2005 Special Symposia

CLEO/QELS Symposium on Enabling Technologies for Quantum Communication

Organizers:
CLEO - Matthew Goodman and Robert Runser; Telcordia Technologies, USA
QELS - Carl Williams and Joshua Bienfang; NIST, USA

Invited Speakers

Recent Advances in Single Photon Detectors; Danna Rosenberg, NIST, USA

Nanophotonic Devices for Quantum Information Processing; Jelena Vuckovic, Stanford Univ., USA

The joint CLEO/QELS symposium on Enabling Technologies for Quantum Communication is a forum for the advance of Quantum Optics components critical to quantum information and quantum communication technology. Part of the focus will be on technologies for practical quantum information systems, particularly quantum cryptography and quantum computing. This includes novel single-photon sources, detectors, and low-loss optical switching systems and other components. Additionally, practical systems-level implementations, advanced testbeds, and field trials of new quantum information applications will be emphasized. The symposium will also cover components for quantum information technologies, including sources, measurement, and processing of entanglement, squeezing and other non-classical states of light, Bell tests, quantum-enhanced measurements, and the application of quantum dots, BEC, and EIT to quantum information and communication.

QELS Symposium on Nonlinear Nanophotonics

Organizers:
Jacob Khurgin, Johns Hopkins Univ., USA
Mark Stockman, Georgia State Univ., USA
Yurii Vlasov, IBM, TJ Watson Res. Ctr., USA
Ulrike Woggon, Univ. of Dortmund, Germany

Invited Speakers

Nonlinearities in SOI Photonic Wires; Richard Osgood, Columbia Univ., USA

Nonlinear Photoelectron Imaging of Surface Plasmons in Nanostructures; Hrvoje Petek, Univ. of Pittsburgh, USA

Nonlinear Optics of Surface Plasmon Polaritons at the Planck Scale; Igor Smolyaninov, Univ. of Maryland, USA

The QELS Symposium on Nonlinear Nanophotonics is devoted to nonlinear optical phenomena occurring on subwavelength and nanometer scales in nanostructured systems, both synthesized and naturally occurring, and metamaterials (composites) consisting of metals, semiconductors, and dielectrics. Both fundamental phenomena and their applications in sensing, nonlinear spectroscopy of nanostructures, nanoimaging, nanolithography, optical computing on the nanoscale, limiters, and others are within the scope. Topics include, but are not limited to, enhancement of optically-nonlinear phenomena, nonlinear surface plasmons and polaritons, nonlinear photoelectron emission, surface plasmon lasers (spasers), locally-enhanced stimulated emission and superradiance, and coherent control of nanophotonic phenomena.