FiO/LS - Frontiers in Optics 2012/ Laser Science XXVIII (FiO 2012/LS XXVIII)

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FiO Invited Speakers

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: Fiber Optics and Optical Communications
FiO 6: Integrated Photonics
FiO 7: Quantum Electronics
FiO 8: Vision and Color

FiO 1: Optical Design, Fabrication, and Instrumentation

FiO 1.1: Coherence, Interferometry, Optical Testing, Diffractive and Holographic Optics

High-speed 3-D Motion-picture Recording by Parallel Phase-shifting Digital Holography, Yasuhiro Awatsuji, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan
Applications of Digital Holography: from Microscopy to Astronomy, Myung K. Kim, Univ. of South Florida, USA
Status and Issues of Holographic Display of Dynamic Images, Byoungho Lee, Seoul National Univ, Korea
Three-dimensional Hologram Capture Using Integral Imaging Under Incoherent Illumination, Jae-Hyeung Park, Chungbuk National Univ., Korea

FiO 1.2: Three-Dimensional Optical Structure Design, Fabrication and Nanopatterning

Title to be Announced, Ali Adibi, Georgia Tech., USA
3D Patterning Using Nanoimprint and Guided-Self-Assembly and Applications in Nanoplasmonics, Stephen Chou, Princeton Univ., USA
3D Optical Devices Fabricated Using Multiphoton Absorption Polymerization, John Fourkas, Univ. of Maryland, USA
Lithographically-defined 3-D Chip-scale Optical Interconnects Enabling, Michael Haney, Univ. of Delaware/DARPA, USA
Smart Plasmonics for Chemistry and Biology, Na Liu, Rice Univ., USA

FiO 1.3: Optical Design and Unconventional Polarization

Hybrid Spiral Plasmonic Lens: Towards High Efficiency Miniature Circular Polarization Analyzer, Weibin Chen, Univ. of Dayton, USA
Highly Efficient Polarization Gratings and Their Applications - Surprising Behavior When Birefringence Meets Diffraction, Michael Escuti, North Carolina State Univ., USA
Cylindrical Vector Beams for Imaging and Spectroscopy of Single Nanoparticles and Single Quantum Systems, Alfred J. Meixner, Univ. of Tuebingen, Germany
Vector Fields and their Novel Properties, Huitian Wang, Nankai Univ., China

FiO 1.4: Wavefronts and Aberrations: Engineering, Sensing and Applications

Title to be Announced, Vini Mahajan, Aerospace Corp., USA
Title to be Annonced, Rick Paxman, General Dynamics, USA
Aberration Correction of Coherent Imagery, Samuel T. Thurman, Lockeed Martin, USA

FiO 1.5: Adaptive Optics for Vision and Imaging (Joint with FiO 8)

Adaptive Optics for Visual Testing: from the Lab to the World, Pablo Artal, Univ. of Murcia, Spain
Adaptive Lenses for Vision Correction and Optical Imaging, Guoqiang Li, Ohio State Univ., USA
In vivo Adaptive Optics Imaging of the Lamina Cribrosa in Normal and Glaucomatous Eyes, Jason Porter, Univ. of Houston College of Optometry, USA
The Use of Annular Pupils in Adaptive Optics Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscopy: Imaging and Wavefront Sensing, Yusufu Sulai, Univ. of Rochester, USA

FiO 1.6: General Optical Design and Instrumentation

Inverse Optical Design of the Human Eye, Aleander Goncharov, National Univ. of Ireland, Ireland
Optical Tricks to Image Habitable Planets Around Nearby Stars, Olivier Guyon, Univ. of Arizona and Subaru Telescope, USA

FiO 3.3: Microscopy and OCT (Joint with FiO 3)

FiO 2: Optical Sciences

FiO 2.1: Wavefront Engineering and Sensing

Phase Singularities in Partially Coherent Wavefields, Greg Gbur, Univ. of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA
Tutorial: Field Tracing for Electromagnetic Wave Modeling, Frank Wyrowski, Univ. of Jena, Germany
Nondiffracting Plasmons, Carlos Zapata-Rodriguez, Univ. of Valencia, Spain

FiO 2.2: Advanced Fiber and Solid State Laser Technologies and Applications

High energy diode pumped Yb:doped crystal amplifiers for ultrashort OPCPA, Dimitrios Papadopoulos, Laboratoire Charles Fabry, Institut d'Optique and LULI, Ecole Polytechnique, France
Kilowatt Level Burst-mode OPCPA Pump Amplifier Concepts, Michael Schulz, Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron Research Department Hasylab, Germany
High Brightness Microchip Lasers for Engine Ignition, Takunori Taira, Inst. for Molecular Science, Japan

