Optical Materials Express Feature Announcement
Shaping and Patterning Crystals for Optics
Submission Opens:1 April 2017
Submission Deadline: 1 May 2017
Optical Materials Express is planning a feature issue on Shaping and Patterning Crystals for Optics.
Crystals are fantastic media exhibiting intrinsic laser and nonlinear properties at the root of many aspects of classical and quantum optics, leading to a huge variety of applications in both fundamental science and technology. Looking for new crystals or ceramics and improving their quality by optimizing the growth process are necessary but not sufficient for pushing the limits of performance. The expression and optimization of the optical properties also depend on the shape of the crystal, on patterns that can be inscribed at the micrometer scale of the surface or of the bulk, as well as on the grain size of ceramic media. These considerations also apply to the design of techniques for measurement of the optical properties with the goal of increasing accuracy.
This feature issue will cover the latest advances in the shaping and patterning of bulk or thin layer crystals and ceramics in the field of laser and nonlinear optics. We welcome contributions describing techniques as well as the improvements they provide in the functionality or performance of the fabricated object.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Ridge waveguides by dicing
- Femtosecond-laser micro-machined waveguides
- Whispering gallery mode micro-cylindrical-resonators
- High damage threshold coatings
- Surface relief microstructures for reducing external reflections
- Sticking by diffusion bonding or optical contact
- Quasi-phase-matched and random quasi-phase-matched nonlinear materials (electric field poling of ferroelectric crystals, orientation patterning, random ceramic/polycrystalline media)
- Measurements of phase-matching directions using spheres.
All papers need to present original, previously unpublished work, and will be subject to the normal standards and peer-review process of the journal. Papers will appear in the Optical Materials Express journal and will be published online upon acceptance. Please note that the submissions to this feature issue incur the normal OMEx publication fee.
Manuscripts must be prepared according to the usual guidelines for submission to Optical Materials Express and must be uploaded through OSA's electronic submission system. Please specify that the manuscript is for the Shaping and Patterning Crystals for Optics feature (choose from the feature issue drop-down menu).
Feature Issue Editors
Benoît Boulanger, Grenoble Alpes University, France
Carlota Canalias, Royal Institute of Technology KTH, Sweden
Sergey Mirov, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
Takunori Taira, Institute for Molecular Science, Japan