CLEO Invited Speakers
QELS Invited Speakers

CLEO Invited Speakers

1. Laser Applications and Optical Instrumentation

Widely Tunable Two-Frequency Nd:YAG Laser, Loic Morvan, THALES R&T, France
Multispectral Multiphoton Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy Based on a Synchroscan Streak Camera, Hanben Niu, Inst. of Optoelectronics, Shenzhen Univ., China
Advanced 3-D Laser Imaging, Michael Perry, General Atomics, Inc., USA
Size-, Position-, and Separation-Controlled One-Dimensional Alignment of Nanoparticles Using an Optical Near Field, Takashi Yatsui, Japan Science and Technology Corp., Japan

2. Solid-State Lasers

195 W Injection-Locked Single-Frequency Laser System, Maik Frede, Laser Zentrum Hannover , Germany
High Power Scalable Nd:YAG Laser Architecture, Hagop Injeyan, Northrop Grumman Space Technologies, USA
Self-Imaging Waveguide Lasers, Iain McKinnie, Coherent Technolgies, Inc., USA
High-power, Diode Edge-pumped, Single-crystal Yb:YAG / Ceramic YAG Composite Microchip Yb:YAG Laser for Material Processing, Masaki Tsunekane, Inst. for Molecular Science, Japan

3. Semiconductor Lasers

Photonic Crystal and III-N Quantum Dot Lasers, Yoshinobu Aoyagi, RIKEN and Tokyo Inst. Technology, Japan
TeraHertz Quantum Cascade Lasers, Qing Hu, MIT, USA
Dilute Nitride Lasers, Luke Mawst, Univ. of Wisconsin, USA
InAs/AlSb Quantum Cascade Lasers, Keita Ohtani, Hideo Ohno, Tohoku Univ., Japan
In-Phase Coherently Coupled 2-Dimensional Arrays of Defect Cavities within a Photonic Crystal VCSEL, James Raftery, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

4. Applications of Nonlinear Optics

Orientation-Patterned GaAs and Its Applications, Marty Fejer, Stanford Univ., USA
Surface-Emitted Continuous THz-Wave Generation from PPLN, Hiromasa Ito, Tohoku Univ./RIKEN, Japan
Entangled Cavity Optical Parametric Oscillators: OPO Supreme for Spectroscopy in the Mid-IR, Michel Lefebvre, ONERA, Chemin de la huniera, France
Tunable All-Optical Delays via Brillouin Slow Light in an Optical Fiber, Yoshitomo Okawachi, Cornell Univ., USA
Integrated Optical Parametric Oscillators with Ti:PPLN Waveguides, Wolfgang Sohler, Univ. Paderdorn, Germany

5. Holography, Wavemixing, Photorefractives & Storage

From Stopping Light to All-Optical Signal Processing: Leveraging Coherent Light-Matter Interaction, Connie Chang-Hasnain, Univ. of California, USA
Time Reversal and Phase Conjugation with Acoustic Waves: Industrial and Medical Applications, Mathias Fink, Univ. of Paris at Jussieu, France
Adaptive Optics Technologies for Industrial and Medical Applications, Alan Greenaway, Heriot-Watt Univ., UK

6. Optical Materials, Fabrication & Characterization

High Quality Factor Semiconductor Microresonators for Photonic Integrated Circuit Applications, P. Daniel Dapkus, Univ. of Southern California, USA
III-Nitride Ultraviolet Micro- and Nano-Photonics, Jingyu Lin, Kansas State Univ., USA
Optical Waveguides in Hard Crystalline Materials, Markus Pollnau, Swiss Fed. Inst. of Technology, Switzerland
3-D Photonic Bandgap Templating Using Holography and Direct Laser Writing, Martin Wegener, Univ. Karlsruhe, Germany

7. CLEO/QELS Joint Subcommittee on High-Field Physcis and High-Intensity Lasers

Generation of XUV Supercontinuum and Single Attosecond Pulses, Zenghu Chang, Dept. of Physics, Kansas State Univ., USA
Laser Wakefield Acceleration of 180 MeV Quasi-Monoenergetic E-Beams, Jerome Faure, LOA, France
Laser-Driven Wakefield Acceleration of Electrons in a Plasma Channel, Cameron Geddes, Lawrence Berkeley Natl. Lab, USA
First Demonstration of a Staged Optical Injection and Laser Wakefield Acceleration, Dmitri Kaganovich, NRL, LET Corp., USA
Monoenergetic Electron Pulses from Intense Laser-Plasma Interactions, Stuart Mangles, Blackett Lab, Imperial College London, UK
Carrier Envelope Phase Effects on Electron Quantum Paths in High Harmonics Generation by Few-Cycle Pulses, Paolo Villoresi, Univ. of Padova, Quantum Electronics Lab - D.E.I. & INFM Inst. Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia, Italy

