CLEO/IQEC Committees
CLEO Technical Program Committee
IQEC Technical Program Committee
Exhibitor Advisory Committee
2009 CLEO General Co-Chairs
Franz Kaertner, MIT, USA
Jerry Meyer, NRL, USA
2009 CLEO Program Co-Chairs
Tim Carrig, Lockheed Martin Coherent Technologies, USA
Kaoru Minoshima, Natl. Inst. of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan
CLEO 01 - Laser Processing of Materials: Fundamentals and Applications
Craig Arnold, Princeton Univ., USA, Chair
Tommaso Baldacchini, Newport Corp., USA
Malcolm Gower, Nanophoton Technologies, UK
Richard Haglund, Vanderbilt Univ., USA
Thomas Lippert, Paul Scherer Inst., Switzerland
Hiroyuki Niino, AIST Photonics Res. Inst., Japan
Andreas Ostendorf, Ruhr-Univ. Bochum, Germany
Chris Schaffer, Cornell Univ., USA
Razvan Stoian, Univ. Jean Monnet, France
Koji Sugioka, RIKEN, Japan
Steve Yalisove, Univ. of Michigan, USA
CLEO 02 - Solid-State, Liquid and Gas Lasers
Hagop Injeyan, Northrop Grumman Corp., USA, Chair
William J. Alford, Lockheed Martin Coherent Technologies, USA
Andy Bayramian, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, USA
Jean-Christophe Chanteloup, Ctr. Natl. de la Res. Scientifique, France
Mark Dubinskii, US ARL, USA
Eric Honea, Lockheed Martin Aculight, USA
Junji Kawanaka, Osaka Univ., Japan
Ara Minassian, Imperial College, UK
Jesper Munch, Univ. of Adelaide, Australia
Martin Ostermeyer, Inst. of Physics and Astronomy, Univ. of Potsdam, Germany
Dan Ripin, MIT, USA
Ramesh Shori, Naval Air Warfare Ctr., USA
CLEO 03 - Semiconductor Lasers
A. Catrina Bryce, Univ. of Glasgow, UK, Chair
Seth Bank, Univ. of Texas at Austin, USA
In Kim, Samsung Electronics, Korea
Nobu Nishiyama, Tokyo Inst. of Technology, Japan
Jim Raftery, U.S. Military Acad., USA
David Roh, Coherent Inc., USA
Peter Smowton, Cardiff Univ., UK
Adrienne D. Stiff-Roberts, Duke Univ., USA
Shinji Tsuji, Hitachi Central Res. Lab, Japan
Igor Vurgaftman, NRL, USA
Dan Yanson, SemiConductor Devices, Israel
CLEO 04 - Applications of Nonlinear Optics
Vladimir Shkunov, Raytheon Corp., USA, Chair
Arnaud Brignon, Thales Res. and Technology, France
Judith Dawes, Macquarie Univ., Australia
Jean-Claude Diels, Univ. of New Mexico, USA
Majid Ebrahim-Zadeh, ICFO, Inst. of Photonic Sciences, Spain
Jason Fleischer, Princeton Univ., USA
Takashige Omatsu, Chiba Univ., Japan
Narasimha Prasad, NASA Langley Res. Ctr., USA
Andy Schober, Lockheed Martin Coherent Technologies, USA
Andrew Scott, QinetiQ, UK
Takunori Taira, Laser Res. Ctr. for Molecular Science, Inst. for Molecular Science, Japan
George Ke Lun Wong, Hong Kong Univ., Hong Kong
Vladislav V. Yakovlev, Univ. of Wisconsin, USA
CLEO 05 - Terahertz Technologies and Applications
Richard Averitt, Boston Univ., USA, Chair
Stefano Barbieri, Univ. of Paris VII, France
Yujie Ding, Lehigh Univ., USA
Frank A. Hegmann, Univ. of Alberta, Canada
Manfred Helm, Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Germany
Iwao Hosako, Natl. Inst. of Information and Communications Technology, Japan
Peter Jepsen, Technical Univ. of Denmark, Denmark
Dan Mittleman, Rice Univ., USA
Ajay Nahata, Univ. of Utah, USA
Chiko Otani, RIKEN, Japan
Chi-Kuang Sun, Natl. Taiwan Univ., Taiwan
CLEO 06 - Optical Materials, Fabrication and Characterization
Sunao Kurimura, Natl. Inst. for Materials Science, Japan, Chair
William Brocklesby, Univ. of Southampton, UK
Myoungsik Cha, Pusan National Univ., Korea
Venkatraman Gopalan, Pennsylvania State Univ., USA
Masaki Harada, Nikon Corp., Japan
