Graduate students Elena Nicolescu and Sai Fu won the runner-up Poster Prize at the SPIE/OSA Optics in the Southeast Conference (Charlotte, Sept 2006). Their poster was entitled "Simplified Spectrometers Based On Polarization-Independent Liquid Crystal Filters", reporting their progress on research in
OLEG (Opto-electronics and Lightwave Engineering Group, directed by
Dr. Michael Escuti).