Read About CLEO/QELS: 2010 as it Happened!

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Jim van Howe, Assistant Professor, Dept of Physics and Astronomy, Augustana College
Ksenia Dolgaleva, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto
David Nugent, PhD, Founder and CEO, Elucidare, a technology and investment advisory firm

Latest from CLEO/QELS Bloggers CLEOQELSBlogs Pipes Output Optics conferences Different from journal publications, conferences provide researchers from world-wide range an opportunity to meet face to face, and learn about the most recent research from peers in the timely... CLEO is coming! CLEO is the most prestigious conference in optics area. Every year researchers from around the world gather together to hear about the most recent breakthroughs in optics. Although the full name of... Last hours of CLEO/QELS 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... More about interesting talks Time flies so fast that I cannot keep up with posting about everything. Here are some interesting talks that I have attended on Wednesday and Thursday. I was very impressed with the tutorial talk on... Exhibit and Power Lunch 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... Lasers rock! And scientists do to. It was a blast last night! The concert was great! The performances were so professional that I could not believe these people scientists, not full-time performers. We were truly... Lasers and Waveguide Arrays There are so many things per unit time happen at the conference that I cannot keep up with writing. So many interesting talks and events that it is not possible to write about everything and (I have... Celebrating Laser's 50th Anniversary I took this picture when arriving to San Jose Convention Center to collect my badge and conference materials package at around 2:30 p.m. on Sunday. CLEO/QELS 2010 has began and welcomes us! I've... What's Hot from the U of Toronto Before the conference started, let me overview some upcoming interesting talks that I already know something about. These are presentations by the Photonics Group at the University of Toronto. I am... Optics on a Microchip Optical communication systems have been celebrating their success for more than two decades. Yet the signal processing is still performed electronically, which limits the data processing speed and... Don't miss the opportunity to network! When I am stuck on some problem in my research, I often feel the urge to hide in my office, not willing to be interrupted, nor even to have a coffee break with my friends. Ironically, in such a... First Bite at the Conference Schedule I have noticed that the variety of events and sessions available at CLEO multiplies every year. For example, it is impressive how many short courses are available in this year's conference agenda.... CLEO: Some Events Overview It's been a hectic week of staying in the lab till late, getting new exciting results, and preparing for two local events at the University of Toronto. Both of them will take place next week. Next... Anticipating... Greetings to all who happens to read this. It is a bit more than three weeks left before CLEO. I am currently at home, writing my first blog to express how much I am looking forward to the upcoming... Oh what an entangled web we weave... (Above: The nerdy license plate of fellow Augustana College physics professor Figure 1. reproduced and adapted from ref. 4. Creating entangled photon pairs. (a) In normal operation, a parametric... Erratum Greetings. If anyone is still paying attention, I wanted to clarify an error in post "Cutting-edge and Future Saturable Absorbers" originally posted on May 20. I was a little two-photon happy and... See you in Baltimore in 2011 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... Postdeadline Frenzy: Black is the new Black 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... Cutting-edge and Future Saturable Absorbers 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... Expo, Idea Generation, and Multiphoton Microscopy Image from Webb Lab, Cornell University, Adapted by J. van Howe. Left: One photon fluorescence in a fluoroscein solution. Right: two-photon fluorescence in the same solution. At the very first... Tuesday is a Mega-day at CLEO All you have to do is flip to the schedule-at-a-glance in the conference program to see that today is a Mega-day or maybe I should say Tera-day at CLEO. Besides the technical program, the expo opens... Diagnosing Cancer with a Flashlight From Arjun G. Yodh, Biomedical Optics Group, University of Pennsylvania MRI axial slice, DOT axial slices of relative total hemoglobin concentration (rTHC), relative blood oxygen saturation (rStO2),... Jury Duty and SERS Spectroscopy Schematic of SERS Technique from Kneipp et al Chem. Soc. Rev., 37, 1052–1060, (2008). There has been a lag in my blog posting lately as I was recently performing my civic duty as juror in a... Conference R&R: Exploring San Jose Falafel's Drive-in, Photo from Gena S. from Yelp.com This will just be my second visit to San Jose. Last time was for CLEO 2007 and I pretty much didn't leave the downtown area (just ping-ponged... Pre-Conference Homework I am a bit ashamed to admit it, but this is really the first time that I have done any pre-conference homework. What I am referring to is looking at the conference schedule, browsing the website,... Missing Optics and Volcanic Lightning Photo from Marco Fulle, National Geographic Daily News In the lead-up to CLEO I have been trying to do some work in the MID-IR wavelength range. I have been waiting for some CaF2 lenses that were...

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