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FS 1: Quantum Optics of Atoms, Molecules and Solids

Tutorial Speaker

Quantum Simulation and Many-body Physics with Hundreds of Trapped Ions, John Bollinger; NIST, USA



Invited Speakers

A Cold-atom Laser with <1 Intracavity Photon, James Thompson; Univ. of Colorado at Boulder JILA, USA

Solid-state Quantum Memory for Quantum Communication, Mikael Tony Afzelius; Universite de Geneve, Switzerland




FS 2: Quantum Science, Engineering and Technology

Tutorial Speaker

Nonclassical States of Light, Ian A. Walmsley; Univ. of Oxford, UK


Invited Speakers

QKD Security, Renato Renner; ETH Zurich, Switzerland


Quantum Computation with Circuit QED Systems, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll; CSIC Centro de Fisica Miguel A Catalan, Spain


Quantum Imaging, Kevin Resch; Univ. of Waterloo, Canada



FS 3: Metamaterials and Complex Media

Tutorial Speaker

Hyperbolic Metamaterials, Evgenii E. Narimanov; Purdue Univ., USA


Invited Speakers

Color Production by Isotropic Nanostructures with Short-range Order in Bird Feather Barbs, Hui Cao; Yale Univ., USA


Negative Optical Force, Che Ting Chan; Hong Kong Univ. of Science & Technology, Hong Kong


Plasmonic Crystals, Anatoly V. Zayats; Univ. of London King's College London, UK

Topological Transitions in Metamaterials: QED and Related Effects, Vinod M. Menon; Univ. of New York (CUNY), USA




FS 4: Optical Excitations and Ultrafast Phenomena in Condensed Matter

Tutorial Speaker

Graphene: Optical Properties and Emerging Photonics Applications, Tony F. Heinz; Columbia Univ., USA



Invited Speakers

Transient Excitons at Metal Surfaces, Hrvoje Petek; Univ. of Pittsburgh, USA

Ultrafast Order Parameter Dynamics and Critical Phenomena of Ising-Nematic Phase in Iron Pnictides, Jigang Wang; Iowa State Univ., USA




FS 5: Nonlinear Optics and Novel Phenomena

Tutorial Speaker

Strong-field Effects in Metallic Nanostructures, Claus Ropers; Georg-August-Universität Gottingen, Germany


Invited Speakers

Bosonic Cascade Terahertz Lasers, Alexey Kavokin; Univ. of Southampton, UK


Optical Logic with Cascaded Silicon Microring Resonators, Minghao Qi; Purdue Univ., USA




FS 6: Nano-Optics and Plasmonics

Tutorial Speaker

The Chemical Design of Plasmonic Building Blocks, Christopher B. Murray; Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA



Invited Speakers

Chiral Plasmonics, David Norris; ETH Zürich, Switzerland


Graphene Nano-optoelectronics, Frank Koppens; ICFO Barcelona, Spain


Quantum Plasmons and Magnetic Metafluids, Jennifer Dionne; Stanford Univ., USA




FS 7: High-Field Physics and Attoscience

Tutorial Speaker

Laser Plasma Acceleration of Electrons and Plasma Diagnostics at High Laser Fields, Michael C. Downer; Univ. of Texas at Austin, USA



Invited Speakers

Attosecond Absorption Spectroscopy in Atoms and Molecules, Giuseppe Sansone; Politecnico di Milano, Italy

High-Order Harmonic Comb from Relativistic Electron Spikes, Alexander S. Pirozhkov; JAEA, Japan




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S&I 1: Light-matter Interactions and Materials Processing

Tutorial Speaker

Mechanisms of Nanoscale Materials Modification by Photon Beams, Alexander Shluger; Univ. College London, UK


Invited Speakers

Image-guided Ultrafast Laser Microsurgery Probes, Adela Ben-Yakar; Univ. of Texas at Austin, USA


Ultrafast Lasers in Industrial Applications, David M. Gaudiosi; Raydiance Inc., USA




S&I 2:  Advanced Science and Technology for Laser Systems and Facilities

Tutorial Speaker

Scaling Thin Disk Lasers to High Power and Energy, Adolf Giesen; German Aerospace Center, Germany



Invited Speakers

Plasma as an Amplifying Medium: Raman CPA and the Transition to the Nonlinear Regime, Dino A. Jaroszynski; Univ. of Strathclyde, UK

Ultra-broadband Front-end Laser Development for the Apollon 10PW Laser, Patrick Georges; Institut d'Optique, France




S&I 3: Semiconductor Lasers

Tutorial Speaker

Photonic Crystal Lasers, Susumu Noda; Kyoto Univ., Japan


Invited Speakers

Electrically Driven Single Photon Source at Room Temperature by using Single NV Center in Diamond , Norikazu Mizuochi; Osaka University, Japan


Nanolasers Employing Epitaxial Plasmonic Layers, Chih-Kang (Ken) Shih; Univ. of Texas at Austin, USA

Polariton Lasing at Room Temperature, Nicolas Grandjean; Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland


Room-temperature Quantum Cascade Laser Sources of Terahertz Radiation,, Mikhail A. Belkin; Univ. of Texas at Austin, USA




