Fluctuations, noise, and stochastic processes are of fundamental importance in all aspects of science and engineering and continue to offer exciting challenges in both theory and applications. This conference will emphasize quantum and standard noise theory and applications. Papers relating to the areas listed below and related areas are welcomed. Accepted papers will be published in the Proceedings of SPIE. * quantum and classical noise * random differential equations * noise in quantum and standard communication * nonstationary noise and random processes * detection, estimation, and tracking * noise in photonic devices * stochastic processes * measurement of noise * noise in lasers and fibers * noise in quantum optics * noise and mitigation techniques in wireless communication systems * channel estimation * stochastic modeling techniques * filtering and smoothing * stabilization and control of fluctuations in communications networks * particle filters in communication * noise in oscillators * noise in atomic clocks * fluctuations in communication networks * noise in astronomy * noise in the ocean * noise in nonlinear systems * noise in images * noise in speech processing * noise in geosciences.;
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Conference 6603

Noise and Fluctuations in Photonics, Quantum Optics, and Communications

21 - 24 May 2007 | Cipressi Room
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  • Plenary Session I
  • 1: Special Session: Novel Quantum Optics
  • 2: Special Session: Nonstationary Noise
  • Plenary Session II
  • 3: Special Session: Quantum Walks and Noise
  • 4: Special Session: FaN in Atomic Clock Applications
  • 5: Special Session: Timing Noise in High-Energy Astronomy
  • 11: Posters--Tuesday
  • Plenary Session III
  • 6: Special Session: Quantum Entanglement
  • 7: Special Session: Quantum Coherence
  • 8: Noise in Fibers
  • 12: Posters--Wednesday
  • Plenary Session IV
  • 9: Noise in Devices
  • 10: Quantum Noise
Session P1: Plenary Session I
21 May 2007 • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT | Limonaia Room
Session Chair: Leon Cohen, Hunter College/CUNY (United States)
6602-500
The ever-fluctuating protein (Invited Paper)
Author(s): Joseph Klafter, Tel Aviv Univ. (Israel); Ophir Flomenbom, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (United States); Rony Granek, Ben-Gurion Univ. of the Negev (Israel)
21 May 2007 • 9:15 AM - 10:00 AM PDT | Limonaia Room
Session 1: Special Session: Novel Quantum Optics
21 May 2007 • 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
Session Chair: M. Suhail Zubairy, Texas A&M Univ. (United States)
6603-1
Blackbody radiation: rosetta stone of heat bath models (Invited Paper)
Author(s): R. F. O'Connell, Louisiana State Univ. (United States)
On demand | Presented live 21 May 2007
6603-2
Vacuum fluctuations and nuclear quantum optics in strong laser pulses (Invited Paper)
Author(s): A. Di Piazza, K. Z. Hatsagortsyan, J. Evers, C. H. Keitel, Max-Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics (Germany)
On demand | Presented live 21 May 2007
6603-4
Ramsey interferometry with two frequencies (Invited Paper)
Author(s): D. Seidel, J. G. Muga, I. Lizuain, Univ. del País Vasco (Spain)
On demand | Presented live 21 May 2007
6603-5
Quantum pulse compression laser radar (Invited Paper)
Author(s): Jeffrey H. Shapiro, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (United States)
On demand | Presented live 21 May 2007
6603-6
Suppressing noise in single molecule imaging using quantum optics (Invited Paper)
Author(s): P. R. Hemmer, Texas A&M Univ. (United States)
On demand | Presented live 21 May 2007
6603-7
Sensitivity, bandwidth and SNR constraints in fast-light enhanced precision metrology for applications to rotation sensing and gravity wave detection (Invited Paper)
