Multimedia presentations: Hot Topics and plenary talks from SPIE Photonics West 2015
Covering a variety of topics, these presentations by innovators in optics and photonics are a highlight of the symposium. In 2015, several Nobel Prize winners were featured.
Nobel Prize Speakers
The closest that the world of photonics has to rock stars played to a packed house at special plenary events featuring 2014 Nobel Prize winners in physics and chemistry.
Future and present technologies of solid state lighting
Shuji Nakamura
University of California Santa Barbara (USA)
Single molecules, cells, and super-resolution optics
Eric Betzig
Howard Hughes Medical Institute (USA)
Single-molecule spectroscopy, imaging, and photocontrol -- foundations for super-resolution microscopy
W.E. Moerner
Stanford University (USA)
Nobel acceptance highlights
Stefan Hell
Max Planck Institute Göttingen (Germany)
BiOs Hot Topics
The popular BiOS Hot Topics session at Photonics West 2015 drew a standing-room-only crowd eager to hear the latest news in biomedical optics and biophontonics in a series of brief talks.
Fluorescence-guided Resection of Intracranial Tumor
Hitchcock Clinic, Dartmouth Medical School (USA)
Photon-Phonon Synergy: Photoacoustic Tomography and Beyond
Washington University in St. Louis (USA)
Bridging Molecular and Cellular Biology with Optics
Gabriel Popescu
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA)
Endoscopic OCT
Brett Bouma
Wellman Center for Photomedicine (USA)
Nonlinear Microscopy
Peter So
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA)
Plenary sessions at Photonics West featured discussions on advances in optics and photonics technologies, such as solar energy, space-based optical communication, and nano/biophotonics.
Nano/Biophotonics
Simultaneous Imaging of Neural Activity in 3D
Rafael Yuste
Columbia University (USA)
OPTO
Tunable and Quantum Metaphotonics
Harry A. Atwater
DOE Light-Material Interactions Energy Frontier Research Ctr. (USA)
Silicon Integrated Nanophotonics: From Fundamental Science to Manufacturable Technology
Yurii A. Vlasov
IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Ctr. (USA)
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Ultrafast Coherent Charge Transfer in Solar Cells and Artificial Light Harvesting Systems -- Toward Movies of Electronic Motion
Christoph Lienau
University of Oldenburg (Germany)
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LASE
NASA's Optical Communications Program: 2015 and Beyond
Don Cornwell
NASA Headquarters, Space Communications and Navigation Program (USA)
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