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2023
Cassarly |
"Recent Advances in Tolerancing Illumination Optics," IODC, June 2023. |
| Cheng et al. | "Automatic control method for freeform surface shapes," Opt. Express 31, 29019-29036 (2023). |
| Ding |
"Validation of a Ray-Based Tool for Metalens Design and Analysis," IODC, June 2023. |
| Herman | "Moving Beyond the Drawing Notation of IOS 10110," IODC, June 2023. |
| Rogers, Zollers, Herman |
"Characterizing Finely Structured Ghost Images Using Physical Optics Propagation Methods," IODC, June 2023. |
| Schiesser | "The Importance of Lens Mounting Details in Passive Athermalization: a Design Example," IODC, June 2023. |
| Sparrold |
"Optical Design for Femtosecond Applications," IODC, June 2023. |
| Stone | "Foundations for Ray-Based Design of Metalenses," IODC, June 2023. |
| Takaki, Herman | "The Continued Importance of the Abbe Sine Condition," IODC, June 2023. |
| Takaki, Papa |
"Leveraging Confocality and Cartesian Reflectors in Freeform Optical Designs," IODC, June 2023. |
| Xu, Heller, Bos, Scarmozzino, Bahl, Hu, Achuthan | "Fully automated inverse design solution for metalenses/metasurfaces," Proc. SPIE 12428, Photonic Instrumentation Engineering X, 1242802 (8 March 2023). |
2022
Bos, Scarmozzino, Bahl, Heller, Xu |
"A Design Automation and Simulation Flow for Lens Systems Containing Multiple Metasurfaces," Meta Conference, July 2022. |
Cheng D.; Wang Y., et al. |
"Design, stray light analysis, and fabrication of a compact head-mounted display using freeform prisms," Opt. Express 30, 36931-36948 (2022) |
Davenport |
"Designing more efficient automotive light guide luminaires," SPIE Optics + Photonics, August 2022. |
Herman, Aikens |
"Using ISO environmental standards in an ISO 10110 format drawing," SPIE Optics + Photonics, August 2022. |
Rodgers, et al. |
“Next-generation active telescope for space astronomy,” Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems, Vol. 8, Issue 4, 044005 (December 2022). |
Xu |
"How to Design and Simulate Metalenses Quickly and Easily," Chenglin Xu, September 2022. |
Zhou, et al. |
"Optical design and simulation for waveguide AR glasses," Photonics Asia, November 2022. |
2021
Cassarly; Fang |
“Compound Surface Descriptions in Illumination Design.” OSA Optical Design and Fabrication Congress/International Optical Design Conference, OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 2021), paper 1207812, June 2021; https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2603647. |
Cassarly; Lin |
"Modeling interference using Monte Carlo ray trace." Proc. SPIE 11874, Illumination Optics VI, 118740A (13 September 2021); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2596775. |
Crowther; Rogers; Rodgers; et al. |
"Optical Design of the Mastcam-Z Lenses." OSA Optical Design and Fabrication Congress/International Optical Design Conference, June 2021. |
Davenport |
"Optimizing efficiency and appearance of the light distribution in automotive light guide luminaires," Proc. SPIE 11874, Illumination Optics VI, 1187404 (12 September 2021). |
Novak |
“Angularly Offset Aspheres – a Powerful Construct for Freeform Imaging Design.” OSA Optical Design and Fabrication Congress/International Optical Design Conference, June 2021. |
Rodgers; et al. |
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Rogers |
“Lens design through the ages” Plenary paper, SPIE Optical Systems Design, 2021 Proc. SPIE 11871, Optical Design and Engineering VIII; 1187104 (2021); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2614768. |
Rogers |
“Surface Slope Error Tolerances: Applicable Range of Spatial Frequencies.” OSA Optical Design and Fabrication Congress/International Optical Design Conference, June 2021; https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2603663. |
Rogers |
“Surface slope tolerances: the transition from geometric raytracing to scalar wave theory” Invited paper, Proc. SPIE 11813, Tribute to James C. Wyant: The Extraordinaire in Optical Metrology and Optics Education; 118130Q (2021); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2567548. |
Schiesser; Takaki; Stone |
