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Calls for Papers:
Gradient-Index Optics
Optical and Hybrid Imaging and Processing for Big Data Problems
Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Explosive Sensing
Terahertz Physics and Applications
Freeform Optics
Single-Photon Detection, Generation, and Applications
Human Vision
Ocean Optics
Ultrashort Pulsed Laser Technology and Applications Engineering
Laser Sensing and Imaging
Infrared Fiber Optics
Correlation Optics
November 2013
Gradient-Index Optics
Guest Editors:
Predrag Milojkovic
U.S. Army Research Laboratory
RDRL-SEE-E
2800 Powder Mill Road
Adelphi, Maryland 20783-1197
Tel: (301) 394-2460
E-mail: predrag.milojkovic.civ@mail.mil
Stefanie Tompkins
Strategic Technology Office
DARPA
675 N. Randolph Street
Arlington, Virginia 22203-2114
Tel: 703-248-1540
E-mail: stefanie.tompkins@darpa.mil
Ravindra Athale
Program Officer, EO/IR
Office of Naval Research
875 N. Randolph Street, Suite 1425
Arlington, Virginia 22203
Tel: 703-588-1916
Fax: 703-696-1331
E-mail: ravindra.athale@navy.mil
Call for Papers: Gradient index optics (GRIN) involves materials whose refractive index changes in a controlled manner as a function of spatial coordinates. GRIN lenses have long offered the promise of greater control over light within individual lenses, leading to fewer and smaller lenses without sacrificing performance. GRIN optics technology has been used extensively in fiber-optics communications where index profile is designed to control modal characteristics and propagation properties of fibers. GRIN optics are also used in copiers and scanners to perform large-area high-resolution imaging over short operating distances. However, limited availability of GRIN materials, design tools, metrology, and fabrication capabilities have precluded their wider implementation for other imaging and nonimaging tasks.
Recent advances in materials and fabrication have opened up possibilities for much wider GRIN optics applications to long-range imaging and nonimaging systems. Methods and techniques have been proposed to allow arbitrary control over refractive index profiles over three spatial dimensions. It is anticipated that these developments will lead to innovative designs in imaging and concentrator optics. Of course, much work remains to be done before this potential is fully realized.
This special section of Optical Engineering is designed to provide a view into current state of the art in materials, fabrication technology, design concepts, metrology, and applications of GRIN optics.
Topics may include, but are not limited to:
- Design for manufacture for any particular material system or fabrication technique
- New fabrication methods, to include layered material systems
- Design and/or fabrication of complex (e.g., nonrotationally symmetric) GRIN profiles
- Rapid metrology of GRIN lenses
- Optical design and new design tools for GRIN optics
- Optical performance of newly developed GRIN materials, including chromatic, thermal, and index discretization effects in novel GRIN materials
- Applications of GRIN optics in commercial and DoD systems.
Closed for submissions.
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January 2014
Optical and Hybrid Imaging and Processing for Big Data Problems
Guest Editors:
Khan M. Iftekharuddin
Old Dominion University
Electrical and Computer Engineering
231 Kaufman Hall
Norfolk, Virginia 23529
Tel: 757-683-5469
Fax: 757-683-3220
E-mail: iftekhar@odu.edu
Abdul A. S. Awwal
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
L-395, P.O. Box -808
Livermore, California 94551-0808
Phone: 925-423-8780
Fax: 925-423-7144
E-mail: awwal1@llnl.gov
S. Susan Young
U.S. Army Research Laboratory
Attention: RDRL-SES-E
2800 Powder Mill Road
Adelphi, Maryland 20783
Phone: 301-394-0230
Fax: 301-394-5234
E-mail: shiqiong.susan.young@us.army.mil;
shiqiong.s.young.civ@mail.mil
Ghaleb M. Abdulla
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Center for Applied Scientific Computing
E-mail: abdulla1@llnl.gov
Call for Papers: There has been an explosion of large-scale, diverse, and high-resolution imaging data sets (big data) that allow for data-intensive decision making at a level never before imagined (http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=504767&org=CISE&from=home). New approaches to data collection such as optical and digital-optical hybrid imaging (OHIP) techniques, and data analysis methods such as statistical and mathematical algorithms, prediction techniques, and modeling methods, and new technologies for sharing data and information are enabling a paradigm shift in scientific investigation. Advances in machine learning, data mining, and visualization are enabling new ways of extracting useful information in a timely fashion from massive data sets, which complement and extend existing methods of hypothesis testing and statistical inference. Optical and digital-optical hybrid techniques can play a crucial role in big data acquisition, analysis, visualization, storing, transmitting, and sharing. Consequently, the goal of this special section is to identify and publicize these major scientific and engineering breakthroughs in OHIP for big data problems.
