Invited Speakers

CLEO 01 - Laser Processing of Materials: Fundamentals and Applications

Tutorial Speaker

CThG1, Laser Processing: Basics to Advanced Applications, Peter Herman; Univ. of Toronto, Canada.

Invited Speakers

CThP3, The Art of Femtosecond Laser Writing, Peter G. Kazansky¹, Weijia Yang¹, Yasuhiko Shimotsuma², Kazuyuki Hirao², Alan Arai³, Yuri Svirko⁴; ¹Optoelectronics Res. Ctr., Univ. of Southampton, UK, ²of Material Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto Univ., Japan, ³Applications Res. Lab, IMRA America, Inc., USA, ⁴Dept. of Physics and Mathematics, Univ. of Joensuu, Finland.

CFT1, Femtosecond Laser Direct Writing of Waveguide Lattices, Stefan Nolte^1,2, Alexander Szameit¹, Andreas Tünnermann^1,2; ¹Friedrich Schiller Univ. Jena, Inst. of Applied Physics, Germany, ²Fraunhofer Inst. for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering IOF, Germany.

CLEO 02 - Solid-State, Liquid and Gas Lasers

Tutorial Speaker

CTuX1, Space Qualification of Solid State Lasers, Anne-Marie d. Novo-Gradac¹, John F. Cavanaugh²; ¹NASA Headquarters, USA, ²NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr., USA.

Invited Speakers

CWA3, High Power Eye-Safe Lasers, Scott D. Setzler; BAE Systems, USA.

CFD6, Laser Particle Acceleration, Peter Norreys, A. P. L. Robinson; Rutherford Appleton Lab, UK.

CLEO 03 - Semiconductor Lasers

Tutorial Speaker

CMK1, Commercialization of QD Lasers, Mitsuru Sugawara; Fujitsu Labs Ltd., Japan.

Invited Speakers

CMGG1, Recent Progress in Electrically Pumped Blue GaN-Based VCSELs, Shing Chung Wang; Natl. Chiao Tung Univ., Taiwan.

CMV1, Studies on the Relative Advantages of Quantum-Dot and Quantum-Well Gain Media in Lasers and Amplifiers, Weng Chow; Sandia Natl. Labs, USA.

CTuGG1, GaSb-Based Laser Diodes Operating within Spectral Range of 2 - 3.5 μm, Gregory Belenky¹, Leon Shterengas¹, Gela Kipshidze¹, Takashi Hosoda¹, Jianfeng Chen¹, Sergej Suchalkin^1,2; ¹Stony Brook Univ., SUNY, USA, ²Power Photonic Corp., USA.

CTuH1, Surface-Emitting Photonic-Crystal Laser with 35W Peak Power, Takui Sakaguchi^1,2, Wataru Kunishi^1,2,3, Soichiro Arimura¹, Kazuya Nagase¹, Eiji Miyai^1,2,3, Dai Ohnishi^1,2,3, Kyosuke Sakai^2,3, Susumu Noda^2,3; ¹ROHM Co., Ltd., Japan, ²JST, Japan, ³Kyoto Univ., Japan.

CWF1, Coherently Combined Diode Laser Arrays and Stacks, Robin K. Huang¹, Bien Chann¹, Leo J. Missaggia¹, Steven J. Augst¹, Michael K. Connors¹, George W. Turner¹, Antonio Sanchez-Rubio¹, Joseph P. Donnelly¹, John L. Hostetler², Carl Miester², Friedhelm Dorsch²; ¹MIT, USA, ²TRUMPF Photonics, USA.

CLEO 04 - Applications of Nonlinear Optics

Tutorial Speaker

CTuHH3, Discreteness in Optics: Spatial Solitons, George Stegeman, Demetrios Cristodoulides; Univ. of Central Florida, USA.

Invited Speakers

CMFF1, Ultra-Low Power Frequency Conversion in High-Index Doped Silica Glass Micro-Ring Resonators, David J. Moss¹, Marcello Ferrara², Luca Razzari², David Duchesne², Roberto Morandotti², Z. Yang³, Marco Liscidini³, John Sipe³, Sai Chu⁴, Brent E. Little⁴; ¹Univ. of Sydney, Australia, Australia, ²INRS-EMT, Canada, ³Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Toronto, Canada, ⁴Infinera Ltd., USA.

