Submission Categories
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
Laser Science Topics
FiO 1: Optical Design, Fabrication and Instrumentation
1.1 Coherence, Interferometry, Optical Testing, Diffractive and Holographic Optics
Topics include: coherence, interferometry, applications of interferometers, optical testing, digital holography for biomedical or nanophotonics applications, holographic micro- and nano-fabrication methods, 3-D holographic microscopy, 3-D optical image processing, 3-D display, computer generated holograms, dynamic holography, beam shaping, diffractive polarizing elements, polarization-independent diffractive elements, broadband diffractive elements, active diffractive elements, subwavelength optics, fabrication of diffractive and micro-optical elements, hybrid design with diffractive-refractive optics.
1.2 Three-Dimensional Structure Design, Fabrication, and Nanopatterning
The field of optical materials has been rapidly developing in recent years, promising to deliver new materials with exotic properties generally unattainable in nature. Full exhibition of their properties and functionalities relies on 3D control of metallic or dielectric structures in the nanoscale. This theme is focused on the design and fabrication of 3D optical materials and integrated circuits, which may include 3D photonic crystals, 3D metamaterials, and 3D optical circuits. Recent progress may bring new synthesis techniques that enable nanoscale spatial control in three dimensions. On the other hand, scalable, fault-tolerant designs and architectures that can lead to large-scale fabrication are also of great interest. The theme also includes optical nanolithography, EUV lithography, maskless lithography, plasmonic imaging and metamaterials, nanoimprint technology, self-assembly nanopatterning, organic electronic device patterning, lithography for display technology, flexible electronic devices, etc.
1.3 Optical Design and Unconventional Polarization
The polarization of light plays an important role in optical science and engineering. Recently there is an increasing interest in beams with spatially inhomogeneous state of polarizations. New effects and phenomena have been predicted and observed for light beams with these unconventional polarization states. The topics of this theme include but are not limited to: description and characterization of unconventional polarization states (including radial polarizations, azimuthal polarizations, and other types of polarization vortices); creation of unconventional polarization states including active unconventional polarization sources; the interaction of nanostructures with polarized light; ray tracing and optical design with spatially variant polarizations; polarization aberrations in optical design and instrumentation, polarizing in tissue scattering, biomedical imaging, and bio-optics; retrieval techniques in imaging polarimetry.
1.4 Wavefronts and Aberrations: Engineering, Sensing and Applications
This theme is intended to promote technical exchange in the sciences and engineering of optical wavefronts and aberrations with broad coverage ranging from theory, algorithm developments, numerical simulations, to hardware implementation and applications. The topics to be covered include but not limited to: aberration theory; orthogonal polynomials in wavefront and aberration analysis, optical design, optical testing and wavefront sensing; orthogonal polynomials descriptions for optical systems with circular, annular, hexagonal, and other pupil shapes; design and fabrication of freeform optics; effective modeling and measurement methods for freeform optics; conventional wavefront sensing techniques; image-based computational wavefront sensing techniques (e.g., phase-retrieval and phase-diversity); compressive sensing techniques; various estimation approaches; applications in adaptive optical systems and optical instrumentation.
1.5 Adaptive Optics for Vision and Imaging (Joint with FiO8)
This theme is intended to provide a forum for the technical discussions of adaptive optics enabled systems for vision sciences and imaging. The topics include but not limited to the development and application of adaptive optics enabled imaging techniques such as adaptive optics scanning laser ophthalmoscope, adaptive optics optical coherence tomography, and other innovative adaptive optics based systems for the functional and structural study of human eyes, imaging mechanisms of the optical system of the human eyes, vision correction, retinal imaging, and their clinical applications.
1.6 General Optical Design and Instrumentation
Scope includes but not limited to: Design of new optical elements and systems, aberrations, adaptive optics, wavefront sensing, wavefront correction, adaptive optics for the eye, design, testing, and systems analysis of displays, including backlit LCD/LED, 3D, OLED, projection, novel methods, etc. applications of displays, Optical technologies for display and astronomical instruments.
FiO 2: Optical Sciences
2.1 Wavefront Engineering and Sensing
Generating and sensing extended wavefronts of arbitrary shapes has become increasingly important with the advances in of temporal shaping methods, the advent of sources with extended optical spectra and innovative high-resolution detection schemes. This theme explores progress in advanced techniques for wavefront engineering and shaping as well as sensing mechanisms in the optical sciences and applications.
