COTA Topics

• Sources (i.e., high-power, narrow linewidth, phase-locked, stable, tunable)
• Phase preservation over temporal/spectral domains
• Receiver design
• Signal-detection techniques
• Phase locking techniques
• Phase estimation
• Phase, frequency and polarization modulators
• Phase-sensitive amplifiers
• Polarization management
• Data modulation formats/signaling/protocols
• Phase-sensitive systems
• Free-space (spaceborne/airborne) communications
• Optical fiber communication systems and networks
• Analog links
• Secure communications
• Remote sensing
• Synthetic aperture Lidar/Ladar
• Fiber sensors
• Microsensing in spectroscopic applications
• Biosensing
• Statistical and cellular nature of biosensors
• Optical signal processing
• Arbitrary waveform generation and filtering
• A/D conversion
• Optical correlation
• Wavelength conversion

IPRNA Topics

• Active Devices: III-V semiconductor devices; silicon active devices; LiNbO3 and other metal-oxide-based devices; modulators; switches; wavelength converters; emitters; VCSELs; amplifiers; integrated scanners; quantum optoelectronic devices; complex circuits; new fabrication methods; materials and processing; reliability advances and issues.

• Passive Devices and Integration: Dielectric, polymer, or semiconductor waveguide devices; Integrated planar waveguides; active/passive integrated components; switches; variable optical attenuators; filters; resonators; integrated isolators and circulators; planar dispersion compensators; micro-optic components; optical interconnects; hybrid integration; reliability advances and issues; novel assembly and manufacturing techniques; emerging packaging technologies; testing and characterization; materials and fabrication technologies.

• Modeling, Numerical Simulation and Theory: Optical-system modeling; numerical and semi-analytical methods for guided-wave optics; active, passive and nonlinear component modeling; WDM component design; simulation and modeling of photonic crystal, microcavity, and other high confinement structures; simulation and modeling of metallic and metallodielectric waveguides; advances in computational algorithms, physics and coupled models for integrated photonic circuits.

• Nanophotonics: Microcavity and other high confinement structures; photonic crystal waveguides and devices; photonic crystal fiber; nano-engineered devices; metallic and metallodielectric waveguide devices;resonators; filters; modulators; add-drop integrated optical circuits; light sources; quantum information; nano-MEMS; biophotonics; biological and chemical transducers and sensors; efficient mode matching; nanofabrication technology; growth and deposition approaches; self-organized methods; characterization tools on the nanoscale; and nanoscale integration of planar, free-space, and mixed subsystems.

• Inhomogeneous Materials (e.g., Composite Dielectrics, Semiconductors, Metals and Metallodielectrics): Anisotropic; dispersive; efficient light extraction; nonlinear optical materials; and dynamically configurable.

SL Topics

• Physics of Light Control:
• Electromagnetically induced transparency
• Coherent population oscillations
• Four-wave mixing and parametric processes
• Absorption or gain saturation
• Stimulated Brillouin and Raman scattering
• Passive and active manipulation in periodic structures and resonators
• New schemes and physical effects
• Materials and Engineered Structures for Light Control:
• Metamaterials, including plasmonic structures
• Photonic crystal waveguides and periodic structures
• Optical fibers including holey fibers
• Semiconductor nanostructures, including quantum wells and quantum dots
• Saturable optical amplifiers and absorbers
• BEC and hot vapor cells
• Crystals and other solid-state materials
• New materials and structures
  
• Applications:
• Optical communications; all-optical buffers, routers, etc.
• Microwave photonics; microwave filters and phased array systems
• Sampling systems
• Enhanced optical nonlinear response
• Sensors and improved measurement systems
• Figures-of-merit and fundamental limitations
• New applications
  
• Physics of Light Control:
• Electromagnetically induced transparency
• Coherent population oscillations
• Four-wave mixing and parametric processes
• Absorption or gain saturation
• Stimulated Brillouin and Raman scattering
• Passive and active manipulation in periodic structures and resonators
• New schemes and physical effects
• Materials and Engineered Structures for Light Control:
• Metamaterials, including plasmonic structures
• Photonic crystal waveguides and periodic structures
• Optical fibers including holey fibers
• Semiconductor nanostructures, including quantum wells and quantum dots
• Saturable optical amplifiers and absorbers
• BEC and hot vapor cells
• Crystals and other solid-state materials
• New materials and structures
  
• Applications:
• Optical communications; all-optical buffers, routers, etc.
• Microwave photonics; microwave filters and phased array systems
• Sampling systems
• Enhanced optical nonlinear response
• Sensors and improved measurement systems
• Figures-of-merit and fundamental limitations
• New applications
  
• Implementation Techniques:
• Experimental techniques
• Theoretical techniques
• Effective numerical simulation techniques
• Experimental techniques
• Theoretical techniques
• Effective numerical simulation techniques

ICQI Topics

• Entanglement
• Decoherence
• Quantum imaging and lithography
• Quantum communication and cryptography, quantum channels, repeaters
• Algorithms, walks on graphs, spin chains, phase transitions, chaos and localization
• Emerging topics: cluster states, adiabatic quantum computing, topological quantum computing
• Optical and other implementations (linear optics, cavity QED, ion traps, solid state, etc.)
• Quantum state reconstruction, superresolution, metrology
• Storage and transfer of quantum information