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Big Data and Real Time Processing in Photonics
Big Data and Real Time Processing in Photonics Annual Danish-Californian Workshop, 2015 University of California, Los Angeles Friday 8:30am-7pm, March 27, 2015 Palisades Room, Carnesale Commons (3rd floor) 251 Charles E Young Drive West, Los Angeles, CA 90095 Annual...
First ever demonstration of image compression at the speed of light
Optical Data Compression in Time Stretch Imaging PLOS ONE | DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0125106 Big data not only brings opportunity, but also a challenge in biomedical and scientific instruments, whose acquisition and processing units are overwhelmed by a torrent of...
Photonic Time-stretch Enables Real-time Monitoring of Streaming Video Offers path to Software Defined Networks
IEEE Global Signal and Information Processing (A PDF file opens in a new tab) The rapid growth of streaming video and the heterogeneous nature of cloud-based applications place a burden on optical networks that form the internet. To provide a seamless user experience,...
Coherent Time-Stretch Transform for Near-Field Spectroscopy
IEEE Photonics Journal link IEEE Photonics Journal PDF The time-stretch transform slows down broadband optical signals for capture by electronic instruments, and has brought forth MHz-rate imagers, OCT systems, and spectrometers, as well as photonically-enhanced ADCs....
First demonstration of optical real-time data compression
Applied Physics letters link Applied Physics letters PDF We experimentally demonstrate the first instrument for compressing the time-bandwidth product of analog signals in real-time. By performing self-adaptive stretch, this technology enables digitizers to capture...
New Compression Method Reduces Big Data Bottleneck
Big Data refers generally to vast amounts of information collected by networked devices and systems. In this domain, data capture is technologically simple and the challenge lies in the post-capture analytics and transmission. Big Data is also prominent...
Congratulations to Eric Diebold and Brandon Buckley whose work was published in Nature Photonics!
Congratulations to Eric Diebold and Brandon Buckley whose work was published in Nature Photonics! Their work was also featured in Nature Methods link pdf. Fluorescence imaging is the most widely used method for unveiling the molecular composition of biological...
Congratulations to Peter DeVore and David Borlaug whose work was selected for the rear cover of Physica Status Solidi Rapid Reasearch Letters!
Wiley link pdf Congratulations to Peter DeVore and David Borlaug whose work was selected for the rear cover of Physica Status Solidi Rapid Research Letters! Modulation instability is a universal nonlinear process wherein a weak perturbation grows on an otherwise quiet...
Interactive Time-Stretch Camera Design Calculator Goes Live!
Interactive Time-Stretch Camera Design Calculator Goes Live link Serial time-encoded amplified imaging/microscopy (STEAM) is a fast real-time optical imaging method that provides ~10 MHz frame rate, ~100 ps shutter speed, and ~30 dB ( 1000) optical image gain. As of...
Rogue events are statistically rare but carry a huge impact
IOP Science link pdf Rogue events are statistically rare but carry a huge impact. Occurring in everyday contexts such as finance, network traffic, ocean waves and elsewhere. Launching intense pulses into silicon waveguides results in supercontinuum generation, strong...
Announcements

Undergraduate researcher Nora Brackbill

Undergraduate researcher Rebecca Brown

Postdoctoral scholar Keisuke Goda

2012 Aron Kressel Award

2012 Distinguished Engineering Achievement Award

2011-2012 Electrical Engineering Department's Distinguished Ph.D. Dissertation Award

Kam Yan Hon's paper
Kam Yan Hon’s paper titled “The Third-Order Nonlinear Optical Coefficients of Si, Ge, and Si(1-x)Ge(x) in the midwave and longwave infrared” has been selected to be on the cover of Journal of Applied Physics. Congratulations!
Using a combination of semiconductor theory and experimental results from the scientific literature, we have compiled and plotted the key third-order nonlinear optical coefficients of bulk crystalline Si and Ge as a function of wavelength (1.5-6.7 um for Si and 2.0-14.7 um for Ge).

SPIE Scholarship
Ali Fard wins SPIE Scholarship. This award recognizes his academic and research excellence in the field of optics and photonics. Congratulations!
