Photonic Fiber and Crystal Devices: Advances in Materials and Innovations in Device Applications X

Authors are encouraged to submit papers addressing the following session topics: 

• Photonic Fibers and Crystal Materials:
• novel photorefractive, electro-optic, and nonlinear optical fibers and crystals including glasses, semiconductors, ferroelectrics, polymeric, and magneto-optic materials
• crystal growth, defect and doping control, quasi phase matching and domain manipulation
• photonic fibers, 2 and 3-dimensionally engineered photonic crystal, and photonic bandgap materials
• photosensitivity and spectral responses, physical and optical characterizations
• experiments and theory that elucidate correlations between materials doping and defect-structure with photonic properties
• chalcogenide photonics
• hollow-core photonic crystal fiber design and applications
• polarization maintaining photonic crystal fiber designs and applications
• progress in high peak power capable photonic fibers
• work on understanding the fundamental mechanisms on photodarkening in fibers along with process and design improvements to reduce photodarkening effects
• advances in software for the design and simulation of photonic fibers and photonic fiber based systems.
• Photonic Devices and Applications:
• components for optical communication, sensing, and data storage, including transmission, amplification, modulation, detection, dispersion management, switching, data handling, and packaging
• integrated optical components, nonlinear frequency converters, diffractive devices, three-dimensional optical memory, and dynamic memories
• dynamic sensing for chemical, harsh environment, biophotonic, and defense applications
• adaptive optical devices utilizing coupled effects such as electro-optic, elasto-optics, photostriction, magneto-optics, and pyro-optics
• novel free-space and waveguiding optical components, devices and subsystems including supercontinuum lasers for photonic computing, optomechanics, interconnects, switching, and packaging of photonic processors
• analog and digital holographic data storage, holographic miniaturization of functional mapping, holographic image amplification, volume holographic imaging, 3D imaging and display
• phonic bandgap switches and modulation-based switching devices
• photonic devices for energy conversion and harvesting
• electromagnetics (nonlinear phenomena and propagation of light in nonlinear crystals/optical media).