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About OSA
OSA brings together more than 12,000 members in some 50 countries,
offering a home to professionals in a wide and growing variety of disciplines--linking
the optics and photonics community worldwide.
OSA at a Glance
About OSA
The Optical Society of America, now in its 78th year, was founded in response
to a clear need for an organization recognizing the importance of optics applications.
In his 1912 book Applied Optics, Perley G. Nutting-then a new Ph.D. from Cornell-
claimed that no richer field awaited the investigator in pure optics than
that of applied optics. Four years later, Nutting joined the Westinghouse Company
and become the first president of the Optical Society of America. Adolph Lomb of
Bausch & Lomb was treasurer and C. E. K. Mees of Eastman Kodak was on the first Council.
From its strong roots in the optics industry, OSA has emerged as the most
prestigious society in the field. Nutting's vision of combining a focus on
optics applications with an emphasis on high scientific quality remains a
dominant force in OSA's character.
Here is some general information about the products and services that OSA offers.
Employment:
Engineering and Applied Science:
Membership:
OSA membership provides substantial benefits.
Publications:
OSA serves the Optics community by publishing
peer reviewed journals, books, meetings digests, and proceedings volumes.
Click on the buttons below to find out about upcoming Special Issues
of each of the journals. Through the Mosaic/WWW,
OSA will soon provide Bulletin Boards that will allow
members to comment on topics within the field of Optics,
including papers and meetings. These buttons will later
allow read-only access to the BBSs for each journal.
OSA's Books program includes many premier titles in Optical sceince and engineering.
Education:
OSA's department for Program Development supports K-12 education through
development of the Optics Discovery Kit
and Educator's
Day at
the OSA Annual
Meeting. Undergraduate education is also supported through the
Optics and
Spectroscopy Undergraduate
Laboratory Resource Book and Optics
Software, Vol. 1: Dafrac and Seidelplot, lab-oriented programs for calculation
of diffraction and abberation.
If you have questions about OSA please call Susan Bornt at 202/416-1907, or e-mail sbornt@osa.org.
Optical Society of America, 2010 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington, DC 20036, USA.
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