8. Ultrafast Optics, Optoelectronics & Applications

Ultrabroadband Self-Phase-Stabilized Pulses by Difference Frequency Generation, Giulio Cerullo, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Femtosecond Electron Diffraction: An Atomic-Level View of Condensed Phase Dynamics, Jason Dwyer, Univ. of Toronto, Canada
High Energy Mid-IR Pulse Generation and Characterization, James Fraser, Queen's Univ., Canada
Monolithic Device for Carrier-Envelope Phase Stabilization, Takao Fuji, Vienna Univ. of Technology , Austria
The Physics and Limits of Femtosecond Laser Micromaching, Alan Hunt, Univ. of Michigan, USA
A Single-Material Glass-Web Optical Fiber, Nicolas Joly, Univ. of Bath, UK
High Power Optical Parametric Chirped Pulse Amplifier and Their Applications, Ruxin Li, Shanghai Inst. of Optics and Fine Mechanics, China
A Programmable On-Chip Ultrashort-Pulse Shaper Using a Micromachined Actuator Array and a Chirped Fiber Bragg Grating, Kai-Hsiu Liao, Univ. of Michigan, USA
Short Pulse High Power Fiber Laser Systems, Johann Nilsson, Univ. of Southampton, UK
Applications of Ultrashort Pulses in Quantum Mechanics, Ian Walmsley, Univ. of Oxford, UK

9. Optical Components, Interconnects & Processing

True Time Delay with 3D MEMs, Roger Helkey, Calient, USA
100 Gb/s (10 x 10Gb/s) DWDM Photonic Integrated Circuit Transmitters and Receivers, Fred Kish, Infinera, USA
Photonic Time-Domain Electromagnetic Arbitrary Waveform Generation, A.M. Weiner and J.D. McKinney, Purdue Univ., USA

10. Medical and Biological Applications

Applications of Time-Resolved Fluorescence Spectroscopy to Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease and Brain Tumors Diagnosis, Laura Marcu, Cedars-Sinai Medical Ctr., USA
Dynamic Monitoring of Sub-Cellular Morphology with Light Scattering Spectroscopy, Lev Perelman, Harvard Medical School, USA
TBA, Tony Wilson, Univ. of Oxford, UK

11. Fiber and Guided-Wave Lasers, Amplifiers

Tapered PCF and Nanowires, Tim Birks, Bath Univ., UK
Photonic Crystal Fibers: Progress and Applications, Anders Bjarklev, Res. Ctr. COM, Denmark
Dynamic Control of Liquid-Core/Liquid-Cladding Optical Waveguides, Richard Conroy, Harvard Univ., USA
Fiber Laser Fiber, David DiGiovanni, OFS Labs, USA
High Q-Chip Based Microlasers, Kerry Vahala, Caltech, USA

12. Lightwave Communications and Networks

Multichannel Wavelength Conversion of DPSK Signals Using Four-Wave Mixing in Highly-Nonlinear Fiber without Cross-Gain-Modulation Penalty, Preetpaul Devgan, Northwestern Univ., USA
Experimental Demonstration of Code Translation in Spectrally Phase Coded O-CDMA, Zhi Jiang, Purdue Univ., USA
Broadband Access Using Wireless Over Fiber Systems, Alwyn Seeds, Univ. College London, UK
640 Gb/s OTDM Transmission and Demultiplexing Using a NOLM with Commercially Available Highly Nonlinear Fiber, Andrei Siahlo, Technical Univ. of Denmark, Denmark
Rapidly Reconfigurable 8-bit Chip-Scale True-Time-Delay Module for High-Bandwidth-Preserving, Multi-Aperture, Free-Space Laser-Communication Transmitter, David Sumida, HRL Labs, LLC, USA
Optical System Performance of Large-Scale Photonic Integrated Circuits, David Welsh, Infinera , USA
Networkings Future, Alan Willner, Univ. of Southern California, USA

13. Active Optical Sensing

Evanescent Wave Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy, Andrew Pipino, NIST, USA
Shining Infrared Light on Isotope Ratio Measurements in Applications from Earthbound to the Atmospheric, Erik Kerstel, Univ. of Groningen, The Netherlands
Trace Gas Analysis in Exhaled Human Breath for Disease Diagnosis, Terence Risby, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins Univ., USA

