Journal of the Optical Society of America B

Kurt Busch, 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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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
Mid-Infrared Coherent Sources and Applications (2021) Submission Opens: 1 February 2021; Submission Deadline: 15 March 2021 Majid Ebrahim-Zadeh, Amr S. Helmy, Giuseppe Leo, and Peter G. Schunemann
Astrophotonics (2021) Submission Opens: 1 November 2020; Submission Deadline: 5 January 2021 Aline Dinkelaker, Simon Ellis, Michael Ireland, and Robert R. Thomson
Ultrafast Phenomena and Terahertz Waves (2021) This feature has been postponed. Li-Guo Zhu, Harald Schneider, Hou-Tong Chen, Masahiko Tani, and Zhengming Sheng

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Fiber Optics (2)
Instrumentation, Measurement, and Metrology (1)
Light Sources and Amplifiers (2)
Light-induced Phenomena (5)
Metamaterials (4)
Nonlinear or High Field Optics (4)
Optics Modes, Structured Light, and Beam Shaping (2)
Optomechanics (1)
Photonics (5)
Physical Optics (3)
Quantum Optics (6)
Spectroscopy (1)
Surface Optics (1)
Ultrafast Optics (1)
Wave Guiding and Confinement (2)

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Efficient characterization of optical vortices via diffraction from parabolic-line linear gratings
Summary by Juan P. Torres

A simple, efficient and robust experimental scheme to characterize vortex beams is demonstrated. When a vortex beam,...

Unidirectional ultrabroadband and wide-angle absorption in graphene-embedded photonic crystals with the cascading structure comprising the Octonacci sequence
Summary by Ilya Shadrivov

The band-gap effects in Bragg structures are currently applied in high quality reflectors and band-pass filters;...

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2019 Impact Factor:: 2.180
Google Scholar h5-index:: 39
Time to Publication:: 100 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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