1. Physics and reflection holograms, threedimensional cylindrical holograms. electromagnetic waves; interaction of light with dielectric Laser physics and photonics (4-0 http://www.csuohio.edu/undergradcatalog00/courses/courindex/phy.htm

Fall Semester 2000 through Summer Semester 2002 Go to current catalog Professors: Karl J. Casper, Miron Kaufman (Chairperson), James A. Lock, Jearl D. Walker; Professor Emeriti: Bernard Hamermesh, Herbert Schlosser, Jack A. Soules; Associate Professors: Paul D. Hambourger, Ronald M. Haybron, Robert H. Klein, Thomas W. Taylor, G. Theodore Wood; Associate Professors Emeriti: Clyde B. Bratton, George W. Ficken, Francis C. Stephenson; Lecturers: Anthony Stallwood, Alla Zillichichis; Adjunct Faculty: John Ferrante. PHY 101 The Flying Circus of Physics: Motion and Heat (4-0-4). Prerequisite: one unit of high-school algebra. Practical and everyday aspects of physics concepts such as kitchen physics, walking on fire, mechanics of sports, and electricity. Natural Science. Return to top PHY 102 The Flying Circus of Physics: Sound and Light (3-0-3). Prerequisite: one unit of high-school algebra. Topics include waves, optics, and modern physics, how the eye and camera work, the laser, the theory of relativity, and some basic cosmology (just what is a "black hole" anyhow?). Natural Science. Return to top PHY 103 The Flying Circus of Physics Laboratory (0-2-1).

2. The Christian Science Monitor | Csmonitor.com light energy has a hand in everything from laser surgery to holograms to the making of CDs. About 350 000 photonics Judith Donnelly, a physics professor at Three http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/2000/08/15/f-p16s2.shtml

WORLD USA COMMENTARY LEARNING ... Text Edition Search: Archive Packages Collections of articles on specific topics. Most-viewed stories: (for 06/08/04) Antidote to 'Iraq is Vietnam' Worldviews: Reagan and Bush 'Roll up your sleeves. Let the work begin.' How the G-8 Summit passed Savannah by ... How G-8 may unify around Iraq FEATURES, LEARNING, THE NOTEBOOK from the August 15, 2000 edition Editor's note The Christian Science Monitor archive includes stories dating back to 1980. Some early articles lack sufficient formatting, and will appear as one long column without paragraph breaks. We apologize for the aesthetics and hope that the information will still be of value to you. Bringing holograms and laser light shows to science class Rita Castillo - Where the papier-mâché volcano and Styrofoam solar system once won first place at science fairs, photonics projects will now reign supreme. Photonics - the branch of science that deals with generation, manipulation, and transport of light energy - has a hand in everything from laser surgery to holograms to the making of CDs. About 350,000 photonics technicians were employed in the United States in 1994, and the number is expected to exceed 740,000 this year, according to the Center for Occupational Research and Development. But that has leaders in industries such as manufacturing, defense, medicine, and telecommunications wondering if enough people will have the skills and interest to fill these jobs in the future. That's where Project PHOTON comes in.

3. Drew Physics Department Laser Laboratory- Photonics An overview of undergraduate research opportunities in optics, lasers, holography, photonics, and photorefractive materials in the physics Department at Drew University The Drew physics Department photonics Laboratory nonlinear optics. photonics is the study of light and its interaction How to make holograms with photorefractive polymers http://www.users.drew.edu/~dmcgee/drew_physics_laser_laboratory_photonics.html

The Drew Physics Department Photonics Laboratory Undergraduate Research in Lasers, Optics, and Holography Dr. David J. McGee- faculty advisor My research focuses on photonics, with emphasis on lasers, holography, and photorefractive nonlinear optics. Photonics is the study of light and its interaction with matter. The applications of photonics such as fiber optic networks and CD’s are transforming the technological landscape in ways similar to the electronic revolution of the past fifty years. At Drew, I run the photonics laboratory and provide many opportunities for students to work in the lab, including multidisciplinary projects with chemistry and computer science. Student projects span the range from Independent Study courses, Honors theses, paid summer internships with the Drew Summer Science Institute, and paid summer research assistantships through external grants. Learn more about photorefractive nonlinear optics How to make holograms with photorefractive polymers Visit the Drew Photonics Labs The students and their projects Recent projects involved the fabrication of organic films for 3-D holography and the application of these films in holographic data storage devices. There is also continuing development of innovative instructional laboratory experiments in nonlinear optics, laser spectroscopy, and image processing as part of the junior-senior Advanced Lab course for physics majors/minors. I encourage students to experience work in the photonics lab every chance they get- it provides exposure to the technologies not covered in courses, but which employers and graduate schools are seeking.

