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FiO 1: Optical Design, Fabrication and Instrumentation
FiO 2: Optical Sciences
FiO 3: Optics in Biology and Medicine
FiO 4: Optics in Information Science
FiO 5: Photonics
FiO 6: Quantum Electronics
FiO 7: Vision and Color
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FiO 1: Optical Design, Fabrication and Instrumentation
1.1 Image-Based Wavefront Sensing
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Invited Speakers:
10:30 AM, Measurement-Diverse Wavefront Sensing, Rick Paxman, General Dynamics Corp., USA
11:00 AM, Rays and Waves in Wavefront Sensing, Jim Fienup, Univ. of Rochester, USA
4:00 PM, Sequential Diversity Imaging: Phase Diversity with AO Changes as the Diversities, Bob Gonsalves, Tufts Univ., USA
4:30 PM, JWST Integrated System Modeling, Scott Knight,
Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp., USA
1.2 Diffractive and Holographic Optics
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Tutorial Speaker:
1:30 PM, What Is and Is Not a Hologram and Why it Matters, H. John Caulfield, Alabama A&M Univ., USA
Invited Speakers:
2:15 PM, 3-D Optics: From Diffractive to Subwavelength, George Barbastathis; MIT, USA
4:00 PM, Theoretical and Practical Implementation of Novel Nanostructured Diffractive and Micro-Optics, Mohammad R. Taghizadeh, Andrew J. Waddie; Heriot-Watt Univ., UK
4:30 PM, Plasmonic Diffractive Optics - Its Analogy to Classical Diffractive Optics and Use for Subwavelength Metallic Devices, Byoungho Lee¹, Junghyun Park¹, Seung-Yeol Lee¹, Hwi Kim², Seong-Woo Cho¹, Seyoon Kim¹; ¹Seoul Natl. Univ., Republic of Korea, ²Korea Univ., Republic of Korea
1.3 Three-Dimensional Structure Design, Fabrication and Nanopatterning
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Invited Speakers:
1:30 PM, Active and Passive Nanophotonics for Information Systems Applications, Shaya Fainman, Univ. of California at San Diego, USA
2:00 PM, Nanopatterning Technology and the Future of Semiconductor Devices beyond 32nm, Bruce W. Smith, Rochester Inst. of Technology, USA
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Invited Speakers:
4:00 PM, Understanding Three-Dimensional Meta-Materials, from Refractive Index Concept to Rigorous Photonic Band Theory, Shanhui Fan, Stanford Univ., USA
4:30 PM, 3-D Integration of RF and Photonic Devices for High Frequency Operation, Dennis Prather, Univ. of Delaware, USA
1.4 Optical Design for Biomedical Systems (Joint with FiO 3: Optics in Biology and Medicine)
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Invited Speakers:
10:30 AM, Degrees of Freedom in Computational Volume Optics, Rafael Piestun, Univ. of Colorado, USA
11:00 AM, Optical Ring Resonator Based Biological and Chemical Sensors, Xudong (Sherman) Fan, Jonathan D. Suter, Yuze Sun, Jing Liu, Hao Li, Karthik R. C. Balareddy; Univ. of Michigan, USA
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Invited Speakers:
4:00 PM, High Resolution Optical Volumetric Imaging of Blood Perfusion with Microcirculation Tissue Beds, Ruikang Wang, Oregon Health and Science Univ., USA
4:30 PM, Breaking the Optical Diffusion Limit: Photoacoustic Tomography, Lihong Wang, Washington Univ. in St. Louis, USA
1.5 Optical Design with Unconventional Polarization
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Tutorial Speaker:
8:00 AM, Some Applications of the Unified Theory of Coherence and Polarization of Light, Emil Wolf, Univ. of Rochester, USA
Invited Speakers:
8:45 AM, Unconventional Polarization States Applied to Projection Imaging, Thomas Brown, Univ. of Rochester, USA
1:30 PM, Polarization and the Focusing of Light, Colin Sheppard, Natl. Univ. of Singapore, Singapore
2:00 PM, Polarization and Modal Degrees of Freedom for Tight Confinement of Light, Uriel Levy, The Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem, Israel
1.6 Astrophotonics (joint with FiO 5: Photonics) NEW!
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Invited Speakers:
4:00 PM, Fibers Are Looking Up: Optical Fiber Transition Structures in Astrophotonics, Tim Birks¹, Antonio Diez², Jose L. Cruz², Sergio G. Leon-Saval³, Dominic F. Murphy4; ¹Univ. of Bath, UK, ²Univ. of Valencia, Spain, ³Univ. of Sydney, Australia, 4Univ. of Adelaide, Australia
4:30 PM, Processing in Next Generation Telescope Arrays: Coherent Signal Combining, Pierre Kern, Univ. of Grenoble, France
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Tutorial Speaker:
8:00 AM, Astrophophotonics: A New Generation of Astronomical Instruments, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Univ. of Sydney, Australia
Invited Speaker:
9:00 AM, Coronagraphy for Exo-Planetary Detection, Richard Lyon, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr., USA
1.7 Adaptive Optics for the Eye (joint with FiO 7: Vision and Color)
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Invited Speakers:
8:00 AM, Multifunctional Imaging Device for Adaptive Optics Compensation in Humans and Small Animals, Daniel X. Hammer1, R. Daniel Ferguson1, Mircea Mujat1, Ankit H. Patel1, Nicusor Iftimia1, T. Y. P. Chui2, J. D. Akula2, A. B. Fulton2; 1Physical Sciences Inc., USA, 2Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, USA.
