WASHINGTON, April 30—The Optical Society (OSA), along with co-sponsors SPIE and the Materials Research Society (MRS), has selected its 2008-2009 Congressional Science and Engineering Fellows. Robert Saunders, a post-doctoral fellow in the Duke Advanced Imaging Laboratories, will serve as the Arthur H. Guenther Congressional Fellow (co-sponsored with SPIE) and Amit Mistry, a science policy intern at Research! America, will serve as the OSA/MRS Congressional Fellow. Saunders and Mistry will each serve one-year terms working as special legislative assistants on the staffs of members of Congress or congressional committees.
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WASHINGTON, April 22—Nearly 6,000 researchers from around the world will present the latest breakthroughs in electro-optics, lasers and the application of light waves at the 2008 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics/Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (CLEO/QELS) May 4-9 at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, Calif.
CLEO is the preeminent event for those in the lasers and electro-optics community. It will be held in conjunction with QELS and the Conference on Photonic Applications, Systems and Technologies (PhAST). The meeting is co-sponsored by the Optical Society (OSA), the American Physical Society Division of Laser Science (APS-DLS) and the IEEE Lasers & Electro-Optics Society (IEEE/LEOS).
The following are some of the many technical highlights at the meeting:
• SHINING LIGHT ON THE BRAIN'S ACTIVITY
• TINY LASER ARRAYS FOR SENSITIVE CHEMICAL DETECTION
• SECURE COMMUNICATIONS VIA SPACE
• PHOTOLUMINESCENCE IN NANO-NEEDLES
• NATIONAL IGNITION FACILITY—THE WORLD'S LARGEST LASER SYSTEM
• CLEO/QELS/PHAST PLENARY SPEAKERS
Additional research news summaries can be found online at http://www.cleoconference.org/media_center/pressrelease0421.aspx.
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WASHINGTON, April 14—The Optical Society (OSA) is pleased to announce this year’s recipients of many of its prestigious awards. The winners include: Peter Knight, Frederic Ives Medal/Jarus W. Quinn Endowment; Eric Mazur, Esther Hoffman Beller Medal; Peter W. Milonni, Max Born Award; Bahaa Saleh, Distinguished Service Award; Ursula Keller, Joseph Fraunhofer Award/Robert M. Burley Prize; Kam Yin Lau, Nick Holonyak, Jr. Award; Adolf W. Lohmann, Emmett N. Leith Medal; Richard P. Van Duyne, Ellis R. Lippincott Award; L. Cary Gunn, Adolph Lomb Medal; Michael S. Feld, William F. Meggers Award; Barry L. Shoop, OSA Leadership Award-New Focus/Bookham Prize; Kanti Jain, David Richardson Medal; Brian A. Wandell, Edgar D. Tillyer Award; Robert R. Alfano, Charles Hard Townes Award; Robert W. Tkach, John Tyndall Award; Jonathan P. Heritage and Andrew M. Weiner, R.W. Wood Prize. These award winners join an esteemed group of past recipients in their perseverance, ingenuity and foresight in the field of optics.
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New Technique Could Help Doctors Screen for Asthma and Cancer
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18—A team of scientists at JILA, a joint institute of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Colorado (CU) at Boulder, has shown that by sampling a person’s breath with laser light they can detect molecules in the breath that may be markers for diseases like asthma or cancer. While many studies have been done to showcase the potential of optical technologies for breath analysis, the JILA approach takes an important step toward demonstrating the full power of optics for this prospective medical application. Their findings are published in the latest issue of the Optical Society of America’s open-access journal Optics Express.
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With Business-Focused Programming and 800 Technical Paper Presentations
OFC/NFOEC is the Industry’s Most Influential Technical and Business Forum
What: Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition/National Fiber Optics Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC) 2008
When/Where: Feb. 24 - 28 (Exhibits open Feb. 26-28) at the San Diego Convention Center
Details: As the largest and most comprehensive international event for both the science and business of optical communications, this year’s event will host the entire scope of optical communications, providing educational programming, exhibits and other activities for all audiences from systems companies to service providers and carriers and equipment manufacturers.
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Major Research Conference to be held in San Diego, Feb. 24-28
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14—The world’s largest international conference on optical communications begins later this month and continues from Feb. 24-28 at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego. The Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC) is the premier meeting where experts from industry and academia intersect and share their results, experiences, and insights on the future of electronic and wireless communication and the optical technologies that will enable it.
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 – Corning, Inc. and the OSA Foundation today announced the finalists for the inaugural Corning Outstanding Student Paper Award Competition, which recognizes future leaders in optical communications. The award and honorable mentions will be bestowed during the Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition and National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC) to be held Feb. 24-28 in San Diego.
