The Journal of the Optical Society of America A (JOSA A) is devoted to developments in any field of classical optics, image science, and vision. JOSA A includes original peer-reviewed papers on such topics as:Atmospheric opticsClinical visionCoherence and Statistical OpticsColorDiffraction and gratingsImage processingMachine visionPhysiological opticsPolarizationScatteringSignal processingThin filmsVisual opticsJOSA A publishes research articles as well as tutorials, discussion papers, feature issue contributions, and comments on published articles.