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APRIL 2014 PRISM AWARDS PHOTONICS WEST HIGHLIGHTS ENDANGERED RAW MATERIALS What’s New in Sensors
Volume 9, Number 2 (ISSN 1817-4035)
Features
5 President’s Letter
SPIE President H. Philip Stahl discusses the
benefits of publishing your research.
INDUSTRY
6 Economic Impact of Photonics
An SPIE analysis of the economic impact of the
photonics market shows our industry is strong.
8 Prism Awards for Photonics 40
Innovation
11 Horizon 2020 in Europe
12 Sensors Come of Age TECHNOLOGY R&D
Optical sensors are playing undreamed-of roles 26 Rules Threaten Optical Materials
in industry and research. European Union rules may threaten availability
16 SPIE Startup Challenge of raw materials for optics.
Needle microscope and other biophotonics 30 Infrared Systems
innovations win top awards at annual competition. The pace of IR technology is staggering.
34 R&D Highlights
Editors’ recommendations and highlights from
SPIE journals and recent conferences.
36 Highlights from Photonics West
38 Highlights from BiOS Hot Topics
40 Asteroid Detectors
Proposed “NEOCam” mission would detect
asteroids before they can hit Earth.
16
PHOTONICS FOR A BETTER WORLD
MEMBERSHIP 42 Visualizing Cancer
Surgeon’s glasses detect glowing cancer cells.
18 New SPIE Scholarship
SPIE joins James Wyant and other 43 Inspiring As the Olympics
individuals and groups to provide new
scholarships in Arizona. 24 EVENTS
44 SPIE Photonics Europe
20 SPIE Fellows for 2014 45 SPIE Astronomical Telescopes +
The Society names 76 new Fellows. Instrumentation
46 SPIE DSS 2014
24 SPIE Award Recipients Technical and industry programs support
SPIE biophotonics and lithography awards the latest research in commercial and
for 2014. defense sensing.
48 SPIE Events Around the World
25 SPIE 2014 Election
SPIE announces 2014 election slate.
Send returns and materials to SPIE Professional,
P.O. Box 10, Bellingham, WA 98227-0010 USA. APRIL 2014 | SPIE Professional 1
The Member Magazine of SPIE
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Managing Editor
Kathy Sheehan
NPI
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Graphic Artist
Carrie Binschus
Contributors
Ford Burkhart, Virginia Cleaveland,
Stacey Crockett, Rich Donnelly, Ronald E.
Driggers, Peter Hartmann, Mike Hatcher,
Scott Hauser, Kathy Kincade, Amy Nelson,
Matt Peach, Kathy Sheehan, Karen
Thomas, and Ruikang Wang.
Editorial Advisory Board
James G. Grote, chair, U.S. Air Force
Research Lab.; Kristen Carlson Maitland,
Texas A&M Univ. at College Station; Jason
M. Eichenholz, Open Photonics
2014 SPIE President
H. Philip Stahl
SPIE CEO
Eugene G. Arthurs
SPIE Director of Education and
Community Services
Krisinda Plenkovich
SPIE Director of Publications
Eric Pepper
Advertising Sales
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If you design telescopes, develop
imaging techniques to detect disease,
or use light to study the brain,
SPIE now has the journal for you.
SPIE will launch the Journal SPIE will launch the Journal SPIE will launch Neurophotonics
of Medical Imaging (JMI) in of Astronomical Telescopes, in mid-2014.
early 2014. Instruments, and Systems (JATIS) David A. Boas, Editor-in-chief
Maryellen Giger, Editor-in-chief in mid-2014. At the interface of optics and
JMI covers fundamental and trans- Mark Clampin, Editor-in-chief neuroscience, Neurophotonics
lational research and applications JATIS publishes peer-reviewed covers cutting-edge technological
focused on photonics in medical papers reporting on original advances and the impact
imaging, which continue to yield research in the development, test- on neuroscience and clinical
physical and biomedical advance- ing, and application of telescopes, applications.
ments in early detection, diagnos- instrumentation, techniques, and Neurophotonics will be published
tics, and therapy of disease, as well systems for ground- and space- online and in print, with free ac-
as in the understanding of normal. based astronomy. cess to the online version through
JMI will be published online and in JATIS will be published online and 2015.
print, with free access to the online in print, with free access to the
version through 2015. online version through 2015. SPIE.org/Neurophotonics
SPIE.org/JMI SPIE.org/JATIS
Submit your paper today.
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PRESIDENT’S LETTER
Publish and cherish
I
believe t hat persona l success including a cellular, autonomous,
depends less on one’s intellect phase-unwrapping algorithm.
a nd mor e on one’s abi l it y to
c o m mu n i c a t e o n e ’s k n o w l e d g e CONNECTING WITH
and collaborate with others. If you COMMUNITIES
know me, it is probably because you One of the joys of being SPIE
read something I wrote or heard a President is connecting with our
presentation I gave. technical communities.
The odds are that it was an SPIE In December 2013, I visited with
proceedings paper or presentation. the Australian nano- and micro-
SPIE was in large part founded to optics community in Melbourne
meet the need of practicing engineers and helped celebrate the Australian
and application researchers to collect How will you celebrate the
transient knowledge and practice and International Year of Light
archive it for future use. There is no better form of peer (IYL) in 2015?
The history of my professional career is contained in
more than 150 proceedings papers, fewer than a dozen
review than presenting a paper in We all know that light is
fundamental in human
journal papers, and several trade-journal articles. I front of 100 of your colleagues and activities and that optics and
proudly cherish each one. competitors. photonics are essential for
While the trade-journal articles provided me with the future development of
the most recognition, the conference proceedings our society.
papers have been the most valuable for my career. Optical Society’s 30th Anniversary in Perth. The UN’s declaration of
They served as a “forcing function” to help me The best part about these visits is the opportunity the IYL is an important
formulate, organize, and consolidate my thoughts, to recognize the excellence of our members. In opportunity for us to
and they allowed me to explain something I had Australia, I presented the SPIE best student paper communicate the importance
learned or a problem I had solved. award to SPIE member Kelsey Kennedy. of light and light-based
It has only been in the last 10 to 15 years that I have In February, I attended Photonics West, the technologies to both the
taken the extra step of expanding my proceedings largest laser and photonics event in North America public and to policy makers.
papers into journal papers. As someone who has and the largest event for our bio-optics community. The IYL will celebrate the role
reviewed papers and had papers peer reviewed, I can I welcomed industry leaders at the annual Prism of light from photoemission
testify that there is no better form of peer review than Awards for Photonics Innovation banquet and to photosynthesis, from art to
presenting a paper in front of 100 of your colleagues presented the SPIE Startup Challenge awards, architecture, from physics to
and competitors. sponsored by SPIE corporate member Jenoptik. philosophy.