CMJ1, Ultra-Wide THz-Wave Generation by DAST and BNA, Hiromasa Ito^1,2; ¹RIKEN Sendai, Japan, ²Tohoku Univ., Japan.

CTuZ5, Imaging with Ultrashort Shaped Pulses, Yair Andegeko¹, Dmitry Pestov¹, Yves Coello¹, Vadim V. Lozovoy¹, Marcos Dantus^1,2; ¹Michigan State Univ., USA, ²BioPhotonic Solutions, Inc., USA.

CFR2, Low-Power and Fast Switching in III-V Photonic Crystals, S. Combrié¹, C. Husko², Q. Tran¹, P. Colman^3,4, F. Raineri^3,4, C. W. Wong², Alfredo De Rossi¹; ¹Thales Res. and Technology, France, ²Columbia Univ., USA, ³CNRS, France, ⁴Univ. Paris Diderot, France.

CFR4, Frequency Conversion in Silicon Waveguides over Two-Thirds of an Octave, Amy C. Turner-Foster, Mark A. Foster, Reza Salem, Alexander L. Gaeta, Michal Lipson; Cornell Univ., USA.

CLEO 05 - Terahertz Technologies and Applications

Tutorial Speaker

CMX1, Scientific and Technical Accomplishments of THz Photonics, Daniel Grischkowsky; Oklahoma State Univ., USA.

Invited Speakers

CMI5, Terahertz-Comb-Referenced Spectrum Analyzer, Takeshi Yasui; Osaka Univ., Japan.

CMT1, Terahertz Electrical Measurement of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Transistors, Zhaohui Zhong¹, Nathaniel M. Gabor², Jay E. Sharping³, Alexander L. Gaeta², Paul McEuen²; ¹Univ. of Michigan, USA, ²Cornell Univ., USA, ³Univ. of California at Merced, USA.

CMT3, THz Studies of Charge and Exciton Dynamics in Semiconductor Nanostructures, Mischa Bonn; FOM-Inst. for Atomic and Molecular Physics, Netherlands.

CThH6, Surface-Emitting Photonic Crystal Terahertz Semiconductor Lasers, Y. Chassagneux¹, Raffaele Colombelli¹, W. Maineult², S. Barbieri², H. Beere³, D. Ritchie³, S. P. Khanna⁴, A. G. Davies⁴, E. Linfield⁴; ¹Univ. Paris-Sud, Inst. d'Electronique Fondamentale, France, ²Univ. Paris 7, MPQ, France, ³Cambridge Univ., UK, ⁴Univ. of Leeds, UK.

CLEO 06 - Optical Materials, Fabrication and Characterization

Tutorial Speaker

CFF1, Silicon Photonic Waveguides and Devices, Goran Mashanovich; Univ. of Surrey, UK.

Invited Speakers

CTuF1, Low-Refractive-Index Materials: A New Class of Optical Thin-Film Materials, E. Fred Schubert, Jong Kyu Kim; Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst., USA.

CTuW1, Chaotic Microcavity Laser with High Quality and Unidirectional Output, Hui Cao¹, Qinghai Song¹, Boyang Liu², Seng T. Ho², Wei Fang³, Glenn S. Solomon³; ¹Yale Univ., USA, ²Northwestern Univ., USA, ³NIST, USA.

CThD4, Semiconductor Guided-Wave Wavelength Conversion Devices, Takashi Kondo; Univ. of Tokyo, Japan.

CThV1, Femtosecond Nonlinear Frequency Conversion Using BiB₃O₆ Crystals from 250 nm in the UV to 3000 nm in the Near-IR, Valentin Petrov; Max-Born-Inst., Germany.

CLEO/IQEC 07 - Joint Subcommittee on High-Field Physics and High-Intensity Lasers

Tutorial Speaker

JWB1, AMO Research at the LCLS X-Ray Laser, Philip H. Bucksbaum; Stanford Univ., USA.

