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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
01 Jan 2009
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
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
Honorable Mention: Images of rose imprinted by fs-laser self-assembled nanostructures in silica glass. Actual size is 1 x 1 mm. Martynas Beresna
Honorable Mention: Refracted laser light taken on 4 x 5 transparency film using argon and helium-neon lasers. Janis D. Berry
Young lady "painted" with a green laser pointer. David K. Lynch
Rainbow caused by spray from ocean waves at Shore Acres Park, Ore., U.S.A Robert E. Schalck
Aerial view of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge. Note the waves caused by the ships. Robert E. Schalck
Sun rays caused by ocean fog, Shore Acres, Ore., U.S.A. Robert E. Schalck
Multiphoton microscope shows second harmonic generation (green) and endogenous fluorescence (red) in bovine collagen matrix. Joanna F. Xylas