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Volume 10 Issue 9, September 2016

Artist's impression of the optical apparatus used to perform fluorescent imaging of a single, trapped, cooled ytterbium ion. The ultrahigh positional sensitivity of the approach makes it possible to directly observe atomic motion.

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IMAGE: SEAN KELLEY/JOINT QUANTUM INSTITUTE

COVER DESIGN: BETHANY VUKOMANOVIC

Volume 10 Issue 9

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  • John Love, co-author of the famous book Optical Waveguide Theory, passed away on 19 June 2016. The Australian optics community has lost a founding pillar.

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