Applied Optics Feature Announcement
400 Years of Optical Instrumentation
Submission Deadline: 1 November 2009
This year the astronomical and optical scientific communities are celebrating the 400th anniversary of the development of the Galileo Galilei telescope and the subsequent heavenly discoveries he made. His inquisitive mind literally opened our eyes to the night sky and began our centuries-long gaze deeper into the universe. Using his keen understanding of lenses, mirrors, and image formation, Galileo made many advances in the field of optics which later led to numerous breakthroughs. 400 hundred years after Galileo, new instruments and new imaging techniques continue to be developed and will surely yield countless discoveries. The Optical Society of America cannot ignore this commemoration and has decided to join this celebration by publishing a special issue of Applied Optics, in the Information Processing Division, dedicated to optical instrumentation.
Relatively recent techniques such as active and adaptive optics, nonconventional optics such as gradient and array optics, and two-dimensional and three-dimensional imaging enhancement techniques are some of the new important approaches used in modern optical instruments. The feature issue will focus on optical imaging and instrumentation, especially the following topics:
- Astronomical and space optics (including gravitational optics)
- Biomedical and eye optics (including confocal microscopy and other recent techniques)
- Optical design, fabrication, and testing
We invite potential contributors to submit manuscripts in any of these or closely related topics.
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://www.opticsinfobase.org/ao/submit/style/jrnls_style.cfm. Manuscripts must also be uploaded through OSA's electronic submission system: http://www.opticsinfobase.org/ao/journal/ao/author.cfm. All submissions must be submitted to the Information Processing Division. Please specify that the manuscript is for the 400 Years of Optical Instrumentation feature (choose from the feature issue drop-down menu).
Feature Editors
Daniel Malacara
Centro de Investigaciones en Optica AC
Leon, Mexico
dmalacara@foton.cio.mx
Joanna Schmit
Veeco Instruments Inc
Tucson, Arizona
USA
jschmit@veeco.com
Malgorzata Kujawinska
Politechnika Warszawska
Warsaw, Poland
m.kujawinska@mchtr.pw.edu.pl
Mitsuo Takeda
University of Electro-Communications
Tokyo, Japan
takeda@ice.uec.ac.jp
