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Graduate Student Fellows—A Catch-Up October 2018 Vol. 32, No. 5 www.PhotonicsSociety.org From Quantum Science to Quantum Imaging Technology Also Inside: • Graduate Student Fellows—Where are they now? • Photonics Outreach • Summer Topicals Wrapup and Enhancements Optical Component Analyzer The OCA-1000 is a multichannel optical component analyzer capable of performing simultaneous PDL and IL measurements on multiple optical paths. Standard configuration comes with 8 channels. Channel upgrades in multiples of x8 are available. Measurements Application • PDL vs. wavelength • Multichannel optical component alignment • IL vs. wavelength • Multichannel long-term monitoring • Isolation between channels • Fiber optic component characterization • Channel center wavelength • Network component characterization • Channel bandwidth • Insertion loss ripple • Customized parameters for different components are available User-friendly control program with built-in functions +1 (909) 590-5473 [email protected] www.generalphotonics.com October 2018 Vol. 32, No. 5 www.PhotonicsSociety.org From Quantum Science to Quantum Imaging Technology Also Inside: • Graduate Student Fellows—Where are they now? • Photonics Outreach • Summer Topicals Wrapup and Enhancements October 2018 Volume 32, Number 5 FEATURE Research Highlights . 4 – From Quantum Science to Quantum Imaging Technology 7 Young Professional Spotlight . 7 • Engaging and Educating Your Local Community with a Photonics-Related Activity News . 10 • IEEE Summer Topical Meeting Series 2018 Conference Wrap-up • The Importance of Protecting the Privacy and Integrity of Data and Communications • IEEE Technical Activities News: Rules on Photo Usage & Branding Tools • Graduate Student Fellows—A Catch-Up • UCSB-Led Team Selected for Demonstration of a Novel Waveguide Platform Which is Transparent Throughout the MWIR and LWIR Spectral Bands • IEEE Task Force Works on Standard for Light Communications 19 Careers and Awards . 19 • Ursula Keller Awarded the IEEE Photonics Award • Call for Nominations: IEEE Technical Field Awards and Eric Herz Staff Award • IEEE Photonics Society Selects the 2018 Distinguished Service Recipient • IEEE Photonics Society 2018 Graduate Student Fellowship Program • Photonics Society Member, David Richardson Elected as Fellow of the Royal Society Membership . 24 • Membership Spotlights • IEEE-USA Future Leader Forum: Lead, Empower, Adapt, and Design • Student Grantees Attend UNESCO International Day of Light Opening Ceremony • IDL 2018: STEM “Light, Colour and Vision” in Naples • IEEE MOVE: Recharging Power and Potential • IEEE Summer Topicals Mentoring and Social Enhancements in 2018 • IEEE SYP Region 8 Allows Members to Meet New People, Discover New Cultures and Develop New Skills 31 Conferences . 32 • Avionics and Vehicle Fiber-Optics and Photonics Conference 2018 • IEEE Photonics Society Co-Sponsored Events Publications . 34 • Call for Papers: – JLT: CFP Photonic Networks and Devices – JLT: CFP Imaging and Illumination with Optical Fiber – JSTQE: CFP Foundry-Enabled Photonic Integrated Circuits – JSTQE: CFP Semiconductor Lasers – JSTQE: CFP Emerging Applications of Multimode, Multicore and Specialty Fibers COLUMNS Editor’s Column . 2 President’s Column . 3 October 2018 IEEE PHOTONICS SOCIETY NEWSLETTER 1 Editor’s IEEE Photonics Society Column NICOLAS Fontaine President Associate Editor of North America Chennupati Jagadish Brian T. Cunningham With just a few weeks until the IEEE photonics society Australian National University Professor of Electrical and Computer Canberra, Australia Engineering Professor of Bioengineering annual meeting, I hope to see many of you there, although Ph: +61-2-61250363 Interim Director, Micro and Email: ChennupatiJagadish@anu Nanotechnology Laboratory by the time you read this, the meeting will have passed! Director, Center for Innovative .edu.au I am very excited to have several articles this month Instrumentation Technology (CiiT) Past President University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign written by young researchers! In “Graduate Student Kent Choquette Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory Fellows—A Catch-Up,” we tracked down several past University of Illinois 208 North Wright Street Dept. of Electrical and Computer Urbana, IL 61801 recipients of the IEEE Photonics Society Graduate Stu- Engineering phone: 217-265-6291 dent Fellowship, and asked them to tell us what they are 208 North Wright Street email: [email protected] Urbana, IL 61801 Associate Editor of Central, Latin and doing now and to share some tips for the next generation Tel: +1 217 265 0563 South American of scientists. Although each one of their careers has just Email: [email protected] Juan A. Hernandez Cordero Institute of Materials Research