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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Optics-Driven Computation Models, Algorithms, and Applications

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Submissions Open: 01 February 2026; Submission Deadline: 01 April 2026
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Yakun Ju, Wei Zhou, Heng Guo, and Muhammad Zubair

Optics in South Asia

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Submissions Open: 01 November 2025; Submission Deadline: 15 January 2026
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Anurag Sharma, P. Senthilkumaran, Kasturi Saha, Imrana Ashraf, Muhammad Anisuzzaman Talukder, and Ashim Dhakal

Spatiotemporal Structured Light: Generation, propagation, interaction, and application

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Submissions Open: 15 September 2025; Submission Deadline: 15 December 2025
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Angela Dudley, Qiwen Zhan, Fu Feng, Miguel Ángel Porras, Natalia Litchinitser, and Robert Fickler

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1	Spiral adaptive Fresnel lens: wave optics

2	Matrix-based integral transformations for Stokes imaging with partially polarized and partially coherent light

3	Developing variants of the Lucy–Richardson algorithm for coded aperture imaging: tutorial

4	Introduction to the Maxwell Garnett approximation: tutorial

5	Discrete-Dipole Approximation For Scattering Calculations

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Atmospheric and Oceanic Optics (6)
Coherence and Statistical Optics (1)
Diffraction and Gratings (1)
Geometrical Optics (6)
Holography (1)
Imaging Systems (2)
Machine Learning Methods for Optical Systems and Machine Vision (1)
Physical Optics (3)

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Cross-spectral purity—a fundamental property of light: tutorial
Summary by Spencer W. Jolly

Space-time coupling in ultrashort laser pulses is a deceivingly ever-present and increasingly important property that...

Diagonal illumination scheme for Fourier ptychographic microscopy: resolution doubling and aliasing minimization
Summary by An Pan

This paper presents a clever and practical diagonal illumination scheme for Fourier ptychographic microscopy, tackling...

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...

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2024 Impact Factor:: 1.4
Google Scholar h5-index:: 33
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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