Topics may range from practical applications through experimental results and technological development to formalized mathematical theory. Papers are solicited on the following topics, including, but not limited to:
- Imaging techniques, algorithms, and devices for big data
algorithms for large-scale data processing (transformation, reduction, merging, etc.)
- optical systems for 3-D pattern recognition, 3-D imaging, and big data image processing
- algorithms and implementation of efficient rendering for 3-D visualization from multiple views with the input of 2-D video and depth
- computational sensing and computational imaging for big data processing
- optical systems and algorithms for big data such as synthetic aperture radar, infrared, visible, millimeter wave, microwave, ladar, or medical image/signal processing and recognition
- design and implementation of high-speed digital computation circuitry for big data
- Innovative implementation and application of conventional optical and hybrid (digital-optical) architectures for such imaging and image-processing techniques
- Large-scale image data analysis algorithms including reconstruction, registration, fusion, visualization, virtual reality, data curation analysis, mining tools, and large-scale simulations and analysis of large and heterogeneous collections of data including multispectral or temporal/spatial data
- Algorithm and device-specific optimization techniques
- Emerging OHIP applications in big data processing, including medical informatics, bioscience, pattern recognition, biometric recognition, decisions and knowledge-based systems, neural networks, man-machine communication, human factors, and telemedicine.
Manuscripts due 1 June 2013.
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February 2014
Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Explosive Sensing
Guest Editor:
Augustus W. Fountain III
Edgewood Chemical Biological Center
5183 Blackhawk Road
Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland 21010-5424
Tel: 410-436-0683
E-mail: augustus.w.fountain@us.army.mil
Call for papers: Detection and identification of hazardous chemical, biological, radiological, and explosive (CBRE) materials plays a large role in ensuring homeland security and defense. Rapid determination of hazards can save the lives of civilians, military personnel, and first responders by limiting their exposure and identifying the specific hazard for treatment of those contaminated or infected. In addition, there is pervasive interest among diverse disciplines such as medicine, law enforcement, explosive ordinance disposal, environmental protection, industrial manufacturing, and food processing to develop capabilities for the rapid detection and identification of various chemical markers.
Recent advancements in optical techniques have focused on the detection and identification of chemical and biological materials. Many of these same techniques can also be used to detect disease-causing contagions, toxic industrial chemicals (TICs), or toxic industrial materials (TIMs) encountered either in combat or in the response to an industrial incident; be it accidental or a deliberate act of sabotage. In addition to chemical and biological threats, there is an increasing demand to protect borders, ports, and other geographical points of entry, from the emergent threats of improvised explosive devices (IEDs), homemade explosives (HMEs), and radiological dispersal devices. These threats have elevated the importance of optical technologies for the reliable detection, classification, and identification of asymmetric threats.
Optical sensing techniques are well suited to this challenge, as they provide nonintrusive and noncontact means of identifying CBRE material. Techniques that rely on detecting the response of light-matter interactions used in homeland security and defense applications can also be leveraged for use in forensic analysis, toxic industrial chemical monitoring, drug and narcotics investigations, explosive site exploitation and disposal, medical diagnostics, and food, agriculture, and water monitoring. The scientific principles behind many CBRE detection technologies are similar, despite their diverse application areas.
