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The Sky’s the Limit for Autonomy and Artificial Intelligence

As AI and autonomous machines continue their upward development trajectories, so does the collaborative work of the Air Force Research Laboratory with industry, academia, and other government labs

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The Sky’s the Limit for Autonomy and Artificial Intelligence

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Flexible Photonic Crystal from Liquid Thin-Film Metasurface

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Breakthrough of 2019: Darkness Made Visible

Limiting Molecular Motion Improves Raman Lasing Performance

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SPIE Announces New Space, Satellites + Sustainability (S3) Meeting for September 2020

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SPIE Announces Its 2020 DCS Rising Researchers

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2020 SPIE Startup Challenge Semi-Finalists Highlight Transformational Photonics Innovations

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SPIE Members Inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame

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SPIE Announces Three-Year Read and Publish Agreement with BIBSAM

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SPIE, the International Society for Optics and Photonics, Announces Its 2020 Fellows

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SPIE Launches Photonics Focus

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Back in the Power Game

No Library Card Needed

Robert Hall and the Diode Laser

Let’s Start Again

Where is the New Collar Workforce?

10 Simple Steps to Writing a Scientific Paper

Reflections Photo Feature: Brocken Spectre

Message from the SPIE President: A Year of Excellent Vision

#FacesofPhotonics: Aerospace Engineer Elaine Stewart

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National Quantum Initiative Turns One

#FacesofPhotonics: Senior Test Engineer Junwei Meng

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Optics Does That? Seeing the World in a Grain of Sand

#FacesofPhotonics: Senior Photonics Specialist Cheryl Asbury

High-Contrast Measurement Technique Reveals Hidden Ultrashort Laser Pulses

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Is There a Badge for Refractive Optics?

Sentinel for Sea-level Rise Enters Testing

Voyager 2 Has Left the Bubble

5 Things to Know about Perovskite Solar Cells

Steven Jacques: The 2020 SPIE Britton Chance Biomedical Optics Award

Vivian Ferry: The 2020 SPIE Early Career Achievement Award – Academic Focus

Pietro Ferraro: The 2020 SPIE Dennis Gabor Award in Diffractive Optics

Pablo Benítez: The 2020 SPIE A.E. Conrady Award in Optical Engineering

Kathleen A. Richardson: The 2020 SPIE Maria J. Yzuel Educator Award

John R. Rogers: The 2020 SPIE Rudolf and Hilda Kingslake Award in Optical Design

James E. Millerd: The 2020 SPIE Chandra S. Vikram Award in Optical Metrology

Harold L. Kundel: The 2020 SPIE Harrison H. Barrett Award in Medical Imaging

Gordon Wetzstein: The 2020 SPIE Early Career Achievement Award – Academic Focus

Alan R. Fry: The 2020 SPIE Harold E. Edgerton Award in High-Speed Optics

Winfried Kaiser: The 2020 SPIE Frits Zernike Award for Microlithography

Oswald Siegmund: The 2020 SPIE George W. Goddard Award in Space and Airborne Optics

Tatiana Novikova: The 2020 SPIE G.G. Stokes Award in Optical Polarization

Jessica Wade: The 2020 SPIE Diversity Outreach Award

John H. Lehman: The 2020 SPIE Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award in Photonics

Nirmala Ramanujam: The 2020 SPIE Biophotonics Technology Innovator Award

Nishant Mohan: The 2020 SPIE Early Career Achievement Award – Government/Industry Focus

Sanjay Krishna: The 2020 SPIE Aden and Marjorie Meinel Technology Achievement Award

Sona Hosseini: The 2020 SPIE Early Career Achievement Award – Government/Industry Focus

Ursula Keller: The 2020 SPIE Gold Medal

Daniel Vukobratovich: The 2020 SPIE President’s Award

Gary Spiegel: The 2020 SPIE Directors’ Award

Yuri Kivshar: The 2020 SPIE Mozi Award

Learning-Based Optical Fiber Cell Imaging

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SPIE offers Child Care Grants

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Can You Improve Your Technical Writing? (Spoiler: YES!)

