Optics Letters

Aims & Scope

The Optical Society (OSA) publishes high-quality, peer-reviewed articles in its portfolio of journals, which serve the full breadth of the optics and photonics community.

Optics Letters offers rapid dissemination of new results in all areas of optics with short, original, peer-reviewed communications.

Optics Letters covers the latest research in optical science, including optical measurements, optical components and devices, atmospheric optics, biomedical optics, Fourier optics, integrated optics, optical processing, optoelectronics, lasers, nonlinear optics, optical storage and holography, optical coherence, polarization, quantum electronics, ultrafast optical phenomena, photonic crystals, and fiber optics.

Criteria used in determining acceptability of contributions include newsworthiness to a substantial part of the optics community and the effect of rapid publication on the research of others.

This journal, published twice each month, is where readers look for the latest discoveries in optics.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	3.3
2024	3.10

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.971

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	305

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	5070

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	17266

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Abstracting & Indexing

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

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science
• Medline

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in 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.

• Observation of a single-beam gradient force optical trap for dielectric particles

  Citation: 5802

  Authors: A., J. M., J. E., Steven

• Breaking the diffraction resolution limit by stimulated emission: stimulated-emission-depletion fluorescence microscopy

  Citation: 5205

  Authors: Stefan W., Jan

• All-silica single-mode optical fiber with photonic crystal cladding

  Citation: 2346

  Authors: J. C., T. A., P. St. J., D. M.

• High-sensitivity, single-beam n_2 measurements

  Citation: 2329

  Authors: M., A. A., E. W.

• Optical image encryption based on input plane and Fourier plane random encoding

  Citation: 2285

  Authors: Philippe, Bahram

• Endlessly single-mode photonic crystal fiber

  Citation: 2269

  Authors: T. A., J. C., P. St. J.

• Writing waveguides in glass with a femtosecond laser

  Citation: 2219

  Authors: K. M., K., N., K.

• Visible continuum generation in air–silica microstructure optical fibers with anomalous dispersion at 800 nm

  Citation: 1757

  Authors: Jinendra K., Robert S., Andrew J.

• Phase-shifting digital holography

  Citation: 1741

  Authors: Ichirou, Tong

• Accelerating finite energy Airy beams

  Citation: 1728

  Authors: Georgios A., Demetrios N.

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