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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 and Instrumentation

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

  • Optical Reconstruction of Computer Generated Holograms by a Binocular Holographic Projection 3D Display, Hwi Kim; Korea Univ., Korea

  • Computational Imaging On a Chip, Aydogen Ozcan; UCLA, USA

  • Acceleration Techniques for Computer Holography, Tomoyoshi Shimobaba; Chiba Univ, Japan

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

  • Pattern-Integrated Interference Lithography for 2D and 3D Photonic Crystals, Thomas K. Gaylord; Georgia Tech, USA

  • Three-Dimensional Optical Structure Design and Fabrication by Laser Means, Minghui Hong; National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore

  • Status and Challenges of Three-dimensional Optical Laser Lithography, Martin Wegener; Karlsruhe Inst. of Technology, Germany

1.3: Optical Design with Unconventional Polarization and Complex Optical Fields (Joint with FiO 8)

  • Spinoptical Metamaterials: Spin-controlled Photonics, Erez Hasman; Technion-Israel Inst. of Technology, Israel

  • Light that Spins Inside Fibers: Applications from Microscopy to Telecommunications, Siddarth Ramachandran; Boston Univ., USA

  • Vector Beams and Vector Fields: A Look at Methods of Generation and Potential Applications, Kimani Toussaint; UIUC, USA

  • Multiplexing Information-Carrying Orthogonal Beams using Orbital Angular Momentum States, Alan Willner; USC, USA

1.4: Wavefronts and Aberrations: Engineering, Sensing and Applications

  • Novel Schemes for Modeling and Measuring Coherence and Polarization, Miguel Alonso; Univ. of Rochester, USA

  • Image-based Wavefront Sensing for Telescope Aberrations, Jim Fienup; Univ. of Rochester, USA

1.5: Optical design of Ophthalmic Instruments for Retinal Imaging (Joint with FiO 8)

  • Challenges of High-resolution Ophthalmic Imaging using Multiple Wavelengths, Alf Dubra, Medical College of Wisconsin, USA

  • Low-cost 3D Retinal Imaging: the Application of Structured Illumination to Ophthalmoscopy, Steve Gruppetta; City Univ. of London, UK

  • Design and Performance of the Indiana Adaptive Optics OCT System, Donald Miller; Indiana Univ., USA

  • Imaging Human Rod and Cone Photoreceptors with Adaptive Optics SLO/OCT, Michael Pircher; Medical Univ. of Vienna, Austria

  • Perils, Pitfalls, Precautions and Possibilities of Building Advanced Optical Systems for Ophthalmic Applications, Austin Roorda; University of California, Berkeley, USA

1.6: General Optical Design and Instrumentation

3.3 Microscopy and OCT (Joint with FiO 3)

FiO 2: Optical Sciences

2.1 Frequency Comb Science and Technology

  • Tutorial: Optical Frequency Combs from A to Z, Scott Diddams, National Inst of Standards & Technology, USA

  • Novel Frequency Comb Sources and Applications,  Franz X. Kärtner; Massachusetts Inst. of Technology, USA and DESY Hamburg, Germany

  • Microresonator Based Optical Frequency Combs: Soliton Mode Locking and Extension to the Mid-IR, Tobias Kippenberg; Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland

2.2 Extreme Light Sources and Laser-driven Particle Accelerators

  • Compton Scattering Gamma-ray Sources and Applications in Nuclear Photonics, Felicie Albert; Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA

  • Challenges and Progress of Laser-driven Ion Acceleration Beyond 100 MeV/amu, Daniel Jung; Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA

  • X-ray Generation via Laser Compton Scattering Using Electron Beam Driven by Laser-Plasma Acceleration, Eisuke Miura, AIST

  • Dynamics of Relativistically Oscillating Mirrors, Matt Zepf; Queen's University of Belfast, UK

2.3 Peak and Average Power Bottlenecks for Fiber Lasers (Joint with FiO 5)

  • Recent Progress in the Understanding and Mitigation of Mode Instabilities, Cesar Jauregui; Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, Germany

  • Tutorial: Stimulated Brillouin Scattering in Optical Fibers and Amplifiers: Theory, Applications and Implications, Marc Mermelstein; OFS Laboratories, USA

