Submission deadline: Aug. 31, 2016

　　Chinese Optics Letters (COL) invites original manuscript submissions for a Special Issue on Microwave Photonics to be published in January 2017.

　　Microwave photonics is an inter-disciplinary field that studies the interaction between microwave and photonics for applications such as radar, sensors and telecommunication networks. The unique capabilities offered by photonics for processing ultra-wideband and high-frequency signals make it possible to have functions in microwave systems that are complex or even not directly possible in the radiofrequency domain. It has attracted great interest from both the research community and the commercial sector over the past 40 years and is set to have a bright future. We invite researchers in this field and related ones to contribute original research articles and review articles to this special issue on Microwave Photonics in Chinese Optics Letters. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Photonic generation, transmission, and processing of microwave signals
• Radio over fiber
• Microwave photonics radars
• Integrated microwave photonics
• Microwave photonics sensors
• Biomedical microwave photonics
• Advances in microwave photonics applications

　　Guest Editors:

　　Prof. José Capmany
　　Universidad Politécnica de Valencia
　　Institute of Telecommunications and Multimedia
　　Camino de Vera s/n, 46020 Valencia, Spain
　　Telephone: 34-96-3877757
　　Email: Jcapmany@iteam.upv.es

　　Prof. Jianping Yao
　　University of Ottawa
　　School of Information Technology and Engineering
　　25 Templeton Street;Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1N 6N5
　　Telephone: (613) 562-5800 x 6309
　　Email: jpyao@uottawa.ca

　　Prof. Wei Li
　　Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences
　　State Key Laboratory on Integrated Optoelectronics
　　No.A35, QingHua East Road, Haidian District, Beijing, China
　　Telephone: 86-10-82304320
　　Email: liwei05@semi.ac.cn

　　Prof. Shilong Pan
　　Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
　　Key Laboratory of Radar Imaging and Microwave Photonics, Ministry of Education
　　A12-502, 29 Yudao Street, Nanjing, China
　　Telephone: 86-25-84896490-4408
　　Email: pans@nuaa.edu.cn

　　Submission format: Authors should use the Latex or MS-Word style files. For more details, please visit and upload the submission at the website of COL: http://www.col.org.cn with the mark of “special issue on microwave photonics”. If you have any problem, please email to col@siom.ac.cn .