Idle Diffractions

Musings on the past, present, and future of optics by Dr. Kevin P. Thompson

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Photo Albums

  • ORA booth
    SPIE Optics+Photonics 2009

Links

  • SPIE Conference Proceedings
  • Optical Engineering
  • Optik
  • Optics Communications
  • Applied Optics
  • Journal of the Optical Society of America
  • The New Yorker
  • Forbes
  • Harvard Business Review
  • Wired
  • Nature
  • Science
  • 400 Years of the Telescope | A Journey of Science, Technology and Thought
  • “Getting More from Moore’s,” Scientific American, April 2001
  • Optical Research Associates

Archives

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  • March 2010
  • February 2010
  • January 2010
  • December 2009
  • November 2009
  • October 2009
  • September 2009
  • August 2009
  • July 2009

Categories

  • Book collecting
  • Current Affairs
  • Events and trade shows
  • Guest blogs
  • In the news
  • Introduction
  • Optical design techniques
  • Optical Technologies
  • Optics history
  • ORA announcements
  • Travel
  • Web/Tech

Recent Posts

  • Why Space Is Not Easy
  • IODC 2010
  • Observations from Society for Information Display (SID) 2010 Exhibition
  • A Second Important Collection: The Works of David Shafer
  • An important event to be announced at IODC: The Rolland-Thompson Collection of Antiquarian Books in Optics and Related Sciences
  • What if you could adjust the “filter” on your eyes?
  • Wachendorf?
  • Report from the OFC/NFOEC 2010 Plenary Session
  • NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
  • Connections: before optical glass there was …a furnace?

Categories

  • Book collecting
  • Current Affairs
  • Events and trade shows
  • Guest blogs
  • In the news
  • Introduction
  • Optical design techniques
  • Optical Technologies
  • Optics history
  • ORA announcements
  • Travel
  • Web/Tech

Archives

  • July 2010
  • June 2010
  • May 2010
  • April 2010
  • March 2010
  • February 2010
  • January 2010
  • December 2009
  • November 2009
  • October 2009

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