Invited Speakers

CLEO 01 – Laser Processing of Materials: Fundamentals and Applications

Tutorial Speaker

Nanostructuring: A Route For Understanding Interaction Phenomena and Enhancing Materials Performance, Carmen N. Afonso; Laser Processing Group, Inst. de Optica, CSIC, Spain

Invited Speakers

Micro- and Nano- Scale System Manufacturing Using Ultrafast Lasers, Yves Bellouard; Technische Univ. Eindhoven, Netherlands

High Resolution 3-D Laser Direct-Write Patterning, Linjie Li, Rafael R. Gattass, Michael Stocker, Erez Gershgoren, Hana Hwang, John T. Fourkas; Univ. of Maryland, USA

CLEO 02: Solid-State, Liquid and Gas Lasers

Invited Speakers

Textron’s J-HPSSL 100 kW ThinZag® Laser Program, Alex Mandl, Daniel E. Klimek; Textron Defense Systems, USA

Diamond Raman Lasers, Richard P. Mildren, A. Sabella, E. Granados, D. J. Spence; MQ Photonics Res. Ctr., Macquarie Univ., Australia

CLEO 03. Semiconductor Lasers

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Technology, Manufacturing and Applications Associated with the Commercialization of Systems Based on Quantum Cascade Gain Media and Lasers, Tim Day; Daylight Solutions, USA

Invited Speakers

Recent Progress on High-Speed and Tunable VCSELs in the 1.3 to 2.6µm Wavelength Range, Markus Amann; Walter Schottky Inst., Technische Univ., Germany

Short Wavelength InP Based Quantum Cascade Lasers, Dmitry G. Revin¹, James P. Commin¹, John W. Cockburn¹, Shiyong Y. Zhang², Kenneth Kennedy², Andrey B. Krysa², Mark Hopkinson²; ¹Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Univ. of Sheffield, UK, ²EPSRC Natl. Ctr. for III- V Technologies, Univ. of Sheffield, UK

Reconfigurable, Multi-Section Quantum Dot Mode-Locked Lasers, Luke F. Lester, C.-Y. Lin, Y. Li, J. H. Kim, C. G. Christodoulou; Univ. of New Mexico, USA

CLEO 04. Applications of Nonlinear Optics

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Historical Perspective on Nonlinear Optics and Its Applications, Y. Ron Shen; Univ. of California at Berkeley, USA

Invited Speakers

Optical Parametric Oscillators: A New Generation, Majid Ebrahim-Zadeh; ICFO, Inst. of Photonic Sciences, Spain

Intrinsic Laser-Induced Damage in Bulk Transparent Dielectrics, Oleg M. Efimov; HRL Labs, LLC, USA

Advances in Fiber-optic Parametric Amplifiers, John Harvey; Univ. of Auckland, New Zealand

CLEO 05. Terahertz Technologies and Applications

Tutorial Speaker

Recent Progress on Terahertz Quantum-Cascade Lasers, Sushil Kumar; MIT, USA

Invited Speakers

Mechanism and Potential Applications of THz Air Photonics, Jianming Dai, Jingle Liu, I-Chen Ho, Nicholas Karpowicz, X. C. Zhang; Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst., USA

Single-Photon Detection in THz and Its Application, Susumu Komiyama; Univ. of Tokyo, Japan

CLEO 06. Optical Materials, Fabrication and Characterization

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Three-Dimensional Optical Metamaterials and Nanoantennas: Chirality, Coupling, and Sensing, Harald Giessen, Na Liu; Univ. of Stuttgart, Germany

Invited Speakers

QPM Wavelength Conversion Using Engineered LiNbO₃ Waveguides, M. Asobe, T. Umeki, O. Tadanaga, H. B. Song, I. Tomita, K. Magari; NTT Photonics Labs, NTT Corp., Japan

New Frontiers of Organic Electro-Optic Materials and Devices: From Molecular Engineering to Technological Innovations, Alex Jen; Univ. of Washington, USA

