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The CLEO/QELS subcommittee chairs reviewed all of the papers that were submitted for the conference and highlighted those they found to be the most newsworthy. Below is a comprehensive listing of those papers for your convenience.
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Markus Pollnau, Univ. of Twente, Netherlands, General Chair John Zayhowski, MIT Lincoln Lab, USA, General Chair Claire Gmachl, Princeton Univ., USA, Program Chair Konstantin Vodopyanov, Stanford Univ., USA, Program Chair
CLEO 1: Laser Processing and Optical Instrumentation Donald Harter, IMRA America Inc., USA, Chair
Invited Talks: Laser Precision Engineering: From Microprocessing to Nanofabrication, Ming Hui Hong; Data Storage Inst., Singapore, Singapore Coherent Phonon Excitation and Manipulation in Bismuth Using Temporally Shaped Ultrafast Pulses, Xianfan Xu; Purdue Univ., USA
Title: Laser Direct Write Near-Field Nanopatterning Using Optically Trapped Microspheres Authors: Euan McLeod, Craig B. Arnold; Princeton Univ., USA. Paper: 2451, Presentation CMX2 Time: Monday, May 5, 2:00 p.m.–2:15 p.m. Location: Marriott San Jose Salon 1 and 2 Abstract: We use Bessel beam optical traps to self-position microsphere objectives near surfaces. Pulsed laser illumination of these objectives is used to perform near-field direct-write subwavelength optical nanopatterning with 100 nm feature sizes.
CLEO 2: Solid-State Lasers Timothy Carrig, Lockheed Martin Coherent Technologies, USA, Chair
Invited Talks: Recent Advances in Cr2+ and Fe2+ Doped Mid-IR Laser Materials, Sergey Mirov; Univ. of Alabama at Birmingham, USA. Dy3+ and Pr3+ Doped Crystals for Mid-IR Lasers, Andrey Okhrimchuk; General Physics Inst., Russian Acad. of Science, Russian Federation. Low Wavelength Emissions with Nd Doped Lasers, Patrick M. Georges; Lab Charles Fabry, Inst. d'Optique, Ecole Polytechnique, France.
Title: The National Ignition Facility: Status and Performance of the World’s Largest Laser System for the High Energy Density and Inertial Confinement Fusion Authors: Christopher A. Haynam, Paul J. Wegner, Glenn M. Heestand, Edward Moses, Richard A. Sacks, M. W. Bowers, S. N. Dixit, G. V. Erbert, M. A. Henesian, M. R. Hermann, K. S. Jancaitis, K. Knittel, T. Kohut, K. R. Manes, C. D. Marshall, N. C. Mehta, J. Menapace, J. R. Murray, M. C. Nostrand, C. D. Orth, R. Patterson, R. Saunders, Michael J. Shaw, M. Spaeth, S. B. Sutton; Lawrence Livermore Natl. Lab, USA. Paper: 1133, Presentation CFQ1 Time: Friday, May 9, 1:30 p.m.–1:45 p.m. Location: B1 and B2 Abstract: The National Ignition Facility will support high energy density science experiments, including the demonstration of inertial fusion ignition. We discuss the status of NIF commissioning, and the results of various system performance validation measurements.
Title: In-Band Pumping of High-Power Ho:YAG Lasers by Laser Diodes at 1.9µm Authors: Karsten Scholle, Peter Fuhrberg; LISA Laser Products OHG, Germany. Paper: 995, Presentation CTuAA1 Time: Tuesday, May 6, 2:30 p.m.–2:45 p.m. Location: Marriott San Jose Salon 1 and 2 Abstract: High-power laser diodes at 1.9µm allow direct in-band pumping of Ho:YAG. In an endpumped rod configuration 40W cw output with 57% slope efficiency were achieved in a most compact system.
CLEO 3: Semiconductor Lasers A. Catrina Bryce, Univ. of Glasgow, UK, Chair
Invited Talks: Quantum Cascade Lasers with Emission below 3µm, Rolland Teissier; Univ. of Montpellier, France. Lasers with Nanopatterned Active Regions, James Coleman; Univ. of Illinois, USA. Polariton Lasing in Semiconductor Microcavities, Jeremy J. Baumberg; NanoPhotonics Ctr., Cavendish Lab, Univ. of Cambridge, UK.
Title: GaN Photonic-Crystal Surface-Emitting Laser Operating at Blue-Violet Wavelengths Authors: Susumu Yoshimoto, Hideki Matsubara, Hirohisa Saito, Yue Jianglin, Yoshinori Tanaka, Susumu Noda; Kyoto Univ., Japan. Paper: invited 3458, Presentation CMI3 Location: Marriott San Jose Salon 5 and 6 Time: Monday, May 5, 8:30 a.m.–9:00 a.m. Abstract: We report on a first successful operation of current-driven GaN photonic-crystal surface-emitting laser, which can operate in blue-violet wavelength regions at room temperature.
