Hot Topics 2008

Get the inside scoop on CLEO/QELS stand-out research directly from your peers. Watch your colleagues in broadcast news segments as they discuss this year’s most important research.

This year, the conference received the highest number of paper submissions in recent history, revealing the most significant technical advances in optics and photonics.

View the following Hot Topics pages to see a selection of interviews presentations highlighting critical research, including:

• Plasmonics and nanophotonics
• Silicon photonics
• Gallium nitride lasers and VCSEL developments
• Fiber lasers
• Nonlinear optics in biology

Watch the videos below to see Konstantin Vodopyanov, 2008 CLEO Program Co-Chair, and Aephraim Steinberg, 2008 QELS Program Co-Chair, discuss paper submissions, the CLEO/QELS experience and the growth of the 2008 QELS program.

CLEO/QELS 2008 Overview	QELS 2008 Program Highlights

Plasmonics and Nanophotonics

View Martin Wegener, Chair of QELS Subcommittee 6: Nano-Optics and Plasmonics, discussing plasmonics and microcavities.

Silicon Photonics

View Michal Lipson, chair of CLEO Subcommittee 16: Micro- & Nano-Photonics, discussing silicon photonics.

Gallium Nitride Lasers and VCSEL Developments

View A. Catrina Bryce, Chair of CLEO Subcommittee 3: Semiconductor Lasers, discussing gallium nitride lasers and VCSELs.

Fiber Lasers

View Konstantin Vodopyanov, 2008 CLEO Program Co-Chair, discussing fiber lasers.

Nonlinear Optics in Biology

View Konstantin Vodopyanov, 2008 CLEO Program Co-Chair, and Aephraim Steinberg, 2008 QELS Program Co-Chair, discussing nonlinear optics in biology.