Sunday, May 22, 2005, 9:00 a.m.– 5:30 p.m.
SC136 Understanding Lasers and Critical Optical Components, Shaoul Ezekiel, MIT, USA
SC200 Laser Remote Sensing, Timothy Carrig, Phillip Gatt, Coherent Technologies, Inc., USA

Sunday, May 22, 2005, 1:00 p.m.– 5:00 p.m.
SC149 Foundations of Nonlinear Optics, Robert Fisher, R. A. Fisher Associates, USA
SC157 Laser Beam Analysis, Propagation and Shaping Techniques, James R. Leger, Univ. of Minnesota, USA
SC160 Microwave Photonics, Keith Williams, NRL, USA
SC192 Fiber Optic Sensors: Principles and Applications, Michel Digonnet, Stanford Univ., USA
SC194 Photonic Crystal Fibers and Devices, Benjamin Eggleton, Univ. of Sydney, Australia

Monday, May 23, 2005, 9:00 a.m.– 5:30 p.m.
SC219 Understanding Laser-Based Sensors, Shaoul Ezekiel, MIT, USA

Monday, May 23, 2005, 8:30 a.m.– 11:30 a.m.
SC133 Reliability Methodologies for Fiber Optic Components, David Maack, JDS Uniphase, USA
SC164 THz Technology, Xi-Cheng Zhang, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
SC165 Laser Diode-Pumped Solid-State Lasers, Larry Marshall, Lightbit, USA
SC197 Fiber Wireless Communications, Dalma Novak, Pharad, USA
SC199 Cancelled Micro- and Nano-Machined Optics, Ernst-Bernhard Kley, Friedrich-Schiller Univ. Jena, Germany
SC246 NEW! An Introduction to Precision Optical Frequency Metrology, Scott A. Diddams, Chris Oates, NIST, USA

Monday, May 23, 2005, 1:00 p.m.– 5:00 p.m.
SC123 Optical Amplifiers in Optical Networks, John Zyskind, Optovia Inc., USA
SC147 Optical Fiber Communication Systems, Alan Willner, Univ. of Southern California, USA
SC163 Practical OPOs, Malcolm Dunn, Univ. of St. Andrews, UK; Majid Ebrahim-Zadeh, Inst. de Ciencies Fotoniques, Spain
SC182 Biomedical Optical Diagnostics and Sensing, Thomas Huser, Lawrence Livermore Natl. Lab., USA
SC198 Packaging of Optoelectronic Components, Andreas Rose, Chromera Corp., USA
SC220 Diffractive Optics, Design, Analysis and Applications, James R. Leger, Univ. of Minnesota, USA
SC247 NEW! Tabletop EUV Sources for Nanoscale Microscopy and Metrology, Margaret Murnane, JILA, USA; Jorge Rocca, Colorado State Univ., USA; David Attwood, Univ. of California at Berkeley, USA

Tuesday, May 24, 2005, 8:30 a.m.– 11:30 a.m.
SC189 Quantum Technologies, Ian Walmsley, Oxford Univ., UK
SC193 Optical Coherence Tomography, Joseph Izatt, Duke Univ., USA
SC195 Tunable Lasers, Jens Buus, Gayton Photonics Ltd., UK
SC196 Solid-State Lighting, Ghassan Jabbour, Arizona State Univ., USA; E. Fred Schubert, Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst., USA
SC221 Nano-Photonics: Physics and Techniques, Axel Scherer, Caltech, USA
SC245 NEW! New Directions in Nanoscale Lithography and Pattern Transfer, Steven R. Brueck, Univ. of New Mexico, USA

Tuesday, May 24, 2005, 1:00 p.m.– 5:00 p.m.
SC143 Introductory and Intermediate Topics in Polarized Light, Robert Fisher, R. A. Fisher Associates, USA
SC154 NEW! Quantum Well Devices for Optics and Optoelectronics, David A. B. Miller, Stanford Univ., USA
SC155 Ultrashort Laser Pulse Measurement, Rick Trebino, Georgia Tech, USA
SC166 Photonic Crystal Devices and Integrated Circuits, Dennis W. Prather, Univ. of Delaware, USA
SC167 Advances in VCSELs and Microcavity Lasers, Kent D. Choquette, Univ. of Illinois, USA; Weng Chow, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
SC191 Tissue Optics and Spectroscopy, Valery V. Tuchin, Saratov State Univ., Russian Federation