Topics and Themes will include:
Optical MEMS
- Adaptive and tunable optics
- Optical scanners, micromirrors, and microactuators
- Micro-optical systems for imaging, microscopy and display
- Optical micro- and nano-devices, tunable and fixed
- Bio-medical, bio-chemical, and other optical sensing devices
- Device fabrication technologies, modeling and characterization
- Optical materials and thin film materials
- Opto-mechanics, packaging and integration
- Telecommunications devices: Switches, filters, etc.
- Optical energy harvesting
- Opto-fluidic devices
Nanophotonics
- Nanoscale functional materials, plasmonics, and metamaterials
- Nanofabrication, characterization, modeling and simulation
- Nanophotonics for displays, optical storage, emission sources and detectors
- Nanoscale waveguide devices, nanowires, and nanoparticle-based photonic devices
- Nano-biophotonics
- Tunable nano-optical and nanophotonic devices
- Silicon photonics and photonic crystals
- Quantum optical and quantum dot devices.