Cooperaring Organimtions American Academy of Otolaryngology--Head and Neck Surgery American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery Awlied Optics Laboratw/New Mexico State University Beckman Laser Institute and Medical Clinic, University of California/lrvine Center f w Applied Optics Studies/Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Center for Applied Optics/University of Alabama in Huntsville Center ...

The editors introduce the Biomedical Optics Express feature issue, "Advances in Optics for Biotechnology, Medicine and Surgery," which includes 12 contributions from attendees of the 2011 conference Advances in Optics for Biotechnology, Medicine and Surgery XII.

One of the two 7.6 m long straight sections in SPEAR3 has been divided into two short straights to provide places for two new small-gap insertion devices (IDs) [1,2]. A chicane generates an angular separation of 10 mrad between the two straights. A quadrupole triplet has been added in the center of the 7.6 m long chicane to create a ‘double-waist chicane’ optics with βy=1.6 m at the center of e...