New wisdom abounds

JAKE SALTZMAN, EDITOR JAKE.SALTZMAN@PHOTONICS.COM

Since its first issue in 1967, Photonics Spectra has been proud to champion advancements in optics and photonics. Today, more than half a century later, this undertaking still serves as this magazine’s goal as well as its mission.

The Photonics Spectra Editorial Advisory Board is integral to this goal and central to this mission. As a collective body, and through its individual members, it is a dynamic resource for the editors of this publication.

And this month, after many weeks of anticipation, the board is set to expand. We are pleased to welcome four distinguished industry professionals to our Editorial Advisory Board: Joseph Spilman; Bruno Gross; Robert Bourdelais; and Scott Bass.

These appointments mark an exciting time and signal a momentous rise in emergent technologies — quantum, integrated photonics, and automation, to name a few — that are poised to feature prominently in the years to come. Broadening our expertise will greatly enhance our ability to cover photonics as an industry, field, and community in a way that draws on lessons from the past and present to anticipate and inform the future.

Our ability to do so is paramount to promote robust, meaningful dialogue among photonics engineers, scientists, and system end users.

September also marks our annual Optics Issue. In this year’s edition, industry contributors Flemming Tinker (Aperture Optical Sciences) and Tom Baur and Michael Kraemer (Meadowlark Optics) discuss large-format optics and optical materials, respectively. Along with contributing editor Marie Freebody, Tinker, Baur, and Kraemer present three different inroads to consider the indelible relationship that exists between optics and metrology.

Luceda Photonics’ Chiara Alessandri, JFS Laboratory’s Beibei Wu, Cailabs’ Jean-François Morizur, and Power Technology’s William Burgess also feature in this issue.

The additions of Joseph Spilman, Bruno Gross, Robert Bourdelais, and Scott Bass to the Editorial Advisory Board could not have come at a better time. While it is their profound industry knowledge that brings them to the board this September, it is their shared passion for optics that further aligns this issue with the announcement.

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