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Use when targeting Optica or deciding whether an optics-and-photonics manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, the high-impact concise-advance bar, measurement and characterization rigor, house style, the Optica-vs-specialty-journal routing, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.

When to use

• targeting Optica
• deciding whether an optics-and-photonics manuscript fits this venue
• fit/framing and breadth check
• re-framing from a specialty-depth report into a concise, broadly significant Optica advance
• choosing between Optica and a specialty Optica Publishing Group title
• Optica's brevity-and-breadth bar
• desk-reject heuristics

When not to use

• replacing the journal's current official author guidelines

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