Optical Materials Express


Optical Materials Express is a monthly peer-reviewed and open access scientific journal published by Optica. Founded in 2011, it covers advances in and applications of optical materials, including but not limited to nonlinear optical materials, laser media, nanomaterials, metamaterials and biomaterials. Its editor-in-chief is Andrea Alù. The founding editor-in-chief was David J. Hagan.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2024 impact factor of 3.1.