2.2 Advanced Fiber and Solid State Laser Technologies and Applications
Fiber laser technology continues to produce rapid improvements both high average and high peak power. Techniques such as coherent fiber addition promise access to applications traditionally reserved for bulk laser systems. Simultaneously, advances in solid-state laser technology such as thin-disk lasers and ceramic materials open avenues for much higher average power systems.
2.3 Laser-driven Electron and Light Sources
We are witnessing continuing advances in the science and technology of laser acceleration of electrons, with a goal to replace or augment conventional particle accelerators. Innovations to enable improved electron injection, stability, and accelerator staging are some of the most active research areas. Such sources are particularly suitable for increasing the brightness of future advanced light sources, both in tabletop form and in larger facilities.
2.4 General Optical Sciences
Scope includes but not limited to general optical sciences. Topics which do not fit in well with the other specific themes should be submitted to this theme.
FiO 3: Optics in Biology and Medicine
3.1 Optical Trapping and Manipulation
Optical trapping is an established method for study of single-cell behavior in solution. New developments in the field enable exquisite measurements of forces on the order of fN, enabling study of single molecules. The use of fiber optics to create optical traps is a recent exciting advance. Integration of holographic methodologies enables researchers to perform multiplexed experiments on hundreds of trapped particles. Recent fusion of optical trapping technologies with other microscopies (e.g., Raman), enables scientists to take advantage of the strengths of each microscopic technique, to yield integrated information on cellular and molecular behavior. Submissions on these topics are strongly encouraged, as well as on the use of optical trapping and manipulation to perform biomechanical measurements (i.e., microrheology) and on novel beam configurations.
3.2 Biophotonics and Optofluidics for Point-of-Care and Global Health Applications
The explosive growth in LEDs, consumer-grade digital imaging, and cellular technologies has led to development of low-cost imaging platforms based on digital cameras and cell phones. The potential to use these platforms for on-site diagnostic tests in resource-poor areas across the globe is considerable. In addition, the growth in microfluidic/lab-on-a-chip technologies enables development of novel combined optical/microfluidic approaches to achieve point-of-care diagnostics. Submissions on innovative optical technologies and methodologies that are deployable, robust, and easy to use, are strongly encouraged.
3.3 Microscopy and OCT (Joint with FiO 1)
The fields of optical microscopy and optical coherence tomography remain at the forefront of biophotonics and medical optical imaging. The spatial resolution and exquisite sensitivity of these technologies to sources of both endogenous and exogenous contrast, enable scientists to push the boundaries of what is currently known about the structure and function of in-vitro and in-vivo systems. With use of novel superresolution techniques and a wide array of molecular probes and nanostructures, study of single molecules is possible. Advances in light sources and data-acquisition schemes enable real-time microscopy and OCT. Submissions on innovative technology research and the biological and medical applications of microscopy and OCT, are strongly encouraged.
3.4 Methods for Tissue Imaging and Therapy
Due to the interdisciplinary nature of biophotonics research projects, technologies and methodologies from both biology and optics are being combined to yield groundbreaking findings. This is a broad theme related to tissue imaging, spectroscopy, therapy and a range of light-tissue interactions. As evidenced by the increasing number of high-profile journals that describe experimental methods and protocols, there is a clear growing demand for dissemination of innovative, unique methods to the scientific community. Submissions that are designed to disseminate details on innovative methods, analyze system capabilities and illustrate potential applications are strongly encouraged. Topics which do not fit in well with the other specific themes should be submitted to this theme.
FiO 3.5: General Optics in Biology and Medicine
Topics which do not fit in well with the other specific themes should be submitted to this theme.
FiO 4: Optics in Information Science
4.1 Coherence and Quantum Imaging
Classical and quantum optical correlation effects are becoming integral part of applied optical sciences. At the same time quantum optics is inspiring the development of novel concepts for classical optical information processing. Methods to encode information on the classical or quantum statistics of light provide a means to transmit information in novel and robust ways, to encode and to process that information. The effects of interaction with the environment are also encoded in the quantum and classical correlations of light and so the correlations may be the basis of imaging the medium. Examples include variable coherence imaging and ghost imaging. Contributions are solicited on topics in coherence and quantum optics that pertain to imaging. Examples include but are not limited to spatial coherence imaging, ghost imaging, and propagation in random media.
