The Journal of the Optical Society of America was launched in 1917 and, in 1983, was split into what are today JOSA A and JOSA B. For more than one hundred years now, JOSA, JOSA A, and JOSA B have published high-quality articles on the interaction of light with matter, disseminating research that ranges from quantum optics, via photonics and nonlinear optics, all the way to laser physics. All available metrics suggest that JOSA B is as strong as ever. In view of our fast-moving world where it is already challenging to keep track of one specialized field of research, how is it possible to keep up this astounding breadth of topical coverage and at the same time maintain the quality of the Journal?

The answer is, through the hard work of highly committed volunteers. The JOSA B editorial board, consisting of one deputy and 27 topical editors, represents the cultural and geographic diversity of JOSA B’s worldwide authorship and readership. Each individual is a well-known expert with a strong track record, and these volunteers dedicate countless hours and significant mental resources to maintaining and improving the Journal. Besides handling manuscripts in their respective areas of expertise and, not uncommonly, having to make difficult decisions, they are engaged in numerous additional activities, such as discussing layout and internal processes, providing input to the recently launched OSA Reviewer Resource Center [1], and suggesting topics for feature issues and tutorials.

It is, therefore, with profound gratitude that I dedicate this editorial to JOSA B’s outstanding volunteers by providing our readers with a more in-depth introduction to the editorial team.

Deputy Editor

Igor Smolyaninov

Igor Smolyaninov graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia, in 1985 and received his Ph.D. in 1990 from the Kapitza Institute for Physical Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia. He is currently a Research Scientist at the University of Maryland, USA, and a CTO of Saltenna LLC, USA. He is a Fellow of OSA, is a recipient of the Scientific American 50 award, and was recognized by Science News magazine in 2011 for his research on hyperbolic metamaterials. He has published more than 400 journal and conference papers and patents in various areas of surface optics, plasmonics, and electromagnetic metamaterials and served as a principal investigator/technical lead on a number of NSF, CRDF, and DARPA programs.

Topical Editors

Antonio Agnesi

Lasers and Laser Materials

Antonio Agnesi received his degree in Electronic Engineering in 1988 and Ph.D. in 1992, both from the University of Pavia, Italy, where he currently serves as Professor of Physics in the Department of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering and leads the Laser Sources Laboratory. His research focuses on the study and realization of novel diode-pumped low/high-power solid-state and fiber lasers operating in various regimes such as CW, Q-switched, and mode-locked (ps/fs systems) and application of nonlinear optics to pulse generation and compression, as well as frequency conversion, including parametric, harmonic, and Raman. He was co-founder of the spin-off company Bright Solutions in 1998. He holds two patents, and he is the author of 225 publications (papers, proceedings, and book chapters).

Jiefei Chen

Quantum Optics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, Nonlinear Optics

Jiefei Chen gained her Ph.D. from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, in 2012 and worked as a Research Professor at East China Normal University, China, until May 2019. She is currently an Associate Professor at Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen, China. Her research interests are experimental quantum optics, nonlinear optics, and laser cooling and trapping. Her recent research interests include single photon generation and manipulation, quantum-state tomography, and atom–light quantum interface.

Wallace Choy

Experimental Nano-optics

Wallace Choy received his Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering from the University of Surrey, UK, in 1999. After working at the National Research Council of Canada and Fujitsu at San Jose, California, USA, investigating optoelectronic devices, he is now a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. He has published more than 190 peer-reviewed papers, several book chapters, and patents and has edited one book. He is an elected Fellow of OSA and has been recognized numerous times for his research.

Anton Desyatnikov

Structured Light, Metamaterials, and Plasmonics

Anton Desyatnikov is currently a Professor in the Physics Department, School of Sciences and Humanities at Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan. He received his Ph.D. from Moscow Engineering Physical Institute, Russia. He was a recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt research fellowship in Germany and spent 12 years at the Australian National University, including an Australian Research Fellowship. His main research area is nonlinear and singular optics, including the dynamics of optical solitons and nonlinear waves, optical vortices and polarization singularities, angular momentum of light, and photonic lattices.