Author(s): Selim M. Shahriar, Gour Pati, Mary Messal, Kenneth Salit, Northwestern Univ. (United States)
21 May 2007 • 12:10 PM - 12:30 PM PDT
Session 2: Special Session: Nonstationary Noise
21 May 2007 • 2:20 PM - 6:00 PM PDT
Session Chair: Lorenzo Galleani, Politecnico di Torino (Italy)
6603-8
Characterization of non-stationary interference signals in GNSS applications (Invited Paper)
Author(s): Letizia Lo Presti, Beatrice Motella, Politecnico di Torino (Italy)
On demand | Presented live 21 May 2007
6603-9
Noisy oscillator: theory and application
Author(s): Moshe Gitterman, Bar-Ilan Univ. (Israel)
On demand | Presented live 21 May 2007
6603-10
Transient analysis of random systems (Invited Paper)
Author(s): Lorenzo Galleani, Politecnico di Torino (Italy)
On demand | Presented live 21 May 2007
6603-11
Detection and estimation of multiple weak signals in non-Gaussian noise (Invited Paper)
Author(s): D. J. Nelson, U.S. Department of Defense (United States)
On demand | Presented live 21 May 2007
6603-12
Initial condition problems in fractional order equations: wave and stochastic processes in disordered systems
Author(s): V. E. Arkhincheev, Buryat Science Ctr. (Russia), Federal Urdu Univ. of Arts, Sciences and Technology (Pakistan)
21 May 2007 • 3:40 PM - 4:00 PM PDT
6603-13
The generalized Rényi image entropy as a noise indicator (Invited Paper)
Author(s): S. Gabarda, G. Cristóbal, Instituto de Óptica Daza de Valdés, CSIC (Spain)
On demand | Presented live 21 May 2007
6603-14
Statistical study of the inverse first passage time algorithm (Invited Paper)
Author(s): Laura Sacerdote, Cristina Zucca, Univ. di Torino (Italy)
On demand | Presented live 21 May 2007
6603-15
Colored-noise-induced coupling of overdamped bistable oscillators
Author(s): Yuriy V. Gudyma, Oleksandr M. Semenko, Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National Univ. (Ukraine)
21 May 2007 • 5:00 PM - 5:20 PM PDT
6603-16
Noise-induced critical phenomena: a case study
Author(s): G. Nunnari, Univ. degli Studi di Catania (Italy); G. Puglisi, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (Italy); F. Cannavò, A. Spata, Univ. degli Studi di Catania (Italy)
On demand | Presented live 21 May 2007
6603-17
Impact of non-stationary noise on xDSL systems: an experimental analysis
Author(s): Lamartine V. de Souza, Diego L. Cardoso, Marcelino S. Silva, Marcos C. Seruffo, Dário Russillo, João C. W. A. Costa, Carlos R. L. Francês, Agostinho L. S. Castro, Gervásio P. dos S. Cavalcante, Federal Univ. of Pará (Brazil); Jaume R. I. Riu, Ericsson AB (Sweden)
On demand | Presented live 21 May 2007
Session P2: Plenary Session II
22 May 2007 • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT | Cipressi Room
Session Chair: János Kertész, Budapest Univ. of Technology and Economics (Hungary)
6600-500
Origins of randomness in statistical and quantum mechanics (Invited Paper)
Author(s): M. B. Weissman, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (United States)
On demand | Presented live 22 May 2007
Session 3: Special Session: Quantum Walks and Noise
22 May 2007 • 10:30 AM - 12:50 PM PDT
Session Chair: Langford Barton White, The Univ. of Adelaide (Australia)
6603-18
Quantum walks, automata, and structured search (Invited Paper)
Author(s): Sanjeev Naguleswaran, Ian Fuss, Langford B. White, Univ. of Adelaide (Australia)
On demand | Presented live 22 May 2007
6603-19
Analytic views of quantum walks (Invited Paper)
Author(s): Ian Fuss, Lang White, Univ. of Adelaide (Australia); Peter Sherman, Iowa Univ. (United States); Sanjeev Naguleswaran, Univ. of Adelaide (Australia)
On demand | Presented live 22 May 2007
6603-20
Quantum anharmonic oscillator and its statistical properties
Author(s): Maciej M. Duras, Cracow Univ. (Poland)
22 May 2007 • 11:10 AM - 11:30 AM PDT
6603-21
Deterministic purity evolution via weak measurement for bipartite quantum systems
