CLEO/QELS Committees

CLEO Technical Program Committee
QELS Technical Program Committee
CLEO: Applications Committee
CLEO/QELS Steering Committee
Exhibitor Advisory Committee
Joint Council on Quantum Electronics

2010 CLEO General Co-Chairs

Claire Gmachl, Princeton Univ., USA
Konstantin Vodopyanov, Stanford Univ., USA

2010 CLEO Program Co-Chairs

Robert Fisher, R. A. Fisher Associates, USA
Paul Juodawlkis, MIT Lincoln Lab, USA

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
Yves Hernandez, Multitel Corp., Belgium
Minghui Hong, Data Storage Inst., Singapore
Thomas Lippert, Paul Scherer Inst., Switzerland
Eric Mottay, Amplitude Systèmes, France
Hiroyuki Niino, Photonics Res. Inst., AIST, Japan
Leslie Phinney, Sandia Natl. Labs, USA
Razvan Stoian, Univ. Jean Monnet, France
Steve Yalisove, Univ. of Michigan, USA

CLEO 02 - Solid-State, Liquid and Gas Lasers

Daniel J. Ripin, MIT Lincoln Lab, USA, Chair
William J. Alford, Lockheed Martin, USA
Andy J. Bayramian, Lawrence Livermore Natl. Lab, USA
Gregory D. Goodno, Northrop Grumman Corp., USA
Joachim Hein, Friedrich-Schiller-Univ. Jena, Germany
Eric Honea, Lockheed Martin Aculight, USA
Junji Kawanaka, Osaka Univ., Japan
Dietmar Kracht, Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V., Germany
Steven Massey, AFRL, USA
Ara Minassian, Midaz Lasers Ltd., UK
Jesper Munch, Univ. of Adelaide, Australia
Ramesh Shori, Naval Air Systems Command, USA

CLEO 03 - Semiconductor Lasers

Peter Smowton, Cardiff Univ., UK, Chair
David Roh, Coherent Inc., USA, Alternate Chair
Seth Bank, Univ. of Texas at Austin, USA
A. Catrina Bryce, Univ. of Glasgow, UK
In Kim, Samsung Electronics Co., Republic of Korea
Hui Liu, Natl. Res. Council Canada, Canada
Richard Mirin, NIST, USA
Nobuhiko Nishiyama, Tokyo Inst. of Technology, Japan
James J. Raftery, US Military Acad., USA
Shinji Tsuji, Hitachi Central Res. Lab, Japan
Daniel Wasserman, Univ. of Massachusetts at Lowell, USA
Dan Yanson, Semi Conductor Devices Ltd., Israel

CLEO 04 - Applications of Nonlinear Optics

Narasimha S. Prasad, NASA Langley Res. Ctr., USA, Chair
Darrell Armstrong, Sandia Natl. Labs, USA
Arnaud Brignon, Thales Res. and Technology, France
Gary Catella, Cleveland Crystals, Inc., USA
Judith M. Dawes, Macquarie Univ., Australia
Jason Fleischer, Princeton Univ., USA
Shekhar Guha, AFRL, USA
Takashige Omatsu, Chiba Univ., Japan
Andrew Schober, Lockheed Martin Coherent Technologies, USA
Andrew Scott, QinetiQ Ltd., UK
Vladimir V. Shkunov, Raytheon Corp., USA

CLEO 05 - Terahertz Technologies and Applications

Yujie J. Ding, Lehigh Univ., USA, Chair
Richard D. Averitt, Boston Univ., USA
Stefano Barbieri, Univ. of Paris VII, France
Jerry Chen, MIT Lincoln Lab, USA
Frank Hegmann, Univ. of Alberta, Canada
Manfred Helm, Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Germany
Iwao Hosako, NICT, Japan
Peter U. Jepsen, Technical Univ. of Denmark, Denmark
Kodo Kawase, Ecotopia Science Inst., Nagoya Univ., Japan
Ajay Nahata, Univ. of Utah, USA
Chi-Kuang Sun, Natl. Taiwan Univ., Taiwan
Weili Zhang, Oklahoma State Univ., USA

