Symposia
Contributed submissions will be considered for these symposia. See details below. Submit through the CLEO/QELS submission site.
CLEO Symposium on Laser Beam Combining: Sources and Applications
Symposium Organizers
Richard Berdine; AF Res. Lab, KAFB; USA
Dan Yanson; Semi Conductor Devices Ltd., Israel
Daniel J. Ripin; MIT Lincoln Lab, USA
Beam combining methods that provide brightness scaling by combining the outputs of multiple lasers or amplifiers with high combined beam quality have made dramatic advances over the past few years. This symposium will bring together researchers exploring various incoherent (e.g. wavelength beam combining) and coherent (both active and passive) beam combining methods using solid-state, semiconductor (incl. VCSEL) and fiber laser and amplifier platforms and their use in industrial, military, pumping and communications applications. Contributions discussing the scaling of element count and combined powers (incl. sub- kW and multi-kW arrays), multi-level and integrated architectures, enabling technologies (phase detection and control algorithms, high power gratings), increasing beam-combinable power from individual elements, and beam characterization techniques are welcome.
Contributed submissions to CLEO 2, CLEO 3, and CLEO 11 will be considered for this symposium.
Tutorial Speaker
CThG1, Laser Beam Combining: Theory and Methods, James R. Leger; Univ. of Minnesota, USA
Invited Speakers
CThG2, Coherent Beam Combining of Fiber Amplifiers and Solid-State Lasers including the use of Diffractive Optical Elements, Michael Wickham; Northrop Grumman Corp., USA
CThO1, Beam Combining in Multi-core, Holey Fiber Lasers, Terence Shepherd, Laurent Michaille, Charlotte R. Bennett, David M. Taylor; QinetiQ Ltd., UK
CThO3, Coherent Fiber Combining by Digital Holography, Cindy Bellanger¹, M. Paurisse², A. Brignon¹, J. Colineau¹, J. P. Huignard¹, M. Hanna², F. Druon², P. Georges²; ¹Thales Res. and Technology, France, ²Lab Charles Fabry de l'Inst. d'Optique, Univ. Paris-Sud, France
CThX1, Volume Bragg Gratings for Spectral Beam Combining, Leonid B. Glebov¹,²; ¹CREOL, College of Optics and Photonics, Univ. of Central Florida, USA, ²OptiGrate Corp., USA
CThX2, Beam Reformatting and Combining of High-Power Laser Diode Stacks, Howard J. Baker¹, N. Trela¹, D. R. Hall¹, R. McBride², J. J. Wendland²; ¹Heriot-Watt Univ., UK, ²PowerPhotonic Ltd, UK
CLEO Symposium on Photonics for Advanced Energy Technology
Symposium Organizers
Michael Wraback; US ARL, USA
S. J. Ben Yoo; Univ. of California at Davis, USA
Leo Schowalter; Crystal IS, USA
Photonic-based electrical power generation and energy-efficient photonics will play a key role in the reduction of the collective energy footprint that is fast becoming an important global priority. The goal of this symposium is to bring together researchers exploring all aspects of efficient photonic power generation and use, including novel materials, devices, and systems. Topics to be covered in this symposium include (but are not limited to) the physics, engineering, and applications of high-efficiency and flexible photovoltaics, high-efficiency LEDs and lasers, and energy-efficient photonic systems. The role of Photonics in energy-efficient computing, networking, and information systems will also be covered.
Contributed submissions to CLEO 15 will be considered for this symposium.
Invited Speakers
CMB1, Recent Progress in High Efficiency InGaN LEDs, Matthias Peter, Karl Engl, Frank Baumann, Ralph Wirth, Ansgar Laubsch, Johannes Baur, Berthold Hahn; OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH, Germany
CMB4, Energy Footprint and Opportunities of ICT Networks, Loukas Paraschis; Cisco Systems, USA
CML1, High-Efficiency Photovoltaic Technology, Sarah Kurtz; Natl. Renewable Energy Lab, USA
CML4, Photonic Power Delivery, Jan-Gustav Werthen; JDS Uniphase Corp., USA
CLEO Symposium on Novel Optical Fibers for Sensing, Medicine, Spectroscopy, and Future Communication Systems
Symposium Organizers
Jacques Albert; Carleton Univ., Canada
David DiGiovanni, OFS Labs, USA
Optical fiber technologies have evolved considerably in the last decade to best fit an expanding range of applications. This symposium is devoted to state-of-the-art optical fiber designs for various fields including bio-chemical and physical sensing, biomedical instrumentation, spectroscopy, as well as the optical communication systems of the future.
Within the realm of applications listed above, advanced materials and guiding geometries, new fabrication methods, and hybrid fibers with functional coatings, dopants or inclusions are covered by the symposium.
The symposium will solicit speakers that are users of specialty optical fibers to present their views on the properties they wish fibers had. Fiber designers will be invited to present advanced fiber designs and describe the challenges associated to creating fibers with specific properties. A perspective on the future of fibers in the next 10 and 20 years will also be presented.