Author(s): Charles Hill, Jason Ralph, Univ. of Liverpool (United Kingdom)
On demand | Presented live 22 May 2007
6603-22
SU(1,1) and SU(2) Fokker-Planck equations and its steady state solutions
Author(s): Nicolae A. Enaki, Institute of Applied Physics of Academy of Sciences of Moldova (Moldova)
22 May 2007 • 11:50 AM - 12:10 PM PDT
6603-23
CANCELED: Quantum strategies and Bell inequalities
Author(s): Taksu Cheon, Azhar Iqbal, Kochi Univ. of Technology (Japan)
22 May 2007 • 12:10 PM - 12:30 PM PDT
6603-24
A systems approach to the quantum random walk (Invited Paper)
Author(s): Peter Sherman, Iowa State Univ. (United States); Ian Fuss, Lang White, Sanjeev Naguleswaran, Univ. of Adelaide (Australia)
On demand | Presented live 22 May 2007
Session 4: Special Session: FaN in Atomic Clock Applications
22 May 2007 • 2:20 PM - 4:00 PM PDT
Session Chair: Patrizia Tavella, Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica (Italy)
6603-25
The Statistics of GPS (Invited Paper)
Author(s): Demetrios Matsakis, U.S. Naval Observatory (United States)
On demand | Presented live 22 May 2007
6603-26
Impact of atomic clock and time-transfer noises in the formation of the International Atomic Time (Invited Paper)
Author(s): W. Lewandowski, Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (France)
On demand | Presented live 22 May 2007
6603-27
Roles of noise in reliability problems: the view point of a mathematician and some application proposals (Invited Paper)
Author(s): Laura Sacerdote, Univ. di Torino (Italy); Patrizia Tavella, I.N.R.I.M., Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica (Italy)
On demand | Presented live 22 May 2007
6603-28
Characterization of nonstationary atomic clocks (Invited Paper)
Author(s): Lorenzo Galleani, Politecnico di Torino (Italy); Patrizia Tavella, INRIM (Italy)
On demand | Presented live 22 May 2007
6603-29
The generalized likelihood ratio test for detecting anomalous behaviors of atomic clocks (Invited Paper)
Author(s): E. Nunzi, P. Carbone, Univ. of Perugia (Italy)
On demand | Presented live 22 May 2007
Session 5: Special Session: Timing Noise in High-Energy Astronomy
22 May 2007 • 4:20 PM - 6:00 PM PDT
Session Chair: Tomaso M. Belloni, Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (Italy)
6603-30
Noise components from black-hole binaries in our galaxy (Invited Paper)
Author(s): Tomaso M. Belloni, INAF, Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (Italy)
On demand | Presented live 22 May 2007
6603-31
Millisecond phenomena in mass accreting neutron stars (Invited Paper)
Author(s): M. van der Klis, Univ. of Amsterdam (Netherlands)
On demand | Presented live 22 May 2007
6603-32
Timing the X-ray fluctuations from supermassive black holes (Invited Paper)
Author(s): Philip Uttley, Univ. of Southampton (United Kingdom)
22 May 2007 • 5:00 PM - 5:20 PM PDT
6603-33
Studying accreting black holes and neutron stars with time series: beyond the power spectrum (Invited Paper)
Author(s): Simon Vaughan, Univ. of Leicester (United Kingdom); Philip Uttley, Univ. of Southampton (United Kingdom)
On demand | Presented live 22 May 2007
6603-34
Time-varying spectral analysis of astronomical time series (Invited Paper)
Author(s): Lorenzo Galleani, Politecnico di Torino (Italy); Leon Cohen, CUNY (United States); Douglas Nelson, U.S. Dept. of Defense (United States); Tomaso Belloni, INAF, Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (Italy)
On demand | Presented live 22 May 2007
Session 11: Posters--Tuesday
22 May 2007 • 8:30 AM - 6:00 PM PDT | Cipressi Loggia Room
Posters will be on display in the conference room on Tuesday. Authors should affix their poster with the material provided in the designated area under their poster number during the morning coffee break. Posters not removed at the end of the day will be considered unwanted and discarded.
