The International Symposium on Photonics and Optoelectronics (SOPO 2011) will be held from 16th to 18th, May in Wuhan, China. SOPO 2011 will bring together top researchers from Asian Pacific areas, North America, Europe and around the world to exchange research results and address open issues in all aspects of Photonics and Optoelectronics.
Topics: The conference is soliciting state-of-the-art research papers in the following areas of interest:

Laser Technology and Applications
Laser Physics and Nonlinear Optics
Gas Lasers and Applications
Solid State Lasers: Technology and Devices
Semiconductor lasers, tunable and multi-wavelength lasers
Laser Materials, Fabrication and Characterization
Laser material processing
Tera-hertz sources & detection
Tera-Hertz propagation

Image Processing
Image acquisition, reconstruction, restoration and fusion
Image transformations: wavelet theory, space theory, geometrical transforms and restoration
Image analysis: motion estimation, segmentation, object tracking and pattern recognition
Visualization: 3D visualization, holography and display systems
Image information management: coding, cryptography, watermarking, storage and retrieval, resolution enhancement
Medical imaging, surveillance, security, remote sensing and multimedia
Systems or devices for optical and digital image processing.

Optical Communications
Optical fiber communication
Free-space optical communication
Optical communication networks
Optical transport network
Coding and signal processing
Modulating retro-reflector
Intensity modulation
Optical wireless
Optical carrier

Optoelectronic Devices and Integration
Optical sensors and applications
Fiber-optic sensor and networks
White LED and related technologies
High performance semiconductor optical amplifiers
Advanced optoelectronics device fabrication technologies
Nonlinear optical devices and all-optical signal processing
Electro-optic modulators and related advanced modulation format technologies
Advanced radio-over-fiber devices and related technologies
Intelligent optoelectronic devices and optical switching
Grating-based devices and related technologies
Nano technologies and their application in optoelectronics devices
Slow and fast light devices and related technologies
Free-space communications related devices and technologies
New optoelectronic device materials and processing

Medical and Biological Applications
Biomedical optics
Laser medical diagnostics and therapeutics
Optical coherence tomography
Advanced biological microscopy
Photochemistry and photobiology
Laser tissue interactions and laser surgery
Minimally invasive optical diagnostics
Photo-acoustic techniques
Optics in biotechnology
Optical-system engineering for medicine