Contributed submissions to CLEO 10, CLEO 11, CLEO 12, and CLEO 13 will be considered for this symposium.
Invited Speakers
CTuP1, The Influence of Optical Fiber Design on Chemical Sensor Performance, Robert Lieberman; Intelligent Optical Systems, Inc., USA
CTuP4, Holographically Encoded Microparticles: A Flexible Multiplex Platform for Bioassay Applications, J. A. Moon, M. S. Bowen, J. F. Pinto; Illumina, Inc., USA
CTuAA1, Fibers for Next-Generation High Spectral Efficiency Undersea Cable Systems, Neal S. Bergano, Alexei Pilipetskii; Tyco Telecommunications, USA
CTuAA4, Advanced Optical Fibers for Geophysical Sensing Applications, Paul E. Sanders; Qorex, USA
CTuLL1, Integration of Semiconductors, Molecules, and Metals into Microstructured Optical Fibers, John V. Badding¹, N. F. Baril¹, J. R. Sparks¹, J. A. Calkins¹, D. A. Allara¹, P. J. A. Sazio², A. C. Peacock², N. Healy², V. Gopalan¹, M. Krishnamurthy¹, I. Temnykh¹; ¹Pennsylvania State Univ., USA, ²Optoelectronics Res. Ctr., Univ. of Southampton, UK.
CTuLL4, Design and Fabrication of Photonic Crystal Fibers for Plasmonic Sensing, Applications from the Visible to THz, Maksim Skorobogatiy; École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada
QELS Symposium on Quantum Repeaters and Networks
Symposium Organizers
Christoph Simon; Univ. of Calgary, Canada
Perry Rice; Miami Univ., USA
Norbert Lütkenhaus; Univ. of Waterloo, Canada
The distribution of entanglement over long distances is an important challenge both from a fundamental point of view and for applications such as quantum cryptography or a future potential "quantum internet". The direct distribution of entanglement is limited by unavoidable transmission losses in combination with the no-cloning theorem for quantum states. This limitation can be overcome through quantum repeaters, which are based on creating entanglement for relatively short elementary links, storing it in quantum memories, and then extending it through entanglement swapping. The last few years have seen significant experimental and theoretical progress in the area of quantum repeaters and quantum networks. On the experimental side, elementary links of quantum repeaters have been demonstrated in several systems, including atomic ensembles and trapped ions. Quantum memories based on atomic ensembles, both in atomic gases and in the solid state, are becoming ever more efficient, and storage times are increasing. At the same time, improved protocols are being developed on the theory side. This symposium aims to give an overview over these exciting developments.
Contributed submissions to QELS 1 and QELS 2 will be considered for this symposium.
Invited Speakers
QWD1, Quantum Optical Networks with Trapped Ions, Christopher Monroe; Univ. of Maryland and Joint Quantum Inst., USA
QWD2, Quantum Networks with Single Atoms, Photons and Phonons, H. Jeff Kimble; Caltech, USA
QWH1, Experimental Manipulation of Atoms and Photons and Its Applications, Jianwei Pan; Univ. Heidelberg, Germany
QWH2,
Solid State Quantum Memories for Quantum Repeaters,
Hugues de Riedmatten¹, I. Usmani¹, B. Lauritzen¹, C. Clausen¹, J. Minář¹, N. Sangouard¹, C. Simon¹,², A. Amari³, A. Walther³, S. Kröll³, M. Afzelius¹, N. Gisin¹; ¹Univ. of Geneva, Switzerland, ²Univ. of Calgary, Canada, ³Dept. of Physics, Lund Inst. of Technology, Sweden
QELS Symposium on Nanophotonics and Metamaterials
Symposium Organizers
Vladimir Shalaev; Purdue Univ., USA
Nikolay Zheludev; Univ. of Southampton, UK
It is a daunting challenge to bring photonics to the nanometer scale because of the fundamental diffraction limit. Metamaterials (MMs), i.e. artificial materials with rationally designed geometry, composition and arrangement of nanostructured building blocks, or meta-"atoms," can enable the needed compatibility between light with a wavelength at the microscale and optoelectronic systems operating at the nanoscale. Thus MMs can combine the advantages of the nm-scale (but relatively slow) electronics and ultra-fast (but µm-scale) photonics, bridging the size gap and enabling an increased synergy between the two major technologies. The research themes of this Symposium are aimed at understanding, controlling and utilizing the fundamental physical phenomena occurring in MMs for addressing the grand challenge and societal need for faster, smaller and more efficient optical and opto-electronic systems.
Contributed submissions to QELS 3 and QELS 6 will be considered for this symposium.