6603-63
Pump to signal and pump to ASE noise correlations in copropagative Raman amplifiers
Author(s): Cedric Chluda, Mikhael Myara, Laurent Troussellier, Jean-Philippe Perez, Philippe Signoret, Bernard Orsal, IES (France)
On demand | Presenting live 22 May 2007
6603-64
Stochastic resonance in photonic crystal growth
Author(s): Andreas Amann, Worawut Khunsin, Gudrun Kocher, Clivia M. Sotomayor Torres, Eoin P. O'Reilly, Tyndall National Institute (Ireland)
On demand | Presenting live 22 May 2007
6603-65
Noise in atomic force microscopy images
Author(s): P. S. Timashev, Institute of Laser and Information Technologies (Russia); N. A. Aksenova, A. B. Solovieva, N.N. Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics (Russia); S. F. Timashev, L.Ya. Karpov Institute of Physical Chemistry (Russia)
On demand | Presenting live 22 May 2007
6603-66
Removal of water-vapor-induced fluctuations in T-ray signals: a preliminary study
Author(s): W. Withayachumnankul, B. M. Fischer, S. P. Mickan, D. Abbott, The Univ. of Adelaide (Australia)
On demand | Presenting live 22 May 2007
6603-67
Experimental demonstration of impact of amplified spontaneous emission on devices based on cross-gain modulation in semiconductor optical amplifiers
Author(s): Bipin Sankar Gopalakrishna Pillai, Ka Lun Lee, Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas, The Univ. of Melbourne (Australia); Malin Premaratne, The Univ. of Melbourne (Australia), Monash Univ. (Australia); Christina Lim, The Univ. of Melbourne (Australia)
On demand | Presenting live 22 May 2007
6603-68
CANCELED: Study of noise in fiber optical parametric amplifiers
Author(s): R. Farhoudi, Univ. of Tehran (Iran)
22 May 2007 • 8:30 AM PDT | Cipressi Loggia Room
6603-70
Monte Carlo simulations of non-Markovian open systems
Author(s): J. Piilo, S. Maniscalco, K.-A. Suominen, Univ. of Turku (Finland)
On demand | Presenting live 22 May 2007
6603-71
Radiation-pressure effects and back-action cancellation in interferometric measurements
Author(s): Pierre Verlot, Thomas Caniard, Tristan Briant, Pierre-François Cohadon, Antoine Heidmann, Lab. Kastler Brossel, UPMC, ENS, CNRS (France)
On demand | Presenting live 22 May 2007
6603-73
The joint distribution of neutrons and gamma photons from fissile samples and its application in safeguards
Author(s): I. Pázsit, Chalmers Univ. of Technology (Sweden); L. Pál, KFKI Atomic Energy Research Institute (Hungary); A. Enqvist, Chalmers Univ. of Technology (Sweden); S. A. Pozzi, Oak Ridge National Lab. (United States)
On demand | Presenting live 22 May 2007
6603-74
Effects of stray illumination noise on position resolution of position-sensitive devices
Author(s): Salman Iqbal, International I Univ. (Pakistan); Muhammad Muddassir S. Gualini, Federal Urdu Univ. of Arts, Sciences and Technology (Pakistan)
22 May 2007 • 8:30 AM PDT | Cipressi Loggia Room
6603-75
CANCELED: Repetitive single amplified high intensity ultra-short pulse laser system
Author(s): Junewen Chen, Kai-Chun Chuang, Chung-Hua Univ. (Taiwan)
On demand | Presenting live 22 May 2007
6603-76
Intensity noise of ultrabroadband quantum dot light emitting diodes and lasers at 1.3 μm
Author(s): M. Blazek, S. Breuer, T. Gensty, W. E. Elsäßer, Darmstadt Univ. of Technology (Germany); M. Hopkinson, K. M. Groom, Univ. of Sheffield (United Kingdom); M. Calligaro, P. Resneau, M. Krakowski, Alcatel Thales (France)
On demand | Presenting live 22 May 2007
6603-77
