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Note the Boolean sign must be in upper-case. • Example: (diode OR solid-state) AND laser [search contains 'diode' or 'solid-state' and laser] • Example: (photons AND downconversion) - pump [search contains both 'photons' and 'downconversion' but not 'pump'] • Improve efficiency in your search by using wildcards. • Asterisk ( * ) -- Example: 'elect*' retrieves documents containing 'electron,' 'electronic,' and 'electricity' • Question mark (?) -- Example: 'gr?y' retrieves documents containing 'grey' or 'gray' • Use quotation marks ' ' around specific phrases where you want the entire phrase only. • For best results, use the separate Authors field to search for author names. • Author name searching: • Use these formats for best results: Smith or J Smith • Use a comma to separate multiple people: J Smith, RL Jones, Macarthur • Note: Author names will be searched in the keywords field, also, but that may find papers where the person is mentioned, rather than papers they authored.

Feature Issues • (2018) Submissions Open: 15 November 2017; Submission Deadline: 8 January 2018 Hong Liu, Laurent Schares, Dimitra Simeonidou, Anna Tzanakaki, and Lena Wosinska • (2018) Submission Opens: 15 December 2017; Submission Deadline: 20 February 2018 Massimo Tornatore, Martin Birk, Alan P. Lau, Qiong Zhang, and Darko Zibar • (2017) Published Walter Cerroni and Zabih Ghassemlooy • (2017) Published Nicolas Fontaine, Marija Furdek, Jesse Simsarian, Georgios Zervas Today's Top Downloads • • • • •.

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