{"title":"Optics in Africa: Six Stories","authors":"S. Wills","doi":"10.1364/OPN.32.5.000044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/OPN.32.5.000044","url":null,"abstract":"A recently published JOSA A and B feature issue highlighted the\u0000wide-ranging optical and photonic research being pursued by scientists on\u0000the African continent. For this first installment of a two-part feature,\u0000OPN talked with several of the contributors.","PeriodicalId":89448,"journal":{"name":"Optics and photonics news","volume":"24 1","pages":"44-51"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89915963","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Shedding Light on the Human Brain","authors":"Meeri N. Kim","doi":"10.1364/OPN.32.4.000026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/OPN.32.4.000026","url":null,"abstract":"The freedom of functional near-infrared spectroscopy opens a\u0000window into brain activity outside the confines of an MRI machine.","PeriodicalId":89448,"journal":{"name":"Optics and photonics news","volume":"84 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78068428","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cancer Holography for Personalized Medicine.","authors":"David D Nolte","doi":"10.1364/opn.32.4.000042","DOIUrl":"10.1364/opn.32.4.000042","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Digital holography can measure the 3D physiology and motion of cancer cells, allowing identification of effective chemotherapies for patients.</p>","PeriodicalId":89448,"journal":{"name":"Optics and photonics news","volume":"32 4","pages":"42-49"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9531910/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"33490855","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. Baraas, F. Imai, Ali Özgür Yöntem, J. Hardeberg
{"title":"Visual Perception in AR/VR","authors":"R. Baraas, F. Imai, Ali Özgür Yöntem, J. Hardeberg","doi":"10.1364/OPN.32.4.000034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/OPN.32.4.000034","url":null,"abstract":"In an online OSA Incubator Meeting, top industry and academic\u0000researchers explored the importance of accounting for aspects of the human\u0000visual system to take augmented and virtual reality to the next step.","PeriodicalId":89448,"journal":{"name":"Optics and photonics news","volume":"133 1","pages":"34-41"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80982933","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Silicon Carbide: From Abrasives to Quantum Photonics","authors":"D. Lukin, M. Guidry, J. Vučković","doi":"10.1364/OPN.32.3.000034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/OPN.32.3.000034","url":null,"abstract":"Traditionally used for abrasives, LEDs and transistors, the\u0000material may enable scalable quantum and nonlinear photonics through\u0000direct integration of solid-state qubits into photonic circuits.","PeriodicalId":89448,"journal":{"name":"Optics and photonics news","volume":"22 1","pages":"34-41"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72681553","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Is Nothing Better Than Something?","authors":"J. Hecht","doi":"10.1364/OPN.32.3.000026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/OPN.32.3.000026","url":null,"abstract":"The idea of guiding light through hollow pipes dates to the 19th century, but solid-core fibers made much better optical waveguides. Now the emerging technology of hollow-core fibers has resurrected an old idea.","PeriodicalId":89448,"journal":{"name":"Optics and photonics news","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84403245","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tim’s Vermeer, Reconsidered","authors":"D. Stork","doi":"10.1364/OPN.32.3.000042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/OPN.32.3.000042","url":null,"abstract":"A recent documentary feature film, Tim’s Vermeer, proposes\u0000that Johannes Vermeer secretly used a catadioptric telescope and novel\u0000mirror–comparator procedure to create his sublime paintings of\u0000domestic interiors. How well does that bold hypothesis stand up to\u0000analysis?","PeriodicalId":89448,"journal":{"name":"Optics and photonics news","volume":"5 1","pages":"42-49"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75288096","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New Eyes on the Sun","authors":"P. Daukantas","doi":"10.1364/opn.32.2.000026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/opn.32.2.000026","url":null,"abstract":"Three solar observatories—two in space, one on\u0000 Earth-are using advanced optics to study our closest star in greater\u0000 detail than ever before.","PeriodicalId":89448,"journal":{"name":"Optics and photonics news","volume":"68 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78950598","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Combs of Light on a Chip","authors":"E. Cartlidge","doi":"10.1364/opn.32.1.000026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/opn.32.1.000026","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":89448,"journal":{"name":"Optics and photonics news","volume":"62 1","pages":"26-33"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80489851","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Polaroid’s Experiment in South Africa","authors":"J. Mait","doi":"10.1364/opn.32.1.000042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/opn.32.1.000042","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":89448,"journal":{"name":"Optics and photonics news","volume":"10 1","pages":"42"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78486447","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}