China has successfully launched a monitoring satellite, known as TanSat, carrying two important payloads: a hyperspectral grating spectrometer for measuring carbon dioxide and a moderate resolution polarization imaging spectrometer for cloud and aerosol observations. The launch, on a Long March 2D rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China's Gobi Desert, took place on December 22, 2016. Both payloads were constructed by the Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
On November 11, 2016, the Bureau of Facility Support and Budget, Chinese Academy of Sciences, hosted a conference to mark the successful completion of the ‘Development of a Large-Scale High-Precision Diffraction Grating Ruling System’ project, one of the National R&D Projects for Key Scientific Instruments, at the Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics .
On 19 July, the CIOMP OSA/SPIE student chapter held an evening seminar for students, officers from the CIOMP Fitness Club and representatives from Zhejiang University. Three main topics were covered in the seminar, all of which aimed to support attendees in various aspects of their scientific careers.
Professor LI Bin and his team at State Key Laboratory of Luminescence and Applications in CIOMP have developed red emissive 2D Cationic Covalent Organic Frameworks (COFs) with tunable porosity and pore sizes at nanoscale. This is the ?rst time that the stable cationic crystalline frameworks allowed for the fabrication of a series of charged COFs through ion exchange processes, which have potential applications in the fields of organic semiconductor devices and optoelectronic sensors. This work was recently published in Journal of the American Chemical Society (J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2016, DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b13490). The first author is assistant professor Heping Ma. This work is supported by NSFC.
One of the most effective methods of improving telescope resolution is to increase the diameter of the primary mirror. It is challenging, however, to fabricate very large diameters with complex surface shapes. For example, milling and polishing of the mirror surfaces can take months or years. The ceramic material, silicon carbide, is widely recognized as a high-performance material for optical mirror applications because of its favorable mechanical and thermal properties (see Figure 1). Despite the lightweight nature and good optical qualities of this material, however, it is not clear how to make optimum use of it in large telescopes.
According to the 2016 Journal Citation Report (JCR 2015) released on 13th June, Light: Science & Applications (hereinafter referred to as LSA) has received its 3rd impact factor of 13.6, consecutively ranking No.2 among all SCI-indexed optical journals of 90 kinds. On year-on-year basis, LSA’s annual volume has rised by 30 percent high while the total citations have managed a stunning 65% growth. While maintaining its high-profile brand, LSA is rapidly expanding its impact.