CONTENTS | DEPARTMENTS
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Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nebraska Lincoln
4 President’s Message
6 Letters
8 Scatterings
Flat lens zooms fast; filming freezing flies;
using standard CMOS tools to fabricate a
tiny map of the world.
Yvonne Carts-Powell
10 Conversations in Optics
OPN talks with Philippe Keryer, executive
VP at Alcatel-Lucent and OFC/NFOEC
plenary speaker.
Angela Stark
12 Global Optics
Optics in India.
Lakshminarayan Hazra
14 Light Touch
A popular history
of the laser.
Stephen R. Wilk
16 Education
Chilean children take
a voyage of light.
Rodrigo A. Vicencio
18 The History of OSA
Brace, Skinner and
Tuckerman: Optics
in the heartland.
John N. Howard
46 OSA Today
50 Book Reviews
52 Product Profiles
54 Marketplace
49 In Memory
Remembering Roy
Henry Garstang, an
OSA Fellow Emeritus
known for his work
on light pollution.
56 After Image
Courtesy of Rodrigo Vicencio
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Please recycle this magazine.
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