Optica Publishing Group publishes high-quality, peer-reviewed articles in its portfolio of journals, which serve the full breadth of the optics and photonics community.
Optics Express is the all-electronic, open-access journal for optics providing rapid publication for peer-reviewed articles that emphasize scientific and technology innovations in all aspects of optics and photonics.
Additionally, Optics Express publishes papers dedicated to new developments in the science and engineering of light and their impact on sustainable energy, the environment, and green technologies in its dedicated section, Energy and Environmental Optics Express. These papers are published online in each issue as they are ready.
For details about the scope of Optics Express with regards to digital image processing, see the editorial published in April 2014.
Optics Express considers original research articles, special issue contributions, invited reviews and comments on published articles.
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Median Time to Publication: 75 days
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Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
James Leger,
University of Minnesota, USA
Senior Deputy Editor
Thomas E. Murphy,
University of Maryland at College Park, USA
Deputy Editors
Nicolas Bonod CNRS, Aix-Marseille Université, France |
Maria Chekhova Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Germany |
John Girkin University of Durham, UK |
Reuven Gordon University of Victoria, Canada |
Frédéric Grillot Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France |
John Koshel University of Arizona, USA |
Fabian Rotermund KAIST, South Korea |
Marija Strojnik Optical Research Center, Mexico |
James Sullivan Florida Atlantic University, USA (Energy and Environmental Optics Express) |
Associate Editors
Antonio Ambrosio Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy |
Ehab Awad King Saud University (KSU), Saudi Arabia |
Christiane Becker Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, Germany |
Philippe Ben-Abdallah Institut d'Optique Graduate School, France |
Benedikt Bläsi Fraunhofer ISE, Germany |
Pablo Bianucci Concordia University, Canada |
Patrick Bouchon Onera, University Paris-Saclay, France |
Guoqing (Noah) Chang Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China |
Baile Chen ShanghaiTech University, China |
Wen Chen The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong |
Junho Cho Nokia Bell Labs, USA |
Andy Chong Pusan National University, South Korea |
Ray Conley Argonne National Labs, USA |
Meng Cui Purdue University, USA |
Thibault Derrien Institute of Physics (FZU), Academy of Science of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic |
David Doxaran Lab d'Océanographie de Villefranche—LOV, France |
Shengwang Du The University of Texas at Dallas, USA |
Konstantinos Falaggis University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA |
Vivian Ferry University of Minnesota, USA |
Radim Filip Palacky University Olomouc, Czech Republic |
Aleksandra Foltynowicz Umeå University, Sweden |
Nicolas Fontaine Nokia Bell Labs, USA |
Jesse Frantz US Naval Research Laboratory, USA |
Gerald Fraser National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), USA |
Songnian Fu Guandong University of Technology, China |
Ulrike Fuchs Asphericon Gmbh, Germany |
Takao Fuji Institute for Molecular Science, Japan |
Vincenzo Galdi University of Sannio, Italy |
Mindaugas Gedvilas, State Research Institute Center for Physical Sciences and Technology, Lithuania |
Thomas Gerrits National Institute of Standards & Technology, USA |
Ruediger Grunwald Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short-Pulse Spectroscopy, Germany |
Junpeng Guo University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA |
Charlotte Hagen University College London, UK |
Sivanandan S. Harilal Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA |
Michael Hart University of Arizona, USA |
Ravi Hegde IIT Gandhinagar, India |
Wolfgang Heidrich King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia |
Javier Hernandez-Andres University of Granada, Spain |
Oliver Höhn Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, Germany |
Lingling Huang Beijing Institute of Technology, China |
Yue-Kai Huang NEC Laboratories America, Inc., USA |
