College of Optical Sciences - The University of Arizona

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	10/22/09: Sony unveils a 360 degree 3D display. The technology is based on rotating mirror and is close to what the University of Southern California Institute for Creative Technologies has developed. Resolution is only 96x128 pixels. See those links: http://www.sony.co.jp/SonyInfo/News/Press/200910/09-123/ http://gizmodo.com/5387460/video-watch-sonys-360-degree-3d-display-in-action http://gl.ict.usc.edu/Research/3DDisplay/
	09/20/09: Invited speaker at the ICOPE2009ICONO11 conference in Beijing, China. (see the abstract)
	07/13/09: Participation at the 7th International Photorefractive workshop sponsored by the US Air Force.
	02/12/09: The Arizona Daily Wildcat titled "Optics department pursues 3-D television". (see the article)
	02/01/09: KVOA channel 4 covered our research on dynamic 3D display during the Superbowl (unfortunately The Cardinals lost the game). (see the coverage)
	01/15/09: We worked on some new models and new hologram pictures have been added to the holographic 3D display section. Check it out!
	12/23/08: Our group research efforts made number three of the top ten news stories at the U of A. "Gee Whiz! Top News from The University of Arizona in 2008".
	12/01/08: An article about the Holographic display has been published as an invited paper in the IEEE, Journal of Display Technology. (download pdf)
	11/09/08: Yahoo! news investigate the holographic projection CNN presented Tuesday night, during election coverage. Find out what the future might be.
	11/06/08: "Scientist: Holographic television to become reality". CNN relay our research on holographic display
	09/05/08: Slide show from the "Community Speaker" talk about holographic 3D display given at the College of Optical Sciences. (download ppt)
	09/01/08: *Science et Vie Junior*, a French science popularization magazine with 1.6 million readers, published a 6 pages story about the refreshable holographic display in its vol.228, September 2008 issue. Nice sketches and explanations for non-scientists. (Science et Vie Junior web site)
	07/01/08: The rewritable holographic 3D display made the cover of *Optics and Photonics News*, plus a 6 pages long article, July/August 2008 issue. (download pdf)
	06/23/08: Two papers about VPHG to be presented at the *SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation 2008* conference, Marseille, France.
	06/09/08: Participation at the 6th International Photorefractive workshop sponsored by the US Air Force.
	02/13/08: News story on 3-D displays attracted record breaking traffic at the *University of Arizona News web site*, reaching 20,000 hits a day.
	02/10/08: 3-D display paper was covered by BBC, NPR, Daily Telegraph, The Economist, National Geographic, New Scientist, Discovery Channel, Physics World, Die Welt, Laser and Photonics Reviews, CNN, Arizona Daily Star, Yahoo, Focus, Nikkei Newspaper, Materials World, Laser Focus World, IEEE Spectrum, Photonics Spectra, The Herald, MIT Technology Review, Science et Vie Junior... And many others around the world.
	02/07/08: "An updatable holographic three-dimensional display" letter published in *Nature* (Vol. 451, pp: 694-698)( download pdf).

Pierre-Alexandre Blanche, Ph.D.
Assistant Research Professor

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Email: pablanche@optics.arizona.edu
1630 East University Blvd, Tucson, AZ 85721
Tel: (520)626-5389

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