Photonics West 2006 – San Jose, CA (January 23rd to 26th)

Monday 23rd 11:30 am: Production excimer drilling process for producing micron exit holes in polyimide, T. E. Lizotte, O. P. Ohar, Hitachi Via Mechanics USA, Inc. [6106A-07]

Photonics Europe 2006 – Strasbourg, France (April 3rd to 7th)

Monday 3rd 4:00 pm:  Comparing identically designed grayscale (50 phase level) and binary (5 phase levels) splitters: actual versus modeled performance, T. E. Lizotte, O. P. Ohar, Hitachi Via Mechanics USA, Inc. (USA) [6187-12]

Tuesday 4th 1:20 pm:  Grayscale fabrication errors and their impact on beam shaper performance, T. E. Lizotte, Hitachi Via Mechanics USA, Inc. (USA) [6187-23]

CLEO / QELS PhAST Conference – Long Beach, CA May 22nd to 25th

Beam Shaping Through a Nonlinear Crystal, T.E. Lizotte et al., Hitachi Via Mechanics USA, Inc. (USA)

Optics & Photonics 2006 – 51st Annual Meeting – San Diego, CA (August 13th to 17th) the presentation TBD