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Portrait of Mark Constable
Campus Life
November 10, 2014 | 04:31 pm

Salute to University’s veterans

Financial economics major Mark Constable ’16 is one of more than 80 military veterans currently enrolled as students at the University. This Veterans Day, we recognize and honor the commitment of our students, faculty, and staff who serve or have served in our nation’s armed services, and share just a few of their stories.

topics: admissions, Department of Economics, Department of Political Science, Institute of Optics, Veteran and Military Family Services Office, veterans,
lighted hoops on black grid
Science & Technology
September 4, 2014 | 03:12 pm

Researchers send electricity, light along same super-thin wire

A new combination of materials can efficiently guide electricity and light along the same tiny wire, a finding that could be a step towards building computer chips capable of transporting digital information at the speed of light.

topics: Institute of Optics, Nick Vamivakas, photonics, quantum science, research finding, URnano,
initials UR illuminated in brightly colored points
Science & Technology
August 28, 2014 | 03:14 pm

Doing more with less: New technique efficiently finds quantum wave functions

University researchers have introduced a new method, called compressive direct measurement, that allowed the team to reconstruct a quantum state at 90 percent fidelity using only a quarter of the measurements required by previous methods.

topics: Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Institute of Optics, photonics, quantum science, research finding, Robert Boyd,
Science & Technology
August 25, 2014 | 11:00 pm

Duality principle is “safe and sound”: Researchers clear up apparent violation of quantum mechanics’ wave-particle duality

When scientists in Germany announced in 2012 an apparent violation of a fundamental law of quantum mechanics, The results were both “strange” and “incredible.” It took Robert Boyd and his colleagues nearly a year and a half to figure out what was going on.

topics: Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Institute of Optics, quantum science, research finding, Robert Boyd,
students in a backlit hallway, one of them looking into a telescope
In Photos
July 8, 2014 | 02:49 pm

Like summer camp … for subatomic particles

Optical engineering major Sarah Bjornland ’19 (left) uses a telescope to study resolution versus pupil size with local high school students Justin Shetty, Tyler Acton, and Dan Duguay. During Photon Camp, a week-long effort by the Institute of Optics to introduce more students to the growing field of optics, high school upperclassmen work with University undergrads to learn about the relevance of optics to everyday life.

topics: Institute of Optics, optics,
students in a lab pose with the optical device
In Photos
January 21, 2014 | 05:31 pm

Eyes on entrepreneurship

Ovitz — an Institute of Optics-based team consisting of students (left to right) Pedro Vallejo-Ramirez, Felix Kim, Samuel Steven, Len Zheleznyak, Aizhong Zhang, and Nicholas Brown — pose with “EyeProfiler”…

topics: Institute of Optics,
Govind Agrawal
Science & Technology
November 19, 2013 | 09:53 pm

Inaugural Optics Professorship Recipient Named

Professor Govind Agrawal, a world leader in optical communications, is the first recipient of the Dr. James C. Wyant Professorship in Optics.

topics: Govind Agrawal, Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Institute of Optics, optics, professorship,
graphic showing stacked silver layers
Science & Technology
April 23, 2013 | 08:48 pm

New Optical Lenses, Now Even Better

Researchers have applied a sophisticated imaging technique to obtain the first 3D, high-resolution pictures of a recently developed type of optical lenses.

topics: Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Institute of Optics, Jannick Rolland, optics,
M. Parker Givens
Science & Technology
January 15, 2013 | 10:14 pm

Optical Scientist and Educator M. Parker Givens Dies at 96

Although Givens “officially” retired in 1981 at the mandatory age of 65 (at that time a federal law), he continued to teach for another 22 years, and was primarily responsible for the senior laboratory course.

topics: announcements, Institute of Optics, M. Parker Givens, obituaries,