Josué Alvarez Borrego
CICESEObtaining Image Signatures That Can be Used in AI Methods
My research within my work group has focused on recognizing patterns invariant to rotations, scales, displacements, noise, lighting, distortions and partially hidden objects. This line is the one that I have initiated and promoted nationally and internationally through my published articles and within the theses of my students. This has been applied to the successful identification of microscopic and macroscopic organisms and the detection of cancer spots on the skin, a topic that I have been working on lately.
About the Speaker
Josué Álvarez-Borrego received the BS degree in physical oceanography from the Facultad de Ciencias Marinas, Ensenada, Mexico, in 1981, and the MSc and PhD degrees in optics from CICESE, Mexico, in 1983 and 1993 respectively. He is currently a Professor with the Applied Physics Division, Department of Optics, CICESE. HIs research within his work group has focused on recognizing patterns invariant to rotations, scales, displacements, noise, lighting, distortions and partially hidden objects. This line is the one that he has initiated and promoted nationally and internationally through his published articles and within the theses of his students. This has been applied to the successful identification of microscopic and macroscopic organisms and the detection of cancer spots on the skin.
Cid Bartolomeu de Araujo
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
Random Lasers and the Glassy Behavior of Light
About the Speaker
Cid B. de Araújo received a BSc degree in Electrical Engineering from the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE), Master of Science and Doctor of Science degrees in Physics from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. He was a Research Associate at Harvard University (Massachusetts, USA), Visiting Scientist at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center (New York), Visiting Researcher at the École Polytechnique (Palaiseau, France),Visiting Researcher at the Université Paris-Nord (France) and Visiting Researcher and Invited Professor at the Université d’Angers (Angers, France) on various occasions.
He joined the UFPE as Associate Professor helping to form the first research group in Physics in 1971; he became Full Professor in 1989. Presently he is Emeritus Professor of the UFPE at Recife (Brazil). At the beginning of his carrier he worked on microwave spectroscopy and optical properties of magnetic materials. His research over the last 45 years has been on laser spectroscopy of materials, nonlinear optics and photonics. At UFPE de Araújo guided 44 MSc, 28 PhD students and 21 post-doctors up to June 2022.
He was Vice-President of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences for the Northeast Region from 2006 to 2019. He is a member of the Brazilian Physical Society (SBF), Brazilian Materials Research Society (B-MRS), Brazilian Society for Optics and Photonics (SBFoton), Brazilian Society for the Advancement of Science (SBPC) and Optica (formerly The Optical Society).
Jessica DeGroote Nelson
Edmund Optics Inc.
Metrology Driving Manufacturing Innovation – A Historical Review
This presentation will review the past 30-years of manufacturing and testing innovations including everything from CNC processing to freeform optics highlighting the tried and true message: “If you can’t measure it, you can’t make it."
About the Speaker
Jessica DeGroote Nelson is the Senior Director of Strategic Optical Innovations at Edmund Optics (EO). At EO she is responsible for corporate strategy related to optical components and associated coating technologies. Prior to joining EO, Jessica was the Director of Technology and Strategy at Optimax from 2007 to 2022. She joined Optimax after graduating from the Institute of Optics at the University of Rochester with a BS, MS, and PhD in Optics. She furthered her education with an Executive MBA from the Simon School of Business at the University of Rochester in 2013.
Jessica is active in the technical community as a fellow member of SPIE and a senior member of Optica (formally OSA) as well as a member of the Optics and Electro-Optics Standards Council (OEOSC). Optics education is a strong passion for Jessica, and she currently leads the educational outreach activities for Optica-Rochester Section Optics Suitcase program and chairs the SPIE Education and Outreach committee. In addition to The Institute of Optics, Jessica also teaches a course on Managing Technology, Innovation, and Research at the Saunders School of Business at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) as part of their Executive MBA program.
Debashis Chanda
CREOL, University of Central Florida
Building Uncooled Infrared Camera Based on One Atom Thick Graphene
The talk will outline a novel strategy for uncooled, tunable, multispectral infrared detection. Due to the low photon energy, detection of infrared photons is challenging at room temperature. One atom thick graphene offers an alternative mechanism bypassing material bandgap restriction. Further, the ability of carrier concentration modulation on graphene via external voltage offers dynamic spectral selectivity for “color” night vision/sensing. The performance of preliminary demonstration compares favorably even with present cryogenically cooled detection schemes paving the path for commercial development of many applications from space exploration to healthcare.
