Invited Speakers
CLEO: QELS - Fundamental Science
CLEO: Science & Innovation
CLEO: Applications & Technology
CLEO: QELS - Fundamental Science 1: Quantum Optics of Atoms, Molecules and Solids
Tutorial Speaker
Coherent Control of Cold Matter Waves, Ennio Arimondo;
Università di Pisa, Italy
Invited Speakers
Anderson Metal-insulator Transition with the Atomic Kicked Rotor, Dominique Delande;
Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France
Cavity QED with Fiber Cavities: From Atoms to Quantum Well Excitons, Jakob Reichel;
Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France
CLEO: QELS - Fundamental Science 2: Quantum Science, Engineering and Technology
Tutorial Speaker
Toward Quantum Computing with Oscillators, Olivier Pfister;
Univ. of Virginia, Physics Department, USA
Invited Speakers
Diamond in Glass, a New Platform for Quantum Photonics, Andrew Greentree;
Univ. of Melbourne, Australia
Single-Photon Switches, Prem Kumar;
Northwestern Univ., USA
CLEO: QELS - Fundamental Science 3: Metamaterials and Complex Media
Tutorial Speaker
Defining New Optics with Metamaterials, David R. Smith;
Duke Univ., USA
Invited Speakers
Nonlocal Optical Phenomena in Metamaterials, Viktor A. Podolskiy;
Univ. of Massachusetts Lowell, USA
Purcell Effect, Surface Modes and Nonlocality in Hyperbolic Metamaterials, Pavel Belov;
Queen Marry Univ. of London, UK
CLEO: QELS - Fundamental Science 4: Optical Interactions with Condensed Matter and Ultrafast Phenomena
Invited Speakers
Photoinduced Phase Transitions in Strongly Correlated Electron Systems, Shin-ya Koshihara;
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Ultrafast Dynamics and Coherent Control in Graphene, Theodore Norris;
Univ. of Michigan, USA
CLEO: QELS - Fundamental Science 5: Nonlinear Optics and Novel Phenomena
Tutorial Speaker
Microcavity Polaritons: Quantum Fluid Phenomena and Optoelectronic Applications, Alberto Bramati;
Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Ecole Normale Supérieure et CNRS, Paris, France
Invited Speakers
Quantum Phenomena in Laser-Written Waveguide Arrays, Alex Szameit;
Univ. of Jena, Germany
Reversal of Photon Scattering Decoherence, Roee Ozeri;
Weizmann, Israel
CLEO: QELS - Fundamental Science 6: Nano-Optics and Plasmonics
Tutorial Speaker
Surface Plasmon Circuitry in Opto-Electronics, Alain Dereux;
Universite de Bourgogne, France
Invited Speakers
Infrared Nanophotonics, Rainer Hillenbrand;
CIC nanoGUNE, Spain
Magnetic Light-Matter Interactions: Quantifying and Exploiting Magnetic Dipole Transitions, Rashid Zia;
Brown Univ., USA
CLEO:QELS - Fundamental Science 7: High-Field Physics and Attoscience
Tutorial Speaker
High Harmonic Spectroscopy of Attosecond Dynamics, Misha Ivanov;
Imperial College London, UK
Invited Speakers
Dynamics of Electron Acceleration in Plasmas, Laszlo Veisz;
Max-Planck-Institut fuer Quantenoptik, Germany
Strong-field Effects in Solids, David Reis;
Stanford PULSE Institute, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory MS, USA
CLEO: Science & Innovation 1: Light-matter Interactions and Materials Processing
Tutorial Speaker
Ultrafast Laser Writing in Transparent Materials: From Physics to Applications, Peter Kazansky;
Univ. of Southampton, UK
Invited Speakers
Energy Conversion Processes in Laser-matter Interactions, Xianfan Xu;
Purdue Univ., USA
Theory of Ultrafast Laser-matter Interactions, Baerbel Rethfield;
