Author Archives: LoftUser

We would like to express our sincere gratitude towards Philoptics for their generous donation of a substantial amount of optical components and tables. Our collaboration with Philoptics over the past three years has been truly remarkable, particularly in the development … Continue reading →

A LOFT group member was accidentally spotted at the SPIE AR/VR/MR conference. Surprise? The conference was very successful and impressive. So many interesting and challenging optical design and configuration problems/topics are waiting for talented optical scientists.

One of our LOFT peer, Dae Wook Kim, shares his thoughts and happiness with his research, work, and teaching at The University of Arizona. If you are interested in, please, check out his interview article in the Ginat Magellan Telescope Organization (GMTO) Newsletter … Continue reading →

It has been another exciting and productive year 2018 with all the LOFT peers. Total 13 publications have been added to the Publication section. Please, enjoy the invaluable academic contributions from the LOFT group colleagues to our optics and astronomy society. … Continue reading →

Here is a Popular Mechanics article “The Deep Space Eye in the Desert” introducing the Giant Magellan Telescope project. It features our LOFT group member Dae Wook’s comments.

Joel Berkson is working on the NASA Space Grant internship program for 2017-2018. He is a University of Arizona Junior majoring in Optical Sciences and Engineering. He works with Dae Wook Kim from the College of Optical Sciences on “Deflectometry-based Simultaneous … Continue reading →

LOFT group members shouldn’t miss this great talk (Invited_Talk_Peter_Zygo) by Peter from ZYGO. If you have any question regarding the talk, please, contact Dae Wook Kim (dkim@optics.arizona.edu). Peter is a Physics PhD working in precision optical measurements, and is currently … Continue reading →

Dr. Frater, Eric successfully defended his PhD dissertation, “Optical Alignment with CGH Phase References.”, on July 27th, 2016.  We send our big congratulation to this excellent LOFT group PhD, and please check out his “cool” dissertation for more detail on his … Continue reading →

Congratulation,Hyesun Angela Cha (LOFT undergraduate student). Angela was listed as one of the  ​“Dean’s List With Distinction” (2015 Fall) and “Dean’s list” (2016 Spring) students in the College of Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona in 2016.

During the Spring 2012 semester LOFT partly sponsored the creation of 66 optics kits. 50 were donated to the Girl Scouts of Southern Arizona and 16 to CIAN (Center for Integrated Access Networks) from OSC. On November 12th 2012, a couple … Continue reading →