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MULTIMEDIA > PHOTO CONTEST > 2009
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
Laser Lady
Young lady "painted" with a green laser pointer. David K. Lynch


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01 Jan 2009

Ocean Rainbow
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

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