Non-profit scientific publisher Institute of Physics Publishing (IOP), UK, has announced the appointment of Professor Nikolay Zheludev of the University of Southampton, UK, as Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics. Professor Zheludev will succeed Professor Colin Sheppard who successfully led the journal from January 2003.
In addition, further enhancements are planned for 2009-10 to take advantage of the rising profile and impact of Journal of Optics A. The journal will seek to become a prime destination for quality papers in optics and photonics for the whole international community spanning from the Far East to Europe and the USA.
From 2009 the journal contents will be broken down into eight key sections - Nanophotonics and plasmonics; Metamaterials and structured photonic materials; Nonlinear and ultrafast optics; Photonics at the life science interface; Information and communication optics; Integrated optics systems and devices; Material processing with light; and Propagation, diffraction and scattering.
In 2010, Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics will be renamed Journal of Optics. The journal will continue to offer free web access to all papers published in the last 30 days creating a broad and unrestricted dissemination of research results.
