IEEE Transactions on Photonics

IEEE Transactions on Photonics
Title	IEEE Transactions on Photonics
Discipline	Photonics
Abbreviation	IEEE Trans. Photonics
Publisher	IEEE
Frequency	Monthly
History	20XX–present

IEEE Transactions on Photonics is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research in photonics, publishing original articles on optical science and engineering. The journal serves researchers affiliated with institutions such as Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, University of Cambridge, California Institute of Technology, and University of Oxford. It attracts submissions from scientists associated with laboratories like Bell Labs, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Max Planck Society, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Los Alamos National Laboratory.

History

The journal was established in the context of initiatives by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and grew alongside conferences such as CLEO, Photonics West, SPIE Photonics West, Optical Fiber Communication Conference, and European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics. Early editorial leadership included editors affiliated with Harvard University, Princeton University, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Tsinghua University, and University of Tokyo. Its founding paralleled developments at organizations like AT&T, Nokia Bell Labs, Siemens, Riken, and Fraunhofer Society and was influenced by breakthroughs associated with researchers from Bell Labs Prize winners, Nobel Prize in Physics laureates, Marconi Prize recipients, and IEEE Edison Medal honorees.

Scope and topics

The journal covers experimental and theoretical work tied to devices and systems used by groups at IBM Research, Intel, Samsung Electronics, Toshiba Corporation, and Sony Corporation. Topics span research areas related to technologies developed in projects at European Space Agency, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, DARPA, National Science Foundation, and China Academy of Engineering Physics. Typical subjects include investigations connected to breakthroughs by laboratories at Columbia University, Yale University, University of California, Berkeley, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and Cornell University. It emphasizes studies in laser science linked to awards like the Wolf Prize in Physics, nonlinear optics relevant to work by Austrian Academy of Sciences, integrated photonics aligned with efforts at IMEC, and quantum photonics building on research at Niels Bohr Institute and Centre for Quantum Technologies.

Editorial board and peer review

The editorial board comprises editors and associate editors drawn from departments at Duke University, University of Pennsylvania, Johns Hopkins University, University of Michigan, and Purdue University. Peer review follows practices similar to those at journals published by Nature Publishing Group, Science (journal), Proceedings of the IEEE, Optica (society), and Springer Nature. The process involves reviewers from research centers such as Argonne National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, NIST, and CERN. Editorial decisions often reflect standards held by prize committees like the Royal Society, National Academy of Sciences, IEEE Fellows, and American Physical Society.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in databases maintained by organizations such as Clarivate, Scopus, PubMed Central, INSPEC, and Google Scholar. It appears in bibliographic services used by researchers from WorldCat, CrossRef, ORCID, ResearchGate, and arXiv. Indexing aids citation tracking by entities like Web of Science, Eigenfactor Foundation, Altmetric, National Institutes of Health, and European Research Council repositories.

Impact and reception

Citation metrics for the journal are discussed alongside metrics attributed to publications from Nature Photonics, Physical Review Letters, Applied Physics Letters, Optics Express, and IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics. Academic reactions reference committees at National Academy of Engineering, Royal Academy of Engineering, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, and Institute of Photonic Sciences. Community reception often compares editorial policies to those of Proceedings of the Royal Society A, Journal of the Optical Society of America, Advanced Photonics, and ACS Photonics.

Notable papers and contributions

Notable contributions published include work that parallels milestones from researchers at Bell Labs, IBM Research, HP Labs, Bellcore, and Siemens AG; examples relate to demonstrations akin to achievements by Theodore Maiman, Charles Townes, Arthur Ashkin, John Bardeen, and James Bjorken. Influential articles intersect with technologies advanced at Intel Labs, Google Research, Microsoft Research, Samsung Research, and Huawei Technologies and address problems studied at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, Argonne National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Several papers have been cited in policy and funding discussions involving European Commission, US Department of Energy, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, German Research Foundation, and National Natural Science Foundation of China.

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