Topics within each Applied Optics division
The Optical Technology division publishes papers in optical instrumentation and optical technologies for imaging, testing, sensing, characterization and manipulation. Specific topics include:
- Applications of diffraction, coherence, and scattering
- Astronomical optics
- Colorimetry and ophthalmic optics
- Imaging systems and microscopy
- Instruments for optical, IR and THz spectroscopy
- Lens design and optical system design
- Micro and nano-optics
- Optical displays
- Optical materials (excluding lasing and nonlinear materials that belong to the Lasers Photonics, and Environmental Optics division)
- Optical testing (including interferometry, moire and speckle techniques)
- Optics of inhomogeneous media
- Plasmonics
- Polarimetry and ellipsometry
- Radiometry and detectors
- Thin films and optical coating technology
- Waveguide and fiber devices, Optical sensors
- 3-D sensing, processing, and display
- Fourier optics
- Holography
- Image understanding
- Image-detection devices and systems
- Machine vision
- Optical data recording and storage
- Optical image processing, restoration, enhancement, and quality measurement
- Optical interconnection systems, packaging, and subsystems
- Optical materials, devices, algorithms, and architectures relevant to these technologies
- Optical neural networks
- Optical signal processing
- Pattern recognition
- Photonic networks
- Statistical optics and speckle
- Target detection and recognition
- Atmospheric optics and propagation
- Atmospheric scattering and meteorological optics
- Fiber-optic technology
- Integrated optics
- Laser instrumentation, measurements, and metrology
- Laser materials and design
- Laser materials processing
- Lidar and remote sensing
- Nonlinear optics and wavelength conversion
- Ocean optics and propagation
- Optical and infrared spectroscopy
- Optoelectronics
