Applied Optics
Published by The Optical Society of America
Applied Optics
Editor-in-Chief: James Wyant, University of Arizona
ISSN: 0003-6935 (print)
ISSN: 1539-4522 (online)
36 issues per year

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Applied Optics is OSA's most widely read journal, a must for everyone in the optics field. Published three times each month, Applied Optics reports significant optics applications from optical testing and instrumentation to medical optics...from holography to optical neural networks...from lidar and remote sensing to laser materials processing. Each issue contains content from four divisions of editorial scope: Optical Technology; Information Processing; Lasers, Photonics, and Environmental Optics; and Biomedical Optics. Authors in these fields are encouraged to submit their manuscripts to Applied Optics for quality, peer-reviewed, widely distributed publication.


Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief
James Wyant, University of Arizona
 
Optical Technology  
Division Editor  
Aristide Dogariu, Univ. of Central Florida, CREOL  
Ali Adibi, Georgia Institute of Technology
(Nanophotonics and Optical Fabrication)
Donald Butler, Univ. of Texas at Arlington
(Detectors)
Jose Antonio Diaz-Navas, Univ. de Granada
(Colorimetry)
Ronald Driggers, US Naval Research Laboratory
(EO Systems)
Thomas A. Germer, National Institute of Standards and Technology
(Thin Films and Materials Characterization)
Dennis Goldstein, Air Force Research Lab.
(Polarization)
Min Gu, Swinburne University of Technology
(Optical Imaging)
Eric Johnson, University of North Carolina - Charlotte
(Diffractive Optics; Micro and Nano Fabrication)
Guillermo Kaufmann, Instituto de Fisica Rosario
(Optical Metrology)
 
Sergio B. Mendes, University of Louisville
(Integrated Optical Sensing)
Eugenio Mendez, CICESE
(Diffraction and Scattering)
Kai-Erik Peiponen, University of Joensuu
(Optical Materials)
Angela Piegari, ENEA
(Optical Coatings Technology)
Adrian Gh Podoleanu, University of Kent at Canterbury
(Fiber Optics Sensing)
Joanna Schmit, Vecco Instruments Inc.
(Optical Metrology and Interferometry)
David L. Shealy, Univ. of Alabama at Birmingham
(Geometrical Optics)
J. Scott Tyo, University of Arizona
(Polarization and Sensing)
 
Information Processing  
Division Editor  
Joseph Mait, Army Research Laboratory  
Gisele Bennett, Georgia Institute of Technology
(Imaging, Coherence, and Electromagnetics)
Juan Campos, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
(Devices and Algorithms for Optical Processing)
Michael E. Gehm, University of Arizona
(Image Processing and Reconstruction)
Raymond Kostuk, University of Arizona
(Holography, Holographic Materials)
Byoungho Lee, Seoul National University
(Digital Holography and Interferometry)
Duncan MacFarlane, University of Texas at Dallas
(Optics and Computing)
 
Abhijit Mahalanobis, Lockheed Martin
(Optical Signal and Image Processing)
Luiz Neto, University of Sao Paulo
(Optical Signal Processing)
Rafael Piestun, Univ. of Colorado
(Imaging; Physical Optics)
Ting-Chung Poon, Virginia Tech.
(Digital Holography; 3-D Sensing & Display)
Zia-ur Rahman, Old Dominion University
(Image Processing; Computational Imaging)
Markus Testorf, Dartmouth College
(Fourier Optics; Optical Information Processing)
 
Lasers, Photonics, and Environmental Optics  
Division Editor  
Nasser Peyghambarian, University of Arizona  
Xiaoyi Bao, University of Ottawa
(Fiber Optics)
James G. Grote, Air Force Research Laboratory
(Sensors and Instrumentation)
L. Michael Hayden, University of Maryland - Baltimore County
(Nonlinear Optics; THz Generation)
Chuanmin Hu, University of South Florida
(Ocean Optics; Ocean Color Remote Sensing)
Shibin Jiang, AdValue Photonics Inc.
(Glass Optics and Lasers)
Michael Kahnert, SMHI
(Scattering, Meteorological Optics, and Radiative Transfer)
Fumihiko Kannari, Keio Univ.
(Lasers, Nonlinear Optics)
 
Andre Persoons, Catholic University of Leuven
(Organic Optics; Chemical Diagnostics)
Kenneth Schepler, U.S. Air Force Research Lab.
(Lasers; Nonlinear Optics)
Axel Schulzgen, University of Arizona
(Ultrafast Lasers and Optics)
David Shepherd, Univ. of Southampton
(Lasers)
Howard Stuart, Bell Labs
(Integrated Optics)
Ulla Wandinger, Institute for Tropospheric Research
(Lidar, Atmospheric Propagation)
 
Biomedical Optics  
Division Editor  
Joseph Izatt, Duke University  
David A. Atchison, Queensland University of Technology
(Ophthalmic Optics)
Joseph P. Culver, Washington University in St. Louis
(Diffuse Optical Imaging and Tomography)
Andrew K. Dunn, University of Texas at Austin
(Functional Optical Imaging and Light Scattering)
Israel Gannot, George Washington Univ. and Tel-Aviv Univ.
(Laser Based Diagnostics and Treatment)
Min Gu, Swinburne University of Technology
(Optical Imaging)
 
Huabei Jiang, University of Florida
(Imaging and Image Reconstruction Techniques)
Judith Mourant, Los Alamos National Lab.
(Tissue Spectroscopy and Diagnostics)
Adrian Gh Podoleanu, University of Kent at Canterbury
(Optical Coherence Tomography)
Adam Wax, Duke Univ.
(Interferometry & Optical Sensing)


Staff

Peer Review E-mail Phone
Carmelita Washington, Applied Optics Coordinator and contact for all OT papers aomss@osa.org 202-416-1918
Keith Jackson, Peer Review Assistant (IP and BO) aomss@osa.org 202-416-1918
Theresa Terrick, Peer Review Assistant (LPEO) aomss@osa.org 202-416-1918
Applied Optics Fax Number 202-416-6129
Feature Proposals jricha@osa.org
Copy Editing and Production E-mail Phone
Christopher Videll, Managing Editor cvidel@osa.org 202-416-1927
Barbara Williams, Senior Production Editor bwilli@osa.org 202-416-1936
Dan Dawes, Production Editor ddawes@osa.org 202-416-1943
Lucille Halberstadt, Production Editor lhalbe@osa.org
Delois Millner, Editorial and Reprints Assistant dmilln@osa.org 202-416-1920
Reprints and page charges sabotora@cadmus.com
General Information E-mail Phone
Online journal technical support elec@osa.org
Susannah Lehman, Copyright permission requests copyright@osa.org
John Childs, Sr. Director, Publications odp@osa.org
M. Scott Dineen, Deputy Senior Director, Publications sdinee@osa.org
Kelly Cohen, Director, Manuscripts Office kcohen@osa.org
Antoinette P. Wrighton, Director, Editorial Services awrigh@osa.org
Alan Tourtlotte, Associate Publisher

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