Invited Speakers

JWD1, Laser Based Synchrotron Light Sources, Heinrich Schwoerer¹, Hans-Peter Schlenvoigt², Kerstin Haupt¹, Fabian Budde², Erich Rohwer¹, Jordan Gallacher³, Dino Jaroszynski³; ¹Laser Res. Inst., Stellenbosch Univ., South Africa, ²Inst. für Optik und Quantenelektronik, Friedrich-Schiller-Univ., Germany, ³Univ. of Strathclyde, UK.

JThB1, Laser Induced Tunneling in Less Than 12 Attoseconds: Instantaneous or Invalid Concept? Adrian N. Pfeiffer¹, Petrissa Eckle¹, Claudio Cirelli¹, André Staudte², Reinhard Dörner³, Harm Geert Muller⁴, Ursula Keller¹; ¹Physics Dept., ETH Zürich, Switzerland, ²Steacie Inst. for Molecular Sciences, Canada, ³Inst. für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Univ., Germany, ⁴FOM Inst. for Atomic and Molecular Physics, Netherlands.

JThD1, Ultrafast Hydrogen Migration in Hydrocarbon Molecules in Ultrashort Intense Laser Fields, Kaoru Yamanouchi; Univ. of Tokyo, Japan.

CLEO 08 - Ultrafast Optics, Optoelectronics and Applications

Invited Speakers

CME1, Multifocal, Multi-Modal, Photon Counting, Multiphoton Microscopy, Jeffrey Squier, W. Amir, Ramon Carriles, E. Chandler, J. J. Field, Erich E. Hoover, D. Schafer, Kraig E. Sheetz; Colorado School of Mines, USA.

CThF4, Ultrafast and Nanoscale Optics, Yeshaiahu Fainman; Univ. of California at San Diego, USA.

CThO5, Ultrafast Imaging with Electron Pulses, Martin Centurion¹, Peter Reckenthaeler¹, Werner Fuss¹, Sergei Trushin¹, Alexander Apolonski², Ferenc Krausz^1,2, Ernst E. Fill¹; ¹Max-Planck-Inst. für Quantenoptik, Germany, ²Ludwig-Maximilians-Univ. Muenchen, Germany.

CThW1, Progress Towards the Solid-State All-Optical Streak Camera, John E. Heebner¹, Chris H. Sarantos^1,2; ¹Lawrence Livermore Natl. Lab, USA, ²Univ. of California at Santa Barbara, USA.

CLEO 09 - Components, Integration, Interconnects and Signal Processing

Tutorial Speaker

CTuL3, Modulation and Multiplexing in Optical Communications, Peter J. Winzer; Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA.

Invited Speakers

CTuC3, Manycore Processor Networks with Monolithic Integrated CMOS Photonics, Vladimir Stojanovic¹, Ajay Joshi¹, Christopher Batten¹, Young-Jin Kwon², Krste Asanovic²; ¹MIT, USA, ²Univ. of California at Berkeley, USA.

CTuT3, Optical Processing to Enhance UWB Transmission and Reception, Leslie A. Rusch, Mohammad Abtahi; Univ. Laval, Canada.

CThB1, Tunable VCSEL Using High Contrast Grating, Connie J. Chang-Hasnain, Ye Zhou, M. C. Y. Huang, C. Chase, Vadim Karagodsky, Bala Pesala; Univ. of California at Berkeley, USA.

CLEO 10 - Medical and Biological Applications

Tutorial Speaker

CMR1, Advances in Optical Coherence Tomography for Biological Imaging, Johannes F. de Boer; VU Univ. Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Invited Speakers

CMF5, Mesoscopic Imaging Using Multi Spectral Optoacoustic Tomography (MSOT), Vasilis Ntziachristos, Daniel Razansky; Technische Univ. München, Germany.

CFL1, Quantifying Binding of Focal Adhesion Proteins Using Fluorescent Spectral Microscopy, Peter T. So; MIT, USA.

CLEO 11 - Fiber Amplifiers, Lasers and Devices

Invited Speakers

CMHH1, A Chirped Photonic Crystal Fiber for High-Fidelity Guiding of Sub-100 fs Pulses, Julia S. Skibina¹, Rumen Iliew², Jens Bethge³, Martin Bock³, Dorit Fischer³, Valentin I. Beloglasov⁴, Reiner Wedell⁵, Sven Burger⁶, Günter Steinmeyer³; ¹Saratov State Univ., Russian Federation, ²Inst. für Festkörpertheorie und -optik, Friedrich-Schiller-Univ. Jena, Germany, ³Max Born Inst., Germany, ⁴Nanostructured Glass Technology Comp., Russian Federation, ⁵Inst. für Angewandte Photonik e.V., Germany, ⁶Zuse Inst. Berlin, Germany.