Shengwang Du

Quantum Optics and Quantum Key Distributions

Shengwang Du received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Nanjing University, China, in 1996, M.S. in Physics from Peking University, China, in 1999, M.S. in Electrical Engineering from University of Colorado at Boulder, USA, in 2002, and Ph.D. in Physics from JILA at University of Colorado, USA, in 2005. He worked as a postdoctoral scholar at the Ginzton Lab, Stanford University, USA, from 2005 to 2008 and is currently a Professor of Physics at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong. His experimental research mainly focuses on two areas: fundamental atomic, molecular, and optical physics, where his group is exploring fundamentals in the field of quantum optics and probing the quantum nature of light quanta, and applied research in optical microscopy. He is also interested in developing optical microscopy tools for nanomaterial and cell bioimaging. He was elected a Fellow of OSA in 2019.

Ramy El-Ganainy

Quantum Optics

Ramy El-Ganainy obtained his Ph.D. from the College of Optics and Photonics (CREOL) at the University of Central Florida, USA. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto, Canada, from 2009 until 2012 and a guest scientist at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Germany, from 2012 to 2013. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics and is a founding member in the Henes Center for Quantum Phenomena, at Michigan Technological University, USA. His research interests include non-Hermitian photonics, nonlinear optics, and integrated photonics.

József Fülöp

THz Pulse Sources, Attosecond Pulse Generation, Charged Particle Manipulation

József Fülöp received his M.Sc. in Physics in 1998 and his Ph.D. in 2003 from the University of Szeged, Hungary. He then worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Ludwig Maximilans University (LMU) in Munich, Germany, and at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics (MPQ) in Garching, Germany. In 2007, he joined the University of Pécs, Hungary, and in 2010, he moved to ELI-ALPS in Szeged, Hungary. Since 2019, he has been a Scientific Adviser in the MTA-PTE High-Field Terahertz Research Group in Pécs, Hungary, supported by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. His research interests include the development of intense pulsed terahertz sources, terahertz spectroscopy, and applications of strong-field terahertz pulses. He also has experience in the generation and amplification of ultrashort optical pulses.

Oleg Kornilov

Advanced Spectroscopy

Oleg Kornilov received his M.S. from St. Petersburg State University, Russia, in 2001 and his Ph.D. in 2004 from the Max Planck Institute for Flow Research (currently MPI for Dynamics and Self-organization), Germany. In 2006, he moved to the University of California Berkeley, USA, and joined the groups of Prof. Dan Neumark and Prof. Stephen Leone as a postdoctoral researcher to build the ultrafast X-ray science laboratory at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab together with Dr. Oliver Gessner. He joined the Max Born Institute in Berlin, Germany, in 2010 and since 2012 has served as the head of the Ultrafast XUV-Physics Department in the Attosecond Science Division.

Alexandre Kudlinski

Fiber Optics and Photonic Bandgap Fibers

Alexandre Kudlinski received his Ph.D. in Photonics from the University of Lille, France, in 2005 and went on to serve at the Centre for Photonics and Photonic Materials, University of Bath, UK, from 2005 to 2006. He was appointed as Lecturer at the Laboratoire de Physique des Lasers, Atomes et Molecules, University of Lille, France, in 2006 and became full Professor in 2016. His current research interests include design, fabrication, and characterization of photonic crystal fibers for nonlinear optics applications and nonlinear microendoscopy. He has co-authored 140 publications in international peer-reviewed journals and 160 communications at international conferences. He has co-authored four book chapters and six international patents. In 2018, he was awarded the Fabry–de Gramont prize from the French Optical Society.

