Optica Publishing Group publishes high-quality, peer-reviewed articles in its portfolio of journals, which serve the full breadth of the optics and photonics community.
Optical Materials Express (OMEx), Optica Publishing Group's open access, rapid-review journal, primarily emphasizes advances in both conventional and novel optical materials, their properties, theory and modeling, synthesis and fabrication approaches for optics and photonics; how such materials contribute to novel optical behavior; and how they enable new or improved optical devices. The journal covers a full range of topics, including, but not limited to:
- Artificially structured media, metasurfaces and metamaterials
- Bio-materials, bio-inspired materials and bio-sensors
- Computation and first-principle methods
- Crystalline and dielectric optical materials
- Doped and fiber optical materials
- Epitaxial photonic materials
- Fluorescent and luminescent materials
- Glass and other amorphous materials
- Laser materials and processing
- Materials for integrated optics, optomechanics and quantum optics
- Nanostructures and nanomaterials
- Nonlinear, electro-optical and magneto-optical materials
- Optical materials for photovoltaics and energy applications
- Organics, polymers and soft matter, liquid crystals
- Plasmonics and polaritonics
- Self-assembly and templated assembly for photonic materials
- Stimuli-responsive, reconfigurable and programmable optical materials
- Thin films and flexible materials
- Two-dimensional materials
- Wide-bandgap optical materials
Optical Materials Express considers original research articles, feature issue contributions, invited reviews, and comments on published articles. The Journal also publishes occasional short (four-page maximum excluding references), timely opinion articles from experts and thought-leaders in the field on current or emerging topic areas that are generating significant interest.
Submission Information
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Opinions will usually be invited, but authors may contact the Editor-in-Chief (omex@optica.org) to suggest a potential topic if they wish to submit such a paper.
Please see the Author Resource Center for instructions to prepare and submit a manuscript.
Key Journal Metrics
Google Scholar h5-index: 47†
Impact Factor: 2.6*
Journal Citation Indicator: 0.65*
Median Time to First Decision: 31 days
Median Time to Publication: 80 days
*Source: 2026 Journal Citation Reports® (Clarivate, 2026).
†2025 Google Scholar Optics & Photonics Top Publications.
For more information on Journal metrics, click here.
Emerging Researcher Best-Paper Prize
The Optical Materials Express Emerging Researcher Best-Paper Prize recognizes one outstanding paper published by an emerging researcher each year. Learn more and view all Prize winners.
Editorial Board Back to top
Editor-in-Chief
Andrea Alù
City University of New York, USA
Deputy Editor
Sebastien Cueff
Institut des Nanotechnologies de Lyon, CNRS, France
Feature Editor
Stavroula Foteinopoulou
University of New Mexico, USA
Associate Editors
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Nicolás Abadía Cardiff University, UK |
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Jeffery Allen US Air Force Research Laboratory, USA |
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Lin Chen Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, China |
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Li Gao Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications, China |
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Hyun Jung Kim KAIST, South Korea |
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Rai Kou National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan |
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Lan Li Westlake University, China |
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Rajesh Menon University of Utah, USA |
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Gururaj Naik Rice University, USA |
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Guangxin Ni Florida State University, USA |
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Vasili Perebeinos University of Buffalo, USA |
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Victor Reshetnyak Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine |
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Ganapathi (Ganesh) Subramania Sandia National Laboratories, USA |
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Shuyuan Xiao Nanchang University, China |
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Kaikai Xu University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), China |
Staff Back to top
| Editorial and Production | Phone | |
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| Keith Jackson, Peer Review Coordinator | omex@optica.org | 202-416-1414 |
| Feature proposals | dmcdonold@optica.org | |
| Sarah J. Walker, Senior Managing Editor | swalker@optica.org | 202-416-1482 |
| Article processing charges | billing@optica.org | |
| General Information | Phone | |
| Copyright permission requests | copyright@optica.org | |
| Online journal technical support | elec@optica.org | |
| Zhengzheng Zhang, Publisher | ||
| M. Scott Dineen, Senior Director, Publishing, Production & Technology | ||
| Jennifer Mayfield, Deputy Senior Director, Electronic Publications | ||
| Timothy Fincham, Director, Production & Technology | ||
| Dan McDonold, Editorial Director | ||
Special Collections
Optical Materials Express celebrated its 10th Anniversary in 2021. View the top-cited articles across ten years.
The Optical Materials Express Emerging Researcher Best-Paper Prize recognizes one outstanding paper published by an emerging researcher each year. Learn more and view all Prize winners.