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28 October 2016
OSA Incubator on Emerging Connections in Quantum and Classical Optics
28 October 2016
OSA Incubator on Emerging Connections in Quantum and Classical Optics
WASHINGTON — The Optical Society (OSA) will host an Incubator meeting on “Emerging Connections in Quantum and Classical Optics,” on Monday, 7 November and Tuesday, 8 November 2016 in Washington, DC, USA. This Incubators goals of these meeting are two-fold. First, the meeting looks to articulate what features of optics are classical and which are quantum. Meeting participants will discuss concepts, such as entanglement, polarization and complementarity, and understand what roles they have to play in optics. Second, the program will serve as a bridge by connecting research communities that sit at the intersection of the domains of classical coherence theory, vector and structured light beams, and quantum optics.
Questions to be discussed include:
- What is the meaning and value of entanglement in classical and quantum optics?
- What are appropriate measures to quantify coherence?
- Can coherence be shared between different optical beam degrees of freedom?
- Are new resources available in classical optics by making connections to quantum optics?
- How closely can classical methods come to quantum-like information processing efficacy?
WHEN: Monday, 7 November and Tuesday, 8 November 2016
TIME: 8 am on Monday, 7 November 2016
(Please refer to the OSA incubator page for all time listings to this meeting)
HOSTED BY: Joseph H. Eberly, University of Rochester, United States
Elisabeth Giacobino, CNRS, Laboratori Kastler Brossel, France
Gerd Leuchs, University of Erlangen, Max-Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Germany
Nick Vamivakas, Institute of Optics, University of Rochester, United States
For more information about this and other Incubators visit the OSA Incubator Meetings page.
Interested in attending? There are a limited number of spaces available to this event, for interested individuals and members of the press, please send a brief letter of interest expressing your intent to the Media Relations team at MediaRelations@osa.org.
About The Optical Society
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