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Ursula Keller, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland
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Biography: Ursula Keller joined the faculty of the physics department at ETH in 1993. She received the Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Stanford University in 1989 and the Physics "Diplom" from ETH in 1984. She was a Member of Technical Staff (MTS) at AT& Bell Laboratories in New Jersey from 1989 to 1993. Her research interests are exploring and pushing the frontiers in ultrafast science and technology: ultrafast solid-state and semiconductor lasers, ultrashort pulse generation in the one to two optical cycle regime, frequency comb generation and stabilization, reliable and functional instrumentation for extreme ultraviolet (EUV) to X-ray generation, attosecond experiments using high harmonic generation, and attosecond sience. She has published more than 280 peer-reviewed journal papers and 11 book chapters and she holds 17 patents. She was a “Visiting Miller Professor” at UC Berkeley in 2006 and a visiting professor at the Lund Institute of Technologies in 2001. She received the OSA Fraunhofer/Burley Prize in 2008, the Philip Morris Research Award in 2005, the first-placed award of the Berthold Leibinger Innovation Prize in 2004, and the Carl Zeiss Research Award in 1998. She was the “2006 Ångström lecturer”.
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Abstract: This talk will review the highlights in ultrafast science moving from femtosecond to attosecond pulse generation and its major impact in fields as diverse as semiconductor photonics and chemical reactions, material processing and extreme nonlinear optics with VUV and soft-X-ray generation, imaging and microscopy, frequency metrology and fundamental quantum mechanical processes that have never been measured before.
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Photonic Integration Technologies for Large-Capacity Telecommunication Networks
Yoshinori Hibino, NTT Corporation, Japan
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Biography: Yoshinori Hibino was born in Tochigi, Japan on July 31, 1957. He received the B. S., M. S., and Ph D. degrees in applied physics from the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, in 1980, 1982 and 1986, respectively. In 1982, he joined Ibaraki Electrical Communication Laboratories, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation, Tokai, Ibaraki Japan, where he has been engaged in the research and development on optical fibers and planar lightwave circuit (PLC) for telecommunications. He was also a manager of the optical transport network group, that has been developing optical transmission technologies in optical fibers. He is presently the director of NTT Photonic Laboratories. His current research interests are on photonic integrated devices based on PLCs and active components for photonic networks. Especially, he is working on applying these devices to future large-capacity optical transmission systems based on the wireless technologies. He has more than 110 publications on photonic devices and photonic network systems. From 1989 to 1990, he was a Visiting Research Scholar at Optical Science Center in the University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA. Dr. Hibino is a member of the Japan Society of Applied physics and the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers of Japan.
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Abstract: Photonic integration technologies, which have been developed since optical communication was deployed, are essential for increasing the network capacity with lower cost and efficient power consumption. This talk reviews the recent progress on photonic integrated devices with various methods and materials, and discusses the issues to be solved and future trends.
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The Magical World of Metamaterials
Ekmel Ozbay, Bilkent University, Turkey |
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Biography: Ekmel Ozbay was born on March 25, 1966 in Ankara, Turkey. He received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey in 1983. He received his M.S. and Ph. D. degrees from Stanford University in electrical engineering, in 1989 and 1992. From 1992-1993, he worked as a postdoctoral research associate in Stanford University. Between 1993 and 1995, he worked as a scientist in DOE Ames national laboratory in Iowa State University. He joined Bilkent University (Ankara, Turkey) in 1995, where he is currently a full professor in electrical and electronics engineering department and also in physics department. His research in Bilkent involves nanophotonics, nanoelectronics, metamaterials, MOCVD growth, plasmonics, and high speed optoelectronics. He is the recipient of the 1997 Adolph Lomb Medal of Optical Society of America and 2005 European Union Descartes Science award. He is also the recipient of 1995 Parlar Foundation young scientist, 1996 Tugac foundation technology development, 1997 TUBITAK young scientist, 1998 Sedat Simavi Foundation Science, and 2006 TUBITAK Science awards. He had worked as a topical editor of Optics Letters journal during 2002-2008. He became the editor of Photonics and Nanostructures journal in 2006. He has published 210 articles in SCI journals, and 250 international conference proceedings. His publications have received more than 4500 SCI citations. He has given more than 75 invited talks in international conferences.
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Abstract: Metamaterials exhibit various peculiar electromagnetic properties that are not found in nature. In this talk we will review the experimental and theoretical studies on left-handed metamaterials.
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Biosensing with Silicon-based Photonic Structures
Philippe M. Fauchet, University of Rochester, USA
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Biography: Dr. Fauchet received an engineering degree from Faculte Polytechnique de Mons in Belgium, an MS in Engineering from Brown University and in 1984 a Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Stanford University. After teaching at Stanford and Princeton universities, he moved to the University of Rochester in 1990. Presently, he is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He also holds appointments as Professor at the Institute of Optics, in the Departments of Physics and Biomedical Engineering and in the Materials Science program. Dr. Fauchet leads a large multidisciplinary research effort and is especially well known for his research in nanoscience and nanotechnology with silicon with application to photonics, biosensing, and energy. Ten years ago, he founded the Center for Future Health and presently he heads the University of Rochester's Energy Research Initiative. He and his students have authored nearly 400 publications. Among his awards, Dr. Fauchet received an IBM Faculty Development Award, an NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, and the Prix Guibal & Devillez for his work on porous silicon. He is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America, the American Physical Society, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. |
Abstract: The development of rapid, sensitive and easy-to-use biosensors for the detection of a wide range of pathogens continues to be of global importance in fighting disease and identifying biowarfare agents. This talk will start with a brief review of the desired specifications for biosensing systems and a comparison of the different biosensing modalities. I will then review the state of the art in optical biosensors and present recent progress with silicon-based photonic structures.
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