Optics Express

Andrew M. Weiner, Editor-in-Chief

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OSA Publishing News - In honor of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics and LIGO recognition, OSA Publishing has put together a collection of LIGO-related content from our Digital Library. Click here to view the entire collection, which will be free to download until 4 January 2018. (05 Oct 2017)

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Physics and Applications of Laser Dynamics (2018) Submission Opens: 1 February 2018; Submission Deadline: 1 March 2018 Frédéric Grillot, Sze-Chun Chan, and Marc Sciamanna
Energy Express: Light, Energy and the Environment 2017 (2018) Submission Opens: 1 December 2017; Submission Deadline: 15 January 2018 Jianguo Liu, Matt Beard, Olindo Isabella, and Jianxin Tang
Advanced Solid-State Lasers 2017 (2018) Submission Opens: 1 November 2017; Submission Deadline: 1 December 2017 Benoît Boulanger, Johan Nilsson, Alan Petersen, Fabian Rotermund, Shibin Jiang, Sergey Mirov, Stefano Taccheo, and Takunori Taira
Nonlinear Optics 2017 (2018) Submission Opens: 1 September 2017; Submission Deadline: 1 October 2017 David Hagan, Ivan Biaggio, Cornelia Denz, Mansour Sheik-bahae, Haim Suchkowski

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Atmospheric and Oceanic Optics (2)
Atomic and Molecular Physics (2)
Coherence and Statistical Optics (1)
Detectors (3)
Diffraction and Gratings (7)
Fiber Optics (2)
Fourier Optics and Signal Processing (1)
Geometric Optics and Optical Design (1)
Holography (2)
Image Processing (4)
Imaging Systems and Displays (2)
Instrumentation, Measurement, and Metrology (11)
Integrated Optics (7)
Laser Machining and Material Processing (3)
Lasers and Laser Optics (12)
Materials (4)
Metamaterials (4)
Microscopy (3)
Nonlinear Optics (7)
Optical Communications (8)
Optical Devices (1)
Optical Trapping and Manipulation (1)
Optoelectronics (11)
Physical Optics (3)
Plasmonics (3)
Quantum Optics (3)
Remote Sensing (1)
Scattering (3)
Sensors (8)
Spectrometry (1)
Spectroscopy (3)
Terahertz Optics (3)
Thin Films (3)
Ultrafast Optics (3)
X-ray Optics (2)

Spotlight on Optics

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On-a-chip HgCdTe avalanche photodiode detectors bring the near-to-mid infrared region into reach of air and space...

Thresholdless quantum dot nanolaser
Summary by Qing Gu

Lasers without threshold have been a pursuit for decades in the search for the ultimate energy-efficient coherent light...

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2016 Impact Factor:: 3.307
Google Scholar h5-index:: 104
Time to Publication:: 63 days

This is an open-access journal

ISSN:: 1094-4087
Frequency:: Article-at-a-time publication; Bi-weekly issues

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Topic Scope: Peer-reviewed articles that emphasize scientific and technology innovations in all aspects of optics and photonics. The Energy Express dedicated section reports research on the science and engineering of light and its impact on sustainable energy development, the environment, and green technologies.