S&I 4: Nonlinear Optical Technologies

Tutorial Speaker

Dissipative Solitons, a Novel Paradigm for Mode-locked Lasers, Philippe Grelu; Universite de Bourgogne, France



Invited Speakers

Advances in Hydrothermally Grown UV Nonlinear Crystals, Joseph W. Kolis; Clemson Univ., USA

High Average Power Few-cycle Pulses in the Mid-IR, Self-compression and Continuum Generation, Jens Biegert; ICFO - Institut de Ciències Fotòniques, Spain


Quantum Frequency Conversion of Single-Photon States by Three- and Four-Wave Mixing, Michael G. Raymer; Univ. of Oregon, USA


Ultra-stable CW OPOs in the Visible, Fabien Bretenaker; Laboratoire Aime Cotton, France




S&I 5: Terahertz Technologies and Applications

Tutorial Speaker

Terahertz Nano Antennas: Fundamentals and Applications, Dai-Sik Kim; Seoul National Univ., South Korea



Invited Speakers

Light-matter Interaction in Terahertz Meta-atoms, Juraj Darmo; Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria


Scanning Laser THz Imaging System and its Application, Masayoshi Tonouchi; Osaka Univ., Japan


Terahertz Plasmonics and Metamaterial-Based Optics, Marco H. Rahm; Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, Germany




S&I 6: Optical Materials, Fabrication and Characterization

Tutorial Speaker

Plasmonic and Semiconductor Building Blocks for Nanophotonic Devices, Mark Brongersma; Stanford Univ., USA



Invited Speakers

Chemically Etched Ultra-High-Q Resonators, Kerry J. Vahala; California Inst.. of Technology, USA


Nanostructured Optical Polymer Surfaces by Imprinting and Injection Moulding , Anders Kristensen; Danmarks Tekniske Universitet, Denmark


Theory-guided Nano-engineering of Organic Electro-optic Materials for Integration with Silicon Photonics, Plasmonics, and Metamaterial Devices, Larry R. Dalton ; Univ. of Washington, USA




S&I 7: Micro- and Nano-Photonic Devices

Tutorial Speaker

Routes to Non-reciprocity in Nanophotonics: with or without Magneto-optics, Shanhui Fan; Stanford Univ., USA



Invited Speakers

Integrated Transmitters, Graham T. Reed; Univ. of Southampton, UK

Nanophotonic Structures for Extreme Nonlinearities On-chip , Michal Lipson; Cornell Univ., USA


Nano-plasmonics on Silicon and their Applications, Sailing He; Zhejiang University, China; Joint Research Center of Photonics of the Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden


Quantum Photonic Circuits, Jeremy O'Brien ; Univ. of Bristol, UK


SNAP: Fabrication of Ultra-low-loss Miniature Photonic Circuits with Sub-angstrom Precision, Mikhail Sumetsky; OFS Laboratories, USA


Sub-100μm Wide-Bandwidth Si Photonic Crystal MZI Modulators, Hong Chuyen Nguyen; Yokohama National Univ., Japan




S&I 8: Ultrafast Optics, Optoelectronics and Applications

Tutorial Speaker

Attosecond Time-scale Manifestations of Multi-electron Dynamics, Mark Vrakking; Max Born Inst., Germany


Invited Speakers

Atomic and Molecular X-ray Lasers, Nina Rohringer; Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, Germany


Coherent Synthesis of Ultra-broadband Optical Parametric Amplifiers, Cristian Manzoni; IFN-CNR, Italy


Light Scattering from Soliton-induced Relativistically Travelling Inhomogeneities, Daniele Faccio; Heriot-Watt University, UK


Optical Kerr Effect in the Strong Field Regime, Olivier Faucher; Université de Bourgogne, France




S&I 9: Components, Integration, Interconnects and Signal Processing

Tutorial Speaker

Photodetectors - UV to IR, Joe Charles Campbell; Univ. of Virginia, USA



Invited Speakers

Semiconductor Laser based Optical Frequency Combs for Applications in Microwave Photonics, Peter J. Delfyett,; Univ. of Central Florida, USA


TBD, Takahiro Nakamura; PETRA, Japan



S&I 10: Biophotonics and Optofluidics

Tutorial Speaker

Speaker listings coming soon


Invited Speakers

Advances in Super-resolution Fluorescence Microscopy, Joerg Bewersdorf; Yale University Medical School, USA


Optical Manipulation of Particles using Silicon Photonics, Andrew W. Poon; Hong Kong Univ. of Science & Technology, Hong Kong


Three-dimensional Polarization and Doppler Imaging of Living Tissue by Multi-functional Optical Coherence Tomography, Yoshiaki Yasuno; Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan




S&I 11: Fiber, Fiber Amplifiers, Lasers and Devices

Tutorial Speaker

Fiber Optical Parametric Amplifiers in Optical Communication, Michel E. Marhic; Swansea Univ., UK



Invited Speakers

2 Micron Fiber Lasers Using Multi-component Glass Fibers, Shibin Jiang; AdValue Photonics, Inc., USA


Nanoscale Metal Optics using Evanescent Fields from Fiber Cladding Modes, Jacques Albert; Carleton Univ., Canada


