News Releases

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  OSA Commends Landmark National Academy of Sciences Report on Enabling Nature of Optics

  13 August 2012
  OSA applauds the release of a U.S. National Academy of Sciences report on optics and photonics, which discusses the current state of optical sciences and goals for the future.
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  Seeing through Walls: Laser System Reconstructs Objects Hidden From Sight

  06 August 2012
  By combining bouncing photons, the particles of light, with advanced optics, researchers are able to ‘see’ 3-D images of objects hidden around a corner
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  OSA Foundation Launches Endowment Campaign for New Summer Learning Program in Honor of Anthony Siegman

  30 July 2012
  The OSA Foundation has launched a fundraising campaign for the Siegman International Summer School on Lasers, named in honor of Anthony E. Siegman, Optical Society (OSA) past president and founding member of the OSA Foundation Board. Siegman passed away in October 2011 at the age of 79.
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  Four International Students Awarded Travel Grants by the OSA Foundation

  11 July 2012
  The OSA Foundation (OSAF) is pleased to announce the student travel grant recipients for the Optical Society’s (OSA) Advanced Photonics Congress held in Colorado Springs, Colo. June 15-18 and OSA’s Imaging and Applied Optics Congress held in Monterey, Calif., June 24-28. The OSAF Student Travel Grant Program awards grants to students working in or studying science in qualifying developing nations so they can attend OSA-managed technical meetings and conferences. This round of winners represents three countries from three continents.
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  Insects Inspire X-ray Improvements: Nanostructures Modeled After Moth Eyes May Enhance Medical Imaging

  03 July 2012
  Using the compound eyes of the humble moth as their inspiration, an international team of physicists has developed new nanoscale materials that could someday reduce the radiation dosages received by patients getting X-rayed, while improving the resolution of the resulting images.
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  OFC/NFOEC Named One of Fastest Growing Trade Shows by TSNN

  02 July 2012
  The leading conference for the optical networking industry, the Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibition/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC), has been named one of the United States’ top 25 fastest-growing trade shows in net square footage growth by Trade Show News Network (TSNN).
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  Second Quarter 2012 Industry News Summary

  02 July 2012
  Temperatures aren’t the only thing on the rise in the second quarter of 2012 – OSA Corporate Associate Members have also been busy developing new products, building partnerships and raising their profiles.
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  OSA Remains Top Publisher of Optics Journals

  29 June 2012
  The Optical Society (OSA) today announced its journals have again generated the most citations and largest number of articles of any publisher in the optics category of the 2011 Journal Citation Reports® (Thomson Reuters JCR, 2011). In addition, OSA’s newest journal, Biomedical Optics Express, which launched in August 2010, debuted on the optics list with an Impact Factor of 2.333, the highest of any new optics journal this year.
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  OSA Foundation Grant Recognizes Graduate Students’ Optical Engineering and Lens Design Research Excellence

  27 June 2012
  The OSA Foundation (OSAF) today announced Matthew N. Barnum of the University of Arizona and Anthony J. Visconti of the University of Rochester are the recipients of the 2012 Robert S. Hilbert Memorial Travel Grant. The grant was established by Optical Research Associates (ORA®), now the Optical Solutions Group at Synopsys, Inc., as a memorial to ORA’s former President and Chief Executive Officer Robert S. Hilbert. The grant recognizes the research excellence of graduate students in the areas of optical engineering, lens design, and/or illumination design.
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  Tom Hausken Joins the Optical Society as Senior Advisor, Engineering and Applications

  25 June 2012
  The Optical Society (OSA) announced today that Tom Hausken has joined the staff as senior advisor, engineering and applications. In this position, Hausken will support a number of OSA’s industry focused activities, including the programs of the Optoelectronics Industry Development Association (OIDA), a division of OSA.

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