Get the inside scoop on CLEO/QELS stand-out research directly from your peers. Watch your colleagues in broadcast news segments as they discuss this year’s most important research.

This year, the conference received the highest number of paper submissions in recent history, revealing the most significant technical advances in optics and photonics.

View the following Hot Topics pages to see a selection of interviews presentations highlighting critical research, including:

• Plasmonics and nanophotonics
• Silicon photonics
• Gallium nitride lasers and VCSEL developments
• High-order harmonic generation
• Single-chip integration
• Fiber lasers
• Nonlinear optics in biology

Watch the videos below to see Konstantin Vodopyanov, 2008 CLEO Program Co-Chair, and Aephraim Steinberg, 2008 QELS Program Co-Chair, discuss paper submissions, the CLEO/QELS experience and the growth of the 2008 QELS program.

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Paper Submissions and the CLEO/QELS Experience - Quicktime, Windows Media Player
QELS Program - Quicktime, Windows Media Player