About SPRC

2005 Annual Report
The fifth Annual Symposium of the Stanford Photonics Research Center (SPRC), held on Stanford campus from Monday September 19 to Wednesday September 21, 2005, will cover an extensive range of
topics under Photonics broadly interpreted. Topics that will be presented include quantum cryptography, nano/bio sensing, nonlinear microscopy, silicon photonics/nanoparticles, slow light, long-wavelength lasers, high-powered lasers, fiber lasers, and ultrafast & nonlinear optics.

2004 Annual Report
The fourth Annual Meeting of the Stanford Photonics Research Center (SPRC), held on Stanford campus from Monday September 13 to Wednesday September 15, 2004, will cover an extensive range of topics under the rubric Photonics. Ranging from fundamental science, with an emphasis on quantum computing, to nanophotonics, session topics extend to single molecule spectroscopy, organic optical materials, image acquisition, optical communications, biophotonics, ultrafast devices and applications, nonlinear optics, and fiber optic and high power lasers.

2003 Annual Report
The third annual meeting of the Stanford Photonics Research Center (SPRC) will be held on September 15 – 17, 2003 at Stanford University. The meeting embraces a range of fundamental and applied sciences and engineering that fall under a broad definition of photonics. The range of activities considered at the meeting include nanoscale electronics and photonics, biophotonics, telecom, optical interconnects and optical MEMS, ultrafast optics, and advanced lasers and nonlinear materials. The three-day meeting includes contributions from invited speakers and from Stanford faculty and students.

During the past year three themes in photonics are evident as providing new opportunities for the field. First is the rapid growth in nanophotonics that includes new physical effects and devices at scales down to 10nm. The potential for novel telecommunication devices at the nanometer scale is being explored as is novel photonic materials with properties engineered to accomplish specific tasks related to the emission and control of light.

2002 Annual Report
The second annual meeting of the Stanford Photonics Research Center, SPRC will be held on the Stanford University campus from the 16th to the 18th of September, 2002. Our second SPRC meeting shows the substantial growth in photonics at Stanford during the past year. The meeting has been extended to three full days to encompass all of the activities that come under the term "photonics."

2001 Annual Report
The annual meeting of the Stanford Photonics Research Center will be held on September 14 and 15, 2001. This is the first annual corporate affiliates meeting for the Stanford Photonics Research Center, SPRC. The SPRC incorporates and extends the long standing Center for Nonlinear Optical Materials (CNOM). The change in name reflects the expanded program that incorporates research and applications in photonics, broadly defined. Stanford has long had an outstanding program in optics, optoelectronics, quantum electronics, and recently in the rapidly growing areas that are best described by the term photonics. This meeting incorporates contributions from a dozen Stanford faculty members and their students. The meeting includes invited presentations by a number of world leading scientists and engineers in the field of photonics.