Title: CW Lasing of Current Injection Blue GaN-Based Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers Authors: Tien-Chang Lu, Tsung-Ting Kao, Shih-Wei Chen, Chih-Chiang Kao, Hao-Chung Kuo, Shing-Chung Wang; Inst. of Electro-Optical Engineering, Natl. Chiao Tung Univ., Taiwan. Paper: 1794, Presentation CMI5 Time: Monday, May 5, 9:15 a.m.–9:30 a.m. Location: Marriott San Jose Salon 5 and 6 Abstract: We demonstrated CW laser operation of GaN-based VCSELs under current injection at 77K. CW laser action was achieved at a threshold current of 1.4mA, emitting at 462nm with a narrow linewidth of about 0.15nm.
Title: Quantum Dot Microdrop Laser Authors: Jan Schäfer, Jessica P. Mondia, Rachit Sharma, Z. H. Lu; Inst. of Optics, Information and Photonics Div. II, Germany. Paper: 3081, Presentation CTuJJ6 Time: Tuesday, May 6, 6:15 p.m.–6:30 p.m. Location: J3 Abstract: We report room-temperature, low threshold, multi- and single mode lasing in levitated microdrops doped with low concentrations of CdSe/ZnS core/shell quantum dots.
Title: Threshold Current Reduction and Electrical Modulation of Degree of Circular Polarization in InAs/GaAs Quantum Dot Spin-VCSELs Authors: Debashish Basu, Chung Chiang Wu, Dipankar Saha, Zetian Mi, Pallab Bhattacharya; Univ. of Michigan, USA. Paper: 1443, upgraded to invited 3437, Presentation CMGG4 Time: Monday, May 5, 4:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m. Location: J3 Abstract: Threshold current reduction and polarization modulation of an electrically injected spin-polarized VCSEL operating at 200 K have been investigated experimentally and theoretically.
CLEO 4: Applications of Nonlinear Optics Vladimir Shkunov, Raytheon Corp., USA, Chair
Invited Talks: Nonlinear Optics for Generating Coherent UV Light: High Harmonics Generation (HHG), Oren Cohen; JILA, Univ. of Colorado, NIST, USA. Quasi-Phase Matched GaN, Aref Chowdhury; Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA. Ultrafast Carrier Dynamics in Semiconductor Nanowires, Rohit P. Prasankumar; Los Alamos Natl. Lab, USA. Spatial Phase Shaping in Nonlinear Microscopy, Eric Olaf Potma; Univ. of California at Irvine, USA. Nonlinear Optical Limits to Power in Fiber Amplifiers, Arlee Smith; Sandia Natl. Lab, USA.
Title: Designer Femtosecond Pulse Shaping Using Grating-Engineered Quasi-Phasematching in Lithium Niobate Authors: Lukasz Kornaszewski¹, Markus Kohler¹, Derryck T. Reid¹, Usman K. Sapaev²; ¹Heriot-Watt Univ., United Kingdom, ²Acad. of Sciences of Uzbekistan, Uzbekistan. Paper: 747, Presentation CWK3 Time: Wednesday, May 7, 5:15 p.m.–5:30 p.m. Location: J2 Abstract: Tailored femtosecond pulses with fully engineered intensity and phase profiles are demonstrated using second-harmonic generation of an Er:fiber laser in an aperiodically-poled lithium niobate crystal. The profiles created include square, stepped, double and triple pulses.
Title: New Mid-IR Nonlinear Optical Crystal: CdSiP2 Peter G. Schunemann¹, Kevin T. Zawilski¹, Thomas M. Pollak¹, David E. Zelmon², Nils C. Fernilius², F. Kenneth Hopkins²; ¹BAE Systems, USA, ²AFRL, USA. Paper: 2923, Presentation CFX7 Time: Friday, May 9, 5:15 p.m.–5:30 p.m. Location: J2 Abstract: We report for the first time the phase matching properties of a new negative uniaxial crystal, CdSiP2, which can be pumped at 1 or 1.5 microns to generate mid-IR output in the 2-9μm spectral range.
CLEO 5: Terahertz Technologies and Applications Richard Averitt, Boston Univ., USA, Chair
Invited Talks: Terahertz Semiconductor Gain Medium: Static Properties and Dynamic Behavior, Juraj Darmo; Inst. of Solid-State Electronics, Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria. Terahertz Detectors and Emitters Based on Plasma Wave Oscillations in Nanometer Gate Length Transistor, Wojciech Knap; Montpellier Univ., France. Intense Super-Broadband THz Radiation from Two-Color Photo-Ionized Air Plasma, Antoinette J. Taylor; Los Alamos Natl. Lab, USA.
