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Applied Optics

Ronald Driggers, Editor-in-Chief

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Seeking Editor-in-Chief nominations for Biomedical Optics Express, Journal of the Optical Society of America A, and Optical Materials Express. Nominations due 4 January 2021 (06 Oct 2020)
Applied Optics Research - 3D Biometric Authentication Based on Finger Veins Almost Impossible to Fool (28 Sep 2020)
Biomedical Optics Express Research - Researchers Combine Photoacoustic and Fluorescence Imaging in Tiny Package (21 Sep 2020)

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Astrophotonics (2021) Submission Opens: 1 November 2020; Submission Deadline: 5 January 2021 Faustine Cantalloube, Philippe Feautrier, Lucas Labadie, and Aashia Rahman
Emerging Automotive Applications (2021) Submission Opens: 1 October 2020; Submission Deadline: 1 December 2020 Furkan E. Sahin, Jason Eichenholz, Manabu Kagami, and Cornelius Neumann
Unconventional Imaging (2021) Submission Opens: 15 September 2020; Submission Deadline: 15 November 2020 Jung-Ping Liu, Chau-Jern Cheng, Yoshio Hayasaki, Jun Tanida, and Peter Tsang
Digital Holography and 3D Imaging 2020 (2021) In progress Juan Liu, Pierre-Alexandre Blanche, Liangcai Cao, Pietro Ferraro, Pasquale Memmolo, and Elena Stoykova

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Atmospheric and Oceanic Optics (2)
Fiber Optics, Fiber Sensors, and Optical Communications (5)
Imaging Systems, Image Processing, and Displays (4)
Instrumentation and Measurements (5)
Lasers, Optical Amplifiers, and Laser Optics (1)
Materials (1)
Optical Design and Fabrication (2)
Optical Devices, Sensors, and Detectors (2)
Spectroscopy (1)
Terahertz and X-ray Optics (2)

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Convolutional neural network applied for nanoparticle classification using coherent scatterometry data
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This paper addresses the important problem of "killer" particle detection and classification on wafers in...

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2019 Impact Factor:: 1.961
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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Topic Scope: A highly regarded, premium quality must read for everyone in the optics field that offers applications-centered research in optics, photonics, imaging, and sensing. Topics germane to the journal include optical technology, lasers, photonics, environmental optics, and information processing.