On November 25th, 2019 we organized a workshop entitled ‘Structured Light, Polarimetry and Imaging‘.
The workshop was held at the Institute of Bioengineering of UMH, and we could count with the participation of experts from different groups in Spain working in these related fields.
We thank all the participants and attendees to this extremely interesting and motivating reunion.
Our new publication is available in Optics & Lasers in Engineering, entitled Diffraction efficiency of stepped gratings using high phase-modulation spatial light modulators.
We study the diffraction efficiency of linear phase (blazed) diffraction gratings displayed onto SLMs that exhibit a large phase modulation range, reaching a maximum phase modulation of 8pi or 10pi radians. We analyse these effects for their important implications in the Nyquist limit for diffractive elements
The paper has been done in collaboration with our friends at San Diego State University.
We had the pleasure to receive the visit of Dr. Tomás Belenguer Dávila, head of the Space Optical Instrumentation of INTA – Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial.
The visit of Dr. Belenguer was part of hisp articipation in the TECNIT PhD Program Workshop, where he delivered a presentation about his activities, entitled Optical instrumentation in space missions. The presentation can be viewed at the following link:
A new publication of our team is available at the journal Optics & Lasers in Engineering, entitled Efficient on-axis engineering of optical vector modes.
In this work we present a method for the efficient experimental generation of arbitrary polarized vector beam modes. The optical system employs two LCOS-SLMs in a common path architecture, avoiding the use of beam-splitters.
We apply a recently proposed random technique to encode complex amplitude values. This encoding technique reconstructs the complex function on-axis, thus avoiding incorporating carrier phases. We demonstrate arbitrary scalar modes encoded onto orthogonal polarization components, whose superposition results in a vector beam mode.
The women of TecnOPTO attended the First Workshop of Women, Optics & Photonics in Spain, organized by the Area of Women, Optics & Photonics of SEDOPTICA.
Pascuala GarcÃa participated in the round table as the President of the Group of Women in Physics of the of the Spanish Royal Society of Physics – RSEF.
MarÃa del Mar Sánchez and Guadalupe López also attended the workshop organized by the Area of Women, Optics and Photonics of SEDOPTICA.
The picture shows all the attendees to the workshop.
A special section on Spatial Light Modulators (SLMs) – Devices and Applications will be published in the journal Optical Engineering. Ignacio Moreno and MarÃa Del Mar Sanchez-Lopez are Guest Editors of this special section of the journal, together with Prof. Andrew Forbes and Prof. Yoshio Hayasaky.
The following link leads to the journal Call for Papers.
The deadline for submitting papers is October 15th, 2019. See here the flyer of the OE special section on SLMs. 
MarÃa del Mar Sánchez-López visited the Group of Optics of the University Jaume I de Castellón (GROC-UJI) to participate as a member of the jury of the Doctoral Thesis of Yessenia Jauregui Sanchez, supervised by Prof. Jesús Lancis and Prof. Enrique Tajahuerce.
Excellent work on single-pixel cameras and imaging through scattering media!
Pascuala GarcÃa, MarÃa del Mar Sánchez, and David Marco attended the Bienal de FÃsica, the biannual Spanish meeting of Physics, organized in Zaragoza by the Spanish Royal Physics Society(RSEF) (link)
David presented the poster entitled «Parallel generation of vortex beams with a 2D optical triplicator geometric phase design» in the Symposium of Quantum Optics (see here the related publication). And Pascuala presented the flash talk entitled «Highly efficient generation of arbitrary vector beams» in the Symposium of Applied Photonics (see here the related publication).
Pascuala also organized and chaired the session of Women in Physics, where MarÃa del Mar gave a talk on the activity promoting women in STEM entitled «Jornadas La Ciencia tiene nombre de Mujer de la Universidad Miguel Hernández».
Here you can see Ignacio Moreno’s talk about Optics & Photonics at the Day of Light, the workshop organized by COSCE – the Confederation of Spanish Scientific Societies on June 6th, 2019.
You can access the complete workshop at the following link
COSCE – the Confederation of Spanish Scientific Societies organized in June 6th a workshop to commemorate the Day of Light. Ignacio Moreno participated as President of SEDOPTICA, the Spanish Society of Optics. More information at: link
In the next video you can see a report recorded by UNED – the Spanish National University of Distance Education, which has bee broadcast at TVE2.