Photonic Materials & Devices

Symposium Chair

Loucas Tsakalakos
Senior Engineering Manager, Space & Sensors Division
L3Harris Technologies, Inc.

Marina S. Leite
Professor
University of California, Davis

Key Speakers

Glass Light Guide Plate with Lenticular and Lenticular Extraction Features
Mandakini Kanungo
Senior Research Scientist, Corning, Inc.

Photonics with single solid-state quantum emitters
Marcelo Davanco
Research Scientist, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Controlling light with plasmonic materials
Jake Fontana
Scientist, Naval Research Laboratory

This symposium is focused on novel photonic technologies and materials, and their use in the commercial space for various advanced applications. The symposium highlights industrial applications of photonics as well as emerging technologies within the research community that are poised to make the transition from the lab to applications. The event connects scientist and engineers around the country and world working in photonics or adjacent technologies for possible collaboration.

Back to Top ↑ 2021 Symposium Sessions
	Monday October 18
1:30	Photonics Devices
	Tuesday October 19
8:30	Advanced Materials Track Keynotes
1:30	Photonics Applications
	Wednesday October 20
8:30	Quantum Track Keynote

2021 Symposium Program
	Monday October 18

1:30	Photonics Devices	Baltimore 2
	Session chair: Loucas Tsakalakos, L3Harris Technologies, Inc.
1:30	Photonics with single solid-state quantum emitters M. Davanco, National Institute of Standards and Technology, US
1:55	Optically Induced Circular Currents and Giant Inverse Faraday Effect in 2D Electron Liquid for Tunable Absorption of THz radiation S.O. Potashin, V. Yu. Kachorovskii, M.S. Shur, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, US
2:15	A Scaleable Manufacturing Approach for All-Inorganic Diffractive Optics, Lightguide Gratings and Metalenses using Nanoimprint Lithography and High Refractive Index Nanoparticle Inks V.J. Einck, M. Torfeh, A. McClung, D.E. Jung, M. Mansouree, A. Arbabi, J.J. Watkins, University of Massachusetts, US
2:35	Frequency Limitation and Detection Performance in Terahertz Plasmonic Field-effect Transistors Y. Zhang, M.S. Shur, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, US
2:55	Electrically Active Photonic Crystals based on Stacked Microcavity OLEDs D. Allemeier, M. White, University of Vermont, US
	Tuesday October 19

8:30	Advanced Materials Track Keynotes	Woodrow Wilson D
	Session chair: Martin Poitzsch, Aramco Americas
8:30	Controlling light with plasmonic materials J. Fontana, Naval Research Laboratory, US
9:00	TBA A. Scherer, California Institute of Technology, US
9:30	Nanoscale carbon for print-in-place and recyclable electronics A.D. Franklin, Duke University, US

1:30	Photonics Applications	Camellia 3
	Session chair: Loucas Tsakalakos, L3Harris Technologies, Inc.
1:30	Glass Light Guide Plate with Lenticular and Lenticular Extraction Features M. Kanungo, W. Senaratne, S. Li, M. Quesada, Corning, Inc., US
1:55	Next-Generation Materials for Hybrid Electro-Optics L.E. Johnson, H. Xu, D.L. Elder, S.R. Hammond, S.J. Benight, B.H. Robinson, Nonlinear Materials Corporation, US
2:20	Fabrication and opto-electronic modeling of down-shifting enhanced photovoltaics, pp. 207-210 R. Montes, F. Villa, A. Ayon, University of Texas at San Antonio, US
2:45	Femtosecond Pulsed Laser Excitation of Gold Nanoparticles to Locally Heat and Denature dsDNA: DNA Release in Non-homogeneous Temperature Profiles D.A. Hastman, E. Oh, P. Chaturvedi, J.S. Melinger, P.D. Cunningham, M.C. Chiriboga, D. Mathur, I.L. Medintz, L. Vuković, S.A. Díaz, U.S. Naval Research Lab, US
	Wednesday October 20

8:30	Quantum Track Keynote	Woodrow Wilson C
	Session chair: William L. Wilson, Harvard University & Loucas Tsakalakos, L3Harris Technologies, Inc.
8:30	Introductory Remarks
8:35	Quantum Sensing of Quantum Materials Using NV center Microscopy A. Yacoby, Harvard University, US
9:00	Quantum Engineering for Superconducting Qubits M. Schwartz, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, US
9:25	The Second Quantum Revolution: Fundamentals, Present Status, and Prospects Z. Zhang, University of Arizona, US
9:50	Emerging Quantum Sensor Applications of Coherent Spins in Semiconductors B. Zhou, Boston College, US