CLEO 06 - Optical Materials, Fabrication and Characterization

Sunao Kurimura, Natl. Inst. for Materials Science, Japan, Chair
Gerard Aka, École Natl. Superieure de Chimie de Paris, France
Myoungsik Cha, Pusan Natl. Univ., Republic of Korea
Stavros G. Demos, Lawrence Livermore Natl. Lab, USA
Masaki Harada, Nikon Corp., Japan
Aaron R. Hawkins, Brigham Young Univ., USA
Yushi Kaneda, Univ. of Arizona, USA
Anders Kristensen, Denmark Technical Univ., Denmark
Fredrik Laurell, Royal Inst. of Technology, Sweden
Haisheng Rong, Intel Corp., USA
Vladimir Shur, Univ. of Ural, Russian Federation
Masashi Yoshimura, Osaka Univ., Japan

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

Craig Siders, Lawrence Livermore Natl. Lab, USA, Chair
David Villeneuve, Natl. Res. Council Canada, Canada, Junior Co-Chair
Szu-yuan Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Markus Drescher, Inst. für Experimentalphysik, Univ. Hamburg, Germany
Henry C. Kapteyn, JILA and Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Colorado at Boulder, USA
Katsumi Midorikawa, RIKEN, Japan
Christoph Niemann, Univ. of California at Los Angeles, USA
Ronald Ruth, Lyncean Technologies, LLC, USA
Giuseppe Sansone, Politecnico de Milano, Italy
Csaba Toth, Lawrence Berkeley Natl. Lab, USA
Koichi Yamakawa, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Japan
Jonathan Zuegel, Univ. of Rochester, USA

CLEO 08 - Ultrafast Optics, Optoelectronics and Applications

Sterling Backus, Kapteyn-Murnane Labs, USA, Chair
Jens Biegert, Inst. of Photonic Sciences, ICFO, Spain
Giulio Cerullo, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Charles G. Durfee, Colorado School of Mines, USA
David M. Gaudiosi, Raydiance, Inc., USA
Per Johnsson, Lund Univ., Sweden
Daniel J. Kane, Mesa Photonics, USA
Catherine Le Blanc, École Polytechnique, France
François Légaré, INRS-EMT, Canada
Zhiwen Liu, Pennsylvania State Univ., USA
Tom Nelson, Sandia Natl. Labs, USA
Konstantinos Simeonidis, Max-Planck-Inst. für Kernphysik, Germany
Irina T. Sorokina, Norwegian Univ. of Science and Technology, Norway

CLEO 09 - Components, Integration, Interconnects and Signal Processing

David C. Hutchings, Univ. of Glasgow, UK, Chair
Solomon Assefa, IBM T.J. Watson Res. Ctr., USA
Erwin Chan, Univ. of Sydney, Australia
Marc Desmulliez, Heriot-Watt Univ., UK
Tetsuya Kawanishi, NICT, Japan
Paul Matthews, Northrop Grumman Corp., USA
Beatriz Ortega, Polytechnic Univ. of Valencia, Spain
David Plant, McGill Univ., Canada
Joyce Poon, Univ. of Toronto, Canada
Olav Solgaard, Stanford Univ., USA
Todd H. Stievater, NRL, USA
Ryo Takahashi, NTT Photonics Labs, Japan

CLEO 10 - Biophotonics and Optofluidics

Brian E. Applegate, Texas A&M Univ., USA, Chair
Emmanuel Beaurepaire, École Polytechnique, France
Alberto Bilenca, Lehigh Univ., USA
Brett E. Bouma, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, USA
Chen-Yuan Dong, Natl. Taiwan Univ., Taiwan
David Erickson, Cornell Univ., USA
Gregory Faris, SRI Intl., USA
Min Gu, Swinburne Univ. of Technology, Australia
Dennis L. Matthews, Univ. of California at Davis, USA
Holger Schmidt, Univ. of California at Santa Cruz, USA
Siavash Yazdanfar, GE Global Res., USA
Seok-Hyun (Andy) Yun, Harvard Univ., USA

