Optics & Photonics News - September 2011

Single laser powers record data-transfer rate over fiber; broadband terahertz cloaking at CLEO:2011; detecting skin cancer in place; graphene oxide oxidation increases transparency.

Patricia Daukantas and Yvonne Carts-Powell

10 Career Focus

Managing a research group.

Jean-luc Doumont

12 Reflections in Diversity

Promoting diversity in optics: A column is born.

Ursula Keller and Anthony Johnson

14 Viewpoint

Congressional Fellows discuss supporting U.S. science education and building public trust in science.

16 Conversations in Optics

OPN talks with Sir John Pendry, metamaterials pioneer and Frontiers in Optics keynote speaker.

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Thinkstock

18 Global Optics

Optics shine in Wuhan, China.

Barry R. Masters

4 President’s Message

5 Letters

52 Book Reviews

54 Marketplace

56 After Image

20 The History of OSA

Memories of an editor.

Keith B. MacAdam

46 OSA Today

Member news; OSA financial report.

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Northwestern University and Oklahoma State University

Please recycle this magazine.

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