14. Optical Metrology

Measurement of Standard and Microstructured Fibers with Fourier Domain Optical Coherence Tomography, Jayesh Jasapara, OFS Labs, USA
Optical Systhesis of Femtosecond Comb, Yohei Kobayashi, AIST, Japan
Optical Frequency Standard Using Ca Atom, Uwe Sterr, Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Germany
CARS Microscopy: Seeing the Vibrational Contrast in Live Cells, Xiaoliang Sunney Xie, Harvard Univ., USA

15. LEDs, SLDs and Solid-State Lighting Devices

Displays Based on Organic Materials, Ghassam Jabbour, Arizona State Univ., USA
Ultra-Wide Spectrum Quantum Dot Superluminescent Diodes Emitting at 1.3 µm, Marco Rossetti, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland
Solid-State Lighting: Lamps, Chips and Materials for Tomorrow, Jeff Y. Tsao, Sandia Natl. Labs, USA

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QELS Invited Speakers

1. Cold Atoms, Coherent Atoms and Atom Optics

Long-Range Interactions in a Cold Rydberg Gas, Phillip Gould, Univ. of Connecticut, USA
Results on Inertial Measurements with a Raman Interferometer, Arnaud Landragin, Systemes de Reference Temps-Espace, France
Disruption of Bose-Einstein Condensates on Classical and Quantum Reflection, Robin Scott, Univ. of Nottingham, UK

2. Quantum Optics

All Optical Quantum Dot Spin Manipulation, Atac Imamoglu, Ecole Polytechnique Fed. de Lausanne, Switzerland
TBA, Nobu Imoto, School of Advanced Sciences, SOKEN, Japan
Quantum Information Processing with Optical Fibers, Prem Kumar, Northwestern Univ., USA
Highly Efficient Single-Photon Detection at Communication Wavelengths Using Upconversion in Reverse Proton Exchanged PPLN Waveguides, Carsten Langrock, Stanford Univ., USA
Efficient Polarization Squeezing as a Resource for Quantum Communication, Gerd Leuchs, Inst. fur Optik, Information und Photonik, Germany
Coherent Optical Manipulation of Quantum Dot Spins: A Path into Quantum Computing, Duncan Steel, Univ. of Michigan, USA

3. Fundamental Optics in Periodic and Random Media

High Refractive Index Photonic, Toshihiko Baba, Yokohama Natl. Univ., USA
Light Emitting Aperiodic Photonic Structures, Luca Dal Negro, MIT, USA
Statistical Properties of Optical Near-Fields, Aristide Dogariu, CREOL & FPCE, USA
Optical Quasi Crystals - Properties and Dynamics, Barak Freedman, Technion, Israel
Manifestation of Inherent Bandgap of Photonic Crystal in Disorder-Induced Specjle Pattern of Scattered Light, Michael Raikh, Univ. of Utah, USA

4. Ultrafast Dynamics

Unusual Properties and Control of the Initial Decoherence in Quantum Dots, Martin Axt, Univ. of Munster, Germany
Probing Electron Dynamics in Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes, Tony Heinz, Columbia Univ., USA
Ultrafast X-ray Measurements of Inertial Atomic-Scale Motion, Aaron Lindenberg, Stanford Linear Accelerator Ctr. , USA
Terahertz Near-Field Microscopy, Paul Planken, Delft Univ. of Technology, The Netherlands
TBA, Theo Rasing, Univ. of Nijmegen, The Netherlands

5. Nonlinear Optics

Nonlinear Absorption and Dispersion in Fiber Coupled Silicon Photonic Crystal Microresonators, Paul Barclay, Caltech, USA
Fourier-Synthesis of Optical Waveforms, Stephen Harris, Stanford Univ., USA
Incoherent Solitons and Condensation Processes, Antonio Picozzi, Lab de Physique de la Matière Condensée, France
Reaching the Nonlinear Regime in Large Raman Amplification of Ultrashort, Szymon Suckewer, Princeton Univ., USA
Nonlinear Upconversion Interferometry, Aaron VanDevender, Univ. of Illinois, USA

6. Nano-Optics

Optically Pumping the Spin of a Single Quantum Dot, Daniel Gammon, NRL, USA
Design and Implementation of a Standalone Raman-Based All-Optical Nanosensor, Naomi Halas, Rice Univ., USA
Individual Single Wall Carbon Nanotube Photonics, Todd Krauss, Univ. of Rochester, USA
TBA, Michael Levene, Cornell Univ., USA
Single Molecule Imaging Using a Highly Confined Optical Field at a Triangular Aperture, Andreas Naber, Univ. of Karlsruhe, Germany