OCIS Code

Optics Classification and Indexing Scheme (OCIS)

Since 1997, the OCIS codes have provided OSA authors, presenters, and reviewers with a valuable tool for classifying content and identifying research interests. OSA recently developed a next generation of OCIS—The Optics and Photonics Topics—to improve search, organize content by topic, and identify similar articles. OCIS codes are no longer used in the OSA Publishing website and should no longer be included on manuscript submissions to OSA journals. All articles in the OSA Publishing website are automatically indexed to the OSA Optics and Photonics Topics.

Main Categories

000.0000  General

010.0010   Atmospheric and oceanic optics

020.0020   Atomic and molecular physics

030.0030   Coherence and statistical optics

040.0040   Detectors

050.0050   Diffraction and gratings

060.0060   Fiber optics and optical communications

070.0070   Fourier optics and signal processing

080.0080   Geometric optics

090.0090   Holography

100.0100   Image processing

110.0110   Imaging systems

120.0120   Instrumentation, measurement, and metrology

130.0130   Integrated optics

140.0140   Lasers and laser optics

150.0150   Machine vision

160.0160   Materials

170.0170   Medical optics and biotechnology

180.0180   Microscopy

190.0190   Nonlinear optics

200.0200   Optics in computing

210.0210   Optical data storage

220.0220   Optical design and fabrication

230.0230   Optical devices

240.0240   Optics at surfaces

250.0250   Optoelectronics

260.0260   Physical optics

270.0270   Quantum optics

280.0280   Remote sensing and sensors

290.0290   Scattering

300.0300   Spectroscopy

310.0310   Thin films

320.0320   Ultrafast optics

330.0330   Vision, color, and visual optics

340.0340   X-ray optics

350.0350   Other areas of optics

Complete Listing

000.0000   General

000.1200   Announcements, awards, news, and organizational activities

000.1410   Biography

000.1430   Biology and medicine

000.1570   Chemistry

000.1600   Classical and quantum physics

000.1780   Conferences, lectures, and institutes

000.2060   Education

000.2170   Equipment and techniques

000.2190   Experimental physics

000.2658   Fundamental tests

000.2690   General physics

000.2700   General science

000.2780   Gravity

000.2850   History and philosophy

000.3110   Instruments, apparatus, and components common to the sciences

000.3860   Mathematical methods in physics

000.3870   Mathematics

000.4430   Numerical approximation and analysis

000.4895   OSA history

000.4920   Other life sciences

000.4930   Other topics of general interest

000.5360   Physics literature and publications

000.5490   Probability theory, stochastic processes, and statistics

000.5920   Science and society

000.6590   Statistical mechanics

000.6800   Theoretical physics

000.6850   Thermodynamics

010.0010   Atmospheric and oceanic optics

010.0280   Remote sensing and sensors

010.1030   Absorption

010.1080   Active or adaptive optics

010.1100   Aerosol detection

010.1110   Aerosols

010.1120   Air pollution monitoring

010.1280   Atmospheric composition

010.1285   Atmospheric correction

010.1290   Atmospheric optics

010.1300   Atmospheric propagation

010.1310   Atmospheric scattering

010.1320   Atmospheric transmittance

010.1330   Atmospheric turbulence

010.1350   Backscattering

010.1615   Clouds

010.1690   Color

010.2940   Ice crystal phenomena

010.3310   Laser beam transmission

010.3640   Lidar

010.3920   Meteorology

010.4030   Mirages and refraction

010.4450   Oceanic optics

010.4455   Oceanic propagation

010.4458   Oceanic scattering

010.4950   Ozone

010.5620   Radiative transfer

010.5630   Radiometry

010.7030   Troposphere

010.7060   Turbulence

010.7295   Visibility and imaging

010.7340   Water

010.7350   Wave-front sensing

020.0020   Atomic and molecular physics

020.1335   Atom optics

020.1475   Bose-Einstein condensates

020.1670   Coherent optical effects

020.2070   Effects of collisions

020.2649   Strong field laser physics

020.2930   Hyperfine structure

020.3260   Isotope shifts

020.3320   Laser cooling

020.3690   Line shapes and shifts

020.4180   Multiphoton processes

020.4900   Oscillator strengths

020.5580   Quantum electrodynamics

020.5780   Rydberg states

020.6580   Stark effect

020.7010   Laser trapping

020.7490   Zeeman effect

030.0030   Coherence and statistical optics

030.1640   Coherence

030.1670   Coherent optical effects

030.4070   Modes

030.4280   Noise in imaging systems

030.5260   Photon counting

030.5290   Photon statistics

030.5620   Radiative transfer

030.5630   Radiometry

030.5770   Roughness

030.6140   Speckle

030.6600   Statistical optics

030.6610   Stellar speckle interferometry

030.7060   Turbulence

040.0040   Detectors

040.1240   Arrays

040.1345   Avalanche photodiodes (APDs)

040.1490   Cameras

040.1520   CCD, charge-coupled device

040.1880   Detection

040.2235   Far infrared or terahertz

040.2480   FLIR, forward-looking infrared

040.2840   Heterodyne

040.3060   Infrared

040.3780   Low light level

040.4200   Multiple quantum well

040.5150   Photoconductivity

040.5160   Photodetectors

040.5190   Photographic film

040.5250   Photomultipliers

040.5350   Photovoltaic

040.5570   Quantum detectors

040.6040   Silicon

040.6070   Solid state detectors

040.6808   Thermal (uncooled) IR detectors, arrays and imaging

040.7190   Ultraviolet

040.7290   Video

040.7480   X-rays, soft x-rays, extreme ultraviolet (EUV)

050.0050   Diffraction and gratings

050.1220   Apertures

050.1380   Binary optics

050.1590   Chirping

050.1755   Computational electromagnetic methods

050.1930   Dichroism

050.1940   Diffraction

050.1950   Diffraction gratings

050.1960   Diffraction theory

050.1965   Diffractive lenses

050.1970   Diffractive optics

050.2065   Effective medium theory

050.2230   Fabry-Perot

050.2555   Form birefringence

050.2770   Gratings

050.4865   Optical vortices

050.5080   Phase shift

050.5082   Phase space in wave optics

050.5298   Photonic crystals

050.5745   Resonance domain

050.6624   Subwavelength structures

050.6875   Three-dimensional fabrication

050.7330   Volume gratings

060.0060   Fiber optics and optical communications

060.1155   All-optical networks

060.1660   Coherent communications

060.1810   Buffers, couplers, routers, switches, and multiplexers

060.2270   Fiber characterization

060.2280   Fiber