Applied Optics

Ronald Driggers, Editor-in-Chief

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Light, Energy and the Environment 2018 (2019) Submission Opens: 1 December 2018; Submission Deadline: 7 January 2019 Adam J. Fleisher, Peter Bermel, Frans Harren, Akihiko Kuze, and Qihua Xiong
Laser Applications to Chemical, Security and Environmental Analysis (LACSEA) (2019) In progress Johannes Kiefer, Weidong Chen, Thomas Dreier, Wolfgang Meier, Thomas Seeger, and Hans Stauffer
CREOL Institutional Focus Issue (2019) Submission Opens: 15 October 2018; Submission Deadline: 14 December 2018 Sean Pang and Axel Schülzgen
Computational Optical Sensing and Imaging 2018 (2019) In progress Abbie Watnik, Andrew Harvey, Edmund Lam, and Prasanna Rangarajan

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Atmospheric and Oceanic Optics (2)
Diffraction and Gratings (1)
Fiber Optics, Fiber Sensors, and Optical Communications (4)
Fourier Optics and Optical Processing (1)
Geometrical Optics (3)
Holography (1)
Imaging Systems, Image Processing, and Displays (2)
Instrumentation and Measurements (6)
Integrated Optics (1)
Lasers, Optical Amplifiers, and Laser Optics (3)
Nonlinear Optics (4)
Optical Devices, Sensors, and Detectors (3)
Physical Optics (2)
Spectroscopy (2)
Surface Optics and Plasmonics (1)

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Modeling the surface of fast-cured polymer droplet lenses for precision fabrication
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Can lenses be shaped with just a hotplate? The secret lies in the understanding of dynamic surface tension of a fast...

Joint digital-optical design of complex lenses using a surrogate image quality criterion adapted to commercial optical design software
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Researchers at the Laboratoire Charles Fabry of the Institut d’Optique Graduate School and Thales demonstrate a...

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2017 Impact Factor:: 1.791
Google Scholar h5-index:: 46
Time to Publication:: 91 days

ISSN:: 1559-128X (print)
ISSN:: 2155-3165 (online)
Frequency:: Article-at-a-time publication; 3 issues per month on the 1st, 10th, and 20th

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