Optics & Photonics News - September 2015

Optics & Photonics News Magazine
September 2015 Issue

Feature Articles

Optics in the Molecular Imaging Race

Optics-based molecular imaging platforms may earn the top spot for new applications in clinical research and surgical guidance.

by Brian W. Pogue

Raman Amplification for High-Capacity, Long-Haul Networking

The threat of a capacity crunch in the worldwide fiber communications system, and the availability of inexpensive, high-power diodes as pump sources for Raman amplification, has attracted new interest in the virtues of a decades-old technology.

by Bertrand Clesca, Herve Fevrier and Wayne Pelouch

200 Years of Fresnel’s Legacy

A young French engineer of the Napoleonic era made a name for himself with his lifesaving lighthouse lens, but his mathematical genius underpins much of modern photonics.

by Patricia Daukantas

Departments and Columns

Scatterings

Headliners, industry updates and book reviews.

Optics Innovations

Commercializing Miniature Optical Sensors

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland aims to create mass-producible high-performance optical instruments with their MEMS Fabry-Pérot interferometers.

Education

FEMTO: A Student-Made Optics Outreach Program from Université Laval

Anne-Sophie Poulin-Girard, a Ph.D. student and lecturer at Université Laval, Quebec, Canada, helped create the optics outreach program Framework of Educative Material for Teaching Optics (FEMTO). She spoke with OPN about why and how the project came about.

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