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Photonics Focus Magazine Vol. 4 Issue 4

July/August 2023 | Vol. 4 | Issue 4

This issue of Photonics Focus explores the world of fluids and their interactions with optics and photonics, including how photonics is helping us find microplastics in the world's oceans, and how innovative optics designs enabled the CIA to find a sunken Soviet submarine for its daring Project Azorian. We also look at the undersea world of Dimitri Rebikoff whose inventions like the first waterproof flash enabled an Oscar-winning film by explorer Jacques Cousteau.

Shining light on the microplastics mess in our oceans

Microplastics pose a range of environmental problems that affect ecosystems in various ways

Technology

Shining light on the microplastics mess in our oceans

Project Azorian: cutting-edge underwater optics and a real-life CIA spy thriller

Innovative optics system helped the CIA's top secret Project Azorian image and retrieve a sunken Soviet Submarine in the 1970s

Technology

Project Azorian: cutting-edge underwater optics and a real-life CIA spy thriller

Contents

Editors Desk: It's fluid

Technology

The murky waters of publication fraud

Publications

European photonics lays down the gauntlet: Industry leaders beseech policymakers to help them maintain global ranking

Community

Accelerating med tech: FDA catalog of research tools showcases agency’s commitment to innovators

Technology

From street photography to sharks: Dimitry Rebikoff's pioneering inventions lit the underwater world

Technology

See the Light

Community

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