01/08/2020: I will be giving an introduction laboratory to holography during the College of Optical Sciences 2020 Optics and Photonics Winter School and Workshop. Link
“Come and learn about holography: make your own hologram in photopolymer (bring a shiny piece of jewelry), and see how computer generated holograms diffract light from spatial light modulator in real time.”
01/12/2019: P Picart et al., “Digital Holography and 3D Imaging: introduction to the joint feature issue in Applied Optics and Journal of the Optical Society of America A“, Applied Optics Vol. 58, Issue 34, pp. DH1-DH1 (2019). Link
01/15-17/2020: I will be participating to the OSA Incubator on “Solving the Bandwidth Challenge of Large 3D Displays“, Washington, DC USA. Link
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/29/2019: The book “Optical Holography” that I edited has just been published by Elsevier. Thanks to all the authors to make it happen. Link
Table of content:
1. Introduction (P-A Blanche)
2. Materials (P-A Blanche)
3. Computer Generated Holograms (T Milster)
4. Holographic Television (M. Bove)
5. Digital Holography (P Picart & S Montresor)
6. Holographic Interferometry: From History to Modern Applications (M Georges)
7. Sensor (I Naydenova)
8. Security (V Toal)
11/02/2019: I have been invited to give a plenary talk at the 2019 International Conference on Optical Instrument and Technology (OIT’ 2019) in Beijing (China) on “Holography for displays: from 3D to augmented reality“. Link
05/19/2019: I will be attending the OSA Digital Holography Conference in Bordeaux, France. Link
I will be presenting the following 4 papers:
I will also be panelist for the OSA holography technical group event: “The next scientific contributions of Holography”, taking place Monday May 20th during lunch time.
01/05/2019 I will be presenting an introduction to 3D displays during the 2019 Winter School at the College of Optical Sciences. Link
12/17/2018 P.-A. Blanche, “Photorefractive Polymers in Display“, in Mishra, M. (Ed.). (2018). Encyclopedia of Polymer Applications, 3 Volume Set. Boca Raton: CRC Press. Link
I will give two talks at the MIT:
08/23/2018: I will be presenting my research activities on holograms and displays at the 2018 GoerTek Optical Seminar, Weifang (China).
I had to cancel my trip to China, due to a 2 hours delay in my United Airline flight from San Diego to San Francisco. Although United acknowledge the delay, they did not provide any compensation or solution to transport me to China. Beware!