Welcome to Spotlight on Optics!
Spotlight on Optics highlights select articles each month from the OSA publications and is free to access through Optics InfoBase.
Spotlight on Optics (Spotlight) features articles nominated by The Optical Society's (OSA) Topical and Associate Editors to show the breadth and quality of OSA content from six major technical divisions: Information Acquisitions, Processing, and Display; Light—Matter Interactions; Optical Design and Instrumentation; Optics in Biology; Optoelectronics; and Vision and Color.
These articles from OSA's ISI-ranked publications are Open Access and accompanied by an original summary written in plain English.
Journal Editors identify articles for Spotlight that have excellent scientific quality, are representative of the level of work taking place in a specific area, and put other work in perspective. Readers are invited to post comments to the Spotlight website, creating the potential for dialogue between author and reader (and among readers).
Once a paper is confirmed as selected, Panel membersindividuals from the scientific community, specializing in one of the six technical divisionsthen review the research and compose the article's accompanying Spotlight summary. These summaries/analyses can take one of the following forms:
- An Explanation of the content, the foremost purpose being a description of the research that makes it understandable to the nonspecialist.
- A Viewpoint piece that presents a subjective evaluation of the research.
- An Application perspective that connects and/or introduces this work to a discipline other than its stated category.
- A Review/Synopsis of the research with perspective points as applicable.
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Miguel A. Alonso Chair University of Rochester |
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Richard Bowman University of Glasgow |
Ertugrul Cubukcu University of California- Berkeley |
Brynmor Davis Creare, Inc. |
Brad Deutsch University of Rochester |
Michael Henoch Frosz Max-Planck Institute |
Summer Gibbs-Strauss Harvard University |
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Nadav Gutman The University of Sydney |
Kedar Khare Indian Institute of Technology |
Andrey N. Kuzmin University of Buffalo |
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Shalin Mehta Marine Biological Laboratory |
Francesco Morichetti Politecnico di Milano |
David M. Paganin The University of Melbourne |
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Periklis Petropoulos University of Southampton |
Giovanni Piredda Ludwig-Maximilians Universität |
Jason Porter University of Houston |
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Shakil Rehman National University of Singapore |
Ilya Shadrivov The Australian National University |
Robert J. Zawadzki University of California, Davis |
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Juan Diego Ania Castañón Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas |
Morten Bache Technical University of Denmark |
Mikhail Belkin The University of Texas |
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Richard Blackwell-Whitehead Lund |
Piero Castoldi Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna |
Regine Choe University of Pennsylvania |
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James Churnside NOAA |
Peter J. Collings Swarthmore College |
Michael Fokine KTH Royal Institute of Technology |
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Kaori Fukunaga NICT |
Katia Gallo KTH |
Zhibing Ge Apple, Inc. |
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Miguel González Herráez Universidad de Alcalá |
Eric Goodwin Nikon |
John Heebner Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
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Taek Yong Hwang University of Rochester |
Don C. Lamb Ludwig-Maximilians- Universitӓt |
Walter Margulis Acreo |
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Paul Mirkarimi Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
Antoni C. Mitus University of Wrocław |
Adam Mock Central Michigan University |
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Sami Mumtaz University of Rochester |
Paul Pax Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
Alessandro Restelli NIST |
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Gianluca Rotaris Centro Ricerche Plast-Optica S.p.A. |
Kimberley S. Samkoe Dartmouth College |
Greg Schmidt University of Rochester |
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Thomas Udem Max-Planck Institute |
Alfred U'Ren Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mé:xico |
Laurie M. Wilcox York University |
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Tian Yang UM-SJTU Joint Institute |
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