FiO 2.3: Laser-driven Electron and Light Sources

Ultrafast Electron Diffraction and Suitable Sources, Peter Baum, Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics & LMU München, Germany
Femtosecond x-rays from Relativistic Laser-plasma Interaction, Sebastien Corde, LOA, France
Tutorial: Ultrafast Laboratory Snapshots and Movies of Intense Laser-plasma Interactions, Mike Downer, Univ. of Texas at Austin, USA

FiO Symposium on Optical Parametric Chirped-Pulse Amplification

FiO 3: Optics in Biology and Medicine

FiO 3.1: Optical Trapping and Manipulation

Title to be Announced, Steve Boppart, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Title to be Announced, Jennifer Curtis, Georgia Tech., USA
Title to be Announced, Celeste Nelson, Princeton Univ., USA

FiO 3.2: Biophotonics and Optofluidics for Point-of-Care and Global Health Applications

Cellular Traction Stresses in Disease Progression, Cindy Reinhart-King, Cornell Univ., USA
Molecular diagnostics with optofluidic platform, Holger Schmidt, Univ. of California-Santa Cruz, USA
Optofluidics in Chemical and Biological Analysis, Yuze (Alice) Sun, National Inst. of Health, USA
Title to be Announced, Tomasz Tkaczyk, Rice Univ., USA

FiO 3.3: Microscopy and OCT (Joint with FiO 1)

Adaptive Optics for High-resolution Optical Microscopy, Martin Booth, Oxford Univ., UK
Title to be Announced, Zhongping Chen, Univ. of California-Irvine, USA
Title to be Announced, Gabi Popescu, Univ. of Illinois, USA
Title to be Announced, Jeff Squier, Colorado School of Mines, USA

FiO 3.4: Methods for Tissue Imaging and Therapy

Optical Imaging and Microscopy of the Living Brain, Elizabeth M. C. Hillman, Columbia Univ., USA
Title to be Announced, Jerome Mertz, Boston Univ., USA
Title to be Announced, Chris Xu, Cornell Univ., USA

FiO 6.4: Bioinspired Photonic Devices (Joint FiO 6)

FiO 4: Optics in Information Science

FiO 4.1: Coherence and Quantum Imaging

Quantifying Quantum Correlations: What is the Best Way to Measure 'Quantumness' in a System, Asma Al-Qasimi, Univ. of Toronto, Canada
Inverse Problems in Quantum Imaging, John Schotland, Univ. of Michigan, USA
Coherence Properties of X-ray Free-electron Lasers, Ivan Vartanyants, HASYLAB, DESY, Germany
Lensless Imaging with Ultrabroadband Light Sources: Towards Efficient Table-top Soft-X-ray Microscopy, Stefan Witte, VU Univ. Amsterdam, Netherlands

FiO 4.2: Image and Information Processing in Biooptics

Optimization of stochastic three dimensional fluorophore localization in optical microscopy, Rafael Piestun, Univ. of Colorado at Boulder, USA
Phase Space Analysis of Partially Coherent Imaging in a Microscope, Colin Sheppard, National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore
Optical Remote Sensor for Alcohol Concentration in Blood, Zeev Zalevsky, Bar-Ilan Univ., Israel

FiO 4.3: Generalized Imaging and Non-imaging Techniques for Diagnostics and Sensing Including Plasmonics

Phase in the near field, Brad Deutsch, Univ. of Rochester, USA
Addressing the Inverse Problem of Imaging with 'Heavy Atom' Optics, Aaron Lewis, Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem, Israel
Non-diffracting Airy Surface Plasmons: Generations, Manipulation and Interference, Alexander Minovich, Australian National Univ., Australia
Hybrid Plasmonic Nanodevices for All-optical Control of Information, Otto Muskens, Univ. of Southampton, UK
Observation of Dynamic Surface Plasmon Steering by Selective Mode Excitation at at Sub-wavelength Slit, Taco Visser, DeIft Univ. of Technology, Netherlands

FiO 4.4: Pupil and Wavefront Engineering

Dictionary Learning for Hyperspectral Video Compressive Sensing, Larry Carin, Duke Univ, USA
Ultrashort pulses in scattering media and their control for imaging, Yaron Silberberg, Weizmann Inst. of Science, Israel
Title to be Announced, Grover Swartzlander, Rochester Inst. of Technology, USA

FO 4.5: Parametric Imaging or Analysis

Laser Trapping Complex Shapes: the Effect of Complex Geometry on the Interaction of Radiation and Particulate Matter, Alex Levin, UCLA, USA
Motility Contrast Imaging and Fluctuation Spectroscopy of Living Tissue, David Nolte, Purdue Univ., USA
Functional imaging by OCT, from flow and diffusion towards perfusion of tissue?, Ton G. van Leeuwen and Jereon Kalkman, Univ. of Amsterdam Netherlands

