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Mode-Locked Cerium Lasers: The Ti:Sapphire of the ultraviolet? by David J. Spence, Eduardo Granados, and David W. Coutts
Green light in slow light photonic crystals: a bonus for silicon photonics, by Christelle Monat
Silk Photonics New Applications for an Ancient Material,
by Peter Domachuk
Conference report: PECS VIII, by Michael J. Steel
XVIII International Workshop on Optical Waveguide Theory & Numerical Modelling, by John Love
Risk in Research, by Ken Baldwin
When Science Met Parliament in 2009, by Judith Dawes
Conference Report: SPIE Photonics West 2009, by Michael Jones
Report: IPOS Launch, by Simon Fleming and Ben Eggleton

About the governance of science, Ken Baldwin
IUPAP Young Scientist Prize
KOALA 2008 @ UQ, Sarah Midgley
Over-the-Horizon Cloud-Scatter Communication, Paul Edwards
Optofluidics: An Enabling Technology for Integrated Photonic Circuits, Christian Karnutsch, et al
AOS Early Career Researchers Prize and the Warsash Science Communications Prize in Optics
Workshop: Dissipative Solitons
FASTS: Federation of Australian Scientific and Technological Societies