该杂志致力于出版红外和毫米波领域的科学和技术发展，包括红外物理学、凝聚态物质的光学性质和低能激发过程、飞秒光谱学、非线性光学、红外光电、红外光学、生物医学光学、远程传感、图像处理、红外和毫米波技术以及跨学科研究。
The Journal is devoted to the publication of science and technology development in the area of infrared and millimeter waves, including infrared physics, the optical properties and low energy excitations processes in condensed matters, femtosecond spectroscopy, nonlinear optics, infrared opto-electronics, infrared optics, biomedical optics, remote sensing, image processing, infrared and millimeter wave technologies as well as interdisciplinary research.