CLEO/QELS is presented by:
CLEO/QELS 2006 Committees
CLEO Technical Program Committee QELS Technical Program Committee CLEO Steering Committee Joint Council of Quantum Electronics Exhibitor Advisory Committee
CLEO Technical Program Committee
General Chairs Peter Delfyett, Univ. of Central Florida, USA Fred Heismann, Consultant, USA
Program Chairs Markus Pollnau, Univ. of Twente, The Netherlands John Zayhowski, MIT Lincoln Lab., USA
CLEO Subcommittees
1. Laser Processing and Optical Instrumentation Xinbing Liu, Panasonic Boston Lab, USA, Chair Detao Du, General Atomics, USA Corey Dunsky, Coherent, Inc., USA Donald Harter, IMRA America Inc., USA Yong-Feng Lu, Univ. of Nebraska, USA Marc Nantel, Photonics Res. Ontario, Canada Narasimha Prasad, NASA Langley Res. Ctr., USA Bernd Schaefer, Laser Lab Gottingen, Germany Yunlong Sun, Electro-Scientific Industries, USA Andreas Tünnermann, Fraunhofer Inst. Optik, Germany
2. Solid-State Lasers Clifford Pollock, Cornell Univ., USA, Chair Norman Barnes, NASA Langley Res. Ctr., USA Camille Bibeau, LLNL, USA Timothy Carrig, Coherent Technologies, Inc., USA Carsten Fallnich, Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Germany Hagop Injeyan, Northrop Grumman Corp., USA Hajime Nishioka, Inst. of Laser Science, Japan Rüdiger Paschotta, RP Photonics Consulting, Switzerland
3. Semiconductor Lasers Claire Gmachl, Princeton Univ., USA, Chair Peter Blood, Cardiff Univ., UK Ann Bryce, Univ. of Glasgow, UK Weng Chow, Sandia Natl. Labs, USA James Coleman, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Goetz Erbert, Ferdinand-Braun Inst., Germany Richard Jones, Intel Corp., USA Fumio Koyama, Tokyo Inst. of Technology, Japan John McInerney, Natl. Univ. of Ireland, Ireland Jerry Meyer, NRL, USA Jesper Mork, Technical Univ. of Denmark, Denmark George W. Turner, MIT Lincoln Lab., USA 4. Applications of Nonlinear Optics Robert Fisher, R.A. Fisher Assoc., USA, Chair William Bischel, Gemfire Corp., USA Benoit Boulanger, Univ. de Grenoble, France Mark Bowers, Aculight Corp., USA Michael Damzen, Imperial College London, UK Yujie Ding, Lehigh Univ., USA Emmanuel Rosencher, ONERA, France Valdimir Shkunov, Raytheon Corp., USA Ramesh Shori, Univ. of California at Los Angeles, USA Ruifen Wu, DSO Natl. Lab., Singapore Jean-Jacques Zondy, Natl. de Metrologie Conservatoire Natl. des Arts et Metiers, France
5. Terahertz Technologies and Applications Daniel Mittleman, Rice Univ., USA, Chair Richard Averitt, Los Alamos Natl. Lab., USA David Citrin, Georgia Tech, USA Martin Koch, Univ. of Braunschweig, Germany Oleg Mitrofanov, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies Inc., USA Eric Mueller, Coherent Inc., USA Robert Peale, Univ. of Central Florida, USA Masayoshi Tonouchi, Osaka Univ., Japan Alessandro Tredicucci, NEST-INFM, Italy
6. Optical Materials, Fabrication & Characterization Steven Flom, NRL, USA, Chair Mihaela Dinu, Lucent Technologies, Inc., USA Robert Eason, Univ. of Southampton, UK James Heflin, Virginia Tech, USA Warren Herman, Univ. of Maryland at College Park, USA Stefan Kueck, Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Germany Sunao Kurimura, Natl. Inst. for Materials Sciences, Japan Dennis Prather, Univ. of Delaware, USA John Prineas, Univ. of Iowa, USA
