Optics Communications

Optics Communications
Abbreviated title (ISO 4)	Opt Commun
Discipline	Modern optics
Language	English
Edited by	B.J. Eggleton, S. Maier, B.C. Sanders, and W. Schleich
Publication details
Publisher	North-Holland Pub. Co. (an Elsevier imprint) (Netherlands)
Publication history	1969-present
Frequency	Biweekly
Open access	partly
Impact factor (2009)	1.316
Indexing
ISSN	0030-4018
LCCN	77014636
CODEN	OPCOB8
OCLC no.	1761347
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Optics Communications is a peer-reviewed rapid-publication scientific journal published by Elsevier. It reports on all fields of optical science and technology. Articles are available since year 1969. According to the Library of Congress, and CASSI: Vol.1 No. 1 of this journal was issued in April 1969.

Scope

The journal covers the following subjects:^[1][2]

• Physical optics
• Optical information and image processing
• Guided wave optics
• Atomic and molecular physics
• Optical properties of condensed and soft matter
• Quantum optics
• Lasers and Laser Applications
• Nonlinear optics
• Nano and Micro optics
• Matter waves
• Quantum information
• Bio and medical optics

Abstracting and indexing

According to the 2009 Journal Citation Reports, the journal has an impact factor of 1.316. In addition, it is indexed in the following databases:^[3]

• Chemical Abstracts
• Current Contents/Engineering, Computing & Technology
• Current Contents/Physics, Chemical, & Earth Sciences
• EI Compendex Plus
• Engineering Index
• INSPEC
• Scopus

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