CLEO 6: Optical Materials, Fabrication and Characterization Mihaela Dinu, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA, Chair
Invited Talks: Advanced Nanofabrication of 3-D Silicon Periodic Structures, Joseph Perry; Georgia Tech, USA. Nonlinear and Electro-Optic Waveguides in Integrated Ferroelectric/Organic Materials, Peter Gunter; Inst. of Quantum Electronics, ETH Zurich, Switzerland. Single Quantum Dot Spectroscopy in a Cavity, Galina Khitrova; Univ. of Arizona, USA.
Title: Chemical Fluid Deposition of Semiconductors inside a Microstructured Optical Fiber for Optoelectronic Applications Authors: Mahesh Krishnamurthi¹, Dong J. Won¹, Neil Baril¹, Rongrei He¹, Chris E. Finlayson², Adrian A. Correa², Pier Sazio², John Badding¹, Venkatraman Gopalan¹; ¹Pennsylvania State Univ., USA, ²Univ. of Southampton, United Kingdom. Paper: 1077, Presentation CTuMM1 Time: Tuesday, May 6, 4:45 p.m.–5:00 p.m. Location: Marriott San Jose Salon 4 Abstract: A technique to fill semiconductors inside a microstructured optical fiber is developed. The structural, electrical and optical properties are investigated. All-optical modulation of light and an in-fiber field effect transistor are demonstrated using this device.
Title: Er Doped As2S3 Photoresist for 3-D Direct Laser Fabrication of 3-D Nanostructures Authors: Sean H. Wong1, Georg von Freymann1, Dieter Fenske2, Manfred Kappes3, Oliver Kiowski3, Frank Peiris4, Joerg Lindner5, Geoffrey A. Ozin6, Michael Thiel7, Markus Braun7, Alexandra Ledermann7, Martin Wegener7; 1Inst. for Nanotechnology, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe in der Helmholtz-Geminshaft, Germany, 2Inst. für Anorganische Chemie, Univ. Karlsruhe (TH), Germany, 3Inst. für Physikalische Chemie II, Univ. Karlsruhe (TH), Germany, 4Dept. of Physics, Kenyon College, USA, 5Inst. für Angewandte Physik, EP IV, Univ. Augsburg, Germany, 6Chemistry Dept., Univ. of Toronto, Canada, 7Inst. für Angewandte Physik, Univ. Karlsruhe (TH), Paper: 694, Presentation CWO6 Time: Wednesday, May 7, 6:15 p.m.–6:30 p.m. Location: Marriott San Jose Salon 4 Abstract: We present a novel high-index-of-refraction (2.45) photoresist material based on erbium doped arsenic trisulfide. It shows room temperature photoluminescence at 1.5 microns wavelength, and can directly be used for direct laser writing.
Title: Localized Substrate Removal Technique Enabling Strong-Confinement Microphotonics in Bulk Si CMOS Processes Authors: Charles W. Holzwarth, Jason S. Orcutt, Hanqing Li, Milos A. Popovic, Vladimir Stojanovic, Judy L. Hoyt, Rajeev J. Ram, Henry I. Smith; MIT, USA. Paper: 2320, Presentation CThKK5 Time: Thursday, May 8, 5:45 p.m.–6:00 p.m. Location: Marriott San Jose Salon 4 Abstract: A novel post-processing fabrication technique, based on XeF2 etching, has been developed to locally remove the silicon substrate beneath polysilicon waveguides, enabling integration of low-loss strong-confinement microphotonics into standard bulk-silicon CMOS process flows.
Title: Bright Photoluminescence from GaAs and InGaAs Nanoneedles Grown on Si Substrates Authors: Michael Moewe, Linus C. Chuang, Shanna Crankshaw, Connie Chang-Hasnain; Univ. of California at Berkeley, USA. Paper: 1948, Presentation CTuCC1 Time: Tuesday, May 6, 2:30 p.m.–2:45 p.m. Location: Marriott San Jose Salon 4 Abstract: We report novel single-crystalline (In)GaAs nanoneedles with 2~5 nm tips, smooth 6-9° taper angles and lengths up to 3-4 um, grown aligned to [111] orientation on Si substrates. Bright photoluminescence is obtained from quantum-well nanoneedles.