7. CLEO/QELS Joint Subcommittee on High-Field Physics and High-Intensity Lasers Karl Krushelnick, Imperial College London, UK, Co-Chair Barry Walker, Univ. of Delaware, USA, Co-Chair John Collier, CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Lab, UK Eric Constant, Univ. Bordeaux, France George Gibson, Univ. of Connecticut, USA Ting Guo, Univ. of California at San Diego, USA Mischa Ivanov, NRC, USA Henry Kapteyn, Univ. of Colorado at Boulder, USA Vitcor Malka, Ecole Polytechnique ENSTA, France Howard Milchberg, Univ. of Maryland at College Park, USA Chang Hee Nam, Korea Advanced Inst. of Science and Technology, Korea Gerhard Paulus, Max-Planck Gesellschaft, Germany Christian Spielmann, Univ. of Würzburg, Germany Antonio Ting, NRL, USA
8. Ultrafast Optics, Optoelectronics & Applications Randy Bartels, Colorado State Univ., USA, Chair Andrius Baltuska, Max-Planck Inst. fur Quantenoptik, Germany Alan Cheville, Oklahoma State Univ., USA Manuel Joffre, Ecole Polytechnique, France Theodore Norris, Univ. of Michigan, USA Fiorenzo Omenetto, Los Alamos Natl. Lab., USA Alphan Sennaroglu, Koc Univ., Turkey David Spence, Spectra-Physics, USA John Tisch, Imperial College London, UK Kenji Torizuka, AIST, Japan
9. Optical Components, Interconnects & Processing Keith Williams, NRL, USA, Chair John Fini, OFS Lab, USA Paul Juodawlkis, MIT Lincoln Lab, USA Jang-Joo Kim, Seoul Natl. Univ., Korea Michael Krainak, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr., USA Mark Lee, Univ. of California at Berkeley, USA Patrick Likamwa, Univ. of Central Florida, USA Shayan Mookherjea, Univ. of California at San Diego, USA Geert Morthier, Ghent Univ., Belgium Richard Penty, Cambridge Univ., UK Jean Toulouse, Lehigh Univ., USA
10. Medical and Biological Applications Vadim Backman, Northwestern Univ., USA, Chair Israel Gannot, Tel-Aviv Univ., Israel Irene Georgakoudi, Tufts Univ., USA Christoph Hitzenberger, Medizinische Univ. Wien, Austria Xingde Li, Univ. of Washington, USA Anita Mahadevan-Jansen, Vanderbilt Univ., USA Judith Mourant, Los Alamos Natl. Lab., USA Peter So, MIT, USA Attila Tarnok, Univ. Leipzig, Germany Adam Wax, Duke Univ., USA
11. Fiber and Guided-Wave Lasers & Amplifiers Benjamin Eggleton, Univ. of Sydney, Australia, Chair Anatoly Grudinin, Fianium Ltd., UK Ingmar Hartl, IMRA America Inc., USA John Harvey, Univ. of Auckland, New Zealand Clifford Headley, OFS Lab, USA Jonathan Knight, Univ. of Bath, UK Karl Koch, Corning Inc., USA Thomas Kringlebotn, Optoplan AS, Norway Colin McKinstrie, Lucent Technologies Inc., USA Shu Namiki, AIST Ctrl. Lab, Japan
12. Lightwave Communications and Networks Marshall Saylors, Univ. of Maryland at College Park, USA Ivan Andonovic, Univ. of Strathclyde, UK Pak Cho, CeLight Inc., USA Stephen Evangelides, Redsky Underseas, USA Richard Jensen, Continuum Photonics Inc., USA Igor Khrushchev, Aston Univ., UK David Moss, Univ. of Sydney, Australia Michael Vasilyev, Univ. of Texas at Arlington, USA Ping Kong Wai, Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ., Hong Kong Peter Winzer, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies Inc., USA
