The Launch of OSA’s Second Journal: Applied Optics

John N. Howard

The OSA Board of Directors, meeting in New York City in 1959, decides the time has come for a second journal. The decision is motivated in part by a desire to meet the competition of commercial publications, chief among them Infrared Physics.

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