Journal of the Optical Society of America A
Last updated ISSN 1084-7529
Journal of the Optical Society of America A 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 Journal of the Optical Society of America A concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Photonic and Optical Devices
- Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics
- Optical Coatings and Gratings
- Visual perception and processing mechanisms
- Optical measurement and interference techniques
- Optical Polarization and Ellipsometry
- Color Science and Applications
- Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing
- Photonic Crystals and Applications
- Advanced optical system design
Key facts
| Publisher | Optica Publishing Group |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1084-7529, 1520-8532 |
| Subject area | Engineering |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Scopus |
| Articles published | 17,900 |
| Publishing since | 1917 |
| Journal website | www.osapublishing.org/josa |
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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