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Last month's newsletter looked back on the optics and photonics market and its impact on society. The market has scaled up from a small industry over a century ago to production worth over $400 billion per year. It's growing more slowly today, but the next century will be notable for the large absolute size of the photonics industry. What remains? We need only to look to a few major forces in society to see where the next big opportunities are. The United Nations estimates the world population at 7.3 billion today, and its forecast plateaus near 11 billion by 2100 in the shape of a sigmoid or "S" curve, shown in the figure. Like the world population, the photonics market is also passing its steepest growth, given that it is the sum of many smaller markets, several of which are already near saturation. Picture yourself in that world generations from now, looking back at today. What would be different in that world?
What are not on the list are science fantasies. Drilling for offshore oil in the arctic remains prohibitively expensive and dangerous, making space colonization a non-starter. Virtual reality phone calls? Maybe. 3D holographic projections? No. Products will still have to meet the constraints of the market, not to mention physics. The list of the next big opportunities is short because we have been so successful to commercialize what we have invented already. Technologies that transform productivity and society are rare. Far more common are those that improve on what's already there. But the market of the next 100 years will be larger in absolute scale than ever before, as we address serious issues of limited resources, health, security, and automation. And that's just as exciting.
We wrote in the June newsletter about the demise of the famous semiconductor roadmap, the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS). Its last revision was in 2013, 21 years after its first report. This month we want to highlight some important and overlapping efforts that are filling its place.
Where is OIDA's role? OIDA has looked for gaps in these other efforts, both in technical roadmapping (e.g., optical interconnects for extreme-scale computing, photonics for disaggregated data centers) and in market challenges (see for example, the January 2016 issue of the OIDA Market Update). For questions, contact Tom Hausken. Top We would like to highlight a new and improved event coming at the end of October that many of you may not be familiar with: the OSA Laser Congress and the OIDA Executive Forum in Boston. The Laser Congress combines three conferences:
There are many more prominent speakers at OSA's Laser Congress and the Executive Forum including Valentin P. Gapontsev, Founder, Chief Executive Officer, and Chairman of IPG's Board of Directors and Berthold Schmidt, Managing Director, TRUMPF Photonics, Inc., USA. And with over 70 exhibits you will meet representatives from the companies and institutions around the globe that are leading the field in laser applications. We hope to you see you there from 30 October to 3 November in Boston.
Top The Advanced LIGO Engineering Team will receive the award during the plenary session at OSA's Annual Meeting, Frontiers in Optics (FiO), which takes place 19 October in Rochester, New York, USA. Dennis Coyne and GariLynn Billingsley, California Institute of Technology, and Stuart Aston and Richard McCarthy, LIGO Livingston Observatory, will be accepting the award on behalf of the team. The engineering team was comprised of individuals from a number of research organizations including LIGO Laboratory—Caltech, LIGO Laboratory—MIT, LIGO Laboratory—LIGO Hanford Observatory, LIGO Laboratory—LIGO Livingston Observatory, Albert Einstein Institute and Laser Zentrum Hannover, Glasgow University, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Stanford University, University of Florida. They are being recognized for innovative engineering creating the most sensitive measurement instrument ever built, leading to the first direct detection of gravitational waves. View the full team list and learn more about the 2016 Paul F. Forman Team Engineering Excellence Award Winners . Top Do you know a public official who has been a champion of optics? Tell us about him or her. Each year, OSA's Advocate of Optics Recognition commends an outstanding public official who demonstrates leadership in support of the advancement of the science of light. The Public Policy Committee is soliciting nominations from OSA members and will select a candidate based on his/her commitment to science and science policy, level of familiarity with optics and photonics, level of interaction with OSA or OSA members in the past year, and record of consistent support of science, optics and photonics. To see a list of past recipients, visit the Advocate of Optics webpage. If you would like to submit a nomination, please email your recommendation to public-policy@osa.org including the nominee's name, title, country, and description of why the person is being nominated. The deadline for submitting recommendations for the 2017 Advocate of Optics is 24 October 2016. Top Combine your interest in policy with your science background. Congressional Science Policy Fellows spend one year on Capitol Hill working as legislative assistants on the staff of a member of Congress or Congressional Committee. Applicants must have a Ph.D. by the start of the fellowship, 1 September 2017, to be eligible; mid - and late-career applicants are also encouraged to apply. In addition to being a great opportunity for young professionals, it is also an ideal way to spend an academic sabbatical or leave of absence from a company. Deadline to apply is 6 January 2017. To learn more about eligibility and application requirements, visit www.osa.org/congressionalfellowships. Top Using the theme "Light the Future," create a video of no more than 90 seconds in length demonstrating a problem optics could solve by 2030, ideally using research you have conducted or a product in development/new application. Videos must be posted onto the user's YouTube page, and the link submitted to LightTheFuture@osa.org between 15 September and 28 October 2016. Finalist videos will be posted on the OSA YouTube page for viewing and liking between 1 November and 15 November. Videos will be evaluated on both likes/shares and the ability to share a compelling vision of the future for optics technologies. Science celebrity Ira Flatow will judge finalists. For details, visit osa.org/100/get_involved. Top Michio Kaku and Nobel Laureates Thursday, 20 October, 11:00—12:30 Frontiers in Optics Conference & Exhibition, Rochester, NY, USA This OSA Centennial program features Michio Kaku, futurist and theoretical physicist, City College of New York, with Sir Peter L. Knight, emeritus professor, Imperial College, London, OSA Fellow, 2004 President. Join The Optical Society as we celebrate our 100th anniversary and hear Ignite the Future predictions of what's next in optics by Nobel Prize winners, including Nicolaas Bloembergen, Robert F. Curl, Roy J. Glauber, John L. Hall, W.E. Moerner, William D. Phillips and David J. Wineland. Kaku will deliver the keynote — Optics of the Future: Exploring the Universe and the Brain. This talk explores the physics behind exciting new fields, such as detecting gravity waves from black holes, detecting twins of the earth in space, energizing laser-powered star ships, and unraveling the Big Bang. It will also explore inner space, e.g. the use of optogenetics to map the neural pathways of the human brain in the Connectome Project, one of the great science projects of the future. This event is free and open to the general public. Contact lightthefuture@osa.org to reserve your spot. Top The OIDA Funding Accelerator Speed Meetings: SBIR/STTR focusing on optics and photonics funding, will be held in Washington, DC on 17 November 2016. This event will give U.S. companies with less than 500 employees an opportunity to meet one-on-one with program officers from multiple U.S. federal agencies, all in one place, in one day — minimizing your time investment and increasing your chances for new government funding. This OSA event will give you an insider perspective on what agencies are looking to fund; as well as provide you with up-to-date information on each agency's SBIR/STTR funding process, and how you can enhance your probability of success. In addition, the event will help government agencies better understand what OSA Industry Development Associates Members can offer and how the optics and photonics technologies can help them meet their goals. For more information and to secure your company's reservation, please e-mail OSA Director of Corporate Membership, Andrew Dougherty at adougherty@osa.org to RSVP. Top Engineering and Laboratory Notes (E&L Notes), highlight laboratory techniques and hands-on skills that technicians and specialists can use for the design, analysis, fabrication, integration, alignment, and measurement of optical components and systems. Recently published E&L Notes include:
Top Join 3,000 of your colleagues in our Optics & Photonics Industry Network LinkedIn Group. This one-of-a-kind Forum for Industry lets you participate in discussions about cutting-edge issues. Extend your professional network. Exchange information about problems, ideas and solutions. Collaborate with experts in your field. Now is the perfect time to build a relationship with fellow optics and photonics professionals!
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