Optics Letters is a short-article journal for the rapid dissemination
of new, important results in all branches of optical science and
technology and related fields, published monthly by Chinese Laser Press
and distributed abroad by Optica Publishing Group.
Submission of Papers
Authors
must submit online: https://mc03.manuscriptcentral.com/clp-col.
Electronic files of MS Word (recommended) and LaTeX are acceptable.
Submission of a manuscript must be the original work of the author(s)
and have not been published elsewhere or under consideration for another
publication, or a substantially similar form in any language.
Manuscript Preparation
All
manuscripts should be written in English. Letters are generally no more
than five journal pages. The supporting organization and the grant
number should be given at the end of the manuscript. For more details of
submission format, please visit the website:
https://www.researching.cn/EN/JournalDetails/col.
Title:
The title should be concise but informative. Avoid beginning with an
article or a preposition. The words "new" or "novel" should be avoided
in the title and the text for legal reasons. Titles may be edited by the
publisher to facilitate computer search.
Author
names and Affiliations: Author names should be given in full and
consistent form to facilitate indexing. Affiliations for all authors
should appear on the title page.
Abstract:
The abstract should be no longer than 100 words. It should be
informative, without descriptive words or citations, and contain the
major conclusions and quantitative results or other significant items in
the manuscript. Together with the title, the abstract must be adequate
as an index to all the subjects treated in the manuscript, and will be
used as a base for indexing.
Keywords: Each manuscript must be given 2-4 keywords below the abstract, and the principal index keyword should be placed first.
Main body of the paper: The body of the paper should include all the information of the research.
Formulas:
Formulas should be punctuated and aligned to bring out their structure,
and numbered consecutively in round brackets on the right-hand side of
the page.
Notation:
Notation must be legible, clear, compact, and consistent with standard
usage. All unusual symbols whose identity may not be obvious, including
subscript or superscript, must be made comprehensible. Physical and
mathematical variables should be in italic, vectors in boldface. Units,
abbreviations and special functions should be upright.
Please add notes to explain any other special symbols.
Figures:
Figures should be suitable (resolution above 300 dpi) for immediate
reproduction and embedded in the text. They should be set as one column
wide (6-8 cm) if possible unless two-column display is essential. In the
figures, the main linesshould be about 0.3 mm in width, and the
assistant lines 0.15 mm. Notations in the figures should be distinct and
consistent with the same ones in the text, and their font size will be
7-9 pt. Figures should also be uploaded as separate figure files. Each
figure should have its own caption. Color Art is Online Only, and free
to authors. The figure sample can be found at
https://www.researching.cn/EN/JournalDetails/col.
Tables:
Tables must be numbered in order of appearance and identified with
appropriate titles. The table title, which should be brief, goes above
the table. Note that tables are usually typeset, not scanned (tables
cannot be electronically reduced in size). Tables should be set in one
column wide if possible and be placed near their first mention in the
body. The table sample can be found at the website:
https://www.researching.cn/EN/JournalDetails/col.
References:
References should be numbered consecutively in the order in which they
are first referenced in the body of the manuscript. Two references [2,3]
should be included together, separated by a comma, and three or more
consecutive references should be indicated by the bounding numbers and
an en dash [1-4]. When compiling your references, be sure to include the
titles of articles. COL requires this information before a paper can be
sent to peer review. The reference titles will subsequently be removed
by copy editors before they are published, so this information is not
included in the length estimate sent to authors when a positive decision
is made by the editor. All reference authors should be included in the
reference list but when reference authors are mentioned in the text, use
surnames only (unless further clarity is needed), and use "et al." and
first author name when three or more authors are given. The format of
references is as follows:
Journals: M. Zhang, P. Ye, F. Zhang, Y. Zhao, and J. Wang, “NOLM-based wavelength conversion with FBG band-pass filter for optical packet switching”, Chin. Opt. Lett. 1, 3 (2003).
Books: N. Bloembergen, Nonlinear Optics (Springer, 1965).
Conference
proceedings: R. E. Kalman, “A new approach to linear filtering and
prediction problems”, in Proceedings of Advanced Seminar on Generalized
Inverse and Applications, M. Z. Nashed, ed. (Academic, San Diego, CA,
USA, 1976), p. 111.
Patents:
A. C. Hart, Jr., R. G. Huff, and K. L. Walker, “Method of making a
fiber having low polarization mode dispersion due to a permanent spin”,
U.S. Patent 5,298,047 (March 29, 1994).
Dissertations:
K. L. Corwin, “A circularly-polarized optical dipole trap and other
developments in laser trapping of atoms”, PhD. Thesis (University of
Colorado, 1999).
Online
references: H. R. Sheikh, Z. Wang, L. Cormack, and A. C. Bovik, “Live
