Journal of the Optical Society of America B
Last updated ISSN 0740-3224
Journal of the Optical Society of America B is published by Optica Publishing Group in physics and astronomy. 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 B concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies
- Photonic and Optical Devices
- Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications
- Photorefractive and Nonlinear Optics
- Quantum optics and atomic interactions
- Photonic Crystals and Applications
- Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research
- Solid State Laser Technologies
- Quantum Information and Cryptography
- Photonic Crystal and Fiber Optics
Key facts
| Publisher | Optica Publishing Group |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0740-3224, 1520-8540 |
| Subject area | Physics and Astronomy |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus |
| Articles published | 16,262 |
| Publishing since | 1978 |
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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