Also, it was my pleasure, on behalf of all SPIE SPIE, a founding sponsor of
DOCUMENTING RESEARCH members, to present a check to the University of the IYL, needs you to make
As a manager, I have found proceedings papers Arizona College of Optical Sciences to establish an light more visible and, more
to be a great tool for documenting work at a level SPIE-endowed Graduate Student Scholarship in importantly, appreciated.
of detail beyond that of PowerPoint charts. The Optical Science. What will you do to help with
opportunity for my engineers to attend a conference Moreover, it was my privilege to recognize our this important celebration?
to share their work provides me with the only newest Senior and Fellow members. These members How can you participate?
motivational tool needed to get the paper written. are recognized by their peers not only for their Go to spie.org/IYL
Also, after spending millions of taxpayer dollars exceptional professional achievement, contributions to get involved.
to create new knowledge, sending an engineer to to the optics community, and service to SPIE, but also
a conference is a small cost to capture and make for their future contributions.
permanent that knowledge gain. In March, I helped celebrate the Optical Society
But I have a confession. Once I gave a presentation of India’s 50th anniversary.
that people cited as having articulated a “rule” that And in October, I plan to join my other alumni in
one cannot successfully scale up an existing mirror celebrating the 50th anniversary of the University of
technology by more than three times. Arizona’s College of Optical Sciences.
Well, I was busy and I did not complete the I look forward to connecting with the defense
.
proceedings paper. As a result, that work is lost to communit y in Ba lt imore a nd t he ast ronomy
history and I have no way to cite my “rule.” community in Montreal.
Early in my professional career, I presented my
work at meetings for which there were no written
proceedings. As a result, all of my ammonia-crystal-
scattering master’s research is lost to history as well H. Philip Stahl
as much of my early optical testing/metrology work, 2014 SPIE President
APRIL 2014 | SPIE Professional 5
INDUSTRY
Taking the pulse
of the photonics industry
Photonics West exhibitors worth $84 billion in core photonics sales
P
eople who work in the photonics industry the “long tail” of the photonics industry was evident
received mostly positive indicators about in the data: No fewer than 757 companies with annual
the future of the industry at SPIE Photonics revenues below $10 million accounted for just 2.5%
West this year. of the total.
An expanded industry program that included Of the 337,049 employees working for those
workshops and panel discussions about financing exhibiting companies, 131,000 are in the US, he said.
biophotonics star tups, protecting intellectual Japan ranks second in employment, with 121,000.
property, and other technology-transfer topics, along French exhibitors were third on number of photonics
with a sold-out exhibition, served to fuel an optimistic jobs with 28,500, just ahead of Germany with 26,000.
view of the photonics market and its economic impact.
And on the last day of the week-long event in PHOTONICS STILL STRONG
February, SPIE industry and market strategist Photonics West drew a record 21,360 registered
Stephen Anderson gave exhibitors a sampling from attendees from 1-6 February, with more than 4700
an ongoing market analysis by SPIE that shows the presentations and industry sessions that provided
combined annual contribution to the global photonics ideas for those looking to commercialize new
Stephen Anderson market of the companies at Photonics West totals technology.
more than $84 billion. Pointing to these and other SPIE programs to
Anderson, who spoke at several industry events help researchers transfer their technology into life-
during the week, said new industry data analyzed enhancing products and services, Arthurs noted that
by a team at SPIE indicates that Photonics West and “It is a source of great satisfaction that many of the
BiOS Expo exhibitors represent about 18% of the technologies underpinning the medical advances
global photonics product market, estimated at $480 and photonics economy of today were nurtured in
billion, and employ some 337,000 people. SPIE meetings.”
The strong photonics market and employment At the Startup Accelerator Forum, for instance, legal
figures are a sign of the industry’s resiliency through and financial experts gave would-be entrepreneurs
a time of economic upheaval throughout the world, adv ic e on patent pr ote c t ion, nond i sc lo su r e
JOIN THE said Eugene Arthurs, SPIE CEO. agreements (NDAs), and other IP-related topics
SPIE GROUP “We have the great fortune to be working in a that help scientists bridge the gap between basic
vibrant area of science and technology, in a field that research and commercial product development. At
ON LINKED IN: is expanding in so many ways, on so many fronts,” another session on photonics entrepreneurship, three
bit.ly/SPIELinkedIn Arthurs said. photonics insiders gave job interviewing tips and a
crash-course in feasibility analysis.
CORE OPTICS FIRMS AT EXHIBITION
The SPIE market analysis was based on 1008 EXECUTIVES SEE GROWTH
exhibitors at the Moscone Center in San Francisco A panel of seven executives at yet another session
whose sales and employee data are compatible with during the week offered a consistently upbeat view
the Dun & Bradstreet business information database of photonics markets and their near-term potential.
(out of a total 1506 exhibitors). Anderson said the Healthcare and the various markets for sensors were
study, which focused only on exhibiting companies repeatedly cited as areas of impressive growth in the
producing core optics and photonics components, past year and good prospects for the coming year.
excluded educational institutions, government labs, Arthurs agreed. “I believe that Photonics West
Find the Answer and other exhibitors that don’t make or ship optics 2014 offers a window on some key opportunities
and photonics components. for future business and for advances in the war on
The SPIE team reviewing the company data disease,” he said.
from 2012, the latest year available, also created a While panelists said the automatic government
“photonics factor” to pro-rate company revenues spending cuts in the USA known as sequestration
and employment information based on estimates of did impact the defense industry in particular, some
actual photonics-related sales. companies were less affected than anticipated.