CMW1, Controlled Dispersion in Photonic Crystal Fibres, Jonathan Knight, M. G. Welch, C. E. de Nobriga, R. Amezcua Correa; Univ. of Bath, UK.

CWD6, What Are the Essential Technical Requirements for the New Bend Insensitive Fiber? David Z. Chen; Verizon, USA.

CThGG3, 30W, 1178nm Yb-Doped Photonic Bandgap Fiber Amplifier, Akira Shirakawa¹, Hiroki Maruyama¹, Ken-ichi Ueda¹, Christina B. Olausson², Jens Kristian Lyngsø², Jes Broeng²; ¹Inst. for Laser Science, Univ. of Electro-Communications, Japan, ²Crystal Fibre A/S, Denmark.

CThN3, Recent Advances in Phosphate Glass Fiber Lasers, Axel Schülzgen¹, L. Li¹, X. Zhu¹, J. Albert², N. Peyghambarian¹; ¹Univ. of Arizona, USA, ²Carleton Univ., Canada.

CFH2, Emerging Optical Fibers: New Fiber Materials and Structures, Tanya Monro, S. Afshar, H. Ebendorff-Heidepriem, W. Q. Zhang, Y. Ruan; Univ. of Adelaide, Australia.

CLEO 12 - Lightwave Communications and Networks

Tutorial Speaker

CMO4, Quantum Communication: Real-World Applications and Academic Research, Nicolas Gisin; Univ. de Genève, Switzerland.

Invited Speakers

CMC1, Forward Error Correction in Next Generation Optical Communication Systems, Takashi Mizuochi; Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Japan.

CMJJ1, Recent Advances in Microstructured Fibers for Power Delivery, David Richardson, Marco Petrovich, John Hayes, Franceso Poletti, Sonali Dasgupta, Xian Feng, Wei Loh, Neil Broderick; Optoelectronics Res. Ctr., Univ. of Southampton, UK.

CLEO 13 - Active Optical Sensing

Tutorial Speaker

CTuA1, Probing Gas-Phase Collisional Energy Transfer with Picosecond Laser Spectroscopy, Thomas B. Settersten; Sandia Natl. Labs, USA.

Invited Speaker

CMDD1, Time and Frequency-Domain Spectroscopy with Dual Frequency Combs, Nathan R. Newbury, Ian Coddington, William C. Swann; NIST, USA.

CMS1, Characterizing Particulate and Droplet Size Distributions: Exhaust Emissions to Cloud Research, William D. Bachalo; Artium Technologies, Inc., USA.

CThI3, Challenges and Opportunities for Next-Generation Diode Laser Active Sensing, Mark G. Allen; Physical Sciences Inc., USA.

CFU1, Standoff Chemical Detection Using Single-Beam CARS, Steven Wolf, Paul J. Wrzesinski, Marcos Dantus; Michigan State Univ., USA.

CLEO 14 - Optical Metrology

Tutorial Speaker

CTuB1, Entanglement for Metrology with Atomic Ensembles, Eugene Polzik; Univ. of Copenhagen, The Niels Bohr Inst., Denmark.

Invited Speakers

CMII1, Femtosecond Laser Frequency Comb for Precision Astrophysical Spectroscopy, Chih-Hao Li¹, Andrew J. Benedick², Claire E. Cramer¹, Guoqing Chang², Li-Jin Chen², Peter Fendel², Gabor Furesz¹, Alexander G. Glenday¹, Franz X. Kaertner², David F. Phillips¹, Dimitar Sasselov¹, Andrew Szentgyorgyi¹, Ronald Walsworth¹; ¹Harvard-Smithsonian Ctr. for Astrophysics, USA, ²MIT, USA.

CWI1, Optical Interferometers with Reduced Sensitivity to Thermal Noise, H. Jeff Kimble¹, Benjamin L. Lev², Jun Ye³; ¹Caltech, USA, ²Univ. of Illinois, USA, ³Univ. of Colorado, USA.

