Journal of the Optical Society of America B

Journal of the Optical Society of America B is a monthly peer-reviewed journal of optical physics issued by Optica Publishing Group, the publishing house of Optica, the society formerly called the Optical Society of America.《美国光学学会会刊 B 辑》是一份月刊同行评审光学物理期刊，由 Optica Publishing Group 出版，该机构是 Optica 的出版部门，而 Optica 这个学会旧称美国光学学会。

Volume 1 appeared in 1984, when the society divided its long-running Journal of the Optical Society of America into two titles, and the B edition took the physics of light while the A edition kept image science and vision.第 1 卷于 1984 年问世，学会当年把久已单行的一份会刊拆成两份，B 辑承接光的物理，A 辑保留图像科学与视觉研究。

Its remit is the fundamentals of light-matter interaction, and the publisher names quantum optics, nonlinear optics and laser physics as the three pillars standing under that remit.刊物以光与物质相互作用的基础研究为范围，出版方把量子光学、非线性光学与激光物理列为支撑这一范围的三大支柱。

The 2025 Journal Citation Reports give it 1.9 in the Optics category, 79th among 129 titles, on roughly 360 papers a year and 13,656 citations recorded.2025 年《期刊引证报告》在光学类目给出 1.9 的影响因子，129 种期刊中列第 79 位，年发文约 360 篇，记录总被引 13656 次。

Scope

• The published description calls JOSA B a general optics research journal that complements JOSA A, which fixes its identity by contrast as much as by subject.官方描述称本刊为一份与 JOSA A 互补的普通光学研究期刊，这使刊物的身份既由题材界定，也由与姊妹刊的分工界定。

• That division of labour reaches back to 1984, and it still governs where a manuscript is sent, since image formation, vision and propagation belong to the A edition.这一分工可上溯至 1984 年，至今仍决定稿件的去向，成像、视觉与光传播归 A 辑。

• Quantum optics heads the list of topics, and the description pairs it with entanglement while giving quantum photonics a heading of its own.量子光学列在主题清单之首，描述把它与量子纠缠并列，并为量子光子学单列一条。

• Nonlinear and high-field optics form the second pillar, covering harmonic generation and parametric processes as well as the response of matter to intense fields.非线性光学与强场光学构成第二根支柱，涵盖谐波产生与参量过程，也涵盖物质对强场的响应。

• Laser physics is treated as a subject in its own right, and light sources are specified across the span from terahertz radiation to the extreme ultraviolet.激光物理被当作独立主题处理，光源一项则标明覆盖从太赫兹到极紫外的整个波段。

• Ultrashort pulses and optical frequency combs sit inside that laser remit, as do the metrological uses that follow from stable, evenly spaced comb lines.超短脉冲与光学频率梳属激光范围之内，由稳定而等距的梳齿引出的计量用途同样在内。

• Fiber optics returns as a heading of its own, joined by fiber lasers and by amplifiers, three entries that reflect how much hardware work in the field passes through glass.光纤光学自成一类，光纤激光器与放大器紧随其后，这三项反映出该领域相当多的硬件工作都要经过玻璃介质。

• Nanophotonics gathers metamaterials and metasurfaces into one block, photonic crystals stand beside them, and confinement below the wavelength runs through all three.纳米光子学把超材料与超表面收在一处，光子晶体亦在其列，共同的线索是把光场约束到波长以下。

• Optical materials and nanomaterials are named separately, and semiconductor optics appears on its own line, which keeps device-oriented work from being folded into the broader materials entry.光学材料与纳米材料分列两条，半导体光学另立一行，面向器件的工作因此不会被并入更宽的材料条目。

• Optomechanics and structured light share a section with beam shaping, an arrangement that puts mechanical control of light beside spatial control of its profile.光力学与结构光同波束整形共处一节，这一编排把对光的机械控制与对光束剖面的空间控制并排放置。

