IFCS 2016 – Confirmed Invited Talks
March 25, 2016
Group 1: Materials, Resonators, & Resonator Circuits
• Randall Kubena, HRL Laboratories, LLC. – Co-Integration of a Quartz OCXO and MEMS Inertial Sensors for Improved Navigational Accuracy
Focus Session: Quartz Oscillators
• Yanqing Zheng, SICCAS – Growth, characterization and piezoelectric applications of langasite-type and YCOB crystals
• Masanobu Okazaki, Secretary of IEC/TC49: IEC/TC49’s International Standardization Activities on Quartz Crystal Devices
• CS Lam, Skyworks – A Review of the Timing and Filtering Technologies in Smartphones
• Jun Kondoh, Shizuoka University – SH-SAW Biosensor on Quartz
Group 2: Oscillators, Synthesizers, Noise, and Circuit Techniques
• David Tanner, U. of Florida: Design Considerations for an Axion Detector
• Tim Lee, Boeing: Global Internet Access from Space for Humanitarian Applications
Focus Session: Novel Micro Optical Resonators and Applications
• Kerry Vahala, Caltech: New Directions for Optical Frequency Division: Soliton Microcombs and Electro-Optical-Modulation
• Andrey Matsko – OEwaves: Turn-Key Operation and Stabilization of Kerr Frequency Combs
• Michal Lipson, Columbia: High Quality On-Chip Resonators for Frequency Combs
Group 3: Microwave Frequency Standards
• Onur Hosten, Stanford: Entanglement enhanced metrology for atom interferometry
Focus session: Space Clocks
• Ron Beard, NRL: History of space qualified atomic clock development for the GPS program.
• Mr. Jing Li, Beijing Institute of Radio Metrology and Measurement: Space Passive Hydrogen Maser
• Bill Klipstein, JPL: Interspacecraft Laser Interferometry on the path to a gravitational wave observatory in Space: the LISA and GRACE Follow-On missions
Group 4: Resonant Sensors and Transducers
• Ivan Favero, Université Paris Diderot: Nano-optomechanics in Liquids
Focus Session: Sensing for Oil and Gas
• Bikash K. Sinha, Schlumberger-Doll Research: Recent developments in high precision quartz and langasite pressure sensors for high temperature and high pressure applications
• Yook-Kong Yong, Rutgers: The elastic stiffness of langasite at high temperatures and its temperature compensated orientations
• Haifeng Zhang – University of North Texas: Piezoelectric devices for sensing, energy harvesting, and structure health monitoring applications
Group 5: Timekeeping, Time & Frequency Transfer, GNSS & Applications
• Miho Fujieda, NICT: Two-way carrier-phase satellite frequency transfer for remote frequency comparison
• Sam Pullen, Stanford: Aircraft navigation and GNSS signal integrity
Focus Session: 50 Years of the Allan Deviation
• Judah Levine, NIST: The history of the Allan Deviation
• Goran Peskir, U. of Manchester: Optimal Stopping and Quickest Detection of Hidden Changes
Group 6: Optical Frequency Standards & Applications
• Dmitry Budker, U. Mainz and UC Berkeley: Searching for Ultralight Dark Matter with Atomic Spectroscopy and Nuclear Resonance
• Eric Hudson, UCLA: Towards a nuclear clock based on the isomeric transition in thorium-229
Focus Session: Optical Frequency Control (DODOS)
• John Bowers, UC Santa Barbara: Chip-scale Optical Resonator Enabled Synthesizer
• Ben Yoo, UC Davis: Integrated Micro-Optical Synthesizer (µOS)
• Ming Wu, UC Berkeley: Heterogeneously Integrated Optical Synthesizer (HiOS)
• Franz Kaertner, DESY and Universitaet Hamburg: Electronic-Photonic Integration Platform Enabling a Chip-scale Optical Synthesizer