Optica
Last updated ISSN 2334-2536
Optica is published by Optica Publishing Group in engineering. It is open access. The article processing charge is $3,208.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Optica concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Photonic and Optical Devices
- Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies
- Mechanical and Optical Resonators
- Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications
- Quantum Information and Cryptography
- Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics
- Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques
- Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research
- Optical Network Technologies
- Random lasers and scattering media
Key facts
| Publisher | Optica Publishing Group |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 2334-2536 |
| Subject area | Engineering |
| Access | Open access |
| Article processing charge | $3,208 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus · DOAJ |
| Articles published | 2,867 |
| Publishing since | 2014 |
| Journal website | www.osapublishing.org/optica/home.cfm |
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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