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November 2016 Issue
Feature Articles
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OSA Centennial Snapshots: Illuminating the New Century
Over the past decade, energy-efficient LED lighting has brightened the world. These bulbs are the Nobel Prize-winning technology you can hold in the palm of your hand.
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Automotive Lighting Continues to Evolve
The move to LED sources is only one step in a long series of changes that have defined auto exterior lighting’s functionality—and its sense of style.
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Write the Future
OSA’s Centennial “Write the Future” contest asked members of our community to imagine, in a short piece of fiction, what optics and photonics might look like in the next 100 years. The result was a variety of creative visions. A panel of judges selected a winner and three runners-up, all of which OPN is pleased to publish here.
Departments and Columns
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Research and Industry News
Shining light on a treasure; “bouncing balls” outline tiny biology; devices to detect infections; better imaging via chemistry; glass out, wood in; the impact of LED lighting; optical “smoke rings”; truly random numbers; U.S. solar energy prices fall; German machine vision revenues grow.
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A Year of Service, a Lifetime of Impact
For two decades, OSA Congressional Fellows have worked alongside members of the U.S. Congress at the front lines of the legislative process.
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Looking to an LED Future
OPN talks with Shuji Nakamura, co-winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics and plenary speaker at OSA’s Light, Energy, and Environment Congress.
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A Rochester-Russia Collaboration
Russian and American universities team up to advance the next generation of optical scientists.
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Multicore Photonics: Poised for Industry 4.0
Multicore's CEO discusses how the company’s optical sensing technology could help enable near-term opportunities in the automotive market and long-term growth driven by the Industrial Internet of Things.
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The Claude Lorrain Mirror
These convex, polished objects became something of a fad in the pre-photographic Romantic era.
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Telling Our Story, Every Day
“[Y]ou share an objective with all other advocates: to have your story move audiences from apathy to empathy to action.” —John Capecci and Timothy Cage, Living Proof: Telling Your Story to Make a Difference
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News from the Society
Thanks to our editors; honors to Capasso, Mourou, Richards-Kortum, Quarles and the Advanced LIGO Engineering Team; news from JSAP and COSI meetings; thanks to meeting volunteers.