CLEO/IQEC 2009

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CLEO/IQEC, PhAST and the debut PhotonXpo again stood out as the leading events in the opto-electronics and laser community. With nearly 1,800 technical presentations spanning the entire field, there were critical advances in every discipline. From papers on using LED lights to make lettuce more nutritious to the world’s first laser TV to finding distant Earth-like planets, the research revealed at this year’s conference reflected some of today’s most important technical developments. The timely and relevant plenary sessions – including Ed Moses’ plenary address providing an update on the recently launched National Ignition Facility—acted as the perfect complement to the overall program.

PhotonXpo—the exhibit at CLEO—kicked off to much success, featuring 300 of the field’s leading companies from around the globe. With numerous new product announcements and corporate revelations—including news about an Oclaro/Newport asset exchange and NTT Advanced Technologies’ introduction of the first fully-adjustable, multi-directional beam-steering scanner—PhotonXpo was a key source of industry excitement and new information. This corporate news was reiterated in the PhAST Market Focus sessions on the floor, revealing the ongoing evolution of today’s top vertical markets.

Bringing together the foremost authorities in optics and photonics, CLEO/IQEC , PhAST and PhotonXpo were attended by 4,500 of the field’s leaders from around the globe, with more than one-quarter of attendees coming from outside the U.S. Mark your calendars for the 2010 event in San Jose, Calif., May 16–21—the only broad-reaching photonics show in Silicon Valley next
year.

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