Novel Growth and Device Concepts for High-Efficiency InGaN Quantum Wells Light-Emitting Diodes, Hongping Zhao, Guangyu Liu, Xiao-Hang Li, Yik-Khoon Ee, Hua Tong, Jing Zhang, G. S. Huang, Nelson Tansu; Lehigh Univ., USA

CLEO/QELS 07. Joint Subcommittee on High-Field Physics and High-Intensity Lasers

Tutorial Speaker

High Energy Density Science, Todd Ditmire; Univ. of Texas at Austin, USA

Invited Speakers

The National Ignition Campaign on NIF, Brian MacGowan; Lawrence Livermore Natl. Lab, USA

Scientific Highlights from Operation of FLASH and New Opportunities with LCLS, Jochen Schneider; Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Germany

CLEO 08. Ultrafast Optics, Optoelectronics and Applications

Tutorial Speaker

Ultrafast Pulse Shaping and Applications, Andrew Weiner; Purdue Univ., USA

Invited Speakers

Advances in Fiber-Based Ultrafast Optical Mid Infrared Sources, Randy Bartels; Colorado State Univ., USA

High-Harmonic Generation by Resonant Plasmon Field Enhancement, Seung-Woo Kim¹, Seungchul Kim¹, In-Yong Park¹, Joonhee Choi²; ¹KAIST, Korea, Republic of, ²Korea Advanced Inst. of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea

High-Energy Femtosecond Fiber Lasers Based on Dissipative Solitons, Frank Wise; Cornell Univ., USA

CLEO 09. Components, Integration, Interconnects and Signal Processing

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Microwave Photonics, Alwyn J. Seeds, Chin-Pang Liu, Tabassam Ismail, Martyn J. Fice, Francesca Pozzi, Robert J. Steed, Efthymios Rouvalis, Cyril C. Renaud; Univ. College London, UK

Invited Speakers

Photonic Integrated Circuits for High-Speed Communications, Chris R. Doerr; Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA

Integration of Nano-Photonic Devices for CMOS Chip-to-Chip Optical I/O, Ian Young, Bruce Block, Miriam Reshotko, Peter Chang; Intel Corp., USA

CLEO 10. Biophotonics and Optofluidics

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Single-Molecule Approaches for Superresolution Imaging, Trapping, and Nanophotonics, William E. Moerner; Stanford Univ., USA

Invited Speakers

Tuning Mechanisms in Optofluidics, Demetri Psaltis, Wuzhou Song, Jae-Woo Choi; École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland

Label-Free Nonlinear Optical Imaging for Biology and Medicine, Sunney Xie; Harvard Univ., USA

CLEO 11. Fiber Amplifiers, Lasers and Devices

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Recent Progress and Limiting Factors in High Power Fiber Laser Technology, Johan Nilsson; Univ. of Southampton, UK

Invited Speakers

Bismuth-Doped Fiber Amplifiers, Evgeny M. Dianov, Igor A. Bufetov; Fiber Optics Res. Ctr., Russian Acad. of Sciences, Russian Federation

Photo Darkening of Ytterbium Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers, Kent E. Mattsson; Crystal Fibre, Denmark

Measuring the Modes of Optical Fibers Using S² Imaging, Jeff W. Nicholson, John M. Fini, Samir Ghalmi, Jayesh C. Jasapara, Anthony DeSantolo, Eric Monberg, Frank Dimarcello; OFS Labs, USA

Carbon Nanotube Photonics, Shinji Yamashita, Amos Martinez, Kin Kee Chow; Univ. of Tokyo, Japan

CLEO 12. Lightwave Communications and Optical Networks

Tutorial Speaker

Forward Error Correction (FEC) in Optical Communication, Frank Kschischang, Benjamin P. Smith; Univ. of Toronto, Canada

