Applied Optics Feature Announcement
Advances in Infrared Technology and Applications
Submissions Open: 1 June 2016
Submission Deadline: 30 June 2016
This feature issue of Applied Optics is based on the thirteenth Advanced Infrared Technology and Applications (AITA) International meeting, held in Pisa, Italy in September 2015. While meeting participants are particularly encouraged to submit their work, this feature issue is open to all contributions. All papers need to present original, previously unpublished work and will be subject to the normal standards and peer-review process of the Applied Optics journal. To be eligible for publication, any paper from an AITA-13 participant needs to add substantial and/or significant new information to the original 4-page conference summary.
This feature issue is aimed at scientists, engineers, and practitioners interested in understanding the basic principles of infrared (IR) science, including the generation and characterization of IR radiation—its spatial, spectral, and temporal modulation—and propagation through diverse gases, atmospheres, liquids and materials, and finally detection, including spatial, spectral, and temporal demodulation techniques
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following areas:
- Advanced technology and materials
- Smart and fiber-optic sensors
- Thermo-fluid dynamics
- Biomedical applications
- Environmental monitoring
- Aerospace and industrial applications
- Nanophotonics and Nanotechnologies
- Astronomy and Earth observation
- Non-destructive tests and evaluation
- Systems and applications for the cultural heritage
- Image processing and data analysis
- VIS-IR, Near-, Mid-, Far-, and Very far infrared systems
- New technologies for optical sensing applications
- Novel continuous wave, pulsed, modulated lasers and their characterization
- High and low repetition rate sources
- Broadband lasers
- Ultrafast lasers
- Frequency combs
- Analytical sensing methods
- Spectroscopic sensing of gases, aerosols, and particulates
- Real-time monitoring and control in of processes, including combustion
- Plasma- and industrial-process, including energy utilization and global warming effects
- Expansion of techniques toward the visible and THz spectral ranges
- Novel spectroscopic science within the IR domain
- Security applications
- Remote sensing
- Miniaturization
- Optical lab-on-chip systems
- Silicon photonics, biochemical and biophysical applications
- Non-invasive, non-intrusive, and non-destructive techniques
Manuscripts must be prepared according to the usual standards for submission to Applied Optics. Manuscripts must also be uploaded through OSA's electronic submission system. Authors are requested to specify that the manuscript is for the Advanced Infrared Technology and Applications feature (please choose from the feature issue drop-down menu).
Feature Issue Editors
Mario D'Acunto, CNR, Italy
Antoni Rogalski, University of Military Technology, Poland
Marija Strojnik, Optical Research Center and University of Guadalajara, Mexico