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The Optical Society of America (OSA) is a scientific society dedicated to advancing the study of light—optics and photonics—in theory and application, by means of worldwide research, scientific publishing, conferences and exhibitions, partnership with industry, and the education of new generations of scientists. The organization's members reside in over 100 nations and span many disciplines: physicists, biologists, medical researchers, electrical engineers, display component engineers, communications specialists, vision scientists, astronomers, meteorologists, materials scientists, and technical specialists in imaging, to name just a few.

Commonly known as OSA, the organization exemplifies the self-governing, mutual-assistance professional associations that fostered development of science and technology through the 20th century to the present. Founded in 1916 by 30 optical scientists and instrument makers based in Rochester, New York, the society soon began publication of a journal of research results and established an annual meeting. During 2005, OSA reported nearly 14,000 individuals members, published 28,600 pages of research in its journals, and hosted 22,000 attendees at conferences and meetings.


Scientific publishing

Scientific publishing, also known as scholarly or academic publishing, is a core activity of the Optical Society of America. Guided by this structured discipline, optics and photonics scientists submit their research results to OSA for peer review and publication in one of the society's journals. The majority of primary journal authors reside outside the United States.

OSA's Member Guide states that "manuscripts are judged on the basis of significance, originality, and form; they should not have been previously published." Submission and review are conducted through an Internet-based system. Authors are asked to select keywords for their papers from the Optics Classification and Indexing System (OCIS) to aid readers in the search process.

Access to OSA journals. All primary journals are published in online format and four in printed format (AO, JOSA A, JOSA B, OL). Many university and research libraries with optics and photonics interests maintain institutional subscriptions for their constituents. Readers should contact their organization's library to determine what journal holdings are available and how they may be accessed. Individual subscriptions are available through membership in the society.

Access to individual journal articles. Optics InfoBase is the OSA online portal to past and current articles published in primary journals, co-published journals, and many conference digests. Optics InfoBase is structured as a search engine which uses the criteria of author, title keyword, abstract keyword, journal selection, and date range. Abstracts are freely viewable; full text is offered under various fee arrangements.

Open access journal. The full text of all articles in Optics Express is freely available.

Primary journals

  • Applied Optics (AO), 1962-present (ISSN 0003-6935, online ISSN 1539-4522). Research on optical technology and biomedical optics (fiber optics; optical testing and instrumentation; lens design; x-ray optics; radiometry and detectors; thin films; biomedical optics), information processing (Fourier optics; holography; pattern recognition; machine vision; optical neural networks; statistical optics; speckle and optical signal processing), and laser, photonics, and environmental optics (laser systems, materials, design and instrumentation; optoelectronics; atmospheric optics and propagation, LIDAR and remote sensing; meteorological and ocean optics).
  • Journal of Optical Networking (JON), 2002-present (ISSN 1539-5379). Rapid publication of research on theory and application of fiber optics and optical communication networks, links and subsystems.
  • Journal of the Optical Society of America A (JOSA A), 1984-present (ISSN 1084-7529, online ISSN 1520-8532). Research on optics, image science and vision (specifically atmospheric optics, image processing, scattering and coherence theory, machine vision, physiological optics, statistical optics, gratings, polarization, thin films, color vision, design, and diffraction).
  • Journal of the Optical Society of America B (JOSA B), 1984-present (ISSN 0740-3224, online ISSN 1520-8540). Research on optical physics (specifically ultrafast phenomena; optical coherent transients; multiphoton processes; effects of laser radiation; ultraviolet and x-ray physics; atomic, molecular and laser spectroscopy; nonlinear optical materials, science, and technology).
  • Optics Express (OpEx), 1997-present (ISSN 1094-4087). Open access, rapid publication of short, peer-reviewed papers in all fields of optical science and technology. Multimedia content available.
  • Optics Letters (OL), 1977-present (ISSN 0146-9592, online ISSN 1539-4794). Concise, rapid publication on all areas of optics including measurements, components and devices, processing, storage, holography, optoelectronics, lasers, ultrafast phenomena, nonlinear optics, fiber optics, integrated optics, quantum optics and spectroscopy, and optics in biology and medicine.
  • Virtual Journal for Biomedical Optics (VJBO), 2006-present (ISSN 1931-1532). Compilation of all biomedical articles published in OSA's peer-reviewed journals.

