Invited Speakers

Invited Speakers:

FWK1, Petawatt Lasers: Status Quo and Perspectives, Efim A. Khazanov; Inst. of Applied Physics, Russian Acad. of Science, Russian Federation.

FWK3, To Be Announced, Jean-Claude Kieffer; Inst. Natl. de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS) Énergie, Matériaux et Télécommunications, Canada.

FWQ1, Technological Challenge and Activation of 10-kJ PW Laser LFEX for Fast Ignition at ILE, Noriaki Miyanaga¹, H. Azechi¹, K. A. Tanaka¹, T. Kanabe², T. Jitsuno¹, J. Kawanaka¹, Y. Fujimoto¹, R. Kodama¹, H. Shiraga¹, K. Knodo¹, K. Tsubakimoto¹, H. Habara¹, K. Sueda¹, H. Murakami¹, N. Morio¹, S. Matsuo¹, N. Sarukura¹, Y. Izawa¹, K. Mima¹; ¹Osaka Univ., Japan, ²Univ. of Fukui, Japan.

FWQ2, The OMEGA EP High-Energy, Short-Pulse Laser System, Leon Waxer, John H. Kelly, B. E. Kruschwitz, J. Qiao, M. J. Guardalben, I. A. Begishev, J. Bromage, C. Dorrer, J. L. Edwards, L. Folnsbee, S. D. Jacobs, R. Jungquist, T. J. Kessler, R. W. Kidder, S. J. Loucks, J. R. Marciante, D. N. Maywar, R. L. McCrory, D. D. Meyerhofer, S. F. B. Morse, A. V. Okishev, J. B. Oliver, G. Pien, J. Puth, A. L. Rigatti; Lab for Laser Energetics, Univ. of Rochester, USA.

2.3: HHG Generation and Control from Atoms and Molecules

Tutorial Speaker:

FTuO1, From Attoseconds to Controlled Dynamics: Recent Advances in XUV Sources, Mauro Nisoli; Politecnico di Milano, Italy.

Invited Speakers:

FTuBB1, Filamentation-Driven Time-Frequency Gating of Isolated Attosecond Pulses, Mette B. Gaarde; Louisiana State Univ., USA.

FTuBB3, High-Order Harmonic Generation in Laser-Produced Plasma, Rashid A. Ganeev; Scientific Assn. Akadempribor, Acad. of Sciences of Uzbekistan, Uzbekistan.

FTuO3, High-Harmonic Generation from Excited Molecules: X-Ray Spectra Control and Dynamical Imaging, Mikhail Yu. Emelin, Arkady A. Gonoskov, Ivan A. Gonoskov, Mikhail Yu. Ryabikin, Alexander M. Sergeev; Inst. of Applied Physics, Russian Acad. of Sciences, Russian Federation.

FThH1, Optically-Induced Quasi-Phase Matching in High-Harmonic Generation, Oren Cohen^1,2, Amy L. Lytle¹, Xiaoshi Zhang¹, Henry C. Kapteyn¹, Margaret M. Murnane¹; ¹JILA, Univ. of Colorado, USA, ²Technion-Israel Inst. of Technology, Israel.

FThH3, Mapping of Attosecond Ionization Dynamics by Recollision-Free Higher-Order Harmonic Generation, A. J. Verhoef¹, A. Mitrofanov¹, E. E. Serebryannik², D. Kartashov¹, A. M. Zheltikov², Andrius Baltuška¹; ¹Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria, ²Physics Dept., Intl. Laser Ctr., M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State Univ., Russian Federation.

2.4: Femtosecond Surface Science Techniques

Invited Speakers:

FMI1, Ultrafast Spin-Dependent Carrier Dynamics in Ferromagnetic Thin Films, Martin Weinelt^1,2; ¹Max-Born-Inst., Germany, ²Freie Univ. Berlin, Germany.

FMI2, Real Time Electronic Structure Investigated by Femtosecond Time- and Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy, Uwe Bovensiepen; Freie Univ. Berlin, Fachbereich Physik, Germany.

FMI3, Generation and Time-Resolved Detection of Coherently Controlled Electric Currents at Surfaces, J. Gudde¹, M. Rohleder¹, T. Meier², S. W. Koch¹, Ulrich Höfer¹; ¹Philipps-Univ. Marburg, Germany, ²Univ. Paderborn, Germany.

FMI4, Ultrafast Dynamics of Electron Transfer at Polar Adsorbate/Metal Interfaces Studied with Time-Resolved Photoelectron Spectroscopy, Martin Wolf; Freie Univ. Berlin, Germany.

3.1: Optical Manipulation of Biological Systems

Invited Speakers:

FTuE1, Application of Femtosecond Laser Surgery for the Treatment of Glaucoma, Tibor Juhasz^1,2, Dongyul Chai¹, Gautam Chaudhary^1,3, Hui Sun¹, Bin Rao^3,4, Zhongping Chen^2,3,4, Ron Kurtz¹, James Jester¹; ¹Dept. of Ophthalmology, Univ. of California at Irvine, USA, ²Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Univ. of California at Irvine, USA, ³Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Univ. of California at Irvine, USA, ⁴Beckman Laser Inst., Univ. of California at Irvine, USA.