  • High Peak and Average Power Ultrafast Fiber Lasers, Andreas Tünnermann; Univ. of Jena, Germany

  • The Optical Phase and Single Frequency Fiber Amplifiers: Coupling Mechanisms and their Application, Henrik Tunnermann; Laser Zentrum Hannover, Germany

2.4 High-field Physics

  • Towards the Experiments on High Field Physics, Stepan Bulanov; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA

  • Tutorial: Attosecond Light Switches, Zenghu Chang; Univ. of Central Florida CREOL, USA

2.5: General Optical Sciences

  • High Pulse Repetition Rate Lasers Modelocked with Quantum Dot SESAMs, Bojan Resan; Time-Bandwidth Products, Switzerland

FiO 3: Optics in Biology and Medicine

3.1 Translational Biophotonics – Focus on Pathology and Diagnostics

  • Title to be Announced, Andrew Rollins; Case Western Reserve University, USA

  • Multi-scale and Multi-contrast Photoacoustic Microscopy, Junjie Yao; Washington Univ. in St. Louis, USA

  • Title to be Announced, Warren Zipfel; Cornell Univ., USA

3.2 Microscopy and OCT (Joint with FiO 1)

  • Compressive X-ray Tomography, David Brady; Duke Univ, USA

  • Dissecting Tumor Biology Using Intravital Microscopy and Optical Frequency Domain Imaging, Dai Fukumura; Harvard Medical School, USA

3.3 Optical Trapping and Manipulation

  • Plasmonics on Nanostructures for Cell Manipulation, Alexander Heisterkamp; Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, USA

  • TBA-Optical Tweezers and Single Molecule Techniques, Matthew Lang; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

3.4 Lab-on-a-chip and Optofluidics

  • Plasmonic Biophotonics, Luke Lee; University of California Berkeley, USA

  • High-throughput C. Elegans Screening, Mehmet Fatih Yanik; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

3.5 Experimental Methods for Tissue Imaging and Therapy

  • Morphological and Functional Imaging of the Cochlea with Optical Coherence Tomography, Brian Applegate; Texas A&M University, USA

  • Optical Imaging of Cerebral Oxygen Delivery and Consumption Across Length Scales, David Boas; Harvard Medical School, USA

3.6 General Optics in Biology and Medicine

  • Biomaterial Photonics, Andy Yun; Harvard Medical School, USA

5.2 Fibers for Biomedical Applications (Joint with FiO 5)

FiO 4: Optics in Information Processing

4.1 Optical System Design for Information Optics

  • ACC System Optimization of Compact Monocentric Lens Imagers, Joe Ford; UCSD, USA

  • Optical Design for Computational Imaging Instruments, Dan Marks; Duke University, USA

  • Tutorial:  Transformation Optics for Imaging, David Schurig; University of Utah, USA

4.2 Coherence and Quantum Imaging

  • Recent Progress in Quantum Imaging and Ghost Imaging, Robert Boyd, University of Rochester, USA

  • Wigner Distribution: Friend to Biophotonics, Adam Wax, Duke University, USA

4.3 Image and Information Processing in Bio-optics (Joint with FiO 3)

  • Ultrahigh Throughput Single Cell Imaging, Bahram Jalali; UCLA, USA

  • Deep Focusing of Light in Tissues by Optoelectronic Time-reversal,  Changhuei Yang; Caltech, USA 

4.4 Imaging/Sensing Over Non-spatial Dimensions

  • Compressive Phase Space Tomography, George Barbastathis; MIT, USA

4.5 Analysis Techniques, Signal Recovery, and Synthesis

  • Title to be Announced, Stefano Marchesini, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA

  • Scattered and Stray Light as Scene Encoding, Yoav Schechner; Technion, Israel

4.6 General Optics in Information Science

FiO 5: Fiber Optics and Optical Communications

5.1 Optical Fibers from Novel Materials

  • Tutorial: Multimaterial Fibers in Photonics and Nanotechnology, Ayman Abouraddy; UCF

  • Intrinsically Low Brillouin Gain Fibers (How Low Can You Go?, Pete Dragic; University of Illinois, USA

  • Development of Polycrystalline YAG Fibers for Optical Applications, Geoff Fair; AFRL Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, USA

  • Transverse Anderson localization in disordered optical fibers, Arash Mafi; Univ. of Wisconsin, USA

