eLight

eLight is an open-access journal covering optics, photonics and electromagnetics, co-published since June 2021 by the Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Springer Nature, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 31.4《eLight》是一本覆盖光学、光子学与电磁学的开放获取期刊，2021 年 6 月起由（中国科学院长春光学精密机械与物理研究所）与（Springer Nature）联合出版，2025 年影响因子为 31.4。

Scope

• It broadly covers all sub-fields of optics, photonics and electromagnetics, with a particular focus on emerging topics and cross-disciplinary research related to optics该刊广泛覆盖光学、光子学与电磁学的各分支领域，尤其侧重与光学相关的涌现性课题与跨学科研究。
• As an open-access journal, all its articles are freely and permanently accessible online immediately upon publication, without subscription charges or registration barriers作为开放获取期刊，其全部文章一经发表即在线免费且永久可读，无需订阅费或注册门槛。
• Authors retain the copyright of their articles and grant third parties the right to use, reproduce or disseminate them under a Creative Commons Attribution license作者保留文章版权，并按（Creative Commons Attribution）许可授予第三方使用、复制或传播其作品的权利。
• The publication costs of eLight are covered by the Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, so authors pay no article-processing charge《eLight》的出版费用由（中国科学院长春光学精密机械与物理研究所）承担，故作者无需支付文章处理费。
• It operates a transparent peer-review system in which reviewer reports are published online alongside the article, though reviewers are not named该刊实行透明同行评审制度，评审报告随文章在线公开，但评审人姓名不予披露。
• The journal is managed by the same team that created Light: Science & Applications, a leading optics journal also published with CIOMP该刊由（Light: Science & Applications）的创建团队管理，该刊是同样与（CIOMP）合作出版的领先光学期刊。

History

• It was launched in June 2021 by the Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in cooperation with Springer Nature该刊由（中国科学院长春光学精密机械与物理研究所）与（Springer Nature）合作，于 2021 年 6 月创刊。^[1]
• It is one of China's high-profile new journals backed by the Excellence Action Plan for Chinese Scientific Journals该刊是中国科技期刊卓越行动计划支持的高起点新刊之一。
• By its early years it had published high-impact work from leading scientists and academicians in more than 16 countries创办数年内，该刊已发表来自 16 个以上国家院士与顶尖科学家的高影响力成果。
• It is indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded, Scopus, Ei Compendex, DOAJ and several other databases该刊被（Science Citation Index Expanded）、（Scopus）、（Ei Compendex）、（DOAJ）等多个数据库收录。
• Its Journal Impact Factor stood at 27.2 in 2023 and reached 31.4 in 2025, placing it among the top optics journals其影响因子 2023 年为 27.2，2025 年升至 31.4，跻身顶尖光学期刊之列。

Editors

• It has co-editors-in-chief Aydogan Ozcan of the University of California, Los Angeles and Cheng-Wei Qiu of the National University of Singapore其联合主编为（University of California, Los Angeles）的 Aydogan Ozcan 与（National University of Singapore）的 Cheng-Wei Qiu。
• A third co-editor-in-chief listed on the publisher's board is Xuejun Zhang of the Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics出版方编委会还列出第三位联合主编——（中国科学院长春光学精密机械与物理研究所）的 Xuejun Zhang。
• Aydogan Ozcan is a chancellor's professor and holds the Volgenau Chair for Engineering Innovation at UCLA, working on imaging and photonicsAydogan Ozcan 是（UCLA）校监讲席教授并任（Volgenau Chair for Engineering Innovation），研究成像与光子学。
• Cheng-Wei Qiu is a professor at the National University of Singapore known for research on structured light and metamaterialsCheng-Wei Qiu 是（National University of Singapore）教授，以结构光与超材料研究著称。
• The editorial board includes leading researchers from institutions such as Caltech, MIT, Stanford, EPFL and Tsinghua University编委会成员包括来自（Caltech）、（MIT）、（Stanford）、（EPFL）与（Tsinghua University）等机构的顶尖研究者。
• Reviewer reports are published alongside accepted articles under a Creative Commons Attribution license, though reviewers remain anonymous评审报告在文章被接收后按（Creative Commons Attribution）许可随文公开，但评审人保持匿名。