Monday January 8 2001 | ||
| Monday Morning Plenary Session 1 | ||
| Lev P. Pitaevskii, Univ. di Trento (B.E.C.) ``Theory of two-photon Bragg scattering in trapped Bose-Einstein condensed gases'' | ||
| Robert Byer, Stanford (Laser Accelerators) | ||
| Erich P. Ippen, MIT (Femtosecond) ``Generating and controlling pulses shorter than 2 optical cycles" | ||
| Monday Morning Invited Session 1 | ||
| B.E.C. | Quantum Computing and Searching | Femtosecond |
| Randy Hulet, Rice University ``Probing the Dynamics of Bose-Einstein Condensation by Molecular Spectroscopy'' |
Mary Beth Ruskai, UMass-Lowell ``Capacity of Quantum Channels'' |
Bill Barletta, LBL ``Femtosecond xray sources'' |
| Lorenz Willman, M.I.T. ``Growth and Decay of a Hydrogen Condensate'' |
Stephen Fenner, Univ. of South Carolina ``Quantum Search, Hamiltonians, and Intuition'' |
Wilhelm Becker, MBI-Berlin ``Laser-induced nonsequential multiple ionization of atoms: a premium for cooperation'' |
| Christopher J. Pethick, NORDITA, Copenhagen ``Macroscopic and microscopic properties of Bose-Einstein condensates'' |
Andreas Klappenecker, TAMU ``Symplectic Geometries and Clifford Codes'' |
Jun Ye, JILA ``Sub-ten-femtosecond active synchronization between two passively mode-locked Ti:Sapphire oscillators'' |
| -- Break -- | ||
| Monday Morning Plenary Session 2 | ||
| Eric Jones, Sandia (Solid State Lighting) ``National White Lighting Initiative: What's it all about?'' | ||
| Henry Van Driel (Coherent Control) ``Coherence Control of Semiconductors'' | ||
| Monday Morning Invited Session 2 | ||
| Coherent Control | Quantum Information | Solid State Lighting |
| Moshe Shapiro, Weizmann ``Symmetry Breaking and Chiral Purification by Coherent Control Techniques'' |
D. Averin, SUNY, Stony Brook ``Linear quantum measurements with SET transistor'' |
Dennis Deppe, UT Austin ``Carrier Dynamics of InGaAs/GaAs Quantum Dots for Low Power Microcavity Lasers and Light Emitters'' |
| Paul Brumer, University of Toronto ``Coherently controlled nanoscale deposition on surfaces'' |
Nick Bigelow, Rochester ``Spin-squeezing in degenerate and non-degenerate atomic vapors: routes to many particle entanglement'' |
Kent Choquette, University of Illinois ``Vertical Cavity Lasers: New light in the information age.'' |
| John Holzrichter ``Optical detection of Pathogens'' |
Anders Sorensen, Aarhus Denmark ``Many-particle entanglement from Bose-Einstein condensates'' |
M. D. Pashley, Philips Research ``Achieving White Light Quality Requirements with Solid State Lighting'' |
| David Tannor, Weizmann ``Laser Cooling as a Paradigm for Control of Decoherence: A Theory of Purity Increasing Transformations'' |
Daniel Lidar, University of Toronto ``Decoherence-Free Quantum Computation'' |
Dan Botez, University of Wisconsin ``High-Power Al-free Coherent and Incoherent Diode Lasers'' |
| Eitan Geva, University of Michigan ``On the performance of quantum heat engines'' |
A. Nurmikko ``Vertical Cavity Blue and Near Ultraviolet Emitters'' |
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| -- Afternoon -- | ||
| Christophe Salomon, ENS, Paris (B.E.C.) ``Sympathetic cooling of Lithium 6 fermions towards quantum degeneracy'' | ||
| I. Walmsley, University of Rochester (Quantum State Preparation and Measurement) | ||
| Ed Fry, TAMU (Ocean Physics) ``A Brillouin lidar for profiling temperature and sound speed in the ocean'' | ||
| Monday Evening Invited Session | ||
| B.E.C. | Ocean Physics | Quantum State Preparation and Measurement |
| Wolfgang Ketterle, MIT ``Collective enhancement and suppression in Bose-Einstein condensates'' |
Ken Voss, University of Miami ``In-water spectral radiance distribution measurements'' |
Suhail Zubairy, TAMU ``Application of cavity QED to quantum computing'' |
| Vitaly Kocharovsky, TAMU ``Canonical Ensemble Quasiparticles and Particle-Number-Conserving Theory of BEC'' |
