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Monday Wrap Up

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CLEO Daily Wrap: Monday

Plenary Session I
Monday, 11 May, 16:00 – 18:00, Grand Ballroom

CLEO features eight exceptional plenary speakers, including six Nobel laureates. Later today we will hear from Stefan Hell, W.E. Moerner and Eric Betzig on their achievements that have broken the diffraction limit in confocal microscopy, along with Tony Heinz on the optical properties of two-dimensional materials.
Plenary I Presenters: Tony Heinz, Stefan Hell, W.E. Moerner,Eric Betzig

Highlights from the Technical Program

What do ocean exploration, a smartphone microscope, wide-field microscopy and Hogwarts-like cloaking capabilities have in common? They are all covered at CLEO as a part of the nearly 2,000 presentations taking place this week in San Jose. The technical courses kick off today and continue through Friday.

Highlights include:

  • The Random Raman Laser: A New Light Source for the Microcosmos - Texas A&M University researchers will present how a narrow-band strobe light source for speckle-free imaging has the potential to reveal microscopic forms of life.
  • The Trillion-Frame-Per-Second Camera: Researchers from The University of Tokyo have been able to split a single light pulse into a fast barrage of rainbow-colored daughter pulses. This allows them to capture movies of complex, ultrafast physical and biological processes.
  • A Phone with the Ultimate Macro Feature: If you thought scanning one of those strange, square QR codes with your phone was somewhat advanced, hold on to your seat. Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have recently developed a device that can turn any smartphone into a DNA-scanning fluorescent microscope.
  • Two New Technologies Bring a Science Laboratory to the Ocean Floor, Transforming Ocean Exploration: A team of researchers from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Harvard University and the Ocean Exploration Trust have explored an undersea volcano in the Caribbean and created a new sensor to gather chemical data with unprecedented capabilities - all the while sharing the experience in real-time with remote colleagues.
  • No Hogwarts Invitation Required: Researchers from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), in Karlsruhe, Germany, have developed a portable invisibility cloak that can be taken into classrooms and used for demonstrations. It can't hide a human, but it can make small objects disappear from sight without specialized equipment.
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Come to the International Year of Light Booth

How are you celebrating the International Year of Light? Visit the International Year of Light (IYL) Booth in the Concourse Level to join the global movement to celebrate light. IYL is a global initiative to raise awareness of how optical technologies promote sustainable development and provide solutions to worldwide challenges in energy, education, communications and health.
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A Sneak Peek at the Tuesday Wrap

Highlights of Plenary I, a preview of Plenary II, the Exhibition opens, an International Year of Light educational event, and IEEE Photonics Society's 50th Anniversary Celebration.

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