Optics and Photonics News

White Light Diffraction

2nd Place: White light diffraction produced by a single-domain monolayer made of 1-�m polysterene spheres in HCP packing that is, a 2-D photonic crystal, pictured in the dark. Victor Canalejas Tejero, CSIC, Madrid, Spain

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01 Jan 2010

Tilted Wave Interferometer Pattern

3rd Place (tie): Fringe pattern produced by the tilted wave interferometer when measuring an aspheric surface (full aperture). Eugenio Garbusi, Institut f�r Technische Optik, Stuttgart, Germany

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01 Jan 2010

Sunset In The Lab

Honorable Mention: Sunset in the Lab: The Tyndall-Rayleigh experiment. White light from a slide projector shines a tank of water to which photographic fixing powder and dilute sulfuric acid are added. Juan Carlos Barreiro optics department, University of Valencia, Spain

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01 Jan 2010

Microsphere Resonant Cavity

Honorable Mention: A 633-nm laser coupled into a microsphere resonant cavity. Due to surface defects on the cavity, the light is scattering out of the cavity. Andrea M. Armani and Maria Chistiakova University of Southern California, Los Angeles, Calif., U.S.A.

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01 Jan 2010

Dielectric Breakdown

Honorable Mention: Dielectric breakdown within a nonlinear optical polymer.David A. Sweigart, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Md.

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01 Jan 2010

Desert Rainbow

Rainbow in southwest desert; colors are intense.Gail M. Overton, Editor, PennWell, Winterhaven, Calif.

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01 Jan 2010

Rainbow In Darkness

Same rainbow as darkness falls.Gail M. Overton, Editor, PennWell, Winterhaven, Calif.

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01 Jan 2010

Rainbow And Mountains

Same rainbow appears as if illumination is coming from behind mountains.Gail M. Overton, Editor, PennWell, Winterhaven, Calif.

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01 Jan 2010

Hong Kong Sunset

Hong Kong Sunset. Richard Jackson, NIRRIR Consulting, Nashua, N.H.

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01 Jan 2010