"First Light" for the VLT Interferometer

"First light" in the NTT.

"Planck-scale physics" of vacuum in a strong magnetic field

"Slow Light" and "Slow Current"

"Spin" and "Orbital" Flows in a Circularly Polarized Paraxial Beam: Orbital Rotation without Orbital Angular Momentum

"Telescopes from the Ground Up:" an Internet Resource For IYA 2009

$β$-BaB$_2$O$_4$ deep UV monolithic walk-off compensating tandem

'Baffling' design of a three mirror off-axis celestial telescope

'Forbidden' lines in the Raman spectrum of the alpha-HgI2 crystal

'Matching error' (spherical aberration) in the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) - Some technical comments

'ohana

'OHANA phase I: adaptive optics and single mode fiber coupling

'Virtual triple Schmidt' - Wide field two-stage optics

...and the View from Garching

0.03/pixel - The UV enhanced double density RCA CCD

1- to 5-um imaging detector for the ADONIS adaptive optics system

1-cm collimated source for use in infrared calibrations

1.5m Telescope Adaptive Optics Images of Vesta

10 and 20 micron imaging with arrays

10 M prototype for the laser interferometer gravitational wave antenna