IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics is a bimonthly journal of the IEEE Photonics Society, published without interruption since 1965 for work on lasers, optical amplifiers, light-matter interaction and the optical devices built from those processes, and its 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 1.9.《IEEE 量子电子学杂志》是 IEEE 光子学学会的双月刊，1965 年创刊，刊载激光器，光放大器，光与物质相互作用方面的研究以及由此制成的光器件，2025 年期刊影响因子为 1.9。

Scope

• The declared scope is the generation, propagation, detection and application of coherent electromagnetic radiation at wavelengths shorter than one millimetre.刊物声明的收录范围是波长短于一毫米的相干电磁辐射的产生，传输，探测与应用。

• Light-matter interaction supplies the common thread, and manuscripts on optoelectronics and photonics sit closest to the centre of what the editors look for.光与物质的相互作用构成贯穿全刊的主线，光电子学与光子学的稿件最贴近编辑部的关注中心。

• Laser physics is treated through gain media, resonators and beam quality, with gas, solid-state, semiconductor and fibre systems all represented in its pages.激光物理经由增益介质，谐振腔与光束质量展开，气体，固体，半导体与光纤体系都在版面之内。

• Semiconductor diode lasers draw steady attention, from edge emitters and vertical-cavity devices to high-power bars and widely tunable sources.半导体二极管激光器持续吸引投稿，从边发射器件与垂直腔器件到高功率阵列与宽调谐光源。

• Optical amplifiers form a subject of their own, covering fibre amplifiers, semiconductor optical amplifiers and the noise figures that limit a transmission link.光放大器自成一类选题，涵盖光纤放大器，半导体光放大器以及限制传输链路性能的噪声系数。

• Nonlinear optics and parametric processes appear regularly, including harmonic generation, four-wave mixing, optical frequency combs and conversion between distant wavelength bands.非线性光学与参量过程经常出现，包括谐波产生，四波混频，光频梳以及相隔很远波段之间的频率转换。

• Ultrashort pulses and ultrafast measurement remain central tools, so papers on pulse shaping, compression and characterisation are read as method as much as result.超短脉冲与超快测量仍是核心手段，脉冲整形，压缩与表征的论文既被当作结果，也被当作方法阅读。

• Guided-wave and integrated photonics enter through waveguides, microresonators, photonic crystals and the fabrication tolerances that decide whether a circuit works at all.导波与集成光子学经由波导，微谐振腔，光子晶体以及决定电路能否工作的制造公差进入刊物。

• Modulators, switches and photodetectors are in scope as devices, and a contribution may report a new material platform rather than a finished component.调制器，开关与光电探测器作为器件属于收录范围，一篇论文可以报告新的材料平台而不交付成品。

• Low-dimensional gain structures, quantum wells, quantum dots and quantum cascade designs are handled as device physics, not as materials science alone.低维增益结构，量子阱，量子点与量子级联设计按器件物理论述，不单作材料科学看待。

• Quantum optics arrives through nonclassical light, cavity electrodynamics and squeezed or entangled sources, provided the argument concerns photons rather than information theory.量子光学经由非经典光，腔电动力学以及压缩光源或纠缠光源进入选稿范围，前提是论证落在光子上，而非抽象的信息论。

• Quantum information and computing manuscripts are taken when photon interactions or photon control carry the reasoning, which keeps the journal tied to physical hardware.量子信息与量子计算稿件只要以光子相互作用或光子调控支撑论证即可接收，刊物因此始终与实体硬件相连。

• Terahertz and mid-infrared sources, detectors and spectroscopic uses follow naturally from the sub-millimetre limit that defines the field and from the atmospheric windows that make those bands useful.太赫兹与中红外的光源，探测器及光谱用途，直接来自界定该领域的亚毫米波长界限，也来自让这些波段有用的大气窗口。

• Papers on systems and applications must still expose a fundamental principle or a novel device feature, a rule that filters out routine engineering reports.系统与应用类论文仍须揭示基本原理或新的器件特性，这条规则把常规工程报告挡在门外。

• Metrology and precision spectroscopy belong in the same frame, since frequency combs, stabilised lasers and wavelength standards are judged by the accuracy they deliver.计量与精密光谱同属这一框架，光频梳，稳频激光与波长标准以其达到的准确度为衡量尺度。

History

• Volume one appeared in 1965, two years after the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and the Institute of Radio Engineers merged into IEEE.首卷于 1965 年问世，距美国电气工程师学会与无线电工程师学会合并成 IEEE 只有两年。

• Laser and maser results had been scattered across the proceedings of the two predecessor bodies, and a dedicated title gave the field one archive instead of several, a consolidation that let a young speciality speak a common language.激光与微波激射成果原本散见于两个前身学会的会刊，一份专门刊物让这一领域只有一处存档，年轻的分支由此有了共同语言。

• Early volumes were given to gas lasers, mode locking and the spectroscopy of newly found transitions, and they fixed much of the vocabulary still in use.早期卷册集中于气体激光器，锁模以及新发现跃迁的光谱学，其中不少术语沿用至今。

