Journal of the Optical Society of America A

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Light Detection and Ranging (Lidar) (2021) Submission Opens: 15 March 2021; Submission Deadline: 1 May 2021 Zeev Zalevsky, Gerald S. Buller, Tao Chen, Moshik Cohen, and Rory Barton-Grimley
Optics in Africa (2020) Published 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

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Atmospheric and Oceanic Optics (2)
Coherence and Statistical Optics (1)
Color, Spectroscopy, and Spectral Imaging (1)
Computational Sensing and Imaging (1)
Diffraction and Gratings (1)
Geometrical Optics (4)
Image Processing and Image Analysis (1)
Imaging Systems (1)
Machine Vision (2)
Physical Optics (1)
Scattering and Propagation (1)

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Efficient implementation of the Shack–Hartmann centroid extraction for edge computing
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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:: 36
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.

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