Invited Speakers

Secure Optical Communications, Gregory Kanter; NuCrypt, LLC., USA

Multi-Granularity Waveband- and Wavelength Path Network, Ken-ichi Sato; Nagoya Univ., Japan

CLEO 13. Active Optical Sensing

Tutorial Speaker

Recent Advances in Cavity Ringdown Spectroscopy and Application to Medical Breath Analysis, Christopher S. Wood; Precision Photonics Corp., USA

Invited Speakers

Supercontinuum Radiation for Optical Sensing, Clemens Kaminski, Johan Hult, Toni Laurila; Univ. of Cambridge, UK

Photofragmentation Approaches for the Detection of Polyatomic Molecules, Thomas A. Reichardt, Alexandra A. Hoops, Jeffrey M. Headrick, Roger L. Farrow, Thomas B. Settersten, Scott E. Bisson, Thomas J. Kulp; Sandia Natl. Labs, USA

CLEO 14. Optical Metrology

Tutorial Speaker

Optical Lattice Clocks toward 10^-17 Uncertainty, Hidetoshi Katori; Univ. of Tokyo, Japan

Invited Speakers

Ultra-Low Noise Microwave Generation Using Femtosecond Lasers and Applications, Y. Le Coq¹, J. Millo¹, W. Zhang¹, M. Abgrall¹, M. Lours¹, H. Jiang¹, E. M. L. English¹, R. Boudot², P. Y. Bourgeois², M. E. Tobar³, J. Guena¹, A. Clairon¹, A. Bize¹, A. N. Luiten³, Y. Kersale³, G. Santarelli¹; ¹LNE-SYRTE, Observatoire de Paris, France, ²FEMTO-ST Inst., CNRS and ENSMM, France, ³School of Physics, Univ. of Western Australia, Australia

Ultrastable Atomic Force Microscopy Using Laser-Based, Active Noise Cancellation, Thomas T. Perkins, Gavin M. King, Allison B. Churnside, Ashley R. Carter; JILA, NIST and Univ. of Colorado at Boulder, USA

CLEO 15. LEDS, Photovoltaics and Energy-Efficient (“Green”) Photonics

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III-Nitride UV Emitters and Their Applications, Asif Khan; Univ. of South Carolina, USA

Invited Speakers

Efficiency Droop in GaInN Solid-State Lighting Devices, E. Fred Schubert, Martin F. Schubert; Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst., USA

CLEO 16. Micro- and Nano-Photonics Devices

Tutorial Speaker

Photon Localization and Photonic Bandgaps, Sajeev John; Univ. of Toronto, Canada

Invited Speakers

Ultrafast Silicon-Organic Hybrid (SOH) Photonics, Wolfgang Freude¹, Thomas Vallaitis¹, Christian Koos², Jan-Michael Brosi³, Luca Alloatti¹, Pieter Dumon⁴, Roel Baets⁴, Michelle L. Scimeca⁵, Ivan Biaggio⁵, Benjamin Breiten⁶, François Diederich⁶, Juerg Leuthold¹; ¹Karlsruhe Inst. of Technology (KIT), Inst. of Photonics and Quantum Electronics (IPQ), Germany, ²Carl Zeiss AG, Germany, ³Robert Bosch GmbH, Power Tools Div., Germany, ⁴Ghent Univ., Photonics Res. Group, IMEC, Belgium, ⁵Lehigh Univ., Dept. of Physics, USA, ⁶ETH Zürich, Lab of Organic Chemistry, Switzerland

Photonic Crystal Nanobeam Cavities and Their Applications, Marko Loncar, P. B. Deotare, I. W. Frank, Y. Zhang, A. Conwill, M. Khan, M. W. McCutcheon, Q. Quan; Harvard Univ., USA

Optical Metamaterials, Xiang Zhang; Univ. of California at Berkeley, USA

QELS 01. Quantum Optics of Atoms, Molecules and Solids

Tutorial Speaker

Quantum Teleportation and Quantum Information Processing, Akira Furusawa; Univ. of Tokyo, Japan