begun, it is nice to see that their chosen career paths in- Secretary-Treasurer Department of Rheology and Paul Juodawlkis Mechanics of Materials clude, professors, researcher scientists, and researchers in MIT Lincoln Laboratory National Autonomous University of industry labs. Coincidently, this issue also announces this 244 Wood Street Mexico Lexington, MA 02421-6426 Circuito Exterior s / n, Ciudad years graduate student fellows, and I hope they have just Tel: + 1 781 981 7895 Universitaria, as much success. Next month we will continue this series Email: [email protected] AP 70-360; Coyoacán, Mexico, Federal District, with an additional batch of fellows. Board of Governors CP 04510 G. Cincotti D. Marom Email: [email protected] The next article is written by Takako Hirokawa and R. Essiambre N. Nishiyama N. Fontaine A. Peacock Associate Editor of Asia & Pacific her colleagues from the extremely active Photonics Soci- Nicholas H. L. Wong T. Kawanishi S. Poole DenseLight Semiconductors Pte Ltd ety chapter at the University of Santa Barbara. They hold B. Lee L. Rusch 6 Changi North Street 2 O. Liboiron-Ladouceur S. Savory many outreach events to get young people interested in Singapore 498831 science and have provided a thorough guide to start a Vice Presidents Email: [email protected] Conferences—Martin Dawson Associate Editor of Europe/ successful outreach event. Finance & Admin—Xiuling Li Mid East/Africa The research highlights article is from Miles Padg- Membership & Regional Martin Lavery Activities—René-Jean Essiambre School of Engineering ett, a Professor at the University of Glasgow in the UK. Publications—Aaron Hawkins University of Glasgow Miles is probably most widely known for his work in op- Technical Affairs—David Plant Staff Editor Newsletter Staff Lisa Manteria tical orbital angular momentum and also for previously IEEE Photonics Society occupying the office of Lord Kelvin. The UK has invest- Editor-in-Chief 445 Hoes Lane Nicolas Fontaine Piscataway, NJ 08854 ed heavily in quantum technology forming many new Nokia Bell Laboratories Tel: 1 732 465 6662 research centers across the country. Quantum technology 791 Holmdel Rd, Holmdel, NJ 07733 Fax: 1 732 981 1138 732-888-7262 Email: [email protected] is still a mystery to me as most of the experiments work Email: [email protected] with almost no light in order to observe the quantum ef- Associate Editor of Australia fects. Fortunately, I happened to just attend the Photon Joel Carpenter 2018 conference in Birmingham UK and learned about The University of Queensland Australia Brisbane St Lucia, QLD 4072 many exciting quantum research activities by attending Email: [email protected] talks! Hopefully, this article can provide those research- ers interested in quantum some useful information to find collaborators and get caught up in this field. IEEE prohibits discrimination, harassment, and bullying. For more information, visit http://www. The Summer Topicals 2018 piloted new mentoring and ieee.org/web/aboutus/whatis/policies/p9-26.html. outreach events which you can read about in this newslet- ter. In particular, the mentor match program was a huge IEEE Photonics Society News (USPS 014-023) is published bimonth- success for both the students and the mentors. The men- ly by the Photonics Society of the Institute of Electrical and tees had someone to show them the ropes of the confer- Electronics Engineers, Inc., Corporate Office: 3 Park Avenue, 17th Floor, New York, NY 10017-2394. Printed in the USA. One dollar per ence, and the mentors also benefited by finding valuable member per year is included in the Society fee for each member young researchers to collaborate with or employ. Unlike of the Photonics Society. Periodicals postage paid at New York, NY and at additional mailing offices. Postmaster: Send address most mentorship/outreach events held at conferences, this changes to Photonics Society Newsletter, IEEE, 445 Hoes Lane, event occurred passively throughout the entire conference, Piscataway, NJ 08854. with a luncheon for the mentors and mentees. This event Copyright © 2018 by IEEE: Permission to copy without fee all or part of any material without a copyright notice is granted pro- will also be at IPC this October. I believe that these types vided that the copies are not made or distributed for direct com- of events are ideal to quickly include young researchers and mercial advantage, and the title of the publication and its date appear on each copy. To copy material with a copyright notice newcomers to the community. requires specific permission. Please direct all inquiries or requests to IEEE Copyrights Office. (continued on page 3) 2 IEEE PHOTONICS SOCieTY NEWSLETTER October 2018 President’s Column Chennupati JAGADISH I hope those of you in the Northern hemisphere
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