Optics InfoBase

OSA's Optics InfoBase is a cutting-edge repository that contains OSA Publishing's content, including 15 flagship, partnered and co-published peer-reviewed journals. With more than 200,000 articles including papers from over 360 conferences, Optics InfoBase is the largest peer-reviewed collection of optics and photonics. See complete information about OSA journals.

OSA partners with leading Chinese institute to launch new joint journal. The inaugural issue is now live.
OSA is pleased to announce that Optics Letters is increasing its page limit from 3 pages to 4 pages.
Authors will benefit from many new features of OSA's new article submission and tracking website—Prism.
OSA's Express collection of journals offer rapid publication, wide distribution, and high-quality research in an online-only, open access format.
OSA's Signature Journals boast a longstanding history of publishing the highest quality peer-reviewed optics and photonics content.

Recently Published

Propagation equation of Hermite–Gauss beams through a complex optical system with apertures and its application to focal shift
Based on the generalized Huygens–Fresnel diffraction integral (Collins’ formula), the... JOSA A, Vol. 30 Issue 7, pp.1381-1386 (2013)

Ultrafast ellipsometric interferometry for direct detection of coherent phonon strain pulse profiles
We describe an ultrafast optical technique to quantitatively detect picosecond ultrasonic displacements of... JOSA B, Vol. 30 Issue 7, pp.1911-1921 (2013)

Design optimization of spasers considering the degeneracy of excited plasmon modes
We model spaser as an n-level quantum system and study a spasing geometry comprising of a metal nanosphere... Optics Express, Vol. 21 Issue 13, pp.15335-15349 (2013)