Optoelectronics & The data indicates that 40 out of the 1008 firms at Rick Plympton, CEO of Optimax, even looked at
Communications Photonics West had photonics revenues exceeding the cutbacks in a positive light, saying “sequestration
$500 million and accounted for more than three- is going to realign defense spending.” The industry
SPIEDigitalLibrary.org
quarters of the $84 billion in sales. Anderson noted will have an advantage in the new era, as government
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INDUSTRY
looks for cost sav ings that can be enabled by and markets, but most analysts had a hard time
photonics, he said. coming up with an answer. Day’s response to the
SPIE PHOTONICS
Tim Day, CEO and cofounder of Daylight Solutions, question was to point out that it’s actually photonics
echoed the sentiment. A detailed analysis of lifecycle that is the disruptive technology. WEST WILL
costs will be a part of any defense acquisitions, and “There’s so much opportunity; I see growth,” RETURN TO SAN
“photonics has a distinct said Jerry Jurkiewicz, FRANCISCO 7–12
advantage” when that is president of IDEX. “If FEBRUARY 2015.
factored in, he said. all of us on this stage
W hen a sked where
Exhibitors at the BiOS Expo and organize our companies, SEE PAGES
the opportunities lie in the main Photonics West exhibition our ta lents, a nd our 36–39 FOR MORE
the years ahead, almost generate $84 billion in sales of core technolog y on t hose HIGHLIGHTS
everyone on the panel opportunities, I think
mentioned life science photonics components annually the positive side of the FROM PHOTONICS
a nd hea lt hc a re. Dirk and employ some 337,000 people. ledger so far outweighs WEST 2014
Rothweiler, executive the negative side, that I
vice president of optical do not lose sleep at night TO SEE DAILY
systems at Jenoptik, also cited the proliferation of in this industry.” BLOG ENTRIES:
“ambient intelligence.” Beyond the desktop or laptop While there are opportunities all around the spie.org/pwnews
computer, he said, semiconductor manufacturing is world, Dennis Werth, the senior vice president of
benefiting from consumer items with programmable the Photonics Group at Newport, said that he would
displays. And the automotive industry, he said, bet on the US as the place that will produce the next TO READ
continues to be an important market, including big thing. He cited Google, Amazon, and eBay as COPIES OF THE
photonics in displays, ambient lighting, and potentially examples of successful innovators. PHOTONICS WEST
even self-driving cars. “This country just has a repeated history of SHOW DAILY, GO
. TO optics.org/
An audience member asked what disruptive creating whole new industries,” he said. “You just
technology worries them as a threat to their business don’t see that anywhere else.” showdaily
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INDUSTRY
Photonics innovators
celebrate 2014 Prism Awards
I
ndustrial group Hübner of Germany won two Prism Awards for Another 2014 Prism Award recipient to have made its debut at SPIE
Photonics Innovation for 2014, and seven other companies from Photonics West in 2013 is Nanoscribe’s “Photonic Professional GT”
five countries received the prestigious awards for innovative 3D nanoprinter, which won in the advanced manufacturing category.
new tools that improve the accuracy of medical devices, expand the NECSEL won for its frequency-converted green laser array;
capabilities of 3D printing and manufacturing systems, and enable V-Gen claimed the industrial lasers prize for its short-pulse master-
the next generation of 3D video projection. oscillator power amplifier; and Compass-EOS won in optics and
Sponsored by SPIE and Photonics Media, the annual awards optical components.
recognize photonic products that break with conventional ideas,
solve problems, and improve life through the application of light- BRINGING IDEAS TO MARKET
based technologies. The awards ceremony at SPIE Photonics West The winners in nine categories were determined by a panel of
was attended by 340 industry executives, analysts, technologists, expert judges and announced by presenters from companies across
and investors from around the world. the photonics industry.
Hübner won in both the scientific lasers section for its C-WAVE “Our Prism Awards recognize the outstanding products that have
optical parametric oscillator and in the defense and security category emerged from ideas, concepts, and the distillation of networking
for its T-Cognition terahertz spectrometer. The first T-Cognition at previous conferences,” SPIE CEO Eugene Arthurs said. “Smart,
system is about to be installed in a prison in Germany. persistent believers ensured that these ideas survived the valleys of
Also picking up awards were Si-Ware Systems of Egypt, whose tiny desolation and have come to market.
MEMS-based Fourier Transform infrared spectrometer shrinks a “I compliment and thank our judges for their dedication to studying
product that has historically been the size of a kitchen appliance into the many submissions, selecting finalists, and the difficult task of
a device about the size of a postage stamp. Si-Ware, which claimed the picking winners from so many winners.”
prize for test, measurement, and metrology, licensed the single-chip Photonics Media CEO Tom Laurin also praised the winners’
spectrometer to Japan’s Hamamatsu Photonics in 2013. creativity. “It is our great pleasure to collaborate annually with SPIE
Other winners included medical imaging firm AccuVein, whose AV400 to present the Prism Awards, and we congratulate the 2014 winners
system displays a vascular map on the surface of the skin in real time, and and all the finalists,” he said.
SPIE Corporate Member Tornado Spectral Systems, whose OCTANE-860 “It is wonderful to witness the ongoing innovation from companies
on-chip spectrometer for compact optical that have been part of the industry for years, as well as to support
coherence tomography (OCT) applications first the emerging organizations and individuals shaping the future of
appeared at the BiOS Expo in 2013. the photonics industry.”
Members of the Hübner team celebrate their double win.
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The deadline for entries for the 2015 Prism Awards for Photonics
Innovation will be 10 October. INDUSTRIAL LASERS
More information: photonicsprismaward.com.
V-Gen (Israel)
WINNERS IN EACH CATEGORY FOR 2014: The VPFL-ISP-1-40-HE-50000
is a ytterbium fiber laser with
a short pulse width, high peak
ADVANCED MANUFACTURING power, and high pulse energy.
Nanoscribe (Germany) It dr ills, cuts, scr ibes, and
contours diverse materials such
The Photonic Professional GT (PPGT), based on two-photon as silicon, metals, and plastics,
polymerization (TPP) in combination with ultra-high precision galvo supporting touch-panel displays, PCB manufacturing, and the
technology, is the most accurate and fastest 3D laser-lithography solar-cell, electronic, and automotive industries. Presenter was
system commercially available. The automated tabletop printer is SPIE Fellow Reinhart Poprawe, director of the Fraunhofer-Institut
used by researchers für Lasertechnik.
in key technologies
such as photonics, life
sciences, medicine, Life Science and Biophotonics
f luidics, electronics,
optics, and mechanical AccuVein (USA)
metamaterials. The The AV400 Vein Viewing System is a handheld,
3D printer includes a augmented-reality laser camera that detects
user-friendly software and projects a vein map on a patient’s skin.
package and an easy It uses hemoglobin’s IR absorption and an
CAD import via DXR and STL file formats. Presenter was Homer arrangement of scanned lasers to detect and
Antoniadis, global technology director, DuPont. re-project a vein map directly onto a patient’s
skin. The device weighs less than 10 ounces
and is designed to be non-contact, accurate,
DEFENSE AND SECURITY permanently aligned, and movement tolerant.
