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Advanced Liquid Crystal Technologies, Inc.

Research and Product Visions for Orientable Gases and Liquids, Science and Art.

http://alct.com/

European Optical Society

The EOS represents all national optical societies in Europe and its individual members.

http://www.europeanopticalsociety.org/

Graand

Free Classified Ads Portal

www.graand.com

Gamma FAQ

In video, computer graphics and image processing, gamma represents a numerical parameter that describes the nonlinearity of intensity reproduction.

http://www.poynton.com/notes/colour_and_gamma/ColorFAQ.html

The History of the Telescope and the Binocular

Collection of articles and images.

http://home.europa.com/~telscope/binotele.htm

International Commission for Optics

Contributes on an international basis to the progress and diffusion of knowledge in optics. Gives details on conferences, meetings, awards, travelling lecture programs and ICO newsletters.

http://www.ico-optics.org/

Light Bullet Home Page

The following Web pages discuss the phenomena of "light bullets," intense stable spherical pulses of laser light travelling through certain bulk glass and gaseous media.

http://www.sfu.ca/~renns/lbullets.html

Lucky Optics Technology Co.,Ltd

Manufacturer of cylindrical lenses, toric mirrors, windows,spherical lenses,aspherical lenses, crystals,prisms and other optical components.

http://www.luckyoptics.com

Metaphotonics

Reports the research in Karlsruhe on the fabrication and optical characterization of functional metallic nanostructures for optical frequencies.

http://www.metaphotonics.de/

On-line Optical Library

On-line Optical Library with a lot of links to papers on the net for beginners to researchers.

http://www.optics2001.com

Optical Society of America

A professional society of optical engineers and scientists devoted to advancing the fields of optics and photonics.

http://www.osa.org/

Optical Tweezers and Laser Scalpel

Collection of links.

http://www.phys.umu.se/laser/tweezer3.htm

Optics

Optics and Electrics Technical Forums.

http://www.oebbs.org/

Optics Express

Electronic, peer-reviewed, journal. Provides free access to full text articles.

http://www.opticsexpress.org/

Optics.net - Photonics and Optics Portal

Optics, lasers, fiber and photonics technical directory and community with research and development, employment and business forums.

http://www.optics.net

Optics.org

Online resource on optical, photonic, imaging, electronic, and optoelectronic technologies.

http://www.optics.org/

The Photonics Dictionary

Browse or search.

http://www.photonics.com/dictionary/

Photonics Jobs Inc.

Photonics Jobs Inc. offers employment resources for photonics, optical, laser and MEMS industries.

http://www.photonicsjobs.com/

Photonics Online

Daily news and product updates for professionals in the optoelectronics industry: manufacturing, technology, equipment, supplies, discussion forums, chat, newsletter and software.

http://www.photonicsonline.com/

Photonics Spectra

Magazine on optics, lasers, imaging, fiber optics, electro-optics, and optoelectronics; Laurin Publishing.

http://www.photonicsspectra.com/

Photonics.com

Photonics news; Laurin Publishing.

http://www.photonics.com/

Sofia University OSA Student Chapter

Chapter of the Optical Society of America at Sofia University, Bulgaria, established to promote the Science of Light among the students and to broaden their insight for post-graduate career.

http://www.osabg.org