Special Issue on Complex Optical Fields

The Chinese Optics Letters (COL) invites original manuscript submissions for a Special Issue on Complex Optical Fields to be published in March 2017. Recently there is an increasing interest in tailored optical fields with complex amplitude, phase, polarization spatial distributions and/or specifically designed temporal waveforms. Scalar optical vortices carrying orbital angular momentum and vectorial vortices such as radially, azimuthally polarized beams are among the most intensively studied examples. The added degrees of freedom arising from the amplitude, phase and polarization diversity within the beam cross-section and tailored waveforms enable scientists and engineers to break the limits imposed by conventional wisdom in many optical and photonic applications. Applications of these complex optical fields in promising areas and new commercial products continue to emerge. This special issue will include excellent review articles and original contributions covering the rapid advances and tremendous breadth of this emerging technical area. The topics of special issue include but are not limited to:

  1. Description, representation and characterization of complex optical fields;
  2. Active and passive sources generating complex optical fields;
  3. Photonic integrated devices for the creation, manipulation and detection of complex optical fields;
  4. Interaction of complex optical fields with nanostructures and structured materials;
  5. Propagation of complex optical fields in free space, waveguides and optical fibers;
  6. Propagation of complex optical fields in complex medium;
  7. Information storage, retrieving, processing and transmission with complex optical fields;
  8. Quantum information storage, retrieving, processing and transmission with complex optical fields;
  9. Applications in optical imaging and microscopy;
  10. Applications in optical confinement and manipulation of micro- and nano-scale objects;
  11. Applications in micro- and nano-fabrication and additive manufacturing;
  12. Optical instrumentation using complex optical fields;
  13. Industrial applications.
Guest Editors

Prof. Qiwen Zhan
Department of Electro-Optics and Photonics
University of Dayton, USA
Email: qzhan1@udayton.edu

Prof. Andrew Forbes
School of Physics
University of Witwatersrand, South Africa
Email: Andrew.Forbes@wits.ac.za

Submission deadline: October 31, 2016
Submission format: Authors should use the MS-Word or Latex style files. Please visit and upload the submission at the website: http://www.col.opticsx.org/ with the mark of "special issue on complex optical fields". If you have any questions, please email to col@siom.ac.cn.