APL PhotonicsAPL Photonics is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal published by the American Institute of Physics. The editor-in-chief is Ben Eggleton. The journal covers fundamental and applied research on all aspects of photonics.Abstracting and indexingThe journal is abstracted and indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2023 impact factor of 5.4.