In this special section, we invite researchers to submit original applications of optical technologies applied to CBRE sensing. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
- Fluorescence detection [e.g., ultraviolet fluorescence, direct fluorescence imaging and identification, fluorescent labeling, fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET), laser-induced fluorescence (LIF), photofragmentation LIF, etc.]
- Raman spectroscopy and imaging (e.g., ultraviolet Raman, resonance Raman, surface-enhanced Raman, nonlinear Raman techniques, tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy, etc.)
- Colorimetric detection
- Light detection and ranging (LIDAR)
- Infrared detection
- Quantum cascade lasers
- Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS)/laser-induced plasma spectroscopy (LIPS)
- Photoacoustic spectroscopy
- Millimeter-wave imaging/terahertz spectroscopy
- Photothermal spectroscopy
- Gamma radiation detection
- Laser-induced ionization [e.g., matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI)] for CBNE detection
- Novel optical materials and micromechanical components for CBRE sensing
- CBRE environmental monitoring
- Biological surveillance and diagnostics
- Biologically inspired or biomimetic optical CBRE sensors
- Active/passive detection and identification.
Manuscripts due 1 August 2013.
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March 2014
Terahertz Physics and Applications
Guest Editors:
Mehdi Anwar
University of Connecticut
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Storrs, Connecticut 06269-2157
Tel: (860) 486 3979
E-mail: anwara@engr.uconn.edu
Joseph S. Melinger
Naval Research Laboratory
Electronics Science and Technology Division, Code 6812
Washington, DC 20375
Tel: (202) 767 5461
E-mail: joseph.melinger@nrl.navy.mil
Ekmel Ozbay
Bilkent University
Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Bilkent, Ankara 06800 Turkey
Tel: +90 312 290 1966
E-mail: ozbay@bilkent.edu.tr
Masayoshi Tonouchi
Osaka University
Institute of Laser Engineering
2-6 Yamada-Oka, Suita-city
Osaka 565-0871, Japan
Tel: +81 6 6879 7981
E-mail: tonouchi@ile.osaka-u.ac.jp
Call for Papers: Radiation in the terahertz range, loosely defined as 0.1-10 THz, spans the relatively undeveloped gap between electronics at the low-frequency end of the spectrum, and optics at the high-frequency end. This extremely expansive and spectrally unique portion of the electromagnetic spectrum was initially of high interest for applications such as space-based communications, upper atmospheric sensing and communications, and potentially for short-range terrestrial communications and nonintrusive package screening. More recently, radiation in the THz range has been identified as ideal for an extremely wide range of applications from security to medical systems.
Terahertz radiation, which can be transmitted nearly transparently through most nonmetallic and nonpolar materials, enables extremely accurate and noninvasive detection of concealed objects and other contraband substances through clothing, cardboard, and other typical packing materials. Also, biological and chemical agents have been shown to exhibit a strong "fingerprint" response to THz radiation, leading to possible applications. The nondestructive nature of THz radiation allows its use with living tissue, making it a promising alternative to radiation in existing medical systems (x-ray, MRI, etc.) for imaging and medical diagnostics. Terahertz imaging also shows promise in characterizing fundamental semiconductor growth processes and inspection of integrated circuits, as well as the manufacture of other materials such as plastics. Additionally, the successful realization of metamaterials, plasmonics and nanoelectronics-based THz devices and systems and their integration with conventional devices and systems may allow novel applications.
However, challenges remain. Defense/security applications require refinement of THz systems to enable very near-term payoffs, such as security screening and the detailed characterization of materials such as explosives and pharmaceuticals. Significant advancements are needed in THz source and detector technology to enable medium-range applications such as identification of biological and chemical agents. Finally, new breakthroughs in sensing science phenomenology and sensor architectures will be required for enabling long-term applications such as detailed spectroscopic characterizations of biological molecules and nanoscale systems.
