QELS Technical Program Committee
CLEO/QELS Steering Committee
Joint Council of Quantum Electronics
CLEO Long Range Planning Committee
Exhibitor Advisory Committee
CLEO Technical Program Committee
General Chairs
Dan Botez, Univ. of Wisconsin at Madison, USA
Tom Carruthers, NSF, USA
Program Chairs
Franz Kaertner, MIT, USA
Jerry Meyer, NRL, USA
CLEO Subcommittees
CLEO 1: Laser Processing and Optical Instrumentation
Donald Harter, IMRA America Inc., USA, Chair
Detao Du, General Atomics, USA
Marc Nantel, Photonics Res. Ontario, Canada
Andreas Ostendorf, Forschungszentrum Rossendorf Inst. fur Angewandte Physik, Germany
Narasimha Prasad, NASA Langley Res. Ctr., USA
Chris Schaffer, Cornell Univ., USA
Koji Sugioka, RIKEN, Japan
Yunlong Sun, Electro-Scientific Industries USA, USA
Andreas Tünnermann, Fraunhofer Inst. Optik Feinmechanik, Germany
CLEO 2: Solid-State Lasers
Timothy Carrig, Lockheed Martin Coherent Technologies, Inc.,
USA, Chair
Norman Barnes, NASA Langley, USA
Jean-Christophe Chanteloup, Ctr. Natl. de la Recherché Scientifique,
Ecole, France
Mark Dubinskiy, ARL, USA
Carsten Fallnich, Physikalisch Technische Bundesanstalt, Germany
Hagop Injeyan, Northrop Grumman Corp.,USA
Hajime Nishioka, Univ. of Electro-Communications, Japan
Martin Ostermeyer, Univ. Potsdam, Germany
Daniel Ripin, MIT, USA
CLEO 3: Semiconductor Lasers
Claire Gmachl, Princeton Univ., USA, Chair
Ann Bryce, Univ. of Glasgow, UK
Weng Chow, Sandia Natl. Labs, USA
James Coleman, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Richard Jones, Intel Corp., USA
Fumio Koyama, Tokyo Inst. of Technology, Japan
Jesper Mörk, Danmarks Tekniske Univ., Denmark
Cun-Zheng Ning, NASA Ames Res. Ctr., USA
Susumu Noda, Kyoto Univ., Japan
Adrienne Stiff-Roberts, Duke Univ., USA
George Turner, MIT Lincoln Lab, USA
Igor Vurgaftman, NRL, USA
CLEO 4: Applications of Nonlinear Optics
Robert Fisher, R. A. Fisher Associates, USA, Chair
William Bischel, Gemfire Corp., USA
Michael Damzen, Imperial College, UK
Jean-Claude Diels, Univ. of New Mexico, USA
Yujie Ding, Lehigh Univ., USA
Majid Ebrahim-Zadeh, Inst. de Ciencies Fotoniques, Spain
Vladimir Shkunov, Raytheon Co., USA
Ramesh Shori, Univ. of California at Los Angeles, USA
George Stegeman, Univ. of Central Florida, USA
Grover Swartzlander, Univ. of Arizona, USA
Takunori Taira, Inst. for Molecular Science, Japan
George Wong, Hong Kong Univ. of Science & Technology, Hong Kong
Vladislav Yakovlev, Univ. of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, USA
Jean-Jacques Zondy, Observatoire de Paris, France
CLEO 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, T ech Univ. Carolo Wilhemina Braunschweig, Germany
Edmund Linfield, Univ. of Leeds, UK
Oleg Mitrofanov, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, USA
Eric Mueller, Coherent Inc., USA
Masayoshi Tonouchi, Osaka Univ., Japan
Alessandro Tredicucci, NEST-INFM, Italy
CLEO 6: Optical Materials, Fabrication & Characterization
Mihaela Dinu, Lucent Technologies Inc., USA, Chair
William Brocklesby, Univ. of Southampton, UK
Venkatraman Gopalan, Pennsylvania State Univ., USA
James Randolph Heflin, Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State Univ., USA
Warren Herman, Univ. of Maryland at College Park, USA
Sunao Kurimura, Natl. Inst. for Materials Science, Japan
