Stanford University 2008 Annual Symposium: Global Impact of Photonics

Del Mar Photonics

2008 Annual Symposium: Global Impact of Photonics
September 15-17, 2008, Hewlett Building, Stanford University
Monday, September 15
7:00 – 8:00 Check-in / On-site Registration / Continental Breakfast
8:00 – 8:15 Welcome Remarks
Session 1: Quantum Science and Technology I
8:15 – 8:45 Modulation of Single Photons and Biphotons
Steve Harris, Stanford University
8:45 – 9:00 Single Photon Nonlinear Optics with Quantum Dots in Photonic Crystal Resonators
Andrei Faraon, Stanford University
9:00 – 9:30 Quantum Information Processing with Trapped Ions
Dietrich Leibfried, NIST Boulder
Coffee Break
9:30 – 10:00
Session 2: Quantum Science and Technology II
10:00 – 10:30 Quantum Nonlinear Dynamics
Hideo Mabuchi, Stanford University
10:30 – 10:45 Low Level Models for Quantum Error Correction
Joseph Kerckhoff, Stanford University
10:45 – 11:15 Quantum Measurement with Superconducting Circuits
Irfan Siddiqi, UC Berkeley
Session 3: Optics in the Automobile Industry
11:15 – 11:45 Photonics Applications in Driver Assistance Systems
Arne Stoschek, Volkswagon
11:45 – 12:15 Road Modeling using Photonics in Autonomous Driving
Wende Zhang, GM
Lunch and Poster Session
12:15 – 2:00
Session 4: Global Impact of Photonics
2:00 – 2:15 Waguih Ishak, Corning
2:15 – 2:30 Sven Strohband, MDV
2:30 – 2:45 Werner Götz, Philips LED
2:45 – 3:00 John Giddings, Clean Tech Integration
3:00 – 3:15 Steve Turner, Pacific Biosciences
Coffee Break
3:15 – 3:45
Global Impact of Photonics Panel Discussion
3:45 – 4:45 Panel Discussion
4:45 – 5:00 Closing Remarks
5:30 Reception @ Stanford Faculty Club, Courtyard
6:30 Dinner @ Stanford Faculty Club, Main Dining Hall
7:30 TMT: Designing and Building the World’s Largest Telescope
Jerry Nelson

2008 Annual Symposium: Global Impact of Photonics
September 15-17, 2008, Hewlett Building, Stanford University
Tuesday, September 16
8:00 – 8:30 Registration / Breakfast
Session 1: Nanomaterials for Solar Energy
8:30 – 9:00 Solar Energy Research at Stanford and CAMP
Peter Peumans, Stanford University
9:00 – 9:15 Plasmon-enhanced Photovoltaics
Rashid Zia, Stanford University
9:15 – 9:30 Nanostructured Metals for Solar Energy Conversion
Eden Rephaeli, Stanford University
9:30 – 10:00 Molecular Materials for Photovoltaics
Mark Thompson, University of Southern California
Coffee Break
10:00 – 10:30
Session 2: Optical Imaging and Control in Biology
10:30 – 11:00 Optical Control of Brain Function
Karl Deisseroth, Stanford University
11:00 – 11:15 Advanced Imaging Techniques for Biology
Na Ji, Janelia Farm, HHMI
11:15 – 11:45 Photoacoustic Tomography
Sam Gambhir, Stanford University
11:45 – 12:00 High-speed SHG Imaging of Muscle Contractility in Mice and Humans
Mike Llewellyn, Stanford University
Lunch & Poster Session
12:00 – 2:00
Session 3: High Capacity Optical Communication Networks
2:00 – 2:10 Overview
Joseph M. Kahn, Stanford University
2:10 – 2:40 Next-Generation WDM Transport Enabling Zettabyte IP Network Evolution
Loukas Paraschis, Cisco Systems
2:40 – 3:10 DSP Enabled 40 Gb/s and 100 Gb/s Transmission for Optical Mesh Networks
Maurice O’Sullivan, Nortel Networks
3:10 – 3:30 Compensating for Fiber Nonlinearity Using Digital Backpropagation
Ezra Ip, Stanford University
Coffee Break
3:30 – 4:00
Session 4: Optical Interconnects
4:00 – 4:30 Optical Interconnects in Supercomputers and High Performance Servers
Jeff Kash, IBM Research
4:30 – 4:45 Nanoscale Photodetectors Enhanced by Optical Antennas
Salman Latif, Stanford University
4:45 – 5:15 Applications of Nanophotonics to Classical and Quantum Information Technology
Ray Beausoleil, HP
5:15 – 5:30 Closing Remarks
6:00 BBQ

2008 Annual Symposium: Global Impact of Photonics
September 15-17, 2008, Hewlett Building, Stanford University
Wednesday, September 17
8:00 – 8:30 Registration / Breakfast
8:30 – 9:15 Optical Clocks and Applications
Jun Ye, JILA/Univ of Colorado
Session 1: Advanced Laser and Nonlinear Devices
9:15 – 9:45 Two Micron Fiber Laser
Peter Moulton, Q Peak, Inc.
9:45 – 10:00 Power Scaling of Phosphate Glass Fiber Laser
Yin Wen Lee, Stanford University
10:00 – 10:15 Slow Light for Sensitive Detectors
Matt Terrel, Stanford University
10:15 – 10:30 Advanced Laser Concepts
Bill Krupke, WFK Lasers LLC
Coffee Break
10:30 – 11:00
Session 2: Ultrafast Physics & X-Ray Science
11:00 – 11:30 Femtosecond X-ray Studies of Materials

Del Mar Photonics, Inc. product portfolio includes ultrafast laser
oscillators and amplifiers based on Ti:Sapphire, Cr:Forsterite, Er-
and Yb- doped fibers; autocorrelators, SPIDER and cross-correlator,
femtosecond fluorescence up-conversion and transient spectroscopy
pump-probe systems, CW single-frequency ring Dye/Ti:Sapphire lasers,
NIR-MWIR-LWIR cameras, semiconductor lasers and optical components.

Aaron M. Lindenberg, Stanford University, SLAC
11:30 – 11:45 Dielectric Undulator for Coherent X-ray Generation
Tomas Plettner, Stanford University
11:45 – 12:15 High Harmonic Generation from Multiple Orbitals
Markus Guehr, Stanford University, SLAC
Lunch & Poster Session
12:15 – 2:00
Session 3: Nonlinear Optics and Applications
2:00 – 2:30 Non-linear Optics Enabling Laser Display Applications
Greg Niven, Arasor
2:30 – 3:00 Real-Time Chemical Sensors Based on Novel NLO Laser Systems
Jim Scherer, NovaWave
3:00 – 3:15 Self-phase-locked Degenerate Synchronously Pumped Optical Parametric Oscillator
Samuel Wong, Stanford University
Coffee Break
3:15 – 3:45
Nanophotonics
3:45 – 4:15 Metamaterials (tentative title)
David Smith, Duke University
4:15 – 4:30 Dielectric Optical Antenna Emitters
Jon Schuller, Stanford University
4:30 – 4:45 One-Way Electromagetic Waveguides
Zongfu Yu, Stanford University
4:45 – 5:15 Nano-imaging with a Metallic Nanolens
Satoshi Kawata, Osaka University
5:15 – 5:30 Concluding Remarks
5:30 Afternoon Break, Ginzton Courtyard

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