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] |
