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In this issue: CLEO Call for Papers, Senior Member designation, free webinar and upcoming meetings.
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Submission Deadline: 16 December 2014, 17:00 GMT
Submit your work to CLEO, highly-respected for its world-class, peer-reviewed program. Accepted and presented work is published in OSA Publishing, the largest Digital Library of peer-reviewed content in the field. Papers submissions will be accepted in three core areas: Fundamental Science, Science & Innovations, and Applications & Technology.
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Application Deadline: 2 January 2015
The OSA Congressional Fellow program is a unique opportunity for scientists and engineers to gain experience in public policy and help influence decision makers. Congressional Fellows spend one year on Capitol Hill working as special legislative assistants on the staff of a member of Congress or Congressional Committee.
Applicants must have a Ph.D. by 1 September 2015 to be eligible; mid- and late-career applicants are encouraged to apply as well. A competitive salary and a health insurance/travel stipend are provided.
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Application Deadline: 2 January 2015
OSA Fellows are encouraged to apply for travel grants to visit and lecture in developing nations. The goal of this program is to foster optics programs by increasing interaction between OSA Fellows and optics communities in these areas.
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Application Deadline: 2 January 2015
The OSA International Council is accepting proposals for co-sponsorship of 2015 meetings taking place in developing nations. The financial support is not intended to fully underwrite a meeting and should be used to directly support registrants and enable their participation.
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Application Deadline: 28 February 2015
You are encouraged to request an OSA Senior Member designation in recognition of your significant accomplishments or service within the optics and photonics field.
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Submission Deadline: 15 March 2015
The 11th Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Pacific Rim (CLEO Pacific Rim) will take place
24 – 28 August 2015 at the BEXCO, Busan, Korea. Paper submissions will be accepted beginning in January 2015.
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OSA Incubator Meetings are designed to provide focused experiences that connect innovators, deliver insights and spark explorations at the cutting edge of optics. Researchers, engineers, and business leaders meet to discuss new and burgeoning fields in a way that cannot be achieved through traditional meetings. OSA is now accepting proposals for Incubator Meetings in 2015 and 2016.
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Help support the future leaders in optics and photonics with a donation to The OSA Foundation’s Annual Campaign. Contributions provide educational resources to students and young professionals around the globe including travel grants to OSA-managed meetings, youth education materials on optics and photonics, and professional development programs for minorities and women in the scientific community.
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The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) issued a directive in February 2013 that contained a requirement for federal agencies to develop and implement plans for public access to data resulting from federal funding. The Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science issued guidelines in August for the Office of Science supported researchers on the data management issue that went into effect on 1 October 2014.
All proposals for research funding submitted to the Office of Science will be required to include a Data Management Plan that describes how the digital research data generated in the course of the proposed research will be shared and preserved. Other Energy Department research offices will implement data management plan requirements within the next year.
The OSA Public Policy Committee will be examining the data management issue and would like to receive your feedback. If you are interested in sharing your views, please contact the public policy staff at public-policy@osa.org.
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In November the U.S. Air Force released the Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) on the Integrated Photonics Institute for Manufacturing Innovation (IP-IMI) and held a Proposers Day. For those unable to attend the Proposers Day, those presentation slides and answers to the Q&A session can be found on the U.S. Government’s manufacturing webpage.
Later that month, two separate webinars were held on the IP-IMI, which can both be viewed online, one webinar was held by the National Photonics Initiative (NPI) and the other webinar was held by the OSA Corporate Programs. Additionally, if you are interested in collaborating or finding partners for the IP-IMI, the NPI has created a form where your information will be posted on a public site so that potential partners can find you.
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You are invited to join The Optical Society's Nanophotonics Technical Group for a webinar entitled “Rare-earth Doped Amplifiers Integration onto Nanophotonics Platforms.”
Presenter Sonia García-Blanco is an Assistant Professor at the University of Twente. She received her Ph.D. degree (Optoelectronics) from the University of Glasgow. In this webinar, she will give an overview of rare-earth doped waveguide amplifiers, including their design and fabrication, and integration of such amplifiers onto passive nanophotonic platforms.
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You are invited to participate in the Applications of Visual Science’s annual, end-of-year webinar. “A Year in Visual Optics: Understanding the Anterior Human Eye” will provide background for the analysis and understanding of the anterior human eye, cornea and lens. This not only provides refraction and high transparency that allow us to see the world around us, but is critical as a window to the inner eye – of immeasurable value when diagnosing a number of eye and retinal conditions that may deteriorate vision if left untreated.
The speakers are Prof. Susana Maros (CSIC, Visual Optics and Biophotonics Lab, Madrid, Spain), Prof. Anna Pandolfi (Prof. Anna Pandolfi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy), and Prof. Geunyoung Yoon (Advanced Physiological Optics Laboratory, University of Rochester, USA).
