Paper Submission

POST DEADLINE PAPERS

A limited number of papers will be accepted for presentation of significant results obtained after the deadline. A delegated author has to fill in the paper submission form including a 50-word abstract following the instruction for submission at the ISOM website (https://isom.jp/), and then a 2-page PDF summary should be submitted through the website. The ISOM web submission system does not accept any PDF file including 2-byte characters (for example, Japanese, Chinese and Korean characters). The local fonts should be removed from the text body and figures before submission.

ONLINE SUBMISSION

Original papers will be accepted for presentation after reviewed by the Technical Program Committee. The paper has to be submitted as an Adobe PDF-file at the conference website (https://isom.jp/). The web-submission service does not accept PDF files including 2-byte characters (for example, Japanese, Chinese and Korean characters). The local fonts should be removed from the text body and figures before submission. The 2-page summary preparation, 50-word abstract instruction, and submission procedures can be obtained at the website. Prior to paper submission, a delegated author has to fill in submission information including the 50-word abstract on the paper submission form at the website, and then a 2-page PDF summary should be uploaded via the website. If the summary does not meet the format, the paper will be rejected. Furthermore, the submitted paper cannot be replaced after the deadline.


Post Deadline Paper Submission: October 4, 2023

A limited number of post deadline papers are allowed as oral presentations. Authors will be notified whether their papers are accepted or not by late October 2023.

All authors who receive notification of their paper’s acceptance by the ISOM Technical Program Committee are requested to complete the copyright transfer form and promptly return it to the ISOM secretariat by e-mail.

ISOM Awards

The Best Paper Award, the Poster Award, and the Program Chair Award will be conferred to the excellent presentaions as the ISOM prizes. ISOM welcomes student presentations from universities. The Student Award is also prepared.

PUBLICATION OF SYMPOSIUM PAPERS

Online Technical Digest includes invited papers, accepted contributed papers, and limited numbers of post deadline papers. It will be available from Nov. 10 to Nov. 22, 2023. If you complete the payment, you will be informed of the website of the online Technical Digest on Nov. 10, 2023 and able to download it in advance.

The conference papers will be published in October 2024 as a special issue of the OPTICAL REVIEW, which is the English-language journal of the Optical Society of Japan (OSJ). The authors who will have, by themselves, presented papers at ISOM’23 will be allowed to submit their papers for publication in this special issue. The authors of invited and contributed (including post-deadline) papers are encouraged to submit Progress Reviews and Regular Papers, respectively. The instructions for preparation of manuscript for the special issue will be sent via e-mail after the conference. The deadline for submission of manuscripts is Feb. 29, 2024. Submitted papers will be reviewed based on the OPTICAL REVIEW standard.