Journal of the Optical Society of America B

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Ultrafast Phenomena and Terahertz Waves (2022) Submission Opens: 1 September 2021; Submission Deadline: 1 October 2021 Li-Guo Zhu, Harald Schneider, Hou-Tong Chen, Masahiko Tani, and Zhengming Sheng
Specialty Optical Fiber Modeling, Fabrication, and Characterization (2021) Submission Opens: 1 June 2021; Submission Deadline: 15 July 2021 Bülend Ortaç, Deepak Jain, Rajan Jha, Jonathan Hu, and Bora Ung
Laser Interaction with Materials (HPLA) (2021) Submission Opens: 1 May 2021; Submission Deadline: 1 June 2021 Claude Phipps, Willy Bohn, Vitaly Gruzdev, Pavel Polynkin, Stefan Scharring, and Leonid Zhigilei
Light Detection and Ranging (Lidar) (2021) In progress Zeev Zalevsky, Gerald S. Buller, Tao Chen, Moshik Cohen, and Rory Barton-Grimley

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Fiber Optics (1)
Light Sources and Amplifiers (1)
Light-induced Phenomena (1)
Metamaterials (3)
Nonlinear or High Field Optics (2)
Optical Materials (3)
Optics Modes, Structured Light, and Beam Shaping (1)
Photonics (7)
Physical Optics (3)
Quantum Optics (8)
Spectroscopy (2)
Surface Optics (1)
Ultrafast Optics (3)

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Numerical modeling of extreme events observed in the all-solid-state laser with a saturable absorber
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Studying rogue waves and extreme events in optics is important to understand instabilities in lasers, and also to...

Modeling photon pair generation by second-order surface nonlinearity in silica nanofibers
Summary by Armando Nolasco Pinto

Second-order surface nonlinear susceptibility in silica nanofibers can be used to obtain a very high-rate source of...

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2019 Impact Factor:: 2.180
Google Scholar h5-index:: 41
Time to Publication:: 103 days

ISSN:: 0740-3224 (print)
ISSN:: 1520-8540 (online)
Frequency:: Article-at-a-time publication; Monthly issues

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Topic Scope: JOSA B emphasizes scientific research on the fundamentals of the interaction of light with matter such as quantum optics, nonlinear optics, and laser physics. Topics include atom optics and cold atoms, integrated and fiber optics, metamaterials, nanophotonics, photonic crystals, photorefractive optics and holography, physics of optical materials, spectroscopy, THz optics, ultrafast phenomena, and other related subjects.

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