CLEO/QELS Topics

2010 CLEO Topic Categories:

01. Laser Processing of Materials: Fundamentals and Applications
02. Solid-State, Liquid and Gas Lasers
03. Semiconductor Lasers
04. Applications of Nonlinear Optics
05. Terahertz Technologies and Applications
06. Optical Materials, Fabrication and Characterization
07. Joint Subcommittee on High-Field Physics and High-Intensity Lasers
08. Ultrafast Optics, Optoelectronics and Applications
09. Components, Integration, Interconnects and Signal Processing
10. Biophotonics and Optofluidics
11. Fiber Amplifiers, Lasers and Devices
12. Lightwave Communications and Optical Networks
13. Active Optical Sensing
14. Optical Metrology
15. LEDS, Photovoltaics and Energy-Efficient (“Green”) Photonics
16. Micro- and Nano-Photonics Devices

2010 QELS Topic Categories:

01. Quantum Optics of Atoms, Molecules and Solids
02. Quantum Science, Engineering and Technology
03. Metamaterials and Complex Media
04. Optical Interactions with Condensed Matter and Ultrafast Phenomena
05. Nonlinear Optics and Novel Phenomena
06. Nano-Optics and Plasmonics
07. Joint Subcommittee on High-Field Physics and High-Intensity Lasers
08. Other Topics in Quantum Electronics and Laser Science

CLEO Topic Descriptions:

01. Laser Processing of Materials: Fundamentals and Applications
Topics include, but are not limited to, scientific and industrial applications of lasers, fundamentals of laser-material interactions, femtosecond laser processing, laser fabrication and deposition of active and passive components, laser micro and nanoprocessing, nonlinear and multiphoton processing, laser assisted fabrication of optofluidic and other novel opto/electronic devices, time resolved techniques in materials processing, optical instrumentation systems and techniques for controls, diagnostics and process monitoring of laser processing, advanced beam shaping and adaptive optic techniques in materials processing.

02. Solid-State, Liquid and Gas Lasers

CLEO Symposium on Laser Beam Combining: Sources and Applications

Topics include, but are not limited to, spectroscopic investigations of solid-state, liquid and gas laser media; lanthanide series and transition-metal-ion lasers; organic dye-based lasers in solid hosts, colloidal suspension lasers and other liquid media specialty lasers; high power gas lasers, alkali metal vapor lasers and novel gas based specialty lasers; tunable, upconversion and Raman lasers; rod, slab, disk and planar waveguide lasers; diode-pumped lasers; high-power and high-energy lasers; single-frequency and ultrastable lasers; modeling of lasers and resonators; thermal and thermo-optical effects in lasers; demonstration of unusual pump sources and resonator geometries; and novel lasers for system applications.

03. Semiconductor Lasers

CLEO Symposium on Laser Beam Combining: Sources and Applications

Topics include, but are not limited to, visible lasers; near-infrared lasers, mid to-far-infrared lasers; quantum cascade lasers; high-power and high-brightness lasers including 1- and 2-D laser arrays; quantum-well, wire, and dot lasers; tunable and/or single mode lasers and lasers for WDM; high-speed modulation dynamics; mode-locked lasers; integrated laser structures; vertical cavity lasers; semiconductor disk lasers; photonic crystal lasers; plasmon lasers, modeling of lasers and laser materials; Si based lasers; novel laser structures and applications; and semiconductor optical amplifier devices.

04. Applications of Nonlinear Optics
Topics include, but are not limited to, nonlinear wavelength conversion, optical parametric processes, QPM components and devices; third-order and higher order processes, wave mixing, stimulated scattering, self- and cross-phase modulation; propagation instabilities, continuum generation, filamentation and optical solitons; nonlinear optics in waveguides, fibers and for surface waves; novel nonlinear materials and structures; nonlinearities in gain media, laser cavity, laser and optical amplifier; nonlinear effects in nanostructures and semiconductor microstructures; methods and applications of nonlinear spectroscopy; novel optical applications of nonlinear phenomena; nonlinear optics of metamaterials; nonlinear optical effects in laser damage.