8:30 AM, Designing AO Retinal Imaging Systems for Real World Uses: Issues and Limitations, Steve Burns, Indiana Univ., USA
9:00 AM, Optical Design of Clinical Adaptive Optics Instruments for Retinal Imaging, Alf Dubra, Univ. of Rochester, USA
8:00 AM, Multifunctional Imaging Device for Adaptive Optics Compensation in Humans and Small Animals, Dan Hammer, Physical Sciences Inc., USA
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FiO 2: Optical Sciences
2.1 Attosecond Optics and Technology
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Tutorial Speaker:
4:00 PM, Carrier to Envelope Offset and Carrier to Envelope Phase—How Their Control Impacts Femtosecond and Attosecond Phenomena, Jean-Claude Diels, Univ. of New Mexico, USA
Invited Speakers:
5:00 PM, High-Order Harmonic Generation on Plasma Mirrors: Toward Attosecond Sources of Second Generation, Fabien Quere, Inst. du CEA Saclay, France
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Invited Speakers:
8:00 AM, XUV Time-Domain Spectroscopy Using Isolated Attosecond Pulses from Double Optical Gating, Zenghu Chang; Kansas State Univ., USA
9:00 AM, Molecular Orbital Imaging Using Laser Driven Attosecond Emission, Bertrand Carre, SPAM, Inst. du CEA Saclay, France
2.2 Advances in High-Energy Ultrafast Laser Systems
Monday, October 25, 2010
Invited Speakers:
5:00 PM, Advances in Energetic Short-Pulse Fiber Lasers, Michael J. Messerly1, Jay W. Dawson1, John K. Crane1, David J. Gibson1, Constantin Haefner1, Miroslav Y. Shverdin1, Henry H. Phan1, Richard P. Hackel1, Craig W. Siders1, Christopher P. J. Barty1, Matthew A. Prantil2; 1Photon Science and Applications Program, Lawrence Livermore Natl. Lab, USA, 2Lawrence Berkeley Natl. Lab, USA.
5:30 PM, Grating Development for High-Peak-Power CPA Laser Systems, Terrance J. Kessler; Lab for Laser Energetics, Univ. of Rochester, USA.
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Invited Speakers:
10:30 AM, New Source of Ultra-Broadband Mid-IR Frequency Combs for Spectroscopic Applications, Konstantin Vodopyanov1, Nick C. Leindecker1, Alireza Marandi1, Robert L. Byer1, Vladimir Pervak2; 1Stanford Univ., USA, 2Ludwig-Maximilians-Univ. München, Germany
Tutorial Speaker:
1:30 PM, Optical Dispersion Management in Laser Amplifier Systems, Catherine LeBlanc, LULI - École Polytechnique, France
Invited Speakers:
3:00 PM, Development and Operation of Large-Aperture Tiled-Grating Compressors for High-Energy, Petawatt-Class Laser Systems, Jie Qiao, A. Kalb, T. Nguyen, D. Canning, J. Price; Lab for Laser Energetics, Univ. of Rochester, USA
2.3 Laser-Plasma Based Particle Acceleration
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Tutorial Speaker:
10:30 AM, Laser Plasma Accelerators: Concepts, Progress and Dreams, Wim Leemans, Lawrence Berkeley Natl. Lab, USA
Invited Speakers:
11:15 AM, Acceleration of Electrons by A Laser Wakefield Accelerator (LWFA) Operating in the Self-Guided Regime, Chan Joshi, C. Clayton¹, D. Froula², K. Marsh¹, A. Pak¹, J. Ralph¹,²; ¹Univ. of California at Los Angeles, USA, ²Lawrence Livermore Natl. Lab, USA
1:30 PM, Recent Advances in Proton Acceleration and Beam Shaping, Marcus Roth¹, V. Bagnoud², T. Burris³, S. Busold¹, T. Cowan³, O. Deppert¹, M. Geissel4, D. P. Grote5,6, K. Harres¹, G. Hoffmeister¹, G. Logan5, F. Nürnberg¹, G. Schaumann¹, M. Schollmeier4, D. Schumacher¹; ¹Technische Univ. Darmstadt, Germany, ²Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Germany, ³Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Germany, 4Sandia Natl. Labs, USA, 5Lawrence Berkeley Natl. Lab, USA, 6Lawrence Livermore Natl. Lab, USA
2:00 PM, Ion Acceleration with Ultra-Intense Lasers, Anatoly Maksimchuk, Univ. of Michigan, USA
2:30 PM, Particle Acceleration by the Light Pressure of High-Power Laser Pulses, Joerg Schreiber, MPQ, Garching, Germany
2.4 High-Peak-Power THz Field Generation and Applications
Tutorial Speaker:
1:30 PM, High-Peak-Power THz Field Generation and Applications, Keith Nelson, MIT, USA
Invited Speakers:
4:00 PM, High Energy THz Pulse Generation by Tilted Pulse Front Excitation and Its Applications, János Hebling, József A. Fülöp, László Pálfalvi, Gábor Almási; Dept. of Experimental Physics, Univ. of Pécs, Hungary
4:30 PM, Ultrafast THz Studies of Electronic Dynamics and Correlations in Carbon Nanomaterials, Robert Kaindl, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab., USA
2.5 Laser Systems for Fusion and Fast Ignition
Invited Speakers:
8:00 AM, Progress in Experiments for the National Ignition Campaign, Brian MacGowan, Lawrence Livermore Nat'l Lab., USA
8:30 AM, Inertial Confinement Fusion Research at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics, David Meyerhofer, Lab. for Laser Energetics, Univ. of Rochester, USA
