CAOL 2010 TOPICS

* Physics of advanced and novel lasers
* Solid-state, liquid and gas lasers and applications
* Semiconductor lasers
* Laser resonators and beam propagation
* THz generation, detection, guidance and control
* Laser biomedicine and chemistry
* Nanophotonics, plasmonics, near field optics
* Metamaterials, optical invisibility, and transformation optics
* Silicon nano-photonics: nano-optoelectronics, nano-antenns, nanosources and confined light emitters
* Nonlinear optic materials and devices
* High-speed optics and photonic links
* PBG and photonic crystal devices
* Structured fibers and fiber lasers
* Optical communications. Integrated and nonlinear waveguide photonics
* Liquid crystals in optics and photonics
* Quantum information
* Optical measurement and instrumentation
* Organic coherent optics and bio-photonics