The OSA Outstanding Reviewers recognition is given annually to commend the top reviewers for their exceptional peer review efforts over the past year. Recipients were chosen by the Editors-in-Chief of OSA's journals from scores of nominations provided by their Topical and Associate Editors. View the 2018 Reviewers.

The OSA Foundation (OSAF) is excited to offer monthly giving as a donation option. You can sign up for monthly giving by going to www.osa.org/donate. Take advantage of hassle-free, automatic monthly donations and become a loyal supporter. There is flexibility to change or suspend your monthly gift at any time. Your monthly support will have a lasting impact on our students and early career professionals in the optics and photonics community. OSA matches each gift 100% in addition to covering all labor and overhead costs. This means your gift has twice the impact and all funds go directly to programming.

When you join or renew your OSA Membership, add an installment plan to any of the OSA Individual or Emeritus Multi-Year and Lifetime Membership products. The plan will allow you to spread the cost of your dues over four monthly payments that will be charged to your credit card/debit card at no extra cost. Once your initial payment is submitted, you are eligible for all OSA Member Benefits.

*This option does not apply for Student and Early Career Professionals.

14 December 2018
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India
Facilitator: Arti Agrawal, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

Join us at Photonics India for The OSA Senior Member Workshop: Enhancing Diversity in Optics Leadership and Your Career! This workshop is meant to encourage participants, especially women and people from underrepresented groups to apply for the senior member designation.

In this interactive session, you will learn about the:

• Senior membership criteria
• Application/nomination process
• Assessment of applications and the option to informally
  discuss your application/nomination
• Benefits of being a senior member

We look forward to seeing you there!

Application Deadline: 4 January, 2019

Combine your interest in policy with your science background. Apply for the 2019-2020 OSA Congressional Science Policy Fellowships. Congressional Fellows spend one year on Capitol Hill working as legislative assistants on the staff of a member of U.S. Congress or a Congressional Committee. Applicants must have a Ph.D. by the start of the fellowship, 1 September 2019, to be eligible. Mid- and late-career applicants are also encouraged to apply. In addition to being a great opportunity for young professionals, it is also an ideal way to spend an academic sabbatical or leave of absence from a company. To learn more about eligibility and application requirements, visit the Congressional Fellowship webpage.

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Education and Training in Optics & Photonics Conference 2019 (ETOP)
21-24 May 2019 
Université Laval, Quebec City
Québec, Canada
Submission Deadline: 1 December, 2018

Submissions are now being accepted for ETOP 2019. ETOP is a biennial conference that brings together leading optics and photonics educators from all around the world and from all levels and orientations to discuss, demonstrate
and learn about new developments and approaches to teaching in these fields. Through presentations, panel discussions, workshops and exhibits, it is the intent
of this conference to inform professors, students, teachers and professional trainers on how to teach optics and photonics for the future.

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Ever since the presidential campaign two years ago, there has been a lot of talk in the U.S. about manufacturing employment, tariffs, and trade agreements. With the complexity of global tech businesses today, though, it's hard to say how that is playing out for optics and photonics. OIDA estimates U.S. optics and photonics employment at 385,000-from systems to components-but accurate data to show a year-by-year trend is not available. Yet, we can understand a lot by looking across other sectors, which are likely behaving similarly. 

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Looking for a job? Take a look below at some of the new jobs that have just been posted on WORKinOPTICS.com. Recruiting picks up in the fall. Now is one of the best times of the year to get hired.

Employers: If you are looking to fill a job, fall is a prime opportunity to make sure the best candidates know about your company's job opportunities.

Recent WORKinOPTICS Postings Include:

• Featured Coating Manager, II-VI Optical Systems
• Featured  Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Nucleic Acid Memory Institute - Micron School of Materials Science and Engineering at Boise State U
• Research Position on Technical Characterization of Digital Pathology Systems, FDA
• Applications Engineer, Thorlabs, Inc.
• Tenure-track Assistant or Associate Professor - Optometry and Vision Science, University of Alabama at Birmingham
• Senior Controls Engineer, Dynavac
• Product Manufacturing Engineer Senior, Coherent Inc.
• And More!

