On July 1, 2021, I will finish my journey leading ACS Photonics and will move on from my role as founding Editor in Chief for the journal. Since its inception, the vision for ACS Photonics has been to serve as an interdisciplinary and vibrant photonics journal at the intersection of physics, chemistry, and engineering. Founded in 2013, ACS Photonics has established itself as a core journal for photonic sciences, notably in areas of nanophotonics, which has become a dominant subject in the photonics field. ACS Photonics has sought to strike a healthy balance between selectivity and volume of published manuscripts, both publishing impactful papers and achieving a sufficient volume of papers to broadly advance research through scholarly communication. In terms of intellectual criteria for publication, the editorial team has been well served by asking the following question of each manuscript: “Is there an interesting or new photonics issue, phenomenon, question, or challenge at the heart of the work?” My sense is that ACS Photonics has broadly achieved initial success in fulfilling its original vision and is now poised for a next phase of development, which will take place with the selection of a new Editor in Chief. In order to respond to the active landscape of the photonics field in the next five years, the most important guidepost for ACS Photonics should be to maintain high quality, while moving into new and emerging topical areas of photonics. The editors feel strongly that an important criterion for each manuscript is whether or not there is a substantial intellectual premise that is conceptually original, interesting, timely, and significant to the photonics community. Consideration of this criterion has led the editorial team to decline a number of high-quality manuscripts in certain areas that, while employing optical measurements, did not address a significant and outstanding core photonics science question. Just as is this case for the research community at large, the Editor in Chief and editorial team will need to be alert to new areas of emerging topical developments in the photonics field. Photonics is playing a prominent role in the rapidly accelerating quantum information science revolution. Quantum information science is one of the most important directions for physics, mathematics, and engineering disciplines over the next 15 years and has recently been the target of major government research investment worldwide. While photonics is only one of the scientific disciplines that is advancing quantum information, it is an important and powerful approach because it enables scalable systems to be created. As quantum optics progresses from concept to prototype applications, materials and chemical sciences will increasingly play an important role in creating the media for quantum light sources, gates, and memories. Many of these developments will require advances in nanophotonics, but now in the quantum realm. Another very important future topical area for photonics is the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning methods in photonic design approaches that employ large data sets to enable fully optimized but highly nonintuitive designs. Artificial intelligence/machine learning methods have burst onto the entire scientific landscape, spanning many fields, but these methods are especially impactful in photonics. Traditionally, “forward” photonic design processes have been employed to achieve a task or application objective, but inverse design is rapidly becoming a norm for design of photonic materials, components, and even systems. Even though we all think we know that AI and machine learning are going to be important in our field over the next 5–10 years, I think it is possible that we may still be underestimating the real impact. Biophotonics is another area that is poised to rapidly accelerate over the next 3 to 5 years. Advances in photonics are enabling new methods of sensing and imaging in biology and also stimulating development of new routes to therapeutics. As photonic components become more integrated and lower in cost, their application in medicine and biology is becoming more pervasive. Thus, significant scientific opportunities are emerging for photonics in this domain. During the last eight years, it has been my great privilege to serve alongside a geographically diverse and internationally prominent team of distinguished Associate Editors and an Executive Editor, who make up the editorial team. At the journal’s inception, I was fortunate to have the support and expertise of Teri Odom as Executive Editor, as well as Associate Editors Romain Quidant (then of ICFO and now of ETH Zurich), Stefan Maier (then of Imperial College and now of LMU Munich), and Ted Sargent of University of Toronto, and later Jelena Vuckovic of Stanford, providing expertise in quantum photonics. When Teri Odom stepped down as Executive Editor in 2019 to take up the role of Editor in Chief of Nano Letters, Romain Quidant transitioned ably and smoothly into the Executive Editor role for ACS Photonics. Following a period of significant manuscript growth, the journal was pleased to welcome as Associate Editors laser specialist Yidong Huang of Tsinghua University, metamaterials and theory researcher C. T. Chan, optical measurement expert Kishan Dholakia of the University of St. Andrews, and nanophotonics theorist Javier Garcia de Abajo. More recently, in the last month ACS Photonics has welcomed three new Associate Editors: Laura Na Liu of University of Stuttgart, Namkyoo Park of Seoul National University, and Andrea Armani of the University of Southern California. Each of these scientists has brought their own distinctive vision to the photonics fields, and we are fortunate to have their advice in guiding the publication process at the journal. The American Chemical Society has also provided invaluable support to help the editorial team rapidly transform manuscripts into published papers, rendered in a clean and refreshing visual style, available promptly worldwide to readers. I want to thank Penelope Lewis, Carlos Toro, Bill Aumiller, and Marcus Anderson of ACS for their dedicated efforts on behalf of the journal, as well as Natalia Olson and her team at J&J Editorial. Finally, I want to sincerely thank the entire photonics community of authors, reviewers, and readers, who are the ones that truly bring to life advances in photonics each month on the pages of the journal. May we together continue this journey to “trip the light fantastic”. Views expressed in this editorial are those of the author and not necessarily the views of the ACS. Views expressed in this editorial are those of the author and not necessarily the views of the ACS.