FiO 5: Fiber Optics and Optical Communications

FiO 5.1: High Power and Agile Lasers

Ultra-high Efficiency Erbium-doped Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers, Mark Dubinskii, Army Research Labs, USA
Amplifying a Single Higher-order Mode in a Very-large-core Fiber Amplifier, Cliff Headley, OFS Labs, USA
High Peak-Power 2-micron Pulsed Fiber Lasers, Shibin Jiang, AdValue, USA
Parametrically Tuned Agile Oscillators, Bill P. Kuo, UCSD, USA
High-aspect-ratio-core Fibers for High Power/Energy Amplification, David Rockwell, Raytheon, USA

FiO 5.2: Photonic Crystal Fibers and Sensing

Tutorial: Manipulating Glass to Extend the Limits of Waveguide Sensing and Other Applications, John Canning, Univ. of Sydney, Australia
Advanced Optical Fibers and Their Applications in Fiber Lasers, Liang Dong, Clemson Univ., USA
Title to be Announced, Jonathan Knight, Univ. of Bath, UK
High Performance Distributed Optical Fiber Sensors Based on Raman Scattering, Fabrizio Di Pasquale, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy
Nonlinear Effects in Silicon Fibers, Anna Peacock, Univ. of Southampton, UK

FiO 5.3: Optics in a Cloud

Title to be Announced, Madeleine Glick, Apic, USA
High Performance Computing-Interconnect Decisions and Challenges, Brent Rothermel, QLogic, USA
Power Efficient Tb/s Optical Interconnects, Clint Schow, IBM, USA
Optical Switching Architecture for Data Center Networks, Lei Xu, NEC Research, USA

FiO 5.4: Enabling Technologies for High-Capacity Transport

Mode Gap Project, Andrew Ellis, Tyndall Institute, Ireland
Fiber Supporting Orbital Angular Momentum States for Information Capacity Scaling, Steve Golowich, MIT Lincoln Labs, USA
All Optical Processing for Transmission Applications, Inuk Kang, Seoul National Univ. / Bell Labs, Korea
Tutorial: Space-division Multiplexed Transmission in Novel Few-mode Fibers, Ronald Ryf, Bell Labs, Alcatel Lucent, USA
Optical Phase-Sensitive Amplification: Towards Ultra-Low Noise Transmission Links, Zhi Tong, Univ. of California San Diego, USA

FiO 6.5: Integrated Photonics for High Capacity Communications (Joint FiO 6)

FiO 6: Integrated Optics

FiO 6.1: Silicon Photonics

Monolithic Integration of CMOS and Silicon Nanophotonics for Optical Interconnects, Solomon Assefa, IBM Research, USA\
Tutorial: Active Silicon Photonic Devices and Integrated Circuits, John Bowers, UCSB, USA
Slow-light and Microcavities for Optical Signal Processing in the SOI Platform, Philippe Fauchet, Vanderbilt Univ., USA
Title to be Announced, Hong X. Tang, Yale Unv., USA

FiO 6.2: Active and Functional Metamaterials

Title to be Announced, Falk Lederer, Univ. of Jena, Germany
Title to be Announced, Viktor Podolskiy, Univ. of Massachussetts Lowell, USA

FiO 6.3: Nanophotonics and Integrated Photonics and Plasmonics

Hybrid Plasmonic Waveguides for On-chip Polarization Control, J. Stewart Aitchison, Univ. of Toronto, Canada
Plasmonic and Photonic Structures for Nanoparticle Trapping, Color Filtering and Single Molecule SERS, Ken Crozier, Harvard Univ., USA
Ultracompact CMOS-compatible modulators, Juerg Leuthold, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

FiO 6.4: Bioinspired Photonic Devices (Joint FIO 3)

Title to be Announced, Naomi Halas, Rice Univ., USA
Bioinspiration, Biomimetics and Bioreplication for Harvesting Solar Energy, Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Pennsylvania State Univ., USA
Silk-based Optics and Photonics, Fiorenzo Omenetto, Tufts Univ., USA

FiO 6.5: Integrated Photonics for High Capacity Communications (Joint FIO 5)

Title to be Announced, Radha Nagarajan, Infinera, USA
Monolithic and hybrid integrated photonic devices and circuits for optical switching and interconnect, Yoshiaki Nakano, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan
Title to be Announced, Michael Wale, Oclaro, UK

FiO 7.1: Integrated Quantum Optics (Joint FiO 7)

FiO 7: Quantum Electronics

FIO 7.1: Integrated Quantum Optics (Joint with FIO 6)

