Society Topics
Biophotonics (BIO)
Description:
Biophotonics is a modern multi-disciplinary scientific field that integrates developments in areas of laser physics, electro-optics, optical fibers, detectorsa, sensors, imaging, and nanophotonics on one hand, and cell and molecular biology, medical science and new biomaterials, on the other. In biology, biophotonics is utilized to probe for molecular mechanisms, functions and structures. In medicine, it is used to study light-tissue interaction mechanisms at the macro (large-scale) and micro/nano organism level to detect, diagnose and treat diseases.
Biophotonics includes a broad range of interdisciplinary photonics/biomedical topics that can be summarized in three major groups: (1) minimally invasive diagnostics methods and systems including spectroscopy (fluorescence, absorption, Raman, evanescence-wave and near-IR/IR spectroscopy), imaging (high-resolution three-dimensional bioimaging techniques including single cell and intracellular imaging beyond the diffraction limit in the subwavelength nanoscale as well as endoscopic imaging systems), sensing (novel biosensors including nanobiosensors), and multi-modality systems for early diagnostics of diseases; (2) advanced photonics therapeutic techniques including laser therapy (cancer therapy), ultrashort laser tissue treatment, novel fiber-optic based surgical and tissue ablation procedures; (3) development of novel laser, fiber-optics and electro-optics biomedical techniques and instrumentation. Recently, all these attractive biophotonics directions have been significantly improved by a widely established trend of transferring applicable state-of-the-art technologies from laser physics, photo-chemistry, telecommunications, electro-optics and fiber-optics to biotechnology. This has rapidly led to development of novel and more effective biophotonics techniques and tools, in particular for early disease diagnostics.
The biophotonics field is an emerging biomedical technology that is increasingly being applied in medicine and biology. Minimally invasive biophotonics imaging and biosensor techniques are potential alternatives to conventional medical methods for diagnostics and monitoring of diseases, drug discovery, proteomics, and environmental detection of biological agents. These techniques offer a non-contact, effective, fast and painless way for sensing and monitoring of various biomedical quantities. Devices utilizing minimally invasive biosensor technology are rapidly finding their way into the mainstream for early disease diagnosis and improved patient acceptance and comfort. As an increasingly ageing world population presents new health problems, biophotonics provides an alternative approach for light-assisted diagnostics and therapy, restoring of impaired biological functions and tissue engineering. In addition, recent research efforts and developments in the area of biophotonics technology have confirmed its compatibility with the modern nanotechnology trends, which will lead to development of novel ultrahigh-resolution nanobioimaging and nanobiosensor modalities for precise diagnostics at cellular, intracellular and molecular levels.
Committee
Topic Chair
M. Selim Ünlü, Boston University, Boston, USA
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Displays (DIS)
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Committee
Topic Chair:
Chung-Chih Wu, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
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Photodetectors, Imaging and Electro-Optic Sensors (PIEOS)
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Committee
Topic Chair:
Majeed M. Hayat, University of Arizona, Arizona USA
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Integrated Optics, Optoelectronics, & Interconnects (IOOI)
Description:
We solicit papers on recent developments in the field of Integrated Optics, Optoelectronics and Interconnects. Topics cover a broad range of optical components and systems including discrete photonic devices (such as lasers, modulators, and detectors), active and passive waveguide-based devices, monolithic and hybrid photonic integrated circuits (PICs), optoelectronic MEMS, advanced optical interconnection system architectures, signal processing and coding for optical interconnects in computer, memories, neural and sensor network systems. Additional topics include technologies for board scale and chip scale optical interconnects; CMOS compatible photonic materials and devices; silicon photonics, microfluidic devices, plasmonics and PLC for system integration, and techniques for packaging and integration. Papers may address modeling, fabrication, and material aspects, as well as the application of optoelectronic devices to communications, imaging, sensing, signal processing, and biomedicine.
Committee
Topic Chair:
Mahmoud Fallahi, University of Arizona, Arizona USA
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Microwave Photonics (MWP)
Description:
The technical subcommittee on Microwave Photonics solicits papers on recent advances in this multidisciplinary field. The microwave photonics technical area is concerned with interactions between the optical and the microwave portions of the electromagnetic spectrum, where the term “microwave” includes radio frequencies (~ 10 MHz to 1 GHz), microwave frequencies (~ 1 GHz to 30 GHz), millimeter-wave frequencies (~ 30 GHz to 500 GHz), and terahertz frequencies (~ 500 GHz to 10 THz). Microwave photonic techniques, devices and systems enable the generation, transmission, detection, processing, and control of microwave signals required for many of the advanced systems and system concepts of today and the future. The field of microwave photonics will continue to impact a diverse set of applications including broadband wireless communication systems and networks, RF sensing systems, novel antenna systems and antenna remoting, as well as high speed instrumentation and measurement systems and numerous emerging technologies (biomedical, terahertz, ultrawideband, ultrastable frequency metrology, high speed analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog conversion, …). Papers may address microwave photonic devices, components and sub-systems, techniques and links, as well as systems and applications.
