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  The Optical Society Announces 2013 Class of Senior Members

  17 June 2013
  The Optical Society (OSA) Board of Directors is pleased to announce the approval of 100 new Senior Members—an OSA Membership distinction that provides well-established individuals with the opportunity to request a designation that recognizes their experience and professional accomplishments or service within the field of optics and photonics.
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  OSA Foundation Presents Awards and Travel Grants to Students for CLEO: 2013

  12 June 2013
  The OSA Foundation this week announced the recipients of its student awards and travel grants related to the Conference on Lasers and Electro Optics (CLEO: 2013), taking place this week at the San Jose Convention Center in San Jose, Calif.
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  OSA Partners with Leading Chinese Institute to Launch New Joint Journal, Photonics Research

  11 June 2013
  The Optical Society (OSA) today announced the launch and publication of the first issue of its newest peer-reviewed, open-access journal, Photonics Research. The journal is being published in partnership with the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics (SIOM) and Chinese Laser Press (CLP).
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  CLEO: 2013 Press Luncheon Spotlights New Techniques in Optofluidics, Temporal Cloaking, Cryolasers

  11 June 2013
  
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  OSA Applauds Progress in Establishing 2015 as the International Year of Light

  05 June 2013
  The Optical Society (OSA) today commended the progress made in establishing 2015 as the International Year of Light, as optics leaders from around the world convened to present the aims of the initiative to representatives from United Nations Member States and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) at an informational meeting at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on May 16.
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  CLEO: 2013 Features New Research in UV Light for Food Storage, Printable Quantum Dot LEDs, and Smartphone Disease Detection

  04 June 2013
  Next week, researchers and engineers from all areas of lasers and opto-electronics will convene for the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO: 2013), the premier international forum for scientific and technical optics—from fundamental laser science to photonic applications and products. CLEO: 2013 builds on the long-established CLEO/QELS conference and its world-renowned peer-reviewed program. CLEO: 2013 offers high-quality content in five core event elements featuring breakthrough research and applied innovations in ultrafast lasers, energy-efficient optics, quantum electronics, biophotonics and more.
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  CLEO: 2013 - the Premier International Laser and Electro-Optics Event - to Take Place in San Jose Next Week

  03 June 2013
  CLEO: 2013, the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, is the premier international forum for scientific and technical optics—from fundamental laser science to photonic applications and products. CLEO: 2013 builds on the long-established CLEO/QELS conference and its world-renowned peer-reviewed program. CLEO: 2013 offers high-quality content in five core event elements featuring breakthrough research and applied innovations in ultrafast lasers, energy-efficient optics, quantum electronics, biophotonics and more.
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  OSA Senior Engineering & Applications Advisor Tom Hausken to Address Global State of Photonics at Photonics North 2013

  31 May 2013
  Tom Hausken, senior engineering and applications advisor at the Optical Society (OSA), will deliver keynote remarks at Photonics North 2013, taking place June 3-5 in Ottawa, Canada. In his presentation, Hausken will summarize the market for photonics in North America and worldwide, present projections for 2013 and 2014, and provide updates on the Optoelectronics Industry Development Association’s (OIDA) advocacy activities and the U.S. National Photonics Initiative (NPI).
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  New Single Virus Detection Techniques for Faster Disease Diagnosis

  30 May 2013
  To test the severity of a viral infection, clinicians try to gauge how many viruses are packed into a certain volume of blood or other bodily fluid. This measurement, called viral load, helps doctors diagnose or monitor chronic viral diseases such as HIV/AIDS and hepatitis. However, the standard methods used for these tests are only able to estimate the number of viruses in a given volume of fluid. Now two independent teams have developed new optics-based methods for determining the exact viral load of a sample by counting individual virus particles.
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  Charred Micro-Bunny Sculpture Shows Promise of New Material for 3-D Shaping

  29 May 2013
  This rabbit sculpture, the size of a typical bacterium, is one of several whimsical shapes created by a team of Japanese scientists using a new material that can be molded into complex, highly conductive 3-D structures with features just a few micrometers across. Combined with state-of-the-art micro-sculpting techniques, the new resin holds promise for making customized electrodes for fuel cells or batteries, as well as biosensor interfaces for medical uses. The research team, which includes physicists and chemists from Yokohama National University, Tokyo Institute of Technology, and the company C-MET, Inc., presents its results in a paper published today in the Optical Society’s (OSA) open-access journal Optical Materials Express.

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