5.2 Fibers for Biomedical Applications (Joint with FiO 3)

  • Ultrafast Optical Imaging for Cancer Detection, Keisuke Goda; UCLA, USA

  • Fiber-optic Nonlinear Endomicroscopy Technology, Xingde Li; Johns Hopkins, USA

  • Fiber-optic Probes for Deep Tissue Imaging - a Microscope in a Needle, David Sampson; University of Western Australia, Australia

  • Microimaging: Seeing the Unseen in Living Patients, Gary Tearney; Harvard Medical School / Massachusetts General Hospital, USA

5.3 Optical Fiber Sensing

  • Multifuncional Fiber Optic Sensors for High Energy Physics Experiments at Cern, Andrea Cusano; Università del Sannio, Italy

  • Title to be Announced, Zuyuan He; Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

5.4 Fiber-Based Generation and Delivery of Novel Optical Sources

  • Transport of Multimode-entangled Photons through Optical Fibers, Wolfgang Löffler; Huygens Laboratory, Leiden University, Netherlands

  • Developing Photonic Sources Based on Spontaneous Four-wave Mixing for Quantum Applications, Viriginia Lorenz; University of Delaware, USA

  • Ultra-stable Long Distance Optical Frequency/Time Distribution Using the Internet Network, Giorgio Santarelli; LNE-SYRTE CNRS Paris, France

5.5 Emerging Transport, Amplification, and Signal Processing for Telecommunications

  • Phase-sensitive Fiber-optic Parametric Amplifiers and their Applications, Peter Andrekson; Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

  • Novel Fiber Designs for Nonlinear Optical Signal Processing, John Fini; OFS

  • Optical Amplifiers for Cost and Energy Efficient Spatial Division Multiplexing, Peter Krummrich; Dortmund University of Technology, Germany

  • Nonlinear Propagation in MMF with Random Mode Coupling, Antonio Mecozzi; University of L'Aquila, Italy

5.6 General Fiber Optics and Optical Communications

2.3 Peak and Average Power Bottlenecks for Fiber Lasers (Joint with FiO 2)

FiO 6: Integrated Photonics

6.1 Silicon Photonics

  • Silicon Photonic Integrated Circuits for Coherent Transmission, Po Dong; Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA

  • Silicon Photonics, Michal Lipson; Cornell University, USA

  • Tutorial: Mid-IR Nonlinear Integrated Silicon Photonics, Richard Osgood; Columbia University, USA

  • Options for Silicon Based Modulators, Graham Reed; University of Southampton, UK

6.2 Hybrid Integrated Photonics

  • Hybrid Integration for Beyond 100Gb/s, Mark Earnshaw; Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA

  • Hybrid Integrated Chip-scale Interconnects - Overcoming the Packaging and Density Challenges, Michael Haney; University of Delaware, USA

  • Silicon Organic Hybrid (SOH) Integration and Photonic Wire Bonding: Enabling Technologies for Heterogeneous Photonic Systems, Christian Koos; Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

  • Graphene Modulators, Xiang Zhang; University of California, Berkeley, USA

6.3 Waveguide Integrated Optics

  • Tutorial: Low-energy Optoelectronics for Interconnects, David Miller; Stanford University, USA

  • CMOS Compatible Electro-optic Modulators and Linear Modulation Techniques, Douglas M. Gill; IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA

  • Advancements in Plasmonic and Graphene-based High-performance Modulators, Volker Sorger; George Washington University

  • New Directions for Micro Cavity Physics, Kerry Vahala; California Institute of Technology, USA

6.4 Photonic Crystals

  • Photonic Crystal Modulators and Related Slow Light Devices in Si Photonics, Toshihiko Baba; Yokohama National University, Japan

  • Nanocavity optomechanics for coupling to quantum systems, Paul Barclay; University of Calgary

  • Photonic Crystal Laser for Optical Interconnects, Shinji Matsuo; NTT Photonics Laboratories, Japan

  • Photonic-Crystal Resonant Effects for Broad-Area Coherent-Lasers and Highly-Efficient Solar Cells, Susumu Noda; Kyoto University, USA

  • Photonic Crystal Layers, Jelena Vuckovic; Stanford University, USA

6.5 Plasmonics and Nanophotonics

  • Graphene Nano-optoelectronics, Frank Koppens; ICFO - The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Spain