Yushi Kaneda, Univ. of Arizona, USA
Anders Kristensen, Technical Univ. of Denmark, Denmark
Fredrik Laurell, Royal Inst. of Technology, Sweden
David Nolte, Purdue Univ., USA
Haisheng Rong, Intel Corp., USA
Nelson Tansu, Lehigh Univ., USA
Masashi Yoshimura, Osaka Univ., Japan
CLEO/IQEC 07 - Joint Subcommittee on High-Field Physics and High-Intensity Lasers
Henry C. Kapteyn, Univ. of Colorado, USA, Co-Chair
Craig W. Siders, Lawrence Livermore Natl. Lab, USA, Co-Chair
Zenghu Chang, Kansas State Univ., USA
Szu-yuan Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Gilles Cheriaux, Lab d'Optique Appliquée, France
Katsumi Midorikawa, RIKEN, Japan
Guiseppe Sansone, Politecnico de Milano, Italy
Csaba Toth, Lawrence Berkeley Natl. Lab, USA
David Villeneuve, Natl. Res. Council of Canada, Canada
Bernd Witzel, Laval Univ., Canada
Koichi Yamakawa, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Japan
Jonathan Zuegel, Univ. of Rochester, USA
CLEO 08 - Ultrafast Optics, Optoelectronics and Applications
Fiorenzo Omenetto, Tufts Univ., USA, Chair
Kazi Abedin, Natl. Inst. of Information and Communications Technology, Japan
Jaewook Ahn, KAIST, South Korea
Sterling Backus, Kapteyn-Murnane Labs, USA
Randy Bartels, Colorado State Univ., USA
Jens Biegert, ICFO, Inst. of Photonic Sciences Group, Spain
Giulio Cerullo, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Daniel Kane, Southwest Sciences Inc., USA
Zhiwen Liu, Pennsylvania State Univ., USA
Lawrence Shah, CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics, Univ. of Central Florida, USA
Irina Sorokina, Norwegian Univ., Norway
Brent Stuart, Lawrence Livermore Natl. Lab, USA
Zhigang Zhang, Peking Univ., China
CLEO 09 - Components, Integration, Interconnects and Signal Processing
Shayan Mookherjea, Univ. of California at San Diego, USA, Chair
Erwin Chan, Univ. of Sydney, Australia
David Hutchings, Univ. of Glasgow, UK
Paul Juodawlkis, MIT, USA
Paul Matthews, Northrop Grumman Corp., USA
Makoto Naruse, Natl. Inst. of Information and Communications Technology, Japan
David Plant, McGill Univ., Canada
Olav Solgaard, Stanford Univ., USA
Ryo Takahashi, NTT Photonics Labs, Japan
Bernd Witzigmann, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
CLEO 10 - Medical and Biological Applications
James W. Tunnell, Univ. of Texas at Austin, USA, Chair
Brian Applegate, Texas A&M Univ., USA
Emmanuel Beaurepaire, Ecole Polytechnique, France
Alberto Bilenca, Swiss Federal Inst. of Technology, Switzerland
Brett Bouma, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, USA
Adrien Desjardins, Philips Res. Labs, Netherlands
David Erickson, Cornell Univ., USA
Gregory Faris, SRI Intl., USA
Min Gu, Swinburne Univ. of Technology, Australia
Changhuei Yang, Caltech, USA
Seok Hyun Yun, Harvard Univ., USA
CLEO 11 - Fiber Amplifiers, Lasers and Devices
Ingmar Hartl, IMRA America, Inc., USA, Chair
Jacques Albert, Carleton Univ., Canada
Martijn de Sterke, Univ. of Sydney, Australia
John Dudley, Univ. of Franche-Comté, France
Shibin Jiang, AdValue Photonics, USA
Robert Jopson, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA
Jesper Lægsgaard, Technical Univ. of Denmark, Denmark
Ming-Jun Li, Corning Inc., USA
Jens Limpert, Friedrich-Schiller-Univ. Jena, Germany
Jeff Nicholson, OFS Labs, USA
Norihiko Nishizawa, Osaka Univ., Japan
Jay Sharping, Univ. of California at Merced, USA
Hideyuki Sotobayashi, Aoyama Gakuin Univ., Japan
Jean Toulouse, Lehigh Univ., USA
CLEO 12 - Lightwave Communications and Networks
