Optics Society cites Rochester work

hree research groups at the Institute of Optics have been honored by the Optical Society of America for conducting outstanding research in 2000:

• Thomas Brown, associate professor of optics; Duncan Moore, Rudolf and Hilda Kingslake Professor of Optical Engineering; and Paul Murphy, a former optics graduate student currently at QED Technologies, Inc., were cited for developing a more accurate and cost-effective way to measure optical surfaces that are cut in other-than-spherical shapes.

• Bryan Stone, assistant professor of optics, and graduate student Richard Youngworth were cited for their work to develop more accurate tolerancing of optics--a practice of determining which deviations in an optical element's design are acceptable and which are not.

• Joseph Howard, a recent graduate currently at NASA, and Stone were cited for determining rules governing designs for certain optical devices, such as telescopes, that use multiple mirrors to direct incoming light. The new designs for such devices, known as "off-axis," could lead to more sensitive telescopes and other optical devices that are cheaper to produce.

  
  

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