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PUBLISHER
Elizabeth Nolan

MANAGING EDITOR
Christina E. Folz

CREATIVE DIRECTOR
Alessia Hawes Kirkland

SENIOR WRITER/EDITOR
Patricia Daukantas

GRAPHIC DESIGNER
Marko G. Batulan

PRODUCTION MANAGER
Stu Griffith

PRODUCTION ASSISTANT
Carlos X. Izurieta

ADVERTISING SALES
Regan Pickett
rpickett@osa.org
+1.202.416.1474

EDITORIAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE

James Zavislan
EAC CHAIR
University of Rochester, U.S.A.

Dominique Chiaroni
Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, France

Judith Dawes
Macquarie University, Australia

Julio Gutierrez-Vega
Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico

Rongguang Liang
Carestream Health, U.S.A.

Carlos Lopez-Marsical
University of California, Santa Cruz, U.S.A.

Lynne Molter
Swarthmore College, U.S.A.

Brian Monacelli
the Optical Sciences Company, U.S.A.

Ali Serpenguzel
Koç University, Turkey

Elena Silaeva
Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia

CONTRIBUTING EDITORS

François Busque
Fovea Technologies Inc., Canada

Alexandre Fong
Optronic Laboratories Inc., U.S.A.

G. Groot Gregory
Optical Research Associates, U.S.A.

Bob D. Guenther
Duke University, U.S.A.

John N. Howard
Air Force Geophysics Laboratory (Retired), U.S.A.

Bob Jopson
Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, U.S.A.

R. John Koshel
Photon Engineering LLC, U.S.A.

Brian Monacelli
the Optical Sciences Company, U.S.A.

Yanina Shevchenko
Carleton University, U.S.A.

Stephen R. Wilk
Lincoln Labs, U.S.A.