Diffraction-Based Light Beam Scanner
10/12/2017: P.-A. Blanche, B. Lynn, “Diffraction-Based Light Beam Scanner”, Patent PCT/US2017/026174, and WO/2017/176901. Link
10/12/2017: P.-A. Blanche, B. Lynn, “Diffraction-Based Light Beam Scanner”, Patent PCT/US2017/026174, and WO/2017/176901. Link
P.-A. Blanche, “Holography”, in “Handbook of Optical Engineering”, Second edition, D. Malacara ed., CRC Press, December 2017. Link
03/02/18: Will be at DARPA for the Free-Space Optical Communications Workshop. Link
Will pitch a “system to amplify the diffraction angle of a phase modulator up to 2pi steradian“.
12/19/17 P.-A. Blanche, M. Neifeld, and N. Peyghambarian, “A 100,000 Scale Factor Radar Range“, Scientific Reports, 7, 17767. Link
The article demonstrates that radar measurement can be reproduced using near IR light, by scaling both the size of the object (battle ship) and the wavelength.
12/11/17 P.-A. Blanche “Presentation du College of Optical Sciences in Tucson”, seminar given at the Centre Spatial de Liege, Universite de Liege (Belgium). Link
12/14/17 P.-A. Blanche “Ordinateurs optiques et optique pour ordinateurs” [Optical computing and optics for computers], seminar given at the Institut d’Optique in Paris, France. Link
12/15/17 P.-A. Blanche “Display 3D : techniques holographiques et autres approches gĂ©omĂ©triques” [3D Display: holographic technology and other geometrical approaches], seminar given at the Institut d’Optique in Paris, France. Link
10/04/17 P.-A. Blanche, Moderator for the Topical Session on Photonic Technology during the workshop on “Optical Computing“, San-Diego, October 2017.
07/13/17 P.-A. Blanche, “Phase MEMS for free space optical beam forming and steering“, to be presented at the Workshop on Free Space Optical Networks, Washington DC, July 2017. Link
Interviewed by Edd Gent on the recent Nature Photonics paper from the MIT about optical computing (Link). As reported, I am very excited about this new development which is complementary to my own research. Stay tuned!