May 31 – June 5, 2009 • Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Invited Speakers

The following is a preliminary list of CLEO/IQEC Invited Speakers and Tutorials.

CLEO
IQEC

CLEO 01 - Laser Processing of Materials: Fundamentals and Applications

Invited Speakers

The Art of Femtosecond Laser Writing, Peter G. Kazansky; Optoelectronics Res. Ctr., Univ. of Southampton, UK
Femtosecond Laser Direct Writing of Waveguide Lattices,
Stefan Nolte; Friedrich Schiller Univ. Jena, Inst. of Applied Physics, Germany

CLEO 02 - Solid-State, Liquid and Gas Lasers

Tutorial Speaker

Space Qualification of Solid State Lasers, Anne-Marie Novo-Gradac¹, John Cavanaugh²; ¹NASA Headquarters, USA, ²NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr., USA

Invited Speakers

Laser Particle Acceleration, Peter Norreys; Rutherford Appleton Lab, UK
High Power Eye-Safe Lasers, Scott Setzler; BAE Systems, USA

CLEO 03 - Semiconductor Lasers

Tutorial Speaker

Commercialization of QD Lasers, Mitsuru Sugawara; Fujitsu Ltd., Japan

Invited Speakers

High Performance Mid-IR Antimonide Based Diode Lasers Operating around 3 Microns, Gregory Belenky; State Univ. of New York at Stony Brook, USA
Studies on the Relative Advantages of Quantum-Dot and Quantum-Well Gain Media in Lasers and Amplifiers, Weng Chow; Sandia Natl. Labs, USA
Coherently Combined Diode Laser Arrays and Stacks, Robin Huang; MIT Lincoln Lab, USA
Recent Progress in Electrically Pumped Blue GaN-Based VCSELs, S.C. Wang; Natl. Chiao Tung Univ., Taiwan

CLEO 04 - Applications of Nonlinear Optics

Tutorial Speaker

Discreteness in Optics: Spatial Solitons, George Stegeman; CREOL, College of Optics and Photonics, USA

Invited Speakers

Pulse-Shaped Optimized Nonlinear Optical Imaging, Marcos Dantus1,2; 1Michigan State University, USA, 2BioPhotonic Solutions Inc., USA
Fast Switching in III-V Based Photonic Crystal Cavities, Alfredo De Rossi; Thales Res. and Technology, France
Ultra-Wide THz-Wave Generation by DAST and BNA, Hiromasa Ito1,2; 1RIKEN, Japan, 2Tohoku Univ., Japan
Ultra-Low-Power Frequency Conversion in High-Index Glass Micro Ring Resonators, David Moss, Univ. of Sydney, Australia

CLEO 05 - Terahertz Technologies and Applications

Tutorial Speaker

Scientific and Technical Accomplishments of THz Photonics, Daniel Grischkowsky; Oklahoma State Univ., USA

Invited Speakers

THz Studies of Charge and Exciton Dynamics in Semiconductor Nanostructures, Mischa Bonn; FOM-Inst. for Atomic and Molecular Physics, Netherlands
Surface-Emitting Photonic Crystal Terahertz Semiconductor Lasers, Raffaele Colombelli; Univ. Paris-Sud, Inst. d'Electronique Fondamentale, France
Ultrafast Measurement of Carbon Nanotube Transistors and Diodes, Paul McEuen; Cornell Univ., USA
Real-Time Terahertz Measurements and their Applications, Takeshi Yasui, Osaka Univ., Japan

CLEO 06 - Optical Materials, Fabrication and Characterization

Tutorial Speaker

Silicon Photonic Waveguides and Devices, Goran Mashanovich; Univ. of Surrey, UK

Invited Speakers

Random Lasing Materials, Hui Cao; Yale Univ., USA
Semiconductor Guided-Wave Wavelength Conversion Devices, Takashi Kondo; Univ. of Tokyo, Japan
Recently Developed Borate Crystals for Novel Applications in the Visible and Near-Infrared, Valentin Petrov; Max-Born-Inst., Germany
Low-Refractive-Index Materials -A New Class of Optical Thin-Film Materials, E. Fred Schubert; Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst., USA

CLEO/IQEC 07 - Joint Subcommittee on High-Field Physics and High-Intensity Lasers

Tutorial Speaker

AMO Research at the LCLS X-Ray Laser, Philip H. Bucksbaum; Stanford Univ., USA

Invited Speakers

Laser Based Synchrotron Light Sources, Heinrich Schwoerer; Univ. of Stellenbosch, South Africa
Ultrafast Hydrogen Migration in Hydrocarbon Molecules in Ultrashort Intense Laser Fields, Kaoru Yamanouchi; Univ. of Tokyo, Japan

