AOE 2008 Scope and Topics

Scope 1: Optical Fibers, Fiber Components and Subsystems

• Optical fibers and fiber devices
• Fiber designs to manage nonlinearities, chromatic dispersion and PMD
• Fiber gratings, filters and gain equalizers
• Fiber-based chromatic dispersion and PMD compensators
• Fiber amplifiers and fiber lasers
• Nonlinear fiber optics and all-optical fiber subsystems
• Photonic crystal fibers and devices
• RF and microwave fiber optics technology
• Microwave photonics subsystems
• Other novel fiber-based components and subsystems
• Optical subsystems such as ROADMs, subsystems for dispersion compensation and subsystems for optical signal processing

Scope 2: Optoelectronic Devices and Materials

• Semiconductor lasers, amplifiers, and photodetectors
• Optical modulators
• Transmitters and receivers for fiber and free-space links
• Silicon photonics and planar lightwave circuits
• Nanophotonics, plasmonics and metamaterials
• Photonic crystals and their applications
• Infrared and terahertz materials, emitters and detectors
• Optoelectronic integration and photonic integrated circuits
• Optical logic, memories and other functional devices
• Optical MEMS and applications
• Organic photonic devices
• Manufacturing, packaging and integrated module technologies

Scope 3: Optical Sensors and Biophotonics

• Fiber and waveguide optical sensors
• Environmental monitoring and LIDAR technologies
• Optical sensor systems and networks
• Biomedical diagnostics and sensing (nanoparticles)
• Optical coherence tomography and clinical applications
• Photon migration and diffuse optical imaging
• Tissue optics and spectroscopy
• Nonlinear optical microscopy
• Light-activated therapy
• Laser tweezers and trapping
• Micro- and opto-fluidic devices for biomedical applications
• Nanobiophotonics devices and technology
• Latest biophotonics technology and applications.

Scope 4: Displays, Solid-State Lighting, and Optoelectronics in Energy

• Flat panel displays (LEDs, PDPs, LEDs, OLEDs, FEDs, etc.)
• Active matrix display
• CRTs, VFDs, 3D displays, electronic paper
• Light valves/Spatial Light Modulators
• MEM (DMD, TMA, GLV, etc), LCOS and micro-displays
• Projection displays for HDTV
• Display drivers, interfaces and systems
• Manufacturing technology, reliability and testing
• New materials for LEDs and OLEDs
• High-power LEDs and packaging
• White light LEDs and semiconductor lighting
• Device physics, operating principles and applications of LEDs and OLEDs
• New technologies of solid state lighting
• Materials, components and packaging
• Optical design and modeling
• High-power lasers, laser equipments and applications
• Advances in solar cell materials and technologies
• Other Optoelectronics in energy.