Slow and Fast Light (SL)

OSA Optics & Photonics Congress and Tabletop Exhibits

Collocated with

Integrated Photonics and Nanophotonics Research and Application (IPNRA)
Nonlinear Optics (NLO)

Technical Conference: July 12-17, 2009
Exhibition: July 13-15, 2009
Hilton Hawaiian Village Beach Resort & Spa
Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

PDP Submissions Deadline: June 17, 2009, 12:00 p.m. noon EDT (16.00 GMT)
Housing Deadline: June 9, 2009
Pre-Registration Deadline: June 18, 2009

2009 Meeting Chairs

General Chairs

Robert W. Boyd, Univ. of Rochester, USA
Jesper Mørk, Technical Univ. of Denmark, Denmark

Program Chairs

Jacob B. Khurgin, Johns Hopkins Univ., USA
Luc Thévenaz, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland

About Slow and Fast Light

We have been accustomed to thinking of the speed of light as a constant. Yet, over the past few years, it has become clear that the tools exist to slow down, speed up or even completely stop light propagation. This realization has certainly had a profound impact on the optics community from the  point of view of fundamental science and has led to the suggestion and exploration of a number of practical applications within various areas.

This topical meeting will bring together physicists and engineers in order to present and discuss the latest achievements within the area of light-speed control. Exciting issues to be discussed include the physics and interpretation of various light-control schemes as well as the potentials and fundamental limitations of possible applications. The area is closely connected to research within structurally engineered materials, such as metamaterials, that allow fundamental control of light-matter interaction. The meeting will provide a forum for vital discussion among experimental and theoretical scientists.

Topics to Be Considered

• 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
• Micro resonators
• 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
• Quantum optics
• 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