Eric Mazur, Harvard UniversityOSA Fellow and 2017 President-Elect, Eric Mazur, recounts the inspiration behind pursuing research at Harvard University, USA.
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Elsa Garmire, Dartmouth CollegePast President and OSA Fellow, Elsa Garmire, Dartmouth College, USA, reminisces about her time as a graduate student at MIT working under the late Nobel Prize Winner Charles H. Townes.
3/29/2016
David Reitze, California Institute of TechnologyLIGO researcher, David Reitze, California Institute of Technology, USA, working with lasers as a graduate student led to a career in optics.
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Bienvenu Ndagano, University of WitwatersrandBienvenu Ndagano, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa, discovered his passion for optics and communications with light as an undergraduate.
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Arti Agrawal, University of RochesterArti Agrawal, University of Rochester, USA, shares the excitement she finds in the variety of applications within the field of optics and photonics.
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Amy Oldenburg, University of North CarolinaAmy Oldenburg, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA, recalls how her father's HeNe laser and work in the lab inspired her career in optics research.
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Stefan Hell, Max Planck InstituteNobel Laureate Stefan Hell, Max Planck Institute, Germany, wanted to find new applications for 19th century microscopy.
3/29/2016
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2/1/2016
Exploring the City by the Bay - Photonics West Sneak PreviewSan Francisco, home to SPIE Photonics West -- the industry’s largest conference and exposition -- is a city of neighborhoods. In this issue of Sneak Preview -- Photonics West Edition #1 -- Photonics...
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