Latin America Optics and Photonics Conference – OSA, Lima 2018

Location: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru
12 – 15 November 2018

Website: OSA-LAOP 2018

The Latin America Optics & Photonics Conference is the major international conference sponsored by The Optical Society in Latin America with the explicit objective to promote Latin American excellence in optics and photonics research and support the regional community. LAOP is a peer-reviewed, international meeting with content presented in English, allowing for maximum international participation.

Featuring a comprehensive technical program with recognized experts in fields critical to Latin America, the conference covers all major areas of optics and photonics, and features the latest research results that are making an impact in fundamental research and applications.

Plenary Session

  • Aleksandra Boskovic, Corning Research & Development Corporation
  • Aydogan Ozcan, University of California Los Angeles
  • Ursula Gibson, Norges Teknisk Naturvitenskapelige Univ
  • Joseph Eberly, University of Rochester
  • Alex Gaeta, Columbia University
  • Joseph Howard, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
  • Laura M. Lechuga, Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Spain
  • Michal Lipson, Columbia University
  • Fernando Mendoza, Centro de Investigaciones en Optica, Mexico

Topics

  • Atomic Physics and Laser Spectroscopy
  • Laser Science and Technology
  • Nonlinear Optics
  • Quantum Optics
  • Optical Communications and Optical Signal Processing
  • THz Science and Technology
  • Integrated Photonics
  • Optical Fibers and Sensing Technologies
  • Nanophotonics and Metamaterials
  • Novel Materials and Dimensional Effects in Photonics
  • Microwave and Millimeter-Waves Photonics
  • Biophotonics and Biomedical Applications
  • Optical Design, Instrumentation and Metrology
  • Imaging Processing, Color and Vision
  • Multidisciplinary Applications of Photonics

