Applied Optics

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Laser Applications to Chemical, Security and Environmental Analysis (2020) Submission Opens: 15 November 2020; Submission Deadline: 15 December 2020 Frank Beyrau, Joakim Bood, Paul S. Hsu, Johannes Kiefer, Thomas Seeger, and Hans Stauffer
Laser Interaction with Materials (HPLA) (2020) Submission Opens: TBD; Submission Deadline: TBD Claude Phipps, Willy Bohn, Vitaly Gruzdev, Pavel Polynkin, Stefan Scharring, and Leonid Zhigilei
James C. Wyant College of Optical Sciences (2020) In Progress José Sasián
Digital Holography and 3D Imaging 2020 (2020) Submission Opens: 1 July 2020; Submission Deadline: 1 August 2020 Juan Liu, Pierre-Alexandre Blanche, Liangcai Cao, Pietro Ferraro, Pasquale Memmolo, and Elena Stoykova

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Atmospheric and Oceanic Optics (1)
Diffraction and Gratings (3)
Fiber Optics, Fiber Sensors, and Optical Communications (4)
Holography (3)
Imaging Systems, Image Processing, and Displays (4)
Instrumentation and Measurements (2)
Lasers, Optical Amplifiers, and Laser Optics (1)
Materials (2)
Nonlinear Optics (1)
Optical Design and Fabrication (3)
Optical Devices, Sensors, and Detectors (4)
Spectroscopy (2)

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Optical characterization of laser retroreflector arrays for lunar landers
Summary by Dennis K. Killinger

Historically, laser ranging using a laser/lidar and a distant retroreflecting mirror (corner cube) has been used to...

Toward free-running operation of dual-comb fiber lasers for methane sensing
Summary by Nathan R. Newbury

Open-path dual-comb spectroscopy is emerging as a new method for atmospheric gas sensing. For example, this technique...

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2018 Impact Factor:: 1.973
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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