Submission Criteria

• Summaries should be no more than 500 words in length, including title, figure captions and references. Longer summaries may be disqualified.
• Summaries may not contain more than five references.
• Summaries should include only one high-resolution figure or image (jpeg, eps or tiff).
• Additional multimedia files (videos or animations) are encouraged but not required.
• The accomplishments described must have been published in a peer-reviewed journal sometime after July of calendar 2013.
• Highlighted research should be described clearly, concisely, and in a form readily accessible to the general optics community.
• The author or authors should describe the topical area as a whole and then discuss the importance of their work in that context.
• Summaries should represent the best work in a given optics subfield. We discourage multiple submissions from the same individual or group.
• Since we try to recognize all subfields, we may not accept multiple submissions from one research group in a single, concentrated area of focus. OPN strives to ensure that engineering, basic science and technology are all well represented.