María del Mar Sánchez López has been recognized as Senior Member of SPIE – The International Society for Optics and Photonics. She received this recognition during the SPIE Optics & Photonics meeting held in San Diego during August 2015, 9th to 13th.
The complete list of new SPIE Senior members can be viewed in: link
SPIE Senior Members are Members of distinction who will be honored for their professional experience, their active involvement with the optics community and SPIE, and/or significant performance that sets them apart from their peers.
María M. Sánchez-López and Ignacio Moreno attend the meeting SPIE Optics & Photonics held in San Diego during August 2015, 9th to 13th.
The oral communication entitled «Spectral characterization and tuning with liquid-crystal retarders» was presented within the session Optics and Photonics for Information Processing IX. The proceedings of this presentation can be found at Proc. SPIE 9598, 95980E (September 9, 2015); doi:10.1117/12.2188629 link
domingo, 27 de septiembre de 2015
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Pascuala García has been recognized as Senior Member of OSA – The Optical Society of America.
The 2015 complete listing of new OSA Senior members can be viewed in: link
OSA Senior Members are well-established individuals with at least 10 years of significant professional experience and with a designation that recognizes their experience and professional accomplishments or service within their field that sets them apart from their peers.
martes, 1 de septiembre de 2015
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We published a new paper in Optics Letters entitled «Azimuthal multiple-beam interference effects with combinations of vortex beams» . In this work we show a technique to create a series of vortex beams with positive and negative topological charges and develop a geometry where they interfere creating azimuthal multiple beam interference effects.
This work has been done in collaboration with our friens at San Diego State University.
The paper achieved impact since it has been on the top10 most downloaded papers in Optics Letters in May 2015.
María del Mar Sánchez and Ignacio Moreno completed a series of seminars about Optics & Photonics at the ‘AUNEX – Aulas de la Experiencia’, organized by the University Miguel Hernandez, and sponsored by the Obra Social La Caixa.
These seminars have been included in the activities related to the IYL2015, the International Year of Light event at the UMH. And they have been imparted at the seven locations of the university in the province of Alicante: Torrevieja, El Campello, Ibi, Elche, Altea, Benidom, and Orihuela. The picture shows us with the group in Orihuela.
On 2015 May 21st, Maria del Mar Sánchez-López gave the seminar Optics & Photonics, the science of light and light based technology at the Department of Physics of the University of Salerno (Italy).
This seminar was part of the academic event for the Premio «Eduardo R. Caianiello», awarded for secondary school students by the International Institute for Advanced Studies (Istituto Internazionale per Gli Alti Studi Scientifici).
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Ignacio Moreno has been awarded with a grant to visit the Department of Physics of San Diego State University for three months. This grant is financed by the from the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports of Spain, in the program for mobility stays for professor and researchers at foreign centers.
This stay will be performed in the period between July and September 2015.
In addition, this grant has been selected as one of the 30 recipients for 2015 of the Fulbright grant by the Fulbright commission.
We published a new paper in Optics Communications entitled «Simple spectral technique to identify the ordinary and extraordinary axes of a liquid crystal retarder«.
In this work we analyze the effective retardance changes that happens when a retarder is tilted and use this effect to easily identify the ordinary and extraordinary axes of a liquid-crystal retarder by means of a spectrometer.
This work has been done in collaboration with our colleagues Juan Campos, from UAB, and Asticio Vargas and Aaron Cofré, from UFRO (Chile).
The company Edmund Optics selected the project of a real time spectrally programmable laser source as one of the finalists of the 2014 Educational Award in the European region.
The complete list of finalists can be found in: link.
This project is inspired in our recent publication in Optics Letters entitled «Optical retarder system with programmable spectral retardance«.
Aida Sánchez Meroño succesfully defended her PhD Thesis entitled “Slow and fast light in multiple-beam interferometers, mono- and multi-layer systems” on March 26th, 2015. The thesis received the maximum mark (excellent Cum Laude). The jury was composed by Prof. Ignacio Esquivias, from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Prof. Juan Campos, from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Prof. Pedro Corredera, from CSIC, Prof. Beatriz Romero, from Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, and Prof. Carlos R. Fernández-Pousa, from UMH.
The thesis has been supervised by Prof. María del Mar Sánchez and Prof. Julia Arias.
The work deals with the theorethical and experimental study of various photonic systems for the generation of slow and fast light, with potential application in sensing and high resolution interferometry. The results have been published in four papers in journals of the first JCR quartile like Applied Physics Letters, IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics and Physical Review A.
María del Mar Sánchez López has been recognized as Senior Member of SPIE – The International Society for Optics and Photonics. She received this recognition during the SPIE Optics & Photonics meeting held in San Diego during August 2015, 9th to 13th.