• Physical optics closes the descriptive list together with the optics of atoms and molecules, the latter carrying the spectroscopy of atoms and of cold samples.物理光学与原子及分子光学一起收束主题清单，后者承载原子光谱与冷样品光谱。

• Measurement and metrology form a heading that admits bench work, and electro-optics is named beside it rather than under the laser heading, which keeps device physics visible.测量与计量连同仪器合成一条，接纳实验台工作，电光学位列其旁而未归入激光条目，器件物理因此仍在视野之内。

• Neuromorphic photonics is the newest heading on the page, and its presence marks how far the remit has moved toward computing hardware built from optical components.神经形态光子学是清单上最新的一条，它的出现说明范围已向以光学元件搭建的计算硬件延伸。

• Scope governs genre as well, since the journal prints full-length research articles and tutorial pieces rather than the short communications that belong to Optics Letters.范围同时管体裁，刊物刊出完整研究论文与教程文章，篇幅短小的快报则归 Optics Letters。

History

• The first volume carries 1984, the year the society split its single journal into an A edition and a B edition after sixty-seven years of one title.第 1 卷记年为 1984 年，学会在那一年把单一份会刊拆为 A 辑与 B 辑，此前一份刊名已行六十七年。

• The parent Journal of the Optical Society of America had run since 1917, and the society that founded it in 1916 kept one flagship for the whole discipline until the split.母刊《美国光学学会会刊》自 1917 年起发行，1916 年创会的学会在此之前只用一份旗舰刊覆盖整个学科。

• Optical physics went to B, image science and vision went to A, and the two editions have kept separate editorial boards and separate subscription lists ever since.光学物理归 B 辑，图像科学与视觉归 A 辑，两辑此后各有独立的编辑委员会与独立的订阅清单。

• The NLM serial record gives Washington, D.C. as the place of publication with the Optical Society of America as publisher from 1984, and its current imprint line reads Optica Publishing Group of Washington, DC.NLM 期刊记录以华盛顿哥伦比亚特区为出版地，1984 年起出版方为美国光学学会，现行出版行则写作华盛顿的 Optica Publishing Group。

• A subtitle, Optical Physics, stood beside the title from the start and still stands in the NLM record, whose main title carries it after the letter B.副题「光学物理」自创刊起便与刊名并列，至今仍留在 NLM 记录的主题名之中，接在字母 B 之后。

• Registry data tell a narrower story, since Crossref and OpenAlex hold the title without a subtitle, while the abstracting lists that print OPTICAL PHYSICS after the name are carrying the older form.登记数据给出的图景更窄，Crossref 与 OpenAlex 所存刊名不带副题，仍把 OPTICAL PHYSICS 印在刊名之后的那些文摘目录沿用的是旧形制。

• No reliable date marks the retirement of the subtitle, so the safest reading is that the registered title dropped it while the NLM record and the citation indexes kept it.副题退场的年份没有可靠记载，稳妥的说法是登记题名去掉了副题，而 NLM 记录与引文索引仍予保留。

• Frequency settled early, since the NLM record dates the monthly rhythm from 1985 and leaves the first volume on a different cadence.刊期很早便稳定下来，NLM 记录把月刊节奏的起点定在 1985 年，第 1 卷因此另有节奏。

• Twelve numbers a year still hold, and Crossref shows issues 1 through 12 for volumes 40 to 43, which run from 2023 to 2026.每年 12 期延续至今，Crossref 显示第 40 至 43 卷各有 1 至 12 期，这四卷跨 2023 年至 2026 年。

• Volume numbering has never restarted, so volume 1 belongs to 1984 and volume 43 to 2026, a run of forty-three years without a gap.卷次从未重新起算，第 1 卷属 1984 年，第 43 卷属 2026 年，四十三年间没有断档。

• In 2021 the society renamed itself Optica, and the publishing arm took the name Optica Publishing Group, yet the journal title still carries the older society name.2021 年学会更名为 Optica，出版部门随之改称 Optica Publishing Group，刊名却仍带着旧日学会的名字。