4. Physics Today May 2001 communication, and photonics light reflection holography by George W. Stroke and Antoine Labeyrie, to presentday TV holography and computer-generated holograms. The basic physics http://www.physicstoday.org/pt/vol-54/iss-5/p60a.html

Back to Table of Contents May Books: Beyond the Science Wars: The Missing Discourse about Science and Society and Real Science: What It Is, and What It Means Einstein in Love: A Scientific Romance ... New Books Site Index Physics Today Home Page Current Issue Past Contents Job Ads Upcoming Meetings Buyer's Guide About Physics Today Contact Us Advertising Information Print Ad Rates and Specs Online Ad Rates and Specs Advertiser Index Product Information Information Exchange Light Science: Physics and the Visual Arts Thomas D. Rossing and Christopher J. Chiaverina Springer-Verlag, New York, 1999. $79.95 (442 pp.). ISBN 0-387-98827-0 Efforts to make physics courses more meaningful to nonscience majors are continuing by bringing the course work closer to the students' experiences with nature and art. I have taught elective courses in light and color and in sound and music, as well as a required "core" course called, "Exploration of Color." For the light courses, I used Seeing the Light Light Science by Thomas D. Rossing and Christopher J. Chiaverina was described in its preface as "intended for students in the visual arts and for readers interested in art." This new book on light, as did Rossing's

5. Physics Resources physics, history of physics, holograms, institutes, journals philosophy of physics, photonics, physicists, plasma speed of light, superconductivity, temperature http://mclibrary.nhmccd.edu/physics.html

Montgomery College Library Physics You can use either Ctrl-F (on PCs) or Command-F (on Macs) to search this page for specific terms. Online Databases of Articles These databases are available to Montgomery College students via remote access. The two database links below should take you to the "Remote Patron Authentication" page that contains a drop-down menu. At this menu, select "Montgomery College Library," then click the yellow "Login" button. Enter your library card barcode number and PIN (the last four digits of the phone number you have on file with the library). Academic Search Premier . A searchable, general database that contains articles about physics and other topics. Biographies Plus Illustrated . A searchable database of biographies about physicists and other people. Web Sites These selected links represent a sample of physics sites on the World Wide Web. Each link is followed by brief information about its contents. NOTE: Due to the dynamic nature of the Web, sites may disappear or change their address or contents over time. Therefore, they may not continue to exist as described below. Academic Info . Indexes, directories, reference sources, databases, educational resources, Albert Einstein, astrophysics, atomic physics, plasma physics, electrodynamics, high-energy physics, nuclear physics, quantum mechanics, relativity, organizations, and more.

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7. Physics Resources holograms, institutes, journals, lasers, libraries, magnetism mechanics, Nobel Prize winners, optical engineering, organizations, philosophy of physics, photonics of light, superconductivity http://www.woodstock.edu/students/learn/library/learning_resource_center/physics

Montgomery College Library Physics You can use either Ctrl-F (on PCs) or Command-F (on Macs) to search this page for specific terms. Online Databases of Articles These databases are available to Montgomery College students via remote access. The two database links below should take you to the "Remote Patron Authentication" page that contains a drop-down menu. At this menu, select "Montgomery College Library," then click the yellow "Login" button. Enter your library card barcode number and PIN (the last four digits of the phone number you have on file with the library). Academic Search Premier . A searchable, general database that contains articles about physics and other topics. Biographies Plus Illustrated . A searchable database of biographies about physicists and other people. Web Sites These selected links represent a sample of physics sites on the World Wide Web. Each link is followed by brief information about its contents. NOTE: Due to the dynamic nature of the Web, sites may disappear or change their address or contents over time. Therefore, they may not continue to exist as described below. Academic Info . Indexes, directories, reference sources, databases, educational resources, Albert Einstein, astrophysics, atomic physics, plasma physics, electrodynamics, high-energy physics, nuclear physics, quantum mechanics, relativity, organizations, and more.

