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.

Optical Materials Express (OMEx), OSA's open-access, rapid-review journal, primarily emphasizes advances in both conventional and novel optical materials, their properties, theory and modeling, synthesis and fabrication approaches for optics and photonics; how such materials contribute to novel optical behavior; and how they enable new or improved optical devices. The journal covers a full range of topics, including, but not limited to:

Artificially engineered optical structures

Biomaterials

Optical detector materials

Optical storage media

Materials for integrated optics

Nonlinear optical materials

Laser materials

Metamaterials

Nanomaterials

Organics and polymers

Soft materials

IR materials

Materials for fiber optics

Hybrid technologies

Materials for quantum photonics

Optical Materials Express considers original research articles, feature issue contributions, invited reviews, and comments on published articles. The Journal also publishes occasional short, timely opinion articles from experts and thought-leaders in the field on current or emerging topic areas that are generating significant interest.