Optics

Optics is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal on optics published bimonthly online by MDPI.

• Open Access— free for readers, with article processing charges (APC) paid by authors or their institutions.
• High Visibility: indexed within  ESCI (Web of Science), Scopus, EBSCO, and other databases.
• Rapid Publication: manuscripts are peer-reviewed and a first decision is provided to authors approximately 19.6 days after submission; acceptance to publication is undertaken in 4.7 days (median values for papers published in this journal in the first half of 2026).
• Recognition of Reviewers: Reviewers whose reports are timely and of high quality receive an APC discount voucher for a future publication in an MDPI journal. Become a reviewer.
• Journal Cluster of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical (AMO) Physics: Entropy, Photonics, Atoms, Lights, Optics, Physics and Quantum Beam Science.