Invited Speakers
QTuD1, Infinite at Every Frequency: The Photonic Density of States in (Meta)materials with Hyperbolic Dispersion and Related Phenomena, Evgenii Narimanov, Zubin Jacob, Igor Smolyaninov; Purdue Univ., USA
QTuF1, Reconstruction of Sparse Sub-Wavelength Images, Alexander Szameit, Snir Gazit, Yonina C. Eldar, Mordechai Segev; Technion-Israel Inst. of Technology, Israel
QTuF5, Nanodevices Based on Plasmonics for Few/Single Molecule Detection, Enzo Di Fabrizio; Italian Inst. of Technology, Italy
QTuH1, Nonlinear Wave Control and Rainbows in Complex Gyroelectric Structures, Allan D. Boardman¹, Peter Egan¹, Ortwin Hess², Rhiannon C. Mitchell-Thomas¹, Yuriy G. Rapoport¹,³; ¹Univ. of Salford, UK, ²Univ. of Surrey, UK, ³Taras Shevchenko Kyiv Natl. Univ., Ukraine
Joint CLEO/QELS Symposium on Quantum Control
Symposium Organizers
Marcos Dantus; Michigan State University, USA
Andrew Doherty; Univ. of Queensland, Australia
Recent years have seen an explosion in experimental capabilities for the manipulation and control of both light and matter. For example, ultrafast lasers now provide extraordinarily high peak intensities and allow interaction and control of matter on a timescale that is faster than atomic motion. By modulating the spectral phase, polarization and amplitude of ultrafast pulses, computer controlled pulse shapers allow the creation of arbitrary pulse shapes. This technology is being used to control electrons, atoms, molecules, nanoparticles and bulk media. In many other areas of AMO physics it is increasingly possible to achieve high signal-to-noise for measurements on individual atoms or photons in real time and to feed back to control dynamics of individual quantum systems. These experimental innovations have stimulated theoretical developments in what could be called quantum control theory, which systematically seeks to take advantage of these capabilities to achieve an unprecedented ability to manipulate individual quantum systems. This work has seen the application of existing techniques from NMR and from control theory and opens very exciting avenues for experimental research into the fundamentals of quantum physics. Moreover, while this research field is still in its infancy, a number of very promising applications are also being developed and some have already been commercialized.
This symposium will review key conceptual and technological developments and discuss emerging, interdisciplinary research into photonic control of matter and nonlinear optical processes. This symposium will consist of invited and contributed papers.
Contributed submissions to CLEO 13, QELS 1, and QELS 2 will be considered for this symposium.
Invited Speakers
JThC1, Preserving Quantum Coherence Using Optimized Open-Loop Control Techniques, Michael J. Biercuk, Hermann Uys, Aaron P. VanDevender, Nobuyasu Shiga, Wayne M. Itano, John J. Bollinger; NIST, USA
JThC4, Optical Arbitrary Waveform Generation, E. Ippen, A. Benedick, J. Birge, H. Byun, L.-J. Chen, G. Chang, D. Chao, J. Morse, A. Motamedi, M. Sander, G. Petrich, L. Kolodziejski, F. Kärtner; MIT, USA
JThF1, Femtosecond Spatiotemporal Control with Multiple Knobs, Debabrata Goswami; Indian Inst. of Technology, Kanpur, India
JThF2, From Order to Chaos with a Spin and a Twist, Poul S. Jessen¹, I. H. Deutsch², S. Ghose³; ¹Univ. of Arizona, USA, ²Univ. of New Mexico, USA, ³Wilfrid Laurier Univ., Canada
Joint CLEO/QELS Symposium on Optomechanics for Physical and Biological Sciences
Symposium Organizers
Seok-Hyun Andy Yun; Harvard Univ., USA
Tobias Kippenberg; EPFL, Switzerland
The use of radiation pressure to probe and manipulate micromechanical systems has proven useful in diverse fields of science and engineering ranging from quantum dynamics to bioengineering. This symposium discusses the fundamentals, technology, and applications of optomechanics in topics including cavity optomechanics, micro- and nano-optomechanical devices, optical tweezers, and optical probing of cell and tissue biomechanics.
Contributed submissions to CLEO 6, CLEO 10, QELS 2, and QELS 6 will be considered for this symposium.
Invited Speakers
JMA1, Nonequilibrium Quantum Dynamics in Optomechanical Systems, Florian Marquardt; Ludwig-Maximilians-Univ. Munich, Germany
JMA2, Feasability of Measuring Radiation Pressure Quantum Back-Action in Zipper Photonic Crystal Optomechanical Cavities, Jeffrey T. Hill, Ryan Camacho, Alexander G. Krause, Oskar J. Painter; Caltech, USA
JMB1, The Physics of a Dissipative Optomechanical Coupling, Aashish Clerk; McGill Univ., Canada
JMB4, Preparation and Detection of a Radio Frequency Mechanical Resonator Near the Ground State of Motion, Keith Schwab; Caltech, USA
JMC5, Sound, Light and Particles in Photonic Crystal Fibres, Philip Russell, A. Brenn, T. G. Euser, M. K. Garbos, M. S. Kang, A. Nazarkin; Max-Planck Inst. for the Science of Light, Germany
JMD1, Light Takes Shape for Biophotonics: New Directions in Trapping and Cell Transfection, Kishan Dholakia; Univ. of St. Andrews, UK
JMD4, Microrheology Measurements of the Mechanical Properties of Cells, David Weitz; Harvard Univ., USA