4.2 Image and Information Processing in Biooptics
Interrogation of biological systems with light presents unique opportunities and challenges. Contributions are sought that address the particular issues of imaging, diagnosing, transmission/reception of information via an optical field, and otherwise interrogating biological samples and the subsequent analysis and processing of data from biological samples. Examples include phase retrieval in bioimaging, image analysis, optical modulation, data multiplexing, the transmission of beams through various media.
4.3 Generalized Imaging and Non-Imaging Techniques for Diagnostics and Sensing Including Plasmonics
Progress in the design of micro- and nano-optical structures to support and tailor the behavior of plasmons, together with advances in manufacture of three-dimensional microstructures, have opened to avenues in the control of the electronic-electromagnetic field. Plasmonic interactions offer means to enhance local fields and transport energy in ways that enable new sensing and imaging technologies. Traditionally, optical information referred to the information contained in an image gathered by a standard geometrical imaging system. Modern techniques, however, have been developed to extract additional information from an optical signal, to form images in unconventional ways, and to probe specific questions without imaging. The combination of imaging methods with nonimaging methods or even the combination of multiple modalities can offer much more useful information than isolated techniques. These techniques provide additional information that can be used for applications such as sensing and diagnostics, but also introduce additional challenges in interpretation and data collection. Contributions are solicited on optical information outside of the usual paradigm of image formation. This can include techniques that incorporate or reconstruct phase information from a signal such as holography, interferometry, and transport of intensity. It encompasses non-imaging diagnostic techniques, such as spectroscopy, novel tomographic techniques and inverse problems, and techniques that use unconventional strategies to extract an image from an otherwise noisy data set, such as acousto-optics imaging, classical ghost imaging and ballistic imaging, and sensing paradigms such as feature specific imaging and compressed sensing. We especially encourage methods involving plasmonics. Hybrid method that combine these emerging methods with conventional imaging are also sought.
4.4 Pupil and Wavefront Engineering
Modern production methods of optical elements and the availability of easily reconfigurable optical elements have made nonconventional optical systems with special or extreme performance readily practicable. This has proved pivotal for designing systems, which rely on a seamless integration of optical hardware and numerical signal post-processing. Pupil engineering for imaging systems with extended depth of field, plenoptic cameras, and sparse optical sensing are important examples of a wide and steadily growing range of optical applications. The importance of novel fabrication techniques is matched by efforts to determine suitable theoretical tools for the description and the design of both hardware and signal processing software. Generalized sampling schemes and phase-space optics exemplify these efforts. Emergent phenomena such as vortices and singularities also provide opportunities made possible by the close integration of theory and wavefront engineering and contributions in these areas are encouraged.
Contributions are solicited on optical information outside of the usual paradigm of image formation. This can include techniques that incorporate or reconstruct phase information from a signal such as holography, interferometry, and transport of intensity. It encompasses non-imaging diagnostic techniques, such as spectroscopy, novel tomographic techniques and inverse problems, and techniques that use unconventional strategies to extract an image from an otherwise noisy data set, such as acousto-optics imaging, classical ghost imaging and ballistic imaging, and sensing paradigms such as feature specific imaging and compressed sensing. Hybrid method that combine these emerging methods with conventional imaging are also sought.
4.5 Parametric Imaging or Analysis
Novel methods for computing images or data by converting optical signals into parameters related to physical properties of a system. Examples include speckle fluctuation imaging of diffusive properties or cellular motility and function, elastography or strain imaging, refractive index mapping, particle/scatterer sizing.
4.6 Imaging Technologies and System Design, Components and Performance Metrics
Topics that do not fit into the above categories should be submitted to this theme. Representative examples of topics covered in this category include the display of imaging information including human factors, image quality assessment metrics, design of specialized optical components that enable new functions, advances in digital photography, multi-aperture imaging systems and image processing for these systems, and combined optical and focal plane design together with related digital processing for optimized system performance. Contributions are sought in analysis of optical systems in the context of information capacity and quality, image analysis, computed imaging and inverse problems.
FiO 5: Fiber Optics and Optical Communications
5.1 High Power and Agile Lasers
This theme will be devoted to novel trends and developments in high power lasers, as well as fast tunable lasers. Particular topics of interest include: mode combining in high power lasers, oscillators in short wave and mid – infra red region, as well as methods for increasing tuning speed and range of tunable lasers in general.
