tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18272784064558786222024-02-22T00:50:34.242-08:00NLO Meeting BlogFollow me as I blog before, during and after the OSA Nonlinear Optics meeting at the Marriott Kauai Beach Resort, Kauai, Hawaii!Miaochan Zhihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03640060986282498151noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827278406455878622.post-111759471613033062011-08-18T07:43:00.000-07:002011-08-21T11:16:11.449-07:00Be well, do good work and keep in touchI can't believe I am writing this until almost one month later. But here it is.
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<br />I had a great time in Kauai. The meeting was super exciting. The scenary could not be better.
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<br />I want to thank April Zack for her coordinating of the blogging and her behind-scene editing of all the posts.
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<br />With my supervisor Alexei Sokolov's support I could not do any of this.
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<br />My husband helped me with kids as with all the other conferences. I appreciate his constant support.
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<br />I don't think I will do blogging anymore. It is simply impossible to combine it with attending talks, giving a talk and with a family around you. Last year at UP I was only presenting a poster so I had more time posting. I apologize for the short and delayed blogs I wrote this year. It was constantly on my mind though. I take it seriously.
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<br />Overall it was a lot of fun.
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<br />I will borrow Garrison Keillor's sign-off from his Writer's Almanac as a way of bidding farewell for a while: <strong>Be well, do good work and keep in touch.</strong>
<br />Miaochan Zhihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03640060986282498151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827278406455878622.post-2091705280783785262011-08-18T07:18:00.000-07:002011-08-21T11:14:17.504-07:00What is the highest harmonics number ever created up to date?Sorry for the belated post but I felt the urge of writing about the wonderful talk On Thursday the planary session by professor Margaret Murnane:
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<br />NLO from 2 w to 5100 w in 50 years.
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<br />(It was original titled "Nonlinear Optics at the Timescale of the Electron – Bright
<br />Coherent Attosecond-to-Zeptosecond KeV X-Rays". I like the new title much more.)
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<br />I alway enjoyed her talks. I noticed during her talk she used the word "beautiful" many times, which showed her strong passion toward her work.
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<br />Indeed, this year they sucessfully generated 6-cycle FWHM, 3.9 micro meter 20-Hz, multi-mJ pulses from a novel optical parametric chipred pulse amplifcation architecture, which has the higest pulse energy from a femtosecond mid-IR source to date. (Optics letters Vol. 36 page 2755 2011, published a few weeks before the NLO meeting).
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<br />With this laser, full phase matching of HHG in the KeV region of th spectrum (up to the 5031th order) is possible. (CLEO 2011 postdeadline and 2011 NLO papers).
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<br />She mentioned that 5th and 7th HHG was discovered by accident in 1987. I wonder what those people would think of her achievement of producing several thousands of harmonics today?
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<br />The broadest coherent supercontinuum they generated support transform limited 2.5 attoseocnd pulse duration, scalable to zeptosecond time scales (1 zs=10 to the minus 21 s).
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<br />Below is a picture of the laser-like x-ray beam which I found from the 2011 CLEO postdeadine paper:
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<br />By the end, she mentioned the exciting application of the X-ray as the ideal probes of the nanoworld. It can also be used for coherent lensless imaging.
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<br />Miaochan Zhihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03640060986282498151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827278406455878622.post-27677100981032844932011-07-29T12:00:00.000-07:002011-07-29T13:47:32.702-07:00Luau (many more fun pictures)<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiahPOlpJGy3yiPh1nruwBnIj4hTaLIrj_fqQdNBBETqaSQZkhmEwfKqFNwahYjPtT6VOd76pn0tkDW4V7AwhjsMYTws84PkYDtxpRdVgn_MzJ1xK9mBVV7-EYlkULO_K0GXfTSWvEWQlQp/s1600/DSC_0081.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5634878192286690290" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiahPOlpJGy3yiPh1nruwBnIj4hTaLIrj_fqQdNBBETqaSQZkhmEwfKqFNwahYjPtT6VOd76pn0tkDW4V7AwhjsMYTws84PkYDtxpRdVgn_MzJ1xK9mBVV7-EYlkULO_K0GXfTSWvEWQlQp/s400/DSC_0081.JPG" /></a><br />My husband bought everyone in our family Hawaii style clothes<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggF1lCQ_yGtPC8KcX5QDhFiYdLNXPJq7azPRhy0YS3g2AT1JGTvr2qfx79eCYa6xE7qYcAdpPnBJGjIlGGCMWIIgy1Lgh6TWWxJAvsLCnaI9ALoQtrmISbP61DFflMSkOpxI1Ix-jT2j6c/s1600/DSC_0077.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5634862338148596146" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggF1lCQ_yGtPC8KcX5QDhFiYdLNXPJq7azPRhy0YS3g2AT1JGTvr2qfx79eCYa6xE7qYcAdpPnBJGjIlGGCMWIIgy1Lgh6TWWxJAvsLCnaI9ALoQtrmISbP61DFflMSkOpxI1Ix-jT2j6c/s400/DSC_0077.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-sn1qljeZApooTbu6zVy7aoVlWzKyYhXIi2brsUzoeXfM4L8lQ02x2dWyhq8Z4UutSJyJpbuICVWJ8Hw3cjOc2lwy9O68VIK_5uXzJTp7YaALbphhzVpNqnKSjs9D5UMqLof9R1eQ4aiZ/s1600/DSC_0082.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5634862067850356930" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-sn1qljeZApooTbu6zVy7aoVlWzKyYhXIi2brsUzoeXfM4L8lQ02x2dWyhq8Z4UutSJyJpbuICVWJ8Hw3cjOc2lwy9O68VIK_5uXzJTp7YaALbphhzVpNqnKSjs9D5UMqLof9R1eQ4aiZ/s400/DSC_0082.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5cYZ7nnTT9FKAV-CKSVS5VPkLc1ypk8ZJBkxR1f3pcBZcYEWBgB4_Y2mSB9_3m98ZZkLOkIITiKkwm6WqKuu_fJdU0EibTu3YvEwgQddux6_732EjyvGJIb2kypKwIt83GzLStJAfxiA0/s1600/DSC_0085.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5634862065735013170" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5cYZ7nnTT9FKAV-CKSVS5VPkLc1ypk8ZJBkxR1f3pcBZcYEWBgB4_Y2mSB9_3m98ZZkLOkIITiKkwm6WqKuu_fJdU0EibTu3YvEwgQddux6_732EjyvGJIb2kypKwIt83GzLStJAfxiA0/s400/DSC_0085.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvGxYa9rtq-CBsEoU6MlIo6xzdPGL-wuG7rb6QQhyphenhyphenXokNpXNTDpMGZtuy8CCF6BMCmG_YcaTbxajUr5guKWjlw8fdqguMx8h5zsVLt0X6WzGxIldwSfgCmXYF7fcrytOwcKySwQZwNJpQY/s1600/DSC_0089.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5634862059814412738" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvGxYa9rtq-CBsEoU6MlIo6xzdPGL-wuG7rb6QQhyphenhyphenXokNpXNTDpMGZtuy8CCF6BMCmG_YcaTbxajUr5guKWjlw8fdqguMx8h5zsVLt0X6WzGxIldwSfgCmXYF7fcrytOwcKySwQZwNJpQY/s400/DSC_0089.JPG" /></a><br />Professor Wayne H. Knox and his wife performing on stage<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-XpcXDi2oLCohp3zUBp4hJWhxO_tVtZ1FIKjTBXh1Zarjn0qwy2Zj5CIh6h0P9oI3F70AfyjrfwwYQiTI2RB1Ct7VCKDAb9pUqiJwSK22ER-lQojNyz45RJclwmF_hvzzbf8xr_zYufxT/s1600/DSC_0093.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5634861258531040226" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-XpcXDi2oLCohp3zUBp4hJWhxO_tVtZ1FIKjTBXh1Zarjn0qwy2Zj5CIh6h0P9oI3F70AfyjrfwwYQiTI2RB1Ct7VCKDAb9pUqiJwSK22ER-lQojNyz45RJclwmF_hvzzbf8xr_zYufxT/s400/DSC_0093.JPG" /></a><br />Program chair Steve Cundiff with his family.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpuhmYSP4TCf9KCbqAnmgKoithPf3De4kRYcR4CjP4A3RJstUIhOQHxPLdaqOAxoIDY-ayFgY0lrs-JKkop-W-fzE5aFssvFPeRjeOBO0kRql7aiWqt-K1n3n-Rro816139qURI776H271/s1600/DSC_0092.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5634861246837285858" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpuhmYSP4TCf9KCbqAnmgKoithPf3De4kRYcR4CjP4A3RJstUIhOQHxPLdaqOAxoIDY-ayFgY0lrs-JKkop-W-fzE5aFssvFPeRjeOBO0kRql7aiWqt-K1n3n-Rro816139qURI776H271/s400/DSC_0092.JPG" /></a> Professor Harris<br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLz1QDxjM6VMtXE1az-zO9uUYK4TH0PNwYXPG_1FPMeF-X7-MmO03lDYZjXlQSQDEAjFXUbs8PUOsEOGqRj5ZRcihIp-nQbKKriiVHn6da9pPBTaI-AhdaKyQR_abzi-570MWvrnUoAaM2/s1600/DSC_0091.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5634861243025282274" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLz1QDxjM6VMtXE1az-zO9uUYK4TH0PNwYXPG_1FPMeF-X7-MmO03lDYZjXlQSQDEAjFXUbs8PUOsEOGqRj5ZRcihIp-nQbKKriiVHn6da9pPBTaI-AhdaKyQR_abzi-570MWvrnUoAaM2/s400/DSC_0091.JPG" /></a> Pretty girl<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsykNnXw4r0Xx56kGK2tEQy6ZtpH3FHYE2a9XKzvjPcoiD7qYOAPSj3E1iwcSsptHK1mV_wPxkdPquff63LAiZtSGaUDXLxHUdIF3tGunUDYnuU7tnNMCag3B2fQQKSj0arFWV7uzvF5Wr/s1600/DSC_0101.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5634860560802617970" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsykNnXw4r0Xx56kGK2tEQy6ZtpH3FHYE2a9XKzvjPcoiD7qYOAPSj3E1iwcSsptHK1mV_wPxkdPquff63LAiZtSGaUDXLxHUdIF3tGunUDYnuU7tnNMCag3B2fQQKSj0arFWV7uzvF5Wr/s400/DSC_0101.JPG" /></a><br />General Chair Daniel Gauthier and his wife<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuKyS6bQszKijHCBDyOVea-okdvlfB57WVIUbypsAzC13AWF6XSc4GQnUAMvS4mDSDVNP1ZKghBed04XqJykvpbVI5991Cvozav_4j64WsOOdlqmUn-3sK1Y0vdUCmrHkh7clUtO-uqsFe/s1600/DSC_0095.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5634860553352589202" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuKyS6bQszKijHCBDyOVea-okdvlfB57WVIUbypsAzC13AWF6XSc4GQnUAMvS4mDSDVNP1ZKghBed04XqJykvpbVI5991Cvozav_4j64WsOOdlqmUn-3sK1Y0vdUCmrHkh7clUtO-uqsFe/s400/DSC_0095.