In-service and in real-time optical channel performance analysis with combined noise and jitter
Author(s): Stamatios V. Kartalopoulos, The Univ. of Oklahoma (United States)
On demand | Presenting live 22 May 2007
6603-78
Echo-based averaging of scattered light intensity fluctuations
Author(s): Pavel Zakharov, Frank Scheffold, Univ. de Fribourg (Switzerland)
22 May 2007 • 8:30 AM PDT | Cipressi Loggia Room
6603-95
Model based reduction of nonstationary noise for single channel speech communication systems
Author(s): Xiaoqiang Xiao, Robert M. Nickel, The Pennsylvania State Univ. (United States)
On demand | Presenting live 22 May 2007
Session P3: Plenary Session III
23 May 2007 • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT | Cipressi Room
Session Chair: Sergey M. Bezrukov, National Institutes of Health (United States)
6600-501
Thermal noise informatics: totally secure communication via a wire, zero-power communication, and thermal noise driven computing (Invited Paper)
Author(s): Laszlo B. Kish, Texas A&M Univ. (United States); Robert Mingesz, Zoltan Gingl, Univ. of Szeged (Hungary)
On demand | Presented live 23 May 2007
6601-501
TBD (Invited Paper)
23 May 2007 • 9:15 AM - 10:00 AM PDT | Cipressi Room
Session 6: Special Session: Quantum Entanglement
23 May 2007 • 10:30 AM - 1:10 PM PDT
Session Chair: Luiz Davidovich, Univ. Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
6603-35
Quantum interferometric sensors (Invited Paper)
Author(s): Kishore T. Kapale, Jet Propulsion Lab. (United States), Louisiana State Univ. (United States); Leo D. Didomenico, Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (United States); Hwang Lee, Louisiana State Univ. (United States); Pieter Kok, Oxford Univ. (United Kingdom); Jonathan P. Dowling, Louisiana State Univ. (United States), Texas A&M Univ. (United States)
On demand | Presented live 23 May 2007
6603-36
Three-mode squeezing: SU(1,1) symmetry (Invited Paper)
Author(s): Zahra Shaterzadeh Yazdi, Peter S. Turner, Barry C. Sanders, Univ. of Calgary (Canada)
On demand | Presented live 23 May 2007
6603-37
Experimental observation of environment-induced sudden death of entanglement (Invited Paper)
Author(s): M. P. Almeida, F. de Melo, M. O. Hor-Meyll, A. Salles, S. P. Walborn, P. H. Souto Ribeiro, L. Davidovich, Univ. Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
On demand | Presented live 23 May 2007
6603-38
Quantum entanglement: measures and applications (Invited Paper)
Author(s): M. Suhail Zubairy, Texas A&M Univ. (United States)
23 May 2007 • 11:30 AM - 11:50 AM PDT
6603-39
Quantum and correlated imaging (Invited Paper)
Author(s): Alessandra Carla Gatti, Enrico Brambilla, Ottavia Jedrkiewicz, Luigi Alberto Lugiato, Univ. degli Studi dell'Insubria (Italy)
23 May 2007 • 11:50 AM - 12:10 PM PDT
6603-40
Entanglement and noise in the above-threshold optical parametric oscillator (Invited Paper)
Author(s): Paulo Nussenzveig, Katiúscia N. Cassemiro, Alessandro S. Villar, Paulo Valente, Marcelo Martinelli, Univ. de São Paulo (Brazil)
On demand | Presented live 23 May 2007
6603-41
Decoherence free subspace and entanglement in squeezed bath (Invited Paper)
Author(s): Miguel Orszag, Pontificia Univ. Católica de Chile (Chile); Douglas Mundarain, Univ. Simon Bolivar (Venezuela)
23 May 2007 • 12:30 PM - 12:50 PM PDT
6603-42
Entanglement in macroscopic optomechanical systems
Author(s): David Vitali, Claudiu Genes, Stefano Mancini, Paolo Tombesi, Univ. di Camerino (Italy)
