Huntsville
Electro-Optical
Society

Chandra S. Vikram Memorial Lectures
February 28, 2008 Schedule

8:00 - 8:10 Opening Remarks
8:10 - 8:40 Optical interferometry work at Alabama A&M University, B. R. Reddy, Alabama A&M Univ. Physics Dept.
8:40 - 9:10 Dynamic interferometry, James Millerd, President, 4D Technology Corp.
9:10 - 9:35 David B. Williams, President, Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville
9:35 - 10:00 Martin P. Kress, Director, National Space Sciences and Technology Center
10:00 - 10:20 Morning Break
10:20 - 11:00 Sculptured thin films exemplify nanoengineered metamaterials, Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Pennsylvania State University Dept. of Engineering Science and Mechanics
11:00 - 11:30 LIGA fabricated photonic crystals, John Williams, Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept.; W.C. Sweatt, Sandia National Laboratories
11:30 - 12:00 Photonic coherence phenomena, David D. Smith, NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch Break
1:00 - 1:30 Mode properties of surface plasmon-polaritons with hetero-dielectric nanolayers, Ronen Adato, Junpeng Guo, Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
1:30 - 2:00 Performance impacts on imaging applications with beam shaping optics, John G. Smith, Andrew Stockham, MEMS Optical Inc.
2:00 - 2:30 Chemical sensor based on thin film optical planar waveguide, Courtney Boykin, Michael Curley, Alabama A&M Univ. Physics Dept.
2:30 - 3:00 Development of inertial sensor components using active and passive polymer materials, Mohan Sanghadasa, Paul Ashley, Mark Temmen, William Diffey, U.S. Army Research, Development, and Engineering Command
3:00 - 3:20 Afternoon Break
3:30 - 4:00 Interferometric measurements of x-ray mandrels, Fei Liu, Joe Geary, Pat Reardon, Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville, Center for Applied Optics
4:00 - 4:30 Terahertz imaging, Martin Heimbeck, Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville Physics Dept.; Henry Everitt, U.S. Army Research, Development, and Engineering Command
4:30 - 5:00 Exploring the vast potential of optical frequency combs, Lingze Duan, Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville Physics Dept.
5:00 - 5:30 Dynamic holographic interferometry in IR and visible range in semiconductor crystals for acoustical sensing (modeling and experimental realization), Nikolai Kukhtarev, T. Kukhtareva, L. Phillip, Alabama A&M Univ. Physics Dept.
For questions please contact: Valentin Korman vkorman@k-sciences.com
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