The Optical Society
The Optical Society ( OSA , originally: Optical Society of America) is a scientific society founded in 1916 . Her main goal is to “create, maintain and share knowledge” in the field of optics and photonics .
The headquarters of the OSA is in Washington, DC. The OSA currently has over 14,000 members from over 80 countries.
From 2008 they called themselves instead Optical Society of America now OSA - The Optical Society .
Conferences
The OSA holds annual conferences such as
- CLEO / QELS (Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics / Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference)
- OFC / NFOEC (Optical Fiber Communication / National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference)
- PhAST (Photonic Applications, Systems and Technologies)
Publications
- the OSA Color System
Trade journals
- Journal of the Optical Society of America A - focus on classical optics
- Journal of the Optical Society of America B - focus on quantum optics , lasers , nonlinear optics
- Journal of Optical Networking - Online journal focusing on optical networks
- Applied Optics - Applications in the field of optics
- Optical Materials Express - Online journal on the synthesis, processing and characterization of materials for optical applications
- Optics Express - online magazine about new developments in all areas of optics
- Optics Letters
- Journal of Lightwave Technology (jointly published with the IEEE )
- Journal of Optical Technology (translation of the Russian magazine Opticheskii Zhurnal )
- Optics and Spectroscopy (translation of the Russian magazine Optika i Spektoskopiya )
- Chinese Optics Letters (sales outside of China only)
Awards
A number of prizes and honors are awarded for outstanding scientific contributions. The highest award of the OSA is the Frederic Ives Medal . There has also been the RW Wood Prize since 1975 , the Charles Hard Townes Award since 1981 , the William F. Meggers Award in Spectroscopy since 1970 , the Max Born Award since 1982 , the Edwin H. Land Medal and since 1940 the Adolph Lomb Medal .
OSA presidents
Presidents of the OSA were:
- 2018 Ian Walmsley
- 2017 Eric Mazur
- 2016 Alan E. Willner
- 2015 Philip St. John Russell
- 2014 Philip H. Bucksbaum
- 2013 Donna Strickland
- 2012 Tony Heinz
- 2011 Christopher Dainty
- 2010 James C. Wyant
- 2009 Thomas M. Baer
- 2008 Rod C. Alferness
- 2007 Joseph H. Eberly
- 2006 Eric Van Stryland
- 2005 Susan Houde-Walter
- 2004 Peter L. Knight
- 2003 G. Michael Morris
- 2002 Anthony M. Johnson
- 2001 Richard C. Powell
- 2000 Erich P. Ippen
- 1999 Anthony E. Siegman
- 1998 Gary C. Bjorklund
- 1997 Janet S. Fender
- 1996 Duncan T. Moore
- 1995 Tingye Li
- 1994 Robert L. Byer
- 1993 Elsa M. Garmire
- 1992 Joseph W. Goodman
- 1991 John N. Howard
- 1990 Richard L. Abrams
- 1989 Herwig Kogelnik
- 1988 William B. Bridges
- 1987 Robert G. Greenler
- 1986 Jean M. Bennett
- 1985 Robert R. Shannon
- 1984 Donald R. Herriott
- 1983 Kenneth M. Baird
- 1982 Robert P. Madden
- 1981 Anthony J. DeMaria
- 1980 Warren J. Smith
- 1979 Dudley Williams
- 1978 Emil Wolf
- 1977 Peter Franken
- 1976 Boris P. Stoicheff
- 1975 Arthur L. Schawlow
- 1974 F. Dow Smith
- 1973 Robert E. Hopkins
- 1972 Aden B. Meinel
- 1971 Bruce H. Billings
- 1970 W. Lewis Hyde
- 1969 Karl G. Kessler
- 1968 Arthur F. Turner
- 1967 John A. Sanderson
- 1966 Van Zandt Williams
- 1965 Seibert Q. Duntley
- 1964 Richard C. Lord
- 1963 Stanley S. Ballard
- 1962 David MacAdam
- 1961 Wallace R. Brode
- 1960 James G. Baker
- 1959 John D. Strong
- 1958 Irving C. Gardner
- 1955-1957 Ralph A. Sawyer
- 1953-1954 Deane B. Judd
- 1951–1952 Brian O'Brien
- 1949-1950 William F. Meggers
- 1947–1948 Rudolf Kingslake
- 1945-1946 George R. Harrison
- 1943–1944 August H. Pfund
- 1941-1942 Archie G. Worthing
- 1939-1940 Kasson S. Gibson
- 1937-1938 Roswell Clifton Gibbs
- 1935-1936 Arthur C. Hardy
- 1933-1934 Wilbur B. Rayton
- 1932 Eugene C. Crittenden
- 1930-1931 Loyd A. Jones
- 1928–1929 Irwin G. Priest
- 1926-1927 William E. Forsythe
- 1924-1925 Herbert E. Ives
- 1922–1923 Leonard T. Troland
- 1921 James PC Southall
- 1920 Floyd K. Richtmyer
- 1918-1919 Frederick Eugene Wright
- 1916-1917 Perley G. Nutting