David Nolte, Purdue Univ., USA
John Prineas, Univ. of Iowa, USA
Nelson Tansu, Lehigh Univ., USA
CLEO/QELS 7: High-Field Physics and High-Intensity Lasers
Michael Downer, Univ. of Texas at Austin, USA, Chair
Gerhard Paulus, Texas A&M Univ., Chair
Jan Chaloupka, College of William & Mary, USA
Zenghu Chang, Kansas State Univ., USA
Chunlei Guo, Univ. of Rochester, USA
Ting Guo, Univ. of California at San Diego, USA
Misha Ivanov, NRC Steacie Inst. for Molecular Sciences, Canada
Henry Kapteyn, Univ. of Colorado at Boulder, USA
Karl Krushelnick, Univ. of London, UK
Chang Hee Nam, Korea Advanced Inst. of Science & Tech., South Korea
David Reis, Univ. of Michigan, USA
Craig Siders, Lawrence Livermore Natl. Lab, USA
Christian Spielmann, Bayeris Julius-Maximilians Univ. Würzburg, Germany
Antonio Ting, NRL, USA
Bernd Witzel, Univ. Laval, Canada
CLEO 8: Ultrafast Optics, Optoelectronics & Applications
Randy Bartels, Colorado State Univ., USA, Chair
Kazi Abedin, Natl. Inst of Information & Comm. Tech., Japan
Andrius Baltuska, Max-Planck-Inst. für Quantenoptik, Germany
Fiorenzo Omenetto, Los Alamos Natl. Lab, USA
Alphan Sennaroglu, Koc Univ., Turkey
Lawrence Shah, IMRA America Inc., USA
Jeffrey Squier, Colorado School of Mines, USA
Brent Stuart, Lawrence Livermore Natl. Lab, USA
John Tisch, Imperial College, UK
Kenji Torizuka, Natl. Inst. of Adv. Industrial Science & Tech., Japan
Paolo Villoresi, Univ. degli Studi di Padova, Italy
Andrew Weiner, Purdue Univ., USA
Zhigang Zhang, Peking Univ., China
CLEO 9:
Components, Interconnects & Signal Processing
Paul Juodawlkis, MIT, USA, Chair
Daniel Dolfi, Thales Res. & Technology, France
John Fini, OFS Labs, USA
David Hutchings, Univ. of Glasgow, UK
Michael Krainak, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr., USA
Ming-Chang Lee, Natl. Tsing Hua Univ., Taiwan
Patrick Likamwa, Univ. of Central Florida, CREOL, USA
Christi Madsen, Texas A&M Univ., USA
Shayan Mookherjea, Univ. of California at San Diego, USA
Geert Morthier, Univ. Gent, Belgium
Makoto Naruse, Natl. Inst. of Information and Communications Technology, Japan
CLEO 10: Medical and Biological Applications
Adam Wax, Duke Univ., USA, Chair
Vadim Backman, Northwestern Univ., USA
Irene Georgakoudi, Tufts Univ., USA
Christoph Hitzenberger, Medizinische Univ. Wien, Austria
Xingde Li, Univ. of Washington, USA
Andrew Rollins, Case Western Reserve Univ., USA
James Tunnell, Univ. of Texas at Austin, USA
Changhuei Yang, Caltech, USA
CLEO 11: Fiber and Guided-Wave Amplifiers, Lasers & Devices
Karl Koch, Corning Inc., USA, Chair
Ingmar Hartl, IMRA America Inc., USA
John Harvey, Univ. of Auckland, New Zealand
Jesper Laegsgaard, DTU Technical Knowledge Ctr., Denmark
Jens Limpert, Forschungszentrum Rossendorf, Germany
Colin McKinstrie, Lucent Technologies Inc., USA
Shu Namiki, AIST Central Library, Japan
Jeffrey Nicholson, OFS Labs, USA
Jay Sharping, Cornell Univ., USA
Jean Toulouse, Lehigh Univ., USA
CLEO 12: Lightwave Communications and Networks
Peter Winzer, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, USA, Chair
Ivan Andonovic, Univ. of Strathclyde, UK
Pak Cho, CeLight, Inc., USA
Scott Hamilton, MIT Lincoln Lab, USA
Igor Khrushchev, Aston Univ., UK
Klaus Kudielka, Contraves Space Communications, Switzerland
