CONTENTS | DEPARTMENTS
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USGS/NASA Landsat
8 Scatterings
Probing the link between fat and cancer;
unraveling the mysteries of photosynthesis;
lasers help make guitars.
Yvonne Carts-Powell
10 Optical Engineering
In your phase: All about optical vortices.
Carlos López-Mariscal and Julio C. Gutiérrez-Vega
14 Light Touch
Edible lasers: What’s the next course?
Stephen R. Wilk
16 Optics Innovations
Lumencor looks to light up biotech.
Claudia B. Jaffe
18 Education
Exploring what the eye cannot see.
Javier Hernández-Andrés, José A. García
and Juan L. Nieves
20 The History of OSA
The first two editors of JOSA.
John N. Howard
51 In Memory
Remembering Jennifer Leah Horton, OSA Director
of Finance and Administration from 1988 to 1994.
4 President’s Message
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7 Letters
48 OSA Today
50 Book Reviews
52 Product Profiles
54 Marketplace
56 After Image
Lumencor
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