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Optics & Photonics News

COVER STORY

Optics in 2016

Guest editors: Robert D. Guenther and colleagues

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

INDUSTRY NEWS

» U.S. Universities Rank High for “Employability” of Graduates – 22 Nov
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» Rolls-Royce, VTT Partner on “Smart Ships” – 15 Nov
» FLIR, Boston Scientific Acquire Niche Imaging Firms – 07 Oct

IMAGE OF THE WEEK

Spiral effect
High Trestle Trail Bridge, Iowa. The vertical features lit with blue LED strips are installed at an angle, giving a spectacular spiral effect while walking towards the bridge.

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Sir David Payne Delivers OSA Light the Future Keynote at Photonics India 2016

29 November 2016
The Optical Society (OSA), the leading global professional association in optics and photonics, will host its final centennial Light the Future spe...

Professor Evgeny M. Dianov, Russian Academy of Sciences, Awarded 2017 John Tyndall Award

28 November 2016
The Optical Society (OSA) and the IEEE Photonics Society today announced that Professor Evgeny M. Dianov, Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Russia...

New High Brightness Monochromator

28 November 2016
High brightness monochromator McPherson Model 207A is best for high-brightness over a broad spectral range. It is a 670mm f.l. f/4.7 spectrometer w...

Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, Vol. 8 Issue 12, pp.947-961 (2016)
We show that, in an optical packet-switching (OPS) network with bufferless switches, end-to-end congestion control algorithms can be designed to co...

Terahertz saturable absorption in superconducting metamaterials

JOSA B, Vol. 33 Issue 12, pp.2649-2655 (2016)
We present a superconducting metamaterial saturable absorber at terahertz frequencies. The metamaterial was designed to have a resonant absorption ...

High-contrast imaging through scattering media using structured illumination and Fourier filtering

Optics Letters, Vol. 41 Issue 23, pp.5612-5615 (2016)
We show in this Letter a novel approach for high-contrast imaging through scattering media by combining structured illumination and Fourier filteri...