Abbreviated title (ISO 4) Laser Photon. Rev. Language English Publisher Wiley-VCH | Discipline Optical science Edited by Guido W. Fuchs Publication history 2007-present | |
Laser & Photonics Reviews is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research on all aspects of optical science. It is published by Wiley-VCH and contains reviews and original papers/letters. The journal was established in 2007 by the founding editor-in-chief Theodor W. Hänsch (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich). Since 2008, the editor-in-chief is Guido W. Fuchs (Wiley-VCH). Originally, the journal only published review articles. Since 2012, it also contains original papers and letters. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal had a 2011 impact factor of 7.388, ranking it 2nd out of 79 journals in the category "Optics", 8th out of 125 journals in the category "Physics Applied", and 11th out of 69 journals in the category "Physics Condensed Matter".