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 Letters offers rapid dissemination of new results in all areas of optics with short, original, peer-reviewed communications. Optics Letters covers the latest research in optical science, including optical measurements, optical components and devices, atmospheric optics, biomedical optics, Fourier optics, integrated optics, optical processing, optoelectronics, lasers, nonlinear optics, optical storage and holography, optical coherence, polarization, quantum electronics, ultrafast optical phenomena, photonic crystals, and fiber optics. Criteria used in determining acceptability of contributions include newsworthiness to a substantial part of the optics community and the effect of rapid publication on the research of others. This journal, published twice each month, is where readers look for the latest discoveries in optics.
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Impact Factor: 3.6*
Immediacy Index: 0.9*
Total Citations: 76,873*
Journal Citation Indicator: 1.16*
Google Scholar h5-index: 76†
Median Time to First Decision: 25 days
Median Time to Web Publication: 71 days
Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
Miguel Alonso,
Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, Institut Fresnel, and Centrale Méditerranée, France
University of Rochester, USA
Deputy Editors
Antonella Bogoni Scuola Superiore San'Anna (SSSA), Italy |
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Carsten Rockstuhl Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany |
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William Shieh Westlake University, China |
Feature Editors
Andrea M. Armani University of Southern California |
Topical Editors and Content Areas
Kazi Abedin LGS Innovations—CACI, USA |
Tatiana Alieva Complutense University of Madrid, Spain |
Tatiana Amotchkina OptiLayer GmbH, Germany |
Cristian Antonelli University of L'Aquila, Italy |
Seung-Whan Bahk University of Rochester, USA |
Daniele Brida University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg |
Karima Chah Université de Mons, Belgium |
Weidong Chen Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China |
Maria Chernysheva Leibniz Institute of Photonics Technology, Germany |
Daoxin Dai Zhejiang University, China |
Ana Doblas University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA |
Yongkang Dong Harbin Institute of Technology, China |
Fabian Duerr Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium |
Jing Feng Jilin University, China |
Mable P. Fok University of Georgia, USA |
Matthew Foreman Nanyang Technological University, Singapore |
Michael Galili DTU Fotonik, Denmark |
Jie Gao Stony Brook University, USA |
Patrice Genevet CNRS, France |
Rachel Grange Institute for Quantum Electronics, Switzerland |
Ming Han Michigan State University, USA |
Javier A. Jo University of Oklahoma, USA |
Igor Jovanovic University of Michigan, USA |
Hideaki Kano Kyushu University, Japan |
Antonio Khoury Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil |
Jungwon Kim Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea |
Vladimir Konotop Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal |
Olga Kosareva M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia |
Anand Kumar Harvard Medical School, USA |
Martin Lavery University of Glasgow, UK |
Xiaoying Li Tianjin University, China |
Xun Li McMaster University, Canada |
Xiaoyan Liang Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, China |
Weiwei Liu Nankai University, China |
Hans-Peter Loock University of Victoria, Canada |
Cuicui Lu Beijing Institute of Technology, China |
Hanne Ludvigsen Aalto University, Finland |
Christos Markos DTU Electro, Denmark |
Cristina Masoller Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain |
Pasquale Memmolo Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems "Eduardo Caianiello" (ISASI), Italy |
Owen Miller Yale University, USA |
Yosuke Mizuno Yokohama National University, Japan |
Nobuhiko Nishiyama Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan |
Eric Numkam Fokoua University of Southampton, UK |
Yoshitomo Okawachi Columbia University, USA |
Razvigor Ossikovski Ecole Polytechnique, France |
Francesca Parmigiani Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK |
Wei Peng Dalian University of Technology, China |
Soma Venugopal Rao University of Hyderabad, India |
Brandon Redding US Naval Research Laboratory, USA |
Stefani Residori CNRS, France |
Dibakar Roy Chowdhury Mahindra University, India |
Christina Schwarz University of Tübingen, Germany |
Harald Schwefel University of Otago, New Zealand |
Andriy Shevchenko Aalto University, Finland |
Tomoyoshi Shimobaba Chiba University, Japan |
Enrique Tajahuerce Universitat Jaume I, Spain |
Juan P. Torres Universidad Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain |
Ranjith R Unnithan University of Melbourne, Australia |
Stephen Warren-Smith University of South Australia, Australia |
Thomas Weiss University of Graz, Austria |
Chao-Hsin (Wayne) Wu National Taiwan University, Taiwan |
Dong Wu University of Science and Technology of China, China |
Heping Zeng East China Normal University, China |
Quing (Ching) Zhu Washington University, St. Louis, USA |
Staff
Editorial and Production | Phone | |
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Keith Jackson, Peer Review Coordinator | olmss@optica.org | 202-416-1414 |
Daniel R. Franzen, Senior Managing Editor | dfranzen@optica.org | 202-416-1943 |
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Elizabeth Nolan, Chief Publishing Officer | ||
Kelly Cohen, Senior Publisher | ||
M. Scott Dineen, Senior Director, Publishing Production & Technology | ||
Christopher Videll, Director, Production & Technology | ||
Carmelita Washington, Peer Review Manager | ||
Daphne Greenwood, Senior Director of Marketing & Sales, Publishing |