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Spotlight on Optics

laseryan — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 02:30:29 +0000

OSA will start a service called “Spotlight on Optics“, which is officially coming on July 20, 2009. But there are already some content on the website. Basically, Spotlight on Optics will highlight select articles from the OSA journals and make them freely accessable through Optics InfoBase.

* Spotlight articles will be selected by OSA Topical and Associate Editors to show the breadth and quality of OSA content.
* Each Spotlight article will be made open access and be accompanied by original summaries written in plain English.
* Journal Editors will be encouraged to identify articles for Spotlight that have excellent scientific quality, are representative of the level of work taking place in a specific area, and put other work in perspective.
* Readers will be able to post comments to the Spotlight website, creating the potential for dialogue between author and reader (and among readers).

It will be a great source for finding interesting research works.

Virtual Journal of Laser

laseryan — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 02:34:52 +0000

Virtual Journal of Laser is a web tool to help laser researchers follow publications from major academic journals. It automatically aggregate updates from Physics or Optics journals. Only abstracts of articles that are directly related to laser are imported into the system. By voting, commenting and simply visiting, interesting papers will be promoted and become more visible and easy to find.

It has been rebuilt, now one can vote on papers to promote them. It can sort popularity of papers with an algorithm similar to “radioactivity”. I use it for checking new papersr and see what other people are interested in.

The OSA president’s blog

laseryan — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 02:45:34 +0000

Well, the OSA president has joined the blogosphere. He has a travelblog at wordpress.com.

CRS reports on lasers

laseryan — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 08:19:48 +0000

Wikileaks has released many quasi-secret reports commissioned by the United States Congress, which should be in public domain legally. Among as much as 6,780 reports, I find 3 of them are on lasers. You might be interested in reading them.

1. Airborne Laser (ABL): Issues for Congress (RL32123 / 2007-07-09)
2. Lasers Aimed at Aircraft Cockpits: Background and Possible Options to Address the Threat to Aviation Safety and Security (RS22033 / 2005-12-21)
3. The Airborne Laser Anti-Missile Program (RL30185 / 2000-02-18)

CRS reports on lasers

laseryan — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 02:47:35 +0000

Reflections

laseryan — Fri, 16 May 2008 15:43:12 +0000

Reflections, a laser game.

Laser Challenge

laseryan — Fri, 16 May 2008 15:33:32 +0000

A flash game on the topic of Lasers from Nobel Prize’s website.

More Than 101 Ways to Use a Laser

laseryan — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:41:21 +0000

Laser pointers are very cheap now. Beside melting plastic, lighting cigarates, playing with pets, or pointing to an airplane, etc, laser pointers can be used to do much more cool things. More Than 101 Ways to Use a Laser, an article by Herb Gottlieb from Metrologic Instruments Inc., which was written on 200, is still very valuable.

Get inspired to have more fun with lasers.

Populaser

laseryan — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:51:29 +0000

Populaser is educational flash on laser. The creator is a Russian company called GRTOV studio. The flash is a winner of Amazing Laser Light Challenge. Contents include general infos on laser, like What is the laser? How it works, Type of laser, Laser safety, and introducation of laser inventors etc. It is well done and very cool. It even includes a laser game. via: Excited Light