Optica (Society)

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Short description: American scientific society for optics and photonics
Optica
Founded1916; 110 years ago (1916)
FounderPerley G. Nutting
TypeProfessional association
FocusOptics and photonics
Location
Area served
Worldwide
MethodProfessional journals and conferences
Members
22,000
Key people
Gerd Leuchs (2024 president)

Michal Lipson (2023 president)
Satoshi Kawata (2022 president)

Constance J. Chang-Hasnain (2021 president)
Stephen D. Fantone (2020 president)
Elizabeth A. Rogan (CEO)
Revenue
$49,549,907[1][2]
Endowment$74,991,615
Employees
150
Websiteoptica.org

Optica (founded as The Optical Society of America (OSA), later The Optical Society) is a professional society of individuals and companies with an interest in optics and photonics. It publishes journals, organizes conferences and exhibitions, and carries out charitable activities. It currently has about 488,000 customers in 183 countries, including nearly 300 companies.

History

Optica was founded in 1916 as the "Optical Society of America", under the leadership of Perley G. Nutting,[3] with 30 optical scientists and instrument makers based in Rochester, New York. It soon published its first journal of research results and established an annual meeting.[4][5] The first local section was established in Rochester, New York, in 1916 and the Journal of the Optical Society of America was created in 1918.[5] The first series of joint meetings with the American Physical Society was in 1918.[5]

In 2008 it changed its name to The Optical Society (OSA).[6] In September 2021, the organization's name changed to Optica, in reference to the organization's journal by the same name and geographic neutrality to reflect the society’s global membership.[7]

Scientific publishing

The society publishes a number of journals and a magazine.

Primary journals

  • Advances in Optics and Photonics, ISSN 1943-8206; 2009–present - Publishing long review articles and tutorials.
  • Applied Optics, ISSN 1559-128X (print); ISSN 2155-3165 (online); 1962–present - Covering optical applications-centered research.
  • Biomedical Optics Express, ISSN 2156-7085; 2010–present - An open access journal covering optics, photonics and imaging in the life sciences.
  • Journal of the Optical Society of America, 1917–1983,[8] which was split into two journals in 1984:
    • Journal of the Optical Society of America A, ISSN 1084-7529 (print); ISSN 1520-8532 (online); 1984–present - Covering research on optics, image science, and vision.
    • Journal of the Optical Society of America B, ISSN 0740-3224 (print); ISSN 1520-8540 (online); 1984–present - Covering research on optical physics
  • Optica, ISSN 2334-2536; 2014–present - Rapid dissemination of high-impact results in all areas of optics and photonics.[9]
  • Optical Materials Express, ISSN 2159-3930; 2011–present - An open access journal covering advances in novel optical materials, their properties, modeling, synthesis and fabrication techniques.
  • Optics Express, ISSN 1094-4087; 1997–present - An open access journal covering all areas of optics.
  • Optics Letters, ISSN 0146-9592 (print); ISSN 1539-4794 (online); 1977–present - Providing rapid publication of short papers in all fields of optical science and technology.

Partnered journals

  • Applied Spectroscopy, 1951–present. Published by the Society for Applied Spectroscopy.
  • Chinese Optics Letters, 2003–present. Published by Chinese Laser Press.
  • Current Optics and Photonics, 2017–present. Published by Optical Society of Korea.
  • Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, 2009–present. Jointly published by OSA and IEEE. Published from 2002 to 2009 as Journal of Optical Networking.
  • Journal of Lightwave Technology, 1998–present. Jointly published by OSA and IEEE.
  • Journal of Near Infrared Spectroscopy, 1993–present. Published by SAGE Publishing.
  • Journal of Optical Technology, 1999–present. English translation of Opticheskii Zhurnal published by the S. I. Vavilov State Optical Institute.
  • Photonics Research, 2013–present. Jointly published by OSA and Chinese Laser Press.

Magazine

  • Optics and Photonics News, 1975–present. Distributed to all members.

Legacy journals

  • Journal of Display Technology, 2005–2016. Jointly published by OSA and IEEE. Available online.
  • Journal of Optical Networking, 2002–2009. Published by OSA. Available online.
  • Journal of Optical Society of Korea, 2007–2016. Published by the Optical Society of Korea. Available online.
  • OSA Continuum, 2018–2021. Published by Optica. Available online.
  • Optics News, 1975–1989. Published by Optica. Available online.

Recognitions

Optica presents awards and honors, including Optica Fellow, Honorary Membership, and Awards/Medals. Optica's awards and medals program is endowed through the Optica Foundation, and includes more than 20 named awards; among them are the following:[10]

  • Adolph Lomb Medal
  • C.E.K. Mees Medal
  • Charles Hard Townes Award
  • David Richardson Medal
  • Edgar D. Tillyer Award
  • Edwin H. Land Medal
  • Ellis R. Lippincott Award
  • Emmett N. Leith Medal
  • Esther Hoffman Beller Medal
  • Frederic Ives Medal/Jarus W. Quinn Prize
  • Herbert Walther Award
  • John Tyndall Award
  • Joseph Fraunhofer Award/Robert M. Burley Prize
  • Max Born Award
  • Michael Stephen Feld Biophotonics Award
  • Nick Holonyak Jr. Award
  • Paul F. Forman Team Engineering Excellence Award
  • R. W. Wood Prize
  • Robert E. Hopkins Leadership Award
  • Sang Soo Lee Award
  • Stephen D. Fantone Distinguished Service Award
  • The Joseph W. Goodman Book Writing Award
  • William F. Meggers Award in Spectroscopy

Presidents

The following persons are or have been presidents of the society:[11]

Notable people

  • Delwin Lindsey, Editor of the society journal[12]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Optical Society of America Inc. Rating by Charity Navigator" (in en-US). https://www.charitynavigator.org/ein/530259696. 
  2. ↑ "Optical Society Of America Inc. Nonprofit Explorer" (in en). 9 May 2013. https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/530259696. 
  3. ↑ Observers, Illuminants, Light Sources for Color Difference Calculations, William Reginald Dawes
  4. ↑ "Why 1916? A Look Back at OSA's Roots.", files of W. Lewis Hyde, Optics & Photonics News, Vol. 17, No. 1, January 2006, pp. 18-19.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 "Optical Society of America". https://history.aip.org/phn/21407001.html. 
  6. ↑ Johnson, Anne Frances; Lamontagne, Nancy D. (2016). "A Century of Light". Physics Today 69 (6): 34–39. doi:10.1063/PT.3.3197. Bibcode: 2016PhT....69f..34J. 
  7. ↑ "OSA rebrands as 'Optica'". 20 September 2021. https://optics.org/news/12/9/28. 
  8. ↑ "JOSA". Optics InfoBase. http://www.osapublishing.org/journal/josa/about.cfm. 
  9. ↑ "The Optical Society Launches Optica, New Open-Access Journal for Highest-Impact Research in the Science of Light". The Optical Society. 2014-07-22. http://www.osa.org/en-us/about_osa/newsroom/news_releases/2014/the_optical_society_launches_optica,_new_open-acce/. 
  10. ↑ "Awards & Grants". The Optical Society. http://www.osa.org/en-us/awards_and_grants/awards/. 
  11. ↑ "Past Presidents". The Optical Society. https://www.osa.org/en-us/about_osa/leadership_and_volunteers/past_officers/. 
  12. ↑ "Dr. Delwin Lindsey" (in en). Ohio State University. https://psychology.osu.edu/people/lindsey.43. 

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