CLEO 15 - Visible and Ultraviolet LEDs and OLEDs

Tutorial Speaker

CMM1, Progress in the Growth, Characterization and Device Performance for Nonpolar and Semipolar GaN-Based Materials, James Speck; Univ. of California at Santa Barbara, USA.

Invited Speakers

CMEE1, Recent Progresses of AlGaN and InAlGaN-Based Deep-UV LEDs, Hideki Hirayama^1,2; ¹RIKEN, Japan, ²JST, CREST, Japan.

CMOO1, Status and Prognosis for Solid-State Lighting Technology, Michael Krames; Philips Lumileds Lighting Co., USA.

CLEO 16 - Micro and Nano-Photonics Devices

Tutorial Speaker

CTuN1, Light Emission from Silicon Nanostructures: Past, Present and Future Perspectives, Luca Dal Negro; Boston Univ., USA.

Invited Speakers

CMAA1, Silicon Photonics in Quantum Communications, Hiroki Takesue¹, Ken-ichi Harada¹, Hiroshi Fukuda², Tai Tsuchizawa², Toshifumi Watanabe², Koji Yamada², Yasuhiro Tokura¹, Sei-ichi Itabashi²; ¹NTT Basic Res. Labs, Japan, ²NTT Microsystem Integration Labs, Japan.

CMAA2, Nanophotonic Devices for Optical Networks-On-Chip, Dries Van Thourhout¹, Ian O'Connor², Alberto Scandurra³, Liu Liu¹, Wim Bogaerts¹, Shankar Selvaraja¹, Gunther Roelkens¹; ¹Ghent Univ.- IMEC, Belgium, ²Lyon Inst. of Nanotechnology, Ecole Centrale de Lyon, France, ³ST Microelectronics, Italy.

CMD1, Lasing in Metal-Clad Nano-Cavities, Martin T. Hill; Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, Netherlands.

CMKK1, Opto-Mechanical Oscillations in a Double-Disk Microcavity, Qiang Lin, Xiaoshun Jiang, Matt Eichenfield, Ryan Camacho, Patrick Herring, Kerry Vahala, Oskar Painter; Caltech, USA.

CMP1, Photonic Crystal Nanocavity Laser with Single Quantum Dot Gain, Masahiro Nomura, Naoto Kumagai, Satoshi Iwamoto, Yasutomo Ota, Yasuhiko Arakawa; Univ. of Tokyo, Japan.

CTuV1, CMOS-Integrated High-Speed Germanium Waveguide Photodetector for Optical Interconnects, Solomon Assefa¹, Fengnian Xia¹, Stephen W. Bedell¹, Ying Zhang¹, Teya Topuria², Philip M. Rice², Yurii A. Vlasov¹; ¹IBM T.J. Watson Res. Ctr., USA, ²IBM Almaden Res. Ctr., USA.

IQEC 01 - Quantum Optics of Atoms, Molecules and Solids

Tutorial Speaker

IMA1, Atomic Physics and Quantum Information Processing with Superconducting Circuits, Franco Nori^1,2; ¹RIKEN, Japan, ²Univ. of Michigan, USA.

Invited Speakers

IWG2, Quantum Information Processing with Double-Well Optical Lattices, Nathan Lundblad, James V. Porto; NIST, USA.

IThH1, Coherent State Preparation and Observation of Rabi Oscillations in a Single Molecule, Ilja Gerhardt^1,2, Gert Wrigge¹, Jaesuk Hwang¹, Gert Zumofen¹, Alois Renn¹, Vahid Sandoghdar¹; ¹ETH Zurich, Switzerland, ²Ctr. for Quantum Technologies, Singapore.

IFB1, Cavity QED Experiments with Ion Coulomb Crystals, P. F. Herskind, A. Dantan, J. P. Marler, M. Albert, Michael Drewsen; Aarhus Univ., Denmark.

IFB2, A Heralded Quantum Gate between Remote Atoms, David L. Hayes¹, D. N. Matsukevich¹, P. Maunz¹, S. Olmschenk¹, L. M. Duan², C. Monroe¹; ¹Joint Quantum Inst. and Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Maryland, USA, ²FOCUS Ctr. and Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Michigan, USA.

