Program - Monday (5/19)

Monday, May 19th

Session M1 8:30-10:00am
Electro-Optics I

8:30-8:45am Opening ICONO10/ICOPE 2008
8:45-9:15am Systematic optimization of organic electro-optic materials and integration into silicon photonics
L. R. Dalton, Invited Speaker
9:15-9:45am Supramolecular photonics: Molecular self-assembly and controlled lattice hardening for electro-optic coefficients beyond 450pm/V
A. K. Y. Jen, Invited Speaker
9:45-10:00am Poling of dipolar chromophores in block copolymer domains
P. Gopalan, Contributed Talk
10:00-10:30am Break

Session M2 10:30-12:30pm
Structured and Guiding Media

10:30-11:00am Kinetic Monte Carlo study of diffraction grating recording/erasure in DNA-based azo-dye systems
A. Mitus, Invited Speaker
11:00-11:30am Carbon nanotube - polymer composites for photonic applications
W. J. Blau, Invited Speaker
11:30-12:00pm Photo patterning of fluorescent polymers
E. Kim, Invited Speaker
12:00-12:15pm What was that green visual sensation?
A. Knoesen, Contributed Talk
12:15-12:30pm Active polymer-based surface plasmon-polariton waveguides
W. Park, Contributed Talk
12:30-1:30pm Conference Lunch, Ballroom North

Session M3 1:30-3:30pm
Chiral/ Two Photon I

1:30-2:00pm Second harmonic generation-circular dichroism in thin films of chiral polythiophenes
V. Rodriguez, Invited Speaker
2:00-2:30pm Second harmonic generation in chiral materials
T. Verbiest, Invited Speaker
2:30-3:00pm Design, synthesis and characterization of efficient two-photon absorption chromophores/fluorophores and their uses in bioimaging
J.-F. Nicoud, Invited Speaker
3:00-3:15pm Structure-property relationship of two-photon absorption of multiply fused annulenes and the related compounds
K. Kamada, Contributed Talk
3:15-3:30pm Targeted two-photon photodynamic therapy for the noninvasive treatment of lung cancer: A new paradigm for outpatient cancer therapy
C. W. Spangler, Contributed Talk
3:30-4:00 Break

Session M4 4:00-5:30pm
Chi(3) and Nonlinear Absorption

4:00-4:30pm Structure-properties relationships for third-order nonlinear optics
S. R. Marder, Invited Speaker
4:30-5:00pm White light continuum z-scan for nonlinear optical spectroscopy
E. Van Stryland, Invited Speaker
5:00-5:30pm Using the dipole-free sum-over states expression to predict two-photon absorption spectra from hyper-Rayleigh scattering
M. G. Kuzyk, Invited Speaker


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