Andrei Lavrinenko

Metamaterials and Plasmonics, Diffraction and Beams

Andrei Lavrinenko received his M.S., Ph.D., and D.Sci. degrees from the Belarusian State University, Minsk, Belarus, in 1982, 1989, and 2004, respectively. He was an Assistant Professor and Associate Professor with the Department of Physics at BSU from 1990 to 2004. Since 2004, he has been an Associate Professor with the Department of Photonics Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark, and in 2008, he was appointed as the Lead of the Metamaterials Group there. He is the author of five textbooks, ten book chapters, and more than 190 journal papers. His research interests include metamaterials, plasmonics, photonic crystals, quasicrystals and photonic circuits, slow light, and numerical methods in electromagnetics and photonics.

Qingqing Liang

Ultrafast Phenomena

Qingqing Liang received her Ph.D. from Peking University, China, in 2009, served as postdoc at Kassel University, Germany, from 2009 to 2011, and is currently at the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology (USST), China, in the School of Optical-Electrical and Computer Engineering. Her research interests are mainly focused on ultrafast phenomena, especially on air lasing, terahertz from air plasma, atomic and molecular physics with ultrafast strong laser fields, and sensitive phase detection by optical-vortex techniques.

Xavier Mateos

Lasers and Laser Materials

Xavier Mateos is an Associate Professor at the Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain, with 20 years of experience in materials science and laser physics. His main research interests include solid-state lasers (bulk, thin-disk, and waveguide lasers) and materials (laser crystals and ceramics, and 2D materials as saturable absorbers). He also worked on the development of ultrashort laser pulses during his two postdoctoral stays at the Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Ultrafast spectroscopy in Berlin, Germany—one of them as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions fellow (2015–2017). He has co-authored over 200 papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals and more than 200 conference presentations.

Martin McCall

Meta-Optics and Transformation Optics

Following graduation from Imperial College London, UK, in 1983, Martin McCall worked in industry as an optical physicist, receiving his Ph.D. from King’s College, London, UK, in 1987. After a brief period at the University of Bath, UK, he was appointed in 1988 to the faculty at Imperial, where he has been ever since. His early career included applied work on dynamic holography, optical interconnects, and semiconductor amplifiers. Now describing himself as a reformed experimentalist, he has worked for about the last two decades as a theorist on aspects of complex electromagnetic media and transformation optics.

Igor Muševič

Soft Matter Photonics

Igor Muševič is a Professor of Physics at the University of Ljubljana and the Head of the Condensed Matter Department at the J. Stefan Institute (JSI) in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He heads research in the soft matter laboratory at JSI that he established in 1995. He is the recipient of several national awards for science, including the highest national Zois award in 2009 and the international Samsung Mid-Career Award in 2008, for his impact on science and technology of liquid crystals. His research interests include dynamics and phase transitions in liquid crystals, optics and structure of liquids and soft matter, structural forces in fluids, and soft matter photonics.

Bing Qi

Quantum Key Distribution

Bing Qi received his B.S. in Physics from Nanjing University, China, in 1990 and Ph.D. in Optical Instruments from Dalian University of Technology, China, in 1996. He was a postdoctoral researcher at Tsinghua University, China, from 1996 to 1999 and a visiting scholar at Virginia Tech, USA, from 1999 to 2002. From 2002 to 2013, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher, a Research Associate, and a Senior Research Associate at University of Toronto, Canada. Currently, he is a Senior Research Scientist in the Quantum Information Science Group, Computational Sciences and Engineering Division, at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA, and a Joint Faculty Associate Professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at the University of Tennessee, USA. His research interests include quantum communication and optical sensing.