13. Active Optical Sensing Mark Allen, Physical Sciences Inc., USA, Chair Douglas Baer, Los Gatos Res. Inc., USA James Gord, AFRL, USA Clemens Kaminiski, Cambridge Univ., UK Anatoliy Kosterev, Rice Univ., USA Houston Miller, George Washington Univ., USA David Nelson, Aerodyne Res. Inc., USA Barbara Paldus, Skymoon Ventures, USA
14. Optical Metrology Jun Ye, NIST/Univ. of Colorado at Boulder, USA, Chair Patrick Gill, Natl. Physical Lab, UK William Klipstein, Caltech, USA Brian Kolner, Univ. of California at Davis, USA Long-Sheng Ma, Bureau Intl. des Poids et Mesures, France Alan Madej, Natl. Res. Council, Canada Kaoru Minoshima, AIST, Japan Harald Schnatz, Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Germany Thomas Udem, Max-Planck Inst. fur Quantenoptik, Germany James Wyant, Univ. of Arizona, USA
15. LEDs, Organic LEDs & Solid-State Lighting Marek Osinski, Univ. of New Mexico, USA, Chair Anil Duggal, General Electric Co., USA Ian Ferguson, Georgia Tech, USA Volker Haerle, Osram Opto Semiconductors, Germany Zakya Kafafi, NRL, USA Masayoshi Koike, Samsung, Korea Takashi Mukai, Nichia Corp., Japan Jerry Simmons, Sandia Natl. Labs, USA Tsunemasa Taguchi, Yamaguchi Univ., Japan Christian Wetzel, Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst., USA
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QELS Technical Program Committee
General Chairs Roberto Merlin, Univ. of Michigan, USA Michael Raymer, Univ. of Oregon, USA
Program Chairs Steven Cundiff, NIST, USA Prem Kumar, Northwestern Univ., USA
QELS Subcommittees
1. Cold Atoms, Molecules, and Atom Optics Hideo Mabuchi, Caltech, USA, Chair James Anglin, Fachbereich Physik, Germany David DeMille, Yale Univ., USA Andrew Doherty, Univ. of Queensland, Australia Dietrich Leibfried, NIST, USA James (Trey) Porto, NIST Res. Lab, USA Joerg Schmiedmayar, Ruprecht Karls Univ. Heidelberg, Germany Dan Stamper-Kurn, Univ. of California at Berkeley, USA Vladan Vuletic, MIT, USA
2. Quantum Optics and Quantum Information Alan Migdall, NIST, USA, Chair David Branning, Trinity College, USA Marco Fiorentino, Hewlett Packard Co., USA Warren Grice, Oak Ridge Natl. Lab, USA Todd Pittman, Johns Hopkins Univ., USA Perry Rice, Miami Univ., USA Selim Shahriar, Northwestern Univ., USA Paul Voss, Northwestern Univ., USA Franco Wong, MIT, USA
3. Fundamentals of Metamaterials, Periodic & Random Media Yurii Vlasov, IBM TG Watson Res. Ctr., USA Vasily Astratov, Univ. of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA Toshihiko Baba, Yokohama Natl. Univ., Japan Shanhui Fan, Stanford Univ., USA Laurens Kuipers, FOM Inst. for Atomic and Molecular Physics, The Netherlands Michal Lipson, Cornell Univ., USA Evgenii Narimanov, Princeton Univ., USA Oskar Painter, Caltech, USA
4. Ultrafast Dynamics Rolf Binder, Univ. of Arizona, USA, Chair Sarah Bolton, Williams College, USA Ian Galbraith, Heriot-Watt Univ., UK Albert Heberle, Univ. of Pittsburgh, USA Robert Jones, Univ. of Virginia, USA Carlo Piermarocchi, Michigan State Univ., USA
