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Table of Contents Table of Contents Schedule at a Glance ....................................... 2 Special Symposia Townes Symposium: Reminiscences – Scientific and Personal . 15 FiO/LS Chairs’ Welcome Letters .............................. 3 International Year of Light – Science to Solutions . 15 General Information ........................................ 5 Symposium on Photoreceptor Analysis and Single-cone-mediated Vision ............................................... 16 Conference Services . 5 Laser Science Symposium on Undergraduate Research . 16 First Aid and Emergency Information . 6 Symposium on Optics for Global Health and Low Resource Sponsoring Society Booths . 6 Settings . 17 Stay Connected Symposium Honoring Adolf Lohmann...................... 17 Conference Materials.................................... 7 Symposium on Optical Remote Sensing for the Climate . 17 FiO/LS Mobile App . 8 Symposium on Applications of Low Noise Frequency Combs . 18 Conference Plenary Session and Awards Ceremony Special Events . 19 Plenary Presentations.................................... 9 APS Arthur L. Schawlow Prize and Lecture . 10 Exhibition Information ..................................... 23 Frederic Ives Medal /Jarus W. Quinn Prize Presentation FiO/LS Committees . 24 and Lecture . 10 OSA Awards and Honors ................................. 11 Explanation of Session Codes ............................... 25 Awards and Special Recognitions FiO/LS Agenda of Sessions ................................. 26 OSA Foundation Boris P. Stoicheff Memorial Scholarship........ 13 OSA Foundation Emil Wolf Outstanding Student Paper FiO/LS Abstracts . 34 Competition........................................... 13 FiO/LS Subject Index ...................................... 116 OSA Foundation Incubic/Milton Chang Travel Grant . 13 OSA Foundation Jean Bennett Memorial Student Travel Grant . 13 Key to Authors and Presiders ............................... 125 OSA FoundationStudent Travel Grants . 13 OSA Foundation Robert S. Hilbert Memorial Student Travel Grant 14 Carl E. Anderson Award for Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation . 14 Program updates and changes may be found on the Conference Program Update Sheet distributed in the registration bags. FiO/LS 2015 • 18–22 October 2015 1 Conference Schedule-at-a-Glance Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday 18 October 19 October 20 October 21 October 22 October GENERAL & EXHIBITS Registration 12:00–18:30 07:00 –18:00 07:00–18:00 07:00–18:00 07:30–17:30 Speaker Ready Room 12:00–18:00 07:00–18:00 07:00–18:00 07:00–18:00 07:30–15:30 Coffee Breaks 10:00–10:30 09:30–10:00 09:30–10:00 10:00–10:30 15:30–16:00 14:30–15:00 15:30–16:00 15:00–15:30 Exhibition 09:30–16:00 09:30–14:00 Unopposed Exhibition-only Times 09:30–10:30 09:30–11:00 12:00–13:00 12:30–13:30 14:30–16:00 PROGRAMMING Townes Memorial Symposium: Reminiscences – Scientific and Personal 16:30–18:30 FiO/LS Technical Sessions 08:00–15:30 10:30–18:00 11:00–18:00 08:00–17:30 Symposium on Photoreceptor Analysis and Single-cone-mediated Vision 08:00–10:00 Laser Science Symposium on Undergraduate Research 10:00 - 16:00 Symposium on Optics for Global Health and Low Resource Settings 13:30–15:30 IYL – Science to Solutions 16:00–18:00 Joint FiO/LS Plenary & Awards Sessions 08:00–09:30 08:00–09:30 Joint FiO/LS Poster Sessions 14:30–16:00 09:30–11:00 Symposium Honoring Adolf Lohmann 11:00–18:15 Symposium on Optical Remote Sensing for the Climate 13:30–15:00 FiO Postdeadline Paper Sessions 20:00–22:00 Symposium on Applications of Low Noise Frequency Combs 13:00–17:30 SPECIAL EVENTS OSA Student Chapter Leadership Meeting (Invitation only) 07:00–17:00 Townes Memorial Reception (sponsored by Thorlabs) 18:30–20:00 OSA Student Member Reception 19:00–22:00 Frontiers in Photonic Detection Panel Discussion 12:00–13:30 Nonlinear Optics Technical Group Workshop 12:00–13:30 OSA Fellow Members Lunch (invitation only) 12:00–13:30 Meet OSA’s Journal Editors 18:00–19:00 OSA Microscopy and Optical Coherence Tomography Technical Group Poster Session 18:00–19:00 International Year of Light/OSA President’s Reception 18:30–20:30 Optical Material Studies Technical Group 12:00–13:30 Better than Fakin’ it Good: Multifunctional Bioreplication 12:00–13:30 OSA Student Chapter Competition 14:30–16:00 Minorities and Women in OSA (MWOSA) Networking Reception 16:00–17:00 Exhibitor Appreciation Reception (Sponsored by OSA Industry Development Association) 16:00–17:00 OSA Annual Business Meeting 17:00–17:45 DLS Annual Business Meeting 17:00–18:00 OSA Member Reception 18:30–20:30 Laser Science Banquet 19:00–22:00 VIP Industry Leaders Networking Event 12:30–14:00 Meet the Editors of the APS Journals 13:00–14:30 OSA Science Educators’ Day 17:00–20:00 Optical Fabrication and Testing Technical Group Networking Event 18:00–20:00 OIDA Town Hall Forum on Biophotonics Challenges and Opportunities 18:00–20:00 Note: Dates and Times are subject to change. All times reflect Pacific time zone. 2 FiO/LS 2015 • 18–22 October 2015 Welcome to Frontiers