Robert Leathers, NRL Washington ``Analysis of a Point-Source Integrating Cavity Absorption Meter'' |
Andrew Funk, University of Oregon ``Non-classical states of the polarization of optical fields: generation and measurement'' |
| Juha Javanainen, UConn ``How fast can you photoassociate a BEC'' |
Linda Mullen ``Modulated Lidar Reveals Underwater Objects'' |
A. Cronin, MIT ``Decoherence rate due to multiple photon scattering in an atom interferometer'' |
| Kris Helmerson, NIST ``Photo-association in a condensate'' |
Mike Contarino, Naval Air Warfare Center ``The "a" "b" "c"s of Lidar Measurement and Theory'' |
Luiz Davidovich ``Direct measurement of Wigner function: probing the quantum-classical transition'' |
| Peter E. Nebolsine | ||
Tuesday January 9 2001 | ||
| Tuesday Morning Plenary Session 1 | ||
| Vern Schlie, AFRL/DE (High Power Lasers) ``Overview - HEL types, Uses, and Future'' | ||
| Szymon Suckewer, Princeton University (New X-Ray Sources and Applications) ``What is New in X-Ray Sources and Their Applications?'' | ||
| Luigi Lugiato, Università dell'Insubria (Quantum Imaging) ``Spatial entanglement, applications to quantum teleportation of optical images and quantum cryptography'' | ||
| Tuesday Morning Invited Session 1 | ||
| High Power Lasers | New X-Ray Sources and Applications | Magnetometry |
| G. Manke/G. Hager, AFRL/DE ``Advanced COIL - Physics/chemistry, Uses'' |
Jorge Rocca, Colorado State University ``Recent Progress in the Development and Applications of Discharge Pumped Soft X-Ray Laser'' |
Dmitry Budker, UC Berkeley ``Nonlinear Faraday Rotation Magnetometry'' |
| Bob Rice, Boeing-LEOS ``1 kW Yb:Yag Laser Demo'' |
Henry Kapteyn, JILA ``Applied Coherent Controlled Technique for X-Ray Generation'' |
George R. Welch, TAMU ``Magnetometry in dense coherent media'' |
| Todd Rutherford, Stanford ``Scaling Yb:YAG to 1-100 kW'' |
Robert Schoenlein, LBNL ``Generation and Applications of Femtosecond X-rays from the Advanced Light Source.'' |
Andrey Matsko, TAMU ``Radiation trapping in coherent media'' |
| -- Break -- | ||
| Tuesday Morning Plenary Session 2 | ||
| Alexander L. Fetter, Stanford (B.E.C.) ``Stability of a vortex in a dilute trapped Bose-Einstein condensate'' | ||
| Peter Zory, University of Florida at Gainsville (Quantum Well Lasers) ``Designing interband and intersubband quantum well lasers.'' | ||
| Tuesday Morning Invited Session 2 | ||
| High Power Lasers | Slow Light | Quantum Well Lasers |
| Craig Denman, AFRL/DE ``High Power Fiber Laser Scaling'' |
Ulf Leonhardt, University of St Andrews, Scotland ``Slow light in moving media'' |
Greg Dente, GCD Assoc. ``Quantum Theory of Superlattices: Applications to mid-IR Lasers'' |
| B. Dane / E. Stappaerts, LLNL ``Heat Capacity Nd:YAG High Power Laser - 100 KW'' |
Michael Fleischhauer, Univ. of Kaiserslautern ``Slow light and quantum memories for photons'' |
George (GW) Turner, MIT Lincoln ``High Efficiency optically pumped mid-IR lasers with integrated absorbers'' |
| Paul Banks, Gulf Atomic ``Ultrafast Laser - fs/TW'' |
Selim M. Shahriar, MIT ``First Obervation of Ultraslow Group Velocity of Light in a Solid'' |
Luke Lester, CHTM, UNM ``Injection Efficiency and Phonon Bottleneck in Quantum dot lasers'' |
| Ananth Dodabalapur, Lucent Tech ``Organic Semiconductor Injection Laser'' |
Yuri Rostovtsev, TAMU ``Frozen light by hot atoms'' |
Dave Gallant, Boeing ``Injection locking properties of angled grating semiconductor lasers'' |
| Fam Le Kien, University of Electro-Communications, Japan ``Slow light in a far-off-resonance Raman medium'' |
Benoit Deveaud, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne ``Ultrafast dynamics of semiconductor nanostructures'' |
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| -- Afternoon -- | ||
| Tuesday Evening Plenary Session | ||
