News Releases

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  OSA Members Visit Legislators on Capitol Hill to Call for Increased Investment in Federal R&D Funding

  05 April 2008
  Optical Society of America (OSA) members from across the country are coming together on Capitol Hill today to speak with their senators and representatives about science policy issues. The OSA members join hundreds of other scientists, engineers and graduate students as part of the annual Congressional Visits Day (CVD), sponsored by the Science-Engineering-Technology Working Group.
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  Industry Newsmakers - First Quarter 2008

  02 April 2008
  As the optics community gears up to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the laser, OSA Corporate Members continue apply this ground-breaking technology in the areas of medicine, telecommunications and manufacturing. This edition of Industry Newsmakers includes news from JDSU, Aculight, Finisar, Kotura and more.
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  Optics Express to be Indexed in MEDLINE

  19 March 2008
  The Optical Society of America (OSA) is thrilled to announce that its journal Optics Express (www.OpticsExpress.org) has been selected for indexing and inclusion in the U.S. National Library of Medicine’s (NLM) MEDLINE® (Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online) bibliographic database. Optics Express is the fourth OSA journal to be selected, joining the Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics, Image Science and Vision; Applied Optics; and Optics Letters.
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  Optical Society of America Names 2008 Advocates of Optics

  19 March 2008
  Viviane Reding, European commissioner for information society and media, and Thierry Van der Pyl, head of the Commission’s Photonics Unit, are being recognized today by the Optical Society of America (OSA) as the organization’s 2008 Advocates of Optics.
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  First Recipient of Corning Outstanding Student Paper Award Competition Announced

  28 February 2008
  Corning, Incorporated and the OSA Foundation today announced the winner of the inaugural Corning Outstanding Student Paper Award Competition, which recognizes future leaders in optical communications. Frederik Van Laere, Ghent Univ.-IMEC, Belgium was awarded top honors for his paper, "Multifunctional Photonic Crystal Compact Demux-Detector on InP."
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  Optical Communication Industry to Convene in San Diego for OFC/NFOEC

  19 February 2008
  OFC/NFOEC features latest innovations, research and applications impacting the business and consumer sides of optical communications.
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  Laser Light May Be Able to Detect Diseases on the Breath

  18 February 2008
  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.
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  Corning Outstanding Student Paper Award Competition Finalists Announced

  15 February 2008
  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 OFC/NFOEC to be held Feb. 24-28 in San Diego.
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  Optical Fiber and the Future of Communication - Major Research Conference to be held in San Diego, Feb. 24-28

  14 February 2008
  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.
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  Optical Society of America Announces Top Optics Research Paper Downloads in 2007

  07 February 2008
  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.

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