5.2 Photonic Crystal Fibers and Sensing
This theme covers two distinct, yet, as of recently, converging areas: (i) micro-structured (photonic crystal) fibers and (ii) sensing. While contributions in each of the areas in their own right are absolutely welcome, our intent is to motivate and give an overview of the recent breakthroughs in joint efforts in the two areas.
5.3 Optics in a Cloud (datacenters and the associated transmission)
This theme is devoted to short distant fiber / free space communications related to data-com/chip-communications, data centers and cloud computing. Methods leading to the power efficiency, novel network architectures, and aspects of transmission over multimode fiber are of high interest for this theme.
5.4 Enabling Technologies for High-Capacity Transport
This theme is focused on fiber optic communications. Specifically, it will be concentrated on the approaches and methods to countering the "capacity crunch" in these systems. The particular interest lies in onward looking transmission technologies relying on spatial multiplexing, novel modulation techniques and transmission in non-conventional bands, as well as the methods to increasing the overall system capacity.
5.5 General Fiber Optics and Optical Communications
Topics which do not fit in well with the other specific themes should be submitted to this theme.
FiO 6: Integrated Photonics
6.1 Silicon Photonics
Silicon has emerged as a preeminent platform for photonic devices and photonic integration, offering advantages such as reduced footprint and reduced power consumption, wide functionality, and the possibility of integration with electronics. The focus of the theme will be on silicon active and passive devices, silicon integrated photonics, silicon micro- and nano-photonics and their applications.
6.2 Active and Functional Metamaterials
Varied functionalities such as negative refraction, lensing, chirality, cloaking, and transformation optics have been demonstrated in the artificially structured media known as metamaterials, while plasmonic interactions have been used both for the manipulation of electromagnetic fields on sub-wavelength length scales as well as for the enhancement of linear and nonlinear effects. The theme solicits contributions focused on the design, fabrication, and properties of plasmonic and metamaterial structures or devices.
6.3 Nanophotonics and Integrated Photonics and Plasmonics
Photonic and plasmonic devices designed and fabricated at the nano-scale offer the promise of high-density integrated photonics as well as a variety of novel effects and applications. The theme will focus on active and passive devices and structures at the nano-scale, sub-wavelength optics, micro- and nano-cavities, waveguides, modulators, and emitters. Linear or nonlinear properties and effects, and a range of applications, from sensing to shaping and controlling the behavior of light, are also within the scope of the theme.
6.4 Bioinspired Photonic Devices (Joint FIO 3)
There are numerous examples of photonic devices that have been inspired by biological systems or that utilize biological processes for their fabrication. The most common example is the compound insect eye which are multi-facetted structures that permit wide field of view imaging with lens systems of varying complexity. Biological processes such as self-assembly are present in liquid crystals and lead to many of the important properties exhibited by this class of materials. In more recent times, appreciation of the properties of optical nano-structures have led to pigment in paints, ideas on how to develop nano-lasers and other light emitting devices, and new schemes for photodetectors and image processing schemes. The theme of this session will be an examination of the whole spectrum of photonic devices that have some connection with biological structures and processes.
6.5 Integrated Photonics for High Capacity Communications (Joint FIO 5)
The integration of numerous photonic devices such as modulators, array waveguide gratings, sources, etc. on a chip promises to provide improved efficiency, reduced size, and lower power and cost for switches, transmitters and receivers and facilitates the realization of multi-channel and multi-function implementations. The silicon platform is attractive not only because of the multitude of optical devices that can be integrated on large substrates but also because of its compatibility with electronic integrated circuits to control the optical devices. InP photonic integrated circuits (PICs) also can host numerous optical components including sources. The need for increased spectral efficiency, improved filtering, lower cost, impairment mitigation, and higher speeds are becoming critical issues satisfying todays bandwidth demands and have required coherent communication links . Si and III-V based PICs represent important technologies needed to expand optical communications bandwidths in the 100, 400, 1000 Gb/s ranges. This session will focus on recent advances in Si and III-V PICs that are aimed at enabling much higher communications bandwidths and presentations will review the current state of the art as well as evolving trends in this area.
