The IEEE Photonics Society's Summer Topicals Meeting series covers emerging topics in photonics science, technology and applications. The conference is unique in that the topics are chosen by members of the IEEE Photonics Society; the annual Summer Topical series provides an opportunity for photonics professionals to interact with leading researchers in an intimate conference environment. This year's conference will be held 14–16 July 2014 at the Delta Montreal Hotel in downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
"The 2014 Summer Topicals Meeting Series spans a broad range of five emerging photonics technologies and research areas," says conference general chair Weidong Zhou of the Nanophotonics Lab, University of Texas at Arlington. "These topics include novel materials and devices, integrated photonics, and systems related to the conference theme of Functional Material Integration & Optical Systems."
The five topics include:
1. Functional Meta- and Two-Dimensional Materials (FMTM), covering the latest interdisciplinary and synergistic advances in photonic metamaterials with a focus on functional structures and device configurations; as well as graphene and other two-dimensional materials and their potential applications in photonics. Three sessions include:
--Artificial hyperbolic materials and applications
--Plasmons in graphene and metal-free materials
--Two-dimensional materials and their heterostructures for nanophotonics
2. Nanowire Materials and Integrated Photonics (NWIP), covering all aspects of nanowire technology for application into communications, solid-state lighting, flexible displays, and alternative energy. Ranging from materials and devices to the heterogenous integration of photonics, the four sessions include:
--Scaled-up manufacturing of nanowire devices
--Nanowire LEDs for lighting and display applications
--Nanowire lasers
--Nanowire devices for solar energy harvesting
3. Midwave Infrared Integrated Photonics (MWIP), covering integrated photonics technologies, optical physics and emerging applications in midwave-IR photonics. The meeting will bring together optical physicists and photonic application experts to chart the roadmap for mid-wave IR photonics fundamental physics and device technologies related to the generation, transmission, manipulation, and detection of mid-IR light on integrated planar platforms.
4. Nonlinear Optical Signal Processing (NOSP), covering all-optical processing of high-speed signals for advanced communications, computing, and military applications, as well as advances in nanophotonic platforms employing both traditional (nonlinear fiber or SOAs) and emerging (silicon nitride, chalcogenide, or plasmonic waveguide) materials.
5. Space Division Multiplexing Technologies for High Capacity Transmission (SDMT), covering SDM technologies from devices to system integration that offer the potential to increase the efficiency of fiber-transport infrastructures beyond the deployment of parallel systems, including new types of coupled and uncoupled multicore fibers, solid-core and photonic-bandgap fibers; as well as efficient amplifiers and wavelength-selective switches optimized for SDM. This session is cosponsored by the Technical Committee on Extremely Advanced Optical Transmission Technologies (EXAT), Institute of Electronics, Information & Communication Engineers (Japan).
Student travel grant sponsored by National Science Foundation
As part of their initiative to advance the inclusion of graduate students in technical conferences and the advancement of scientific research, the National Sciences Foundation IEEE Photonics Society is sponsoring a select number of graduate students to participate in the IEEE Photonics Society Summer Topicals meeting. Consideration is given to the quality of the research project, the synergy between the student's research and the selected topics, student diversity and the impact of the student's research, education and training. Submissions are limited to one student per advisor.
Complete details of the Summer Topicals Meeting program and the Student Travel Grant are available at http://www.sum-ieee.org/topics.
Accepted papers will be published on the IEEE Xplore digital library shortly after the conference, providing worldwide exposure for all authors.
For registration and other information about the 2014 IEEE Summer Topicals Meeting Series, visit: http://www.sum-ieee.org/ or contact:
Ingrid Donnelly, CMP
Senior Conference Planner
IEEE Photonics Society (formerly LEOS)
445 Hoes Lane
Piscataway, NJ 08854
Tel: +1 732.562.5597
[email protected]