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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Color Vision 2027

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Submissions Open: 15 July 2026; Submission Deadline: 15 October 2026
Editors
Sérgio Nascimento, Jenny Bosten, David Foster, Jan Kremers, Jasna Martinovic, Takuma Morimoto, Maureen Neitz, and Neil Parry

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 February 2026
Editors
Anurag Sharma, P. Senthilkumaran, Kasturi Saha, Imrana Ashraf, Muhammad Anisuzzaman Talukder, and Ashim Dhakal

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29 APR 2026	Last Call for nominations for the Applied Optics Best Paper Prize. Nominations due 1 May.

31 MAR 2026	COPP 2025 Invited Review Series Highlights Recent Advances in Optics and Photonics

29 JAN 2026	Optica Publishing Group Announces New Editors-in-Chief for Four Journals

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3	Temporal coupled-mode theory for the Fano resonance in optical resonators

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5	Importance of hue: the effect of saturation on hue–chroma asymmetries

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Atmospheric and Oceanic Optics (1)
Biomedical Optics and Imaging (2)
Coherence and Statistical Optics (3)
Computational Sensing and Imaging (1)
Imaging Systems (1)
Instrumentation, Measurement, and Metrology (1)
Machine Learning Methods for Optical Systems and Machine Vision (1)
Optics of the Eye (1)
Physical Optics (1)
Scattering and Propagation (2)

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Antisymmetric Mueller generator as the universal origin of geometric phase in classical polarization and quantum two-level systems
Summary by Oriol Arteaga

This work establishes a surprisingly direct link between classical Mueller matrices and geometric phase, providing a...

Surface orientation ambiguity for single molecules at dielectric interfaces
Summary by Matthew D. Lew

A longstanding but largely unnoticed modeling gap has been skewing how researchers interpret the behavior of single...

Wave pulses with unusual asymptotical behavior at infinity
Summary by Brynmor Davis

Despite conservation of energy strongly suggesting that the intensity of a propagating optical pulse should decay as...

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2025 Impact Factor:: 1.5
Google Scholar h5-index:: 33
Time to Publication:: 106 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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