CLEO 11 - Fiber Amplifiers, Lasers and Devices

Ingmar Hartl, IMRA America, Inc., USA, Chair
Kazi S. Abedin, NICT, Japan
Jacques Albert, Carleton Univ., Canada
Richard Berdine, AFRL, USA
Martijn de Sterke, Univ. of Sydney, Australia
John Dudley, Univ. of Franche-Comté, France
Shibin Jiang, AdValue Photonics Inc., USA
Robert Jopson, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA
Ming-Jun Li, Corning Inc., USA
John Minelly, Coherent, Inc., USA
Norihiko Nishizawa, Osaka Univ., Japan
Siddharth Ramachandran, Boston Univ., USA
Thomas Schreiber, Fraunhofer Inst. Optik Feinmechanik, Germany
Hideyuki Sotobayashi, Aoyama Gakuin Univ., Japan

CLEO 12 - Lightwave Communications and Optical Networks

René-Jean Essiambre, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA, Chair
Govind Agrawal, Univ. of Rochester, USA
Alberto Bononi, Univ. degli Studi di Parma, Italy
David Caplan, MIT Lincoln Lab, USA
Hiroshi Ito, Kitasato Univ., Japan
Ken-ichi Kitayama, Osaka Univ., Japan
Ton Koonen, Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, Netherlands
Chang-Hee Lee, KAIST, Republic of Korea
Juerg Leuthold, Univ. of Karlsruhe, Germany
Natasha Litchinitser, SUNY Buffalo, USA
Curtis Menyuk, Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA
Alexei Pilipetskii, Tyco Telecommunications, USA

CLEO 13 - Active Optical Sensing

Terrence Meyer, Iowa State Univ., USA, Chair
Douglas J. Bamford, Physical Sciences Inc., USA
Joakim Bood, Lund Inst. of Technology, Sweden
Joseph Buck, Lockheed Martin Coherent Technologies, USA
Volker Ebert, Univ. of Heidelberg, Germany
Gregory Fiechtner, US Dept. of Energy, USA
James Gord, AFRL, USA
Zuyuan He, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan
Lin Ma, Clemson Univ., USA
Sukesh Roy, Spectral Energies, LLC, USA
Azer Yalin, Colorado State Univ., USA

CLEO 14 - Optical Metrology

Jason Jones, Univ. of Arizona, USA, Chair
Kristan L. Corwin, Kansas State Univ., USA
Feng-Lei Hong, AIST, Japan
Chad Hoyt, Bethel Univ., USA
Tetsuya Ido, NICT, Japan
Erich Ippen, MIT, USA
David Jones, Univ. of British Columbia, Canada
Jin Jonghan, Korea Res. Inst. of Standards and Science (KRISS), Republic of Korea
Kazunori Naganuma, NTT Photonics Lab, Japan
Christopher W. Oates, NIST, USA
James Phillips, Harvard College Observatory, USA
Thomas R. Schibli, JILA, USA
Evgeni Sorokin, Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria
Uwe Sterr, Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Germany

CLEO 15 - LEDs, Photovoltaics and Energy-Efficient (“Green”) Photonics

Michael Wraback, US ARL, USA, Chair
Nicolas Grandjean, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Andreas Hangleiter, Technische Univ. Braunschweig, Germany
Motoaki Iwaya, Meijo Univ., Japan
Hao-chung Kuo, Natl. Chiao Tung Univ., Taiwan
Theodore Moustakas, Boston Univ., USA
Ifor Samuel, Univ. of St. Andrews, UK
Leo J. Schowalter, Crystal IS, Inc., USA
James Speck, Univ. of California at Santa Barbara, USA
Yoshitaka Taniyasu, NTT Basic Res. Labs, Japan

CLEO 16 - Micro- and Nano-Photonics Devices

Keren Bergman, Columbia Univ., USA, Chair
Roel Baets, Univ. of Ghent, Belgium
Harold M. Chong, Univ. of Southampton, UK
Shanhui Fan, Stanford Univ., USA
Marco Fiorentino, Hewlett Packard, USA
William Green, IBM T.J. Watson Res. Ctr., USA
Siegfried Janz, Natl. Res. Council Canada, Canada
Michal Lipson, Cornell Univ., USA
Tanya Monro, Univ. of Adelaide, Australia
Susumu Noda, Kyoto Univ., Japan
Milos A. Popovic, MIT, USA
Armand Rosenberg, NRL, USA
Michael Watts, Sandia Natl. Labs, USA

