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

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LS Invited Speakers

Periodic Structures in Plamonics, Pierre Berini, Univ. of Ottawa, Canada
Recent Progress in Photonic Crystals and their Device Applications, Susumu Noda, Kyoto Univ., Japan
Cavity QED and Lasing in Single Quantum Dot Photonic Crystal Nanocavity Coupled Systems, Yusuhiko Arakawa, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan
Photonic Crystals in Biosensing, Philippe Fauchet, Vanderbilt Univ., USA
Open-system quantum optics in photonic crystal chips with embedded quantum dots, Stephen Hughes, Queen's Univ. of Kingston, Canada
Nanophotonic sensing structures: photonic crystal principles and metamaterial principles compared, Richard De La Rue, Universiti Malaya, Malaysia
Nonlinear Optics in Photonic Crystals - Opportunities and Limitations, Thomas Krauss, Univ. of St. Andrews, UK
Enhancing Optical Functionalities of Silicon with Photonic Crystal Cavities., Matteo Galli, Univ. of Pavia, Italy
Applications of Photonic Crystals for Spectroscopoy, Zhimin Shi, Univ. of Rochester, USA

Quantum Optics with Cavity-coupled Spin Qubits in Diamond, Victor Acosta, HP Labs, USA
Alberto Amo, CNRS, France
Antonio Badolato, Univ. of Rochester, USA
Quantum Optics of Semiconductor Excitons, Steve Cundiff, JILA/Univ. of Colorado and NIST, USA
Michael Grinolds, Harvard, USA
Quantum Correlated Photons in Arrays of Wealkly Nonlinear Cavities, Vincenzo Savona, Laboratory of Theoretical Physics of Nanosystems, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
Optical Control of the Electronic and Nuclear States in a Single Quantum Dot, Duncan Steel, Univ. of Michigan, USA
Jake Taylor, NIST, USA

Title to be Announced, Harry Atwater, Caltech, USA
Light Trapping in Thin Crystalline Si Photovoltaic Cells, Gang Chen, Michigan Inst. of Technology, USA
Supercell Gratings for Light Trapping, Thomas Krauss, Univ. of St. Andrews, UK
Taming the Blackbody with Metamaterials for Energy Harvesting Applications, Willie Padilla, Boston College, USA
Design and Modeling of Nanowire-array Solar Cells, Michelle Povinelli, Univ. of Southern California, USA
3D Photonic Crystals for Photon Management in Solar Cells, Ralf Wehrspohn, Fraunhofer Inst. for Mechanics of Materials Halle, Germany

Zhengu Chang, Univ. of Central Florida, USA
Dimitris Charalambidis, FORTH-IESL and Univ. of Crete, Greece
Per Johnsson, Lund Univ., Sweden
Nick Karpowicz, Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, Germany
Bastian Manschwetus, CEA Saclay, France
Katsumi Midorikawa, Riken, Japan
Electron dynamics investigated by attosecond pulses, Giuseppe Sansone, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Phil Bucksbaum, Stanford Univ., USA
Henry Kapteyn, JILA, Univ. of Colorado, USA
Matthias Kling, Kansas State Univ., USA
Jochen Küpper, Center for Free Electron Laser Science, Germany
Controlled Molecule Imaging, Jochen Mikosch, National Research Council, Canada
Ring opening of cyclohexadiene probed by time-resolved optical and x-ray fragmentation, Vladimir Petrovic, Stanford Univ, USA
Henrik Stapelfeldt, Aarhus Univ., Denmark
Theory of Nonadiabatic Electronic and Nuclear Dynamics in Laser Fields; Observation and Control, Kazuo Takatsuka, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan
Molecular Orbital Imaging by High-order Harmonic Generation, Caterina Vozzi, IFN-CNR & Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Ali Belkacem, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
Raimund Feifel, Uppsala Univ., Sweden
Markus Guehr, SLAC, Stanford Univ., USA
Brendan P. Murphy, SLAC, Stanford Univ., USA
Alicia Palacios, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
Kevin Prince, Elettra, Italy
Nina Rohringer, Centre for Free Electron Laser Science, Germany
Time-Resolved Photoelectron Diffraction of Laser-Aligned Molecules, Daniel Rolles, Max Planck Advanced Study Group, Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, Hamburg, Germany
Robin Santra, Univ. of Hamburg, Germany

Progress in Gravitational Wave Detection at LIGO, Stephan Ballmer, Dept. of Physics, Syracuse Univ., USA
Optical Lattice Clocks at LNE-SYRTE, Sebastien Bize, LNE-SYRTE, Observatoire de Paris, France
Making a New SI System of Measurement by Learning from the Metre Redefinition, John Hall, 2005 Nobel Laureate in Physics, JIST/NIST, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, USA
Application of Optical Frequency Comb Technology, David Jones, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Univ. of British Columbia, Canada
Atom Interferometry, Mark Kasevich, Dept. of Physics, Stanford Univ., USA
Ultra-stable Laser Local Oscillators, David Leibrandt, National Inst. of Standards and Technology, Boulder, USA
Precision Measurements of the Fine Structure Constant Usint Atom Recoil, Francois Nez, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Ecole Normale Superieur, France
Ultra-accurate References using Laser Cooled Neutral Atoms, Jun Ye, NIST/JILA, Univ. of Colorado, USA

Ultrahigh-Q Mechanical Oscillators Through Optical Trapping of Tethered Membranes, Darrick Chang, ICFO, Spain
Gallium Arsenide NanoOptomechanical Systems, Ivan Favero, Universite´ Paris Diderot, France
Title to be Announced, Tobias Kippenberg, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Traveling-wave Phonon Emission at the Nanoscale, Peter Rakick, Sandia National Laboratory, USA
Title to be Announced, Hong Tang, Yale Univ., USA
Quantum Optomechanics with Microwave Photons, John Teufel, NIST Boulder, US
Title to be Announced, Kerry Vahala, Caltech, USA