該雜志出版了各種光學(xué)儀器的設(shè)計(jì)細(xì)節(jié)，以及對(duì)工程師、數(shù)學(xué)家、物理學(xué)家以及光學(xué)科學(xué)家有用的計(jì)算光學(xué)的重要章節(jié)。英文譯本由OSA出版，與瓦維洛夫國(guó)家光學(xué)研究所出版的俄語(yǔ)版光學(xué)雜志同時(shí)出版。

The journal publishes design details of a diversity of optical instruments, along with a strong section on computational optics useful to engineers, mathematicians, and physicists, as well as optical scientists. Issues of the English translation volume are published by OSA and appear at the same time as the Russian language edition, Opticheskii Zhurnal, which is produced by the Vavilov State Optical Institute