{"id":2777,"date":"2022-03-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-optics-wp.pantheonsite.io\/loft\/heejoo-received-opticas-2022-kevin-p-thompson-optical-design-innovator-award\/"},"modified":"2025-04-02T22:47:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T22:47:47","slug":"heejoo-received-opticas-2022-kevin-p-thompson-optical-design-innovator-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/loft\/heejoo-received-opticas-2022-kevin-p-thompson-optical-design-innovator-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Heejoo received Optica\u2019s 2022 Kevin P. Thompson Optical Design Innovator Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>In 2022, LOFT Co-PI Heejoo received <a href=\"https:\/\/www.optica.org\/history\/biographies\/bios\/heejoo_choi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Optica\u2019s\u00a0Kevin P. Thompson Optical Design Innovator Award<\/a> \u201cfor innovative design of a UV cross-dispersion space telescope and engineering of a laser-truss Large Binocular Telescope metrology system.\u201d Congratulations!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2990 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/loft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/04\/OPTICA_HC-1024x863.jpg\" alt=\"OPTICA_HC\" width=\"640\" height=\"539\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2022, LOFT Co-PI Heejoo received Optica\u2019s\u00a0Kevin P. Thompson Optical Design Innovator Award \u201cfor innovative design of a UV cross-dispersion space telescope and engineering of a laser-truss Large Binocular Telescope metrology system.\u201d Congratulations!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-2777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-loft-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/loft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/loft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/loft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/loft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/loft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2777"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/loft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3052,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/loft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2777\/revisions\/3052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/loft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/loft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/loft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}