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Photonics Unfettered: Beam-Steering, Spatial-Light Modulators, and Superfast Microscopy

LISA: A Gravitational-Wave Observatory for the 21st Century Space Age

Blurry Imaging Limits Clarified Thanks to Information Theory

Telescope Tracks 35 Million Galaxies in Hunt for Dark Energy

In Memoriam: Roland V. Shack

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#FacesofPhotonics: Stargazer Stacey Sueoka

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#FacesofPhotonics: Lithographer Luciana Meli

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A Laser and a Magnet Walked into a Box

Bridging the Gap: AI Technology Aims to Restore Function for Paralyzed Patients

SCAPE 2.0 Lights Up New Discoveries in Neuroscience

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#FacesofPhotonics: Senior Program Manager at Ball Aerospace, Allison Barto

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Multimodalities, Translational Biophotonics, and the Future Trajectories of OCT

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2019 Nobel Prize in Physics Recognizes Astronomical Leaps

#FacesofPhotonics: Entrepreneur and Changemaker Aitor Villafranca Velasco

Ultra-Low Noise, Fully Automated Laser System for Coherent Raman Scattering Microscopy

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Dennis Gabor Award in Diffractive Optics: Min Gu

George W. Goddard Award in Space and Airborne Optics: Giovanni Fazio

Aden and Marjorie Meinel Technology Achievement Award: Joe C. Campbell

G. G. Stokes Award in Optical Polarization: Joseph Shaw

Chandra S. Vikram Award in Optical Metrology: Wolfgang Osten

New Chairs Lead Photonics West BIOS 2020

In the War on Opioids 525-nm LEDs Offer Hope

Mapping the Mind: A Neuroscientist's Expedition into the Unknown

Day in the Life of an SPIE Professional: Nishant Mohan

Imaging Spectroscopy Sheds New Light on Pill Production

Progress Includes Partnerships

Synchronized Swimming under the Microscope

A. E. Conrady Award in Optical Engineering: Hubert "Buddy" Martin

#FacesofPhotonics: Biomedical Optics PhD Student, Arvid Lindberg

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The Discoveries are in the Details

From Research to Commercialization: AI Diagnostic Tool Aims to Improve Breast Cancer Diagnosis

#FacesofPhotonics: President of Savvy Optics, Dave Aikens

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Electromagnetic Field Enhancement with “Ghost Waves”

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#FacesofPhotonics: Optimax Director of Technology and Strategy, Jessica DeGroote Nelson

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#FacesofPhotonics: Optics Expert and SPIE Member, Dr. Alexis Vogt

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Science and Security

Entangled Optical Vortexes Survive "Trial by Fiber"

Optics Does That?: Sex-enriched Bovine Semen

Transmission of Quantum-Correlated Structured Light in Air-Core Fiber

How Digital Technology Helps Solve Mysteries in the Humanities

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The 9 Essentials of Laser Safety

Stabilizing 2-D Dark Gap Solitons and Vortices Using Bright Defects in Optical Lattices

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LED Array Implant Illuminates the Future for Optogenetics Studies

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Biomedical Salaries in Optics and Photonics: Engineering Greater Health

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2019 Optics + Photonics Plenary Recordings

Best Optics Apply at 2019 SPIE Optics + Photonics

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Inside the World of Smart Materials

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State-of-the-Art Cardiovascular Endoscopy

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New Design Advances Optical Neural Networks that Compute at the Speed of Light Using Engineered Matter

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In Memoriam: Ravindra Lal

TESS: One Year Out

Hubert Martin: Making mirrors for giant telescopes

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Writing STEM Women into the Public Arena

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Sid Ahmed Boukabara: Thoughts on the Future of NOAA’s satellite remote sensing for weather forecasting and environment monitoring

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Michael Insana: Exploiting data sparsity to enhance sensitivity in medical images

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Mona Jarrahi: Plasmonics-enhanced terahertz spectroscopy

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Jang-Joo Kim: What is the Efficiency Limit of OLEDs?

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Making Mirrors for Giant Telescopes

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Celebrating Arthur Ashkin’s Nobel Prize

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Kae Nemoto: Distributed quantum information processing

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Jelena Vuckovic: From inverse design to implementation of practical (quantum) photonics

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Giovanni Volpe: Optical forces go smart

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Martin Gehler: LISA: Observing gravitational waves from space

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“Different Voices = New Ideas”

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Most impressive! Optics Outreach Games Showcase Student Chapter Projects

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Artificial Intelligence and Space Exploration

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Optogenetics: Illuminating Our Head Space

Light-controlled microcapsules promise strong gut reactions

New Solar Window Designs Improve Efficiency and Visibility—But Mind the Ghosts

Solar Sailing: Take 2

The Future of Battlefield "Things"

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Laser’s Pure Tones May Power Future Communications Technology

Spektr-RG Charts the Skies

How to Construct a Compelling Grant Proposal

Silicon Photonics: Optics’ Next Killer App?

