• Microplasma Arrays - Photonic Devices for Emission and Photodetection
  IEEE Distingished Lecturer
  Prof. J. Gary Eden
  Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
  Univ. of Illinois
  Urbana-Champaign, IL
  23 Oct. 2003
  
  
• Stabilization of Femtosecond Lasers for Precision Measurement and Coherent Storage of Optical Pulses in External Cavities
  R. Jason Jones
  JILA
  Boulder, CO
  18 Sept. 2003
  
  

• Deep Impact 'Blast a Comet With a Copper Boule' Mission
  Jim Baer
  Ball Aerospace
  Boulder, CO
  15 May 2003
  
  
• Optical Rules of Thumb
  Dr. Ed Friedman
  Boeing Company
  Boulder, CO
  17 Apr. 2003
  
  
• Generation of Extreme Ultraviolet Radiation Using High Harmonic Generation
  Cancelled due to weather
  Prof. Randy Bartels
  ECE, CSU
  Fort Collins, CO
  20 Mar. 2003
  
  
• Quantum Cascade Lasers
  Dr. Claire Gmachi
  Bell Labs
  Lucent Technologies
  Murray Hill, NJ
  20 Feb. 2003
  
  
• Imaging with Terahertz Waves
  IEEE Distingished Lecturer
  Dr. Daniel Mittleman
  Electrical & Computer Engineering, MS-366
  Rice University
  6100 Main St.
  Houston, TX 77005
  16 Jan. 2003
  
  
• Towards Business
  LEOS President
  Dr. Milton Chang
  Incubic 855 Maude Ave. Mountain View, CA 94043 19 Dec. 2002
  
  
• Directly Modulated 1.3 um Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers (VCSEL's) - From Wishful Thinking to Commercial Viability
  L. M. F. Chirovsky
  Optical Communication Products, Inc.
  325 Interlocken Parkway
  Broomfield, CO 80021
  21 Nov. 2002
  
  
• Laser Manipulation of Group III Atoms
  Prof. Siu Au Lee
  Colorado State University
  17 Oct. 2002
  
  
• Creationism, Neocreationism, and Statistics
  Matt Young
  Colorado School of Mines
  19 Sept. 2002
  
  

• Optical Coatings
  Prof. Angus Macleod
  Thin Film Center, Inc.
  Tucson, AZ
  16 May 2002
  
  
• From Femtoseconds to Attoseconds -- from Coulomb Explosions to Writing Waveguides
  Paul Corkum
  Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences
  National Research Council of Canada
  18 Apr. 2002
  
  
• Optical Clocks: Timekeeping for the Future
  Dr. Chris Oates
  NIST
  Boulder, CO
  21 Mar. 2002
  
  
• The Next Generation Space Telescope
  Dr. Dennis Ebbets
  Ball Aerospace
  Boulder, CO
  21 Feb. 2002
  
  
• Advanced Optical Sensing using Laser Modulation Spectroscopy
  IEEE Distingished Lecturer
  Dr. Amin Dharamsi
  Professor and Graduate Director
  Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
  Old Dominion University
  Norfolk, Virginia, 23529-0246
  17 Jan. 2002
  
  
• Ultrafast Optics
  Prof. Eric Ippen
  MIT
  Cambridge, MA
  13 Dec. 2001
  
  
• A Life on the Edge of Optics: From the Magnifying Glass to Optical SETI, Terrestrial Planet Finder, and Beyond
  Dr. Steve Kilston
  Ball Aerospace
  Boulder, CO
  15 Nov. 2001
  
  
• Agilent R&D Overview
  Dr. Susan Hunter
  Principal Project Scientist
  Communications & Optics Research Laboratory
  Agilent Laboratories, Fort Collins, CO
  18 Oct. 2001
  
  
• Quantum Computers and Schroedinger's Cat
  Dave Wineland
  NIST Time and Frequency Division
  Boulder, CO
  20 Sept. 2001
  
  

• Heterogeneous Integration of VCSELs & their Applications
  Prof. Carl Wilmsen
  Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering
  Colorado State University
  Fort Collins, CO
  17 May 2001
  
  
• Ultrafast Laser and X-Rays - Life in the Fast Lane
  Prof. Margaret Murnane
  Univ. of Colorado / JILA
  Boulder, CO
  19 Apr. 2001
  
  
• Ultrafast Solid-State Lasers
  IEEE Distingished Lecturer
  Dr. Ursula Keller
  Ultrafast Laser Physics
  Institute of Quantum Electronics
  Physics Department
  Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
  15 Mar. 2001
  
  
• The Diversity of Optics Along the Front Range
  Company representatives from
  Ball Aerospace
  CDM Optics
  Datex-Ohmeda
  Hyperfine
  Meadowlark Optics
  Network Photonics
  Research Electro-Optics
  discuss their business and products, including respectively
  space-based instruments, extended depth-of-field techniques,
  medical instruments, gratings, polarization optics, fiber optics,
  lasers and polishing.
  15 Feb. 2001
  
  
• Vertical Cavity Lasers - New Light for the Information Age
  IEEE Distingished Lecturer
  Kent Choquette
  Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  18 Jan. 2001
  
  
• How to Improve Your Image ... a Potpourri of Interesting and Exciting Topics in Optics and in Magic
  Bob Fischer
  OPTICS 1, Inc.
  Westlake Village, CA
  13 Dec. 2000
  
  
• Quantum Meteorology: Solitons vs Vortices in the World Below 20 Nanokelvin
  Dr. Eric Cornell
  Univ. of Colorado/JILA
  Boulder, CO
  16 Nov. 2000
  
