2008 Photo Contest

Polarized Glasses

1st Place: The polarized light from a monitor and the camera close to the Brewster's angle, makes the reflected image sensitive to phase delays in the plastic lenses, producing a nice colored pattern. Osvaldo Buccafusca, Avago Technologies, Fort Collins, Colo., U.S.A.

01 Jan 2008

Rotating Traveling-Wave Modes

2nd Place: Near field image of rotating traveling-wave modes in a vertical cavity surface emission. Ray-Kuang Lee, National Tsing-Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

01 Jan 2008

Semiconductor Chip

3rd Place: When illuminated with grazing white light, a semiconductor chip behaves as a diffraction grating. Variations in the features' size and illumination angle produce various colors along the chip. Osvaldo Buccafusca, Avago Technologies, Fort Collins, Colo., U.S.A.

01 Jan 2008

Messier 8 Emission Nebula

Honorable Mention: Messier 8 Emission Nebula taken in emssion lines of sulfur, hydrogen and oxygen through a 7.1" apochromatic refractor with a 6.1 megapixel cooled CCD camera. Richard Crisp, Tessera Technologies, San Jose, Calif., U.S.A.

01 Jan 2008

Conchoidal Fracture

Honorable Mention: Conchoidal fracture in glass by phase contrast microscopy. Samuel Pellicori, Brooks Institute, Santa Barbara, Calif., U.S.A.

01 Jan 2008

Single Liquid Microlens

Single liquid microlens obtained by controlling wettability of lithium niobate. Pietro Ferraro, Istituto Nazionale di Ottica Applicata (INOA), Pozzuoli (Napoli), Italy

01 Jan 2008