About the Speaker
Debashis Chanda is a Professor, jointly appointed with NanoScience Technology Center, Department of Physics and College of Optics and Photonics (CREOL), University of Central Florida (UCF). Chanda received his PhD from University of Toronto. His PhD work was recognized in the form of several awards, including a prestigious National Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) fellowship. He completed his post-doctoral research with John A. Rogers at Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Quite a few of his research works were extensively covered by National Science Foundation news, BBC, Daily Mail, NBC, Fox, Science Radio and other national/international media outlets. His research has appeared on American Scientist magazine as a focused article that outlined how companies like Intel, Toshiba, etc. are trying to adopt some of the printing techniques which were developed in his group. Chanda is a recipient of the 2012 DOE Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) Solar Energy Future Direction Innovation Proposal Award, 2013 NSF Summer Institute Fellowship and International Displaying Future Award-2016 by Merck Germany, UCF Reach of the Stars Award (2018), Samsung Global Research Outreach (GRO) Award (2022), Sony Research Award (2022) and Cleantech Faculty Innovation Award (2024). His research has been supported by NSF, DoD, DARPA, Florida Space Institute/NASA, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, etc. He is also the founder of start-up, E-Skin Displays Inc.
Demetrios Christodoulides
University of Southern California
Optical Thermodynamics of Nonlinear Multimode Systems
In this plenary presentation, we will provide an overview of recent developments in the field of optical thermodynamics of nonlinear multimode systems.
About the Speaker
Demetri Christodoulides is an Endowed Chair Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Southern California. He received his PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 1986. After earning his doctorate degree, he joined Bellcore as a postdoctoral research fellow, and was a faculty member in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Lehigh University from 1988 to 2002. Between 2002 and 2022 he was a Pegasus Professor and the Cobb Family Endowed Chair at CREOL–The College of Optics and Photonics at the University of Central Florida. He has served as an associate editor for the IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics and JOSA B. He is a Fellow of APS and Optica. He is the recipient of the Optica’s 2011 R.W. Wood Prize and 2018 Max Born Award and of the 2023 Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science of APS.
Mercedeh Khajavikhan
University of Southern California
Guiding Trojan Beams via Lagrange Points
A new mechanism for guided wave transport, based on stable Lagrange points, is introduced. The concept can be applied to both optical signals and charged particle beams. This approach can, for the first time, enable the propagation of charged particles in a guided fashion.
About the Speaker
Mercedeh Khajavikhan is a professor at the ECE department. She has also a joint appointment at the Department of Physics & Astronomy, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, & Sciences at USC.
She received her PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Minnesota in 2009. Subsequently, she joined the University of California, San Diego as a postdoctoral researcher, where she worked on the design and development of nanolasers, plasmonic devices and silicon photonics components. In August 2012, she started her career as an Assistant Professor in the College of Optics and Photonics (CREOL) at the University of Central Florida (UCF), working primarily on unraveling novel phenomena in active photonic systems. She is the recipient of the NSF Early CAREER Award in 2015, the ONR Young Investigator Award in 2016, the DARPA Young Faculty Award in 2018, the University of Central Florida Reach for the Stars Award in 2017, UCF Luminary Award in 2018, and DARPA Director’s Fellowship in 2020. She is a fellow of Optica.
Daewook Kim
University of Arizona
James C. Wyant: Connecting Dots and Minds to Paint Beautiful Picture
Professor James C. Wyant, founding dean of the Wyant College of Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona, passed away on 08 December 2023, at 80. He profoundly impacted the international optics community and inspired many.
About the Speaker
Daewook Kim is an associate professor of Optical Sciences and Astronomy at the University of Arizona. He has devoted his efforts to a multitude of space and ground-based large optical engineering projects. His primary research focuses on precision freeform optics design, fabrication and various metrology topics, including interferometry and dynamic deflectometry. His contributions cover a broad spectrum of wavelengths, ranging from radio to x-ray. For over a decade, he has actively participated in various conference programs and short courses related to optics, delivering more than 20 plenary, keynote and colloquium talks at various international conferences and universities. His leadership roles include chairing the Optical Fabrication and Testing conference (Optica) and the Optical Manufacturing and Testing conference (SPIE). His academic achievements have led to his recognition as an SPIE Fellow, and he was elected to the SPIE Board of Directors for the term spanning 2024 to 2026. Kim's academic contributions include authoring over 300 journal/conference papers and serving as an associate editor for Optics Express (Optica) for 2013 - 2019.
Gerd Leuchs
Max-Planck-Institut für die Physik des Lichts
About the Speaker
Born 14.06.1950, emeritus full professor of physics at the Institute of Optics, Information and Photonics of the University Erlangen-Nuremberg. Since 2009 scientific member of the Max Planck Society. Founding director at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (until 2019). Member of the Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, German Physical Society, European Physical Society, German Society of Applied Optics. Fellow of Optica (Formerly The Optical Society), of Institute of Physics (London) and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. More than 400 publications in scientific journals and editor of 3 books. 2005 he obtained the Quantum Electronics and Optics Prize of the European Physical Society and 2018 the Herbert Walther Award of German Physical Society and of Optica.
