SPIE Professional Magazine
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SPIE Professional helps optics and photonics professionals succeed in their careers with articles about industry trends, education, and events. The SPIE member magazine is also celebrating the upcoming 50th anniversary of the laser.  SPIE Professional requires a SPIE member login to read the full text of those articles marked for SPIE members only.
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SPIE Advancing the Laser Tribute
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 Laser AdvancesSPIE celebrates past breakthroughs, current laser applications, and future possibilities for coherent light.
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The National Ignition Facility, with 192 laser beams, is the world's largest and highest-energy pulsed laser system. Open access article.
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Photonics for a Better World
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Optics Benefits Humanity
Lasers and other optical technologies have brought tangible social, environmental, health, and economic gains to humanity. (With bonus, Web-only content)
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SPIE Supports Optics Education
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SPIE Awards 116 Scholarships
More than 100 students from top optical science schools win $292,000 in awards from SPIE. |
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SPIE Online Courses Offer Flexibility
SPIE is launching a new series of continuing education courses online for optics professionals.
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Should Engineering Be Re-Engineered?
Retired Lockheed Martin CEO Norman Augustine says an engineer's education should include ethics, politics, biology, and communication.
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Europe and Canada Promote Technology Education
SPIE supports a student-organized Photonics ToolkiT in Québec and the new European Institute of Innovation & Technology.
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Organizers of a laser workshop in South Africa hope its success will further the development of photonics in Africa. (Open access from SPIE Newsroom)
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Photonics in Singapore
The Optics and Photonics Society of Singapore will support academia and industry while helping to nurture Singapore's reputation as business-friendly.
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Focus on SPIE Membership
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SPIE Annual Meeting and Elections
Election results will be announced at the SPIE Annual General Meeting 12 August. |
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SPIE Gold Medal
NASA's Richard Hoover, who makes small things a big deal, wins the 2009 SPIE Gold Medal.
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19 Win SPIE Education and Outreach Grants
Grant recipients focus on giving back to the optics community.
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SPIE Member News
News briefs about SPIE member honors and achievements. (With bonus, Web-only content)
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International Year of Astronomy
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SPIE Celebrates the Telescope
SPIE supports the International Year of Astronomy with events and a poster in the print issue of the magazine. (With bonus, Web-only content.)
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SPIE Professional: ISSN 1994-4403
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SPIE Advances Interdisciplinary Research in Optics
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Agri-Photonics
Photonics technologies are helping farmers, food processors, and famine-plagued areas of the world.
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The Business of Optics
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NoblePeak Vision: Startup in a Downturn
Entrepreneuring engineers find that bad economic times can be a good time to start a company.
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Glass Fab
Rochester entrepreneur Robert Saltzman sees growth, success in automation. (With bonus, Web-only content)
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Dazzle Marketing
Robert Lieberman finds there's nothing like a little publicity to move his LED device to market.
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Data Centers Go Green
Power-hungry data centers have some optically clear and innovative choices for optimizing energy efficiency.
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SPIE Optics+Photonics
Advances in solar applications and astronomy will draw thousands to annual event in San Diego.
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SPIE Europe Symposia
Two events in Berlin will cover optical technology topics in remote sensing and security. (Bonus content)
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See other upcoming conferences, symposia, and exhibitions around the world. |
SPIE, the International Optics and Photonics Society
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President's Letter
SPIE President María Yzuel writes about the value of SPIE membership and viewing SPIE as your professional home. (With bonus, Web-only content) |
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2009 SPIE Awards
Former MIT President Charles Vest and SPIE members Richard Hoover, Fenna Hanes, James Grote, Marc Kuchner, Chris Mack, Rajpal Sirohi, and Roland Winston are among the 2009 honorees for their service to optical science.
The deadline to nominate a colleague for an SPIE annual award for 2010 is 1 October, 2009.
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New Journal Planned
Photonics for Energy and the Environment will focus on alternate energy.
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