Conference Presenters

Pixel-matching optics design and analysis using two Texas Instruments Phase Light Modulator for beam steering in NIR (Invited Paper)
3 August 2025 • 9:50 AM - 10:15 AM PDT | Conv. Ctr. Room 16A

Analysis of rolling shutter illumination scheme for AR waveguide combiner
3 August 2025 • 2:35 PM - 2:50 PM PDT | Conv. Ctr. Room 16A

A rigorous coupled-wave analysis of birefringent holographic gratings with periodically-modulated dielectric tensor along an in-plane direction and tensor variations in the thickness direction
3 August 2025 • 3:00 PM - 3:15 PM PDT | Conv. Ctr. Room 15B

Synthetic wavelength imaging for industrial inspection and remote sensing (Invited Paper)
3 August 2025 • 4:00 PM - 4:25 PM PDT | Conv. Ctr. Room 16A

Large-scale 3D nanoassembly using automated optical tweezers
3 August 2025 • 5:00 PM - 5:15 PM PDT | Conv. Ctr. Room 3

Stages of commissioning alignment for three-mirror anastigmat (TMA) telescopes
4 August 2025 • 11:00 AM - 11:15 AM PDT | Conv. Ctr. Room 6C

Stray light control for a large aperture monolithic space telescope
4 August 2025 • 11:15 AM - 11:30 AM PDT | Conv. Ctr. Room 6C

High sensitivity, high bandwidth photonic integrated optomechanical accelerometer: a numerical approach
4 August 2025 • 11:40 AM - 12:00 PM PDT | Conv. Ctr. Room 11A

Keynote Panel: Evolving Process Development in Optics and Photonics
4 August 2025 • 1:10 PM - 2:10 PM PDT | Conv. Ctr. Room 32B 

Mirror alignment in the large binocular camera using science images
4 August 2025 • 1:45 PM - 2:00 PM PDT | Conv. Ctr. Room 6C

Lightpipes: love 'em, hate 'em (Invited Paper)
4 August 2025 • 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM PDT | Conv. Ctr. Room 32A

Wave simulation for diffraction efficiency of an integral field spectrograph (IFS)
4 August 2025 • 2:00 PM - 2:15 PM PDT | Conv. Ctr. Room 6C

The Bohr-Sommerfeld theory of hydrogen and hydrogen-like atoms (Invited Paper)
4 August 2025 • 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT | Conv. Ctr. Room 31B

Optical design of a wide field of view space telescope system with integrated adaptive optics
4 August 2025 • 3:05 PM - 3:20 PM PDT | Conv. Ctr. Room 6C

Single-shot focal plane wavefront sensing with the spatially-clipped self-coherent camera
4 August 2025 • 3:10 PM - 3:30 PM PDT | Conv. Ctr. Room 6D

Telescope design optimization for time-delay integration over wide fields of view and long integration intervals
4 August 2025 • 3:20 PM - 3:35 PM PDT | Conv. Ctr. Room 6C

The first multi-order diffractive engineered surface lens-based telescope: integration and preparation for on-sky tests
4 August 2025 • 4:10 PM - 4:25 PM PDT | Conv. Ctr. Room 6C

Analysis of smaller optical components to increase resolution for systems that contain Three Mirror Anastigmats (TMA)
4 August 2025 • 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM PDT | Conv. Ctr. Exhibit Hall A

Design and assembly of the telescope simulator for continuous wavefront sensing and control
4 August 2025 • 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM PDT | Conv. Ctr. Exhibit Hall A

Optimizing dwell time matrix computations: a GPU-accelerated approach for CCOS
4 August 2025 • 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM PDT | Conv. Ctr. Exhibit Hall A

Polarization aberration modeling of internal occulters for coronagraphs
4 August 2025 • 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM PDT | Conv. Ctr. Exhibit Hall A

Prime focus corrector design enabling wide-field performance for the Catalina Sky Survey
4 August 2025 • 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM PDT | Conv. Ctr. Exhibit Hall A

