By James Van Howe | Posted: 30 March 2012
For a few years now CLEO conference organizers have been posting youtube shorts highlighting contributed talks, symposia, research trends, and any new or unique directions for the upcoming conference. This year there are seventeen videos from the program chairs, all worth watching. However, for those who prefer text over A/V, I thought it might be helpful to highlight the highlights here.
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By James Van Howe | Posted: 9 May 2011
Brian Kolner and Moshe Nazarathy coined the word “time-lens” in 1989 after using one to compress a pulse. They made a system in the time-domain that was a complete analog to a lens system in space. Their time-lens took a fat pulse and “focused” it, just like a spatial lens could take a fat beam and focus it to a smaller size. For more details, see Kolner’s well-written 1994 review on space-time duality and van Howe and Xu’s 2006 review on temporal-imaging devices).
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By James Van Howe | Posted: 5 May 2011
Just wanted to chime in with a nagging note to remind you to plan your post-deadline itinerary before 8 pm. I am going to commit to PDPA-Session I and not try to hop around the standing-room only crowd. I am particularly interested in the supercontinuum generation and frequency-comb work in this session, some of which is pushing into the mid-ir where there are interesting chemicals to identify for spectroscopy and stand-off detection.
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By James Van Howe | Posted: 21 April 2011
On Thursday May 5, from 8pm- 10pm, conference goers will be madly dashing from ballroom to ballroom to hear the latest breaking optics research- it’s like a geeky Black Friday for optical science. There are 36 talks in total, but because they are spread out among three sessions, you realistically can only hear 12. Trying to see more requires cat-like agility to maneuver around standing-room-only crowds. Good thing postdeadline abstracts were recently posted. Be sure to look through the agenda of sessions and plan
your evening.
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