Optical Vortex Fiber Lasers and their Application to Material Nano-processing, Takashige Omatsu; Chiba Univ., Japan


Single-frequency Fiber Amplifiers for Gravitational Wave Detection, Peter Wessels; Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V., Germany


Single-mode Air-core Photonic Bandgap Fibers, Linli Meng; OFS Laboratories, USA


Ultrafast Optical Signal Processing, using Fiber Nonlinearities, Shu Namiki; Natl. Inst. of Adv. Industrial Sci. & Tech., Japan




S&I 12: Lightwave Communications and Optical Networks

Tutorial Speaker

Integrated Silicon Nanophotonics for High-bandwidth Chip-to-Chip Communications, Yurii A. Vlasov; IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA



Invited Speakers

Signal Regeneration Techniques for Advanced Modulation Formats, Radan Slavik; Univ. of Southampton, UK


The Pursuit of Ultimate Photon Efficiency, Xiang Liu; Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA




S&I 13: Active Optical Sensing

Tutorial Speaker

Progress in QCL for Spectroscopy Applications, Jérôme Faist; ETH Zurich, Switzerland


Invited Speakers

Recent Progress in High Precision Atmospheric Trace Gas Instruments using Mid-infrared Quantum Cascade Lasers, John Barry McManus; Aerodyne Research Inc., USA


TBD, Jim Anderson; Harvard Univ., USA



S&I 14: Optical Metrology

Tutorial Speaker

Attosecond Physics: The First Decade and Beyond, Ferenc Krausz; LMU Muenchen and Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Germany



Invited Speakers

COMPASS – Towards Centimeter Positioning & Applications, Lijung Wang; Tsinghua Univ., China

Test of QED Effects in Molecules; Precision Laser Spectroscopy of H_2, Wim Ubachs; Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands




S&I 15: LEDS, Photovoltaics and Energy-Efficient ("Green") Photonics

Tutorial Speaker

Quantum Dots for Displays and Lighting, Seth Coe-Sullivan; QD Vision Corporation, USA



Invited Speakers

III-Nitride Nanowire LEDs, Nathan Gardner; Glo USA, Inc., USA

III-V Compound Semiconductor Nanowire Solar Cells, Takashi Fukui; RCIQE, Hokkaido Univ., Japan




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A&T 1: Biomedical

Tutorial Speaker

Optogenetics: Molecular and Optical Tools for Controlling Life with Light, Ed Boyden; MIT, USA



Invited Speakers

Adaptive Optics Imaging for Studying Retinal Vasculature in Health and Disease, Stephen Allen Burns; Indiana Univ., USA


Fluorescence Lifetime Spectroscopy and Imaging for Clinical Diagnostics, Laura Marcu; Univ. of California Davis, USA


OCT Image Guidance for RFA Therapy of Cardiac Arrhythmias, Andrew M. Rollins; Case Western Reserve Univ., USA

OCT-Guided Eye Surgery, David Huang; Oregon Health and Science Univ., USA


Phase Contrast Endomicroscopy, Jerome C. Mertz; Boston Univ., USA



A&T 2: Environment/Energy

Tutorial Speaker

UV Nitride Semiconductor Lasers, Noble Johnson; PARC, USA



Invited Speakers

InGaN-Based Solar Cells and High-Performance Broadband Optical Coatings for Ultrahigh Efficiency Hybrid Multijunction Device Designs, Robert M. Farrell; University of California, Santa Barbara, USA


Laser-based Sensors for Water Vapor and Other Greenhouse Gases on NASA Aircraft, Glen Diskin; NASA Langley, USA


Multi Junction Solar Cells, Rebecca Jones-Albertus; Solar Junction, USA


Semipolar Faceting for InGaN-based Polychromatic LEDs, Mitsuru Funato; Kyoto Univ., Japan




A&T 3: Government & National Science, Security & Standards Applications

Invited Speakers

Electron-beam Based Coherent Radiators for Security and Defense, Sandra Biedron; Colorado State University, USA


High Power Laser Generated Fast Neutrons and their Applications, Satyabrata Kar; Queen's University of Belfast, UK


Laser-driven Radiation Sources for Penetrating Imaging, Robert M. Deas; Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, UK


Optimal Use of Laser Resources for Molecular Detection, Herschel Rabitz; Princeton Univ., USA



A&T 4: Industrial

Tutorial Speaker

A Pragmatic Guide to Building a Multi Photon Microscope with Applications to Micro Machining, Jeff Squier; Colorado School of Mines, USA



Invited Speakers

Atom Probe Tomography : An Imaging Tool at the Atomic Level using Ultrafast Laser Assisted Field Evaporation, Bernard Deconihout; CNRS Université et INSA de Rouen, France


Direct Joining and Welding with Ultrashort Laser Pulses, Wataru Watanabe; Natl Inst of Adv Industrial Sci & Tech, Japan


Precision Inertial and Time Measurement with Atoms Near Absolute Zero, Philippe Bouyer; Institut d'Optique, France


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