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Laser Features 2007 p1:

• SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION: Posters and lesson plans bring optics to the classroom
  The OSA's Optical Phenomena Poster Series sparks discussion in classrooms around the globe.
• OPTICS FABRICATION: Off-the-shelf edge-blackened optics speed system integration
  The ability of edge-blackened optics to greatly reduce stray light becomes more compelling when these optics are available commercially.
• SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION: Students measure brightness of the nighttime sky
  Dark Skies program provides students in Connecticut with meters to collect data that will be used in 2008 Globe at Night, an initiative to measure light pollution worldwide.
• TEST & MEASUREMENT: Optical tests rise to the challenge of specialty fibers
  Improved instrumentation helps manufacturers meet production goals for specialty fibers, including graded-index plastic optical fiber, large-core plastic-clad silica fiber, and polarization-maintaining fibers.
• SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION: Science Educator's Day reaches out to teachers
  California middle and high school teachers, optics students, and professionals see demonstrations of hands-on activities for optics education.
• FIBER SOURCES: High-power ASE tunable lasers show their colors
  Recent developments in amplified-spontaneous-emission tunable sources have resulted in improved power, wavelength range, and stability.
• SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION: Remembering the work of optics education leader Gallieno Denardo
  In July 2007, the science and education community lost a tireless advocate and dear friend.
• LASER MATERIALS: Alumina ceramic enhances laser pump cavities
  With its high reflectivity, dielectric strength, dimensional stability, chemical resistance, and thermal conductivity, alumina ceramic is an ideal material for laser pump cavities of many types.
• OPTICS PROTOTYPING: Automotive industry drives rapid manufacturing of free-form optics
  Diamond-machining techniques speed prototyping and testing of free-form optical parts.
• SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION: International Physics Olympiad advances knowledge and builds connections
  U.S. Physics Team wins gold and silver medals at international physics competition.

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