  • Active Plasmonic Metamaterials and Greatly Enhanced Light Absorption by Monolayer Graphene, Zhaolin Lu; Rochester Institute of Technology, USA

  • Graphene Nonlinear and Ultrafast Optoelectronics: Stepping up to the Surface, Chee Wei Wong; Columbia University, USA

  • Mid-infrared Plasmons in Graphene Nanostructures, Fengnian Xia; IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA

6.6 General Integrated Photonics

  • Tutorial: Nanophotonics Technology and Applications, Yeshaiahu Fainman; University of California, San Diego, USA

  • Optical Paramteric Generation in Laser Diodes, Amr Helmy; University of Toronto, Canada

FiO 7: Quantum Electronics

7.1 Integrated Quantum Optics

  • Engineering the Coherent, Thermal and Quantum State of Light using Metamaterials, Zubin Jacob; Univ. of Alberta, Canada

  • Singe-photon-single-molecule Quantum Optics, Vahid Sandoghdar; Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Germany

  • Photonic Quantum Circuits and Quantum Metrologies, Shigeki Takeuchi; Hokkaido University, Japan

7.2 Quantum Communications, Quantum Systems and Quantum-enabled Sensors

  • Entanglement and State Transfer in 3-mode Optomechanical Systems, Aashish Clerk; McGill Univ., Canada

  • Non-standard Optical Receivers that Attain the Quantum Limit of Optical Communication Capacity, Saikat Guha; BBN Technologies, USA

  • Network-Centric Quantum Communications, Richard Hughes; Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA

  • Negative Refraction and Negative Radiation Pressure at Visible and UV Frequencies, Henri Lezec; National Inst of Standards & Technology, USA

7.3 Nonlinear Optics in Micro/Nano-Optical Structures

  • Nonlinear Photonic Crystal Waveguides, Gadi Eisenstein; Technion Israel Inst. of Technology, Israel

  • Nonlinear Nano-Photonics, Wolfgang Freude; Karlsruher Institut fur Technologie, Germany

  • Synthesis of Active, Nonlinear and Quantum Photonic Circuits, Milos Popovic; University of Colorado, USA

  • Producing Octave-wide Combs and Few-cycle Pulses in the Mid-infrared: Frequency Divide-and-conquer Approach, Kostantin Vodopyanov; CREOL, College of Optics and Photonics, Univ. of Central Florida., USA

7.4 Optics and Photonics of Disordered Systems

  • Optics and Photonics of Disordered Systems, Aristide Dogariu; Univ. of Florida, CREOL, USA

  • Anderson Localization in Low-dimensional Structures for Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics and Random Lasing, Pedro David Garcia-Fernandez

  • Molding the Flow of Light in Disordered Active Nanostructures, Marco Leonetti; ICMM, Spain

  • Laser Action in Organic Semiconductors; Valy Vardeny; Univ. of Utah, USA

7.5 Quantum and Classical Phenomena in Non-plasmonic Polaritonic Systems

  • Bright Polariton Solitons and Soliton Trains, Maksym Sich, Univ. of Sheffield, UK

7.6 General Quantum Electronics

FiO 8: Vision and Color

8.1 Ultrafast Laser Applications for the Eye

  • Femtosecond Lasers in Refractive Surgery, Josef Bille, Univ. Heidelberg, Germany

  • Noninvasive Vision Correction: A New Approach, Wayne Knox; University of Rochester, USA

  • New Insight into Corneal Micro-structure with Polarization-resolved Second Harmonic Generation Microscopy, Gaël Latour; Laboratory for Optics and Biosciences, Ecole Polytechnique, CNRS, INSERM, France; Laboratoire Imagerie et Modélisation en Neurobiologie et Cancérologie, Université Paris Sud, CNRS, France

8.2 Restoring Vision and the Future of Retinal Implants

  • Tutorial: Title to be Announced, Daniel Palanker, Stanford University, USA

8.3 Applications of Physiological Optics to Vision and Color

1.3 Optical Design with Unconventional Polarization and Complex Optical Fields (Joint with FiO 1)

1.5 Optical Design of Ophthalmic Instruments for Retinal Imaging (Joint with FiO 1)