Maybe I've just been spending too much time searching websites for price comparisons on various optics, but this particular description (for Newport Optics Suprema series mounts) struck me as weirdly sexual ( Read more... )

Today (well yesterday now) was the last full day of the international conference on atomic physics we've been hosting here in Durham - YAO 2007, the thirteenth annual Young Atom Opticians conference. YAO is a pretty unique thing, a conference organised by and for early-stage researchers in the field of atomic, molecular and optical physics. So ( Read more... )