Invited Speakers
Plenary Speakers
Better Ways to Specify Aspheric Shapes Can Facilitate Design, Fabrication and Testing Alike, Greg Forbes; QED Technologies, USA
Computational Imaging Technologies, Kenny Kubala; FiveFocal, USA
The Evolution from III-V Opto-Electronics to Silicon Nanophotonics and Vertical Cavity Lasers to Photonic Crystal and Surface Plasmon Devices, Axel Scherer¹, Uday Khankhoje¹, Tom Baehr-Jones², Se-Heon Kim¹; ¹Caltech, USA, ²Univ. of Washington, USA
Illumination Design Invited Speakers
Evolution of Illumination Systems in Microlithography – A Retrospective, Alois M. Herkommer, Carl Zeiss SMT AG, Oberkochen, Germany
Novel Ideal Nonimaging Designs by Multichanneling the Phase-Space Flow, Pablo Benitez; Univ. Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
Edge-Ray and Aplanatic Designs as Special Cases of Generalized Functional Designs, John C. Bortz, Narkis Shatz; SAIC, USA
Iterative Reflector Design for Extended Sources Using a Compensation Approach, William Cassarly; Optical Res. Associates, USA
Non-Visual Effects of Lighting: Implications for Design, Mariana Figueiro; Lighting Res. Ctr., Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst., USA
Perturbative Design of Illumination Systems, R. John Koshel¹,²; ¹Photon Engineering LLC, USA, ²College of Optical Sciences, Univ. of Arizona, USA
Primary Optics for LEDs—State of the Art of Optical Architectures, Julius A. Muschaweck; OSRAM Opto Semiconductors, Germany
A Practical and Predictive Two-Metric System for Characterizing the Color Rendering Properties of Light Sources for Architectural Applications, Mark S. Rea; Lighting Res. Ctr., Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst., USA
From Enthusiasm to Economy: Precision Optical Design as a Key to Making LED Luminaires Cost-Efficient in Street Lighting and Architectural Lighting, Andreas Timinger; OEC AG, Germany
Fluorescence Modeling in Remote and Close LED Illumination Devices, Teus Tukker; Philips Advanced Development Lighting, Netherlands
Optical Design Invited Speakers
Microstructured Optics for Excimer-Based Systems: Applications for Imaging, Beam Shaping and Coherence Management, Robert Brunner; Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH, Germany
Application of Radial Basis Functions to Represent Optical Free-Form Surfaces, Ozan Cakmakci¹, James P. McGuire¹, Kevin P. Thompson¹, Gregory E. Fasshauer², Jannick P. Rolland²; ¹Optical Res. Associates, USA, ²Inst. of Optics, Univ. of Rochester, USA
Large Field of View and High Resolution Free-Form Head-Mounted Display, Dewen Cheng¹,², Yongtian Wang¹, Hong Hua²; ¹Dept. of Optoelectronic Engineering, Beijing Inst. of Technology, China, ²3D Visualization and Imaging Systems Lab, College of Optical Sciences, Univ. of Arizona, USA
Challenges for Polarization Ray Tracing, Russell A. Chipman; College of Optical Sciences, Univ. of Arizona, USA
The 300-Year Quest for Binoculars, John Greivenkamp, David Steed; Univ. of Arizona, USA
Light Field Photography, Microscopy and Illumination, Marc Levoy; Stanford Univ., USA
Mathematical Aspects of Laser Beam Shaping and Splitting, Louis A. Romero¹, Fred M. Dickey²; ¹Sandia Natl. Labs, USA, ²FMD Consulting, USA
Sixth-Order Wavefront Deformations, Their Coefficients, and Insights into Wavefront Propagation in Optical Systems, Jose Sasian; College of Optical Sciences, Univ. of Arizona, USA
The Power of Negative Thinking, David Shafer; David Shafer Optical Design, USA
Correcting Lateral Chromatic Aberrations by Image Processing, Akihiko Utsugi; Core Technology Ctr., Nikon Corp., Japan
Unified Optical Modeling, Frank Wyrowski¹, Michael Kuhn²; ¹Friedrich Schiller Univ. Jena, Germany, ²LightTrans GmbH, Germany