05. Terahertz Technologies and Applications
Topics include, but are not limited to, sources and systems that provide access to the far- infrared region of the spectrum, in the approximate range from 200 GHz to 10 THz, including ultrafast time-domain systems, direct generation using terahertz lasers, and cw generation based on nonlinear optical mixing; applications using terahertz radiation for spectroscopy, sensing, and imaging, including the physical and life sciences; advances in terahertz communications concepts and systems; new terahertz measurement techniques and instrumentation, including advances in imaging configurations, detector technologies, and terahertz optical components and waveguides; and terahertz optical measurements using surface plasmons, near-field effects, photonic crystals and metamaterials, and nonlinear optics; and terahertz imaging and modeling of plumes, turbulent air, or gaseous flows.

06. Optical Materials, Fabrication and Characterization

Joint CLEO/QELS Symposium on Optomechanics for Physical and Biological Sciences

Topics include, but are not limited to, fabrication and characterization of structured or engineered optical materials and photonic crystals; micro- and nano-fabrication techniques; bio-photonic fluorescence materials and techniques; optical micro-fluidics integration and fabrication; nonlinear organic materials; organic light absorbers and emitters; fabrication and characterization of novel glass and crystalline optical materials; characterization of semiconductor absorbers and emitters; quantum-well, line and dot fabrication, and characterization techniques; materials for electro-optic modulation; materials for high power and nonlinear propagation; and materials for UV and IR applications; and fabrication and characterization of nano tubes, nano needles, and woodpile structures.

07. Joint Subcommittee on High-Field Physics and High-Intensity Lasers
Topics include, but are not limited to, high-peak-power lasers, high-energy-density science, and high-intensity laser-matter interactions; recent progress in terawatt to petawatt lasers and unique states of matter obtainable with these lasers; fusion laser technology and laser based EUV and X-ray sources; strong-field laser science including interactions with atoms, molecules, clusters, and plasmas; state-of-the-art advances in attosecond science including high harmonic generation, high-field rescattering physics, relativistic nonlinear phenomena, intense pulse propagation, plasmas in ultrahigh fields, and laser based particle acceleration.

08. Ultrafast Optics, Optoelectronics and Applications
Topics include, but are not limited to, short-pulse solid-state, semiconductor, fiber, and waveguide optical sources and devices; optical phase control in ultrafast laser systems; ultrafast optoelectronic and electro-optic materials, devices, and systems; ultrafast measurement techniques; optical signal processing and switching; applications of ultrafast technology; ultrafast amplification and schemes, including hybrid fiber free space systems, and cryo-cooling; non-linear ultrafast conversion, to include OPAs, and unique perturbative harmonic generation.

09. Components, Integration, Interconnects and Signal Processing
Topics include, but are not limited to, discrete components, photonic integration, short-distance optical interconnections, and signal processing subsystems. Discrete components may be either free-space optical devices or waveguide devices having critical dimensions greater than the optical wavelength. Types of components include optical modulators and switches, optical detectors and focal-plane arrays, passive optical components (filters, isolators, splitters), and optical micro-electrical-mechanical devices. Integration approaches may be either monolithic or hybrid, may involve micro- and nano-photonic fabrication techniques, may involve integration with electronics, and may range in scale from a few devices to high density. Interconnect and signal processing topics include novel transmitters and receivers, free-space and waveguide optical processing, microwave photonic analog links and signal processing for non-telecommunications applications, and photonic analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converters.

10. Biophotonics and Optofluidics

Joint CLEO/QELS Symposium on Optomechanics for Physical and Biological Sciences
CLEO Symposium on Novel Optical Fibers for Sensing, Medicine, Spectroscopy and Future Communication Systems

Topics include but are not limited to biomedical optics, laser medical diagnostics and therapeutics, optofluidics for bioanalytics and other photonic applications, biosensing and other related applications, including spectroscopic optical diagnostics; diffuse optical imaging, steady-state, time-resolved and photon-density-wave techniques; optical coherence tomography; advanced biological microscopy; photochemistry and photobiology; laser tissue interactions; laser surgery; photodynamic therapy; minimally invasive optical diagnostics; photoacoustic techniques; optics in biotechnology; optical-system engineering for medicine; optical and photonic biosensors; optical tweezing and manipulation; lab-on-chip devices; on-chip imaging techniques; single molecule spectroscopy; microfluidically tunable or reconfigurable optical and photonic systems; photonic crystals; optofluidic assembly and lithographic techniques; on-chip light and laser sources.

