About the Journal

The Journal of the Optical Society of America A (JOSA A) is devoted to developments in any field of classical optics, image science, and vision. JOSA A includes original peer-reviewed papers on such topics as atmospheric optics, image processing, scattering and coherence theory, machine vision, statistical optics, color, clinical vision, and visual optics.

Editor-in-Chief: Franco Gori, Universita degli Studi Roma Tre
ISSN: 1084-7529 | eISSN: 1520-8532
Frequency: Rapid article-at-a-time publication; Monthly issues
2010 ISI Impact Factor: 1.936

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The Farnsworth Flashlight is not equivalent to the Farnsworth Lantern
The Farnsworth Lantern has been accepted in many occupational applications. Modern instruments purporting to... JOSA A, Vol. 29 Issue 2, pp.A377-A382 (2012)

Domain of metamers exciting intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells (ipRGCs) and rods
Any stimulus can be described as composed of two components—a fundamental color stimulus that controls the... JOSA A, Vol. 29 Issue 2, pp.A366-A376 (2012)

Role of eye movements in chromatic induction
There exist large interindividual differences in the amount of chromatic induction [Vis. Res.49, 2261... JOSA A, Vol. 29 Issue 2, pp.A353-A365 (2012)

A three-dimensional color space from the 13th century
We present a new commentary on Robert Grosseteste’s De colore, a short treatise that dates from the early... JOSA A, Vol. 29 Issue 2, pp.A346-A352 (2012)

The Verriest Lecture: Color lessons from space, time and motion
The appearance of a chromatic stimulus depends on more than the wavelengths composing it. The scientific... JOSA A, Vol. 29 Issue 2, pp.A337-A345 (2012)

Quantal and non-quantal color matches: failure of Grassmann’s laws at short wavelengths
Previous studies of color matching found that Grassmann’s laws are not obeyed in the short-wavelength region... JOSA A, Vol. 29 Issue 2, pp.A324-A336 (2012)

Psychophysical and physiological responses to gratings with luminance and chromatic components of different spatial frequencies
Gratings that contain luminance and chromatic components of different spatial frequencies were used to study... JOSA A, Vol. 29 Issue 2, pp.A314-A323 (2012)

Electroretinographic responses to photoreceptor specific sine wave modulation
Electroretinographic responses to cone and rod isolating stimuli and to simultaneous L- and M-cone modulation... JOSA A, Vol. 29 Issue 2, pp.A306-A313 (2012)

A tritan Waldo would be easier to detect in the periphery than a red/green one: evidence from visual search
In a color naming task from 0° to 55° eccentricity, we found that red/green performance (n=10 subjects)... JOSA A, Vol. 29 Issue 2, pp.A298-A305 (2012)

Color discrimination across four life decades assessed by the Cambridge Colour Test
Color discrimination was estimated using the Cambridge Colour Test (CCT) in 160 normal trichromats of four... JOSA A, Vol. 29 Issue 2, pp.A290-A297 (2012)

Color Vision: Introduction
JOSA A, Vol. 29 Issue 2, pp.CV1-CV3 (2012)

Quantal and non-quantal color matches: failure of Grassmann’s laws at short wavelengths
Previous studies of color matching found that Grassmann’s laws are not obeyed in the short-wavelength region... JOSA A, Vol. 29 Issue 2, pp.A327-A339 (2012)

Color Vision: Introduction
JOSA A, Vol. 29 Issue 2, pp.- (2012)

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Topics in Current Issue

Vol. 29, Iss. 2 — Feb. 1, 2012  pp: 164–184

	Atmospheric and Oceanic Optics (1)
	Coherence and Statistical Optics (2)
	Fiber Optics and Optical Communications (1)
	Geometric Optics (1)

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Color Vision
	Rigmor Baraas, Steven L. Buck, Barry B. Lee, Michael A. Webster, and John S. Werner Published

Adaptive Optics
	Julian Christou, Brent Ellerbroek, Thierry Fusco, and Donald Miller Published

Ideal Observers and Efficiency
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Optical High-Performance Computing
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Image Quality
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Photonic Metamaterials: from Random to Periodic
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Advances in Retinal Imaging
	Joseph Carroll, Wolfgang Drexler, and Austin Roorda Published

Diffractive Optics and Micro-Optics
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Visual Coding
	Michael Webster and Duane Albrecht Published

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