CLEO/QELS is presented by:
CLEO/QELS Topics
CLEO 1. Laser Processing and Optical Instrumentation CLEO 2. Solid-State Lasers CLEO 3. Semiconductor Lasers CLEO 4. Applications of Nonlinear Optics CLEO 5. Terahertz Technologies and Applications CLEO 6. Optical Materials, Fabrication & Characterization CLEO 7. CLEO/QELS Joint Subcommittee on High-Field Physics and High-Intensity Lasers CLEO 8. Ultrafast Optics, Optoelectronics & Applications CLEO 9. Components, Integration Interconnects & Signal Processing CLEO 10. Medical and Biological Applications CLEO 11. Fiber and Guided-Wave Amplifiers, Lasers & Devices CLEO 12. Lightwave Communications and Networks CLEO 13. Active Optical Sensing CLEO 14. Optical Metrology CLEO 15. Organic and Inorganic LEDs for Solid State Lighting and Displays CLEO 16. Micro- & Nano-Photonic Devices
QELS 1. Quantum Optics of Atoms, Molecules & Solids QELS 2. Single & Entangled Photons and Quantum Information QELS 3. Fundamentals of Metamaterials, Periodic & Random Media* QELS 4. Optical Interactions with Condensed Matter and Ultrafast Dynamics QELS 5. Nonlinear Optics and Novel Phenomena* QELS 6. Nano-Optics and Plasmonics* QELS 7. CLEO/QELS Joint Subcommittee on High-Field Physics and High-Intensity Lasers*
CLEO Topic Descriptions
1. Laser Processing and Optical Instrumentation Topics include industrial and scientific applications of lasers; laser-material interactions, including micromachining, bonding, deposition, ablation, etching, and index change; laser-assisted chemical etching; laser fabrication of nano-structures; laser-induced surface modifications, such as cleaning, hardening, and texturing; laser-assisted fabrication of novel devices; and optical instrumentation systems and techniques, including process monitoring, control, diagnostics, and advanced optical microscopy techniques.
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2. Solid-State Lasers Topics include spectroscopic investigations of solid-state laser materials; lanthanide series and transition-metal-ion lasers; tunable, upconversion, and Raman lasers; rod, slab, disk, and waveguide lasers; diode-pumped lasers; high-power and high-energy lasers; single-frequency and ultrastable lasers; high repetition rate lasers; modeling of solid-state lasers and resonators; thermal and thermo-optical effects in solid-state lasers; demonstration of unusual pump sources and resonator geometries; and novel solid-state lasers for system applications.
3. Semiconductor Lasers Topics include visible lasers; near-infrared lasers, mid to-far-infrared lasers; high-power and high-brightness lasers; quantum-well, wire, and dot lasers; tunable lasers and lasers for WDM; high-speed modulation dynamics; integrated laser structures; vertical cavity lasers; photonic crystal lasers; modeling of lasers and laser materials; novel laser structures and applications; and semiconductor optical amplifier devices.
4. Applications of Nonlinear Optics Topics include nonlinear frequency conversion to the UV, visible, and IR; optical parametric processes and devices; novel nonlinear materials and structures; QPM materials and devices; nonlinear optics in waveguides and fibers; third-order and higher order processes; wave mixing, stimulated scattering, and gain media nonlinearities; applications of nonlinear spectroscopy; beam interactions in semiconductor microstructures; nonlinear effects in nanostructures; novel applications of nonlinear phenomena.
5. Terahertz Technologies and Applications Topics include sources and systems that provide access to the far-infrared region of the spectrum, in the approximate range from 200 GHz to 10 THz, including ultrafast time-domain systems, direct generation using terahertz lasers, and cw generation based on nonlinear optical mixing; applications using terahertz radiation for spectroscopy, sensing, and imaging, including the physical and life sciences; advances in terahertz communications concepts and systems; new terahertz measurement techniques and instrumentation, including advances in imaging configurations, detector technologies, and terahertz optical components and waveguides; and terahertz optical measurements using surface plasmons, near-field effects, photonic crystals and metamaterials, and nonlinear optics.
6. Optical Materials, Fabrication & Characterization Topics include fabrication and characterization of structured or engineered optical materials and photonic crystals; micro- and nano-fabrication techniques; bio-photonic fluorescence materials and techniques; optical micro-fluidics integration and fabrication; nonlinear organic materials; organic light absorbers and emitters; fabrication and characterization of novel glass and crystalline optical materials; characterization of semiconductor absorbers and emitters; quantum-well, line and dot fabrication, and characterization techniques; materials for electro-optic modulation; materials for high power and nonlinear propagation; and materials for UV and IR applications.
