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SPIE Reviews Scope

SPIE Reviews is a peer-reviewed, open-access, online journal that publishes invited review articles covering the state of the art of emerging and rapidly evolving photonics technologies and their applications. The journal emphasizes both interdisciplinary and applied topics, covering a broad spectrum of research areas and industries where photonics has a significant role, and is intended to serve as an authoritative resource for all researchers, managers, and students interested in keeping up to date and tracking the progress of dynamic photonics technologies.

Topical areas covered by SPIE Reviews include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Astronomical optics and imaging techniques
  • Atmospheric optics
  • Biomedical optics and medical imaging
  • Communications and networking
  • Complex systems analysis, understanding, and engineering
  • Detectors, sources, guides, and modulators
  • Electronic imaging technologies, devices, and systems
  • Fiber optics
  • Illumination and displays
  • Imaging and image processing
  • Industrial sensing and measurement
  • Information optics and optics in computers
  • Integrated optics
  • Interferometry
  • Instrumentation
  • Lasers and their applications
  • LEDs and OLEDs
  • Machine vision
  • MEMS and MOEMS
  • Metamaterials
  • Micro- and nanotechnologies
  • Microelectronics design, technology, and packaging
  • Nanophotonics
  • Nonlinear optics
  • Optical design and testing
  • Optical devices and instruments
  • Optical lithography
  • Optical materials
  • Optical metrology
  • Optical networks
  • Optomechanical design
  • Pattern recognition and computer vision
  • Photolithography and photomask technology
  • Photovoltaics and solar conversion
  • Photonic materials, devices, and applications
  • Quantum optics
  • Remote sensing
  • Sensor systems, networks, and applications
  • Smart sensors, structures, materials, devices, and systems
  • Space optics
  • Spectroscopy
  • Visual communications

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