Applied Optics Group
- http://dau.ing.univaq.it/~laser
- University of L'Aquila (Italy). Activities involve NDT on works of art and optical metrology. Staff, research areas, publications, links and lateral thinking section.
Center for Adaptive Optics
- http://cfao.ucolick.org/
- An NSF Science and Technology Center dedicated to removing the blurring of images caused by changing distortions in optical systems with applications to Astronomy and Vision Science.
Electro-Optics Research Center
- http://www.uta.edu/optics/index.htm
- University of Texas at Arlington, nonlinear optics research in second harmonic generation, ionic selfassembled monolayer (ISAM) films, ellipsometry, waveguides, atomic force microscopy, and optical anisotropy.
GAP-Optique
- http://www.gap-optique.unige.ch/
- Research and Development center for Quantum Optics at the Group of Applied Physics (GAP), University of Geneva. Projects, prototypes, publications, members.
GUESS Research Group
- http://www.guess.h1.ru/
- High-resolution monochromatic optical system design, based on conventional and unconventional (diffractive and gradient-index) elements.
Laboratory Optical Means of Information
- http://losi.itgo.com/
- Fundamental and applied research in image restoration, quality assessment, theory of nondepolarizing optical systems, light scattering and radiation transfer at the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus.
NASA JPL Optical Communications Group
- http://lasers.jpl.nasa.gov
- The Optical Communications Group at NASA / JPL is developing the next generation of optical communications systems that are 10 to 100 times faster than current state-of-the-art systems.
Nonlinear Optics Laboratory at ETH Zurich
- http://www.nlo.ethz.ch
- The nonlinear optics laboratory is part of the institute of quantum electronics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Switzerland. The main research topics are nonlinear optical materials and methods for frequency conversion and optical communication.
SPIE-International Society for Optical Engineering
- http://spie.org
- SPIE is dedicated to advancing the scientific research and engineering applications of optics, optical, photonic, imaging and optoelectronic technologies through international conferences, education programs and publications.
The Institute of Photonics
- http://www.photonics.ac.uk
- A commercially-oriented research unit, working as part of the University of Strathclyde, but with industrial requirements significantly influencing the research agenda.
