Special Events
Plenary Sessions
JMA • Joint IODC/OF&T Plenary Session
Monday, June 14, 2010, 8:00 a.m.–9:30 a.m.
Grand Room
8:10 a.m.–8:50 a.m.
JMA1, Better Ways to Specify Aspheric Shapes Can Facilitate Design, Fabrication and Testing Alike, Greg Forbes; QED Technologies, USA
Modifying a widely used convention is rarely easy. With designers, fabricators, and metrologists gathered here, we have a rare opportunity to consider such a change in relation to optical aspheres. This evolving technology is currently burdened by the increasingly inadequate convention of expressing a rotationally symmetric asphere’s sag as the sum of a conic component and an additive polynomial. When more than just a few terms appear in the polynomial, this becomes problematic and ultimately unworkable. Many of us are being burned by the fact that the associated coefficients are woefully unintuitive and inefficient. The norm is error-prone communications and a lack of easy options to appreciate the difficulty of manufacturing any particular asphere. Thankfully, the design and manufacture of increasingly complex aspheres is facilitated by a modified representation that is also ideal for exploiting cost-effective shapes. In particular, an orthogonalised representation gives a description that functions with fewer coefficients—typically using only one third the number of digits for current designs—and allows easy interpretations and sanity checks as well
as direct assessments of manufacturability. Examples are presented to motivate us to confront this sooner rather
than later.
8:50 a.m.–9:30 a.m.
JMA2, Computational Imaging Technologies, Kenneth Kubala; FiveFocal, USA
Many computational imaging technologies introduced in the last several years use optical, mechanical, sensor and computational degrees of freedom to enable special system characteristics. The general computational imaging framework will be discussed along with the value of some specific approaches. Additionally, a simplified design approach that does not require tools beyond what the designer is currently accustomed to will be described.
IMA • Surface Plasmons Plenary, Emerging Technologies and Fundamental Optical Design, and Kidger Award Presentation
Monday, June 14, 2010, 10:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Grand Room
10:00 a.m.–10:40 a.m.
IMA1, The Evolution from III-V Opto-Electronics to Silicon Nanophotonics and Vertical Cavity Lasers to Photonic Crystal and Surface Plasmon Devices, Axel Scherer, Uday Khankhoje, Tom Baehr-Jones, Se-Heon Kim; Caltech, USA
Lithography and dry etching has evolved to replace accurate crystal growth that enabled the definition of high-Q optical cavities in the past with dry etching approaches to define ultra-small mode volumes. These "printed" optical cavities can now be used to define micro- and nano-lasers in which the three-dimensional geometry is used to control the laser performance, and that can be lithographically coupled together in-plane. Advanced microcavity lasers now include photonic crystal mirrors and surface plasmon contact geometries. By combining new methods of design, fabrication and testing, it has become possible to develop higher-level abstract device design approaches that enable SPICE-like modeling of optical circuits. However, the complexity of back-reflections and the wave-like behavior of light in microfabricated geometries limit the applicability of these approaches. Here, the evolution of integrated opto-electronics into photonic crystals and plasmonics is reviewed, with an emphasis on the specific cases of miniaturized lasers, plasmonic light emitters and silicon photonics.
Michael Kidger Memorial Scholarship Presentation
Monday, June 14, 2010,11:55 p.m.–12:10 p.m.
Grand Room
The Michael Kidger Memorial Scholarship was established in 1998 to honor Michael John Kidger, a well-respected educator, design software developer and member of the optical science and engineering community. A full description can be found online at www.kidger.com.
The First Ten Years of the Kidger Scholarship
Tina Kidger will present a short review of the establishment and organization of the Scholarship and a brief update on the ten Kidger Scholarship awardees to date. She will then present the award to this year’s Awardee, Braulio Fonseca Carneiro de Albuquerque, Natl. Inst. for Space Research, São Paulo, Brazil.
Robert S. Hilbert Memorial Student Travel Grant Presentation
Monday, June 14, 2010,12:10 p.m.–12:25 p.m.
Grand Room
The Robert S. Hilbert Memorial Student Travel Grant offers financial support to help defray the cost of student travel to the International Optical Design Conference (IODC), Frontiers in Optics (OSA's Annual Meeting) and other professional meetings. The grant was established in honor of Bob Hilbert (1941–2008), former Optical Research Associates (ORA®) President and CEO, who was a respected member of the optics community and enthusiastically embraced learning and optics education. The grant is sponsored by ORA, and administered by OSA Foundation.
Joint IODC/OF&T Poster Session
Monday, June 14, 6:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m.
Exhibit Hall, Pavilion
Poster presentations offer a great way to communicate new research findings and provide an opportunity for lively and detailed discussion between presenters and interested viewers. This year’s joint poster session includes a number of outstanding presentations. There are nearly 30 IODC posters and nearly 15 OF&T posters scheduled for presentation.
Joint Conference Reception
Tuesday, June 15, 6:00 p.m.–7:30 p.m.
Atrium
Mingle with colleagues and friends from around the world during the conference reception. Light hors d’oeuvres will be served. Free to all technical conference attendees. Additional tickets can be purchased at Registration for US$65.
Memorial Program
Tuesday, June 15, 7:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m.
Grand Room
Attend the special memorial program to celebrate the lives of influential community members who have passed away.
We will pay tribute to the following luminaries:
7:00 p.m.–7:10 p.m. Hans Buchdahl
7:10 p.m.–7:20 p.m. Juan Rayces
7:20 p.m.–7:30 p.m. Jim Palmer
7:30 p.m.–7:40 p.m. Bob Hopkins
7:40 p.m.–7:50 p.m. Bob Hilbert
7:50 p.m.–8:00 p.m. Warren J. Smith
Sponsored by:
Design and Illumination Problem Presentations
Wednesday, June 16, 7:30 p.m.–9:30 p.m.
Grand Room
Join the IODC community is for a guaranteed highlight of the conference: the illumination and lens design contest presentations. As usual, significant work has gone into developing and scoring the submissions, as well as all of the hard work put in by solution submitters. Additionally, the winner of the best student paper for the 2010 IODC will be announced at the conclusion of the design problem presentations.
Lens Design Problem
The "green" movement is all about conserving resources. When designing and manufacturing a lens, one way to minimize needed fabrication resources is to need only one testplate pair (positive and negative) plus an optical flat, and need only one type of optical glass. The Problem: Design a lens whose non-flat surfaces all share the same radius value, positive or negative, concave or convex.
Illumination Design Problem
The Problem: Transfer maximum monochromatic flux from a 1-mm-square Lambertian source in air to an equal-étendue nonimmersed target. The target surface is rectangular with a 16:9 aspect ratio. The surface area of the target must be at least 4 mm². The target is defined such that only rays incident on the target surface at angles of θmax or less, relative to the surface normal, are considered to be within the phase space of the target, where the value of θmax is determined by the equal-étendue requirement.
Best Student Paper Award Presentation
Sponsored by:
The IODC Best Student Paper Award has been established to encourage excellence in research and scientific presentation skills in the student optics community. Awards include a one-year OSA membership, a cash prize and a certificate.
Students participating in the competition are noted within the abstracts section of this program. Please support the next generation of optical engineers and scientists by attending the student presentations and the awards presentation.
Exhibits
Mezzanine-Grand/Lobby
Schedule plenty of time to visit with the many companies represented and see the latest products and technologies. For more information on the participating companies, see the Exhibit Guide.
| Exhibit |
Hours |
Monday, June 14 |
9:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. |
Tuesday, June 15 |
10:00 a.m.–4:30 p.m. |
Wednesday, June 16 |
10:00 a.m.–4:30 p.m. |