11. Fiber Amplifiers, Lasers and Devices

CLEO Symposium on Laser Beam Combining: Sources and Applications
CLEO Symposium on Novel Optical Fibers for Sensing, Medicine, Spectroscopy and Future Communication Systems

Topics include, but are not limited to, fiber lasers, CW and pulsed; mode-locked fiber oscillators; amplification in doped fibers, ultra-wideband fiber amplifiers; Raman amplifiers, discrete and distributed; coherent and incoherent combination of fiber lasers and amplifiers, nonlinear effects in fibers (nonlinear amplification, pulse interactions, ultrafast phenomena, supercontinuum generation); fiber-grating and microstructured fiber devices; fiber sensors and sensing systems; fiber design, materials, fabrication, and characterization; fiber measurements; and chromatic dispersion and polarization-mode dispersion, including fiber compensation devices.

12. Lightwave Communications and Optical Networks

CLEO Symposium on Novel Optical Fibers for Sensing, Medicine, Spectroscopy and Future Communication Systems

Topics include, but are not limited to, long-haul and short-haul fiber-optic communication systems and networks; optical access networks; effects of fiber nonlinearities and other transmission impairments on system performance; system applications of optical amplifiers; advanced optical modulation formats; digital signal processing techniques; coding including forward error correction for optical systems; coherent detection and advanced receiver structures; free-space optical communication links; atmospheric effects and their mitigation; wavelength and time-division multiplexed systems; optical subcarrier-multiplexed technologies; telecommunications applications of microwave photonics; optical routing and switching in networks; all-optical processing in devices and networks; optics-based network elements for routing and switching; and novel optical network elements.

13. Active Optical Sensing

Joint CLEO/QELS Symposium on Quantum Control
CLEO Symposium on Novel Optical Fibers for Sensing, Medicine, Spectroscopy and Future Communication Systems

Topics include, but are not limited to, remote sensing and point sensing; fiber sensors; chemical and biological agent detection and identification; indoor and outdoor environmental monitoring; industrial/thermal process monitoring; combustion and emissions monitoring; measurement of air, water, and soil quality; atmospheric studies; space applications; aircraft safety; and mapping and imaging. Techniques of interest include differential absorption lidar, fluorescence spectroscopy, laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy, photoacoustic spectroscopy, ring-down spectroscopy, active multispectral and hyperspectral imaging, tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy, Doppler imaging, heterodyne and homodyne detection, and time-of-flight ranging.

14. Optical Metrology
Topics include, but are not limited to, optical devices, instruments, and technologies for precision measurements; time and frequency metrology; optical frequency standards; length, distance, and dimensional metrology; lasers, supercontinua, and broadband sources for optical metrology; frequency-comb generation, control, and applications; carrier-envelope phase control; conversion between optical and microwave frequencies; pulse shaping and arbitrary waveform generation; instrumentation and devices for optical metrology, including adaptive optics, two-photon diodes, spatial light modulators, shutters, and special fibers; precision interferometry and other novel measurement methods, including correlation, modulation, imaging microscopy, and nano-probing; optical transmission of metrology signals, including reference-frequency transmission and remote measurements; and light-matter interaction for metrology.

15. LEDS, Photovoltaics and Energy-Efficient (“Green”) Photonics

CLEO Symposium on Photonics for Advanced Energy Technology

Topics include, but are not limited to, photonic devices and systems designed to have reduced energy consumption; application of photonic technology to improve energy efficiency; photonic techniques for energy generation and transmission; inorganic light-emitting diodes (LEDs), organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), and hybrid light-emitting diodes based on group III-V, II-VI, and IV semiconductors, polymers, and organic molecules; superluminescent diodes (SLDs), LEDs, and OLEDs based on rare-earth-doped materials, nanocrystals, and photonic crystals; ultraviolet LEDs for water/air/surface purification and biodetection/monitoring; novel approaches to high-power and high-brightness LEDs; wavelength converter materials, such as phosphors, dyes, and quantum dots; novel materials, physics, and devices; LED backlighting systems for displays; flat-panel, projection, and micro-displays using liquid crystals, organic and polymeric devices, and plasma electro-luminescence; flexible displays and plastic substrates; and inorganic, organic, and hybrid photovoltaics operating at visible and IR wavelengths.