FiO 7: Quantum Electronics
7.1 Integrated Quantum Optics (Joint with FIO 6)
Topics covered include: waveguides, couplers, interferometers, phase control, gates, etc.; sources: heralded (SPDC, SFWM, etc.) & triggered (single quantum emitter); single photon detectors, number resolving detectors, state tomography; circuit QED, various other integration schemes; implementation of algorithms using circuits; feedback and error control.
7.2 Hybrid Quantum Systems and Quantum-Enabled Sensors
Topics covered include: quantum optomechanics, NV centers in diamond and other areas of diamond nanoscience, quantum-enabled sensors (e.g., magnetometry), transduction of quantum states for hybrid integration, and quantum simulations.
7.3 Nonlinear Optics in Micro/Nano-Optical Structures
Papers are invited on optics in frequency (up/down) conversion, including infrared and ultraviolet generation, nonlinear devices (for applications such as switching, modulation, memories and logic), nonlinear optics in resonators, including frequency combs, nonlinear optics in metamaterials, and optomechanics.
7.4 Order, Disorder and Symmetry in Photonic Structures
Papers are invited on random lasers, aperiodic structures, quasi-crystals, imaging and transmission through random media, light localization, topologically protected transmission and disorder tolerant structures, and symmetry and optical nonreciprocity in photonic structures.
7.5 Non-plasmonic Polaritonics
This theme is devoted to linear and nonlinear effects due to formation of strongly coupled exciton-photon excitations (polaritons) in structures with modified photon vacuum (photonic resonators, periodic and aperiodic photonic structures). Papers dealing with such phenomena as manipulation of polariton dispersion, stimulated polariton scattering and polariton lasing, Bose-Einstein condensation of polaritons are invited.
7.6 Quantum Computation and Communications
Quantum-enhanced technologies in the photonic realm are showing considerable promise. Likewise, at a more fundamental level, interest in non-locality and non-realism remains high. This is a broad theme, which will accept experimental and theoretical reports ranging in subject from enabling technologies such as detectors and sources to implementations of light-based quantum-information processing and communication protocols. This theme will also accept fundamental studies on non-classical aspects of light.
7.7 General Quantum Electronics
This is a broad theme related to laser physics, quantum mechanics, and light-matter interactions. This includes, but is not limited to, the following specific fields: quantum optics, nonlinear optics, meta-materials, random media, micro cavity design, and laser science and engineering. Submissions of both experimental and theoretical work are welcome, with an emphasis which can range from fundamental to applied research, and which do not fit in the above-mentioned specific themes.
FiO 8: Vision and Color
8.1 High-Resolution Imaging of the Living Cornea
Understanding cornea structure has become increasingly important in recent years. The research has been driven by the rapid advances in refractive surgery, the treatment of keratoconus, and other cornea complications that can impact transparency, strength, structure and aberrations. This session will review some of the major advances that give valuable new insight into the biomechanics and optics of the cornea including OCT and multiphoton imaging. Contributions of research related to cornea and tear film are solicited. Contributions are solicited that discuss the optical design of eyes and factors in the evolution of eye design.
8.2 The Impact of the Chromatic Aberration on the Visual System
The measurement and correction of the eye’s chromatic aberration play an important role in retinal development, retinal imaging and visual performance. This session will discuss our current knowledge of the eye’s chromatic aberration along with several areas of renewed research (including improved measurement and correction techniques and the possible role of chromatic aberration in driving accommodation). Contributions are solicited that address chromatic aberration of the eye, including work on methods that measure, model or correct the eye’s chromatic aberration, or studies on the impact of chromatic aberration on vision.
8.3 Applications of Physiological Optics to Vision and Color
The role of optics in vision and color science is very broad. Research ranges from optical models of the eye and methods for retinal imaging to the study of color vision and visual perception. Contributions are solicited across all areas of optics applications in vision and color science.
Contributions are solicited that discuss the use of fluorescent markers to study living systems. This may include, but is not limited to, methods of introduction and tracking and novel fluorophores for functional assays.