Lora Ramunno

Nonlinear and Nano-optics

Lora Ramunno obtained her Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Toronto, Canada, in 2002. After a year in a high-tech start-up, she returned to academia as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Ottawa, Canada. Since 2007, she has been a faculty member in the Physics Department there and is currently full Professor. She held a Canada Research Chair in Computational Nanophotonics from 2007 to 2017 and was the recipient of an early researcher award in 2007. Her theoretical/computational research focuses on nonlinear and nano-optics, including intense laser-matter interaction, nanophotonics, nonlinear optical microscopy, and photonic devices, and includes several successful industrial collaborative projects. She is a Fellow of the Max-Planck-uOttawa Centre for Extreme and Quantum Photonics, a Fellow of the NRC-uOttawa Joint Centre for Extreme Photonics, and a member of the uOttawa Centre for Research in Photonics.

Sergey Sergeyev

Nonlinear Optics, Laser Physics and Polarization Phenomena

Sergey Sergeyev received his Ph.D. in Optics and Laser Physics (specifically spectroscopy and laser physics) from Belarusian State University, Minsk, Belarus, in 1991, where he worked at the Department of Physics in a range of different positions, from Research Assistant to Senior Researcher/Team Leader. Since then he has worked at Ericsson AB, at Acreo AB as a Senior R&D Engineer, at Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden as a Guest Researcher, and at Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland, as a Senior Researcher/Team Leader. In 2010 he was awarded a Marie Curie Fellowship as a Senior Researcher and joined the Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies, Aston University, UK. His current research interests include polarization phenomena in fiber lasers and amplifiers and nonlinear fiber optics. He has authored or co-authored over 80 articles in peer-reviewed journals, four book chapters, and seven patent applications.

Wei Shi

Photonics Waveguides, Fiber Lasers, and Nonlinear Optics

Wei Shi received his Ph.D. in Optical Materials Engineering from State Key Laboratory of Crystal Materials at Shandong University, China, and currently serves as Professor in the College of Precision Instrument & Opto-electronic Engineering at Tianjin University, China. His research mainly includes fiber optics, single-frequency fiber lasers, high power fiber lasers/amplifiers, laser nonlinear frequency conversion, and parametric THz technologies. He is an Adjunct Professor of Optical Sciences at the College of Optical Sciences, University of Arizona, USA. He is a lifetime Fellow of OSA and has over 170 journal papers and over 20 issued patents in the areas of THz technology, fiber lasers and amplifiers, nonlinear optics, optoelectronics, and optical materials.

Andrey Sukhorukov

Numerical Computation in Optics and Photonics

Andrey Sukhorukov is currently Associate Professor and a leader of the Nonlinear Quantum Photonics group at the Nonlinear Physics Centre, Research School of Physics, Australian National University, Australia. His research spans the areas of nonlinear and quantum photonics, physics of periodic structures, and artificial micro- and nanostructured metasurfaces. He has authored numerous peer-reviewed papers and is the recipient of various distinctions, including Queen Elizabeth II and Future Fellowships in Australia, and the Humboldt Fellowship for experienced researchers in Germany. He was elected a Fellow of OSA in 2016.

Dawn Tan

Nonlinear Optics

Dawn Tan is an Associate Professor at the Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore, where she leads the Photonics Devices and Systems Group, with particular research emphasis in experimental optical physics, nonlinear optics, CMOS photonics, and integrated optics. She received her doctorate in Electrical Engineering (Photonics) at the University of California San Diego, USA, where she was a Powell Fellow. She was previously a visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, and part of the design team at Californian start-up Luxtera Inc. She received the L’Oréal For Women in Science National Fellowship, was named an Innovator Under 35 by MIT Technology Review, and is on the Nature Research Awards Inspiring Science Longlist.

Yasuo Tomita

Holography and Diffractive Optics

Yasuo Tomita is a Professor in the Department of Engineering Science at the University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan, where he has been a faculty member since 1992. He completed his Ph.D. at California Institute of Technology, USA, in 1989, where he worked on phase-conjugate optics and photorefractive nonlinear optics. His current research interests lie in the areas of photonic nanocomposite and nanostructured materials, nonlinear optics, neutron optics, and information photonics. He is a Fellow of OSA, SPIE, and JSAP.

