Date Announced: 15 Aug 2007 Optical Research Associates (ORA®), Pasadena, CA, has selected the winners of their annual Student Optical Design Competition, in which awards totaling $4,000 are granted. The annual awards are presented to students in North America working toward a bachelor’s, master’s, or Ph.D. degree, who utilize the company’s CODE V® or LightTools® software to perform research in some area of optical design or engineering.The winners of the 2007 ORA Optical Design Competition are:Top Awards----------Design of 360 Degree Panoramic Camera LensManuel Guizar-SicairosPh.D. Candidate, University of Rochester (Institute of Optics)Using CODE V Optical Design of a Grazing Incidence Collector Mirror for EUV Lithography Tobias Schmid Ph.D. Candidate, University of Central Florida (CREOL)Using LightToolsOther Award-----------Optical Vortex Coronagraph Joshua Jin Kim B.S. Candidate, University of Arizona (College of Optical Sciences)Using CODE V
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