Hot Topics Quantum Electronics

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Hot Topics Quantum Electronics

• Joe Haus
• University of Dayton
• OSA Leadership luncheon
• February 2, 2006

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FiO 2005 QE DivisionChair Dave Fittinghoff

• Laser Science and Engineering John Crane and
  Jason Eichenholz)
• The Theme Novel Ultrafast Laser Systems
• Tutorial on Petawatt lasers (Chris Barty)
• Invited
• IR Chirped Pulse Amplification (M. Fuji et al.)
• Novel Ultrabroadband Laser Systems (Irina
  Sorokina).
• Two technical sessions were devoted to this
  theme.
• Nonlinear Optics (Colin McKinstrie and Dave
  Hagan)
• Invited
• Theme 1 Nonlinear Dynamics and Structures
• Modeling of Optical Structures (J. Moloney)
• Cavity Solitons (W. Firth)
• Theme 2 Time-resolved spectroscopy of Novel
  materials Carbon Nanotubes (J. Kono)
• Condensation and Pattern Formation in Cold
  Exciton Gases (L. Butov)
• Tutorial on Ultrafast Dynamics in Complex
  Materials (A.J. Taylor).
• Four technical sessions were devoted to this
  theme.

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FiO 2005 QE Division

• Quantum Optics (Prem Kumar and Michael Vasilyev)
  
• Theme Single Photon and Sub-shot Noise
  Detection and Applications.
• Invited
• Quantum Imaging (M. Kolobov)
• Quantum Information (A. White)
• Quantum Information Networks (A. Furusawa)
• Tutorial L. Orozco on the title theme.
• Three technical sessions were devoted to this
  theme.
• Ultrafast Optical Phenomena (Chris Schaffer and
  Dave Reitze)
• Theme Femtosecond Laser-Matter Interactions
• Invited
• Propagation of Intense Femtosecond Pulses (H.
  Milchberg et al.)
• Photonic Devices in Glasses with Femtosecond
  Lasers (R. Ossellame et al.).
• Tutorial Materials processing Using Ultrashort
  Laser Pulses (E. Mazur).
• Theme 2 Nonlinear Optical Microscopy
• Jointly supported by Laser Science and Optics in
  Biology and Medicine). There were eight invited
  talks under this theme.
• Five technical sessions were devoted to these
  themes.

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FiO 2006 QE

• The FiO 2006 meeting will emphasize the following
  five themes
• Quantum Optics in Micro- and Nanostructures
  (joint with Optical Sciences, Symposium on Micro-
  and Nano-optics) 1 tutorial and 4 invited.
• Ultrafast control of laser/matter interactions
  (joint with Optical Sciences (attosecond)). 4
  invited.
• Coherent and quantum optics in fibers (joint with
  Photonics) 1 tutorial and 4 invited.
• Nano and Micro Enhancement of NLO effects (joint
  with Symposium on Micro- and Nano-optics)
  1tutorial and 6 invited.
• Ceramic Lasers 1 tutorial and 3 invited.

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Hot Topics

• Ceramic materials for lasers
• Fast and Slow light
• Si Raman laser
• High NLO materials QPM OP GaAs
• High power fiber lasers - machining
• NIM nonlinear optics
• Plasmonics imaging - super-resolution

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Hot Topics

• Fs laser damaged materials
• X-waves understanding phase matching in conical
  emission
• Frequency comb in the UV
• Vortices and superfluidity in a strongly
  interacting Fermi gas
• Single photon on demand
• Pixel entanglement parametric processes

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Ceramic materials for lasers
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Brillouin Slow light in fibers

• Okawachi et al, PRL (2005).

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OP GaAs
M.M. Fejer, Stanford University

• new apps lidar, laser comm and ladar

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Femtosecond laser pulse micromachining
Kamata et al. APL (2005)
Gaier et al. J. Mod. Opt/ (2005).
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Chaotic Communications
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NIM nonlinear optics
Scalora et al PRL (2005)
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Silicon laser
Pulsed operation
CW operation H. Rong et al., Nature 2005
OE 2004 paper
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Postscriptadditional topics on the horizon

• DNA photonics BioLED, DNA electron blocker.
• Spatial-temporal distortions K. Nelson this goes
  beyond coherent control.
• Si pin waveguide structure to lower losses by
  sweeping out the carriers.
• Laser sources progress toward far IR and THz
  sources. Solid state, Quantum cascade, new
  semiconductor materials (eg. GaSe, ZnGeP2) etc.
• Quantum sensing challenge for detectors. Focal
  plane arrays made with Quantum well IR
  photodetectors (QWIPs) for mid-IR.
• Photon momentum issue Abraham versus Minkowski.
  Papers by Nelson, Loudon, Mansuripur and Scalora,
  especially some published over the past couple of
  years. My question Why havent experiments
  settled this issue?

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Si photonics

• A light source and modulator.
• Devices that route, split, and direct light on
  the silicon chip.
• Low-cost, high-volume assembly methods.
• Supporting electronics for intelligence and
  photonics control.

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DNA photonics
DNA
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DNA Applications

• DNA cladding and functionalized core - waveguides
  for EO modulators
• BioFET DNA-CTMA Gate Dielectric
• Bio Organic LED
• ORMOCER increases mechanical strength allows
  photopatterning