8. How Does Light Bend Light? All the current photonics technology uses electronics to generate and and change in time in response to changing light images are called dynamic holograms. http://www.physics.purdue.edu/~nolte/Bending.html

Controlling Light with Light Take two flashlights at night and cross them. You know that the light beams pass right through each other, right? As we all know, this is because Maxwell's equations (the equations of light) are linear. Light cannot interact with light usually. But it can under the right circumstances. Now take a single laser and split it into two coherent beams of photons. If these laser beams cross inside a type of a nonlindar crystal, they mutually influence each others propagation. In some cases, one beam will donate its photons to the other beam. This results in nonreciprocal energy transfer between the beams, and constitutes one of the few instances of optical amplification without stimulated emission. The control of light by light is the optical analog of the control of electgrons by electrons in transistors. One of the great challenges facing quantum optics today is the search for the appropriate medium in which photons can control photons. The discovery of such a medium would open to way for photonic computers. The electronic revolution of the 1960's is now giving way to the photonics revolution. Almost all high-data-rate systems in use today use photons to carry information. Even microprocessors in your personal computers are on the verge of using photonics to bus information and to provide masssively parallel interconnections. Hybrid electronic/photonic microprocessors are only about 5 years away from the marketplace.

9. The Future Of Light - Columbia Missourian projector to view their newly created holograms. ( TRAVIS MATTHEWS/Missourian photonics, the study of light, describes a modern and think its some kind of farout physics. http://www.digmo.com/news/story.php?ID=1641

10. LABORATORY MANUAL FOR PHYSICS 343 photonics Spectra, laser and optical technology formation, readout and reconstruction, photorefractive real time holograms. How do lasers differ from light bulbs http://www.physics.unl.edu/directory/ducharme/PHYS343/343ManIntro.html

Laboratory Manual for Physics 343 Physics of Lasers and Modern Optics INTRODUCTION Stephen Ducharme Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Nebraska-Lincoln Return to Contents ... Final Report to the National Science Foundation, Instrumentation for Laboratory Improvement Program LABORATORY PRACTICE Special Announcement: You will encounter challenging puzzles and explore new and exciting physical phenomena. You will be provided with sufficient tools, guidance and other re-sources, but what you learn depends on your inquisitiveness and creativity. This laboratory course is designed to serve two purposes: 1) To introduce and explore a va-riety of physical principles using the fascinating and diverse behavior of light. 2) To learn some of the principles behind the pervasive and expanding area of optical and laser tech-nology. This course is suitable for students of science, life sciences, and engineering, or any student who is curi-ous about light. The prerequisites are the level of quantitative sophomore physics 142 or 212 Electricity and Magnetism, or an equivalent background which includes basic electricity, magnetism and optics. A quantitative laboratory course in the sciences or in engineering is also a prereq-uisite. Lasers and modern optics are perhaps the fastest growing areas of scientific research and technological development. Most professionals in physics, astronomy, other sciences, and most engineering disciplines will employ lasers or modern optical technology at some point in their careers. For example, lasers are used in astronomy, biology, chemistry, dentistry, entertainment, forestry, geology, holography, inspection, laproscopy, medicine, nuclear physics, ophthalmology, physics, recycling, surgery, telecommunications, urology, video, welding, xerography, zoology-the list goes on and on.

11. Annotated Physics Encyclopædia: Physics Of Lasers Net Advance of physics ANNOTATED physics ENCYCLOPÆDIA photonics Dictionary simply huge quick reference dictionary of terms related to light Atomic holograms- Physical Review Focus http://web.mit.edu/redingtn/www/netadv/laser.html

The Net Advance of Physics: Igor Ivanov Physics of Lasers Physics Main Help Your comments General laser physics resources Introductory The Laser Adventure - a wonderful and rich site about lasers Mobius Laser Archive - an online tutorial Laser History Laser light from Eta Carina - discovery of laser light from unstable star! Advanced topics Introduction to Lasers - an excellent online tutorial! from LEOT LaserNet - Rockwell Laser Industries Photonics Dictionary - simply huge quick reference dictionary of terms related to light or EM phenomena Sam's Laser FAQ - everything about home-built lasers; very large and comprehensive Coherent light generation Introductory Light Amplification - a page from a larger laser tutorial Laser Tutorial - explanation of how lasers work in 5 pages Lasing action - what happens when light goes through medium; from LEOT course Advanced topics Optical cavities and Modes of oscillation - from LEOT course Laser light properties Introductory Laser Speckle image - a photo of speckle pattern with some comments Advanced topics Temporal and spacial characteristics of lasers - from LEOT S peckle Interferometry and Autocorrelations - mathematics beyond image restoration via speckle interferometry Spe ckle interferometry and Knox-Thompson interferometry by Eric.

