Advance Program:
Conference Information:
Precise time and frequency generation/metrology is arguably one
of the most important technological developments of the past 50 years,
constituting the underpinnings of technologies of wide societal importance
in the areas of navigation, high-speed communications, and remote
tracking/sensing. While these technical areas have traditionally
been based in the microwave domain, recent developments have focused
on the expanding role and advantages that lasers and electro-optic
systems can bring to this field. In particular, the confluence of
ultrafast laser technology, nonlinear spectral broadening, high-speed
electro-optics, efficient frequency conversion, precise control of
optical frequencies, and the introduction of optical frequency combs
has provided unique new tools for generating, measuring and transmitting
precisely timed signals. An exciting, yet challenging, aspect of
this field of research is its breadth, with important developments
covering fundamental tests of physics, research on next-generation
atomic frequency standards, low-jitter laser sources, efficient and
low-noise opto-electronic conversion, technologies for wavelength
division multiplexing (WDM) and photonic synthesis and sampling techniques.
The Topical Meeting on Optical Frequency & Time Measurement
and Generation (OFTMAG) provides an international, interdisciplinary
forum for researchers working in the areas of frequency metrology,
ultrafast optics, nonlinear optics, and microwave photonics to interact
and disseminate the latest research results. The meeting scope is
intended to range from fundamental physics through device and technology
development to system applications.
Papers are solicited in the following areas:
- Fundamental physics and measurements related to optical frequency
sources,
- Enabling devices (mode-locked and frequency stabilised lasers,
EOM modulators, ultrafast detectors, high-Q filters, microstructured
optical devices, compact sources),
- Generation and measurement techniques (athermal WDM sources,
optical frequency combs, photonic synthesis and detection of
microwave to THz frequencies, accurate wavemeters, laser noise
characterization, super continua),
- Optical time and frequency standards and their applications
(ion, neutral atom, molecular based standards),
- Ultrafast technology using mode-locked systems and other precision
sources.
- High precision interferometry or LIDAR for terrestrial or space
applications.
- System-level requirements and applications (coarse, fine and
agile WDM, timing jitter requirements for optical communication
systems, optical sampling techniques, photonic analog-to-digital
and digital-to-analog conversion, accurate transfer of time over
optical fiber).
- Photonic generation of arbitrary and spectrally
pure optical and microwave signals.
