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Giovanni Volpe: Optical forces go smart

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

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Celebrating Arthur Ashkin’s Nobel Prize

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Hubert Martin: Making mirrors for giant telescopes

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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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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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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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Martin Gehler: LISA: Observing gravitational waves from space

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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

Solar Sailing: Take 2

The Future of Battlefield "Things"

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Spektr-RG Charts the Skies

Silicon Photonics: Optics’ Next Killer App?

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SPIE-Hillenkamp Fellowships Drive Translational Photonics Technologies

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

High-Q Resonant States in Hybrid-Dielectric Phonon Systems

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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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Free-Space Optical Communication Takes a Deep Dive

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

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Affordable Photovoltaic Technology at the Nexus of Energy and Water

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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

OCT Proves a Capable Partner in Radio Frequency Ablation Therapy

Jess Wade: A Force of Nature

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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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Action Item: Earth!

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Well-Bred Antennas Are Hot

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Creating the Body Electric

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Mission Possible: Deep neural nets transform diagnostic imaging

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 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 - Mosiac Warfare

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Vehicle and System Autonomy: Views into the Future

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Faces of Photonics: CEO of Datalytica Dr. Misty Blowers

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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

Facial recognition spots happy pigs

Fellowship Winners Tackle Twin Healthcare Challenges

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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

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ELI Beamlines Now Open for Business

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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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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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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

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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

Seminal Paper Translated to English 100 Years Later

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Hardwiring the Brain

Augmenting Reality Poses Challenges for Optics

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

Mars smiles for InSight’s cameras

Champion of Future Champions

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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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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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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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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

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

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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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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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SPIE Gold Medal winner Paul Corkum: Voted “most likely to win a Nobel Prize”

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Taking the twinkle out of stars

The days of the Xenon lamp are numbered

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Plenary sessions from SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2018.

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Keith Gendreau: NICER Early Operations and Results

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Beth Willman: The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope: Construction Progress and Scientific Opportunities

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Harley Thronson: Future Capabilities in Space Servicing and Assembly: Opportunities for the Most Ambitious Space Astrophysics Missions

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Sabrina Stierwalt: How to Diversify Engineering (and Why We Should)

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Sara Seager: Mapping the Nearest Stars for Habitable Worlds

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John Mather: Future Science with the James Webb Space Telescope

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Lee Feinberg: An Engineering History of the JWST Telescope

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Guardian of the Galaxies

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Multimedia presentations: Hot Topics from SPIE Photonics Europe 2018

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Alain Aspect: From Einstein doubt to quantum bit: A second quantum revolution

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Jeremy Baumberg - Pico-Photonics: Watching and sensing single molecules by confining light to the atom scale

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Anne L’Huillier: From extreme nonlinear optics to ultrafast atomic physics

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STAR GAZER: Sara Seager on exoplanets, exploration, and elusive Earth twins

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Marriage of a 20keV superconducting XFEL with a 100PW laser

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Faces light up over VCSEL prospects

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Quantum technologies: Accelerating toward commercialization

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Low-expansion glass for telescopes

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Effects of the EU’s REACH and RoHS regulations on optical and filter glass

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3D printing is ready to grow up, says panel

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Alexis Vogt: Raising the Bar on Diversity in Optics

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SPIE conversations: Howard Schlossberg of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research

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Lidar landscape shifts as big players join forces with new entrants

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Imperial marks optics centenary with a look to the future

A map app to track stem cells

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Full-Color Imaging with Broadband Achromatic Metalens in the Visible

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Multimedia presentations: SPIE Photonics West 2018 plenaries and BiOS Hot Topics

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Aleksandr Ovsianikov: Biomedical applications of multiphoton processing

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Marcel Bernucci: Investigation of vascular scattering patterns in retinal and choroidal OCT angiography with a contrast agent

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Hillel Adesnik: 3D multiphoton optogenetic control of neural ensemble activity

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Qingming Luo: Brainsmatics—visualizing brain-wide networks

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Irene Georgakoudi: Optical, label-free, morphofunctional metabolic imaging

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Katarina and Sune Svanberg: Biophotonics applications of gas in scattering media absorption spectroscopy (GASMAS)

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Julia Walther: Optical coherence tomography in the oral cavity

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Ed Boyden: Neurophotonic strategies for observing and controlling neural circuits

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Sergio Fantini: Optical assessment of cerebral autoregulation