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 – The Optical Society of America (OSA) today announced its five most downloaded research papers in 2007. The papers were downloaded from OpticsInfoBase.org, OSA’s online repository for its 12 journals. All five papers were published in OSA’s premier open access journal Optics Express. A list of the papers appears below.
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Foundation to administer scholarship program
The Optical Society of America (OSA) Foundation is pleased to honor the work of Harvey Pollicove by supporting the Harvey M. Pollicove Memorial Scholarship, awarded to a student who is pursuing a degree in the field of precision optics manufacturing. The first scholarship will be given this fall.
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 – Research and subsequent technological advances in coherent optical communication are undergoing a revival, providing new technology platforms for long-distance spectrally-efficient optical transport. An increased number of recent breakthroughs, including real-time measurements of a 40 Gb/s coherent system, digital implementation of fiber impairment compensation, and demonstrations of advanced modulation formats, led the editors of Optics Express to devote the Jan. 21 issue to this field. These breakthroughs at the physical layer will bring about increased speed and connectivity for Internet users in the near future. According to the issue’s editor, Professor Guifang Li of CREOL at the University of Central Florida, “It’s an exciting time for the field of optical communications and coherent optical communication is a very vibrant and rapidly progressing field.”
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 -- Several extraordinary recent achievements place the field of microresonators at the frontier of modern photonics. In the Dec. 10 issue of Optics Express, papers explore advanced silicon modulators in the nanoscale, "photonic nanojets" for biomedical applications and the longest photon lifetime in a photonic crystal nanocavity observed to date. According to Dr. Vasily Astratov from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, editor of this issue, research on microresonators results in "new physics" and leaves a world of new science to explore.
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New Optical Device May Help Scientists Test Cancer Therapies
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 – A team of researchers from the Wellman Center for Photomedicine at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Harvard Medical School (HMS) have developed an optical device that allows them to peer through the eyes of a mouse and monitor the cells passing through its bloodstream.
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 – The Optical Society of America (OSA) Foundation is pleased to announce the renaming of OSA's Engineering Excellence Award to the Paul F. Forman Engineering Excellence Award. The new name honors the contributions to optical engineering by the late Paul Forman, co-founder of Zygo Corporation and OSA fellow. The award is also being expanded to include a financial stipend, made possible by a $50,000 pledge from Zygo Corporation. The OSA Foundation will also launch a fundraising campaign in support of the award.
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As the holiday season approaches, much attention will be spent on ways to go green for the holidays. Leading the charge is the usage of LEDs (light emitting diodes) instead of traditional lights for holiday light displays. From the National Christmas Tree in Washington to the Times Square New Year's Eve Ball in New York, many of the nation's beloved holiday landmarks are going green with LED illumination.
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The Optical Society of America (OSA) debuted its first Corporate Member Pavilion at the Asia Optical Fiber Communication and Optoelectronic Exposition and Conference (AOE) in Shanghai, China this week. Six society corporate members are exhibiting in an 800-square-foot pavilion at the conference. Participants include Chroma Technology, Del Mar Photonics, Finisar Corporation, Gemfire Corporation, Luna Innovations and RSoft Design Group.
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-- OSA Votes to Introduce Review Journal; 2008 Officers Announced --
SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 1 – Frontiers in Optics 2007 (FiO), the longest-standing meeting in optics and photonics, closed Sept. 20 after a week of top-quality research presentations, symposia and special events. Consisting of 157 sessions and nearly 800 technical presentations, talks honed in on some of the most innovative research in the field. More than 1,300 attendees convened during the meeting's keynote sessions, technical talks, exhibition and networking events.
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 – Three Optical Society of America (OSA) members were named new members of the National Academy of Engineers (NAE) and two OSA members were named NAE foreign associates last week. Being elected to the NAE is one of the highest professional honors in the engineering community.
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 – New Mexico Senator Jeff Bingaman is being recognized today by the Optical Society of America (OSA) as the organization’s 2007 Advocate of Optics. Sen. Bingaman was selected as this year’s advocate because of his extraordinary leadership in seeking to increase federal investments in the sciences, including the critical area of research and development (R&D). He is also being recognized for his work to advance energy efficiency through his continued support for energy-saving optical technologies like solid state lighting (SSL).
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 WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 – As of Feb. 1, 2007, Thomas G. Giallorenzi, Ph.D., will join OSA as senior director of science policy. In this capacity, he will provide strategic direction on the Society’s scientific programming, leveraging his technical expertise to help expand OSA programs and activities, with a specific focus on the Society’s conventions and meetings portfolio.
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