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiS9gZan6WSBWQ5K5pL5IBLiRFapOgdvVsvn_u7A5Uvk7ZYGx52knkn9PAMNV5In1dMWLgaRagBTV1bZYDRGC-y2XhtygdXZu7trVR8wTTj9xLvZeoysvBrfxg8buHOrLG3QuZFRrUUGKwq/s1600/DSC_0094.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5634860549452937346" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiS9gZan6WSBWQ5K5pL5IBLiRFapOgdvVsvn_u7A5Uvk7ZYGx52knkn9PAMNV5In1dMWLgaRagBTV1bZYDRGC-y2XhtygdXZu7trVR8wTTj9xLvZeoysvBrfxg8buHOrLG3QuZFRrUUGKwq/s400/DSC_0094.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8zZsDPvNg94NEFp9sMu36KkjEkpZOBL7Ozf1-v-gssQXNIVnC-sRtWfJrdfUfFNa75LYhdrPEe75AS2Fjvfg2VLIsa_8ETiTmhDkN9-rMNu3uECl1eTG7iS1IsjFcl4LbxN7nrAYRqOWO/s1600/DSC_0121.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5634859851952058130" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8zZsDPvNg94NEFp9sMu36KkjEkpZOBL7Ozf1-v-gssQXNIVnC-sRtWfJrdfUfFNa75LYhdrPEe75AS2Fjvfg2VLIsa_8ETiTmhDkN9-rMNu3uECl1eTG7iS1IsjFcl4LbxN7nrAYRqOWO/s400/DSC_0121.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguYnq77m884-3XCHo8VGeiPGtDfp6QU1cWCohqthyphenhyphenFIyVyy2H3GJEXR4aI7nCbfaEIkaqVZ9Ivys6JuHtBh75KsfWi_spFyGb3r-mBa6iLJS0I13lu0sHi8MZMJIyqdEwJAE3DjOtJEd0u/s1600/DSC_0113.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5634859850344687890" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguYnq77m884-3XCHo8VGeiPGtDfp6QU1cWCohqthyphenhyphenFIyVyy2H3GJEXR4aI7nCbfaEIkaqVZ9Ivys6JuHtBh75KsfWi_spFyGb3r-mBa6iLJS0I13lu0sHi8MZMJIyqdEwJAE3DjOtJEd0u/s400/DSC_0113.JPG" /></a><br />Luau workshop students performing on stage.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyULgaXo8Csm2u_GeUJZvHcw0P9ORy81xJzjlSK1oILfSAm_ObN218EpK0D_UIf3Xg3ILRAuZzw3C_HUxDYGCXRgGRLSb0vTvML4cK7m_DOSlON8EvxBcSs-JX9aYshkTymQ2_PrMxYVBF/s1600/DSC_0102.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5634859839863678210" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyULgaXo8Csm2u_GeUJZvHcw0P9ORy81xJzjlSK1oILfSAm_ObN218EpK0D_UIf3Xg3ILRAuZzw3C_HUxDYGCXRgGRLSb0vTvML4cK7m_DOSlON8EvxBcSs-JX9aYshkTymQ2_PrMxYVBF/s400/DSC_0102.JPG" /></a><br />Engaging conversation<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQIsjL9Hi9j2_qw_1VOXZpaRM33PLTm17_BdPAJeFm-UU5e7mlhipskaKoY2j6zDE57QWg2itJ8TUFIF3zGqYyJm6Qcct-_6dvQu88VHEWwNUQQHa0v7HDDEZ_2Vfzt0Pj1E5jjMH6l47E/s1600/DSC_0141.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5634859027808126722" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQIsjL9Hi9j2_qw_1VOXZpaRM33PLTm17_BdPAJeFm-UU5e7mlhipskaKoY2j6zDE57QWg2itJ8TUFIF3zGqYyJm6Qcct-_6dvQu88VHEWwNUQQHa0v7HDDEZ_2Vfzt0Pj1E5jjMH6l47E/s400/DSC_0141.JPG" /></a> </div><br /><br /><br /><div>Call for voluteers<br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg10KxL4Sn3lVN6fIfMtnBPW8aR1bLrkl8jYd1zVkLXZWRYM9mRMXobLU8I9cEzh1ysxVcdEW4CbzCewUvDcHK2qXkhlrPzD4WpTEpETSIPWe7Df3sxk_mQ_uY_Pz2VUoFL-RDfmBDM9K9_/s1600/DSC_0142.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5634859034363299330" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg10KxL4Sn3lVN6fIfMtnBPW8aR1bLrkl8jYd1zVkLXZWRYM9mRMXobLU8I9cEzh1ysxVcdEW4CbzCewUvDcHK2qXkhlrPzD4WpTEpETSIPWe7Df3sxk_mQ_uY_Pz2VUoFL-RDfmBDM9K9_/s400/DSC_0142.JPG" /></a><br />Professor Boyd walking to stage...<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3ixI8h0oZQMyBjkDBOGlQwy31ZdnBy90qY2cy-i5iAwKGRLDpnNyP0SrGcDYRODwCjMJgTO2kxK4EALfvDvg14vSoET2TMSEoq3y9YfzgsnRGtGHnHuaTRoSzt_Hu-s5p8G5AxpwC_0DI/s1600/DSC_0146.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5634859036906759650" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3ixI8h0oZQMyBjkDBOGlQwy31ZdnBy90qY2cy-i5iAwKGRLDpnNyP0SrGcDYRODwCjMJgTO2kxK4EALfvDvg14vSoET2TMSEoq3y9YfzgsnRGtGHnHuaTRoSzt_Hu-s5p8G5AxpwC_0DI/s400/DSC_0146.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifFgDnDaXNF9TdEP7yj55P2rVPGnl-ieL_ToWNXQNu5V7rWuT9smkgRONG7VwASjBCcEfaITuxTvY3IzwpaMbzG9RMknKAiQo7DgwpRn8laoXqcPoUr7wIK8s_WQGGOyUVNgewTHF9IW-Y/s1600/DSC_0168.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5634858141793460114" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifFgDnDaXNF9TdEP7yj55P2rVPGnl-ieL_ToWNXQNu5V7rWuT9smkgRONG7VwASjBCcEfaITuxTvY3IzwpaMbzG9RMknKAiQo7DgwpRn8laoXqcPoUr7wIK8s_WQGGOyUVNgewTHF9IW-Y/s400/DSC_0168.JPG" /></a><br />sidestage with beautiful girls<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnGuyx-Gc2KDvduP8vwf-z0sgKEDduKP4G5R2_sTBxrRcH9tWmv-hRk2oGqbLPqL_aafH7PCAy70WnEAow60lL5IEWu31Vjc5rqIFJ7q-wMRxmZDBINRbN3e1klvNsEh9Wtd8ytaSJg3tM/s1600/DSC_0151.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5634858133531493378" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnGuyx-Gc2KDvduP8vwf-z0sgKEDduKP4G5R2_sTBxrRcH9tWmv-hRk2oGqbLPqL_aafH7PCAy70WnEAow60lL5IEWu31Vjc5rqIFJ7q-wMRxmZDBINRbN3e1klvNsEh9Wtd8ytaSJg3tM/s400/DSC_0151.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6b-bDCrHeHMk49CrROlfRiS1gQ1WYR5H6aLM86rCPV66BpR_VPv0vOZJVaSPfC7-_Ndqkr6Rd1e5lBbZnilosay0dkChZkTtHnMeV1omBnkPWgZW9YogYa79O2j8222-uJUdyNcE85hJ9/s1600/DSC_0170.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5634857204118021522" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6b-bDCrHeHMk49CrROlfRiS1gQ1WYR5H6aLM86rCPV66BpR_VPv0vOZJVaSPfC7-_Ndqkr6Rd1e5lBbZnilosay0dkChZkTtHnMeV1omBnkPWgZW9YogYa79O2j8222-uJUdyNcE85hJ9/s400/DSC_0170.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJo9cuU-I2LNSjcskeIxukReYzVKnHQATaOXQthz7nd0sXVQU8FSTi7H6V7ihQkE7K3Pm07rLv8qP1IOV-YTBEZ9-hOIHIAOI1zhfFRNqs60-KkilFD_9SmdUGnwUqkxkWMSoJ8ZakUD6R/s1600/P1020361.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5634857200134594594" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJo9cuU-I2LNSjcskeIxukReYzVKnHQATaOXQthz7nd0sXVQU8FSTi7H6V7ihQkE7K3Pm07rLv8qP1IOV-YTBEZ9-hOIHIAOI1zhfFRNqs60-KkilFD_9SmdUGnwUqkxkWMSoJ8ZakUD6R/s400/P1020361.JPG" /></a> General chair Takunori Taira with his wife<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyownn3_A9EuNwIkzyzmcUgC-O4Mji3hfg-HZZycfKYC6XSm56x0XKWYz2-j3ymiNo1cz3EdKG_C45RviMl7w6QFqWgUGfZcFFr5vDZ-4IEW9FzURXA1jHsuvucXNtRzISrAF6U9YDTyKc/s1600/P1020360.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5634857188081342370" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyownn3_A9EuNwIkzyzmcUgC-O4Mji3hfg-HZZycfKYC6XSm56x0XKWYz2-j3ymiNo1cz3EdKG_C45RviMl7w6QFqWgUGfZcFFr5vDZ-4IEW9FzURXA1jHsuvucXNtRzISrAF6U9YDTyKc/s400/P1020360.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitUyGYMeM7VnViR26a73GuoOhlF71foxo8DXLbRXh8lBkVtCL-1dWzZW5Q-DimtCqb3mYVlVvGG6fwNjgnfv_IP5GEH7XdPDppe_lXjGBIeUPcSdv1IngyQI-37YLH7Q4hJWQqaKrLuCu1/s1600/P1020364.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5634856226274095570" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitUyGYMeM7VnViR26a73GuoOhlF71foxo8DXLbRXh8lBkVtCL-1dWzZW5Q-DimtCqb3mYVlVvGG6fwNjgnfv_IP5GEH7XdPDppe_lXjGBIeUPcSdv1IngyQI-37YLH7Q4hJWQqaKrLuCu1/s400/P1020364.JPG" /></a><br />Professor Andy Kung with the famous couple. You know who they are, right?<br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3KM0M33q0zbN4YVNy5R0htZ4Rtp5JJjCZaKWJsT044e-k8khi18sjBBJtQQxOtuwnZSQmkakAKyRkJYTbvhe0kDGPA50VlcmS28Pu2dQWgnDmSJuzlDJGZYYdjQjj39meYh0VyQSIqZMT/s1600/P1020363.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5634856225572980898" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3KM0M33q0zbN4YVNy5R0htZ4Rtp5JJjCZaKWJsT044e-k8khi18sjBBJtQQxOtuwnZSQmkakAKyRkJYTbvhe0kDGPA50VlcmS28Pu2dQWgnDmSJuzlDJGZYYdjQjj39meYh0VyQSIqZMT/s400/P1020363.JPG" /></a><br />Professor Takayoshi Kobayashi with the famous couple, again.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSLTms1PN8KBAsPM1PaUnG1a7KQHnaSR6NYa-ELfReA9DruAbrnNoSJ1-9vY5HAc83Rikr4bAW_bCPKxhO3sirIUAULOTs3urMaL-9yoU6h1QrIsBF4j54XuyQyIq8IlyMKuD7tEZ6PmJW/s1600/P1020362.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5634856218543801378" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSLTms1PN8KBAsPM1PaUnG1a7KQHnaSR6NYa-ELfReA9DruAbrnNoSJ1-9vY5HAc83Rikr4bAW_bCPKxhO3sirIUAULOTs3urMaL-9yoU6h1QrIsBF4j54XuyQyIq8IlyMKuD7tEZ6PmJW/s400/P1020362.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiBE-kyRDQc3FRWMIrc3VX5h-rNwZBqn-KCNhYefJZqKC9xL2uoodJH2-FTpTXBJCGFkOxS3gRAZYYtVMMmla0xKEhHO2nJl79mTJSYkOjG7_WZHD24irRR-LfOdUZtbE_vRBWSXvmpZDZ/s1600/P1020365.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5634855536664001122" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiBE-kyRDQc3FRWMIrc3VX5h-rNwZBqn-KCNhYefJZqKC9xL2uoodJH2-FTpTXBJCGFkOxS3gRAZYYtVMMmla0xKEhHO2nJl79mTJSYkOjG7_WZHD24irRR-LfOdUZtbE_vRBWSXvmpZDZ/s400/P1020365.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4ONQBurpa9IMHtERIl_JBznsbMij41iy4p0NZNqcZp9etae2x-Ej5dLEjBXy6Bc2O_MrKypQffTyaqwgXxtq-XCgNmB6jhRcgccGceQgnykOADCylJ_g5qNz7l15NsklrZX34DQnjFrBE/s1600/P1020366.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5634855533107959106" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4ONQBurpa9IMHtERIl_JBznsbMij41iy4p0NZNqcZp9etae2x-Ej5dLEjBXy6Bc2O_MrKypQffTyaqwgXxtq-XCgNmB6jhRcgccGceQgnykOADCylJ_g5qNz7l15NsklrZX34DQnjFrBE/s400/P1020366.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCehC3dIFwtGBKcM_RHHeOgvUdseJL2XKyTJ9VKbVyS4RWfuFgWujAPqGTgLkQjXlAp9IzCTvlRYqt2b-F9OOf6FsLQa54a-o0KAUj1hHidXrnthYuwkXkRfB7qUes_uBvPetqOQHnqF6W/s1600/P1020367.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5634855527777790226" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCehC3dIFwtGBKcM_RHHeOgvUdseJL2XKyTJ9VKbVyS4RWfuFgWujAPqGTgLkQjXlAp9IzCTvlRYqt2b-F9OOf6FsLQa54a-o0KAUj1hHidXrnthYuwkXkRfB7qUes_uBvPetqOQHnqF6W/s400/P1020367.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLne8qaTH6Vxukw6inHeRMU9vY7tpR8Mn93ggv3UgeRvIU6GLTZpEAuzIEORSrrblQc1NBdWghxuyBBLs9cBRhQmxZhEQnNPN02WbqOvIluzaB2r0BlesjDWjWDzIC4P5S3o8Q5ZH8RMQa/s1600/DSC_0163.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 293px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5634858138855762594" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLne8qaTH6Vxukw6inHeRMU9vY7tpR8Mn93ggv3UgeRvIU6GLTZpEAuzIEORSrrblQc1NBdWghxuyBBLs9cBRhQmxZhEQnNPN02WbqOvIluzaB2r0BlesjDWjWDzIC4P5S3o8Q5ZH8RMQa/s400/DSC_0163.JPG" /></a><br />concluding remarks by Steve Cundiff and his sleepy daughter </div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Miaochan Zhihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03640060986282498151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827278406455878622.post-12530771467672901512011-07-28T13:29:00.000-07:002011-07-29T10:44:22.362-07:00poster session (many pictures)Entrance of the poster session room...