Faces of Optica
Living History
Faces of Optica
To celebrate the extraordinary global diversity of our community, renowned portrait photographer Sam Barker has taken a series of portraits of Optica members.
Anne-Sophie
Mancha
Quite a few members have been my intimate collaborators and friends in optics.
Koichi Shimoda
University of Tokyo
Jason
Eichenholz
Being part of this community enables members to broaden their view of the state-of-the-art in optics and photonics.
Jennifer E. Hastie
University of Strathclyde
Christine
Hendon
Araceli
Venegas-Gomez
Satoshi
Kawata
Christopher
Dorman
Connie
Chang-Hasnain
Gisele
Bennett
I love that I can meet people not in my area of expertise . . . and widen my network.
Elaine Lalanne
Fibertek, Inc.
Takashige
Omatsu
Kristen
Hagan
The Society . . . is a buzzing business opportunity at the interface of invention to innovation.
Wilhelm Kaenders
TOPTICA Photonics AG/Inc.
Ling-An
Wu
Pedro
Vallejo Ramirez
I joined as a graduate student in the late 1970s, and it has been my intellectual home ever since.
Ed Whittaker
Stevens Institute of Technology
Ulrike
Fuchs
Elsa
Garmire
Lidia
Galdino
Abbie
Watnik
Alan
Willner
To interact with beautiful minds is the most rewarding part of my work.
Alexandra Boltasseva
Purdue University
The Society has an increasingly important role in bringing scientific insight to current challenges faced by society.
Allister I. Ferguson
University of Strathclyde
Anjul
Loiacono
Audrey
Bowden
Bettina
Heise
Brandon
Buscaino
Brandon
Collings
The community . . . provides many opportunities to interact with people . . . with the same language of optics.
Daigo Oue
Imperial College London
Fatemeh
Ghaedi Vanani
Fei
Liu
George
Dwapanyin
Gregory
Eskridge
Herbert
Winful
Hui
Wang
Ian
Walmsley
James C.
Wyant
Janet S.
Fender
Joe
Goodman
John
Pendry
Joseph
Izatt
Kae
Nemoto
Lester A.
Lee, Sr.
Liangcai
Cao
Ling
Fu
Michael
Raymer
Miles
Padgett
Ming-Jun
Li
Monika
Ritsch-Marte
Nadezhda M.
Bulgakova
Peter
Knight
Pingli
Han
Piotr
Wegrzyn
Richard
Zeltner
Setsuko
Ishii
Sile
Nic Chormaic
Susan
Houde-Walter
Optics and photonics have been the centerpiece of my career development.
Susana Marcos
University of Rochester
Tatjana
Pladere
In each stage of my academic career, the Society has contributed a significant space to support.
Thomas Searles
University of Illinois Chicago
Viviana
Claveria
William
Phillips
Xuan
Liu
