The Optical Society Launches Optica, New Open-Access Journal for Highest-Impact Research in the Science of Light | News Releases | The Optical Society

"The Optical Society (OSA) today published the first issue of Optica, its new open-access, online-only journal dedicated to rapidly disseminating the highest-impact peer-reviewed research across the entire spectrum of optics and photonics.   It will join a portfolio of publications published by OSA, whose scientific journals receive the most citations (41 percent) and publish the most articles in the field of optics and photonics (37 percent) (2012 Journal Citation Reports® [Thomson Reuters, 2013]) ... Optica’s premiere issue covers topics such as remote sensing, high-speed data transmission, nanoscale imaging and precision time measurement  and is headlined by an article from Stanford University about the development of high-efficiency, long-lasting solar cells that cool themselves by shepherding away unwanted thermal radiation with a specially patterned layer of silica glass.  Other articles in the inaugural issue include:  Doppler ‘Spin,’ Rather than Shift, Observed in White Light: The Doppler effect, the lengthening and shortening of the wavelength of light depending on whether an object is moving toward or away from an observer, is an essential tool in astrophysics and many other fields of science.  By applying a back-scattered light source, scientists from the University of Glasgow have—for the first time—observed white light with a different kind of Doppler shift, one that arises from the rotation of an object rather than its motion toward or away from an observer ..."