Scott Hamilton, MIT, USA, Chair
Rene-Jean Essiambre, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA
Hiroshi Ito, Kitasato Univ., Japan
Ken-Ichi Kitayama, Osaka Univ., Japan
Tom Koonen, Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, Netherlands
Chang-Hee Lee, KAIST, South Korea
Juerg Leuthold, Univ. of Karlsruhe, Germany
Natasha Litchinitser, SUNY Buffalo, USA
Dan Marom, Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem, Israel
Curtis Menyuk, Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA
Alexei Pilipetski, Tyco Telecommunications , USA
CLEO 13 - Active Optical Sensing
Sukesh Roy, Innovative Scientific Solutions, Inc., USA, Chair
Douglas J. Bamford, Physical Sciences, Inc., USA
Joakim Bood, Lund Inst. of Technology, Sweden
Joseph Buck, Lockheed Martin Coherent Technologies, USA
Gregory Fiechtner, US Department of Energy, USA
Mark Froggatt, Luna Innovations, USA
James Gord, AFRL, USA
David Hahn, Univ. of Florida, USA
Zuyuan He, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan
Terrence Meyer, Iowa State Univ., USA
Azer Yalin, Colorado State Univ., USA
CLEO 14 - Optical Metrology
Thomas R. Schibli, JILA, Univ. of Colorado, USA, Chair
Feng-Lei Hong, Natl. Inst. of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan
Erich Ippen, MIT, USA
Jason Jones, Univ. of Arizona, USA
Jin Jonghan, Korea Res. Inst. of Standards and Science, Republic of Korea
Kazunori Naganuma, NTT Photonics Labs, Japan
Chris Oates, NIST, USA
James Phillips, Harvard College Observatory, USA
Evgeni Sorokin, Technische Univ. Wien, Austria
Uwe Sterr, Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Germany
CLEO 15 - Visible and Ultraviolet LEDs and OLEDs
Michael Wraback, US ARL, USA, Chair
Shigefusa Chichibu, Tohoku Univ., Japan
Mary Crawford, Sandia Natl. Labs, USA
Nicolas Grandjean, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Andreas Hangleiter, Technische Univ. Braunschweig, Germany
Hao-Chung (Henry) Kuo, Natl. Chiao Tung Univ., Taiwan
Ifor Samuel, Univ. of St Andrews, UK
Leo J. Schowalter, Crystal IS, Inc., USA
Franky So, Univ. of Florida, USA
Yoshitaka Taniyasu, NTT Basic Res. Lab, Japan
CLEO 16 - Micro- and Nano-Photonics Devices
Keren Bergman, Columbia Univ., USA, Chair
Harold M. H. Chong, Univ. of Southampton, UK
William M. J. Green, IBM, USA
Siegfried Janz, Natl. Res. Council Canada, Canada
Satoshi Kawata, Osaka Univ., and RIKEN, Japan
Thomas L. Koch, Lehigh Univ., USA
Leslie Kolodziejski, MIT, USA
Michal Lipson, Cornell Univ., USA
Susumu Noda, Kyoto Univ., Japan
Marco Romagnoli, PGT Photonics, Italy
Armand Rosenberg, NRL, USA
Steven Spector, MIT, USA
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2009 IQEC General Co-Chairs
Paul Lett, NIST, USA
Mordechai Segev, Technion Israel Inst. of Technology, Israel
2009 IQEC Program Co-Chairs
Falk Lederer, Friedrich-Schiller Univ., Jena, Germany
Harold J. Metcalf, SUNY Stony Brook, USA
Vladimir Shalaev, Purdue Univ., USA
Jie Zhang, Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ., China
IQEC 01 - Quantum Optics of Atoms, Molecules and Solids
Perry Rice, Miami Univ., USA, Chair
Boris Blinov, Univ. of Washington, USA
Howard Carmichael, Univ. of Auckland, New Zealand
Alex Lvovsky, Univ. of Calgary, Canada
Peter Maunz, Univ. of Maryland, USA
Georg Raithel, Univ. of Michigan, USA
Helmut Ritsch, Univ. of Innsbruck, Austria
Ian Spielman, NIST, USA
Vladan Vuletic, MIT, USA
IQEC 02 - Quantum Science, Engineering and Technology
Hideo Mabuchi, Stanford Univ., USA, Chair
