AAOSA

September 9	Topic: Current Research Topics in Plasmonics Speaker: Professor Ildar Salakhudinov Organization: Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan	January 13 (Tentative)	Topic: Biomedical Research using the FRETS Technique Speaker: Professor Edgar Meyhofer Organization: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
October 14	Topic: Micro-fluidics in Biomedial Engineering Speaker: Professor Alan Hunt Organization: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI	Feburary 10 (Tentative)	Topic: Four demonstrations you will never forget: Key concepts in optics Speaker: Warren Smith, Physics Demo Lab Location: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
November 11	Topic: Enhanced Biosensing and Ultrafast Laser Interaction with Multifunctional Nanoparticles Speaker: Dr. Jing Yong Ye Organization: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI	March 10 (Tentative)	Topic: Integrated Optical Technology Speaker: Dr. Rod Alferness (Optical Society of America Presidential Speaker) Organization: Lucent Technologies, New Jersey
December 9	Topic: Biophotonics Technology Speaker: Professor Marcos Dantus Organization: Department of Chemistry and Department of Physics, Michigan State University	April 14 (Tentative)	Topic: Industrial Snapshot Night Corporate sponsors give 15 minute overviews of their company interests, research or unsolved problems. Reception and dinner precedes the meeting. EECS 800 & chapter members encouraged to network for employment and consultation needs. This event will be hosted by AAOSA, LIA & M-Light. Location: TBA, Ann Arbor, MI

September 9

Topic: Current Research Topics in Plasmonics
Speaker: Professor Ildar Salakhudinov
Organization: Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan

January 13
(Tentative)

Topic: Biomedical Research using the FRETS Technique

Speaker: Professor Edgar Meyhofer

Organization: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

October 14

Topic: Micro-fluidics in Biomedial Engineering

Speaker: Professor Alan Hunt
Organization: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Feburary 10
(Tentative)

Topic: Four demonstrations you will never forget: Key concepts in optics
Speaker: Warren Smith, Physics Demo Lab
Location: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

November 11

Topic: Enhanced Biosensing and Ultrafast Laser Interaction with Multifunctional Nanoparticles

Speaker: Dr. Jing Yong Ye
Organization: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

March 10
(Tentative)

Topic: Integrated Optical Technology
Speaker: Dr. Rod Alferness (Optical Society of America Presidential Speaker)
Organization: Lucent Technologies, New Jersey

December 9

Topic: Biophotonics Technology
Speaker: Professor Marcos Dantus
Organization: Department of Chemistry and Department of Physics, Michigan State University

April 14
(Tentative)

Topic: Industrial Snapshot Night

Corporate sponsors give 15 minute overviews of their company interests, research or unsolved problems. Reception and dinner precedes the meeting. EECS 800 & chapter members encouraged to network for employment and consultation needs. This event will be hosted by AAOSA, LIA & M-Light.

Location: TBA, Ann Arbor, MI

A2OSA Abstracts

Poster Slam

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Industrial Tour

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Nonlinear Opto-Mechanicals Using Radiation Pressure in Micro-Cavities

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Solar Car Event and Industrial Snapshot Night

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Optics and Engineering of Organic Photovoltaics

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Abstracts updated as details
are confirmed.

Local Listings: updated 6.20.07
Test Engineer Etech Hi, Inc. , Ann Arbor, MI Mechanical Engineer IMRA America, Inc., Ann Arbor, MI Opto-Mechanical Engineer IMRA America, Inc., Ann Arbor, MI Production Manager Picometrix, Ann Arbor, MI LCD Application Engineer OneTen Technologies, Ann Aror, MI Optometrist U.S. Air Force, Ann Arbor, MI Senior Electrical Engineering Jobs Novi, MI IT Services Consultant Advanced Communications Inc, Canton, MI	Chief Systems Engineer MRINetwork, Ann Arbor, MI Electronics Bartech Group, Ann Arbor, MI Mechanical Engineer IMRA America, Inc., Ann Arbor, MI Opto-Mechanical Design Engineer Threefoldsensors, Ann Arbor, MI National Listings (requires OSA member password) Optical Society of America careers http://osa.org/careers/
to post a local job listing, contact A2OSA webmaster:

Local Listings: updated 6.20.07

Test Engineer
Etech Hi, Inc. , Ann Arbor, MI

Mechanical Engineer
IMRA America, Inc., Ann Arbor, MI

Opto-Mechanical Engineer
IMRA America, Inc., Ann Arbor, MI

Production Manager
Picometrix, Ann Arbor, MI

LCD Application Engineer
OneTen Technologies, Ann Aror, MI

Optometrist
U.S. Air Force, Ann Arbor, MI

Senior Electrical Engineering Jobs
Novi, MI

IT Services Consultant
Advanced Communications Inc, Canton, MI

Chief Systems Engineer
MRINetwork, Ann Arbor, MI

Electronics
Bartech Group, Ann Arbor, MI

Mechanical Engineer
IMRA America, Inc., Ann Arbor, MI

Opto-Mechanical Design Engineer
Threefoldsensors, Ann Arbor, MI

National Listings
(requires OSA member password)
Optical Society of America careers
http://osa.org/careers/

to post a local job listing, contact A2OSA webmaster:

2008 A2 OSA Officers

Jingyong Ye
president
jyye@umich.edu

John Nees
past president
nees@umich.edu

Glen Bolling
secretary
bolling@kosi.com

Greg Fichter
treasurer
gfichter@picometrix.com

TBD
president elect
(position open)