<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_YKLp7BF2X9xxFiRAwB9yowYvxCgNYO9lqDANzfji17dcbt-HXTOxsFdw1vjoWd-cua2YVGQOd6jUxxTzh1hyphenhyphen1OGoFprX-yedeio1zL-V9p7kotBpDPI0nRPSv21aMYg5lMa-YEw74wV3/s1600/DSC_0059.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5634506666501423282" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_YKLp7BF2X9xxFiRAwB9yowYvxCgNYO9lqDANzfji17dcbt-HXTOxsFdw1vjoWd-cua2YVGQOd6jUxxTzh1hyphenhyphen1OGoFprX-yedeio1zL-V9p7kotBpDPI0nRPSv21aMYg5lMa-YEw74wV3/s400/DSC_0059.JPG" /></a><br />This meeting had 149 presentations including 3 plenary, 30 invited, 92 oral, and 24 poster presenations. There were many interesting results presented there. One thing I like about the poster session is the valuble face to face communication with the presenter. You can get all your questions answered.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzLtoaYYsnvftPf-hJFu4o8AzkEChr_e5i9f-V7YImd5QxB389c4fmumz08cASDK7bDp5AndPjGYOOIA2_oqvSxP1BPVVEP2QJ1efbf199e4yMGoBUNGJblT15i1kE98bbfwy-5xcIGkNX/s1600/DSC_0075.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5634513570720485522" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzLtoaYYsnvftPf-hJFu4o8AzkEChr_e5i9f-V7YImd5QxB389c4fmumz08cASDK7bDp5AndPjGYOOIA2_oqvSxP1BPVVEP2QJ1efbf199e4yMGoBUNGJblT15i1kE98bbfwy-5xcIGkNX/s400/DSC_0075.JPG" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN1YHmCryGSaymyyRUbjJ0K10II0Pbm0Lb3CUOJc1mm19YYpiZZAMO8WvF7pMhL-gm98-R3DcptnF1j2pal0w9XfzANyFh1nrtIh-O5Br10QC8YvD9jX7ypOH76pvNgdqHzBKNimpJu_aU/s1600/DSC_0074.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; 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MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5634507308731666434" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTAS3uuX-yszEAdAfmjgN9Q41-yIiTP7dBKEvhDyLTB64zuO1ImOIgH0S4OTw8qU1JBYU2Gg7VE6-AmqQPkAIC75y6MlUUFuLprPSkTDmOwiFS4H-4HA_Ga038rd1TH7X_NLMsMYYgy06N/s400/DSC_0060.JPG" /></a>Miaochan Zhihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03640060986282498151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827278406455878622.post-42480285129835575762011-07-23T12:09:00.000-07:002011-07-23T12:22:45.624-07:0050 years of NLO---talk by Robert Byer<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmA_1rY57lmPG_3uVTXLUyRHeXSdksaPEmVgZ8ad7U8lclmZNPWjeqb5SNiiOQb21uSMcbX6MDpjiY54p8f2DLtx_jiMSEVQrKW23jANFIOH_GRIiW7SCDCrg_PIHJMl3hzCo2EsFjphQL/s1600/P1020355.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmA_1rY57lmPG_3uVTXLUyRHeXSdksaPEmVgZ8ad7U8lclmZNPWjeqb5SNiiOQb21uSMcbX6MDpjiY54p8f2DLtx_jiMSEVQrKW23jANFIOH_GRIiW7SCDCrg_PIHJMl3hzCo2EsFjphQL/s400/P1020355.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5632628313440283618" /></a><br /><br />Prof. Byer talked about his passion for both light waves and ocean waves:<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg44_TelxzUODFf45BVhBx-fRFrl4-vL2_fzEklTIyRPM2aG_HE1xUyqBf5dk5VTjlS5RpdbnjOH9wOW5Ojj1ESUP6sG3p3NRQF1yW1pd5GiwBWtUoPObhg86s8xLAXyGZ1G5oGxNRiYTXi/s1600/byer2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 301px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg44_TelxzUODFf45BVhBx-fRFrl4-vL2_fzEklTIyRPM2aG_HE1xUyqBf5dk5VTjlS5RpdbnjOH9wOW5Ojj1ESUP6sG3p3NRQF1yW1pd5GiwBWtUoPObhg86s8xLAXyGZ1G5oGxNRiYTXi/s400/byer2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5632628871089014466" /></a><br /><br />He mentioned a story when he worked with Prof. Harris:<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp7baZqaC8bryvZ6OzGBTS_iQSxsYIgRY5bU9fg2e5pkGTqdEaWjp9KZlTR5voSN3qbZzYa3adkCs1N-bwqW3hlLznvKyjnUOHaSKhfscbfPi3gY2unvQcy-LOZ-XQUaYLcGyY-OGM5Xmu/s1600/byer1.png"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 232px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5632627384099824802" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp7baZqaC8bryvZ6OzGBTS_iQSxsYIgRY5bU9fg2e5pkGTqdEaWjp9KZlTR5voSN3qbZzYa3adkCs1N-bwqW3hlLznvKyjnUOHaSKhfscbfPi3gY2unvQcy-LOZ-XQUaYLcGyY-OGM5Xmu/s400/byer1.png" /></a><br /><br />He dropped the crystal yet this leads to Stanford's crystal growing by themselves and a life long collaboration. So bad things can turn to be good afterall.<br /><br />Prof. Byer's slide is available on 2011 NLO website.<br /><br />Thanks Andy Kung for providing me the pitures.Miaochan Zhihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03640060986282498151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827278406455878622.post-85402294836490795622011-07-23T11:44:00.000-07:002011-07-23T12:27:45.146-07:00The Birth of Nonlinear Optics---talk by professor Nicolaas Bloembergen<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgISMBRDWdHRieTvhboLt6KcVV1PVP_O8ajpWcXLrq_kCpen_MItAMtYQaL8BOqgxowjpTqwfbbXeZY_wXkAi-IqVIYJMCsLEZ5kMU1q8rMrjyWYXC7Z3bTEtsD7f4UwArn-62FCbPmYd35/s1600/bloomberg1.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5632621175791858610" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgISMBRDWdHRieTvhboLt6KcVV1PVP_O8ajpWcXLrq_kCpen_MItAMtYQaL8BOqgxowjpTqwfbbXeZY_wXkAi-IqVIYJMCsLEZ5kMU1q8rMrjyWYXC7Z3bTEtsD7f4UwArn-62FCbPmYd35/s400/bloomberg1.jpg" /></a><br /><br />Although Professor Bloembergen used the old-fashioned projector, he delivered a wonderful talk on the early history of the nonlinear optics.<br /><br />He started by saying that Ruby laser is nonlinear optics. Therefore, we should celebrate the birth of nonlinear optics 1 year earlier, together with the laserfest.<br /><br /><br />Applause continued for a long time after his talk.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIweQJhXsu9xajDX4kTJh_pSZzJ9mdVH-EDfAaW8ZEvwaJmPSiBCAUbpxqieRcAs8tdIl_IeLwsbof_Emux1p917wiKyyBbXFhN4THh4zxK4b2VsYmGacbTHDHFphMhFWG3iWovSk1ej8g/s1600/P1020349.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIweQJhXsu9xajDX4kTJh_pSZzJ9mdVH-EDfAaW8ZEvwaJmPSiBCAUbpxqieRcAs8tdIl_IeLwsbof_Emux1p917wiKyyBbXFhN4THh4zxK4b2VsYmGacbTHDHFphMhFWG3iWovSk1ej8g/s400/P1020349.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5632631614668693378" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoHufrr2y5a-NIqFaEnW8f3YQ63NU1MgGCPkhAtQC4u6IbCKEBS3ecDpWKmOMLgpj1ukT2ASyWdm8IMLvuTrs-jyOWZ9AhvEWWLO7mrR97ryxN5kdldcizJJ_5dxrhglT-JqHdRDgVcBRA/s1600/P1020350.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5632622136967355170" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoHufrr2y5a-NIqFaEnW8f3YQ63NU1MgGCPkhAtQC4u6IbCKEBS3ecDpWKmOMLgpj1ukT2ASyWdm8IMLvuTrs-jyOWZ9AhvEWWLO7mrR97ryxN5kdldcizJJ_5dxrhglT-JqHdRDgVcBRA/s400/P1020350.JPG" /></a><br />Thanks to Andy Kung for providing me these pictures.Miaochan Zhihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03640060986282498151noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827278406455878622.post-85233311018284569712011-07-23T11:34:00.000-07:002011-07-23T11:44:03.403-07:00symposium celebrating 50 years of NLO--Planery talk by prof. HarrisTuesday when I had lunch with Prof. Andy Kung, he said: All I want to listen is the wed. symposium.<br /><br />The much-anticipated symposium started with planary talk by Dr. Harris. He started saying it has been wonderful 50 years and he would like to personalize that history.<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT3JQgzxGxTBm3MQ4CTXMQkWftsDv7oqmeeHa5nEBifFdzsONPMVpEPQU8xYylRNYlV4VB_IXSdfIImsnJa22Y8iRw6Qq9xoeE-4oz8QsK1oMdEjDX1H1f56zJpFvryW6hIcF_MUloizgc/s1600/blog+harris.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5632619449301286802" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT3JQgzxGxTBm3MQ4CTXMQkWftsDv7oqmeeHa5nEBifFdzsONPMVpEPQU8xYylRNYlV4VB_IXSdfIImsnJa22Y8iRw6Qq9xoeE-4oz8QsK1oMdEjDX1H1f56zJpFvryW6hIcF_MUloizgc/s400/blog+harris.jpg" /></a><br /><br />He mentioned his early optical talbe, which was made from a lathe:<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM4o1uJEKc0DxQx1_ipRNXHz6pM7-XgkhuxllKZt2MszBK0bNjatY7cRSPPAhcuGc5F05Aoc7Us4JIEqih9cqK9hwypU7wk92hV8O5NyBoIDbhaY2b3z-lTXw3UIr6OpRYBegZoIKkTrCw/s1600/P1020342.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5632618712231648242" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM4o1uJEKc0DxQx1_ipRNXHz6pM7-XgkhuxllKZt2MszBK0bNjatY7cRSPPAhcuGc5F05Aoc7Us4JIEqih9cqK9hwypU7wk92hV8O5NyBoIDbhaY2b3z-lTXw3UIr6OpRYBegZoIKkTrCw/s400/P1020342.JPG" /></a><br /><br />He concluded by speaking about his achievement:<br /><br />40 years ago I modulated many photons; 40 years later I modulate one photon.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFhIJqmKi2d2SKU6aV7vfIEOaat90IX7_lVWfX1Uuc7s5GTBjJWe_RjM7aGKK5q9abUCZpWpjbvDXnMr1m-JZTjrW8ILuK6EkdGKIlYuTq8YiyWA2VGtye_mZD1XNa4LMXKb1kcQDU9pVg/s1600/P1020347.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5632620212295623410" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFhIJqmKi2d2SKU6aV7vfIEOaat90IX7_lVWfX1Uuc7s5GTBjJWe_RjM7aGKK5q9abUCZpWpjbvDXnMr1m-JZTjrW8ILuK6EkdGKIlYuTq8YiyWA2VGtye_mZD1XNa4LMXKb1kcQDU9pVg/s400/P1020347.JPG" /></a><br /><br />Thank Prof. Andy Kung for providing me these pictures.Miaochan Zhihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03640060986282498151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827278406455878622.post-47642885917665330972011-07-23T09:33:00.000-07:002011-07-23T09:36:09.006-07:00Presentations from the Symposium Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Nonlinear Optics available on lineSome more to come. Dr. Harris's talk is too large to upload for now. <br />Here is the link: http://www.osa.org/Meetings/Topical_Meetings/NLO/Special_Events.aspx#Symposium<br /><br />The talk is at the bottom of the page.Miaochan Zhihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03640060986282498151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827278406455878622.post-47788398670249727722011-07-21T10:28:00.000-07:002011-07-21T13:31:19.310-07:00Herbert Winful---Organizer of the Nonlinear Optics at 50, a symposium at univ. of Michigan in Oct.