On demand | Presented live 23 May 2007
Session 7: Special Session: Quantum Coherence
23 May 2007 • 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM PDT
Session Chair: Hai-Woong Lee, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (South Korea)
6603-43
Effect of spontaneous decay on the atomic Rabi oscillation (Invited Paper)
Author(s): Hai-Woong Lee, Sun Kyung Lee, Byung Guy Kim, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (South Korea)
23 May 2007 • 2:30 PM - 2:50 PM PDT
6603-44
Quantum interference in light scattering and propagation (Invited Paper)
Author(s): J. Evers, Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik (Germany); M. Mahmoudi, Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik (Germany), Zanjan Univ. (Iran); M. Macovei, Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik (Germany)
On demand | Presented live 23 May 2007
6603-87
Localization of a small collection of fluorescing atoms (Invited Paper)
Author(s): M. Macovei, J. Evers, Max-Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics (Germany); M. S. Zubairy, Max-Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics (Germany), Texas A&M Univ. (United States), Texas A&M Univ. of Qatar (Qatar)
On demand | Presented live 23 May 2007
6603-45
Nonlinear magneto-optic polarization rotation with intense laser fields (Invited Paper)
Author(s): Paul S. Hsu, Anil K. Patnaik, George R. Welch, Texas A&M Univ. (United States)
On demand | Presented live 23 May 2007
6603-48
Spontaneous emission inhibition in a left-handed material (Invited Paper)
Author(s): Shi-Yao Zhu, Hong Kong Baptist Univ. (Hong Kong China)
23 May 2007 • 3:50 PM - 4:10 PM PDT
Session 8: Noise in Fibers
23 May 2007 • 4:30 PM - 6:10 PM PDT
Session Chair: Douglas J. Nelson, U.S. Dept. of Defense (United States)
6603-49
Noise and jitter behavior of nonlinear amplifier optical loop mirror based on photonic crystal fiber
Author(s): Cristina de Dios, Horacio Lamela, Univ. Carlos III (Spain)
On demand | Presented live 23 May 2007
6603-50
Comparative splice loss analysis of dispersion-shifted and dispersion-flattened single-mode fibers
Author(s): C. M. Jadhao, G.S. College of Khamgaon (India); D. S. Dhote, Brijlal Biyani Science College of Amravati (India)
23 May 2007 • 4:50 PM - 5:10 PM PDT
6603-51
Video quality measurements in optical fiber links
Author(s): M.R. Nasiri Avanaki, Karaj Azad Univ. (Iran), Shahid Rajaei Univ. (Iran); R. Ebrahimpour, Shahid Rajaei Univ. (Iran), Institute for Studies on Theoretical Physics and Mathematics (Iran)
23 May 2007 • 5:10 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
6603-52
Estimation of channel performance with fast reassignment and equalization assisted by supercontinuum sources
Author(s): Stamatios V. Kartalopoulos, The Univ. of Oklahoma (United States)
On demand | Presented live 23 May 2007
6603-53
Analysis of intrinsic perturbation by thermal stress birefringence
Author(s): Chandrakant M. Jadhao, G.S. College of Khamgaon (India); Deepak S. Dhote, Brijlal Biyani Science College of Amravati (India)
23 May 2007 • 5:50 PM - 6:10 PM PDT
Session 12: Posters--Wednesday
23 May 2007 • 8:30 AM - 6:00 PM PDT | Cipressi Loggia Room
Posters will be on display in the conference room on Wednesday. Authors should affix their poster with the material provided in the designated area under their poster number during the morning coffee break. Posters not removed at the end of the day will be considered unwanted and discarded.
