About COTA

July 13-16, 2008

Detecting slight changes in the phase of the high-frequency optical wave provides a superb opportunity to dramatically enhance performance for a host of applications. Given the rapid advance of phase-based optical technologies, there have been significant recent advances in coherent devices, subsystems and systems, and this topical meeting will build on the excitement begun by the first COTA that was held in 2006.

COTA 2008 will provide a forum for discussing the most up-to-date science and engineering of encoding, manipulating and detecting the phase, polarization and frequency of an optical wave. Moreover, we will highlight various applications that are critically impacted by fundamental and technological breakthroughs in coherent optics.
This meeting is meant to be inter-disciplinary, covering communications, imaging, sensing and signal processing.

Important Dates

Submission Deadline: March 3, 2008 (12:00 p.m. noon EST; 17.00 GMT)
Hotel Reservation Deadline: June 11, 2008
Pre-Registration Deadline: June 26, 2008