Optics & Photonics News - 2009

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High-Intensity Ultrashort Pulses

High-Intensity Ultrashort Pulses

1st Place: In this 1-s exposure image, a 1-kHz train of high-intensity ultrashort pulses is focused in the air by a 75-mm focal distance lens, while a piece of paper is quickly moved from the lens through the beamwaist. Ricardo E. Samad

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01 Jan 2009

High Order Modes Of Optical Fiber

High Order Modes Of Optical Fiber

2nd Place: Intensity and phase images of various high order modes of an optical fiber measured with spatially and spectrally resolved mode imaging. Jeffrey W. Nicholson

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01 Jan 2009

Colorful Laser Beams

Colorful Laser Beams

3rd Place: Light from a red, green and blue laser on a lens; each has a different angle of incidence. During a long exposure, a piece of quickly moving paper is used to capture all the beams. Mike Kudenov

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01 Jan 2009

A Rose By Any Other Name...

A Rose By Any Other Name...

Honorable Mention: Images of rose imprinted by fs-laser self-assembled nanostructures in silica glass. Actual size is 1 x 1 mm. Martynas Beresna

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01 Jan 2009

$Refracted Laser Light$

Refracted Laser Light

Honorable Mention: Refracted laser light taken on 4 x 5 transparency film using argon and helium-neon lasers. Janis D. Berry

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01 Jan 2009

Laser Lady

Young lady "painted" with a green laser pointer. David K. Lynch

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01 Jan 2009

Ocean Rainbow

Rainbow caused by spray from ocean waves at Shore Acres Park, Ore., U.S.A Robert E. Schalck

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01 Jan 2009

Golden Gate Bridge

Golden Gate Bridge

Aerial view of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge. Note the waves caused by the ships. Robert E. Schalck

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01 Jan 2009

Sun Through Fog

Sun Through Fog

Sun rays caused by ocean fog, Shore Acres, Ore., U.S.A. Robert E. Schalck

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01 Jan 2009

Second Harmonic Generation And Endogenous Fluorescence

Second Harmonic Generation And Endogenous Fluorescence

Multiphoton microscope shows second harmonic generation (green) and endogenous fluorescence (red) in bovine collagen matrix. Joanna F. Xylas

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01 Jan 2009