News Releases

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  OSA Presents 2011 Advocate of Optics Recognition to Senator Stephen Conroy of Australia

  29 August 2011
  The Optical Society (OSA) presented its 2011 Advocate of Optics recognition to Senator the Hon. Stephen Conroy, Australian Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy today. Senator Conroy was chosen as OSA’s 2011 Advocate of Optics for his "extraordinary work and dedication in championing a National Broadband Network (NBN) for Australia that will establish fiber optic communications directly to 93 percent of Australian homes, schools and businesses."
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  Optical Materials Express Focus Issue Femtosecond Direct Laser Writing and Structuring of Materials

  23 August 2011
  Current advanced femtosecond laser systems offer myriad possibilities to modify materials, from implementing new optical functionality to improving existing materials properties.
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  Monthly Tip Sheet Research Highlights from Biomedical Optics Express - August 2011

  17 August 2011
  The following highlights summarize key research published in the August issue of Biomedical Optics Express, the Optical Society’s (OSA) principal outlet for serving the biomedical optics community with rapid, open-access, peer-reviewed papers related to optics, photonics and imaging in the life sciences.
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  Optics Express Focus Issue Highlights Research to Increase Internet Bandwidth Capacity

  15 August 2011
  Special issue on Space Multiplexed Optical Transmission features research from international teams at Bells Labs, Sumitomo Electric, OFS Labs, several universities.
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  New Tool May Yield Smaller, Faster Optoelectronics

  11 August 2011
  Steering a beam of 'virtual particles' enables team of scientists to manipulate ultra-small-scale particles in real time.
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  Ganesh Gopalakrishnan joins OIDA as Executive Technical Director

  10 August 2011
  The Optoelectronics Industry Development Association (OIDA) announced today that Ganesh Gopalakrishnan has joined its staff as executive technical director.
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  New High-speed 3-D Imaging System Holds Potential for Improved Cancer Screening

  01 August 2011
  Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a new imaging system that enables high-speed, three-dimensional (3-D) imaging of microscopic pre-cancerous changes in the esophagus or colon.
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  Vyas Akondi Receives Robert S. Hilbert Memorial Travel Grant

  28 July 2011
  The OSA Foundation (OSAF) is pleased to announce Vyas Akondi of the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, India, as the recipient of the 2011 Robert S. Hilbert Memorial Student Travel Grant for the Imaging and Applied Optics: OSA Optics and Photonics Congress. The grant was started by Optical Research Associates (ORA®), now the Optical Solutions Group at Synopsys, as a memorial to ORA's former President and Chief Executive Officer Robert S. Hilbert.
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  OSA-CIOMP International Summer Session to Focus on Laser Applications

  26 July 2011
  The first-ever OSA-CIOMP summer session will provide an opportunity for physics students to further their education in the field of optics and photonics by interacting with world-renowned instructors, local professors and fellow students. Participants will also be able to present their research and receive feedback from those in the field of laser science.
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  Second Quarter 2011 Industry News Summary

  18 July 2011
  The following is a corporate news roundup from the Optical Society (OSA). This quarterly gathering of industry news is a complimentary service offered by the OSA PR team.

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