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 06:37:01 -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/ dfb0e289-3d6b-4697-890d-b0e5cee12259 <![CDATA[Magellanic Cloud ]]> The Swift mosaic of the Small Magellanic Cloud contains about 250,000 ultraviolet sources. The 57-megapixel image was assembled from 656 separate snapshots. The image has a total exposure time of 1.8 days, an angular resolution of 2.5 arcseconds at full size, and maps UV light at wavelengths between 1,600 and 3,300 angstroms. The SMC is about 7,000 light-years across.

 –NASA, Swift, S. Immler (Goddard) and M. Siegel (Penn State)

]]> <p><a href="http://www.osa-opn.org/home/gallery/image_of_the_week/2013/13-06-10/?feed=ImageOfTheWeek" title=""><img src="" width="240" alt="" /></a></p> Mon, 10 Jun 2013 13:15:39 GMT http://www.osa-opn.org/home/gallery/image_of_the_week/2013/13-06-10/?feed=ImageOfTheWeek image/jpeg 75 75 a3ea8850-c9eb-4f72-8c15-a5e5743a4550 <![CDATA[Pulse spectrogram]]> The second-harmonic-generation frequency-resolved optical gating spectrogram of an ultrashot laser pulse. The autocorrelation shows that the pulse duration is 11.6 fs. –Chen-Ting Liao, University of Arizona, U.S.A.

]]> <p><a href="http://www.osa-opn.org/home/gallery/image_of_the_week/2013/13-06-03/?feed=ImageOfTheWeek" title=""><img src="" width="240" alt="" /></a></p> Mon, 03 Jun 2013 13:37:23 GMT http://www.osa-opn.org/home/gallery/image_of_the_week/2013/13-06-03/?feed=ImageOfTheWeek image/jpeg 75 75 42d182ad-e0e7-49af-836d-298ba90ae4e8 <![CDATA[Optical vortex]]> A multi-color optical vortex is generated in a Raman active crystal. –Kai Wang, Miaochan Zhi, Xia Hua, James Strohaber, and Alexei V. Sokolov, Texas A&M University

 

 

]]> <p><a href="http://www.osa-opn.org/home/gallery/image_of_the_week/2013/13-05-28/?feed=ImageOfTheWeek" title=""><img src="" width="240" alt="" /></a></p> Tue, 28 May 2013 16:48:04 GMT http://www.osa-opn.org/home/gallery/image_of_the_week/2013/13-05-28/?feed=ImageOfTheWeek image/jpeg 75 75 11fe0f71-c047-4970-9515-21d0c871fa1c <![CDATA[Light-matter wave mixing]]> Laguerre-Gaussian beam light-matter wave mixing in a Bose-Einstein condensate creates a matter-wave vortex. 
–L. Deng and C.J. Zhu

]]> <p><a href="http://www.osa-opn.org/home/gallery/image_of_the_week/2013/13-05-20/?feed=ImageOfTheWeek" title=""><img src="" width="240" alt="" /></a></p> Mon, 20 May 2013 11:44:15 GMT http://www.osa-opn.org/home/gallery/image_of_the_week/2013/13-05-20/?feed=ImageOfTheWeek image/jpeg 75 75 43495fbb-8e6a-477e-87f3-645ca73e13da <![CDATA[Light Schoolwork]]> In a 4-s exposure (with flash), student Jackie O'Brien lights a match with a 200-mW red diode laser at Oswego High School in Oswego, N.Y., U.S.A., under the direction of physics teacher Thomas C. Altman. –Thomas C. Altman

]]> <p><a href="http://www.osa-opn.org/home/gallery/image_of_the_week/2013/13-05-13/?feed=ImageOfTheWeek" title=""><img src="" width="240" alt="" /></a></p> Mon, 13 May 2013 10:21:40 GMT http://www.osa-opn.org/home/gallery/image_of_the_week/2013/13-05-13/?feed=ImageOfTheWeek image/jpeg 75 75 093160c8-d066-471f-8b67-b6ce1441273b <![CDATA[Cool Coating]]> New plasma-assisted e-beam vacuum deposition system from Inrad Optics. –Inrad Optics

]]> <p><a href="http://www.osa-opn.org/home/gallery/image_of_the_week/2013/13-05-06/?feed=ImageOfTheWeek" title=""><img src="" width="240" alt="" /></a></p> Mon, 06 May 2013 10:35:25 GMT http://www.osa-opn.org/home/gallery/image_of_the_week/2013/13-05-06/?feed=ImageOfTheWeek image/jpeg 75 75 0d2dfbe5-fdaa-42dd-836c-02166ada2505 <![CDATA[Glistening Mold]]> The Rheinberg illumination technique is used to image slime mold (Dictyostelium discoideum) on agar.—William R. West, Burlington, N.C., U.S.A.

 

 

]]> <p><a href="http://www.osa-opn.org/home/gallery/image_of_the_week/2013/14-04-29/?feed=ImageOfTheWeek" title=""><img src="" width="240" alt="" /></a></p> Tue, 30 Apr 2013 12:45:16 GMT http://www.osa-opn.org/home/gallery/image_of_the_week/2013/14-04-29/?feed=ImageOfTheWeek image/jpeg 75 75 c4edeb91-4d6b-410a-b67c-83ab2a6b482b <![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/image_of_the_week/2013/14-04-22/?feed=ImageOfTheWeek" title=""><img src="" width="240" alt="" /></a></p> Mon, 22 Apr 2013 11:12:18 GMT http://www.osa-opn.org/home/gallery/image_of_the_week/2013/14-04-22/?feed=ImageOfTheWeek image/jpeg 75 75 f46cc86e-fa5e-48c4-bcad-7f7a698875d8 <![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/image_of_the_week/2013/13-04-15/?feed=ImageOfTheWeek" title=""><img src="" width="240" alt="" /></a></p> Mon, 15 Apr 2013 10:08:09 GMT http://www.osa-opn.org/home/gallery/image_of_the_week/2013/13-04-15/?feed=ImageOfTheWeek image/jpeg 75 75 63c8d586-59ec-4121-9dde-d5df6f557c71 <![CDATA[Liquid Crystal]]> Polarizing microscope image of a nematic liquid crystal micro-droplet (about 50 µm) confined in an optical adhesive (dark background). Energy conservation causes the molecules to align in one of the stable radial configurations. —Ravi K. Komanduri, North Carolina State University

 

]]> <p><a href="http://www.osa-opn.org/home/gallery/image_of_the_week/2013/13-04-08/?feed=ImageOfTheWeek" title=""><img src="" width="240" alt="" /></a></p> Mon, 08 Apr 2013 10:44:19 GMT http://www.osa-opn.org/home/gallery/image_of_the_week/2013/13-04-08/?feed=ImageOfTheWeek image/jpeg 75 75