Hübner (Germany) Presenter was Babak Parviz, Google Glass
project lead, Google X, and University of
T-COGNITION is a stand-alone terahertz spectrometer that Washington.
automatically detects and identifies hazardous substances in mail.
It was developed in collaboration with Fraunhofer IPM and is
designed for public security in prisons, embassies, and other critical OPTICS AND OPTICAL COMPONENTS
infrastructures. The patented
software operates in an almost Compass Electro-Optical
water-free atmosphere without an
external supply of dry air, nitrogen,
Systems (USA)
or other purging gases. Presenter The r10004 Router is t he
was SPIE Fellow Jacobus “Jim” f irst design to allow for a
Oschmann, vice president and full mesh architecture and
general manager of Civil Space and an ASIC-to-ASIC link using
Technology at Ball Aerospace. an optical interconnect. The
router can create a direct,
silicon-to-photonics link and
DETECTORS, SENSING, IMAGING, AND CAMERAS its switchless architecture
can be redesigned with optical
Tornado Spectral interconnects, resulting in
Systems (Canada) improved size (6 RU), weight, power, and bandwidth. It is
designed for service providers (internet, mobile, cable), data-
The OCTANE-860 (Optical Coherence center operators, and high-performance computing. Presenter was
Tomography Advanced Nanophotonic SPIE Fellow Mario Paniccia, general manager of silicon photonics
Engine) is a small, inexpensive, and operations at Intel.
robust spec t rometer on a si lic on
chip designed for full-featured OCT
imaging. Its disruptive nanophotonic
platform is the first of its kind to harness
the scalability of integrated optics in OCT imaging. Presenter was
SPIE Secretary-Treasurer Brian Lula, president and CEO of PI Continued on page 10
(Physik Instrumente).
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PHOTONICS INNOVATORS
t Continued from page 9
Industry
perspectives OTHER LIGHT SOURCES
on SPIE.TV Necsel (USA)
SPIE.TV captured many The Frequency Converted Green Laser Array offers the first RGB laser
of the multimedia solution in 3D digital cinema projection. The array is four times brighter
presentations from SPIE than the single lamp-based projector, allowing the use of a single
Photonics West plenary laser-based projector instead of the pair of lamp-based projectors
sessions and BiOS Hot
currently used in 3D cinema. The lasers use roughly half
Topics in February. They
the electricity of a conventional lamp, reducing the waste
are available online at
spie.org/PW14TV associated with lamp replacement. This laser technology was
developed to eventually replace high-power Xenon lamps and
Two talks in particular enable new lighting applications. Presenter was Barbara Paldus, CEO
highlighted unique of Finesse Solutions.
industry perspectives:
• Photonics21 and the
European photonics SCIENTIFIC LASERS
industry (Michael
Mertin, president
and CEO of Jenoptik
Hübner (Germany)
and president of The C-WAVE is the first coherent continuous-wave source able to be
Photonics21. tuned across the visible range without change of materials. It was
developed in collaboration with Fraunhofer IPM and is designed for
• The role of research, researchers in fundamental and applied sciences who depend on widely
funding, and tunable, continuous-wave sources such as in precision spectroscopy,
entrepreneurism in
quantum optics, material analysis, and photochemistry. Presenter was
the clinical translation
of optical coherence Gisele Maxwell, CEO of Shasta Crystals.
tomography (Eric
Swanson, OCT pioneer
and editor of OCT TEST, MEASUREMENT, AND METROLOGY
News)
Si-Ware Systems (Egypt)
The MEMS FT-IR Spectrometer is the first alignment-free, calibration-
free, and shock-resistant Fourier Transform-IR module on a chip scale.
The module can be integrated into a wide variety of systems for qualitative
or quantitative material-analysis applications in the environmental,
healthcare, agriculture, food and beverage, industrial, pharmaceuticals,
.
petrochemicals, and law enforcement fields. Presenter was Paul Johnson,
executive director of global optics, Photop Technologies.
Moore’s Law repealed
SPIE Fellow Chris Mack, the self-described “Litho
Guru” and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Micro/
Nanolithography, MEMS, and MOEMS, declared
the end of Moore’s Law in a toast with attendees of
Find the Answer SPIE Advanced Lithography in February.
Mack had predicted at the 2013 SPIE Advanced
Lithography symposium that continued scaling
of transistors to reduce cost would end on
Wednesday, 26 February 2014, just before the
poster session.
With a crowd at the San Jose Convention Center
in California waiting for the start of the poster session, Mack announced, “My prediction has come true.”
Lasers He then lifted a beer and declared, “Moore’s Law is over. Long live Moore’s Law.”
The term refers to the trend described by Intel cofounder Gordon E. Moore in 1965, that the number of
SPIEDigitalLibrary.org transistors on integrated circuits doubles approximately every two years.
SPIE.TV captured Mack’s toast live. See the video at youtu.be/IBrEx-FINEI.
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Horizon 2020 program:
Support for small- and medium-sized businesses.
F
unding for photonics-related projects under Horizon Photonics researchers can also expect to share in a portion of
2020, the European Union’s new research and innovation the €17 billion to be spent under the LEIT and ICT themes since
program, will be spread across eight separate private-public photonics, as a key enabling technology, can play a direct and
partnership (PPP) programs, including one for photonics, that have indirect role in building a skilled workforce and creating knowledge,
been allocated €6.2 billion over the next seven years. competitiveness, and economic growth in Europe.
And since a major goal of Horizon 2020 is to support innovative Topics under the ICT and LEIT themes in the calls opened in
small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), much of the December include €28 million for photonics used in the screening
photonics research and innovation of diseases and for sensing for safety
will come under the themes of ICT and and civil security as well as €8 million
“Leadership in Enabling Technologies”
(LEIT), or industrial leadership.
That €700 million for the Photonics for an open-system architecture for
solid-state lighting.
