Fourier Transform Spectroscopy (FTS)

OSA Optics & Photonics Congress and Tabletop Exhibits

Collocated with

Digital Holography and Three-Dimensional Imaging (DH)
Hyperspectral Imaging and Sensing of the Environment (HISE)  
Novel Techniques in Microscopy (NTM)
Optical Trapping Applications (OTA)

Technical Conference: April 26-30, 2009
Exhibition: April 28-30, 2009

Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre Hotel
Vancouver, BC, Canada

Submissions Deadline: January 15, 2009, 12:00 p.m, noon, EST (17.00 GMT)
Housing Deadline: March 25, 2009
Pre-Registration Deadline: April 1, 2009

2009 Meeting Chairs

Peter Bernath, York Univ., UK, Chair
Jerome Genest, Univ. Laval, Canada, Chair

About Fourier Transform Spectroscopy

The FTS topical meeting welcomes all scientists who use or develop Fourier transform spectrometers. Fourier transform spectrometry is the technique of choice in all research areas that require high accuracy, sensitivity, and resolution over a wide spectral range. Its scope includes laboratory, Earth, planetary and astronomical spectroscopy. This meeting is the only international conference covering FTS instrumental development, technology and applications from the submillimeter to the ultraviolet.

Fourier transform spectrometry is the spectroscopic technique of choice in all research areas that require high accuracy, sensitivity, and resolution, and it continues to grow in application and utilization. This is especially true for new research areas, such as meteorology and chemical microscopy, where such attributes are mandatory. This FTS Topical Meeting is the only international conference on Fourier transform spectrometry covering the whole range of FTS technology and applications. Its scope will include laboratory spectroscopy, Earth and planetary remote sensing, and astronomy as well as new instrumental developments.

Topics To Be Considered

• Instrument Technology
  • Novel FTS concepts and designs
  • FTS in the sub-millimeter, infrared, visible, and ultraviolet
  • Time-resolved Fourier transform spectroscopy
  • Imaging Fourier transform spectroscopy
  • FTS using multiheterodyne and frequency combs
  • New technologies for FTS
  • Laboratory instruments
  • Space-based instruments
  • Astronomical instruments
• Analysis
  • New methods for radiometric accuracy
  • New methods for line shape determination
  • New methods for improving frequency accuracy
  • Improvements in atmospheric retrievals
  • New approaches for spectral calibration
  • Observations of particulate and gaseous absorption
• Applications
  • Atomic and molecular spectroscopy
  • FT Raman spectroscopy
  • Medical and biological in-situ spectroscopy
  • Earth remote sensing from the ground, air and space
  • Planetary spectroscopy from the ground, air and space
  • Astronomical spectroscopy of the sun, stars, the interstellar medium, and the cosmic background