Short Course Schedule by Time

Sunday, May 16, 2010
Monday, May 17, 2010
Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Sunday, May 16, 2010

9:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.

SC200 Laser Remote Sensing, Timothy Carrig, Phillip Gatt; Lockheed Martin, USA

10:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.

SC189 Quantum-Enhanced Technologies, Ian Walmsley; Univ. of Oxford, UK
SC300 Silicon Photonics, Bahram Jalali; Univ. of California at Los Angeles, USA
SC301 Quantum Cascade Lasers: From Band Structure Engineering to Commercialization, Federico Capasso; Harvard Univ., USA
SC336 Green Photonics, S. J. Ben Yoo; Univ. of California at Davis, USA
SC338 Fiber-Based Parametric Devices, Colin J. McKinstrie; Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA

2:00 p.m.–6:00 p.m.

SC154 Quantum Well Devices for Optics and Optoelectronics, David A. B. Miller; Stanford Univ., USA

Cancelled SC198 Packaging of Optoelectronic Components, Andreas Rose; Photonics Res. Corp., USA
SC271 Quantum Information—Technologies and Applications, Prem Kumar¹, Paul Toliver²; ¹Northwestern Univ., USA, ²Telcordia, USA
NEW! SC352 Ultrafast Laser Pulse Shaping, Marcos Dantus; Michigan State Univ., USA

3:00 p.m.–6:00 p.m.

SC164 THz Technology, Matthew T. Reiten ; Los Alamos Natl. Lab, USA
SC339 A Guide to Building an Optical Clock, Scott Diddams, Chris Oates; NIST, USA

Monday, May 17, 2010

8:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m.

SC136 Understanding Lasers and Critical Optical Components, Shaoul Ezekiel; MIT, USA

8:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.

SC153 Quasi-Phasematching for Wavelength Conversion and All-Optical Nonlinear Processing, Peter G. R. Smith; Univ. of Southampton, UK
SC182 Biomedical Optical Diagnostics and Sensing, Thomas Huser; Univ. of California at Davis, USA

9:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.

SC147 Optical Fiber Communication Systems, Alan Willner; Univ. of Southern California, USA
SC165 Laser Diode-Pumped Solid-State Lasers, Larry Marshall; Southern Cross Venture Partners, USA
SC302 MetaMaterials, Vladimir M. Shalaev; Purdue Univ., USA

1:30 p.m.–5:30 p.m.

SC149 Foundations of Nonlinear Optics, Robert Fisher; R. A. Fisher Associates, USA
SC160 Microwave Photonics, Keith Williams; NRL, USA
SC194 Photonic Crystal Fibers and Devices, Benjamin J. Eggleton; Univ. of Sydney, Australia
SC316 Organic Photonic Devices, Marc Baldo, Vladimir Bulovic; MIT, USA
SC333 Intellectual Property: Bringing Academic Invention to the Market, Nadya Reingand; Celight Inc., USA

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

8:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.

SC157 Laser Beam Analysis, Propagation and Shaping Techniques, James R. Leger; Univ. of Minnesota, USA
SC163 Practical OPOs, Majid Ebrahim-Zadeh; Inst. Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, Inst. de Ciencies Fotoniques, Spain
SC167 Fundamentals of Semiconductor Lasers: Edge-Emitters to Micro Cavity Devices, Kent Choquette¹, Weng Chow²; ¹Univ. of Illinois, USA, ²Sandia Natl. Labs, USA
SC270 High Power Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers, W. Andrew Clarkson; Optoelectronics Res. Ctr., Univ. of Southampton, UK

9:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.

SC221 Nano-Photonics: Physics and Techniques, Axel Scherer; Caltech, USA
SC334 The Art of Modeling Optical Systems, Curtis Menyuk; Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA
SC337 Single Photon Detection Mark A. Itzler; Princeton Lightwave Inc., USA

1:30 p.m.–5:30 p.m.

Cancelled SC123 Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifiers and Raman Fiber Amplifiers, John Zyskind; Mintera Corp., USA

Cancelled SC143 Introductory and Intermediate Topics in Polarized Light, Robert Fisher; R. A. Fisher Associates, USA
SC155 Ultrashort Laser Pulse Measurement, Pamela Bowlan; Georgia Tech, USA

Cancelled SC319 Quantum Dot Laser Diodes, Peter Blood; Cardiff Univ., UK
SC335 Super-Resolution Optical Microscopy, Stephen Lane ¹^,², Thomas Huser²; ¹Lawrence Livermore Natl. Lab, USA, ²Univ. of California at Davis, USA
NEW! SC353 An Overview of R&D Program Management, Michael T. Dehring, Lockheed Martin, USA