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Optics in 2014
Guest editors: Robert D. Guenther, Mihaela Dinu, Dmitry Dylov, Andrew Forbes, Nicholas J. Frigo, Groot Gregory, Bob Jopson, Carlos López-Mariscal, Zuleykhan Tomova and Stephen R. Wilk.
This special issue of Optics & Photonics News highlights the most exciting peer-reviewed optics research to have emerged over the past 12 months.
Our panel of editors reviewed a record 200 research summaries from scientists all over the globe. They selected for publication 30 stories that they felt most clearly communicated breakthroughs of interest to the optics community. Some of the summaries have related multimedia that you can access at www.osa-opn.org/optics-in-2014. Thanks to all who submitted summaries as well as our panel of guest editors.
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Lasers
Feedback creates simple and stable fiber and vertical-cavity lasers.
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Imaging
A temporal pinhole and needle tip offer new imaging modalities
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Bioimaging
Two very different approaches to multidimensional biological imaging
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Optical Coherence Imaging
Engineering lowers the cost of interferometric imaging at multiple scales
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Guided Waves
Enhancements for guided-wave circuits that perform like electronic circuits
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Quantum Optics
Measurement and control expand for systems from semiconductors to single photons
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Terahertz
Large-bandwidth source and detector methods in the THz region
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Propagation
Singularities and random index variations for Anderson localization and image propagation
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Optomechanics
Optical chiral sorting and spatial ordering of atoms and molecules
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Metamaterials
Metamaterials for analog processors and optical beam shaping
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Optical Elastography
Measuring biomechanical properties of living tissue
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Nonlinear Optics
Tabletop XUV generation and graphene allow for work in novel wavelengths
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Ultrafast Optics
Collecting video at a trillion frames per second
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Publish Date: 01 December 2014