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.
The Journal of the Optical Society of America B (JOSA B) is a general optics research journal that complements JOSA A. It emphasizes scientific research on the fundamentals of the interaction of light with matter such as quantum optics, nonlinear optics, and laser physics. Topics include:
- Advanced Instrumentation and Measurements
- Fiber Optics and Fiber Lasers
- Lasers and Other Light Sources from THz to XUV
- Light-Induced Phenomena
- Nonlinear and High Field Optics
- Optical Materials
- Optics Modes and Structured Light
- Optomechanics
- Metamaterials
- Nanomaterials
- Photonics and Semiconductor Optics
- Physical Optics
- Plasmonics
- Quantum Optics and Entanglement
- Quantum Key Distribution
- Spectroscopy and Atomic or Molecular Optics
- Superresolution and Advanced Imaging
- Surface Optics
- Ultrafast Optical Phenomena
- Wave Guiding and Optical Confinement
JOSA B considers original research articles, feature issue contributions, invited reviews and comments on published articles.
Submission Information
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SubmitKey Journal Metrics
Impact Factor: 2.048*
Total Citations: 12,830*
Cited Half-Life: 10+ years*
Google Scholar h5-index: 36†
Median Time to Web Publication: 97 days
*According to Optics category rankings in the 2017 Journal Citation Reports® (Clarivate Analytics, 2018)
†June 2017 Google Scholar Optics & Photonics Top Publications.
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Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
Grover Swartzlander,Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
Deputy Editor
Kurt Busch, Humboldt University of Berlin, GermanyTopical Editors and Content Areas
Antonio Agnesi, University of Pavia, Italy (Lasers and Laser Materials)Chik-Ho (Wallace) Choy, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (Experimental Nano-Optics)
Anton S. Desyatnikov, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan (Structured Light, Metamaterials, and Plasmonics)
Shengwang Du, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong (Quantum Optics and Quantum Key Distributions)
Janos Hebling, University of Pecs, Hungary (Ultrafast Phenomena)
Stephen Hughes, Queen's University, Canada (Nano-photonics)
Daniel James, University of Toronto, Canada (Quantum Optics and Entanglement)
Peter Uhd Jepsen, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark (Ultrafast and THz Phenomena)
Alexandre Kudlinski, University of Lille, France (Fiber Optics and Photonic Bandgap Fibers)
Qingqing Liang, University of Science and Technology—Shanghai, China (Ultrafast Phenomena)
Xavier Mateos, Rovira i Virgili University, Spain (Lasers and Laser Materials)
Martin McCall, Imperial College London, UK (Meta-Optics and Transformation Optics)
Bing Qi, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA (Quantum Key Distribution)
Cheng-Wei Qiu, National University of Singapore, Singapore (Optical Metamaterials, Plasmonics, and Light-Matter interactions)
Wei Shi, Tianjin University, China (Photonics Waveguides, Fiber Lasers, and Nonlinear Optics)
Andrey Sukhorukov, Australian National University (Numerical Computation in Optics and Photonics)
Dawn Tan, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore (Nonlinear Optics)
Yasuo Tomita, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan (Holography and Diffractive Optics)
Sergei Turitsyn, Aston University, UK (Nonlinear Effects in Optical Fibers)
Alfred U'Ren, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico (Quantum Entanglement Sources and Concepts, Quantum Optics, Nonlinear Phenomena, and Structured Light)
Hong Wei, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China (Plasmonics and Nanophotonics)
Yanhong Xiao, Fudan University, China (Experimental Quantum Optics)
Staff
| Editorial and Production | Phone | |
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| Nicole Williams-Jones, Peer Review Coordinator | jbmss@osa.org | 202-416-1969 |
| Feature proposals | dmcdonold@osa.org | |
| Scott Mullin, Managing Editor | smullin@osa.org | 202-416-1936 |
| Reprints | https://caesar.sheridan.com/osa/eoc | |
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| Alison Taylor, Executive Editor | ||
| M. Scott Dineen, Senior Director, Publishing Production & Technology | ||
| Jennifer Mayfield, Deputy Senior Director, Electronic Publications | ||
| Christopher Videll, Director, Production and Technology | ||
| Carmelita Washington, Peer Review Manager | ||
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