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Optical Engineering and Key Real-World Applications with Stephen Fantone, PhD
On this week’s episode of When Science Speaks (link in comments), I talk with Stephen Fantone, CEO and Founder of Optikos and the Optical Society (OSA) President for 2020. We discuss a range of topics, including: – The projects to battle COVID-19 that OSA and its members have been working on, such as decontamination and…
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