| J. Yngvason, Univ. of Vienna (B.E.C.) ``The ground state of a dilute Bose gas: Facts, expectations and open questions'' | ||
| Mickhail Lukin, ITAMP (Quantum Optics) ``Trapping and storage of light in matter'' | ||
| Victor Klimov, Los Alamos National Labs (Advances in nanostructure optics) ``Multiparticle interactions and optical gain in nanocrystal quantum dots'' | ||
| Tuesday Evening Invited Session | ||
| B.E.C., entanglement, and squeezing | Quantum Computing and Searching | Advances in nanostructure optics |
| David Feder, NIST ``Dark solitons and vortex rings in trapped Bose condensates'' |
Jean-Luc A. Brylinski, Pennsylvania State University ``Invariant theory for n qubits'' |
Hui Cao, North Western University ``Generation of coherent light from disordered nanostructures'' |
| Michael G. Moore, ITAMP ``Generating entangled atom-photon pairs from Bose-Einstein condensates'' |
Navin Khaneja, Dartmouth ``Time Optimal Control in Quantum information Processing'' |
David Smith, UC San Diego ``Negative refractive index in structured metamaterials'' |
| Robin Cote, UConn ``Entanglement with Rydberg atoms'' |
Ranee Brylinski, Pennsylvania State University ``Invariant polynomial functions on systems of qubits'' |
Vladimir Shalaev, NMSU ``Plasmonic Nanomaterials'' |
| Mark Hillery ``Quantum Cryptography and Squeezed States'' |
Valy Vardeny, University of Utah ``Laser action in pi-conjugated polymer films and microcavities'' |
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Wednesday January 10 2001 | ||
| Wednesday Morning Plenary Session 1 | ||
| Joseph W. Haus (Solitons) ``Solitons in Lasers'' | ||
| James Gordon (Solitons) | ||
| H. Haus (Solitons) | ||
| Wednesday Morning Invited Session 1 | ||
| Solitons | Non-linear Optics | New X-Ray Sources and Applications |
| Ildar Gabitov ``Dispersion Managed Solitons'' |
Gerard Mourou, University of of Michigan ``Relativistc Nonlinear Optics in the Single-Cycle, Single Wavelength Regime'' |
Roger Falcone, UC Berkeley ``Coherent Phonon Observation by Time Resolved X-Ray Lasers'' |
| Herbert Winful ``Raman Gap Solitons'' |
Donald Umstadter, Michigan ``Ultra-high-gradient laser-plasma accelerators, zero to sixty (MeV) in less than a picosecond'' |
Philip Sprangle, NRL ``Stable Laser Pulse Propatation in Plasma Channels for X-Ray Lasers'' |
| Alejandro Aceves ``Recent progress on pulse propagation in nonlinear optical fiber gratings'' |
Robert Lucht, TAMU ``Time-Dependent Numerical Simulation of Polarization Spectroscopy and Degenerate Four-Wave Mixing'' |
Claudio Pellegrini, UCLA ``X-Ray Free Electron Laser'' |
| -- Break -- | ||
| Wednesday Morning Plenary Session 2 | ||
| Linn Mollenauer, Bell Labs (General Interest) | ||
| Rufus L. Cone, Montana State University (Spectroscopy of Solids, with Applications) ``Spectroscopy of Rare Earth Materials from 20 Hz to Hundreds of Electron Volts'' | ||
| Wednesday Morning Invited Session 2 | ||
| Coherence in Semiconductors | Spectroscopy of Solids, with Applications | New X-Ray Sources and Applications |
| L. J. Sham, U.C. San Diego ``Theory of ultrafast light manipulation of spin-excitons in nanodots for quantum computing'' |
C. W. Thiel, Montana State University ``Systematics of Rare Earth Crystal Band Structure by Photoemission for Design of Laser and Hole Burning Materials'' |
Mike Key, LLNL ``Hard X-Ray Emission with Petawatt Laser'' |
| Gian Salis, UCSB ``Optical manipulation of nuclear spin by a two-dimensional electron gas'' |
G. J. Pryde, Montana State University ``Compact Laser Frequency Stabilization at 1.5µm using Spectral Hole Burning'' |
David Attwood, UC Berkeley ``X-Ray and EUV Radiation for Microscopy and Lithography'' |
| Dave Bacon ``Quantum Computing using only the Exchange Interaction'' |
W. R. Babbitt, Montana State University ``Optical Coherent Transient Signal Correlators: Science and Applications'' |