Univ. of Kaiserslautern, Germany
CLEO: Science & Innovation 2: Solid-State, Liquid, Gas, and High-Intensity Lasers
Tutorial Speaker
Key Laser Technologies for Next Generation X-ray Sources, Franz X. Kärtner;
CFEL-DESY, Universität Hamburg, Germany; MIT, USA
Invited Speakers
Applications and Performance of Epoxy-free Composite Laser Optics, Nick Traggis;
Precision Photonics Corp, USA
Picosecond Thin-disk Amplifiers with High Average Power for Pumping Optical Parametric Amplifiers, Tom Metzger;
Max-Planck Institute for Quantum Electronics, Germany
Reliable Laser Technology for Laser Peening Applications, Lloyd Hackel;
Metal Improvement Corp., USA
CLEO: Science & Innovation 3: Semiconductor Lasers
Tutorial Speaker
Physics and Applications of Quantum Dot Lasers, Peter Smowton;
Cardiff University, UK
Invited Speakers
Electrically-pumped UV Nanowire Lasers, Jianlin Liu;
Univ. of California Riverside, USA
Ultra-Low Threshold and High Speed Electrically Driven Photonic Crystal Nanocavity Lasers and LEDs, Jelena Vuckovic;
Stanford Univ., USA
CLEO: Science & Innovation 4: Nonlinear Optical Technologies
Tutorial Speaker
Light Filaments: An Intricate Case of Light Matter --- Matter-Light Interaction, Jean-Claude Diels;
Univ. of New Mexico, USA
Invited Speakers
Development of Periodically Oriented Gallium Nitride, Jennifer Hite;
U.S. Naval Research Lab, USA
Giant Enhancement of Stimulated Brillouin Scattering in the Sub-wavelength Limit, Peter T. Rakich;
Sandia National Lab, USA
Mid-IR Frequency Comb Based on Subharmonic GaAs OPO, Konstantin Vodopyanov;
Stanford Univ., USA
Nonlinear Optical Functions of Photonic Crystals for Ultralow-power Photonic Processing, Masaya Notomi;
NTT Basic Research Lab, Japan
CLEO: Science & Innovation 5: Terahertz Technologies and Applications
Tutorial Speaker
Waveguides for Pulsed Terahertz Radiation, Daniel Mittleman;
Rice Univ., USA
Invited Speakers
Controlling Superconductivity with Strong Terahertz Fields, Matthias Hoffman;
Univ. of Hamburg – CFEL, Germany
High Field THz Pulse Generation and Nonlinear THz Dynamics, Frank Hegmann;
Univ. of Alberta, Canada
Near-Infrared Metal Nanoantennas for Femtosecond Quantum Optics, Rudolf Bratschitsch;
Technical Univ. of Chemnitz, Germany
CLEO: Science & Innovations 6: Optical Materials, Fabrication and Characterization
Tutorial Speaker
Nonlinear Optics in Crystalline and Amorphous Silicon-on-Insulator, Roel Baets;
Ghent Univ. - IMEC, Belgium
Invited Speakers
Delayed Fluorescence by Reverse Intersystem Crossing and Applications to Organic Light-Emitting Diodes, Kenichi Goushi;
Kyushu Univ., Japan
Nonlinear and Quantum Optics in Mesoscopic Photonic Lattices, Chee Wei Wong;
Columbia Univ., USA
Trapping the Light Fantastic, Diederik Wiersma;
European Lab for Nonlinear Spectroscopy (LENS) and CNR-INO Complex Photonics Group, Italy
CLEO: Science & Innovation 7: Micro- and Nano-Photonic Devices
Tutorial Speaker
Hybrid III-V Semiconductor/Silicon Nanolaser, Fabrice Raineri;
Laboratoire de Photonique et de Nanostructures- CNRS-Marcoussis, France
Invited Speakers
Hollow-core Photonics for Optofluidics and Atom Photonics, Holger Schmidt;
UC Santa Cruz, USA
Microresonator-based Optical Frequency Combs, Tobias Kippenberg;
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) and Max Planck Inst. of Quantum Optics (MPQ), Switzerland
Optomechanical Crystals for Quantum Photon and Phonon Circuits, Oskar Painter;
