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Joint Feature Issue of Biomedical Optics Express and JOSA A

Visual and Physiological Optics

Submission Opens:15 November 2022

Submission Deadline: 15 March 2023

Biomedical Optics Express and JOSA A welcome submissions to a feature issue based on the 10th Visual and Physiological Optics (VPO 2022) meeting in Cambridge, UK, on 29–31 August 2022. Held every two years, the VPO meetings bring together researchers, students, and clinical professionals for a sneak peek into the future of eye research technologies and to present their latest innovations in the fields of visual optics, optometry and vision sciences. Whereas meeting participants are particularly encouraged to submit their work, this feature issue is open to all contributions in related areas.

This feature issue will highlight the wide range of clinically relevant optical technology applications , such as ophthalmic instrumentation, retinal microscopy, and visual adaptive optics, that are generating better techniques for the diagnosis of retinal diseases, glaucoma and diabetic retinopathy, and for ocular analysis and vision testing. The issue will also include advances in clinical eye research using optical technologies, the improved optical instruments helping to optimize research techniques in myopia, and the design of new intraocular lenses to improve the outcome from cataract surgery.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

  • Advanced ophthalmic instrumentation, adaptive optics and imaging
  • Peripheral optical properties of the eye
  • Emmetropization and myopia
  • General optical properties of the eye and retina
  • Optics of the cornea and contact lenses
  • Optics and biomechanics of the crystalline lens and IOLs
  • Optical solutions to presbyopia

All submissions need to present original, previously unpublished work and will be subject to the normal standards and peer review processes of the journals. The standard Biomedical Optics Express and JOSA A Publication Charges will apply to all published articles. To be eligible for publication, an expanded conference paper needs to add value to the original conference proceedings and the conference paper number must be included in the cover letter at submission. Please see Optica Publishing Group's guidelines on expanded conference papers for details.

Please prepare manuscripts according to the author instructions for submission to Biomedical Optics Express or JOSA A and submit through the Prism submission system, specifying from the drop-down menu that the manuscript is for the feature issue on Visual and Physiological Optics.

Feature Editors

Juan Tabernero, University of Murcia, Spain (Lead Editor)

Linda Lundström, Royal Institute of Technology/KTH, Sweden

Christina Schwarz, University of Tübingen, Germany

Brian Vohnsen, University College Dublin, Ireland