CQN Faculty Tapped to Lead New Journal
Optica Quantum is a new online-only journal dedicated to high-impact results in quantum information science and technology (QIST), as enabled by optics and photonics. Optica Quantum will publish its first issue in September 2023. Its scope will encompass theoretical and experimental research as well as technological advances in and applications of quantum optics. In addition, the Journal will provide the same exceptional standards for quality, novelty, and significance as its parent journal, Optica.
Optica Quantum will publish bi-monthly (6 issues/year) and will include original research articles, reviews, invited perspectives, comments, and replies. Optica Quantum also offers the opportunity for authors and reviewers to participate in a transparent peer review process by agreeing to publish the peer review correspondence (decision letters, reviewer comments, and author response to reviews) associated with an article.
Optica asked CQN researcher Michael Raymer (University of Oregon) to launch the journal as its first Editor-in-Chief. Michael has now asked another CQN researcher, Matt Eichenfield, to assist him as one of the journal’s Associate Editor. Matt holds appointments at the University of Arizona and at Sandia National Laboratories. Other Associate Editors have been invited from Canada, Mexico, Europe, and Asia.
“I am honored to be entrusted with the founding editor-in-chief position for Optica Quantum,” said Raymer. “Through my volunteer work with and support from Optica, I’ve been part of and witnessed the major impact that a professional society can have in advancing quantum science and technology. With the help of a distinguished editorial board, I intend for Optica Quantum to become a one-of-kind journal that provides top-caliber articles and mini-reviews from a Society publisher that’s been in the field for more than 100 years.”
Submissions are open now for publication this fall: https://opg.optica.org/opticaq.cfm