Alfred U’Ren

Quantum Entanglement Sources and Concepts, Quantum Optics, Nonlinear Phenomena, and Structured Light

Alfred U’Ren received his B.Sc. in Physics from Unversidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico, in 1997 and his Ph.D. in Optics from the University of Rochester, USA, in 2004. He was Research Scientist at Centro de Investigación Científica y Educación Superior de Ensenada in Ensenada, Mexico, from 2004 to 2008. He was appointed Professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City in 2008, where he is currently a tenured full Professor and department head at one of five departments at Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Mexico. He is a member at the highest level (III) of the National System of Researchers, Mexico, and a Senior Member of OSA, and he received the Research Prize from the Mexican Academy of Sciences (awarded yearly to the most distinguished scientist under the age of 40). He is a past president of the Quantum Information Division of the Mexican Physical Society and was general co-chair of the OSA Frontiers in Optics 2014 conference organized in Tucson, Arizona. He leads the Quantum Optics Laboratory at Instituto de Ciencias Nucleareas, where his research areas have focused on the design, implementation, and application of photon pair sources based on spontaneous parametric processes. He has authored more than 90 articles in peer-reviewed journals, international conferences, and book chapters.

Hong Wei

Plasmonics and Nanophotonics

Hong Wei is a Professor at the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. She received her B.S. in Physics from Shandong University, China, in 2004 and her Ph.D. from the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, in 2009. Her research interests cover plasmonics and nanophotonics, including surface plasmon propagation in metal nanowires, nanowire-based plasmonic devices, coupling of nanowire plasmons with excitons at single quanta level, and surface-enhanced spectroscopy. She has received several awards and honors, including The Fund for Outstanding Young Scholars from the National Natural Science Foundation of China.

Gustavo Wiederhecker

Optomechanics, Nanophotonics, Nonlinear Optics

Gustavo Wiederhecker holds an Associate Professor position at the University of Campinas, Brazil, where he also earned his B.Sc. and Ph.D. in Physics. Before returning to the University of Campinas in 2011, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Cornell University from 2008 to 2011. His research aims to harness nonlinear optical phenomena within microphotonic devices, with emphasis on the interaction between light and mechanical waves. He has been elected an affiliate member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences for the 2019–2024 term.

Yanhong Xiao

Experimental Quantum Optics

Yanhong Xiao is currently Professor at Fudan University and Shanxi University, China. She received her Ph.D. from Harvard University, USA, in 2004. Her main research interests are experimental atomic molecular and optical physics, including coherent interactions between atoms and light, precision spectroscopy and atomic magnetometery, quantum optics, and atomic spin squeezing.

Yuping Yang

THz Photonics and Spectroscopy, Plasmonics, and Metamaterials

Yuping Yang received her Ph.D. in Optics from the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, in 2005 and spent two years as a visiting scientist at Oklahoma State University, USA, from 2010 to 2018. She is currently a Professor in the School of Science, Minzu University of China, Beijing, China. She is also the leader of the Department of Nanomaterials and Technology. Her research interests include plasmonics and metamaterials (including THz and biosensor applications), THz-TDS, and THz imaging. She has received a total of 13 research grants from government and companies and has (co-)authored over 90 peer-reviewed papers. She was the recipient of the Young-Talent Award in 2016 from the National Ethnic Affairs Commission of the People’s Republic China.

Liangliang Zhang

THz and Ultrafast Optics

Liangliang Zhang is currently a full Professor at the Department of Physics, Capital Normal University, Beijing, China. She received her Ph.D. in Instrument Science and Technology from Beijing Institute of Technology, China, in 2008. Her research interests include terahertz wave generation, terahertz spectroscopy, and imaging. She has published over 50 peer-reviewed journal papers and obtained ten Chinese patents. She received the award for National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of China. Her team received first prize from the Chinese Ministry of Education for the Scientific Research Excellence Award (Science and Technology).