Journal of the Optical Society of America A

Olga Korotkova, Editor-in-Chief

Journal of the Optical Society of America A

Olga Korotkova, Editor-in-Chief

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Visual and Physiological Optics

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Submissions Open: 15 November 2024; Submission Deadline: 15 February 2025
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Magdalena Asejczyk, Linda Lundström, Brian Vohnsen, Mircea Mujat, and Minchen Wei

Digital Holography and 3-D Imaging 2024

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Published
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Pietro Ferraro, Tatiana Alieva, Pasquale Memmolo, George Nehmetallah, and Yaping Zhang

Quantitative Phase Imaging (QPI)

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Renjie Zhou, Peter T. C. So, Paul Park, Yang Liu, Seung Ah Lee, and Chenfei Hu

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04 FEB 2025	Optica Publishing Group recognizes the International Year of Quantum with a new curated article collection

07 JAN 2025	Optica Publishing Group Announces New Editors-in-Chief for Two Journals

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Adaptive Fresnel lens: basic theory
Summary by Stefan Bernet

A clever idea for a focus-variable lens is presented that works by rotating two optical components relative to each...

Stokes-based analysis for the estimation of 3D dipolar emission
Summary by Colin J. R. Sheppard

When polar molecules are attached to a substrate they can rotate, similar to a field of wheat blowing in the wind,...

Geometric construction of relativistic and non-relativistic distortion
Summary by Tomas Tyc

When capturing a scene by a camera moving close to the speed of light, the relativistic distortion of the photographed...

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2023 Impact Factor:: 1.4
Google Scholar h5-index:: 36
Time to Publication:: 104 days

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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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