Optical Science and Laser Technology Conference
Sponsored by the MSU Optical Technology Center Promoting High-Technology Research & Jobs in Montana Strand Union Sub Ballroom A Montana State University Bozeman, Montana
SEPTEMBER 22-23, 2005
Thursday, September 22nd - Morning Agenda
Facilitator, Dr. Joseph Shaw
OpTeC Director & ECE Associate Professor, MSU
8:00 am MORNING REFRESHMENTS
8:25 am Dr. Joseph Shaw-OpTeC Director, MSU Welcome and opening remarks
Session 1 – Lasers and Optical Spectroscopy Session Chair: Dr. Randy Babbitt
8:30 am Invited Presentation – Dr. Tiku Majumdar
Associate Professor & Dept. Chair, Physics Dept., Williams College, Williamstown, MA.
New tools for high-precision diode laser spectroscopy of weak atomic transitions
9:05 am Sytil Murphy – Graduate Student, Physics, MSU-Bozeman White Light Interferometry
9:25 am Aleksander Rebane – Professor, Physics, MSU-Bozeman Quantum interference by femtosecond multi-photon absorption
9:40 am Charles Thiel – Research Scientist, Physics, MSU-Bozeman
Energies of 4fN and 4fN-15d States Relative to Host Bands in Rare-earth-doped Fluorides
9:55 am Mikhail Drobizhev – Physics Dept., MSU-Bozeman
Coherent domain structure in nonlinear-optical chromophores studied by multi-photon absorption spectroscopy
10:10 am COFFEE BREAK - MORNING REFRESHMENTS
Session 2 – Optical Communications Session Chair: Dr. Kevin Repasky
10:35 am Richard Wolff – Gilhousen Telecommunications Chair, ECE, MSU-Bozeman Optical Communication Systems Research
10:50 am Wenhao Lin – Graduate Student, ECE, MSU-Bozeman
Routing and wavelength assignment algorithms for All-optical networks
11:10 am Yanchang Dong – Graduate Student, ECE, MSU-Bozeman
A novel optical transmission technique using an in-line phase modulator 11:30 am LUNCH BREAK
Thursday September 22 Afternoon Agenda
Session 3 – Optical Remote Sensing Chairs: Drs. Joseph Shaw & Kevin Repasky
1:10 pm Invited Presentation – Dr. John Reagan
Professor Emeritus, ECE & Optical Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Multi-wavelength Lidar Aerosol Profile Retrievals Enabled by Spectral Ratio Constraints
1:45 pm Joseph Shaw – Associate Professor, ECE, MSU-Bozeman
From Clouds to Bees: An Overview of Activities in the Optical Remote Sensor Laboratory
2:00 pm Nathan Pust – Graduate Student, ECE, MSU-Bozeman
Dual-field polarimetric imager for studying the effect of clouds on sky and target
Polarization
2:20 pm Kevin Repasky – Assistant Professor, ECE, MSU-Bozeman An Overview of the Applied Optics Program
2:35 pm Chris Melton – Research Associate, ECE, MSU-Bozeman
Construction and characterization of a diode-pumped 2-µm continuous-wave Raman Laser
2:55 pm David Hoffman – Undergraduate Student, ECE, MSU-Bozeman Single Wavelength Lidar Inversion
3:10 pm AFTERNOON BREAK - REFRESHMENTS
Session 4 – Photonic Processing Session Chair: Dr. Aleksander Rebane
3:35 pm Kris Merkel – Vice President, S2CHIP Div., Scientific Materials Corp., Bozeman, MT Overview of S2CHIP at Scientific Materials Corp.
3:55 pm Krishna Rupavatharam – Research Scientist, Spectrum Lab, MSU-Bozeman Wide bandwidth spectral analysis with optical spectral hole burning
4:10 pm Tiejun Chang – Research Scientist, Spectrum Lab, MSU-Bozeman Spectral features recovery technique for chirped laser field readout
4:25 pm Zachary Cole – Research Scientist, Spectrum Lab, MSU-Bozeman Coherent LADAR Ranging with Broadband Optical Noise
4:40 pm Christoffer Renner – Undergraduate Student, Physics, MSU-Bozeman
Photonic Chirp Compression and Microwave Arbitrary Waveform Generation 4:55 pm Joseph Shaw – closing comments (end of Thursday oral sessions)
Thursday Evening September 22, 2005 6:00 p.m. Reception and Poster Session
SUB Ballroom A
Bring your Name Tag and Appetite Session 5 – Poster Session
1. Range-doppler imaging using an analog optical signal processor with agile waveform Sets
a Randy R. Reibel,a Daryn E. Benson,a Trenton Berg,a Zachary Cole,a Kristian D. Merkel,a and W.
Randall Babbittb
a Scientific Materials Corporation, b Spectrum Lab, Montana State University
2. Synthesis, characterization and preclinical studies of targeted photo-dynamic therapy agents activated in the tissue transparency window
Jean Roaslind Starkey, Fanging Meng, Aijun Gong, Britney L. Moss, Aleksandre Rebane, Mikhail Drobizhev, and Charles W. Spangler, MSU and MPA Technologies, Bozeman, MT
3. Optimization of fast rewritable two-photon optical storage in near-resonant conditions Nikolay Makarov, Physics Dept., MSU-Bozeman
4. Fabrication of 50/50 optical coupling rubidium waveguide in potassium titanyl phosphate substrate
Adam Joseph Green, Amin Nehrir, Kevin Repasky, Richard Wolff ECE Dept., MSU-Bozeman
5. Tunable diode lasers and applications
Amin Nehrir,a Kevin Repasky,a and Gregg Switzerb
a ECE Dept., MSU-Bozeman, b AdvR Inc., Bozeman, MT
6. Characterizing the optical scattering signature of honey bees
Jesse Way,a Dustin D. Dunkle,a Joseph A. Shaw,a Kevin S. Repasky,a John L. Carlsten,b Lee H.