CLEO/QELS 7: Joint Subcommittee on High-Field Physics and High-Intensity Lasers Mike Downer, Univ. of Texas at Austin, USA, Co-Chair Henry Kapteyn, JILA/Univ. of Colorado, USA, Co-Chair
Invited Talks: High Order Harmonic Generation in High Intensity Laser-Solid Interactions, Fabien Quere; CEA Saclay, France. 1 GeV Electron Beams from a Laser-Driven Channel-Guided Accelerator, Csaba Toth; Lawrence Berkeley Natl. Lab, USA. Performance of the Omega EP High-Energy Petawatt Laser System, Leon Waxer; Lab for Laser Energetics, Univ. of Rochester, USA. Ultrafast Atomic and Molecular Dynamics with High-Order Harmonic Probes, Stephen R. Leone; Univ. of California at Berkeley, USA. Performance of the Omega EP High-Energy Petawatt Laser System, Leon Waxer; Lab for Laser Energetics, Univ. of Rochester, USA.
Title: The Physics of High-Order Harmonic Generation Author: Anne L'Huillier; Lund Univ., Sweden Paper: 302, Presentation JFD1 Time: Friday, May 9, 10:15 p.m.–11:15 a.m. Location: C3 and C4 Abstract: This tutorial will describe the field of high-order harmonics in gases, including attosecond pulse generation.
Title: High Order Harmonic Generation in High Intensity Laser-Solid Interactions Authors: Fabien Quéré¹, C. Thaury¹, H. George¹, J. P. Geindre², A. Lévy¹, T. Ceccotti¹, P. Monot¹, R. Marjoribanks³, P. Audebert², Ph. Martin¹; ¹Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, DSM/DRECAM, CEN Saclay, France, ²Lab pour l'Utilisation des Lasers Intenses, Ctr. Natl. de la Recherche Scientifique, Ecole Polytechnique, France, ³Dept. of Physics and Inst. for Optical Sciences, Univ. of Toronto, Canada. Paper: 298, JWB4 Time: Wednesday, May 7, 2:15 p.m.–2:45 p.m. Location: C3 and C4 Abstract: N/A
Title: 1 GeV Electron Beams from a Laser-Driven Channel-Guided Accelerator Authors: Csaba Toth, K. Nakamura, A. Gonsalves, D. Panasenko, N. Matlis, C. G. R. Geddes, C. B. Schroeder, E. Esarey, W. P. Leemans; Lawrence Berkeley Natl. Lab, USA. Paper: 299, Presentation JFB6 Time: Friday, May 9, 9:15 a.m.–9:45 a.m. Location: C3 and C4 Abstract: N/A
CLEO 8: Ultrafast Optics, Optoelectronics & Applications Fiorenzo Omenetto, Tufts Univ., USA, Chair
Invited Talks: Visualizing Ultrafast Nonlinear Dynamics with X-FROG, Anatoly Efimov; Los Alamos Natl. Lab, USA. Ultrafast Fiber Laser Technology: Status and Perspectives, Andreas Tünnermann; Fraunhofer-Inst., Angewandte Optik und Feinmechanik, Germany. In vivo Cellular Level Imaging Using Nonlinear Optical Microendoscopy, Mark Schnitzer; Stanford Univ., USA.
Title: History of High-Intensity Interactions: Physics of the Power Scaling of the 2.9 Angstrom Xe(L) X-Ray Amplifier to the Multi-Petawatt Level Authors: A. B. Borisov1, P. Zhang1, E. Racz1,2, J. C. McCorkindale1, S. F. Khan1, S. Poopalasingam1, J. Zhao1, Charles K. Rhodes1; 1Univ. of Illinois at Chicago, USA, 2KFKI Res. Inst. for Particle and Nuclear Physics, EURATOM Association, Hungary. Paper: Presentation CThA4 Time: Thursday, May 8, 8:45 a.m.–9:45 a.m. Location: Ballroom A3 and A6 Abstract: The 2.9 Angstrom Xe(L) X-ray amplifier characteristics determine an optimal scaling of the peak power. Experimental findings demonstrate that powers greater than 1 PW are clearly within the scaling limits of the Xe(L) system.
Title: Nanoscale Heat Transport Probed with Soft-X-Rays Authors: Mark Siemens¹, Qing Li¹, Margaret Murnane¹, Henry Kapteyn¹, Ronggui Yang¹, Keith Nelson²; ¹Univ. of Colorado, USA, ²MIT, USA. Paper: 1109, upgraded to invited 3436, CWA6 Time: Wednesday, May 7, 2:45 p.m.–3:15 p.m. Location: Ballroom A3 and A6 Abstract: We characterize heat transport in nanostructures, using coherent soft-x-rays to probe thermal surface deformation. By varying the substrate temperature, we observe the transition from diffusive to quasi-ballistic heat transport regimes.