SCoOB VI: demonstration of Lyot low-order wavefront control combined with high-order wavefront control using a vortex coronagraph
4 August 2025 • 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM PDT | Conv. Ctr. Exhibit Hall A

Selective laser etching of slumped glass mirrors for x-ray astronomy
4 August 2025 • 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM PDT | Conv. Ctr. Exhibit Hall A

Contamination effects and requirements for a large aperture monolithic space telescope
5 August 2025 • 9:10 AM - 9:30 AM PDT | Conv. Ctr. Room 7A

Fluctuation-induced forces and Brownian motion of levitated nanoparticles (Invited Paper)
5 August 2025 • 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT | Conv. Ctr. Room 3

Optical design of a hybrid approach to focus control of a laser system
5 August 2025 • 10:10 AM - 10:30 AM PDT | Conv. Ctr. Room 17A

Twisting heliostat enabling high temperature concentrating solar energy
5 August 2025 • 2:10 PM - 2:30 PM PDT | Conv. Ctr. Room 32B

Cloud top observations of LWIR spectro-polarimetry
5 August 2025 • 4:25 PM - 4:40 PM PDT | Conv. Ctr. Room 14B

Channeled infrared polarimeter (CHIRP) performance simulation
5 August 2025 • 4:40 PM - 4:55 PM PDT | Conv. Ctr. Room 14B
 

Stray and scattered light considerations in a non-contiguous array of commercial CMOS sensors in a space mission
5 August 2025 • 4:40 PM - 4:55 PM PDT | Conv. Ctr. Room 6C

Review of TMS operations on the large binocular telescope: challenges and recommendations for ELT integration
5 August 2025 • 5:25 PM - 5:40 PM PDT | Conv. Ctr. Room 6C

Optomechanical Technical Event
5 August 2025 • 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM PDT | Marriott Marquis, Catalina (Level 4, South Tower) 

Astronomical Applications Plenary
6 August 2025 • 8:00 AM - 10:10 AM PDT | Conv. Ctr. Room 6A 

In-situ slope measurement system for heliostat daytime operation
6 August 2025 • 9:20 AM - 9:40 AM PDT | Conv. Ctr. Room 32B

On-site precision heliostat metrology using starlight
6 August 2025 • 9:40 AM - 10:00 AM PDT | Conv. Ctr. Room 32B

Refining optical testing accuracy through advanced on-axis deflectometry
6 August 2025 • 10:10 AM - 10:30 AM PDT | Conv. Ctr. Room 17A

Towards active imaging of nanomechanical resonators in the quantum regime (Invited Paper)
6 August 2025 • 11:10 AM - 11:35 AM PDT | Conv. Ctr. Room 1B

Development of Polibot: a novel robotic solution for large optics polishing
6 August 2025 • 11:15 AM - 11:30 AM PDT | Conv. Ctr. Room 6C

Ex vivo recreation of Haidinger's brush
6 August 2025 • 11:15 AM - 11:30 AM PDT | Conv. Ctr. Room 14B

Parallel dwell time optimization in zonal optics fabrication for large mirror polishing
6 August 2025 • 11:30 AM - 11:45 AM PDT | Conv. Ctr. Room 6C

Polishing thin cordierite substrates using diamond particles and cerium oxide for high-precision optical applications
6 August 2025 • 11:45 AM - 12:00 PM PDT | Conv. Ctr. Room 6C

Multipolar electromagnetic radiation
6 August 2025 • 12:00 PM - 12:15 PM PDT | Conv. Ctr. Room 3

GMT-Pol: optical and near-infrared polarimeter for the 25.4-m Giant Magellan Telescope
6 August 2025 • 4:30 PM - 4:45 PM PDT | Conv. Ctr. Room 14B

Progress toward a demonstration of high contrast imaging at ultraviolet wavelengths
7 August 2025 • 11:50 AM - 12:10 PM PDT | Conv. Ctr. Room 6D

Exploiting Phase Light Modulators for Real-time High-Resolution Wavefront Correction
7 August 2025 • 1:40 PM - 2:00 PM PDT | Conv. Ctr. Room 7B