• Technical Conference:  23 – 26 September 2024
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    8/23/2013 2:49:11 PM

    Supersymmetry in optics?

    BY Guest Blogger - Greg Gbur

    From the popular, Skulls in the Stars Blog.This is the first in a series of posts about the upcoming OSA Frontiers in Optics meeting in Orlando. This post covers research related to the presentation FM4C.5: Mohammad-Ali Miri; Matthias Heinrich; Demetrios N. Christodoulides, SUSY-generated complex optical potentials with real-valued spectra. One of the most fruitful strategies in optics research is to investigate the implications of concepts and mathematics used in seemingly very different fields of physics. The most dramatic example of this today is the foundation of the field of transformation optics, which uses the mathematical tools of general relativity to create novel optical devices. As I’ve discussed in previous posts, treating matter as an effective “warping” of space has led to the theoretical development of exotic objects such as invisibility cloaks, “perfect” optical illusions, and even optical wormholes.

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    7/8/2013 9:39:44 AM

    Trends in Optics in Information Processing - Interview with Frontiers in Optics Subcommittee Member

    BY Daniel Marks, Duke University

    The FiO/LS Marketing team sat down with Daniel Marks, Frontiers in Optics 2013 Subcommittee Member to discuss what type of exciting research can be anticipated this year under FiO 4 - Optics in Information Processing. Ghost imaging, Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Microscopy, and Pump-Probe Nonlinear Dispersion Phase Dispersion Spectroscopy are just a few of the trending topics discussed.  

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    10/28/2012 7:37:41 PM

    Endoscopy - focusing and depolarization

    BY Sapna Shroff

    Hey folks.. Multimode fibers are great for endoscopy type scanning applications. But a beam focused at a multimode fiber generates a scrambled random speckle pattern at the output, with the fiber acting like a turbid medium. Digital phase conjugation can be used to suppress this speckle.

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    10/19/2012 11:06:57 AM

    Amplifying Great Ideas into Amazing Scientific Achievements

    BY Dominic Siriani

    Well, we’ve now reached the end of a great week at the FiO/LS conference. It’s been a great week, and this final day was no exception to that. Unfortunately, I had an early flight out and so only could attend a half-day of the talks. However, not surprisingly, the ones I did get to see where very good.

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    10/18/2012 8:28:37 AM

    Integrated Photonics for Communications

    BY Dom Siriani

    Much like yesterday, today my FiO/LS presentation selection seemed to have a theme. This time it was integrated photonics for the use in optical communications. It seems natural to have a large focus in this area, since it repeatedly is shown how the energy and cost per bit/sec must be reduced in order to keep up with consumer demand. It’s really remarkable how quickly user consumption on the internet has increased over a relatively short amount of time (think of how prominent video on demand has become in just a few years), and this poses significant challenges for developing the next generation of photonic devices and data transmission methodologies.

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    10/18/2012 8:22:39 AM

    Clever Methods used in Poster Sessions

    BY By Nicole Moore

    Wednesday’s poster session had several interesting theoretical and computational posters, but I was unfortunately unable to speak with all of their authors. 

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    10/17/2012 2:59:48 PM

    The Eyes Say it All

    BY Nicole Moore

    This morning I took a break from my usual sort of sessions and attended the Symposium on Understanding the Developing and Aging Visual Systems.  I am glad that I have spent a fair amount of time thinking about vision in the past few years (both due to curiosity on my part and a desire to be able to field student questions correctly) or I may have found parts of the talks to be impenetrable due to specialized terminology. 

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    10/17/2012 12:31:14 PM

    Omega and Omega EP, not the watches

    BY Sapna Shroff

    Hey everyone.. Monday afternoon I joined a guided tour of the Laboratory for Laser Energetics at University of Rochester. It was organized by UoR/LLE and the Optical Society of America.

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    10/17/2012 12:28:47 PM

    Quiet Please

    BY Nicole Moore

    I had been looking forward to the session "Beyond Resolution," which took place in the late afternoon time slot on Tuesday.

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    9/4/2012 10:34:11 AM

    Video Highlights

    BY Amy Sullivan

    Every year, the chairs for Frontiers in Optics record short videos discussing what they consider to be the highlights of their sessions. While many people these days prefer videos to reading the content, I am not a video person myself. With a baby at home, all my work is done out at a coffee shop or at the library or in a shared office (or while she is sleeping) and I somehow always forget my headphones.   For those of you who also prefer the written word, here are some summaries of the highlights that I listened to – there are many videos for the different sessions and I have only listened to a few so far.

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    8/14/2012 11:24:04 AM

    Curiosity

    BY Amy Sullivan, Laser Mom

    A few weeks ago, when the first news on the Higgs boson came out, a friend of mine sent me an email requesting that I write a blog entry explaining what it’s all about (that blog entry will be coming next week on Laser Mom). He said that understanding this part of physics was hard for him as an engineer since he did not have much background in modern physics. He also asked,  “Why do we care about what gives us our mass?”

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    6/25/2012 2:12:54 PM

    Baby Vision Research

    BY Laser Mom

    The research on infant vision is really amazing. Rowan Candy’s group looks at eye movements and the electrical activity in the brain in infants to study the difference between normal and abnormal eye development. Eye tracking and brain imaging using near infrared light help Richard Aslin’s group learn how infants use visual cues in their learning and development.

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