FTuE2, Nanoeffects in Cells and Tissues by Femtosecond and Nanosecond Laser Pulses, Alfred Vogel¹, Norbert Linz¹, Sebastian Freidank¹, Joachim Noack¹, Gunther Paltauf²; ¹Inst. of Biomedical Optics, Univ. of Lübeck, Germany, ²Physics Inst., Karl-Franzens-Univ. Graz, Austria.

FTuE5, Ultra-Short Laser Pulses as a Tool to Measure as well as Perturb Neurovascular Activity in the Rodent Brain, Philbert S. Tsai, Pablo Blinder, Benjamin Migliori, David Kleinfeld; Univ. of California at San Diego, USA.

FTuL1, Novel Methods for Cellular Transfection with Femtosecond Laser Pulses, Kishan Dholakia, Xanthi Tsampoula, Dave Stevenson, C. T. Brown, Frank J. Gunn-Moore; Univ. of St. Andrews, UK.

3.2: Imaging of Mice and Men

Tutorial Speaker:

FTuD1, Diffuse Optical Tomography, Brian Pogue, Hamid Dehghani; Dartmouth College, USA.

Invited Speakers:

FTuD2, Diffuse Optical Monitoring of Cerebral Oxygen Metabolism at the Bedside in Cerebrovascular Disorders, Turgut Durduran, Meeri N. Kim, Erin M. Buckey, Chao Zhou, Guoqiang Yu, Regine Choe, Joel H. Greenberg, John A. Detre, Arjun G. Yodh; Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA.

FTuR1, Mouse Organ Imaging, Elizabeth M. C. Hillman; Columbia Univ., USA.

FTuR3, Optical Imaging of Breast Cancer by Spectral and Fluorescence Diffuse Optical Tomography, Martin B. van der Mark¹, Anais Leproux¹, Tim Nielsen², Marjolein van der Voort¹, Leon Bakker³, Michiel van Beek¹, Claas Bontus², Bernhard Brendel², Rik Harbers¹, Thomas Koehler², Falk Uhlemann², Andrea Wiethoff⁴, Ronny Ziegler², Andy Ziegler², Lueder Fels⁵, Martin Pessel⁵, Stephanie van de Ven⁶, Sjoerd Elias⁶, Willem Mali⁶, Peter Luijten⁶; ¹Philips Res. Europe, Netherlands, ²Philips Res. Europe, Germany, ³Philips Res. Asia, China, ⁴King's College London, Div. of Imaging Sciences, UK, ⁵Bayer Schering Pharma AG, Germany, ⁶Univ. Medical Ctr. Utrecht, Netherlands.

FTuR4, Time Domain Diffuse Optical Imaging and Spectroscopy: From Lab to Clinic, Rinaldo Cubeddu, Antonio Pifferi, Alessandro Torricelli, Paola Taroni, Lorenzo Spinelli; Politecnico di Milano, Italy.

3.3: Advanced in vivo and in vitro Microscopy

Tutorial Speaker:

FWD1, In vivo Reflectance Confocal Microscopy, James M. Zavislan; Inst. of Optics, Univ. of Rochester, USA.
Invited Speakers:

Invited Speakers:

FTuS1, New Developments in STED Microscopy, Stefan W. Hell, Alexander Egner, Roman Schmidt; Max-Planck-Inst. für Biophysik Chemie, Germany.

FTuS3, Nanoscopic Imaging of Biomolecules, Cells and Tissues with STORM, Xiaowei Zhuang; Harvard Univ., USA.

FTuY1, Femtosecond Laser Pulse Shaping for Molecular Imaging in Biological Tissue, Martin C. Fischer¹, Henry C. Liu², Dan Fu², Prathyush Semineni¹, Thomas Matthews¹, Ivan Piletic¹, Warren S. Warren¹; ¹Duke Univ., USA, ²Princeton Univ., USA.

FWP1, Digital Frequency-Domain FLIM, Enrico Gratton; Univ. of California at Irvine, USA.

3.4: Novel Optical Trapping and Micromanipulation Techniques

Invited Speakers:

FME1, Revisiting Optical Manipulation with Surface Plasmons, Romain Quidant^1,2; ¹Inst. de Ciencies Fotoniques, Spain, ²Inst. Catalana de Recerca i Estucis Avancat, Spain.

FME4, Optically Driven Mechanical Systems at Nano- to Micro-Scale, Theodor Asavei, Simon Parkin, Timo Nieminen, Norman Heckenberg, Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop; Univ. of Queensland, Australia.

FML3, Studying Aerosols Using Optical Traps, David McGloin; Univ. of Dundee, UK.

FML6, Optical Manipulation and Characterization of Aerosol Particles, Jonathan Reid; Univ. of Bristol, UK.

3.5: Molecular Imaging and Targeted Therapeutics

Invited Speakers:

FWJ1, Photoactivated Tissue Repair, Robert Redmond; Wellman Ctr. for Photomedicine, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA.

FWJ2, Receptor Targeted Mono-Molecular Imaging Agents (MOMIAs) for Optical and Nuclear Imaging, W. Barry Edwards; Washington Univ. in St. Louis, USA.

FWJ3, Molecular Imaging of Tumor Responses to Photodynamic Therapy in vivo, Soumya Mitra, Thomas Foster; Univ. of Rochester, USA.

FWP2, Fluorescence Lifetime and Spatially Modulated Light for Image-Guided Surgery, Sylvain Gioux^1,2, Amaan Mazhar³, David Cuccia⁴, Anthony Durkin³, Bruce J. Tromberg³, John V. Frangioni²; ¹Boston Univ., USA, ²Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Ctr., USA, ³Univ. of California at Irvine, USA, ⁴Modulated Imaging Inc., USA.

