Before revision: Following a source on optics.org, the response of a query from the publisher of Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Physics to the editorial board regarding streamlining the name of the journal reported significant differences in the way the terms "optics" and "photonics" describe the subject area, with some description proposing that "photonics embraces optics .
After revision: Following a source on optics.org, the response of a query from the publisher of Journal of Optics : A" Pure and Applied Physics to the editorial board regarding streamlining the name of the journal reported significant differences in the way the terms "optics" and "photonics" describe the subject area, with some description proposing that "photonics embraces optics .