Optics Letters

Optics Letters is a semimonthly journal of optics and photonics published by Optica Publishing Group, the publishing arm of Optica, founded on 1 July 1977 by the Optical Society of America as its third journal and devoted to the rapid publication of short letters, with a 2025 impact factor of 3.3（Optics Letters）是光学与光子学的半月刊，由 Optica 的出版部门 Optica Publishing Group 出版，1977 年 7 月 1 日由美国光学学会（OSA）创刊，为其第三本期刊，专注以短篇快报快速发表成果，2025 年影响因子为 3.3。

Scope

• It publishes the latest research in all areas of optics and photonics刊载光学与光子学所有领域的最新研究。
• Its articles are short letters of no more than four pages, a limit that was raised from three pages in 2014文章为不超过四页的短篇快报，该上限在 2014 年由三页放宽至四页。
• It is a highly international journal, with at least 80 percent of submissions and published papers coming from outside the United States in recent years and Asia accounting for 54 percent of submissions in 2015该刊高度国际化，近年至少 80% 的投稿与已发表论文来自美国以外，2015 年亚洲占投稿的 54%。
• It is built as a rapid-publication platform, and articles go online one at a time as soon as they are accepted它定位为快速发表平台，文章一经接受即逐篇上线。
• Every paper passes full peer review before publication, and the median time from submission to publication is 81 days每篇稿件发表前均经完整同行评审，投稿至出版的中位时间为 81 天。
• It is one of the journals of Optica Publishing Group, whose collection of peer-reviewed optics and photonics content is among the largest in the field它是 Optica Publishing Group 的期刊之一，该出版社的同行评审光学与光子学内容库规模居领域前列。

History

• It was founded by the Optical Society of America on 1 July 1977 as the society's third journal, with the aim of getting the word out on optics fast该刊 1977 年 7 月 1 日由美国光学学会创刊，为该学会的第三本期刊，宗旨是让光学成果快速传播。
• Its founding editor-in-chief was Robert W. Terhune, who served from 1977 to 1983其首任主编为 Robert W. Terhune，任期为 1977 年至 1983 年。
• Its editorship has passed in succession from Robert W. Terhune to Paul L. Kelley, Peter W. E. Smith, Anthony M. Johnson, Anthony J. Campillo, Alan E. Willner, Xi-Cheng Zhang and Miguel A. Alonso, and finally to Carsten Rockstuhl其主编一脉相承，先后为 Robert W. Terhune、Paul L. Kelley、Peter W. E. Smith、Anthony M. Johnson、Anthony J. Campillo、Alan E. Willner、Xi-Cheng Zhang 与 Miguel A. Alonso，直至 Carsten Rockstuhl。^[1]
• It has never changed its name, and while its founding publisher was the Optical Society of America, the society was renamed Optica in 2021 and now publishes the journal through Optica Publishing Group该刊从未更名，创刊出版方为美国光学学会，该学会于 2021 年更名为 Optica，现经 Optica Publishing Group 出版。
• Its first editorial office was in New York, and the current publishing office is in Washington, DC其创刊编辑部位于纽约，现行出版办公室位于华盛顿特区。
• It appears semimonthly, with two issues a month on the 1st and the 15th and about 24 issues a year, its 40th anniversary fell in 2017, and it published the landmark optical tweezer paper by Arthur Ashkin and co-workers in 1986该刊为半月刊，每月 1 日与 15 日各出一期，约每年 24 期，2017 年为创刊四十周年，并曾在 1986 年刊出 Arthur Ashkin 等人关于光镊的开创性论文。^[2]

Editors

• The editor-in-chief is Carsten Rockstuhl of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany, who took office in January 2026 and succeeded Miguel A. Alonso, and whose field is theoretical and computational nano-optics, including plasmonics, scattering theory, integrated photonics, quantum optics and nonlinear photonics现任主编 Carsten Rockstuhl，任教于德国卡尔斯鲁厄理工学院，2026 年 1 月上任，接替 Miguel A. Alonso，研究方向为理论与计算纳米光学，涵盖等离激元、散射理论、集成光子学、量子光学与非线性光子学。
• It runs a system of deputy editors established in 2008, with three in office at any time, who help the editor-in-chief assign manuscripts to the appropriate topical editors and take part in journal policy该刊自 2008 年起设立副编辑制度，任一时期有三位在任，协助主编把稿件分派给对应的领域编辑并参与期刊方针。
• Early deputy editors included Jinendra Ranka, Brian Pogue, Antonio Mecozzi, Brian L. Justus, Peter Andersen, Andrea Galtarossa and Edward Whittaker早期副编辑包括 Jinendra Ranka、Brian Pogue、Antonio Mecozzi、Brian L. Justus、Peter Andersen、Andrea Galtarossa 与 Edward Whittaker。
• The full current editorial board is not published on the journal home page, which lists only the editor-in-chief现任完整编委名单未在期刊首页公布，首页仅列出主编。
• Every paper passes full peer review before rapid publication, and the journal keeps speed as a priority through its short-letter format每篇稿件均经完整同行评审后快速发表，该刊以短篇快报形式贯彻速度优先。