Special Issue of the Journal of Raman Spectroscopy for ECONOS 2009 The Eighth European Conference on Nonlinear Spectroscopy

Abstract

This issue of the Journal of Raman Spectroscopy is devoted to papers submitted by attendees of the Eight European Conference on Nonlinear Spectroscopy, held simultaneously with the 28th Workshop on CARS Spectroscopy, in Frascati (Rome), Italy from 25 to 27 May 2009. The website for the 8th ECONOS Conference describes the conference as “a continuation of annual meetings devoted to different issues in a rapidly expanding field of nonlinear optical spectroscopy. ECONOS has emerged in 2002 to widen the agendas of the former annual European CARS (Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering) workshops (held since 1982) and to cover all forms of non-linear optical spectroscopy, theoretical and experimental studies and applications. Topics include, but are not limited to, Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Spectroscopy CARS, other forms of coherent Raman spectroscopy, Four-Wave Mixing and different third-(or higher)-order responses in the time and frequency domain and related techniques as well as to the physical and chemical processes defining the spectral signatures in different media.” This special issue emerged from an invitation to attendees of ECONOS 2009 to submit papers for normal peer review to be published in one dedicated issue of the Journal of Raman Spectroscopy. Dr. Aleksei Zheltikov from the M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia and Dr. Peter Radi from the Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland served as Guest Associate Editors to manage the submission, review and acceptance of submitted papers. This year ECONOS 2010 was held in June at the Jacobs University in Bremen, German and papers from this conference have been solicited with an October 15 deadline for a special issue of the Journal of Raman Spectroscopy to published early in 2011. For next year's ECONOS special issue, the Guest Associated Editors will be conference host and organizer, Dr. Arnulf Materny, and Dr. Peter Radi. I hope that you enjoy this special issue from the 2009 ICONOS conference that highlights exciting new progress at the leading edge of non-linear spectroscopy.