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Journal of the Optical Society of America B Feature Announcement

Mid-Infrared Coherent Sources and Applications

This feature issue has been postponed. A new submission window will be identified once the associated conference is rescheduled.

This JOSA B feature issue is based on the OSA Topical Meeting on Mid-Infrared Coherent Sources (MICS), to be held 23-25 March 2020 in Prague, Czech Republic. While the 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 All papers need to present original, previously unpublished work, and will be subject to the normal standards and peer-review process of the journal. To be eligible for publication, any paper from a MICS 2020 participant needs to add substantial and/or significant new information. Please see OSA's guidelines on expanded conference papers.

This feature issue will focus on the most recent advances in mid-IR to THz science and technology, from materials to laser sources and applications. The feature will bring together the latest developments in materials, solid-state and fiber lasers, semiconductor and quantum cascade lasers, nonlinear frequency conversion and parametric devices, optical frequency comb and continuum sources, as well as the application of mid-IR and THz sources in trace gas detection and sensing, spectroscopy, frequency metrology and synthesis, imaging, optical microscopy, and biomedicine.

The topics of interest include but are not limited to:

  • Materials for mid-IR and THz Sources:
    • Active ion-doped dielectric and semiconductor crystals
    • Semiconductor materials and structures
    • Specialty nonlinear fibers
    • Nanomaterials
    • Nonlinear optical materials and structures
  • Mid-IR and THz Coherent Sources:
    • Semiconductor lasers
    • Mid-IR and THz quantum cascade lasers
    • Optically pumped semiconductor lasers
    • Solid-state and fiber lasers
    • Optical parametric oscillators and amplifiers
    • Ultrashort pulse lasers and frequency combs
    • High-intensity ultrafast sources
    • High-power, high-energy sources
    • Broadband and continuum sources
    • Integrated photonics for frequency combs and continuum generation
    • THz generation with ultrashort pulsed lasers and nonlinear optics
    • Nonclassical mid-IR sources
    • Metamaterial enabled mid-IR technology
  • Applications of mid-IR and THz sources in:
    • Remote sensing, imaging
    • Spectroscopy, trace gas detection, breath analysis
    • Optical frequency synthesis, comb spectroscopy
    • Laser surgery, biomedicine
    • Materials processing
    • Optical microscopy, biophotonics
    • Nonlinear optics, attosecond physics

Manuscripts must be prepared according to the usual guidelines for submission to JOSA B and must be uploaded through OSA's electronic submission system. When submitting, please specify that the manuscript is for the Mid-Infrared Coherent Sources and Applications feature issue (choose from the drop-down menu).

Feature Issue Editors

Majid Ebrahim-Zadeh, ICFO-The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Spain (Lead Editor)
Amr S. Helmy, University of Toronto, Canada
Giuseppe Leo, University of Paris Diderot, France
Peter G. Schunemann, BAE Systems, USA