Optics & Photonics News

1st Place: Optical Möbius Strip: A string recorded under colored illumination right before realizing a standing wave. This photograph was then transformated into polar coordinates. Dan Curticapean, University of Applied Sciences Offenburg, Germany.

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01 Jan 2011

Eye in the Flower

2nd Place: Refraction by the sap of an aloe flower helps create an image of the eye of the photographer, large and blurry behind the flower. Brian P. Anderson, University of Arizona, U.S.A.

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01 Jan 2011

Femtosecond Art

3rd Place: Unexpected beautiful diffraction pattern from femtosecond laser written structure. Martynas Beresna, University of Southampton, U.K.

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01 Jan 2011

Sol-Gel Film

Honorable Mention: Sol-gel silica film after being spin-coated onto a silicon substrate. Simin Mehrabani, University of Southern California, U.S.A.

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01 Jan 2011

Old Faithful

Honorable Mention: Old faithful geyser at midnight with Milky Way galaxy. John T. Bone, Drew University, U.S.A.

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01 Jan 2011

$Refraction and Diffraction$

Refraction and Diffraction

Honorable Mention: Refraction and diffraction: Water drop on the back of a compact disc. Anthony T. Clutter, University of Arizona, U.S.A.

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01 Jan 2011

Green Laser Scattering

Green laser light scattering through a photonic crystal fiber cladding. Thibaut Sylvestre, Universite de Franche-Comte, France.

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01 Jan 2011

Cascaded Raman Generation

Cascaded Raman generation in a photonic crystal fiber. Thibaut Sylvestre, Universite de Franche-Comte, France.

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01 Jan 2011

Depth of Field

Large F/# means a narrow depth of field, from Optics, third edition, Hecht. Anthony T. Clutter, University of Arizona, U.S.A.

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01 Jan 2011

Crystal Ball

A large sphere acting as a singlet, located in the College of Optical Sciences, 3rd floor lobby. Anthony T. Clutter, University of Arizona, U.S.A.

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01 Jan 2011

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