California Institute of Technology, USA
Quantum Electrodynamics with Nanophotonic Devices, Peter Lodahl;
Univ. of Copenhagen, Denmark
Quantum Optics with Quantum Dots in Photonic Nanowires, Jean-Michel Gerard;
CEA/INAC/SP2M, France
CLEO: Science & Innovation 8: Ultrafast Optics, Optoelectronics and Applications
Tutorial Speaker
Ultrashort Coherent Light Sources: From Femtosecond to Attosecond, Chang Hee Nam;
KAIST, South Korea
Invited Speakers
A Laser Front End for Ultra-Intense OPCPA, Jake Bromage;
University of Rochester, USA
High Repetition Rate Frequency Combs: Ultrafast Optics Starting with Continuous-wave Lasers, Andrew Weiner;
Purdue Univ., USA
Reliable Carrier-Envelope Phase Control for Current and Future Attosecond Experiments, Fabian Lücking;
Femtolasers Produktions GmbH, Austria
Soliton Control by Saturable Absorber with Complex Recovery, Oleg Okhotnikov;
Optoelectronics Research Centre, Finland
CLEO: Science & Innovation 9: Components, Integration, Interconnects and Signal Processing
Tutorial Speaker
Single-chip Integrated Transmitters and Receivers, Larry Coldren;
University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Invited Speakers
Silicon Photonic Integrated Circuits, Subal Sahni;
Luxtera Inc., USA
The Foundry Model for Silicon Photonics – Technology, Challenges, and Opportunities, Patrick (Guo-Qiang) Lo;
Nano Electronics & Photonics, Institute of Microelectronics, AStar, Singapore
Ultra-fast Photodetectors, Bach Heinz-Gunter;
Henrich Hertz Institute, Fraunhofer Germany
CLEO: Science & Innovation 10: Biophotonics and Optofluidics
Tutorial Speaker
ePetri: High Resolution Lensless Microscopy Solution for Petri Dish Applications, Changhuei Yang;
Caltech, USA
Invited Speakers
In Vivo Multi-Harmonic Generation Biopsy of Human Skin and Mucosa, Chi-Kuang Sun;
National Taiwan Univ., Taiwan
Integrated Lasers for Polymer Lab-on-a-Chip Systems, Timo Mappes;
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Quantitative Phase Imaging in Biomedicine, Gabriel Popescu;
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
CLEO: Science & Innovation 11: Fiber, Fiber Amplifiers, Lasers and Devices
Tutorial Speaker
Modelocked Fiber Lasers, Past Present and Future, Martin Fermann;
IMRA America Inc., USA
Invited Speakers
Metamaterials Fabricated by Drawing, Simon Fleming;
Univ. Sydney, Australia
Modeling and Power Scaling of Carbon-Nanotube Mode-Locked Fiber Lasers, Norihikon Nishizawa;
Nagoya Univ., Japan
Photonic Microcell: A Revival Tool for Gas Lasers, Fetah Benabid;
Xlim Research Institut, and Univ. of Bath, France
Stimulated Brillouin Scattering in Specialty Optical Fibers: Importance of Material, Structure and Manufacturing Parameters, Yves Jaouen;
Telecom ParisTech, France
Ultra-Low-Crosstalk Multi-Core Fiber Realizing Space-Division Multiplexed Ultra-Long-Haul Transmission, Tetsuya Hayashi;
Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Japan
CLEO: Science & Innovation 12: Lightwave Communications and Optical Networks
Tutorial Speaker
Modulation and Coding Techniques, and Optical Networking Technologies Enabling Multi Terabit Bandwidth Delivery, Milorad Cvijetic;
Univ. of Arizona, USA
Invited Speakers
Design and Modeling of Novel Fibers for Space Division Multiplexing, John Fini;
OFS Labs, USA
The Age of Optical Coherent Communication, Kuang-Tsan Wu;
Infinera, Canada
