''Laser Physics'' is a monthly

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covering research on the physics and technology of lasers and their applications. It is owned and editorially managed by Astro Ltd. and published on their behalf by

IOP Publishing IOP Publishing (previously Institute of Physics Publishing) is the publishing company of the Institute of Physics. It provides publications through which scientific research is distributed worldwide, including journals, community websites, mag ...

. The journal was established in 1990 with

Alexander M. Prokhorov Alexander Mikhailovich Prokhorov (born Alexander Michael Prochoroff, russian: Алекса́ндр Миха́йлович Про́хоров; 11 July 1916 – 8 January 2002) was an Australian-born Soviet-Russian physicist known ...

as founding

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until 2002. The current editor-in-chief is Vanderlei S. Bagnato. It is a sister journal to ''

Laser Physics Letters ''Laser Physics Letters'' is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes short, rapid communications in fundamental optics and laser physics, and the application of lasers across interrelated sciences. It is owned and editorially mana ...

''.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in: *

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* INSPEC

History

The journal was published by

MAIK Nauka/Interperiodica Nauka (russian: Наука, lit. trans.: ''Science'') is a Russian publisher of academic books and journals. Established in the USSR in 1923, it was called the USSR Academy of Sciences Publishing House until 1963. Until 1934 the publisher was b ...

from 1991 to 2005, by

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from 2006 to 2012, and since then by

. Its sister journal, ''

'', was established in 2004.

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