Photonics Insights
Last updated ISSN 2791-1748
Photonics Insights is published by Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics in materials science. It is open access. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Photonics Insights concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications
- Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research
- Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics
- Photonic and Optical Devices
- Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications
- Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies
- Photonic Crystals and Applications
- Random lasers and scattering media
- Photonic Crystal and Fiber Optics
- Strong Light-Matter Interactions
Key facts
| Publisher | Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 2791-1748 |
| Subject area | Materials Science |
| Access | Open access |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | DOAJ |
| Articles published | 101 |
| Citations per paper (2 yr) | 14 average, from OpenAlex — not the Journal Impact Factor |
| Publishing since | 2022 |
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