News Releases

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  OIDA Releases Report on Aggregation Networks and Data Centers

  07 June 2012
  The Optoelectronics Industry Development Association (OIDA) today announced the release of a new report titled “OIDA Workshops on Metrics for Aggregation Networks and Data Centers” – a roadmap for optical communications, based on quantitative, system-level metrics.
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  OSA, SPIE and MRS Announce 2012-2013 Congressional Science and Engineering Fellows

  31 May 2012
  The Optical Society (OSA), SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, and the Materials Research Society (MRS) are pleased to announce their 2012-2013 Congressional Science and Engineering Fellows. Chris Schaffer, a professor at Cornell University, will serve as the Arthur H. Guenther Congressional Fellow co-sponsored by OSA and SPIE, and Mirvat Abdelhaq, a recent graduate of the University of Colorado, Boulder, will serve as the OSA/MRS Congressional Fellow. Each will serve one-year terms working as special legislative assistants on the staffs of congressional offices or committees in Washington, D.C.
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  Sensing the Infrared: Researchers Improve Infrared Detectors Using Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

  23 May 2012
  Whether used in telescopes or optoelectronic communications, infrared detectors must be continuously cooled to avoid being overwhelmed by stray thermal radiation. Now, a team of researchers from Peking University, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Duke University (USA) is harnessing the remarkable properties of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) to create highly sensitive, “uncooled” photovoltaic infrared detectors.
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  New Microscope Uses Rainbow of Light to Image the Flow of Individual Blood Cells

  21 May 2012
  Blood tests convey vital medical information, but the sight of a needle often causes anxiety and results take time. A new device developed by a team of researchers in Israel, however, can reveal much the same information as traditional blood test in real-time, simply by shining a light through the skin. This optical instrument, no bigger than a breadbox, is able to provide high-resolution images of blood coursing through our veins without the need for harsh and short-lived fluorescent dyes.
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  The Optical Society Announces 2012 Class of Senior Members

  15 May 2012
  The Optical Society (OSA) Board of Directors is pleased to announce the approval of 143 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. The 143 Senior Members were announced at CLEO: 2012 in San Jose earlier this month. A listing of the newly inducted Senior Members appears below.
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  CLEO: 2012 Wraps Up in San Jose

  14 May 2012
  CLEO: 2012, concluded in San Jose last week after six days of technical and business programming highlighting the latest research and developments in the fields of lasers and electro-optics. Attendees heard presentations on ultrafast lasers, OCT, optical sensing, and nanophotonic devices from some of the top scientists, engineers, and business people around the world.
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  OSA and SPIE Honor R. Barry Johnson with 2012 Goodman Book Writing Award

  10 May 2012
  The Optical Society (OSA) and SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, announced this week that R. Barry Johnson of Alabama A&M University is the recipient of the 2012 Joseph W. Goodman Book Writing Award for Lens Design Fundamentals, Second Edition, a substantially revised and expanded update to the late Rudolf Kingslake’s 1978 First Edition.
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  OSA Foundation Awards Travel Grants to 15 Students for CLEO: 2012

  09 May 2012
  The OSA Foundation (OSAF) is pleased to announce the 2012 recipients of the Newport Student Travel Grants and the Incubic/Milton Chang Student Travel Grants. The 15 recipients, from 10 countries, will present research papers this week at the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO: 2012) in San Jose.
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  Theodore Maiman Student Paper Competition Winners Announced

  09 May 2012
  The OSA Foundation (OSAF), HRL Laboratories LLC, the IEEE Photonics Society and the APS Division of Laser Science are pleased to announce Jeffrey Driscoll of Columbia University, USA as the winner of the annual Theodore Maiman Student Paper Competition. Driscoll won for his paper “First Demonstration of Quasi-Phase-Matched Four-Wave-Mixing in Silicon Waveguides.”The grand prize and two honorable mentions were presented yesterday during the Plenary and Awards Ceremony of the Conference on Lasers and Electro Optics (CLEO: 2012) at the San Jose Convention Center.
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  The Optical Society Launches Innovative Products and Services for Digital Library Users

  08 May 2012
  The Optical Society (OSA) today announced the launch of several enhancements to its digital library, Optics InfoBase. Central to the new services that have launched is the reinvention of its journal article interface. With this new interface, users can more easily access and browse each article’s full-text, article-level metrics, interactive and embedded equations, and more than 200,000 images via the new Optics ImageBank product. Additionally, today’s initial launch allows OSA the opportunity to make functional adjustments to all of these innovative offerings based on user feedback. The goal is to refine each new offering over the next six months.

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