CLEO/QELS Committees

CLEO Technical Program Committee
QELS Technical Program Committee

CLEO Technical Program Committee

2008 CLEO General Co-Chairs
Markus Pollnau, Univ. of Twente, Netherlands
John Zayhowski, MIT Lincoln Lab, USA

2008 CLEO Program Co-Chairs
Claire Gmachl, Princeton Univ., USA
Konstantin Vodopyanov, Stanford Univ., USA

CLEO 1: Laser Processing and Optical Instrumentation
Donald Harter, IMRA America Inc., USA, Chair
Eric Mazur, Harvard Engineering & Applied Science, USA
Marc Nantel, Photonics Res. Ontario, Canada
Andreas Ostendorf, Laser Zentrum Hannover, Germany
Martin Richardson, Univ. of Central Florida, USA
Chris Schaffer, Cornell Univ., USA
Koji Sugioka, RIKEN, Japan
Yunlong Sun, Electro-Scientific Industries, USA
Andreas Tünnermann, Friedrich Schiller Univ., Germany

CLEO 2: Solid-State Lasers
Timothy Carrig, Lockheed Martin Coherent Technologies, USA, Chair
Norman Barnes, NASA Langley Res. Ctr., USA
Jean-Christophe Chanteloup, CNRS Ecole Polytechnique, France
Michael Damzen, Imperial College London, UK
Mark Dubinskii, ARL, USA
Carsten Fallnich, Westfälische Wilhelms-Univ. Münster, Germany
Eric Honea, Aculight Corp., USA
Hagop Injeyan, Northrop Grumman Corp., USA
Junji Kawanaka, Osaka Univ., Japan
Hajime Nishioka, Univ. of Electro-Communications, Japan
Martin Ostermeyer, Univ. of Potsdam, Germany
Daniel Ripin, MIT Lincoln Lab, USA

CLEO 3: Semiconductor Lasers
A. Catrina Bryce, Univ. of Glasgow, UK, Chair
Hiroshi Amano, Meijo Univ., Japan
Sasha Hallstein, Novalux, Inc., USA
Richard Jones, Intel Corp., USA
Fumio Koyama, Tokyo Inst. of Technology, Japan
Cun-Zheng Ning, Arizona State Univ., USA
Carlo Sirtori, Univ. Paris Diderot, France
Peter Smowton, Cardiff Univ., UK
Adrienne D. Stiff-Roberts, Duke Univ., USA
Igor Vurgaftman, NRL, USA

CLEO 4: Applications of Nonlinear Optics
Vladimir Shkunov, Raytheon Corp., USA, Chair
Jean-Claude Diels, Univ. of New Mexico, USA
Jason Fleischer, Princeton Univ., USA
Peter Gunter, Inst. of Quantum Electronics Nonlinear Optics Lab, Switzerland
Bahram Jalali, Univ. of California at Los Angeles, USA
Narasimha S. Prasad, Nasa Langley Res. Ctr., USA
George Stegeman, College of Optics and Photonics/CREOL, USA
Takunori Taira, Laser Res. Ctr. for Molecular Science, Japan
George K.L. Wong, Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology, China
Vladislav V. Yakovlev, Univ. of Wisconsin, USA
Majid Ebrahim-Zadeh, ICFO-Inst. of Photonic Sciences, Spain

CLEO 5: Terahertz Technologies and Applications
Richard Averitt, Boston Univ., USA, Chair
Stefano Barbieri, Univ. Paris, France
Yujie Ding, Lehigh Univ., USA
Frank A. Hegmann, Univ. of Alberta, Canada
Martin Koch, Technical Univ. of Braunschweig, Germany
Oleg Mitrofanov, University College London, UK
Dan Mittleman, Rice Univ., USA
Eric Mueller, Coherent, Inc., USA
Chi-Kuang Sun, Natl. Taiwan Univ., Taiwan
Masayoshi Tonouchi, Osaka Univ., Japan
Alessandro Tredicucci, Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy

CLEO 6: Optical Materials, Fabrication and Characterization
Mihaela Dinu, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA, Chair
William Brocklesby, Univ. of Southampton, UK
Venkatraman Gopalan, Pennsylvania State Univ., USA
Warren Herman, Univ. of Maryland, USA
Anders Kristensen, Technical Univ. of Denmark, Denmark
Sunao Kurimura, Natl. Inst. for Materials Science, Japan
Jingyu Lin, Kansas State Univ., USA
David D. Nolte, Purdue Univ., USA
John Prineas, Univ. of Iowa, USA
Nelson Tansu, Lehigh Univ., USA

