OSA’s Support of the Photonics Community Donna Strickland, OSA President Schematic of First CPA WHAT IS OSA? The early years OSA Annual Meeting 1921 Rochester, NY, USA OSA’s Mission: To promote the generation, application, archiving and worldwide dissemination of knowledge in optics and photonics. 18,000+ OSA members all over the world Headquarters: Washington, DC, USA Our global membership Latin America/Caribbean Mideast/Africa (900) 5% 2% (300) Europe 21% North (3,800) America 50% Asia (9,000) 22% (4,000) Nobel Laureates who are OSA Members Michelson (1907) Millikan (1923) Raman (1930) Zernike (1953) Lamb (1955) Townes (1964) Prokhorov (1964) Kastler (1966) Hartline (1967) Wald (1967) Gabor (1971) Herzberg (1971) Rainwater (1975) Bloembergen (1981) Schawlow (1981) Curl (1996) Chu (1997) Cohen-Tannoudji (1997) Phillips(1997) Alferov (2000) Cornell (2001) Wieman (2001) Ketterle (2001) Glauber (2005) Hall (2005) Hänsch (2005) Mather (2006) Kao (2009) Boyle (2009) Smith (2009) Wineland (2012) Key OSA activities Publishing Conventions and Meetings Membership and Awards Global Programs Industry Relations Public Policy Foundation Key OSA activities Publishing Conventions and Meetings Membership and Awards Global Programs Industry Relations Public Policy Foundation Key OSA activities Publishing Conventions and Meetings Membership and Awards Global Programs Industry Relations Public Policy Foundation Key OSA activities Publishing Conventions and Meetings Membership and Awards Global Programs Industry Relations Public Policy Foundation Key OSA activities Publishing Conventions and Meetings Membership and Awards Global Programs Industry Relations Public Policy Foundation Key OSA activities Publishing Conventions and Meetings Membership and Awards Global Programs Industry Relations Public Policy Foundation Key OSA activities Publishing Conventions and Meetings 2008 Viviane Reding and 2009 Thierry Van der Pyl, EU Rep. Rush Holt, US Membership and Awards 2008 Viviane Reding and 2009 2010 Global Programs Thierry Van der Pyl, EU Rep. Rush Holt, US Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, US 2011 Industry 2010 Sen. Stephen Conroy, Relations Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, US Australia Public Policy 2012 2012 Foundation Antonio Tajani, Italy and 2013 2011 Antonio Tajani, Italy and 2013 Neelie Kroes, The Netherlands Steven Chu, US Sen. Stephen Conroy, Australia Neelie Kroes, The Netherlands Steven Chu, US Key OSA activities Publishing Conventions and Meetings Membership and Awards Global Programs Industry Relations Public Policy Foundation THE NATIONAL PHOTONICS INITIATIVE NPI working groups James Horkovich Defense & National Security Engineering Fellow Raytheon Missile Systems Doug Hall Energy PV and Technology Executive US Dept. of Energy Steve Laderman Healthcare Director, Molecular Tools Lab Agilent Technologies Steve Grubb Communications Infinera Fellow Infinera Mark Taggart Manufacturing President Laser Mechanisms, Inc. “ Whether it’s Europe, China, Japan, or you pick the economic power, they’ve all listed optics and photonics as a key area. I think it is obvious from the report that optics and photonics are an integral part of every industry of the 21st century.” Dr. Craig Barrett Former CEO/Chairman Intel Corporation, September 2012 OSA’s leadership role Data Collection Partnerships Collective R&D Voice Coordination Find out more! www.lightourfuture.org OSA AND HIGH-INTENSITY LASERS University of Rochester, Laboratory for Laser Energetics Frontiers in Optics/Laser Science Tour Group High-Intensity Lasers and High-Field Phenomena (HILAS) Fiber Laser Applications (FILAS) Advanced Solid-State Lasers (ASSL) Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) International Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena Nonlinear Optics (NLO) How the ICAN laser amplifier works Thank you very much! Donna Strickland, President, OSA [email protected] @opticalsociety www.osa.org ow.ly/ko2rk .