Raymond Beausoleil, Hewlett Packard Labs, USA
Juergen Eschner, ICFO, Inst. of Photonic Sciences, Spain
Akira Furusawa, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan
Norbert Lutkenhaus, Univ. of Waterloo, Canada
Ian Walmsley, Oxford Univ., UK
Birgitta Whaley, Univ. of California at Berkeley, USA
Andrew White, Univ. of Queensland, Australia
IQEC 03 - Fundamentals of Metamaterials, Periodic and Random Media
Mikhail Noginov, Norfolk State Univ., USA, Chair
Allan Boardman, Univ. of Salford, UK
Alexandra Boltasseva, Technical Univ. of Denmark, Denmark
Javier Garcia de Abajo, Inst. de Optica, Spain
Azriel Z. Genack, CUNY Queens College, USA
Evgenii Narimanov, Purdue Univ., USA
Ekmel Ozbay, Bilkent Univ., Turkey
Viktor Podolskiy, Oregon State Univ., USA
IQEC 04 - Optical Interactions with Condensed Matter and Ultrafast Phenomena
Jacob Khurgin, John Hopkins Univ., USA, Chair
Allan Bracker, NRL, USA
Weng Chow, Sandia Natl. Labs, USA
Jianming Dai, Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst., USA
Nai-Hang Kwong, Univ. of Arizona, USA
Marcus Motzkus, Philipps Univ. Marburg, Germany
Cun-Zheng Ning, Arizona State Univ., USA
Ted Norris, Univ. of Michigan, USA
IQEC 05 - Nonlinear Optics and Novel Phenomena
Demetrios Christodoulides, CREOL, Univ. of Central Florida, USA, Chair
Neil Broderick, Univ. of Southampton, UK
Dave Hagan, CREOL, Univ. of Central Florida, USA
Detlef Kip, Clausthal Univ., Germany
Roberto Morandotti, INRS, Canada
Ewan Wright, Univ. of Arizona, USA
IQEC 06 - Nano-Optics and Plasmonics
Martin Wegener, Univ. of Karlsruhe, Germany, Chair
Nader Engheta, Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA
Naomi J. Halas, Rice Univ., USA
Stefan Hell, Max Planck Inst. Göttingen, Germany
Henri Lezec, NIST, USA
Albert Polman, FOM Inst for Atomic and Molecular Physics, Netherlands
Romaine Quidant, ICFO, Inst of Photonic Sciences, Spain
Gennady Shvets, Univ. of Texas at Austin, USA
CLEO/IQEC 07 - Joint Subcommittee on High-Field Physics and High-Intensity Lasers
Henry C. Kapteyn, Univ. of Colorado, USA, Co-Chair
Craig W. Siders, Lawrence Livermore Natl. Lab, USA, Co-Chair
Zenghu Chang, Kansas State Univ., USA
Szu-yuan Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Gilles Cheriaux, Lab d'Optique Appliquée, France
Katsumi Midorikawa, RIKEN, Japan
Guiseppe Sansone, Politecnico de Milano, Italy
Csaba Toth, Lawrence Berkeley Natl. Lab, USA
David Villeneuve, Natl. Res. Council of Canada, Canada
Bernd Witzel, Laval Univ., Canada
Koichi Yamakawa, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Japan
Jonathan Zuegel, Univ. of Rochester, USA
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Exhibitor Advisory Committee
Mike Torrance, Electro-Optics Technology, Inc., USA, Chair and Exhibitor Representative to Steering Committee
Jeff Nichols, Pennwell, USA, Co-chair and Exhibitor Representative to Steering Committee
Richard Bailey, UltraVolt, Inc., USA
Alain Bourdon, Allied Laser Solutions, USA
Amy Eskilson, Thorlabs, USA
Warren Gutheil, TecOptics, USA
Sherie Motakef, CVI Melles Griot, USA
Julia Otto, Coherent, Inc., USA
Fred Perry, Boston Electronics Corporation, USA
Rick Plympton, Optimax Systems, Inc., USA
Thomas Ruchti, Time-Bandwidth Products, Inc., Switzerland
Joachim R Sacher, Sacher Lasertechnik GmbH, Germany
Mark Tolbert, Toptica, USA
Randall Wilcox, Lightspeed Technologies, USA
Don Wilson, OFR, Division of Thorlabs, USA
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