OSC Highlights

Quantinuum Joins as Newest Leadership Partner

The Wyant College is pleased to welcome Quantinuum as the newest Industrial Affiliates Leadership Partner.

Welcome CVI Laser Optics

CVI Laser Optics has joined the College’s Industrial Affiliates as a Leadership Partner. Welcome, CVI Laser Optics!

Google Joins OSC Industrial Affiliates

Google is a new Leadership Partner in the Wyant College’s Industrial Affiliates. Welcome, Google!

Welcome Back Optical Support, Inc.

Optical Support, Inc. has returned to the College’s Industrial Affiliates as an Associate Partner with headquarters in Tucson, AZ.

Welcome, Arizona Optical Metrology

The Wyant College is pleased to welcome new Associate Partner in the Industrial Affiliates Program, Arizona Optical Metrology.

Welcome, Laser Components Detector Group

The Wyant College welcomes Laser Components Detector Group as the newest Associate Partner of the Wyant College Industrial Affiliates.

Welcome to Tokyo Electron

The Wyant College of Optical Sciences welcomes Tokyo Electron as a new Leadership Partner at OSC.

Welcome to Snap, Inc.

The Wyant College of Optical Sciences welcomes Snap, Inc. as a new Leadership Partner at OSC.

Welcome to Belden, Inc.

The Wyant College of Optical Sciences welcomes Belden, Inc. as a new Leadership Partner at OSC.

Air Force Test Center at Edwards AFB - Air Force Civilian, Joins Industrial Affiliates

Air Force Test Center at Edwards AFB - Air Force Civilian, a development and test organization of the United States Air Force, joins our Industrial Affiliates as a Leadership Partner.

May 15 | The University of Arizona College of Optical Sciences Newsletter

Announcements

Engineering Design Day Winners

UA Engineering Design Day

The 2017 University of Arizona Engineering Design Day took place on May 1, comprised of more than 500 seniors in over 150 teams. Numerous OSE students were among the inventive winners.

2017 Tokyo Short Course

The College of Optical Sciences and Utsonomiya University are pleased to present the fifth in a series of optical sciences and engineering short courses, taking place August 1-3 in Tokyo, Japan.

CIAN Call for Summer Volunteers

The Center for Integrated Access Networks (CIAN) will be hosting two EASIS (Expect Academic Success in STEM) optical science summer camps here at OSC, and they're in need of student and faculty volunteers.

Applied Optics Lab Wins Optimax Grant

The Applied Optics Laboratory (AOL), led by Professor Rongguang Liang, was recently awarded the Optimax Research Grant.

Pre-Commencement Photos Online

All of us at the College of Optical Sciences wish to congratulate our Spring 2017 graduates. Good luck in all your future endeavors! Photos from the May 11 Pre-Commencement Celebration are now online.

Grads, Keep In Touch

To all graduating students: Be aware that as your OSC and UA email addresses expire, so does your subscription to Watts Up!

Memorial Day Holiday - no classes

May 29

Media Mentions

Contracts & Grants

Nonequilibrium Semiconductor Disk Laser Theory and Simulation: Robust, Novel Multi-Functional Source for Femtosecond Pulsed and Multi-Wavelength CW Generation

Principal Investigator: Jerome V. Moloney

Design of Volumetric and Large Volume-Spatio-And-Angular-Bandwidth Product Display

Principal Investigator: Yuzuru Takashima

SPOT AO Consultation

Principal Investigator: Michael Hart

SWIRP: Compact Submm-Wave and LWIR Polarimeters for Cirrus Ice Properties

Principal Investigator: Russell A. Chipman

GOES-R Field Campaign Support

Principal Investigator: Jeffrey S. Czapla-Myers

A High Efficiency Flat Plate PV with Integrated Micro-CPV Atop a 1-Sun Panel (MOSAIC)

Principal Investigator: Robert A. Norwood

Secure Erasure of Optical Storage Devices Research

Principal Investigator: Tom D. Milster

Ultrafast Deep UV Laser Source by all Intracavity Fourth Harmonic Generation

Principal Investigator: Chris Hessenius

Another Wavelength: Dawson Baker

College of Optical Sciences - Student Spotlight - Dawson Baker

This month in Another Wavelength, we chat with fourth-year Ph.D. candidate, Dawson Baker.

Student Optics Chapter Announces New Officers

Benjamin Cromey, outgoing President of the Student Optics Chapter (SOCk) has announced the academic year 2017-2018 officers.

The Spotlight Report Podcast

Optical Sciences students Xiangyu Guo and Logan Graves created a bi-weekly podcast that covers the latest in optical sciences and its applications to various sectors. Be sure to "like" their facebook page, and find more information on how to follow their podcast on the LOFT website.

Launching Your Career Wrap-Up

The 2017 Launching Your Career Symposium took place on April 8, and was considered an enormous success.

2017 OPTI 424/524 Final

Students from Professor Matthew Dubin's OPTI 424/524 Optical Systems Engineering course gathered on an overcast day to take the practical final.

OSC Family Grows

The College of Optical Sciences' extended family grew by two in April, with the births of Aria Singh and Finnian Hunt.

New Staff & Roles

There have been a few staff changes within the Academic Programs office lately, and all of us at OSC wish to welcome our new team members, congratulate a promotion and wish a happy retirement to a long-time staff member.

Optical Engineer | BAE Systems
Optical Engineer II | BAE Systems
Optical Engineering Assistant | BAE Systems
Principal Optical Engineer | BAE Systems

Engineer - Systems Developer for Vision Testing and Retinal Imaging | UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco
Head of R&D | Intel
Lecturer of Physics | Rochester Institute of Technology College of Science
NPI Engineer | Coherent
Optical System Engineer | Applied Materials
Optoelectronic Engineer | Applied Materials
Opto-mechanical Design Engineer | Applied Materials
OSIRIS-REx Senior Data Analyst (Image Processing) | UA Lunar and Planetary Laboratory
Summer Intern | Bio-Rad Laboratories
Summer Internship for Software Engineering | Photometrics