The Optical Society (OSA) has announced the launch of a new journal on optical materials. The journal, Optical Materials Express (OME), will launch in spring 2011. David Hagan, associate dean for academic programs and professor of optics and physics at CREOL, The College of Optics & Photonics at the University of Central Florida, will serve as the editor-in-chief.
A bi-monthly publication, Optical Materials Express will join OSA's diverse portfolio of 14 peer-reviewed optics journals. The journal will primarily emphasise advances in novel optical materials, their properties, modelling, synthesis and fabrication techniques; how such materials contribute to novel optical behaviour; and how they enable new or improved optical devices. The subject matter will cover a full range of topics in optical materials, including, but not limited to, artificially engineered structures; biomaterials; detector materials; optical storage media; materials for integrated optics; nonlinear optical materials; laser materials; metamaterials; nanomaterials; organics and polymers; soft materials; IR materials; and materials for fiber optics.
Many features of the new journal will mirror those of the pioneering and highly successful OSA publication, Optics Express, including rapid, online open-access publication and availability of free colour figures, animations and live reference links. Submissions to OME will be accepted beginning this fall. Guidelines for authors, manuscript templates and submission instructions will be posted online this summer.
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