Category Archives: LOFT News

In a new publication from Opto-Electronic Advances; DOI 10.29026/oea.2021.210040, Researchers led by Professor Daewook Kim from The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA consider advances in optical engineering for future telescopes. Please, read the EurekAlert article.

A very special tribute to Jim Wyant, OSC Professor Emeritus and Founding Dean, will be held in conjunction with the SPIE Optics + Photonics conference in San Diego, CA next month. “A Tribute to James C. Wyant: The Extraordinaire of … Continue reading →

LOFT peers (Jaren, George, Charlotte, and Daewook) have been a part of OpticStudio (Zemax) STOP feature beta program. We are pleased to be a part of the industrial software development and advancement serving our international community. “When doing work with … Continue reading →

Daewook Kim was a part of the NAS (The National Academy of Science) panel on review of “An Assessment of the Material Measurement Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology: Fiscal Year 2020 (2021).” LOFT group is happy … Continue reading →

We are happy to say that our LOFT peers Justin Hyatt and Christian Davila-Peralta received a NSF grant for their start-up company Paramium. Also, LOFT students are working on the thermoforming technologies with them. “Paramium said its “innovative” manufacturing solution unlocks rapid prototyping … Continue reading →

UArizona Will Lead NASA Space Telescope Mission to Reveal Unseen, Dynamic Lives of Galaxies. NASA has selected UArizona’s Aspera mission for a $20 million mission to build a space telescope that will map vast regions of star-forming gas that have eluded … Continue reading →

Dae Wook (LOFT peer) is going to offer Optical Introduction to Interferometric Optical Testing Course (SC213) at the annual SPIE Optics + Photonics conference in San Diego. This short course introduces the field of interferometric optical testing. Topics covered include … Continue reading →

LOFT peer, Dae Wook, served as the guest editor for the special issue of Optical Engineering journal by SPIE. This guest editorial introduces the Special Section on Ultraprecision Optics Fabrication and Characterization. Please, check out the editorial summary article.  

Logan’s recent Optics Express publication, “Infinite deflectometry enabling 2pi-steradian measurement range,” has been chosen for the OSA Spotlight on Optics. Here is a message from OSA. “Spotlight on Optics showcases research produced in out journals-research and information that would be impossible … Continue reading →

As a member of this exciting optics community, LOFT group feels happy to see and learn from a nice work from other groups in the world. Dae Wook (LOFT member) wrote a comment for a OSA Spotlight paper, “System design of a … Continue reading →