About the editor
Ting-Chung Poon is Professor at Virginia Tech in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, where he is also Director of the Optical Image Processing Laboratory. His current research interests include acousto-optics, hybrid (optical/electronic/digital) 3-D image processing, optical scanning cryptography, optical scanning holography, 3-D holographic display, and 3-D holographic microscopy. Dr. Poon is the co-author of the textbooks Principles of Applied Optics (McGraw-Hill 1991) and Contemporary Optical Image Processing with MATLAB (R) (Elsevier 2001). He has served as a panelist for the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation, and as guest editor of, among other publications, Applied Optics, International Journal of Optoelectronics, and Optical Engineering. Dr. Poon currently serves as a topical editor for Applied Optics and is on the editorial board of Optics and Laser Technology and the Journal of Holography and Speckle. Dr. Poon is a Fellow of the OSA and SPIE and is a Senior Member of the IEEE.