4.1: Systems for Optical Manipulation

Invited Speakers:

FTuF1, Photonic Manipulations for Monitoring Cancer, S. Esener, I. Ortak, S. Zlatanovic, Y. T. Liu, D. Carson; Moses Cancer Ctr., Univ. of California at San Diego, USA.

FTuF2, Optical MEMS Technology for Scalable Quantum Information Processor, Jungsang Kim¹, Caleb W. Knoernschild¹, Changsoon Kim¹, Justin Migacz¹, Kyle S. McKay¹, Felix Lu^1,2; ¹Duke Univ., USA, ²Applied Quantum Technologies, Inc., USA.

FTuM1, Tiny Hands for Light Work: A Fingertip Interface for Holographic Optical Tweezers, Miles Padgett, Graham Gibson, Stephen Keen, Jonathan Leach; Univ. of Glasgow, UK.

FWI1, From 3-D Optical Tweezers to 3-D Optical Machines: Volumetric Optical Force Control and Imaging by Holographic Methods, Yohai Roichman, David G. Grier; New York Univ., USA.

4.2: Diffractive Micro- and Nanostructures for Sensing and Information Processing

Invited Speakers:

FWT1, Microscopic Model of the Extraordinary Light Transmission, Philippe Lalanne¹, H. Liu^1,2; ¹Lab Charles Fabry de l'Inst. d'Optique, Univ. Paris-Sud, France, ²Key Lab of Opto-Electronic Information Science and Technology, Ministry of Education, Inst. of Modern Optics, Nankai Univ., China.

FThR1, Ultrafast Signal Processing Using All-Fiber Grating Technologies, Jose Azana; Inst. Natl. de la Recherche Scientifique, Canada.

FThV1, Infrared Antennas, Glenn D. Boreman; College of Optics and Photonics, CREOL, Univ. of Central Florida, USA.

FThV6, Light Manipulation by Use of Inhomogeneous Anisotropic Nanoscale Structures, Erez Hasman; Technion-Israel Inst. of Technology, Israel.

4.3: Silicon and III-V Based Optoelectronics for Optical Interconnects

Invited Speakers:

FThF1, Optical Interconnects in Supercomputers and High Performance Servers, Jeffrey Kash; IBM Res., USA.

FThL1, Building Blocks for Intrachip Optical Networks, J. Michel¹, K. Balakrishnan¹, M. Beals¹, J. Eastep¹, J. Miller¹, T. Konstantakopoulus¹, J. Liu¹, J. Psota¹, M. R. Watts², A. Agarwal¹, L. C. Kimerling¹; ¹MIT, USA, ²Sandia Natl. Labs, USA.

FThS1, Silicon Nano-Photonic Interconnection Networks in Multicore Processor Systems, Benjamin G. Lee, Keren Bergman; Columbia Univ., USA.

FThW1, Optical Interconnects in Large Computer Systems, Ashok Krishnamoorthy, John E. Cunningham, X. Zheng; Sun Microsystems Inc., USA.

5.1: Quantum Dot Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers

Invited Speakers:

FTuN1, Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers with Nanostructured Gain Material, Johann Peter Reithmaier¹, Gadi Eisenstein²; ¹Technische Physik Univ. Kassel, Germany, ²Technion-Israel Inst. of Technology, Israel.

FTuN3, Nonlinear Properties of Quantum Dot Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers at 1.3 µm, Dieter H. Bimberg, Christian Meuer, Matthias Laemmlin; Technical Univ. Berlin, Germany.

5.2: Novel Fiber and Fiber Photonic Devices

Invited Speakers:

FWF1, Nonlinear Optics in Gas-Filled Photonic Band-Gap Fibers, Alexander Gaeta; Cornell Univ., USA.

FWR1, Multimode Plastic Fiber for 100G, Stephen Ralph; Georgia Tech, USA.

FWR4, Multimaterial Fibers and Integrated Fiber Photonic Devices, Zheng Wang, Ayman F. Abouraddy, Fabien Sorin, Sylvain Danto, Ofer Shapira, John Joannopoulos, Yoel Fink; MIT, USA.

FThE1, Numerical Simulation of Light Transmission through Optical Fibers: Linear and Nonlinear, G. Ronald Hadley; Sandia Natl. Labs, USA.

FThE4, Designs and Applications of Large Mode Area Optical Fibers, Liang Dong, Jun Li, Hugh A. McKay, Brian K. Thomas, Libin Fu; IMRA America Inc., USA.

5.3: Next Generation Fabric Switching

Tutorial Speaker:

FTuA1, InP-Based Photonic Integrated Circuits, Thomas L. Koch; Lehigh Univ., USA.
Invited Speakers:

FTuA3, A Technological Platform for 10Gb/s-100 Gb/s Photonic Sources, Christophe Kazmierski; Alcatel-Thales III-V Lab, France.

FTuA4, Photonic Integrated Circuit Enabled Bandwidth Virtualization, Mehrdad Ziari, Chuck Joyner, Serge Melle, Chris Liou, Radha Nagarajan, Ted Sprage, Ting-Kuang Chang, Drew Perkins, Fred Kish, David F. Welch; Infinera, USA.