The Photonics PPP and the Factory PPP will be matched by a €2.8 The EU w ill also f und projects
of the Future (FoF) PPP are set to billion investment from industry employing silicon photonics, graphene,
play key and early roles in the new robotics, optical interconnects, PVs,
funding program. The first calls for wireless networks, and fabrication of
proposals released in December involve research on laser-based photonic integrated circuits (PICs).
manufacturing, organic LED lighting, biophotonics, solid-state
lighting, and other photonics technologies. GRANTS, PRIZES FOR PHOTONICS
One funding opportunity, €18 million for development of novel Horizon 2020 replaces the Seventh Framework Programme
materials and systems for organic LED lighting, has a deadline of for Research (FP7), which ran from 2007 to 2013 with a budget
23 April. of around €55 billion. Its goal is to deliver results that make a
Representatives from the European Commission’s Photonics difference in people’s lives. So funding proposals should include a
Unit and Photonics21, who explained the photonics-related calls, statement on the expected impacts, especially solutions for some
award criteria, deadlines, and rules for participation at a meeting of society’s major challenges.
16 January in Brussels, will be on hand at SPIE Photonics Europe Other changes in the new funding program include a single set of
14-17 April to answer questions about the program. rules covering all the projects, simpler rules for grants, improved
The EC, which approved a total €80 billion budget for all research rules on IP, and the possibility of accessing business/management
and innovation under Horizon 2020, has allocated approximately coaching and risk financing. The main form of funding is the grant,
€100 million a year for direct photonics research under the then prizes, then procurement.
Photonics PPP through 2020. With the first awards expected to be announced in September, the
That €700 million for the Photonics PPP will be matched by a initial Horizon 2020 projects are expected to begin 1 January 2015.
€2.8 billion investment from industry, for a total of €3.5 billion for
information and communication technologies (ICT), biophotonics,
microelectronics, energy, lighting, sensing, and other applied
photonics topics through 2020. FOR MORE
INFORMATION:
PHOTONICS PROGRAM A ‘CROWN JEWEL’ Horizon 2020 site:
EC Commissioner Neelie Kroes has called the Photonics PPP “a http://ec.europa.eu/ Find the Answer
crown jewel of Horizon 2020,” with more than 1000 representatives programmes/horizon2020/en/
from the photonics sector playing a key role in advancing Europe’s
Participant portal:
competitiveness. The new Photonics21 Association will partner
http://ec.europa.eu/research/
with the EC in the Photonics PPP and help define the research and
participants/portal
innovation priorities in future calls.
Photonics funding opportunities falling under the other PPPs Photonics21:
will focus on areas that are typically enabled by photonics such http://www.photonics21.
org/AboutPhotonics21/ Sensors
as manufacturing, robotics, high-performance computing, and
energy-efficient buildings. The eight new research partnerships Photonics21_Association.php
are expected to leverage a combined €6.2 billion of public funds to SPIEDigitalLibrary.org
attract up to €60 billion in additional private investments.
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By Ford Burkhart
12 SPIE Professional | APRIL 2014INDUSTRY
F
rom Singapore to San Jose, optical sensors With pollution monitoring, the breakthroughs
are playing undreamed-of roles in industry have paired small semiconductor lasers w ith
and research. They monitor bridges from the semiconductor chips that emit light at exactly the
New sensing
inside. Spot storms from space. Look into at-risk right wavelength to monitor one specific chemical, symposium
cells. But hang on. They’re even reshaping sensor such as methane or acetone. debuts in May
science. “That’s going to wind up being very valuable,”
Up close, personal sensors such as a child’s “mood Lieberman said.
ring” can assess your emotions. A sugar-cube size The applications below are a few favorites of sensor
sensor in a football or boxing helmet can measure innovators. In every case, there are many more The newly established
brain waves, looking for signs of trauma. Sensors applications for each technology. Sensing Technology +
might be in your clothes, in your eyeglasses. Applications symposium
All optical sensors, like the one in a cellphone INSPECTING AND DIAGNOSING at SPIE DSS includes 38
camera, turn light into measurable energy. A sensor In Singapore, Wavelength Technology and the conferences on sensors
surface, about half your thumbnail in size, has Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technologies and sensing technologies
millions of silicon semiconductors that respond to (SIMTech) have teamed up on dedicated infrared- for health, industry,
sensor systems. This collaboration has resulted automotive, and the
light as pixels, each perhaps three microns across.
environment.
The sensor’s optics form it all into an image that can in development of IR ellipsometr y and laser-
be displayed or stored. calorimetry tools that are focused on advanced optics Topics will include
Sensor innovators a re using ma ny opt ic a l characterization. spectral-imaging
technologies for a variety of applications to create “Wavelength Technology, with its expertise in sensor technologies;
the current boom in sensors. IR optics and components, is developing sensing sensors for extreme
tools that are instrumental for quality assurance of harsh environments;
Some sensors produce free electrons when light
and dimensional optical
strikes and are called photoemissive. In others, advanced optical thin-film coating,” said SPIE Senior
metrology and inspection.
conductivity changes are measured – these are Member Robert Huang, the company’s CEO.
photoconductive sensors. Yet others turn light into Wavelength Technology is also looking into new “The field of optical
a measurable voltage, as a photovoltaic panel would. areas where IR optics can be applied. One such idea is sensing is burgeoning,”
Analysis by humans or computers is often the key. says Robert Lieberman,
president of Intelligent
New software can transform sensor data into advice
Optical Systems (IOS) and
to act on quickly.
vice president of SPIE.
A major virtue of optical technology is that you
don’t need to touch anything to make a measurement “Fiber-optic sensing is
as the light travels out and back. migrating from high-value
“With laser ultrasound evaluation, you can easily military applications to
C our large-scale deployment
look for cracks or other problem in car doors or te s y
Wav in oil fields and optical
el e n gt
airplane wings,” said Robert Lieberman, president of h Te
c hno biosensors are moving
Intelligent Optical Systems (IOS) and vice president Laser calorimeter lo gy
beyond medical
of SPIE. “You just zap it with a laser.” applications into
Continued on page 14 agriculture and food
safety. Plasmonic- and
metamaterial-based
sensors are no longer
theoretical possibilities,
but are being fabricated,”
he said.
The event is 5-9 May in
Baltimore (USA) and
includes a 500-company
exhibition and a job
fair 6-8 May. For more
information, see page 46
or visit spie.org/sta.