CLEO 9: Optical Components, Interconnects & Processing Paul Juodawlkis, MIT Lincoln Lab, USA, Chair
Invited Talks: Optical Signal Processing Using InP-Based Quantum-Dot Semiconductor Mode-Locked Lasers, Guang-Hua Duan; Alcatel Thales III-V Lab, France. Advances in Microwave Photonic Devices, Masayuki Izutsu; NICT, Japan, Japan. Large-Scale High-Index-Contrast Planar Lightwave Circuits, Brent Little; Infinera; PLC Div., USA. Geiger-Mode Avalanche Photodiode Arrays for Near-Infrared Single-Photon Detection, Alex McIntosh; MIT Lincoln Lab, USA.
Title: Cryogenically Cooled Laser Based on Resonantly Pumped Er3+:Y2O3 Ceramic Authors: Nikolay Ter-Gabrielyan, Larry D. Merkle, G. Alex Newburgh, Mark Dubinskii; US ARL, USA. Paper: 719, Presentation CTuAA5 Time: Tuesday, May 6, 3:30 p.m.–3:45 p.m. Location: Marriott San Jose Salon 1 and 2 Abstract: Laser performance of Er3+-doped Y2O3 ceramic is reported for the first time. Resonantly-pumped, eyesafe, 1.6-μm Er:Y2O3 cryo-laser slope efficiency of ~48% and output power ~ 7 W have been achieved in this first experiment.
Title: Demonstration of an Electronic Photonic Integrated Circuit in a Commercial Scaled Bulk CMOS Process Authors: Jason S. Orcutt¹, Anatol Khilo¹, Milos A. Popovic¹, Charles W. Holzwarth¹, Benjamin Moss¹, Hanqing Li¹, Marcus S. Dahlem¹, Thomas D. Bonifield², Franz X. Kaertner¹, Erich P. Ippen¹, Judy L. Hoyt¹, Rajeev J. Ram¹, Vladimir Stojanovic¹; ¹MIT, USA, ²Texas Instruments Inc., USA. Paper: 2770, Presentation CTuBB3 Time: Tuesday, May 6, 4:00 p.m.–4:15 p.m. Location: Marriott San Jose Salon 3 Abstract: We demonstrate the first photonic chip designed in a commercial bulk CMOS process (65 nm node) using standard process layers combined with scalable post-processing, enabling dense photonic integration with high-performance microprocessor electronics.
CLEO 10: Medical and Biological Applications Changhuei Yang, Caltech, USA, Chair
Invited Talks: Photoacoustic Tomography, Lihong Wang; Washington Univ., USA. Speckle Imaging, Andrew K. Dunn; Univ. of Texas at Austin, USA. Photoactivatable Localization Microscopy, Hari Shroff; Howard Hughes Medical Inst., USA.
Title: Superresolution Imaging in Live Bacterial Cells by Single-Molecule Active-Control Microscopy Authors: Julie S. Biteen, Michael A. Thompson, Nicole K. Tselentis, Lucy Shapiro, W. E. Moerner; Stanford Univ., USA. Paper: 1673, Presentation CFT2 Time: Friday, May 9, 2:00 p.m.–2:15 p.m. Location: Marriott San Jose Salon 1 and 2 Abstract: Imaging of a nanoscale emitter naturally provides position information beyond the diffraction limit. We use active control to switch single fluorophores on and off to image structures with 40-nm resolution in a living cell.
Title: Detection of Neural Cell Activity Using Plasmonic Gold Nanoparticles Authors: Jiayi Q. Zhang¹, Tolga Atay¹, Arto V. Nurmikko²; ¹Physics Dept., Brown Univ., USA, ²Div. of Engineering, Brown Univ., USA. Paper: 2892, Presentation CWM3 Time: Wednesday, May 7, 5:15 p.m.–5:30 p.m. Location: Marriott San Jose Salon 1 and 2 Abstract: Metal nanoparticles have been studied intensively for their applications using localized surface plasmon polariton (SPP) resonance. We have demonstrated for the first time that using gold nanoparticles, one can detect electrical activities from the neurons.
CLEO 11: Fiber and Guided-Wave Lasers & Amplifiers Karl Koch, Corning Inc., USA, Chair
Invited Talks: Non-Silica Fibers for Nonlinear Devices, Naoki Sugimoto; Asahi Glass Co., Japan. Fibers in Optical Precision Spectroscopy and Timing Distribution, Seth M. Foreman; Stanford Univ., USA. Effectively Single-Mode Large Core Fibers, Almantas Galvanauskas; Univ. of Michigan, USA.