Laser Science Topics
1. Fundamentals and Applications of Photonic Crystals
2. Optical and Laser-Based Approaches in Chemical and Biological Sensing
3. Solid-State Quantum Optics
4. Cold Atoms and Molecules
5. Optics and Alternative Energy Sources
6. Attosecond and Strong Field Physics
7. Ultrafast Chemical Dynamics
8. Physics with Ultrafast X-rays
9. Precision Measurements and Metrology Using Lasers
10. Quantum Optics and Quantum Information
11. Nano-opto-mechanics
12. General Laser Science
1. Fundamentals and Applications of Photonic Crystals
The ability to fabricate structures on a nanometer distance scale is leading to exciting new possibilities in the field of photonics. One example is the fabrication of photonics crystals with controllable optical properties, such as the extreme values of the group velocity of light. Photonic crystals of this sort can be used to enhance the strength of nonlinear optical interactions and control the emission properties of quantum emitters located within the crystal. These and related ideas are to be explored.
2. Optical and Laser-Based Approaches in Chemical and Biological Sensing
This session addresses emerging research relevant to optical methods of biological and chemical detection or quantification. Specific focus is upon those techniques which improve detection limits, enable or enhance sensor specificity, improve device response time, and facilitate multi-target detection. Examples of such technologies include, but are not limited to, resonant cavity photonic structures, surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS), cavity ring-down spectroscopy (CRDS/CRLAS), laser-induced fluorescence or spectroscopy (LIF/LIBS), and on-chip or fiber-based microfluidic systems.
3. Solid-State Quantum Optics
Topic description to be announced.
4. Cold Atoms and Molecules
The study of cold and ultracold molecules has produced many remarkable results in the last few years. It appears that many of the long-sought goals of the work, e.g. dipolar many-body physics, ultracold chemical reactions, high-resolution spectroscopy, etc., are now within reach of experiment. Sessions will highlight these topics as well as explore the next generation of cold molecule experiments, which aim to produce cold molecular systems by entirely new techniques, such as direct molecular laser cooling, sympathetic cooling of molecular ions, and direct association to the ground state.
5. Optics and Alternative Energy Sources
Topic description to be announced.
6. Attosecond and Strong Field Physics
This session will focus on attosecond science and the physics underlying it. Topics include high harmonic sources, xuv and soft x-ray emission, and attosecond metrology. The study of atoms and molecules and solids using these sources, both on the attosecond and femtosecond time scales, will be highlighted.
7. Ultrafast Chemical Dynamics
This session focuses on the use of ultrafast laser sources to study the structure and dynamics of molecules. The sources include femtosecond visible and infrared lasers, high harmonic generation, recolliding electrons, x-ray free electron lasers, etc.
8. Physics with Ultrafast X-rays
The session focuses on the atomic and molecular physics problems that can be studied using novel ultrafast x-ray sources that include x-ray free electron lasers (XFEL) and high-harmonic sources.
9. Precision Measurements and Metrology Using Lasers
The last decade has seen a revolution in the way we can probe the physical world using lasers at the highest resolution and accuracy. Laser sources have now been refined in their frequency stability such that they can furnish phase stable radiation, probe optical transitions at the Hz level, and search for subtle physical phenomena such as the detection of gravitational waves. In addition, the methods of ultra-fast laser science have permitted the construction of absolute, referenced frequency combs of radiation that span large portions of the electromagnetic spectrum and allow a direct connection between currently defined microwave atomic time/frequency references and new reference transitions at optical frequencies. Together with the now established methods of laser cooling and trapping of atoms, precise measurements of physical constants, ultra accurate atom interferometry, and the development of a new generation of optical atomic clocks have now arrived. This session provides a survey of some of the exciting and frontline research being conducted in the area of precision measurements using laser sources applied in a number of areas. These presentations illustrate the realm of new measurements that can be attainable and our ability to advance our understanding of the physics together with opening new technology areas. The session is dedicated to the memory of the late Prof. Norman Ramsey (Harvard) who played a critical role in the development of atomic time standards and precision measurements. He also trained a new generation of scientists who are playing a key role in current laser based precision measurements.
10. Quantum Optics and Quantum Information
This session will focus on the quantum properties of light and the use of quantum systems for information processing and novel technological applications. It includes quantum optics and quantum processing, including applications of single photons, entanglement, and other non-classical effects.
11. Nano-opto-mechanics
The scope of this session is to provide updated progress of experimental realization, theoretical proposal/investigation, and numerical design of optomechanical phenomena in nanophotonic structures and their applications.
12. General Laser Science
Any other topics in laser science that do not fit into the other categories.