News & Events
- Welcome to Sagittal Optics
- Jannick P. Rolland: The 2025 SPIE A. E. Conrady Award in Optical Engineering
- CeFO Spring 2025 IAB meeting
- Michael Kidger Memorial Scholarship in Optical Design 2025
- Welcome to AOM
- Welcome to Valeo
- CeFO June updates
- CeFO Fall 2024 IAB Meeting
- Youxing Chen has earned the NSF’s most prestigious award in support of early-career faculty in STEM
- Jannick Rolland named to Augmented World Expo’s XR Hall of Fame
- April 2-3, 2024: Optica Freeform Optics Industry Summit at Optimax
- SPIE AR I VR I MR – Photonics West 2024
- Center for Freeform Optics IAB Meeting
- Phase III, awarded by NSF
- Center for Freeform Optics (CeFO) IAB Meeting
- Congratulations to John Lambropoulos
- Congratulations to Konstantinos Falaggis
- 2023 Kevin P. Thompson Prize awarded to Eric Schiesser
- NSF I/UCRC Membership Agreement (CeFO)
- Center for Freeform Optics (CeFO) IAB Meeting
- LightPath wins Prism Award
- A new way to make AR/VR glasses
- Verification of cascade optical coherence tomography for freeform optics form metrology
- Rosario Porras-Aguilar awarded 2021 NSF CAREER AWARD & COTTREL
- UltraSurf 5X 400 5-Axis Non-Contact Metrology System
- Nanoscribe Photonic Professional GT 3D
- Moore Nanotechnology 650FGv2
- Kevin P. Thompson Optical Design Innovator Award
- Joseph Fraunhofer Award / Robert M. Burley Prize
- New training in AR/VR tech gives Rochester doctoral students an edge
- Study of reflectors for illumination via conformal maps
- CeFO student Nicholas Takaki receives Michael Kidger Memorial Scholarship
- CeFO Alumnus Kyle Fuerschbach receives Kevin P. Thompson award from OSA
- Validity of the perturbation model for the propagation of MSF structure in 2D
- Webinar: “Emergence of Freeform Optics in Imaging Systems: A Leap Forward”
- Collaborative ‘back and forth’ drives progress on freeform optics
- Center for Freeform Optics awarded another five years of NSF funding through August 2023
- Announcement for applications for Kidger Scholarship Award in Optical Design 2019
- Photonics.com – Freeform Optics Design Approach Uses Starting-Point Geometries
- AR/VR Displays: Engineering the ultimate augmented reality display: Paths towards a digital window into the world
- UNC Charlotte Student Dustin Gurganus awarded SPIE Student Travel Grant
- Engineering the ultimate augmented reality display: Paths towards a digital window into the world
- Xu Awarded SPIE Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship
- New Method Eliminates Guesswork When Lenses Go Freeform
- CeFO researcher develops process to speed up the development of freeform optical devices
- Starting geometry creation and design method for freeform optics
- 2018 Kevin P. Thompson Prize awarded to Xiaojing (Grayce) Huang
- Inaugural Kevin P. Thompson Optical Design Innovator Award Winner Announced
- OCT Adapted for Freeform Optical Metrology
- Point-cloud noncontact metrology of freeform optical surfaces
- Experimental investigation in nodal aberration theory (NAT) with a customized Ritchey-Chrétien system: third-order coma
- AWE Honors Jannick Rolland as an Influential Woman Pioneer in Augmented and Virtual Reality
- New Member Thales
- Welcoming Synopsys to CeFO
- Integrating two-temperature and classical heat accumulation models to predict femtosecond laser processing of silicon
- OSA Women in Science Tributes
- Impacts of sub-aperture manufacturing techniques on the performance of freeform optics
- Fundamentals of material removal in silicon carbide for freeform optics
- Grinding of silicon carbide for freeform optics
- Twyman effects in thin curved optics
- Fiber Based Tools for Precision Polishing Applications
- Fiber-based tools: material removal and mid spatial frequency error reduction
- Fiber Based Polishing Tools for Optical Applications
- Comparison of two-temperature and thermal models for prediction of the optimal femtosecond laser-material processing of silicon
- Measuring wavefront by optical differentiation with binary pixelated filters
- Subsurface damage (SSD) assessment in ground silicon carbide (SiC)
- Material removal and thermal impact of femtosecond-laser polishing for germanium-based freeform optics
- Freeform surface metrology using transverse translation diverse phase retrieval
- Concave mirror measurement using transverse translation diverse phase retrieval
- Optomechanical design and fabrication of a snap together freeform TMA telescope
- Freeform optics metrology using optical coherence tomography
- Simplified Tolerancing of Alignment Errors in Dynamic Freeform Optical Systems
- On the ultra-precision diamond machining of chalcogenide glass
- Design of a Variable Toric Lens Using Laterally Shifted Freeform Elements
- The mechanics of milling of germanium for IR applications
- On the Use of ISO 10110-8 for Specification of Optical Surfaces with Mid-Spatial Frequency Errors
- Error correction methodology for ultra-precision three-axis milling of freeform optics
- Diamond Milling of IR Materials
- Software Tools to Simplify the Transfer of a Lens Design to Manufacturing
- Effects of defocus and other quadratic errors on OTF
- Effects of groove structures on the MTF
- Analyzing the Aberration Fields of a Three-mirror Telescope and Correcting them Using Freeform Zernike Surfaces
- How Freeform Optics Induced Optical Aberrations Matter
- How good is your lens? Assessing performance with MTF full-field displays
- Interferometric measurement of a concave, φ-polynomial, Zernike mirror
- Assembly of a freeform off-axis optical system employing three φ-polynomial Zernike mirrors
- Extending Nodal Aberration Theory to include mount-induced aberrations with application to freeform surfaces
- Real-ray-based method for locating individual surface aberration field centers in imaging optical systems without rotational symmetry
- A unique astigmatic nodal property in misaligned Ritchey-Chrétien telescopes with misalignment coma removed
- Separation of the effects of astigmatic figure error from misalignments using Nodal Aberration Theory (NAT)
- Comparing Three-Mirror Freeform Telescopes to Traditional TMAs by Exploring TMA Solution Space
- The misalignment induced aberrations of TMA telescopes
- Optimal local shape description for rotationally non-symmetric optical surface design and analysis
- Computational optical distortion correction using a radial basis function-based mapping method
- Hybrid RBF and local phi-polynomial freeform surfaces
- Edge clustered fitting grids for φ-polynomial characterization of freeform optical surfaces
- Simultaneous estimation of thickness and refractive index of layered gradient refractive index optics using a hybrid confocal-scan swept-source optical coherence tomography system
- Starting point designs for freeform four-mirror systems
- A new family of optical systems employing phi-polynomial surfaces