Sunday, May 21, 2006

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, Philip Gatt, Lockheed Martin Coherent Technologies, USA.

12:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
SC133 Reliability Methodologies for Fiber Optic Components, David Maack, JDS Uniphase, USA.
SC189 Quantum Technologies, Ian Walmsley, Oxford Univ., UK.
SC197 Fiber Wireless Communications, Dalma Novak, Pharad, LLC, USA.
SC199 Micro- and Nano-Machined Optics, Ernst-Bernhard Kley, Friedrich-Schiller Univ. Jena, Germany.

12:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
SC194 Photonic Crystal Fibers and Devices, Benjamin J. Eggleton, Univ. of Sydney, Australia.

Monday, May 22, 2006

8:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
SC147 Optical Fiber Communication Systems, Alan Willner, Univ. of Southern California, USA.
SC164 THz Technology, Alan Cheville, Oklahoma State Univ., USA.
SC165 Laser Diode-Pumped Solid-State Lasers, Larry Marshall, Managing Director, Arasor, USA.
SC195 Tunable Lasers, Jens Buus, Gayton Photonics Ltd., UK.
SC221 Nano-Photonics: Physics and Techniques, Axel Scherer, Caltech, USA.
NEW! SC271 Quantum Information - Technologies and Applications, Prem Kumar, Northwestern Univ., USA ; Matt Goodman, Telcordia Technologies, USA.
NEW! SC272 Biological and Chemical Sensing for Homeland Security, Stephen Lane, Univ. of California at Davis/LLNL, USA; Thomas Huser, Univ. of California at Davis, USA.

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

1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
SC123 Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifiers and Raman Fiber Amplifiers, John Zyskind, Optovia Inc., USA.
SC149 Foundations of Nonlinear Optics, Robert Fisher, R. A. Fisher Associates, USA.
SC157 Laser Beam Analysis, Propagation, and Shaping Techniques, James Leger, Univ. of Minnesota, USA.
SC160 Microwave Photonics, Keith Williams, NRL, USA.
SC245 New Directions in Nanoscale Lithography and Pattern Transfer, Steven Brueck, Univ. of New Mexico, USA.
NEW! SC270 High Power Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers, W. Andrew Clarkson, Optoelectronics Res. Ctr., UK.  

Tuesday, May 23, 2006

8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
SC163 Practical OPOs, Malcolm Dunn, Univ. of St. Andrews, UK; Majid Ebrahim-Zadeh, Inst. de Ciencies Fotoniques, Spain .
SC167 Advances in VCSELs and Microcavity Lasers, Kent D. Choquette, Univ. of Illinois, USA; Weng Chow, Sandia Natl. Labs, USA.
CANCELLED SC191 Tissue Optics: Fundamentals and Applications to Biomedical Optical and Laser Diagnostics, Valery V. Tuchin, Saratov State Univ., Russian Federation.
SC192 Fiber Optic Sensors: Principles and Applications, Michel Digonnet, Stanford Univ., USA.
SC196 Solid-State Lighting, Ghassan Jabbour, Arizona State Univ., USA; E. Fred Schubert, Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst., USA.
SC220 Diffractive Optics, Design, Analysis and Applications, James Leger, Univ. of Minnesota, USA.
CANCELLED SC247 Tabletop EUV Sources for Nanoscale Microscopy and Metrology, Margaret Murnane, JILA, USA; David Attwood, Univ. of California at Berkeley, USA; Jorge Rocca, Colorado State Univ., USA.

1:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
SC143 Introductory and Intermediate Topics in Polarized Light, Robert Fisher, R. A. Fisher Associates, USA.
NEW! SC153 Quasi-Phasematching for Wavelength Conversion and All-Optical Nonlinear Processing, Peter G. Smith, Univ. of Southampton, UK.
SC154 Quantum Well Devices for Optics and Optoelectronics, David A. Miller, Stanford Univ., USA.
SC155 Ultrashort Laser Pulse Measurement, Rick Trebino, Georgia Tech, USA.
SC166 Photonic Crystal Devices and Integrated Circuits, Ahmed Sharkawy, Univ. of Delaware, USA.
SC182 Biomedical Optical Diagnostics and Sensing, Thomas Huser, Univ. of California at Davis, USA.
SC198 Packaging of Optoelectronic Components, Andreas Rose, Ondine Biopharma Corp., USA.