Physics Colloquium - PSB 161, Fri., Aug. 30, 2013, 4:30

Subject:  Physics Colloquium - PSB 161, Fri., Aug. 30, 2013, 4:30

Yoshiharu Krockenberger

NTT Basic Research Laboratories

Hole-like Fermi surfaces in electron-doped cuprates

The phase diagram of high-temperature superconductors, e.g.,cuprate superconductors, has been scrutinized for symmetry with respect to doping. While large efforts have been taken to shed light on 
the so-called hole-doped side of the phase diagram, the electron-doped side has been investigated with much less rigidity. In particular, while superconductivity is induced solely by chemical doping in hole-doped cuprates, doping alone is insufficient to induce superconductivity in electron doped cuprates. Besides, an additional annealing procedure is inevitable for the induction of superconductivity in those cuprates. Moreover, while the copper ion is five- and/or six-fold coordinated in hole-doped cuprates, it is square-planar for electron doped cuprates. Here we show that superconductivity in electron-doped cuprates can be induced even in the absence of chemical doping. This allows us to see the phase diagram of high-temperature superconducting cuprates under some new light.

PSB 161

Fri., Aug. 30, 2013

4:30

LightPath Technologies Announces Expansion of Infrared Business Team

LightPath Technologies Announces Expansion of Infrared Business Team

New Sales Leadership Complements LightPath's Existing Strengths in Product Development and Manufacturing

ORLANDO, FL -- August 28, 2013 -- LightPath Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: LPTH) (“LightPath”, the “Company” or “we”), a global manufacturer, distributor and integrator of patented optical components and high-level assemblies, today announced the expansion of its Infrared Optics group with the addition of Glenn Breeze as Worldwide Infrared Sales Manager, a newly created position.  Mr. Breeze will lead worldwide commercialization and sales efforts for the company’s infrared products, which include its world class molded chalcogenide optics.
Mr. Breeze brings to LightPath Technologies over 30 years experience in sales, marketing and business development, including significant direct experience in the infrared, advanced technical materials, and optical markets. He previously held executive level business development and technical sales positions in finished infrared optical components and lens assemblies which are integrated into multiple-sensor camera systems for defense, security, reconnaissance, and commercial applications. Most recently, he was Director of Sales and Marketing for Ophir Optics (now Newport Corporation (NASDAQ: NEWP), where he was primarily responsible for the sales growth of the US division of Ophir Optics.
“The addition of Glenn Breeze to our team strengthens our molded infrared optic business, which represents a significant component of our growth strategy,” said Jim Gaynor, CEO of LightPath.  “Glenn’s impressive track record of delivering sales growth within our addressable markets, as well as his demand creation and sales leadership experience, complement our existing strengths in product development and manufacturing.  His experience and knowledge of the infrared market is a tremendous asset that we expect will enhance our prospects for future success.” 
At LightPath, Mr. Breeze will direct strategic planning, business development, and sales management activities for the company’s expanding line of infrared lenses, including assuming responsibility for key commercial, government, and military accounts, and growth of LightPath’s existing direct sales and indirect distribution network. 
“One of our competitive advantages in the infrared markets is the leverage we have in molding processes as a disruptive technology,” added Mr. Gaynor. “Molding is a key enabling technology to the commercialization of new applications in infrared systems and provides further benefit through manufacturing cost reduction.  Due to LightPath’s investment in technologies and process improvements that have significantly reduced the cost of optical components and increased manufacturing output, we now have exposure to what we believe is a segmented, addressable market of $100 million annually for infrared optics derived from an overall infrared systems market estimated at $35 billion.  These markets have a multitude of growth catalysts and include defense, paramilitary, law enforcement, automotive, and other large-scale commercial applications.  We are now very well-positioned to implement our growth strategy and access these markets.” 
Infrared systems include applications such as thermal imaging cameras, gas sensing devices, spectrometers, night vision systems, automotive driver awareness systems such as blind spot detection, thermal weapon gun sights, and infrared counter measure systems, among others.  LightPath has proprietary manufacturing and material technology to manufacture molded optics that fit these applications.  For example, utilizing precision molded aspheric optics significantly reduces the number of lenses required for typical thermal imaging systems, and the cost to manufacture these lenses, as compared to traditional methods.
The aspheric design of LightPath’s lenses enables system designers to reduce the lens elements in a system and provide similar performance at a lower cost.  As a result, LightPath’s aspheric molding process is becoming an enabling technology for the cost reduction and commercialization of infrared imaging systems.  The company has enhanced its precision molded infrared aspheric optics products for imaging applications in firefighting, predictive maintenance, homeland security, surveillance, automotive, and defense.  In addition, LightPath has targeted niche markets, such as infrared laser systems that are used in gas sensing and environmental monitoring, because the demand for infrared imaging systems has been growing significantly based on the steep decline in prices of the infrared detectors.  These growing markets provide a unique opportunity for high-volume molded infrared aspheres.
About LightPath Technologies
LightPath provides optics and photonics solutions for the industrial, defense, telecommunications, testing and measurement, and medical industries. LightPath designs, manufactures, and distributes optical and infrared components including molded glass aspheric lenses and assemblies, infrared lenses and thermal imaging assemblies, fused fiber collimators, and gradient index GRADIUM® lenses. LightPath also offers custom optical assemblies, including full engineering design support.  For more information, visit www.lightpath.com.
This news release includes statements that constitute forward-looking statements made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements regarding our ability to expand our presence in certain markets, future sales growth, continuing reductions in cash usage and implementation of new distribution channels. This information may involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from such forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, factors detailed by LightPath Technologies, Inc. in its public filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Except as required under the federal securities laws and the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission, we do not have any intention or obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