Omar Santiago Magaña-Loaiza
Louisiana State University
Multiparticle Near-field Dynamics of Plasmonic Waves
I will describe how the classical near-field dynamics of surface plasmons are defined by nonclassical processes of scattering among their constituent multiparticle subsystems. Additionally, I will discuss plasmonic waves excited by electromagnetic vacuum fluctuations.
About the Speaker
Omar S. Magaña-Loaiza received his doctoral degree from the University of Rochester in 2016, and then became a research associate at NIST Boulder. In 2018, he joined LSU, where he is now an Associate Professor of Physics and the leader of the Experimental Quantum Photonics Group. His group's research investigates novel properties of light and their potential for quantum technologies. He was a recipient of the Early Career Program award from the Army Research Office.
Susana Marcos
University of Rochester
About the Speaker
Susana Marcos specializes in human vision and applied vision. She was the Director of Optica (formerly The Optical Society) in 2012. Through studies in ocular imaging, she has pioneered the development of innovative intraocular lenses and the detection of ocular pathogens and infections. Notably, she co-created a visual simulator fo presbyopia and cataract intraocular lenses, providing a pre-surgical assessment. This simulator is a product of 25yesVision, a company she co-founded. In July 2021, she was appointed Director of Center for Visual Science, with dual affiliation in Optics and in Ophthalmology at the University of Rochester.
Axel Schülzgen
University of Central Florida, CREOL
Harnessing Extraordinary Guiding Mechanisms in Optical Fibers
Optical fibers with nanometer sized features in the cross-section enable novel propagation effects including photonic band-gap guiding, anti-resonant guiding and guiding by transverse Anderson localization. We will discuss how extraordinary fiber properties can be harnessed.
About the Speaker
Axel Schülzgen received his PhD in Physics from Humboldt-University of Berlin, Germany. Since 2009 he has been Professor of Optics and Photonics at CREOL, University of Central Florida. He also holds an Adjunct Research Professor position at the Wyant College of Optical Sciences, University of Arizona. His research interests include optical fiber devices, components, materials and structures with applications in fiber laser systems, fiber optic sensing and imaging and optical communications. Professor Schülzgen is a Fellow of Optica and the International Society for Optics and Photonics SPIE.
Robert Sewell
ICFO
About the Speaker
Robert Sewell is originally from Melbourne, Australia, where he completed a dual arts/science undergraduate degree majoring in Physics and Philosophy at the University of Melbourne. He went on to received his PhD in Physics from Imperial College London in 2009 working on precision measurements with ultracold atoms, where he helped develop a matter wave interferometer using atom-chip technology.
He joined ICFO as a Marie Curie Research Postdoctoral Fellow in 2009 in the group of Morgan Mitchell, leading a research laboratory in experimental quantum optics, developing new techniques for quantum-enhanced optical magnetometry with laser cooled atoms and demonstrating how spin squeezing and entanglement generated by quantum non-demolition measurements can help improve precision measurements of magnetic fields.
In 2014 he was appointed Staff Scientist and Coordinator of Academic Programs at ICFO, responsible for graduate education and training programs, including the ICFO PhD program, engagement with local and international Maters programs, the Plus+ training program and academic mentoring of students and postdoctoral researchers.
In addition to his leadership in the area of ICFO’s Academic Programs, he is also Co-Director of the Master of Multidisciplinary Research in Experimental Sciences offered by the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) in collaboration with The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST). Also, in 2020, he was appointed SPIE@ICFO Chair for Diversity in Photonic Sciences.
Martin Wolf
Biomedical Optics Research Laboratory, University of Zurich and University Hospital Zurich
3D Images of Oxygenation by Near-infrared Optical Tomography: State and Prospects
This is an overview of the current state of near infrared optical tomography, an optical method to generate 3D images of tissue. Since it images the oxygenation of tissue, it is of high clinical relevance.
About the Speaker
Martin Wolf is professor of Biomedical Optics at University of Zurich and University Hospital Zurich, where he heads the Biomedical Optics Research Laboratory. He completed his PhD at ETH Zurich and was postdoctoral research associate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Wolf is one of the leading experts in near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS), optical tomography (NIROT) and functional NIRS (fNIRS) covering technological, signal analysis and application aspects. He is also co-inventor of a novel principle to monitor blood constituents non-invasively.
