High-Intensity Ultrashort Pulses
1st Place: In this 1-s exposure image, a 1-kHz train of high-intensity ultrashort pulses is focused in the air by a 75-mm focal distance lens, while a piece of paper is quickly moved from the lens through the beamwaist. Ricardo E. Samad
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01 Jan 2009
High Order Modes Of Optical Fiber
2nd Place: Intensity and phase images of various high order modes of an optical fiber measured with spatially and spectrally resolved mode imaging. Jeffrey W. Nicholson
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01 Jan 2009
Colorful Laser Beams
3rd Place: Light from a red, green and blue laser on a lens; each has a different angle of incidence. During a long exposure, a piece of quickly moving paper is used to capture all the beams. Mike Kudenov
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01 Jan 2009
A Rose By Any Other Name...
Honorable Mention: Images of rose imprinted by fs-laser self-assembled nanostructures in silica glass. Actual size is 1 x 1 mm. Martynas Beresna
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01 Jan 2009
Refracted Laser Light
Honorable Mention: Refracted laser light taken on 4 x 5 transparency film using argon and helium-neon lasers. Janis D. Berry
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01 Jan 2009
Ocean Rainbow
Rainbow caused by spray from ocean waves at Shore Acres Park, Ore., U.S.A Robert E. Schalck
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01 Jan 2009
Golden Gate Bridge
Aerial view of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge. Note the waves caused by the ships. Robert E. Schalck
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01 Jan 2009
Sun Through Fog
Sun rays caused by ocean fog, Shore Acres, Ore., U.S.A. Robert E. Schalck
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01 Jan 2009
Second Harmonic Generation And Endogenous Fluorescence
Multiphoton microscope shows second harmonic generation (green) and endogenous fluorescence (red) in bovine collagen matrix. Joanna F. Xylas
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01 Jan 2009
