CLEO: Applications Topics

Environmental/Energy

  • Solar modules and panels, concentrator design and operation, solar tracking systems, grid compatibility
  • Solid state lighting (LED fixtures, led heat dissipation, power conditioning circuits, led assembly efficiency considerations), applications of led lighting, requirements driven designs considerations
  • Solar thermal applications and equipment
  • Energy storage technologies for solar systems
  • Thermal monitoring of heat losses
  • Pollution monitoring systems/sensors, remote sensing systems/sensors
  • Illumination engineering
  • Hyperspectral imaging/sensors
  • Atmospheric and ocean optics

Biomedical

  • Diagnostic and therapeutic applications of Bio-optics
  • Optical techniques in surgery, pathogen detection, bio imaging
  • Microscopy advances in bio medical sciences and applications
  • Endoscopic applications of bio optics
  • OCT
  • Laser instruments used for bio medical applications including surgery, diagnostics, probing, therapies, etc.
  • Point of care optical sensors systems
  • Medical imaging systems using optical technologies and algorithms
  • Visualization technologies
  • Image processing

Government (presentations on program status, planned efforts, applications of EO technologies, as well as on-site program reviews)

  • DoD laser, imaging, sensor, remote sensing, etc., developmental programs
  • DoD system program updates
  • NASA, ESA technology and application programs using electro-optics
  • DHS sensor and application programs
  • Dept. of Commerce (NIST) programs
  • International Government initiatives (Asia, Europe, etc.)
  • EU initiatives

Industrial

  • Lasers in manufacturing, and laser welding
  • Process control sensors
  • Advanced fabrication technologies
  • Lithography
  • Display and visualization
  • Navigation sensing
  • Product analysis sensing
  • Printing
  • Data storage technologies/systems
  • Optical metrology