COL Special Issue Announcement
Spatiotemporal optical fields and time-varying optical materials
Chinese Optics Letters (COL) invites high quality articles for a Special Issue on Spatiotemporal optical fields and time-varying optical materials to be published in August 2023.
Recently, there has been growing interest in the study of complex optical fields with tailored space-time characteristics. These sculptured spatiotemporal optical fields bring additional dimensions for fundamental studies in classic and quantum optics, and opens opportunities for applications ranging from super-resolution imaging, nanofabrication, optical manipulation, high-dimensional communication to quantum information.
Meanwhile, the quest for time-varying optical materials has also led to significant interest growth. compared with conventional time-invariant media, such media provide a new degree of freedom to control electromagnetic fields and light-matter interactions in both time and space, bringing us surprising physical effects such as nontrivial frequency shifting, optical nonreciprocity, floquet topological phase, and so on. The time materials also provide a possible route to generate and tailor spatiotemporal optical fields.
This Special Issue is intended to present recent advances in spatiotemporal optical fields and time-varying optical materials, from fundamental theories, novel physical properties, to a wide range of applications. All interested authors are invited to submit their newest results for possible publication in this Special Issue. All manuscripts need to present original, previously-unpublished work and will be subject to the normal standards and peer-review processes of this journal. Moreover, there is also the possibility of accepting a few review papers. Specific areas of interest include but are not limited to:
- Fundamental theories of novel types of spatiotemporal optical fields and time-varying optical materials
- Generation and manipulation of spatiotemporal optical fields
- Detection and characterization of complex optical fields
- Propagation, focusing and scattering of spatiotemporal optical fields
- Coherence properties of spatiotemporal optical fields
- Nonlinear light-matter interactions using spatiotemporal optical fields or time-varying optical materials
- Super-intense ultrafast spatiotemporal optical fields
- Spin-orbit interactions of spatiotemporal optical fields
- Spatiotemporal optical fields in quantum information
- Topological properties of spatiotemporal optical fields
- Photonic time-crystals and spatiotemporal metamaterials
- Unusual physical effects by time-varying optical materials
- Light field manipulation using time-varying optical materials
- Applications of spatiotemporal optical fields and time-varying optical materials in imaging, communication, sensing, optical manipulation, nanofabrication, metrology, etc.
Guest Editors
Chenhao Wan, wanchenhao@hust.edu.cn
Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Wei Chen, wchen@nju.edu.cn
Nanjing University, China
Qian Cao, cao.qian@usst.edu.cn
University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, China
Submission Deadline: April 30, 2023
Submission Format: Authors should use the MS-Word or Latex style files. Please visit: Author Style Guide & Templates for the submission template and upload the submission at the website: https://mc03.manuscriptcentral.com/clp-col with the type of "Special Issue on Spatiotemporal optical fields and time-varying optical materials".