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Breaking Barriers to Innovation: Report from CLEO/QELS and PhAST 2007
Thousands of scientists, engineers and executives converged in Baltimore in May to learn about the latest innovations in lasers and photonics.
“I actually put solar panels on the roof of my house in Santa Barbara last year. They’re fantastic. I wake up, the sun comes up and my energy bill goes to zero. But it cost me the equivalent of an S-class Mercedes.”
— Alan Heeger, Nobel laureate in chemistry
The Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) and Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS) explored such hot topics as metamaterials, ultrashort-pulse lasers and biomedical imaging. The fourth annual conference on Photonic Applications, Systems and Technologies (PhAST) showcased lasers in manufacturing, photonics in national security, commercialization of applied research and solid-state lighting techniques.
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