“Representations of Off-Axis Conics for Lens Design.” Proc. SPIE 12078, International Optical Design Conference 2021, 120781F (19 November 2021); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2603666. |
Takaki; et al. |
"Aberration-based design example for freeform optical designs with base off-axis conics," Proc. SPIE 12078, International Optical Design Conference 2021, 120781M (19 November 2021); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2603673 |
2020
Crowther, Sasian, Hoffman |
"Enhancements and applications of induced aberration theory.” Proc. SPIE 11479, Roland V. Shack Memorial Session: A Celebration of One of the Great Teachers of Optical Aberration Theory, August 2020. |
Ghillino, Patel, Mena; et al. |
“Machine learning assisted abstraction of photonic integrated circuits in fully disaggregated transparent optical networks.” 22nd International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2020. |
Ghillino; et al. |
“S-shaped waveguide-induced asymmetry between counter-propagating modes in a racetrack resonator.” International Conference on Numerical Simulation of Optoelectronic Devices (NUSOD), 2020. |
Gregory; et al. |
"Review of the initiatives in education and training tailored to industry needs over ten years of the SPIE Optics Education and Outreach Conference", Proc. SPIE 11480, Optics Education and Outreach VI, August 2020. |
Novak, Jacobsen |
“Single Surface Freeform for Automobile Head-Up Display with Windshield Combiner”. 8th International Forum on Automotive Lighting, China, June 2020. |
Rodgers; et al. |
“ATSA: a cold, active telescope for Space Astronomy.” Proc. SPIE 11443, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2020, SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, December 2020. |
Rogers, Rakich |
"Aberration theory-based approaches to optical design." SPIE Proceedings Volume 11548, Optical Design and Testing X; 115480M, October 2020. |
Rogers, Rakich |
"A Maxwellian 'ideal imager' optical relay suitable for AO applications." SPIE Proceedings Volume 11451, SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, Advances in Optical and Mechanical Technologies for Telescopes and Instrumentation IV; 114514J, December 2020. |
| Rogers, Rakich | "A generalized Offner relay with an accessible pupil." SPIE Proceedings Volume 11451, SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, Advances in Optical and Mechanical Technologies for Telescopes and Instrumentation IV; 114510B, December 2020. |
| Rogers, Rakich | "The importance of Petzval correction in generalized Offner designs." Proc. SPIE 11482, Current Developments in Lens Design and Optical Engineering XXI, August 2020. |
| Rogers | “Tolerance eigenmodes of optical systems.” Proc. SPIE 11488, Optical System Alignment, Tolerancing, and Verification XIII, August 2020. |
| Schmid; et al. | "Roland V. Shack’s discovery of nodal aberration theory, the expansion into the aberrations of freeform optics, and impact in optical design." Proc. SPIE 11479, Roland V. Shack Memorial Session: A Celebration of One of the Great Teachers of Optical Aberration Theory, August 2020. |
| Stone | "Practical considerations for GRIN raytracing with commercial software." Proc. SPIE 11484, Optical Modeling and Performance Predictions XI, August 2020. |
2019
Calabro, K; Zollers, M. |
“Effects of individual particulates in optical systems using a spatially isolated contamination scattering method." Proc. of SPIE 11105, Novel Optical Systems, Methods, and Applications XXII, 1110509 (September 9, 2019). |
Rizzo, Dai, Meng, London, Patel; et al. |
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Rodgers, M.; Tang, Hong; Creager, B.; et al. |
"The WFIRST Coronagraph Instrument Phase B Optical Design," SPIE Annual Meeting, 2019. |
Rodgers, M.; Redding, D; et al. |
"Habitable Exoplanet Observatory (HabEx) starshade-only architectures, " SPIE Annual Meeting, 2019. |
Zhou, Y.; Bhardwaj, A.; Mason, J.; et al. |
"Electronic/Photonic Design Automation (EPDA) for InP-Photonic Integrated Circuit Process Design Kit," in OSA Advanced Photonics Congress (AP) 2019 (IPR, Networks, NOMA, SPPCom, PVLED), OSA Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, 2019), paper IM3A.3. |