Photonics West 2010 Welcome Reception, "Cirque du Lasaire"

SPIE Photonics West—the world's leading photonics, laser, and biomedical optics event.
2010 is the golden anniversary of the laser. This year Photonics West was taking place in Moscone Center in San Francisco.
Del Mar Photonics www.dmphotonics.com announced several new products at the Photonics West 2010.


Scenes from Goldfinger.

Wikipedia:
Goldfinger (1964) is the third spy film in the James Bond series, and the third to star Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. It is based on the novel of the same name by Ian Fleming. The film stars Honor Blackman as Bond girl Pussy Galore and Gert Fröbe as the title character along with Shirley Eaton as Jill Masterson. The film was produced by Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, and was the first of four Bond films directed by Guy Hamilton. The story has Bond following gold smuggler Auric Goldfinger, who plans a nuclear detonation inside the Fort Knox gold depository.

The film was the first official Bond blockbuster and made cinematic history by recouping its production costs in record-setting time, despite a budget equal to that of the two preceding films combined. Goldfinger was also the first Bond film to use a pop star to sing the theme song during the titles, a hallmark that would follow for every Bond film since except On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
Bond sneaks into Goldfinger's plant and overhears him talking to a Red Chinese agent about "Operation Grand Slam." Leaving, he encounters Tilly as she is about to make a second attempt on Goldfinger's life, but accidentally trips an alarm. Bond and Tilly attempt to escape, but Oddjob breaks Tilly's neck with his hat. Bond is soon captured and Goldfinger has Bond tied to a table underneath an industrial laser, which slowly begins to slice the table in half. Bond then lies to Goldfinger that British Intelligence knows about Grand Slam, causing Goldfinger to spare Bond's life in order to mislead MI6 and the CIA into believing that Bond has things well in hand.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• SPIE
• biomedical
• optics
• 2010
• golden
• anniversary
• laser
• Photonics
• West
• Moscone
• Center
• San
• Francisco

[HiltonSFUnionSq]

Fantastic event! Thanks for choosing us to host. It was a blast having your group here.

[segorov]

@TroyAVProductions You are welcome! It was a great show~

Del Mar Photonics team

[TroyAVProductions]

Thanks to Delmar Photonics for capturing all our hard work. And special thanks to all the talent that supported our 50th Anniversary of the Laser - Troy Peters, SPIE AV Manager.