Speakers

  • Aleksandra Boskovic, Corning Research & Development Corp, United States
  • Joseph Eberly, University of Rochester, United States
  • Alexander Gaeta, Columbia University, United States
  • Ursula Gibson, Norges Teknisk Naturvitenskapelige Univ, Norway
  • Joseph Howard, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States
  • Laura Lechuga, Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotec
  • Michal Lipson, Columbia University, United States
  • Fernando Mendoza-Santoyo, Centro de Investigaciones en Optica AC, Mexico
  • Aydogan Ozcan, University of California Los Angeles, United States
  • Arti Agrawal, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
  • Jacques Albert, Carleton University, Canada
  • Vilson Almeida, Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica, Brazil
  • Miguel Alonso, Aix-Marseille Université, France
  • Rodrigo Amezcua Correa, University of Central Florida, CREOL, United States
  • Miguel Andrés, Universitat de Valencia, Spain
  • Augusto Arias, Laboratorio de Optica – U. de Murcia, Spain
  • Mauro Baesso, Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Brazil
  • Fetah Benabid, XLIM Research Insititute, France
  • Andrea Bragas, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Camille-Sophie Bres, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland
  • Daniel Brunner, CNRS – FEMTO-ST, France
  • Humeyra Caglayan, Tampereen Teknillinen Yliopisto, Finland
  • Daniel Campos-Delgado, Universidad Autonoma de San Luis Potosi
  • Isabel Carvalho, Pontificia Univ Catolica Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • Luis Castillo Butters, Pontifica Universidad Católica del Perú, Peru
  • Jarbas Castro, USP, Brazil
  • Sabino Chavez-Cerda, Inst Nat Astrofisica Optica Electronica, Mexico
  • Francisco Cuevas, Centro de Investigaciones en Optica AC, Mexico
  • Thoroh De Souza, Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, Brazil
  • J. Rufino Diaz-Uribe, Univ Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico
  • Majid Ebrahim-Zadeh, ICFO -Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques, Spain
  • Tobias Eriksson, National Inst of Information & Comm Tech, Japan
  • Pietro Ferraro, Istituto Nazionale di Ottica, Italy
  • Karen Fonseca Romero, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia
  • Sonja Franke-Arnold, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
  • Newton Frateschi, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil
  • Federico Furch, Max Born Institute, Germany
  • Betty Galarreta, Pontifica Universidad Católica del Perú, Peru
  • Lidia Galdino, University College London, United Kingdom
  • Sylvain Gigan, Langevin Institute, France
  • Sylvain Gioux, Universite de Strasbourg, France
  • Neil Gonzalez, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia
  • Simon Gröblacher, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Netherlands
  • David Hagan, University of Central Florida, CREOL, United States
  • Amr Helmy, University of Toronto, Canada
  • Maria Hernandez Montes, Centro de Investigaciones en Optica AC, Mexico
  • Zdenek Hradil, Univerzita Palackeho v Olomouci, Czech Republic
  • Mitsuteru Inoue, Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan
  • Kristina Irsch, Johns Hopkins University, United States
  • Mona Jarrahi, University of California Los Angeles, United States
  • Bahram Javidi, University of Connecticut
  • Javier Jo, Texas A&M University, United States
  • Antonio Khoury, Universidad Federal Fluminense, Brazil
  • Abhishek Kumar, UMD College Park, United States
  • Cristina Kurachi, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil
  • Nicolas Le Thomas, Ghent University, INTEC, Belgium
  • Marina Leite, University of Maryland at College Park, United States
  • Miguel Levy, Michigan Technological University, United States
  • Juan Loredo, CNRS, France
  • Alberto Marino, University of Oklahoma, United States
  • Carmen Menoni, Colorado State University, United States
  • Moritz Merklein, CUDOS, Australia
  • Alejandro Mira-Agudelo, Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia
  • Tetsuya Mizumoto, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
  • Adamo Monte, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Brazil
  • Hector Moya-Cessa, Inst Nat Astrofisica Optica Electronica, Mexico
  • Jeremy Munday, University of Maryland at College Park, United States
  • Arnaud Mussot, Univ Lille 1 Laboratoire PhLAM, France
  • Paulo Nussenzveig, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil
  • Salah Obayya, Zewail City of Science and Technology, Egypt
  • Alexandros Pennos, Universidad de Murcia
  • Rafael Piestun, University of Colorado at Boulder, United States
  • Tenio Popmintchev, University of California San Diego, United States
  • Xiao-Feng Qian, University of Rochester, United States
  • Azizur Rahman, City University, United Kingdom
  • Francisco Robles, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States
  • Simon Rommel, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Netherlands
  • Juan Saenz, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
  • Luis Sanchez-Soto, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
  • Michelle Sander, Boston University, United States
  • Christina Schwarz, Germany
  • Laura Sinclair, National Inst of Standards & Technology, United States
  • Marcelo Soto, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile
  • Kartik Srinivasan, National Inst of Standards & Technology, United States
  • Bethanie J.H. Stadler, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, United States
  • Zhipei Sun, Aalto Yliopisto, Finland
  • Nicolas Thomas, Ghent University
  • Patryk Urban, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Netherlands
  • Alfred U’Ren, Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Mexico
  • Brian Vohnsen, University College Dublin, Ireland
  • Sascha Wallentowitz, Pontificia Univ Catolica de Chile, Chile
  • Gustavo Wiederhecker, UNICAMP – DFA, Brazil
  • Yufei Xing, Ghent University, Belgium
  • Val Zwiller, Technische Universiteit Delft, Netherlands

Committee

General Chair

Hugo Enrique Hernández Figueroa, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, UNICAMP, Brazil

Co-Chair

Guillermo Edmundo Baldwin Olguín, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, PUCP, Peru

Latin America Advisory Committee

Ana María Cárdenas Soto, Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia
Hugo Luis Fragnito, Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, Brazil
Anderson S. L. Gomes, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil
José Javier Sánchez Mondragón, Inst. Nac. Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica, Mexico
Efrain Solarte, Universidad del Valle, Colombia
Gustavo Torchia, Centro de Investigaciones Ópticas, Argentina
Francisco Antonio de Zela Martínez, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Peru
Sabino Chávez Cerda, Inst. Nat. Astrofísica, Óptica Y Electrónica, Mexico
Miguel Torres Cisneros, Universidad de Guanajuato, Mexico

Local Organizing Committee

Miguel A. Asmad Vergara, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Peru, Short Course Chair
Víctor Roy Cáceres Huamán, Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería, Peru, Publicity Chair
Patricia Harman, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Peru, Finance Chair
Ruth Esther Rubio Noriega, Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería, Peru, Graphic Design Chair
Carlos B. Silva Cárdenas, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Peru, Sponsorship and Exhibition Chair