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjISd1TWfTUpHV8fIk9HDIxKz_Dq0hr5omRNrZear2-n1rErAWdqTJYVxDjYlI2de7PtuHKiuS8X1TFKIVezKGhpxdqOErAyhFFeTXKN5S532u3HacpS-3XYcaBrOSLej_NuolaRoO9cL4t/s1600/winful_herbert_v2b.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 249px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5631860057516286002" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjISd1TWfTUpHV8fIk9HDIxKz_Dq0hr5omRNrZear2-n1rErAWdqTJYVxDjYlI2de7PtuHKiuS8X1TFKIVezKGhpxdqOErAyhFFeTXKN5S532u3HacpS-3XYcaBrOSLej_NuolaRoO9cL4t/s400/winful_herbert_v2b.jpg" /></a><br />I noticed Professor Winful because he is one of the two African Americans present in the meeting room. I thought to myself, wow, this is worse than women. Out of the around 150 particiants, there are about 10 women there.<br /><br />Yesterday the chair announce that there will be a symposium at the Unvi. Of Michigan celebrating the 50th anniversary of the birth of NLO. He said for more details, please contact Professor Winful.<br /><br />I got a flyer during the poster session from Professor Winful. I was in a hurry trying to look through all the posters and take pictures so I didn’t talk to him much.<br /><br />Later I googled him and found out that he is a professor at Univ. of Michigan doing research in the area of fiber optics. He is also featured as one of the <a href="http://www.laserfest.org/lasers/pioneers/winful.cfm">“Laser Pioneers”</a> at the LaserFest website. I found out that he's had an interest in lasers since he was a child. He won a lot of awards and “When not pondering theoretical problems in laser science, Winful likes to relax at the piano, playing the music of Bach, Chopin, and Brahms." "It is my greatest joy, next to my work."<br /><br />For more information on the symposium please contact him.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_J0zkPeeek2neThfO4DKpkhyphenhyphenX-B2wTpUcnizEdLo2Itlo-FNnsB5byvMENGx0I8XZKh3W_kN4JM_u8U0o-oUOFZ5J9dA5gtIYRWou6s1fYiD3RdkX3yhGZ5NGzX5NNlz87B4-fQaOh9OM/s1600/DSC_0172.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 306px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5631859780608740658" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_J0zkPeeek2neThfO4DKpkhyphenhyphenX-B2wTpUcnizEdLo2Itlo-FNnsB5byvMENGx0I8XZKh3W_kN4JM_u8U0o-oUOFZ5J9dA5gtIYRWou6s1fYiD3RdkX3yhGZ5NGzX5NNlz87B4-fQaOh9OM/s400/DSC_0172.JPG" /></a>Miaochan Zhihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03640060986282498151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827278406455878622.post-1038607902706610442011-07-21T10:24:00.000-07:002011-07-21T13:23:46.782-07:00No, I am not an OSA staffThere is someone who asked me: do they let you come to the conference for blogging? Are you OSA staff?<br /><br />I said: no, my talk is accepted then I volunteer to be the blogger. The order is very important.<br /><br />You may wonder why I want to do this. True, I want to go to most of the talks. Some of the talks run in parallel session I wish I could be at both of them. I have a family which I want to spend time with. The responsibility of writing blog is constantly on my mind, which adds some extra stress to the trip. And last I have to get up sometimes 4am in the morning writing in the bathroom so that I don’t wake up my kids.<br /><br />I myself don’t know why I want to do this. But on the way here someone left a recent issue of the New Yorker on the plane. I read an excellent article “A<a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/07/11/110711fa_fact_auletta#ixzz1Sjza6CQx"> woman’s place, can Sheryl Sandberg upend silicon valley’s male-dominated culture?” </a>by Ken Auletta. It is so interesting that I read the 9 page article all at once.<br /><br />Sandberg was vice president for global on line sales at Google before she joined Facebook. Three years after she joined, Facebook is profitable.<br /><br />In the article, Ken Auletta writes:<br /><br /><em>"Last December, Sandberg spoke at the TEDWomen conference. Her black hair framed her was young. Sandberg began by celebrating the progress women have made: “For any of us in this room today, let’s start out by admitting we’re lucky. We don’t live in the world our mothers lived in, our grandmothers lived in, where career choices for women were so limited.” More women than men graduate from college and graduate school, and receive doctoral degrees. Yet, she went on, “women are not making it to the top. A hundred and ninety heads of state; nine are women. Of all the people in parliament in the world, thirteen per cent are women. In the corporate sector, women at the top—C-level jobs, board seats—tops out at fifteen, sixteen per cent.” </em><br /><br /><em>To solve this problem, she proposed doing three things. First, she said, women need to “sit at the table.” She said that fifty-seven per cent of men entering the workforce negotiate their salaries, but that only seven per cent of women do likewise. Second, at home, “make sure your partner is a real partner.” On average, she said, women do two-thirds of the housework and three-fourths of the child care. <strong>And, finally, “don’t leave before you leave.” When a woman starts thinking of having children, “she doesn’t raise her hand anymore. . . . She starts leaning back.”</strong> In other words, if women don’t get the job they want before they take a break to have children, they often don’t come back. "</em><br /><br />I don’t want to lean back. I am still trying to move forward with my very limited working time. Maybe that’s the reason why I want to do this despite all the trouble.Miaochan Zhihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03640060986282498151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827278406455878622.post-11776050962252323862011-07-20T09:05:00.000-07:002011-07-21T13:21:47.708-07:00Wired internet is free at the hotel room for NLO attendeesWhen you connect, you will see a message saying it is $14.95/day.<br />However, Brook at the registration confirmed to me that they have talked to the hotel and this charge will not show on your hotel bill.Miaochan Zhihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03640060986282498151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827278406455878622.post-20169350622412905962011-07-19T11:28:00.002-07:002011-07-19T13:10:55.141-07:00A few things about the hotelWe came 1 day early, exhausted after the long trip and 5 hours jet lag. But we were super excited when we arrived at the hotel. We have a room with a view:<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZlMVj-1fBJWG5GC_yNZhL6BpvsPMA4MF6vzfZk8e5mzDK05LPfk0l2ZSXnZUnDNgauXnn7hrvv0DVFVBjfpyhk2QhDApk7eAWrvsMLuN6JpphI-J7IX1yPyD4zSiYCtwtWCD5jmfdijTO/s1600/a+room+with+a+view.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5631137195968572082" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZlMVj-1fBJWG5GC_yNZhL6BpvsPMA4MF6vzfZk8e5mzDK05LPfk0l2ZSXnZUnDNgauXnn7hrvv0DVFVBjfpyhk2QhDApk7eAWrvsMLuN6JpphI-J7IX1yPyD4zSiYCtwtWCD5jmfdijTO/s400/a+room+with+a+view.jpg" /></a><br />There is a few things I would like to share with you.<br /><br />Right by the elevator, there is a woman who gives welcome package, she gives us a discount card and a nice map. Also much useful information such as the “fresh fruit market."<br /><br />The restaurant close by is pricey, the food is very good though. If you don’t mind an extra 5 to 10 mintues walk, there is a “beach hut” which is much cheaper yet has very good food. We had catch of the day—"atti fish" yesterday. The salad with the papaya seed salad dressing is very fresh and tasty. There are roosters and hens who will eat your leftovers, if you have any!<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6w5kZMvIFv7tbqt2bkrxUAUTwjBFuoNYpdU_R9YscGltjqsWaZuXTPyel1Exw3fNYKAan18mmx1BgpdLzWyWR098BsWJOy_TlMVGEDEXFUbgLypoUWN5wXka96873pJvjgiO4uEkcCmhC/s1600/beach+hut+burgers.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5631138453266371858" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6w5kZMvIFv7tbqt2bkrxUAUTwjBFuoNYpdU_R9YscGltjqsWaZuXTPyel1Exw3fNYKAan18mmx1BgpdLzWyWR098BsWJOy_TlMVGEDEXFUbgLypoUWN5wXka96873pJvjgiO4uEkcCmhC/s400/beach+hut+burgers.jpg" /></a><br /><br />Monday and Tuesday there is a hotel shuttle to the city mall. You can get groceries and also eat. It starts at 9:30 am in the morning and leaves every 30 minutes. The shuttle stops at 3pm.<br /><br />Timothy Lee, a student from Optoelectornics research center, Univ. of Southampton, came a few days early. He gathered a lot of information and toured part of the city by BUS! Many places you can go by bus if you don’t have a rental car. The fare is pretty cheap.<br /><br />Last don’t forget to check the weather forecast every day.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcIHTON6fL0R1t23IVfXBZmVJCvp4JC2-VdXg1PqLXDSLSzQdK3kxoavgYkfFq2Ulam1rvUSNOnCzhNO9LpubxCcs5q8mVSHkNYS61alBieG5sxOom73zhdPQnYcxDwfm5e-JESV2qxr4V/s1600/weather+station.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5631139044155146994" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcIHTON6fL0R1t23IVfXBZmVJCvp4JC2-VdXg1PqLXDSLSzQdK3kxoavgYkfFq2Ulam1rvUSNOnCzhNO9LpubxCcs5q8mVSHkNYS61alBieG5sxOom73zhdPQnYcxDwfm5e-JESV2qxr4V/s400/weather+station.jpg" /></a>Miaochan Zhihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03640060986282498151noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827278406455878622.post-2185909720018204162011-07-19T11:28:00.001-07:002011-07-19T13:08:38.408-07:00Talk in the wrong session?I met Professor Masayuki Katsuragawa from Texas A&M University annual PQE conference, organized by Dr. Scully and Dr. Welch. We had always been in the same molecular modulation session.<br /><br />Yesterday, surprisingly, I found he was in the Monday Quantum Optics session. His topic is “generation, manupulatoin, and characterization of highly discrete coherent spectrum” which shows beautiful square and triangular waveforms. The paper "A 10 THz ultrafast function generator—generation of rectangular and triangular pulse trains" is published recently in new journal of physics.