Margaret Murnane ``Time-Resolved Observartion of Ultrafast Soft X-Ray Pulses'' |
| Galina Khitrova, University of Arizona ``Quantum Wells Coupled by Light'' |
Markus Pollnau, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ``Spectroscopy of energy-transfer processes between rare-earth ions in glases and crystals |
Jim Dunn, Livermore talk on X-ray laser |
| Hyatt M. Gibbs, University of Arizona ``Quantum Correlations in the Nonperturbative Regime of Semiconductor Microcavities'' |
Andrew J. Steckl, University of Cincinnati ``Excitation mechanisms in rare-earth-doped GaN electroluminescent structures'' |
Susanne Quabis, Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg ``Focussing light to a tighter spot'' |
| -- Afternoon -- | ||
| Wednesday Evening Plenary Session | ||
| Carlos Stroud, University of Rochester (Quantum Information) ``Efficient Information Processing in Rydberg Atoms'' | ||
| Marlan Scully, TAMU (Quantum Heat Engines) ``Quantum Heat Engines'' | ||
| Olga Kocharovskaya, TAMU (Coherence Effects) ``Quantum Coherence Effects: Solids vs. Gases'' | ||
| Wednesday Evening Invited Session | ||
| Coherence Effects | Spectroscopy of Solids, with Applications | Non-linear Optics |
| Philip Hemmer, Civ AFRL/SNHC ``Dark Resonances in Solids: Materials Issues and Applications'' |
Aleksander Rebane, Montana State University ``Burning Persistent Spectral Holes By Two-Photon Absorption'' |
Steve Blair, University of Utah ``Optical microcavity biosensors'' |
| Kohzo Hakuta, University of Electro-Communications, Japan ``Parametric process using strongly driven Raman coherence in solid hydrogen'' |
Kevin Repasky, Montana State University ``Frequency Chirped Diode Laser for Spectral Hole Burning Applications'' |
Dick Slusher, Lucent Technologies ``Slow light in optical waveguide structures'' |
| Alexei V. Sokolov, Stanford ``Coherent Control of Multiphoton Ionization on a Few-Femtosecond Time Scale'' |
Uwe Happek, The University of Georgia ``Photoconductivity Studies of LiNbO3'' |
Jay Guo, University of Michigan ``Fabrication of Nanoscale Photonic Structures'' |
| Yifu Zhu ``Observations of absorptive photon switching and suppression of two-photon absorption in cold atoms'' |
Stefan Kroll ``Implementation of quantum gates in rare-earth-ion-doped inorganic crystals'' |
Frank Wise, Cornell ``Optical Spatiotemporal Solitons'' |
| Zameer Hasan, Temple University ``Thin Eu3+: CaS films for coherent control of electronic and nuclear states'' |
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Thursday January 11 2001 | ||
| Thursday Morning Plenary Session | ||
| Seth Lloyd, MIT (Quantum Computing) | ||
| H. Rabitz, Princeton (Coherent Control) ``Control of Molecular Motion: The Molecule Knows Best'' | ||
| Thursday Morning Invited Session 1 | ||
| Coherent Control | Coherence Effects | Quantum Computing |
| Wendell T. Hill, III ``Hidden Correlation in Strong-Field Dissociative-Ionization: A Possible Route for Quantum Control'' |
Boris Zeldovich, CREOL/UCF ``Can the linewidth be much narrower than transition probability?'' |
C. Kompa |
| Roland Allen, TAMU ``Mechanisms for Laser Control of Chemical Reactions'' |
Alexey Belyanin, TAMU ``Inversionless lasing with self-generated driving fields'' |
Goong Chen, TAMU ``An Exponentially Fast Quantum Search Algorithm'' |
| Astrid Mueller, MPQ ``Two Aspects of Ultrafast Photodynamics: Molecular Photoionization and Coherent Control of Molecular Fragmentation and Photoreactions Involving Conical Intersections". |
Susanne Yelin, ITAMP ``Proof and potential of double dark resonances'' |
James Franson ``Quantum logic using photon-exchange interactions: theory and experiment'' |
| -- Break -- | ||
| Thursday Morning Invited Session 2 | ||
| Pulse Propagation | ``Fast'' Light | Wigner Distribution |
| Alex Gaeta, Cornell ``Spatio-Temporal Collapse Dynamics of Light Pulses'' |
