Applied Optics
Published by The Optical Society of America

Applied Optics Feature Announcement

Acousto-Optics: In honor of A. Sliwinski on his 80th Birthday and A. Korpel on his 75th Birthday

Submission Deadline: August 1, 2008

This Applied Optics feature issue - to appear in the Information Processing division - will celebrate the scientific careers of Professors Antoni Sliwinski and Adrian Korpel through a sampling of current research topics in acousto-optics that they pioneered. Dr. Sliwinski published articles covering more than 40 years of research in acousto-optics, and was instrumental in the development of the Spring School on Acousto-Optics and Applications since 1980 that is regarded as a research center in acousto-optics in Poland and abroad. From his direct observation of optically induced generation and amplification of sound in the 1960s, to his development of the multiple plane-wave scattering model and Feynman diagram approach to interpret and analyze acousto-optic interactions in the 1980s and later, Dr. Korpel made many fundamental contributions to acousto-optics. Both Drs. Sliwinski and Korpel have authored numerous papers (including several that are regarded as classic), research monographs and books on the subject of acousto-optics. Along the way, they have guided and inspired many students and researchers to build their careers around acousto-optics and other areas of optics in general.

This feature issue will contain original papers based on a representative selection of topics that will be presented at the 10th Spring School on Acousto-Optics, to be held in Sopot, Poland, May 2008, as well as additional papers that are relevant, but not limited to the topics listed as follows:

  • Acousto-optic devices and their applications in light modulation and deflection, signal processing, ultrasonic imaging and tomography
  • Acousto-optic materials
  • Acousto-optic tunable filters and their applications
  • Integrated acousto-optic circuits and applications
  • Surface acoustic wave (SAW) devices
  • Theoretical and experimental studies of light diffraction by ultrasonic waves
  • Photo-thermics
  • Photo-acoustic spectroscopy

Manuscripts must be prepared according to the usual standards for submission to Applied Optics; see the Information for Contributors in any printed issue or the OSA Style Guide (http://ao.osa.org/submit/style/jrnls_style.cfm).

Manuscripts must also be uploaded through OSA's electronic submission system, located in the Applied Optics website (http://ao.osa.org/journal/ao/author.cfm). Please submit all papers to the Information Processing division of Applied Optics and please specify that the manuscript is for the Acousto-Optics feature (choose from the feature issue drop-down menu).

Feature Editors

Monish Chatterjee
University of Dayton
Dayton, Ohio
USA
monish.chatterjee@notes.udayton.edu

Ting-Chung Poon
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, Virginia
USA
tcpoon@vt.edu

Chen S. Tsai
University of California Irvine
Irvine, California
USA
cstsai@uci.edu

Vitaly Voloshinov
M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University
Moscow, Russia
volosh@phys.msu.ru