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Schedule & Program

We recommend that you enjoy Tucson and the surrounding area on the weekend before the workshop begins. Visit the Travel Information Webpage for local and surrounding attractions. ASPE has reserved sleeping rooms at the Westward Look Wyndham Grand Resort and Spa should you decide to arrive on the weekend before the start of the workshop.

All Events are in the Santa Catalina Ballroom (map) unless otherwise noted


Monday, March 6, 2003

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM – Registration Check-In & Continental Breakfast

9:00 AM – 10:00 AMKeynote Address – The Role of Precision Mechanics in Optical Metrology
Jim H. Burge (Arizona Optical Metrology LLC)

10:00 AM – 10:30 AM – Coffee Break

10:30 AM – 11:45 AMSession 1 – Environmental Metrology

  1. Characterization of Environmental Error Contribution to Laser Interferometry through Statistical Analysis
    Jason Lennert (Raytheon Technologies)
  2. Evaluation of OSAM-1 Camera Focus Shift in a Simulated Orbital Pressure Environment
    Kevin H. Miller, Sarah E. Eckert (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center); Stephen Cheney (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center)
  3. Optical Metrology for Precision Acceleration Detection
    Adam Hines, Andrea Nelson, Yanqi Zhang, Guillermo Valdes, Jose Sanjuan Felipe Guzman (Texas A&M University)

11:45 AM – 1:15 PM – Group Lunch

1:15 PM – 2:25 PM – Session 2 – Surface Metrology I

  1. Invited Talk – Optical Metrology for Synchrotron Mirrors at NSLS-II
    Lei Huang, Tianyi Wang, Mourad Idir (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
  2. High-Precision Optical Metrology for the Geometric Verification of Press-Fit Zones
    Kerstin Zangl, Reinhard Danzl, Michael Kreil, Franz Helmli (Bruker Alicona)
  3. Surface Figure Metrology Based on Geometric Phase Components
    Hyo Mi Park, Hyo Bin Jeong, Ki-Nam Joo (Chosun University); Young-Sik Ghim (Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science); Daewook Kim, Charlotte E. Guthery (University of Arizona)

2:25 PM – 3:00 PM – Coffee Break

3:00 PM – 4:20 PMSession 3 – Surface Metrology II

  1. Automatic Closed- Loop Ultrafast Laser Stress Figuring Using On-Machine Differential Deflectometry
    Marcos A. Esparza, Kevin A. Laverty, Brandon D. Chalifoux, Daewook Kim (University of Arizona)
  2. On How to Better Design No-null Surface Figure Interferometers Around
    the Size of Array Detector Pixels

    Martin Tangari Larrategui (Ruda Optical); Thomas G. Brown (University of Rochester); and Jonathan D. Ellis (Micro-LAM Technologies, Inc.)
  3. Evaluation of Spatial Resolution of Fizeau Interferometers with Binary Pseudo-Random Array
    Pitor Szwaykowski (Ãpre Instruments)
  4. Binary Pseudo-Random Test Standards for Characterization of Various Metrology Instruments Over High to Low Spatial Frequencies
    Keiko Munechika, Carlos Pina-Hernandez, Kaito Yamada (HighRI Optics, Inc.); Weilun Chao, Scott Dhuey, Ian Lacey, Valeriy V. Yashchukf (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory); Raymond Conley (Argonne National Laboratory); Ulf Griesmann (National Institute of Standards and Technology); Simon Rochester (Rochester Scientific, LLC); Peter Takacs (Surface Metrology Solutions, LLC)

4:50 PM – 5:00 PM – Load Bus to Sands Club and to Richard F. Caris Mirror Lab in the Steward Observatory at The University of Arizona
***If you are planning to drive your own vehicle to the Sands Club and to the Mirror Lab park in the Cherry Ave Garage, which is indicated on this map. This parking is self-pay. Plan to be at the meeting location (noted on the map) by 5:20 PM. From this point, the tour guide will take the group to the Sands Club to see the short video and then walk over to the Mirror Lab. This is only about a 5-minute walk.

5:30 PM – 6:00 PM – Light Hors d’oeuvres & Short Video at the Sands Club about the Richard F. Caris Mirror Lab – Dunlap Room at the Sands Club

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM – Small Group Tours of the Richard F. Caris Mirror Lab
**For the tour of the Mirror Lab, plan to wear flat-closed-shoes. There are several flights of ascending and descending stairs along the tour route.

7:00 PM-9:00 PM – Dinner at the Sands Club – Dunlap Room at the Sands Club

9:00 PM – Bus leaves to return to the Westward Look – Sands Club Lobby


Tuesday, March 7, 2023

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM – Continental Breakfast

9:00 AM – 12:00 NoonSpecial Session – Can MTF be a Precision Metric?

  1. Common Mistakes in MTF Measurements
    Stephen D. Fantone (Optikos Corporation)
  2. Sampling Errors from Relay Magnification in Modulation Transfer Function (MTF) Measurement
    Patrick McKenna (Edmund Optics)
  3. Why Measure MTF?
    Stephen D. Fantone (Optikos Corporation)
  4. Is the MTF an Error Plot?
    Peter de Groot, Xavier Colonna de Lega (Zygo Corporation)

12:00 Noon – 1:30 PM – Group Lunch

1:30 PM – 2:40 PM – Session 4 – Novel Sensors and Sensing I

  1. Invited Talk – Metrics for the Analysis of Optical Instrument Performance
    Jose Sanjuan (Texas A&M University)
  2. The PTB Multiwavelength Interferometer for Distances up to 5000m
    Paul Köchert, Tobias Meyer, Hongdan Yan, Anni Sauthoff, Günther Prellinger and Florian Pollinger (Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB))
  3. Physical Ray Tracing with Bessel Beams
    Robert E. Parks (Optical Perspectives Group, LLC); Daewook Kim (University of Arizona)

2:40 PM – 3:10 PM – Coffee Break

3:10 PM – 5:00 PM –

Session 5 – Novel Sensors and Sensing II

  1. Technical Noise Suppression via Weighted Quadrature Detection
    Steven R. Gillmer (Massachussetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory); Julián Martínez-Rincón (Stanford University), Jonathan D. Ellis (Micro-LAM)
  2. Permanent Tracebility of a Nanopositioning and Nanomeasuring Machine
    Eberhard Manske, U. Blumröder, T. Fröhlich, T. Kissinger, I. Ortlepp, U. Gerhardt, R.
    Mastylov (Technische Universität Ilmenau); P. Köchert (Physikalisch Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB))
  3. Study of Three-Cup Sphere Polishing Monitoring System and Analysis on Material Removal Rate of Monocrystalline Silicon Sphere Polishing Process
    Wei-Chin Pu (National Taiwan University of Science and Technology)

Discussion, Wrap-up and Closing Remarks

***End of Workshop***