September 2015 Issue
Feature Articles
Optics in the Molecular Imaging Race
Optics-based molecular imaging platforms may earn the top spot for new applications in clinical research and surgical guidance.
by Brian W. PogueRaman Amplification for High-Capacity, Long-Haul Networking
The threat of a capacity crunch in the worldwide fiber communications system, and the availability of inexpensive, high-power diodes as pump sources for Raman amplification, has attracted new interest in the virtues of a decades-old technology.
by Bertrand Clesca, Herve Fevrier and Wayne Pelouch200 Years of Fresnel’s Legacy
A young French engineer of the Napoleonic era made a name for himself with his lifesaving lighthouse lens, but his mathematical genius underpins much of modern photonics.
by Patricia DaukantasDepartments and Columns
Scatterings
Headliners, industry updates and book reviews.
Commercializing Miniature Optical Sensors
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland aims to create mass-producible high-performance optical instruments with their MEMS Fabry-Pérot interferometers.
FEMTO: A Student-Made Optics Outreach Program from Université Laval
Anne-Sophie Poulin-Girard, a Ph.D. student and lecturer at Université Laval, Quebec, Canada, helped create the optics outreach program Framework of Educative Material for Teaching Optics (FEMTO). She spoke with OPN about why and how the project came about.
Fiat Lux
Stephen Wilk discusses the creation of light from several belief systems and mythologies.
