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APL Photonics Template

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About the APL Photonics format

APL Photonics is a peer-reviewed journal published by AIP Publishing, covering Photonic and Optical Devices, Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies, Optical Network Technologies. Over its lifetime it has published 1,776 papers, which have received 37,811 citations.

PublisherAIP Publishing
Reference styleNumbered (AIP)
Numbered — [1], [2] in the text
[1] A. Smith, B. Jones, and C. Lee, APL Photonics 12, 45 (2023).

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Publishes research inPhotonic and Optical Devices Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies Optical Network Technologies Mechanical and Optical Resonators Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics
ISSN2378-0967
Citation impact (2-yr)5.41
h-index82
i10-index877
Article processing charge$2,750
Open accessYes — indexed in DOAJ
Top institutions publishing hereCentre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Journal websiteaplphotonics.aip.org
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Papers published in APL Photonics per year

62
2016
72
2017
121
2018
129
2019
151
2020
168
2021
117
2022
189
2023
281
2024
349
2025

Citation impact of APL Photonics by publication year

2.3K
2016
3.6K
2017
5.4K
2018
6.2K
2019
5.6K
2020
4.7K
2021
2.6K
2022
2.9K
2023
2.8K
2024
1.1K
2025

Citations each year’s papers have accumulated so far — the most recent years are still building up.

Most-cited papers in APL Photonics

Reconfigurable broadband microwave photonic intensity differentiator based on an integrated optical frequency comb source

Xingyuan Xu, Jiayang Wu, Mehrdad Shoeiby et al. · 1 Sep 2017

We propose and experimentally demonstrate a microwave photonic intensity differentiator based on a Kerr optical comb generated by a compact integrated micro-ring resonator (MRR). The on-chip Kerr optical comb, containing a large number of comb lines, serves as a high-performance multi-wavelength source for implementing a transversal filter, which will greatly reduce the cost, size, and…

High performance RF filters via bandwidth scaling with Kerr micro-combs

Xingyuan Xu, Mengxi Tan, Jiayang Wu et al. · 1 Feb 2019

We demonstrate high-resolution photonic RF filters using an RF bandwidth scaling approach based on integrated Kerr optical micro-combs. By employing both an active nonlinear micro-ring resonator (MRR) as a high-quality micro-comb source and a passive high-Q MRR to slice the RF spectra modulated on the shaped comb, a large RF instantaneous bandwidth of 4.64 GHz…

Invited Article: Broadband highly efficient dielectric metadevices for polarization control

Sergey Kruk, Ben Hopkins, Ivan I. Kravchenko et al. · 1 Jun 2016

Metadevices based on dielectric nanostructured surfaces with both electric and magnetic Mie-type resonances have resulted in the best efficiency to date for functional flat optics with only one disadvantage: a narrow operational bandwidth. Here we experimentally demonstrate broadband transparent all-dielectric metasurfaces for highly efficient polarization manipulation. We utilize the generalized Huygens principle, with a superposition…

Why I am optimistic about the silicon-photonic route to quantum computing

Terry Rudolph · 1 Mar 2017

This is a short overview explaining how building a large-scale, silicon-photonic quantum computer has been reduced to the creation of good sources of 3-photon entangled states (and may simplify further). Given such sources, each photon needs to pass through a small, constant, number of components, interfering with at most 2 other spatially nearby photons, and…

Past, present, and future of InP-based photonic integration

M.K. Smit, Kevin Williams, Jos van der Tol · 1 May 2019

The application market for Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) is rapidly growing. Photonic integration is the dominant technology in high bandwidth communications and is set to become dominant in many fields of photonics, just like microelectronics in the field of electronics. PICs offer compelling performance advances in terms of precision, bandwidth, and energy efficiency. To enable…

APL Photonics template — frequently asked questions

How do I write a paper in the APL Photonics format?
In DocuGuru you write your manuscript in a normal editor — no LaTeX setup required — and select the APL Photonics template. When you export, DocuGuru compiles the paper into the official AIP Publishing format and hands you a submission-ready PDF along with the editable LaTeX source.
What reference style does APL Photonics use?
APL Photonics uses Numbered (AIP) references, shown as numbered [1], [2] markers in the text. DocuGuru formats every in-text citation and the reference list in this exact style automatically. A reference appears like this: [1] A. Smith, B. Jones, and C. Lee, APL Photonics 12, 45 (2023).
Do I need to know LaTeX to submit to APL Photonics?
No. DocuGuru generates the revtex4-2 LaTeX class and compiles the PDF for you in the background, so you get a AIP Publishing-ready APL Photonics document without writing any LaTeX. If you do want it, the LaTeX source is included in the export.
Can I import an existing draft into the APL Photonics template?
Yes. Paste or upload your current manuscript — Word, LaTeX, Markdown, or plain text — and DocuGuru reflows it into the APL Photonics format with correct headings, figures, tables, and numbered citations.
What is APL Photonics?
AIP Publishing journal (REVTeX 4.2). It is a physics journal, published by AIP Publishing.
Can I export a submission-ready APL Photonics PDF?
Yes — DocuGuru produces a PDF built with the official APL Photonics template (the revtex4-2 class) that is ready to submit to AIP Publishing, together with the matching LaTeX source files.
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