9:00 AM, Fast Ignition Integrated Experiments Using Gekko-XII and LFEX Lasers, Hiroyuki Shiraga, Inst. of Laser Engineering, Osaka Univ., Japan
9:30 AM, Status of the HiPER Project, Mike Dunne, Central Laser Facility, Rutherford Appleton Lab, UK
FiO 3: Optics in Biology and Medicine
3.1 Optical Trapping and Manipulation
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Invited Speakers:
10:30 AM, Suppression of Brownian Motion Explores Cooperativity for Single Multi-Subunit Enzymes in Solution, Yan Jiang¹,², Nick Douglas³, Nick Conley&sup4;, Eric Miller³, Judith Frydman³, W.E. Moerner¹; ¹Chemistry Dept., Stanford Univ., USA, ²Applied Physics Dept., Stanford Univ., USA, ³Biology Dept., Stanford Univ., USA, &sup4;Radiology Dept., Stanford Univ., USA
11:30 AM, Optical Sculpting: Changing the Shape of Micromanipulation, Kishan Dholakia, Janelle Shane, Michael Mazilu, Tomas Cizmar; Univ. of St. Andrews, UK
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
10:30 AM, High-Speed Holographic Tweezers and Imaging, Miles Padgett¹, Richard Bowman¹, Daryl Preece¹, Arran Curran¹, Graham Gibson¹, David Carberry², Mervyn Miles²; ¹Univ. of Glasgow, UK, ²Univ. of Bristol, UK
11:30 AM, Applications of Spatial Light Modulators for Optical Trapping and Imaging, Monika Ritsch-Marte, Medizinische Univ. of Innsbruck, Germany
3.2 Microscopy and OCT
Monday, October 25, 2010
4:00 PM, Improving 2-Photon Microscopy by Beam Multiplexing and Extended Excitation Bandwidth, Thomas Pingel, LaVision Biotec, Germany
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Invited Speakers:
8:00 AM, Nonlinear Optical Tools for Studying Small-Stroke at Microscopic Scales, Nozomi Nishimura, Cornell Univ., USA
Tutorial Speaker:
4:45 PM, Coherence Imaging, Adam Wax, Duke Univ., USA
3.3 Optics for Diagnostics and Therapy
Monday, October 25, 2010
1:30 PM, Monitoring Breast Cancer Tumor Response at Different Timepoints during Pre-Surgical Chemotherapy with Diffuse Optical Spectroscopic Imaging, Albert Cerussi¹, Vaya W. Tanamai¹, Darren Roblyer¹, Shigeto Ueda¹, Amanda F. Durkin¹, Rita S. Mehta², David Hsiang², John Butler², Bruce J. Tromberg¹; ¹Beckman Laser Inst., Univ. of California at Irvine, USA, ²Chao Comprehensive Cancer Ctr., Univ. of California at Irvine, USA
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
1:30 PM, Optical Imaging and Spectroscopy in Photodynamic Therapy Research and Clinical Applications, Tom Foster, Benjamin R. Giesselman, Soumya Mitra; Univ. of Rochester, USA
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FiO 4: Optics in Information Science
4.1 Encoding Optical Information—Nano-Photonics, Diffractive Optics and Refractive Optics for Shaping Optical Signals
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Invited Speakers:
1:30 PM, Fundamental Limits to Optical Components, David Miller, Stanford Univ., USA
2:00 PM, Progress towards Windows Performing Forbidden Light-Ray Direction Changes, Johannes Courtial, Univ. of Glasgow, UK
2:30 PM, On Breaking The Abbé Diffraction Limit In Optical Nanopatterning, Nicole Brimhall1, Trisha Andrew2, Rajakumar Manthena1, Mohit Diwekar1, Rajesh Menon1; 1Univ. of Utah, USA, 2MIT, USA.
4.2 Sensing in Higher Dimensions—Theory and Hardware for Computational Imaging
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Invited Speakers:
10:30 AM, Computational Photography in 4-D, 6-D and 8-D, Ramesh Raskar, MIT, USA
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Invited Speakers:
10:30 AM, Spatio-Temporal Processing Methods for Mitigating Bandwidth Issues Associated with Advanced Infrared Sensors, Dean Scribner, Northrop Grumman, USA
4.3 Plasmonics and Metamaterials for Information Processing
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Invited Speakers:
1:30 PM, Infrared Plasmonic Metamaterials for Slow-Light Applications, Gennady Shvets, Univ. of Texas Austin, USA
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Invited Speakers:
1:30 PM, Super-Resolution Imaging Based on Interfering Plasmon Waves, Peter So, MIT, USA
4:00 PM, Simple Demonstration of Visible Evanescent Wave Enhancement with Far-Field Detection, Rene Lopez, Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
4.4 Structured Wavefields for Communications and Sensing
Monday, October 25, 2010
Invited Speakers:
1:30 PM, Effects of Type of Incidence on the Second and Fourth Order Moment Parameters Evaluated in Turbulent Atmosphere, Yahya Baykal, Cankaya Univ., Turkey
4:00 PM, Optical Coherence Microscopy Using Bessel Beam, Kye-Sung Lee, Univ. of Rochester, USA
5:30 PM, Advanced Studies of ‘Non-Diffracting’ Light Fields, Kishan Dholakia, Jörg Baumgartl, Tomas Cizmar, Xanthi Tsampoula, Frank Gunn-Moore, Michael Mazilu; Univ. of St. Andrews, United Kingdom.
