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Photonics for a Better World: ‘People’s Choice’ highlights: Light in communication
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8216;People’s Choice’ highlights: Light in communication. In the photo above, Ebrahim Elmoly. Illustrates how humans rely on telecommunications to capture historic moments like the Egyptian Revolution of 2011. During the Arab Spring riots and demonstrations in Cairo and Alexandria lead to the overthrow of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and dissolution of the parliament. The word “لحرية” on flag means "freedoms" in Arabic. Elmoly is is one of 32 contestants for the People’s Choice Award competition.
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Photonics for a Better World: November 2014
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Century of the Photon: 9 predictions for 2065. Photo by Dale Johnson. Looking into the proverbial crystal ball is a risky endeavor. Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible. X rays will prove to be a hoax. William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, president of the British Royal Society 1890-1895. I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM 1914-1956. In Trieste recently, optics and photonics experts offered a few guesses. As to what may happen over the next 50 years.
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Photonics for a Better World: July 2015
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8216;People’s Choice’ highlights: Light in communication. In the photo above, Ebrahim Elmoly. Illustrates how humans rely on telecommunications to capture historic moments like the Egyptian Revolution of 2011. During the Arab Spring riots and demonstrations in Cairo and Alexandria lead to the overthrow of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and dissolution of the parliament. The word “لحرية” on flag means "freedoms" in Arabic. Elmoly is is one of 32 contestants for the People’s Choice Award competition.
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Photonics for a Better World: ‘People’s Choice’ highlights: Rock photomicrographs and the beauty of light science and technology
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8216;People’s Choice’ highlights: Rock photomicrographs and the beauty of light science and technology. 8217;s photo (above) displays granulite rock under a microscope. The picture resembles a piece of stained glass window through sunlight, but it’s just a thin slice of rock 0.03 mm in thickness and 5 mm in size. The rock’s beautiful "interference colors" derive from the interaction of polarized light with the crystalline matter. Continues through 15 August. Cesare is a professor of Petrology at the Univ...
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Photonics for a Better World: October 2014
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Scientific freedom award the latest honor for Omid Kokabee; calls for his release growing. We're sure he would have preferred a different path, but the contributions of Omid Kokabee. To awareness of scientific responsibility are unmistakable. Last fall, he was named a recipient of the Andrei Sakharov Prize. From the American Physical Society, and now the American Association for the Advancement of Science has announced Omid as the winner of the AAAS Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award. He recentl...
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Photonics for a Better World: August 2015
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16 visions for photonics: the next 60 years. The first 60 years of SPIE's history have seen amazing. Advances, but what will photonics enable in the next. SPIE Student Chapter leaders will be among. Those creating the future. Several shared their visions recently. At SPIE Optics Photonics. How can a phone be "smart"? Their solution: the formation of SPIE, the Society of Photographic Instrumentation Engineers. All that is history - what lies ahead? In 60 years, optics will revolutionize healthcare with no...
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Photonics for a Better World: ‘People’s Choice’ highlights: Light illuminating spirits, minds, and hearts in every culture
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8216;People’s Choice’ highlights: Light illuminating spirits, minds, and hearts in every culture. 65279;People often like to separate culture, art, photonics, and optics as completely separate fields. However, when we combine the four fields we can capture beauty that seems so surreal. Light plays a vital role accentuating hidden beauties, illuminating spirits, minds, and hearts in every culture. Has captured a “Night of Reflections” at the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque. Continues through 15 August. See mor...
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Photonics for a Better World: September 2014
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Photons for inspiration, fuel - and light! The many properties of light have long provided. Inspiration for SPIE CEO Dr. Eugene Arthurs. Editor’s note: A green laser lighted the early career path of then-physics-graduate Eugene Arthurs, now. CEO of SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics. But fate intervened and I was seduced by the light, by the pure intense green beam, and lasers became my thing. Mentioning lasers also gave some sort of defense against the many enquiries from carin...
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Photonics for a Better World: Concluding Biophotonics ’15: just the right amount
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Concluding Biophotonics ’15: just the right amount. Guest blog from Ven: Jacqueline Andreozzi. A PhD candidate at Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College, blogged on her experience at the Biophotonics Graduate Summer School on the island of Ven, off the southern coast of Sweden, 6-13 June. SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics. Reflecting back on the Biophotonics ’15 Graduate Summer School. The school founders, Stefan Andersson-Engels. Lund University) and Peter Andersen.
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Photonics for a Better World: March 2015
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The Hubble: 25 years of photonics for a better cosmos. The Deep Field Shot (NASA). Click to enlarge. This week, we heard the latest staggering revelation – the best evidence yet for an underground saltwater ocean on Ganymede. Allows the public to vote on matchups of their favorite Hubble photographs. With the “winner” to be announced on April 6. On March 26, Astronaut Mike Massimino will be participating in the Exploring Space Lecture Series at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington. New Hub...
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