Schedule by Topic Category

Laser Processing and Optical Instrumentation
Solid-State Lasers
Semiconductor Lasers
Applications of Nonlinear Optics
Ultrafast Optics, Optoelectronics and Applications
Components, Integration, Interconnects and Signal Processing
Medical and Biological Applications
Fiber and Guided-Wave Amplifiers, Lasers and Devices
Lightwave Communications and Networks
Active Optical Sensing
Organic and Inorganic LEDs for Solid State Lighting and Displays
Micro- and Nano-Photonic Devices
Single and Entangled Photons and Quantum Information
Fundamentals of Metamaterials, Periodic and Random Media
Nano-Optics and Plasmonics
CLEO/QELS Joint Subcommittee on High-Field Physics and High-Intensity Lasers
Fundamental Optical Science and Technologies

Laser Processing and Optical Instrumentation

NEW! SC317 Laser Tweezers: Moving Tiny Things with Light, Kristian Helmerson; NIST, USA

Solid-State Lasers

SC165 Laser Diode-Pumped Solid-State Lasers, Larry Marshall; Arasor, USA

Semiconductor Lasers

SC167 Fundamentals of Semiconductor Lasers: Edge-Emitters to Micro Cavity Devices, Kent D. Choquette¹, Weng Chow²; ¹Univ. of Illinois, USA, ²Sandia Natl. Labs, USA

SC301 Quantum Cascade Lasers: From Band Structure Engineering to Commercialization, Federico Capasso; Harvard Univ., USA

NEW! SC319 Quantum Dot Laser Diodes, Peter Blood; Cardiff Univ., UK

Applications of Nonlinear Optics

SC149 Foundations of Nonlinear Optics, Robert Fisher; RA Fisher Associates LLC, USA

SC153 Quasi-Phasematching for Wavelength Conversion and All-Optical Nonlinear Processing, Peter G. R. Smith; Univ. of Southampton, UK

SC163 Practical OPOs, Majid Ebrahim-Zadeh¹, Malcolm Dunn²; ¹Inst. de Ciencies Fotoniques, Spain, ²Univ. of St. Andrews, UK

Ultrafast Optics, Optoelectronics and Applications

SC155 Ultrashort Laser Pulse Measurement, Rick Trebino; Georgia Tech, USA

SC160 Microwave Photonics, Keith Williams; NRL, USA

SC164 THz Technology, Alan Cheville; Oklahoma State Univ., USA

Components, Integration, Interconnects and Signal Processing

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

SC198 Packaging of Optoelectronic Components, Andreas Rose; Photonics Res. Corp., USA

Medical and Biological Applications

SC182 Biomedical Optical Diagnostics and Sensing, Thomas Huser; Univ. of California at Davis, USA

SC191 Tissue Optics: Fundamentals and Applications to Biomedical Optical and Laser Diagnostics, Valery V. Tuchin¹, Kirill V. Larin²; ¹Saratov State Univ., Russian Federation, ²Univ. of Houston, USA

SC272 Biological and Chemical Sensing for Homeland Security, Stephen Lane¹^,², Thomas Huser²; ¹Lawrence Livermore Natl. Lab, USA, ²Univ. of California at Davis, USA

Fiber and Guided-Wave Amplifiers, Lasers and Devices

SC123 Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifiers and Raman Fiber Amplifiers, John Zyskind; JDSU, USA

SC192 Fiber Optic Sensors: Principles and Applications, Michel Digonnet; Stanford Univ., USA

SC270 High Power Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers, W. Andrew Clarkson; Optoelectronics Res. Ctr., Univ. of Southampton, UK

NEW! SC318 Laser Beam Combining: Theory and Methods, James R. Leger; Univ. of Minnesota, USA

Lightwave Communications and Networks

SC147 Optical Fiber Communication Systems, Alan Willner; Univ. of Southern California, USA

Active Optical Sensing

SC200 Laser Remote Sensing, Timothy Carrig, Philip Gatt; Lockheed Martin Coherent Technologies, USA

Organic and Inorganic LEDs for Solid State Lighting and Displays

NEW! SC316 Organic Photonic Devices, Marc Baldo, Vladmir Bulovic; MIT, USA

Micro- and Nano-Photonic Devices

SC300 Silicon Photonics, Bahram Jalali; Univ. of California at Los Angeles, USA

Single and Entangled Photons and Quantum Information

SC189 Quantum Technologies, Ian Walmsley; Univ. of Oxford, UK

SC271 Quantum Information—Technologies and Applications, Prem Kumar¹, Paul Toliver²; ¹Northwestern Univ., USA, ²Telcordia Technologies, USA

Fundamentals of Metamaterials, Periodic and Random Media

SC194 Photonic Crystal Fibers and Devices, Benjamin J. Eggleton; Univ. of Sydney, Australia

SC302 MetaMaterials, Vladimir M. Shalaev; Purdue Univ., USA

Nano-Optics and Plasmonics

SC166 Photonic Crystal Devices and Integrated Circuits, Dennis Prather; Univ. of Delaware, USA

SC221 Nano-Photonics: Physics and Techniques, Axel Scherer; Caltech, USA

CLEO/QELS Joint Subcommittee on High-Field Physics and High-Intensity Lasers

SC247 Ultrafast Optics: Nanoscale Microscopy, Metrology and Patterning Using Compact and Large Scale Soft X-Ray Sources, David Attwood¹, Jorge J. Rocca², Margaret Murnane³; ¹Lawrence Berkeley Natl. Lab, USA, ²Colorado State Univ., USA, ³Univ. of Colorado at Boulder, USA

Fundamental Optical Science and Technologies

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

SC143 Introductory and Intermediate Topics in Polarized Light, Robert Fisher; RA Fisher Associates LLC, USA

SC157 Laser Beam Analysis, Propagation and Shaping Techniques, James R. Leger; Univ. of Minnesota, USA

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