IFB3, Quantum Information with Trapped Ions, Hartmut Häffner, Thomas Monz, Philipp Schindler, Michael Chwalla, Markus Hennrich, Wolfgang Hänsel, Christian Roos, Rainer Blatt; Univ. Innsbruck, Austria.

IFD1, Cooling and Measurement of a Micromechanical Oscillator Close to the Quantum Limit, Albert Schliesser¹, Remi Rivière¹, Olivier Arcizet¹, Tobias J. Kippenberg^1,2; ¹Max-Planck-Inst. of Quantum Optics, Germany, ²Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland.

IFD2, Sideband Opto-Mechanical Cooling of a Silica Micro-Resonator in a Cryogenic Environment, Young-Shin Park, Hailin Wang; Univ. of Oregon, USA.

IQEC 02 - Quantum Science, Engineering and Technology

Tutorial Speaker

IMJ4, Quantum Information Processing with Individual Atoms in Optical Tweezers, Philippe Grangier; Lab Charles Fabry, Inst. d'Optique, France.

Invited Speakers

IMF1, Efficient Routing of Single Photons with One Atom and a Microtoroidal Cavity, Takao Aoki¹, A. S. Parkins², D. J. Alton³, C. A. Regal³, Barak Dayan⁴, E. Ostby³, K. J. Vahala³, H. J. Kimble³; ¹Kyoto Univ., Japan, ²Univ. of Auckland, New Zealand, ³Caltech, USA, ⁴Weizmann Inst. of Science, Israel.

IMF2, Quantum State Preparation with Waveguides and Photon Counting, Christine Silberhorn; Max-Planck-Inst. fuer Optik, Germany.

IMF4, Demonstration of Two-Qubit Quantum Algorithms with a Solid-State Electronic Processor, Leonardo DiCarlo¹, Jerry Chow¹, Jay Gambetta², Lev Bishop¹, Johannes Majer³, Alexandre Blais⁴, Luigi Frunzio¹, Steven Girvin¹, Robert J. Schoelkopf¹; ¹Yale Univ., USA, ²Univ. of Waterloo, Canada, ³Technische Univ. Wien, Austria, ⁴Univ. de Sherbrooke, Canada.

ITuB3, Recent Advances in Non-Gaussian Control of Optical Continuous Variables, Masahide Sasaki¹, H. Takahashi^1,2, K. Wakui¹, M. Takeoka¹, K. Hayasaka¹; ¹NICT, Japan, ²Univ. of Tokyo, Japan.

ITuI2, Megabit per Second Quantum Key Distribution Using Practical InGaAs APDs, Alexander R. Dixon^1,2, Zhiliang L. Yuan², James F. Dynes², Andrew W. Sharpe², Andrew J. Shields²; ¹Univ. of Cambridge, UK, ²Toshiba Res. Europe Ltd, UK.

ITuM5, Third- and Fourth-Order Coherences Measured with a Multi-Element Superconducting Nanowire Single-Photon Detector, Martin J. Stevens¹, Burm Baek¹, Eric A. Dauler^2,3, Andrew J. Kerman³, Richard J. Molnar³, Scott A. Hamilton³, Karl K. Berggren², Richard P. Mirin¹, Sae Woo Nam¹; ¹NIST, USA, ²MIT, USA, ³MIT Lincoln Lab, USA.

IQEC 03 - Fundamentals of Metamaterials, Periodic and Random Media

Tutorial Speaker

ITuA1, Phononic Metamaterials with Negative Dynamic Mass Density, Ping Sheng; Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology, Hong Kong.

Invited Speakers

ITuG1, Routing Light with Nematicons: Light Localization and Steering in Liquid Crystals, Gaetano Assanto¹, Marco Peccianti², Alessandro Alberucci¹, Armando Piccardi¹; ¹Univ. of Rome, Italy, ²Univ. of Quebec, Canada.

IThD1, Lasing in Chaotic and Random Scattering Media, Hakan E. Türeci¹, Li Ge², A. Douglas Stone², Robert J. Tandy², Stefan Rotter³; ¹ETH Zurich, Switzerland, ²Yale Univ., USA, ³Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria.

