The Optical Society Announces Rod Alferness as 2018 Recipient of the Frederic...
The Optical Society (OSA), the leading global professional association in optics and photonics, today announced that the 2018 Frederic Ives Medal/Jarus W. Quinn Prize will be presented to Rod...
View ArticleThe Optical Society Remains Top Publisher of Peer-Reviewed Optics and...
The Optical Society is pleased to announce its 14 flagship, partnered and co-published peer-reviewed journals continue to provide the most citations and articles in the field of optics and photonics,...
View ArticleStudents to Receive New Robert S. Hilbert Memorial Travel Grant
The OSA Foundation (OSAF) and Optical Research Associates (ORA®) are pleased to announce the establishment of the Robert S. Hilbert Memorial Travel Grant. Funded by ORA as a memorial to their former...
View ArticleNew Instrument Lets Doctors View the Entire Eye with Unprecedented Level of...
Researchers have developed the first instrument that can provide a detailed image of the entire eye. By incorporating a lens that changes optical parameters in response to an electric current, the...
View ArticleBiomechanical Mapping Method Aids Development of Therapies for Damaged Heart...
Researchers have developed a new way to capture the detailed biomechanical properties of heart tissue. The high-resolution optical technique fills an important technology gap necessary to develop and...
View ArticleOSA Fellow and Nobel Laureate, Stefan Hell, to Deliver “Super-resolution post...
Stefan Hell, 2014 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and OSA Fellow, will deliver the keynote plenary presentation during the 2018 Photonics West BiOS Conference on Sunday, 28 January in San...
View ArticleOIDA Workshop on Scalable Integrated Photonics for 5G and Sensor
Fifth generation (5G) wireless and the Internet of Things (IoT) are introducing a wide range of new applications that will depend on performance enhancements across multiple dimensions, including low...
View ArticleThe Optical Society Stresses the Importance of Optics and Photonics in Career...
In response to President Trump’s State of the Union address, Elizabeth Rogan, CEO of The Optical Society, issued the following statement:
View ArticleNew Use for Telecommunications Networks: Helping Scientists Peer into Deep Space
For the first time, researchers have demonstrated that a stable frequency reference can be reliably transmitted more than 300 kilometers over a standard fiber optic telecommunications network and used...
View ArticleResearchers Create Fiber Optic Sensors that Dissolve in the Body
For the first time, researchers have fabricated sensing elements known as fiber Bragg gratings inside optical fibers designed to dissolve completely inside the body. The bioresorbable fiber Bragg...
View ArticleThe Optical Society Mourns the Loss of Frances Hildreth Townes
In 1951, Charles Townes conceived the idea of the maser, a laser precursor, while sitting in a park one sunny morning in Washington D.C., and a few months later he began building it, using ammonia gas...
View ArticleThe Optical Society Announces Rod Alferness as 2018 Recipient of the Frederic...
The Optical Society (OSA), the leading global professional association in optics and photonics, today announced that the 2018 Frederic Ives Medal/Jarus W. Quinn Prize will be presented to Rod...
View ArticlePowerful LED-Based Train Headlight Optimized for Energy Savings
Researchers have designed a new LED-based train headlight that uses a tenth of the energy required for headlights using conventional light sources. If operated 8 hours every day, the electricity...
View ArticleStatement from The Optical Society on the FY 2019 Budget Proposal from the...
The Optical Society (OSA) issued the following statement on the release of President Donald Trump’s proposed fiscal year 2019 budget. Proposed cuts to the National Institute of Standards and Technology...
View ArticleThe Optical Society Launches Updated Optics4Kids Website
Today, The Optical Society (OSA) has launched its redesigned youth education website, Optics4Kids.org, which seeks to provide comprehensive optics and photonics resources for kids, pre-college...
View ArticlePhAST/Laser Focus World Innovation Award Goes to Coherent, Inc.
The Photonic Applications, Systems and Technologies (PhAST) Conference and Laser Focus World magazine are pleased to announce that Coherent, Inc. has been selected as the recipient of this year’s...
View ArticleNew Use for Telecommunications Networks: Helping Scientists Peer into Deep Space
For the first time, researchers have demonstrated that a stable frequency reference can be reliably transmitted more than 300 kilometers over a standard fiber optic telecommunications network and used...
View ArticleResearchers Create Fiber Optic Sensors that Dissolve in the Body
For the first time, researchers have fabricated sensing elements known as fiber Bragg gratings inside optical fibers designed to dissolve completely inside the body. The bioresorbable fiber Bragg...
View ArticleThe Optical Society Mourns the Loss of Frances Hildreth Townes
In 1951, Charles Townes conceived the idea of the maser, a laser precursor, while sitting in a park one sunny morning in Washington D.C., and a few months later he began building it, using ammonia gas...
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