L. J. Wang, NEC ``Negative Group Velocity'' |
Letizia Lo Presti and Lorenzo Galleani ``Application of the Wigner Distribution to non-linear systems'' |
| Neshet Akozbek, AMCOM ``White-light continuum generation, filamentation and transverse ring formation during the propagation of ultra-short laser pulses propagating in air'' |
Philip Sprangle, NRL ``Comments on Superluminal Laser Pulse Propagation'' |
Les Atlas ``Fault Analysis of Machines'' |
| Jerry Moloney or Chung-Chieh Cheng, Tucson | Michael Stenner, Duke University ``Quantum limits to superluminal pulse advancement'' |
Patrick Loughlin ``Generalized Wigner Distribution Analysis of Human Balance'' |
| Coherence Effects | ||
| Jean-Claude Diels, University of New Mexico ``Wimpy filaments in the UV sho more promise than their IR counterpart'' |
Gilbert Hoy ``The coherent-path model of resonant gamma-ray scattering: answers and questions'' |
Lorenzo Galleani ``The Fiat automobile steering mechanism: a practical application of the Wigner distribution'' |
| Gadi Fibich, Tel Aviv University ``Vectorial effects in self-focusing and in multiple filamentation'' |
Min Xiao, University of Arkansas ``Atomic Coherence Effects inside an Optical Cavity'' |
Leon Cohen and Lorenzo Galleani ``Wigner Distribution for Classical systems'' |
| Quantum Information | ||
| Richard Chang, Yale ``Recent Studies on the Interactions of fs-Laser Beam with Micron-sized Droplets'' |
Charles Santori, Stanford ``Triggered single photons and polarization-entangled photon pairs from a quantum dot'' |
Mary Rowe, NIST ``Experimental Violation of Bell's Inequalities with Efficient Detection'' |
| Gary Carter ``Dispersion-Managed Solitons at 10, 20, and 40 Gbs'' |
Michael Crenshaw ``On quantization of the field in dielectrics'' |
Janos Bergou, Hunter College CUNY ``The Correlated Emission Laser and the CEL Gyro'' |
| Andre Mysyrowicz, Paris ``Self-guided propagation of femtosecond laser pulses in air'' |
Paolo Tombesi ``Complete quantum teleportation exploiting EIT'' |
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| -- Afternoon -- | ||
| Thursday Evening Plenary Session | ||
| Willem L. Vos, Universiteit van Amsterdam (Photonic Bandgap) ``3D photonic crystals with internal light sources'' | ||
| Ron Walsworth, Harvard (NMR technbuqes in physics and medicine) ``Multidisciplinary applications of laser-polarized noble gas NMR'' | ||
| Robert W. Boyd, University of Rochester (Non-linear Optics) ``Nonlinear Optical and Quantum Optical Imaging'' | ||
| Thursday Evening Invited Session | ||
| Photonic Bandgap | Quantum Imaging | Quantum Optics |
| Shi-Yao Zhu, Hong Kong Baptist University ``Spontaneous emission in anisotropic photonic crystals with an incomplete band gap'' |
Alexander Sergienko ``Hyper-entanglement in femtosecond parametric down conversion" |
Mathias Perrin, Institute for Nonlinear Physics in Nice France ``On the collective interaction between radiation and atoms in the presence of recoil and collisions'' |
| Thomas W. Mossberg, University of Oregon ``Spontaneous Radiative Decay in a 1-D Photonic Bandgap: Experimental study in Er-doped Fiber Bragg Gratings'' |
John Clauser ``Refractive-Index Imaging and the Talbot effect with polychromatic x-rays'' |
Frank Narducci, ONR ``Laser Cooling in a High Finesse Cavity'' |
| Chuck Bowden ``Dispersive and Nonlinear Properties of Finite One Dimensional Photonic Band Gap Materials'' |
Yanhua Shih, UMBC ``Quantum entanglement and Lithography'' |
Ben Varcoe, MPQ ``Recent progress on the micromaser'' |
| Eugene P. Petrov, NAS Belarus ``Spontaneous emission of dye molecules in bulk and structured dielectric environments'' |
Dmitry Strekalov, JPL ``Two-photon interferometry for high-resolution imaging'' |
Jeff Lundeen, University of Toronto ``Nonlinear optics with less than one photon'' |