June 2013

OSA Partners Publish the First Issue of New Joint Journal, Photonics Research

OSA, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics (SIOM), and Chinese Laser Press (CLP) have published the first issue of the newest peer-reviewed, open-access journal, Photonics Research. This joint journal’s inaugural issue features research in plasmonics, nonlinear optics, nanophotonics and more. To browse the first issue, visit www.opticsinfobase.org/prj/home.cfm.

Get ready to cast your ballot in the OSA election for 2014 offices! The election for the 2014 vice president and three directors at large will open 25 June 2013 and will continue through 13 September 2013, 23:59 PM (U.S. Eastern Time). All eligible voters* will receive an email message with instructions for electronic voting; paper ballots will be sent to members without a current email address or upon request. Your participation is important! Please read the candidates' profiles and personal statements and make a commitment to vote this year. The ballot will be fully accessible from your smart phone/mobile device.

*Individual Members, Senior Members, Honorary Members, Emeritus Members, Fellow Members and Recent Graduate Members as of 19 August 2013 are eligible to vote. Teacher Members and Student Members are not eligible to vote.

At CLEO: 2013 in San Jose last week, the vital role of lasers in research and applications was evident in the more than 1,800 technical presentations in three core areas: CLEO: QELS - Fundamental Science, CLEO: Science & Innovations, and CLEO: Applications & Technology, as well as on the exhibit floor at CLEO: Expo—featuring 300 participating companies—and in the business-focused programming at CLEO: Market Focus. Attendees heard presentations from leading experts on hot topics such as lab-on-a-chip applications, high-power lasers, quantum dot technologies, attosecond physics, silicon photonics, and more. Technical attendees were provided the complimentary benefit of access to select recorded presentations for up to 60 days post conference and perpetual access to conference papers.

Full reports detailing each day of the conference are available on the CLEO website.  Mark your calendar for CLEO: 2014, 8-13 June at the San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, CA, USA.

In late May, the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued a statement to all U.S. Federal agencies–encouraging agencies to still provide employees with funding for travel to scientific and other "mission-related" meetings. These changes come one year after the OMB instructed all agencies to reduce their total 2013 travel spending by 30%, set in place new deputy secretary level review requirements, and capped conference spending on any one event.

Many members of the scientific community, including OSA, expressed concern that these restrictions would significantly hamper the ability of scientists and engineers to participate in technical conferences–therefore missing out on valuable opportunities to advance their work. The new communication from OMB is aimed at addressing these concerns and providing clarification to federal agencies that significantly limiting or preventing employee participation in these types of activities was not the intention of the original guidelines.

A copy of the OMB clarification statement is available online via the Council of Engineering and Scientific Society Executives, and the initial travel guidelines are available on the OMB website.

Join your colleagues for an in-depth technical program on the latest advances in optics and photonics, and hear from notable invited FiO and LS speakers such as our Plenary speakers, Nobel Prize winner D.J. Wineland, multi-award winners Margaret Murnane and John E. Bowers. Also partake in exciting events and a wide array of professional networking opportunities. Visit www.frontiersinoptics.org for more details.

OSA wants to make sure your contact information is accurate and complete so that you can take advantage of the wide range of benefits that are available to you, including a personalized osamember.org email alias! Please review your OSA profile and update your contact information, affiliations, date of birth, interest areas and graduation date (applicable to students) by visiting the My Account section of osa.org. Note: Your OSA password will be your member number unless you requested it to be changed.

The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth has appointed OSA Fellow Mohammad A. Karim as provost and executive vice chancellor for academic and student affairs. Karim currently serves as vice president for research at Old Dominion University in Virginia. The appointment follows a national search and screening process conducted by a 20-member committee of UMass Dartmouth faculty. Prior to joining Old Dominion in July 2004, Karim served as dean of engineering at the City College of New York. He received his bachelor’s degree in physics from the University of Dacca in Bangladesh in 1976, and masters’ degrees in physics and electrical engineering and a doctorate in electrical engineering from the University of Alabama in 1978, 1979 and 1981, respectively. He is the author of 19 books, more than 365 research papers, and 8 book chapters. He served as research mentor of more than 60 M.S./Ph.D. students during his career.

To read about more OSA members in the news visit OSA’s website. Submit news about yourself or fellow members online.

