By Dominic Siriani
After many hours of flights, I finally arrived in San Jose, CA for this year’s CLEO meeting. I made my way downtown and shortly headed over to the Convention Center to pick up my registration materials. Conference program and other goodies in hand, I headed back to my hotel to dive into the details of what’s in store for this week.
As is typical when I attend CLEO, I found that the conference is filled with more information than one person could possibly hope to absorb in a single week. The conference lives up to its name: lasers and electro-optics, everything from laser science to photonic applications. And what an incredible mass of information is contained therein. Just a quick glance can give you an idea of the technical reach of the conference; from a ten-thousand-foot view, you can see a plethora of lasers, nanophotonics, novel optical materials, quantum optics, biophotonics, plasmonics, nonlinear optics… it’s hard to wrap one’s head around it all!
For my part, I’m a bit daunted by the prospect of having to narrow my choices down to just the handful of sessions I’ll be able to attend. I did, however, manage to pick out a few that I’m particularly interested in checking out. These include the symposium on high power diode laser arrays and the special technology transfer program. I immediately added these to the Guidebook app on my phone. (For those with a smartphone, you can use the Guidebook app to view all kinds of conference info and create a schedule of the sessions you’d like to attend.) I’ve still got a bit to go before I narrow down to my top choices, but that’s part of the fun of CLEO: there’s so much going on at once, you can wander into just about any room and see an interesting and educational talk.
With that, I’d like to welcome all the attendees who made it to CLEO: 2013! As is usual for this conference, it appears we have an exciting and full week ahead of us. I’m eagerly awaiting the conference getting into full swing tomorrow. Now I just need to figure out what talk I’m going to see first….
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Posted: 10 June 2013 by
Dominic Siriani
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