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The "special issue" has been a characteristic of Optical Engineering for many years. Under Optical Engineering's last editor, Dr. John DeVelis, special issues came to be a highly effective way of drawing fields together and drawing the attention of the optics community to those fields. In this editorial, I want to affirm my desire to maintain and strengthen what John has started. The particular questions I want to address are: