Journal of the Optical Society of America A

P. Scott Carney, Editor-in-Chief

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JOSA A has published a new editorial from Editor-in-Chief P. Scott Carney, in which he introduces the Journal’s new Feature Editor and newest Topical Editor. (25 Jun 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) Submission Opens: 1 July 2020; Submission Deadline: 1 August 2020 Juan Liu, Pierre-Alexandre Blanche, Liangcai Cao, Pietro Ferraro, Pasquale Memmolo, and Elena Stoykova
Advances in Optical Metrology and Instrumentation (2020) In progress 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 (1)
Biomedical Optics and Imaging (1)
Diffraction and Gratings (1)
Geometrical Optics (1)
Image Processing and Image Analysis (2)
Instrumentation, Measurement, and Metrology (2)
Machine Vision (2)
Numerical Methods and Simulation (3)
Polarization and Ellipsometry (1)
Scattering and Propagation (1)
Vision, Color Vision, and Psychophysics (1)

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The non-diffracting nature of truncated Hermite–Gaussian beams
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Established families of standard beam profiles are extremely useful when characterizing the propagation of light; and...

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Computer-based color vision tests offer an attractive alternative to traditional paper- or lantern-based...

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2018 Impact Factor:: 1.861
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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