Title: A New Kind of PM Fiber, Using Cylindrical Vector Beams Authors: Siddharth Ramachandran, Man F. Yan; OFS Labs, USA. Paper: 1291, CThV2 Time: Thursday, May 8, 2:45 p.m.–3:00 p.m. Location: Ballroom A4 and A5 Abstract: We generate radially polarised beams, attractive for many scientific and technological applications, as stable eigenmodes in optical fiber. This yields a new class of fibers that are polarization-maintaining even though they are strictly cylindrically symmetric.
CLEO 12: Lightwave Communications and Networks Peter Winzer, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA, Chair
Invited Talks: Fiber-Wireless Networks and Radio-over-Fibre Techniques, Ken Ichi Kitayama; Osaka Univ., Japan. Intradyne Receivers Using FPGA Processing, Andreas Leven; Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA. Optical OFDM, Arthur J. Lowery; Monash Univ., Australia
CLEO 13: Active Optical Sensing James R. Gord, AFRL, USA, Chair
Invited Talks: Frequency Combs and Hyperspectral Sources for Absorption Spectroscopy, Scott Sanders; Univ. of Wisconsin, USA. Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) for Aerosol Analysis, David Hahn; Univ. of Florida, USA.
Title: Continuously Tunable Compact Single-Mode Quantum Cascade Laser Source for Chemical Sensing Authors: Benjamin G. Lee¹, Mikhail A. Belkin¹, Jim MacArthur¹, Ross M. Audet¹, Laurent Diehl¹, Christian Pflugl¹, Federico Capasso¹, David Bour², Scott Corzine², Gloria Hofler²; ¹Harvard Univ., USA, ²Agilent Labs, USA. Paper: 1158, Presentation CMH1 Time: Monday, May 5, 8:00 p.m.–8:15 p.m. Location: Marriott San Jose Salon 4 Abstract: We demonstrate a compact, single-mode quantum cascade laser source continuously tunable over 8% of its center wavelength of 9µm. We integrate the source into a compact mid-infrared spectrometer for absorption spectroscopy of liquids and gases.
CLEO 14: Optical Metrology Thomas R. Schibli, JILA / Univ. of Colorado, USA, Chair
Invited Talks: Fiber Length Stabilization System for Long-Baseline Phased-Array Radio Telescopes (ALMA), Mitsuru Musha; Univ. of Electro-Communications, Japan. Going Optical: Clocks and Combs in Space, Ronald Holzwarth; Menlo Systems GmbH, Germany.
Title: Microwave Signal Regeneration from Mode-Locked Lasers with 1.9×10-19 Stability Authors: Jungwon Kim, Franz Kaertner; MIT, USA. Paper: 567, CML4 Time: Monday, May 5, 11:15 a.m.–11:30 a.m. Location: C3 and C4 Abstract: A 10.225-GHz microwave signal is regenerated from a 200.5-MHz repetition rate mode-locked fiber laser with 6.8 fs rms relative timing jitter in 1-MHz bandwidth integrated over 10 hours. This corresponds to the stability of 1.9×10-19.
Title: Full Stabilization of a Frequency Comb Generated in a Monolithic Microcavity Authors: Pascal Del'Haye, Olivier Arcizet, Albert Schliesser, Tobias Wilken, Ronald Holzwarth, Tobias J. Kippenberg; Max-Planck-Inst. for Quantum Optics, Germany. Paper: 744, upgraded to invited 3431, Presentation CTuM4 Time: Tuesday, May 6, 11:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m. Abstract: We demonstrate independent control and full stabilization of the offset frequency and mode spacing of a frequency comb generated in a monolithic microcavity. The comb lines relative deviation from equidistance is less than 7.3×10-18.
CLEO 15: LEDs, Organic LEDs & Solid-State Lighting Zakya H. Kafafi, Natl. Science Foundation, USA, Chair
Invited Talk: OLEDs on Fibers and AFM Cantilevers, Max Shtein; Univ. of Michigan, USA.
CLEO 16: Micro- & Nano-Photonics Michal Lipson, Cornell Univ., USA, Chair
Invited Talks: Photonic Components for Short Range Optical Interconnects, Bert J. Offrein; IBM Res., Switzerland. Carrier Dynamics and Slow Light in Semiconductor Nanostructures, Jesper Moerk; Technical Univ. of Denmark, Denmark. Polarization Manipulation and Other Practical Functions Based on Silicon Photonic Wire Waveguide, Koji Yamada; NTT Microsystem Integration Labs, Japan. Nanomaterials for Biosensing, Naomi Halas; Rice Univ., USA.