5. Nonlinear Optics and Novel Phenomena Jacob Khurgin, Johns Hopkins Univ., USA, Chair Gaetano Assanto, Univ. degli Studi Roma, Italy Chi-Hsiang Lee, Univ. of Maryland at College Park, USA Mansoor Sheik-Bahae, Univ. of New Mexico, USA Gennady Shvets, Univ. of Texas at Austin, USA Alexei Sokolov, Texas A & M Univ., USA Grover Swartzlander, Univ. of Arizona, USA Stefan Wabnitz, Univ. de Bourgogne, France
6. Nano-Optics and Plasmonics Ulrike Woggon, Univ. Dortmund, Germany, Chair Thomas Ebbesen, Univ. Louis Pasteur, France Tadashi Itoh, Osaka Univ., Japan Todd Krauss, Univ. of Rochester, USA Peter Michler, Univ. Stuttgart, Germany Thomas Reinecke, NRL, USA Vladimir Shalaev, Purdue Univ., USA Clivia Sotomayor-Torres, Tyndall Natl. Inst. Cork, Ireland Anna Swan, Boston Univ., USA
CLEO Steering Commiittee
IEEE/Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Concetto R. Giuliano, AFRL, USA, Chair Philip J. Anthony, Storm Ventures Inc., USA Richard A. Linke, Aluben Res. and OSA, USA Daniel M. Mittleman, Rice Univ., USA Steven A. Newton, Agilent Technologies, USA
APS/Division of Laser Science Winthrop W. Smith, Univ. of Connecticut at Farmington, USA
Optical Society of America Martin M. Fejer, Stanford Univ., USA Peter F. Moulton, Q-Peak, Inc., USA Gregory J. Quarles, VLOC, Subsidiary of II-VI Inc., USA Henry M. Van Driel, Univ. of Toronto, Canada Alan E. Willner, Univ. of Southern California, USA
Exhibitor Representatives Donald K. Wilson, OFR Inc., USA Amy Eskilson, Thorlabs, USA
Ex-Officio Filbert Bartoli, NSF, USA Dan Botez, Univ. of Wisconsin at Madison, USA Steven Brueck, Univ. of New Mexico, USA Thomas Carruthers, NRL, USA Steven T. Cundiff, NIST, USA Peter J. Delfyett, Univ. of Central Florida, USA Alexander Gaeta, Cornell Univ., USA Fred L. Heismann, USA Franz X. Kaertner, MIT, USA Prem Kumar, Northwestern Univ., USA James R. Leger, Univ. of Minnesota, USA Paul Lett, NIST, USA Roberto D. Merlin, Univ. of Michigan, USA Jerry Meyer, NRL, USA Mordechai Segev, Techion-Israel Inst. of Tech., Israel Markus Pollnau, Univ. of Twente, Twente, The Netherlands Michael G. Raymer, Univ. of Oregon, USA George J. Simonis, ARL, USA Min Xiao, Univ. of Arkansas, USA John J. Zayhowski, MIT, USA
Joint Council of Quantum Electronics
Optical Society of America Henry M. Van Driel, Univ. of Toronto, Canada, Chair Louis F. DiMauro, Brookhaven Natl. Lab, USA Luis Orozco, Univ. of Maryland at College Park, USA
APS/Division of Laser Science Henry Kapteyn, Univ. of Colorado at Boulder, USA Winthrop W. Smith, Univ. of Connecticut at Farmington, USA
IEEE/Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Iam-Choon Khoo, Pennsylvania State Univ., USA Daniel M. Mittleman, Rice Univ., USA Selim M. Unlu, Boston Univ., USA
Exhibitor Advisory Committee
Richard Bailey, UltraVolt, Inc., USA Steve Benda, Continuum, USA Alain Bourdon, Toptica Photonics, Inc., USA Amy Eskilson, Thorlabs, Inc., USA Warren Gutheil, TecOptics, USA Wilhelm Kaenders, Toptica Photonics, Inc., USA Steve McDonald, Coherent Inc., USA Fred Perry, Boston Electronics Corporation, USA Rick Plympton, Optimax Systems, Inc., USA Jeff Smith, Nuvonyx, USA Donald Wilson, OFR, Inc., USA
