Designed to capture the most significant advances in optics and photonics

• Invited, long review articles with internal navigational links and external reference linking
• Peer-reviewed tutorials with multimedia enhancements
• Peer-reviewed letters to the editor and replies pertaining to published review articles or tutorials
• Prominent and respected authors at the forefront of their fields
• OSA's network of distinguished topical editors and dedicated peer review support
• High standards of production quality and reliability

Links to medium-length review articles published in special issues of other OSA journals will also be included, making AOP a convenient single source for high quality overviews of all aspects of optics and photonics.

“With AOP, OSA will enter a new publishing domain, creating a journal that will comprehensively explore the most important topics in optics and photonics. As the world's most respected publisher of archival material in the field, OSA provides all of the advantages of professional society publishing by bringing together a network of subject-matter experts with a peer review infrastructure to produce state-of-the-art reviews and tutorials of high impact research areas and applications. I can unequivocally say that this journal will have a great impact on work being done in the field, and I am honored to be its first editor.
— Bahaa E. A. Saleh

Bahaa E. A. Saleh has a long history with OSA publications, having served as editor of its flagship journal, JOSA A, as the chair of the Board of Editors, the chair of the Publications Council and a member of the Publications Long-Term Planning Group. Saleh has been a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Boston University since 1994. He is Deputy Director of the National Science Foundation Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems, an NSF Engineering Research Center. He is also co-director of the Quantum Imaging Laboratory and a member of the Boston University Photonics Center.