• A correspondence section carried short results, and several papers that later became standard references first appeared there in compressed form.通讯栏目承载简短成果，若干后来成为标准引文的论文最初以压缩形式发表在那里。

• In 1982 the sponsoring group took the name Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, and the journal passed through that rename without altering its own title.1982 年，主办团体改称激光与电光学会，期刊跟着换了主办方名号，自身刊名未变。

• Erbium-doped fibre amplifiers and wavelength multiplexing arrived in the 1990s, and a share of the optical communications literature settled in the journal.掺铒光纤放大器与波分复用在 1990 年代到来，光通信文献的一部分就此落在本刊。

• IEEE Xplore opened in 2000 and the back file from 1965 was digitised, which put the whole run within reach of a desk search.IEEE Xplore 于 2000 年上线，1965 年起的过刊完成数字化，全部卷册都能在案头检索。

• In 2009 the society became the IEEE Photonics Society, and the remit widened from lasers toward the full chain of photonic generation, transport and detection.2009 年，学会更名为 IEEE 光子学学会，职责从激光器扩展到光子产生，传输与探测的整条链条。

• Page ranges gave way to electronic article numbers, so a paper is now cited by volume and a seven-digit identifier rather than by first and last page.页码范围让位于电子文章编号，论文现在以卷号加七位标识引用，不再给出起止页。

• Open access came as an option taken at acceptance rather than as a conversion of the whole title, and about a tenth of recent output carries a gold licence.开放获取以录用时的可选项出现，而非整刊转换，近年约十分之一的成果带金色许可。

• The cited half-life stands at 28.7 years, which says something about how long a device paper keeps being consulted after it appears.引用半衰期达到 28.7 年，这个数字说明器件论文发表后被查阅的年限之长。

• The impact factor fell from 2.318 in 2021 to 1.9 in 2025, a path followed by much of the specialised device literature in the same years.影响因子从 2021 年的 2.318 降到 2025 年的 1.9，同期专门器件文献大多走出相似曲线。

• In the 2025 Journal Citation Reports the title holds third quartile positions in four categories, from electrical engineering to quantum science and technology.在 2025 年期刊引证报告中，该刊在四个类目里均列第三四分位，从电气工程延伸到量子科学与技术。

• Special issues on semiconductor lasers, fibre sources and terahertz devices have marked the decades, each one leaving a snapshot of a subfield at a particular moment.半导体激光器，光纤光源与太赫兹器件的专题辑标记了各个年代，每一辑都留下某一子领域在特定时刻的切片。

Editors

• An editor-in-chief sets policy and signs the final decision, while a panel of associate editors handles manuscripts inside their own specialities.主编制定方针并签署最终裁定，一组副编辑在各自专长范围内处理稿件。

• Hon Ki Tsang of the Chinese University of Hong Kong held the editorship from 2017 to 2024, and his silicon photonics work ran close to the centre of the journal.香港中文大学的 Hon Ki Tsang 于 2017 年至 2024 年担任主编，其硅光子学研究正处刊物核心地带。

• Associate editors are drawn from university groups and industrial laboratories in North America, Europe and East Asia, a spread that tracks where device research is actually done.副编辑来自北美，欧洲与东亚的高校课题组和工业实验室，这一分布与器件研究的实际重心吻合。

• Manuscripts enter through the IEEE submission system, are screened by the editor-in-chief and then assigned to the associate editor nearest the subject.稿件经 IEEE 投稿系统进入，由主编初筛，再分配给最贴近选题的副编辑。

• Review is single blind, so referees stay unknown to authors and normally at least two independent reports are needed before a decision is reached.评审采用单盲方式，审稿人对作者匿名，通常需要至少两份独立意见才会形成裁定。

• Revision is the common outcome, and authors answer each point in a response letter that the handling editor weighs against the revised text.修改是最常见的结果，作者在答复信中逐条回应意见，处理编辑将其与修改稿对照权衡。

• Authors who are rejected may appeal in writing, and the editor-in-chief either reopens the file or confirms the decision after reading the reports again.被拒作者可以书面申诉，主编或重新开启审稿，或在重读意见后维持原判。

• Special issues are assembled by guest editors, who commission part of the content and send the rest through the ordinary review track.专题辑由客座编辑组织，一部分稿件为约稿，其余仍走常规评审流程。

• Invited papers and review articles are commissioned by the board and reviewed to the same standard as unsolicited submissions.邀约论文与综述由编委会组稿，评审标准与自由投稿一致。

• Papers that run past the free page allowance carry mandatory overlength charges, a condition set out in the instructions to authors.超出免费页数限额的论文须缴纳强制超页费，这一条件写在作者须知里。

• Authors who want their article open may pay the article processing charge at acceptance, and that choice has no bearing on the editorial decision.希望论文开放的作者可在录用时支付文章处理费，这一选择不影响编辑裁定。

• The board keeps a standing interest in tutorial material for younger researchers, though such pieces remain a small share of any volume.编委会长期关注面向青年研究者的教程类文章，此类稿件在每卷中占比仍然不大。