About the Journal
Optics Letters (OL) provides rapid dissemination of new results in all areas of optics and photonics with short, original, peer-reviewed communications. The articles often describe research-in-progress, thus reflecting the leading edge in the "science of light." With an ISI Impact Factor of 3.316, OL is among the top-ranked journals in the Optics category.
Editor-in-Chief: Alan Willner, University of Southern California
ISSN: 0146-9592 | eISSN: 1539-4794
Frequency: Rapid article-at-a-time publication, issues twice monthly
2010 ISI Impact Factor: 3.318
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Simultaneous swept source optical coherence tomography of the anterior segment and retina using coherence revival
We report on an implementation of coherence revival-based heterodyne swept source optical coherence...
Optics Letters, Vol. 37 Issue 11, pp.1883-1885 (2012)
Coherent synthesis of ultra-broadband optical parametric amplifiers
We report on coherent synthesis of two ultra-broadband optical parametric amplifiers, each compressed by...
Optics Letters, Vol. 37 Issue 11, pp.1880-1882 (2012)
Enhancement of ultrafast nonlinear optical response of silicon nanocrystals by boron-doping
Nonlinear optical responses of boron (B)-doped silicon nanocrystals (Si-ncs) embedded in borosilicate glass...
Optics Letters, Vol. 37 Issue 11, pp.1877-1879 (2012)
Linear and nonlinear waves in surface and wedge index potentials
We study optical beams that are supported at the surface of a medium with a linear index potential and by a...
Optics Letters, Vol. 37 Issue 11, pp.1874-1876 (2012)
Evolution of Airy beams in a chiral medium
We study the evolution of Airy beams in chiral media. We numerically demonstrate that the circularly...
Optics Letters, Vol. 37 Issue 11, pp.1871-1873 (2012)
Derivative method for phase retrieval in off-axis quantitative phase imaging
We present a method for phase retrieval in off-axis interferometric systems. By numerically calculating the...
Optics Letters, Vol. 37 Issue 11, pp.1868-1870 (2012)
Nonlinear localized modes in Glauber–Fock photonic lattices
We study a nonlinear Glauber–Fock lattice and the conditions for the excitation of localized structures. We...
Optics Letters, Vol. 37 Issue 11, pp.1865-1867 (2012)
Toward higher-order passive harmonic mode-locking of a soliton fiber laser
We report >13 MHz/mW pump power efficiency in increasing the repetition rate of passive harmonic...
Optics Letters, Vol. 37 Issue 11, pp.1862-1864 (2012)
6.1 W single frequency laser output at 1645 nm from a resonantly pumped Er:YAG nonplanar ring oscillator
A monolithic 1645 nm Er:YAG nonplanar ring oscillator (NPRO) resonantly pumped by a 1532 nm fiber laser is...
Optics Letters, Vol. 37 Issue 11, pp.1859-1861 (2012)
Z-scan measurement of the nonlinear refractive index of graphene
Under strong laser illumination, few-layer graphene exhibits both a transmittance increase due to saturable...
Optics Letters, Vol. 37 Issue 11, pp.1856-1858 (2012)
Poly(styrene)-based graded-index plastic optical fiber for home networks
We investigated poly(styrene) (PSt)-based graded-index plastic optical fiber (GI-POF) with low loss and high...
Optics Letters, Vol. 37 Issue 11, pp.1853-1855 (2012)
Single-frequency, Q-switched Ho:YAG laser at room temperature injection-seeded by two F–P etalons-restricted Tm, Ho:YAG laser
We demonstrated a 1.91 μm pumped, injection-seeded Q-switched Ho:YAG laser operating at room temperature. By...
Optics Letters, Vol. 37 Issue 11, pp.1850-1852 (2012)
Infrared cylindrical cloak in nanosphere dispersed liquid crystal metamaterial
We present a design of an infrared cylindrical cloak using nanosphere dispersed nematic liquid crystal (NLC)...
Optics Letters, Vol. 37 Issue 11, pp.1847-1849 (2012)
Topics in Current Issue
Vol. 37, Iss. 10 — May. 15, 2012 pp: 1598–1780
| Diffraction and Gratings (4) | |
| Fiber Optics and Optical Communications (5) | |
| Holography (2) | |
| Image Processing (1) | |
| Instrumentation, Measurement, and Metrology (3) | |
| Integrated Optics (2) | |
| Lasers and Laser Optics (6) | |
| Materials (3) | |
| Medical Optics and Biotechnology (5) | |
| Microscopy (2) | |
| Nonlinear Optics (12) | |
| Optical Devices (3) | |
| Optics at Surfaces (2) | |
| Optoelectronics (1) | |
| Quantum Optics (2) | |
| Scattering (1) | |
| Spectroscopy (1) | |
| Ultrafast Optics (4) | |
| X-ray Optics (2) |
Spotlight on Optics
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What's New
- May 15 2012 : Quantum Dots for Photonic Applications—combined special issue published by Optics Express and Optical Materials Express.
- May 15 2012 : Self-bending light: research from University of Franche-Comté, published in Optics Letters, is covered by New Scientist and ScienceNOW.
- Apr 30 2012 : OSA debuts the Optics ImageBank. Search over 200K images from across OSA journals!