12. UNDERGRADUATECOURSES and reflection holograms, threedimensional cylindrical holograms. waves; interaction of light with dielectric LASER physics and photonics prerequisites PHY241 http://www.csuohio.edu/physics/Undergrad/UNDERGRADUATECOURSES.html

UNDEGRADUATE COURSES PHY101 4-0-4 The Flying Circus of Physics: Motion and Heat. Prerequisite: 1 unit of high school algebra. Practical and everyday aspects of physics concepts such as kitchen physics, walking on fire and mechanics of karate and judo. Natural Sciences Requirement. PHY102 3-0-3 The Flying Circus of Physics: Sound and Light. Prerequisite: 1 unit of high school algebra. We cover waves, optics, and modern physics. Topics which we touch on include: how the eye and camera work, the laser, the theory of relativity, and some basic cosmology (just what is a black hole anyhow?). Natural Sciences Requirement. PHY103 0-2-1 The Flying Circus of Physics Laboratory. Selected experiments in physics. PHY101 must be taken concurrently. Natural Sciences Requirement PHY115 3-0-3 Physics, Technology and Society. Focuses on a specific technology, its underlying physics and its interaction with society Topics may include: space exploration, weapons systems, exotic modes of transportation, communication systems, data storage and retrieval. Natural Sciences Requirement PHY193 4-0-4 Topics in Physics.

13. INTERNET Optics-industry-1/96 Current research projects include programmable holograms and optical the physics of spatial light modulators, tunable http//www.photonics.com/employment/XQ/ASP http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~davisj/SDSUOpticsprogram.html

Electro-Optics Program Physics Department, San Diego State University Professor Jeffrey Davis - Director (619)-594-6158 - jdavis@sciences.sdsu.edu The Electro-Optics option at SDSU provides students with a B.S. or M.S. degree in physics with an emphasis in Electro-Optics. The program has been in existence since the early 1970's and has achieved national recognition at both the undergraduate and M.S. levels. Because you obtain a B.S. or M.S. degree in Physics, you will have all of the math and physics courses that are normally associated with these degrees. Note that SDSU does not offer a Ph.D. degree and consequently our B.S. and M.S. students can be assured of receiving all of our attention. The Electro-Optics option program consists of two lecture courses, a lab and a thesis project. An introductory lecture course provides a comprehensive introduction to the field of optics while an advanced lecture course covers specialized topics including laser physics, optical pattern recognition, and nonlinear optics. The laboratory forms the basic strength of the program and serves several purposes. Our main goal is to introduce students to several important topics that contain a lot of physics and are important in the discipline. We also help develop the student's abilities to work independently. Finally, formal reports are required for each experiment, allowing students to perfect their technical writing skills. Finally, each student is required to do a thesis.

14. Www.iop.org News - Photonic Crystals In 3-D – The Physics Congress 2003 Professor Denning said holograms are usually made by resultant intensity pattern via a light induced chemical to making 3dimensional photonics crystals could http://www.iop.org/news/538

All Journals Online Services Members Books Education Careers Magazines Industry/ business Physics Policy Branches Groups var javascript_version = 1.0; Institute Media Relations Press releases Contact us Publications Events ... Public awareness of physics Monday 24 March 2003 Professor Denning said: "By analogy with electronics the complex optical systems required are called photonics, because they use photons in place of electrons but, because it is much harder to control the flow of light than an electrical current, their development has been slow. The outlook has recently been transformed by the invention of a new type of device, the photonic crystal. This acts like an optical insulator, and allows the components that handle optical data to be reduced to microscopic sizes. They can then be densely packaged like electronic circuits in a silicon chip. Unfortunately, the methods used for making electronic chips are not well suited to these new devices. Current manufacturing techniques can only create devices featuring 2-dimensional photonic crystals. However Professors Denning and Professor Turberfield, from the Chemistry and Physics Departments in Oxford, have now found a simple way of using a laser to make the perfectly regular microscopic patterns that are required for 3-dimensional photonic crystals. Their method creates a promising route towards the photonic systems of the future. Professor Denning said: 2-dimensional photonic crystal structures are easier to make, but diffraction at the edges of the holes that form the pattern leads to the loss of some light. Although this can be made quite small, it cannot be removed completely. In a 3-dimensional structure, confinement of the light is omnidirectional, so no losses can occur. Defining waveguides and cavities within a 3-dimensional structure makes much larger component densities possible, just like the advantage of a multilayer circuitboard over a single layer one.

