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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

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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

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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)

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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

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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

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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.

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