Archive

Here is a list of some of the exciting events organized by our OSA student chapter over the last few years...

 
Date Event

November 13th 2009
Talk by Dr. Ganesh Balakrishnan
III-Sb lasers on GaAs using interfacial misfit dislocation arrays

October 23rd 2009
Talk by Dr Wolfgang Rudolph
Fascination with Ultra3(-short, intense, fast) Bullets of Light

Aug 28th 2009 OSA/SPIE UNM Student Chapter's Fall BBQ
Physics and Astronomy Building, UNM at 5:00 pm, Front Lawn

May 27th 2009 CLEO Practice Talks from 11:30am at CHTM, Room 101

May 22nd 2009 Talk by Dr. Luke Lester:
Reconfigurable Quantum Dot Photonic Integrated Circuits
Center for High Technology Materials at 2:15pm, Room 101

March 6th 2009 Talk by Kraig Fredrickson, Sandia National Labs
Development of Laser Diagnostics in Turbulent Pool Fires and Low-Pressure Plasmas

December 3rd, 4th and 5th 2008 Education Outreach at Kit Carson School
Pictures

November 21st 2008 Talk by Robert W. Boyd, University of Rochester
Fundamentals and Applications of Slow Light

November 7th 2008 PandA Colloquium and OSA Talk:
Dr. John L. Hall, JILA, University of Colorado and NIST
The Optical Frequency Comb - A New Tool with Remarkable Applications in Science, Metrology, and Medical Diagnostics

November 7th 2008 OSA Student Chapter lunch with John L. Hall. Pictures!

November 11th 2008 Talk by Dr. Paolo Di Trapani, Insubria University, Como, Italy and Vilnius University, Lithuania
Controlled X wave formation in bulk quadratic and cubic nonlinear media

October 31st, 2008 Talk by Dr. Daniel R. Neal, AMO WaveFront Science, Inc.
From nano to astro: Applications of Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor technology

October 3rd, 2008 Talk by Dr. Hou-Tong Chen
High Performance Terahertz Hybrid Metamaterial Devices

September 5th, 2008 Talk by Dr. Patrick Rambo
Operation of the Z-Backlighter Laser Facility at Sandia National Laboratories

August 29th, 2008 OSA/SPIE Student Chapter Barbecue

April 30th, 2008 CLEO Practice Talks

January 25, 2008 Dr. R. Russell Butts, MZA Associates Corporation, Albuquerque
OSA Student Chapter Talk

November 30, 2007 Dr. Martin M. Fejer, Stanford University
The title of the talk is to be announced.

November 2, 2007 Dr. Michael Hasselbeck, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Ultrafast Terahertz Spectroscopy

September 4, 2007 Dr. JM Geremia, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Distinguishing Between Optical Coherent States at the Fundamental Quantum Limit

August 24, 2007 OSA and SPIE Student Chapter Barbecue
Everyone is invited :-)

July 27, 2007 Dr. Arlee V. Smith, Sandia National Labs, Albuquerque, New Mexico
How to select nonlinear crystals and model their performance using SNLO software

June 13, 2007 Election of New Officers

May 1, 2007 CLEO Practice Talks

March 16, 2007 Central NM Science & Engineering Research Challenge and Special Awards

2006

November 3, 2006 Dr. F. J. Duarte, Interferometric Optics, Rochester, New York
Coherent emission from organic semiconductors under high-voltage pulsed excitation

October 20, 2006 Prof. Jean-Claude Diels, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of New Mexico
Weaving with filaments - a fabric of confusion, but... there is light at the end of the thread

September 22-23, 2006 Hands-On Optics - Making an Impact with Light
Call for Volunteers

May 17, 2006 CLEO Practice Talks: Canceled

May 3, 2006 Election of New Officers

April 28, 2006 Dr. Eric W. Van Stryland, President of the Optical Society of America, Dean, College of Optics and Photonics: CREOL & FPCE, University of Central Florida: Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy: Absorption and Refraction

March 17, 2006 NWNM Science Fair Special Awards.

