TOMORROW! Seminar: "Using Shock Tube and Time-Resolved Laser Diagnostics for Efficient Power Generation and Propulsion" by Dr. Subith S. Vasu, 4.14.17/12:00PM-1:00PM,CREOL RM

Seminar: "Using Shock Tube and Time-Resolved Laser Diagnostics for Efficient Power Generation and Propulsion" by Dr. Subith S. Vasu

Friday, April 14, 2017 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
CREOL Room 103

Dr. Subith S. Vasu
Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department,
Center for Advanced Turbomachinery and Energy Research,
University of Central Florida

Abstract:

Today, combustion of fuels is responsible more than 70% of world’s electricity production and is the only solution for mass air and space transportation, and is expected to remain the same at least for the next 50 years. Combustion is the process of converting chemical energy to thermal energy at high temperatures and is a highly complex reacting problem involving coupled thermal, mass, and fluid transport.  However, there is an increasing demand for better efficiency and reducing emissions due to dwindling energy resources and concerns with environmental impact of pollution. Therefore it is important to understand the details of these phenomena. UCF’s shock tube and novel laser diagnostic techniques are used to investigate to investigate various problems relevant to advanced combustion systems under practical conditions. The strategy of using shock tubes provide an ideal device for acquiring ignition delay times, species concentration time-histories, and reaction rates while laser-based diagnostic studies are non-intrusive, provide in-situ measurements (e.g., concentration of individual species including trace species, and temperature), and have fast-time response (micro-second). In addition to providing crucial knowledge about the reacting systems, measurements will provide critical validation targets for computational fluid dynamic (CFD) modelers.  

Biography:

Dr. Subith Vasu, is an expert in combustion, diagnostics for combustion, fire, and emissions techniques with over ten years of experience in the field. His research group at is interested in studying oxidation and pyrolysis chemistry in gas-phase and heterogeneous catalytic systems, and modeling reaction systems. Also, his expertise and experience lies in the field of developing laser diagnostics to detect combustion (e.g., OH, H, CH₄, fuel) and pollutant species (e.g., soot, CO₂, CO, etc.), optimizing fuels (fossil, biofuels, etc.) with respect to their combustion and emission properties, and understanding, chemically reactive systems. Dr. Vasu is active in various professional services, has served as session chair in important technical meetings, is the author of more than 45 journal articles with an h-index of 16.  He is also a reviewer for numerous journals and has been regularly invited to evaluate research proposals for DOE, AFOSR, NASA, and NSF. Currently he has ongoing projects funded by FAA, ACS, NASA, DOE, DoD and industry. Two of these are young investigator and equivalent awards: DTRA YIP 2015, ACS PRF Doctoral New Investigator 2015. He became the fastest person (in 4 years) to win the 2016 UCF Reach for the Stars Award, which is the highest award given to early career faculty including both assistant and associate professors at UCF.

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Bahaa E. A. Saleh

ER Precision Optical Awarded $2.8M Contract

ER Precision Optical Awarded 3 Year IDIQ Contract
for M1A1 Thermal Imaging Windows

ORLANDO, FL – April 10, 2017 – ER Precision Optical ("ERPOC,” the “Company” or “we) announced today that its Orlando, Florida based production facility has been awarded a 3-year IDIQ contract from the DLA Land and Marine in Columbus, OH to provide Gunner’s Primary Sight Windows for use in tank fire control systems.  The estimated value for this contract is $2.8 Million over three years with options up to 5 years.

High Quality Germanium Windows give vital protection to the advance thermal imaging fire control systems that give tanks their ability to operate at night or in poor weather conditions. ER Precision Optical facility has a long history producing these windows to the military’s exacting optical and mechanical standards.

Mark Hess, ER Precision Optical’s CEO stated,” ER Precision Optical has once again shown the tremendous value of HUBZone Small Businesses to provide essential components for one of the world’s most advanced military vehicles. Our past successes and our ability to keep costs down through innovative raw material acquisition and crystal growth have earned us the continuing confidence of the Defense Logistics Agency.”

About ER Precision Optical

ER Precision Optical (ERPOC), incorporated in March of 1992, is a diverse materials and precision optics manufacturing company located in downtown Orlando. ERPOC provides custom infrared materials and precision optical components to the defense & aerospace, semiconductor, solar, electronics and medical markets.  ERPOC is the ONLY U.S. manufacturing facility providing germanium and silicon crystals to meet your most advanced IR applications. We are ISO certified, ITAR compliant, Small Business / HUBZone classified to benefit government supplier requirements.  

Contacts:

Jason Hess

Vice President, Operations                                                         

ER Precision Optical Corporation

Tel: 407-292-5395                                                                                            

Email: jhess@eroptics.com

Web: www.eroptics.com

LPTH Press Release - LightPath Technologies Wins Large Precision Molded Glass Optics Contract from Renishaw 4-6-2017

