Advanced Optical Materials is an international, interdisciplinary forum for peer-reviewed papers on materials science which focuses on all aspects of light-matter interactions. Advanced Optical Materials was published as a special focus section integrated in Advanced Materials in 2012 and launched as a journal at the start of 2013. In 2018 Advanced Optical Materials received an Impact Factor of 7.43 which is a 8% increase compared to the 2017 value.The scope of Advanced Optical Materials is dedicated to breakthrough discoveries and fundamental research in photonics, plasmonics, metamaterials, and more. The following is a non-exhaustive list of the topics covered in Advanced Optical Materials:Photonic crystalsNonlinear opticsOptical nanostructuresOptoelectronicsOptical devices, detectors & sensorsHolographyOpto-acoustic materialsOptical data storageMicro/nano resonatorsOptical waveguides