We invite original papers in the following general areas:
- Novel terahertz devices: electronics/photonics/plasmonics
- Terahertz generation, propagation, and interaction
- Passive components and materials issues in terahertz
- Terahertz sources, detectors, and receivers
- Terahertz system architectures and distributed networks
- Terahertz spectroscopy, imaging, and diagnostics
- Terahertz nanoelectronics
- Advanced materials (e.g., metamaterials, memristor), assemblies, and systems
- New frontiers in terahertz research
- Novel applications:
- integrated circuit inspection and counterfeit detection
- industrial inspection
- defense and security
- biomedical
- information processing and computing
- electronics/information/communication systems
- integration of advanced materials with conventional THz devices and systems.
Manuscripts due 1 July 2013.
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March 2014
Freeform Optics
Guest Editors:
Groot Gregory
Synopsys, Inc.
377 Simarano Drive, Suite 300
Marlborough, Massachusetts 01752-3096
E-mail: Groot.Gregory@synopsys.com
Craig Olson
L-3 WESCAM Sonoma Operations
428 Aviation Boulevard
Santa Rosa, California 95403
E-mail: craig.olson@l-3com.com
Florian Fournier
Synopsys, Inc.
3280 East Foothill Boulevard, Suite 300
Pasadena, California 91107-3103
E-mail: Florian.Fournier@synopsys.com
Call for Papers: The use of freeform (nonrotationally symmetric) surfaces in optical system design has evolved from a largely theoretical concept into a fully fledged viable technology capable of solving previously intractable problems. The process of designing real systems with freeform optics, which are now in common use in commercial optical systems, has been made possible through new developments in many areas, including the fundamental mathematics of shape description, advances in design methods, tolerancing techniques, and simulation tools. In particular, a major catalyst in opening this newly practical solution space has been the availability of new manufacturing and testing methods.
Both imaging and nonimaging systems are beginning to benefit from freeform optics. Illumination systems employing freeform optics can be found in such applications as street lights, automotive headlights, secondary optics for light-emitting diodes, and laser-beam shaping. Freeform optical components are also beginning to appear in traditional imaging systems offering additional degrees of freedom for aberration correction, reduced size and weight, and otherwise improved system performance.
This special section of Optical Engineering explores all aspects of designing, tolerancing, and manufacturing with freeform optics, as well as the applications made possible.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Computer modeling of systems, components, and surfaces
- Methods to describe surfaces and components
- Design of free-form surfaces and components
- Applications utilizing freeform optical components
- Manufacturing methods to produce freeform optics
- Testing and quality assessment tools used for freeform optics
- Design for manufacturing.
Manuscripts due 1 July 2013.
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April 2014
Single-Photon Detection, Generation, and Applications
Guest Editors:
Alex McIntosh
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Electro-Optical Materials and Devices Group
Tel: 781-981-4736
Fax: 781-981-0122
E-mail: alex@ll.mit.edu
Mark Itzler
Princeton Lightwave Inc.
2555 US. Highway 130 Ste. 1
Cranbury, New Jersey 08512-3509
Tel: 609-495-2551
Fax: 609-395-9113
E-mail: mitzler@princetonlightwave.com
Call for papers: The past two decades have produced significant advancement in the state of the art for many single-photon generation and detection technologies. The use of single-photon technologies is being pursued over an enormous portion of the spectrum ranging from ultraviolet to millimeter wavelengths, and the breadth of applications that rely on these technologies-including fluorescence techniques, quantum information processing, and photon-starved imaging and communications-continues to grow rapidly. This special section of Optical Engineering will present a critical overview of the current state of the art, as well as detailed analysis of promising new single-photon component technologies and applications.
Original papers are solicited in the following areas:
- Single-photon detectors (SPD), such as photomultiplier tubes, avalanche photodiodes, superconducting detectors, and other novel SPD technologies
- Enabling detection, quench, processing, and read-out electronics
- Single-photon sources
- Single-photon manipulation
- Applications of single photons and photon counting
- Metrology of single-photon component technologies.
