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The July/August issue of Optica’s Optics and Photonics News (OPN) offers the latest edition of a biennial feature that highlights scientists and engineers building enterprises in optics and photonics. The 10 entrepreneurs profiled by OPN have embarked on journeys in businesses ranging from clean energy to quantum tech, from integrated lasers to 360-degree imaging, from wound care to space traffic management.
Although each story focuses on a company’s founder or cofounder, taken together, they illustrate the fundamental relationships that underlie a successful venture—including with cofounders, mentors, funding partners, and more. |
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| Inspired by the way that the Morpho butterfly creates color, researchers developed colorful cooling films that don’t absorb light and thus don’t heat up. [Image Credit: Wanlin Wang, Shenzhen University] |
| In this recent article from Optica, learn how researchers have created new nanofilms that could significantly reduce the energy needed for cooling buildings or vehicles while preserving vivid color properties. |
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| Have you cast your ballot in the 2023 Optica Elections? Members have until 8 September 2023 to vote for the 2024 Vice President and two Directors at Large for 2024-2026. Instructions for your ballot were sent via email from Survey and Ballot Systems (SBS). To learn more about the candidates, visit optica.org/vote. Results will be announced during the Optica Annual Business Meeting on 10 October 2023 in Tacoma, Washington, USA. Envision the future of Optica. Vote today! |
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The new roller printing method could rapidly manufacture micro-LED displays. Eleni Margariti, who developed the new technique, is pictured with the clean-room setup used for printing.
[Image Credit: Eleni Margariti, University of Strathclyde] |
| A recent news release featuring work published in Optical Materials Express describes how researchers have developed a continuous roller printing approach can precisely transfer thousands of microscopic semiconductor devices in a single shot. |
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| The O2O payload in a Kennedy Space Center cleanroom. [Image Credit: NASA / Isaac Watson] |
| A recent article in the July 2023 Optica blog explores that humans will soon return to the Moon, accompanied by photonics technology that will enable communications capabilities unimagined 54 years ago during the first Moon landing. From the earliest days of laser development, researchers realized that beams of light could vastly outperform the information-carrying capacity of RF and microwave radio transmission. Learn more. |
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Fellow Insight—
Learn and Grow |
| “Don’t do the same thing twice,” says Rüdiger Paschotta. He believes changes in career directions help you learn and grow in your research — and as a person. |
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Fellow Insight—
To Space |
| Ellen Ochoa found optics in her senior year of undergraduate studies, leading to a diverse career that took her all the way to space. |
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