Subject coverage. All aspects of classical optical phenomena. Topics covered include (but are not restricted to): propagation, scattering and diffraction; linear and non-linear phenomena; spectroscopy and interferometry; instrumentation design and testing; thin films; optical materials; interaction of radiation with matter; integrated optics, optoelectronics, electro-optics and magneto-optics; optical communications, modulation, computing and switching; ultrafast phenomena; far and near field models; IR, x-ray and XUV optics; application of optics to other scientific fields; atmospheric optics; lithography; information processing and holography, correlators, pattern recognition and application of holography; detectors, sensors and sources; imaging; lasers and sources, laser materials and systems; vision. Quantum optics and semiclassical optics are excluded and covered by Journal of Optics B: Quantum and Semiclassical Optics.