, sensing and security, healthcare and medicine, and quantum technology, among others. We will publish top-quality original papers, letters, and review articles, reflecting significant advances and breakthroughs in theoretical and experimental optics and photonics research in all areas, and novel applications with considerable potential. We most welcome interdisciplinary research articles demonstrating how photonics advances material science, biology, chemistry, and other disciplines.