The Optical Society (OSA) has announced the appointment of Ronald Driggers, CEO of St. Johns Optical Systems, as the new editor-in-chief of its journal, Applied Optics. Driggers will serve as the seventh editor-in-chief, and has a long history with the Journal as of an author, reader and topical editor.
Prior to founding St. Johns Optical Systems, Driggers was the Superintendent of the Optical Sciences Division at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory. Before that, he was the Director of the Modeling and Simulation Division at the U.S. Army’s Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate (NVESD). Driggers is also a fellow of OSA and SPIE. During his career, he has served as an Applied Optics topical editor and as editor-in-chief of Optical Engineering.
Applied Optics publishes in-depth articles emphasizing applications-centered research in optics. Published three times each month, Applied Optics’ articles cover topics such as optical technology, photonics, lasers, information processing, sensing and environmental optics.
