News Releases

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  Restoring Sight, Advances in Fertility Treatments Through Lasers, Better Visibility (LIDAR) For Pilots at Frontiers in Optics Meeting

  23 August 2007
  Frontiers in Optics 2007 (FiO), the 91st Annual Meeting of the Optical Society of America, will be held from Sept. 16-20 in San Jose, Calif., alongside Laser Science XXIII, the annual meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Laser Science.
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  Researchers Generate High-Speed Pulses of Laser Light on Silicon, Speeding Data Transmission

  21 August 2007
  In the Sept. 3 issue of Optical Society of America's Optics Express, published online today, researchers announce that they have built the world's first "mode-locked silicon evanescent laser."
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  OSA 'Frontiers in Optics' Annual Meeting Presents Most Significant Research Spanning Every Field of Optics and Photonics

  08 August 2007
  The Optical Society of America’s (OSA) 91st Annual Meeting, Frontiers in Optics 2007, will cover the breadth of optical science and engineering.
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  Polymer Opal Films Shed New Kind of Light on Nature

  23 July 2007
  New color-changing technology has potential packaging, military, aerospace applications
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  Holograms Make For Better Vision Tests

  09 July 2007
  A new paper published in the July 1 issue of OSA's Optics Letters shows that researchers in Australia have created a new one-step test that uses holograms to diagnose the astigmatic error of the human eye, a key measurement in determining the appropriate prescriptions for eye glasses in patients.
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  Call for Papers Opens for Corning Outstanding Student Paper Award Competition

  02 July 2007
  The Corning Outstanding Student Paper Award competition today launched its call for papers.
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  Optics Express, Optics Letters Top-Rated Journals in 2006

  27 June 2007
  The Optical Society of America (OSA) is pleased to announce that based on "impact factor," or the number of citations compared to the number of papers published, its journals Optics Express and Optics Letters are the most heavily cited journals in optics.
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  Nobel Laureate John L. Hall Selected as Optical Society of America Honorary Member

  22 June 2007
  The Optical Society of America (OSA) Board of Directors elected Nobel Laureate John L. Hall as the newest honorary member of the society this week.
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  OSA's Optics & Photonics News Receives Gold EXCEL Award

  22 June 2007
  The Optical Society of America's (OSA) monthly news magazine, Optics & Photonics News (OPN), has received the Society of National Association Publications' (SNAP) Gold EXCEL Award in the category of "Web site—Special Members Area."
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  OSA and SPIE Honor Achievements of Dr. Arthur H. Guenther

  21 June 2007
  The Optical Society of America (OSA) and SPIE are pleased to announce the renaming of their jointly sponsored Congressional Fellowship program to the Arthur H. Guenther Congressional Fellowship Program. The new name honors the achievements and contributions of the late Dr. Arthur Guenther, who was a University of New Mexico (UNM) professor and fellow of both societies.

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