PECS-VII:  International Symposium on Photonic and Electromagnetic Crystal Structures

Conference Program

April 8-11, 2007

Portola Plaza Hotel

Monterey, California, U.S.A.

All sessions will be held in the Monterey Conference Center, next to the Portola Plaza Hotel, in the Steinbeck Forum.  The Invited Talks will have 25 minutes for presentation and 5 minutes for discussion.  The Contributed Talks will have 10 minutes for presentation and 5 minutes for discussion.  The Poster Sessions will be displayed in the De Anza III in the Portola Plaza Hotel.  We will present awards for the best three posters during the conference dinner, Tuesday, April 10.

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Sunday, April 8, 2007

1:00-4:30 p.m.	Early Registration
5:00-6:00 p.m.	Dinner
6:00-8:00 p.m.	Early Registration
8:00-10:00 p.m.	Conference Reception

Monday, April 9, 2007

7:30	Registration
8:15	Welcome—David Smith & Costas Soukoulis

Morning Session—Chair: Costas M. Soukoulis

8:30	Invited: Sajeev John, University of Toronto	Photonic band gap materials:  Engineering light-matter interactions
9:00	Invited: Thomas Krauss, University of St. Andrews	Slow light in photonic crystal waveguides:  Loss and dispersion issues
9:30	Invited: Masaya Notomi, NTT Basic Research Laboratories	All-optical control of light in ultrahigh-Q photonic crystal cavities
10:00	Contributed: Yoshinori Kitagawa, University of Tsukuba	High-transmission recovery in slow-light-range in photonic crystal waveguide using hetero group-velocity

10:15                 Coffee Break

Morning Session—Chair: Philip Russell

10:45	Invited: Eli Yablonovitch, University of California–Los Angeles	The design of components for silicon integrated nano-photonics
11:15	Invited: Toshihiko Baba, Yokohama National University	Progress of photonic crystal slab devices
11:45	Invited: Evelyn Hu, University of California–Santa Barbara	Quantum Dots in Photonic Crystal Cavities: Tuning, 'Self-Tuning' and Strong Coupling

12:15                 Lunch

Afternoon Session—Chair: Jean Pol Vigneron

1:30	Invited: Susumu Noda, Kyoto University	Recent progreess in semiconductor photonic crystals—Ultrahigh-Q nanocavities and 2d band-edge lasers
2:00	Invited: L. (Kobus) Kuipers, FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics	Ultrafast dynamics in nanophotonic structures tracked in real space and in k-space
2:30	Invited: Martin Kamp, Universit t Wüt Würzburg	Group delay measurements of photonic crystal cavities
2:45	Contributed: Antonio Badolato, Institute of Quantum Electronics	Sustaining mechanism of photonic crystal cavity modes coupled to single quantum dots

3:00                 Short Break

Afternoon Session—Chair: Sajeev John

3:15	Contributed: Kurt Busch, Universit t Kat Karlsruhe	Efficient modeling of photonic nanostructures using Krylov-subspace methods
3:30	Contributed: Kazuaki Sakoda, National Institute for Materials Science	Superfluorescence in photonic crystals studied by first-principle calculation
3:45	Invited: Henri Benisty, Centre Scientifique Polytechnique	Fine mechanisms in photonic crystal multimode waveguide demux
4:15	Invited: Shi-Ning Zhu, Nanjing University	Engineering ferroelectric domain for nonlinear photonics
4:45	Invited: Shanhui Fan, Stanford University	Strong correlated multi-photon transport in photonic crystal waveguide coupled to a two-level system

5:15                 Dinner

8:00-10:00   Poster Session A—De Anza III, Portola Plaza Hotel

Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Morning Session—Chair: Eli Yablonovitch

8:30	Plenary Talk: Philip Russell, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg	Recent developments in photonic crystal fibres (PCFs)
9:15	Invited: Ben Eggleton, University of Sydney	All-optical control in chalcogenide microphotonic devices
9:45	Contributed: Ali Adibi, Georgia Institute of Technology	Compact integrated optical demultiplexers and spectrometers enabled by dispersion engineering in photonic crystals
10:00	Contributed: Ralf Wehrspohn, Fraunhofer-Institut für Werkstoffmechanik	Miniature infrared gas sensors using photonic crystals

