Invited Speakers

Slow Light Plenary Speaker

Title to Be Announced, Stephen E. Harris; Stanford Univ., USA.

Professor Stephen E. Harris received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1959.  In 1963 he became a member of the Stanford faculty where he is now the Kenneth and Barbara Oshman Professor of Engineering with appointments in Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics. Professor Harris has advised about 60 Ph.D. students and is known for contributions to quantum optics, nonlinear optics, and laser science.

Slow Light Invited Speakers

Slow-Light in Photonic-Crystal Waveguides and Cavities, Solomon Assefa; IBM Res., USA.

Using Nonuniform Fiber to Generate Slow Light via Stimulated Brillouin Scattering, Xiaoyi Bao; Univ. of Ottawa, Canada.

Title to Be Announced, Miriam Deutsch; Univ. of Oregon, USA.

Stationary Light and Bose-Einstein Condensation of Slow-Light Polaritons, Michael Fleischhauer; Univ. of Kaiserslautern, Germany.

To Be Announced, Alexander Gaeta; Cornell Univ., USA

Title to Be Announced, Claire Gmachl; Princeton Univ., USA.

Slow Light Based on Stimulated Brillouin Scattering: New Possibilities and Open Questions, Miguel Gonzalez-Herraez; Dept. of Electronics, Univ. of Alcala, Spain.

Title to Be Announced, Jacob B. Khurgin; Johns Hopkins Univ., USA.

Title to Be Announced, Peter Knight; Imperial College, UK.

1 Byte Reconfigurable Integrated Optic Delay Line, Andrea Melloni; DEI, Italy.

Title to Be Announced, David A. B. Miller; Stanford Univ., USA.

To Be Announced, Masaya`Notomi, NTT Basic Res. Labs, Japan.

Impact of Nonlinearity and Disorder on Slow Modes in Membrane Photonic Crystals, Alfredo Rossi; Thales Res. and Technology, France.

Slow and Fast Light in THz Regime, Forrest G. Sedgwick; Univ. of California at Berkeley, USA.

Optical Cloaking and “Fast Light,” Vladimir M. Shalaev; Purdue Univ., USA.

Broad Bandwidth Slow Light, Enabled by Surface Plasmons, Marin Soljacic; MIT, USA.

How to Build an Optical Buffer for IP Packets, Rodney S. Tucker; Univ. of Melbourne, Australia.

High-Performance Gbit/s Data Transmission through Slow Light Elements, Alan Willner; Univ. of Southern California, USA.

Title to Be Announced, Amnon Yariv; Caltech, USA.