And the
Winners
Are ...
Many thanks to those who submitted images
to our 4th annual After Image
photo contest. This year, we
received a record-breaking 81
submissions—nearly twice as
many as last year. Visit our Web
gallery at www.osa-opn.org to
view all of our stunning entries.
Thanks especially to our
judges. François Busque is
president of Fovea Technologies
Inc. and an optical consultant
in Montreal, Canada. He has
also been a professional
photographer for the past
10 years, specializing in
scientific, portrait and wedding
photography. Madeleine
Glick is a principal engineer
at Intel Labs in Pittsburgh,
Pa., U.S.A., and an adjunct
professor at Carnegie Mellon
in the department of electrical
and computer engineering.
Bob Jopson is on the technical
staff at Bell Laboratories in
Holmdel, N.J., U.S.A. Carlos
Lopéz-Mariscal is a guest
researcher in the Laser Cooling
and Trapping Group of the
National Institute of Standards
and Technology in Gaithersburg,
Md., U.S.A. Brian Monacelli
is a senior research scientist
with the Optical Sciences
Company in Anaheim, Calif.,
U.S.A. At work and at home,
he is influenced by skilled
photographers whose talents
range from artistic to extremely
technical. Stephen R. Wilk is
an optical engineer with Lincoln
Labs in Lexington, Mass., U.S.A.
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. “Every time I look at this image, I am unable to just casually glance; it demands
that I study its details,” said judge Brian Monacelli. “The pattern produced by moving the sheet
of paper is very nice,” said François Busque. “The depth of field is short enough to emphasize
the pulse train.”
Second Place Jeffrey W. Nicholson OFS Laboratories, Somerset, N.J., U.S.A. These two images, which we treated as a single submission for the purposes of this contest, capture various high-order modes of an optical fiber measured with spatially and spectrally resolved mode imaging. According to Madeleine Glick, the image to the left “looks like a pop art poster and helps me to visualize the optical modes.”
