IEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN QUANTUM ELECTRONICS — Call for Papers
1. Optical Code in Optical Communications and Networks
Submission Deadline:1 December 2006
Publication Date: Fall of 2007
The purpose of this JSTQE issue is to document the state-of-the-art and the variety of developments in the field. Papers are solicited on:
• Generation and recognition techniques of optical codes based upon either amplitude-shift or phase-shift keying codes, 2-D time-spreading and wavelength-hopping, sub-carrier multiplexing, frequency-shift keying etc.
• Optical code-division multiple-access (OCDMA) systems
• Optical code (OC)-based Multi-Protocal Label Switching (MPLS)
• Optical burst switching using OC-control packet
• Optical packet switching using OC-header
• Optical code processing techniques for novel applications
• Monolithically integrated photonic devices for OCDMA systems
Guest Editors: Ken-ichi Kitayama, Osaka University, Japan; and S. J. Ben Yoo, University of California, Davis, USA.

2. Single Photon Counting: Detectors and Applications
Submission Deadline: 2 January 2007
Publication Date: Summer of 2007
The intent of this JSTQE issue is to document the current status of single photon detectors for the infrared, visible, and ultraviolet spectral ranges, as well as the various applications of these detectors. Relevant device technology include:
• Photomultiplier technologies
• Avalanche photodiodes and other semiconductor-based single photon detectors
• Superconducting photon detectors
• Reduced dimensionality and other novel structures for single photon detection
• Threshold detection and quenching circuits for photon counting
Applications for single photon detection include:
• Single photon fluorescence and luminescence techniques
• Optical tomography
• Quantum information processing and quantum cryptography
• Free space optical communications based on single photon transmission
• Long-distance time-of-flight ranging and imaging techniques
• Adaptive optics systems for advanced telescopes
• Single photon detection in nuclear and particle physics
• Single photon metrology
Guest Editors: Dr. Mark Itzler, Princeton Lightwave Inc., Cranbury, NJ, USA; Prof. Sergio Cova, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy; Dr. Michael Wahl, PicoQuant GmbH, Berlin, Germany; and Dr. Akihisa Tomita, NEC, Ibaraki, Japan.
Please send a .pdf or Word File of each manuscript (including keywords and author biographies) to Chin Tan-yan at c.tan-yan@ieee.org. Manuscripts must be accompanied by a completed IEEE Copyright Form, which can be sent in the mail or by e-mail. The Copyright Form can found online at: http://www.ieee.org/about/documentation/copyright/cfmlink.htm.
Additional information for authors regarding manuscript format may be found on the inside back cover of any issue of the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics. All submissions will be reviewed in accordance with the journal procedures of the Journal.
All copyright forms should be mailed to: Chin Tan-yan (Ms.)
JSTQE Editorial Office
Optical Code in Optical Communications and Network
IEEE/LEOS
445 Hoes Lane
Piscataway, NJ 08854 USA
Express mail packages should be sent to the attention of Chin Tan-yan (phone: +1 732 465 5813). Call or e-mail to c.tan-yan@ieee.org if you have questions about this issue.
For all papers published in JSTQE, there are voluntary page charges of $110.00 per page for each page to eight pages. Invited papers can be twelve pages in length before overlength page charges of $220.00 per page are levied. The length of each paper is estimated when it is received in the Editorial Office. Authors of papers that appear to be overlength are notified and given the option to shorten the paper. Additional charges will apply if color figures are required.
For more information on JSTQE special issues and submission requirements, contact Chin Tan-yan at c.tan-yan@ieee.org

IEEE JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY — Call for Papers
1. Modeling of Guided Wave Photonic Devices
Submission Deadline: 15 January 2007
Publication Date: September 2007
Guest Editors: Hugo E. Hernandez-Figueroa, State University of Campinas, Brazil; Anand Gopinath, University of Minnesota, USA; Masanori Koshiba, Hokkaido University, Japan; and Andrea Melloni, Politecnico di Milano, Italy.
Scope: Original contributions on numerical modeling/simulation applied to guided wave photonics, including: integrated optics devices, metamaterial/photonic-band-gap based devices, photonic crystal fibers, nanophotonic effects and devices, photonic circuits, fiber-to-chip coupling, wireless-photonic devices, nonlinear and anisotropic effects in photonic waveguides and fibers, plasmonic effects and devices, effects on channel performance, and others. Novel beam and wave computational propagation methods for guided wave modeling: formulations in frequency and time domains based on Finite Elements, Finite Differences, Finite Integration Technique, Transmission Line, and other numerical methods, large scale simulation, parallel algorithms, and bioinspired and deterministic optimization techniques.
Please upload your paper to Manuscript Central and choose the *2007 Numerical Modeling of Photonic Devices* special issue. All submissions will be reviewed in accordance with the normal procedures of the Journal.

2. Convergence of Optical Wireless Access Networks
Submission Deadline: 15 February 2007
Publication Date: November 2007
Guest Editors: Gee-Kung Chang, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA; Ken-ichi Kitayama, Osaka University, Japan; Jianjun Yu, NEC Labs, USA; and Alwyn Seeds, University College London, UK.
Scope: This special issue will address the challenges of Super broadband wired and wireless convergence, optical to millimeter wave upconversion technologies, RF front-end design and implementation, Radio over Fiber technologies, coding and protection techniques for high bit rate (>1 Gbps) wireless links, IPTV and HDTV over wireless, and what’s beyond WiFi and WiMax for fixed-wireless in metro & access networks.
• Optical millimeter-wave generation and demodulation techniques.
• All-optical frequency mixing and signal processing techniques.
• Radio-over-fiber network architectures
• Integration radio-over-fiber with WDM-PON system.
• Advanced components for radio-over-fiber system.
• Quality of service in radio-over-fiber system.
• Advanced modulation formats in radio-over-fiber system.
• Coding and protection techniques for high bit rate wireless links.
• Protocol design for optical wireless access networks.
• Free space optical wireless access systems.
• UWB radio over fiber technologies
• IPTV and HDTV over optical wireless.
• Advancements of WiFi and WiMax for fixed-wireless in metro & access networks.
• Applications of radio-over-fiber technique in new areas other than in telecommunication.
Please upload your paper to Manuscript Central and choose the *2007 Optical Wireless Access Networks* special issue. All submissions will be reviewed in accordance with the normal procedures of the Journal.
All copyright forms should be mailed to:
JLT Editorial Office (Doug Hargis)
IEEE/LEOS
445 Hoes Lane
Piscataway, NJ 08854 USA
For all papers published in JLT, there are voluntary page charges of $110.00 per page for each page to eight pages. Invited papers can be twelve pages in length before overlength page charges of $260.00 per page are levied. The length of each paper is estimated when it is received in the Editorial Office. Authors of papers that appear to be overlength are notified and given the option to shorten the paper; otherwise, mandatory overlength charges will be assessed. Additional charges will apply if color figures are required.
For more information on JLT special issues and submission requirements, contact Doug Hargis at d.hargis@ieee.org
The Copyright Form can found online at: http://www.ieee.org/about/documentation/copyright/cfmlink.htm.