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Accelerating Optical Beams

Finding non-paraxial accelerating Airy beams. more>>

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Fiber Technology

Light-steered waveguides, relief Bragg reflectors, sapphire derived fibers. more>>

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Nanophotonics

Nanowire image sensor and photonic circuits made with Angstrom precision more>>

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Nonlinear Optics

Ultrafast KeV X-rays from tabletop femtosecond lasers more>>

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Novel Optical Detector

The near-field topography of light more>>

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Optical Coherence Tomography

Microscope in a needle, timereversal tomography and true-color molecular imaging more>>

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Optical Cooling

Spontaneous Brillouin cooling, lumino-refrigeration and controlling atoms with light more>>

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Optical Tweezers

Moiré-based tweezers, a tweezer assembly line, dynamic light cages and an optical “bottle” more>>

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Phase Control

Low-cost light shaping and SLIDAR more>>

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Imaging

Speckle-free laser imaging and gigapixel imaging more>>

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Imaging Through Turbid Media

Using compressive sensing and digital holography to visualize partially occluding media more>>

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Metamaterials

Metamaterials with tailorable properties and optical nanoantennas more>>

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Spectroscopy

All-optical radiocarbon dating more>>

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Ultrafast Optics

Fast light and superluminal images, ultrafast optical clocks, and supercontinuum pulse compression more>>

2015: International Year of Light

OSA joins international optics community in push for U.N. declaration. more>>

A Potential Cure for Myopia

OPN

Using contact lenses to reshape the eye more>>

Heisenberg Certainty

Researchers gather evidence that Heisenberg’s famous principle is wrong. more>>

Pretty Practical

Sarah Michaud

Researchers from North Carolina State University (U.S.A.) have created “nanoflowers” out of germanium sulfide (GeS). more>>

Spider Silk as an Optical Material

Patricia Daukantas

Who knew that spider silk, long studied for its tensile strength, could also act like an optical fiber? more>>

Using Laser Pointers for Chemical Sensing

Using ordinary green laser pointers, a research team from Ben Gurion University of the Negev (Israel) has developed a new and highly portable Raman spectrometer that can detect minute traces of hazardous chemicals in real time. more>>

Education

Teaching Green Photonics

Andrew F. Zhou

Try these simple experiments to demonstrate how white light can be converted into energy by a solar panel and back to visible light through an LED. more>>

Global Optics

Spectroscopy, Optics and Lasers in the City of the Diagonals

Alberto Lencina

The city of La Plata has the highest concentration of scientific and techno-logical institutions in Argentina. Among these is the Optical Research Center, which is celebrating its 35th anniversary this year. more>>

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