光學學會（OSA）在其期刊組合中發表高質量的同行評議文章，為光學和光子學界提供全方位的服務。應用光學出版了深入的同行評審的內容，以應用為中心的光學研究。這些文章涵蓋了光學技術、光子學、激光、信息處理、傳感和環境光學的研究。應用光學的研究文章應該：專注于科學技術的實際應用，通過增加對現有研究的了解或報告新的應用，引進新的科學或技術，包括應用理論時技術的發展和性能，提供足夠的背景、細節和解釋，以便其他人能夠復制結果，并使工作的意義明確。除了最初的研究文章、受邀的評論文章和對已發表文章的評論之外，應用光學現在還出版工程和實驗室筆記（E&L筆記）。E&L注釋是一篇關于設計、分析、制造、集成、校準和測量技術的簡短文章，用于創建光學組件和系統。E&L筆記提供了一種獨特的方法，可以在應用光學中發布工程筆記本上的觀察結果。

The Optical Society (OSA) publishes high-quality, peer-reviewed articles in its portfolio of journals, which serve the full breadth of the optics and photonics community.Applied Optics publishes in-depth peer-reviewed content about applications-centered research in optics. These articles cover research in optical technology, photonics, lasers, information processing, sensing and environmental optics.Applied Optics' research articles should:Concentrate on practical applications of science and technology,Introduce new science or technology by either increasing understanding of existing research or reporting novel applications,Include the development and performance of technologies when applying theories,Provide sufficient background, detail, and explanation so that others can reproduce the results, and so that the significance of the work is clear.In addition to original research articles, invited review articles, and comments on published articles, Applied Optics is now publishing Engineering and Laboratory Notes (E&L Notes). E&L Notes are brief articles devoted to the design, analysis, fabrication, integration, alignment, and measurement techniques used when creating optical components and systems. E&L Notes offers a unique way to publish observations from your engineering notebook in Applied Optics.