Dan Marom, Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem, Israel
David Moss, Univ. of Sydney, Australia
Ronald Phillips, Florida Space Inst., USA
Michael Vasilyev, Univ. of Texas at Arlington, USA
Ping Kong Wai, Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ., Hong Kong
CLEO 13: Active Optical Sensing
James Gord, US Air Force, USA, Chair
Mark Froggatt, Luna Technologies, Inc., USA
Clemens Kaminski, Cambridge Univ., UK
Houston Miller, George Washington Univ., USA
David Nelson, Aerodyne Res. Inc., USA
Barbara Paldus, Skymoon R&D, USA
Sukesh Roy, Innovative Scientific Solutions, Inc., USA
CLEO 14: Optical Metrology
Jun Ye, Univ. of Colorado at Boulder/JILA, 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, Canada
Kaoru Minoshima, AIST, Japan
Harald Schnatz, Physikalisch Technische Bundesanstalt, Germany
Thomas Udem, Max-Planck-Inst. für Quantenoptik, Germany
James Wyant, Univ. of Arizona, USA
CLEO 15: LEDs, Organic LEDs & Solid-State Lighting
Marek A. Osinski, Univ. of New Mexico, USA, Chair
Mary Crawford, Sandia Natl. Labs, USA
Volker Haerle, Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH, Germany
Shinichiro Haruyama, Keio Univ., Japan
Zakya Kafafi, NRL, USA
Masayoshi Koike, Samsung, South Korea
Franky So, Univ. of Florida, USA
Tsunemasa Taguchi, Yamaguchi Univ., Japan
Christian Wetzel, Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst., USA
Michael Wraback, ARL, USA
CLEO 16: Micro- & Nano-Photonics
Michal Lipson, Cornell Univ., USA, Chair
Keren Bergman, Columbia Univ., USA
Bahram Jalali, Univ. of California at Los Angeles, USA
Thomas Koch, Lehigh Univ., USA
Leslie Kolodziejski, MIT, USA
Dennis Prather, Univ. of Delaware, USA
Marco Romagnoli, Pirelli Cavi e Sistemi SpA, Italy
Armand Rosenberg, NRL, USA
Steven Spector, MIT Lincoln Lab, USA
QELS Technical Program Committee
General Chairs
Alexander Gaeta, Cornell Univ., USA
Min Xiao, Univ. of Arkansas, USA
Program Chairs
Paul Lett, NIST, USA
Mordechai Segev, Technion Israel Inst. of Technology, Israel
QELS Subcommittees
QELS 1:
Quantum Optics and Quantum Atom Optics
Phillip Gould, Univ. of Connecticut, USA, Chair
Ennio Arimondo, Univ. degli Studi Pisa, Italy
Nicholas Bigelow, Univ. of Rochester, USA
Alex Cronin, Univ. of Arizona, USA
Luis Orozco, Univ. of Maryland at College Park, USA
Vladan Vuletic, MIT, USA
QELS 2: Quantum Optics
Perry Rice, Miami Univ., USA, Chair
Julio Gea-Banacloche, Univ. of Arkansas, USA
John Howell, Univ. of Rochester, USA
Barry Sanders, Univ. of Calgary, Canada
Daniel Steck, Univ. of Oregon, USA
Aephraim Steinberg, Univ. of Toronto, Canada
Lorenza Viola, Dartmouth College, USA
QELS 3: Fundamental Optics in Periodic and Random Media
Evgenii Narimanov, PrInceton Univ., USA, Chair
Vasily Astratov, Univ. of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
Nader Engheta, Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA
Won Park, Univ. of Colorado, USA
Stephen Rand, Univ. of Michigan, USA
Nikolay Zheludev, Univ. of Southampton, UK
QELS 4: Ultrafast Dynamics
Sarah Bolton, Williams College, USA, Chair
Shun-Lien Chuang, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Susan Dexheimer, Washington State Univ., USA
Ilias Perakis, Univ. of Crete, Greece
Carlo Piermarocchi, Michigan State Univ., USA
Robert Schoenlein, Lawrence Berkeley Natl. Lab, USA