CLEO/QELS 7: Joint Subcommittee on High-Field Physics and High-Intensity Lasers
Mike Downer, Univ. of Texas at Austin, USA, Co-Chair
Henry Kapteyn, JILA/Univ. of Colorado, USA, Co-Chair
Jan Chaloupka, College of William & Mary, USA
Zenghu Chang, Kansas State Univ., USA
Jean-Claude Kieffer, INRS-EMT, Canada
Wim Leemans, Lawrence Berkeley Natl. Lab, USA
Katsumi Midorikawa, The Inst. of Physical & Chemical Res., Japan
David Reis, Univ. of Michigan, USA
Guiseppe Sansone, Univ. Milano, Italy
Craig Siders, LLNL, USA
David Villeneuve, Natl. Res. Council of Canada, Canada
Clas Wahlstrom, Lund Univ., Sweden
Bernd Witzel, Univ. Laval, Canada
Koichi Yamakawa, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Japan
Jonathan Zuegel, Univ. of Rochester, USA

CLEO 8: Ultrafast Optics, Optoelectronics & Applications
Fiorenzo Omenetto, Tufts Univ., USA, Chair
Kazi Sarwar Abedin, Natl. Inst. of Information & Communications Technology, Japan
Randy Bartels, Colorado State Univ., USA
Giulio Cerullo, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Daniel Kane, Southwest Sciences Inc, USA
Zhiwen Liu, Penn State Electro-Optics Ctr., USA
Lawrence Shah, IMRA America Inc., USA
Jeff Squier, Colorado School of Mines, USA
Brent Stuart, LLNL, USA
John Tisch, Imperial College, UK
Andrew Weiner, Purdue Univ., USA
Zhigang Zhang, Peiking Univ., China

CLEO 9: Optical Components, Interconnects & Processing
Paul Juodawlkis, MIT Lincoln Lab, USA, Chair
Erwin Chan, Univ. of Sydney, Australia
Daniel Dolfi, Thales Res. & Technology, France
John Fini, OFS Labs, USA
David Hutchings, Univ. of Glasgow, UK
Michael Kraniak, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr., USA
Ming-Chang (Mark) Lee, Natl. Tsing Hua Univ., Taiwan
Christi Madsen, Texas A&M Univ., USA
Shayan Mookherjea, Univ. of California at San Diego, USA
Makoto Naruse, Natl. Inst. of Information and Communications Technology, Japan
Ryo Takahashi, NTT Photonics Labs, Japan

CLEO 10: Medical and Biological Applications
Changhuei Yang, Caltech, USA, Chair
Brian E. Applegate, Texas A&M Univ., USA
Emmanuel Beaurepaire, Ecole Polytechnique, France
Alberto Bilenca, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Brett E. Bouma, Harvard Medical School, USA
Irene Georgakoudi, Tufts Univ., USA
Jerome Mertz, Boston Univ., USA
Alexander Oraevsky, Fairway Medical Technologies, USA
Andrew Rollins, Case Western Univ., USA
Peter So, MIT, USA
James Tunnell, Univ. of Texas at Austin, USA
Adam Wax, Duke Univ., USA
Seok-Hyun "Andy" Yun, Harvard University, USA

CLEO 11: Fiber and Guided-Wave Lasers & Amplifiers
Karl Koch, Corning Inc., USA, Chair
Martijn de Sterke, Univ. of Sydney, Australia
John Dudley, Univ. de Franche-Comté, France
Ingmar Hartl, IMRA America Inc., USA
Robert Jopson, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA
Jesper Lægsgaard, DTU Technical Knowledge Ctr., Denmark
Jens Limpert, Friedrich Schiller Univ., Germany
Shu Namiki, Photonics Res. Inst., Japan
Jeffrey Nicholson, OFS Labs, USA
Jay Sharping, Univ. of California at Merced, USA
Jean Toulouse, Lehigh Univ., USA

CLEO 12: Lightwave Communications and Networks
Peter Winzer, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA, Chair
Pak Shing Cho, CeLight, Inc., USA
Scott Hamilton, MIT Lincoln Lab, USA
Ton Koonen, COBRA Inst., Technical Univ. Eindhoven, Netherlands
Klaus Kudielka, Oerlikon Space AG, Switzerland
Natasha Litchinitser, Univ. of Michigan, USA
Dan Marom, The Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem, Israel
Curtis Menyuk, Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA
Alexei Pilipetskii, Tyco Telecommunications, USA
P. K. A. Wai, The Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ., Hong Kong

CLEO 13: Active Optical Sensing
James R. Gord, AFRL, USA, Chair
Douglas J. Bamford, Physical Sciences, Inc., USA
Joakim Bood, Lund Inst. of Technology, Sweden
Gregory J. Fiechtner, U. S. Department of Energy, USA
Mark Froggatt, Luna Innovations, USA
Clemens Kaminski, Cambridge Univ., UK
Houston Miller, George Washington Univ., USA
Sukesh Roy, Innovative Scientific Solutions, Inc., USA
Azer Yalin, Colorado State Univ., USA

