Frontiers in Optics 2008 Laser Science XXV 2008 FiO/LS Wrap­Up FiO/LS 2008 was one of the strongest in recent history. This year’s event, led by co‐chairs Lukas Novotny of the University of Rochester and Karl Koch of Corning, again brought together the industry leaders who have shaped the field with those who will oversee the breakthroughs of tomorrow. Conference highlights included several special events, with symposia honoring Arthur Schawlow and Charles Townes for their monumental paper 50 years ago, NASA’s 50th Anniversary and Howard Schlossberg of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. The Plenary and Awards Session was FiO’s most highly attended event, and included keynote presentations from Nobel Laureate John Mather, Prof. Anton Zeilinger and award winners Peter Knight and James Bergquist. In addition to these special events, industry leader Emil Wolf gave his 50th consecutive presentation at an OSA Annual Meeting, a milestone that recalled many of the successes of his prestigious career. The technical conference included 829 paper presentations on hot topics in optics such as 3‐D virtual reality on mobile devices, new optics for improved solar power generators, a new optical method using algae to convert sunlight into biofuel and a new non‐invasive tool for brain surgeons. Several Nobel Laureates were in attendance to present research and give remarks, including Nicolas Bloombergen, Steven Chu and Charles Townes, among others. Conference events drew a record 2,100 attendees and more than 100 exhibitors, while many sessions were standing‐room only. Next year’s event is certain to build on this year’s success! 2008 Frontiers in Optics Chairs Karl Koch, Corning Inc., USA Lukas Novotny, Univ. of Rochester, USA Laser Science XXIV Chairs John Kitching, NIST, USA Lewis Rothberg, Univ. of Rochester, USA Corporate Sponsors Coldquanta Corning Incorporated JK Consulting Optikos Swamp Optics Sydor Optics Thorlabs Grants Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) About Annual Join your colleagues in Rochester, New York, USA, for the Frontiers in Optics 2008/Laser Science (LS) XXIV conference uniting the entire optics community. These meetings focus on timely topics in optical science and engineering and provide a place for members to exchange ideas and to expand their network of colleagues in both academia and industry. FiO/LS Pre­Conference Schedule Call for Papers Submission Site Opens for FiO/LS February 14, 2008 2008 May 27, 2008, 12:00 p.m. noon EDT FiO/LS Papers Submission Deadline (16.00 GMT) June 2008 Registration and Housing Open Authors of submitted papers are notified of July 2008 acceptance/rejection August 2008 FiO/LS 2008 Conference Program Available Online October 3, 2008 Postdeadline Paper Submission Deadline Authors of postdealine papers are notified of October 14, 2008 acceptance/rejection September 17, 2008 Housing Deadline September 25, 2008 Pre‐Registration Deadline FiO/LS held at the Rochester Riverside Convention October 19‐23, 2008 Center The Optical Society of America (OSA) FiO 2008—the 92nd OSA Annual Meeting—and LS XXIV unite the OSA and American Physical Society (APS) communities for five days of quality, cutting‐edge presentations, fascinating invited speakers and a variety of special events. The FiO 2008 conference will also offer a number of Short Courses designed to increase participants’ knowledge of a specific subject while offering the experience of insightful teachers. An exhibit floor featuring leading optics companies will further enhance the meeting. The APS Division of Laser Science (DLS) The LS XXIV meeting serves as the American Physical Society’s (APS’s) annual meeting of its Division of Laser Science (DLS) and provides an important forum for presenting the latest work on laser applications and development, spanning a broad range of topics in physics, biology and chemistry. In collaboration with our colleagues at OSA, DLS will provide thorough coverage of mutually interesting topics in a number of joint sessions. Session schedules are coordinated to encourage your intellectual wanderings among DLS, OSA and joint sessions. Be prepared to engage in outstanding technical programs, exciting special symposia and networking events scheduled for this year's annual meeting. Future Dates Year Dates Location 2009 October 11–15 San Jose, CA 2010 October 24–28 Rochester, NY 2011 October 16‐20 San Jose, CA 2012 October 14–18 Rochester, NY FiO/LS Committees Frontiers in Optics Chairs Karl W. Koch, Corning Inc., USA, Conference Co­Chair Lukas Novotny, Univ. of Rochester, USA, Conference Co­Chair Laser Science XXIV Chairs John Kitching, NIST, USA, Conference Co­Chair Lewis Rothberg, Univ. of Rochester, USA, Conference Co­Chair FiO 1: Optical Design and Instrumentation R. John Koshel, Photon Engineering LLC, USA, and College of Optical Sciences, Univ. of Arizona, USA, Co‐Chair