Explore Photonics With AIP Publishing

Discover our extensive collection of journals, conference proceedings, and books that span photonics and its intersections with other disciplines.

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Featured Journals

Journals dedicated to research in photonics:

APL Photonics

Promotes fundamental, applied, and multidisciplinary research anchored in photonics.    

5.4 Impact Factor*
3.6 Years cited half-life*
10.3 CiteScore™† 
1080+ Avg. views/article annually
105 Days avg. time to acceptance 
30 Days avg. time to first decision
Topics covered: Photonics, optics and optical physics, electronics, nanotechnology, materials science
Article types: Articles, Letters, Perspectives, Reviews, Tutorials
Access type: Gold open access
Indexed in: Web of Science, Scopus

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Journal of Laser Applications

Comprehensive coverage of the latest breakthroughs in laser applications    

1.7 Impact Factor*
6.3 Years cited half-life*
4.1 CiteScore™† 
350+ Avg. views/article annually
104 Days avg. time to acceptance
41 Days avg. time to first decision
Topics covered: Optics and optical physics, electronics, materials science, particle physics
Article types: Articles, Reviews, Letters 
Access type: Subscription with open access option
Indexed in: Web of Science, Scopus

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Interdisciplinary Journals

Journals at the intersection of photonics and related disciplines:

Journal of Applied Physics

Significant results in cutting-edge applied physics

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Applied Physics Letters

Shaping the future of applied physics

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Review of Scientific Instruments

An indispensable resource for researchers invested in cutting-edge instrumentation

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AIP Advances

A peer-reviewed, open access journal covering all areas of the physical sciences

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Applied Physics Reviews

High impact results in applied physics

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APL Materials

A high-impact open access journal embracing all research across materials science

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APL Quantum

Bridging fundamental quantum research with technological applications

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Chemical Physics Reviews

A journal focused on high quality research in chemical physics

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Featured AIP Conference Proceedings

AIP Conference Proceedings has been a trusted publishing partner for more than 40 years, delivering fast, affordable, and versatile publishing for maximum exposure of your meeting’s key research.  Below are just a few of the Proceedings that are rooted in Quantum Science research. 

	Preface: Applied Physics of Condensed Matter (APCOM 2024)
	Preface: Proceedings of the 1st Conference on Quantum Sciences and Technology (ConQuest2022)
	International Conference on Photonics, Metamaterials & Plasmonics (PMP-2019)

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Highlighted Research

High-dimensional spatial mode sorting and optical circuit design using multi-plane light conversion

Multi-plane light converters (MPLCs) are an emerging class of optical devices capable of converting a set of input spatial light modes to a new target set of output modes. This operation represents a linear optical transformation—a much sought after capability in photonics.

Breakthrough the physical barrier on spatial resolution in Raman distributed fiber sensing using chaotic correlation demodulation

Raman distributed optical fiber temperature sensors possess the unique capability of measuring spatial environmental temperatures, which can be of great interest in several fields of application. The key physics barrier to spatial resolution for most optical time-domain reflection (OTDR) systems is the positioning principle of pulse-time-flight.

Inline failure detection in laser beam welding of battery cells: Acoustic and spectral emission analysis for quality monitoring

The mobility sector is considered a major contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution. As a result, many countries have initiated the transition from fossil fuel-powered to electrified powertrains.

Influence of the material properties and the process parameters on the ablation behavior for the laser structuring of the diffusion media for fuel cells

Hydrogen-powered polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) show promising potential to power a wide range of mobile and stationary applications and to reduce greenhouse gas emissions significantly. In PEMFCs, the oxygen transport and the water transport are essential for a long lifetime and high-performance characteristics.

Flexible self-powered DUV photodetectors with high responsivity utilizing Ga₂O₃/NiO heterostructure on buffered Hastelloy substrates

In this research, β-Ga₂O₃/NiO heterostructures were grown directly on CeO2 buffered Hastelloy flexible substrates. With pulsed laser deposition under high temperatures, as-grown β-Ga₂O₃ and NiO thin films have a preferred out-of-plane orientation along the ⟨−201⟩ and ➎111➉ directions.

High sensitivity multiscale and multitasking terahertz Janus sensor based on photonic spin Hall effect

Photonic spin Hall effect (PSHE) is an effective metrological tool to characterize the variation in weak refractive index (RI) and nanostructure parameters. In this Letter, a highly sensitive terahertz Janus sensor (JS) based on PSHE is proposed.

Manipulating light–matter interaction into strong coupling regime for photon entanglement in plasmonic lattices

Enhancing light–matter interaction into the strong coupling regime attracts tremendous attention in both theory and experiment, which presents essential significance in research from nano-optics to quantum information. In this work, the entanglement effect is observed in the photons emitted from a plasmonic lattice as the coherent light–matter interaction occurs into the strong coupling regime with a Rabi splitting of 93.4 meV.

Low-efficiency-droop c-plane InGaN/GaN light-emitting diodes through the use of thick single quantum wells and doped barriers

Efficiency droop at high current densities is a problem for InGaN-based light-emitting diodes (LEDs), especially for conventional c-plane devices. The large internal electric fields in c-plane quantum wells (QWs) lead to an increase in the active region carrier density (n), causing the electrical efficiency droop onset to occur at low current densities. Here, we present an approach to reduce the internal electric fields (Eint) in c-plane QWs by placing doped p-type and n-type GaN barriers close to the QW.

Sub-femtosecond time-resolved measurements of electron bunches with a C-band radio-frequency deflector in x-ray free-electron lasers

Time-resolved diagnostics are fundamental for x-ray free-electron lasers (FELs). Radio-frequency (RF) transverse deflector structures (TDSs) are typically employed to characterize the temporal properties of the electron beams driving FELs.

Scaling waveguide-integrated superconducting nanowire single-photon detector solutions to large numbers of independent optical channels

Superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors are an enabling technology for modern quantum information science and are gaining attractiveness for the most demanding photon counting tasks in other fields.

Upcoming Conferences

You’ll find AIP Publishing’s editors and journal managers at these upcoming conferences and events. We hope to see you there!

54th Winter Colloquium on the Physics of Quantum Electronics (PQE)
Snowbird, UT, USA
January 6-10, 2025

2025 AAPT Winter Meeting
Saint Louis, MO, USA
January 18-21, 2025

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*Data from the 2023 Journal Citation Reports® Science Edition (Clarivate, 2024). 
†CiteScore™ 2023 for AIP Publishing Journals Calculated by Scopus 