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Invited Speakers
Optica Latin America Optics and Photonics Conference
- Josué Alvarez Borrego, CICESE, Mexico
Obtaining Image Signatures That Can be Used in AI Methods Plenary
- Debashis Chanda, Univ. of Central Florida, CREOL, United States
Building Uncooled Infrared Camera based on One Atom Thick Graphene Plenary
- Demetrios Christodoulides, University of Southern California, United States
Optical Thermodynamics of Nonlinear Multimode Systems Plenary
- Luiz Davidovich, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Title to be Announced Plenary
- David Hagan, Univ. of Central Florida, CREOL, United States
Title to be Announced Plenary
- Mercedeh Khajavikhan, University of Southern California, United States
Guiding Trojan Beams via Lagrange Points Plenary
- Daewook Kim, Univ of Arizona, Coll of Opt Sciences, United States
James C. Wyant: Connecting Dots and Minds to Paint Beautiful Pictures Plenary
- Gerd Leuchs, Max-Planck-Inst Physik des Lichts, Germany
Title to be Announced Plenary
- Omar Magana Loaiza, Louisiana State University, United States
Multiparticle Near-field Dynamics of Plasmonic Waves Plenary
- Axel Schülzgen, Univ. of Central Florida, CREOL, United States
Title to be Announced Plenary
- Robert Sewell, ICFO -Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques, Spain
Title to be Announced Plenary
- Araceli Venegas Gomez, Qureca, Spain
Title to be Announced Plenary
- Martin Wolf, Universität Zürich, Switzerland
3D Images of Oxygenation by Near-infrared Optical Tomography: State and Prospects Plenary
- Rodrigo Amezcua Correa, Univ. of Central Florida, CREOL, United States
Title to be Announced
- Miguel Bandres, Univ. of Central Florida, CREOL, United States
Title to be Announced
- Torey Battelle, Arizona State University,
Quantum Computing: NISQ-era Facilitation and Quantum-Centric HPC
- Jaime Cardenas, University of Rochester,
Enabling Silicon Nitride as a χ(3) and χ(2) Nonlinear Optics Platform
- Sabino Chavez-Cerda, Inst Nat Astrofisica Optica Electronica, Mexico
Thirty Years Since the Onset of Structured Optical Beams in Latin-America
- Cid Bartolomeu de Araujo, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil
Random Lasers and the Glassy Behavior of Light
- Aldo Di Costanzo Mata, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Title to be Announced
- Karina Garay-Palmett, CICESE, Mexico
Silicon Nitride Platform for Integrated Photonic Circuits Applied to Quantum Technologies
- Jorge Garcia-Sucerquia, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia
Title to be Announced
- Julio Gutierrez-Vega, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico
Ince-Gauss Beams in Phase Space
- Mohammed Islam, University of Michigan, United States
Title to be Announced
- Jack Jewell, GreenVcsel, United States
Jim Wyant: Approachably Magnanimous
- Virendra Mahajan, University of Arizona, United States
Title to be Announced
- Daniel Malacara, Centro de Investigaciones en Optica, Mexico
Title to be Announced
- Masud Mansuripur, Univ of Arizona, Coll of Opt Sciences, United States
Fundamental Properties of Beam-splitters in Classical and Quantum Optics
- Martha Rosete-Aguilar, Univ Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico
Focusing Ultrashort Pulses of Light
- Jose Sasian, Univ of Arizona, Coll of Opt Sciences, United States
The Glory of Aberration Theory
- Joseph Shaw, Montana State University, United States
Title to be Announced
- Mauricio Torres, Benemérita Univ Autonoma de Puebla,
Title to be Announced
- Ravitej Uppu, University of Iowa, United States
Hybrid Emitter-photon Interfaces for Multiparticle Entanglement
- Eric Van Stryland, Univ. of Central Florida, CREOL, United States
Extremely Non-Degenerate Nonlinear Photonics
- Abraham Vázquez-Guardado, North Carolina State University, United States
Bidirectional Optoelectronic Brain Machine Interfaces for Neuroscience Research
- Joel Villatoro, Universidad del Pais Vasco, Spain
Perspectives on Point Optical Fiber Sensors
- Braulio Villegas Martinez, CIICap, Mexico
Exact Dynamics of a Non-Hermitian Zigzag Glauber-Fock Lattice
- Gustavo Wiederhecker, UNICAMP, Brazil
Title to be Announced
- Ursula Wolf, Universitat Bern, Switzerland
Systemic Physiology Augmented Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy: The Power of the Whole Picture
- Martijn Wubs, Danmarks Tekniske Universitet, Denmark
Title to be Announced
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