IThG1, Mapping Electron Excitations in the Visible-UV Range Using Sub-nm Resolved STEM-EELS Spectrum Imaging, Mathieu Kociak; Lab de Physique des Solides, Univ. Paris-Sud, France.

IQEC 04 - Optical Interactions with Condensed Matter and Ultrafast Phenomena

Tutorial Speaker

ITuH1, Four-Wave Mixing and Many-Particle Effects in Semiconductors, Rolf Binder; Univ. of Arizona, USA.

Invited Speaker

IThF3, High-Order Optical Nonlinearities from Collinear Time-Resolved Two-Dimensional Spectroscopy, Wilhelm Kuehn¹, Klaus Reimann¹, Michael Woerner¹, Thomas Elsaesser¹, R. Hey²; ¹Max-Born-Inst., Germany, ²Paul-Drude-Inst. für Festörperelektronik, Germany.

IThI5, Ultrafast Coherent Photoelectron Emission Effects and Their Application for Time-Domain Studies of Current Transport, Ulrich Höfer¹, Jens Güdde¹, Marcus Rohleder¹, Torsten Meier², Stephan W. Koch¹; ¹Fachbereich Physik und Zentrum für Materialwissenschaften, Philipps-Univ., Germany, ²Dept. Physik, Univ. Paderborn, Germany.

IThN6, Switch-on of Ultrastrong Light-Matter Interaction Faster than a Cycle of Light, Aji A. Anappara^1,2, Georg Günter¹, Jakob Hees¹, Giorgio Biasiol³, Lucia Sorba^2,3, Alessandro Tredicucci², Alfred Leitenstorfer¹, Rupert Huber¹; ¹Univ. of Konstanz, Germany, ²NEST CNR-INFM and Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy, ³Lab Nazionale TASC CNR-INFM, Italy.

IQEC 05 - Nonlinear Optics and Novel Phenomena

Tutorial Speaker

IWE1, Cavity Optomechanics, Kerry Vahala; Caltech, USA.

Invited Speakers

IMC1, Large-Area Linear and Nonlinear Nanophotonics, Steven R. Brueck; Univ. of New Mexico, USA.

IML3, Terahertz Generation and Detection Using Frequency Conversion, Jerry C. Chen¹, Ka-Lo Yeh², M. J. Khan¹, Janos Hebling², Matthias C. Hoffmann², Sumanth Kaushik¹, Keith A. Nelson²; ¹MIT Lincoln Lab, USA, ²MIT, USA.

IQEC 06 - Nano-Optics and Plasmonics

Tutorial Speaker

ITuK1, Recent Theoretical Progress in Nanoplasmonics, Mark I. Stockman; Georgia State Univ., USA.

Invited Speakers

IMB3, Frequency Conversion of Spontaneously Emitted Photons in a Nonlinear Photonic Crystal Nanocavity, Murray W. McCutcheon¹, Darrick E. Chang², Yinan Zhang¹, Mikhail D. Lukin³, Marko Lončar¹; ¹School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard Univ., USA, ²Inst. for Quantum Information, Caltech, USA, ³Physics Dept., Harvard Univ., USA.

IThL1, Two-Photon Fabrication of Three-Dimensional Metamaterials, Satoshi Kawata^1,2, Takuo Tanaka¹, Nobuyuki Takeyasu¹; ¹RIKEN Advanced Science Inst., Japan, ²Osaka Univ., Japan.

IFA6, Imaging Plasmonic Nanoparticles with a Narrow-Band Single-Photon Source, Robert Lettow, Philipp Kukura, Michele Celebrano, Yves Rezus, Stephan Götzinger, Vahid Sandoghdar; ETH Zurich, Switzerland.

CLEO/IQEC 07 - Joint Subcommittee on High-Field Physics and High-Intensity Lasers

Tutorial Speaker

JWB1, AMO Research at the LCLS X-Ray Laser, Philip H. Bucksbaum; Stanford Univ., USA.

Invited Speakers

JThD1, Ultrafast Hydrogen Migration in Hydrocarbon Molecules in Ultrashort Intense Laser Fields, Kaoru Yamanouchi; Univ. of Tokyo, Japan.