Editors’ choice for the thematic issue “Advances in Modern Photonics” is the paper entitled “Laser Synthesis of Bismuth Titanate Bi12TiO20 for Use in Photocatalysis” by E. D. Fakhrutdinova, L. S. Egorova & V. A. Svetlichnyi (Bulletin of the Russian Academy of Sciences: Physics, 2022, Volume 86, Issue 10, P. 1168-1173).