Applied Optics
Reflectance spectroscopy looks at the dark side of meteorites  - Physics World
Source Article: SHADOWS: a spectro-gonio radiometer for bidirectional reflectance studies of dark meteorites and terrestrial analogs: design, calibrations, and performances on challenging surfaces

Optica
Microscopy Add-On Enhances Neuronal Image Resolution Under Dim Conditions - Photonics.com
Looking Deep Into Living Brain Using Photon Counter on Laser Scanning Microscope - Medgadget
Source Article: PySight: plug and play photon counting for fast continuous volumetric intravital microscopy

Smart glasses design projects images right into the eye - New Atlas
A New Look at Smart Glasses - Electronics360
Source Article: See-through holographic retinal projection display concept

Mantis Shrimp-Inspired Camera Lets Self-driving Cars See in Dangerous Conditions - Interesting Engineering
Self-driving cars see better with cameras that mimic mantis shrimp vision - Science News
Source Article:  Bioinspired polarization imager with high dynamic range  

Optics Letters
Fiber Optic Sensor Measures Tiny Magnetic Fields - R&D Magazine
Fibre optic sensors able to detect magnetic fields from the brain and heart - New Electronics
Source Article:  High sensitivity magnetometer using nanocomposite polymers with large magneto-optic response

'Ghost imaging' could make greenhouse gas analysis more precise - UPI.com
Sensing Greenhouse Gases with Ghost Imaging - Electronics360
Source Article:  Supercontinuum spectral-domain ghost imaging  

Applied Optics
Optics in Ireland

Biomedical Optics Express
Topics in Biomedical Optics from the OSA Biophotonics Congress 2018

Journal of the Optical Society of America B
Laser Interaction with Materials

Optical Materials Express
Planar Oxide Photonic Materials and Devices

Optics Express
Topological Photonics and Materials

Applied Optics and Optics Express
Feature Issue: Light, Energy and the Environment 2018
Submission Opens: 1 December 2018; Submission Deadline: 7 January 2019
Editors: Adam J. Fleisher (Lead), Peter Bermel, Frans Harren, Akihiko Kuze, and Qihua Xiong

Biomedical Optics Express
Feature Issue: Brillouin Light Scattering Microspectroscopy for Biomedical Research and Applications
Submission Deadline: 1 December 2018
Editors: Kareem Elsayad (Lead), Thomas Dehoux, Daniele Fioretto, and Francesca Palombo

Journal of the Optical Society of America B
Feature Issue: Diffractive Waveplates
Submission Deadline: 1 December 2018
Editors: Nelson Tabiryan (Lead), Timothy J. Bunning, and Gabriella Cipparrone

Feature Issue: Optics with Complex Materials and (Sub) Nanostructures
Submission Opens: 15 January 2019; Submission Deadline: 1 March 2019
Editors: Akhlesh Lakhtakia (Lead), Reuven Gordon, Tom G. Mackay, and Olivier J. F. Martin

Optical Materials Express
Feature Issue: Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals, and Plasmonics
Submission Deadline: 1 December 2018
Editors: Said Zouhdi (Lead), Alexandra Boltasseva, and Guixin Li

Feature Issue:  Optical Fiber Materials
Submission Opens: 2 January 2019; Submission Deadline: 1 February 2019
Editors: John Ballato (Lead), Heike Ebendorff-Heidepriem, Mukul Paul, and Laeticia Petit

Optical Materials Express and Optics Express
Feature Issue: Advanced Solid-State Lasers 2018
Submission Deadline: 14 January 2019
Editors: Benoît Boulanger (Lead), Gregory Goodno, Shibin Jiang, Sergey Mirov, Johan Nilsson, Alan Petersen, and Stefano Taccheo

Optics Express
Feature Issue: Liquid Crystals beyond Displays
Submission Opens: 15 January 2019; Submission Deadline: 15 February 2019
Editors: Yi-Hsin Lin (Lead), Wei Hu, Tsung-Hsien Lin, and Antonio d'Alessandro.

Photonics Research
Feature Issue: Quantum Photonics
Submission Deadline: 1 December 2018
Editors: Xianmin Jin (Lead), M.S. Kim, and Brian J. Smith

Feature Issue: Semiconductor UV Photonics
Submission Deadline: 1 February 2019
Editors: Xiaohang Li (Lead), Russell D. Dupuis, and Tim Wernicke

As a valued OSA Member, you receive a wide range of exclusive benefits, including reduced prices for all OSA-managed meetings and conferences. Did you know that with just one meeting registration, membership pays for itself? Take advantage of your members-only pricing this year!

OFC 2019
3- 7 March 2019, San Diego, California, USA
Call for Papers: 9 October 2018, 12:00 EDT (16.00 GMT)

OSA Biophotonics Congress: Optics in the Life Sciences
15 - 17 April 2019
Tucson, Arizona
Call for Papers: 6 November 2018