Optics and Photonics Image of the Week RSS http://www.osa-opn.org/gallery/ Optics and Photonics Image of the Week feed. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:52:15 -04:00 http://www.osa-opn.org http://www.osa-opn.org/opn/media/images/header/OPNbanner_left.jpg Optics and Photonics Image of the Week RSS http://www.osa-opn.org/gallery/ 70b134ca-c2fa-4b6c-8336-0759c339f7fe <![CDATA[Sauron’s Eye]]> Interference contrast image of unintentional and apparently destructive etching of an AlGaAs/GaAs superlattice on a GaAs wafer by hydrogen chloride, which penetrated a 100-nm-thick GaAs capping layer. —Wolfgang Stumpf, ETH Zurich

]]> <p><a href="http://www.osa-opn.org/home/gallery/after_images/13-06-01/?feed=ImageOfTheWeek" title=""><img src="" width="240" alt="" /></a></p> Sat, 01 Jun 2013 12:08:01 GMT http://www.osa-opn.org/home/gallery/after_images/13-06-01/?feed=ImageOfTheWeek image/jpeg 75 75 bed0e86a-1ad5-443f-8b7d-cd421c1cd5c5 <![CDATA[Reflection of Sunlight]]> Dance of elegant colors from sunlight reflection off the sculptured rocks in Antelope Canyon of Arizona (U.S.A.). — Yuhong Yao, Institute of Optics, University of Rochester

]]> <p><a href="http://www.osa-opn.org/home/gallery/after_images/13-05-01/?feed=ImageOfTheWeek" title=""><img src="" width="240" alt="" /></a></p> Mon, 29 Apr 2013 03:11:23 GMT http://www.osa-opn.org/home/gallery/after_images/13-05-01/?feed=ImageOfTheWeek image/jpeg 75 75 67d84960-c222-4286-9eed-cd6927a4739b <![CDATA[African Clawed Frog]]> Confocal tile scan of Xenopus laevis (African clawed frog) tadpole (10x).

—Tong Zhang, McGill University, Canada, Nikon Small World Competition, 2009 Image of Distinction

]]> <p><a href="http://www.osa-opn.org/home/gallery/after_images/13-04-01/?feed=ImageOfTheWeek" title=""><img src="" width="240" alt="" /></a></p> Mon, 15 Apr 2013 15:07:24 GMT http://www.osa-opn.org/home/gallery/after_images/13-04-01/?feed=ImageOfTheWeek image/jpeg 75 75 b543825d-6335-4405-86fe-ff3c4ce075e4 <![CDATA[X-ray Pulse]]> This art represents a coherent (laser-like) X-ray pulse with the largest color spread generated to date. Such rainbows of color can support extremely short, few-attosecond light pulses, which are invisible to the human eye but important for capturing the ultrafast dynamics in materials and nanosystems. —Tenio Popmintchev, JILA, University of Colorado at Boulder

]]> <p><a href="http://www.osa-opn.org/home/gallery/after_images/13-03-01/?feed=ImageOfTheWeek" title=""><img src="" width="240" alt="" /></a></p> Mon, 15 Apr 2013 15:03:12 GMT http://www.osa-opn.org/home/gallery/after_images/13-03-01/?feed=ImageOfTheWeek image/jpeg 75 75 20530785-61e8-476e-a4b8-5f45e987de13 <![CDATA[Altocumulus Cloud]]> —Samuel F. Pellicori, Pellicori Optical consulting, U.S.A.]]> <p><a href="http://www.osa-opn.org/home/gallery/after_images/13-02-01/?feed=ImageOfTheWeek" title=""><img src="" width="240" alt="" /></a></p> Fri, 01 Feb 2013 13:54:06 GMT http://www.osa-opn.org/home/gallery/after_images/13-02-01/?feed=ImageOfTheWeek image/jpeg 75 75 049917c3-4190-4174-a453-f2049931364d <![CDATA[Plasma Discharge]]> —Dan Curticapean, University of Applied Sciences Offenburg, Germany
]]> <p><a href="http://www.osa-opn.org/home/gallery/after_images/13-01-01/?feed=ImageOfTheWeek" title=""><img src="" width="240" alt="" /></a></p> Tue, 01 Jan 2013 16:24:15 GMT http://www.osa-opn.org/home/gallery/after_images/13-01-01/?feed=ImageOfTheWeek image/jpeg 75 75 98ac2123-2003-4b7f-9901-785795377e2a <![CDATA[Winner of the 2012 After Image photo contest]]> —Alexander R. Albrecht, University of New Mexico ]]> <p><a href="http://www.osa-opn.org/home/gallery/after_images/12-12-01/?feed=ImageOfTheWeek" title=""><img src="" width="240" alt="" /></a></p> Sat, 01 Dec 2012 16:10:31 GMT http://www.osa-opn.org/home/gallery/after_images/12-12-01/?feed=ImageOfTheWeek image/jpeg 75 75 de3417af-4755-4ff1-a3f3-67c5b4a409ed <![CDATA[Tracing Star Twinkling]]> —David K. Lynch, Thule Scientific
]]> <p><a href="http://www.osa-opn.org/home/gallery/after_images/12-11-01/?feed=ImageOfTheWeek" title=""><img src="" width="240" alt="" /></a></p> Thu, 01 Nov 2012 16:38:44 GMT http://www.osa-opn.org/home/gallery/after_images/12-11-01/?feed=ImageOfTheWeek image/jpeg 75 75 38625500-c17b-4d94-b933-9e2d00edfcd3 <![CDATA[Internal Reflection]]> Matthew E. Anderson, San Diego State University ]]> <p><a href="http://www.osa-opn.org/home/gallery/after_images/12-10-01/?feed=ImageOfTheWeek" title=""><img src="" width="240" alt="" /></a></p> Mon, 01 Oct 2012 08:47:33 GMT http://www.osa-opn.org/home/gallery/after_images/12-10-01/?feed=ImageOfTheWeek image/jpeg 75 75 33db69ed-2c28-4828-8fdd-7440142ab099 <![CDATA[Green Flash and Super Moon]]> —Laurent Laveder, www.pixheaven.net


]]> <p><a href="http://www.osa-opn.org/home/gallery/after_images/new_document/?feed=ImageOfTheWeek" title=""><img src="" width="240" alt="" /></a></p> Sat, 01 Sep 2012 16:22:23 GMT http://www.osa-opn.org/home/gallery/after_images/new_document/?feed=ImageOfTheWeek image/jpeg 75 75