Huang, Eglash, Sieger,
Abrams, Patel, Day, and
Lieberman.
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SENSORS COME OF AGE
t Continued from page 13
Biosensors
challenged by to combine the flexibility of fiber lasers and advanced
IR/thermal sensors or sensor arrays for making A wavelength-stabilized laser source from PD-LD.
stray light hand-held inspection tools for nondestructive testing
Stray light may in aerospace, marine, and other industries. cell, uses a single, very finely tapered optical fiber
contribute to a wrong Researchers envision a system where a fiber laser to make up to six different chemical measurements
medical diagnosis plays the role of a heat source with controllable input inside a living cell.
when doctors use a power, shape, and temporal characteristics. Thermal “You can tell how healthy the cell is. You can
noninvasive optics tool response is detected by an IR sensor, and a variety determine its oxygen use,” Lieberman said. “We can
to look inside tissue. of signatures can help identify defective or abnormal learn how neurons talk to one another.”
Hyperspectral imaging regions by monitoring heat distribution in the region Sensors are also important for monitoring highway
can provide lesion surrounding the laser spot. and building infrastructure. Bridge rust can be
detection, find retinal For example, in the vicinity of a crack, the lateral costly to repair. One of PD-LD’s products can detect
disease, and observe heat pattern will be affected, while in the presence corrosion early inside a bridge, inch by inch.
blood as it flows, but of corrosion under insulation, the time response of PD-LD placed tiny sensors on the rebar in the concrete
the imager’s optical the surface temperature is used as a defect signature. for the Riverside-Delanco Bridge, in New Jersey near
components that
SPIE member Uri Abrams, CEO of PD-LD, says Philadelphia, during construction of a new deck. The
divide the broadband
radiation into its he admires the fiber-optic sensors from Canadian sensors are watching for signs of corrosion.
spectral components company Verisante that perform noninvasive skin “Instead of waiting for a huge pothole and having
are potential sources of cancer (melanoma) detection, cell tagging, and to repave the whole deck, we can know an exact spot
stray light. sorting. The product, called Aura, won a Prism Award to repair,” said Abrams of PD-LD. “We’d have to close
for Photonics Innovation in 2013. the bridge for just a few hours.”
The same problems arise
“It gives the dermatologist the ability to scan, say,
in food inspection. SPIE
member Bjorn Andresen 300 marks worthy of interest and make a preliminary MONITORING ATMOSPHERIC GASES
at Acktar has solutions. determination whether there’s reason for any concern On the laser side of sensing, SPIE member Tim
about two of them,” Abrams said. Day, CEO and cofounder of Daylight Solutions, says
Mechanical baffles A new sensor from California-based BaySpec has Daylight’s broadly tunable MIRcat, has uses from
and absorbent black features to help monitor a conveyor belt in food atmospheric monitoring to nanoscale imaging.
coatings within the
inspection or the environment from a flying drone. “It does it all, from one box,” Day said, “and there’s
optics housing of a
The OCI-1000 and OCI-2000, two pocket-sized very good stuff in that box. It’s the only laser of its
sensor will minimize the
effects of stray light. hyperspectral imagers, integrate the spectral- type with continuous wave (CW) output, for apps
dispersing element on an image sensor at the level where you can’t use pulsed light,” Day said.
Acktar’s coatings offer of the chip itself. Laser sensors can detect pollutants such as
a reflectance ofINDUSTRY
The European Union required such screening to WHY A SENSOR BOOM NOW?
begin in 2014. Cobalt and a partner in France, Hi- Low-cost microelectronics and low-power radios Long sensors
Tech Detection Systems, are installing INSIGHT100 are reducing sensor costs to a tiny amount, said SPIE
systems in Paris airports. Intelligent Optical
Fellow Steve Eglash, executive director of Stanford Systems (IOS)
If a police team spots a white substance spilled in University’s Energy and Environment Affiliates is developing
a car or airport, they may need a quick assessment Program. environmental sensors
of whether it’s detergent or an illegal, controlled “Things are getting more compact, and computing hundreds of meters
substance. A new PD-LD product, called SERDS, for power is more cost effective,” added Abrams. Many long, using the fiber-
shifted excitation Raman differential spectroscopy, of the hot new items have been in labs for decades, he optic cable itself as the
represents a significant development in the capabilities said. “Now they are finding homes in the commercial sensor.
of Raman spectroscopy analysis, PD-LD says. world.” The approach, known
It would let police assess a sample on the spot. It In commercial applications, “We’ve only scratched as Distributed Intrinsic
takes readings from two lasers and identifies the the surface,” Lieberman said. “In new technology for Chemical Agent Sensing
substance by subtracting one reading from other. remote environmental monitoring, or spy satellites, and Transmission
“ It t a k e s R a m a n or night vision, the thing (DICAST), can look
spectroscopy out of the that gives the advantage for leakage of toxic
huge hospital setting A major virtue of optical technology is the optical sensor.” compounds such as
and onto the streets,” carbon dioxide or
Abrams said. “There’s
is that you don’t need to touch Eglash agreed, saying,
methane.
“In t he near f ut ure,
no risk of false arrest anything to make a measurement bi l lions of net worked “Instead of using point
or of letting a criminal as the light travels out and back. sensors w ill quer y the detectors, you just spool
go free.” physical world and permit out a cable, and that is
Narcotic sensors that us to a sk a nd a nswer the sensor element,”
use Raman spectroscopy can detect traditional said Robert Lieberman,
questions as varied as: Where is the closest place
illegal drugs such as cocaine, methamphetamine IOS president.
to buy Coca-Cola? What are my personal hydration
and heroin as well as synthetic drugs and benign and nutrition needs right now? Is this water pure? With sensitive detection
cutting agents. US-based Thermo Fisher Scientific How will this approaching storm impact energy and along its entire length,
has developed the TruNarc™ analyzer, which uses it could one day protect
.
transportation?”
a Raman-based sensor for that purpose. Good questions. Sensors can help. the perimeter of large
“The criminal element isn’t resting, so neither are areas like military
we,” said Trey Sieger, safety and security market installations, sports
–Ford Burkhart is a science and technology writer
leader for Thermo Scientific portable analytical arenas, or shopping
based in the US. centers.
instruments.
