Tue, 25 November 2008 At the Frontiers in Optics conference in October 2008, OSA marked the 50th anniversary of the classic paper on laser theory by Arthur L. Schawlow and Charles Hard Townes. OPN writer Patricia Daukantas conducted an exclusive interview with the 93-year-old Townes, a Nobel laureate and OSA Honorary Member, about his groundbreaking research. OPN's home page: The Schawlow-Townes paper ("Infrared and Optical Masers,” Phys. Rev. 112, 1940 [1958]): Comments[0] |
Wed, 5 November 2008 This podcast features a traveling lecturer’s presentation to the Wroclaw, Poland Chapter in May 2008. The speaker, Dr. Hernando Garcia, was part of the International Student Chapters Meeting hosted by OSA’s Wroclaw Chapter. Dr. Hernando Garcia speaks regularly on the topics of ultrafast optics and optoelectronics. If you would like more information about OSA’s Student Chapters, Traveling Lecturer Program, or other OSA multimedia talks and sessions; please email KiKi L’Italien at chaptersandsections@osa.org and thanks for supporting our podcast! Direct download: InternationalStudentChaptersMeetingPodcast.mp3 Category: podcasts -- posted at: 3:44 PM Comments[0] |
Wed, 15 October 2008 Stephen Jacobs Affiliation: University of Rochester, USA Title: Liquid Crystal Mood Patches: Presentation & Hands-On Experience Date: 8/6/2008 Time: 1:20 - 2:00 pm Location: Boulder, CO Click here to view presentation Category: general -- posted at: 11:30 AM Comments[0] |
Thu, 25 September 2008 This short podcast about “How to Preside at an OSA Conference Session” by Dr. Ben Eggleton offers advice about the basic principles in leading sessions. For notes from this podcast and more advice, email KiKi L’Italien at klital@osa.org.
View tips for session chairs from this presentation (PDF) Comments[0] |
Wed, 20 August 2008 On May 9, 2008, Dr. Eric Van Stryland spoke to the OSA University of California, Irvine Student Chapter about non-linear optics as part of the OSA Traveling Lecturer Program. For the uninitiated, Wikipedia says nonlinear optics (NLO) is the branch of optics that describes the behavior of light in nonlinear media, that is, media in which the dielectric polarization P responds nonlinearly to the electric field E of the light. This nonlinearity is typically only observed at very high light intensities such as those provided by pulsed lasers. We hope you enjoy Eric’s presentation. If you would like more information about OSA’s Student Chapters, Traveling Lecturer Program, or nonlinear optics talks and sessions; please email KiKi L’Italien at chaptersandsections@osa.org. Comments[0] |
Tue, 10 June 2008
Do you know how to use your membership in a professional
society to its full benefit? Do you sometimes wonder what direction your
life will take once you have decided to go into industry or academia?
When you are looking at the long lists of publications that other people have
accumulated, do you ponder your ability to achieve a publications list as
prolific? In May 2008 at the CLEO/QELS conference in San Jose,
California, four well-known OSA members gathered together to talk about these
topics and to share tips from their own lives to benefit the young
professionals who are now where they once were.
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Wed, 20 February 2008
Optical technologies have
made major contributions to disease identification, detection, diagnosis and
treatment. Scientists and engineers in
optics and photonics have been important contributors to these developments and
are looking to contribute to future advances in the next generation of
bio-optical technology. Dr. Jaffe’s talk
provides perspective on the places in which advanced imagery and collaborative
data sharing technology promise to provide superior results, where advances are
needed to make more powerful tools, and where technology is lacking. View slides from this presentation (PDF) Comments[0] |
