News Releases

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  Emil Wolf Outstanding Student Paper Competition Finalists Announced

  31 August 2012
  The OSA Foundation is pleased to announce the finalists of the 2012 Emil Wolf Outstanding Student Paper Competition. The competition recognizes excellence in innovation, research and presentation of graduate students. The finalists will present their work at the Optical Society’s (OSA) Annual Meeting, Frontiers in Optics (FiO) 2012, which will take place Oct. 14-18 in Rochester, N.Y.
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  Shedding New Light on One of Diabetes’ Most Dangerous Complications: New optical instrument helps diagnose, monitor peripheral arterial disease

  30 August 2012
  For many diabetics, monitoring their condition involves much more than adhering to a routine of glucose sensing and insulin injections. It also entails carefully monitoring the ongoing toll this disease takes on their body.
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  Novel Microscopy Method Offers Sharper View of Brain's Neural Network

  23 August 2012
  Shortly after the Hubble Space Telescope went into orbit in 1990 it was discovered that the craft had blurred vision. Fortunately, Space Shuttle astronauts were able to remedy the problem a few years later with supplemental optics. Now, a team of Italian researchers has performed a similar sight-correcting feat for a microscope imaging technique designed to explore a universe seemingly as vast as Hubble’s but at the opposite end of the size spectrum—the neural pathways of the brain.
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  Next Generation 3-D Theater: Optical Science Makes Glasses a Thing of the Past

  20 August 2012
  New optics research by a team of South Korean investigators offers the prospect of glasses-free, 3-D display technology for commercial theaters. Their new technique, described in a paper published today in the Optical Society’s (OSA) open-access journal Optics Express, can bring this added dimension while using space more efficiently and at a lower cost than current 3-D projection technology.
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  Higgs Boson Researcher Al Goshaw to Speak at Frontiers in Optics 2012 Plenary Session

  17 August 2012
  Al Goshaw, a James B. Duke Professor at Duke University in North Carolina, will give a keynote presentation at the plenary session of the Optical Society’s (OSA) Annual Meeting, Frontiers in Optics (FiO) 2012, taking place in Rochester, N.Y., Oct. 14-18. Goshaw is a member of one of the two independent research teams that announced the likely discovery of the elusive Higgs boson particle last month.
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  The Optical Society Saddened by Loss of Jarus Quinn

  16 August 2012
  The Optical Society (OSA) expresses its condolences at the passing of the Society’s first executive director, Jarus W. Quinn, who died Aug. 11 in North Carolina. He would have been 82 on Aug. 25.
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  OSA Webcast on Landmark NAS Report: Optical Science Trends for the Future

  15 August 2012
  The Optical Society (OSA) is live webcasting a roundtable discussion at Stanford University devoted to the National Academy of Sciences’ (NAS) recently-released report, Optics and Photonics: Essential Technologies for Our Nation. Several members of the NAS Harnessing Light committee will discuss their findings, as well as current and future global innovations and technological opportunities enabled by optical science.
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  Hearing the Telltale Sounds of Dangerous Chemicals: New Photoacoustic Technique Detects Multiple Nerve Agents Simultaneously

  14 August 2012
  To warn of chemical attacks and help save lives, it’s vital to quickly determine if even trace levels of potentially deadly chemicals—such as the nerve gas sarin and other odorless, colorless agents—are present. U.S. Army researchers have developed a new chemical sensor that can simultaneously identify a potentially limitless numbers of agents, in real time. A paper describing the system has been published today in the Optical Society's (OSA) journal, Optics Letters.
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  OSA Commends Landmark National Academy of Sciences Report on Enabling Nature of Optics

  13 August 2012
  OSA applauds the release of a U.S. National Academy of Sciences report on optics and photonics, which discusses the current state of optical sciences and goals for the future.
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  Seeing through Walls: Laser System Reconstructs Objects Hidden From Sight

  06 August 2012
  By combining bouncing photons, the particles of light, with advanced optics, researchers are able to ‘see’ 3-D images of objects hidden around a corner

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