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.
Optics Continuum (formerly OSA Continuum) is an inclusive, rapid-publication, Open-Access journal, welcoming contributions from the broad optics and photonics community. Optics Continuum publishes research articles meeting Optica Publishing Group's high standards for technical accuracy, scientific rigor, and presentation quality without judgment of impact or significance.
Optics Continuum publishes original research articles, negative results, reproducibility studies, comments and replies. A unique feature of Optics Continuum is the opportunity for authors and reviewers to agree to publish the peer review correspondence (decision letters, reviewer comments, and author response to reviews) associated with an article. This transparent peer review option is a first for Optica Publishing Group. See OSA Continuum 1, 261 (2018) for an example of transparent peer review.
Authors pay Article Processing Charges (APCs) to publish in Optics Continuum. APC discounts or waivers are available to corresponding authors from qualifying low- and middle-income countries.
Questions about Optics Continuum can be directed to the editorial staff at optcon@optica.org
Transfers to Optics Continuum
Authors have the option to easily transfer manuscripts and peer review details from other Optica Publishing Group journals to Optics Continuum. The transfer option is available to the author for three weeks following certain decisions in another Optica Publishing Group journal. Transfers can be completed with or without revisions based on reviews of the original submission, although revisions are encouraged in order to expedite the next decision. When authors have already received useful peer review comments the Optics Continuum editors often prefer to see a revised manuscript before taking action. The new Optica Publishing Group Universal Template for manuscript preparation will help authors facilitate the transfer process by eliminating the need to reformat the paper. The transparent peer review option mentioned above is applicable to manuscripts that authors transfer from another Optica Publishing Group journal before peer review.
Submission Instructions
Submissions should be prepared using the Optica Publishing Group universal manuscript templates for Word files and LaTeX. Optica Publishing Group's Author Style Guide provides additional formatting instructions.
All submissions must be made using the Prism article tracking system. The following information is required during the submission process: email addresses for all co-authors, supplementary material-if applicable, funding agency name(s) and grant number(s).
Click below to enter the online submission system.
Note: Authors who do not have an Optica Publishing Group account will be able to create one before beginning the submission process. Please do not create a new account if you have previous Optica Publishing Group activity.
Key Journal Metrics
The Journal will receive its first Impact Factor in the 2023 release of Clarivate's Journal Citation ReportsTM. Articles are already indexed and discoverable on the Web of Science platform via the Emerging Sources Citation Index, but now authors can be assured that their work will be eligible for consideration in research assessment activities. See the announcement from Clarivate.
Impact Factor: 1.6*
Journal Citation Indicator: 0.55*
Google Scholar h5-index: 26†
Median Time to First Decision: 30 days
Median Time to Publication: 67 days
*Source: 2023 Journal Citation Reports® (Clarivate, 2023).
†2023 Google Scholar Optics & Photonics Top Publications.
For more information on Journal metrics, click here.
Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
Takashige Omatsu
Chiba University, Japan
Deputy Editor
Erik Vartiainen
Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland
Associate Editors
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Adonis Bogris University of West Attica, Greece |
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Jae-Hyeung Park Inha University, South Korea |
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Xiaolong Hu Tianjin University, China |
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Uma Maheswari Rajagopalan Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan |
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Mojca Jazbinsek Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland |
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Jacquiline Romero University of Queensland, Australia |
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Yuichi Kozawa Tohoku University, Japan |
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Anna Lena Schall-Giesecke University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany |
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Ho Wai (Howard) Lee University of California, Irvine, USA |
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Zouheir Sekkat Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco |
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Kwang-Sup Lee Hannam University, South Korea |
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Ghanshyam Singh Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur, India |
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Yu-Jung Lu Academia Sinica and National Taiwan University, Taiwan |
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Ching-Cherng Sun National Central University, Taiwan |
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Gualtiero Nunzi Conti Ist di Fisica Applicata Nello Carrara, Italy |
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Caterina Vozzi Istituto di Fotonica e Nanotecnologie—Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR-IFN), Italy |
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Yukitoshi Otani Utsunomiya University, Japan |
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You Yang Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China |
Staff
| Editorial and Production | Phone | |
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| Nicole Williams-Jones, Peer Review Coordinator | optcon@optica.org | 202-416-1969 |
| Feature proposals | dmcdonold@optica.org | |
| Theresa Miller, Managing Editor | tmiller@optica.org | 202-416-1924 |
| 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 | ||
| M. Scott Dineen, Senior Director, Publishing, Production & Technology | ||
| Jennifer Mayfield, Deputy Senior Director, Electronic Publications | ||
| Tim Fincham, Director, Production & Technology | ||
| Dan McDonold, Editorial Director |