LightPath Technologies Wins Large Precision Molded Glass Optics Contract from Renishaw For Immediate Release: ORLANDO, FL – April 6, 2017- LightPath Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: LPTH) (“LightPath,” the “Company” or “we”), a leading vertically integrated global manufacturer, distributor and integrator of proprietary optical and infrared components and high-levelassemblies, today announced that it was selected by Renishaw plc (LSE: RSW), a United Kingdom-based world leader in metrology technology and products, to be a designated supplier of two types of glass molded lenses for Renishaw’s RESOLUTE optical encoder products. The substantial contract from Renishaw has secured its high volume requirement for the foreseeable future.  Certain details pertaining to the contract were not disclosed. Engineers from LightPath and Renishaw collaborated to achieve the optimal balance of performance and cost for this unique application.  LightPath’s advanced precision glass molding expertise along with proprietary coating design and technologies enable a repeatable process that is scalable to high volume production and has created a product like no other. Jim Gaynor, President and Chief Executive Officer of LightPath, commented:  “The contract from Renishaw was borne from a continuing partnership with our distribution partner AMS Technologies.  AMS Technologies, as Europe’s leading solution provider and distributor for optical, power and thermal management technologies, has joined forces with LightPath for its advanced precision molded optical lens capabilities to develop mass market and proprietary products for Renishaw and other international customers.  This contract from Renishaw means that two large scale projects have now been awarded to LightPath in the last 12 months, demonstrating the continued successful implementation of our global molded lens growth strategy.” RESOLUTE is a true-absolute, fine pitch optical encoder system that has excellent dirt immunity, and an impressive specification that breaks new ground in position feedback. It is the world's first absolute encoder capable of 1 nm resolution and speeds up to 100 m/s for linear systems, and 32-bit resolution up to 36 000 rev/min for rotary systems. The product’s ultra-low Sub-Divisional Error and jitter result in a linear encoder system that outperforms any other encoder in its class. About AMS Technologies: AMS Technologies is a leading solution provider and distributor of high-tech, leading-edge components, systems and equipment, with more than 30 years of experience to date and currently serving more than 2000 European customers.  About Renishaw: Renishaw is one of the world's leading engineering and scientific technology companies, with expertise in precision measurement and healthcare. The company supplies products and services used in applications as diverse as jet engine and wind turbine manufacture, through to dentistry and brain surgery. It is also a world leader in the field of additive manufacturing (also referred to as metal 3D printing), where it designs and makes industrial machines which ‘print' parts from metal powder. About LightPath Technologies: LightPath Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: LPTH) is a leading global, vertically integrated provider of optics, photonics and infrared solutions for the industrial, defense, telecommunications, testing and measurement, and medical industries. LightPath designs, manufactures, and distributes proprietary 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.  The Company is headquartered in Orlando, Florida, with manufacturing and sales offices in New York, Latvia and China. LightPath’s wholly-owned subsidiary ISP Optics Corporation manufactures a full range of infrared products from high performance MWIR and LWIR lenses and lens assemblies.  ISP’s infrared lens assembly product line includes athermal lens systems used in cooled and un-cooled thermal imaging cameras.  Manufacturing is performed in-house to provide precision optical components including spherical, aspherical and diffractive coated infrared lenses.  ISP’s optics processes allow it to manufacture its products from all important types of infrared materials and crystals.  Manufacturing processes include CNC grinding and CNC polishing, diamond turning, continuous and conventional polishing, optical contacting and advanced coating technologies. For more information on LightPath and its businesses, please 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. ####

NSTC/CREOL Distinguished Seminar: "Infrared near-field microscopy and spectroscopy“ by Dr. Fritz Keilmann, 4.10.17/3:30PM-4:30PM/CREOL RM 103

NSTC/CREOL Distinguished Seminar: "Infrared near-field microscopy and spectroscopy“ by Dr. Fritz Keilmann

Monday, April 10, 2017 3:30 PM to 4:30 PM
CREOL Room 103

Dr. Fritz Keilmann Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität

Abstract:

Near-field optical microscopy (by scattering from an AFM tip, s-SNOM) returns local absorbance from a tiny volume of only (20 nm)^3 under the tip apex, thus enabling VIS-to-IR-to-THz mapping at exciting 20-nm resolution. The mid-infrared is ideal for nanoscale chemical recognition by vibrational and phonon contrasts (FTIR). Near-field techniques now offer nano-FTIR, i.e. FTIR at nanometric spatial resolution. For this, broadband coherent MIR sources are essential and higly desirable, especially when combined with dual-comb operation. Application highlights will be presented of finding and characterizing natural nanoscale inhomogeneities, chemical as well as structural, in organic solar-conversion films, in bone/shell biomineral matter, and in slices through a cometary dust particle. Nano-FTIR is no less than the continued success story of FTIR-based chemical analysis into resolutions hundreds, if not thousands of times better than previously attainable. It is a highly welcome solution to nanoanalysis requirements in all nanotechnologies and nanosciences.

Biography:

Fritz Keilmann studied meteorology and physics in München and received a Dr. rer. nat. for research on infrared plasma diagnostics. As postdoc of Ali Javan at MIT he developed antenna-based harmonic mixing and high-power THz lasers.  He has been at the Max-Planck Society from 1973 to 2012: Initally at the MPI für Festkörperforschung Stuttgart, he pioneered far-infrared nonlinear optics and spectroscopy of solids, and investigated phonon physics, microwave biological effects, carrier dynamics of semiconductors, far-infrared ellipsometry of superconductors, and cyclotron-pumping microscopy of quantum-Hall edge states. In 1995 he relocated to the MPI für Biochemie Martinsried where he pioneered infrared scattering near-field microscopy, and also dual-frequency comb Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy.   From 2007 - 2012 he was with the MPI für Quantenoptik Garching, in the DFG Cluster "Munich-Centre for Advanced Photonics", developing broad-band infrared spectroscopic near-field microscopy.  He has been awarded the Kenneth J. Button prize 2009.  Besides operating his firm LASNIX, he is presently a Scientific Advisor to Neaspec GmbH, producer of near-field infrared microscopes, and continues his research at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München, investigating soft matter and biological nanocomposites.

For additional information:

Konstantin Vodopyanov