Optical Materials Express

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Materials for Ultrafast Optical Technologies

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Submissions Open: 15 September 2025; Submission Deadline: 15 November 2025
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Giulio Cerullo, Jeffrey Moses, Eva Pogna, Giulio Maria Rossi, and Anne-Lise Viotti

Flexible, Wearable and Stretchable Photonics

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Submissions Open: 15 July 2025; Submission Deadline: 01 October 2025
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Lan Li, L. Jay Guo, Young Min Song, Yongli Yan, Xing Sheng, Fabien Sorin,and Jeroen Missinne

Emerging Trends in Optical Metasurfaces

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Submissions Open: 01 June 2025; Submission Deadline: 15 July 2025
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Lin Chen, Zilan Deng, Yongmin Liu, Fei Ding, Patrice Genevet, and Humeyra Caglayan

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04 FEB 2025	Optica Publishing Group recognizes the International Year of Quantum with a new curated article collection

07 JAN 2025	Optica Publishing Group Announces New Editors-in-Chief for Two Journals

26 NOV 2024	Optical Materials Express Research - Researchers develop technique to recover and recycle quantum dots in microscopic lasers

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1	Spontaneous parametric down-conversion in bottom-up grown lithium niobate microcubes

2	Enhancement of second-order optical nonlinearities and nanoscale periodic domain patterning in ferroelectric boron-substituted aluminum nitride thin films

3	Single-photon generation: materials, techniques, and the Rydberg exciton frontier [Invited]

4	Linear refractive index and absorption measurements of nonlinear optical liquids in the visible and near-infrared spectral region

5	Time-varying electromagnetic media: opinion

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Tutorial 2.0: computing topological invariants in 3D photonic crystals
Summary by Daria Smirnova

This tutorial presents an insightful theoretical guide and an overview of computational tools for the characterization...

Topological metasurfaces [Invited]
Summary by Daniel Leykam

This review highlights emerging paradigms for the design of optical metasurfaces inspired by topological photonics....

Analog image processing with nonlinear nonlocal flat optics
Summary by You Zhou

Optical analog computing has emerged as a promising solution to overcome the limitations of digital data processing due...

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2023 Impact Factor:: 2.8
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Time to Publication:: 71 days

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ISSN:: 2159-3930
Frequency:: Article-at-a-time publication; Monthly issues

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Topic Scope: The journal scope encompasses synthesis, processing and characterization of materials for applications in optics and photonics. Topics include: advances in novel optical materials; their properties, modeling, synthesis and fabrication for optics and photonics; how such materials contribute to novel optical responses; and how they enable new or improved optical devices.

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