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTlIz7GKGmdyB2HzoeSATkaqTvdPQFQlwNnXvIVOmT2hKLAt6wRuTYuefpeESfJNyYMuvVhvKzq4T9Qza9_hYH2Dnugv0xced8jGQcq4SJGXj93MkLcnn_P1noOLiBgZWop_2-grJk2qhG/s1600/square+waves.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 312px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5631135991349026882" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTlIz7GKGmdyB2HzoeSATkaqTvdPQFQlwNnXvIVOmT2hKLAt6wRuTYuefpeESfJNyYMuvVhvKzq4T9Qza9_hYH2Dnugv0xced8jGQcq4SJGXj93MkLcnn_P1noOLiBgZWop_2-grJk2qhG/s400/square+waves.jpg" /></a><br /><br />(From http://iopscience.iop.org/1367-2630/13/2/023030/fulltext)<br /><br />He refered to Professor Andy Kung’s talk in Friday my session---- frequency combs and waveform synthesis. Unfortunately, professor Kung didn’t arrive until after lunch so he missed his talk.<br /><br />Dr. Sokolov, my supervisor, mentioned to me that this is actually a good thing. Instead of limit similar talks to one session, this helps more people to see our work.Miaochan Zhihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03640060986282498151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827278406455878622.post-36213715150054876082011-07-19T11:28:00.000-07:002011-07-19T13:07:53.614-07:00QPM 35 years oldIn the Monday Planary session, Professor Martin Fejer decided to give a history of the quasi-phase matching, instead of the “current topics” as he planned. He said while he was researching the topic---history of QPM, he found many things “surprise me” so “might be interesting to you.”<br /><br />The history was fancinating. Especially I found that a research area can start so “fast” ----1961 SHG was demonstrated, 1962 the paper on birefringent phase matching was published-----yet takes so many years to develop and can continue for many years more.<br /><br />QPM was first used by A. Szillagyi in 1976. Now there are new topics such as aperiodic QPM gratings. I find these two topics in the Monday morning sessison very interesting; slant quasi phase matching, which has the possibility of developing high power lasers, and fabrication of a new walk off compensationg BBO periodic structure using the room-temperature bonding technique, which generates twice the SH UV power of a bulk BBO with the same length.Miaochan Zhihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03640060986282498151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827278406455878622.post-88122869657465545002011-07-19T11:19:00.000-07:002011-07-19T13:06:37.147-07:00Aloha, 2011 NLO, a family friendly conference<div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgblEu4c1sG6ykLAPNsm1cJD5Mv4xjDvdYJA75_Sg51yXZ1vYK_LQ5J2kpi8vGw4yifC7pDyE3zNylhfqO-R8G5cTBb7FmFPpR41zVDU_Li84kToHXlqBy0IyozmpzS8bvug3K9kU-SFvVj/s1600/registration.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5631139388287406930" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgblEu4c1sG6ykLAPNsm1cJD5Mv4xjDvdYJA75_Sg51yXZ1vYK_LQ5J2kpi8vGw4yifC7pDyE3zNylhfqO-R8G5cTBb7FmFPpR41zVDU_Li84kToHXlqBy0IyozmpzS8bvug3K9kU-SFvVj/s400/registration.jpg" /></a><br /><em>Registration desk</em><br /><br />By the end of the opening remarks for the conference, Wayne H. Knox, professor from Inst. Of Optics Univ. of Rochester introduced his wife and said (not exactly like this, I tried my best to remember):<br /><br />“Many years ago, we came here for a conference. We had only 1 kid. Each time after we go back from the conference, we have a new baby. Now we have 6 kids and 1 grandkid.<br /><br />Once during NLO conference, someone asked: "What do you do with our spouses?" Then we decided to have a Hawaiian cultural workshop for the families. It was very successful.<br /><br />This year, there will be a workshop as well. People can learn and also have a chance to perform at the wed. conference Luau. “<br /><br />His wife started the conference with a beautiful Traditional Hawaian chant.<br /><br />Indeed, this is a really family friendly conference. Many attendees bring their families with them. The hotel, as a resort, has many kids activities. For example, they have Koi Fish feeding every morning and evening.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf5q46XKi3Rj1guddoUAEsIrjT4IpKtACBnYCgP_LT1WYAVHq8EOz69Ye1biufBgcDmXKPAD7tsDt_9decuP2lGOI3CICnA5QeZVto14DTrplnA0VG0SW41yMAY0r5BjQ980YVeWuYAkEf/s1600/fish+feeding.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5631131190435927490" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf5q46XKi3Rj1guddoUAEsIrjT4IpKtACBnYCgP_LT1WYAVHq8EOz69Ye1biufBgcDmXKPAD7tsDt_9decuP2lGOI3CICnA5QeZVto14DTrplnA0VG0SW41yMAY0r5BjQ980YVeWuYAkEf/s400/fish+feeding.jpg" /></a><br /><br />I saw many professors enjoy family time at the kids swimming pool. It has a slide. Kids absolutely love it.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlRyvaq7pabWzpu54KAc-mjhLILD_UmTFOrFRjsTYTEEbL19LEeptY6SXnTLq7WLLGQEWc4oigtcyAhdERmwy-AI9ghCJHe60SNeV7ebADjDAig8_ZhruROaGpW56V0wwIqg1kbMZR28hD/s1600/kids+pool.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5631131531978768514" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlRyvaq7pabWzpu54KAc-mjhLILD_UmTFOrFRjsTYTEEbL19LEeptY6SXnTLq7WLLGQEWc4oigtcyAhdERmwy-AI9ghCJHe60SNeV7ebADjDAig8_ZhruROaGpW56V0wwIqg1kbMZR28hD/s400/kids+pool.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br />Hope you all enjoy the conference like I do. </div>Miaochan Zhihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03640060986282498151noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827278406455878622.post-88009148814927402862011-07-07T08:27:00.000-07:002011-07-11T08:38:15.915-07:00Laser light show vs fireworks---Tradition wins. For now!When I heard about that the laser light show was going to replace the fireworks, I was pretty disappointed. The fireworks has been part of the July 4th “I love America” celebration at Brazos Valley, where Texas A&M University is located, since the early ’50s.<br /><br />Fireworks were invented in China in the 7th century to scare away evil spirits. I have been to one international fireworks festival at Hangzhou, China. Many hours of beautiful fireworks went on and on. It is beyond description.<br /><br />The July 4th show here at TAMU is short, only 15 minutes. Yet it was enough to amaze my 3 year old last year. She mentioned it many times after that. Until I got the notice of cancellation I keep telling her that there will be no fireworks but a laser light show.<br /><br />A laser light show is meaningless to her. She has no response to it and continues to ask me for fireworks show. We went to the celebration. I showed her the spots on the wall. She was not amused. We left early.<br /><br />I am not the only one who was disappointed. Our school paper, Battalion, had a huge headline: "Laser Light Letdown" on Wednesday.<br /><br />Lasers are fascinating but I guess as far as competing with fireworks is concerned, it lost.<br /><br />At least for now! Let's remember that. So many of our OSA Student Chapters are reaching out in schools and sharing the wonder of optics and photonics, including the chapter at Texas A&M. So while my dear child prefers fireworks now, some day a laser may win the day.<br /><br />I remember my own interest in optics and photonics. Its roots go all the way back to when I was a child. My brother, who is 10 years older than me and then a physics undergraduate, let sunlight shine on a mirror, which is half immersed in a basin of water. Suddenly, when the angle was right, there were many beautiful colors dancing on the wall. We did it again and again. I was so impressed. Since then I have been fascinated by light. I later chose optics as my major in one of the best Institute of Optics in China. Now after many years of working in optics I can fully appreciate the beauty of laser and may other things in optics and photonics.<br /><br />I hope the beautiful color of fireworks can inspire my daughter. In the future, when she is prepared with science knowledge and she will be able to look the world differently (deeply) and can appreciate the things even the eyes can’t see.<br /><br />See everyone in at the conference!Miaochan Zhihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03640060986282498151noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827278406455878622.post-50659738762858052192011-06-30T07:02:00.000-07:002011-06-30T09:15:07.885-07:00Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Nonlinear Optics<div align="justify">During NLO 2011 there will be a symposium celebrating the 50th anniversary of nonlinear optics.<br /><br />I don’t want to emphasize the well-known speckle which was removed from the famous paper in Physical Review Letters by P. Franken, et al., demonstrating nonlinear optical effects for the first time appeared in 1961. I <em>do</em> want to pay tribute to the great scientist Raman here.<br /><br />Let us start with a question: When Raman observed Raman scattering in 1928, there was no laser. What was his light source? </div><br /><div align="justify"></div><br /><div align="justify">(I wish I had prizes for correct answers!)<br /><br /><em>The answer----“The apparatus used by Raman for the discovery consisted of a<br />mirror for deflecting sunlight, a condensing lens, a pair of complementary glass filters,<br />a flask containing benzene and a pocket spectroscope. the total cost not exceeding $25 ” [1]<br /><br /></em>Raman observed not only the Stokes radiation, which has the lower photon energy than the incident photon, but the extremely weak anti-Stokes radiation.