We announce a Special Issue of the Journal of Modern Optics on single photon detectors, applications, and measurement methods. The issue will focus on Single Photon Detectors, highlighting existing detector limitations, deficiencies and opportunities for improvement. All participants of the recent NIST ARDA Workshop on this topic are invited and encouraged to submit to this special issue. In addition, this invitation is open to all, whether or not they presented at or attended that workshop. We also encourage papers that discuss emerging single photon detector applications and their requirements with an eye toward future needs of the global community. The intent, along with cataloging existing needs and spurring further advances, is to provide an archival document to form a basic reference for this field for years to come.

The issue will be edited by A. Migdall and J. Dowling. Manuscripts will be reviewed according to normal journal procedures. Details regarding the preparation of manuscripts can be found at the Taylor and Francis website http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/. Contributions should be no longer than 8000 words, and should be submitted in electronic version (.ps or .pdf) or 3 paper copies (electronic is preferred) to:

Final electronic versions of the manuscripts will be requested after acceptance for publication. Manuscripts are due by June 30, 2003 to ensure publication in the special issue. Publication of the special issue by May 2004 is anticipated.

Topics to be included in the special issue:

Single-Photon Detector issues: quantum efficiency, speed, spatial uniformity, stability, spectral coverage, dark counts, dead time, photon-number resolving, pulse discrimination, timing jitter, array configurations, cost.

Metrology methods: Conventional calibration and correlated-photon pair calibration.

Current and Future Application needs: Quantum cryptography, quantum communication, quantum computation, quantum imaging, low-light laboratory applications.

Manuscript Due June 30^th, 2003

Alan Migdall and Jonathan Dowling, Guest Editors

Please forward this announcement to anyone who may be interested.