Technical Program Subcommittees

Atomic Physics and Laser Spectroscopy
Luís Eduardo E. de Araujo, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil, Co-Chair
Marco Antonio Meneses-Nava, Centro de Investigaciones en Óptica, Mexico, Co-Chair
Victor Contreras, Instituto de Ciencias Físicas, UNAM, Mexico
Phillipe Courteille, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
Adolfo Escamilla Esquivel, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico
Arturo Lezama, Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay
José Luis Ruvalcaba Sil, Instituto de Física, UNAM, Mexico
Jose W. R. Tabosa, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil

Laser Science and Technology
Flávio da Cruz, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil, Co-Chair
Tara Fortier, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA, Co-Chair
Lucio Hora Acioli, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil
Esther Baumann, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA
Josue Davila-Rodriguez, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA
William Loh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Cleber Renato Mendonca, Instituto de Fisica de Sao Carlos, Brazil
Mayerlin Nuñez Portela, Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia
Andreas Stingl, Phornano GmbH, Austria

Nonlinear Optics
Thiago Alegre, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, UNICAMP, Brazil, Co-Chair
Alvaro Casas Bedoya, University of Sydney, Australia, Co-Chair 
Luis M G Abegão, Yale University, USA
Felipe Beltran Mejia, Inatel, Brazil
Yanne Chembo, Georgia Tech-CNRS Joint Laboratory, USA
Amol Choudhary, Sydney University, Australia
Carlos Galindez Jamioy, Universidad del Valle, Colombia
Emiliano Rezende Martins, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Yoshitomo Okawachi, Columbia University, USA

Quantum Optics
Francisco A. de Zela Martínez, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Peru, Co-Chair
Enrique J. Gálvez, Colgate University, USA, Co-Chair
Sonja Franke-Arnold, University of Glasgow, Scotland
Silvia Ledesma, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Juan Pablo Paz, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Alejandra Valencia, Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia

Optical Communications and Optical Signal Processing
Alex Alvarado, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands, Co-Chair
Darli Augusto de Arruda Mello, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil, Co-Chair
Carmelo Bastos-Filho, Universidade Estadual de Pernambuco, Brazil
Jorge M. Finochietto, Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina
Magnus Karlsson, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Stephan Pachnicke, Kiel University, Germany
Idelfonso Tafur Monroy, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
Darko Zibar, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Jair Silva, Universidade Federal do Espirito Santo, Brazil
Georgios Zervas, University College London, United Kingdom

THz Science and Technology
Enrique Castro Camus, Centro de Investigaciones en Óptica, Mexico, Co-Chair
Marcos Antonio Ruggieri Franco, Instituto de Estudos Avançaos/ITA, Brazil, Co-Chair
Fabio Alves, Naval Postgraduate School, USA
Ibraheem Al-Naib, Iman Abdulrahman Bin Faisel University, Saudia Arabia
Arturo Ignacio Hernandez-Serrano, University of Warwick, United Kingdom
Elodie Strupiechonski, National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico

Integrated Photonics
Jaime Cardenas, University of Rochester, USA, Co-Chair
Lucas Hetzmann Gabrielli, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil, Co-Chair
Marco Alayo, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Giovanni Beninca de Farias, CPqD, Brazil
Avik Dutt, Stanford University, USA
Daniel Orquiza de Carvalho, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Brazil
Raphael St-Gelais, University of Ottawa, Canada
Danilo H. Spadotti, Universidade Federal de Itajubá, Brazil
Gustavo Torchia, Centro de Investigaciones Ópticas, Argentina
Mian Zhang, Harvard University, USA

Optical Fibers and Sensing Technologies
Cristiano M. B. Cordeiro, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil, Co-Chair
Joao Batista Rosolem, CPqD, Brazil, Co-Chair
Isabel C. S. Carvalho, PUC-Rio, Brazil
Antonio Díez Cremades, Univ. Valencia, Spain
Juan A. Hernández-Cordero, UNAM, Mexico
David Monzón Hernández, CIO, Mexico
Luis A. Mosquera Leiva, UNI, Peru 
Ricardo Oliveira, Instituto de Telecomunicações, Aveiro, Portugal
Jonas H. Osorio, University of Limoges, France
Maria Jose Pontes, UFES, Brazil
Pedro I. Torres Trujillo, UNAL, Colombia

