Posted by Christina Folz, OPN managing editor
This note represents the first entry to
The Optics & Photonics Newsblog. Initially, we plan to use this blog as a way to post news andcomments that supplement our articles or summarize relevant conferencesattended by OPN staff, advisors or contributors. However, I’d like toencourage you—OPN’s readers—to help us make this tool whatever you’dlike it to be.
Please post your comments or send me an e-mail at
opn@osa.orgif you’re interested in becoming a contributor or have ideas about whatshould be included here. Have you attended an interesting topicalmeeting or observed a really cool optical phenomenon? Why not blogabout it?
If you read our first few posts, you’ll learn about Pat Daukantas’journey to Mauna Kea Summit in Hawaii to visit four large ground-basedtelescopes. Or check out the entry from Joe Shaw of Montana StateUniversity, OSA Fellow and longstanding member of OPN’s editorialadvisory committee. Joe discusses the highlights of the
9th annual meeting on Light and Color in Nature, which he recently hosted at Montana State University in Bozeman.
I also wrote a post sharing my notes from the
Council for Engineering and Scientific and Engineeringmeeting in Halifax, Nova Scotia, about recent trends in open accesspublishing, vertical searching and journal citation factors. Finally, Iwas inspired by watching the
2007 U.S. Open tennis tournament to write about the optical technology that has led to a new officiating system for the sport.
Don’t forget to check back with the OPN blog in a week or so. Our goalis provide weekly updates. So check in soon for new posts, includingcoverage from
Frontiers in Optics, OSA’s annual meeting in San Jose, Calif., from Sep. 16-20.