To address technical challenges inherent to Raman
spectroscopy, the company has developed a kit based
on surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS)
that enables screening of heroin, which is often too
fluorescent for Raman analysis, as well as synthetic
cannabinoids and low-dose prescription pills.
At Pranalytica in the US, SPIE Fellow Kumar Patel
and his team are working on a portable quantum-
cascade-laser sensing package that can be taken to
a fire scene to detect toxic chemicals or be deployed
in military, law enforcement, or homeland security
applications to detect explosives and chemical-
warfare agents.
Using eye-safe, long-wave laser beams in the
near-IR range, it will check for dangerous substances
burning 50 to 200 meters away. The package will
measure gas concentrations in parts per trillion,
using wavelengths of 7 to 10 µm, Patel said.
The laser source must be small and power-
efficient, run on batteries for two to four hours, and
be light enough to carry or place on a small aerial
Courtesy PD-LD
platform to monitor large areas.
“No one has reached the two-pound payload yet,”
Patel said. “We are at 20 pounds. We are trying for
the next step, four or five pounds, and that will be a
significant breakthrough for a measurement system.
From 20 pounds to two pounds won’t be easy, but
that’s my job.” Construction workers install tiny sensors on the rebar of a New Jersey bridge.
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Needle microscope wins
SPIE Startup Challenge
W
estern Australian researchers fighting low-resource countries to obtain appropriate vision
breast cancer with a miniaturized optical correction.
coherence tomography (OCT) probe Durr also received the People’s Choice Award,
capable of 3D imaging have won the fourth annual which includes a fee waiver for Photonics West 2015.
SPIE Startup Challenge. Medical devices to improve Third prize of $2,500 went to SPIE member Amos
human health also swept the second and third prizes Danielli, founder and CEO of MagBiosense, for a
at the international technology contest. heart biosensor designed to speed the diagnosis of
Associate Professor Robert McLaughlin, from heart attacks.
the University of Western Australia’s Optical and Winners are all eligible for the boot camp and take
Biomedical Engineering Laboratory, won the top home valuable new contacts as well as recognition
Finalists in award for his presentation of the team’s “Microscope and experience pitching their business ideas.
Startup Challenge in a Needle” project. He received a $10,000 cash prize,
In addition to the three
$5,000 worth of Edmund Optics products to support PHOTONICS STARTUP ECOSYSTEM
further commercialization of the technology, and “It was an amazing experience,” Danielli said. “I
winners of the SPIE Startup
Challenge, five finalists the opportunity to attend a week-long entrepreneur met a lot of people and made good connections with
who made their pitches “boot camp.” judges, potential investors, and fellow applicants.
at the competition in San The OCT probe inside a needle is designed to help After the competition, I was fortunate enough to
Francisco were: surgeons remove tumors in breast-cancer patients be approached by Hamamatsu’s head of Business
and reduce the number of repeat surgeries. Innovations Group. She suggested talking about
• SPIE member Matthew
McLaughlin fought off tough competition from future collaboration, which will be great because I’m
Muller, cofounder of
Swept Image (Canada), Massachusetts Institute of Technolog y (MIT) using their components.”
for SweptVue, a and University of Toronto as well as technology The SPIE Startup Challenge is supported by founding
microscope with on- companies to win. sponsor Jenoptik, as well as Trumpf, Edmund Optics,
demand precision depth The fast-paced business-pitch competition held Open Photonics, and Knobbe Martens.
mapping. at Photonics West in San Francisco in February Jenoptik’s Jay Kumler, who was a judge, had high
invites new entrepreneurs to pitch their light-based praise for the quality of the technologies, pitches, and
• Peter Skovgaard, CEO
and cofounder of technologies and products in front of a judging team of participants at this year’s Startup Challenge. “The
Norlase (Denmark), business-development experts and venture capitalists. growth of the Startup Challenge suggests SPIE has
for a stable, low-noise, a great opportunity to develop a photonics startup
compact, visible diode IMPROVED SURGERY ecosystem that brings ideas, entrepreneurs, mentors,
laser system. “Our goal is to commercialize a technique that can and investors together to advance our industry,” he said.
help guide surgeons to perform safer, more effective Also judging the finals were Samuel Sadoulet
• Eric Wandel, vice
president of Innovative breast-cancer surgery. We are lucky to be working of Edmund Optics, SPIE Senior Member Jason
Photonics Technologies with an excellent team of surgeons, pathologists, and Eichenholz of Open Photonics, Bruce Itchkawitz
(USA), for an all-optical radiologists in Western Australia,” McLaughlin said. of Knobbe Martens, and SPIE Fellow Adam Wax of
analog-to-digital He explained the need for his microscope-in-a- Duke University.
converter on a photonic needle technology: “We have made a device that The call for applications for the 2015 SPIE Startup
integrated chip. helps a surgeon find the edge of a tumor. It’s a mini- Challenge will open in late October.
.
• Christian Weedbrook, fiber-optic probe inside a needle that helps perform More information and videos of the winning
CEO of QKD Corp. of biopsies below the skin’s surface. pitches: spie.org/startup14
Canada, for fiber-optical “This will improve success of surgeries, help to
data-encryption systems remove tumors completely and should reduce the
and solutions for secure 25% figure of repeat surgeries currently necessary
communication lines when malignant material is missed the first time,”
using quantum physics. he said.
• SPIE Fellow Zeev
Zalevsky, head of MEDICAL INNOVATIONS TAKE 2ND, 3RD
electro-optics at Bar The second prize of $5,000 was awarded to SPIE
Ilan University and member Nicholas Durr of MIT and PlenOptika for
CSO at Z-Square QuickSee, an innovative, low-cost, handheld device
(Israel), for minimally that can provide eyeglass prescriptions
invasive, disposable, at the push of a button. The technology
multi-functional
is designed to help people living in
microendoscopy.
Robert McLaughlin with his
microscope in a needle.