Ifan Hughes University of Durham, UK |
Olindo Isabella Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands |
Luiz Jacobsohn Clemson University, USA |
Klaus Jaeger Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH, Germany |
Nicolas Joly University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany |
Hannah Joyce University of Cambridge, UK |
Domna Kotsifaki Duke Kunshan University, China |
Fredrik Laurell KTH, Sweden |
Wei Lee National Yang Ming Chiao Tung Univ, Taiwan |
Fan Li Sun Yat-Sen University, China |
Hsing-Chih Liang National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan |
Zhengjun Liu Harbin Institute of Technology, China |
Yufei Ma Harbin Institute of Technology, China |
Pasquale Maddaloni Istituto Nazionale di Ottica-Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (INO-CNR), Italy |
Carlos Marques University of Aveiro, Portugal |
Muhammad Qasim Mehmood Information Technology University of the Punjab, Pakistan |
Argishti Melikyan Coherent Corp., USA |
Terrence Meyer Purdue University, USA |
Paolo Minzioni University of Pavia, Italy |
Ivan Moreno Universidad Autonoma de Zacatecas, Mexico |
Johan Nilsson University of Southampton, UK |
Vittorio Passaro Politecnico di Bari, Italy |
Nicolaie Pavel National Institute for Laser, Plasma and Radiation Physics, Romania |
Maria Pelizzo University of Padova, Italy |
Romain Peretti IEMN CNRS, France |
Samanta Piano University of Nottingham, UK |
Sascha Preu Technical University Damstadt, Germany |
Gordon Robb University of Strathclyde, UK |
Michael Rosenbluh Bar-Ilan University, Israel |
Jose Sanchez-Gil Instituto de Estructura de la Materia, Spain |
Giorgio Santarelli CNRS Université de Bordeaux, France |
Paolo Serena University of Parma, Italy |
Deyuan Shen Jiangsu Normal University, China |
Yuecheng Shen Sun Yat-sen University, China |
Wei-Chuan Shih University of Houston, USA |
Wayne Slade Sequoia Scientific, USA |
Dawn Tan Singapore University of Technology & Design, Singapore |
Simon Thibault University of Laval, Canada |
Lyuba Titova Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA |
Andreas Velten University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA |
Esteban Vera Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso, Chile |
Maria Antonietta Vincenti University of Brescia, Italy |
Xiaoming Wei South China University of Technology, China |
Liang Jie Wong Nanyang Technological University, Singapore |
Getinet Woyessa Technical University of Denmark, Denmark |
Lin Wu Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore |
Rengmao Wu Zhejiang University, China |
Xiaojun Wu Beihang University, China |
Vladislav Yakovlev Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Germany |
Shinji Yamashita University of Tokyo, Japan |
Seongwoo Yoo University of Glasgow, UK |
Yanguang Yu The University of Wollongong, Australia |
Irene Zanette University of Southampton, UK |
Qican Zhang Sichuan University, China |
Jianzhong Zhang Harbin Engineering University, China |
Kuang Zhang Harbin institute of Technology, China |
Zonghua Zhang Hebei University of Technology, China |
Li-Guo Zhu China Academy of Engineering Physics and Nankai University, China |
Zuqing Zhu University of Science and Technology of China, China |
Qunbi Zhuge Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China |
Xihua Zou Southwest Jiaotong University, China |
Staff
Editorial and Production | Phone | |
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Carmelita Washington, Peer Review Manager | opex@optica.org | 202-416-1921 |
Feature proposals | dmcdonold@optica.org | |
Sharon Jeffress, Director, Electronic Publishing | sjeffr@optica.org | 202-416-1448 |
Sara Naughton, Managing Editor | 202-416-1920 | |
Shana Meyer, Senior Production Editor | smeyer@optica.org | 202-416-1418 |
Article processing charges | billing@optica.org | |
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Online journal technical support | elec@optica.org | |
Elizabeth Nolan, Chief Publishing Officer | ||
Kelly Cohen, Senior Publisher | ||
M. Scott Dineen, Senior Director, Publishing, Production & Technology | ||
Jennifer Mayfield, Deputy Senior Director, Electronic Publications | ||
Christopher Videll, Deputy Senior Director, Production & Technology | ||
Tim Fincham, Director, Production & Technology | ||
Dan McDonold, Editorial Director |