Committee
Topic Chair:
Thomas R. Clark, JHU Applied Physics Laboratory, Maryland, USA
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Nanophotonics (NANO)
Description:
The Nanophotonics Committee solicits contributed papers addressing a broad spectrum of optics on the nanometer scale, covering technology and basic science. On the technological side, there are topics such as nanolithography, high density optical data storage, as well as applications in high-bandwidth communications, efficient solar power generation, displays, biotechnology and medicine. From the perspective of basic sciences, topics of interest include strong light-matter interaction, quantum dots, linear and nonlinear spectroscopy of nanostructures, microscopy and imaging with sub-wavelength resolution, optomechanical devices and phenomena, photonic bandgap (PBG) structures, nanocavities and nanoapertures, metamaterials, and plasmon optics.
Committee
Topic Chair:
William M. J. Green, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, New York USA
Technical Program Committee:
- Thomas Szkopek, McGill University, Montreal Canada
- Pieter Kik, University of Central Florida, Florida, USA
- Teri Odom, Northwestern University, Illinois, USA
- Christopher Murray, University of Pennsylvania, Penn. USA
- Hiroki Takesue, NTT Corporation, Kanagawa, Japan
- Andrew Poon, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong China
- Joris Van Campenhout, IMEC, Leuven Belgium
- Yasuhiko Arakawa, University of Tokyo, Tokyo Japan
- Kartik Srinivasan, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Minnesota, USA
- Zhaowei Liu, University of California, California, USA
- Hong Tang, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
Non-linear and Ultrafast Optics (NLUO)
Description:
We are soliciting papers and recent discoveries, advances, and developments in the field of nonlinear optical interactions with materials and in the science and technology of ultrafast electronics, photonics, and optoelectronics. Topics of interest include new concepts and their implementations as well as significant advances in the following areas: fundamental nonlinear optical physics and material properties including metamaterials and plasmonic materials; parametric interactions; intense field phenomena; stimulated scattering; guided waves and solitons; applications of non-linear optics in laser and optical light amplification; THz generation and propagation, THz photonics, and applications; switching; modulation; computing networks; communication; optical storage; photonic devices; attosecond physics and applications; novel ultrafast sources and optical frequency combs; propagation, measurement, processing, and detection of ultrashort optical and electronic pulses; ultrafast optical, electronic and optoelectronic materials, components, devices, and systems; novel applications of ultrafast technology in the study of transient phenomena in physics, electrical engineering, and material science.
Committee
Topic Chair:
Yujie J. Ding, Lehigh University, Pennsylvania, USA
Technical Program Committee:
- Demetrios N. Christodoulides, University of Central Florida, USA
- Vittorio Degiorgio, University of Pavia, Italy
- Nils Fernelius, US Air Force Research Lab, USA
- H. C. Liu, National Research Council of Canada, Canada
- Roberto Morandotti, INRS-EMT, Canada
- Krishnan R. Parameswaran, Physical Sciences Inc., USA
- Greg Sun, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA
Optical Communications (OC)
Description:
- Physical-layer performance of digital optical transport networks (i.e., submarine, terrestrial long-haul, regional, and metropolitan area networks)
- Impairments specific to digital optical fiber communication systems (e.g., fiber nonlinearity, chromatic dispersion, polarization-mode dispersion, concatenated filtering, multi-path interference)
- Optical and electronic mitigation of impairments in digital optical fiber communication systems
- Optical modulation, detection, coding, and digital signal processing
- All-optical signal processing for transport networks
- Component and subsystem technologies applied in digital optical transport networks
- Operation and architecture of digital optical transport networks
- Transport network architectures, performance analyses, traffic modeling, routing algorithms and protocols pertaining to transport network operation, bandwidth allocation algorithms and protocols
- Transport network protection and restoration, control and management, reliability and availability
- Optical performance monitoring for digital transport networks
Committee
Topic Chair:
Alexei Pilipetskii, Tyco Communications, New Jersey, USA
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Optical Networks and Systems (ONS)
Description:
- Access networks
- Access network architectures, performance analyses, energy consumption analyses, traffic modeling, routing algorithms and protocols pertaining to access network operation, bandwidth allocation algorithms and protocols
- FTTx and next-generation passive optical networks
- Hybrid wireless-optical and fiber-wireless broadband access networks
- Multiple access subsystems and networks
- Optical packet switching subsystems and networks
- Optical burst switching subsystems and networks
- All-optical signal processing for access network functions (e.g., label switching)
- Access network demonstrations, testbeds and field trials
- Optical routers and switches
- Algorithms and protocols, data alignment and synchronization
- Buffering, contention resolution, and arbitration schemes
- Short range networks (e.g., building, automobile, aircraft)
- Terrestrial, air-borne and space-borne free-space optical communications
- Network security, data encryption, quantum communications
Committee
Topic Chair:
Lawrence Chen, McGill University, Montreal QC, Canada
Technical Program Committee:
- Lian-Kuan Chen, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong China
- John Downie, Corning, Inc. Corning, New York USA
- Monika Jaeger, T-Systems Enterprise Services GmbH, Berlin Germany
- Peter Krummrich, Technische Universitaet Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany
- Martin Maier, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS) – ÉMT, Montreal, Canada
- Idelfonso T. Monroy, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
- Thas Nirmalathas, University of Melbourne, Victoria Australia
- Peter Noutsios, Core Optics, San Jose, California USA
- Loukas Paraschis, Cisco Systems, San Jose, California USA
- Leslie A. Rusch, Université Laval, Québec, QC Canada
- Eduward Tangdiongga, Eindhoven University of Technology TU/e, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Optical Fiber and Planar Waveguide Technology (OFPW)
Description:
The subcommittee on Optical Fiber and Planar Waveguide Technology solicits papers about recent developments in all aspects of lightwave technology with the exception of systems and semiconductor devices. Specifically, the committee is interested in materials, processing, measurements, propagation properties, coatings, cables, fiber and waveguide designs, fiber and waveguide passive components, sensors, special fibers for telecommunications and WDM components, fiber and waveguide amplifiers, and video transmission.