4.5 Generalized Imaging and Non-Imaging Techniques for Diagnostics and Sensing
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Invited Speakers:
10:30 AM, Quantum Inspired Imaging with Compressive Sensing, Ori Katz, Yaron Bromberg, Yaron Silberberg; Weizmann Inst. of Science, Israel.
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Invited Speakers:
4:15 PM, Infrared Spectroscopic Imaging for Label-Free and Automated Histopathology, Rohit Bhargava, Rohith K. Reddy, Jason Ip, Frances N. Pounder, Matthew V. Schulmerich, David Mayerich, Xavier Llora, Rong Kong, Michael J. Walsh; Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Invited Speakers:
10:30 AM, Spatial Light Interference Microscopy (SLIM), Zhuo Wang, Huafeng Ding, Gabriel Popescu; Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
FiO 5: Photonics
5.1 Novel Fiber Optical Devices
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Invited Speakers:
10:30 AM, Self Assembled Periodicity in a Liquid Filled Hollow Optical Fiber, Kyunghwan Oh¹, Hojoong Jung¹, Sohee An¹, Yongmin Jung²; ¹Yonsei Univ., Republic of Korea, ²Optoelectronics Res. Ctr., Univ. of Southampton, UK
10:30 AM, Short-Pulse Fiber Lasers Based on Dissipative Solitons, Frank Wise; Cornell Univ., USA
4:00 PM, Semiconductor Core Optical Fibers, John Ballato; Clemson Univ., USA
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Invited Speakers:
10:30 AM, Fibers for Dispersion Management in fs Fiber Lasers, Lars Grüner-Nielsen, Kim G. Jespersen, Martin E. V. Pedersen, Bera Pálsdóttir; OFS Denmark, Denmark
4:00 PM, Manipulation of Pulse Duration and Wavelength Conversion in Optical Fibres, William Wadsworth; Univ. of Bath, UK
5.2 Optical Communication
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Invited Speakers:
4:00 PM, Rate-Adaptive Transmission Techniques for Optical Fiber Systems, Joseph Kahn; Stanford Univ., USA
4:30 PM, Digital Compensation of Fiber Nonlinearities, Guifang Li; CREOL, Univ. of Central Florida, USA
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Invited Speakers:
10:30 AM, Promising Technologies for Capacity Growth in Future Optical Networks, R. J. Essiambre; Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA
11:15 AM, Next Generation 400 Gb/s Transmission, I. B. Djordjevic; Univ. of Arizona, USA5.3 Integrated Optics
Monday, October 25, 2010
Invited Speakers:
4:00 PM, Monolithic Ge-on-Si Lasers, Lionel Kimerling, Jifeng Liu; MIT, USA
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Invited Speakers:
8:00 AM, Noise, Broadband Gain, Inverse Stimulated Scattering, and Extreme Value Fluctuations; Recent Developments in Silicon Raman Amplifiers, Bahram Jalali; Univ. of California at Los Angeles, USA
9:00 AM, Nonlinear Mixing in Silicon Waveguides for Short Wave Infrared and Mid-Infrared Applications, Sanja Zlatanovic; Univ. of California at San Diego, USA
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Invited Speakers:
2:00 PM, Theoretical Investigation of Attractive Optical Force in Periodically-Patterned Silicon Waveguides, Jing Ma, Michelle Povinelli; Univ. of Southern California, USA
5.4 Photonic Sensing Devices
Monday, October 25, 2010
Invited Speakers:
1:30 PM, Long-Term Monitoring of Local Temperature and Strain Changes in a Buried Fiber-Optic Cable Using Brillouin OTDR, Jon Nagel; AT&T Labs, USA
2:30 PM, Raman-Based Distributed Temperature Sensors, Arthur Hartog; Schlumberger, UK
4:30 PM, New Imaging and Sensing Techniques Base on Surface Plasmon Resonance, N. J. Tao, Arizona State Univ., USA
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Invited Speakers:
8:00 AM, Sensor Challenges for Deep Tissue Imaging, Martin Leahy, Univ. of Limerick, Ireland
5.5 Novel Hybrid Integration NEW!
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Invited Speakers:
1:30 PM, Hybrid Integration of III-V and Si for Photonic Integrated Circuits, John Bowers; Univ. of California at Santa Barbara, USA
2:30 PM, Active-Passive Photonic Integration with an Eye Toward Large Scale Integration, James Jaques; LGS Innovations, LLC, USA
3:00 PM, Hybrid Chalcogenide/Lithium Niobate, Christi Madsen; Texas A&M Univ., USA
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Invited Speakers:
8:00 AM, Rare-Earth-Ion Doped Waveguide Amplifiers and Lasers in Alumina and Polymers, Markus Pollnau, Univ. of Twente, Netherlands
9:00 AM, Optimized Nonlinear Optical Molecules for Silicon-Organic-Hybrid Systems, Ivan Biaggio, Lehigh Univ., USA
5.6 Photonics and Optics for Energy Efficiency and Sustainability (joint with FiO 1: Optical Design, Fabrication and Instrumentation) NEW!