FWB1, A 130 Gb/s Multiwavelength Transparent TDM-WDM Optical Router, Ioannis Tomkos¹, J. Leuthold², A. Ellis³, G. Zarris⁴, P. Petropoulos⁵; ¹Athens Info. Tech., Greece, ²Inst. of High-Frequency and Quantum Electronics, Univ. of Karlsruhe, Germany, ³Photonic Systems Group, Univ. College Cork, Ireland, ⁴Univ. of Essex, UK, ⁵Optoelectronics Res. Ctr., Univ. of Southampton, UK.

FWB2, Intelligence-Enabled Packet-Centric Metro/Edge Optical Networks, Song Jiang; Alcatel-Lucent, USA.

FWB3, Photonic Integrated Devices for Fast Switching, Pietro Bernasconi; Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA.

5.4: How Will Bits and Bytes Be Encoded in Future Optical Communications Systems?

Invited Speakers:

FTuH1, Design Tradeoffs in Optical OFDM Transmission Systems, Itsuro Morita, Sander Jansen, Hideaki Tanaka; KDDI R&D Labs, Japan.

FTuH3, Toward the Shannon Limit Optical Communication, Masataka Nakazawa; Res. Inst. of Electrical Communication, Tohoku Univ., Japan.

FWH1, High-Speed Coherent Optical Receivers Realized in DSP, Noriaki Kaneda, Andreas Leven, Young-Kai Chen; Alcatel-Lucent, USA.

FWH2, High-Speed Transparent Optical Networks, Sethumadhavan Chandrasekhar; Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA.

FWH3, Real-Time Measurements of a 40 Gb/s Coherent System, Han Henry Sun; Nortel Networks, Canada.

5.5: Silicon Optics

Invited Speakers:

FMG1, Towards Fabless Silicon Photonics, Pieter Dumon; Ghent Univ., Belgium.

FMG6, Silicon-Organic Hybrid (SOH) Devices for Optical Signal Processing, Christian Koos^1,2, Jan-Michael Brosi¹, Philipp Vorreau¹, Thomas Vallaitis¹, Pieter Dumon³, Roel Baets³, Bweh Esembeson⁴, Ivan Biaggio⁴, Tsuyoshi Michinobu⁵, François Diederich⁵, Wolfgang Freude¹, Juerg Leuthold¹; ¹Inst. of High-Frequency and Quantum Electronics, Univ. of Karlsruhe, Germany, ²Carl Zeiss AG, Corporate Res. and Technology, Oberkochen Res. Ctr., Germany, ³Photonics Res. Group, Ghent Univ., IMEC, Belgium, ⁴Dept. of Physics, Lehigh Univ., USA, ⁵Lab für Organische Chemie, ETH Zürich, Switzerland.

FTuU3, Slow Light for Switching and Nonlinear Effects on SOI, Thomas F. Krauss¹, Daryl Beggs¹, Andrea di Falco¹, Tom White¹, Liam O'Faolain¹, Christelle Monat², Michael Lee², Benjamin Eggleton²; ¹SUPA, Univ. of St. Andrews, UK, ²CUDOS, School of Physics, Univ. of Sydney, Australia.

FTuU4, Silicon-on-Insulator Technology as a Platform for Advanced Electronics and Photonics, George K. Celler; SOITEC USA, USA.

6.1: Beam Combining

Tutorial Speaker:

FTuJ1, Beam Combining of Fiber Lasers, Tso Yee Fan; MIT Lincoln Lab, USA.

Invited Speakers:

FTuW1, Advances and Limitations in Fiber Laser Beam Combination, Gregory D. Goodno, Joshua E. Rothenberg; Northrop Grumman Space Technology, USA.

FTuW3, Passive Beam Combining of Fiber Lasers, Asher A. Friesem, Nir Davidson; Weizmann Inst. of Science, Israel.

FWG1, Electronic Beam Combination of Fiber Amplifier Arrays, Thomas M. Shay¹, J. T. Baker², C. A. Robin¹, C. Vergien¹, Clint Zeringue¹, David Gallant², T. J. Bronder¹, D. Pilkington¹, Chunte A. Lu¹, Anthony D. Sanchez¹; ¹AFRL, USA, ²Boeing LTS Inc., USA.

FWG4, Nonlinear Beam Cleanup and Coherent Beam Combining of Fibre Lasers, Arnaud Brignon, Jean Pierre Huignard; Thales Res. and Technology, France.

6.2: Nonlinear Wave Physics

Tutorial Speaker:

FThD1, Nonlinear Waves in Lattices, Mordechai Segev; Technion - Israel Inst. of Technology, Israel.

Invited Speakers:

FWO3, Optical Hydrodynamics, Mankei Tsang¹, Demetri Psaltis², Jeffrey H. Shapiro¹, Seth Lloyd¹; ¹MIT, USA, ²Inst. of Imaging and Applied Optics, Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne, Switzerland.

FWO6, Lattice Surface Solitons, Demetrios N. Christodoulides, George I. Stegeman; College of Optics and Photonics, CREOL and FPCE, Univ. of Central Florida, USA.

FThC1, Subwavelength Discrete Solitons in Nonlinear Metallic Waveguide Arrays, Xiang Zhang, Guy Bartal, Yongmin Liu, Dentcho A. Genov; Univ. of California at Berkeley, USA.

