Congratulations  to Daniel A. Bender (OSE PhD candidate) for being awarded  the Best Poster Prize at the SPIE's Photonics West conference in San Jose, CA (Jan. 2008).  Photonics West, with an attendance of nearly 20,000, is one of the largest international conferences in optics and photonics. The Best Poster prize,  sponsored by Coherent Inc., is awarded by a panel of judges and is based on the contents as well as the presentation of the posters. The prize included a certificate and a cash award of $500.  

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Paper 6871-86
Title: Ultrafast lasers: identifying the "perfect" pulse 
Authors: Daniel A. Bender and Mansoor Sheik-Bahae
Affiliation: The University of New Mexico
Abstract: Detailed characterization of ultrashort laser pulses is vital for many applications. A number of full-field reconstruction techniques exist with varying experimental and computational complexity. In many circumstances, however, it is desirable to have a pulse characterization scheme that yields phase information with high sensitivity in real time. The MOdified Spectrum Auto-Interferometric Correlation (MOSAIC) fulfills this need and has been shown to be experimentally simple and computationally fast.

 

 Daniel Bender

 

 

More information on the MOSAIC technique.