• Access has rested on subscription with an author-pays open option, and gold articles accounted for only 1.75 per cent of the 2025 output counted by the citation reports.获取方式长期以订阅为底，另设作者付费的开放选项，金色开放获取文章只占 2025 年统计产出的 1.75%。

• That arrangement changed for one volume, since the publisher confirmed that all 2026 content of JOSA B would be open access under a Subscribe to Open model, with no article processing charges for authors.这一安排在一卷之内改变，出版方确认 2026 年全年内容以「订阅转开放」模式开放获取，作者不付文章处理费。

• Indexing has been steady for decades, with Science Citation Index Expanded covering the full run and MEDLINE and PubMed taking only selected citations.收录状况数十年稳定，Science Citation Index Expanded 覆盖全部卷期，MEDLINE 与 PubMed 只取选登引用。

• The impact factor read 2.058 for 2022 and 1.8 for 2023, then 1.9 for both 2024 and 2025, against a five-year figure of 1.7 and a cited half-life of 11.5 years.影响因子 2022 年为 2.058，2023 年为 1.8，2024 年与 2025 年均为 1.9，五年影响因子 1.7，被引半衰期 11.5 年。

• Output has held near 360 papers a year, though Crossref counts swing widely between issues, from 13 in one 2024 number to 55 in a 2026 number assembled around a feature topic.年发文量维持在 360 篇上下，Crossref 的逐期计数却起伏很大，2024 年某一期只有 13 篇，2026 年围绕专题组稿的一期多至 55 篇。

Editors

• Editorial direction sits with Irina Novikova of the College of William & Mary in Virginia, whom the journal's own pages name as Editor-in-Chief.编辑方针由（Irina Novikova）主持，其所在机构为弗吉尼亚州的威廉与玛丽学院，刊物页面把主编一职列在其名下。

• The post is held by a working researcher rather than by permanent office staff, the pattern Optica follows across its journal portfolio.这一职位由在职研究者担任，办公室并不常设专职编辑，Optica 在其整个期刊组合中都沿用这一模式。

• Manuscripts are screened at the desk and then routed to an editor whose own speciality matches the subject, so a comb paper and a metasurface paper rarely share a handler.稿件先经初审，再交给专业对口的编辑处理，频率梳论文与超表面论文很少由同一位编辑经手。

• Because the A and B editions divide the discipline, a submission on image formation or on visual optics is usually redirected to JOSA A rather than reviewed here.A 辑与 B 辑分掌学科，成像或视觉光学方面的投稿通常被转往 JOSA A，而不在本刊送审。

• Referees report to the handling editor, and their advice stays advisory, which leaves the decision with the editor who knows the paper's earlier rounds.评审人向责任编辑提交意见，意见只作参考，决定权留在熟悉稿件前几轮经过的编辑手中。

• Feature issues give the board a second working mode, since a guest editorial team solicits and organises a themed set of papers for a single number.专题期给编委会另一种工作方式，客座编辑团队为一期组稿，征集并编排围绕同一主题的论文。

• Tutorial articles form a separate track on the site, written to map a subfield for readers outside it rather than to report a new result.教程文章在网站上单列一类，写作目的是为领域外的读者勾勒一个分支的全貌，而非报告新结果。

• Accepted manuscripts appear under Early Posting before an issue is assembled, so the version of record reaches readers ahead of the numbered number.录用稿先在「提前发布」栏目上线，待整期编排完成后再归入期号，正式版本因此早于分期与读者见面。

• Submission runs through the publisher's online system, and the journal asks for English throughout, with length limits that separate a short letter from a full article.投稿经出版方的在线系统完成，全文须用英语，篇幅上限把短篇快报与完整论文区分开来。

• Editorial appointments are drawn from the international optics community, and the roster is refreshed as subfields rise and others settle into maturity.编辑人选取自国际光学共同体，名单随分支学科的兴替而更新，有新兴方向上升，也有旧方向趋于成熟。