Authors interested in contributing tutorial or review papers should contact one of the Guest Editors with suggestions for desired subject matter and content.
Manuscripts due 1 August 2013.
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April 2014
Human Vision
Guest Editors:
Eli Peli
Schepens Eye Research Institute, Massachusetts Eye and Ear
Harvard Medical School
20 Staniford Street
Boston, Massachusetts 02114-2500
E-mail: eli_peli@meei.harvard.edu
Joyce Farrell
Stanford University
Center for Image Systems Engineering
350 Serra Mall
Stanford, California 94305-4020
E-mail: joyce_farrell@stanford.edu
Stephen Burns
Indiana University
School of Optometry
800 E. Atwater
Bloomington, Indiana 47405
E-mail: staburns@indiana.edu
Susana Marcos
Institute of Optics
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas
Serrano 121
28006 Madrid, Spain
E-mail: susana@io.cfmac.csic.es
Call for Papers: Knowledge of human vision is critical in developing optical systems that present images to the eye, whether passive lens based, or electro-optical image acquisition, or display systems. Conversely, knowledge of optics is critical in developing evaluations of technologies for improving vision both through improving the optics of the eye or for studying human vision and the visual system in health and in disease. This special section will focus on recent developments at the interface between vision science and optical engineering. Thus, we are seeking papers that can lead to practical improvements in both our ability to present information to the visual systems, as well as papers that use optics to improve our understanding of the visual system.
Topics include, but are not limited to:
- Image quality
- Passive optics
- Displays, cameras, and total systems
- Coding (compression)
- Human visual system's role in imaging
- Vision and 3-D imaging and display
- Vision and high-dynamic-range imaging
- Vision and mobile imaging and displays
- Vision in rendering and displaying information for vision
- Perceptual aspects of imaging systems
- Information content of real-world images
- Optical applications in vision care and rehabilitation
- Optics and imaging of the eye
- Adaptive optics
- Scanning optics
- OCT
- Functional imaging of the eye and brain
- Measuring, analyzing, and improving the eye's optics
- Optical quality of the eyes
- Ophthalmic lenses and vision aids.
Manuscripts due 1 August 2013.
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May 2014
Ocean Optics
Guest Editor:
Weilin Hou
Ocean Hydro Optics Sensors and Systems Section
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
1009 Balch Boulevard
Stennis Space Center, Mississippi 39529
Tel: 228-688-5257
E-mail: Weilin.Hou@nrlssc.navy.mil
Call for Papers: Fundamental research on topics of light interactions with the ocean provides us with improved means of probing physical processes in the ocean, and benefits optical system design and performance of both above and in-water systems. One emphasis of recent research is to investigate how particle suites and oceanic microstructure collectively influence the propagation of light in the ocean and at interfaces, such as those of the air-sea, strong internal density gradients, and in nepheloid layers. These effects can be examined in terms of light intensity, which is critical in passive and active sensing of the ocean; in terms of polarization, which shows new promise in understanding processes from the micro-scale, such as basic cell structure of primary producers to large-scale oceanic phenomena relating to internal waves in the ocean; and in terms of inelastic scattering, including fluorescence, Raman and Brillouin scattering, and bioluminescence. Thanks to the transmission windows of visible lights in the water, optical systems are widely used in large-scale sensing of oceanic features, especially vertical structures from space. The last few decades have seen vast improvements in the capabilities offered by remote sensing of the ocean, from ocean color, to sea surface temperature and subsurface distribution of temperature and particle layers, to surface roughness and circulation patterns, with increased spatial and temporal resolution and coverage by various active and passive sensors. Underwater sensing for the purpose of target detection and optical communication is an important area of past and future research. Underwater imaging techniques have increased our sensing range by several folds in recent years. Next-generation sensors, especially those designed for unmanned underwater and aerial vehicles, as well as for long term deployment on moorings and floats, will further enhance our capability to tackle challenging issues that arise in ocean monitoring, such as oil spills and red tides.