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Pallab Bhattacharya: III-Nitride Nanowire LEDs and Diode Lasers: Monolithic Light Sources on (001) Si Emitting in the 600-1300nm Range

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Berthold Schmidt: Advanced Industrial Laser Systems and Applications

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Federico Capasso: Flat optics: from high-performance metalenses to structured light

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Jin Kang: Image-guided smart surgical tools for surgery

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W.E. Moerner: The Story of Photonics and Single Molecules, from Early Spectroscopy in Solids, to Super-resolution Nanoscopy in Cells and Beyond

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Multimedia presentations: SPIE Advanced Lithography 2018

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Yan Borodovsky: Moore’s Law At and Beyond 5nm

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G. Dan Hutcheson: Moore's Law, Lithography, and How Optics Drive the Semiconductor Industry

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Quantum technology: paths to commercialization

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Frequency combs and new lasers measure up

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Multimedia presentations: Keynotes from SPIE Medical Imaging 2018

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Wei Tse Yang: Optical Imaging of the Breast

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Martin Stumpe: Advancing Cancer Diagnostics with Deep Learning

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Richard B. Gunderman: Learning to See

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Killer potential: time to raise the profile of QPI

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Femtoprint gets fast and furious

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Collaboration key as LIGO is prepped for future breakthroughs

Optics the key challenge for AR, VR and mixed reality evolution

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SPIE hosts grand challenges to advance CAD in medical imaging

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Virtual experience draws a real big crowd

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Meet your new SPIE President: Maryellen Giger from the University of Chicago

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Imaging visible and IR light

Distributed Fiber Optic Sensing defends vital infrastructure

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Optics of Medical Imaging

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25 years of OCT

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Imaging the Cancer Cure

LIGO gravitational wave researchers win Nobel Prize in Physics

Gary Sullivan: Compression coding is key to adoption of ultra-high-definition video

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Farah Alibay: Searching for intelligent life with HabEx

Autonomous Remote Sensing – A Tale of Evolving, Emerging and Converging Technologies (Part 2)

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Autonomous Remote Sensing – A Tale of Evolving, Emerging and Converging Technologies (Part 1)

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Katarina Svanberg: Combining optics and oncology

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Multimedia presentations: SPIE Optics + Photonics 2017 plenary and Hot Topics talks

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Eicke R. Weber: Photovoltaics Moving into the Terawatt Age

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Ralph Romero: Bankability of Novel Energy Technologies

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Nam-Gyu Park: The History and Progress of Halide Perovskite Photovoltaics

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Larry R. Dalton: Hybrid Electro-Optics and Chip-scale Integration of Electronics and Photonics

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Leo B. Baldwin: Designing for One to One-Million: How Production Quantities Influence Design

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Steven M. Kahn: The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope

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Thomas S. Pagano: Demonstrating Technologies for Hyperspectral Infrared Remote Sensing from Space on a CubeSat

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Charles D. Edwards, Jr: Autonomous Vehicles

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Nanshu Lu: Bioelectronics-Wearables and Implantables

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Tanja Cuk: Solar Fuels

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Charles Gay: A Brief History of Photovoltaics: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

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Wolfgang Fink: Distributed autonomous platform for robotic planetary exploration

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Voyager 40th anniversary

Optical instruments aboard GOES-16 weather satellite

Adrian Tang: Using CMOS technology for next-generation extreme weather forecasting

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Nobu Koshiba: Materials Innovation: It’s No Longer Only About Resolution

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J. Alexander Liddle: Metrology at the nanoscale key to understanding of next generation lithography processes

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Sustainable Lasers

Lidar for Autonomous Cars

Evaluating Kidney Function

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LSCs for Displays and Energy Harvesting

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Lidar Gets You There Safely

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Optical Sensor for Food Safety

Solar-powered Scope

Third gravitational wave detected

Harald Haas: Progress in LED technology removes barriers for LiFi communication

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Edward Charrier: Need to understand pattern roughness leads to computational metrology startup

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Roel Baets: Maturity of silicon photonics opens door for sensing applications

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Louay Eldada: LiDAR for Autonomous Vehicles: The future of 3D Sensing and Perception

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Presentations from SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing 2017

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Austin Richards: High Resolution Panoramic Thermal Imaging

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Industry panel: Selling Globally: Resources for U.S. Exporters

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Randall Warnas: The Industrial Impacts of Thermal Imaging Drones

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Mike Fussell: Ethernet Evolution, Are We Ready for 10GigE?