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9 – 20 February 2015, ICTP, Trieste, Italy
OSA is proud to continue its support of the Winter College on Optics hosted by The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP). The theme for 2015 is “Light: a Bridge between Earth and Space.” The program will cover all aspects of optical-based observing systems.
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22 March 2015, OFC, Los Angeles, California, USA
Get a deep look at the potential for photonic devices and networks in disaggregated data center architectures. Understand this new direction in data center architecture: what it is, how will it develop going forward, and what it means for optical systems and components.
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23 March 2015, OFC, Los Angeles, California, USA
Connect globally. Innovate brilliantly. Attend the premier event for leaders in optical networking and communications. Join featured speaker Jeff Cox, Sr. Director of Network Architecture, Microsoft, and panelists including Najam Ahmad, Facebook; Joe Berthold, Ciena; Cedric Lam, Google and Jerry Rawls, Finisar.
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OSA’s 98th Annual Meeting, Frontiers in Optics 2014, was held in October and featured more than 600 presentations covering the latest advances in all areas of optics and photonics. View the FiO 2014 Photo Gallery, and revisit five days of outstanding technical sessions, special symposia, tutorials, business programming, exhibits and special events. If you attended FiO as a full conference attendee, be sure to access select recorded presentations, available until 23 December 2014.
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In late October, OSA held the International Workshop on Compact EUV & X-ray Light Sources. The goal of the meeting’s organizers was to gather compact light source developers, potential users, and others interested in this new field to push the technological limits, define future research directions, and build a new community of users. This workshop was held in conjunction with the SEMATECH 2014 International Symposium on Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography and the hosts are currently working on a follow-up article for OPN.
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The OSA Incubator program held its final two meetings of 2014 this November. The Fundamental Limits of Optical Energy Conversion Incubator and the Quantitative Modeling of Frequency-comb Sources Incubator brought the total number of Incubators held throughout the year to seven.
This Incubator brought together nearly 50 experts for the goal for of exploring options for developing higher performing, more efficient technologies in optical energy conversion. Featured topics included: reducing thermal loses, enhancing efficiency in harvesting and transportation – including the development of nanoscale devises, exploring hybrid optics-enabled approaches and assessing the potential of new technologies to achieve renewable energy goals.
With this Incubator, OSA helped to bring together a community of experimentalists and theorists to enabling cheaper, smaller, faster, better frequency-comb sources. The purpose of the program was to examine diverse sources of precision frequency combs and establish the basis for broadly applicable models of their operation, with the goal of understanding parameters that will enable optimized designs suited to real-world applications ranging from optical frequency metrology and optical atomic clocks, to precision spectroscopy and microwave photonics. Future frequency comb applications will undoubtedly benefit from improved quantitative modeling.
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Isao Sugino of Japan was awarded the 2014 OSA Advocate of Optics recognition. Every year, the OSA Public Policy Committee chooses to recognize an outstanding public official, either domestically or abroad, who demonstrates leadership and efforts in support of the advancement of the science of light. Mr. Sugino was chosen for his leadership in research and development policy and raising awareness for the need to develop optical technology that will make telecommunication systems more resilient during disasters.
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OSA and the IEEE/Photonics Society have selected Paul Daniel Dapkus, University of Southern California, as the winner of the 2015 John Tyndall Award for pioneering and sustained contributions to the development of metal organic chemical vapor deposition and high performance quantum well semiconductor lasers.
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The Optoelectronics Industry Development Association and OSA Corporate Associates are joining forces to create one new Industry Membership. The new, more comprehensive OSA Industry Development Associates (OIDA) will have a benefits package designed to help members increase revenue, decrease operational costs and receive reliable information that can be used every day to stay informed and competitive. Contact Regan Pickett at 1.202.416.1474 with questions.
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It's now official, but the proposed U.S. institute for manufacturing photonics will only be successful if prospective team members can trust each other enough to solve the core challenge, which is to fill in holes in the photonics manufacturing ecosystem.
The government's requirement to address Technology Readiness Levels 4-7 is a particularly demanding one, as is the requirement for self-sufficiency by the end of the fifth year. These boundary conditions are more like the deliverables expected of a large business contract than for the kind of collaborative centers that NSF awards for academic R&D. Large business contracts require trust between partners and commitment to the overall goal.
White House advisor Jason Miller told OIDA Annual Forum attendees that getting the institutes formed and running is difficult work, but worth the effort to address manufacturing.