CLEO: Science & Innovation 13: Active Optical Sensing
Tutorial Speaker
Frequency Comb Spectroscopy from Mid-Infrared to Extreme Ultraviolet, Jun Ye;
NIST and Univ. of Colorado, USA
Invited Speakers
Photochemical Microreactors in Photonic Crystal Fibers, Ana Cubillas;
Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Germany
Realization of Nano-Strain-Resolution Fiber Optic Static Strain Sensor for Geo-Science Applications, Zuyuan (Joey) He;
The Univ. of Tokyo, Japan
CLEO: Science & Innovation 14: Optical Metrology
Tutorial Speaker
Ultra-Stable Cavities, Mark Notcutt;
Stable Lasers Systems, USA
Invited Speakers
New Determination of the Fine Structure Constant and Test of Quantum Electrodynamics, Rym Bouchendira;
Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Ecole Normale Supérieure et CNRS, France
Silicon-Based Frequency Combs, Alexander Gaeta;
Cornell Univ., USA
Toward a Nuclear Optical Clock, Corey Campbell;
Georgia Tech, USA
CLEO: Science & Innovation 15: LEDS, Photovoltaics and Energy-Efficient ("Green") Photonics
Tutorial Speaker
Solar Energy Technologies Tutorial, Ryne Raffaelle;
Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
Invited Speakers
GaN Based Nanorod Technology for Solid State Lighting, Andreas Waag;
TU Braunschweig, Germany
Photonics with Graphene and Carbon Nanotubes, Andrea Ferrari;
University of Cambridge, UK
CLEO: Applications & Technology 1: Biomedical
Tutorial Speaker
Image-Guided Spectroscopy of Cancer: Translating Optical Technology into Clinical Tools, Brian W. Pogue;
Dartmouth College, USA
Invited Speakers
Coherence Imaging for Early Cancer Detection, Adam Wax;
Dept of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, USA
Full-field Oct: from a Lab Bench to a Valuable Hospital Tool, A. Claude Boccara;
Institut Langevin ESPCI-ParisTech, France
Title to be Announced, David Benaron;
Spectros Corporation, USA
Title to be Announced, Brett Bouma;
Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Masschusetts General Hospital, USA
CLEO: Applications & Technology 2: Environment/Energy
Invited Speakers
Atmospheric Volatile Organic Compound Sensing with Lasers, Frank Keutsch;
University of Wisconsin, USA
Green LEDs and Solar Cells based on ZnTe-related Materials, Tooru Tanaka;
Saga University, Japan
Hydrogen Generation using Nitride Photoelectrodes, Kazuhiro Ohkawa;
Tokyo University of Science, Japan
III-Nitride Optochemical Nanosensors, Martin Eickhoff;
Physikalisches Institut Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany
CLEO: Applications & Technology 3: Government & National Science, Security & Standards Applications
Tutorial Speaker
Enabling Science at the Advanced Light Source X-Ray Facility, Roger Falcone;
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (LBNL); USA
Invited Speakers
Applications of Ultrafast Lasers, Mike Mielke;
Raydiance Inc., USA
Non Distractive Remote Inspection for Heavy Construction, Masayuki Fujita;
Institute for Laser Technology, Osaka, Japan
CLEO: Applications & Technology 4: Industrial
Invited Speakers
Inline Coherent Imaging: Measuring and Controlling Depth in Industrial Laser Processes, Paul J. L. Webster;
Queen's University, Canada
Laser Plasmas for Spectrochemistry, Rick Russo;
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, USA
Title to be Announced, Arnold Gillner;
Fraunhofer Institute, Germany
Title to be Announced, Alberto Salleo;
Stanford University, USA