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Journal of the Optical Society of America A

P. Scott Carney, 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)
Biomedical Optics Express Research - Researchers Combine Photoacoustic and Fluorescence Imaging in Tiny Package (21 Sep 2020)

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Optics in Africa (2020) In progress Andrew Forbes, Rim Cherif, Alain Dikande, Angela Dudley, and Ahmadou Wague
Digital Holography and 3D Imaging 2020 (2020) In progress Juan Liu, Pierre-Alexandre Blanche, Liangcai Cao, Pietro Ferraro, Pasquale Memmolo, and Elena Stoykova
Advances in Optical Metrology and Instrumentation (2020) Published Jonathan D. Ellis, Han Haitjema, Xiangqian (Jane) Jiang, Ki-Nam Joo, and Richard Leach
Color Vision 2020 (2020) Published John S. Werner, Jenny Bosten, David Hoyt Brainard, Marina V. Danilova, Sergejs Fomins, Anya Hurlbert, and Neil Parry

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Atmospheric and Oceanic Optics (5)
Biomedical Optics and Imaging (1)
Diffraction and Gratings (2)
Geometrical Optics (2)
Image Processing and Image Analysis (2)
Imaging Systems (1)
Instrumentation, Measurement, and Metrology (1)
Numerical Methods and Simulation (1)
Physical Optics (1)
Scattering and Propagation (2)

Spotlight on Optics

Efficient implementation of the Shack–Hartmann centroid extraction for edge computing
Summary by Karen Hampson

This paper presents a high speed method to determine the Shack-Hartmann spot positions in 2 ms. The Shack-Hartmann...

Propagation characteristics of Gaussian–Schell model beams through optical systems in Kerr media
Summary by Brynmor Davis

This paper brings together two phenomena that can each produce surprising optical focusing effects - partial coherence...

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2019 Impact Factor:: 1.791
Google Scholar h5-index:: 35
Time to Publication:: 111 days

ISSN:: 1084-7529 (print)
ISSN:: 1520-8532 (online)
Frequency:: Article-at-a-time publication; Monthly issues

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Topic Scope: Topics representing classical optics, image science and vision, such as atmospheric optics, clinical vision, coherence and statistical optics, color, image processing, machine vision, scattering, and visual optics.