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OSA Redesigns Optics Educational Web Site
Jul 16, 2008 — The Optical Society of America has redesigned its optics education Web site, OPTICSforKIDS.org, to include new and updated features such as an optics history timeline, a gallery of optical images, more than 30 experiments, a variety of tutorials and a career quiz. The Web site was created by a team of OSA student members working in conjunction with OSA and Florida State University’s MolecularExpressions.org management team. The site’s format and many of the external links and content for the...
Andrew Brown to Head Global Development at SPIE
Jul 2, 2008 — Andrew J. W. Brown, PhD, has joined international optics and photonics society SPIE in Bellingham, Wash., as senior director for global business development, succeeding Janice Gaines Walker, who is retiring in July after 24 years. Brown comes to...
Wide-Ranging Crystals
NEW YORK, May 22, 2008 -- Crystals with a tunability range of as much as 460 nm -- about triple those of earlier crystals -- have the widest bandwidth and the most NIR-shifted wavelength range for laser operation ever demonstrated for the Cr3+ ion, said Robert R. Alfano, who...
Robert Alfano Awarded for Supercontinuum Work
Apr 15, 2008 — Robert R. Alfano, a professor of science and engineering at the City College of New York and director of its Institute for Ultrafast Spectroscopy and Lasers, has been named the recipient of the 2008 Optical Society of America (OSA) Charles Hard...
OSA Offers Scholarship Program
Feb 1, 2008 — The Optical Society of America (OSA) Foundation in Washington, which supports programs that advance youth science and optics education, has partnered with the Harvey M. Pollicove Memorial Fund of Rochester, N.Y. They will offer the $4000 Harvey M....
OSA Award Renamed in Honor of Paul F. Forman
Dec 4, 2007 — The Optical Society of America (OSA) Foundation announced it has renamed its annual Engineering Excellence Award as the Paul F. Forman Engineering Excellence Award to honor optical engineering contributions by the late Paul F. Forman, cofounder of...
CAREER PORTAL
Oct 1, 2007 — The Optical Society of America has enhanced its career services Web site for the optics and photonics community with new graphic elements and features, including improved navigation. Job seekers will benefit from the simplified résumé formatting...
OSA to Award Ming Wu
WASHINGTON, Sept. 14, 2007 -- Ming C. Wu will be awarded the 2007 OSA Engineering Excellence Award, to be presented at the Optical Society of America’s (OSA) annual meeting next week, for his contributions in the fields of optical microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and...
OSA to Award Ming Wu
WASHINGTON, Sept. 14, 2007 -- Ming C. Wu will be awarded the 2007 OSA Engineering Excellence Award, to be presented at the Optical Society of America’s (OSA) annual meeting next week, for his contributions in the fields of optical microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and...
FiO 2007, OSA Annual Near
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1, 2007 -- Deadlines are approaching for Frontiers in Optics (FiO) 2007-the 91st OSA Annual Meeting-Laser Science (LS) XXIII, to be held Sept. 16-20 at the Fairmont San Jose in San Jose, Calif. The housing deadline is Aug. 16, preregistration deadline is...
John Hall Elected OSA Honorary Member
Jun 29, 2007 — The OSA board of directors recently elected Nobel Laureate John L. Hall as an honorary member of the society for his pioneering work on high-precision laser metrology and fundamental optical tests of physical principles. Hall is a senior fellow...
OSA, AIP Air Photonics TV Spots
Jun 27, 2007 — The Optical Society of America (OSA) and the American Institute of Physics (AIP) are jointly developing TV news segments on advances in optics and photonics. The program, "Discoveries and Breakthroughs Inside Science" (DBIS), is designed to help...
Room-Temp Nanolaser Built
WASHINGTON, June 21, 2007 -- A highly efficient, room-temperature nanometer-scale laser has been built that produces stable, continuous streams of near-infrared laser light. The design should prove useful in future miniaturized circuits containing optical devices. The...
Optikos President to Receive OSA Service Award
Jun 4, 2007 — Stephen D. Fantone, PhD, founder and president of Optikos Corp., has been named 2007 recipient of the Optical Society of America’s (OSA) Distinguished Service Award, in recognition of his outstanding service to the society. This is the 13th time the...
OSA Joins Research Site
Jun 1, 2007 — The Optical Society of America in Washington has joined 12 other scientific, engineering and technological societies to create a comprehensive online research site that will allow access to their collective contents, some 3 million articles spanning...
Congressional Science and Engineering Fellows Named
May 30, 2007 — Congressional Science and Engineering Fellows Named The Optical Society of America (OSA), SPIE and the Materials Research Society (MRS) have selected 2007-2008 Congressional Science and Engineering Fellows: Audrey Ellerbee, a PhD candidate at Duke...
OSA Names Award Winners
WASHINGTON, May 29, 2007 -- Daniel Kleppner, a physics professor emeritus at MIT and co-director of the MIT-Harvard University Center for Ultracold Atoms, is the recipient of OSA's 2007 Frederic Ives Medal/Jarus W. Quinn Endowment, the highest award conferred by the society...
Vision-Correction Pioneer Awarded Land Medal
ROCHESTER, N.Y., May 10, 2007 -- The Edwin H. Land Medal, which recognizes achievement in optics with major public impact, has been presented this year to a man considered to be one of the founding fathers of laser vision correction. Charles Munnerlyn, recipient of the 2007...
NM Senator Named OSA Optics Advocate
Feb 8, 2007 — New Mexico Sen. Jeff Bingaman was recognized today by the Optical Society of America (OSA) as its 2007 Advocate of Optics, for his leadership in seeking to increase federal investments in the sciences, including research and development, and for his...
Giallorenzi Joins OSA as Senior Director of Science Policy
Jan 31, 2007 — Thomas G. Giallorenzi, PhD, has been named senior director of science policy for OSA. He will provide strategic direction on the society’s scientific programming and activities, in particular conventions and meetings. Giallorenzi is an OSA Fellow...
OPTICS WEB SITES
Jan 1, 2007 — The Optical Society of America (OSA) has introduced enhanced Web sites to represent both its organization and its magazine Optics & Photonics News (OPN). The OSA portal features streamlined navigational functions and a consolidated master...
New Lens Produces Distortion-Free Wide-Angle Pictures
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4, 2006 -- South Korean researchers have designed and built an inexpensive optical lens that collects light from a large area and produces a virtually distortion-free wide-angle image. Standing in contrast to commonly known "fish-eye" lenses, which produce...
Optical Society of America Confers Honors
Dec 1, 2006 — The Optical Society of America in Washington has honored 20 individuals with its annual awards, which recognize exceptional achievement in optics and photonics. It determined that the work done by each recipient in his or her area of expertise has...
OSA: FiO 2006 a Resounding Success
ROCHESTER, N.Y., Oct. 19, 2006 -- With more than 100 participating companies, a 44 percent increase in the number of exhibitors and more than 1900 attendees, organizers are calling Frontiers in Optics (FiO) 2006, the Optical Society of America's 90th Annual Meeting, a resounding...
OSA: FiO 2006 a Resounding Success
ROCHESTER, N.Y., Oct. 19, 2006 -- With more than 100 participating companies, a 44 percent increase in the number of exhibitors and more than 1900 attendees, organizers are calling Frontiers in Optics (FiO) 2006, the Optical Society of America's 90th Annual Meeting, a resounding...
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