SPIE-Hillenkamp Fellowships Drive Translational Photonics Technologies

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Why the Milky Way’s Black Hole is a Picky Eater

Advice for Attending a Science Conference for the First Time

Visa Challenges Continue for Many Non-US Scientists

High-Q Resonant States in Hybrid-Dielectric Phonon Systems

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Essential Skills for a Career in the Private Sector

Get Wired with Women in Renewable Energy

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Under Lock and Key: The Intersection of Cancer Research and Photovoltaics

Photoacoustic Radar Lights Up Dangerous Arterial Plaque

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SPIE in the Community

Free-Space Optical Communication Takes a Deep Dive

Day in the Life of an SPIE Professional: Amy Oldenburg

Shining a Light on the Eye of the Hurricane

What Happens in the Arctic Doesn't Stay in the Arctic

CubeSats: the Smallest Big Thing in Remote Sensing Sciences

Optics + Photonics 2019 Preview

Letter from the President

Affordable Photovoltaic Technology at the Nexus of Energy and Water

Should I Patent It?

2019 SPIE Election Opens July 1

A Giant Leap for Humankind

Learning-Based Lensless Imaging through Optically Thick Scattering Media

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Photonics on Display in the Beautiful Game

Dielectric Metasurfaces for Distance Measurements and 3D Imaging

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Swarm Engineering

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Laser Weapons: Moving from Movie Theaters to Theaters of War

Securing Success: Defense Salaries in Optics and Photonics

OCT Proves a Capable Partner in Radio Frequency Ablation Therapy

Jess Wade: A Force of Nature

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Queen's Birthday Honours List Recognizes People in Optics and Photonics

In Memoriam: Vladimir Ukraintsev

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Fundamentals of Target Classification Using Deep Learning

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A Comparison of Target Detection Algorithms Using DSIAC ATR Algorithm Development Data Set

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Sensing and Sensibility

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FLIR at SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing Industry Program

Angela Saini: Addressing Race Science

Action Item: Earth!

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Well-Bred Antennas Are Hot

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High Stakes Year for Research and Development Funding

Creating the Body Electric

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Mission Possible: Deep neural nets transform diagnostic imaging

AI and the United States

In Memoriam: Charles "Chuck" DeMund

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Spectroscopy Technique Provides New Insight into Ultrafast Transient Dynamics

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The Phase Retrieval Problem

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Through a Metalens, Lightly

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“All-in-One” Method Reconstructs Holograms Using Deep Neural Network

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SPIE Ocean Sensing and Monitoring Best Paper Award

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DARPA Challenges Drive Dual-Use Innovation

SPIE Infrared Imaging Systems: 30 Years of Value Engineering to the IR Community

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Predicting Cancer’s Return: Pump-probe analysis reveals metastatic potential

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Beyond 2020 Vision

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Timothy Grayson - Mosaic Warfare

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Equity, Diversity & Inclusion: What can we do to change things?

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Vehicle and System Autonomy: Views into the Future

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Of Plaques and Patents

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Faces of Photonics: CEO of Datalytica Dr. Misty Blowers

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Master of Her Matrix

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Move over Alexa, These Smart Lights Don’t Need You to Tell Them When to Shine

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Using Deep Learning to Analyze Fringe Patterns

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Listening with Light

From Cosmology to Biology

Black Silicon: 23 Years Later

A Day in the Life of an SPIE Professional: Christopher Wilcox

Two Decades of Good Will

The Up and Coming Stars of Tomorrow

Early Career Achievement Awards Honor Excellence

Industry Leaders Meet at Photonics West to Discuss Export Controls

So, You Attended a Conference. Now what?

Calling for Quantum Engineers: New opportunities in the wake of the National Quantum Initiative

Facial recognition spots happy pigs

Fellowship Winners Tackle Twin Healthcare Challenges

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Analyzing exhaled breath gases streamlines diagnostics

Optics tech drives CES innovations

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Honoring Steven L. Jacques, a Pioneer in Biomedical Optics

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Clear-sighted neural network counts corneal cells

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Photonics21 digs in for next phase of continental R&D

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Photonics Ecosystem Takes Nobel-winning Technologies to Market

ELI Beamlines Now Open for Business

US clusters thrive on regional expertise

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Quantum race intensifies amid global competition

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News from SPIE Photonics West 2019

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At the Nexus of Contemporary Science

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Lasers make the grade in Earth observation and space exploration

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Meeting the Photoresist Challenge

