Tianquan Su, a Ph.D. student in James H. Burge’s laboratory, received the Wolfe Family Scholarship from the College of Optical Sciences, University of Arizona.

May 26, 2011. Yuhao Wang, a Ph.D. student in James H. Burge’s laboratory, received the Outstanding Paper Award from the American Precision Optics Manufacturers Association at the 2011 SPIE Optifab conference in Rochester, N.Y.

July 21, 2011. Kevin Newman, B.S. in OSE 2011, and senior Kyle Stephens were part of a team selected for NASA’s Reduced Gravity Student Flight Opportunities Program. Their crew, called ANGEL after the project title “Analysis of Gravitational Effects on Liquid Lenses,” was advised by Regents’ Professor J. Roger P. Angel and supported by the LOFT group.

The MATLAB-based free share-ware data processing platform, SAGUARO, can be downloaded from the SAGUARO tab in the LOFT web-site. It is now Version 1.3. Substantial updates include: modules operate on rectangular data sets, important kernel updates, updated header variables and data types, bug fixes and tracking for included modules, and a quick start guide. Get started with SAGUARO in 10 minutes or less.

Please see the Change Guide for detailed information about the release and how it affects previous versions of SAGUARO and its respective dataset files. SAGUARO Garden will be up and running in two weeks for feedback and to upload new modules into the next scheduled release in July of 2012.

The very first light fields were captured at Stanford University over 15 years ago. The most advanced light field research required a roomful of cameras tethered to a supercomputer. Today, Lytro completes the job of taking light fields out of the research lab and making them available for everyone, in the form of the world’s first Lytro Light Field Camera.

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