Speaker: Dr. Joohyung Lee
Korea Research Institute of Standard and Science (KRISS)

3:00 PM – Thu – June 20th – 2013
Conference Room 821

Femtosecond lasers offer unique characteristics in both the temporal and spectral terms, not observed in other continuous-wave or pulse lasers, permitting breakthroughs in precision dimensional metrology particularly. The temporal and spectral characteristics of femtosecond lasers were exploited in absolute distance measurement by means of pulse cross-correlation based interferometer and dual-comb interferometer which enable nanometer precision not only in laboratory environment but also in open-field. In this talk, absolute distance measurement technique will be described after brief introduction of femtosecond lasers and second half of the talk will be devoted to feasibility test of absolute optical testing exploiting distance measurement overcoming relative testing nature of conventional laser interferometer.

For more information, please contact Dae Wook Kim – dkim@optics.arizona.edu

Tamer Elazhary received the 2013 Micheal Kidger Memorial scholarship for optical design.  Congratulations!

More about the scholarship.

College of Optical Sciences (OSC) at Univ. of Arizona hosts the National Academy of Engineering Regional Meeting on May 20 — and anyone in Arizona or elsewhere with a strong technical interest in astronomy or optics is welcome to attend. Admission is free of charge, but registration is required by May 10. Read more…

The 2013 Computer Generated Holography and Diffractive Optical Elements Workshop and Optics of Imaging in Lithography Workshop, both directed by professor Tom D. Milster, will soon hit the halls of the Meinel Building. Read mroe…

Webinar at Photonics Media, http://photonics.com

Thursday, April 25, 1 pm ET/10 am PT

Dae Wook Kim will discuss various new approaches for advancing the current computer controlled optical surfacing process for manufacturing highly aspheric or free-form optics, such as 8.4-meter diameter Giant Magellan Telescope off-axis primary segment at the U of A. He will also present actual data demonstrating the performance of the enhanced process to build next generation optical systems.

Sponsored by: OPTIMAX

After casting the second of seven mirrors for the Giant Magellan Telescope in January, the UA GMT staff are steadily casting the third and zooming in on a new perspective on the universe. Read more…

The $54k grant is offered by  The Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy for a time of one year. Read more…

During the Spring 2012 semester LOFT partly sponsored the creation of 66 optics kits. 50 were donated to the Girl Scouts of Southern Arizona and 16 to CIAN (Center for Integrated Access Networks) from OSC. On November 12th 2012, a couple LOFT members gave training to the Scouts on how to use these kits and explain the optics behind the different experiments. 

Optimax, a principal partner with the College of Optical Sciences (OSC) Industrial Affiliates program, is offering a $10,000 Optimax Product Grant for Research.

Title: Control of mid-spatial frequency errors

PI: Dae Wook Kim

Speaker: Dr. Wei-Yao Hsu, Researcher and division manager at Instrument Technology Research Center

Host: Dae Wook Kim (For more information, please contact via email.)

In this talk, I will give a brief introduction of Instrument Technology Research Center (ITRC) and the current development of precision optical fabrication at ITRC. ITRC is a government funded research institute pioneering in instrument related frontier researches in Taiwan. Currently, ITRC has four research fields ranged from electro-optics and remote sensing, nanotechnology and bio-medical, vacuum and thin-film technology, and instrumentation and auto-system engineering. Optical fabrication is one of the core technologies of the instrumentation and auto-system engineering field. ITRC devotes the fabrication technology of optical components, such as: lenses, mirrors, and prisms, to support the internal and external research requirements since it was founded in 1974. Based on the optical fabrication experiments, ITRC was supported to organize a large optics fabrication and inspection group to develop the large optics fabrication technology for remote sensing instrument since 2009. The first mission of this group is to deliver a 466mm concave mirror and a 160mm convex mirror in 2012. In this talk, I will also introduce what we have done for this mission.