Florida Space Institute Seminar Announcement: Two Classes of Exoplanets Identified Without Modeling

Florida Space Institute Seminar Announcement

Speaker: Joseph Harrington

Affiliation: Physics, UCF

Day and Date: Wednesday, August 28th

Time: 11:00 - 12:00

Location: Research Park

12354 Research Parkway

Partnership 1 Bldg. Suite 209

Orlando, FL 32826

Title: Two Classes of Exoplanets Identified Without Modeling

Abstract:

The Spitzer Space Telescope has measured numerous eclipses of exoplanets, and ground-based telescopes and Hubble are now getting into the game.  These measurements give the planetary flux in the observation filter.  In combination with the planetary radius, known from transit, one can determine a brightness temperature, Tb.  I compare these Tbs with the planets' predicted equilibrium temperatures, Teq, calculated assuming zero albedo and uniform reradiation of absorbed energy from the entire planetary surface. Measurements deviate from the simplistic Teq prediction because of the chemistry and temperatures present in the atmosphere, but other effects like clouds may play important roles as well.  By comparing Tb and Teq, and without reference to any interpretive model, I have identified two distinct classes of exoplanets, with cooler exoplanets having similar Tb and Teq while hotter exoplanets have higher Tb than Teq.  I will discuss possible explanations, such as thermal inversions, clouds, and competing radiative and convective time constants.

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Distinguished Seminar Series: "Cells as Bits: Biomedical Diagnostics Inspired by Wideband Data Multiplexing Techniques" by Bahram Jalali

Tuesday, October 08, 2013 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM

CREOL Room 102

Bahram Jalali, UCLA

Abstract:

Telecommunication systems routinely generate, capture and analyze data at rates exceeding billions of bits per second. Interestingly, the scale of the problem is similar to that of blood analysis. With approximately 1 billion cells per milliliter of blood, detection of a few abnormal cells in a blood sample translates into a “cell error rate” of 10-12, a value strangely similar to the bit error rate in telecommunication systems.

Motivated by WDM and time-stretch dispersive Fourier transform technologies, a new type of bright-field imaging known as STEAM has demonstrated imaging of cells with record shutter speed and throughput leading to detection of rare breast cancer cells in blood with one-in-a-million sensitivity. A second technique called FIRE is a new approach to fluorescent imaging that is based on wireless communication techniques. FIRE has achieved real-time pixel readout rates one order of magnitude faster than the current gold standard in high-speed fluorescence imaging.

Finally, a new physics-based signal transformation will be introduced and demonstrated. It enables a digitizer to capture signals that would otherwise be beyond its bandwidth and at the same time, it compresses the digital data volume. This method is inspired by operation of Fovea centralis in the human eye and by anamorphic transformation in visual arts. The so-called Anamorphic Spectrum Transformation makes it possible to (i) capture high-throughput random signals in real-time and (ii) to alleviate the storage and transmission bottlenecks associated with the resulting “big data”.

Biography:

Prof. Jalali is the Northrop-Grumman Endowed Chair in Optoelectronics and Professor of Electrical Engineering at UCLA, the Director of Department’s Physical and Wave Electronics, with joint appointments in Biomedical Engineering, California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) and Department of Surgery at the UCLA School of Medicine. He received his Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Columbia University in 1989 and was with Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey until 2002 before joining UCLA. He is a Fellow of IEEE, the Optical Society of America (OSA), and the American Physical Society (APS). He is the recipient of the R.W. Wood Prize from Optical Society of America for the invention and demonstration of the first Silicon Laser, and the Aron Kressel Award of the IEEE Photonics Society, and the Distinguished Engineering Achievement Award from the Engineers Council. In 2005 he was elected into the Scientific American Top 50, and received the BrideGate 20 Award in 2001 for his entrepreneurial accomplishments. He has published over 300 journal and conference papers, and holds 11 patents. During 2001-2004, he was a consultant at Intel Corporation’s optical and wireless communication divisions.