Title: Slow Pulse Propagation in Long Photonic Crystal Coupled Cavity Waveguides Authors: Eiichi Kuramochi1,2, Takasumi Tanabe1,2, Hideaki Taniyama1,2, Masaya Notomi1,2; 1NTT Basic Res. Labs, NTT Corp., Japan, 2CREST-JST, Japan. Paper: 2263, Presentation CWH3 Time: Wednesday, May 7, 2:45 p.m.–3:00 p.m. Location: Marriott San Jose Salon 5 and 6 Abstract: A pulse delay corresponding to a slow group velocity of ~0.008c was observed in a low-loss coupled cavity waveguide formed by 60 photonic crystal nanocavities whose intrinsic Q was as high as 106.
Title: Densely Folded Silicon Photonic Wire Biosensors in Ring Resonator and Mach-Zehnder Configurations Authors: Siegfried Janz, Adam Densmore, Dan-Xia Xu, Philip Waldron, Trevor Mischki, Greg Lopinski, J. Lapointe, A. Delage, E. Post, C. Storey, P. Cheben, B. Lamontagne, J. H. Schmid; Natl. Res. Council Canada, Canada. Paper: 1048, Presentation CWP6 Time: Wednesday, May 7, 6:15 p.m.–6:30 p.m. Location: Marriott San Jose Salon 5 and 6 Abstract: We demonstrate silicon waveguide molecular sensors formed by folding long photonic wire waveguides into dense spiral paths that occupy spot sizes less than 150 microns in diameter, and are hence suitable for biochip array formats.
Steven Cundiff, JILA/Univ. of Colorado and NIST, USA, General Chair Prem Kumar, Northwestern Univ., USA, General Chair Aephraim Steinberg, Univ. of Toronto, Canada, Program Chair Hailin Wang, Univ. of Oregon, USA, Program Chair
QELS 1: Quantum Optics of Atoms, Molecules and Solids Alexander Kuzmich, Georgia Tech, USA, Chair
Invited Talks: Quantum Information with Superconducting Qubits and Cavities, Raymond Simmonds; NIST, USA. Deterministic Cavity QED with Single Atoms, Michael Chapman; Georgia Tech, USA. Correlations in Two-Mode Cavity QED, Luis A. Orozco; Univ. of Maryland at College Park, USA. Superconducting Microwave Cavities as Quantum Nanomechanical Transducers, Gerard Milburn; Univ. of Queensland, Australia.
Title: Resolved Sideband Laser Cooling of a Micro-Mechanical Oscillator Authors: Albert Schliesser, Rémi Rivière, Georg Anetsberger, Olivier Arcizet, Tobias Kippenberg; Max-Planck-Inst. of Quantum Optics, Germany. Paper: 938, upgraded to invited 3434, Presentation JMD5 Time: Monday, May 5, 5:00 p.m.–5:30 p.m. Location: Ballroom A2 and A7 Abstract: Mechanical oscillation-induced sidebands are resolved by the >20-times narrower resonances of ultrahigh-finesse optical microcavities. Tuning a laser to the first lower sideband thus permits resolved sideband cooling from room temperature to phonon occupations below 6,000.
Title: Optomechanical Effects in a Dispersively Coupled High Finesse Cavity and Micromechanical Membrane Authors: Benjamin Zwickl1, Jeff E. Thompson1, Andrew M. Jayich1, Cheng Yang1, Florian Marquardt2, Steven M. Girvin1,3, Jack G. E. Harris1,3; 1Physics Dept., Yale Univ., USA, 2Physics Dept., Ctr. for NanoScience, and Arnold Sommerfeld Ctr. for Theoretical Physics, Ludwig Maximillians Univ., Germany, 3Dept. of Applied Physics, Yale Univ., USA. Paper: 2850, Presentation JMD4 Time: Monday, May 5, 4:45 p.m.–5:00 p.m. Location: Ballroom A2 and A7 Abstract: By dispersively coupling a dielectric membrane to an optical cavity, we laser-cooled it from 294K to 6.82mK. Further, the cavity couples to the square of the membrane’s displacement--a key for QND energy measurements.
QELS 2: Single and Entangled Photons and Quantum Information Julio Gea-Banacloche, Univ. of Arkansas, USA, Chair
Invited Talks: A Spectrally Bright Spectrally Broadband Fiber-Based Entangled Photon Pair Source, Alan Migdall; NIST, USA. Photonic Quantum Computing: Shor's Algorithm and the Road to Fault-Tolerance, Andrew White; Univ. of Queensland, Australia.
