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  • SPIE Joins LaserFest as Founding Partner
    SPIE Joins LaserFest as Founding Partner
    27 August 2009
    The organizers of LaserFest, the celebration in 2010 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first working laser, announced today that SPIE will be participating as a founding partner of the initiative.



  • Open Wide and Say 'Zap'
    Open Wide and Say 'Zap'
    19 August 2009
    A group of researchers in Australia and Taiwan has developed a new way to analyze the health of human teeth using lasers. Described in the latest issue of Optics Express, the Optical Society’s (OSA) open-access journal.



  • OSA Announces 2009-2010 Congressional Science and Engineering Fellows
    OSA Announces 2009-2010 Congressional Science and Engineering Fellows
    24 July 2009
    The Optical Society (OSA), along with co-sponsors SPIE and the Materials Research Society (MRS), have selected their 2009-2010 Congressional Science and Engineering Fellows.



  • Two Pioneers of the Science of Optical Nonlinearities in Fiber Optic Communications Systems Win Marconi Prize
    Two Pioneers of the Science of Optical Nonlinearities in Fiber Optic Communications Systems Win Marconi Prize
    21 July 2009
    Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs scientists Andrew R. Chraplyvy and Robert W. Tkach, research partners for more than two decades, have been awarded the 2009 Marconi Fellowship and Prize for their research into optical fiber nonlinearities and their development of novel mitigation techniques that vastly increased the transmission speed and capacity of optical fiber communications systems.



  • OSA Launches Spotlight on Optics to Highlight Research Articles in OSA Journals
    OSA Launches Spotlight on Optics to Highlight Research Articles in OSA Journals
    21 July 2009
    The Optical Society (OSA) today announced the launch of a new interactive Web page called Spotlight on Optics.



  • OSA Foundation Announces New Funding for Optics Programs
    OSA Foundation Announces New Funding for Optics Programs
    10 July 2009
    The OSA Foundation today announced the details of the programs it will fund in 2010. The programs include new and continuing grants for optics education programs, OSA student member activities and student travel to OSA-sponsored meetings.



  • Industry Newsmakers Second Quarter 2009
    Industry Newsmakers Second Quarter 2009
    09 July 2009
    The optics and photonics industry is continuing to change and evolve, all the while offering innovative solutions for real-world applications and manufacturing processes. OSA Corporate Members featured in this edition of Industry Newsmakers include Coherent, Corning, Edmund Optics and more



  • Cheaper Solar Technology, Flexible Lighting and Other Energy Breakthroughs to Be Featured at MIT Meeting
    Cheaper Solar Technology, Flexible Lighting and Other Energy Breakthroughs to Be Featured at MIT Meeting
    24 June 2009
    Experts from academia and industry are gathering this week for the Optics and Photonics for Advanced Energy Technology meeting at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to discuss the future of solar energy, cutting-edge developments in solid-state lighting, and the application of new sensors and technologies used to generate and store energy.



  • OSA Members Meet with Legislators to Discuss R&D Funding
    OSA Members Meet with Legislators to Discuss R&D Funding
    04 June 2009
    Members of the Optical Society (OSA) are on Capitol Hill today calling on their elected officials to support continued federal investments in scientific research and development (R&D) for fiscal year (FY) 2010.



  • Theodore Maiman Student Paper Competition Winner Announced
    Theodore Maiman Student Paper Competition Winner Announced
    03 June 2009
    The OSA Foundation, HRL Laboratories LLC, the IEEE Photonics Society and the APS Division of Laser Science are pleased to announce Georg Anetsberger of the Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics in Germany as the winner of the first annual Theodore Maiman Student Paper Competition.
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