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Lisa Gerbracht: Innovations in Sensor Positioning

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Josh Holly: Navigating Defense and the Budget in President Trump’s Washington

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Parker Abercrombie: Augmenting Exploration

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Richard Crocombe: Photonics and Food: Optical Tools Tackle Food Safety Challenges

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Chris Bainter: The Need for Speed: Next Generation High Speed Infrared Detector Technologies

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Na Ji: Adaptive optics enables new optical microscopy for neuro applications

Malte Gather: OLEDs to increase specificity for optogenetic applications

Michael Lercel: EUV will build on success of DUV and holistic lithography

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Space Technology and Medicine

3D Printing of Ophthalmic Lenses

2D Tunable Materials

New Optical Nanosensor

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Compressive sensing

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2017 George W. Goddard Award

Raman Spectroscopy for Drug Safety

Graeme Malcolm: Mix of basic science and applications drive M Squared Lasers’ growth

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Josh Holly: Involvement in public policy key for optics and photonics industry

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Lihong Wang: World's fastest camera for ultrafast phenomena provides temporal information

Multimedia presentations: SPIE Advanced Lithography 2017

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Satoshi Kawata: Optical 3D nano-fabrication: top-down and bottom up approaches

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Mohammadreza Khorasaninejad: Flat Optics with Metasurfaces: Beyond Refractive and Diffractive Optics

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David Fried: Technology Development: the "In Between”

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Tatsuhiko Higashiki: Applying NIL for device fabrication and challenges in nano-defect management

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Mark van de Kerkhof: Enabling sub-10nm node lithography: presenting the NXE:3400B EUV scanner with improved overlay, imaging, and throughput

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Chris Mack: Stochastics and the phenomenon of line-edge roughness

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Charles Norton: CubeSats generating excitement for lower costs, quick turnaround, creative research

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Emilia Entcheva: Cardiac Optogenetics

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Hideaki Koizumi: New Instrumentation and Applications of Optical Topography (fNIRS)

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Harald Giessen: Coupling optical angular momentum and plasmonics for practical devices

Chris Xu: 3-photon microscopy for deep brain imaging

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Dieter Bimberg: A Quarter Century of Quantum-Dot-Based Photonics

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Harald Haas: LiFi: Transforming Fibre into Wireless

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Hakaru Mizoguchi: Development of 250W EUV Light Source for HVM Lithography

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Alberto Piqué: Printing Hybrid Electronics by Laser Direct-Write

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Michael J. Sailor: Porous Silicon Nanoparticles as Self-Reporting Drug Delivery Vehicles

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Adam Bauer: Mapping functional connections in the mouse brain: insight to understanding and treating disease

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Robert Campbell: Genetically encoded indicators of neuronal activity

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Maria Angela Franceschini: Clinical neuro-monitoring with NIRS-DCS

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Alberto Diaspro: The Extra Microscope

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Chris Contag: In vivo optical imaging using bioluminescent reporters

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Robert Alfano: Advances in Noninvasive Optical Biopsy

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Masud Mansuripur: Developing a theory of optical momentum

Ben Tsai: Inspection and Metrology to Support the Quest for Perfection: Photolithography for the Sub-10nm Nodes

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Rafael Yuste: The novel neurotechnologies: impact in science, medicine, and society

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Michael Sailor: Nanomaterials for biomedical and chemical sensing applications

Alberto Piqué: Laser-direct write process enables printing of functional devices

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Muyinatu Lediju Bell: Photoacoustic imaging for improved surgical tools

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Mona Jarrahi: Development of terahertz devices opens doors for numerous applications

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Alexandra Boltasseva: Discovering new plasmonic materials

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Rafael Yuste: Imaging of neuro circuits key to understanding brain function

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Smart Roads Go Solar

Photocatalytic Disinfection

Innovative Plasmon-induced Carrier Separation

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Prototype for Nanosatellite Optical Downlinks

Optics of Autonomous Vehicles

Organs-on-chip platform has promise for quicker, cheaper pharmaceutical research

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Kai Bongs: UK quantum hub aims to translate research to applications

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Jennifer Barton: OCT and fluorescence spectroscopy lead to early cancer detection tools

Tom Pagano: CubeSat platform will lower cost of weather modeling and forecasting

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