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10/09/2026

What does the future of space optics look like?

As the cost of accessing space continues to fall, the optics community has a unique opportunity to innovate with disruptive technologies like computational imaging, advanced laser systems and more.

In this message, 2026 Optica President Gisele Bennett covers optics' role in space exploration and how the field will evolve.

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[Image: Technicians and scientists check out one of the Webb telescope's first two flight mirrors on Sept. 19, 2012 in the clean room at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. —NASA/Chris Gunn]

10/09/2026

Your next collaboration could begin with a paper.

Present your research at and connect with and engineers advancing through optical technologies.

Share your latest work with the global biophotonics community.
Submission deadline: 08 December https://bit.ly/4hJ99uQ

10/09/2026

Turning down starlight to spot new exoplanets.

Earth-like planets in the habitable zone — the region around a star where temperatures could allow liquid water to exist — can easily be up to a billion times dimmer than their host star, making them difficult to detect.

To capture images of exoplanets without the light of a star, this coronagraph design uses a mode sorter to isolate and eliminate light from the star and an inverse mode sorter to recompose the optical field after the starlight is rejected.

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10/08/2026

Where did we come from, and where are we going?

The next generation of optical telescopes will require further innovations across many disciplines and collaboration among many scientists and engineers.

From fabrication to final acceptance tests, learn about reflective space optics for the next generation of telescopes across the X-ray to far-infrared spectrum in this Advances in Optics and Photonics article.

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10/08/2026

In the latest installment of Journeys in Optics, OPN spoke with Thomas Luhmann, corecipient of the 2026 Joseph W. Goodman Book Writing Award for the textbook, “Close-Range Photogrammetry and 3D Imaging, 4th edition.”

In the interview, he discusses his career in photogrammetry, founding an institute at his university, writing and collaborating on a successful textbook and advice for early-career researchers.

Read the story: https://bit.ly/4jcBOKe

10/07/2026

New work, out of UC San Diego, shows how a shaped and focused light beam can control magnetic bits in multilayered materials with no external magnetic field.

The study could lead to optical switches more than three orders of magnitude faster than magnetic ones.

Read the OPN story: https://bit.ly/4hHRUsD

10/07/2026

Photographing the invisible: the multidimensional microscope is born.

The microscope uses a specially prepared sequence of very short light pulses to study the behavior of high-tech materials.

Capable of following phenomena that occur on the order of a few millionths of a billionth of a second, it could be used to analyze materials for building high-tech devices like solar cells or quantum computers.

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10/07/2026

The James Webb Space Telescope launched successfully in 2021. The deployment capped decades of work on the observatory—the largest, most complex telescope ever put into space.

In this conversation, OPN talked with Optica Honorary Member and Nobel Laureate John Mather about the Webb Space Telescope’s deployment—and what an extended mission timeline might enable.

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10/06/2026

A new computational model that accounts for individual differences in human color vision is helping reveal why the colors of today’s displays sometimes appear different to different people.

This model, described in , accounts for variability in color vision and can be used to determine how best to adjust the three primary colors of a display to provide the best viewing experience for as many people as possible.

The approach can also be used to examine similar color discrepancies such as those from energy-efficient LED lighting compared to traditional incandescent lightbulbs or in other color applications where dyes and pigments change how objects reflect or absorb light.

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