Editors’ choice in volume 84, issue 12, December 2020 for the thematic issue “Nano-optics, Photonics and Coherent Spectroscopy” is the paper entitled “Nano-optics of the thin film laser-induced topological structures on solid surface: fundamental phenomena and their applications” by the authors S. N. Bagayev, S. M. Arakelian, A. O. Kucherik, D. N. Bukharov, O. Ya. Butkovsky.