Applied Optics

Gisele Bennett, Editor-in-Chief

Applied Optics

Gisele Bennett, Editor-in-Chief

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Computational Optical Sensing and Imaging 2025

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Submissions Open: 01 August 2025; Submission Deadline: 01 December 2025
Editors
Liang Gao, Ana Doblas, Seung Ah Lee, Ofer Levi, Yuan Luo, and Guoan Zheng

Optical Interference Coatings 2025

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Submissions Open: 16 June 2025; Submission Deadline: 31 July 2025
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Anna Sytchkova, Lars Jensen, and Garrett Cole

Laser Applications to Chemical, Security and Environmental Analysis 2024

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Submissions Open: 01 September 2024; Submission Deadline: 01 January 2025
Editors
Caroline Winters, Naibo Jiang, Aamir Farooq, Christoph Arndt, Anil Patnaik, and Anna-Lena Sahlberg

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05 MAR 2025	Applied Optics Research - Study reveals how agave plants survive extreme droughts

04 FEB 2025	Optica Publishing Group recognizes the International Year of Quantum with a new curated article collection

29 JAN 2025	Applied Optics Research - Optical fiber sensor provides simple and sensitive detection of arsenic in drinking water

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1	Windspeed determination from a near-field, UV, direct-detection Doppler wind lidar based on Michelson interferometer fringe imaging

2	Liquid-crystal-based diffractive optical elements with high Pancharatnam-Berry phase accuracy for holographic displays fabricated using an optimized liquid crystal on silicon device

3	Optical properties of the metals Al, Co, Cu, Au, Fe, Pb, Ni, Pd, Pt, Ag, Ti, and W in the infrared and far infrared

4	Hidden-phase compensation in extended-beacon adaptive optics

5	Light propagation in graded-index optical fibers

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Diffraction and Gratings (1)
Fiber Optics, Fiber Sensors, and Optical Communications (1)
Fourier Optics and Optical Processing (3)
Geometrical Optics (1)
Holography (12)
Imaging Systems, Image Processing, and Displays (7)
Instrumentation and Measurements (2)
Lasers, Optical Amplifiers, and Laser Optics (3)
Materials (1)
Medical Optics, Microscopy, and Biotechnology (1)
Optical Design and Fabrication (4)
Terahertz and X-ray Optics (1)

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Mid-infrared arrayed waveguide gratings using a quantum cascade laser gain medium as core material
Summary by Dongbo Wang

Mid-infrared integrated photonics has garnered significant interests due to its wide-ranging applications, including...

Radiometry and contrast-to-noise ratio for continuous-wave and laser range-gated active imaging systems
Summary by David Haefner

Active imaging consists in illuminating an object using a specific light source and then, in collecting the light...

Monolithic silicon microlens arrays for far-infrared astrophysics
Summary by Johann Toudert

Studying astrophysics phenomena, such as the formation of stars, the growth of black holes, or revealing fundamental...

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2023 Impact Factor:: 1.7
Google Scholar h5-index:: 49
Time to Publication:: 91 days

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ISSN:: 1559-128X (print)
ISSN:: 2155-3165 (online)
Frequency:: Article-at-a-time publication; 3 issues per month on the 1st, 10th, and 20th

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