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Origins Space Telescope May Answer the Big Questions

Origins will help us learn how galaxies formed, how planets become inhabitable, and, of course, discern if we are alone

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From Lab to Launch: the Four Components of a Healthy Startup

#FacesofPhotonics: Astrophysicist Evgenya Shkolnik

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Building an Industry: the Commercialization of Quantum Technology

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Artificial Intelligence Set to Assist Doctors in Low-resource Settings

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The Wild West of Automotive Lidar

Want to Reconfigure Images on a Chip?

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Light-scattering Technologies Ready to Make Clinical Impact

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HaloSat Offers Galactic X-Ray Measurements on Shoestring Budget

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A Track Record of ‘Lightbulb Moments’

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SPIE and Morressier Announce Partnership to Advance Early-Stage Research in Optics and Photonics

SPIE Fellows Irving Bigio and Sergio Fantini Honored with the 2020 Joseph W. Goodman Book Writing Award

I Can See Clearly Now: AI Smartens Up OCT Medical Imaging

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Developing Nanoscale Rulers

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Going Maskless Brings Benefits

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Reflections Photo Feature: Star Trails

Nature's Infrared Club

Sensing an Autonomous Vehicle Future

Astronomers Feel the Animal Heat

Something's a-Foote with Climate Science History

A Scientist's Guide to Testifying before Congress

Finding Better Ways to Optimize Everything Together

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New Use and Challenges for a Mature Technology

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Etch: Going Up ... and Down

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Semiconductors Meet the Quantum Future and Vice Versa

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EUV Delivers and Faces New Challenges

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Key Concept Turns 30 — and is Still Going Strong

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Out-patient, Non-invasive Prostate Cancer Treatment

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Body-worn Sensors with Microfluidic Chips Offer Future-Focused Diagnostic Tools

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Ultrafast Fiber Lasers Are a New Animal

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The Future of Optical Components and Materials in the Fibre

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Better Motion Detection Improves fNIRS Brain Imaging

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Multiphoton Microscopy: Deeper, Wider, and Faster

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Metasurfaces Hold the Answer

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Plumbing the Depths of Multiphoton Microscopy

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Free-space Optics Beginning to Achieve Real-World Value

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SESAMs, Ultrafast Lasers, Mentorship, and Diversity: A Q&A with 2020 SPIE Gold Medal Winner Ursula Keller

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SPIE Photonics West 2020 Heralds the Benefits of Optics and Photonics Industry, Research

Wearables Get Wet as Physiology Meets Photonics

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Wearable Diagnostics, Spectroscopic Systems Win Big at SPIE Startup Challenge

Rising Star Jennifer Barton Anticipates a Galaxy of New Tools in 2020s

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Eric Betzig: Not Resting on His Laureate

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In Memoriam: Jerrold Zimmerman

Mitigating Artifacts from Pulsed Lidar

Photonic Chips for Neuromorphic Computing

BIOS Hot Topics: Intelligent Image-Activated Cell Sorting

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BIOS Hot Topics: High-Resolution Light Sheet Microscope

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BIOS Hot Topics: Radiation-Optical Interactions and Nanotechnology

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BIOS Hot Topics: Light Delivery for Surgical Tools

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BIOS Hot Topics: Quantitative Phase Imaging

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Towards Self-Calibrating Frequency Standards

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So You Won the SPIE Startup Challenge. What Happened Next?

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AR/VR/MR 2020: The Future Now Arriving

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SPIE and Photonics Media Prism Awards Honor Photonics Innovations in Nine Categories

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VCs Share What They Look for When Investing in Photonics

Using Quantum Entanglement to Detect Alzheimer's in the Brain

Equality in Science

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New SPIE Fellows Honored

Artificial Intelligence in Medical Imaging: Current Successes and Future Focus

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Photonics in Healthcare

Advances in Microfluidics

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Advances in Neurotechnologies

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2020 AR/VR/MR Student Optical Design Challenge

Emerging Platforms for Imaging, Sensing and Diagnostics

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Applications for Atomic Clocks

BIOS Hot Topics: Microscopes that Use Computational Imaging

SPIE and the University of Central Florida Announce $650,000 Scholarship Fund

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Equity in Industry Panel

A Practical Guide to Conferences, Part I: Preparing for a Presentation

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A Practical Guide to Conferences, Part II: Poster Presentations

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A Practical Guide to Conferences, Part III: Pre-conference Planning

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A Practical Guide to Conferences, Part IV: At the Conference

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2020 Optics and Photonics Industry Report

Benchmarking Tests Pave the Way for Automotive Lidar Standards

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New Research Uses Physiological Cues to Distinguish Computer-Generated Faces from Human Ones

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A Telescope of Her Own

Lasers Versus Drones

SPIE Announces New Partnership with OpenAthens

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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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The Sky’s the Limit for Autonomy and Artificial Intelligence

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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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Let’s Start Again

Back in the Power Game

Where is the New Collar Workforce?

10 Simple Steps to Writing a Scientific Paper

Robert Hall and the Diode Laser

Message from the SPIE President: A Year of Excellent Vision

Reflections Photo Feature: Brocken Spectre

No Library Card Needed

Breakthrough of 2019: Darkness Made Visible

Flexible Photonic Crystal from Liquid Thin-Film Metasurface

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#FacesofPhotonics: Aerospace Engineer Elaine Stewart

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National Quantum Initiative Turns One

#FacesofPhotonics: Senior Test Engineer Junwei Meng

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Limiting Molecular Motion Improves Raman Lasing Performance

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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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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