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Watt's Up College of Optical Sciences News for April 10, 2008
Students | Alumni | Industrial Affiliates | Faculty | Watt's Happening | Employment
Today's Colloquium: 3:30 p.m. Meinel 307
Art Gmitro, University of Arizona Department of Radiology and College of Optical Sciences, will present A Tale of Two Projects. Stanley Pau is the host. Abstract: This talk will describe recent progress on two research projects in the Biomedical Imaging Laboratory. One project is aimed at the development, clinical demonstration, and validation of a confocal microendoscope for real-time in vivo optical biopsy. The other project involves development of multi-modality optical and magnetic resonance imaging of window chambers for studies of cancer and vascular biology.
OSC Community Speakers: April 11, Noon, Meinel 410
Special Presentation: April 14, 11:15 a.m. Meinel 821
Biophotonics Faculty Candidate Daniel l. Marks, University of Illinois Biophotonics Imaging Laboratory, will present Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Microscopy: Tomographic Computer Imaging for Scanned Microscopy. Abstract: Three-dimensional image formation in microscopy is greatly enhanced by the use of computed imaging techniques. Methods such as optical coherence tomography utilize interferometric ranging, but do not typically apply computed imaging methods and therefore must scan the focus to acquire volumetric data. Inteferometric Synthetic Aperture Microscopy is a method of computing three-dimensional volumetric reconstructions from interferometric ranging data. ISAM signal processing methods are similar to the Fourier migration methods of seismology and Fourier reconstruction methods of synthetic aperture radar, and ISAM signal processing methods benefit from innovations in these areas. The principles of ISAM are reviewed and the applications of various ISAM solutions to various optical coherence ranging instruments is explored.
Bio: Daniel Marks is a Research Scientist at the Biophotonics Laboratory of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in January 2001. Dan studies the mathematics, design, and implementation of advanced biomedical and nanotechnological imaging instruments that combine optical design with signal processing to optimize sensing of particular structural and molecular properties.
Annual Group Photo -- April 14 at 2:30
Save the date -- we hope to see you all there. The location will be the same as last year: on the stairs and patio between the original Optical Sciences building and the new West Wing.
Next Week's Colloquium: 3:30 p.m. Meinel 307
Shibin Jiang, NP Photonics and an OSC Adjunct Research Professor, will present Multi-Component Specialty Glass Fiber Lasers. Masud Mansuripur is the host. Abstract: Fiber lasers have attracted significant attention in last several years because of many technology breakthroughs and commercial business successes. Most fiber lasers use rare-earth ions doped silica fibers as the gain media. However, in many cases silica fiber is not the ideal host. Multi-component specialty glass fibers are good alternatives because of their unique features such as low co-operative up-conversion coefficient, large mode field diameter, and short active fiber length. In this presentation, I will present highly erbium and ytterbium doped phosphate glass fibers for narrow linewidth single frequency fiber lasers near 1.5 and 1 microns, and thulium doped germanate glass fiber 2 micron fiber lasers with slope efficiency great than 70%. Brillouin fiber laser, Brillouin based fiber sensing, and potential application for wireless-over-fiber will be discussed. THz and GHz generation using Q-switched high power fiber lasers will also be described in this presentation.
Garum Yun Receives an SPIE Scholarship
SPIE is the world’s largest international not-for-profit society in the fields of optics, photonics, and imaging with 17,000 individual members including 3,800 students. To date, SPIE has distributed over $3 million U.S. dollars in scholarships and grants to those working and learning in 84 countries. SPIE strongly believes in the opportunities and personal enrichment that education provides and in the need for increased scientific and technical literacy. The Society is committed to the upcoming generations of scientists and engineers who will develop the potential of optics and photonics.
Congratulations, Garam.
We always enjoy hearing from our former students, so if you have something interesting going on that you'd like to share, please send an email to Cathy Alexander at cathy.alexander@optics.arizona.edu
Entrepreneurs Michael and Traci Pate (They have a double connection to OSC: Mike received an MS from us in 2001 and Traci is a former member of our office staff.) have new products they would like to share with us: a fisheye resolution test target and a line of standard and custom fisheye lenses for MCOS and CCD imaging. Their company, Optical Short Course International, Inc., based in Corvallis, Oregon, delivers optical engineering training in a variety of formats: eBooks, DVDs, Webinars, Live Courses, and Custom Courses at their clients' facilities. For more information, please visit their Web site at www.oscintl.com.
