Environment/Energy

Environment/ Energy

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. Photonics will also find important applications in environmental monitoring and purification. This conference will focus on photonic technologies and their applications addressing energy efficiency and the environment.

Postdeadline paper submissions are being accepted. Submit timely, innovative research by March 30, 2012 at 12:00 PM noon EDT (16:00 GMT).


Technical Program

Below, please find Technical Program information including Invited Speakers, Tutorials, Symposium, Plenary, Market Focus, Short Courses, and more. Check back for additional information.

Invited Speakers

Hydrogen Generation using Nitride Photoelectrodes, Kazuhiro Ohkawa; Tokyo University of Science, Japan

Green LEDs and Solar Cells based on ZnTe-related Materials, Tooru Tanaka; Saga University, Japan

Atmospheric Volatile Organic Compound Sensing with Lasers, Frank Keutsch; University of Wisconsin, USA

III-Nitride Optochemical Nanosensors, Martin Eickhoff; Physikalisches Institut Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany

Plenary Session

CLEO: Applications & Technology
Steven Denbaars, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

Presentation: Development of nonpolar and semipolar InGaN/GaN light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and Laser Diodes


Special Symposia

50th Anniversary of the Semiconductor Laser
Joint CLEO: QELS-Fundamental Science/ CLEO: Science & Innovations/ CLEO: Applications & Technology

Space Optical Systems: Opportunities and Challenges
Joint CLEO: Science & Innovations/ CLEO: Applications & Technology

Singular Light: Applications of Vortices, Orbital Angular Momentum, Bessel and Airy Beams
Joint CLEO: QELS-Fundamental Science/ CLEO: Science & Innovations/ CLEO: Applications & Technology

Advances in High-Power Lasers and their Applications
Joint CLEO: Applications & Technology/ CLEO: Science & Innovations


Market Focus

Energy/Environment: Development of Cost Competitive Solar Energy
Moderator: Tyler Morgus; Strategic Marketing, THORLABS, USA

Short Courses*

SC182 Biomedical Optical Diagnostics and Sensing
Sebastian Wachsmann-Hogiu, NSF Center for Biophotonics Science and Technology, Univ. of California Davis, USA

SC200 Laser Remote Sensing
Timothy Carrig and Philip Gatt; Lockheed Martin, USA

SC221 Nano-Photonics: Physics and Techniques
Axel Scherer; Caltech, USA.

SC335 Super-Resolution Optical Microscopy
Stephen Lane; Univ. of California at Davis, USA

*Short Courses are an additional fee