Sinusoidally Gated InGaAs/InP Avalanche Photodiodes for Quantum Key Distribution, Shuichiro Inoue, Inst. of Quantum Science, Nihon Univ., Japan
Integrated quantum optics using the Silicon on Insulator (SOI) plateform, Serge Massar, Laboratoire d’Information Quantique, Belgium
Femtosecond laser written optical circuits for quantum computation and simulation, Roberto Osellame, Inst. for Photonics and Nanotechnologies - CNR, Italy
Quantum networks of spin registers in diamond, Tim Taminiau, TU Delft, Netherlands
Engineering polarization entangled states at telecom wavelengths, Sebastien Tanzilli, CNRS, France

FiO 7.2: Hybrid Quantum Systems and Quantum-Enabled Sensors

Quantum dot spins and photons in quantum networks and metrology, Mete Atature, Cambridge Univ., UK
Tutorial: Entang-bling: quantum correlations in room-temperature diamond, Ian Walmsley, Oxford Univ., UK
Single photons storage in nuclear spins of diamond defects and rare earth atoms, Jorg Wrachtrup, Univ. of Stuttgart, Germany

FiO 7.3: Nonlinear Optics in Micro/Nano-Optical Structures

Ultrahigh nonlinearity waveguides for on-chips signal processing, Benjamin Eggleton, Univ. of Sydney, Australia
Silicon Nanophotonic Mid-Infrared Optical Parametric Oscillators and Amplifiers, William Green, IBM, USA
Title to be Announced, Qiang Lin, Univ. of Rochester, USA
Nonlinear Optics, Andrea Melloni, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Microresoantor-Based Optical Frequency Combs: Time-Domain Studies, Andrew Weiner, Purdue Univ., USA

FiO 7.4: Order, Disorder and Symmetry in Photonic Structures

Random Caustics and Intensity Fluctuations in Weakly Disordered Media, Ragnar Fleishmann, Max Planck Inst., Germany
Dark, bright, and optically active modes in magneto-plasmonic structures, A. Femius Koenderink, AMOLF, Netherlands
Anomalous diffusion and superballistic transport in inhomogeneous lattices, Alexander Szameit, Friedrich‐Schiller‐Universität, Germany

FiO 7.5: Non-plasmonic Polaritonics

Tutorial: Microcavity Polaritonics: Interacting Quantum Liquids on a Chip, Jeremy Baumberg, Univ. of Cambridge, UK
Novel Polariton Physics with Unconventional Microcavities, Hui Deng, Univ. of Michigan, USA
Nonlinear polarization phenomena in quantum microcavities, Ivan Shelykh, Univ. of Iceland, Iceland
Long Distance Transport of Polaritons with 100 ps Lifetime in Semiconductor Microcavities, David Snoke, Univ. of Pittsburgh, USA

FiO 7.6: Quantum Computation and Communications

Microcavities, James Franson, Univ. of Maryland, USA
Tomography of a Narrowband Photon From a Transient Atomic Collective Excitation, Andrew MacRae, Univ. of Calgary, Canada
Coherence and photon statistical properties of the Mollow triplet sideband emission of a quantum dot, Peter Michler, Univ. of Suttgart, Germany
Continuous-variable measurements of non-classical light, Paulo Nussenzveig, Univ. of Sao Paulo, Brazil

FiO 8: Vision and Color

FIO 8.1: High-Resolution Imaging of the Living Cornea

Corneal Structure Assessed with Adaptive Optics Second-Harmonic Generation Imaging, Juan M. Bueno, Universidad de Murcia, Spain
In vivo Confocal Microscopy of the Cornea in Health and Disease, Pedram Hamrah, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Depart. of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, USA
Using the HRT-RCM to Quantify in vivo Leukocyte Migration in the Inflamed Murine Cornea, Samuel Hanlon, The Univ. of Houston College of Optometry, USA
Clinical Applications of Corneal Optical Coherence Tomography, David Huang, Casey Eye Institute, USA

FIO 8.2: The Impact of the Chromatic Aberration on the Visual System

Measurement and Correction of Transverse Chromatic Aberration with the Adaptive Optics Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscope, Wolf Harmening, Univ. of California Berkeley, USA
Chromatic Aberration as a Possible Cue to Specify the Sign of Defocus in the Eye, Philip Kruger, SUNY College of Optometry, USA
Visual Consequences of Chromatic Aberration Reduction and Correction in Pseudophakia, Patricia Piers, Abbott Medical Optics Inc., Netherlands
Tutorial: Ocular Chromatic Aberration and its Effect on Retinal Image Quality, Larry Thibos, Indiana Univ. School of Optometry, USA