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Propagation Through and Characterization of Atmospheric Oceanic Phenomena (pcAOP)

15-19, July 2024
Toulouse, France 

pcAOP explores laser systems that propagate light through the atmosphere and oceans, along with novel methods of characterizing, modeling and simulating the impact of these environments on light propagation.

This topical meeting covers the effects of optical turbulence, aerosols, meteorological and other environmental phenomena, optical test ranges and light propagation.  Fundamental progress in characterizing, modeling and simulating these environments enhances the community’s understanding of the impact and improves the ability to design and build more-resilient optical systems that perform better. 

Applications include astronomical imaging, ground-based imaging of satellites, free-space optical communication, lidar, laser-based remote monitoring of the environment and long-range passive and active imaging. 

This scope includes the use of advanced estimation techniques and machine learning methods.

 

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Propagation Through and Characterization of Atmospheric Oceanic Phenomena (pcAOP) 2024

 

Chairs

 
Svetlana Avramov-Zamurovic

US Naval Academy, United States,
General Chair

Santasri Bose-Pillai

Air Force Institute of Technology, United States,
General Chair

Dario Perez

Pontificia Univ Catolica de Valparaiso, Chile,
Program Chair

Jason Schmidt

MZA Associates Corporation, United States,
Program Chair

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Committee Members

  • Svetlana Avramov-Zamurovic, US Naval Academy, United States, General Chair
  • Santasri Bose-Pillai, Air Force Institute of Technology, United States, General Chair
  • Dario Perez, Pontificia Univ Catolica de Valparaiso, Chile, Program Chair
  • Jason Schmidt, MZA Associates Corporation, United States, Program Chair
  • Yalçin Ata, Ostim Teknik Üniversitesi, Turkey
  • Jeff Beck, nLight Corporation, United States
  • Yangjian Cai, Shandong Normal University, China
  • Yakov Diskin, MZA Associates Corporation, United States
  • Gregory Gbur, Univ of North Carolina at Charlotte, United States
  • David Hostutler, US Air Force Research Laboratory, United States
  • Matthew Kalensky, NAVSEA NSWC Dahlgren Division, United States
  • Perrine Lognoné, Durham University, United Kingdom
  • Jack McCrae, Air Force Institute of Technology, United States
  • Andreas Muschinski, NorthWest Research Associates, United States
  • Anand Sarma, IISER Thiruvananthapuram, India
  • Noah Van Zandt, US Air Force Research Laboratory, United States

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Topic Categories

 
Propagation Through and Characterization of Atmospheric and Oceanic Phenomena (pcAOP)

pcAOP is a forum for the presentation of research in the physics of light propagation, optical remote sensing and EO/IR effects in either the atmosphere or ocean.

Topics of Interest
  1. Optical Turbulence
    • Distributed volume turbulence characterization, modeling, and simulation in atmospheric and oceanic environments, including machine learning techniques for characterization and mitigation
    • Experimental methods and instrumentation for atmospheric and oceanic turbulence characterization, including in situ measurements and remote sensing
    • Understanding and modeling the impact of optical turbulence, including machine learning techniques
    • Empirical turbulence models and their comparisons to numerical modeling and field experiments
    • Understanding the impact of optically turbulent media with embedded scatterers on light propagation via theory, simulation, and experimentation
    • Novel simulation methods for propagation through turbulence, including scintillation, anisoplanatism, extended scenes, and passive imagery
  2. Meteorological and Atmospheric/Oceanic Phenomena
    • Meteorological phenomena occurring in the atmosphere and oceans, such as non-Kolmogorov turbulence, boundary layer processes, environmental effects such as due to waves, vegetation (canopy), salinity etc.
    • Modeling and measurements of aerosols and their impact, including particle velocimetry, absorption, extinction, scattering, transmission, thermal blooming
    • Impact of aerosols on boundary layer dynamics, turbulence, imaging and sensing
    • Aero-optics and aero-optical effects on light propagation
  3. Light Propagation
    • Propagation of optical and electromagnetic fields in the atmosphere and underwater
    • Free-space/underwater optical communications through turbulent channels
    • Propagation of structured light through random media, including applications in free space optical communications.
    • Understanding light wavefront aberration on propagation through random media via theory, simulation, and experimentation
    • Conventional and unconventional imaging techniques for random media, including machine learning techniques
  4. Test Ranges
    Test ranges, laboratories and unique capabilities around the world


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Plenary Speakers

 

Grace Kuo

Reality Labs Research at Meta, USA

Holographic Displays: Past, Present and Future

Holograms have captured the public imagination since their first media representation in Star Wars in 1977. Although fiction, the idea of glowing, 3D projections is based on real-world holographic display technology, which can create 3D image content by manipulating the wave properties of light. However, in practice, the image quality of experimental holograms has significantly lagged traditional displays until recently. What changed? This talk will delve into how hardware improvements met ideas from machine learning to spark a new wave of research in holographic displays. We’ll take a critical look at what this research has achieved, discuss open problems and explore the potential of holographic technology to create head-mounted displays with a glasses-form factor.

About the Speaker

Grace Kuo is a research scientist in the Display Systems Research team at Meta where she works on novel display and imaging technology for virtual and augmented reality. She is particularly interested in the joint design of hardware and algorithms for imaging systems, and her work spans optics, optimization, signal processing and machine learning. Grace’s recent work on “Flamera,” a light-field camera for virtual reality passthrough, won Best-in-Show at the SIGGRAPH Emerging Technology showcase and received wide-spread positive press coverage from venues like Forbes and UploadVR. Grace earned her BS at Washington University in St. Louis and her PhD at the University of California, Berkeley, advised by Dr. Laura Waller and Dr. Ren Ng.
 

Pietro Ferraro

Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems "Eduardo Caianiello" (ISASI-CNR), Italy

The Scientific Magic of Holography: From Broken Promise to Breakthroughs in Biomedical Imaging

Holography has evolved from a promising but illusory concept to a transformative tool in biomedical imaging. Leveraging intrinsic features of digital holography, it enables single cell analysis, quantitative phase imaging and stain-free microscopy. This breakthrough, enhanced by artificial intelligence, opens new frontiers in diagnosis and therapy with intelligent flow-cytometers through 3D imaging.

About the Speaker

Pietro Ferraro is Director of Research at the CNR Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems (ISASI), Italy. He served as ISASI Director from 2014 to 2019 and President of CNR Research Area in Pozzuoli from 2012 to 2019. Ferraro has held leadership roles in various organizations and worked as Principal Investigator with Alenia Aeronautics from 1988 to 1993. His research spans holography, microscopy, micro-nanostructures, non-destructive testing and optical sensors, with over 350 journal papers, 20,000 citations and 14 patents. A Fellow of both Optica and SPIE, he received the SPIE Gabor Award and served on the Scientific and Technical Committee for the Italian Space Agency from 2018 to 2023.

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Invited Speakers

  • Julie Buquet, Immervision Inc., Canada
  • Ryoichi Horisaki, University of Tokyo, Japan
    Computational Imaging Through Scattering Medium
  • Andreas Velten, University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States
  • Julie Buquet, Immervision Inc., Canada
  • Ryoichi Horisaki, University of Tokyo, Japan
    Computational Imaging Through Scattering Medium
  • Andreas Velten, University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States

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