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.
Pascuala García, María del Mar Sánchez, and David Marco attended the Bienal de Física, 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 María 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.
In his talk entitled «Two-dimensional geometric phase vortex grating based on the optimal triplicator design», David presented the design and characterization of a liquid-crystal geometric phase diffraction grating that generates 3×3 diffraction orders with vortex beams of different topological charges, and showed the operation of this grating as a vortex detector. These results have recently been published in Optics Express: link to the paper.
Julio César presented a poster entitled “Hybrid vector beams generated by cascaded q-plates” where he demonstrated a q-plate-based optical system capable of generating a variety of hybrid vector beams, and showed the rotation of their polarization pattern when comparing the near field and the far field captures. This optical system is more compact than those based on SLMs whilst bearing a notable degree of versatility.
They have enjoyed the interesting conferences, scientific discussions and networking opportunities of this conference hosted by the OSA student chapter at ICFO and backed by the International OSA Network of Students. Link to the conference.
In May 16th 2019, we celebrated the International Day of Light. We had the visit of Dr. Carlos Hernández García, from the Research Group in Applications of Laser and Photonics Applications (ALF-USAL) of the University of Salamanca, a recognized expert in the generation of ultra-fast structured laser pulses
He imparted an excellent talk entitled Sculpting laser pulses, where he explained the Nobel Prize in Physics 2018, awarded to Arthur Ashkin, Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland for their breakthroughs in laser physics. The talk can be viewed on line at the following link.
This conference was organized by the Local Section of Alicante of the Royal Spanish Physics Society (RSEF), in collaboration with the Department of Physics, the Institute of Bioengineering and the Polytechnical School of UMH, and was attended by over 80 students and faculty members.
We were also supported by SPIE, that provided Women in Optics agendas!
Ignacio Moreno visited the University of Guanajuato, in Salamanca, Mexico, invited with the OSA Travelling Lecturer Program by the OSA Student Chapter.
In August 30th, 2018, he delivered a lecture about Digital Holography with Spatial Light Modulators.
In this talk, he introduced the principles of SLMs and some of their applications when displaying phase-only holograms to engineering students of University of Guanajuato.
María M. Sánchez-López and Ignacio Moreno attended the meeting SPIE Optics and Photonics 2018, held in San Diego (USA) in August from 19th to 23th.
Maria participated in the conference «Laser Beam Shaping XVIII» where she presented the talk entitled Extending the use of commercial Q-plates for the generation of high-order and hybrid vector beams.
Ignacio participated in the conference «Optics Education and Outreach V», where he delivered the invited talk The first International Day of Light in Spain.
Click on the titles to go the corresponding papers and presentations.
The picture shows us with our friend Andres Márquez, from Universidad de Alicante.
The conference How Photonics lights the world delivered by Prof. Boreman at University Miguel Hernández on May 21st, 2018 is now available at the following link. This is part of the International Day of Light celebration.
2017 SPIE President Prof. Glenn Boreman has visited University Miguel Hernandez on May 21st, 2018, as part of his visit to Spain to participate at the events of the International Day of Light. Prof. Boreman is Chair of the Department of Physics and Optical Science at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, and Director of the Center for Optoelectronics & Optical Communications.
He delivered the conference How Photonics lights the world at the Politechnical School of Elche, with great success of audience of professors and students. Below, with Augusto Beléndez (Univ. Alicante), Javier Alda (Univ. Complutense) and Inmaculada Pascual (Univ. Alicante). SPIE Women in Optics planners were handed in to the young attendees to promote optics and photonics.