7. CLEO/QELS Joint Subcommittee on High-Field Physics and High-Intensity Lasers Topics include high-peak power lasers and high-intensity laser-matter interactions; recent progress in terawatt to petawatt lasers and the amplification of few cycle pulses. Laser technology for fusion and laser based EUV and X-ray sources will also be discussed. Strong field laser science includes interactions with atoms, molecules, clusters, and plasmas. Advances in attosecond science will be highlighted with high harmonic generation, high-field rescattering physics, relativistic nonlinear phenomena, intense pulse propagation, plasmas in ultrahigh fields, and laser based particle acceleration.
8. Ultrafast Optics, Optoelectronics & Applications Topics include short-pulse solid-state, semiconductor, fiber, and waveguide optical sources and devices; optical phase control in ultrafast laser systems; ultrafast optoelectronic and electro-optic materials, devices, and systems; ultrafast measurement techniques, optical processing, and switching; and applications of ultrafast technology.
9. Components, Integration, Interconnects & Signal Processing Topics include discrete components, photonic integration, short-distance optical interconnections, and signal processing subsystems. Discrete components may be either free-space optical devices or waveguide devices having critical dimensions greater than the optical wavelength. Types of components include optical modulators and switches, optical detectors and focal-plane arrays, passive optical components (filters, isolators, splitters), and optical micro-electrical-mechanical and micro-fluidic devices. Integration approaches may be either monolithic or hybrid, may involve integration with electronics, and may range in scale from a few devices to high density. Interconnect and signal processing topics include novel transmitters and receivers, free-space and waveguide optical processing, microwave photonic analog links and signal processing for non-telecommunications applications, and photonic analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converters.
10. Medical and Biological Applications Topics include biomedical optics, laser medical diagnostics and therapeutics, and applications, including spectroscopic optical diagnostics; diffuse optical imaging, steady-state, time-resolved and photon-density-wave techniques; optical coherence tomography; advanced biological microscopy; photochemistry and photobiology; laser tissue interactions; laser surgery; photodynamic therapy; minimally invasive optical diagnostics; photoacoustic techniques; optics in biotechnology; and optical-system engineering for medicine.
11. Fiber and Guided-Wave Amplifiers, Lasers & Devices Topics include ultra-wideband amplifiers; amplification in doped fibers; erbium and other rare-earth-doped amplifiers; Raman amplifiers, discrete and distributed; fiber lasers, CW and pulsed; waveguide amplifiers and lasers; nonlinear effects in fibers (nonlinear amplification, pulse interactions, ultrafast phenomena, supercontinuum generation); fiber-grating and microstructured fiber devices; fiber sensors and sensing systems; fiber materials, fabrication, and characterization; fiber measurements; and chromatic dispersion and polarization-mode dispersion, including fiber and guided-wave compensation devices.
12. Lightwave Communications and Networks Topics include long-haul and short-haul fiber-optic communication systems and networks; effects of fiber nonlinearities and other transmission impairments on system performance; system applications of optical amplifiers; advanced optical modulation formats; digital signal processing techniques; coherent detection and advanced receiver structures; free-space optical communication links; atmospheric effects and their mitigation; wavelength and time-division multiplexed systems; optical subcarrier-multiplexed technologies; telecommunications applications of microwave optics; routing and switching in optical networks; all-optical processing in devices and networks; optics-based network elements for routing and switching; and novel optical network elements.
13. Active Optical Sensing Topics include remote sensing and point sensing; fiber sensors; chemical and biological agent detection and identification; environmental monitoring; measurement of air, water, and soil quality; atmospheric studies; space applications; aircraft safety; and mapping and imaging. Techniques of interest include differential absorption lidar, fluorescence spectroscopy, laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy, photoacoustic spectroscopy, ring-down spectroscopy, active multispectral and hyperspectral imaging, Doppler imaging, heterodyne and homodyne detection, and time-of-flight ranging.
14. Optical Metrology Topics include optical devices, instruments, and technologies for precision measurements; time and frequency metrology; optical frequency standards; length, distance, and dimensional metrology; lasers, supercontinua, and broadband sources for optical metrology; frequency-comb generation, control, and applications; conversion between optical and microwave frequencies; instrumentation and devices for optical metrology, including adaptive optics, two-photon diodes, spatial light modulators, shutters, and special fibers; precision interferometry and other novel measurement methods, including correlation, modulation, imaging microscopy, and nano-probing; and optical transmission of metrology signals, including reference-frequency transmission and remote measurements.
