Editorial: Optics Express — Reaching Maturity

Editorial: Guided-Wave Optics

Guided waves represent a vast class of phenomena in which the propagation of collective excitations in various media is steered in required directions by fixed (or, sometimes, reconfigurable) conduits. Arguably, the most well-known and practically important waveguides are single-mode and multi-mode optical fibers [1,2], including their more sophisticated version in the form of photonic crystal ...

Editorial Singular Optics

Welcome to Biomedical Optics Express

We are very pleased to introduce the inaugural issue of Biomedical Optics Express. Published by The Optical Society, Biomedical Optics Express is a new peer-reviewed journal focusing on biomedical optics and biophotonics. Biomedical Optics Express is intended to become OSA’s principal outlet for serving the biomedical optics community with rapid, open-access publication of biomedical content. A...

Drug administration with ocular iontophoresis: reaching maturity.

Editorial: ARDS: Reaching for the Horizon

The acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) represents a syndrome of severe diffuse, hypoxemic, inflammatory lung disease caused by a broad range of pulmonary and non-pulmonary processes. Since Ashbaugh and Petty first ascribed the term ARDS (initially adult respiratory distress syndrome) in their landmark 1967 report (1), five decades of study reinforce early observations that ARDS is not l...