February 3, 2006 Prof. Peter G. Eliseev, Center for High Technology Materials, University of New Mexico
Theory of Nonlinear Sagnac effect in Semiconductor Lasers

2005

November 11, 2005 Dr. George T. Wang, Sandia National Laboratories
MOCVD Synthesis and Characterization of III-Nitride Nanowires and Heterostructure Nanowires

June 15, 2005 Election of New Officers

May 18, 2005 CLEO Practice Talks: Chi Yang and Shuang Zhang

March 30, 2005 Prof. S. R. J. Brueck, Center for High Technology Materials, University of New Mexico
Infrared Nanophotonics - Photonic Crystals, Plasmonics, and Metamaterials

March 18, 2005 NWNM Science Fair Special Awards.

2004

December 10, 2004 Tour of CVI Laser, LLC company headquarters in Albuquerque.

November 17, 2004 Prof. Peter G. Eliseev, Center for High Technology Materials, University of New Mexico
Semiconductor Lasers: From Homojunctions to Quantum Dots

November 4, 2004 Election of New Officers

October 20, 2004 Dr. Dan H. Huang, Space Vehicles Directorate, Air Force Research Lab at Phillips Site
Optoelectronics Related Research at the Air Force Research Lab

May 14, 2004 Ahmed Lobad, Air Force Research Laboratory, Directed Energy Directorate
Carrier dynamics in type-II quantum well Sb-based MIR lasers

April 13, 2004 CHTM Talk: George Nemes, Astigmat
Spatial Laser Beam Characterization and Propagation.

April 2, 2004 Dr. Huili Xing, University of California, Santa Barbara
Growth, Fabrication and Characterization of GaN-based Bipolar Transistors.

2003

December 5, 2003 2nd annual BBQ
Students, Faculty, and Staff are invited to join us for the last BBQ of the year on December 5th at 1pm at the Center for High Technology Materials.

May 9, 2003 Election of New Officers

2002

December 6, 2002 Kathleen Youngworth, University of Rochester:
Inhomogeneous Polarization in Confocal Microscopy

December 4, 2002 Alexander Ukhanov, University of New Mexico:
Optical Properties of the InAs Quantum Confined Nanostructures:
Quantum Dots; Quantum Wires; Quantum Wells

November 15, 2002 Mark Mero, University of New Mexico:
Ultrafast laser-induced electron dynamics in dielectric coatings close to laser damage threshold

September 21, 2002 1st annual BBQ

May 3, 2002 Dr. Anthony E. Siegman, Stanford University:
Normal Modes, and not so Normal Modes

April 19, 2002 Prof. Tom M. Shay, University of New Mexico:
Laser Communications between the Ground and the Space Shuttle Utilizing a Novel Communications Architecture

March 1, 2002 Paul Rudy, Ph.D. , Coherent, Inc.:
Opportunities in the Laser Industry: 2002 and Beyond

March 1, 2002 Election of New Officers

January 25, 2002 Jens Schwarz, University of New Mexico:
Propagation of High Power UV Laser Pulses through the Atmosphere

2001

November 30, 2001 Shohini Ghose, University of New Mexico:
Atomic Motion in Magneto-Optical Lattices

October 26, 2001 Christian Schwarz, University of New Mexico:
High-Resolution Images with low NA Objectives, using Coherent Illumination

May 24, 2001 Nathan Brilliant, University of New Mexico:
Dual-Clad Ytterbium-Doped Fiber Amplifiers

May 17, 2001 Visit to Del Norte High School

February 16, 2001 Thien Trang Dang, University of New Mexico:
Compact Mode Locked Laser Gyroscope

2000

October 20, 2000 Akira Endo, The Femtosecond Technology Research Association:
A Laser Synchrotron Femtosecond X-ray Source for Novel Imaging

August 25, 2000 John Grondalski, University of New Mexico:
Phase Diffusion as a Model for Coherent Suppression of Tunneling in the Presence of Noise

April 28, 2000 Tour of Optics Research at the Air Force Research Laboratory

April 7, 2000 Audra Rice, University of New Mexico:
An Overview of the GaN Material System and Devices

 

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