  
• Design and Predicted Performance of an Optical Cryocooler for a Focal Plane Application
  Gary Mills
  Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.
  Boulder, CO
  26 Oct. 2000
  
  
• Building Compact Clocks for Telecom using Vertical Cavity Lasers
  Dr. John Kitching
  NIST, Time and Frequency Division
  Boulder, CO
  21 Sept. 2000
  
  

• Photonic Crystals and Photonic Microstructures: Technologies and Device Potential
  IEEE Distingished Lecturer
  Prof. Richard De La Rue
  The University, Glascow
  Glascow, Scotland
  11 May 2000
  
  
• Yb/Er-codoped and Yb-doped Waveguide Lasers in Phosphate Glass
  Cancelled
  Dave Veasey
  NIST
  Boulder, CO
  20 Apr. 2000
  
  
• Semiconductor lasers for WDM systems
  IEEE Distinguished Lecturer
  Jens Buus
  Gayton Photonics Ltd.
  16 Mar. 2000
  
  
• Practical Tabletop Soft X-ray Lasers Open New Opportunities in Science
  Jorge Rocca
  Colorado State University
  17 Feb. 2000
  
  
• Development of an Ultra-Sensitive Surface Plasmon Resonance Based Biosensor
  Eastman Kodak Speaker
  Prof. Hans Schuessler
  Physics Dept.
  Texas A&M University
  20 Jan. 2000
  
  
• High-Performance Oxide VCSELs
  Jack L. Jewell
  Chief Technical Officer
  Picolight Inc.
  Boulder, CO
  16 Dec. 1999
  
  
• Characterizing Multimode Fiber for Gigabit Network Applications
  John Schlager
  NIST
  18 Nov. 1999
  
  
• Image Sensor Technology and Applications
  John Gilmore
  Hamamatsu
  21 Oct. 1999
  
  
• NASA's Chandra Telescope: How just $300M invested in optics can provide amazing X-ray images of the Universe.
  Dr. Steve Jordan
  Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.
  Boulder, CO
  30 Sept. 1999
  
  

• Biomaterials
  Engineers in Medicine and Biology joint presentation
  Dr. Paul Rullkoetter
  Department of Engineering
  University of Denver
  20 May 1999
  
  
• Free-Space THz Optoelectronics & Progress in Femtosecond Semiconductor Optoelectronic Devices
  IEEE Distinguished Lecturer Double-Header
  Dr. X.-C. Xhang
  Professor of Physics
  Professor of Electrical Engineering
  Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  &
  Osamu Wada
  FESTA Laboratories
  15 April 1999
  
  
• Science and Technology in Congress
  Dr. Bob Feuerstein
  Electrical and Computer Engineering
  University of Colorado at Boulder
  Recent Staff Member for Former Senator Alfonse D'Amato
  11 Mar 1999
  
  
• Precision Optical Applications of Liquid Crystals
  Tom Baur
  CEO, Meadowlark Optics
  18 Feb 1999
  
  
• Noninvasive Optical Detection of Glucose
  Engineers in Medicine and Biology joint presentation
  Dr. Kathleen Meehan
  Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering
  University of Denver
  21 Jan 1999
  
  
• Where is Optics - and the OSA - Going?
  OSA Presidential Lecturer
  Christmas Party
  Prof. Tony Siegman
  President-Elect of OSA
  17 Dec 1998
  
  
• Advanced technology projects at HEAT
  Dr. Mary Ann Roe
  Director of Planning, Development, and Special Projects
  Higher Education and Advanced Technology (HEAT) Center at Lowry
  19 Nov 1998
  
  
• Measurements of arrayed-waveguide gratings (AWGs) at NTT OptoElectronics Labs- Ibaraki, Japan
  Steven Mechels
  NIST Optoelectronics Division
  15 Oct 1998
  
  
• Spooky action under Geneva: violation of Bell's inequality by photons 10 km apart
  Nicolas Gisin
  Professor
  University of Geneva
  17 Sept 1998
  
  

• Novel Integrable Semiconductor Laser Structures
  James J. Coleman
  Professor
  Electrical and Computer Engineering
  University of Illinois, Urbana
  28 May 1998
  
  
• Surface Micromachined Optical Systems
  Victor M. Bright, Ph.D.
  Associate Professor
  Department of Mechanical Engineering
  University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
  16 April 1998
  
  
• Optical Biopsy: Optical Technologies for Minimally-Invasive Diagnosis of Cancer
  Irving J. Bigio, Ph.D.
  Bioscience & Biotechnology Group
  Los Alamos National Laboratory
  19 Mar 1998
  
  
• Engineering Solder for Optoelectronics Packaging and MEMS
  Prof. Y.C. Lee
  Department of Mechanical Engineering,
  NSF Center for Optoelectronic Computing Systems, and
  NSF Center for Advanced Manufacturing and Packaging of
  Microwave, Optical and Digital Electronics
  University of Colorado, Boulder
  19 Feb 1998
  
  
• Remote Sensing of Automobile Exhaust
  Donald H. Stedman
  Brainerd Phillipson Professor of Chemistry
  University of Denver
  15 Jan 1998
  
  
• Integrated Optics in Planar Lightwave Circuits
  Christmas Party
  Katsunari Okamoto
  9 Dec 1997
  
  
• The Optrode (Optical Electrode): A New Paradigm for Chemical Sensing
  Dr. Alan E. Baron
  PhotoSence LLC
  20 Nov 1997
  
  
• Have we discovered Life on Mars?
  Dennis Ebbets
  Ball Aerospace and Technologies, Inc.
  30 Oct 1997
  
  

---

Top
RMOSA Main Page

---