We invite original papers in these and related research focus areas:
- Radiative transfer theory and model validation, especially those involving interfaces and shallow waters, the influences of optical turbulence, particle scattering, their coupled effects, and polarization
- Passive remote sensing of the ocean, theory and applications, especially those on ocean color remote sensing advancement in algorithms and new sensors, on sea surface temperature sensing in both infrared and microwaves, as well as calibration and validation processes
- Active remote sensing of the ocean, lidar model, theory, systems, and observations
- Underwater imaging theory and system development, processing, lidar compressive sensing
- Inelastic scattering processes in the ocean (Raman, Brillouin, as well as bioluminescence) and application in understanding related oceanic processes
- New sensors and systems, especially those related to unmanned underwater vehicle and unmanned aerial vehicle platforms, and unattended sensing modes serving floats, moorings, and observatories.
Manuscripts due 1 August 2013.
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May 2014
Ultrashort Pulsed Laser Technology and Applications Engineering
Guest Editors:
Marcos Dantus
Michigan State University
Department of Chemistry
East Lansing, Michigan 48824-1322
Email: dantus@msu.edu
Gerald C. Manke II
Naval Surface Warfare Center - Crane
300 Hwy 361
Crane, Indiana 47522
Email: Gerald.manke@navy.mil
Call for papers: Research and development activities in the last two decades have led to significant advances in the state-of-the-art for ultrashort pulsed laser technologies. Compact, high-peak-power systems and components have been demonstrated in the laboratory and transitioned into commercial systems. Moreover, ultrashort pulsed laser unique effects and phenomena have spawned intriguing research techniques and applications, spanning the range of fundamental physical studies, to bulk material treatments for commercial products, to innovative medical treatments and diagnostic instruments.
The goal of this special section is to bring together up-to-date information on ultrashort pulsed laser concepts, components, technologies, systems, and applications. It will provide a useful overview to specialists in the field and to engineers who seek to understand this unique field of laser technology. Original papers are solicited on, but not limited to:
- Novel laser architectures
- Novel laser devices and components (solid-state and fiber media, dispersion compensation, phase modulation techniques, optical parametric oscillators, etc.)
- Novel ultrashort pulsed laser manufacturing techniques
- Ultrashort pulsed laser-based instrumentation
- Innovative techniques for ultrashort pulse characterization
- Applications of ultrashort pulsed lasers in biology and medicine
- Applications of ultrashort pulsed lasers in industrial cutting and machining
- Applications of ultrashort pulsed lasers in sensing
- Applications of ultrashort pulsed lasers in communications
- Applications of ultrashort pulsed lasers in supercontinuum generation.
Manuscripts due 1 August 2013.
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June 2014
Laser Sensing and Imaging
Guest Editors:
Chunqing Gao
Beijing Institute of Technology
School of Opto-Electronics
No. 5 Zhongguancun South Str
Beijing 100081, China
Tel: +86 (10)68912574
E-mail: gao@bit.edu.cn
Dingyuan Tang
Nanyang Technological University
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
50 Nanyang Avenue
Singapore 639798
Tel: +65-67904337
E-mail: edytang@ntu.edu.sg
Call for papers: In recent years technologies related to laser sensing and detection have made rapid progress. A variety of novel solid-state lasers, fiber lasers, gas lasers, and nonlinear optical devices have been developed for laser sensing and imaging applications. Doppler wind LIDAR and differential absorption LIDAR are constructed for measuring wind and greenhouse gases, such as CO2, water vapor, and methane. These laser remote-sensing devices play an important role for monitoring climate change and in weather prediction. In addition, laser sensing and imaging systems have also found widespread application in industrial, agricultural, medical, and biological fields, and in also space and ocean research.
