Call for papers on Wavefront Shaping Tutorials:
JPhys Photonics Special Issue

Guest Editors

• Ivo Vellekoop - University of Twente, Netherlands
• Joshua Brake - Harvey Mudd College, United States
• Sébastien Popoff - CNRS - Institut Langevin - ESPCI, France

In the past 15 years, wavefront shaping has emerged as a preferred tool for controlling and studying light propagation in complex media. Thousands of papers have been published, many of which present new and potentially exciting applications. However, wavefront shaping is a tool that requires experience, custom codes, and most importantly, specific tricks, which are often not published or shared. This special issue provides an opportunity to disseminate this information, thereby ensuring the reproducibility of the results and promoting the spread of techniques in this field.

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Scope

In 2007 it was shown that light can be focused through arbitrarily strongly scattering materials, by 'simply' shaping the wavefront of the incident light. Since this discovery, the field of wavefront shaping has taken flight, with applications ranging from microscopy to fundamental physics.

So far, most of the work has been exploratory, with experiments aiming at demonstrating radically new ideas. Although a number of excellent reviews on the topic have been published, there is relatively little practical information available for new researchers wishing to get started in this field.

It is our aim to bundle over 15 years of practical experience in building wavefront shaping setups, coding algorithms, working with spatial light modulators, etc. in a special issue for JPhys Photonics. There is a great deal of knowledge that is embedded in specific research groups that is often not highlighted in traditional papers. Our goal is to make this implicit knowledge explicit, more accessible, and easier to share and cite.

In line with this goal, we ask that all authors submit any source code along with the data needed to run a minimum working example to demonstrate the basic operation of their code. This code will be collected together as a set of repositories which will be shared along with the papers. Code should be licensed such that it is able to be freely used and modified for non-profit uses (e.g., the MIT license). We welcome source code in a variety of different languages.

We invite all researchers working in the field of wavefront shaping to share their experience and code, especially the practical aspects that (though often considered too trivial to detail in a publication) are essential for new researchers, engineers, and even teachers to get started in this exciting field.

Submission process

Please submit via our online submission system. You will be asked to select the appropriate article type for your manuscript, and then you can choose 'Focus Issue on Foundational Skills and Tools for Building Wavefront Shaping Systems' from the drop-down menu.

Deadline for submissions

The deadline for submissions to this collection is 30th November 2023. We encourage early submission where possible, as articles will be published on acceptance without being delayed by other papers in the collection.