Optics Communications
Last updated ISSN 0030-4018
Optics Communications is published by Elsevier BV in physics and astronomy. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $2,600.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Optics Communications concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies
- Photonic and Optical Devices
- Optical Network Technologies
- Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications
- Photorefractive and Nonlinear Optics
- Solid State Laser Technologies
- Advanced Fiber Optic Sensors
- Quantum optics and atomic interactions
- Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics
- Laser Design and Applications
Key facts
| Publisher | Elsevier BV |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0030-4018, 1873-0310 |
| Subject area | Physics and Astronomy |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $2,600 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus |
| Articles published | 40,480 |
| Publishing since | 1969 |
| Journal website | www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_hom |
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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