《光学精密工程》国际编委，编辑部的老朋友，澳大利亚国立大学JohnLove教授9月来访长春光机所编辑部进行其每年例行的编辑部现场办公。在所期间，JohnLove教授认真听取了编辑部主任白雨虹对于长春光机所与Nature出版集团合作的英文期刊Light: Science & Applications的工作进展情况后，高兴地接受了编辑部的邀请，担任Light: Science & Applications的编委。在返回澳大利亚后，JohnLove教授特意写了一篇题为MY INCREASING CONNECTIONS WITH CIOMP的文章，详述了他与长春光机所编辑部的深厚情谊，并表达了他愿意为期刊的发展做出贡献，为中国光学走向世界尽绵薄之力。

MY INCREASING CONNECTIONS WITH CIOMP

The first time I visited CIOMP was during the International Congress on Optics (ICO) in 2005 that was hosted by CIOMP, where I presented a paper. A secondary purpose of the visit was to convince the International Congress of Optics Council Bureau to allow the Australian Optical Society to host the next ICO meeting in Sydney 2008, a proposal that was accepted.

During my visit I got to know Professor Yuhong Bai who was ensuring that the international guests were very well looked after. As a result of meeting Professor Bai, I invited her to be a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University in 2006 to enhance the links between the two academic institutions and to help promote the CIOMP journals in Australia. Later I was invited to become an International Editor for the (then) Chinese Journal of Optics and Precision Engineering.

In 2007 Professor Bai reciprocated and invited me to visit her group at CIOMP. During my visit I helped with editorial work with English language aspects of the CIOMP journals and presented an introductory talk on my area of expertise of fibre optic communications to research students at CIOMP. I was also introduced to the history and the culture in Changchun, which fascinated me coming from a western culture to an emerging country that had been sheltered from the west until relatively recent times.

The success of this visit coupled with my fascination with Chinese education, research, culture and history has since leaded to annual visits, and the scope of my involvement with CIOMP has accordingly expanded. I have now given talks to tertiary institutions in several Chines cities and have been involved in helping to build links between CIOMP and the Optical Society of America (OSA).

In particular, a talk I was asked to give to students at CIOMP on the preparation of good quality research papers for international optics journals and conferences has since been adopted by the OSA for more general distribution to optics students around China. My links with CIOMP also resulted in me being asked to serve on an OSA Long-Term Planning Group focusing on links between the OSA and China.

This year, 2012, I have become a Topical Editor for the new journal, Light: Science & Applications, part of the Nature Publishing Group. I see this as another opportunity to support the exposure of the breadth of Chines optics to the global scientific community.

Professor John Love

Physics Teaching Centre

The Australian National University

Canberra

Australia