Optical Fabrication and Testing (OFT)

Topical Meeting

Collocated With:

Frontiers in Optics, OSA's 92nd Annual Meeting and Exhibit
Illumination Modeling: Simulation and Perception of Lit and Unlit Objects (IM)
Plasmonics and Metamaterials (META)

Technical Conference: October 21–24, 2008
The Clarion Riverside Hotel, Rochester, NY, USA

Optical Fabrication and Testing will bring together experts working in this field to discuss recent advances and to identify future trends. The meeting will cover all aspects of optics fabrication and testing ranging from micro-optics to large optics, and from high-value one-of-a-kind optics to mass-produced optics. The meeting will emphasize new ideas and concepts in fabrication and testing of micro-optics, the fabrication and testing of aspheric optics for optics materials and finishing science. Submission of papers on applied OF&T research and reports on process lessons learned from experiences in production and testing is strongly encouraged. Papers on new ways of teaching optical fabrication and metrology are also solicited.

Submissions (June 10, 2008, 12:00 p.m. noon EDT [16.00 GMT])
Housing (Deadline: September 17, 2008)
Registration (Deadline: September 25, 2008)

2008 Meeting Chairs

Ulf Griesmann, NIST, USA, Co-Chair
Stephen Jacobs, Univ. of Rochester, USA, Co-Chair
Jannick Rolland, Univ. of Florida, USA, Co-Chair

Invited Speakers

Dealing with Mid-Spatial Frequency Ripple and Surface Imperfection Tolerances, David Aikens; Savvy Optics, USA.

Advances in Molded Polymer Optics, William S. Beich; G-S Plastic Optics, USA.

Absolute Flatness Measurement with Two Flats, Lei Chen; Nanjing Univ. of Science and Technology, China.

Analysis of Shape, Pressures and Movements of Tools for an Accurate Control of Wearing in Classical Polishing, Alberto Cordero-Dávila; Benemérita Univ. Autónoma de Puebla, Mexico.

Optical Fabrication and the LAMOST Telescope, Xianggun Cui; Nanjing Inst. of Astronomical Optics and Technology, Chinese Acad. of Sciences, China.

View the complete list of invited speakers.