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New Mexico Alliance of Optics & Photonics Education

New Mexico Alliance for Optics & Photonics

Media: Coverage of Albuquerque's unique "optics education ladder" and related developments in photonics

News

Optics Career Ladder Takes Shape in Albuquerque, Leno S. Pedrotti and Arthur H. Guenther, Optics and Photonics News, November 2002 [pdf, 472k]

Partnering in Photonics, Sudhakar Prasad, Mansoor Sheik-Bahae, and Art Guenther, OE Magazine, May 2003 [pdf, 212k]

Stairway to High Tech Heaven, Sue Vorenberg, The Albuquerque Tribune, March 18, 2002

Light Learning, Sandy Cutshall, Techniques, November/December 2002

Let There Be Light For Albuquerque Students, Arthur H. Guenther and Leno Pedrotti, The Albuquerque Tribune, April 23, 2002

The US Photonics Job Market: Recruiting for the Future, Brent D. Johnson, Photonics Spectra, May 2002 [pdf, 536k] (Note: Photonics Spectra will be publishing a European Salary Survey in the July 2005 issue, and a follow-up US Salary Survey in the October/November issue of 2005) [pdf, 536k]

Abstracts and Essays

Photonics at TVI Community College – A Critical Rung in New Mexico's Photonics Education Ladder, John Bellum, Srini Vasan and Joel Gellman, ETOP, Optical Society of America, Oct. 2003 [pdf, 72k]

20 years of Graduate Optics Education at the University of New Mexico, Marek Osinski, Mansoor Sheik-Bahae, Sudhakar Prasad, and Art H. Guenther, ETOP, Optical Society of America, Oct. 2003 [pdf, 112k]

Curriculum, Program, and Infrastructure Development for Bachelor of Science in Optical Science and Engineering, (Invited Paper), Marek Osinski, Sudhakar Prasad, Arthur H. Guenther, Anne L. Madsen, Christine B. McCormick, ETOP, Optical Society of America, Oct. 2003 [pdf, 100k]

Comprehensive Photonics Education Model – The Albuquerque Ladder, Arthur H. Guenther and Leno Pedrotti, ETOP, Optical Society of America, Oct. 2003 [pdf, 100k]

The Photonics Academy: Pipeline to the Future, Dominique F. Wilson, ETOP, Optical Society of America, Oct. 2003 [pdf, 140k]

Optics Cluster – Climbing the Photonics Education Ladder, Shari Robinson, Next Gen, e-newsletter, March 2005 [pdf, 48k]

Multi-Media

Audio

Robert Hall – Discusses TVI's Photonics Technology Program [mp3, 3.5MB]

Dominique Foley Wilson – Discusses West Mesa High School's Photonics Academy [mp3, 2.8MB]

Students in the Photonics Academy Program at West Mesa High School discuss their photonics experience:

Former Photonics Academy student Michael Silva
  [mp3, 2:10, 1.4MB]

Jason Sterns, Natalie Skoogins [mp3, 2:38, 1.8MB]

Michael Pickup, Michelle Parra, Mathew Hernandez   [mp3, 3:03, 2.1MB]

Videos – can be played with QuickTime Player for PC or Mac

Photonics Academy – WMHS students [mp4, 2:05, 2MB]

Silicon Magic - Part I, MEMS and Novel Silicone Science & Technology Dept. (1749), Sandia National Laboratories [mp4, 02:55, 2.7MB]

Silicon Magic - Part II, MEMS and Novel Silicone Science & Technology Dept. (1749), Sandia National Laboratories [mp4, 2:47, 2.8MB]

CHTM – Nanotechnology, UNM Center for High Technology Materials [mov, 1:01, 4.4MB)

High speed computers and computer modeling are constantly evolving with advances in photonics.

Tiny glass optical fibers paired with lasers transmit voice and video signals with ease and rapid communication.