15. U. Mary WWW Resources - By Subject - Physics UK BUBL LINK / 515 - 535 light and paraphotic world - Lasers galaxy - Optics and photonics History of the Laser Holography, holograms and Lasers Lasers http://it.umary.edu/Library/research/www_subjects/physics.html

Back: Welder Library Web Resources Home WWW Resources by Subject Area Physics NOTE: The links on this page are raw material constituting the collection phase of directory development. (See About This Directory for information on phases of development.) They have not yet been re-examined and weeded. When they are, about half the links here now will have been discarded as insufficiently fruitful and a somewhat smaller number of brand new and more rewarding links will have been added. Unprocessed pages like this are also likely to have a higher number of broken links. To learn how to work around them, please read about Error Messages if you haven't already done so. Page Index: Physics Overview Physics Constants Physics Databases Physics Articles and FAQs ... Other Physics Directories PHYSICS OVERVIEW intothecosmos.com - The Fundamental Interactions - The Building Blocks of the Universe ucl.ac.uk - Protons for Breakfast PHYSICS C0NSTANTS fu-berlin.de - Fundamental Physical Constants mit.edu - physical constants and conversions nist.gov - Fundamental Physical Constants from NIST PhysicsWeb - Web Links: Reference/Data/Fundamental Constants PHYSICS DATABASES about.com - Reference Data - Physics

16. Dynamic Holographic Optical Tweezers one tightly focused beam of light creates one HOTs) use computergenerated holograms, also known testing and diagnostics, photonics manufacturing, biological http://www.physics.nyu.edu/grierlab/hot/

Dynamic Holographic Optical Tweezers Department of Physics and Center for Soft Matter Research New York University Grier Group Holographic Optical Trapping Research Click on a picture to learn more. HOTs CG-HOTs Dynamic HOTs Kinetic Lock-in Optical Vortices Modulated Vortices Vortex Arrays Optical Peristalsis Vortex Pumps Read our review article on the field News, Press Coverage, and Recent Additions See the article by Celeste Biever in the June 4, 2004 issue of New Scientist on our HOT carbon nanotube paper Our PRL on statistically locked-in transport was reprinted in the April 15, 2004 edition of the Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research Charles Choi of UPI has an article on our HOT nanotube processing in The Washington Times (March 3, 2004). The AIP cites our work on optical fractionation as one of the most noteworthy physics stories of 2003. Follow their link to story 627. David Grier is named one of the Scientific American 50 for 2003. See the December 2003 issue of Scientific American for details. See our Nano Picture of the Day for November 3, 2003.

17. The Holographer 1 2004 and is included in the “Making holograms” CDROM number of people learning and teaching photonics/optics using to teach the physics behind light and optics http://www.holographer.org/articles/hg00003/hg00003.php

About Us Contact Us Feedback Write for us ... Latest additions Departments All articles Announce Opinion Technique ... Download PDF education Pearl John mail@pearljohn.co.uk About the author http://www.pearljohn.co.uk http://www.bowieart.com There is currently an international shortage in both skilled photonics workers and students taking science subjects. However, there are a number of initiatives aimed at addressing these shortages. The Columbia Career Center high school SPIE chapter in Missouri, USA, has recently created an educational CD-ROM to teach holography to students, to interest them in following career paths in optics and photonics. . These include problem solving, teamwork, safety, communication, research, mathematics, analysis of data, documentation, equipment handling, and knowledge of light theory, which involves the principals of reflection, refraction, diffraction, interference and polarization. All of these skills are essential to the photonics industry and, as a result, holography is considered by the Center for Occupational Research and Development (CORD) to be a national photonics skill standard for LEOTs.