The OSA Foundation would like to congratulate the winner of the Theodore Maiman Student Paper Competition–Gary Shambat of Stanford University, USA for his paper "Single-cell photonic nanocavity probes."

Honorable mentions went to: 

• Jeffrey Demas, Boston University, USA - Two Octaves of Frequency Generation by Cascaded Intermodal Nonlinear Mixing in Solid Optical Fiber
• Peter Krogen, MIT, USA - Octave-spanning Coherent Mid-IR Generation via a Single Adiabatically Chirped Grating

Three finalists were selected by the CLEO: 2013 program and general co-chairs and presented their research in a private session. The presentations were judged based on innovation, research excellence and presentation ability.

For more information about this program and to see how you can become its next grand prize winner, visit www.OSA.org/Foundation.

OSA and OIDA–a new alliance providing the resources your company needs to succeed. Take advantage of these new benefits with your Corporate Membership.

Some of the new benefits include:

• Discounted rates on all OIDA Workshops such as the upcoming OIDA Workshop, Status and Future of Photonic Integration, 17 September in Washington, DC
• Discounted rates on OIDA Roadmap and Market Reports
• And More–Learn more about all of the OIDA member benefits.

Edmund Optics of Barrington, NJ, USA, has announced it will be awarding grants worldwide totaling $85,000 in products in support of outstanding undergraduate and graduate optics programs in science, technology, engineering and mathematics at non-profit colleges and universities. The EO Grant Team will review applications and select finalists, which then provide more detailed information about their programs. Recipients are selected based on technical merit and innovative use of optics in a research setting or lab. Finalists will be announced on 24 July 2013, and winning grant award recipients will be announced on 4 September 2013.

Prestigious OSA Corporate Members–like Edmund Optics–innovate new technologies that advance the science of light. Recommend your organization or industry partner to become an OSA Corporate Member. Contact cam@osa.org for more information.

Members of OSA and DPG are invited to nominate a colleague for the 2014 Herbert Walther Award by the nomination deadline of 2 August 2013.

The Herbert Walther Award honors Professor Herbert Walther for the seminal influence of his groundbreaking innovations in quantum optics and atomic physics and for his wide-ranging contributions to the international scientific community. The Award is jointly made by Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (DPG) and the Optical Society (OSA) and presented by each society in alternate years. The Award recognizes distinguished contributions in quantum optics and atomic physics as well as leadership in the international scientific community.

DPG will collect nominations for the 2014 Herbert Walther Award. Please email DPG for more information at Labedzke@dpg-physik.de.

Attended the Workshop? OSA Corporate Members can purchase the report for $200 – a savings of $1,300.

Missed the workshop? Purchase now for $1,500.

The report, written by OVUM, summarizes the output of a workshop co-hosted by OIDA, CIAN (the Center for Integrated Access Networks), and the US National Science Foundation. Additional materials not presented at the workshop have also been included in this report in order to clarify or reinforce discussion topics.

• Get an updated look at the data center roadmap (through 2022)
• Read key takeaways from presentations by leaders in this growing market
• Review market and technology trends for data center architectures and components

OSA congratulates the American Vacuum Society (AVS) on its 60th Anniversary. As an interdisciplinary, professional Society, AVS supports networking among academic, industrial, government, and consulting professionals involved in a variety of disciplines—chemistry, physics, biology, mathematics, all engineering disciplines, business, sales, etc.—through common interests related to the basic science, technology development, and commercialization of materials, interfaces, and processing area.

Visit OSA's online job board, WORKinOPTICS.com, to browse the job listings below and subscribe to an RSS feed to keep up on all the posted jobs. Create a professional profile in the resume database, so that recruiting employers can find you.

Recent job postings include:

• Senior Mechanical Engineer - Zygo Corporation
• Postdoctral Research Associate (Device) - Kochi University of Technology, Japan
• Application Engineer - General Photonics Corporation
• Test Engineering Manager / LabVIEW Developer - Photop Aegis
• Optical Engineer - L-3 Communications - EOTech
• Production Manager - Alpine Research Optics
• Application and Sales Engineer - PI (Physik Instrumente) L.P.
• Optoelectronics Scientist - Agilent Technologies
• Postdoctoral Appointee: Experimentalist - Nanoscale Thermal Effects in 2D - Sandia National Laboratories
• Canada Excellence Research Chair in Neurophotonics - Université Laval
• Senior Optics System & Testing Engineer - Pharos Scientific LLC