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For Manufacturability, Optimize Everything

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What Could Kill – and Save – Moore’s Law

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Neural Networks Help Chip Manufacturing

For Lithography, Placement Is Key

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For Lithography, Random Events Could Dominate and Doom

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OPTO Plenary Likes Facebook's Schmidtke

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Facebook focuses on optics integration

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Lithography and the Future of Computing discussed at 2019 SPIE Advanced Lithography plenary session

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Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography Is – Finally – Ready

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Henry Hess: Engineering with Biomolecular Motors

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Noise around AR, VR hits new peak

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Multimedia presentations: LASE plenaries

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Multimedia presentations: BiOS Hot Topics and Neurotechnologies plenaries

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Imaging Blood Vessels at the Speed of Sound

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BiOS Hot Topics: changing of the guard

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Multimedia presentations: OPTO plenaries

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Faster, wider, deeper: imaging advances in focus at Hot Topics session

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Photons plus ultrasound: 25 years at Photonics West

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Medical imaging and artificial intelligence: naturally compatible

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Government Shutdown Harms Science

Enter the dragon: China wants to deal

Donna Strickland: Girls just wanna have fun — in the lab

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Faces of Photonics: Professor of Medical Physics and Photonics West Hot Topics Speaker, Clare Elwell

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Standards Update

Faces of Photonics: SPIE Britton Chance Award Winner and Professor of Radiology, Samuel Achilefu

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Virtual and Augmented Reality Tech Joins the Fight against Crime

Open Access 2020: Navigating the icy waters of Plan S

Working Together to Improve Global Health

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Wearables Move Beyond the Consumer…and Into the Clinic?

A Proceedings Evolution

Solve for X: Lessons Learned from PROSTATEx

A Day in the Life of an SPIE Professional: Leslie Kimerling

Removing Barriers

Seminal Paper Translated to English 100 Years Later

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Hardwiring the Brain

Augmenting Reality Poses Challenges for Optics

Bridging the Valley of Death in Biotech

Two Pioneers Recognized for Contributions to Lithography

Real Reality (RR) Courses on AR/VR at Photonics West

U.S. Government Seeks Information on How to Control Emerging Technology

Mars smiles for InSight’s cameras

Champion of Future Champions

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Arseniy Kuznetsov: Building flat optics and lasers with nanoantennas

Tripping the Light Fantastic

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Flexible Lasers Can Lase Anywhere

Windshields May Do a Lot More Than Block Wind

Life, the Universe, and Everything: A Chat with Pioneering Physicist Manijeh Razeghi

Primitive Object Volatile Explorer (PrOVE) CubeSat

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SPIE offers Child Care Grants

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More than Meets the Eye

Translational Tech: NASA’S artistic endeavor

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Artificial Intelligence: Best for Breast

Neurogrids for Epilepsy

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New U.S. Law Addresses Control of Emerging Technologies

SPIE Optics + Photonics 2018 Plenary Presentations

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Federico Capasso: Metasurface flat optics: Unifying semiconductor manufacturing and lens making

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Paul Corkum: Attosecond pulses generated in gases and solids

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Mathias Fink: Wave control with "time materials"

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Mikael Käll: Plasmonic nanostructures for molecular sensing and actuation

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Natalia M. Litchinitser: Structured light on the nanoscale

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Dieter Klaes: Remote sensing of weather, climate, and environment

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Yueh-Lin (Lynn) Loo: Making smart windows smarter

Sang Deog (Eddie) Yeo: OLED, the future display is here!

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Bumki Min: Rapidly time-variant metadevices for linear frequency conversion

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The Future of Medical Imaging Intelligence Isn’t All Artificial

La Terrasse Optique

Private Equity Flows into Photonics as Industry Grows

Plastic Fantastic: Next-gen electronics

FLIR Women Are on a Mission

Hexagon KH-9: Meeting the challenge

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Earth Angel: Chris Fisher's latest expedition

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Autonomous vehicle industry remains cool to thermal imaging

Growing US - China trade war impacts optics and photonics technologies

HiCIBaS – Up, up, and away

Deep Thought: Mapping the World, One Automated Step at a Time

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Future Vision: A Sneak-peek Into Machine Learning

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Making Her SMART Marks

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"Be prepared," Indeed!

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Empowered: Lynn Loo on enhancing smart windows, building partnerships, and the humane drive behind engineering

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Understanding EUV Lithography: The Technology That Enables Extension of Moore’s Law

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Flagship program kick-starts quantum industry in Europe

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