FThC4, Nonlinear Optics of Structured Photonic Materials, Robert W. Boyd, Ksenia Dolgaleva, Giovanni Piredda, Aaron Schweinsberg; Inst. of Optics, Univ. of Rochester, USA.

6.3: Coherence, Light Localization and Optical Chaos

Tutorial Speaker:

FThJ1, Photon Localization: Wave Interference and Modes in Random Media, Azriel Z. Genack¹, Sheng Zhang¹, Jing Wang¹, Andrey A. Chabanov², Patrick Sebbah³, Zhao-Qing Zhang⁴, Valentin Freilikher⁵; ¹Queens College of CUNY, USA, ²Univ. of Texas at San Antonio, USA, ³CNRS, Univ. de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France, ⁴Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, ⁵Bar-Ilan Univ., Israel.

Invited Speakers:

FWC1, Spatio-Temporal Complexity in Broad-Area Photonics, William J. Firth; Univ. of Strathclyde, UK.

FWC4, Nonlinear Dynamics in Deformed Microcavity Lasers, Takahisa Harayama; Dept. of Nonlinear Science, ATR Labs, Japan.

FWS3, Making Random Lasers Useful for Practical Applications, Siu-Fung Yu; Nanyang Univ., Singapore.

6.4: Non-Classical States and Quantum Information

Tutorial Speaker:

FMA1, Nonclassical Light for Quantum Information Science, H. Jeff Kimble; Caltech, USA.

Invited Speakers:

FMH3, From a Single-Photon Source to a Single-Ion Laser, Francois Dubin, Carlos Russo, Helena G. Barros, Andreas Stute, Piet Schmidt, Rainer Blatt; Univ. of Innsbruck, Austria.

FTuC1, Tools and Technology for Optical Quantum Information Processing, Paul G. Kwiat, Scott Jobling, Kevin T. McCusker, Radhika Rangarajan; Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.

FTuQ1, Quantum Measurement and Cloning with Continuous Variables, Christoffer Wittman¹, Ruifang Dong¹, Metin Sabuncu^1,2, Mikael Lassen^1,2, Ulrik Andersen^1,2, Gerd Leuchs¹; ¹Inst. für Optik, Information und Photonik, Univ. Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany, ²Technical Univ. of Denmark, Denmark.

FTuQ4, Dispersion Cancellation and Manipulation in Quantum Interferometry, Alexander Sergienko¹, Olga Minaeva^1,2, Cristian Bonato^1,3, Bahaa E. A. Saleh¹, Paolo Villoresi³; ¹Boston Univ., USA, ²Moscow State Pedagogical Univ., Russian Federation, ³Univ. of Padova, Italy.

6.5: The Rise of Quantum Telecom

Tutorial Speaker:

FWA2, Devices, Protocols and Architectures for Quantum Communication, Yoshihisa Yamamoto; Stanford Univ., USA.

Invited Speakers:

FWA1, Long-Distance QKD with Superconducting Single-Photon Detectors, Richard Hughes; Los Alamos Natl. Lab, USA.

FWA3, Superconducting Photon Detectors for Quantum Information and Communication, Sae Woo Nam; NIST, USA.

FWM1, Quantum Cryptography in Practical Networks, Misha Brodsky; AT&T Labs, USA.

FWM2, Low-Cost Devices for Quantum Cryptography, John G. Rarity¹, D. Lowndes¹, M. S. Godfrey¹, J. L. Duligall^1,2, A. M. Lynch¹; ¹Univ. of Bristol, UK, ²Hewlett-Packard Labs, UK.

FWM3, Quantum Key Distribution and Optical Networking, Paul Toliver¹, T. E. Chapuran¹, R. J. Runser², N. A. Peters¹, M. S. Goodman³, J. Jackel¹, S. McNown², R. J. Hughes⁴, C. G. Peterson⁴, K. McCabe⁴, J. E. Nordholt⁴, K. Tyagi⁴, D. Rosenberg⁴, N. Dallman⁴; ¹Telcordia Technologies, Inc., USA, ²Lab for Telecommunication Sciences, USA, ³Defense Advanced Res. Projects Agency (DARPA), USA, ⁴Los Alamos Natl. Lab, USA.

FWM4, Quantum-Noise Randomized Encryption for Telecommunication Networks, Gregory Kanter; NuCrypt, USA.

6.6: Photonic Bandgap Engineering, Nonlinearity and QED Effects

Invited Speakers:

FTuB1, Cavity QED, Single-Photon Nonlinear Optics and Quantum Information Processing with Quantum Dots in Photonic Crystals, Jelena Vuckovic, Andrei Faraon, Ilya Fushman, Dirk Englund; Edward L. Ginzton Lab, Stanford Univ., USA.

FTuB6, Slow Wave Resonance in Photonic Crystals, Alexander Figotin, Ilya Vitebskiy; Univ. of California at Irvine, USA.

FTuP3, Photonic Quasicrystals, Some Properties and Applications, Stefan Enoch¹, Alessandro Della Villa^2,1, Gérard Tayeb¹, Filippo Capolino², Vincenzo Pierro³, Vincenzo Galdi³; ¹CNRS, Inst. Fresnel, France, ²Univ. of Siena, Italy, ³Univ. of Sannio, Italy.

FTuP4, Fabrication of Three-Dimensional Photonic Crystals by Templated Atomic Layer Deposition, Christopher J. Summers, Elton Graugnard, Davy P. Gaillot, John Blair; Georgia Tech, USA.

