Fall Optics & Photonics Congress 2009

Join your colleagues in October in San Jose, California!

Collocated Topical Meetings

Advances in Optical Materials (AIOM)
Adaptive Optics: Methods, Analysis and Applications (AO)
Computational Optical Sensing and Imaging (COSI)
Femtosecond Laser Microfabrication (LM)
Signal Recovery and Synthesis (SRS)

To find out more about how to exhibit at one of these meetings, please contact Anne Jones at +1 202.416.1942 or email ajones@osa.org. Reserve your exhibit space today!

Topics to be Discussed

AIOM Topics

• Bulk laser crystals and glasses
• Ceramic laser materials
• Nonlinear crystals and glasses
• Microstructured ferroelectric and semiconductor nonlinear crystals
• Glass materials for fibers and new applications
• Microstructured fibers
• Photonic crystals
• Quantum dots for optical applications

AO Topics

• AO concepts and applications
• Advanced system concepts for atmospheric turbulence compensation, including multi-conjugate, multi-object, ground-layer, and extreme AO
• Innovative applications, including vision science and optical communication
• AO control algorithms
• Optimal and adaptive control
• Computationally efficient algorithms
• Amplitude and phase control
• PSF reconstruction and performance estimation
• Simulation and modeling methods
• Component technologies
• Conventional, MEMS, and large deformable mirrors
• Wavefront sensing optics and detectors
• Signal processing electronics
• Lasers and fiber optics for laser guidestar systems
• AO laboratory and field tests

COSI Topics

• System analysis
• Information theory and comparative sensor systems analysis
• Systems metrics
• Radiation fields and structured illumination
• Coherence, spectra and polarization
• Geometric analysis, spaces and computer vision
• Biological systems and biological analogies
• Smart cameras
• Components
• Optical elements
• Wavefront sensing and control systems
• Optoelectronics
• Active illumination
• Detectors and focal plane arrays
• Optoelectronic processing
• Algorithms, embedded processing, compression and communications
• Approximation methods, sampling, bases and frames
• Sparse or compressive coding
• Inverse problems
• Adaptive systems
• Sensor networks and communications
• Applications
• Biomedical diagnostics, including imaging and spectroscopic instruments
• Computational photography
• Security, defense and tracking systems
• Human-computer interaction and robotic sensors
• Machine vision and automated control systems

LM Topics

• Fundamentals of laser-material interactions
  • Linear and nonlinear absorption
  • Ablation dynamics
  • Mechanisms for bulk modification of transparent materials
  • Laser mediated material deposition
• Applications in microfabrication
  • Surface processing
  • Waveguide writing
  • Laser welding, sintering
  • Localized material deposition
  • 3D photopolymerization
  • Real-time diagnostics for microprocessing

SRS Topics

• Theory
• Stable inversion of ill-posed problems
• Image quality analysis/metrics
• Complexities and uncertainties in image/signal formation
• Regularization concepts (for example: Total Variation, Bayesian, sparsity)
• Algorithms/Approaches
• Phase retrieval
• Superresolution
• Tomography
• Spatially-varying deblurring
• Computation
• Computational methods and implementations, including parallel processing
• Minimization methods for non-convex problems
• Accelerating convergence of iterative algorithms
• Applications
• Imaging through turbulence
• Imaging of, or through, scattering media
• Imaging with the use of scattered fields
• Quantum-limited imaging

About Optics & Photonics Congresses

OSA created Optics & Photonics Congresses, clusters of new and established topical meetings in order to bring together leaders among communities within optics.

Congresses are designed to retain the collegial settings of OSA topical meetings and provide richer experiences for networking, information sharing and discussion across the disciplines of optical science and engineering. You will also enjoy more special events including plenary sessions, symposia, short courses and joint exhibits.

2009 Meeting Chairs