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 in South America

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Submission Opens: 1 October 2022; Submission Deadline: 1 December 2022
Editors
Solange Cavalcanti, Adriana Fontes, Jorge Garcia-Sucerquia, Dario Perez, and Esteban Vera

Digital Holography and Three-Dimensional Imaging 2022

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Submission Opens: 1 September 2022; Submission Deadline: 15 October 2022
Editors
Daping Chu, Jae-Hyeung Park, Chau-Jern Cheng, Pietro Ferraro, Partha Banerjee, John Sheridan, and Elena Stoykova

Color Vision 2023

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Submission Opens: 1 August 2022; Submission Deadline: 1 November 2022
Editors
John S. Werner, Jenny Bosten, David Brainard, Marina Danilova, Anya Hurlbert, Thanasis Panorgias, and Neil Parry

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17 OCT 2022	Optica Publishing Group Announces Read and Publish Agreements with IReL and Jisc

22 AUG 2022	A new global study from AIP Publishing, the American Physical Society, IOP Publishing and Optica Publishing Group reveals that half of physical science researchers want to publish Open Access but 62% say a lack of funding prevents them from doing so. Read more.

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1	Hyperchromatic lens doublets with an extremely small equivalent Abbe number employing diffractive elements and refractive materials with exceptional dispersion properties

2	From cones to color vision: a neurobiological model that explains the unique hues

3	Implementing a non-4f relay system for Hartmann–Shack wavefront sensing

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

5	Practical cone-beam algorithm

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Coherence and Statistical Optics (3)
Computational Sensing and Imaging (1)
Diffraction and Gratings (1)
Geometrical Optics (3)
Holography (2)
Image Processing and Image Analysis (1)
Machine Vision (1)
Numerical Methods and Simulation (1)
Physical Optics (3)
Polarization and Ellipsometry (1)
Scattering and Propagation (1)
Vision, Color Vision, and Psychophysics (2)

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Modification and evaluation of the peripheral contrast sensitivity function models
Summary by Cherlyn J Ng

Models of human foveal contrast sensitivity are inadequate for the visual periphery. The main reason stems from...

Orbital dynamics at atmospheric pressure in a lensed dual-beam optical trap
Summary by Kishan Dholakia

Optical trapping of mesoscopic particles can be used to make high exquisite, precision measurements. This field has...

Diffuseness of illumination suitable for reproducing a faithful and ideal appearance of an object
Summary by Lionel Simonot

The diffuseness of illumination on an object plays a key role in how we identify the material of that object....

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2021 Impact Factor:: 2.104
Google Scholar h5-index:: 35
Time to Publication:: 101 days

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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