Optica Applicata

Aims & Scope

Acoustooptics, atmospheric and ocean optics, atomic and molecular optics, coherence and statistical optics, biooptics, colorimetry, diffraction and gratings, ellipsometry and polarimetry, fiber optics and optical communication, Fourier optics, holography, integrated optics, lasers and their applications, light detectors, light and electron beams, light sources, liquid crystals, medical optics, metamaterials, microoptics, nonlinear optics, optical and electron microscopy, optical computing, optical design and fabrication, optical imaging, optical instrumentation, optical materials, optical measurements, optical modulation, optical properties of solids and thin films, optical sensing, optical systems and their elements, optical trapping, optometry, photoelasticity, photonic crystals, photonic crystal fibers, photonic devices, physical optics, quantum optics, slow and fast light, spectroscopy, storage and processing of optical information, ultrafast optics.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	0.5
2024	0.70

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.170

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q4

h-index

Year	Value
2024	34

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	23132

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	103

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

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• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Materials Science and Physics and Astronomy, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Licensing & Copyright

This journal operates under an Open Access model. Articles are freely accessible to the public immediately upon publication. The content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), allowing users to share and adapt the work with proper attribution.

Copyright remains with the author(s), and no permission is required for non-commercial use, provided the original source is cited.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Utilization of telecommunication optical routes to power fiber-optic polarization sensors

  Citation: 8

  Authors: Zdeněk, Martin

• Asymmetric double image encryption, compression and watermarking scheme based on orthogonal-triangular decomposition with column pivoting

  Citation: 6

  Authors: Savita, Pankaj, Ak, Phool, Hukum

• Investigation of compositional analysis and physical properties for Ni-Cr-Nb alloys using laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy

  Citation: 6

  Authors: Hussein, Tagreed

• Remotely measuring the hydrogen gas by using portable Raman lidar system

  Citation: 6

  Authors:

• Stretchable optical fibre sensor for soft surgical robot shape reconstruction

  Citation: 6

  Authors:

• Analytical expressions for spectral dependences of silver, gold, copper and aluminum dielectric permittivity

  Citation: 6

  Authors: Volodymyr, Iryna, Oleksandr, Yaroslav

• Nanoslotted microring resonator for high figure of merit refractive index sensing

  Citation: 5

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• Virtual MRTD – an indirect method to measure MRTD of thermal imagers using computer simulation

  Citation: 5

  Authors: Krzysztof

• Sensitivity enhancement of a wavelength interrogation-based optical fiber surface plasmon resonance sensor for hemoglobin concentration using barium titanate

  Citation: 5

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• Audio and image encryption scheme based on QR decomposition and random modulus decomposition in Fresnel domain

  Citation: 5

  Authors: Savita, Ak, Phool, Hukum

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