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Optical Design & Engineering

Programmable micro-optics for ultrashort pulses
Spatial light modulators with excellent temporal transfer can shape ultrashort wave packets by digitally mimicking complex phase elements.
A new 4356-actuator optical element will enable direct extrasolar-planet studies when combined with an innovative adaptive optics system.
22 February 2010
A novel approach to generating large-scale, 3D images allows tracking of individual collagen fibers and characterization of their structural organization.
30 December 2009
Stress polishing toric mirrors minimizes residual speckles in stellar images and improves the accuracy of extrasolar-planet detection.
21 December 2009
The optimal angular separation of laser-guide stars depends critically on the order of the wavefront's phase aberrations, the outer scale of turbulence, and the telescope's aperture.
21 December 2009
A subwavelength-scale aperture on a hollow silicon tip, combined with a near-field scanning-optical microscope, facilitates significant advances in nanophotolithography.
15 December 2009
A piezoelectric actuator enables fast focusing of imaging systems.
14 December 2009
 
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John Greivenkamp showcases historical optical devices at the 2009 SPIE Optics + Photonics Symposium in a video interview.

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15 March 2010

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