CAOL 2016 Topics

• Physics of advanced and novel lasers

• Solid-state, liquid and gas lasers and applications

• Semiconductor lasers and nanotechnology

• Resonators, (micro)cavities and beam propagation

• THz generation, detection, guidance and control

• Laser chemistry and laser material processing and nanofabrication

• Nanophotonics, plasmonics, near field optics

• Metamaterials, optical invisibility, and transformation optics

• Nano-optoelectronics, nano-antennas, nano-sources and confined light emitters

• Laser medicine and biophotonics

• Ultrafast photonics

• Ultra-fast optical processes in molecules and solids

• Nonlinear optical materials and devices

• Nonlinear effects in active and passive optical devices and systems

• Nonlinear effects in plasmonics and nano-optics

• High-speed photonic links and optical communications

• PBG and photonic crystal devices

• Specialty fibers including structured one and fiber lasers

• Integrated and nonlinear waveguide photonics

• Liquid crystals for advanced optoelectronics and lasers

• Quantum information, quantum & optical computing, quantum entanglement

• Optical measurement and instrumentation

• Organic coherent/incoherent photonics

LFNM 2016 Topics

• Modeling/simulation and design of all kinds of lasers and LEDs

• Modeling and simulation in quantum optics

• Computational studies of optical phenomena at the micro- and nanoscales

• Theoretical and computational design of electromagnetic waveguiding and specialty photonic structures

• Modeling and simulation of laser-matter interaction at micro-and nanoscale

• Computational nonlinear fiber and integrated optics

• Computational studies of novel photonic materials and theoretical designs of photonic devices

• Simulation/modeling tools, methods, approaches

• Multiscale modeling/simulation in optoelectronics and photonics

• Theoretical and computational studies of photonic links, networks and systems

• Computational terahertz photonics and electronics

• Modeling and simulation in ultrafast optics

• Theory and computational physics of nanostructures