According to the journal's website, the journal has a 2021 impact factor of 2.560. Although the journal is sponsored by the Chinese Optical Society, it is published in English by Optica. The editor-in-chief is Zhizhan Xu (Chinese Academy of Sciences). Subject coverage includes optical engineering, fiber optics and optical communications, lasers and laser optics, nonlinear optics, integrated optics, optical and photonic materials, quantum optics, ultrafast optics, image processing, instrumentation, measurement and metrology.