7.1: Optical Models of the Eye

Tutorial Speaker:

FThA1, Optical Models of the Eye, Larry N. Thibos; Indiana Univ., USA Invited Speakers:

Invited Speakers:

FThA2, The Eye as an Aplantic Design, Pablo Artal; Univ. of Murcia, Spain.

FThG1, Measuring and Modeling the Refractive Index Gradients in Animal Crystalline Lenses, Ronald H. H. Kröger; Lund Univ., Sweden.

FThG3, Eye Models for the Design and Performance Assessment of New-Technology Intraocular Lenses, Patricia Piers¹, Henk Weeber¹, Pablo Artal²; ¹AMO Groningen BV, Netherlands, ²Ctr. de Investigacion en Optica y Nanofisica, Univ. de Murcia, Spain.

7.2: Virtual Displays and Natural Tasks

Invited Speakers:

FThN1, Investigating the Visual Functions of Fixational Eye Movements, Michele Rucci; Boston Univ., USA.

FThN2, Incorrect Focus Cues in Stereo Displays: Effects on Visual Performance and Viewer Fatigue, Martin Banks; Univ. of California at Berkeley, USA.

FThN3, Using Virtual Environments to Investigate Natural Visually Guided Behavior, Mary M. Hayhoe; Univ. of Texas at Austin, USA.

FThN4, Using Ambulatory VR to Break the Laws of Physics and Optics, William H. Warren; Brown Univ., USA.

Laser Science

LS 1: Lasers and Their Applications in Space and Fundamental Physics

Invited Speakers:

LTuB1, A Modern Michelson-Morley Experiment Using Optical Resonators, S. Herrmann, A. Senger, K. Möhle, N. Nagel, E. V. Kovalchuk, Achim Peters; Humboldt Univ., Germany.

LTuB2, Measuring the Fine Structure Constant Using Multiphoton Atom Interferometry, Holger Müller, Sheng-wey Chiow, Sven Herrmann, Steven Chu; Stanford Univ., USA.

LTuD1, New Results from the Fundamental-Physics Tests at Berkeley: Atomic Parity Violation, Searches for Variation of α and a Bose-Einstein-Statistics Violation by Photons, Dmitry Budker^1,2; ¹Univ. of California at Berkeley, USA, ²Nuclear Science Div., Lawrence Berkeley Natl. Lab, USA.

LTuD2, An Electron Electric Dipole Moment with Atoms in Optical Lattices, Neal Meyer, Kunyan Zhu, Fang Fang, David Weiss; Penn State Univ., USA.

LTuF2, Optical Frequency Comb Generation in HNLF Cavities, Danielle A. Braje¹, Tobias Kippenberg², Pascal Del'Haye², Leo Hollberg¹, Scott Diddams¹; ¹NIST, USA, ²Max-Planck-Inst. fur Quantenoptik, Germany.

LWA1, The Near-Field Infrared Experiment (NFIRE) Satellite Program Laser Communication Terminal (LCT): International Cooperation for Joint LCT Experiments, Renny A. Fields; Aerospace Corp, USA.

LWA2, Planetary Laser Communications, Hamid Hemmati; JPL, USA.

LWA3, "Astro-comb": A Femtosecond Laser Frequency Comb for Precision Astrophysical Spectroscopy, Chih-Hao Li; Harvard Univ. & Harvard-Smithsonian Ctr. for Astrophysics, USA.

LWA4, Coherent Optical Transponder at Femto-Watt Light Levels, John Dick¹, Meirong Tu¹, Kevin Birnbaum¹, Dmitry Strekalov¹, Ertan Salik², Nan Yu¹; ¹JPL, USA, ²California State Polytechnic Univ., USA.

LS 2: Laser-Cooled Atoms and Molecules

Invited Speakers:

LWE1, Cold and Ultracold Polar Molecules, Jun Ye; JILA, Univ. of Colorado and NIST, USA.

LWE2, Coherent Control of Ultracold Molecules, Christiane Koch; Freie Univ. Berlin, Germany.

LWE3, Cold Heteronuclear Dimers in Electric Fields: Rovibrational Dynamics and Photoassociation, Rosario Gonzalez Ferez; Univ. of Granada, Spain.

LWG1, Quantum Control of Ultracold AMO Systems by Nanomechanical Resonators, M. Bhattacharya, O. Dutta, S. Singh, Pierre Meystre; Univ. of Arizona, USA.

LWG2, Atom Interferometry with a Weakly Interacting Bose Einstein Condensate, Marco Fattori^1,2, C. D'Errico^1,2, G. Roati^1,2, M. Zaccanti^1,2, M. Jona Lasinio^1,2, M. Modugno^1,2, G. Modugno^1,2, M. Inguscio^1,2; ¹Univ. of Florence, Italy, ²Museo Storico della Fisica, Ctr. Studi e Ricerche Enrico Fermi, Italy.

LWJ1, Manipulating Polar Molecules: Traps, Synchrotrons and Chips, Gerard Meijer; Fritz-Haber Inst., Germany.

LWJ2, Experiments with Trapped Ultracold RbCs Molecules, Eric Hudson; Yale Univ., USA.

LWJ3, Dynamics of Ultracold Polar Molecules in a Thin Wire Electrostatic Trap (TWIST), Patrick J. Zabawa, Amy E. Wakim, Jan Kleinert, Christopher Haimberger, Nicholas P. Bigelow; Univ. of Rochester, USA.

