Optical Society of America archive now accessible
Thanks to the Centennial Archive, more than 144,000 articles from the Optical Society of America are now available online.
The archive contains all publications since the society was founded in 1916 right up to 2015:
- external page Advances in Optics and Photonics (2009–2015)
- external page Applied Optics(1962–2015)
- external page Journal of the Optical Society of America(1917–1983)
- external page Journal of the Optical Society of America A(1984–2015)
- external page Journal of the Optical Society of America B(1984–2015)
- external page Optics and Photonics News(1990–2015)
- external page Optics Express(1997–2015)
- external page Optics Letters(1977–2015)
- external page Optics News(1975–1989)
- external page OSA Conference Proceedings(1979–2015)
The research papers from the fields of optics and photonics also include historically interesting documents, such as the report on the 1947 society meeting, where physicist Edwin Herbert Land external page showcased the first polaroid camera as the "most exciting part of the program".
Access is possible from the ETH Zurich network or on ETH-Bibliothek premises.