The goal of this special section is to bring together up-to-date information on laser sensing and imaging, including novel laser devices, technologies, and systems. It will provide a useful overview to specialists in the field and to engineers who will apply the technology. Original papers are solicited on, but not limited to:
- Review of laser sensing and detection systems
- Novel laser devices (solid-state lasers, fiber lasers, semiconductor lasers, gas lasers, optical parametric oscillators, etc.)
- Novel technologies for laser sensing and detection
- Wind LIDAR and differential absorptions LIDAR
- Application of laser sensing and imaging in biological fields
- Application of laser sensing and imaging in industrial and agricultural fields
- Application of laser sensing and imaging in space and ocean research.
Manuscripts due 1 September 2013.
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July 2014
Infrared Fiber Optics
Guest Editors:
Daniel Gibson
Naval Research Laboratory
Optical Sciences - Code 5620
4555 Overlook Ave SW
Washington, DC 20375
Tel: (202)767-5630
E-mail: daniel.gibson@nrl.navy.mil
James Harrington
Rutgers University
School of Engineering
607 Taylor Road
Piscataway, New Jersey 08854
Tel: (848) 445-3932
E-mail: jaharrin@rutgers.edu
Call for papers: Infrared (IR) fiber optics, operating at wavelengths from 2-12 µm and beyond, play important roles in defense and commercial applications including chemical sensing, radiometry, thermal imaging, and laser power delivery. While technical achievements in infrared fibers have traditionally lagged behind those silica fibers used in telecommunications, many meaningful advances have been made in the last 20 years. This special section will present an overview of the state of the art in IR fibers and their applications.
Original papers are solicited on recent advancements and novel developments in infrared fiber optics including, but not limited to, the following areas:
- glass fibers
- crystal fibers (single crystal, polycrystalline, or ceramic fibers)
- hollow waveguides
- imaging fibers
- microstructured and photonic crystal fibers
- multiband (SWIR, MWIR, LWIR) fibers
- applications and novel devices including fiber-optic sensors
- laser power delivery and beam combining
- nonlinear and active fibers for optical power generation and wavelength conversion.
Manuscripts due 1 October 2013.
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August 2014
Correlation Optics
Guest Editors:
Oleg V. Angelsky
Chernivtsi National University
2 Kotsyubinsky Str.
Chrnivtsi 58012, Ukraine
Tel: 803722-44730
E-mail: angelsky@itf.cv.ua
Peter V. Polyanskii
Chernivtsi National University
2 Kotsyubinsky Str.
Chrnivtsi 58012, Ukraine
Tel: 803722-44730
E-mail: polyanskii@itf.cv.ua
Wei Wang
Heriot Watt University
School of Engineering & Physical Sciences; Mechanical, Process & Energy Engineering
NS 2.22, Heriot-Watt University
Edinburgh, EH14 4AS United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0) 131 451 3141
E-mail: w.wang@hw.ac.uk
Dmitry Zimnyakov
Saratov State Technical University
77, Polytechnicheskaya St.
Saratov, Russian Federation, 410054
Tel: +7 (8452)998624
E-mail: zimnykov@mail.ru
Konstantin Bliokh
National University of Ireland
Galway
Tel: +353-91-492985 extn 2985
E-mail: k.bliokh@gmail.com
Alain Dieterlen
Université de Haute-Alsace
12 rue des Frères Lumière
68093 Mulhouse Cedex
Mulhouse, France
Tel: 03 89 33 76 65
E-mail: alain.dieterlen@uha.fr
Ihor I. Mokhun
Chernivtsi National University
2 Kotsyubinsky Str.
Chrnivtsi 58012, Ukraine
Tel: 803722-44730
E-mail: mokhun@itf.cv.ua
Call for Papers: Optical correlation techniques including regular and polarization interferometry, interference/diffraction microscopy, specklometry, holographic correlometry, fractal optics, and measurement of optical chaos and optical singularities constitute a promising and avalanche-like area of optical information technology. Such techniques serve for solving diverse applied problems ranging from industrial quality control to modern telecommunications and life sciences. The purpose of this special section is to highlight novel concepts and developments related to optical correlation data processing and to discuss recent progress in applications of them.
