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Feature Issue of Optical Materials Express and Optics Express

Advanced Solid-State Lasers 2023

Submission Opens: 1 October 2023

Submission Deadline: 8 January 2024

Optical Materials Express and Optics Express welcome submissions to a feature issue on "Advanced Solid-State Lasers" in conjunction with the Advanced Solid State Lasers Conference (ASSL). ASSL highlights new sources, advanced technologies, components, and system design to extend the operation and application of solid-state lasers. Whereas meeting participants are particularly encouraged to submit their work, the feature issue is open to all contributions in related areas.

This joint feature issue will cover recent advances in both materials and sources aspects of solid-state lasers. The scope of materials-related submissions encompasses advances in optics, materials science, condensed matter physics, and chemistry relevant to the development, characterization, and applications of new materials and components for coherent radiation sources and photonics. These include crystals, glasses, and ceramics, as well as functionalized composite materials, from fibers and waveguides to engineered structures with pre-assigned optical properties. Materials used for fabrication of basic laser components also will be a core part of the issue. Coherent and high-brightness radiation sources include lasers as well as pump and nonlinear devices. Submissions that emphasize advances in science and technology for improved power, efficiency, brightness, stability, wavelength coverage, pulse width, cost, environmental impact, or other application-specific attributes are of particular interest.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

Materials

  • Materials as gain media for lasers and amplifiers
  • Advances in crystal growth and fabrication of glasses and ceramics
  • Glass and Crystal fibers and waveguides
  • Advanced semiconductors for sources and detectors
  • Nonlinear materials for frequency conversion
  • Electro-optical and magneto-optical materials
  • Saturable absorbers
  • Advances in mirrors, gratings and other selective components
  • Novel approaches and materials for lasers&emdash;topological photonics, plasmonics, 2D materials
  • Advanced coating technologies including surface micro-structuring
  • Materials and components for thermal management and high damage threshold
  • Modeling and characterization methods of optical properties
  • Materials for lighting and laser displays
  • Structured materials with lasers

Sources

  • Bulk solid-state lasers based on crystals, ceramics and glasses
  • Fiber and waveguide lasers
  • Optical sources based on nonlinear frequency conversion
  • High power CW, short-pulse and ultrashort pulse lasers in the UV, visible and IR
  • Laser-driven THz, IR, visible, UV, XUV and X-ray sources and drivers
  • Laser beam combining and power scaling architectures
  • Frequency combs and frequency-stable lasers
  • Tunable and new wavelength lasers
  • Semiconductor lasers, edge emitters, VCSELs, VECSELs, arrays
  • Spatial mode control in solid state lasers
  • Application-specific solid-state laser architectures

Authors may choose between Optical Materials Express and Optics Express when submitting to the joint feature issue, but should recognize the differences between them and select the appropriate journal. The guest editors may recommend transferring a manuscript to the other journal as needed. Papers will appear in their respective journals. Additionally, a combined table of contents of papers from both journals will appear once all papers are published.

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 Optical Materials Express and Optics Express Article Processing 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.

Manuscripts should be prepared according to the author instructions for submission to Optical Materials Express or Optics Express. Please submit through our electronic submission system, specifying from the drop-down menu that the manuscript is for the feature issue on Advanced Solid-State Lasers 2023.

Feature Editors

Mark Bowers, Lockheed Martin Aculight Corp., USA (Lead Editor)
Patrice Camy, CIMAP-ENSICAEN, France
Mark Dubinskii, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, USA
Yushi Kaneda, University of Arizona, USA
Patricia Segonds, Neel Institute, France