09/17/2019: I will be attending the OSA conference “Frontier in Optics” in Washington DC, and will be participating to the Facebook’s “Augmented Reality Optics & Display” Academic Forum. Link
09/18/2019: During the FiO conference, I will be organizing a networking session on behalf of the Holography and Diffractive Optics Technical Group. The theme of the session will be “must AR headsets reproduce accommodation?“. Link
04/25/2
019: Youmin Wang et al., “2D broadband beamsteering with large-scale MEMS optical phased array“, Optica, 6, 557-562 (2019). Link
In collaboration with UC Berkeley, we designed a phase modulation MEMS for optical beam steering. This new type of MEMS is fast and efficient, and can be useful for LIDAR or optical switch for data center.
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.
04/16/2019: H
ighlighted Articles from JOSA B Journals, “Pancharatnam–Berry optical elements for head-up and near-eye displays“, Spotlight Summary by Pierre-Alexandre Blanche. Link
I will serve as a feature editor for the “Digital Holography and 3-D Imaging 2019” feature issue to appear jointly in Applied Optics and JOSA A. Link
Submission Opens: 1 June 2019
Submission Deadline: 1 July 2019
02/28/2019: I will serve as an officer for the OSA “Holography and Diffractive Optics” Technical Group. Link
02/07/2019: Highlighted Articles from OSA Journals, “Design of confocal off-axis two-mirror system for head-up display“, Spotlight Summary by Pierre-Alexandre Blanche. Link
01/31/2019: C. Draper et al. “Holographic waveguide head-up display with 2-D pupil expansion and longitudinal image magnification“, Applied Optics, Vol. 58, Issue 5, pp. A251-A257 (2019). Link
11/07/2018: I will be attending the OSA Laser Applications Conference in Boston MA, and will be presenting an invited talk about “Holographic HUD and LIDAR Systems“.
03/12/2018 Colton M. Bigler, Pierre-Alexandre Blanche, and Kalluri Sarma , “Holographic waveguide heads-up display for longitudinal image magnification and pupil expansion“, Applied Optics, 57(9), March 2018. Link
Press release from OSA: “Holography Approach Improves Heads up Displays for Planes and Cars”
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