![Polarized Glasses](https://opn-web-afd-d3bfbkd5bcc5asbs.z02.azurefd.net/opn/media/images/photocontests/gall/gallery08_1.jpg?t=638430697384375051)
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.
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01 Jan 2008
![Rotating Traveling-Wave Modes](https://opn-web-afd-d3bfbkd5bcc5asbs.z02.azurefd.net/opn/media/images/photocontests/gall/gallery08_2.jpg?t=638430697402656832)
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
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01 Jan 2008
![Semiconductor Chip](https://opn-web-afd-d3bfbkd5bcc5asbs.z02.azurefd.net/opn/media/images/photocontests/gall/gallery08_3.jpg?t=638430697427057144)
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.
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01 Jan 2008
![Messier 8 Emission Nebula](https://opn-web-afd-d3bfbkd5bcc5asbs.z02.azurefd.net/opn/media/images/photocontests/gall/gallery08_4.jpg?t=638430697449245059)
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.
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01 Jan 2008
![Conchoidal Fracture](https://opn-web-afd-d3bfbkd5bcc5asbs.z02.azurefd.net/opn/media/images/photocontests/gall/gallery08_21.jpg?t=638430697406744334)
Conchoidal Fracture
Honorable Mention: Conchoidal fracture in glass by phase contrast microscopy. Samuel Pellicori, Brooks Institute, Santa Barbara, Calif., U.S.A.
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01 Jan 2008
![Single Liquid Microlens](https://opn-web-afd-d3bfbkd5bcc5asbs.z02.azurefd.net/opn/media/images/photocontests/gall/gallery08_10.jpg?t=638430697386406354)
Single Liquid Microlens
Single liquid microlens obtained by controlling wettability of lithium niobate. Pietro Ferraro, Istituto Nazionale di Ottica Applicata (INOA), Pozzuoli (Napoli), Italy
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01 Jan 2008
![Salt Crystal](https://opn-web-afd-d3bfbkd5bcc5asbs.z02.azurefd.net/opn/media/images/photocontests/gall/gallery08_11.jpg?t=638430697388281602)
Salt Crystal
Phase image of a salt crystal using a digital holographic microscope. Anand Asundi, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
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01 Jan 2008
![Diffraction Pattern](https://opn-web-afd-d3bfbkd5bcc5asbs.z02.azurefd.net/opn/media/images/photocontests/gall/gallery08_13.jpg?t=638430697390625131)
Diffraction Pattern
Diffraction pattern of a penrose type quasicrystalline lattice that exhibit the inherent 10-fold rotational symmetry. The image is presented on a molten plastic background. Amit Agrawal, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.A.
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01 Jan 2008
![Glass Target Alignment](https://opn-web-afd-d3bfbkd5bcc5asbs.z02.azurefd.net/opn/media/images/photocontests/gall/gallery08_14.jpg?t=638430697392500311)
Glass Target Alignment
Glass target alignment in the Nevada Terawatt Facility. Piotr Wiewior, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada, U.S.A.
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01 Jan 2008
![Glass Amplifier Head](https://opn-web-afd-d3bfbkd5bcc5asbs.z02.azurefd.net/opn/media/images/photocontests/gall/gallery08_16.jpg?t=638430697394375247)
Glass Amplifier Head
Flashlamp-pumped glass amplifier head during the shot in the Nevada Terawatt Facility. Piotr Wiewior, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada, U.S.A.
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01 Jan 2008