Optics InfoBase: Spotlight on Optics

Spotlight on Optics

| HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES FROM OSA JOURNALS

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
Michael Henoch Frosz Deputy Chair Max-Planck Institute
Giovanni Piredda Deputy Chair Ludwig-Maximilians University
Robert Zawadzki Deputy Chair University of California - Davis

John Ballato Clemson University Richard Bowman University of Cambridge Ertugrul Cubukcu Penn State University Brynmor Davis Creare, Inc. Brad Deutsch University of Illinois Summer Gibbs Oregon Health and Science University	Roarke Horstmeyer California Institute of Technology Taek Yong Hwang California Institute of Technology Kedar Khare Indian Institute of Technology Andrey N. Kuzmin University of Buffalo Shalin Mehta Marine Biological Laboratory Francesco Morichetti Politecnico di Milano	David M. Paganin University of Melbourne Periklis Petropoulos University of Southampton Jason Porter University of Houston Shakil Rehman National University of Singapore Ilya Shadrivov Australian National University Peter Steinvurzel Boston University

S. Mark Ammons University of Arizona Morten Bache Technical University of Denmark Mikhail Belkin University of Texas Richard Blackwell-Whitehead Lund University Alan Bristow West Virginia University Juan Diego Ania Castanon CSIC Piero Castoldi Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna Regine Choe University of Pennsylvania James Churnside NOAA Giovanni Cirmi Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron Peter J. Collings Swarthmore College Matthew Evans MIT Andrea C. Ferrari University of Cambridge Michael Fokine Royal Institute of Technology Edward Fry Texas A&M University Kaori Fukunaga NICT Katia Gallo Royal Institute of Technology Joseph Gardecki Massachusetts General Hospital Zhibing Ge Apple, Inc. Goery Genty Tampere University of Technology Sylvain Gigan ESPCI Eric Goodwin Nikon Nicolai Granzow Max Planck Institute Erlangen Claire Gu University of California - Santa Cruz John Heebner Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	Alan Heins University of Rochester Miguel Gonzalez Herraez Universidad de Alcala Kirankumar R. Hiremath Indian Institute of Technology, Jodhpur David Hostutler US Air Force Research Laboratory Emishaw Iffa University of British Columbia Cesar Jauregui Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena Brendan Kennedy University of Western Australia Ossi Kimmelma ICFO Jesper Laegsgaard Technical University of Denmark Don C. Lamb Ludwig-Maximilians Universitaet Aaron E. Leanhardt University of Michigan Micah Ledbetter University of California - Berkeley James Leger University of Minnesota Twin Cities Chih-Hao Li Harvard-Smithsonian Center Jens Limpert Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena Linbo Liu Massachusetts General Hospital Zhi-Shen Liu Ocean University of China Salvador Sales Maicas Universidad Politecnica de Valencia Walter Margulis ACREO R. V. Mehta Bhavnagar University Paul Mirkarimi Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Antoni C. Mitus University of Wroclaw Adam Mock Central Michigan University Theodore Moustakas Boston University Sami Mumtaz University of Rochester	Willie Padilla Boston College B. Hyle Park University of California - Riverside Paul Pax Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Jeffrey Puschell Raytheon Company Szymon Pustelny Uniwersytet Jagiellonski Jessica Ramella-Roman Catholic University of America Pier Giorgio Raponi Scuola Sant'Anna Alessandro Restelli NIST Gianluca Rotaris Centro Ricerche Plast-Optica S.p.A. Kimberley S. Samkoe Dartmouth College Andrew Sarangan University of Dayton Lorenzo Scalise Universita degli Studi di Ancona Greg Schmidt University of Rochester Wenbo Sun NASA Langley Research Center Zhipei Sun University of Cambridge Gary Tearney Harvard Medical School Andreas Tuennermann Fraunhofer IOF Thomas Udem Max-Planck Institut Alfred U'Ren Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico Silvia Vignolini University of Cambridge Ronald Walsworth Harvard-Smithsonian Center Laurie M. Wilcox York University Tian Yang UM-SJTU Joint Institute Xuan Yang University of California - Santa Cruz Seunghyup Yoo KAIST