SPIE.tv Marks 100,000th View Of Optics And Photonics Videos On YouTube
"Light in Action," an educational video demonstrating optics experiments, is among videos in the SPIE.tv library posted on YouTube and the SPIE Newsroom.
Views of videos of optics and photonics interviews, lab tours, conference presentations, educational demonstrations, and other features on the SPIE.tv channel on YouTube topped the 100,000 mark today.
Videos on the channel are produced by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, for and also available on the SPIE Newsroom website. The SPIE Newsroom also includes researcher-authored open access articles and the latest research and industry news organized by technical topics.
In addition to providing updates for the scientific community, SPIE.tv strives to communicate the capabilities and importance of optics and photonics technology to non-scientists, and to share stories of the field's leading visionaries and pioneers.
More than 200 videos have been posted on the SPIE.tv YouTube channel over the last four years. The channel has nearly 300 subscribers, and recorded more than 60,000 views in 2011.
With close to 10,000 views, the most-watched video is "Light in Action," which demonstrates several optics experiments and is targeted for elementary-aged students.
Among the newest posts is a video featuring a great horned owl from the San Diego Zoo in a presentation on bio-mimicry and bio-inspiration for engineering during last week's SPIE Smart Structures and Non-Destructive Evaluation conference in San Diego, California.
Other popular SPIE.tv videos include
- a tour of the TRUMPF US laser manufacturing plant
- advice for students interested in optics and photonics, featuring Jim Fujimoto of MIT, Rox Anderson of Harvard University, Nobel Laureate Charles Townes, Margaret Murnane of JILA/University of Colorado, and other research and industry leaders
- an interview with director Ed Moses of the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Lab (recent progress is reported in a new video interview with Mike Dunne, LIFE (Laser Inertial Fusion Energy) project leader at NIF).
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SOURCE: SPIE