Optica is a monthly peer-reviewed open access scientific journal published by Optica.

It covers the entire spectrum of theoretical and applied optics and photonics.

The founding editor-in-chief was Alexander Gaeta (Columbia University).

[1] In 2020, the editor-in-chief became Prem Kumar (Northwestern University, USA), assisted by an extended team of Deputy Editors: Thomas Krauss (University of York, UK), Curtis Menyuk (University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA), Irina Novikova (College of William & Mary, USA), Nathalie Picqué (Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Germany) and Eric Potma (University of California, Irvine, USA).

[2] The journal is abstracted and indexed in: According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2023 impact factor of 8.4.