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Feature Issue of Applied Optics and Optics Express

Computational Optical Sensing and Imaging 2024

Submission Opens:1 July 2024

Submission Deadline: 14 October 2024

Applied Optics and Optics Express welcome submissions to a feature issue on “Computational Optical Sensing and Imaging” in conjunction with the Computational Optical Sensing and Imaging (COSI) topical meeting collocated with the Optica Imaging Congress. Whereas meeting participants are particularly encouraged to submit their work, the COSI feature issue is open to all contributions in related areas.

The COSI field seeks to collectively exploit the capabilities of optics, electronics and computation in realizing newer imaging capabilities that are not afforded by classical EO design. Application areas for Computational Imaging range from theoretical advances in photonics to imaging applications in medicine, defense, and industry.

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

  • Computational Adaptive Optics
  • Computational Microscopy (including Ptychography), Digital Holographic Microscopy
  • Compressed Sensing
  • Computational Spectroscopy and Spectral Imaging
  • Computational Imaging for Point-of-Care Applications
  • Differentiable Optics (and its applications to Ray Tracing, Wave Propagation, Lens/Optical Design)
  • Fundamental Limits of Computational Optical Sensing and Imaging
  • Imaging through Scattering and Turbid Media
  • Inverse Problems in Imaging
  • Lensless Imaging, Coherent Diffraction Imaging
  • Machine Learning for Computational Imaging
  • Novel Applications of Holography
  • Phase Retrieval and its Applications
  • SAR, InSAR, Terahertz- and mm-Wave Imaging
  • Super-Resolution
  • Topics in 3D Imaging (Structured Illumination, ToF Sensing, LiDAR, Light Fields)
  • Tomographic Imaging
  • Unconventional Imaging Modalities (Intensity Interferometry, Ghost Imaging and Mutual Intensity Imaging)
  • Computer Generated Holography and Computational Displays for AR/VR
  • Computational Imaging using Metasurfaces and Metamaterials
  • Event-driven Computational Imaging using Neuromorphic Sensors
  • Non-Line-of-Sight Imaging
  • Physics Aware Deep Learning
  • Quantum Imaging, Quantum Sensing
  • Single-Photon Imaging

Authors may choose between Applied Optics 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 journal. The standard Applied Optics 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.

Please prepare manuscripts according to the author instructions for submission to Applied Optics or Optics Express and submit through the Prism submission system, specifying from the drop-down menu that the manuscript is for the feature issue on COSI 2024.
Feature Editors

Seung Ah Lee, Yonsei University, South Korea (Lead Editor)
Liang Gao, UCLA, USA
Lars Loetgering, ZEISS Research Microscopy Solutions, Germany
Ashley Lyons, University of Glasgow, UK
Prasanna Rangarajan, Southern Methodist University, USA