Nanophotonics and Metamaterials
Gustavo Silva Wiederhecker, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil, Co-Chair
Alexandre Alves da Silva, Samsung Research, Brazil, Co-Chair
Marcelo Davanço, National Institute of Standards & Technology, USA
Luigi La Spada, Coventry University, United Kingdom
Qiang Lin, University of Rochester, USA
Leonardo Menezes, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil
Felipe Pinheiro, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Yeonsang Park, Samsung, South Korea
Ivan Favero, CNRS, Paris-Diderot, France

Novel Materials and Dimensional Effects in Photonics
Miguel Levy, Michigan Technological University, USA, Co-Chair
Christiano J. S. de Matos, Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, Brazil, Co-Chair
Alexander Baryshev, All-Russia Research Institute of Automatics, Russia
Bruno Ricardo de Carvalho, Universidade Federal de Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
Alexander Merzlikin, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Rafael E. P. de Oliveira, Mackenzie Presbyterian University, Brazil
Juan D. Zapata, Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia

Microwave and Millimeter-Waves Photonics
Luciano Prado de Oliveira, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, UNICAMP, Brazil, Co-Chair
Marcelo Abbade, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Brazil, Co-Chair
Omar Branquinho, PUCC, Brazil
Evandro Conforti, UNICAMP, Brazil
Stavros Iezekiel, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Salvador Sales Maicas, ITEAM Research Institute, Brazil
Anthony Ng’oma, Corning Optical Communications, USA
Gilliard Nardel Malheiros Silveira, UNESP, Brazil
Marcelo Eduardo Vieira Segatto, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Brazil
Gabriel Campuzano Treviño, ITESM – Monterrey, Mexico

Biophotonics and Biomedical Applications
Anderson S. L. Gomes, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, UFPE, Brazil, Co-Chair
Denise Zezell, IPEN, Brazil, Co-Chair
Luciano Bachmann, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Arandi Bezerra, Universidade Tec Federal do Parana, Brazil

Optical Design, Instrumentation, and Metrology
Ricardo Legarda Saenz, Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan, Mexico, Co-Chair
Marta de la Fuente, ASEOPTICS, Spain, Co-Chair
Jorge Ivan García Sucerquia, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Columbia, Co-Chair
Armando Albertazzi, Jr., Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil
Tonatiuh Saucedo Anaya, Universidad Autonoma de Zacatexas, Mexico
Ricardo Legarda Saenz, Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan, Mexico
Cristina Trillo, Universidad de Vigo, Spain
Toyohiko Yatagai, Utsunomiya University, Japan

Imaging Processing, Color and Vision
Pablo Artal, Universidad de Murcia, Spain, Co-Chair
Josué Álvarez-Borrego, CICESE, Mexico, Co-Chair
Ivan Moreno, Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, Mexico, Co-Chair
Gabriel Cristóbal, Consejo Sup Investigaciones Cientificas, Spain
Victor Hugo Díaz-Ramírez, CITEDI, Mexico
Harilaos Ginis, Athens Eye Hospital, Greece
Ireneusz Grulkowski, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland
Alfredo Solís Ventura, Solex Vintel, Mexico
Selene Solorza-Calderón, UABC, Mexico
Juan Tabernero, Anglia University, United Kingdom 

Multidisciplinary Applications of Photonics
Kevin Contreras Villalobos, Institut Langevin – ESPCI, Paris, France, Co-Chair
Maxime Jacquot, University Franche Comte, Besançon, France, Co-Chair
Agnese Callegari, Bilkent University, Turkey
Cesar Costa, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Ecuador
Sthy Flores, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Perú
Luc Froehly, Université Franche-Comté, France
Jorge Garcia-Sucerquia, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia
Carlo Iorio, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Omar Ormachea, Universidad Privada Boliviana, Bolivia
Amaru Palomino Toefflinger, Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru, Peru
Myrian Tebaldi, Centro de Investigaciones Ópticas de La Plata, Argentina
Emir Vela, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Perú
Giovanni Volpe, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Sascha Wallentowitz, Pontificia Universidad Católica, Chile