CLEO 08 - Ultrafast Optics, Optoelectronics and Applications

Tutorial Speaker

Optimal Control of Femtochemistry Including Pulse Shaping of Femtosecond Lasers, Gustav Gerber; Univ. Würzburg, Germany

Invited Speakers

Ultrafast Imaging with Electron Pulses, Martin Centurion; Max-Planck-Inst. für Quantenoptik, Germany
Ultrafast and Nanoscale Optics, Yeshaiahu Fainman; Univ. of California at San Diego, USA
Ultrafast All-Optical Deflection-Based Recording Using Slow Cameras and Materials, John Heebner; Lawrence Livermore Natl. Lab, USA
Multifocal, Multiphoton Photon-Counting Microscopy, Jeff Squier; Colorado School of Mines, USA

CLEO 09 - Components, Integration, Interconnects and Signal Processing

Tutorial Speaker

Modulation and Detection in Optical Communications, Peter Winzer; Alcatel-Lucent, Bell Labs, USA

Invited Speakers

Tunable VCSEL Using High Contrast Grating, Connie J. Chang-Hasnain; Univ. of California at Berkeley, USA
Optical Processing to Enhance UWB Transmission and Reception, Leslie A. Rusch; Univ. Laval, Canada
Monolithic Bulk CMOS Photonics for Manycore Processor Networks, Vladimir Stojanovic; MIT, USA

CLEO 10 - Medical and Biological Applications

Tutorial Speaker

Advances in Optical Coherence Tomography for Biological Imaging, Johannes de Boer; Vrije Univ., Netherlands

Invited Speakers

Advancing Biological Discovery with Fluorescence Mesoscopy, Vasilis Ntziachristos; Inst. for Biological and Medical Imaging, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Germany
Quantifying Binding of Focal Adhesion Proteins Using Fluorescent Spectral Microscopy,
Peter So; MIT, USA

CLEO 11 - Fiber Amplifiers, Lasers and Devices

Tutorial Speaker

Capabilities and Limitations of Slow Light: Searching for the Killer Application, Rodney Stuart Tucker; Univ. of Melbourne, Australia

Invited Speakers

What Are the Essential Technical Requirements for the New Bend Insensitive Fiber? David Z. Chen; Verizon, USA
Controlled Dispersion in Photonic Crystal Fibres,
Jonathan Knight; Univ. of Bath, UK
Emerging Optical Fibres: New Fibre Materials and Structures, Tanya Monro; Univ. of Adelaide, Australia
Recent Advances in Phosphate Glass Fiber Lasers, Axel Schülzgen; Univ. of Arizona, USA

CLEO 12 - Lightwave Communications and Networks

Tutorial Speaker

Quantum Communication, Nicolas Gisin; Univ. de Genève, Switzerland

Invited Speakers

Forward Error Correction in Next Generation Optical Communication Systems, Takashi Mizuochi; Mistubishi Electric Corp., Japan
New Fibres for Optical Power Delivery and Transmission,
David Richardson, Univ. of Southampton, UK

CLEO 13 - Active Optical Sensing

Tutorial Speaker

Probing Gas-Phase Collisional Energy Transfer with Picosecond Laser Spectroscopy, Thomas B. Settersten; Sandia Natl. Labs, USA

Invited Speaker

Challenges and Opportunities for Next-Generation Diode Laser Active Sensing, Mark G. Allen; Physical Sciences Inc., USA
Characterizing Particle and Droplet Size Distributions: Exhaust Emissions to Cloud Research, William D. Bachalo; Artium Technologies, Inc., USA

CLEO 14 - Optical Metrology

Tutorial Speaker

Entanglement: Measurements below Quantum-Projection Limit, Eugene S. Polzik; The Niels Bohr Inst., Univ. of Copenhagen, Denmark

Invited Speakers

Optical Interferometers with Insensitivity to Thermal Noise, H. Jeff Kimble, Caltech, USA
Fs-Combs for Astronomy, Ronald L. Walsworth; Harvard-Smithsonian Ctr. for Astrophysics, USA

CLEO 15 - Visible and Ultraviolet LEDs and OLEDs

Tutorial Speaker

Nonpolar and Semipolar GaN for all Visible Optoelectronics? James Speck; Univ. of California at Santa Barbara, USA

Invited Speakers

Recent Progresses of AlGaN and InAlGaN-Based Deep-UV LEDs, Hideki Hirayama; RIKEN, Japan
Status and Prognosis for Solid-State Lighting Technology, Michael Krames; Philips Lumileds Lighting Co., USA

CLEO 16 - Micro and Nano-Photonics Devices

Tutorial Speaker

Silicon Integrated Laser Sources, Luca Dal Negro; Boston Univ., USA

Invited Speakers

Lasing in Metal-Clad Nano-Cavities, Martin Hill; Technical Univ. Eindhoven, Netherlands
Silicon Photonics in Quantum Communications, Hiroki Takesue, NTT, Japan
Nanophotonic Devices for Optical Networks-on-Chip, Dries Van Thourhout; Ghent Univ. - IMEC, Belgium

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IQEC 01 - Quantum Optics of Atoms, Molecules and Solids

Tutorial Speaker

Atomic Physics with a Circuit, Franco Nori 1,2; 1RIKEN, Japan, 2Univ. of Michigan, USA

Invited Speakers

Cavity QED Experiments with Ion Coulomb Crystals, Michael Drewsen; Aarhus Univ., Denmark
Quantum Computing with Ions, Hartmut Haeffner; Inst. for Quantum Optics and Information, Univ. of Innsbruck, Austria
Quantum Information Processing with Double-Well Optical Lattices, Nathan Lundblad; NIST, USA

IQEC 02 - Quantum Science, Engineering and Technology

Tutorial Speaker

Quantum Information Processing with Individual Atoms in Optical Tweezers; Philippe Grangier, Inst. d’Optique, France

Invited Speakers

Efficient Routing of Single Photons with One Atom and a Microtoroidal Cavity, Takao Aoki; PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Japan
Recent Advances in Non-Gaussian Control of Optical Continuous Variables; Masahide Sasaki, Natl. Inst. of Information and Communication Technology, Japan
Circuit QED: Quantum Optics on a Superconducting Chip, Robert J. Schoelkopf; Yale Univ., USA
Quantum State Preparation with Waveguides, Christine Silberhorn; Univ. of Erlangen, Germany

IQEC 03 - Fundamentals of Metamaterials, Periodic and Random Media

Tutorial Speaker

Phononic Metamaterials with Negative Dynamic Mass Density, Ping Sheng; Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

Invited Speakers

Routing Light with Nematicons: Light Localization and Steering in Liquid Crystals, Gaetano Assanto; Italian Inst. for the Physics of Matter, Italy
Mapping Surface Plasmons on a Single Metallic Nanoparticle, Mathieu Kociak; Univ. Paris-Sud, France
Lasing in Chaotic and Random Scattering Media, Hakan E. Tureci; ETH Zurich, Switzerland

IQEC 04 - Optical Interactions with Condensed Matter and Ultrafast Phenomena

Tutorial Speaker

Four (or More) Wave Mixing in Semiconductor Heterostructures: From Many-Particle Physics to All-Optical Switching, Rolf Binder; Univ. of Arizona, USA

Invited Speaker

Ultrafast and Coherent Photolectron Emission Effects, Ulrich Höfer; Philipps-Univ. Marburg, Germany

IQEC 05 - Nonlinear Optics and Novel Phenomena

Tutorial Speaker

Cavity Optomechanics, Kerry Vahala; Caltech, USA

Invited Speakers

Terahertz Generation and Detection Using Frequency Conversion, Jerry Chen; MIT Lincoln Lab, USA
Title to Be Announced, Steven R. Brueck; Univ. of New Mexico, USA

IQEC 06 - Nano-Optics and Plasmonics

Tutorial Speaker

Title to Be Announced, Mark Stockman; Georgia State Univ., USA

Invited Speakers

Two-Photon Reduction for Fabrication of Three-Dimensional Metamaterials, Satoshi Kawata; Osaka Univ., Japan
Nanostructure-Based Optoelectronics and Plasmonics, Hongkun Park; Harvard Univ., USA

CLEO/IQEC 07 - Joint Subcommittee on High-Field Physics and High-Intensity Lasers

Tutorial Speaker

AMO Research at the LCLS X-Ray Laser, Philip H. Bucksbaum; Stanford Univ., USA

Invited Speaker

Laser Based Synchrotron Light Sources, Heinrich Schwoerer; Friedrich-Schiller-Univ., Germany
Ultrafast Hydrogen Migration in Hydrocarbon Molecules in Ultrashort Intense Laser Fields, Kaoru Yamanouchi; Univ. of Tokyo, Japan

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