Co ey
Jo
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MEMBERSHIP
Other SPIE
SPIE donates to Wyant scholarship program
scholarships for optics students at University of Arizona
S
SPIE provided $3.2 PIE is among 15 individuals and groups who and SPIE membership, and he stressed the society’s
million in support have endowed graduate student scholarships delight in being able to support the college by enabling
of education and at the University of Arizona College of Optical an endowed scholarship.
outreach programs
Sciences (OSC), all made possible by a $10 million Wyant’s gift, the largest for scholarships in the
in 2013, including
gift from optics entrepreneur and educator James university’s history, comes at a time when decreases
more than $390,000
in scholarships to 161 C. Wyant, past OSC dean and emeritus professor. in public funding for education have resulted in
outstanding individuals. SPIE and 14 others each donated at least $100,000 dramatically increased tuition costs, said SPIE
to enable newly created or existing endowments member Thomas Koch, dean of OSC, in making the
Individual scholarships through the new Friends of Tucson Optics (FoTO) announcement. The FoTO scholarships will enable
range from $2,000 to
program. Wyant, an SPIE Fellow and a past SPIE OSC to continue to attract top students and are vital
$11,000 and include
president, is making a 4-to-1 matching gift for each to the college’s continued contributions to leading
travel scholarships
for students planning $100,000 donated, up to $10 million. research and new R&D partnerships, Koch said.
to attend an SPIE The payout on each endowment provides grad SPIE CEO Eugene Arthurs personally thanked
conference. student support in perpetuity at about $20,000 Wyant for his generosity. “SPIE is very much in
annually, and the university is donating grad student support of education, and we see this as an investment
Deadlines are typically in
tuition and fees as part of the scholarships. in the future of optics and photonics,” Arthurs
February. Awards are for
SPIE President H. Philip Stahl presented the said. “Thank you for providing the opportunity to
the future year.
society’s $100,000 donation at OSC’s 50th anniversary contribute in this very meaningful way.”
More information: celebration held during SPIE Photonics West in San Wyant has founded several companies including
spie.org/scholarships Francisco in February. Stahl, a UA alumnus, noted WYKO and 4D Technology Corp., where he continues
the many connections among OSC alumni, faculty, to serve as chairman.
2015
PHOTONICS
WEST•
Call for Papers.
Submit Abstracts
by July 2014
www.spie.org/pw2014
Conferences & Courses: 7–12 February
BiOS Expo: 7–8 February
Photonics West Expo: 10–12 February
The Moscone Center
San Francisco, California, USA
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“SPIE is very much in support of Salary survey
education, and we see this as an Look for the results of
investment in the future of optics the 2014 SPIE Career
Center Salary Survey in
and photonics.” May. Copies of the new
–SPIE CEO Eugene Arthurs report will be available
at spiecareercenter.org/
salary
Wyant, a professor emeritus, has been at UA for
40 years. In 1999, he was named director of what
was then the Optical Sciences Center, and he became
the founding dean when the center became a college
in 2005. Find the Answer
The other FoTO scholarships were donated by: Stahl, Wyant, and Koch with the SPIE donation.
• Michel Cagnet
• The DeMund Foundation • SPIE Fellow Roland V. Shack
• SPIE Senior Member Robert M. Edmund • Richard L. Shoemaker
• SPIE Fellow Joseph W. Goodman • John Tipton
• John B. Hayes and Jane C. Quale • Family of SPIE Fellow William L. Wolfe
.
• Lawrence A. Johnson • Willis Lamb Jr.
• SPIE Fellow Kenneth E. and Michele L. Moore • Wyant, in memory of his late wife, Louise Wyant
Energy
• SPIE Fellow Jacobus “Jim” and Michelle L.
Oschmann SPIEDigitalLibrary.org
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SPIE Fellow
nominations
SPIE names 76 new Fellows
The SPIE Fellows
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Committee will accept
PIE has named 76 new Fellows of the Society
nominations for the next
class of SPIE Fellows this year, recognizing the significant scientific
through 15 September. and technical contributions of each in optics,
photonics, and imaging.
Nominees will SPIE Fellows are honored for their technical
be evaluated on achievements, for their service to the general optics
their technical
community, and their service to SPIE in particular.
accomplishments in
optics, photonics, and The 2014 Fellows exemplify the full diversity of
imaging, including the photonics community and represent 18 different
publications and countries on five continents.
patents; service to Their affiliations “encompass the full range of
the general optics ac ademia, indust r y, a nd gover nment labs a nd
community in the form institutes,” said SPIE Fellows Committee chair
of volunteer work at Majid Rabbani of Eastman Kodak Research Labs
science fairs, service as and Rochester Institute of Technology. Rabbani
an editor or technical
noted that the expertise of the new Fellows spans
reviewer, etc.; and
the fields of astronomy, biomedicine, electronic
service to SPIE. This year’s honorees include the first female Fellow
imaging, holography, lasers, optoelectronics, smart from Taiwan, Ray-Hua Horng of National Chung Hsing
Eligibility requires 10 materials, nanomaterials, nonlinear optics and more. University who is being recognized for achievements
years of cumulative SPIE “Congratulations to them all for their outstanding in optoelectronic applied science and engineering.
membership, excluding contributions,” he said. At left is SPIE President-Elect Toyohiko Yatagai.
student membership.
SPIE President H. Philip Stahl, senior optical
Nominations of physicist at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, also their contributions. I welcome our 76 newest Fellows.”
members working extended personal congratulations to each of the Fellows are recognized at SPIE meetings of their
in industry are new SPIE Fellows for their exceptional professional choice throughout the year. This year, new Fellows are
encouraged. achievements, outstanding contributions to the optics being inducted at SPIE Photonics West, SPIE Medical
Nomination materials community, and service to SPIE. Imaging, SPIE Advanced Lithography, and SPIE
for candidates who are “They are our society’s role models and mentors,” Smart Structures/NDE. They are also scheduled to be
not elected the first Stahl said. “As a graduate student and junior engineer, honored at SPIE DSS, SPIE Photonics Europe, SPIE
time they are nominated I looked up to those with the Fellow ribbon below their Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, and SPIE
are automatically name badge at conferences, and I continue to admire Optics + Photonics.
considered in the next the accomplishments of SPIE Fellows and appreciate
two years.
More information:
spie.org/fellows
Frank Abboud Robert Boyd Fow-Sen Choa
Intel Corp. (USA) University of Ottawa University of Maryland
(Canada) Baltimore County (USA)
Bahman Anvari Jes Broeng Mark Clampin
University of California, Technical University of NASA Goddard Space
Riverside (USA) Denmark (Denmark) Flight Center (USA)
Ramendra Alexander Brian Cullum
Bahuguna Cartwright University of Maryland
San José State University University at Buffalo Baltimore County (USA)
(USA) (USA)
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