<br /><br />Below are a few notable things that I know about the symposium invited speaker:<br /><br />Plenary session speaker Steve Harris discovered optical parametric fluorescence (Wonder why it is called<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parametric_oscillator"> parametric oscillator</a>? ). What less known is that he is inventor the acousto-optic tunable filter. He filed the patent “Tunable acousto-optic method and apparatus” in 1970. Now one type of pulse shaper--Dazzler made by FastLite in France--is based upon this. Whenever we disucussed the acousto-optic tunable filter, my thesis advisor, who was Professor Harris’s graduate student, always made sure the audience know about this history and gave Professor Harris the credit.<br /><br />Professor Bloembergen, who was awarded a Nobel Prize for his contributions to the field of nonlinear optics and to the development of laser spectroscopy in 1981, will give a talk on the birth of nonlinear optics. I look forward to that talk.<br /><br />Robert Byer probably will speak about the history of the nonlinear optics. I had a glimpse of <a href="http://www.stanford.edu/~rlbyer/IvesTalk.pdf">his talk </a>from his website, which shows a lot of pictures and fascinating stories. For example, he has a funny picture about “Who Invented This Crazy Idea (of laser driven fusion), Anyway? ” By the end of the 85-page-pdf-talk file there is a picture of Surfing Ocean Waves at Poipu Beach, Kauai. The video is great. I know it will be event better to hear the talk in person!<br /><br />Algis Piskarskas, the Head of Department of Quantum Electronics and Laser Research Centre at Vilnius University, serves as the one of the advisory board member of the Virtual Institute for Nonlinear Optics (VINO http://www.vino-stella.eu/vino/index.php?section=about), where they promote open sharing of know how, infrastructures and resources. They have a logo which is a beautiful picture of conical waves:<br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><p align="justify"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSq5wdHe6swrtmTUPmv9LQKjgYV81DPF-2Hg0GFfIrv4J6aM_T2TB-uQny0K6b_5MRV3oQ6kw8Y6svzMm9p9uSiXOk-1Kssv71VbmTH6TS9Tj2RkCW55J8kwWJQWjkDn4b-bMfbXz6Q5QG/s1600/about_2-FS_Xwave.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 133px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5624014228458637906" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSq5wdHe6swrtmTUPmv9LQKjgYV81DPF-2Hg0GFfIrv4J6aM_T2TB-uQny0K6b_5MRV3oQ6kw8Y6svzMm9p9uSiXOk-1Kssv71VbmTH6TS9Tj2RkCW55J8kwWJQWjkDn4b-bMfbXz6Q5QG/s400/about_2-FS_Xwave.jpg" /></a><br /><br />Gérard Mourou, the inventor of the chirped pulse amplification and the famous book Quantum electronics author Amnon Yariv are also among the invited speakers.<br /><br />Inspired by another principle of VINO: wider concept and visualization based on the search for truth and beauty in the world that surrounds us, I would like to show a picture that I took during my experiment but have not published.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh63uALDUsht1N76jKrdwmBe9zTCoqhx35k7cCQ-oyz11AAVB5Pnt3W-MjpeGXrcO5CHeWfMscD-26ZZWGC0sU-HDD8LGLXOZjMVNJ4KcacBh7BZMkwtOXhwlarQKMOPjrCJlHsbzrUl3Vw/s1600/snowbird2010.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 290px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5624014381030501970" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh63uALDUsht1N76jKrdwmBe9zTCoqhx35k7cCQ-oyz11AAVB5Pnt3W-MjpeGXrcO5CHeWfMscD-26ZZWGC0sU-HDD8LGLXOZjMVNJ4KcacBh7BZMkwtOXhwlarQKMOPjrCJlHsbzrUl3Vw/s400/snowbird2010.jpg" /></a><em> Above</em>, <em>three sets of sidebands generated in a 160 micro meter fused silica with a pair of fs IR pump lasers.<br /></em><br />Without lasers, or without nonlinear optics, we will never see this beauty. </p>If time allows I will write a follow up blog after I hear talks from the invited speakers.<br /><br />If you have any comments, please email me at <a href="mailto:mczhitamu@gmail.com">mczhitamu@gmail.com</a>.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><p>[1] R. S. Krishnan and R. K. Shankar, Journal of Raman Spectroscopy 10(1), 1<br />(1981). </p>Miaochan Zhihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03640060986282498151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827278406455878622.post-60599906200443328382011-06-24T13:31:00.000-07:002011-06-30T07:20:54.908-07:00Frequency Combs and Waveform Synthesis---Toward synthesis of arbitrary optical waveforms<div align="justify"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBAuzE-S30gmWbzMngRrOHJec4uqpO_jhY1d08uO0uya5oBbpGnTEQEV1t4_WwTKLmjbhar04L9ft0ZvZRtRb6-KL04WZ5uVZuonTK4WYG1z8wy1lvUoupscMl8vMPxEwk5GHkipwWebma/s1600/planner.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 549px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 322px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5621892085281473010" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBAuzE-S30gmWbzMngRrOHJec4uqpO_jhY1d08uO0uya5oBbpGnTEQEV1t4_WwTKLmjbhar04L9ft0ZvZRtRb6-KL04WZ5uVZuonTK4WYG1z8wy1lvUoupscMl8vMPxEwk5GHkipwWebma/s400/planner.jpg" /></a> (Please click on the images for a high-resolution one.)<br /><br />You may be familiar with the function generator, which is available in most of the physics labs and the simplest version of an <strong>electronic waveform generator</strong> [1]. It is much more difficult to synthesize <strong>arbitrary optical waveforms</strong> since the optical frequencies are much higher. The electronic synthesis is generally limited to ns time scales while the optical synthesizer is in the femtosecond range.<br /><br />Synthesizing optical waveforms requires both broadband coherent light and precise control over the phase and amplitudes for the frequency components. Therefore it is natural to combine the frequency comb technology with the pulse shaping technique, which may enable optical arbitrary waveform generation (OAWG), as discussed in a progress article written by Steven Cundiff, the session presider and A. Weiner, one of the invited speakers in the same session and the most famous person in the pulse shaping area [2]. The application, as pointed out by the authors, “are still a matter of speculation,” as "OAWG is still in its infancy." It can be used for coherent control, generation of attosecond pulses etc.<br /><br />Currently most of the research is focused on only a small number of comb lines. The results, however, are very exciting. For example, Kung’s group recently demonstrated synthesis and measurement of ultrafast waveforms such as square and saw-tooth fields by using 5 frequency harmonics [3]. The result is similar to the following figures. Due to copyright issues I can’t put the original figures here. Kung is giving a talk in this session as well.<br /><br />Our group also just achieved pulse-shaper-assisted phase control of 5 Raman frequency combs, which is what I am going to present in the conference. The difference of our work from Kung’s is that our comb itself has broad spectrum. So we not only need to correct "local" phase distortions on each spectrum, but also need to "globally" adjust the relative phases of the sidebands. We manage to make the sidebands "dance" in unison, as shown below.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOdF029f8CKkk6yvsCw2eyTRoLHODpghBay33jLXoH3VGdZK15LIF3wJ1fO4ObL9RWAgMeZ_3cRyTi3ig3OUPOR5cZxRd2AhbAXQX-uMrBA9V-6W_knw9tq6ZPKrJTVz0IVszP2XcJt4Jp/s1600/For+sokolov.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 354px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5621896994930528066" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOdF029f8CKkk6yvsCw2eyTRoLHODpghBay33jLXoH3VGdZK15LIF3wJ1fO4ObL9RWAgMeZ_3cRyTi3ig3OUPOR5cZxRd2AhbAXQX-uMrBA9V-6W_knw9tq6ZPKrJTVz0IVszP2XcJt4Jp/s400/For+sokolov.jpg" /></a><em>The SHG spectrum of the 5 sidebands after the BBO crystal as we vary the AS 3 phase from 0 to 9 pi, after we adjust the relative phase among all sidebands to be equal.<br />A: SHG of AS 1; B: SFG of AS 1&2 ;C: SHG of AS 2;D: SFG of AS 1&4, and AS 2&3; E: SHG of AS 3, SFG of AS 1&5, and AS 2&5; F: SFG o AS 3&4;G: SHG of AS 4.</em><br /><br />Session presider Steve Cundiff is the 2011 NLO program chair. Many people probably know him through his work and the book “Femtosecond optical frequency comb technology” book, which is edited by him and Jun Ye, who will give an invited talk at this session.<br /><br />I am not so familiar with C. Fabre’s work. As I Google him I only found his website in French. When I use the Google translation, I get the following----which is almost as funny as if you put an ancient Chinese poem and use the Google translation to get the English version. I love the last sentence---“to measure travel time fine”.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgY_b967sSldqYhyphenhyphenSnDxmUTk3drD734Q8tL0vJdUex02NVlmZpYij3gsTCJhyphenhyphenLEZzviwCjNQKYdvZmKY4GoIwmb9c4XjpbgAXQecG6p9V5OWhbmxNGuIvX-AVJLQg30ujrWFTB79iPU4Ch/s1600/Untitled2.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 223px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5621889435719958722" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgY_b967sSldqYhyphenhyphenSnDxmUTk3drD734Q8tL0vJdUex02NVlmZpYij3gsTCJhyphenhyphenLEZzviwCjNQKYdvZmKY4GoIwmb9c4XjpbgAXQecG6p9V5OWhbmxNGuIvX-AVJLQg30ujrWFTB79iPU4Ch/s400/Untitled2.jpg" /></a><br /><br />At last, I would like to mention somewhat related work---Multiple independent comb shaping (MICS) by Marcos Dantus. The comb is not “frequency combs” but more strictly speaking “pulse shaper pixels." as explained to me by Dmitry Pestov, who works with Marcos Dantus. The similarity lies in that it does phase shaping of a pulse to generate complex waveforms [4].<br /><br />Reference:<br />[1] <strong>Toward Synthesis of Arbitrary Optical Waveforms</strong>, <em>Deniz D. Yavuz</em>, Science March 2011, Vol. 331.<br />[2] <strong>Optical arbitrary waveform generation</strong>, <em>Steven T. Cundiff & Andrew M. Weiner,</em>Nature Photonics, Volume: 4,Pages:760–766, Dec. 2010.<br />[3] <strong>Synthesis and Measurement of Ultrafast Waveforms from Five Discrete Optical Harmonics</strong>, <em>H. Chan, Z. Hsieh, W. Liang, A. H. Kung, C. Lee, C. Lai, R. Pan, and L. Peng,</em>Science, vol. 331, 1165-1168 (2011).