Monday, October 25, 2010
Invited Speakers:
1:30 PM, Luminescent Solar Concentrators: From Optical Heat Pumps to Solar Pumped Lasers, C. Rotschild¹, M. Tomes², H. Mendoza¹, T. Carmon², M. Baldo¹; ¹MIT, USA, ²Univ. of Michigan, USA
2:00 PM, Depleted Heterojunction Colloidal Quantum Dot Solar Cells, Illan Kramer, Univ. of Toronto, Canada
2:30 PM, Nanoscale Photon Management for Efficient Photovoltaic Energy Harvesting, Mark Brongersma, Stanford Univ., USA
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Invited Speakers:
8:00 AM, Organic Semiconductors for Photovoltaic and Light-Emitting Devices: Status and Promise, Bernard Kippelen, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering., Georgia Tech, USA
8:30 AM, Optical Transmission Energy Consumption in the Internet, Dan Kilper, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA
9:00 AM, Photonics and Optics for Energy Efficiency and Sustainability – Is this Green Photonics?, Michael Lebby, Optoelectronics Industry Development Association, USA
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FiO 6: Quantum Electronics
6.1 Opto-Mechanics and Quantum Measurement
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Invited Speakers:
10:30 AM, Quantum Back Action in Tabletop Interferometers, Jack Harris, Yale Univ., USA
11:30 AM, Silicon Monolithic Acousto-Optic Modulators, Sunil Bhave, Cornell Univ. USA
4:00 PM, The Engima of Optical Momentum, Stephen M. Barnett; Univ. Strathclyde, UK
4:45 PM, Testing Macroscopic Quantum Superpositions, Dirk Bouwmeester, Univ. of California at Santa Barbara, USA
6.2 Quantum Information and Communciations
Monday, October 25, 2010
Invited Speakers:
2:45 PM, Quantum Optics in Wavelength Scale Structures, John Rarity, Univ. of Bristol
4:00 PM, Interference of Photons from Remote Solid-State Sources, A. J. Bennett¹, R. B. Patel¹,², I. Farrer², C. A. Nicoll², D. A. Ritchie², Andrew Shields¹; ¹Toshiba Res. Europe Ltd., United Kingdom, ²Cavendish Lab, Cambridge Univ., UK
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Invited Speakers:
2:00 PM, Title to Be Announced, Luiz Davidovich; Univ. Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
6.3 Non-Linear Imaging (joint with FiO 3: Optics in Biology and Medicine)
Monday, October 25, 2010
Invited Speakers:
1:30 PM, Non-Linear Imaging with Ultrashort Shaped Pulses, Marcos Dantus, Michigan State Univ., USA
2:15 PM, Nonlinear Imaging of Coherent Fields Demetri Psaltis, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
3:00 PM, Stimulated Raman Scattering Microscopy for Biology and Medicine, Sunney Xie, Harvard University, USA
6.4 Nonlinearities and Gain in Plasmonics and Metamaterials
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Invited Speakers:
8:00 AM, Metamaterials and Symmetry, Xiang Zhang, Univ. of California at Berkeley, USA
9:30 AM, Switchable and Nonlinear Metamaterials: Controlling Light on the Nanoscale, Nikolay I. Zheludev, Univ. of Southampton, UK
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Invited Speakers:
10:30 AM, Active Plasmonic Metamaterials, Mikhail A. Noginov, Norfolk State Univ., USA
11:30 AM, Nonlinear Plasmonics, Lukas Novotny, Univ. of Rochester, USA
6.5 Transformation Optics and Cloaking with Metamaterials
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Invited Speakers:
8:00 AM, Transforming Integrated Optics, Jensen Li, City Univ. of Hong Kong, China
8:30 AM, Taming the Fields and Waves with Extreme Metamaterials, Nadar Engheta, Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA
9:00 AM, Active and Tunable Metamaterials, Vladimir M. Shalaev; Purdue Univ., USA
9:30 AM, Molding the Flow of Light with Artificial Optical Materials, Dentcho Genov, Louisana Tech, USA
6.6 Nonlinear Optics in Micro/Nano-Optical Structures (joint with FiO 5: Photonics)
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Invited Speakers:
8:45 AM, Nonlinear Optical Processes in Subwavelength Optical Waveguides—Revised Fundamentals and Implications, Shahraam Afshar, Univ. of Adelaide, Australia
10:30 AM, Nonlinear Silicon Photonics, Michal Lipson, Cornell Univ., USA
11:30 AM, Light Scattering in a Random but Non Diffusive Nonlinear Medium, Jordi Martorell, Inst. de Ciències Fotòniques, Spain
1:30 PM, CMOS Compatible All-Optical Chips, David Moss¹, A. Pasquazi², M. Peccianti², L. Razzari², D. Duchesne², M. Ferrera², S. Chu³, B. E. Little³, R. Morandotti²; ¹Univ. of Sydney, Australia, ²INRS-EMT, Canada, ³Infinera Corp., USA
Tutorial Speaker:
2:30 PM, Phonon Lasers in Cavity Optomechanics, Kerry Vahala, Caltech, USA
6.7 Disorder in Integrated Optical Devices and Circuits
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Invited Speakers:
1:30 PM, Strong Localization by Disorder in Photonic Crystal Waveguides, Frank Vollmer, Harvard Univ., USA
3:00 PM, Disorder-Induced Multiple Scattering and Light Localization in Photonic Crystal Waveguides, Stephen Hughes, Queen's Univ., Canada
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Invited Speakers:
1:30 PM, Evolution of Photonic Band-Gap and Lasing from Polycrystalline to Amorphous Photonic Structures, Hui Cao, Yale Univ., USA
3:00 PM, Ultrasensitive Raman Sensor Based on Highly Scattering Porous Structures, Vladislav Yakovlev, Univ. of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, USA
FiO 7: Vision and Color
7.1 Individualized Optical Correction of the Eye
Monday, October 25, 2010
Invited Speakers:
1:30 PM, The Use of Adaptive Optics to Study Optical and Neural Impact on Visual Performance, Geunyoung Yoon, Univ. of Rochester, USA
2:15 PM, Performance of Aspheric IOLs, Susana Marcos, Inst. de Óptica, Spanish Council for Scientific Res., Spain
Tutorial Speaker:
2:45 PM, The Role of the Eye's Aberrations in Vision, Pablo Artal, Univ. de Murcia, Spain
7.2 Emerging in vivo Imaging Techniques for Ocular Imaging (joint with FiO 3: Optics in Biology and Medicine)
Monday, October 25, 2010
Invited Speaker:
4:00 PM, Imaging the Development of Neural Circuits in the Mammalian Retina, Daniel Kerschensteiner; Washington Univ. in St. Louis, USA.
