About Optica Open

Optica Open is a preprint server dedicated to optics and photonics. It is a welcoming platform for authors to disseminate early research, work in progress, manuscripts under review for journal publication, and industry white papers across the breadth of the optics community.

With Optica Open, authors can conveniently transmit their preprint submissions to an Optica Publishing Group journal and/or their journal submissions to the preprint server. Optica Open also helps authors achieve their open science goals and may assist with satisfying their funding requirements, for example, by posting their accepted manuscripts. By allowing industry white papers, Optica Open also offers a pathway for increased exposure of industry technical contributions to the research community.

The contents of submissions to Optica Open are wholly the responsibility of the submitter and are presented “as is” without any warranty or guarantee. By hosting preprints, Optica Publishing Group does not in any way convey implied approval of the assumptions, methods, results, or conclusions of the work.

Optica Open Highlights

Optica Open Highlights are a collection of noteworthy preprints that have been uploaded to the Optica Open preprint server. Optica Publishing Group’s dedicated team of early-career researchers, called “HighLighters,” selects preprint submissions in their field of expertise that interest them and are deemed to warrant extra exposure. Each selected preprint features a brief “highlight” note that summarizes the preprint’s findings, emphasizes a unique aspect of the preprint, and/or elaborates on its significance and impact.

This collection of highlighted preprints allows researchers in the field to easily access new and engaging work across a variety of subfields in optics and photonics. The accompanying highlight notes also provide commentary and analysis by researchers currently active in the field.

Highlight posts do not constitute formal peer review; therefore, preprints that are selected for highlight posts are not precluded from publication in Optica Publishing Group journals.

Mousa Moradi
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Mass Eye and Ear
Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, MA, USA

Roberto de J. León-Montiel
Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Ihtesham Khan
Nokia Bell Labs, USA

Xin Xie
Atom Computing, Inc., Berkeley, CA, USA

Optica Open Advisory Board

Optica Open is governed by the optics and photonics community. The Optica Open Advisory Board is a group of volunteers who advise Optica Publishing Group on the policies, procedures, and standards of the Optica Open preprints platform, including scope of coverage, submission guidelines, and screening criteria. The group will also share feedback and ideas from their peers to ensure the preprint server is meeting the needs of the community. The Advisory Board includes volunteers from Optica’s Technical Divisions.

The current members of the Optica Open Advisory Board are as follows:

Joseph N. Mait, Chair
Retired, USA

Rigmor Baraas
University of South-Eastern Norway, Norway

Anna Bezryadina
California State University Northridge, USA

Javier García de Abajo
ICFO, Spain

Ebrahim Karimi
University of Ottawa, NRCC, Canada

Myung Keun Kim
University of South Florida, USA

Clara Saraceno
Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany

Mousa Moradi
Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, MA, USA