LS 3: Quantum Information

Invited Speakers:

LWB1, Quantum Control of Spins and Photons in Diamond, Mikhail Lukin; Harvard Univ., USA.

LWB2, Chip-Scale Non-Linear Optics, Michal Lipson; Cornell Univ., USA.

LWD1, All-Optical Delay of Images Using Slow Light, J. C. Howell, R. M. Camacho, C. J. Broadbent, P. Vudya Setu; Univ. of Rochester, USA.

LThC1, From Phase Diagrams to Quantum Simulations with Neutral Atoms, Carl J. Williams; NIST, USA.

LThC2, Quantum Metrology with Cold Atoms, Anthony E. Miller, Andrew Silberfarb, Orion Crisafulli, Hideo Mabuchi; Stanford Univ., USA.

LThC3, Progress towards Scalable Quantum Information Processing with Trapped Ions, Jonathan Home¹, J. D. Jost¹, J. M. Amini¹, M. J. Biercuk¹, R. B. Blakestad¹, J. J. Bollinger¹, J. W. Britton¹, K. R. Brown¹, D. Hanneke¹, D. Hume¹, W. M. Itano¹, E. Knill¹, C. Langer², D. Leibfried¹, C. Ospelkaus¹, R. Ozeri³, T. Rosenband¹, S. Seidelin⁴, H. Uys¹, A. P. VanDevender¹, N. Walrath¹, J. Wesenburg⁵, D. J. Wineland¹; ¹NIST, USA, ²Lockheed Martin, USA, ³Weizmann Inst., Israel, ⁴Univ. of Grenoble, France, ⁵Oxford Univ., UK.

LThE1, Quantum Information Processing in Optical Fibers, Prem Kumar, Joseph B. Altepeter, Milja Medic, Matthew A. Hall, Monika S. Patel; Northwestern Univ., USA.

LS 4: Novel Applications of Lasers

Invited Speakers:

LMA1, Cavity Optomechanics on a Silicon Chip, Kerry Vahala; Caltech, USA.

LMA2, Radiation-Pressure Effects upon a Micro-Mirror in a High-Finesse Optical Cavity, Antoine Heidmann, Chiara Molinelli, Olivier Arcizet, Tristan Briant, Pierre-Francois Cohadon; Lab Kastler-Brossel, France.

LMA3, Detecting Quantum Behavior in Cavity-Based Electromechanical and Optomechanical Systems, Aashish Clerk; McGill Univ., Canada.

LMC1, Measuring and Cooling the Motion of a Nanomechanical Oscillator with a Microwave Cavity Interferometer, Konrad W. Lehnert, John D. Teufel; JILA, Univ. of Colorado, USA.

LMC2, Quantum-Optical Control of Micromechanics, Markus Aspelmeyer; Austrian Acad. of Sciences, Austria.

LMC3, A Radio Wave Analog of Laser Cooling for Macroscopic Systems, Kenton Brown, J. Britton, R. J. Epstein, J. Chiaverini, D. Leibfried, D. J. Wineland; NIST, USA.

LTuA1, Alkali Vapor Lasers, Randall Knize, Boris Zhdanov; Laser and Optics Res. Ctr., US Air Force Acad., USA.

LTuA2, Atomic Spectroscopy and Quantum Interference in On-Chip Hollow-Core Waveguides, Holger Schmidt; Univ. of California at Santa Cruz, USA.

LTuF1, Physics and Applications of Laser-Atomic Oscillator, Yuan-Yu Jau; Princeton Univ., USA.

LTuG1, Atom Chip Technology, Dana Anderson; Univ. of Colorado at Boulder, USA.

LTuG2, Optical Microcavities on Atom Chips, Ed Hinds; Imperial College London, UK.

LTuG3, Single Atoms and Condensates Strongly Coupled to an Optical Cavity on an Atom Chip, Yves Colombe^1,2; ¹Lab Kastler-Brossel, France, ²NIST, USA.

LS 5: Terahertz Spectroscopy

Invited Speakers:

LMB1, Photocarrier Dynamics of Semiconducting Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Probed by Terahertz Time-Domain Spectroscopy, Hugen Yan, Yang Wu, Tony Heinz; Columbia Univ., USA.

LMB2, Ultrafast Dynamics of Carrier Localization Probed via Time-Resolved Terahertz Spectroscopy, Susan L. Dexheimer; Washington State Univ., USA.

LMB3, The Effect of Spin-Polarized Electrons on THz Emission from Photoexcited GaAs(111), Charles Schmuttenmaer, James M. Schleicher, Shayne M. Harrel; Yale Univ., USA.

LMD1, Terahertz Technology for Defense Related Applications, Megan R. Leahy-Hoppa, Michael J. Fitch, Robert Osiander; Johns Hopkins Univ. Applied Physics Lab, USA.

LMD2, Method and Applications of Intense Terahertz Wave Radiation from Laser-Induced Air Plasma, Jianming Dai, Xi Cheng Zhang; Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst., USA.

LThB1, Origin of Terahertz Sensitivity to Heme Oxidation State, Jing Yin Chen, J. R. Knab, Andrea Markelz; Univ. at Buffalo, USA.

LThB2, Terahertz Spectroscopy of Illicit Drugs: Experiment and Theory, Damian G. Allis, Patrick M. Hakey, Timothy Korter; Syracuse Univ., USA.