4:30 PM, Multimodal Retinal Imaging, Hao Zhang¹,², Qing Wei¹, Tan Liu¹, Jing Wang¹, Dennis P. Han³, Janice M. Burke³, Shuliang Jiao&sup4;; ¹Univ. of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, USA, ²Northwestern Univ., USA, ³Medical College of Wisconsin, USA, &sup4;Univ. of Southern California, USA
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1. Frontiers in Cold Molecules
2. Hybrid Quantum Systems
3. Metrology and Precision
4. Novel Imaging, Spectroscopy and Manipulation in Microstructures
5. Attosecond and Strong Field Physics
6. Chemical Dynamics—Multi-Dimensional Ultrafast Spectroscopy
7. Photophysics of Nanostructured Materials
8. Photophysics of Energy Conversion
9. Single Molecule Approaches to Biology-Inspired Problems
10. Optofluidics in the Near-Field
11. Quantum Enhanced Information Processing
12. Nonlinear Optics
13. Nanophotonics, Photonic Crystals and Structural Slow Light
14. General Laser Science
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1. Frontiers in Cold Molecules
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Invited Speakers:
4:00 PM, Tunable Excitons in Ordered Arrays of Ultracold Molecules of Optical Lattices, Roman Krems, Univ. of British Columbia, Canada
4:30 PM, Dipolar Effects in an Ultracold Gas of LiCs Molecules, Matthias Weidemeuller, Heidelberg Univ., Germany
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Invited Speakers:
8:00 AM, Manipulation of Ultracold Chemistry, John Bohn, JILA, NIST, Univ. of Colorado, USA
8:30 AM, Implementation of a New Method to Produce Ultracold Polar Molecular Ions, Wade Rellergert, Scott Sullivan, Kuang Chen, Steven Schowalter, Eric R. Huson; Univ. of California at Los Angeles, USA
9:30 AM, Sympathetic Heating Spectroscopy: Probing Molecular Ions with Laser-Cooled Atomic Ions, Ken Brown, Georgia Tech, USA
1:30 PM, Laser Cooling of a Diatomic Molecule, David DeMille, E. S. Shuman, J. F. Barry; Yale Univ., USA
2:00 PM, Testing the Time-Invariance of Fundamental Constants Using Cold, and Not So Cold, Molecules, Rick Bethlem, Vrije Univ., Amsterdam
2. Hybrid Quantum Systems
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Invited Speakers:
8:00 AM, Hybrid Nanophotonic and Nanomechanical Interfaces for Spin Qubits, Mikhail Lukin, Harvard Univ., USA
8:30 AM, Optical Manipulation and Detection of the Collective Motion and Spin of an Ultracold Atomic Gas, Dan Stamper-Kurn, Univ. of California at Berkeley, USA
9:30 AM, Measurement of Nanomechanical Motion with Precision Sufficient to Detect Zero-Point Motion, K. W. Lehnert, JILA, NIST, Univ. of Colorado, USA
10:30 AM, Quantum Measurement of Phonon Shot Noise Using Optomechanical Systems, Aashish Clerk, McGill Univ., Canada
11:00 AM, Nonlinear Optomechanical Couplings: Tools for Dealing with Solid Mechanical Objects in the Quantum Regime, Jack Sankey, Yale Univ., USA
11:30 AM, Measuring the Quantum Harmonic Oscillator, Andrew Cleland, Univ. of California at Santa Barbara, USA
3. Metrology and Precision Measurements
Invited Speakers:
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
8:00 AM, Precise Determination of h/M(Rb) Using Bloch Oscillations and Atomic Interferometry: A Mean to Deduce the Fine Structure Constant, Francois Biraben, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, École Normale Supérieure, CNRS, France
8:30 AM, Optical Clock with Lattice-Confined Sr Atoms, Jun Ye, JILA, Univ. of Colorado
9:15 AM, Al+ Optical Clocks for Fundamental Physics, Geodesy, and Quantum Metrology, Till Rosenband, NIST, USA
1:30 PM, New Limit on Lorentz and CPT Violation for Neutrons, Michael Romalis, Princeton Univ., USA
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Invited Speakers:
2:00 PM, Results of Table-Top Fundamental Physics Experiments at Berkeley, Dmitry Budker, Univ. of California at Berkeley, USA
2:45 PM, An Improved Limit on the Permanent Electric Dipole Moment (EDM) of 199Hg, Tom Loftus, Univ. of Washington, USA
4. Novel Imaging, Spectroscopy and Manipulation in Microstructures
Monday, October 25, 2010
Invited Speakers:
4:00 PM, Linear and Nonlinear Optical Nano-Crystallography, Markus Raschke, Univ. of Washington, USA
4:30 PM, 10 kHz Accuracy Spectroscopy in Acetylene-filled Hollow-Core Kagome Fiber and Improved Linewidths, Kristan Corwin Kansas State Univ., USA
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Invited Speakers:
