News: European Optical Society Meeting

Added Thursday 8th May 2008

The Scientific EOS Annual Meeting 2008 is the most important event of the EOS. It will be held in Paris, France, from 29th September to 2nd October 2008 at Paris-Nord Villepinte, Parc d’expositions et Centre de Conventions.

Members of the TeraNova consortium will be presenting a topical meeting at the meeting on 29th September 2008, chaired by Paul Planken (Delft University of Technology) and Martin Koch (Technische Universitaet Braunschweig), on the following topics:

• THz sources (QCL's, FELs, synchrotrons, etc.)
• Detection of THz radiation (quantum dots, single photon detectors, time-gated, etc.)
• THz plasmonics, metamaterials, photonic crystals
• THz imaging
• THz microscopy and microspectroscopy
• THz integrated optics
• THz applications (security, telecom, etc.)
• THz-matter interaction (chemistry, solid-state physics, ultrafast spectroscopy, biology etc.)
• Interactions between high-power THz radiation and matter
• Remote sensing of gases and chemical / biological agents

Full details of the Annual Meeting can be found on the EOS website.