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13 – 16 December 2014, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India
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22 March 2015, Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, California, USA
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23 March 2015, Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, California, USA
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21 – 25 June 2015, ICM ─ International Congress Center, Munich, Germany
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29 June – 2 July 2015, Institut d’Optique d’Aquitaine, Bordeaux, France
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26 – 31 July 2015, Kauai Marriott Resort on Kalapaki Beach, Kauai, Hawaii, USA
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10 – 15 May 2015, San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, California, USA
Abstract and Summary Submission Deadline: 16 December 2014, 12:00 EST
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12 – 16 April 2015, Pinnacle Vancouver Harbourside Hotel, Vancouver, Canada
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Bio-Optics: Design and Application
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Novel Techniques in Microscopy
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Optical Molecular Probes, Imaging and Drug Delivery
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Optical Trapping Applications
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Optics and the Brain
Abstract and Summary Submission Deadline: 13 January 2015, 12:00 EST
Hotel Reservation Deadline: 9 March 2015
Advance Registration Deadline: 16 March 2015
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21 – 25 June 2015, ICM ─ International Congress Center, Munich, Germany
Abstract and Summary Submission Deadline: 19 January 2015
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27 – 30 April 2015, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, USA
Abstract and Summary Submission Deadline: 28 January 2015, 12:00 EST
Advance Registration Deadline: 30 March 2015
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1 – 5 March 2015, UCLA Lake Arrowhead Conference Center, Lake Arrowhead, California, USA
Advance Registration Deadline: 2 February 2015
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1 – 5 March 2015, UCLA Lake Arrowhead Conference Center, Lake Arrowhead, California, USA
Advance Registration Deadline: 2 February 2015
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24 – 28 May 2015, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Shanghai, China
Abstract and Summary Submission Deadline: 4 February 2015, 12:00 EST
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7 – 11 June 2015, Renaissance Arlington Capital View Hotel, Arlington, Virginia, USA
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Adaptive Optics (AO)
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Application of Lasers for Sensing & Free Space Communication (LS&C)
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Applied Industrial Optics (AIO)
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Computational Optical Sensing and Imaging (COSI)
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Freeform Optics (Freeform)
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Imaging Systems and Applications (IS)
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Propagation through and Characterization of Distributed Volume Turbulence and Atmospheric Phenomena
Abstract and Summary Submission Deadline: 18 February 2015, 12:00 EST
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22 – 26 March 2015, Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, California, USA
Advance Registration Deadline: 23 February 2015
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10 – 15 May 2015, San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, California, USA
Application Submission Deadline: 23 February 2015
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27 June – 1 July 2015, Omni Parker House Hotel, Boston, USA
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Integrated Photonics Research, Silicon and Nano-Photonics (IPR)
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Novel Optical Materials and Applications (NOMA)
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Optical Sensors (Sensors)
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Photonic Networks and Devices (Networks)
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Signal Processing in Photonics Communications (SPPCom)
Abstract and Summary Submission Deadline: 10 March 2015, 12:00 EDT
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Three OSA Members Win Nobel Prizes.
OSA congratulates OSA Members Stefan Hell of the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Germany, and W.E. Moerner of Stanford University, USA, for their Nobel Prizes in Chemistry as well as OSA Member Hiroshi Amano of Nagoya University, Japan for his Nobel Prize in Physics.
In light of their latest achievement, we have pulled together a collection of OSA journal and conference papers from the 2014 Physics and Chemistry Nobel Laureates.
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The OSA Outstanding Reviewers recognition is given annually and is meant to commend the top reviewers for their outstanding peer review efforts over the past year. Recipients were chosen by the Editors-in-Chief of OSA's journals from scores of nominations provided by their Topical and Associate Editors.
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The OSA Board of Editors welcomes nominations for the following Editor-in-Chief positions with three-year terms to begin 1 January 2016: Biomedical Optics Express and Optical Materials Express. Nominations and self-nominations in the form of a short note of recommendation or a cover letter summarizing the nominee's qualifications should be sent to the attention of Martijn de Sterke (University of Sydney and Chair, OSA Board of Editors) at odp@osa.org by 1 February 2015 for Biomedical Optics Express and Optical Materials Express.
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Call for Submissions: New Publishing Opportunity for Academia and Industry
Applied Optics’ new feature, Engineering and Laboratory Notes (E&L Notes), are brief articles that feature the laboratory techniques and hands-on skills required for the design, analysis, fabrication, integration, alignment, and measurement of optical components and systems. E&L Notes is a unique way to publish observations from your engineering notebook in Applied Optics. To learn more or to submit a note, visit the E&L Notes webpage.
Joint Feature - Journal of the Optical Society of America B (JOSA B) and Optics Express
Feature Issue: Optical Cooling and Trapping
Submission Deadline: 5 January 2015
Joint Feature – Optics Express and Optical Materials Express
Feature Issue: Advanced Solid-State Lasers 2014
Submission Deadline: 15 December 2014
Photonics Research
Feature Issue: Photonics Based on Two Dimensional Materials
Submission Deadline: 31 December 2014
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Through the Looking Glass
A monitor screen image through a glass cup.
— Abdollah Hassanzadeh, University of Kurdistan
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