21 - 26 July 2013, The Fairmont Orchid, Kohala Coast, HI, USA

Hotel Reservation Deadline: 20 June 2013
Postdeadline Abstract and Summary Submission Deadline: 15 July 2013 12:00 EDT

27 October - 1 November 2013, Marriott Paris Rive Gauche Hotel and Convention Center, Paris, France

Collocated Topical Meetings:
Application of Lasers for Sensing & Free Space Communication (LS&C)
NEW! Mid-Infrared Coherent Sources (MICS)
 
Abstract and Summary Submission: 24 June 2013 12:00 EDT

Renewable Energy and the Environment

3 - 7 November 2013
JW Marriott Tucson Star Pass, Tucson, Arizona, USA

Optical Instrumentation for Energy and Environmental Applications (E2)
Optical Nanostructures and Advanced Materials for Photovoltaics (PV)
Optics for Solar Energy (SOLAR)
Solid State and Organic Lighting (SOLED)
Freeform Optics

Abstract and Summary Submission: 17 July 2013 12:00 EDT

Workshop on Specialty Optical Fiber and Their Applications

28 - 30 August 2013, Sigtuna, Outskirts of Stockholm, Sweden

Advanced Registration: 31 July 2013

Mark your calendar now for...

A Look into the World of NonImaging Optics Webinar

July 10, 2013, Online. Register now

Presented by The NonImaging Optical Design Technical Group

Advanced Photonics

14 - 19 July 2013, Rio Mar Beach Resort, Rio Grande, Puerto Rico

Integrated Photonics Research, Silicon and Nano-Photonics (IPR)
Optical Sensors (SENSORS)
NEW! Photonic Networks and Devices (NETWORKS)
Signal Processing in Photonics Communications (SPPCom)

21 - 23 August 2013, OSA Headquarters, Washington, DC, USA

Hosted by: Garnett W. Bryant, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Quantum Measurement Division and Joint Quantum Institute, USA
Joachim Krenn, Institute of Physics, Karl-Franzens-University, Austria
Edo Waks, University of Maryland, USA

29 September – 1 October 2013, OSA Headquarters, Washington, DC, USA

Hosted by: Richard Hammond, Army Research Office, USA 
Natalia Litchinitser, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA

Applied Optics
Imaging Systems and Applications (features papers from the 2012 OSA Topical Meeting on Imaging Systems and Applications)

Applied Optics
Computational Optical Sensing and Imaging (features papers from the 2012 OSA Topical Meeting on Computational Optical Sensing and Imaging)

Optics Express
Renewable Energy and the Environment (features papers from the 2012 OSA Renewable Energy and the Environment Optics and Photonics Congress)

Applied Optics
Feature Issue: Optical Interference Coatings
Deadline: 1 September 2013
 
Optical Materials Express
Feature Issue: Ultrafast Laser Modification of Materials
Deadline: 1 July 2013

Optics Express and Optical Materials Express
Feature Issue:  Nonlinear Optics 2013
Deadline: 15 September 2013

Photonics Research – a new joint OSA/SIOM Journal
Publication of First Issue:  June 2013

Optical Materials Express

Tiny 3-D Bunny Shows off New Conductive Material - NBC News
This Bacterium-Sized Bunny Could Be The Future Of Bionic Brains - Popular Science
Grumpy Cat movie, world's tiniest bunny: This week in off-beat tech stories - CBS News
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Optics Express

New Device Detects Asbestos In Real-Time, With Lasers And Magnets - Popular Science
On-Site Asbestos Detector to Help Prevent Dangerous Exposure - MedGadget
Laser-based airborne asbestos detector developed at University of Hertfordshire - Laser World Focus
Promise Of Better Workplace Safety Offered By On-site Asbestos Detector - RedOrbit
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Optics Letters

Coming Into Existence: Lab Sets a New Record for Creating Heralded Photons - ScienceDaily
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Optogenetic Tool Has Potential for Brain Mapping - Photonics.com
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Growing New Brains with Infrared Light - Kurzweil Accelerating Intelligence
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3D-Print Your Own Invisibility Cloak, Kind of - CNET
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*Image credit: Light-matter wave mixing
Laguerre-Gaussian beam light-matter wave mixing in a Bose-Einstein condensate creates a matter-wave vortex.
–L. Deng and C.J. Zhu