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This issue features one University Research Highlights article and three Hot topic articles.
Our University Research Highlights article is entitled “Optical Loss Measurements using Photon Lifetimes in Optical Wave Guides,” by N. Trefiak, J. Barnes, R. Li, Z. Tong, and H-P Loock, in the Department of Chemistry at Queen's University in Canada.
The first Hot Topic is entitled “RF Photonics for Lidar Systems: Optically Pre-amplified Dual-Frequency Lidar-Radar” by L. Morvan, D. Dolfi, and J.-P. Huignard, at Thales Research and Technology in France. The second Hot Topic is entitled “Compact Dual-Band Antenna Base Station for Simultaneously Transmitting Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Signals in Radio-on-Fiber Systems,” by T. Kuri of the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology in Tokyo, Japan; H. Toda and K. Kitayama at the Graduate School of Engineering at Osaka University in Osaka, Japan; and Y. Takahashi of Oki Electric Industry, Co. Ltd in Kanagawa, Japan. The third Hot Topic is entitled, “High-Power Photodetectors,” by D. A. Tulchinsky and K. J. Williams in the Optical Sciences Division of the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC, USA, and X. Li, N. Li, and Joe C. Campbell at the University of Texas-Austin, in Austin, TX, USA.