ROCKY MOUNTAIN SECTION OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA
                              &
           IEEE LASERS AND ELECTROOPTICS SOCIETY


                        Oct. Meeting

Date:  Thursday, 18 Oct. 2001
Time:  7:00 PM refreshments, 7:30 PM talk
Place: Colorado State University
       Fort Collins, CO
       Wagar 133


Title: Agilent R&D Overview

       Dr. Susan Hunter
       Principal Project Scientist
       Communications & Optics Research Laboratory
       Agilent Laboratories, Fort Collins, Colorado


Abstract:

I will present an overview of the research and development 
efforts at Agilent Labs. I will go into detail on some of the 
novel inventions that have come from the Labs and have been 
put into commercial products.

AGILENT LABORATOY INFORMATION   (www.labs.agilent.com)

Agilent Laboratories, based in Palo Alto, Calif., with 
satellite offices in Fort Collins, Colo,  Japan, China and 
Scotland, is Agilent Technologies' central research 
organization. Its purpose is to create value for Agilent 
through technology innovations that either create new 
businesses or enhance existing ones. 

Agilent Labs' success is measured by the financial impact of 
the technologies that are transferred from the Labs to the 
businesses that it supports and by its contributions to the 
scientific community in general. Labs' culture awards the 
highest recognition to those contributions that put products 
in the marketplace, and it has a long tradition of being the 
starting point for major new businesses. 


Biography:

Dr. Hunter attended the University of California, San Diego 
for a total of 11 years, receiving a BS degree in Engineering 
Physics, a MS degree in Electrical Engineering, and a PhD 
degree in EE-Applied Physics (completed in 1994).  Her 
dissertation was part of the pioneering work into volume 
optical data storage using 2-photon absorption.

Dr. Hunter joined Hewlett-Packard Laboratories in 1994 and 
worked in the areas of optics and material science to develop 
new methods of digital photography and low cost scanning 
technologies.

In 1998, she moved to HP in Greeley, Colorado to develop the 
first digital cameras with patented HP image processing 
algorithms and custom HP ASIC. After the launch of the HP 
C618 and C912 digital cameras(2000), Dr. Hunter (re)joined 
Agilent Labs in Fort Collins. She is currently working in 
optical system design and optical modeling for the optical 
telecomm marketplace.

Dr. Hunter had the enjoyable experience of teaching Linear 
Systems at Colorado State Univ. for the Fall semester of 2000 
(EE311). She also helped to create the Agilent Fellowship in 
Photonics award which support graduate level research in the 
areas of optics and optoelectronics in Colorado.