Confirmed invited speakers and provisional presentation titles:
CLEO Pacific Rim topics
Applied nonlinear optics
- Satoshi Ashihara (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan)
Spectral broadening and phase shaping of mid-IR pulses - Aaron C. Bernstein (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
New opportunities for controlling long distance filaments in air through two beam coupling - Thomas Pertsch (Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany)
Light bullets
Fiber amplifiers, lasers, sensors and devices
- Shahraam Afshar (Institute for Photonics & Advanced Sensing, Australia)
Optical fibre coated with diamond nanocrystal: novel sensing architecture - Claude Aguergaray (Auckland University, New Zealand)
Parabolic and hyper-gaussian similaritons propagating in fiber amplifier and lasers with saturation effect - Gilberto Brambilla (Optoelectronics Research Centre, UK)
Sensors and devices based on optical fibre microwires - Ingmar Hartl (IMRA America Inc, USA)
Advanced ultrashort pulsed fiber lasers - Qingwen Liu (University of Tokyo, Japan)
An ultra-high-resolution large-dynamic-range fiber optic static strain sensor using pound-drever-hall technique - Michael Oermann (Institute for Photonics & Advanced Sensing, Australia)
Tellurite glass for use in 2.3 1/4m thulium fibre lasers - Kyunghwan (Ken) Oh (Yonsei University, Korea)
Bessel-beam crossings for 3D optical transport of microscopic particles - Nikita Simakov (Defence Science & Technology Organisation, Australia)
Power scaling of 2 um sources for frequency conversion into the mid-infrared - Johann Troles (University of Rennes, France)
New chalcogenide fibers
High power laser technology and high energy density physics
- Sudeep Banerjee (University of Nebraska, USA)
Background-free, quasi-monoenergetic electron beams from a self-injected laser wakefield accelerator - Almantas Galvanauskas (University of Michigan, USA)
Lasers for inertial fusion - Noriaki Miyanaga (Osaka University, Japan)
Construction of LFEX PW laser & conceptual design of sub EW laser at Osaka University
Information optics, optical storage and displays
- Matthew Foreman (Imperial College London, UK)
Analysis of optical resolution in data storage and beyond - Dmitri Psaltis (Geneve)
Second harmonic nanoparticles in biological imaging - Lambertus Hesselink (Stanford University, USA)
Fundamental principles underlying near field transducers for data storage - Takashi Kurokawa (Tokyo University of Agriculture & Technology, Japan)
Optical short pulse synthesis and its applications
Infrared and THz technology, and astrophotonics
- Hideaki Ohgaki (Kyoto University, Japan)
Accelerator based photon beams, generation and applications at Kyoto University - Frank Tittel (Rice University, USA)
Quantum cascade laser based trace gas sensor technologies: recent advances and applications - Takeshi Yasui (University of Tokushima, Japan)
THz color scanner for moving objects
Integrated and guided-wave optics and thin-film optics
- Alexander Gaeta (Cornell University, USA)
Novel CMOS-compatible sources based on nonlinear optics - Kengo Nozaki (NTT Basic Research Laboratory, Japan)
Photonic crystal nanocavities toward low-power nanophotonics on chip nanophotonic devices - Markus Pollnau (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
Micromechanically tuned ring resonator in silicon on insulator - Andrew Poon (Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, China)
Silicon microresonators for on-chip optical interconnects and optofluidics
Laser chemistry, biophotonics and applications
- Mary Ann Go (Australian National University, Australia)
Three-dimensional multi-site two-photonexcitation for probing neuronal signal integration - Scott Kable (The University of Sydney, Australia)
Chemistry at the threshold: unexpected products, unusual mechanisms and generally weird things that happen near the energetic threshold for a reaction - Andrei Rode (Australian National University, Australia)
Influence of polarisation on optical trapping forces in air-transport of spherical particles - Nicholas Smith (Biophotonics Lab, IFREC, Japan)
Optical control of cell functions: using laser light to remote control signalling, contraction and action potentials in living cells - Leann Tilley (The University of Melbourne)
Super-resolution optical imaging of malaria parasites - Benjamin J. Vakoc (Harvard Medical School, USA)
Using optical coherence tomography to image tumor blood vessels
Laser metrology and remote sensing
- Gesine Grosche (Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Germany)
High performance frequency comparisons over optical fibre - Shiv Sharma (Hawaii Institute of Geophys & Planetology, USA)
Raman spectroscopy and its applications in earth and planetary science - Stanley Whitcomb (LIGO Laboratory, USA)
Laser interferometer gravitational-wave detectors: advancing toward a global network
Laser processing, laser microfabrication, and industrial applications
- Roberto Osellame (Institute for Photonics and Nanotechnologies – CNR, Italy)
Femtosecond laser micromachining as an enabling tool for optofluidics and quantum optics - Reinhart Poprawe (Fraunhofer Institute, Germany)
KW-fs laser technology – enabling a new dimension of materials processing - Yasuhiko Shimotsuma (Kyoto University, Japan)
Manipulation of self-assembled nanostructure in glass - Alexander Szameit (Friedrich-Schiller-University, Germany)
Three-dimensional all-optical routing and switching in laser-written waveguide
Optical communications and networking
- Vincent Chan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology,USA)
