Optical Materials Express

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Van der Waals Materials for Photonic and Optoelectronic Applications

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Submissions Open: 01 February 2027; Submission Deadline: 01 May 2027
Editors
Li Gao, Yuerui Lu, Yang Chai, Weida Hu, and Jianbin Xu,

Novel Optical Materials and Applications (NOMA)

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Submissions Open: 01 September 2026; Submission Deadline: 01 December 2026
Editors
Juejun Hu, Lynda Busse, Jonathan Hu, Alon A Gorodetsky, and Shekhar Guha

Plasmonics: New Phenomena and Applications

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Submissions Open: 01 July 2026; Submission Deadline: 01 October 2026
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Christos Argyropoulos, Alexandre Baron, Jongwon Lee, Baptiste Auguié, Angela Demetriadou, and Felipe A. Pinheiro

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23 JUN 2026	Optical Materials Express Research - Light-based sensors detect extremely low levels of traumatic brain injury biomarkers

05 MAY 2026	Optical Materials Express Research - Tiny flexible lasers enable force sensing inside living cells

29 APR 2026	Last Call for nominations for the Applied Optics Best Paper Prize. Nominations due 1 May.

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Photonic temporal illusion [Invited]
Summary by Iñigo Liberal

Temporal modulations to push the boundaries of optical materials. Much of current nanophotonics research is constrained...

Perspective on the quantum vacuum in matter
Summary by Wenbo Sun and Zubin Jacob

This perspective highlights an emerging field, cavity quantum materials, which bridges concepts in cavity quantum...

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...

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Time to Publication:: 80 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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