Organic Thin Films for Photonic Applications Symposium

Symposium Date: September 19, 2007
Frontiers in Optics Dates: September 16-20, 2007
Fairmont Hotel, San Jose, California, USA

Part of the Frontiers in Optics conference.

Frontiers in Optics Program

Frontiers in Optics Deadlines

Housing Deadline: August 16, 2007
Pre-Registration Deadline: August 24, 2007
Postdeadline Submissions: August 31, 2007, 12:00 p.m. noon EDT (16.00 GMT)

Organizing Committee

Dean DeLongchamp, NIST, USA
Steve Foulger, Clemson Univ., USA
Warren Herman, Univ. of Maryland, USA
Ghassan Jabbour, Univ. of Arizona, USA
Zakya Kafafi, NRL, USA
Dennis Smith Clemson Univ., USA

Topics to be Considered

Nonlinear Optics

Second and third order nonlinear optical phenomena, materials and devices
Organic photorefractive materials
Two-photon materials and processes
Chromophore orientation processes

Photonics and Integrated Optics

Optical fiber materials and physics
Waveguiding in organic thin films and optical devices
Photonic devices
Organic-based modulators

Materials: Structure, Properties and Performance

Organic and polymeric light emitting materials and devices
Organic photovoltaic materials and devices
Organic thin film transistor materials and devices
Charge transport in organic thin films
Energy and charge transfer processes
Singlet and triplet exciton dynamics
Consequences of chemistry, processing, fabrication and operation

Invited Speakers

Polymers with Unprecedented NLO Response, Nasser Peyghambarian, Univ. of Arizona, USA
Surface-Emitting Distributed, Kenneth Singer, Case Western Reserve Univ., USA

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