News Releases

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  Silicon Valley Researchers and Companies Highlighted During CLEO/QELS and PhAST Conferences

  30 April 2008
  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.
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  Detecting Dangerous Chemicals with Lasers, Exploring the Brain's Circuitry with Light and the World's Largest Laser System Featured at CLEO/QELS Meeting in San Jose

  22 April 2008
  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.
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  Optical Society Confers 17 General and Specialty Awards for 2008

  14 April 2008
  The Optical Society (OSA) is pleased to announce this year’s recipients of many of its prestigious awards.
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  Laser Triggers Electrical Activity in Thunderstorm for the First Time

  14 April 2008
  A team of European scientists has deliberately triggered electrical activity in thunderclouds for the first time, according to a new paper in the latest issue of Optics Express, the Optical Society’s (OSA) open-access journal. They did this by aiming high-power pulses of laser light into a thunderstorm.
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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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