Optical Flow Switching - Masahiko Jinno (NTT Network Innovation Laboratories, Japan)
Why do we need elastic optical networking in the 1 Tb/s era? - Cibby Pulikkaseril (Finisar, Australia)
Spectral modeling of wavelength selective switches for flexible grid optical networks - Rod Tucker (Institute for a Broadband-Enabled Society (IBES), Australia)
Green optical networking
Semiconductor and electro-optic devices
- Yasu Arakawa (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Quantum dot lasers and amplifiers - Chennupati Jagadish (Australian National University, Australia)
III-V compound semiconductor nanowires for optoelectronic devices - Robert Rehm (Fraunhofer IAF, Germany)
Dual-color InAs/GaSb superlattice infrared imagers
Solid-state lasers and other lasers, and laser materials
- Alexander Hemming (DSTO, Australia)
A 27 W Mid-IR laser source - David Lancaster (Institute for Photonics & Advanced Sensing, Australia)
A new class of 2um waveguide lasers produced by fs direct-writing of Tm3+ and Ho3+ doped ZBLAN glass - Richard Mildren (Macquarie University, Australia)
Performance extension of Raman lasers using synthetic diamond - Peter Shardlow (Imperial College London, UK)
Coherent beam combining of self-adaptive lasers - Manasadevi Priyamvadha Thirugnanasambandam (Institute for Laser Science, University of Electrocommunications, Japan)
High-order mode selection in Yb:YAG ceramic laser - Peter Veitch (The University of Adelaide, Australia)
High power “single frequency” lasers
Joint IQEC/CLEO Pacific Rim Topics
Nanophotonics
- Ning Dai (Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, China)
Fabrication of solar cells using semiconductor quantum dots and nano-materials - Min Gu (Swinburne University, Australia)
Super-resolution nanolithography in photoreduction polymers - Kirsty Hannam (Australian National University, Australia)
Tuning linear and nonlinear properties of broadside-coupled resonators - Martin Hill (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Plasmonic and metallic nano-cavity lasers - Rajesh Menon (University of Utah, USA)
Patterning and imaging beyond the far-field diffraction limit - Bumki Min (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea)
Extremely high refractive index terahertz metamaterials - Fang-Fang Ren (Nanjing University, China)
Photoresponse enhancement in nanoscale Ge photodetector through split bull’s eye shaped plasmonic antenna - Aniwat Tandaechanurat (Institute for Nano Quantum Information Electronics, Japan)
Observation of purcell effect in a 3D photonic crystal nanocavity with a single quantum dot
Ultrafast laser science
- Zhengu Chang (University of Central Florida, USA)
Probing sub-cycle excitation dynamics with isolated attosecond pulses - Tony Heinz (Columbia University, USA)
Probing electronic states and dynamics in graphene by optical spectroscopy - Takayoshi Kobayashi (University of Electro-Communications, Japan)
Generation of CEP-stabilized sub-3-fs pulses - R.J. Dwayne Miller (University of Hamburg, Germany, University of Toronto, Canada)
Making the Molecular Movie: First Frames…..Coming Features
Ultrafast optics and photonics
- Alexander Fuerbach (Macquarie University, Australia)
Femtosecond chirped pulse oscillators for high-speed photonic device fabrication - Fabian Rotermund (Ajou University, Korea)
Progress in carbon nanotube mode-locked ultrafast solid-state lasers
IQEC Topics
Cold Atoms and molecules
- Brian Anderson (University of Arizona, USA)
Two-dimensional quantum turbulence in Bose-Einstein Condensates - Jan Klaers (University of Bonn, Germany)
Bose-Einstein condensation of paraxial light - Andrew Truscott (Australian National University, Australia)
Higher order correlations in ultracold quantum gases
Fundamentals of nonlinear optics
- Philip Russell (Max Planck Institute: Science of Light, Erlangen, Germany)
Gas-based nonlinear optics in hollow core photonic crystal fibre - Andrey Sukhorukov (Australian National University, Australia)
Optical phase transitions and quantum walks in nonlinear waveguide arrays - Anatoly Zayats (King’s College London, UK)
Nonlinear nanophotonics - Shining Zhu (Nanjing University, China)
Steering light and photon by engineering domains in ferroelectric crystals
Precision measurements and fundamental tests
- Pierre Cladé (LKB – CNRS, France)
New determination of the fine structure constant and test of the quantum electrodynamics - Jeffrey Hangst (Aarhus University, Denmark)
Trapping antihydrogen for tests of CPT invariance - Achim Peters (Humboldt Universitaet Berlin, Germany)
Matter wave interferometry in microgravity and its application for high precision measurements
Quantum information and cryptography
- Mikio Fujiwara (National Institute of Information and Communications, Japan)
Field demonstration of quantum key distribution in the Tokyo QKD network - Wolfgang Tittel (University of Calgary, Canada)
Quantum memory for quantum repeaters
Quantum optics
- Markus Aspelmeyer (VCQ, University of Vienna, Austria)
Quantum opto-mechanics: quantum optical control of massive mechanical resonators - Andrew Doherty (The University of Sydney, Australia)
Quantum science in atoms, molecules and solids
- Mikkel F. Andersen (University of Otago, New Zealand)
Consistent isolation of individual atoms using cold collisions - John Teufel (National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, USA)
Sideband cooling micromechanical motion to the quantum ground state
Green Photonics Symposium
- Pavlos Lagoudakis (University of Southampton, UK)
Hybrid optoelectronics for light harvesting and light emission applications