Optica is an open access, online-only journal dedicated to the rapid dissemination of high-impact peer-reviewed research across the entire spectrum of optics and photonics. Published monthly by Optica Publishing Group, Optica provides a forum for pioneering research to be swiftly accessed by the international community, whether that research is theoretical or experimental, fundamental or applied.

The Journal seeks articles that will be of significant interest to the optics and broader scientific community. As a result, the process for paper acceptance is inherently highly selective.

The acceptance criteria for Optica include:

Significance, potential impact, originality,
High technical quality, integrity and scientific rigor,
Readability, interest to the broader optics and scientific communities.

Editor-in-Chief
Alexander L. Gaeta, 
Columbia University, USA
Deputy Editors
Gabriella Cincotti, University Roma Tre, Italy
Daniel Gauthier, The Ohio State University, USA
Associate Editors
Igor Aharonovich, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Miguel Alonso, University of Rochester, USA
Ady Arie, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
Lahsen Assoufid, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
George Barbastathis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Paul Beard, University College London, UK
Oliver Benson, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
Hui Cao, Yale University, USA
Giulio Cerullo, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Steven Cundiff, University of Michigan, USA
Judith Dawes, Macquarie University, Australia
Scott Diddams, NIST and University of Colorado, USA
Liang Dong, Clemson University, USA
Christophe Dorrer, University of Rochester, USA
Sara Ducci, University Paris Diderot, France
Majid Ebrahim-Zadeh, ICFO-The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Spain
Irene Georgakoudi, Tufts University, USA
L. Jay Guo, University of Michigan, USA
Robert Hadfield, University of Glasgow, UK
Nan Marie Jokerst, Duke University, USA
Jacob Khurgin, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Thomas Krauss, York University, UK
Kobus Kuipers, FOM Institute for Atomic & Molecular Physics, the Netherlands
Philippe Lalanne, Institut d'Optique d'Aquitaine, France
Julien Laurat, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France
Rongguang Liang, University of Arizona, USA
Hoi-Kwong Lo, University of Toronto, Canada
Susana Marcos, Instituto di Optica, Spain
Andrea Melloni, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Vinod M. Menon, The City University of New York (CUNY), USA
Curtis Menyuk, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA
Daniel Mittleman, Brown University, USA
Jesper Mørk, Technical University of Denmark,Denmark
Dragomir Neshev, The Australian National University, Australia
Irina Novikova, College of William & Mary, USA
Miles Padgett, University of Glasgow, UK
Jian-Wei Pan, University of Science and Technology of China, China
Klaus Petermann, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
Nathalie Picqué, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Germany
Michael Pircher, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
Eric Potma, University of California, Irvine, USA
Michelle Povinelli, University of Southern California, USA
Yehiam Prior, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Valerio Pruneri, ICFO—The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Spain
Siddharth Ramachandran, Boston University, USA
Johann Reithmaier, Institute of Nanostructure Technologies and Analytics, University of Kassel, Germany
Monika Ritsch-Marte, Innsbruck Medical University, Austria
Karsten Rottwitt, DTU Fotonik, Denmark
Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop, University of Queensland, Australia
Leslie Rusch, Université Laval, Canada
Chris Schaffer, Cornell University, USA
Irina T. Sorokina, NTNU, Norway
Günter Steinmeyer, Max Born Institute, Germany
Michael Sumetsky, Aston University, UK
Limin Tong, Zhejiang University, China
Peter van Loock, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany
Konstantin Vodopyanov, CREOL, University of Central Florida, USA
Hailin Wang, University of Oregon, USA
Daniel Wasserman, University of Texas Austin, USA
Adam Wax, Duke University, USA
Martin Wegener, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Vladislav Yakovlev, Texas A&M University, USA
Changhuei Yang, California Institute of Technology, USA
Qiwen Zhan, The University of Dayton, USA
Aleksei M. Zheltikov, Texas A&M University, USA, and M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia