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2007-08 August (4)
Date
Title
Comments
Rating
2007-08-30
Behind the Scenes: Ground-Based Telescopes in Hawaii
0
None
2007-08-28
The 9th International Meeting on Light and Color in Nature
0
None
2007-08-26
Notes from CESSE 2007: Open Access, Scitopia and Impact Factors
1
None
2007-08-26
High-Tech Tennis
0
None
2007-09 September (3)
Date
Title
Comments
Rating
2007-09-20
Hello from OSA’s 2007 Annual Meeting
0
None
2007-09-20
OPN Enters the Blogosphere
0
None
2007-09-11
The LED Incapacitator Disorients Criminals
0
None
2007-10 October (4)
Date
Title
Comments
Rating
2007-10-31
The 50th Anniversary of Sputnik
0
5
2007-10-22
Sun Shines on Solar Decathlon Teams
0
None
2007-10-11
Optics Limericks
0
4
2007-10-05
Large Telescopes Hunt Down Galaxies, Nebulae
0
None
2007-11 November (3)
Date
Title
Comments
Rating
2007-11-30
LEDs Light Up Rockefeller Center’s Holiday Tree
1
None
2007-11-15
More Optics Limericks
0
5
2007-11-06
Optics Puzzle—One Window, Three Seasons
2
None
2007-12 December (3)
Date
Title
Comments
Rating
2007-12-20
Lighting-Related Clauses in Energy Legislation
1
None
2007-12-13
New Master’s Program: Color in Informatics and Media Technology
1
None
2007-12-08
A New Classification of Interferometers
0
3
2008-01 January (4)
Date
Title
Comments
Rating
2008-01-29
Stay Up to Date on Campaign 2008
0
None
2008-01-25
You Say Optics, I Say Photonics
0
5
2008-01-09
Bush Signs Open Access Law
1
None
2008-01-05
Simulations of Shattering Viruses
0
None
2008-02 February (5)
Date
Title
Comments
Rating
2008-02-28
Greetings from OFC/NFOEC 2008
0
None
2008-02-20
Welcome to the Hotel Metamaterial
0
None
2008-02-12
Colorizing Metals Beyond Basic Black
0
None
2008-02-11
Saying Goodbye to Instant Film
0
5
2008-02-05
Unos, Dos, Tres Dimensions!
0
None
2008-03 March (5)
Date
Title
Comments
Rating
2008-03-31
Happy Birthday, Lena Sjööblom Söderberg!
0
5
2008-03-26
Optics Puzzler: Could We Shine Light on the Moon?
5
None
2008-03-17
Holographic 3D Film
0
5
2008-03-10
First Light, Binocular Style
2
None
2008-03-04
A Real Ray Gun
2
5
2008-04 April (3)
Date
Title
Comments
Rating
2008-04-29
Women in Optics
0
None
2008-04-23
Blinding Insights into Laser Pointers and Planes
1
5
2008-04-08
Using Laser Combs to Search for Earth-like Planets
0
5
2008-05 May (5)
Date
Title
Comments
Rating
2008-05-29
An Optical Pacemaker for Laboratory Research
1
None
2008-05-28
The True Colors of Mars
1
None
2008-05-23
The ‘Telectroscope’ Crosses the Pond
0
None
2008-05-14
Instant Film Still Has Its Fans
0
5
2008-05-09
Laser Conference Update
1
None
2008-06 June (4)
Date
Title
Comments
Rating
2008-06-21
Science 2.0: Links and Tags and Blogs, Oh My!
1
None
2008-06-19
Back to (Summer) School
1
None
2008-06-12
OPN’s Blog Is All A-Twitter
0
None
2008-06-05
Mirrors from Moon Dust?
0
None
2008-07 July (4)
Date
Title
Comments
Rating
2008-07-28
Summer Reading Recommendations
1
None
2008-07-19
Optics in the News
0
None
2008-07-16
Solar Energy Lights Up the Hill
0
None
2008-07-03
The “People’s Telescope”
1
None
2008-08 August (3)
Date
Title
Comments
Rating
2008-08-30
Medieval Nanotechnology
1
None
2008-08-16
Metamaterials Make the News
0
None
2008-08-08
Photo Caption Contest
6
3
2008-09 September (3)
Date
Title
Comments
Rating
2008-09-30
Hubble Repair Mission Postponed Until 2009
0
None
2008-09-27
Update on the Hubble Repair Mission
0
None
2008-09-10
"First Beam" for the Large Hadron Collider
1
None
2008-10 October (4)
Date
Title
Comments
Rating
2008-10-30
A Peek at Past and Future Space Missions
0
None
2008-10-22
Space and Other Topics at FiO 2008
0
None
2008-10-21
Day 2 of OSA’s Annual Meeting
0
None
2008-10-09
Green Glowing Glop Garners Nobel
0
None
2008-11 November (3)
Date
Title
Comments
Rating
2008-11-21
Optics Puzzle: Six Degrees of Optics
3
None
2008-11-12
OSA Member Talks Holograms on NPR
1
5
2008-11-05
Optics Confidential
0
5
2008-12 December (2)
Date
Title
Comments
Rating
2008-12-12
Optics and the Leap Second
0
None
2008-12-11
OSA Honorary Member Tapped for Obama’s Cabinet
1
None
2009-01 January (4)
Date
Title
Comments
Rating
2009-01-31
Teleportation Gets Some Press
0
None
2009-01-23
Reinventing Instant Photography, Perhaps
1
None
2009-01-13
Adjustable Eyeglasses for the World’s Poor
0
5
2009-01-03
Happy New Year of Astronomy!
0
None
2009-02 February (1)
Date
Title
Comments
Rating
2009-02-05
OSA Launches Review Journal
0
None
2009-03 March (4)
Date
Title
Comments
Rating
2009-03-25
More from OFC 2009
0
None
2009-03-25
Report from OFC 2009
0
None
2009-03-19
Skywatching Projects for All
1
None
2009-03-07
Astronomy Marches Onward
1
None
2009-04 April (3)
Date
Title
Comments
Rating
2009-04-29
University of Sydney Launches Photonics Institute
0
None
2009-04-15
T-Minus Four Weeks and Counting
1
None
2009-04-02
100 Hours of Astronomy
0
None
2009-05 May (4)
Date
Title
Comments
Rating
2009-05-21
Final Day of Green Photonics
0
None
2009-05-20
Day 2 of OIDA’s Green Photonics Show
0
None
2009-05-19
Strong Link between Photonics, Green Tech at OIDA Show
0
None
2009-05-07
I’d Like to Make a Quantum Phone Call, Please…
1
None
2009-06 June (7)
Date
Title
Comments
Rating
2009-06-19
More Lidar in Space
0
None
2009-06-11
OSA Honorary Member Townes Says a Giant Star Is Shrinking
1
None
2009-06-06
CLEO/IQEC 2009, Day 4: Seeing the Really Big Picture
0
None
2009-06-04
All Around CLEO/IQEC, Day 3
0
None
2009-06-03
CLEO/IQEC Day 2: The Ultimate White-Glove Test for Spacebound Optics
0
None
2009-06-02
More from CLEO/IQEC Day 1: Biomedicine and Energy
0
None
2009-06-02
CLEO/IQEC 2009, Day 1: A Talk by Ted Hänsch
0
None
2009-07 July (3)
Date
Title
Comments
Rating
2009-07-22
Huge Telescope Project Selects Mauna Kea as Its Site
0
None
2009-07-20
Still Retroreflecting After All These 40 Years
0
None
2009-07-14
Large Telescope to Be Inaugurated in the Canary Islands
0
None
2009-08 August (5)
Date
Title
Comments
Rating
2009-09-01
European Union Bans Edison’s Invention
1
None
2009-08-25
400 Years of Telescopes and Astronomical Outreach (Exactly)
0
None
2009-08-25
Flexible, Stretchable, Inorganic LEDs
0
None
2009-08-22
LIGO Team Finds Important Constraint to Gravity Waves
1
None
2009-08-19
Some Recent Highlights from OSA’s Journals
0
None
2009-09 September (3)
Date
Title
Comments
Rating
2009-09-25
Could You Win the ‘L Prize’?
1
None
2009-09-23
GigaGalaxy Zoom: Between Professional and Amateur Astronomy
0
None
2009-09-10
Hubble Servicing Mission 4: The Pictures Are In!
0
None
2009-10 October (14)
Date
Title
Comments
Rating
2009-10-30
An Optical Frequency Comb Anyone Can See
0
None
2009-10-30
For “Advocate for Optics” Nominations, Time Is Running Out
0
None
2009-10-27
LED Production, Direct Solar Fuels Garner First-Round ARPA-E Funding
0
None
2009-10-22
Galilean Nights and Frequency Combs
0
None
2009-10-19
FiO/LS Wrapup: Last Day Brings Stunning Images
1
None
2009-10-15
X-Ray Lasers, Adaptive Optics and Other Topics from FiO
0
None
2009-10-14
High Noon at the FiO Racetrack
0
5
2009-10-13
FiO/LS Day 2: Switching Into High Gear
1
None
2009-10-12
Greetings from FiO -- Report on Day 1
0
None
2009-10-10
Happy 102nd Birthday, Mr. Webber!
0
None
2009-10-08
Will the Sun Shine on the Solar Decathlon?
0
None
2009-10-07
OSA Members Embrace Social Networking for FiO
1
None
2009-10-06
Optical Communications, Digital Imaging Garner 2009 Physics Nobel
0
None
2009-10-02
Fact-Checking the Lighting Labels
0
None
2009-11 November (6)
Date
Title
Comments
Rating
2009-12-01
Dot-Astronomy, Dot-Optics?
0
None
2009-11-19
Hubble History Goes to the Smithsonian
1
None
2009-11-18
A Star Is Made (Over)
0
None
2009-11-13
Enlightening Capitol Hill on Solid-State Lighting
0
None
2009-11-11
Light for Propulsion
0
None
2009-11-06
High School Students Publish in Astrophysics Journal
0
None
2009-12 December (6)
Date
Title
Comments
Rating
2009-12-23
Out with the Old Year (IYA), In with the New (LaserFest)
1
None
2009-12-18
When Is Waste Heat from Lighting Not Such a Waste?
1
3
2009-12-16
For the Holidays: Photon Carols, Snowflakes and a Festive Star Cluster
0
None
2009-12-12
Reaching Out to More Optics-Community Members
0
None
2009-12-12
Possible Uses for “Blackest Black” Metals
0
None
2009-12-10
Nobel 2009 Speeches Online
1
5
2010-01 January (4)
Date
Title
Comments
Rating
2010-01-22
Sun-Powering and Lighting Haitian Relief Efforts
0
None
2010-01-15
High-Res Imaging of Haiti’s Disaster Garners Worldwide Attention
0
None
2010-01-12
“Citizen Sky” Observing Project Still Seeks Volunteer Stargazers
1
None
2010-01-06
New Year Opens with Terahertz-Scanning Concerns
0
None
2010-02 February (3)
Date
Title
Comments
Rating
2010-02-23
One of the LASIK Pioneers
1
5
2010-02-17
A Tabletop Laser Test Improves Accuracy of Einstein’s Gravitational Redshift
0
None
2010-02-17
Three Cheers for Modern Telecommunications
0
5
2010-03 March (9)
Date
Title
Comments
Rating
2010-03-25
OFC/NFOEC Tribute to Charles Kao
2
4.5
2010-03-25
OFC/NFOEC Service Provider Summit Covers the Evolving Internet
2
5
2010-03-25
An Interview with Fiber Optic Pioneer Randy Giles
5
5
2010-03-24
Team that Made First Commerical Fiber Reunited at OFC/NFOEC
0
5
2010-03-23
OFC/NFOEC Honors Charles Kao, the Father of Fiber Optics
1
5
2010-03-23
OFC Executive Forum Looks to 40 G and 100 G Networks
1
4.5
2010-03-23
Google's Chief Internet Evangelist Kicks Off OFC/NFOEC Exec Forum
4
5
2010-03-18
Highlighting a Historical Experiment in Diffraction
0
5
2010-03-05
Can You See the Stars?
1
4
2010-04 April (3)
Date
Title
Comments
Rating
2010-04-30
Man on a Mission for a Potential Medical Laser Technique
1
5
2010-04-23
Hubble Enters Third Decade of Service to Astronomy
0
5
2010-04-14
Is the “Citizen Sky” Mystery Solved?
0
5
2010-05 May (9)
Date
Title
Comments
Rating
2010-05-29
CLEO: The Wrapup
1
5
2010-05-21
CLEO: A Three-Dimensional Gallery of Laser History
2
5
2010-05-21
CLEO: Some Cool Things I’ve Been Learning
0
5
2010-05-20
CLEO: DNA and Diamonds at the Wednesday Plenary
1
5
2010-05-19
CLEO: Stimulated Emission of Sweet Harmonics
2
4.8
2010-05-18
CLEO: More on the LaserFest History Symposium
1
5
2010-05-17
CLEO: And So the Second Half-Century of the Laser Begins….
0
5
2010-05-12
Near and Far, All Focused in One Picture
1
5
2010-05-07
Scanning Robin Hood’s Dungeon with Lasers
1
5
2010-06 June (4)
Date
Title
Comments
Rating
2010-06-19
Monitoring Air Quality Around the Gulf of Mexico
1
5
2010-06-12
Solar Cells, Dark Pulses and Goal Fever: Roundup of This Week’s News
0
5
2010-06-03
Two OSA Award Winners Among Eight Kavli Prize Honorees
0
5
2010-05-17
CLEO: And So the Second Half-Century of the Laser Begins….
0
5
2010-07 July (3)
Date
Title
Comments
Rating
2010-07-22
NASA Lidar Satellite Maps Earth's Tree-Canopy Height
0
None
2010-07-09
Solar-Tech Test Site Announced
0
None
2010-07-01
One Solar Car Race Finishes, Another Starting Soon; Solar Sail Deployed in Space
0
5
2010-08 August (3)
Date
Title
Comments
Rating
2010-08-11
AFOSR LaserFest Event Highlights Work of OSA Fellows
1
5
2010-08-06
Lasers Widen Telescopes’ Clear Field of View
0
5
2010-08-05
Happy (Belated) 95th Birthday, Charles Townes!
0
4.7
2010-09 September (4)
Date
Title
Comments
Rating
2010-09-29
Another OSA Member Wins MacArthur ‘Genius Grant’
0
None
2010-09-28
OSA Fellow Wins MacArthur ‘Genius Grant’ for Silicon Nanophotonics
0
5
2010-09-23
Ole Rømer: Three Hundred Years of Light Speed
1
4.2
2010-09-22
Scientists Propose Solar-Powered ‘Data Clippers’ to Sail the Solar System
0
4.5
2010-10 October (2)
Date
Title
Comments
Rating
2010-10-29
Arthur Ashkin Honored at FiO/LS
0
5
2010-10-26
FiO/LS Day One: From Spooky Entanglements to Space Lidar
0
5
Applied optics (11)
Date
Title
Comments
Rating
2011-05-05
CLEO:2011 Shows Off Applications and Opportunities
0
5
2011-05-03
CLEO:2011--Two Compelling Technological Histories
1
5
2010-10-29
Arthur Ashkin Honored at FiO/LS
0
5
2010-10-26
FiO/LS Day One: From Spooky Entanglements to Space Lidar
0
5
2010-09-29
Another OSA Member Wins MacArthur ‘Genius Grant’
0
None
2010-09-28
OSA Fellow Wins MacArthur ‘Genius Grant’ for Silicon Nanophotonics
0
5
2010-08-11
AFOSR LaserFest Event Highlights Work of OSA Fellows
1
5
2010-06-19
Monitoring Air Quality Around the Gulf of Mexico
1
5
2010-05-12
Near and Far, All Focused in One Picture
1
5
2010-05-07
Scanning Robin Hood’s Dungeon with Lasers
1
5
2008-12-12
Optics and the Leap Second
0
None
Astronomy (18)
Date
Title
Comments
Rating
2010-12-21
Quantum Optics Could Help Detect Gravitational Waves
1
5
2010-08-06
Lasers Widen Telescopes’ Clear Field of View
0
5
2010-08-05
Happy (Belated) 95th Birthday, Charles Townes!
0
4.7
2010-06-03
Two OSA Award Winners Among Eight Kavli Prize Honorees
0
5
2010-04-23
Hubble Enters Third Decade of Service to Astronomy
0
5
2010-04-14
Is the “Citizen Sky” Mystery Solved?
0
5
2010-03-05
Can You See the Stars?
1
4
2008-10-30
A Peek at Past and Future Space Missions
0
None
2008-10-22
Space and Other Topics at FiO 2008
0
None
2008-09-30
Hubble Repair Mission Postponed Until 2009
0
None
2008-09-27
Update on the Hubble Repair Mission
0
None
2008-07-03
The “People’s Telescope”
1
None
2008-06-05
Mirrors from Moon Dust?
0
None
2008-05-28
The True Colors of Mars
1
None
2008-03-26
Optics Puzzler: Could We Shine Light on the Moon?
5
None
2008-03-10
First Light, Binocular Style
2
None
2007-10-05
Large Telescopes Hunt Down Galaxies, Nebulae
0
None
2007-08-30
Behind the Scenes: Ground-Based Telescopes in Hawaii
0
None
Astrophysics (13)
Date
Title
Comments
Rating
2010-12-21
Quantum Optics Could Help Detect Gravitational Waves
1
5
2010-09-29
Another OSA Member Wins MacArthur ‘Genius Grant’
0
None
2010-08-05
Happy (Belated) 95th Birthday, Charles Townes!
0
4.7
2010-07-22
NASA Lidar Satellite Maps Earth's Tree-Canopy Height
0
None
2010-07-09
Solar-Tech Test Site Announced
0
None
2010-06-03
Two OSA Award Winners Among Eight Kavli Prize Honorees
0
5
2010-04-23
Hubble Enters Third Decade of Service to Astronomy
0
5
2010-04-14
Is the “Citizen Sky” Mystery Solved?
0
5
2008-07-03
The “People’s Telescope”
1
None
2008-04-08
Using Laser Combs to Search for Earth-like Planets
0
5
2008-03-10
First Light, Binocular Style
2
None
2007-10-05
Large Telescopes Hunt Down Galaxies, Nebulae
0
None
2007-08-30
Behind the Scenes: Ground-Based Telescopes in Hawaii
0
None
Biomedical optics (13)
Date
Title
Comments
Rating
2011-05-05
CLEO:2011 Shows Off Applications and Opportunities
0
5
2011-05-03
CLEO:2011--Two Compelling Technological Histories
1
5
2010-10-29
Arthur Ashkin Honored at FiO/LS
0
5
2010-10-26
FiO/LS Day One: From Spooky Entanglements to Space Lidar
0
5
2010-09-28
OSA Fellow Wins MacArthur ‘Genius Grant’ for Silicon Nanophotonics
0
5
2010-05-20
CLEO: DNA and Diamonds at the Wednesday Plenary
1
5
2010-04-30
Man on a Mission for a Potential Medical Laser Technique
1
5
2010-03-18
Highlighting a Historical Experiment in Diffraction
0
5
2008-11-05
Optics Confidential
0
5
2008-10-09
Green Glowing Glop Garners Nobel
0
None
2008-05-29
An Optical Pacemaker for Laboratory Research
1
None
2008-03-04
A Real Ray Gun
2
5
2008-01-05
Simulations of Shattering Viruses
0
None
CLEO/QELS (14)
Date
Title
Comments
Rating
2011-05-06
Catching Up at CLEO:2011
1
None
2011-05-05
Report from CLEO:2011: Nuclear photonics, Anderson localization, and photonic crystal theory
0
5
2011-05-05
CLEO:2011 Shows Off Applications and Opportunities
0
5
2011-05-03
CLEO:2011--Two Compelling Technological Histories
1
5
2011-05-03
CLEO:2011 Opens with Strong Technical Sessions
0
4.7
2010-05-29
CLEO: The Wrapup
1
5
2010-05-21
CLEO: A Three-Dimensional Gallery of Laser History
2
5
2010-05-21
CLEO: Some Cool Things I’ve Been Learning
0
5
2010-05-20
CLEO: DNA and Diamonds at the Wednesday Plenary
1
5
2010-05-19
CLEO: Stimulated Emission of Sweet Harmonics
2
4.8
2010-05-18
Report from CLEO: To Infinity and Beyond...with Laser Power
1
5
2010-05-18
CLEO: More on the LaserFest History Symposium
1
5
2010-05-17
CLEO: And So the Second Half-Century of the Laser Begins….
0
5
2008-05-09
Laser Conference Update
1
None
Energy (8)
Date
Title
Comments
Rating
2011-05-05
CLEO:2011 Shows Off Applications and Opportunities
0
5
2010-07-09
Solar-Tech Test Site Announced
0
None
2010-07-01
One Solar Car Race Finishes, Another Starting Soon; Solar Sail Deployed in Space
0
5
2008-12-11
OSA Honorary Member Tapped for Obama’s Cabinet
1
None
2008-07-16
Solar Energy Lights Up the Hill
0
None
2008-05-09
Laser Conference Update
1
None
2007-12-20
Lighting-Related Clauses in Energy Legislation
1
None
2007-10-22
Sun Shines on Solar Decathlon Teams
0
None
Fiber optics (10)
Date
Title
Comments
Rating
2011-05-03
CLEO:2011--Two Compelling Technological Histories
1
5
2011-03-11
Report on OFC/NFOEC Postdeadline Papers: 100 Terabits? No Problem Over One Optical Fiber
2
5
2010-10-28
FiO/LS Day Three: Cheers for Optical Communications
1
4.4
2010-03-25
OFC/NFOEC Tribute to Charles Kao
2
4.5
2010-03-25
OFC/NFOEC Service Provider Summit Covers the Evolving Internet
2
5
2010-03-25
An Interview with Fiber Optic Pioneer Randy Giles
5
5
2010-03-24
Team that Made First Commerical Fiber Reunited at OFC/NFOEC
0
5
2010-03-23
OFC/NFOEC Honors Charles Kao, the Father of Fiber Optics
1
5
2010-03-23
OFC Executive Forum Looks to 40 G and 100 G Networks
1
4.5
2010-03-23
Google's Chief Internet Evangelist Kicks Off OFC/NFOEC Exec Forum
4
5
FiO/LS (3)
Date
Title
Comments
Rating
2010-10-28
FiO/LS Day Three: Cheers for Optical Communications
1
4.4
2010-10-26
FiO/LS Day One: From Spooky Entanglements to Space Lidar
0
5
2007-09-20
Hello from OSA’s 2007 Annual Meeting
0
None
Frontiers in Optics (3)
Date
Title
Comments
Rating
2010-10-29
Arthur Ashkin Honored at FiO/LS
0
5
2010-10-28
FiO/LS Day Three: Cheers for Optical Communications
1
4.4
2010-10-27
Navigating the Laser Maze at FiO/LS
10
5
Imaging (3)
Date
Title
Comments
Rating
2010-05-12
Near and Far, All Focused in One Picture
1
5
2008-05-28
The True Colors of Mars
1
None
2008-02-05
Unos, Dos, Tres Dimensions!
0
None
Information technology (6)
Date
Title
Comments
Rating
2010-03-23
OFC/NFOEC Honors Charles Kao, the Father of Fiber Optics
1
5
2010-03-23
OFC Executive Forum Looks to 40 G and 100 G Networks
1
4.5
2010-03-23
Google's Chief Internet Evangelist Kicks Off OFC/NFOEC Exec Forum
4
5
2008-06-21
Science 2.0: Links and Tags and Blogs, Oh My!
1
None
2008-06-12
OPN’s Blog Is All A-Twitter
0
None
2008-02-28
Greetings from OFC/NFOEC 2008
0
None
Laserfest (2)
Date
Title
Comments
Rating
2010-10-27
Navigating the Laser Maze at FiO/LS
10
5
2010-08-11
AFOSR LaserFest Event Highlights Work of OSA Fellows
1
5
Lasers (22)
Date
Title
Comments
Rating
2011-05-05
CLEO:2011 Shows Off Applications and Opportunities
0
5
2011-05-03
CLEO:2011--Two Compelling Technological Histories
1
5
2011-05-03
CLEO:2011 Opens with Strong Technical Sessions
0
4.7
2010-10-27
Navigating the Laser Maze at FiO/LS
10
5
2010-10-26
FiO/LS Day One: From Spooky Entanglements to Space Lidar
0
5
2010-09-29
Another OSA Member Wins MacArthur ‘Genius Grant’
0
None
2010-08-11
AFOSR LaserFest Event Highlights Work of OSA Fellows
1
5
2010-08-06
Lasers Widen Telescopes’ Clear Field of View
0
5
2010-08-05
Happy (Belated) 95th Birthday, Charles Townes!
0
4.7
2010-05-29
CLEO: The Wrapup
1
5
2010-05-21
CLEO: A Three-Dimensional Gallery of Laser History
2
5
2010-05-21
CLEO: Some Cool Things I’ve Been Learning
0
5
2010-05-20
CLEO: DNA and Diamonds at the Wednesday Plenary
1
5
2010-05-19
CLEO: Stimulated Emission of Sweet Harmonics
2
4.8
2010-05-18
Report from CLEO: To Infinity and Beyond...with Laser Power
1
5
2010-05-18
CLEO: More on the LaserFest History Symposium
1
5
2010-05-17
CLEO: And So the Second Half-Century of the Laser Begins….
0
5
2010-04-30
Man on a Mission for a Potential Medical Laser Technique
1
5
2008-12-12
Optics and the Leap Second
0
None
2008-04-23
Blinding Insights into Laser Pointers and Planes
1
5
2008-04-08
Using Laser Combs to Search for Earth-like Planets
0
5
2008-03-26
Optics Puzzler: Could We Shine Light on the Moon?
5
None
Lasers, CLEO (13)
Date
Title
Comments
Rating
2011-05-06
Catching Up at CLEO:2011
1
None
2011-05-05
Report from CLEO:2011: Nuclear photonics, Anderson localization, and photonic crystal theory
0
5
2011-05-05
CLEO:2011 Shows Off Applications and Opportunities
0
5
2011-05-03
CLEO:2011--Two Compelling Technological Histories
1
5
2011-05-03
CLEO:2011 Opens with Strong Technical Sessions
0
4.7
2010-05-21
CLEO: A Three-Dimensional Gallery of Laser History
2
5
2010-05-21
CLEO: Some Cool Things I’ve Been Learning
0
5
2010-05-20
CLEO: DNA and Diamonds at the Wednesday Plenary
1
5
2010-05-19
CLEO: Stimulated Emission of Sweet Harmonics
2
4.8
2010-05-18
Report from CLEO: To Infinity and Beyond...with Laser Power
1
5
2010-05-18
CLEO: More on the LaserFest History Symposium
1
5
2010-05-17
CLEO: And So the Second Half-Century of the Laser Begins….
0
5
2008-05-09
Laser Conference Update
1
None
Miscellaneous Optics (28)
Date
Title
Comments
Rating
2010-09-22
Scientists Propose Solar-Powered ‘Data Clippers’ to Sail the Solar System
0
4.5
2010-07-22
NASA Lidar Satellite Maps Earth's Tree-Canopy Height
0
None
2010-07-01
One Solar Car Race Finishes, Another Starting Soon; Solar Sail Deployed in Space
0
5
2010-06-19
Monitoring Air Quality Around the Gulf of Mexico
1
5
2010-06-12
Solar Cells, Dark Pulses and Goal Fever: Roundup of This Week’s News
0
5
2010-05-07
Scanning Robin Hood’s Dungeon with Lasers
1
5
2008-12-12
Optics and the Leap Second
0
None
2008-11-12
OSA Member Talks Holograms on NPR
1
5
2008-09-10
"First Beam" for the Large Hadron Collider
1
None
2008-08-16
Metamaterials Make the News
0
None
2008-07-19
Optics in the News
0
None
2008-06-21
Science 2.0: Links and Tags and Blogs, Oh My!
1
None
2008-06-19
Back to (Summer) School
1
None
2008-06-05
Mirrors from Moon Dust?
0
None
2008-03-17
Holographic 3D Film
0
5
2008-02-20
Welcome to the Hotel Metamaterial
0
None
2008-02-12
Colorizing Metals Beyond Basic Black
0
None
2008-01-29
Stay Up to Date on Campaign 2008
0
None
2008-01-09
Bush Signs Open Access Law
1
None
2007-12-13
New Master’s Program: Color in Informatics and Media Technology
1
None
2007-12-08
A New Classification of Interferometers
0
3
2007-11-15
More Optics Limericks
0
5
2007-11-06
Optics Puzzle—One Window, Three Seasons
2
None
2007-10-11
Optics Limericks
0
4
2007-09-20
OPN Enters the Blogosphere
0
None
2007-09-11
The LED Incapacitator Disorients Criminals
0
None
2007-08-28
The 9th International Meeting on Light and Color in Nature
0
None
2007-08-26
Notes from CESSE 2007: Open Access, Scitopia and Impact Factors
1
None
OFC/NFOEC (12)
Date
Title
Comments
Rating
2011-03-11
Report on OFC/NFOEC Postdeadline Papers: 100 Terabits? No Problem Over One Optical Fiber
2
5
2011-03-09
Report from the OFC/NFOEC Service Provider Summit
1
5
2011-03-08
"Gigabit Society" is Theme of OFC/NFOEC 2011 Plenary
0
5
2010-09-28
OSA Fellow Wins MacArthur ‘Genius Grant’ for Silicon Nanophotonics
0
5
2010-03-25
OFC/NFOEC Tribute to Charles Kao
2
4.5
2010-03-25
OFC/NFOEC Service Provider Summit Covers the Evolving Internet
2
5
2010-03-25
An Interview with Fiber Optic Pioneer Randy Giles
5
5
2010-03-24
Team that Made First Commerical Fiber Reunited at OFC/NFOEC
0
5
2010-03-23
OFC/NFOEC Honors Charles Kao, the Father of Fiber Optics
1
5
2010-03-23
OFC Executive Forum Looks to 40 G and 100 G Networks
1
4.5
2010-03-23
Google's Chief Internet Evangelist Kicks Off OFC/NFOEC Exec Forum
4
5
2008-02-28
Greetings from OFC/NFOEC 2008
0
None
Ophthalmology (2)
Date
Title
Comments
Rating
2011-03-08
Executive Forum Opening Sets Positive Tone for OFC/NFOEC 2011
0
5
2010-04-30
Man on a Mission for a Potential Medical Laser Technique
1
5
Optics and pop culture (11)
Date
Title
Comments
Rating
2010-10-27
Navigating the Laser Maze at FiO/LS
10
5
2010-05-07
Scanning Robin Hood’s Dungeon with Lasers
1
5
2008-10-21
Day 2 of OSA’s Annual Meeting
0
None
2008-05-23
The ‘Telectroscope’ Crosses the Pond
0
None
2008-03-31
Happy Birthday, Lena Sjööblom Söderberg!
0
5
2008-03-17
Holographic 3D Film
0
5
2008-03-04
A Real Ray Gun
2
5
2008-02-11
Saying Goodbye to Instant Film
0
5
2008-02-05
Unos, Dos, Tres Dimensions!
0
None
2007-11-30
LEDs Light Up Rockefeller Center’s Holiday Tree
1
None
2007-08-26
High-Tech Tennis
0
None
Optics history (19)
Date
Title
Comments
Rating
2010-10-29
Arthur Ashkin Honored at FiO/LS
0
5
2010-10-28
FiO/LS Day Three: Cheers for Optical Communications
1
4.4
2010-09-23
Ole Rømer: Three Hundred Years of Light Speed
1
4.2
2010-08-11
AFOSR LaserFest Event Highlights Work of OSA Fellows
1
5
2010-08-05
Happy (Belated) 95th Birthday, Charles Townes!
0
4.7
2010-05-21
CLEO: A Three-Dimensional Gallery of Laser History
2
5
2010-03-25
OFC/NFOEC Tribute to Charles Kao
2
4.5
2010-03-24
Team that Made First Commerical Fiber Reunited at OFC/NFOEC
0
5
2010-03-23
OFC/NFOEC Honors Charles Kao, the Father of Fiber Optics
1
5
2010-03-18
Highlighting a Historical Experiment in Diffraction
0
5
2008-11-21
Optics Puzzle: Six Degrees of Optics
3
None
2008-08-30
Medieval Nanotechnology
1
None
2008-08-08
Photo Caption Contest
6
3
2008-07-28
Summer Reading Recommendations
1
None
2008-05-14
Instant Film Still Has Its Fans
0
5
2008-03-26
Optics Puzzler: Could We Shine Light on the Moon?
5
None
2008-02-11
Saying Goodbye to Instant Film
0
5
2008-01-25
You Say Optics, I Say Photonics
0
5
2007-10-31
The 50th Anniversary of Sputnik
0
5
OSA (12)
Date
Title
Comments
Rating
2011-05-05
Report from CLEO:2011: Nuclear photonics, Anderson localization, and photonic crystal theory
0
5
2011-05-05
CLEO:2011 Shows Off Applications and Opportunities
0
5
2011-03-08
"Gigabit Society" is Theme of OFC/NFOEC 2011 Plenary
0
5
2011-03-08
Executive Forum Opening Sets Positive Tone for OFC/NFOEC 2011
0
5
2010-10-28
FiO/LS Day Three: Cheers for Optical Communications
1
4.4
2008-12-11
OSA Honorary Member Tapped for Obama’s Cabinet
1
None
2008-04-29
Women in Optics
0
None
2007-11-15
More Optics Limericks
0
5
2007-10-11
Optics Limericks
0
4
2007-09-20
Hello from OSA’s 2007 Annual Meeting
0
None
2007-09-20
OPN Enters the Blogosphere
0
None
2007-08-26
Notes from CESSE 2007: Open Access, Scitopia and Impact Factors
1
None
Photography (6)
Date
Title
Comments
Rating
2010-10-27
Navigating the Laser Maze at FiO/LS
10
5
2010-07-09
Solar-Tech Test Site Announced
0
None
2010-05-12
Near and Far, All Focused in One Picture
1
5
2008-08-08
Photo Caption Contest
6
3
2008-05-14
Instant Film Still Has Its Fans
0
5
2008-02-11
Saying Goodbye to Instant Film
0
5
Photovoltaics (1)
Date
Title
Comments
Rating
2011-05-05
CLEO:2011 Shows Off Applications and Opportunities
0
5
Uncategorized (5)
Date
Title
Comments
Rating
2010-01-28
Calculate This: Is Flash Photography Destroying the Declaration of Independence?
3
3.5
2009-10-13
Solar-Car Racing Images from FiO
0
None
2008-05-29
CLEO, 25 Years Ago
0
None
2008-05-23
Finding the ‘Missing Matter’
0
None
2008-04-16
Striking Lightning with Laser
0
5
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