APL Photonics

APL Photonics is a monthly gold open access journal published by AIP Publishing, launched late in 2015 with its first papers appearing in April 2016 and covering fundamental and applied photonics across disciplines, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 5.7.《APL 光子学》（APL Photonics）由（AIP Publishing）出版，2015 年末创刊，首批论文于 2016 年 4 月刊出，为月刊且采用金色开放获取，覆盖跨学科的基础与应用光子学研究，2025 年期刊影响因子为 5.7。

Scope

• Light sources, lasers, nonlinear optics, ultrafast photonics and guided-wave optics define the physical core of the journal.光源、激光、非线性光学、超快光子学与导波光学构成本刊的物理内核。
• Nanophotonics, plasmonics, optoelectronics and integrated photonics are treated as the engineering edge of the field.纳米光子学、等离激元光子学、光电子学与集成光子学被视为该领域的工程前沿。
• Biophotonics, biomedical optics and optical imaging extend the journal into the life sciences.生物光子学、生物医学光学与光学成像把期刊延伸至生命科学。
• Optical communications, quantum photonics, photovoltaics, sensors and terahertz science are all named in the coverage list.光通信、量子光子学、光伏、传感器与太赫兹科学均列入覆盖清单。
• Articles, Letters, Invited Articles, Perspectives, Tutorials and Special Topic collections are the accepted formats, with no fixed length limit on invited content.文章、快报、约稿论文、前瞻、教程与专题合集为可接受体裁，约稿内容不设固定篇幅限制。
• Manuscripts devoted to mathematical or computational problems only marginally related to photonics, or to incremental engineering and materials advances, are excluded.仅与光子学关系薄弱的数学或计算问题，以及增量式的工程与材料进展，均不在收稿范围。
• Comments of up to one thousand words allow published papers to be challenged, with a response from the original authors.篇幅不超过一千词的评论可对已刊论文提出质疑，原作者可作回应。

History

• AIP Publishing announced the new title in September 2015 and opened it for submission in October, with Benjamin Eggleton of the University of Sydney as founding editor-in-chief.（AIP Publishing）于 2015 年 9 月公布该新刊，10 月开放投稿，创刊主编为悉尼大学的（Benjamin Eggleton）。
• Eggleton's opening editorial framed the journal as the open access home for photonics within the Applied Physics Letters family of titles.（Eggleton）的创刊社论把期刊定位为（Applied Physics Letters）系列中面向光子学的开放获取园地。^[1]
• The first Journal Impact Factor, released in 2019, was 4.383 and placed the journal in the first quartile of optics.2019 年发布的首次期刊影响因子为 4.383，使期刊进入光学期刊第一四分位。
• By its tenth anniversary the journal had published more than sixteen hundred papers and accrued close to twenty-seven thousand citations.至创刊十周年，期刊已发表论文逾一千六百篇，累计被引近两万七千次。
• Andrew Forbes of the University of the Witwatersrand was appointed in November 2025 to succeed Eggleton from 1 January 2026.（Andrew Forbes）于 2025 年 11 月获任，自 2026 年 1 月 1 日起接替（Eggleton）。^[2]
• The 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 5.7, against 5.3 in 2024 and 6.382 in 2022, and the journal ranks 22nd of 129 in optics.2025 年期刊影响因子为 5.7，2024 年为 5.3，2022 年为 6.382，在光学类 129 种期刊中位列第 22。

Editors

• Andrew Forbes, Distinguished Professor of physics at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, is editor-in-chief from January 2026.主编（Andrew Forbes）为约翰内斯堡金山大学物理学杰出教授，自 2026 年 1 月起任职。
• Forbes founded the Structured Light Laboratory in 2015 and works on structured light and quantum photonics, and he is the first AIP Publishing editor-in-chief based in Africa.（Forbes）于 2015 年创建结构光实验室，研究结构光与量子光子学，是（AIP Publishing）首位常驻非洲的主编。
• Benjamin Eggleton, now director of Sydney Nano, led the journal from 2016 to 2025 and remains associated with its nonlinear optics constituency.（Benjamin Eggleton）现任悉尼纳米研究所所长，2016 至 2025 年领导本刊，至今仍与其非线性光学群体保持联系。
• A team of associate editors spans the topical breadth of photonics and gives the journal an international editorial profile.一组副编辑覆盖光子学的各个方向，使期刊具备国际化的编辑格局。
• An editorial advisory board of established researchers from around the world advises on direction and on the shaping of the journal.由全球资深研究者组成的编辑顾问委员会，就办刊方向与期刊塑造提供咨询。
• Perspectives and Tutorials are invited rather than submitted, with tutorials intended as entry points for newcomers to a topic and perspectives reserved for expert opinion.前瞻与教程均为约稿而非自由投稿，教程旨在为初入某方向者提供入口，前瞻则留给专家观点。