The American institute of Physics (AIP) has launched a new authoritative open-access peer-reviewed journal. APL Photonics covers all areas within the field of photonics like quantum optics and cryptography, novel materials and engineered structures, nonlinear optics and nanophotonics as well as physics of light sources.

The International Year of Light started to tribute the global significance of light-based technologies.

Issues of the Journal will come at spring 2016.