Being the most active field in modern physics, Optical Physics has developed many new branches and interdisciplinary fields overlapping with various classical disciplines. This series summarizes the advancements of optical physics in the past twenty years in the following fields: High Field Laser Physics, Precision Laser Spectroscopy, Nonlinear Optics, Nanophotonics, Quantum Optics, Ultrafast Optics, Condensed Matter Optics, and Molecular Biophotonics.

Zhiyi Wei, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, PR China; Heping Zeng, East China Normal University, Shanghai, PR China; Ya Cheng, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, PR China; Shaoqun Zeng, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, PR China; Xiaojun Liu, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, PR China; Qihuang Gong, Peking University, Beijing, PR China.