2010 QELS General Co-Chairs

Aephraim Steinberg, Univ. of Toronto, Canada
Hailin Wang, Univ. of Oregon, USA

2010 QELS Program Co-Chairs

Hui Cao, Yale Univ., USA
Hideo Mabuchi, Stanford Univ., USA

QELS 01 - Quantum Optics of Atoms, Molecules and Solids

Perry Rice, Miami Univ., USA, Chair
Michael Drewsen, Bohr Inst., Denmark
Peter Maunz, Univ. of Maryland at College Park, USA
Scott Parkins, Univ. of Auckland, New Zealand
Mark Saffman, Univ. of Wisconsin at Madison, USA
Glenn Solomon, NIST, USA
Ian Spielman, NIST, USA
Daniel Steck, Univ. of Oregon, USA
Werner Vogel, Inst. of Physics, Univ. of Rostock, Germany

QELS 02 - Quantum Science, Engineering and Technology

Norbert Lütkenhaus, Univ. of Waterloo, Canada, Chair
Juergen Eschner, Inst. of Photonic Sciences, ICFO, Spain
Mikhail Lukin, Harvard Univ., USA
Morgan W. Mitchell, Inst. of Photonic Sciences, ICFO, Spain
Bill Munro, HP Labs, UK
Masahide Sasaki, NICT, Japan
Dick Slusher, Georgia Tech, USA
Ian Walmsley, Univ. of Oxford, UK

QELS 03 - Metamaterials and Complex Media

Mikhail Noginov, Norfolk State Univ., USA, Chair
Allan D. Boardman, Univ. of Salford, UK
Alexandra Boltasseva, Purdue Univ., USA
Aristide Dogariu, CREOL, School of Optics and Photonics, Univ. of Central Florida, USA
Viktor A. Podolskiy, Oregon State Univ., USA
A. Douglas Stone, Yale Univ., USA

QELS 04 - Optical Interactions with Condensed Matter and Ultrafast Phenomena

Jacob B. Khurgin, Johns Hopkins Univ., USA, Chair
Allan Bracker, NRL, USA
Weng Chow, Sandia Natl. Labs, USA
Jianming Dai, Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst., USA
Emmanuel Dupont, Natl. Res. Council Canada, Canada
Andreas Knorr, Technische Univ. Berlin, Germany
Cun-Zheng Ning, Arizona State Univ., USA

QELS 05 - Nonlinear Optics and Novel Phenomena

Demetrios Christodoulides, CREOL, Univ. of Central Florida, USA, Chair
Neil Broderick, Univ. of Southampton, UK
David Hagan, CREOL, Univ. of Central Florida, USA
Detlef Kip, Clausthal Univ. of Technology, Germany
Roberto Morandotti, INRS-EMT, Canada
Ewan Wright, Univ. of Arizona, USA

QELS 06 - Nano-Optics and Plasmonics

Gennady Shvets, Univ. of Texas at Austin, USA, Chair
Harald Giessen, Univ. of Stuttgart, Germany
Henri Lezec, NIST, USA
Willie J. Padilla, Boston College, USA
Oscar Painter, Caltech, USA
Michelle L. Povinelli, Univ. of Southern California, USA
Igor I. Smolyaninov, BAE Systems, USA

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

Craig Siders, Lawrence Livermore Natl. Lab, USA, Chair
David Villeneuve, Natl. Res. Council Canada, Canada, Junior Co-Chair
Szu-yuan Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Markus Drescher, Inst. für Experimentalphysik, Univ. Hamburg, Germany
Henry C. Kapteyn, JILA and Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Colorado at Boulder, USA
Katsumi Midorikawa, RIKEN, Japan
Christoph Niemann, Univ. of California at Los Angeles, USA
Giuseppe Sansone, Politecnico de Milano, Italy
Csaba Toth, Lawrence Berkeley Natl. Lab, USA
Koichi Yamakawa, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Japan
Jonathan Zuegel, Univ. of Rochester, USA

