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Arkansas Laserbacks Student Chapter The Laserbacks are a registered student organization at the U of A focused on education, outreach, and career development related to optics. We like light.

We are the Arkansas Laserbacks, a registered student organization of the University of Arkansas, the official student chapter of SPIE (The International Society for Optical Engineering), and the official student chapter of OSA (The Optical Society of America). The purpose of this organization is to bring together students, professors, and researchers in the light-based fields of optics and photonics at the University of Arkansas and to connect them with other individuals and groups internationally via invited speakers and opportunities to attend conferences. We also reach out to community youth via physics demonstration events each year to help increase awareness of and interest for the science and engineering of light and light-based technologies, known as optics and photonics. Current officers:
President: Stephen
Vice President: Abayomi Omolewu
Treasurer: Ahmad Darweesh
Secretary: David French
Faculty Advisor: Joseph Herzog

For more information about the Arkansas SPIE student chapter or the Arkansas Laserbacks, contact Stephen Bauman at [email protected].

For those interested in a career in industry upon graduation, please consider coming to see our visiting speaker, Arlene...
04/18/2018

For those interested in a career in industry upon graduation, please consider coming to see our visiting speaker, Arlene Smith's, talk on transitioning from academia to industry. She has successfully completed this transition herself, so will be a great resource for any students who hope to one day make the same move. Don't miss this chance to take advantage of a great resource provided by the Laserbacks through OSA. We look forward to seeing you there Monday, April 23rd at 12:30 in PHYS 134. Lunch will be provided, if that helps get you excited more than career development.

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The Laserbacks visited the Siloam Springs High School science club after school one afternoon to give students a chance ...
03/11/2018

The Laserbacks visited the Siloam Springs High School science club after school one afternoon to give students a chance to build their own spectrometers and play with a real commercial spectrometer, which was graciously provided by Ocean Optics.

The Laserbacks brought some fun physics demonstrations of light, sound, and waves in general to the library for a youth ...
03/11/2018

The Laserbacks brought some fun physics demonstrations of light, sound, and waves in general to the library for a youth event. Thanks to Aida Sheibani for taking the higher quality photos!

A nice application of plasmonic nanostructures that could save a significant amount of money in heating costs.
10/25/2017

A nice application of plasmonic nanostructures that could save a significant amount of money in heating costs.

Researchers have developed a way to transform ordinary windows into solar-powered heaters that use the sun's energy to increase the window temperature by up to 8 K (nearly 15 °F) in cold weather. The researchers expect that the new solar thermal surfaces will lead to significant energy savings throu...

04/17/2017

Demonstrating how two polarizers can be used to pass or block light depending on their relative orientations.

Demonstrating some fun optical phenomena at the 2017 Spring Into Physics!
04/17/2017

Demonstrating some fun optical phenomena at the 2017 Spring Into Physics!

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