Optics Express
Published by The Optical Society of America

OSA Journal Descriptions


Journal of the Optical Society of America A (JOSA A):
Optics, Image Science, and Vision
Frequency:   monthly
Articles:   Regular articles, feature issue contributions, communications, comments/replies, errata
Topic scope:   Atmospheric optics, image processing, scattering and coherence theory, machine vision, statistical optics, diffraction and gratings, polarization, thin films, signal processing, color, physiological optics, clinical vision, and visual optics.
 
Journal of the Optical Society of America B (JOSA B):
Optical Physics
Frequency:   monthly
Articles:   Regular articles, feature issue contributions, review articles, communications, comments/replies, errata
Topic scope:   Lasers, fiber optics, nonlinear optics, optical coherent transients, multiphoton processes, effects of laser radiation, spectroscopy, metamaterials, photonic crystals, ultrafast phenomena, photorefractivity, and advances in nonlinear optical materials, science, and technology.
 
Applied Optics (AO): Four topical divisions: Optical Technology; Information Processing; Lasers, Photonics, Environmental Optics; and Biomedical Optics
Frequency:   3 times per month on the 1st, 10th, and 20th
Articles:   Regular articles, feature issue contributions, comments/replies, errata
Topic scope:   Optics applications from optical testing and instrumentation to medical optics . . . from holography to optical neural networks . . . from lidar and remote sensing to laser materials processing. For more details, see description of Applied Optics divisions
 
Optics Letters (OL): Optics Letters delivers concise, rapid dissemination of new important results in all branches of optics. It is the companion letters journal to AO, JOSA A, and JOSA B. Unlike our other journals, OL articles are limited to three published journal pages. Authors planning to submit to OL should see the Guidelines on Manuscript Length.
Frequency:   Twice per month on the 1st and 15th.
Articles:   Regular articles, comments/replies, errata
Topic scope:   Latest research in optical science, including optical measurements, optical components and devices, atmospheric optics, biomedical optics, Fourier optics, integrated optics, optical processing, optoelectronics, lasers, nonlinear optics, optical storage and holography, optical coherence, polarization, quantum electronics, ultrafast optical phenomena, photonic crystals, and fiber optics.
 
Optics Express (OpEx): is freely and widely available to all readers via the Internet. In lieu of paid subscription, authors support the journal with a mandatory publication fee.
Frequency:   Every other Monday
Articles:   Regular articles, comments/replies, errata
Topic scope:   New developments of interest to the optics community in all fields of optical science and technology.
 
Journal of Optical Networking (JON): is OSA's online-only journal dedicated to scientific papers and reports in the field of optical networking.
Frequency:   Monthly. Articles are published individually in the Upcoming page.
Articles:   Regular articles, feature issue submissions, comments/replies, errata
Topic scope:   Circuit- and packet-switched all-optical and electro-optic networks; optical network architectures, algorithms, performance, and management; network aspects of terrestrial, undersea, free-space optical, satellite, wireless, and cable networks including their architecture, control, design, and performance; protection and restoration mechanisms, architectures, and performance; wavelength routing, assignment, changing; scheduling and arbitration of optical networks; grooming architectures and algorithms; network security and reliability; signaling and routing algorithms; network devices, components, subsystems, and systems; IP over Optical and Optical Ethernet architectures and performance; economic implications of Optical Network Architectures; and optical data networks within and between computers.
 
Virtual Journal of Biomedical Optics (VJBO): is a virtual collection of selected articles from OSA publications. Authors submit to the source journals.
Frequency:   Monthly. Articles are selected and published with approximately one month delay from the original publication.
Articles:   Regular articles, feature issue submissions, comments/replies, and errata may all be selected for VJBO
Topic scope:   Diffuse imaging and scattering, microscopy and optical coherence tomography, optical spectroscopies, image reconstruction and data processing, biophotonics and biosensors, optical instrumentation and endoscopy, optics in cancer research, in vitro diagnostics and histology, noninvasive optical diagnostics, vision and color, novel light sources and novel optics, ocean and plant science, x-ray microscopy and imaging, adaptive optics, biological optical materials and biometrics, microfluidics and nanofluidics, optical traps and optical manipulation, ultrafast lasers, optical therapies and phototoxicity, and in vivo imaging.