Optical Sensors (Sensors)

Optical sensors have numerous applications in research and development, national defense and commercial markets such as medical diagnostics and process control.

Because of the breadth of applications for optical sensors, the challenges to the design and functioning of an optical sensor for a particular purpose requires intimate knowledge of optical, material and environmental properties that affect sensor performance across physical scales. 

The Sensors meeting addresses all aspects of optical sensors from source and detection technologies, sensor configurations and processing approaches to applications. 

The meeting is arranged in broad topic categories and themes accessible to researchers at any career stage. Beyond the topics listed below, Sensors will be exploring focused topics that are considered timely due to a surge in literature or notoriety. This year’s focus is on quantum dot-based sensing/imaging, in honor of the recent Nobel prize in this area and Photonic Integrated Circuit (PICs) due to the surge in capability for these systems.

Chairs

Paul Pellegrino

US Army Research Laboratory, USA,
General Chair

Katerina Krebber

Federal Institute for Materials Research, Germany,
Program Chair

Frank Vollmer

University of Exeter, UK,
Program Chair

Filiz Yesilkoy

University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA,
Program Chair

Program Committee
Paul Pellegrino, US Army Research Laboratory, USA, General Chair
Katerina Krebber, Federal Institute for Materials Research, Germany, Program Chair
Frank Vollmer, University of Exeter, UK, Program Chair
Filiz Yesilkoy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, Program Chair

Laser Based Sensors Subcommittee
Yoonchan Jeong, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea, Subconference Chair
Peter Dragic, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Andrea Fiore, Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, Netherlands
Christian Grillet, Ecole Centrale de Lyon, France
Peter Horak, ORC, Univ. of Southampton, UK
Kwang Jo Lee, Kyung Hee Univ. Republic of Korea
Claudio Otón, Institute of Mechanical Intelligence, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy

Optical Biological and Chemical Sensors Subcommittee
Jennifer Morales, US Army Research Laboratory, USA, Subconference Chair
Tanya Hutter, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Koji Masuda, University of Exeter, UK
Sachin Srivastava, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India
Nikita Toropov, University of Southampton, UK
Peter Zijlstra, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands

Optical Fiber Sensors Subcommittee
Ali Masoudi, University of Southampton, UK, Subconference Chair
Xin Lu, Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und, Germany
Sonia Martin-Lopez, Universidad de Alcala, Spain
Aldo Minardo, Univ della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy
Marcelo Soto, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile
Carmen Vazquez, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain

Terahertz Sensors Subcommittee
Mira Naftaly, National Physical Laboratory, UK, Subconference Chair