Uwe Siegner, Physikalisch Technische Bundesanstalt, Germany
QELS 5:
Nonlinear Optics and Novel Phenomena
Jacob Khurgin, Johns Hopkins Univ., USA, Chair
Gaetano Assanto, Univ. degli Studi Roma Tre, Italy
Chi-Hsiang Lee, Univ. of Maryland at College Park, USA
Fedor Mitschke, Univ. Rostock, Germany
Alexei Sokolov, Texas A&M Univ., USA
Marin Soljacic, MIT, USA
Stefan Wabnitz, Univ. de Bourgogne, France
Ewan Wright, Univ. of Arizona, USA
QELS 6: Nano-Optics
Vladimir Shalaev, Purdue Univ., USA, Chair
Sergey Bozhevolnyi, Dept. of Physics and Nanotechnology, Aalborg Univ., Denmark
Mark Brongersma, Stanford Univ., USA
Hui Cao, Northwestern Univ., USA
Yoel Fink, MIT, USA
Ildar Gabitov, Univ. of Arizona, USA
Mikhail Noginov, Norfolk State Univ., USA
Igor Smolyaninov, Univ. of Maryland at College Park, USA
Xiang Zhang, Univ. of California at Berkeley, USA
Optical Society of America
Peter F. Moulton, Q-Peak, Inc., USA, Chair
Martin M. Fejer, Stanford Univ., USA
Gregory J. Quarles, VLOC, Subsidiary of II-VI Inc., USA
IEEE/Lasers and Electro-Optics Society
Concetto R. Giuliano, AFRL, 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
Wendell T. Hill, Univ. of Maryland at College Park, USA
Michael Raymer, Univ. of Oregon, USA
Exhibitor Representatives
Amy Eskilson, Thorlabs, USA
Jeff Nichols, Photonics.com/The Photonics Directory, USA
Ex-Officio
Dan Botez, Univ. of Wisconsin at Madison, USA
Thomas Carruthers, NRL, USA
Steven T. Cundiff, NIST, USA
Peter J. Delfyett, Univ. of Central Florida, USA
Alexander Gaeta, Cornell Univ., USA
Claire Gmachl, Princeton Univ., USA
Franz X. Kaertner, MIT, USA
Prem Kumar, Northwestern Univ., USA
James R. Leger, Univ. of Minnesota, USA
Paul Lett, NIST, USA
Jerry Meyer, NRL, USA
Mordechai Segev, Techion-Israel Inst. of Technology, Israel
Markus Pollnau, Univ. of Twente, The Netherlands
Aephraim M. Steinberg, Univ. of Toronto, Canada
Konstantin L. Vodopyanov, Stanford Univ., USA
Hailin Wang, Univ. of Oregon, USA
Min Xiao, Univ. of Arkansas, USA
John J. Zayhowski, MIT, USA
Joint Council of Quantum Electronics
IEEE/Lasers and Electro-Optics Society
Daniel M. Mittleman, Rice Univ., USA, Chair
Selim M. Unlu, Boston Univ., USA
APS/Division of Laser Science
Robert Boyd, Univ. of Rochester, USA
Wendell T. Hill, Univ. of Maryland at College Park, USA
Henry Kapteyn, Univ. of Colorado at Boulder, USA
Optical Society of America
Louis F. DiMauro, Brookhaven Natl. Lab, USA
Luis Orozco, Univ. of Maryland at College Park, USA
CLEO Long Range Planning Committee
Peter J. Delfyett, Univ. of Central Florida , USA, Chair
Philip J. Anthony, Storm Ventures Inc., USA
Alex Cable, Thorlabs, USA
Corey Dunsky, Coherent Inc., USA
James G. Fujimoto, MIT, USA
Brent Gross, Cleveland Crystals, Inc., USA
Henry Kapteyn, Univ. of Colorado at Boulder, USA
Thomas McIlrath, APS, USA
Elizabeth A. Rogan, OSA, USA
Paul Shumate, IEEE/LEOS, USA
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 Laser Group, USA
Sherie Motakef, Melles Griot, USA
Jeff Nichols, Photonics.com/The Photonics Directory, USA
Fred Perry, Boston Electronics Corporation, USA
Rick Plympton, Optimax Systems, Inc., USA
Joachim Sacher, Sacher Lasertechnik GmbH, Germany
Jeff Smith, Nuvonyx, USA
Randall Wilcox, Lightspeed Technologies, USA
Donald Wilson, OFR, Inc., USA