For more information:

Dr. Sasan Fathpour

Assistant Professor of Optics

407-823-6961

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LightPath Technologies Signs Agreement with AceXon Technologies to Expand Distribution Network in Southeast Asia

LightPath Technologies Signs Agreement with AceXon Technologies to Expand Distribution Network in Southeast Asia

Agreement Enhances Distribution Coverage for Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand

ORLANDO, FL - August 14, 2013: LightPath Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: LPTH) (“LightPath”, the “Company” or “we”), a global manufacturer, distributor and integrator of patented optical components and high-level assemblies, today announced it has signed a distribution agreement with AceXon Technologies Pte. Ltd.  Under the terms of the agreement, AceXon Technologies will distribute LightPath’s broad range of optical products throughout Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand.
Jim Gaynor, CEO of LightPath, commented, “LightPath is continuing its strategy of improving cost structures, expanding markets and addressing higher volumes. A key part of this strategy is to improve our channels to our markets.  Since 2004, AceXon has developed strong relationships with OEM customers in a variety of opto-electronic markets ranging from industrial to scientific to medical.  AceXon has a strong emphasis on laser-based applications, distributing DPSS, fiber, gas lasers as well as laser diodes.  Many of these lasers can be used with the optics and optical assemblies that LightPath produces, making this agreement a natural fit.  We are very pleased to welcome AceXon Technologies to our network of worldwide distributors.”
About LightPath Technologies
LightPath provides optics and photonics solutions for the industrial, defense, telecommunications, testing and measurement, and medical industries. LightPath designs, manufactures, and distributes optical and infrared components including molded glass aspheric lenses and assemblies, infrared lenses and thermal imaging assemblies, fused fiber collimators, and gradient index GRADIUM® lenses. LightPath also offers custom optical assemblies, including full engineering design support.  For more information, visit www.lightpath.com.
About AceXon Technologies
AceXon Technologies Pte. Ltd. was established in 2004 as a sales and technical service provider specializing in the field of lasers, electro-optics, and photonics, serving several countries in the Southeast Asia region.  The company introduces state-of-the-art products to the institutional, industrial, and commercial markets. AceXon supplies and services a full range of systems involving photonics products, electro-optical equipment, and lasers which have applications in the research, academic, development, production, commercial, and medical industries.

This news release includes statements that constitute forward-looking statements made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements regarding our ability to expand our presence in certain markets, future sales growth, continuing reductions in cash usage and implementation of new distribution channels. This information may involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from such forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, factors detailed by LightPath Technologies, Inc. in its public filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Except as required under the federal securities laws and the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission, we do not have any intention or obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

LightPath Technologies Announces The Exercise of Warrants

Cash Balance Projected to Nearly Double

ORLANDO, FL - August 7, 2013: LightPath Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: LPTH) (the “Company”, “LightPath” or “we”), a global manufacturer, distributor and integrator of proprietary optical components and assemblies, today announced that 776,418 warrants which were previously issued were committed for exercise into common shares during the months of July and August of 2013.  The Company received aggregate gross proceeds from these exercises to total approximately $1.22 million.
As previously disclosed, cash on hand as of June 30, 2013 was approximately $1.57 million, which was an increase of 12% as compared to approximately $1.40 million on March 31, 2013.  The aggregate proceeds from the warrant conversions have increased the Company’s cash position to greater than $3.00 million. 
Following the exercise of the aforementioned warrants, the Company’s issued and outstanding ordinary share count will be approximately 13.74 million ordinary shares.  Four members of the Company’s management team and Board of Directors exercised warrants into common shares increasing their ownership percentage. 
“The exercising of warrants demonstrates the confidence shareholders, particularly our management team and members of our Board of Directors, have in our growth prospects, as well as serve to significantly strengthen our balance sheet.  We are grateful for this continued support and look confidently toward the future,” said Jim Gaynor, President and Chief Executive Officer of LightPath.  
LightPath has an additional 2.55 million warrants at a weighted average exercise price of $1.43 (exercise prices ranging between $0.87-$3.20) relating to capital transactions since fiscal 2009. The warrants have expiration dates through December 2017.
About LightPath Technologies
LightPath (NASDAQ: LPTH) manufactures optical products including precision molded aspheric optics, GRADIUM® glass products, proprietary collimator assemblies, laser components utilizing proprietary automation technology, higher-level assemblies and packing solutions. The Company's products are used in various markets, including industrial, medical, defense, test & measurement and telecommunications. LightPath has a strong patent portfolio that has been granted or licensed to us in these fields.  For more information, visit www.lightpath.com.
This news release includes statements that constitute forward-looking statements made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. This information may involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from such forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, factors detailed by LightPath Technologies, Inc. in its public filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Except as required under the federal securities laws and the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Company does not have any intention or obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
GRADIUM® is a registered trademark of LightPath Technologies.
Contacts:
  Dorothy Cipolla, CFO
LightPath Technologies, Inc.
dcipolla@lightpath.com
407-382-4003 x305
www.lightpath.com

Jordan Darrow
Darrow Associates, Inc.
jdarrow@darrowir.com
631-367-1866