10:30 AM, Coherent Rydberg Excitation in Microscopic Thermal Vapor Cells, Tilman Pfau, Univ. of Stuttgart, Germany
11:15 AM, Single-Particle Spectroscopy and Manipulation in Optofluidic Devices, Holger Schmidt, Univ. of Southern California
5. Attosecond and Strong Field Physics
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Invited Speakers:
1:30 PM, Attosecond Physics: Real-Time Tracking of Valence Electron Motion in Atoms, Eleftherios Goulielmakis, Max-Planck-Inst. für Quantenoptik, Germany
2:00 PM, Probing Electron Dynamics by High Harmonic Generation, Markus Guehr, Stanford Univ., USA
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Invited Speakers:
2:45 PM, High Order Harmonics Driven by 1.5μm Parametric Source: A Tool for Attosecond Science, Caterina Vozzi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
4:00 PM, Time-Resolved High-Harmonic Spectroscopy of Photochemical Dynamics, Hans Jakob Worner, National Res. Council, Canada
4:45 PM, Ultrafast Dynamics in Helium Nanodroplets Studied by Femtosecond EUV Photoelectron and Ion Imaging, Oliver Gessner, Lawrence Berkeley Natl. Lab, USA
6. Chemical Dynamics—Multi-Dimensional Ultrafast Spectroscopy
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Invited Speakers:
1:30 PM, Advances in Ultrafast 2-D Spectroscopy, Chris T. Middleton, Martin T. Zanni; Univ. of Wisconsin at Madison, USA
2:00 PM, Multiply Resonant Coherent Multidimensional Spectroscopy, John Wright, Univ. of Wisconsin at Madison, USA
2:45 PM, Watching Chemical Reactions and Dynamics with Ultrafast Multidimensional Infrared Spectroscopy, Carlos R. Baiz, Jessica M. Anna, Robert McCanne, John T. King, Kevin J. Kubarych; Univ. of Michigan, USA
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Invited Speakers:
8:00 AM, Two Dimensional Ultraviolet Spectroscopy of Proteins and Amyloid Fibrils, Jun Jiang, Shaul Mukamel; Univ. of California at Irvine, USA
8:30 AM, Two-Dimensional Electronic Spectroscopy of the Photosystem II Reaction Center, J. A. Myers, K. L. M. Lewis, F. Fuller, P. F. Tekavec, J. P. Ogilvie; Univ. of Michigan, USA
7. Photophysics of Nanostructured Materials
Monday, October 25, 2010
Invited Speakers:
1:30 PM, Photophysical Consequences of Interactions Between Conjugated Chromophores, Lewis Rothberg, Univ. of Rochester, USA
2:00 PM, Effects of Aggregation on the Emission Spectra and Dynamics of Electrolumine Scent Materials, Linda Peteanu, Carnegie Mellon Univ., USA
2:30 PM, Transient Microwave Conductivity Studies of Poly (3-alkyl thiophene)s and Blends with PCBM, Garry Rumbles, Natl. Renewable Energy Lab., USA
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Invited Speakers:
8:00 AM, Excitonic Dynamics of Quantum Dots Monitored by Near-Infrared Transient Absorption, Emily Weiss, Northwestern Univ., USA
8:30 AM, Quantum Dot Electron Transfer Probed by Transient Photoluminescence, Marcus Jones; Univ. of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA.
11:00 AM, Two-Dimensional Photon Echo Measurements on CdTe/CdSe Heterostructured Quantum Dots, Shun Shang Lo1, Roman Vaxenburg2, Cathy Y. Wong1, Efrat Lifshitz2, Gregory D. Scholes1; 1Univ. of Toronto, USA, 2Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Inst. and Solid State Inst., Israel.
10:30 AM, Mixed Quantum Classical Simulations of Vibrational Excitations in Peptide Helices, Anne Goj, Eric Bittner; Univ. of Houston, USA.
8. Photophysics of Energy Conversion
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Invited Speakers:
8:00 AM, Multi-Exciton Dissociation Dynamics in CdSe Quantum Dots, Tianquan Lian, Emory Univ., USA
8:30 AM, Inter- and Intra-chain Electronic Coherence in Conjugated Polymers, Greg Scholes, Univ. of Toronto, Canada
9:00 AM, Transient Absorption Studies of Charge Photogeneration in Organic and Dye Sensitized Solar Cells, James Durrant, Imperial College London, UK
1:30 PM, Spin Signatures of Light Induced Charge Separated States in Polymer-Fullerene Bulk-Heterojunctions: High-Frequency Pulsed EPR Spectroscopy, Oleg Poluektov¹, Salvatore Filippone², Nazario Martín², Andreas Sperlich³, Carsten Deibel³, Vladimir Dyakonov³; ¹Argonne Natl. Lab, USA, ²Univ. Complutense de Madrid, Spain, ³Julius-Maximilians Univ. of Würzburg and Bavarian Ctr. for Applied Energy Res. e. V., Germany
2:00 PM, Optically and Electrically Detected Magnetic Resonance Studies of Organic Light-Emitting Materials and Devices, Joe Shinar, Iowa State Univ., USA.
