Physics World Focus on Optics & Photonics 2018

The articles in this Physics World Focus really show the varied nature of optical physics. Cather Simpson, chief scientist at Engender, explains how her company developed an optics-based technique for quickly and efficiently sorting sperm samples from prize dairy bulls into male and female cells. Gordon Love, an astronomer who specialized in adaptive optics, is working on virtual reality gaming headsets. Janelle Shane and her colleagues at Boulder Nonlinear Systems use lasers to test beam-steering devices – but the same basic concept can be applied to sintering metal parts and to guiding autonomous vehicles.

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