The Journal of Modern Optics is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that was established as Optica Acta in 1954. It obtained its current name in 1987 and is published by Taylor & Francis with 21 issues per year. The journal covers most branches of classical and quantum optics including lasers, diffraction, holographs, nonlinear optics, and photon statistics. The editor-in-chief is Thomas Brown (University of Rochester). According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2021 impact factor of 1.293.^[1]

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Journal of Modern Optics

Discipline	Optics, quantum optics
Language	English
Edited by	Thomas Brown
Publication details
Former name(s)	Optica Acta
History	1954-present
Publisher	Taylor & Francis
Frequency	21/year
Impact factor	1.293 (2021)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt1 · alt2) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	J. Mod. Opt.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus
CODEN	JMOPEW
ISSN	0950-0340 (print) 1362-3044 (web)
LCCN	87656599
OCLC no.	15722504
Links
Journal homepage Online access Online archive

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