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Optics in 2017

This special issue of Optics & Photonics News highlights the most exciting peer-reviewed optics research to have emerged over the past 12 months. Continue Reading

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IMAGE OF THE WEEK

Water Droplets
Water droplets on a flower adopt almost hemispherical shapes. The resulting lenses greatly magnify the underlying petal surface. Direct sun shines as a diffraction star. [Honorable mention 2017 After Image photo contest.]

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The Optical Society Announces the 2018 OIDA Executive Forum

19 December 2017
The Optical Society (OSA) in conjunction with OFC will hold the annual, OIDA Executive Forum, an exclusive event for business leaders in networking...

Application Period Open for 2018 Siegman International School on Lasers

19 December 2017
The Siegman International School on Lasers is a weeklong, immersive program, providing students with an in-depth learning environment on lasers and...

New Type of Smart Windows Use Liquid to Switch from Clear to Reflective

13 December 2017
Researchers have demonstrated prototype windows that switch from reflective to clear with the simple addition of a liquid. The new switchable windo...

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Evaluation of the key design parameters of liquid crystal tunable lenses for depth-from-focus algorithm

Applied Optics, Vol. 57 Issue 1, pp.85-91 (2018)
Liquid crystal (LC) tunable lenses have been extensively studied and used in various applications, however, most of them have been evaluated regard...

Five-level argon–helium discharge model for characterization of a diode-pumped rare-gas laser

JOSA B, Vol. 35 Issue 1, pp.164-173 (2018)
A five-level discharge kinetics model is developed to characterize the scaling potential of the diode-pumped rare-gas laser. The predicted excited ...

Design and fabrication of reconfigurable laser-written waveguide circuits

Optics Express, Vol. 25 Issue 26, pp.33056-33065 (2017)
Reconfigurability is an important requirement for implementing quantum photonic processing using waveguide circuits in which both high fidelity and...

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