Light: Science & Applications (LSA) seeks to promote research from all aspects of optics and photonics, including basic, applied and engineering research and applications. This journal will primarily publish new research results in cutting-edge and emerging topics in optics and photonics, as well as covering traditional topics in optical engineering. The journal will publish Articles, Review Articles, Letters, Perspectives and News and Views that are of high quality, high interest and farreaching consequence. Light: Science & Applications is an open access journal.
Topics of particular interest within the journal's scope include, but are not limited to, those listed below:
• Small-scale optics
o Micro- and nano-optics
o Quantum optics
o Ultrafast photonics
o Nanophotonics
• Optical material processing
o New physics of light propagation,
interactions, and behavior
o Laser and UV light sources
o Laser applications
• Optics in life science and the environment
o Biophotonics and optics for biological
and medical devices
o Photovoltaics and solar energy
• Special optics
o Nonlinear optics
o Optoelectronic devices
• Optical data transmission
o Optical data processing and storage
o Optical communications
o Plasmonics
• Optical measurement
o Spectroscopy
o Optical coherence tomography
• Optical materials
o New optical materials
o Optical thin films and coatings
• Manufacture of optical elements
o Optical design and engineering
o Optical fabrication, testing, and metrology
o Complex optical systems
• Organic optoelectronics
o organic optoelectronic materials
o organic optoelectronic devices
o organic optoelectronic phenomena
• Guided light
o Optical fibers and waveguides
o Light processing devices
The journal publishes peer-reviewed Articles, Letters and Review Articles, as well as News and Views, Editorials and Research Summaries.
Journal Details
Editor-in-Chief:
Jianlin Cao
Executive-Editors-in-Chief
Tianhong Cui
Stefan Kaierle
Editorial office:
Light: Science & Applications Editorial Offices
The LSA editorial office in Changchun
Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics
Chinese Academy of Sciences
No. 3888 Dong Nan Hu Road Changchun 130033 China
Tel: +86 431 8617 6851
Fax: +86 431 8461 3409
E-mail: light_lsa@ciomp.ac.cn
LSA has editorial offices located in eight different cites all around the world. Please visit https://www.nature.com/lsa/contact for furtherinformation.