15. Organic and Inorganic LEDs for Solid State Lighting and Displays Topics include inorganic light-emitting diodes (LEDs), organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), and hybrid light-emitting diodes based on group IV, III-V, and II-VI semiconductors, polymers, and organic molecules; superluminescent diodes (SLDs), LEDs, and OLEDs based on rare-earth-doped materials, nanocrystals, and photonic crystals; solid-state lighting systems; novel approaches to high-power and high-brightness LEDs; wavelength converter materials, such as phosphors, dyes, and quantum dots; novel materials, physics, and devices; LED backlighting systems for displays; flat-panel, projection, and micro-displays using liquid crystals, organic and polymeric devices, and plasma electro-luminescence; and flexible displays and plastic substrates.
16. Micro- & Nano-Photonics Devices Topics include microfabricated devices intended for on-chip applications and having sub-wavelength dimensions of optical confinement. The devices could be based on high index contrast micro photonic structures, photonic crystals, resonators and could be based on group IV as well as group III-V semiconductor materials. Devices can be passive, active or a combination thereof. Nonlinear effects in micro and nano devices, linear and nonlinear effects enhanced by high index contrast waveguides, resonators or photonic crystals are of interest.
QELS Topic Descriptions
1. Quantum Optics of Atoms, Molecules & Solids Topics include laser cooling and trapping; quantum dots; circuit quantum optics; superconducting qubits; NV centers in diamond; degenerate atomic gases; electromagnetically induced transparency and slow light; optical lattices; cold collisions; optical frequency standards; coherent transients; precision measurement and metrology with cold atoms or ions; cold molecules; trapped ions; atom optics and lithography.
2. Single & Entangled Photons and Quantum Information Topics include entanglement/squeezing/nonclassical states of light; Bell and EPR tests; quantum information; quantum control and feedback; quantum algorithms; single-photon detectors; single-photon sources; quantum logic implementations; quantum memory and repeaters; quantum cryptography; quantum error correction; quantum control and feedback; quantum measurement theory.
3. Fundamentals of Metamaterials, Periodic & Random Media* Topics include photonic bandgaps; optical nanocavities; optical nonlinearities in photonic nanostructures; slow light in optical resonators; plasmonic nanomaterials, left-handed materials, and negative refractive indices; chaotic optics; and multiple light scattering and lasing in random media.
4. Optical Interactions with Condensed Matter and Ultrafast Dynamics Topics include optical investigations of semiconductors, metals, insulators, superconductors, magnetic and other strongly correlated systems; including low dimensional structures such as quantum dots, quantum wells, nanocrystals, nanotubes, nanowires, defect centers; dynamics of charges, spins, excitons, phonons, polaritons, and other excitations in condensed matter systems; ultrafast phenomena and coherent control in condensed matter, atomic, and molecular systems.
5. Nonlinear Optics and Novel Phenomena* Topics include nonlinear optics in condensed matter, gases, and plasmas; new nonlinear optical materials; extreme UV and X-ray generation; optics of few cycle light pulses; nonlinear phenomena in the THz region; solitons, vortices, and singularities; nonlinear optics in photonic crystals, slow light media, and negative refractive index media; local field effects; near-field and sub-wavelength linear and nonlinear optics; novel linear and nonlinear surface phenomena, multiphoton spectroscopy and other novel methods of substance detection; and optical Micro-Manipulation of Particles.
6. Nano-Optics and Plasmonics* Topics include optics with sub-wavelength resolution; linear and nonlinear spectroscopy of nanostructures, single atoms, and molecules in solid hosts; near-field optics; nanocavities and nanoapertures; light in confined structures; nanolithography; coupled nanosystems (photonic dots, quantum dots, and quantum dot inside of a photonic dot); and plasmon optics.
7. CLEO/QELS Joint Subcommittee on High-Field Physics and High-Intensity Lasers* Topics include high-peak power lasers and high-intensity laser-matter interactions; recent progress in terawatt to petawatt lasers and the amplification of few cycle pulses. Laser technology for fusion and laser based EUV and X-ray sources will also be discussed. Strong field laser science including interactions with atoms, molecules, clusters, and plasmas. Advances in attosecond science will be highlighted with high harmonic generation, high-field rescattering physics, relativistic nonlinear phenomena, intense pulse propagation, plasmas in ultrahigh fields, and laser based particle acceleration.
