Journal History
| 2020 | The inaugural issue was released. Optics was published as a quarterly journal. Optics established the following sections:
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| 2023 | Optics was indexed in Scopus (Elsevier), starting with Volume 1 (Issue 1). Optics was indexed in Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)—Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics), starting with Volume 1 (Issue 1). |
| 2024 | Optics received its first Impact Factor (1.1). Optics received its first CiteScore (2023) of 2.2. |
| 2025 | Optics received its CiteScore (2024) of 2.6, ranked 42/87 (Q2) in “Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)”. |
Editor-in-Chief
| 2020–present | Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Costantino De Angelis and Prof. Dr. Thomas Seeger |
Section Editor-in-Chief
| 2020–present | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. David S. Nobes for the section on Engineering Optics |