10:15                 Coffee Break

Morning Session—Chair: Cefe Lopéz

10:45	Contributed: Paul Braun, University of Illinois	Fabrication and characterization of embedded defects in silicon colloidal photonic crystals
11:00	Contributed: Hern‡n Miguez, Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Sevilla	Full processing of colloidal photonic crystals by spin-coating
11:15	Contributed: Jean Pol Vigneron, Facult s Uns Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix	Reversible natural reflectance switching mechanisms in Panamean Tortoise beetles
11:30	Contributed: Ihab El-Kady, Sandia National Laboratories	Modeling of micromachined acoustic bandgap structures and devices
11:45	Contributed: Ganish Subramania, Sandia National Laboratories	Omnidirectional photonic crystals for visible light control
12:00	Contributed: Ying Wu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Effective medium theory for elastic composites:  Beyond the quasi-static limit

12:15                 Lunch

Afternoon Session—Chair: David R. Smith

   

1:30	Invited: John Pendry, Imperial College	Cloaking static magnetic fields
2:00	Invited: Stefan Linden, Instit t füt für Nanotechnologie	Photonic metamaterials:  Artificial magnetism, negative refractive index, and circular dichroism at optical frequencies
2:30	Invited: Gennady Shvets, The University of Texas—Austin	Guiding, focusing, and sensing on the sub-wavelength scale using metallic wire arrays

3:00                 Short Break

Afternoon Session—Chair: Ekmel Ozbay

3:15	Invited: Francisco Garcia-Vidal, Universidad Aut—noma de Madrid	Guiding and focusing light at THz frequencies by using a plasmonic metawire
3:45	Contributed: Peter Catrysse, Stanford University	Strong interplay between transmission pathways in subwavelength hole arrays in phonon-polaritonic thin films
4:00	Contributed: Virginie Lousse, Namur University	Conditions for designing single-mode air-core waveguides in three-dimensional photonic crystals
4:15	Contributed: Zhi-Chao Ruan, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)S	Some applications of designed surface plasmons in periodically structured metal surface
4:30	Contributed: Ting Shan Luk, Sandia National Laboratories	Direct density-of-states measurements of 3D photonic crystals
4:45	Contributed: Marian Florescu, California Institute of Technology	Thermal radiation in photonic crystals

5:00-7:00     Poster Session B—De Anza III, Portola Plaza Hotel

7:15                  Conference Dinner

Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Morning Session—Chair: Che T. Chan

8:30	Invited: Ekmel Ozbay, Bilkent University	Negative refraction and subwavelength focusing using left-handed composite metamaterials
9:00	Contributed: Ross McPhedran, University of Sydney	Electromagnetic cloaking through plasmonic resonance
9:15	Contributed: Wenshan Cai, Birck Nanotechnology Center	Optical metamaterials: From rainbow magnetism to negative-index and cloaking
9:30	Contributed: Willie Padilla, Boston College	Terahertz frequency metamaterial devices
9:45	Contributed: Steven Morrison, Australian National University	Nonlinear Tamm states in photonoic crystals
10:00	Contributed: Hiroyuki Takeda, University of Toronto	Localized light orbitals: Basis states for photonic crystal microcircuits

10:15                 Coffee Break

Morning Session—Chair: Stefan Linden

10:45	Invited: Oliver Martin, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne	Engineering field enhancement and radiative decay in plasmonic antennas
11:15	Contributed: Alexandru Cabuz, University of Montpellier II	Just how homogeneous are negative index composites?
11:30	Contributed: Silviai Vignolini, LENS and INFM-Matis	Rewritable light sources in a photonic crystal cavity
11:45	Invited: David Smith, Duke University	Electromagnetic Wave Cloaking with Metamaterials

12:15                 Concluding Remarks