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Optical Society of America

The OSA web site is a source of news about optics of all types, plus information on conferences and meetings. They also maintain the Optics InfoBase, a searchable data base containing the content, in electronic form, of the many journals they publish. Student memberships are very reasonable.

IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society

LEOS is the society within the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers most directly connected with lasers and photonics. Its publications and meetings have a strong emphasis on photonics devices, especially semiconductor devices. There are links here to the main LEOS journals in electronic form, or you can (because of the Rice subscription) search almost all IEEE journals at IEEE Xplore. The main IEEE web site has a lot of information about other areas of electrical engineering, including student services. You can become a student member of IEEE online.

Rice IEEE Student Section

Rice has its own student IEEE section and web site. Check it out for events (many with refreshments).

Light Reading

Light Reading is a web site with timely news about the optical communications industry. In addition to news, there are some good tutorial articles, analysis of companies and products, profiles of the movers and shakers, and job listings.