2:30 PM, Carrier Dynamics of Films of Zinc Phthalocyanine and C60 Measured by Terahertz Time Domain Spectroscopy, Paul Lane, NRL, USA
3:00 PM, Time-Resolved Microwave Conductivity, Nikos Kopidakis, Natl. Renewable Energy Lab., USA
9. Single Molecule Approaches to Biology-Inspired Problems
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Invited Speakers:
10:30 AM, Optical Chirality and Superchiral Fields, Adam Cohen, Harvard Univ., USA
11:00 AM, Local Dynamics Probing by Real-Time Single-Particle Tracking Spectroscopy, Li Sun, Princeton Univ., USA
11:30 AM, Exploring Chromatin Biochemistry with Single-Molecule Fluorescence Diffusometry, Hideo Mabuchi, Stanford Univ., USA
4:00 PM, Bacteriophager Lambda Life Cycle: The View from the Single Virus, Ido Golding, Baylor College of Medicine, USA
4:30 PM, Imaging Dynamic Events Inside Living Cells: Intracellular Degradation of LDL, Christine Payne, Georgia Tech, USA
5:00 PM, Time-Resolved 3D Tracking of Individual Quantum Dot Labeled Proteins in Live Cells via Confocal Feedback, Jim Werner, Los Alamos Natl. Lab, USA
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Invited Speakers:
10:30 AM, Single Molecule Photon Trajectories and Transition Paths in Protein Folding, Bill Eaton, NIH and Natl. Inst. of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, USA
11:00 AM, Title to Be Announced, Norbert Scherer, Univ. of Chicago, USA
11:30 AM, Superresolution Optical Fluctuations Imaging (SOFI) , Shimon Weiss, Univ. of California at Los Angeles, USA
10. Optofluidics in the Near-Field
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Invited Speakers:
1:30 PM, Title to Be Announced, Stephan Arnold, Polytechnic Inst. of New York Univ., USA
2:00 AM, Title to Be Announced, Sudeep Mandal, Cornell Univ., USA
2:30 PM, Surface Optofluidics, Andreas E. Vasdekis1, Wuzhou Song1, Julien R. Cuennet1, Luciano De Sio2, Jae-Woo Choi1, Demitri Psaltis1; 1École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, 2Univ. of Calabria,, Italy.
3:00 PM, Optofluidic Ring Resonator Lasers, Xudong (Sherman) Fan, Yuze Sun, Jonathan D. Suter, Chung-Shieh Wu, Wonsuk Lee, Balareddy Chinna Reddy Karthik; Univ. of Michigan, USA.
4:00 PM, Optofluidic Nano-Plasmonics for Biochemical Sensing, Shaya Y. Fainman, L. Pang, B. Slutsky, J. Ptasinski, L. Feng, M. Chen; Univ. of California at San Diego, USA.
4:30 PM, Plasmonics for Optical Manipulation and Enhanced Spectroscopy, Kenneth Crozier, Harvard Univ., USA
11. Quantum Enhanced Information Processing
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Invited Speakers:
10:30 AM, Entanglement and Quantum Algorithms with Superconducting Circuits, Robert Schoelkopf, Yale Univ., USA
11:00 AM, Benchmarking Quantum Information Processing Devices, Raymond Laflamme, Univ. of Waterloo, Canada
11:30 AM, Coherent Splitting, Rocking and Blinding of Single Atoms in an Optical Lattice, Dieter Meschede, Inst. für Angewandte Physik der Univ. Bonn Wegelerstr, Germany
4:00 PM, Progress towards Scalable Quantum Information Processing with Trapped Ions, David Hanneke, NIST, USA
5:00 PM, Quantum Illumination for Improved Detection, Imaging, and Communication, Jeffrey Shapiro, MIT, USA
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Invited Speakers:
10:30 AM, Quantum Teleportation And Quantum Information Processing, Akira Furusawa, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan
11:00 AM, Integrated Quantum Photonics, Jeremy L. O'Brien; Univ. of Bristol, UK
12. Quantum Nonlinear Optics
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Invited Speakers:
8:00 AM, Toward Single-Photon Nonlinear Optics via Self-Assembled Ultracold Atoms, Daniel J. Gauthier, Duke Univ., USA
8:30 AM, Prospects for Strong Cavity Free Single Atom Nonlinearity at the Few Photon Level, Gerd Leuchs; Max-Planck-Inst. for the Science of Light and Inst. of Optics, Univ. Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany.
1:30 PM, Spatial Light Modulators, a Tool for Measuring the Quantum Entanglement of Transverse Modes, Miles Padgett, Univ. of Glasgow, UK
2:00 PM, Gas-Phase Integrated-Photonics Quantum Technologies, Andrew White, Univ. of Queensland, Australia
13. Nanophotonics, Photonic Crystals and Structural Slow Light
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Invited Speakers:
10:30 AM, Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics with Quantum Dots, Antonio Badolato, Univ. of Rochester, USA
8:00 AM, Spontaneous and Stimulated Emission of Light into Surface Plasmon Modes, Pierre Berini, Univ. of Ottawa, Canada
8:30 AM, Enhancing Light-Matter Interactions in Nanophotonic Structures by Slow Light, Jesper Moerk, Technical Univ. of Denmark, Denmark
11:00 AM, Novel Light-Guiding Properties in Photonic Crystals, R. Hamam, I. Celanovic, Z. Wang, Y. Chong, J.d. Joannopoulos, Marin Soljacic; MIT, USA.
14. General Laser Science
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Invited Speakers:
9:45 AM, Exciton Diffusion and Interfacial Charge Separation in Photovoltaic Materials Studied by Microwave Conductivity, Tom J. Savenije, Laurens D. A. Siebbeles; Delft Univ. of Technology, Netherlands.