Scott A. Lerner, Hewlett­Packard, USA, Co‐Chair Lahsen Assoufid, Argonne National Lab, USA Pablo Benitez, Univ. Politecnica de Madrid, Spain Peter N. Blake, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr., USA Thomas G. Brown, Univ. of Rochester, USA Bruce Dean, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr., USA Anurag Gupta, Optical Res. Associates, USA Alan Kost, Univ. of Arizona, USA Linda Lingg, MLD Technologies, LLC, USA Erik L. Novak, Veeco Instruments Inc., USA Jannick Rolland, Univ. of Central Florida, USA Regina Soufli, Lawrence Livermore Natl. Lab, USA FiO 2: Optical Sciences Barry C. Walker, Univ. of Delaware, USA, Chair Andrea Cavalleri, Univ. of Oxford, UK David H. Reitze, Univ. of Florida, USA Martin Richardson, CREOL, College of Optics and Photonics, Univ. of Central Florida, USA Scott T. Sanders, Univ. of Wisconsin­Madison, USA Azer Yalin, Colorado State Univ., USA Koichi Yamakawa, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Japan FiO 3: Optics in Biology and Medicine Urs Utzinger, Univ. of Arizona, USA, Co‐Chair Chris Schaffer, Cornell Univ., USA, Co‐Chair Joseph P. Culver, Washington Univ. in St. Louis, USA Hamid Dehghani, Dartmouth College, UK Andrew K. Dunn, Univ. of Texas at Austin, USA Seonkyung Lee, Physical Sciences Inc., USA Carlos López‐Mariscal, NIST, USA Adam Wax, Duke Univ., USA FiO 4: Optics in Information Science David Plant, McGill Univ., Canada, Chair Alyssa Apsel, Cornell Univ., USA George Barbastathis, MIT, USA Uriel Levy, Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem, Israel Mark Lucente, Zebra Imaging Inc., USA Dan M. Marom, Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem, Israel Markus Testorf, Dartmouth College, USA FiO 5: Photonics Inuk Kang, Bell Labs, Alcatel­Lucent, USA, Co‐Chair Juerg Leuthold, Univ. of Karlsruhe, Germany, Co‐Chair Ozdal Boyraz, Univ. of California at Irvine, USA Mihaela Dinu, Bell Labs, Alcatel­Lucent, USA Guifang Li, Univ. of Central Florida, USA Xiang Liu, Alcatel­Lucent, USA Paul Morton, Morton Photonics, USA Stanley Pau, Univ. of Arizona, USA Mark Shtaif, Tel Aviv Univ. and Aelis Photonics, Israel Chris Xu, Cornell Univ., USA FiO 6: Quantum Electronics Colin J. McKinstrie, Bell Labs, Alcatel­Lucent, USA, Chair Hui Cao, Yale Univ., USA Jason W. Fleischer, Princeton Univ., USA Johan Nilsson, Univ. of Southampton, UK Gennady Shvets, Univ. of Texas at Austin, USA Michael Vasilyev, Univ. of Texas at Arlington, USA Andrew White, Univ. of Queensland, Australia Nikolay Zheludev, Univ. of Southampton, USA FiO 7: Vision and Color Joseph J. Carroll, Medical College of Wisconsin, USA, Chair Lawrence Gregory Appelbaum, Smith­Kettlewell Eye Res. Inst., USA John L. Barbur, City Univ., UK Melanie C. W. Campbell, Univ. of Waterloo., Canada Matteo Carandini, Smith­Kettlewell Eye Res. Inst., USA Bill Geisler, Univ. of Texas, USA Kathy Mullen, McGill Univ., Canada Jay Neitz, Medical College of Wisconsin, USA Alex R. Wade, Smith Kettlewell Eye Res. Inst., USA Carol Westall, The Hospital for Sick Children, Canada FiO 2008 Symposia Organizers David Atchison, Queensland Univ. of Technology, Australia Peter Blake, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr., USA Thomas G. Brown, Univ. of Rochester, USA Robert Boyd, Univ. of Rochester, USA Melanie C. W. Campbell, Univ. of Waterloo, Canada Mark Clampin, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr., USA Bruce Dean, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr., USA Michael Duncan, NRL, USA Jay M. Enoch, Univ. of California at Berkeley, USA Bob Guenther, Duke Univ., USA Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan, Univ. of Waterloo,Canada Svetlana Lukishova, Univ. of Rochester, USA Martin Richardson, CREOL, College of Optics and Photonics, Univ. of Central Florida, USA Harley A. Thronson, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr.,USA Taco D. Visser, Vrije Univ., Netherlands Pieter Walraven, Emeritus TNO Human Factors, Soesterberg, Netherlands FiO 2008 Ad Hoc Committee Per Adamson, Univ. of Rochester, USA Miguel Alonso, Univ. of Rochester, USA Andrew Berger, Univ. of Rochester, USA Doug Goodman, Univ. of Rochester, USA Jonathan Marangos, Imperial College London, UK Alexis Spilman, Bausch & Lomb, USA Rosalind Wynne, Villanova Univ., USA APS Division of Laser Science Executive Committee Executive Committee Officers Mark A. Johnson, Yale Univ., USA, Chair Nick Bigelow, Univ. of Rochester, USA, Chair‐Elect Warren S. Warren, Duke University, USA, Vice Chair Leo W. Hollberg, NIST, USA, Past Chair John T. Fourkas, Univ. of Maryland, USA, Secretary­Treasurer Jenny Magnes, US Military Acad., USA, Newsletter Editor Steven Rolston, Univ. of Maryland, USA, Divisional APS Councilor Executive Committee Members­at­Large Steven Thomas Cundiff, Univ. of Colorado, USA Anne Myers Kelley, Univ. of California at Merced, USA Kurt Gibble, Pennsylvania State