CLEO: Applications Committee

CLEO: Applications Chairs

Timothy Carrig; Lockheed Martin, USA, CLEO: Applications Chair
Gail Overton; Laser Focus World, USA, CLEO Market Focus Chair
Nick Traggis; Precision Photonics Corp., USA, CLEO Market Focus Co-Chair

Applications Committee

Leon Esterowitz, Natl. Science Foundation, USA
Iain T. McKinnie; Kapteyn Murnane Labs, USA
Vasilis Ntziachristos, Technical Univ. of Munich, Germany
Clifford R. Pollock; Cornell Univ., USA
Jinendra K. Ranka; DARPA, USA
Bryce Schumm; AFRL, USA
Don Seeley; High Energy Laser - Joint Technology Office (HEL-JTO), USA
James W. Tunnell, Univ. of Texas, USA
Christopher Wood; Precision Photonics Corp., USA
Wende Zhang; General Motors, USA

Market Focus Committee

Finlay Colville, Coherent Inc., USA
Bill Kozlovsky, Skyline Solar, USA
Keshav Kumar, Newport Corp., USA
Vern Schlie, Integral Laser Solutions, USA
Eric Takeuchi, Daylight Solutions, USA

CLEO/QELS Steering Committee

IEEE/Photonics Society
Alan E. Willner, Univ. of Southern California, USA, Chair
James J. Coleman, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Alexander L. Gaeta, Cornell Univ., USA
Paul W. Juodawlkis, MIT Lincoln Lab, USA
Jerry R. Meyer, NRL, USA

Optical Society of America
Thomas F. Carruthers, NSF, USA
James R. Leger, Univ. of Minnesota, USA
Prem Kumar, Northwestern Univ., USA
Gregory J. Quarles, VLOC, USA
John J. Zayhowski, MIT Lincoln Lab, USA

APS/Division of Laser Science
Wendell T. Hill, Univ. of Maryland at College Park, USA
Michael G. Raymer, Univ. of Oregon, USA

Exhibitor Representatives
Mike Torrance, Electro-Optics Technology, Inc., USA
Jeff Nichols, Pennwell, USA

Ex-Officio
Ann Catrina Bryce, Univ. of Glasgow, UK
Hui Cao, Yale Univ., USA
Timothy J. Carrig, Lockheed Martin Coherent Technologies, USA
Robert Fisher, R. A. Fisher Associates, USA
Claire F. Gmachl, Princeton Univ., USA
Ingmar Hartl, IMRA America, Inc., USA
Jacob B. Khurgin, Johns Hopkins Univ., USA
Paul D. Lett, NIST, USA
Hideo Mabuchi, Stanford Univ., USA
Harold J. Metcalf, SUNY Stony Brook, USA
Kaoru Minoshima, Natl. Inst. of Advanced Industrial Science & Technology, Japan
Vladimir M. Shalaev, Purdue Univ., USA
Aephraim M. Steinberg, Univ. of Toronto, Canada
Konstantin L. Vodopyanov, Stanford Univ., USA
Hailin Wang, Univ. of Oregon, USA
Wegener Martin, Univ. Karlsruhe, Germany
Keith J. Williams, NRL, USA

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
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, Innovation Photonics, USA

Joint Council on Quantum Electronics

APS/Division of Laser Science
Michael G. Raymer, Univ. of Oregon, USA, Chair
Robert Boyd, Univ. of Rochester, USA
Wendell T. Hill, Univ. of Maryland at College Park, USA

IEEE/Photonics Society
Keren Bergman, Columbia Univ., USA
Alexander L. Gaeta, Cornell Univ., USA
David Hutchings, Univ. of Glasgow, UK

Optical Society of America
Steven Cundiff, NIST, USA
Prem Kumar, Northwestern Univ., USA
Antoinette Taylor, Los Alamos Natl. Lab, USA