title: Optical engineering and the Optical Society of America.
abstract: The role of the Optical Society of America in the changing field of optical engineering is discussed by the vice-chairman of the Technical Council of OSA in an introduction to a group of papers that constitutes a representative sampling of optical engineering in the early Eighties.
authors.affiliation: University of Rochester, Laboratory for Laser Energetics, Rochester, New York 14623, USA.
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Eastman