Grover Swartzlander, Rochester Institute of Technology, USAGrover Swartzlander, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA, recalls childhood memories experimenting with light.
10/5/2016
Henry Van Driel, University of Toronto, CanadaHenry Van Driel, University of Toronto, Canada, finds the ever changing landscape of optics and photonics exciting.
10/5/2016
Irina Sorokina, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NorwayIrina Sorokina, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway, was inspired by her father, a radio astronomer in the 1950s who helped work on the measurements of background radiation.
10/5/2016
Jean Michel Pelaprat, Figulus, USAJean Michel Pelaprat, Figulus, USA, revels in the diversity behind the various applications in photonics.
10/5/2016
Jie Qiao, Rochester Institute of Technology, USAJie Qiao, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA, enjoys the intellectual freedom and the possibility of exploration in optics and photonics.
10/5/2016
Jim Kafka, Newport Corporation, USAJim Kafka, Newport Corporation, USA, recounts his memory of joining The Optical Society as a college student.
10/5/2016
Joe Eberly, University of Rochester, USAJoe Eberly, University of Rochester, USA, recalls how he fell into optics by chance after completing a theoretical PhD thesis.
10/5/2016
Joseph Mait, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, USAJoseph Mait, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, USA, remembers how the discovery of the Fourier Transform inspired him to study optical signal processing in graduate school.
10/5/2016
Time-Traveling Photons - LIGHT MATTERS 09.30.2016On this month’s show, we take a look at the possibility of time travel, as researchers at the University of Queensland have simulated it using photons and quantum particles. Also on the show, we talk...
9/30/2016
SmarAct Inc.'s SmarPodBased on our piezo-based positioners, we developed a parallel-kinematics for manipulating objects in all six degrees of freedom, three linear axes, and three rotary axes. The SmarPod is designed...
9/16/2016