<br />[4] <strong>Generation of Complex Optical Pulse Sequences by Multiple Comb Shaping</strong>, <em>Dmitry Pestov, Vadim V. Lozovoy and Marcos Dantus</em>, OPN, Dec. 2009. </div>Miaochan Zhihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03640060986282498151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827278406455878622.post-86330330333882247802011-06-17T12:21:00.000-07:002011-07-29T11:59:43.271-07:00Women in opticsMost of you who read this blog probably have received an email newsletter from OSA yesterday. I was offended when I read the first sentence of the message from the president (<a href="http://www.osa-opn.org/Content/Departments/president-message.aspx">President’s message, JUNE OPN</a>): “If you’re reading this, the chances are you’re male.” I am a female yet I am reading this, I said to myself. As I read on I realize that the president tried to help women in optics. He mentioned that “our best estimate is that fewer than 1 in 10 of our regular and Fellow members are female.”<br /><br />There will around 150 participants for the 2011 NLO. I wonder how many of them are female? 20 years ago I started college in the <a href="http://opt.zju.edu.cn/english/">department of optical engineering department in Zhejiang University</a>, which is the first institute for optics education and research in China. The ratio of female and male students is 1 to 7. After we graduated, I am the only one of the 8 who shared the same dormitory who continues to be in optics.<br /><br />As one of the very few in the Quantum optics group here lead by Dr. Scully, I realized that I need to do something to stand out the female dominated workplace. Most of the times, I am the only woman in a meeting. I started to wear pink shirts, in an effort to light up the dark color dressed men during a meeting or conference. I wear pink so often that one of the professor once called me “pink lady”.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUfk7XETt1Wzblhq2KyKNGxVHgb6YNlw4NvvMuki6OK03EiSnY0sSfNmolfgsMQQ2Qh9SrJLhtpnPrR7qbtvmwF-Q4sceMtDIuXn5Dlm1s2J2GhyphenhyphenslBwYrlnu0er_doRAeEqMfSx1OSyjc/s1600/DSC_0587.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5619271773754499058" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUfk7XETt1Wzblhq2KyKNGxVHgb6YNlw4NvvMuki6OK03EiSnY0sSfNmolfgsMQQ2Qh9SrJLhtpnPrR7qbtvmwF-Q4sceMtDIuXn5Dlm1s2J2GhyphenhyphenslBwYrlnu0er_doRAeEqMfSx1OSyjc/s400/DSC_0587.JPG" /></a><br /><em>A picture of me standing in front of my poster in last year Ultrafast Phenomenon conference</em><br /><br /></p><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><p>I do feel what the OSA president Chris Dainty said in the message “Women in optics…somehow feeling that they are neither a 'proper woman' nor a 'proper scientists.'” The reason, however, is different from he stated that women in optics being isolated or treat differently. My supervisor has three female Ph. D. students (out of a handful women who received Ph. Ds in the whole department) graduate in his lab the last few years. He is very supportive of my work and has offered me flexibility of working part time in the lab. I have been here in almost 10 years (due to family reasons I stayed here as a postdoc after I get my PhD.) so now being a senior member in the lab I am pretty well respected by my colleagues. Yet, the feeling of not a “proper woman ” is due to the constant feeling of I don’t spend enough time with my kids, while the feeling of not a proper scientist arises from I can’t work many long hours as an experimentalist because I want to be at home at kids’ bedtime.<br /><br />When I was 4 month pregnant with my 2nd baby I met Paul Corkum (Canadian physicist specializing in attosescond physics and laser science) at a conference in Canada. I mentioned to him my concern of being a mom of two and working full time. He said he actually liked his female PhD students. The reason: although they can’t be physically in the lab many hours but they think more while they are away from work. Many times when I am frustrated with not having enough time to work, I always remember his encouraging words.<br /><br />The president mentioned mentorship in his newsletter. In 2006, USC started the first Conference for Undergraduate Women in PHYSICS. Now there are northeast conference (Yale-MIT), California Conference , <a href="https://www.physics.purdue.edu/conference/wip/">Midwest Conference </a>and <a href="http://www.physics.ncsu.edu/scuwp">Southeast Conference</a>. Next year, for the first time, Texas A&M University is possibly going to host the southwest conference. I, as one of the organizing committee member, try to help other women in physics. There are many great talks by successful women in this conference. Hopefully this will also promote more women undergraduates study optics as well.<br /><br />At the end of the message, the president referred to excellent resources on this subject. For those of you who are interested please have a look.<br /><br /><br /><br /></p>Miaochan Zhihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03640060986282498151noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827278406455878622.post-63313239834973948542011-06-15T12:57:00.000-07:002011-06-15T13:20:20.267-07:00presentation and communication skillsRecently OPN Career Focus column published two articles by Jean-luc Doumont on the subject of "<a href="http://www.osa-opn.org/Content/ViewFile.aspx?id=13090">Creating Effective Presentation Slides</a>" (click here for a<a href="http://ewh.ieee.org/soc/pcs/index.php?q=node/111"> podcast </a>and "<a href="http://www.osa-opn.org/BrightFuturesBlog/post/Communications-Skills-for-Researchers.aspx">Communication Skills for Researchers </a>." both of which give great advice on the art of science writing.Miaochan Zhihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03640060986282498151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827278406455878622.post-81496821326410809522011-06-10T13:42:00.000-07:002011-06-13T11:26:56.834-07:00Good books---The craft of scientific writing/ presentation by Michael AlleyI am currently writing a paper. When I compared the current version with the abstract I submitted to the conference, I saw a huge difference. I recieved a comment on a review paper--at the end, the reviewer said:<br /><br />“it may help with a little more polish on the English, especially on the use of articles (a, the, etc.) in a few places.” I am not a native English speaker.<br /><br />When I visited Dr. Rick Trebino’s lab, he mentioned the book “<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Craft-Scientific-Writing-Michael-Alley/dp/0387947663">The Craft of Scientific Writing</a>”.<br /><br /><br /><br /><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF6dkpJhoh0ieG7woaJxHBD-sIv4xwwIETvyzrbBr1ArcLmiE7ya340ixg9sbP5RkO57PyzVA2Yv34Nzn7wRqc-PxT-bCwpyWRwjmaI3wf5etAefqeXWNzzxHErInMu7gSpEQSP1XYtlet/s1600/the+craft+of+scientific+writing.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5616695050213391170" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF6dkpJhoh0ieG7woaJxHBD-sIv4xwwIETvyzrbBr1ArcLmiE7ya340ixg9sbP5RkO57PyzVA2Yv34Nzn7wRqc-PxT-bCwpyWRwjmaI3wf5etAefqeXWNzzxHErInMu7gSpEQSP1XYtlet/s400/the+craft+of+scientific+writing.jpg" /></a><br />I tried to get it from our library but it turned out it was a very popular book. It was on course reserve. (Like all the good books!)<br /><br />Then I found and read another of his books, “The Craft of Scientific Presentations: Critical Steps to Succeed and Critical Errors to Avoid.” This book was instrumental in helping me give a persuasive job interview talk. <br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzWJ7DHCNADtx3AuTEyzfwZf3eiQ-8LBipqpCAqvuNaorkwi9tTj7nOqkLoiacx9HOev1KCOGPeQ3j8131piOhiibHk2ohrdEs-Y59Wg8RmpFFMmx6_34oN518ojAYtGXruw_08_O0JZ3i/s1600/the+craft+of+scientific+presentation.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5616694684176281410" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzWJ7DHCNADtx3AuTEyzfwZf3eiQ-8LBipqpCAqvuNaorkwi9tTj7nOqkLoiacx9HOev1KCOGPeQ3j8131piOhiibHk2ohrdEs-Y59Wg8RmpFFMmx6_34oN518ojAYtGXruw_08_O0JZ3i/s400/the+craft+of+scientific+presentation.jpg" /></a><br />During spring semester I tried to borrow “The Craft of Scientific Writing” but it is still on course reserve. I don’t want to buy it because I have several shelves of books at home already. Someday, the book shelf may fall down.<br /><br />Once I asked a librarian when the book will be free to public. He said it is possible it will be always on reserve.<br /><br />“Then can you order another copy?” I asked.<br />“No, you know the economy.”<br /><br />But, he said, you can use the “get it for me” service. It works like this, you submit a request, they will get one for your from another library. I did it. Soon I got the book from Texas Tech. (Thank you, Texas A&M librarians!)<br /><br />There are many good tips, but I would like to focus on the language aspects:<br /><br />There are six language goals:<br />• <strong>Precise</strong>: you must say what you mean<br />• <strong>Clear</strong>: avoid things you don’t mean<br />• <strong>Forthright</strong>: convey a sincere and straightforward attitude<br />• <strong>Familiar</strong>: Anchor your language in the familiar<br />• <strong>Concise</strong>: every word should count<br />• <strong>Fluid</strong>: smooth writing, writing with transition, writing that moves from sentence to sentence, paragraph to paragraph without tripping or tiring the reader.<br /><br />All these are quite useful for revising my paper.<br /><br />But maybe using “a the that which” is indeed a difficult subject so the author avoided it. I didn’t find any description to this confusion. The book refer to Richard Feyennan’s writing very often (He actually used Richard Feynman on his book cover to "The Craft of Scientific Presentation).