CLEO 14: Optical Metrology
Thomas R. Schibli, JILA / Univ. of Colorado, USA, Chair
Patrick Gill, Natl. Physical Lab, UK
Peter Halverson, JPL, USA
Erich Ippen, MIT, USA
Jason Jones, Univ. of Arizona, USA
Long-Sheng Ma, East China Normal Univ., China
Kaoru Minoshima, AIST, Japan
Chris Oates, NIST, USA
James Phillips, Harvard College Observatory, USA
Harald Schnatz, Physikalisch Technische Bundesanstalt, Germany

CLEO 15: LEDs, Organic LEDs & Solid-State Lighting
Zakya H. Kafafi, Natl. Science Foundation, USA, Chair
Mary Crawford, Sandia Natl. Lab, USA
Brian Crone, Los Alamos Natl. Lab, USA
Andreas Hangleiter, Technische Univ. Braunschweig, Germany
Volker Harle, OSRAM Opto Semiconductors, Germany
Peter Peumans, Stanford Univ., USA
Ifor Samuel, Univ. of St. Andrews, UK
Franky So, Univ. of Florida, USA
Chin Wang Tang, Univ. of Rochester, USA
Michael Wraback, ARL, USA

CLEO 16: Micro- & Nano-Photonics
Michal Lipson, Cornell Univ., USA, Chair
Keren Bergman, Columbia Univ., USA
John Bowers, Univ. of California at Santa Barbara, USA
Siegfried Janz, Natl. Res. Council of Canada, Canada
Thomas Koch, Lehigh Univ., USA
Leslie Kolodziejski, MIT, USA
Marco Romagnoli, Pirelli Cavi e Sistemi, Italy
Armand Rosenberg, NRL, USA
Steven Spector, MIT Lincoln Lab, USA

QELS Technical Program Committee

2008 QELS General Co-Chairs
Steven Cundiff, JILA/Univ. of Colorado and NIST, USA
Prem Kumar, Northwestern Univ., USA

2008 QELS Program Co-Chairs
Aephraim Steinberg, Univ. of Toronto, Canada
Hailin Wang, Univ. of Oregon, USA

QELS 1: Quantum Optics of Atoms, Molecules and Solids
Alexander Kuzmich, Georgia Tech, USA, Chair
Brian DeMarco, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Jungsang Kim, Alcatel-Lucent, Bell Labs, USA
Axel Kuhn, Univ. of Oxford, UK
James (Trey) Porto, NIST, USA
Charles Sackett, Univ. of Virginia, USA
Justin Torgerson, Los Alamos Natl. Lab, USA

QELS 2: Single and Entangled Photons and Quantum Information
Julio Gea-Banacloche, Univ. of Arkansas, USA, Chair
Joshua Bienfang, NIST, USA
Hugues de Riedmatten, Univ. of Geneva, Switzerland
Jonathan Dowling, Louisiana State Univ., USA
John Howell, Univ. of Rochester, USA
Hoi-Kwong Lo, Univ. of Toronto, Canada
M. Suhail Zubairy, Texas A&M Univ., USA

QELS 3: Fundamentals of Metamaterials, Periodic and Random Media
Jelena Vuckovic, Stanford Univ., USA, Chair
Toshihiko Baba, Yokohama Univ., Japan
Hui Cao, Northwestern Univ., USA
Benjamin Eggleton, Univ. of Sydney, Australia
Stephen Hughes, Queen's Univ. at Kingston, Canada
Evgenii Narimanov, Purdue Univ., USA
Susumu Noda, Kyoto Univ., Japan
David Smith, Duke Univ., USA

QELS 4: Optical Interactions with Condensed Matter and Ultrafast Phenomena
Carlo Piermarocchi, Michigan State Univ., USA, Chair
Andrea Cavalleri, Univ. of Oxford, UK
Giti Khodaparast, Virginia Tech, USA
Elaine Li, Univ. of Texas at Austin, USA
Christoph Lienau, Carl von Ossietzky Univ., Germany
Thomas Reinecke, NRL, USA
Roland Zimmermann, Humboldt Univ., Germany

QELS 5: Nonlinear Optics and Novel Phenomena
Daniel Gauthier, Duke Univ., USA, Chair
Ishwar Aggarwal, NRL, USA
Gadi Fibich, Tel-Aviv Univ., Israel
Jacob Khurgin, John Hopkins Univ., USA
Jesper Moerk, Technical Univ. of Denmark, Denmark
Olivier Pfister, Univ. of Virginia, USA
Boris Zeldovich, Univ. of Central Florida, USA

QELS 6: Nano-Optics and Plasmonics
Martin Wegener, Karlsruhe Univ., Germany, Chair
Nader Engheta, Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA
Tony Heinz, Columbia Univ., USA
Laurens Kuipers, FOM Inst. for Atomic and Molecular Physics, Netherlands
Mark Stockman, Georgia State Univ., USA
Ulrike Woggon, Univ. Dortmund, Germany