By James Van Howe | Posted: 1 November 2010
CLEO conference organizers recently posted the categories for the Special Symposia which are to include five areas: 1) Nano-bio-photonics, 2) Broadband Spectroscopy: New Techniques and Sources, 3) Quantum Communications, 4) Fiber Parametric Devices and Applications, and 5) Light-emitting Nano-plasmonic Devices.
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By James Van Howe | Posted: 30 September 2010
As the leaves are changing color and the days are becoming shorter, it’s time to get your CLEO submission into shape. Time to order those parts with long lead-times. Time to optimize your code. Time to hunker-down, build your experiment and collect data. And this time, perhaps even demonstrate your prototype.
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By James Van Howe | Posted: 27 September 2010
Karl Koch of Corning, Inc., and this year’s General Program Chair for Frontiers in Optics 2010 Annual Meeting, is not fibbing in the slightest when he says FiO “..covers almost all topic areas that the Optical Society concerns itself with.” Where else could you find sessions like Astrophotonics, Vison and Color, Optical Design with Unconventional Polarization, Laser-based Particle Acceleration, Lasers for Fusion and Fast Ignition, and Sensing in Higher Dimensions all in the same program?
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By James Van Howe | Posted: 8 September 2010
Looking back through some of the literature in photonics and optics published this summer, I was most fascinated by three experiments concerning reliable generation of entangled photons.
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By Ksenia Dolgaleva | Posted: 23 May 2010
Before I finalize this post, it is very important to write something about the post-deadline session. Especially that it was outstandingly good! The quality of the talks and the work presented was amazing.
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By James Van Howe | Posted: 23 May 2010
I hope all conference attendees, presenters, and organizers have made it safely back home by now. Thanks to all of you for your hard work, great research, and participation in our field. Though the economy has not been on our side, one wouldn’t know it from the innovations demonstrated in both the academic sphere and marketplace at this conference.
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By Ksenia Dolgaleva | Posted: 21 May 2010
I have attended most of the session on Nonlinear Integrated Optics, as this subject is of my primary interest. I liked the presentation given by Dr. Pasquazi on Net Parametric Gain in a High Index Doped Silica Waveguide (QWE1).
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By Ksenia Dolgaleva | Posted: 21 May 2010
A good thing about the exhibit is that you don’t have to submit and wait for a quote. It is simply enough to speak to a company representative to get an approximate idea about the prices, or sometimes even exact value. Walking around the exhibit, I’ve managed to get some things done, such as looking up an upgrade to our Coherent OPO and figuring out the pricing for certain items that I meant to check long time ago, always saving it for later.
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By James Van Howe | Posted: 20 May 2010
Get ready for the post deadline frenzy beginning at 8:00 pm this evening. Make sure to stretch and warm-up properly as you race from room to room. Some areas that caught my interest when browsing through the abstracts were new spectroscopic techniques, novel sources for trace gas detection and molecular fingerprinting, and how to make something really, really, black.
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By James Van Howe | Posted: 20 May 2010
Khanh Kieu, from University of Arizona, began his talk, CTuII2,”Generation of sub-20fs pulses from an all-fiber carbon nanotube mode-locked laser system” emphasizing the importance of saturable absorbers (SA) in mode-locked lasers. The SA is the device that is responsible for locking the modes in a laser cavity, thereby allowing the creation of pulses.
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