News Releases

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  Rep. Rush Holt Named 2009 OSA Advocate of Optics

  25 February 2009
  The Optical Society (OSA) recognized Rep. Rush Holt (D-N.J.) this week as its 2009 Advocate of Optics. Rep. Holt was chosen for the honor because of his extraordinary leadership in seeking to increase federal investments in the sciences, including critical research and development (R&D).
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  OSA Members to Support Research into Renewable Energy Sources

  24 February 2009
  The Optical Society (OSA) Board of Directors approved an energy policy statement that enables OSA to globally advocate for increased research and development (R&D) investments in optics and photonics in order to foster progress in solar energy and new, efficient solid-state lighting technologies.
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  Nanoscopic Changes to Pancreatic Cells Reveal Cancer

  17 February 2009
  A team of researchers in Chicago has developed a way to examine cell biopsies and detect never-before-seen signs of early-stage pancreatic cancer, according to a new paper in the Optical Society (OSA) journal Optics Letters.
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  Optics Express Debuts Astrophotonics Focus Issue Laser-Sculpted Optical Devices for Future Giant Telescopes

  05 February 2009
  Future telescopes, with mirrors half the size of a football field, will need special components to deal with the light they collect. Astronomers are turning to photonic devices that guide and manipulate light inside specially-designed materials. The greatest potential, which is described in the latest issue of Optics Express, the Optical Society’s (OSA) open-access journal, may lie in a laser-based technique that carves out micron-sized light pathways in three dimensions.
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  De-Multiplexing to the Max 640 Gbits/second

  03 February 2009
  A new error-free speed-reading record using a compact ultra-fast component—640 Gbits/second (Gbps, or billion bits per second)—has now been established by a collaboration of scientists from Denmark and Australia, who report their results in the journal Optics Express, the Optical Society’s (OSA) open-access journal.
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  OFC/NFOEC 2009 Announces Plenary Session Speakers

  03 February 2009
  The 2009 Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibition/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC) – the premier international optical communication event – will feature three industry leaders in the fields of optics and telecommunications.
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  OSA's Review Journal, Advances in Optics and Photonics, Launches Inaugural Issue

  30 January 2009
  The Optical Society (OSA) is pleased to announce that the premiere issue of its review journal, Advances in Optics and Photonics,was published today. Advances in Optics and Photonics is an online, quarterly journal of invited reviews and tutorials that focus on the most up-to-date advances in the fields of both basic and applied optics and photonics.
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  Industry Newsmakers Fourth Quarter 2008

  29 January 2009
  In late 2008, OSA Corporate Member companies were seen leveraging business partnerships and new business strategies to foster innovation and novel product offerings. This edition of Industry Newsmakers includes news from JDSU, Intel Capital, Fianium and more.
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  Tiny lasers get a notch up

  27 January 2009
  Tiny disk-shaped lasers as small as a speck of dust could one day beam information through optical computers. Unfortunately, a perfect disk will spray light out, not as a beam, but in all directions. New theoretical results, reported in the Optical Society (OSA) journal Optics Letters, explain how adding a small notch to the disk edge provides a single outlet for laser light to stream out.
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  OSA Foundation Partners with Rochester Local Section of OSA to Bring Optics Demonstrations to Worldwide Audience

  14 January 2009
  The OSA Foundation (OSAF) announced today that its two-year partnership with the Rochester Local Section of OSA (ROSA) has resulted in the distribution of educational materials to more than 3,500 students in 17 countries through the groups’ Optics Education and Demonstrations Program.

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