Co-published journals

  • Applied Spectroscopy (AS), 1951-present (ISSN 0003-7028). Jointly published by the Society for Applied Spectroscopy and OSA. Full-length articles, notes and spectroscopic techniques.
  • Chinese Optics Letters (COL), 2006-present (ISSN 1671-7694). Published by Science Press of China, distributed by OSA. Novel experimental and theoretical results from all fields of optics.
  • Journal of Display Technology (JDT), 2006-present (ISSN 1551-319X). Jointly published by IEEE and OSA. Studies on all aspects of display technologies, spanning many disciplines.
  • Journal of Lightwave Technology (JLT), 1998-present (ISSN 0733-8724). Jointly published by IEEE and OSA. Studies on fiber and cable technology, active and guided-wave components, integrated optics and optoelectronics, systems and subsystems, networks and switching.
  • Journal of Optical Technology (JOT), 1999-present (ISSN 1070-9762). English translation of Opticheskii Zhurnal (S. I. Vavilov State Optical Institute and D. S. Rozhdestvensky Optical Society, St. Petersburg, Russia). Design of optical instruments and computational optics.

Magazine

Optics & Photonics News (OPN), 1989-present (ISSN 1047-6938, online ISSN 1541-3721). Distributed to all OSA members. Broad selection of research and industry trends on all topics, OSA news, book reviews, employment and commercial advertising. Articles solicited under guidance of an editorial advisory committee.

Conferences and exhibitions

Scientific conferences provide a forum for researchers to present their results in person and to learn about the work of colleagues. OSA sponsors small and large meetings consisting of a technical program and an industrial exhibition appropriate to the number of attendees. Large conferences may include professional education courses and workshops addressing the state of emerging technology and industry.

OSA conferences are announced with a Call for Papers, the solicitation of scientists to submit papers related to the meeting topics. Submitted papers are reviewed by the program committee; accepted papers are then scheduled for oral presentation or group poster presentation. Invited papers by recognized experts and submitted papers are organized into highly specific symposia topics.

The collected presentations are distributed to meeting attendees in the form of a technical digest on CD-ROM. Afterward, OSA makes conference papers available through Optics InfoBase.

Contemporary OSA meetings are:

  • Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) - Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS). Held annually. Cosponsored by OSA, American Physical Society, and IEEE/LEOS. Managed by OSA.

At CLEO/QELS 2006, 2,180 papers were presented in over 200 technical symposia. During the five-day event, 5,200 individuals attended the technical program, education sessions, and an exhibition by 310 companies and organizations. Speakers at the press briefing highlighted advances in ultra-high-resolution optical coherence tomography (applicable to disease detection), high-speed time-domain terahertz imaging techniques, and tunable quantum-cascade lasers (applicable to breath analysis, glucose monitoring, and explosives detection).

  • Frontiers in Optics (FiO) co-located with the Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society's Division of Laser Science. Held annually. Managed by OSA.
  • Optical Fiber Communications Conference (OFC) - National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (NFOEC). Held annually. Cosponsored by OSA, IEEE/Communications Society, and IEEE/LEOS. Managed by OSA.
  • Topical Meetings address topics of specialized interest; attendance is usually measured in the hundreds. OSA has sponsored recent topical meetings on adaptive optics, advanced solid-state photonics, biomedical optics, coherent optics, nanophotonics, nonlinear optics, optical amplifiers, optical fiber sensors, photonic metamaterials, slow and fast light, and ultrafast phenomena.

See also


References

  1. Colleen Morrison, "Societies: the Optical Society of America," The Industrial Physicist, Dec. 2003/Jan. 2004, pp. 29-30.
  2. "Why 1916?," files of W. Lewis Hyde, Optics & Photonics News, Vol. 17, No. 1, Jan. 2006, pp. 18-19.
  3. Stephen D. Fantone. "OSA 2005 Audited Financial Report," Optics & Photonics News, Vol. 17, No. 7, p. 58.
  4. Member Guide 2003, Washington, DC: Optical Society of America, p. 6.
  5. Member Guide 2003, Washington, DC: Optical Society of America, p. 64.
  6. Hassaun Jones-Bey, Kathy Kincade, Gail Overton, "CLEO/QELS conference delivers the right mix," Laser Focus World, July 2006.


External links

OSA publications sites

OSA conferences and exhibits sites

OSA education sites

  • Optics Education Directory – A searchable international directory of degree programs in optics. Cosponsored by OSA and SPIE
  • Optics for Kids – Introduction to optics with games, and experiments for children; includes a guide for parents and teachers. See link on homepage to Spanish version.
  • Optics for Teens – Introduction to optics with lab experiments, everyday optics, career ideas, and resources for teenagers; includes a guide for parents and teachers.
  • Hands on Optics
  • OSA Foundation – Associated charitable organization that promotes optics education.

OSA career services site


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