Committee
Topic Chair:
Paul Westbrook, OFS Labs, New Jersey, USA
Technical Program Committee:
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Optoelectronic Materials Processing and Packaging (OMPP)
Description:
The subcommittee on Optoelectronic Materials Processing and Packaging solicits papers in all areas of materials and processing related to optoelectronics, including the processing of passive optical elements and the synthesis, processing, and characterization of semiconductor materials for optoelectronics and photonics applications. Other areas of emphasis include novel device structures, plasmonics, photonic crystals, microfabrication, and advanced materials processing of active and passive optoelectronic components.
The scope also includes issues associated with optoelectronic components and optical coupling within the package, package reliability, and all aspects of manufacturing including materials handling, design, assembly processes and the assessment and improvement of optoelectronic device reliability. Progress on VCSEL packaging, hermetic and non-hermetic packaging, organic OE packaging, packaging modeling, , optoelectronic MEMS packaging, novel bonding and assembly techniques, novel packaging materials (nanotechnology), high-power laser packaging, photovoltaic modules, and solar panels is also of great interest.
Committee
Topic Chair:
Amr Helmy, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Technical Program Committee:
- Martin Dawson, University of Strathclyde, UK
- Siddhartha Ghosh, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
- Seth Bank, University of Texas at Austin, USA
- Qiang Gao, Australian National University, Australia
- Michael Heuken, Aixtron AG, Germany
- Richard Hogg, University of Sheffield, UK
- Marko Loncar, Harvard University, USA
- Rohit P. Prasankumar, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
- Masakazu Sugiyama, University of Tokyo, Japan
- Weidong Zhou, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
- Sonia Garcia Blanco, National Optics Institute, Canada
- Muhannad Bakir, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
- Nagesh Basavanhally, Alcatel-Lucent, USA
- Ray Chen, University of Texas at Austin, USA
- Masataka Ito, Ibiden U.S.A R&D, Inc., USA
- Karen Matthews, Corning Inc., USA
- Rick Stevens, Lockheed Martin, USA
Semiconductor Lasers (SL)
Description:
The subcommittee on Semiconductor lasers solicits papers describing recent advances in the design, fabrication, and performance of diode lasers. Relevant topics include all aspects of visible lasers, ultraviolet lasers, long-wavelength lasers, high-power lasers, and laser arrays, high-speed lasers, single-frequency lasers, tunable lasers, quantum dot lasers, quantum cascade lasers, laser reliability, as well as new materials, processing, and manufacturing techniques for diode laser fabrication and packaging
Committee
Topic Chair:
Gary Smith, MIT Lincoln Labs, Massachusetts USA
High Power, Solid State and Short Wavelength Lasers (HPSSSW)
Description:
The subcommittee welcomes papers on the next topics: (i) high-power or high-intensity lasers; (ii) lasers with wavelengths shorter than 400nm, and (iii) emerging technologies in solid-state lasers. We welcome papers on all coherent radiation sources with wavelengths shorter than 400nm and their applications, including high-order harmonics and x-ray lasers. Papers describing unique incoherent sources and their applications in the same wavelength range will also be considered. The subcommittee also welcomes papers on a full range of high-power and high-intensity lasers, as well as rare-earth, transition-metal, and color-center laser materials. Rapidly emerging technologies such as upconversion lasers, broadly tunable lasers or OPOs, fiber and hybrid fiber/bulk lasers, waveguide lasers are also of particular interest.
In addition, advances in system integration efforts and novel application developments using the above-mentioned technologies are also desirable.
Committee
Topic Chair:
Tsuneyuki Ozaki, Institut National De La Recherche Scientifique, Varennes, Canada
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