6603-79
Nonlinear decomposition-and-denoising approach for removal of signal-dependent noise of a digital color camera
Author(s): Takahiro Saito, Yuki Ishii, Takashi Komatsu, Kanagawa Univ. (Japan)
On demand | Presenting live 23 May 2007
6603-80
Fluctuation reduction in a rational harmonic mode-locked fiber ring laser using carrier-suppressed return-to-zero modulation format
Author(s): Shingo Yamanaka, Joji Maeda, Tokyo Univ. of Science (Japan)
On demand | Presenting live 23 May 2007
6603-81
Excess noise sources in depolarized raman pumping system
Author(s): Cedric Chluda, Mikhael Myara, Laurent Troussellier, Jean-Philippe Perez, Philippe Signoret, Bernard Orsal, CEM2 (France)
On demand | Presenting live 23 May 2007
6603-82
Optical regeneration based on noise generated in bistable devices: going from 2R to 3R
Author(s): A. P. González-Marcos, T. Vivero, J. M. Rivas-Moscoso, J. A. Martín-Pereda, Univ. Politécnica de Madrid (Spain)
On demand | Presenting live 23 May 2007
6603-83
CANCELED: Coherence resonance in a time-delayed bistable system
Author(s): Krassimir P. Panajotov, Vrije Univ. Brussel (Belgium); Mikel Arizaleta Arteaga, Univ. Pública de Navarra (Spain); Miguel Valencia, Vrije Univ. Brussel (Belgium); Marc Sciamanna, Supélec (France); Manuel Lopez-Amo, Univ. Pública de Navarra (Spain); Hugo Thienpont, Vrije Univ. Brussel (Belgium)
23 May 2007 • 8:30 AM PDT | Cipressi Loggia Room
6603-84
CANCELED: Non-stationary noise reduction in complex wavelet domain using local bivariate laplacian mixture prior
Author(s): Hossein Rabbani, Mansur Vafadust, Amirkabir Univ. of Technology (Iran)
23 May 2007 • 8:30 AM PDT | Cipressi Loggia Room
6603-85
Analysis of optical mixing in RF modulated noisy optical links
Author(s): Mohammad Reza Salehi, Shiraz Univ. of Technology (Iran)
On demand | Presenting live 23 May 2007
6603-88
Quantum optics with a mechanical microresonator
Author(s): C. Molinelli, O. Arcizet, T. Briant, P.-F. Cohadon, M. Pinard, A. Heidmann, Lab. Kastler Brossel, UPMC, ENS, CNRS (France)
On demand | Presenting live 23 May 2007
6603-89
CANCELED: Effect of transverse electric wave for optical resonance in dielectric microspheres
Author(s): Anisur Rahman, Sunil Kumar, Polytechnic Univ. (United States)
23 May 2007 • 8:30 AM PDT | Cipressi Loggia Room
6603-90
M:N phase synchronization of LFF in an chaotic ECSL system
Author(s): M. Bulinski, Univ. of Bucharest (Romania); Catalin M. Ticos, Los Alamos National Lab. (United States); I. R. Andrei, The National Institute for Lasers, Plasma and Radiation Physics (Romania)
On demand | Presenting live 23 May 2007
6603-92
Highly-sensitive measurement technique of relative intensity noise and laser characterization
Author(s): Julien Poette, Pascal Besnard, Laurent Bramerie, Jean-Claude Simon, FOTON-ENSSAT (France)
On demand | Presenting live 23 May 2007
6603-94
Comment on the suppression of noise by the ribosome in the transition state for formation of the peptide bond
Author(s): Lou Massa, Hunter College and Graduate Ctr. of CUNY (United States)
On demand | Presenting live 23 May 2007
6603-96
Fringe tracking with noisy interferometric data
Author(s): Donata Bonino, INAF, Osservatorio Astronomico di Torino (Italy), Univ. degli studi di Torino (Italy); Mario Gai, Leonardo Corcione, INAF, Osservatorio Astronomico di Torino (Italy)
On demand | Presenting live 23 May 2007
Session P4: Plenary Session IV
24 May 2007 • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
Session Chair: Massimo Macucci, Univ. di Pisa (Italy)
6600-502
Exercising demons: quantum Brownian motors (Invited Paper)
Author(s): Peter Hänggi, Univ. Augsburg (Germany)
24 May 2007 • 8:30 AM - 9:15 AM PDT
Session 9: Noise in Devices
24 May 2007 • 10:30 AM - 12:10 PM PDT
Session Chair: Gabriel Cristóbal, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (Spain)
Sessions 9 and 10 run concurrently.