18. Holographic Data Storage onto laser beams and to detect the illuminated holograms (7). However for the best filament for the incandescent light bulb. Rochester photonics (Rochester, NY http://www.duke.edu/~bsb3/physics/physics.htm

Abstract: 1995 marked the beginning of a five year, 32 million dollar joint university/government/corporation research effort to develop "holographic data storage systems that can hold more than 12 times the information of today's largest magnetic hard disk drives and maintain data input and output rates more than 10 times faster than is possible today." ( ). The Holographic Data Storage System (HDSS) program has now been in full force for the past three years, producing significant results. This study deals with the physics behind holographic data storage, and presents the major advances the program has made to date, while speculating on its future. Introduction: As I sit at my computer contemplating what I am going to do about my lack of hard drive space (I am sitting on a mere 100 megs or so), I can only drool at the thought of one day owning a holographic data storage drive that will store in excess of a terabyte of data. One terabyte of data; that's one-thousand gigs, or one million megs, or one trillion bits, or what-have-you. To put this amount of information into perspective, MasterCard currently runs a warehouse (yes, a warehouse) that stores a terabyte of data. This warehouse serves their 22,000 institutions worldwide by giving them access to card holders information, i.e. such-and-such transaction made on such-and-such date ( ). And to believe that this amount of information will soon be stored in a medium the size of a sugar-cube is unthinkable. To even believe that such a possibility exists one must first venture into the physics behind the system...

19. Physics Today May 2001 images, optical recording, communication, and photonics. Juris Upatnieks, and whitelight reflection holography TV holography and computer-generated holograms. http://www.physicstoday.com/pt/vol-54/iss-5/p60a.html

Back to Table of Contents May Books: Beyond the Science Wars: The Missing Discourse about Science and Society and Real Science: What It Is, and What It Means Einstein in Love: A Scientific Romance ... New Books Site Index Physics Today Home Page Current Issue Past Contents Job Ads Upcoming Meetings Buyer's Guide About Physics Today Contact Us Advertising Information Print Ad Rates and Specs Online Ad Rates and Specs Advertiser Index Product Information Information Exchange Light Science: Physics and the Visual Arts Thomas D. Rossing and Christopher J. Chiaverina Springer-Verlag, New York, 1999. $79.95 (442 pp.). ISBN 0-387-98827-0 Efforts to make physics courses more meaningful to nonscience majors are continuing by bringing the course work closer to the students' experiences with nature and art. I have taught elective courses in light and color and in sound and music, as well as a required "core" course called, "Exploration of Color." For the light courses, I used Seeing the Light Light Science by Thomas D. Rossing and Christopher J. Chiaverina was described in its preface as "intended for students in the visual arts and for readers interested in art." This new book on light, as did Rossing's

20. Physics Today On The Web - Feature Article - May 2000 phototoxic when activated with certain light sources. May 1999 for Spectraphysics, a photonics and laser I remember being fascinated by the holograms he used http://www.physicstoday.com/may00/optics.htm

Feature Article Site Index Physics Today Home Page Current Contents Past Contents Job Ads Upcoming Meetings Buying Guide Subscribe Job Ads Contact Us About PT Advertising Information Print Ad Rates and Specs Online Ad Rates and Specs Advertiser Index Product Information Information Exchange Career Opportunities in Optics Demand for ever faster data transmission is fueling rapid advances in fiber optic communications and a frenzied search for personnel trained in optics. Anthony M. Johnson and C. Breck Hitz Pulse compression in optical fibers. The author is pictured here at an optical bench that he has dedicated to a hands-on graduate course in ultrashort nonlinear pulse propagation in fibers. The course is part of the optical science and engineering program at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, in Newark. It’s the bandwidth, stupid! That’s the most concise explanation of the explosive growth in interest in optical communications. This year’s Optical Fiber Communications conference drew a record 17,300 people, an astounding 70% increase over an already robust attendance last year. The number of exhibitors at the meeting, which was held in Baltimore in March, was up by 25%. More than 3400 jobs were posted for consideration by a record 300 job seekers—11 jobs per seeker. Similarly, the Photonics West conference, held in San Jose in January, drew a record attendance of 12,141, surpassing the previous year’s attendance by nearly a thousand.

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