16. Micro- and Nano-Photonics Devices
Topics include, but are not limited to, microfabricated devices intended for on-chip applications and having sub-wavelength dimensions of optical confinement. The devices could be based on high index contrast micro photonic structures, photonic crystals, resonators and could be based on group IV as well as group III-V semiconductor materials. Devices can be passive, active or a combination thereof. Nonlinear effects in micro and nano devices, linear and nonlinear effects enhanced by high index contrast waveguides, resonators or photonic crystals are of interest.

QELS Topic Descriptions:

01. Quantum Optics of Atoms, Molecules and Solids

QELS Symposium on Quantum Repeaters and Networks
Joint CLEO/QELS Symposium on Quantum Control

Topics include laser cooling and trapping; quantum dots; circuit quantum optics; superconducting qubits; NV centers in diamond; degenerate atomic gases; electromagnetically induced transparency and slow light; optical lattices; cold collisions; optical frequency standards; coherent transients; precision measurement and metrology with cold atoms or ions; cold molecules; trapped ions; atom optics and lithography.

02. Quantum Science, Engineering and Technology

QELS Symposium on Quantum Repeaters and Networks
Joint CLEO/QELS Symposium on Quantum Control
Joint CLEO/QELS Symposium on Optomechanics for Physical and Biological Sciences

Topics include generation, characterization and application of squeezed, entangled, and other non-classical states; quantum measurement and control; quantum feedback; quantum sensors and quantum metrology; single-photon sources and detectors; quantum communication and cryptography; quantum information processing; quantum repeaters; quantum error correction, fault-tolerant architectures, and other approaches to decoherence suppression; fundamental studies of decoherence, quantum measurement theory, and quantum statistical mechanics; novel quantum algorithms and protocols.

03. Metamaterials and Complex Media

QELS Symposium on Nanophotonics and Metamaterials

Topics include fundamentals of metamaterials, photonic crystals, random and aperiodic media, optical micro and nano cavities; transformation optics; plasmonic nanomaterials, negative and near-zero refractive index materials; chaotic optics; chiral media; multiple scattering and light localization; microlasers and random lasers; optical nonlinearities in meta- and complex media; slow light in photonic nanostructures.

04. Optical Interactions with Condensed Matter and Ultrafast Phenomena
Topics include optical investigations of semiconductors, metals, insulators, superconductors, magnetic and other strongly correlated systems; including low dimensional structures such as quantum dots, quantum wells, nanocrystals, nanotubes, nanowires, defect centers; dynamics of charges, spins, excitons, phonons, polaritons, and other excitations in condensed matter systems; ultrafast phenomena and coherent control in condensed matter, atomic, and molecular systems.

05. Nonlinear Optics and Novel Phenomena
Topics include nonlinear optics in condensed matter, fluids, gases, and plasmas; new nonlinear optical materials; supercontinuum generation; extreme UV and X-ray generation; single-photon nonlinear optics; nonlinear dynamics of light; optics of few cycle light pulses; nonlinear phenomena in the THz region; solitons, vortices, and singularities; nonlinear optics in photonic crystals, slow light media, and metamaterials; local field effects; near-field and sub-wavelength linear and nonlinear optics; novel linear and nonlinear surface phenomena, multiphoton spectroscopy and other novel methods for sensing; optical micro-manipulation of particles.

06. Nano-Optics and Plasmonics

QELS Symposium on Nanophotonics and Metamaterials
Joint CLEO/QELS Symposium on Optomechanics for Physical and Biological Sciences

Topics include optics with sub-wavelength resolution; linear and nonlinear spectroscopy of nanostructures, single atoms, and molecules in solid hosts; near-field optics; nanocavities and nanoapertures; light in confined structures; nanolithography; coupled nanosystems (photonic dots, quantum dots, and quantum dot inside of a photonic dot); nanolasers; plasmon and polariton optics; ultrafast plasmonics.

07. Joint Subcommittee on High-Field Physics and High-Intensity Lasers
Topics include high-peak power lasers and high-intensity laser-matter interactions; recent progress in terawatt to petawatt lasers and the amplification of few cycle pulses. Laser technology for fusion and laser based EUV and X-ray sources will also be discussed. Strong field laser science including interactions with atoms, molecules, clusters, and plasmas. Advances in attosecond science will be highlighted with high harmonic generation, high-field rescattering physics, relativistic nonlinear phenomena, intense pulse propagation, plasmas in ultrahigh fields, and laser based particle acceleration.

08. Other Topics in Quantum Electronics and Laser Science
A general category for papers that do not fit into the main QELS categories.