6603-54
Accurate excess photodetection noise measurements in raman amplifiers
Author(s): Cedric Chluda, Mikhael Myara, Philippe Signoret, Laurent Troussellier, Bernard Orsal, CEM2 (France)
On demand | Presented live 24 May 2007
6603-55
CANCELED: Effect of intensity noise on modulation performance of semiconductor lasers in digital communication systems
Author(s): Moustafa Farghal Ahmed, Al-Margib Univ. (Libya); Minoru Yamada, Kanazawa Univ. (Japan)
24 May 2007 • 10:50 AM - 11:10 AM PDT
6603-56
Complex dynamics observed in the noise spectrum of lateral coupled diode lasers
Author(s): H. Lamela, R. Santos, Univ. Carlos III de Madrid (Spain)
On demand | Presented live 24 May 2007
6603-57
Intensity fluctuations of focused general-type beams in atmospheric optics links
Author(s): Yahya Baykal, Halil T. Eyyuboğlu, Çankaya Univ. (Turkey)
On demand | Presented live 24 May 2007
6603-58
Quantum Zeno and anti-Zeno effects for the damped harmonic oscillator
Author(s): Sabrina Maniscalco, Jyrki Piilo, Kalle-Antti Suominen, Univ.of Turku (Finland)
On demand | Presented live 24 May 2007
Session 10: Quantum Noise
24 May 2007 • 10:30 AM - 11:50 AM PDT | Bolognese Room
Session Chair: Lorenzo Galleani, Politecnico di Torino (Italy)
Sessions 9 and 10 run concurrently.
6603-59
Breakdown of the few-level approximation in dipole-dipole interacting systems
Author(s): Martin Kiffner, Jörg Evers, Christoph H. Keitel, Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik (Germany)
On demand | Presented live 24 May 2007
6603-60
High-sensitivity imaging with quantum spatial correlation of twin beams
Author(s): A. Gatti, E. Brambilla, L. Caspani, O. Jedrkiewicz, L. A. Lugiato, INFM-CNR-CNISM, Univ. dell'Insubria (Italy)
On demand | Presented live 24 May 2007
6603-61
Impact of noise on current-driven polarization switching of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers
Author(s): C. Masoller, Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya (Spain)
On demand | Presented live 24 May 2007
6603-62
Effect of noise in quantum communications
Author(s): Stamatios V. Kartalopoulos, The Univ. of Oklahoma (United States)
On demand | Presented live 24 May 2007
Conference Chair
Leon Cohen
City Univ. of New York (United States)
Conference Co-Chair
Hai-Woong Lee
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (South Korea)
Conference Co-Chair
Langford B. White
Univ. of Adelaide (Australia)
Conference Co-Chair
M. Suhail Zubairy
Texas A&M Univ. (United States)
Program Committee
Gabriel Cristóbal
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (Spain)
Program Committee
Luiz Davidovich
Univ. Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
Program Committee
Alfred Hanssen
Univ. of Troms (Norway)
Program Committee
Simon Haykin
McMaster Univ. (Canada)
Program Committee
Juan Muga
Univ. del País Vasco (Spain)
Program Committee
Lorenzo Galleani
Politecnico di Torino (Italy)
Program Committee
Robert F. O'Connell
Louisiana State Univ. (United States)
Program Committee
Athina P. Petropulu
Drexel Univ. (United States)
Program Committee
Bernard Picinbono
Univ. Paris-Sud II (France)
Program Committee
S. Unnikrishna Pillai
Polytechnic Univ. (United States)
Program Committee
Wolfgang P. Schleich
Univ. Ulm (Germany)
Program Committee
Barry C. Sanders
Univ. of Calgary (Canada)
Program Committee
Selim Shehriar
Northwestern Univ. (United States)
Program Committee
Patrizia Tavella
Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica (Italy)
Program Committee
Hisashi Yoshida
Kinki Univ. (Japan)
Program Committee
Shi-Yao Zhu
Hong Kong Baptist Univ. (Hong Kong China)