Optical Engineering publishes peer-reviewed articles reporting on research, development, and applications of optics and photonics. Primary topical areas include: imaging components, systems, and processing; optical instrumentation, techniques, and measurement; optical design and engineering; lasers, fiber optics, and sensors; communication and signal processing; and optical materials, photonic devices, and sensors.
On the cover: The figure is from "Photonic hook formation by a partially illuminated high-index dielectric particle hemi-immersed in dielectric film" by Igor V. Minin et al. in Vol. 63, Issue 12.