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Optics in 2015

Guest Editors: Robert D. Guenther and colleagues

This special issue of Optics & Photonics News highlights the most exciting peer-reviewed optics research to have emerged over the past 12 months. Continue Reading



INDUSTRY NEWS

» Optical Sensing Market Could Boom 25% Annually Though 2020 – 04 Dec
» Elbit Systems Launches Wearable-Display Company, Everysight – 19 Nov
» SFU and Hanhai Forge “Accelerator” for Emerging Tech – 12 Nov
» GSI Group to Acquire Lincoln Laser in US$11 Million Deal – 06 Nov


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The Optical Society Celebrates Optica’s Successful First Year

31 August 2015
Optica, The Optical Society’s newest journal, dedicated to rapidly disseminating the highest impact peer-reviewed research across the entire spectr...

The Optical Society Celebrates Optica’s Successful First Year

OSA’s Photobiomodulation Incubator: Articulating a Common Mission for Today’s Research

31 August 2015
The Optical Society (OSA) is hosting a follow-up Incubator to last year’s meeting on September 1-2, 2015. This meeting will bring together researc...

OSA’s Photobiomodulation Incubator: Articulating a Common Mission for Today’s Research

International Year of Light Comes to Washington D.C. on September 12th

26 August 2015
Two-day event will feature the latest in light-based technologies as well as leading scientists and educators to promote improved public understand...

International Year of Light Comes to Washington D.C. on September 12th
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Viewing angle enhancement of an integral imaging display using Bragg mismatched reconstruction of holographic optical elements


Holographic-optical-element (HOE)-based integral imaging display can be applied to augmented reality. However, a narrow viewing angle is a bottlene...

Viewing angle enhancement of an integral imaging display using Bragg mismatched reconstruction of holographic optical elements

Photon-sparse microscopy: visible light imaging using infrared illumination

Optica, Vol. 2 Issue 12, pp.1049-1052 (2015)
Conventional imaging systems rely upon illumination light that is scattered or transmitted by the object and subsequently imaged. Ghost-imaging sys...

Photon-sparse microscopy: visible light imaging using infrared illumination

3D laser-written silica glass step-index high-contrast waveguides for the 3.5  μm mid-infrared range

Optics Letters, Vol. 40 Issue 24, pp.5818-5821 (2015)
We report on the direct laser fabrication of step-index waveguides in fused silica substrates for operation in the 3.5 μm mid-infrared w...

3D laser-written silica glass step-index high-contrast waveguides for the 3.5  μm mid-infrared range

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