Optica Publishing Group publishes high-quality, peer-reviewed articles in its portfolio of journals, which serve the full breadth of the optics and photonics community.
Optical Materials Express (OMEx), Optica Publishing Group's open access, rapid-review journal, primarily emphasizes advances in both conventional and novel optical materials, their properties, theory and modeling, synthesis and fabrication approaches for optics and photonics; how such materials contribute to novel optical behavior; and how they enable new or improved optical devices. The journal covers a full range of topics, including, but not limited to:
- Artificially structured media, metasurfaces and metamaterials
- Bio-materials, bio-inspired materials and bio-sensors
- Computation and first-principle methods
- Crystalline and dielectric optical materials
- Doped and fiber optical materials
- Epitaxial photonic materials
- Fluorescent and luminescent materials
- Glass and other amorphous materials
- Laser materials and processing
- Materials for integrated optics, optomechanics and quantum optics
- Nanostructures and nanomaterials
- Nonlinear, electro-optical and magneto-optical materials
- Optical materials for photovoltaics and energy applications
- Organics, polymers and soft matter, liquid crystals
- Plasmonics and polaritonics
- Self-assembly and templated assembly for photonic materials
- Stimuli-responsive, reconfigurable and programmable optical materials
- Thin films and flexible materials
- Two-dimensional materials
- Wide-bandgap optical materials
Optical Materials Express considers original research articles, feature issue contributions, invited reviews, and comments on published articles. The Journal also publishes occasional short (four-page maximum excluding references), timely opinion articles from experts and thought-leaders in the field on current or emerging topic areas that are generating significant interest.
Submission Information
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Opinions will usually be invited, but authors may contact the Editor-in-Chief (omex@optica.org) to suggest a potential topic if they wish to submit such a paper.
Please see the Author Resource Center for instructions to prepare and submit a manuscript.
SubmitKey Journal Metrics
Impact Factor: 2.8*
Journal Citation Indicator: 0.76*
Google Scholar h5-index: 50†
Median Time to First Decision:30 days
Median Time to Publication: 71 days
*Source: 2023 Journal Citation Reports® (Clarivate, 2023).
†2023 Google Scholar Optics & Photonics Top Publications.
For more information on Journal metrics, click here.
Emerging Researcher Best-Paper Prize
The Optical Materials Express Emerging Researcher Best-Paper Prize recognizes one outstanding paper published by an emerging researcher each year. Learn more and view all Prize winners.
Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief
Andrea Alù
City University of New York, USA

Deputy Editor
Alessandro Salandrino,
University of Kansas, USA

Feature Editor
Stavroula Foteinopoulou,
University of New Mexico, USA
Associate Editors
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Jeffery Allen |
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Alan Bristow |
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Lin Chen |
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Li Gao |
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Shekhar Guha |
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Rai Kou |
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Lan Li |
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Rajesh Menon |
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Francesco Michelotti |
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Germano Montemezzani |
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Gururaj Naik |
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Guangxin Ni |
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Victor Reshetnyak |
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Robert Simpson |
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Ganapathi (Ganesh) Subramania |
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Kaikai Xu |
Staff
Editorial and Production | Phone | ||
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Keith Jackson, Peer Review Coordinator | omex@optica.org | 202-416-1414 | |
Feature proposals | dmcdonold@optica.org | ||
Sarah Walker, Managing Editor | swalker@optica.org | 202-416-1482 | |
Article processing charges | billing@optica.org | ||
General Information | |||
Copyright permission requests | copyright@optica.org | ||
Online Journal Technical Support | elec@optica.org | ||
Elizabeth Nolan, Chief Publishing Officer | |||
Alison Taylor, Executive Editor | |||
M. Scott Dineen, Senior Director, Publishing, Production & Technology | |||
Jennifer Mayfield, Deputy Senior Director, Electronic Publications | |||
Timothy Fincham, Associate Director, Production and Technology | |||
Dan McDonold, Editorial Director |