Journal of the Optical Society of America A

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Digital Holography and 3-D Imaging 2018 (2019) Submissions Open: 1 August 2018; Submission Deadline: 15 September 2018 Tomasz Kozacki, Liangcai Cao, Pascal Picart, Ting-Chung Poon, and Guohai Situ
Color Vision 2018 (2018) Published Steven L. Buck, Rigmor Baraas, Jan Kremers, Delwin T. Lindsey, Sérgio Nascimento, Michael A. Webster, and John S. Werner
Digital Holography and 3-D Imaging (2018) Published Hoonjong Kang, Byoungho Lee, Tomasz Kozacki, Pascal Picart, and Guohai Situ
Synthetic Aperture Imaging in Astronomy and Aerospace (2017) Published David Buscher, Michelle J. Creech-Eakman, Michael Shao

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Atmospheric and Oceanic Optics (2)
Coherence and Statistical Optics (2)
Diffraction and Gratings (3)
Fourier Optics and Signal Processing (1)
Geometrical Optics (1)
Holography (1)
Image Processing (6)
Imaging Systems (1)
Instrumentation, Measurement, and Metrology (1)
Integrated Optics (1)
Medical Optics and Biotechnology (1)
Microscopy (1)
Optical Devices (1)
Optical Trapping and Manipulation (1)
Optics at Surfaces (1)
Physical Optics (2)
Vision and Visual Optics (2)

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Geometric optics of a refringent sphere illuminated by a point source: caustics, wavefronts, and zero phase-fronts for every rainbow “k” order
Summary by Michael Berry

Completing Descartes’ Rainbow
In the Middle Ages, it was known that the rainbow originates in...

Orthotropic elastic moduli of biological tissues from ultrasound-assisted diffusing-wave spectroscopy
Summary by Jonathan T. Elliott

To characterize the anisotropic elasticity of tissue, the authors apply diffusing wave spectroscopy (DWS) to detect the...

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2016 Impact Factor:: 1.621
Google Scholar h5-index:: 31
Time to Publication:: 107 days

ISSN:: 1084-7529 (print)
ISSN:: 1520-8532 (online)
Frequency:: Article-at-a-time publication; Monthly issues

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Topic Scope: Topics representing classical optics, image science and vision, such as atmospheric optics, clinical vision, coherence and statistical optics, color, image processing, machine vision, scattering, and visual optics.

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