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Fiber-Optic Sensors: Applications and Advances

Brian Culshaw

Decades of research into fiber-optic sensing are now being translated into safe, precise measuring instruments—including gyroscopes, temperature probes, hydrophones and chemical monitors. more>>

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Laser Diagnostics in Combustion Research: Some Recent Advances

Mark Linne and James Gord

Research into controlled combustion can address modern problems in emissions and noise control, energy efficiency, fire extinction and waste management. Laser diagnostics are helping take this field to the next level. more>>

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Polymer-Dispersion Technologies for Flexible Liquid Crystal Displays

Hideo Fujikake, Hiroto Sato and Takeshi Murashige

Researchers are using ferroelectric liquid crystals and micro-polymers to develop thin, flexible, large-screen displays with the ability to supply moving images. more>>

Scatterings: Undergrads conduct optics research, lidar tracks drainage of NO flooding, optical coherence tomography for art

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Education

Teachable Optics

Emmanuel Boss

Absorption, scattering and the color of the ocean. more>>

Global Optics

Unpacking my "Optics Suitcase" in Africa

Alexis Spilman Lanning

An optics Ph.D. student and her husband recently led a group of University of Rochester students to Malawi, Africa, for a three- week cross-cultural enrichment trip. more>>

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Special Focus: OSA Fellows awarded Nobel Prize in Physics

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The History of OSA

George Eastman Founds a Research Lab

W. Lewis Hyde

Known as the father of popular photography, George Eastman was also a shrewd businessman who found a way to "institutionalize innovation" by creating a corporate research laboratory at Kodak. more>>

Washington Focus

At the Crossroads of Science, Religion and Politics

Tom Price

The unusual career of U.S. Rep. Vernon Ehlers, Ph.D. more>>