Title: Experimental Study of a Quantum Channel from a LEO Satellite to the Earth Authors: Paolo Villoresi1, Thomas Jennewein2, Fabrizio Tamburini3, Markus Aspelmeyer4,2, Cristian Bonato1, Rupert Ursin4, Claudio Pernechele5, Vincenza Luceri6, Giuseppe Bianco7, Anton Zeilinger2,4, Cesare Barbieri3; 1Dept. of Information Engineering, Univ. of Padova, Italy, 2Inst. for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI), Austrian Acad. of Sciences, Austria, 3Dept. of Astronomy, Univ. of Padova, Italy, 4Inst. für Experimentalphysik, Univ. Wien, Austria, 5INAF, Italy, 6e-GEOS - Ctr. di Geodesia Spaziale "G. Colombo", Italy, 7Ctr. di Geodesia Spaziale, Italy. Paper: 1042, Presentation QWB3 Time: Wednesday, May 7, 2:00 p.m.–2:15 p.m. Location: Ballroom A2 and A7 Abstract: The single-photon exchange between a satellite and an Earth-based station has been investigated using satellite-laser-ranging retroreflectors in orbit. A return rate of 5 photons-per-second was measured from satellite Ajisai at 1650 km from the observer.
QELS 3: Fundamentals of Metamaterials, Periodic and Random Media Jelena Vuckovic, Stanford Univ., USA, Chair
Invited Talks: Engineering Optical Space with Metamaterials, Vladimir M. Shalaev; Purdue Univ., USA. Nanoplasmonics: Subwavelength Waveguides, Resonators and Antennas, Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi; Aalborg Univ., Denmark. Random Lasers, Allard Mosk; Univ. of Twente, Netherlands. Integrated Photonic Crystal Nanocavities and Quantum Dots for Single Photon Sources at 1.5 Microns, Robin Williams; Inst. for Microstructural Sciences, Natl. Res. Council of Canada, Canada.
QELS 4: Optical Interactions with Condensed Matter and Ultrafast Phenomena Carlo Piermarocchi, Michigan State Univ., USA, Chair
Invited Talks: Optically Probing Charge and Spin Excitations in Self-Assembled Quantum Dots and Molecules, Jonathan Finley; Technische Univ. München, Germany. Time Resolved Photoemission on Mott Insulators and High Temperature Superconductors, Luca Perfetti; Freie Univ. Berlin, Germany. Imaging Spin Injection and Spin Transport in Semiconductors, Scott Crooker; Los Alamos Natl. Lab, USA. TBA, Yoshihisa Yamamoto; Stanford Univ., USA.
QELS 5: Nonlinear Optics and Novel Phenomena Daniel Gauthier, Duke Univ., USA, Chair
Invited Talks: Nonlinearity in Chalcogenide Glasses and Fibers and Their Applications, J. S. Sanghera; NRL, USA. Quasi-Phase Matching with Quasiperiodic Poling, Ady Arie; Tel-Aviv Univ., Israel.
Title: Parametric Origin of Optical Magnetism Authors: Samuel L. Oliveira, William M. Fisher, Stephen C. Rand; Div. of Applied Physics, Univ. of Michigan, USA. Paper: 1058, upgraded to invited 3435, QWD3 Time: Wednesday, May 7, 5:15 p.m.–5:45 p.m. Location: Ballroom A1 and A8 Abstract: Intense magnetic scattering in insulators is shown to be a second order process, depending on the product of optical electric and magnetic fields. Quantitative agreement (no free parameters) is achieved with saturated magnetic response.
Title: Optical Microchip Detection of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Authors: Micah P. Ledbetter¹, Igor M. Savukov¹, Dmitry Budker¹, Vishal Shah², Svenja Knappe², John Kitching², Shoujun Xu³, David Michalak³, Alexander Pines³; ¹Dept. of Physics, Univ. of California at Berkeley, USA, ²Time and Frequency Div., NIST, USA, ³Dept. of Chemistry, Univ. of California at Berkeley, USA. Paper: 1900, Presentation QTuF7 Time: Tuesday, May 6, 12:15 p.m.–12:30 p.m. (reconfirm time) Location: C1 and C2 Abstract: We demonstrate optical detection of nuclear magnetic resonance on a microchip. A theoretical optimization indicates detection limits that are competitive with that demonstrated by microcoils in high magnetic fields, without requiring superconducting magnets.
QELS 6: Nano-Optics and Plasmonics Martin Wegener, Karlsruhe Univ., Germany, Chair
Invited Talks: Active Plasmonic Components and Metamaterials, Harry Atwater; Caltech, USA. Recent Progress in Plasmonics, Mark Brongersma; Stanford Univ., USA. Carrier Multiplication in Semiconductor Nanocrystal Quantum Dots and Solar Energy Conversion, Victor I. Klimov; Los Alamos Natl. Lab, USA.