Invited Speakers

Quantum-Opto-Mechanics in the Strong Coupling Regime, Simon Gröblacher¹^,², Sebastian Hofer², Michael Vanner², Klemens Hammerer¹^,³, Markus Aspelmeyer²; ¹Austrian Acad. of Sciences, Austria, ²Univ. of Vienna, Austria, ³Inst. for Theoretical Physics, Univ. of Innsbruck, Austria

A Quantum Gas Microscope for Detecting Single Atoms in a Hubbard-Regime Optical Lattice, Markus Greiner; Harvard Univ., USA

QELS 02. Quantum Science, Engineering and Technology

Tutorial Speaker

Measuring and Characterizing Quantum States and Processes, Daniel F. V. James; Univ. of Toronto, Canada

Invited Speakers

Squeezed Light for Gravitational Wave Detection, Roman Schnabel; Leibniz Univ. Hannover, Germany

Title to Be Announced, Keith Schwab; Caltech, USA

QELS 03. Metamaterials and Complex Media

Invited Speakers

Physics and Applications of One-Way Magneto-Optical Photonic Crystals, Zheng Wang, Yidong Chong, John Joannopoulos, Marin Soljačić; MIT, USA

Photonic Metamaterials Go Three-Dimensional, Martin Wegener; Inst. für Angewandte Physik und Inst. für Nanotechnologie, Karlsruhe Inst. of Technology (KIT), Germany

QELS 04. Optical Interactions with Condensed Matter and Ultrafast Phenomena

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Quantum Optics with Semiconductor Quantum Dots in Microcavities, C. Gies, S. Ritter, M. Florian, P. Gartner, Frank Jahnke; Inst. for Theoretical Physics, Univ. of Bremen, Germany

Invited Speakers

Femtosecond Quantum Optics with Single-Electron Systems, Alfred Leitenstorfer, Rudolf Bratschitsch; Univ. Konstanz, Germany

Quantum Kinetics of Transport and Gain in Quantum Cascade Lasers: Looking for the Essential Principles of Design, Andreas Wacker; Lund Univ., Sweden

QELS 05. Nonlinear Optics and Novel Phenomena

Tutorial Speaker

Filamentation of Femtosecond Laser Pulses: Basic Principles and Applications, André Mysyrowicz; Lab d'Optique Appliquée, France

Invited Speakers

Modulation of Photons and Biphotons, Steve Harris, C. Belthangady, Chih-Sung Chuu, S. Du, P. Kolchin, S. Sensarn, I. A. Yu, J. M. Kahn, G. Y. Yin; Ginzton Lab, Stanford Univ., USA

Two Photon Emission, Entanglement and Gain from Semiconductors at Room Temperature, Meir Orenstein, Alex Hayat, Amir Nevet, Pavel Ginzburg, Serge Rosenblum; Technion Israel Inst. of Technology, Israel

QELS 06. Nano-Optics and Plasmonics

Tutorial Speaker

New Concepts in Nanoplasmonics, Stefan Maier; Imperial College London, UK

Invited Speakers

A Pointed Look at Light at the Nanoscale, L. (Kobus) Kuipers; FOM Inst. for Atomic and Molecular Physics, Netherlands

Plasmonic Interference and Coherence in Metallic Nanostructures, Peter Nordlander; Rice Univ., USA

CLEO/QELS 07. Joint Subcommittee on High-Field Physics and High-Intensity Lasers

Tutorial Speaker

High Energy Density Science, Todd Ditmire; Univ. of Texas at Austin, USA

Invited Speakers

The National Ignition Campaign on NIF, Brian MacGowan; Lawrence Livermore Natl. Lab, USA

Scientific Highlights from Operation of FLASH and New Opportunities with LCLS, Jochen Schneider; Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Germany