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Fees and funding

Article-processing charges

The publication costs for eLight are covered by Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences so authors do not need to pay an article-processing charge.

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2022 Speed
3 days submission to first editorial decision for all manuscripts (Median)
45 days submission to accept (Median)

2022 Usage 
270,545 downloads
780 Altmetric mentions 

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