Journal Scope

JOM research areas of interest include but are not limited to:

Systems and applications

• chip-based photonic systems
• datacomm and telecommunications
• metrology, LIDAR, and remote sensing
• neuromorphic and bio-inspired optical systems
• biomedical, endoscopic and multi-modal imaging
• portable and wearable medical diagnostics and health monitoring
• distributed sensing, environmental monitoring and quality control
• miniaturized confocal, OCT, Raman, and other microscopy systems
• 2D, 3D and holographic displays, AR, VR and MR systems and lighting
• applications in renewable energy, natural resource management, or sustainable manufacturing

Optical and photonic components and subsystems

• optofluidic devices and systems
• metamaterials and metasurfaces
• refractive and diffractive micro-optics
• PICs and integrated silicon photonic MEMS
• fiber/chip couplers and photonic wire bonding
• tunable lenses, filters, mirrors, and light emitters
• devices for beam shaping, steering and switching
• optical switches, couplers, filters and phase shifters
• spectrometers, spectroscopic components and sensing systems

Materials & fabrication for micro-optical components & systems

• hybrid assembly and integration
• additive and subtractive manufacturing
• micromachining, replication and MEMS processes
• semiconductor, polymer, liquid and glass optical materials
• silicon, LiNbO3 and hybrid integrated photonics technologies
• micro- and nano-patterning including contact and roll-to-roll printing