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2021 年 7 月 1 日，我将完成领导ACS Photonics 的旅程，并将继续担任该期刊的创始主编。自成立以来，ACS Photonics的愿景一直是成为物理、化学和工程交叉领域的跨学科和充满活力的光子学期刊。ACS Photonics成立于 2013 年，已成为光子科学的核心期刊，尤其是纳米光子学领域，已成为光子学领域的主导学科。ACS光子学一直寻求在选择性和发表手稿数量之间取得健康的平衡，既要发表有影响力的论文，又要获得足够的论文数量，以通过学术交流广泛推进研究。在发表的智力标准方面，编辑团队通过对每份手稿提出以下问题而得到了很好的服务：“工作的核心是否有一个有趣的或新的光子学问题、现象、问题或挑战？” 我的感觉是ACS Photonics在实现其最初愿景方面取得了广泛的初步成功，现在准备进入下一阶段的发展，该阶段将随着新主编的选择而进行。为应对未来五年光子学领域活跃的格局，ACS Photonics最重要的路标应该是保持高质量，同时进入光子学的新兴主题领域。编辑们强烈认为，每份手稿的一个重要标准是是否有一个实质性的知识前提，该前提在概念上是原创的、有趣的、及时的并且对光子学界具有重要意义。考虑到这一标准，编辑团队拒绝了某些领域的一些高质量手稿，虽然采用了光学测量，但并未解决重要且突出的核心光子学科学问题。正如整个研究界的情况一样，主编和编辑团队需要对光子学领域新兴主题发展的新领域保持警惕。光子学在快速加速的量子信息科学革命中发挥着重要作用。量子信息科学是未来 15 年物理、数学和工程学科最重要的方向之一，最近成为全球政府重大研究投资的目标。虽然光子学只是推进量子信息的科学学科之一，但它是一种重要而强大的方法，因为它可以创建可扩展的系统。随着量子光学从概念发展到原型应用，材料和化学科学将在为量子光源、门和存储器创建介质方面发挥越来越重要的作用。许多这些发展将需要纳米光子学的进步，但现在是在量子领域。光子学的另一个非常重要的未来主题领域是在光子设计方法中使用人工智能和机器学习方法，这些方法采用大数据集来实现完全优化但高度非直观的设计。人工智能/机器学习方法已经冲进了整个科学领域，跨越了许多领域，但这些方法在光子学中尤其具有影响力。传统上，“正向”光子设计过程已被用于实现任务或应用目标，但反向设计正迅速成为光子材料、组件甚至系统设计的规范。尽管我们都认为我们知道人工智能和机器学习在未来 5 到 10 年内将在我们的领域发挥重要作用，但我认为我们可能仍然低估了真正的影响。生物光子学是另一个有望在未来 3 到 5 年内迅速加速发展的领域。光子学的进步使生物学中的传感和成像新方法成为可能，也刺激了新疗法的发展。随着光子组件变得更加集成和成本更低，它们在医学和生物学中的应用变得越来越普遍。因此，该领域的光子学正在出现重要的科学机会。在过去的八年里，我很荣幸能与一个由杰出的副主编和执行编辑组成的地理多元化和国际知名的团队一起工作，他们组成了编辑团队。在期刊成立之初，我有幸得到了 Teri Odom 作为执行编辑的支持和专业知识，以及副主编 Romain Quidant（当时是 ICFO，现在是 ETH Zurich）、Stefan Maier（当时是帝国理工学院，现在是 LMU 慕尼黑）和多伦多大学的 Ted Sargent，以及后来的斯坦福大学的 Jelena Vuckovic，提供专业知识量子光子学。当泰瑞·奥多姆于 2019 年卸任执行主编，担任主编时Nano Letters，Romain Quidant 顺利顺利地过渡到ACS Photonics的执行编辑角色。在经历了一段显着的稿件增长期后，该杂志很高兴地欢迎清华大学激光专家黄一东、超材料和理论研究员 CT Chan、圣安德鲁斯大学光学测量专家 Kishan Dholakia 和纳米光子学理论家 Javier Garcia 担任副主编。德阿巴霍。最近，在上个月ACS Photonics迎来了三位新的副主编：斯图加特大学的 Laura Na Liu、首尔国立大学的 Namkyoo Park 和南加州大学的 Andrea Armani。这些科学家中的每一位都为光子学领域带来了自己独特的愿景，我们很幸运能在指导期刊发表过程中得到他们的建议。美国化学学会还提供了宝贵的支持，帮助编辑团队迅速将手稿转化为已发表的论文，以干净清爽的视觉风格呈现，在全球范围内迅速提供给读者。我要感谢 ACS 的佩内洛普·刘易斯、卡洛斯·托罗、比尔·奥米勒和马库斯·安德森代表该期刊所做的奉献，以及 Natalia Olson 和她在强生编辑部的团队。最后，我要真诚地感谢由作者、审稿人和读者组成的整个光子学社区，他们每个月都在期刊页面上真正将光子学的进步带入生活。愿我们一起继续这段“奇幻之旅”的旅程。本社论中表达的观点是作者的观点，不一定是 ACS 的观点。本社论中表达的观点是作者的观点，不一定是 ACS 的观点。
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