• ORA announces student optical design competition results

    Pasadena, CA, August 6, 2004--Optical Research Associates (ORA) has selected the winners of their annual Student Optical Design Competition, in which awards totaling $4,000 are granted.
    Aug. 6, 2004

    Pasadena, CA, August 6, 2004--Optical Research Associates (ORA) has selected the winners of their annual Student Optical Design Competition, in which awards totaling $4,000 are granted. The annual awards are presented to students in North America working toward a bachelor's, master's, or Ph.D. degree, who utilitize the company's CODE V or LightTools software to perform research in some area of optical design or engineering. The winners of the 2004 ORA Optical Design Competition are:

    Top Prize
    A 100x, 0.85 NA, Diffraction-Limited Objective for Thru-Silicon Microscopy
    Jeremy Rowlette and Claude Matalanis
    Ph.D., Stanford University
    Using CODE V


    Other Awards
    Design of a Sparse-Aperture Interferometric Telescope
    Matthew R. Bolcar
    Ph.D., University of Rochester
    Institute of Optics
    Using CODE V

    Complete Design of a Camera Objective
    Melanie Laurent and Regis Tessieres
    M.S., University of Arizona
    Optical Sciences Center
    Using CODE V and LightTools

    Design of the Atacama Cosmology Telescope and MBAC Receiver
    Michael Niemack
    Ph.D., Princeton University
    Physics Department
    Using CODE V

    Design of Backwards Compatible Blu-Ray and HD-DVD Objectives for Reading New High Capacity DVDs
    Chris Supranowitz
    B.S., University of Rochester
    Institute of Optics
    Using CODE V

    Optical Design Model: LED Headlamp
    Jen Watkinson
    M.S., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
    Lighting Research Center
    Using LightTools

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