Spangler,c and Laura Dobeck.c
a Electrical & Computer Engineering Dept., Montana State University, Bozeman, MT
b Physics Dept., Montana State University, Bozeman, MT
c Chemistry and Biochemistry Dept., Montana State University, Bozeman, MT
7. Detection of honey bees using wing-beat modulation of continuous-wave laser light
Ryan H. Scheppele,a Chris Melton,b Amin Nehrir,a Kevin S. Repasky,a Joseph A. Shaw,a John L.
Carlsten,a Lee H. Spanglerc
a Electrical & Computer Engineering Dept., Montana State University, Bozeman, MT
b Physics Dept., Montana State University, Bozeman, MT
c Chemistry and Biochemistry Dept., Montana State University, Bozeman, MT
8. Infrared cloud imaging for climate research and optical communications Paul W. Nugent,a Joseph A. Shaw,a Nathan J. Pust,a and Kohei Mizutanib
a Electrical & Computer Engineering Dept., Montana State University, Bozeman, MT
b National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Tokyo, Japan
9. Progress toward a water vapor differential absorption lidar (DIAL) using a widely tunable amplified diode laser source
Michael D. Obland,a Kevin S. Repasky,b Joseph A. Shaw,b John L. Carlsten,a Lei S. Menga
a Physics Dept., Montana State University, Bozeman, MT
b Electrical & Computer Engineering Dept., Montana State University, Bozeman, MT
10. MSU weather station for supporting optical sensors
Nick J. Jurich, Paul W. Nugent, Nathan L. Seldomridge, and Joseph A. Shaw Electrical & Computer Engineering Dept., Montana State University, Bozeman, MT
11. Searching for Lake Trout with an airborne laser
Rianon R. Tiensvold,a Joseph A. Shaw,a Nathan L. Seldomridge,a James H. Churnside,b and James W. Wilsonb
a Electrical & Computer Engineering Dept., Montana State University, Bozeman, MT
b NOAA Environmental Technology Laboratory, Boulder, CO
12. Montana microfabrication facility
Phil Himmer, ECE Dept., Montana State University, Bozeman, MT
13. Toward a handheld skin-imaging confocal microscope: design and construction of a bench top prototype
Marshal Overcast - ECE Dept., Montana State University, Bozeman, MT
14. Confocal imaging using the MOEMS 3D mirror
Yuhe Shao - ECE Dept., Montana State University, Bozeman, MT
LOCAL INDUSTRY POSTERS AND EXHIBITS
A. Lattice Materials Corp. – Display of infrared optical materials
Bob Spetz
B. AdvR, Inc. – Guiding light toward device development Elizabeth Noonan
C. Big Sky Laser Technologies, Inc. – Laser demonstration Joe Sawyer, Ray Jones, and Joerg Smolenski
D. About ILX Lightwave Gene Kuntz
E. Hyperspectral Imaging and Applications - Resonon, Inc.
Rand Swanson
F. Scientific Materials Corp. – Ralph Hutcheson
Friday, September 23rd - Morning Agenda
8:00 am MORNING REFRESHMENTS
Session 6 - Lasers & Photonics Session Chair: Dr. John Carlsten 8:25 am Dr. Joseph Shaw - Welcome back for day two of the conference
8:30 am Mingzhen Tian – Assistant Research Professor, Physics, MSU-Bozeman Quantum computing in rare-earth doped crystals
8:50 am Ijaz Zafarullah – Graduate Student, Physics, MSU-Bozeman Amplification and processing of weak optical signal in Tm:YAG
9:05 am Yihan Xiong – Graduate Student, Physics, MSU-Bozeman
Active mode-locked external cavity diode laser: characteristics & frequency stabilization Session 7 – Micro-Optics Session Chair: Dr. John Carlsten
9:25 am Jeff Lutzenberger – Graduate Student, ECE, MSU-Bozeman Periodic rib-reinforced silicon nitride scan mirrors
9:45 am Phil Himmer – Laboratory Manager, Montana Microfabrication Facility, MSU-Bozeman Spherical Aberration Correction Using a Silicon Nitride Deformable Membrane Mirror 10:05 am COFFEE BREAK - MORNING REFRESHMENTS
Session 8 – Adaptive Optics Session Chair: Dr. Phil Himmer
10:25 am Invited Presentation - Dr. Luc Gilles
Adaptive Optics Analyst, Thirty Meter Telescope Project Office, CalTech, Pasadena, CA Thirty Meter Telescope Project Overview and Status
11:00 am Qiang Yang – Postdoctoral Researcher, Mathematical Sciences, MSU-Bozeman Bimorph deformable mirrors for correcting aberrations of human eyes
11:20 am Curt Vogel – Professor, Mathematical Sciences, MSU-Bozeman
Motion Estimation and Image Dewarping from Successive Frames of Scanned Data 11:40 pm Interactive discussion – Future directions in optics research & education at MSU 12:00 pm Adjourn (don’t forget the picnic tonight!)
Please join us at 5:00 pm at the Lindley Park Pavilion on East Main Street for a Barbeque.
Thank you for Coming
*A special Thank You to the Strand Union and staff for making our conference a very special occasion.