June 17, 2008: Free One-Day Conference in Tucson for CODE V Users
CODE V was developed by ORA, Optical Research Associates, a long-time College of Optical Sciences Industrial Affiliate. For more information about ORA's products and services, please visit their Web site at www.opticalres.com
Faculty members, Watt's Up is sent to our alumni and many colleagues and friends within the optics community, so please keep us posted if you or your students have something interesting going on. Just send an email to cathy.alexander@optics.arizona.edu
Last week's photo of Steve Jacobs' beautiful sun clock on Kitt Peak raised a number of questions and deserves some clarification.
In Steve's own words:
"Inspired by the sunshine hours (Campbell-Stokes) recorder at the Royal Stockholm Observatory, Professor Jacobs designed a similar configuration to tell time at Kitt Peak National Observatory. When the sun moves over Stockholm, a beautiful polished glass sphere burns a record of the sunny hours on a paper that’s replaced every day. In Jacobs’ version, the central focal spot forms an image on a ground glass that is marked off in hours.
"Many lessons were learned along the way. The first surprise is shown in Fig. 1 where in addition to the central focal spot we see two white rings. The explanation of the rings was found by Steve Johnston’s ray tracing, shown in Fig. 2. The next surprise was that the partly transmitting metal attenuators* couldn’t stand the heat, and the Pyrex focal surface was destroyed. The current redesign locates the chromium attenuator on the sphere’s surface, farther from the hot spot.
"The original configuration kept being destroyed by focused sunlight, and finally when I found a durable coating it was destroyed by "a sonic boom" !? Rather than try again to reproduce the special attenuating coating I changed the design so that the coating is no longer critical. E.g. I coated the sphere itself, in order to distance the coating from the hot spot. (See Fig. 4 ).
"It will be installed on Kitt Peak later this month.
"Good luck to us!"
* "Attenuation is needed not only because it’s no fun looking toward the sun, but to attenuate a bright caustic of rays that form a distraction just beyond the central focal spot."
Click on the thumbnails for larger images.
OSC Calendar
April 10 OSC Colloquium
April 11 OSC Community Speakers OSC Sports Friday
April 14 OSC Group Photo Faculty Candidate Presentation
April 16 PhD Final Oral Defense. 9:00 a.m. Meinel 547. Shigeru Suzuki will present Optical Fiber Devices: Novel Fiber Lasers and Image Amplifier PhD Final Oral Defense. 1:00 p.m. Meinel 701. Haito Luo will present Snapshot Imaging Polarimeter Using Spatial Carrier Frequency.
April 17 OSC Collolquium PhD Final Oral Defense. 9:30 a.m. Meinel 701. Chad Weiler will present Spontaneous Formation of Quantized Vortices in Bose-Einstein Condensates
April 18 OSC Sports Friday PhD Final Oral Defense. 9:00 a.m. Meinel 701. Eric Fest will present Modeling Scatter in Composite Media
Happy Birthday and Best Wishes for a Wonderful Year
April 14
Andreas Knorr (aknorr@optics.arizona.edu)
April 15 Amber Czajkowski (aczajkowski@optics.arizona.edu)
April 16 Will Rivera (wrivera@optics.arizona.edu)
April 17
Sooyong Nam (sooyong.nam@gmail.com)
April 18
George Duckett (xniglenlia@aol.com)
April 19
Mitra Adeli (mitraa@email.arizona.edu)
April 20
Ronie George (rgeorge@optics.arizona.edu)
On Campus
April 11 Physics Colloquium. Grad Student Speaker. 2:30 p.m. PAS 220. Ben Kalafut will present Towards an All-Optical Constant Force Optical Trap. Colloquium Speaker. 3:00 p.m. PAS 220. Professor Irina Mocioiu will present A Neutrino Perspective on the Universe.
