16th Photonics North Conference 2014

Plenary speakers include: Demetrios Christodoulides, CREOL, USA Title: “Physics and Applications of Airy Beams and other Optical Accelerating Waves”; Alfred Leitenstorfer, Konstanz (GE) Title: “Broadband Terahertz Technology and Ultrafast Quantum Phenomena in Condensed Matter”; Steve MacLean, INRS-EMT, Canada Title: “Space and Photonics”; David Plant, McGill University, Canada Title: “The Converging Requirements and Commensurate Leveraging Opportunities of Long-Haul and Short Reach Fiber Optic Communications”; Mordechai Segev, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel Title: “Structure-based subwavelength imaging, and super-resolution in time, frequency, and quantum systems”; and Alain Villeneuve, Genia Photonics, Canada Title: “The benefits of Genia-university collaborations on the development of Genia’s CARS and mid-IR swept-laser baser spectroscopy and imaging system".

Topics to be covered will include: Green photonics, energy, and related technologies; Optical communications; Optoelectronics and integrated optics; Photonic materials; Nonlinear optics, nanophotonics and quantum optics; Photonic sensors and biomedical optics; Photonic commercialization; Photonic theory design and simulations; Plasmonic, hybrid plasmonics, and artificial media; High Power Laser technology, ultrafast optics and applications.