Advances in Optics and Photonics
Last updated ISSN 1943-8206
Advances in Optics and Photonics is published by Optica Publishing Group in engineering. It is a subscription journal. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Advances in Optics and Photonics concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Photonic and Optical Devices
- Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies
- Optical Network Technologies
- Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research
- Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics
- Quantum Information and Cryptography
- Photonic Crystals and Applications
- Digital Holography and Microscopy
- Mechanical and Optical Resonators
- Near-Field Optical Microscopy
Key facts
| Publisher | Optica Publishing Group |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1943-8206 |
| Subject area | Engineering |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus |
| Articles published | 232 |
| Publishing since | 2009 |
| Journal website | www.osapublishing.org/aop |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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