Please visit our optics employment Web site at http://www.optics.arizona.edu/employment/default.htm
Senior Image Scientist. Flextronics. Headquartered in Singapore, Flextronics is a leading Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) provider focused on delivering complete design, engineering and manufacturing services to automotive, computing, consumer digital, industrial, infrastructure, medical and mobile Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM)s. With the acquisition of Solectron, pro forma fiscal year 2007 revenues from continuing operations are more than US$30 billion. Flextronics helps customers design, build, ship, and service electronics products through a network of facilities in 35 countries on four continents. This global presence provides design and engineering solutions that are combined with core electronics manufacturing and logistics services, and vertically integrated with components technologies, to optimize customer operations by lowering costs and reducing time to market. Vista Point Technologies is a business unit of Flextronics, a leading Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) provider. Vista Point Technologies specializes in the design and manufacturing of high-quality consumer electronics and component technologies, including camera modules for mobile applications and small form factor liquid crystal displays (“LCDs”), modules and assemblies for cell phones, MP3 players, industrial and commercial products, and digital cameras. As part of a large, recognized leader in the EMS industry, Vista Point Technologies offers tremendous economies of scale. By combining innovative design capabilities with a global manufacturing footprint in the United States and Asia, Vista Point Technologies helps customers create market-leading component technologies while minimizing costs and speeding time to market. Purpose: The Senior Image Scientist will be responsible for insuring that Vista Point camera modules set the standard for world-class image quality. Camera modules for mobile imaging are manufactured in ultra high volumes (~576Mu in 2006) and Vista Point is currently has ~18% market share (tied for first) with the objective of being the world’s pre-eminent supplier of camera modules. Duties will include IQ analysis, system level analysis of IQ limiters, interacting with sensor and image processing vendors to tune and optimize image quality, interfacing with customers to help them measure and optimize IQ and I3A/CPIQ standards committee participation. Principle Accountabilities: · Perform detailed analyses and characterization of imaging systems. · Produce system architecture designs for imaging and image-processing systems. · Develop simulation code for simulating various aspects of imaging systems and environments to be imaged. · Develop target-detection algorithms. · Develop object segmentation algorithms for cluttered or complex environments. · Develop object recognition algorithms for both still and motion sequences. · Develop cognitive system architectures to achieve real time image analysis (motion, segmentation, recognition) in hardware. · Color science expertise and job experience. · CMOS image sensor image pipeline/processing algorithm design or analysis experience. · AF and Zoom algorithm development experience. · LCD/display image science experience. · Product development, definition, portfolio management experience. Requirements: · BS Engineering (Image Systems Engineering, Image Science, Optical Engineering, Electrical Engineering or Physics) plus 5+ years digital still camera, film camera or CMOS image sensor image science engineering. · Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. · Customer facing technical experience. · Working knowledge of radiometry, optics, image formation physics, color theory, statistics (experimental design and quality control), image processing mathematics, human visual response, psychophysics/subjective scaling. Contact: If you can show that you meet the qualifications for this position, please apply online at https://en-flextronics.ats.hrsmart.com or contact Jason Mead at (408) 577-4842 or jason.mead@flextronics.com
Senior Optical/Laser Engineer. Gemini Observatory. Hilo, Hawaii. At Gemini Observatory, it is our mission to teach humanity about the universe. Come join our international team operating two of the world’s cutting-edge telescopes, located in Hawaii & Chile. We are seeking a talented Senior Optical/Laser Engineer to support the laser guide star facility, adaptive optics and instrumentation systems, and telescope operation at the Gemini Observatory. Responsibilities will include: Optical systems team leader at Gemini North: supervision of a team of 4 engineers and technicians, interface with scientific staff. Lead and improve Laser Guide Star Facilities (LGSF) operation at Gemini North. The LGSF consists of a state-of-the art 12W solid-state 589nm laser propagated to the sky to form an artificial star. Participate in LGSF commissioning at Gemini South (50W). Lead optics-related operational and development projects through internal and/or contracted efforts (for example active optics and image quality improvements); providing project engineering support; providing technical representation on the purchase of optical-related equipment; preparing documentation, schedules, and maintenance procedures; participating in design reviews (in particular in the suite of new exciting instruments, some including high-tech AO systems, like GPI). The successful candidate will have: BS in Optics/Laser/Engineering/Physics/related field. Knowledge of optical design, laser and their operation, analysis software applications and a minimum of 3 years optical or laser engineering experience. Self-starter spirit with excellent leadership skills and the ability to work autonomously. Telescope or adaptive optics experience is preferred. Ability to work with various alignment tools, electronics systems, detectors, hardware, software and optical instruments. Must be able to work at 14,000-foot elevation, possess a valid driver’s license, have a clean driving record, and be able to drive a 4WD vehicle. Must have or be able to obtain a valid passport for international travel. We have an excellent benefits package including 24 paid vacation days and 12 paid holidays per year, paid relocation, life insurance, 401(a) and 403(b) retirement plans, tuition assistance, long term disability insurance, travel/accident insurance, flexible spending account, and medical and dental insurance. To apply, please send your resume together with the names of 3 professional references and recent salary history to: gemini-jobs@gemini.edu AA/EOE.
Cathy Alexander Information Specialist Coordinator College of Optical Sciences, University of Arizona cathy.alexander@optics.arizona.edu |
Elaine
Ulrich will present An Intro to Technology Transfer at
the U of A, is Optics Ahead of the Rest? Abstract:
I will be talking about my experience as the first Office of
Technology Transfer Fellow in optics. I'll discuss
what the OTT does, the path that patent disclosures go
through once they reach the OTT, and talk about the process
from both sides -- as an inventor and as a case worker in
the OTT.
Garam
Yun has been selected to receive an SPIE Scholarship in
Optical Science and Engineering. This is Garam's
second SPIE Scholarship; in 2007 she received SPIE's William
H. Price Scholarship.
For
all the details, please visit
