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Laser Features 2008 p1:

• SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION: Grants help students attend meetings in other countries
  OSA Foundation travel grants allow undergraduate and graduate students working or studying in developing nations to attend meetings in other countries
• HOLOGRAPHIC OPTICAL ELEMENTS: Printing technology enables HOE volume manufacturing
  New master replicating technology that borrows concepts from the printing industry enables volume production of holographic optical elements for applications in general and backlit illumination, displays, and automotive LED-based optics.
• BEAM COMBINING: High-power fiber-laser beams are combined incoherently
  Combining laser beams can boost power at the target far above that produced by a single laser. Incoherent beam combining achieves propagation efficiencies of greater than 90%, while avoiding the complexities of coherent or spectral beam combining.
• SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION: Traveling lecturers promote photonics
  The OSA's Traveling Lecturer Program gives members worldwide an opportunity to hear industry luminaries give presentations in a small setting.
• VIBRATION ISOLATION: Effective vibration reduction stabilizes laser beams
  The impact of vibration isolation and optical-table damping on laser beam stabilization for both short- and long-duration applications cannot be overemphasized.
• SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION: Presidential Award honors teachers of math and science
  The Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching is the highest recognition that a mathematics or science teacher can receive for outstanding teaching in the United States.
• IMAGING & DISPLAYS: Complex monolithic optics bring ruggedized solutions to digital cinema
  An integrated monolithic assembly can replace the complex optical train that magnifies and projects a microdisplay's image, resulting in improved performance, minimized aging degradation, and a projection-display experience that more closely duplicates traditional display technologies.
• SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION: Photonics leader helps students achieve their goals
  Milton Chang is admired for his leadership in science, business, and nonprofit arenas. But the tremendous generosity that Dr. Chang and his wife Rosalind have extended to students and professional organizations such as the Optical Society of America is far less known.
• BEAM CHARACTERIZATION: Camera-based sensors characterize laser beams
  Because scientific applications of lasers often push the aser to its operational limits, continuous or periodic measurement of the beam profile is necessary to ensure that the laser is still operating as expected.
• SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION: OSA grassroots education outreach continues to thrive
  The 2008 Optical Society of America activity-grant program has awarded grants to student chapters and local sections around the world.

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