Applied Optics

Gisele Bennett, Editor-in-Chief

Applied Optics

Gisele Bennett, Editor-in-Chief

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Laser Applications to Chemical, Security and Environmental Analysis 2024

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Submissions Open: 01 September 2024; Submission Deadline: 01 January 2025
Editors
Caroline Winters, Naibo Jiang, Aamir Farooq, Christoph Arndt, Anil Patnaik, and Anna-Lena Sahlberg

Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT)

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Submissions Open: 01 October 2024; Submission Deadline: 15 January 2025
Editors
Steven Fiorino, Jack McCrae, Santasri Bose-Pillai, Kevin Keefer, Benjamin Akers, and Jeremiah Lane

Computational Optical Sensing and Imaging 2024

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Submission Opens:1 July 2024; Submission Deadline: 14 October 2024
Editors
Seung Ah Lee, Liang Gao, Lars Loetgering, Ashley Lyons, and Prasanna Rangarajan

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29 JAN 2025	Applied Optics Research - Optical fiber sensor provides simple and sensitive detection of arsenic in drinking water

13 JAN 2025	Applied Optics Research - 3D printing shines in overcoming headlight lens manufacturing challenges

07 JAN 2025	Optica Publishing Group Announces New Editors-in-Chief for Two Journals

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1	Fast calculation method for CCGHs applicable to various planar computer-generated hologram computation methods

2	Liquid-crystal-based diffractive optical elements with high Pancharatnam-Berry phase accuracy for holographic displays fabricated using an optimized liquid crystal on silicon device

3	Head-mounted projector with a wide visual-field and three degrees of freedom in electro-holography

4	Adaptive contrast enhancement and effect of non-linear exponential merit function on computer-generated holograms

5	Digital holographic illumination using a single phase-only computer-generated hologram

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Atmospheric and Oceanic Optics (1)
Fiber Optics, Fiber Sensors, and Optical Communications (4)
Fourier Optics and Optical Processing (1)
Holography (2)
Imaging Systems, Image Processing, and Displays (4)
Instrumentation and Measurements (5)
Integrated Optics (1)
Lasers, Optical Amplifiers, and Laser Optics (4)
Materials (1)
Optical Design and Fabrication (4)
Optical Devices, Sensors, and Detectors (3)
Physical Optics (2)
Quantum Optics, Quantum Communications, and Optical Computing (1)
Spectroscopy (2)
Surface Optics and Plasmonics (1)
Terahertz and X-ray Optics (2)

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Mid-infrared arrayed waveguide gratings using a quantum cascade laser gain medium as core material
Summary by Dongbo Wang

Mid-infrared integrated photonics has garnered significant interests due to its wide-ranging applications, including...

Radiometry and contrast-to-noise ratio for continuous-wave and laser range-gated active imaging systems
Summary by David Haefner

Active imaging consists in illuminating an object using a specific light source and then, in collecting the light...

Monolithic silicon microlens arrays for far-infrared astrophysics
Summary by Johann Toudert

Studying astrophysics phenomena, such as the formation of stars, the growth of black holes, or revealing fundamental...

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2023 Impact Factor:: 1.7
Google Scholar h5-index:: 49
Time to Publication:: 91 days

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ISSN:: 1559-128X (print)
ISSN:: 2155-3165 (online)
Frequency:: Article-at-a-time publication; 3 issues per month on the 1st, 10th, and 20th

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