These are the scientists that built the robotic arm for the Mars Explorer, the people who design digital projection systems and retinal scanners. It's just amazing to have all this brain power around you. To read more about Photonics West in this newspaper, see SPIE Scene . And enjoy the plethora of articles we carry this month on smart structures, new telescopes and uncooled IR focal plane arrays. Letters should be limited to approximately 200 words.
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