Journal of the Optical Society of America B

Grover Swartzlander, Editor-in-Chief

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Collective Effects and Coupling Phenomena in Resonant Optical Metasurfaces (2019) Submissions Open: 15 December 2018; Submission Deadline: 1 February 2019 Davy Gérard, Viktoriia Babicheva, and Isabelle Staude
Diffractive Waveplates (2019) Submissions Open: 1 November 2018; Submission Deadline: 1 December 2018 Nelson Tabiryan, Timothy J. Bunning, and Gabriella Cipparronne
Fluctuation-Induced Phenomena in Photonic Systems (2019) Submissions Open: 1 October 2018; Submission Deadline: 1 November 2018 Francesco Intravaia, Kurt Busch, Diego A. R. Dalvit
Quantum Key Distribution and Beyond (2019) Submissions Open: 1 September 2018; Submission Deadline: 1 October 2018 Mohsen Razavi, Anthony Leverrier, Xiongfeng Ma, Bing Qi, and Zhiliang Yuan

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Atmospheric and Oceanic Optics (1)
Atomic and Molecular Physics (1)
Diffraction and Gratings (1)
Fiber Optics and Optical Communications (6)
Image Processing (1)
Lasers and Laser Optics (2)
Materials (3)
Nonlinear Optics (4)
Optical Devices (2)
Optics at Surfaces (3)
Optoelectronics (1)
Physical Optics (2)
Quantum Optics (3)
Spectroscopy (2)
Thin Films (1)

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2016 Impact Factor:: 1.843
Google Scholar h5-index:: 36
Time to Publication:: 97 days

ISSN:: 0740-3224 (print)
ISSN:: 1520-8540 (online)
Frequency:: Article-at-a-time publication; Monthly issues

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Topic Scope: JOSA B emphasizes scientific research on the fundamentals of the interaction of light with matter such as quantum optics, nonlinear optics, and laser physics. Topics include atom optics and cold atoms, integrated and fiber optics, metamaterials, nanophotonics, photonic crystals, photorefractive optics and holography, physics of optical materials, spectroscopy, THz optics, ultrafast phenomena, and other related subjects.

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