Areas of interest for this special section include the topics listed below. Review papers that broadly cover history and current state of the art in these areas have been invited. Submitted manuscripts should provide greater technical depth in narrower topics within the same general areas. They should focus on current state of the art, plans, and technical issues which limit progress or need to be overcome.
- Modern trends in fundamentals and applications of correlation optics-coherence, polarization, diffraction, and propagation
- Optical correlation aspects of singular optics
- Optical correlation diagnostics of random media
- Biomedical correlation optics.
Manuscripts due 1 November 2013.
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Published Special Sections
High Dynamic Range Imaging (October 2013)
Guest Editors: Touradj Ebrahimi and Andrew G. Tescher
Speckle Metrology (October 2013)
Guest Editors: Ángel F. Doval, Cristina Trillo, and José Carlos López Vázquez
Space Telescopes II (September 2013)
Guest Editors: Jim Oschmann, Mark Clampin, and Howard MacEwen
Diffractive Optics and Nanophotonics (September 2013)
Guest Editor: Chunlei Du
Ground-Based/Airborne Telescopes and Instrumentation (August 2013)
Guest Editor: Helen Hall
Aero-Optics and Adaptive Optics for Aero-Optics (July 2013)
Guest Editor: Eric J. Jumper
Video Compression Technology (July 2013)
Guest Editors: Ofer Hadar, Dan Grois
Infrared Systems (June 2013)
Guest Editors: Michael Eismann and Phil Perconti
Optical Materials (May 2013)
Guest Editor: Ishwar D. Aggarwal
Target Search and Detection Modeling (April 2013)
Guest Editors: Piet Bijl, Tana Maurer, David Wilson
Laser Damage (December 2012)
Guest Editors: Vitaly E. Gruzdev and Michelle D. Shinn
Hyperspectral Imaging Systems (November 2012)
Guest Editors: John N. Lee and Christoher G. Simi
Imaging Through the Atmosphere (October 2012)
Guest Editor: Giesele Bennett
Terahertz and Millimeter Wave Imaging (September 2012)
Guest Editors: Eddie Jacobs, Roger Appleby, and Dennis Prather
Precision Optical Measurements and Instrumentation for Geometrical and Mechanical Quantities (August 2012)
Guest Editors: Kuang-Chao Fan, Rong-Sheng Lu, and Lian-Xiang Yang
Computational Imaging (July 2012)
Guest Editors: David J. Brady and Robert Gibbons
Active Imaging: Concepts, Components, and Application (June 2012)
Guest Editor: Edward A. Watson
Free-Space Laser Communications (March 2012)
Guest Editor: Hamid Hemmati
3-D and 4-D Imaging Techniques and Applications (February 2012)
Guest Editors: G. Charmaine Gilbreath and Lenny Lipton
Space Telescopes (January 2012)
Guest Editors: Mark Clampin and Kathryn A. Flanagan
Optical Design (November 2011)
Guest Editors: G. Groot Gregory and Bryan Stone
Fiber Lasers (September 2011)
Guest Editor: Dahv Kliner
Advances of Optical Metrology in the Transportation Industry (October 2011)
Guest Editors: Lianxiang Yang and Andreas Ettemeyer
Digital Holography and Holographic Displays (September 2011)
Guest Editor: Hans I. Bjelkhagen
Liquid Crystals for Photonics (August 2011)
Guest Editor: Ignacio Moreno
Integrated Optics (July 2011)
Guest Editor: Giancarlo C. Righini
Infrared Detectors (June 2011)
Guest Editors: Paul Norton and Mel Kruer
Quantum and Interband Cascade Lasers (November 2010)
Guest Editors: Jerry Meyer and Igor Vurgaftman
Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Laser (September 2010)
Guest Editors: Gregory J. Quarles and Yehoshua Kalisky
