The Optical Society (OSA) publishes high-quality, peer-reviewed articles in its portfolio of journals, which serve the full breadth of the optics and photonics community.
Advances in Optics and Photonics (AOP) publishes comprehensive review articles and multimedia tutorials appropriate for students, researchers, faculty, business professionals and engineers. The all-electronic Journal's authoritative content covers advances in optics and photonics from fundamental science to engineering applications. AOP is led by Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Guifang Li, who, assisted by the Journal's distinguished advisory and associate editors, solicits articles and manages peer review.
Designed to capture the most significant advances in optics and photonics, the Journal includes:
- Long review articles and comprehensive tutorials
- Prominent and respected authors at the forefront of their fields
- High standards of production quality and reliability
- Internal navigational links and external reference linking
- Multimedia enhancements, such as animation and video
- Dedicated article preparation and peer-review support
AOP also considers Comments on published review articles.
Submission Information
Is my paper appropriate for Advances in Optics and Photonics? Read about all OSA journals here.
Any prospective author can submit a proposal by contacting the editor directly or by sending an email to the editorial staff using the address aopmss@osa.org. The proposal requirements can be found here.
Please see the Author Resource Center for instructions to prepare and submit a manuscript.
SubmitKey Journal Metrics
Impact Factor: 14.690 (ranked 2nd out of 97 journals)*
Immediacy Index: 2.500 (ranked 2nd out of 97 journals)*
Article Influence Score: 6.362 (ranked 2nd out of 97 journals)*
5-Year Impact Factor: 21.591 (ranked 2nd out of 97 journals)*
Median Time to Publication: 161 days
*According to Optics category rankings in the 2019 Journal Citation Reports® (Clarivate Analytics, 2020)
†2019 Google Scholar Optics & Photonics Top Publications.
For more information on Journal metrics, click here.
Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
Guifang Li,University of Central Florida, USA
Advisory Editors
Thomas M. Baer, Stanford University, USAConnie J. Chang-Hasnain, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Kishan Dholakia, University of St. Andrews, UK
Alexander L. Gaeta, Columbia University, USA
Naomi J. Halas, Rice University, USA
Yuri Kivshar, Australian National University, Australia
Gérard A. Mourou, École Polytechnique, France and University of Michigan, USA
Masataka Nakazawa, Tohoku University, Japan
Philip St J Russell, Max-Planck-Inst Physik des Lichts, Germany
Andrew M. Weiner, Purdue University, USA
Alan E. Willner, University of Southern California, USA
Associate Editors
Deepa Venkitesh, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, IndiaStaff
| Editorial and Production | Phone | |
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| Rebecca Robinson, Editorial and Special Projects Coordinator | aopmss@osa.org | 202-416-1914 |
| Electronic submission questions | aopmss@osa.org | |
| Article proposals | aopmss@osa.org | |
| Daniel Franzen, Senior Managing Editor | dfranz@osa.org | 202-416-1943 |
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| Elizabeth Nolan, Chief Publishing Officer | ||
| M. Scott Dineen, Senior Director, Publishing, Production & Technology | ||
| Alison Taylor, Executive Editor | ||
| Christopher Videll, Director, Production & Technology | ||
| Daphne Greenwood, Senior Director of Marketing & Sales, Publishing | ||