LS 6: Laser Spectroscopy of Nanostructured Materials

Invited Speakers:

LTuC1, Multi-Exciton Generation by a Single Photon in Nanocrystals, Alexander Efros; NRL, USA.

LTuC2, Electron Injection from Colloidal Lead-Salt Quantum Dots into Oxide Nanoparticles, Frank Wise; Cornell Univ., USA.

LTuE1, Continuous Fluorescence from Single Colloidal Semiconductor Nanocystals, Xiaoyong Wang¹, Megan Hahn¹, Todd Krauss¹, Keith Kahen², Xiaofan Ren², Manju Rajeswaran², Alexander L. Efros³; ¹Univ. of Rochester, USA, ²Eastman Kodak Co., USA, ³NRL, USA.

LTuE2, Exciton Dynamics in (6,5) Carbon Nanotubes, Anna Swan¹, A. G. Walsh¹, J. Schneck¹, A. A. Green², M. C. Hersam², L. D. Ziegler¹; ¹Boston Univ., USA, ²Northwestern Univ., USA.

LTuI1, Photoinduced Dynamics in Carbon Nanotubes and Colloidal Quantum Dots, Sergei Tretiak; Los Alamos Natl. Lab, USA.

LTuI2, Measurement and Control of Ultrafast Relaxation in the Fine Structure of Nanocrystal Excitons, Cathy Y. Wong, Jeongho Kim, Gregory D. Scholes; Univ. of Toronto, Canada.

LWH1, Optical Imaging of Carbon Nanotubes, Paul Finnie^1,2, Kate Kaminska¹, D. Guy Austing¹, Andrew Li-Pook-Than^1,2, Jacques Lefebvre¹; ¹Natl. Res. Council Canada, Canada, ²Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Ottawa, Canada.

LWK1, Optical Spectroscopy of Individual Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene, Tony Heinz; Columbia Univ., USA.

LWK2, Excited States Decay in Carbon Nanotubes, Vasili Perebeinos; IBM, USA.

LWK3, Magnetophotoluminescence Spectroscopy of Excitons in Individual Carbon Nanotubes, Ajit Srivastava¹, Han Htoon², Victor I. Klimov², Junichiro Kono¹; ¹Rice Univ., USA, ²Ctr. for Integrated Nanotechnology, Los Alamos Natl. Lab, USA.

LS 7: Lasers in Biomedical Optics

Invited Speakers:

LThA1, Studying Single Cells Using Integrated Raman and Angular-Scattering Microscopy, Andrew J. Berger, Zachary J. Smith; Inst. of Optics, Univ. of Rochester, USA.

LThA3, Confocal Light Absorption and Scattering Spectroscopic Microscopy, Lev Perelman; Harvard Medical School, USA.

LThD1, Analyzing Light Scattering from Aspherical Nuclei for Cell Biology and Clinical Applications, Adam Wax; Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Duke Univ., USA.

LThD2, Optical Fourier Processing of Subcellular Structure, Nada N. Boustany, Jing-Yi Zheng, Robert M. Pasternack, Zhen Qian; Rutgers Univ., USA.

LThD3, Detecting Alterations in Cell Nanoarchitecture with Optical Imaging: Implications for Cancer Detection, Vadim Backman, Hariharan Subramanian, Prabhakar Pradhan, Yang Liu, Ilker Capoglu, Jeremy Rogers; Northwestern Univ., USA.

LS 8: Transient Spectroscopy of Conjugated Polymers

Invited Speakers:

LWC1, Ultrafast Dynamics of Photoexcitations in pi-Conjugated Polymers and Polymer/Fullerene Blends, Valy Vardeny; Univ. of Utah, USA.

LWC2, Ultrafast Photonics in Polymers, Guglielmo Lanzani, Jenny Clark, Tersilla Virgili, Juan Cabanillas-Gonzales; Dept. di Fisica, Politecnico di Milano, Italy.

LWC3, Time-Resolved Spectroscopy of Exciton Dynamics and Fission in Organic Molecular Crystalline Materials, Chris Bardeen, Frank C. Spano, Tai-Sang Ahn, Astrid M. Muller, Yuri S. Avlasevich, Wolfgang W. Schoeller, Klaus Müllen; Univ. of California at Riverside, USA.

LWF1, Coherent Aspects of Energy Transfer Dynamics in Conjugated Polymers, Gregory Scholes, Elisabetta Collini; Univ. of Toronto, USA.

LWF2, Essential Optical States in π-Conjugated Polymer Films, Sumit Mazumdar¹, Zhendong Wang¹, Demetra Psiachos¹, Alok Shukla²; ¹Univ. of Arizona, USA, ²Indian Inst. of Technology, India.

LWF3, Implications of Delayed Luminescence for Conjugated Polymer Photophysics, E. J. Wesely, A. P. Marchetti, Y. H. Geng, S. H. Chen, Lewis Rothberg; Univ. of Rochester, USA.

PRL 50th Anniversary Celebration

LTuH1, 50 More Years of PRL: How to Gauge a Journal's Success? Deniz van Heijnsbergen; American Physical Society, USA

LTuH2, Physical Review Letters, AMO, and the Law of Unintended Consequences, Daniel Kleppner; MIT, USA

LTuH3, Highlights from 50 Years of PRL, Wolfgang Schleich; Dept. of Quantum Physics, Univ. of Ulm, Germany