in Optics 2015 Welcome to San Jose, California—one of the premier centers of optics and photonics research • FiO is pleased to announce the 7th annual Emil Wolf Outstanding Student Paper in the USA. We are pleased that you have chosen to join us for the 2015 Frontiers in Optics Competition. One award winner will be selected from each of the seven FiO sub- (FiO) conference, the 99th Annual Meeting of The Optical Society. committees. Selections will be made based on the quality of the submitted technical This year’s conference encompasses the breadth of optical science and engineering and summary and presentation. Winners will be announced at the end of the conference provides an atmosphere that fosters the exchange of information between those work- and in the next issue of Optics & Photonics News (OPN). ing on fundamental research and those looking for solutions to engineering problems. On • Tuesday and Wednesday, while you are enjoying the poster sessions and the coffee behalf of the FiO Subcommittee Chairs, we would like to thank our colleagues from the breaks in the Exhibit Hall and/or taking breaks from the presentations, please see Division of Laser Science (DLS) of the American Physical Society (APS) for assisting in cultivat- the latest in scientific and optical instrumentation and information that our exhibitors ing joint topics and sessions that will greatly enhance the experience of the attendees at have on display! FiO 2015. • Science Educators’ Day will be held on Wednesday, 22 October, from 17:00–20:00, The technical program features over 700 invited, contributed oral and poster presentations in the Regency Ballroom I. Hosted by The Optical Society, Science Educator’s Day by celebrated members of the community describing some of the most exciting advances (EDAY) provides middle and high school science teachers with a wide variety of in their fields. Special symposia and other major events further highlight major advances in optics-focused lesson plans and classroom demonstration guides. EDAY attendees many selected areas. receive materials that can be used in middle and high school classrooms. Joss Bland-Hawthorne, University of Sydney, Australia, the FiO plenary speaker, will We welcome you to FiO 2015 and encourage you to take full advantage of the benefits of speak on Astrophotonics: Future Developments in Astrophysics and Instrumentation at this year’s social and networking opportunities, technical sessions, corporate programming, the Wednesday Plenary Session. James G. Fujimoto, MIT, USA, winner of the OSA 2015 poster sessions and exhibition! Frederic Ives Medal/Jarus W. Quinn Prize, will also give an address at the Tuesday Plenary session. They will be joined by the LS plenary speaker David Reitze and the recipient of the APS 2015 Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science, Christopher Monroe. FiO is pleased to feature several special symposia – The Townes Symposium: Reminiscences – Scientific and Personal (Sunday, 18 October, 16:30–18:30); the Symposium on Photore- ceptor Analysis and Single-cone-mediated Vision (Monday, 19 October, 08:00–10:00); the Symposium on Optics for Global Health and Low Resource Settings (Monday, 19 October, 13:30–15:00); the Symposium on Optical Remote Sensing for the Climate (Wednesday, 21 October, 13;30–15:30); and the Symposium Honoring Adolf Lohmann (Wednesday, 21 October, 11:00–18:15); the Symposium on Applications of Low Noise Frequency Combs (Thursday, 22 October, 13:00–17:30). Details about all the symposia are David Hagan Nikola Alic listed on the Symposia pages of this program. General Chair General Chair Univ. of Central Florida, CREOL, USA This year’s meeting is filled with many informational and networking events. Some of the Univ. of California at San Diego, USA highlights of FiO 2015 include the following: • The Townes Memorial Symposium will be immediately followed by a reception on Sunday, 19 October, from 18:30–20:00. • OSA Students will be welcomed at the OSA Student Member reception on Sunday, 19 October from 19:00–22:00. • The International Year of Light – Science to Solutions Special Session will be held on Monday, 19 October, 16:00–18:00 followed by the International Year of Light/OSA Presidents Reception from 18:30–20:30. • If you are an OSA member, be sure to join us at the OSA Member Reception on Tuesday, 20 October, from 18:30–20:30. Nozomi Nishimura Ronald Reano Program Chair Program Chair • Late-breaking advances in optics will be presented on Wednesday, 21 October, in Cornell Univ., USA Ohio State Univ., USA the FiO Postdeadline Paper Sessions, running from 20:00–22:00. FiO/LS 2015 • 18–22 October 2015 3 Welcome to Laser Science 2015 The leadership of the Division of Laser Science (DLS) of the American Physical The technical sessions for the Laser Science meeting are organized around several Society (APS) is pleased to welcome you to our 31st annual meeting, Laser Science broad themes: Accelerating Beams in Optics and Beyond; Innovative Metallic- (LS) 2015, in San Jose, California, 18–22 October 2015.
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