<br />From the reference I found Richard Feynman’s article published in Physics today Feb. 1988 (he died at the same month)--- “<a href="http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1988PhT....41b..26F">An Outsider's Inside View of the Challenger Inquiry</a>”, in which he wrote: "I finally got it through to the point where it was, at last, in the hands of a real editor, a capable man by the name of Hansen, who changed all my<em> whiches</em> to<em> thats</em> and <em>thats</em> to<em> whiches</em>." </p><br /><p><strong>I feel optimistic!</strong> </p><br /><p>Finally from the about.com, I find this useful article:<br /><a href="http://esl.about.com/od/thebasics/a/a_an_the.htm?rd=1">"A, An, The" definite and indefinite articles in English</a> .<br /><br /></p>Miaochan Zhihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03640060986282498151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827278406455878622.post-25361815366150884072011-06-09T07:51:00.001-07:002011-06-13T11:22:47.618-07:00Rick TrebinoSince I knew I will be giving a talk at the 2011 NLO I keep checking the website, not so much for the program but to look for updates on the exhibit vendor information. The reason---I hope to see Rick Trebino again.<br /><br />Last year, after I came back from visiting his lab, I looked back and realized that I actually have interactions with him for many occasions in the past few years, although I didn’t meet him until last year at the 17th international Ultrafast Phenomenon conference.<br /><br />I heard about Dr. Trebino by somehow getting to know his FROG website. I loved his lecture notes and his book. I like the name he gave to his product--- FROG. Once I even tried to use his lecture notes to give a study talk at Texa A&M Univ. in 2003 or 2004. It didn’t go very well because I just started in ultrafast optics and so many things are beyond my explanation.<br /><br />Then in 2005, a team of us was working on the Hybrid CARS for the anthrax detection project. We had trouble looking for four wave mixing manually using a translation stage. I was brave enough and directly emailed him asking for advice. Surprisingly, he replied to my email and also asked his student to write to me more. That’s the first time I experienced his kindness and generosity.<br /><br />After that, I repeatedly returned to his website and studied his book. I read many of his papers. Then in 2010 I unexpectedly met him and his wife during the 17th UP conference. We talked. I wrote a<a href="http://ultrafastphenomena.blogspot.com/2010/07/rick-trebino-frog-books-and-swamp.html"> blog </a>about him last year.<br /><br />Linda, his wife, suggested me come to visit his lab and discuss the question of measuring “holey spectra” (spectrally separated peaks, Nicolas Forget is the one started to call it this way. I think it is funny) we have. She also helped me tremendously before and during the visit.<br /><br />My supervisor Alexei approved the visit. In Aug. Ben, a graduate student who is working on the femtosecond filamentation, and I went to Georgia Tech. Linda arranged an office for us. Dr. Trebino’s graduate student Jacob Cohen helped us get all the paperwork and a yellow wasp ID (buzz card) and finally a key to the lab. We lived in a hotel and went to school every day, had discussions and looked around the lab. We also tried to work on one small project—using striped fish to characterize filamentaion.<br /><br /><br />In between I wrote this email to Alexei: <br /><p></p><br /><br /><p align="left"><em>The lab overall is an ideal lab a person can imagine. Many bins for putting different things. Plenty of overhead shelf space. Tons of different mirrors, mounts, etc. Everything are labelled well and in drawers if not used. Everyone has his/her own project and laser. They have 1 amplifier and several oscillators. many Cameras, spectrometers in the beam to monitor the beam. Fixed, no need to move around. Lab is very clean, many optical tables. Students work on their own schedule. They have a book shelf with many optics books. a lunch room (also the showroom, or conference room, has computer, projectors), which is close to the entrance of the lab, have an office space. Jake said every morning they come and discuss first. They normally on each other’s papers and they help each other with experiments. After graduation, anyone can work in Rick’s company if they want. They have extra office spaces. Me and Ben have 2 offices but we stay together in one so we can discuss. They even prepare a computer for us. Here everything is so open and everyone shares. His wife is not a scientist but she is administrating for Rick’s professorship and company.<br /><br /></em><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu-GXH_K8s0ps6CsiIUuORXx4RdLkM8vS_55NikcIE-fBqAzOsWo0teSJqnjXOaEeJk93YVCQ3uNW-oq9Xb1KRRRLRcOCunTEcd66ZVYObOncm9eMAul8ScKMUCm_N_9fpsr090n7bzkI/s1600/Rick+Lab.jpg"><em><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5616228996765521490" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu-GXH_K8s0ps6CsiIUuORXx4RdLkM8vS_55NikcIE-fBqAzOsWo0teSJqnjXOaEeJk93YVCQ3uNW-oq9Xb1KRRRLRcOCunTEcd66ZVYObOncm9eMAul8ScKMUCm_N_9fpsr090n7bzkI/s400/Rick+Lab.jpg" /></em></a><em> Rick's lab<br /><br /><br /></em>(If you want to read more, please click here <a href="http://zhimiaochan.wordpress.com/2010/08/15/an-ideal-lab/">Rick’s lab</a>)<br /><br />By the end Rich had a party for us at the night before we left. We visited his house. From 6pm to 10:30pm Rick talked for a few hours, almost non-stop. I felt his hospitality, his enthusiasm toward life and his energy. Linda also talked in between, a typical of a couple in harmony when one will help each other remember things and describe. When I asked how many countries have you been to. Linda thought for a little bit and said” maybe you should rephrase the questions as: Which country I have not been to”.<br /><br /><br /></p><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5616229723378021730" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbkxxCSHK_Qtc3b4jnteh0hKgil6AHDbfGDZTRms9h5-VgwEEMhh6cZ6i689KSwu2Y7mdQEdEbaQM0aL-66lz7vze5ruFX6p6aWIQXuTj02yqq6_xuas-KLZol0Xt6IntHxbG_rKB9u9k/s400/Rickhome.jpg" />Rick's home<br /><br /><br />Later from his website, I learned he even hosted class party for the students who take his class by the end of the semester. I wish I were one of his students.<br /><br />By that time we had just learned about his funniest ever essay “<a href="http://frog.gatech.edu/How%20to%20Publish%20a%20Comment%20w%20suggestions.pdf">How to Publish a Scientific Comment in 123 Easy Steps</a>”. That night, Rick mentioned he is writing an essay book. The essays are available on his file sharing website listed under<a href="https://public.me.com/ricktrebino"> stories</a>. I especially like the Hawaii one. I hope it get published soon so that more people can know his wonderful life.Miaochan Zhihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03640060986282498151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827278406455878622.post-39732050085669059932011-05-24T14:21:00.000-07:002011-05-24T14:29:04.533-07:00Three Essential Elements: Why I’m Going to and Blogging about NLOThree elements underlie why I’m heading to the conference.<br /><br /><strong>Element 1: Networking</strong><br />One morning my officemate asked me: “Do you know the nonlinear optics conference is in Hawaii?” Me: “No.” I must say Hawaii is good place for a conference.<br /><br />So I looked up the committee chairs and invited speakers and wished to go. Steve Harris—my dissertation advisor’s dissertation advisor will be there. Steve Cundiff, who edited the book "femtosecond optical frequency comb technology" and recently published “Optical arbitrary waveform generation” (which is closely related to what I am working on) in Nature Photonics, is one of the program chairs. Also the conference will have a symposium celebrating the 50th anniversary of the nonlinear optics.<br /><br /><strong>Element 2: The negotiation workshop given by APS</strong><br />At the 2011 APS meeting in Dallas, APS gave a FREE (Yes, free, everything paid) <a href="http://www.aps.org/programs/women/workshops/skills/index.cfm">professional skill development workshop</a>. One presentation is about negotiation skills. Two key things I learned: a) you don’t get it if you don’t ask; b) negotiation is not selfish and it is for the benefits of both sides, at least as far as a faculty position is concerned. Both you and the school want you to settle down well and succeed. Negotiation lays the terms necessary to do so.<br /><br />By the end we had one assignment: Ask for something you want but do not need.<br /><br />Going to Hawaii is a lot of money. 11 hours of flight time. Hotels, registration fee. But I thought, this could be a good exercise.<br /><br />I gathered courage and sent my advisor an email in which I proposed I pay part of the fees.<br /><br />Several days later, he came in and told me. Go ahead and submit an abstract. Money is tight but should not be a big problem.<br /><br />That leads to the 3rd element.<br /><br /><strong>Element 3: Nice experimental results!</strong><br />I have been working on this project--Pulse-shaper-assisted phase control of a broadband coherent Raman spectral comb--for one and a half years. Finally in March we obtained some beautiful results. Therefore I do have some nice figures to put in the abstract. I am writing a paper anyway so I prepared an abstract and submitted.<br /><br />Now, Bingo! I am going the Hawaii’s fourth largest island. I have been to the first 3 islands so this would be a totally different experience.<br /><br />When Nicolas from FastLite in France asked me whether I am going to any conferences in European countries, I said no but I am going to Hawaii. Here is his response:<br /><br />NLO in Hawaii... wow... seems much better than Europe :-D !<br /><br />I am getting excited.Miaochan Zhihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03640060986282498151noreply@blogger.com0