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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

10/17/2012 12:53:44 PM

Rochester’s Rich History makes it a Fit Host for the Annual OSA Meeting

BY Colin McKinstrie and Donna Strickland, FiO 2012 General Chairs

This week, the members of the Optical Society (OSA) will come together for Frontiers in Optics (FiO), OSA’s 96th Annual Meeting, in the very birthplace of the industry - Rochester, New York. The city is home to many of the cutting-edge companies that will showcase their products and technologies, as well as two of the leading educational institutions where science and entrepreneurship coalesce to move optics forward. So it is with a sense of that history that we come together in Rochester, the city where the Optical Society was founded in 1916, and where technology continues to thrive.

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.

10/16/2012 8:42:49 AM

Consulting in Optics

BY Guest Blogger - Sapna Shroff

Hey everybody.. Today I attended the Minorities and Women in OSA meeting at Frontiers in Optics. They had organized a talk by Jennifer Kruschwitz on consulting as a career. Jennifer is always positive and fun to meet.. so it was a great to have her for the early morning breakfast event!

10/15/2012 5:59:14 PM

Finally It’s FiO/LS Time

BY Dom Siriani

So FiO/LS is finally in full swing here in Rochester, NY. I had hoped to have something to talk about yesterday, but my flights were delayed and I got in too late. Consequently, I missed the special symposium for Emil Wolf’s 90th birthday, which had been one of the sessions I was very eager to see. Hopefully, I’ll be able to see the presentations through the media the organizers are posting online, or at least I can talk to some of my earlier-arriving colleagues about the session.

10/15/2012 3:08:19 PM

Ives medal address--Marlan Scully

BY Nicole Moore

Today, Marlan O. Scully accepted the Frederic Ives Medal/Jarus W. Quinn Prize and gave the Ives Medal address. This talk introduced me to a variety of really fascinating work in the field of quantum thermodynamics.

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.

8/20/2012 9:59:39 AM

Looking forward to the plenaries (Part II)

BY Nicole Moore

Previously, I described some of the reasons that I am particularly looking forward to the plenary talk to be given by David Williams. Today, I plan to discuss why I’m looking forward to that of Paul Corkum.

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?”