Broadband Light Generation from an Optical Supercontinuum (Photo (c) FEMTO-ST, CNRS)

Held every two years under the roof of the World of Photonics Congress in Munich, CLEO/Europe-EQEC conference has become the benchmark conference where European researchers present their most groundbreaking results in a wide range of areas in fundamental optics and applied photonics.  With recent advances in optical sources, new materials and novel approaches to manipulating and controlling light, 2009 promises to be the most exciting conference yet! 

The CLEO/Europe-EQEC conference series has a strong tradition as a comprehensive and prestigious gathering of optics and photonics researchers and engineers in Europe.  With technical co-sponsorship provided by the European Physical Society (EPS), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Optical Society of America (OSA), CLEO(r)/Europe reflects a strong international presence in the complementary research traditions of laser science, photonics and quantum electronics.  More specifically, CLEO(r)/Europe emphasizes applied physics, optical engineering and applications of photonics and laser technology whereas EQEC emphasizes basic research in laser physics, nonlinear optics and quantum optics.

This combination provides a unique forum to obtain informative overviews and discuss recent advances in a wide spectrum of topics, from fundamental light-matter interactions and new sources of coherent light to technology development, system engineering and applications in industry and applied science.  Over five days CLEO(r)/Europe-EQEC 2009 will showcase a large number of technical contributions in parallel sessions and posters drawn from industry, university and research organizations from around the world.  Topics will cover a very wide spectrum of technical areas including laser development and new optical materials, nonlinear optics and nonlinear dynamics, ultrafast phenomena, telecommunications technologies, atom and quantum optics, quantum information precision metrology, fibre optics, sensing photonic crystals, nanophotonics and metamaterials etc.  Particular highlights of the 2009 programme will be a series of special symposia that will survey recent advances in the emerging areas of Large Scale Photonic Integration; the generation of quantum states of light on demand; optical tweezers and light-matter interactions; Terahertz sources and applications and optics beyond the Rayleigh resolution limit.