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Save the Date! OSA presents Slow and Fast Light 2006

Location: OSA Headquarters, Washington , DC
Submission deadline: March 31, 2006, at 12:00 p.m. noon EST (17.00 GMT)
Pre-registration deadline: July 12, 2006

Optical scientists and engineers have become accustomed to thinking of the speed of light as a constant. Yet, over the past few years, it has become clear that the tools exist to make the speed of a photon faster or slower, or even to stop it completely. This has certainly had a profound impact on the optics community from a fundamental science point of view. Slow and Fast Light 2006 will harness the overwhelming excitement surrounding new methods to achieve light control by featuring new insights into conventional phenomenon, exploring novel material engineering to make speed-of-light manipulation possible, and examining enabling applications. Topics and scope will include: the physics of light control; various slow light, stored light and fast light material and structure engineering; enhanced optical nonlinearities; and techniques for experiments, measurement and simulations.

www.osa.org/sl