Global Optics
Optics Research at China’s Fudan University and SIOM
OSA Fellow Barry Masters recounts his ICO-sponsored visit to several world-class educational and research institutions in Shanghai.
A graduate student of Chen’s group works on the laser tweezers Raman microscope.
Twenty years ago, The International Commission for Optics (ICO) initiated a Traveling Lecturer Program to promote lectures on modern optics by scientists of international reputation with superb lecturing skills. Although the program is aimed at developing nations, it is not restricted to them. In September 2007, I had the honor and the opportunity to travel to Shanghai as an ICO traveling lecturer. I visited the department of optical science and engineering in the School of Information Science and Engineering at Fudan University and the Key Laboratory for Quantum Optics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, which is part of the Shanghai Institute for Optics and Fine Mechanics (SIOM).
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