Past Presidents

Michelle Stock

Natthi Sharma

Almantas Galvanauskas

Carl Aleksoff

Ken Fischer

James Carroll

James Sheerin

Stephen Rand

Gordon M. Brown

Emmett L. Leith

Doreen Weinberger

Lauren Peterson

Don Gillespie

Kent Moncur

Willes H. Weber

Tony Tai

Bill Colburn

George Zissis

Robert Meredith

Bernard Kippelen

Bernard Kippelen studied at the University Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg where he received a Maitrise in Solid-State Physics in 1985, and a Ph.D. in Nonlinear Optics in 1990. From 1990 to 1997 he was Chargé de Recherches at the CNRS, France. In 1994, he joined the faculty of the Optical Sciences Center at the University of Arizona and in 2003 became a professor at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His research interests range from fundamental physical processes (nonlinear optical activity, charge transport, light harvesting and emission) in organic-based nanostructured thin films, to the design, fabrication and testing of light-weight flexible optoelectronic devices based on hybrid printable materials. He serves as Associate Director of the Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics and as Associate Director of the NSF Science and Technology Center MDITR. He holds ten patents and has co-authored over 125 refereed journal publications and eleven book chapters. He has also co-founded several spin-off companies. He is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America and of SPIE.

Visit 2006 A2OSA website here.

View Ann Arbor Chapter Constitution here.

Metamaterial Surfaces & Structures
Anthony Grbic

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Multi-Wavelength Digital Holographic Metrology
Dr. Carl Aleksoff

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Nonlinear Opto-Mechanicals Using Radiation Pressure in Micro-Cavities
Dr. Tal Carmon

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The greater Ann Arbor–Ypsilanti area is a hub of optical activity in imaging, communications, defense, nanotechnology, biomaterials, and tissue engineering.	Current areas of investigation include, but are not limited to: • optical communication • high-speed electronics • materials science & micromachining • laser materials deposition • terahertz imaging • accelerator beam physics • nuclear science • high-energy physics • astrophysics • genomics • medical applications in eye surgery • precision radiography • high-power fiber lasers
The A2 Optics Community
	Innovations by scientists at Eastern Michigan University, the University of Michigan, and numerous local technology companies result in practical application of the newest optical breakthroughs.

The greater Ann Arbor–Ypsilanti area is a hub of optical activity in imaging, communications, defense, nanotechnology, biomaterials, and tissue engineering.

Current areas of investigation
include, but are not limited to:

• optical communication
• high-speed electronics
• materials science & micromachining
• laser materials deposition
• terahertz imaging
• accelerator beam physics
• nuclear science
• high-energy physics
• astrophysics
• genomics
• medical applications in eye surgery
• precision radiography
• high-power fiber lasers

The A2 Optics Community

Innovations by scientists at Eastern Michigan University, the University of Michigan, and numerous local technology companies result in practical application of the newest optical breakthroughs.

2008: Optics & Alternative Energy Series		The growing cost of energy to the economy and ecology is a critical challenge for the current generation. The Ann Arbor Chapter of the Optical Society of America supports the investigation and discovery new energy sources and emerging technologies that potentially solve these problems. Therefore AAOSA is seeking to increase public awareness of the vital role that local companies, educational institutions and individuals are playing in finding energy solutions. We do this through invited seminars, industrial tours, and through an annual corporate presentation night.

The Ann Arbor section of the OSA is very proud of its historically strong corporate representation.

The technical interactions and promotional services A2OSA provides to Corporate sponsors (members) include:

• sponsorship listing on all meeting announcements

• sponsorship listing on the OSA national website at:
http://www.osa.org/localsections/aaosa/aaosaindex.htm.

• site-wide sponsorship listing on this site (see lower left)

• direct link to corporate sponsor website from sponsorship

listing on this site.

• free corporate member job posting on this site under ”careers” button. (contact webmaster: nees@umich.edu)

• Sponsors are also invited once a year to participate in the A2OSA Industrial Snapshot Night by giving corporate overviews and networking with local optics professionals and academics.

Corporate members	$85

ADVANCE Sponsor	$300

Download	application form
or contact	Glen Bolling secretary bolling@kosi.com

*A2OSA reserves the right to limit corporate sponsorship approval to relevant local and national corporations

Nov 11	Coherent control with ultrashort laser pulses; From theoretical concept to academic R&D and finally to commercial applications Professor Marcos Dantus Tuesday, December 9, 2008 University of Michigan DOW Bldg. 1005 6:30PM-7:30PM
Nov 11	Map to meeting site: www.umich.edu/~newsinfo/umnc.html (or see the AAOSA website). Free parking after 6 pm in lots east of the Lurie Building (enter at intersection of Beal & Bonisteel) or around the new Arthur Miller Theater. You are invited to join the officers and speaker for dinner prior to the seminar ($5 for members; EECS 800 students free. Dinner will be served ~6-6:30 pm in lobby of the new CSE Bldg (adjacent to the seminar room). .

Ann Arbor’s Optics Community		2008: Optics & Alternative Energy	Join A2OSA	A2OSA Corporate Sponsorship
Ann Arbor Section of the Optical Society of America

	Ann Arbor Sensor Systems Ann Arbor SPARK American Laser Enterprises Biophotonic Solutions Clark-MXR Data Optics L-3, EOTech Fraunhofer USA General Dynamics GSI Group Kurath Design
		IMRA America IPG Photonics API-Picometrix Kettering University Laser Mechanisms Michigan Aerospace	Omni Sciences Optrand Precitec Spot Design Translume Trumpf	2008: Optics & Alternative Energy Initiatives Series