Advanced Photonics Nexus

Advanced Photonics Nexus is a bimonthly Gold Open Access journal covering all areas of optics and photonics, co-published by SPIE and Chinese Laser Press since 2022, and its 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 6.3, placing it in Q1 of the Optics category《先进光子学通讯》（英文）（Advanced Photonics Nexus）是由国际光学工程学会（SPIE）与中国激光杂志社于2022年联合创办的双月刊金色开放获取期刊，覆盖光学与光子学全部领域，2025年期刊影响因子为6.3，位列光学类期刊Q1区。

Scope

• The journal publishes original papers, Letters and review articles reporting novel results of high significance and broad interest in the fundamental and applied aspects of optics and photonics该刊发表报道光学与光子学基础和应用方面具有重要意义和广泛兴趣之新成果的原创论文、快报和综述文章。
• Topical coverage spans the whole of photonics, from nanophotonics, silicon photonics and plasmonics to metamaterials, metasurfaces, photonic crystals, optical fibers, waveguides and integrated optics主题覆盖整个光子学领域，从纳米光子学、硅光子学与等离子体光子学，到超材料、超表面、光子晶体、光纤、波导与集成光学。
• Laser science is a core strength, including ultrafast optics, attosecond and high-field physics, lasers and quantum electronics, laser machining and material processing激光科学是该刊的核心方向，包括超快光学、阿秒与强场物理、激光器与量子电子学、激光加工与材料处理。
• Imaging topics range from Fourier optics and image processing, holography and displays to microscopy, imaging systems, optical sensors, detectors and instrumentation成像方向涵盖傅里叶光学与图像处理、全息与显示，以及显微、成像系统、光学传感器、探测器与仪器。
• Cross-disciplinary fields include biophotonics, medical optics and biotechnology, optomechanics, optofluidics, optical trapping and manipulation, and optical spectroscopy交叉领域包括生物光子学、医学光学与生物技术、光力学、光流体、光捕获与操控，以及光学光谱学。
• Applied areas extend to optical communication and interconnects, energy photonics, terahertz and X-ray optics, optics in chemistry and catalysis, and photonics in switching and data storage应用方向延伸至光通信与互连、能源光子学、太赫兹与X射线光学、化学与催化中的光学，以及面向交换与数据存储的光子学。
• The journal welcomes modelling and simulation of photonic devices and, through its Open Code and Data section, peer-reviewed data papers describing research codes and datasets该刊欢迎光子学器件的建模与模拟研究，并通过开放代码与数据栏目发表经同行评议、描述研究代码与数据集的数据论文。

History

• The journal was established in 2022 and began with Volume 1, Issue 1 in October 2022, marking the third publishing partnership between SPIE and Chinese Laser Press该刊于2022年创办，第1卷第1期于2022年10月出版，是国际光学工程学会与中国激光杂志社的第三个出版合作项目。
• It was conceived as a sister journal of the highly selective journal Advanced Photonics, founded by the two partners in 2019, and joined the review-only journal Photonics Insights in the same partnership portfolio该刊定位为两社于2019年创办的高选择性期刊《先进光子学》的姊妹刊，与仅发表综述的《光子学评论》同属该合作刊群。
• An inaugural editorial by the three founding co-editors introduced the journal as a focal point for authors and readers across all fields of optics三位创刊共同主编撰写的创刊社论将该刊介绍为汇聚光学各领域作者与读者的焦点平台。^[1]
• The journal appears bimonthly with six issues a year and uses six-digit citation identifiers instead of page numbers so that each issue can build online one article at a time该刊为双月刊，每年出版6期，采用六位数字引文标识符代替页码编号，使每期可以逐篇在线构建。
• All articles are published Gold Open Access under the CC BY 4.0 license, with an article processing charge of USD 1675 and no charge for review and tutorial papers全部论文均以CC BY 4.0许可金色开放获取发表，文章处理费为1675美元，综述与教程类论文免收费用。
• The journal received its first Journal Impact Factor of 6.0 in the 2024 Journal Citation Reports, entering Q1 of the Optics category, and its 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 6.3该刊在2024年《期刊引证报告》中首次获得影响因子6.0并进入光学类期刊Q1区，2025年期刊影响因子为6.3。
• It is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index of the Web of Science Core Collection and in Scopus, and was selected for the High Starting Point New Journal project of China's Excellence Action Plan for science and technology journals, Phase II该刊被（Web of Science）核心合集的新兴来源引文索引（ESCI）与Scopus收录，并入选中国科技期刊卓越行动计划二期高起点新刊项目。

Editors

• The Co-Editors-in-Chief are Xiao-Cong (Larry) Yuan of Shenzhen University, Anatoly Zayats of King's College London, and Weibiao Chen, director of the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences共同主编为深圳大学袁小聪（Xiao-Cong Yuan）、伦敦国王学院Anatoly Zayats，以及中国科学院上海光学精密机械研究所所长陈卫标。
• Yuan works on optical tweezers, optical field manipulation and nanophotonics, Zayats on nanophotonics, plasmonics and metamaterials, and Chen on laser technology and optoelectronic systems袁小聪的研究方向包括光镊、光场调控与纳米光子学，Zayats致力于纳米光子学、等离子体光子学与超材料，陈卫标专长于激光技术与光电系统。
• The editorial board comprises 44 scientists from universities and research institutes around the world, including 24 members based in China and 20 international members from 12 countries编委会由来自全球高校和科研机构的44位科学家组成，其中中国编委24人，国际编委20人、来自12个国家。
• An advisory board of senior researchers supports the journal, drawing on the editorial community of its sister journal Advanced Photonics期刊设有由资深学者组成的顾问委员会提供支撑，编委力量与姊妹刊《先进光子学》的编辑团队相互协同。
• Submissions are handled by the Chinese Laser Press editorial office in Shanghai, peer review is anonymous, and manuscripts are screened for plagiarism before external review稿件由中国激光杂志社上海编辑部处理，同行评审采用匿名方式，外审前对稿件进行学术不端检测。
• DOAJ reports an average of about eight weeks from submission to publication, and cover articles selected from each issue are promoted through the publishers' news channelsDOAJ显示从投稿到发表平均约8周，每期遴选的封面文章则通过出版机构的新闻渠道获得推广。