The International Symposium on Photonics and Optoelectronics (SOPO 2012) will be held from 21st to 23rd, May in Shanghai, China. The conference proceedings will be published by IEEE. All papers accepted will be indexed by Ei Compendex & ISTP.　　

Topics:　　

l  Laser technology and applications

 Laser physics and nonlinear optics

 Gas lasers and applications

 Solid state lasers: technology and devices

 Semiconductor lasers, tunable and multi-wavelength lasers

 Laser materials, fabrication and characterization

 Laser material processing

 Tera-hertz sources & detection

 Tera-hertz propagation

l  Image processing

 Image acquisition, reconstruction, restoration and fusion

 Image transformations: wavelet theory, space theory, geometrical transforms and restoration

 Image analysis: motion estimation, segmentation, object tracking and pattern recognition

 Visualization: 3d visualization, holography and display systems

 Image information management: coding, cryptography, watermarking, storage and retrieval, resolution enhancement

 Medical imaging, surveillance, security, remote sensing and multimedia 

 Systems or devices for optical and digital image processing

l  Optical communications

 Optical fiber communication

 Free-space optical communication

 Optical communication networks

 Optical transport network

 Coding and signal processing

 Modulating retro-reflector

 Intensity modulation

 Optical wireless

 Optical carrier

l  Optoelectronic devices and integration

 Optical sensors and applications

 Fiber-optic sensor and networks

 White led and related technologies

 High performance semiconductor optical amplifiers

 Advanced optoelectronics device fabrication technologies

 Nonlinear optical devices and all-optical signal processing

 Electro-optic modulators and related advanced modulation format technologies

 Advanced radio-over-fiber devices and related technologies

 Intelligent optoelectronic devices and optical switching

 Grating-based devices and related technologies

 Nano technologies and their application in optoelectronics devices

 Slow and fast light devices and related technologies

 Free-space communications related devices and technologies

 New optoelectronic device materials and processing

l  Medical and biological applications 

 Biomedical optics

 Laser medical diagnostics and therapeutics 

 Optical coherence tomography

 Advanced biological microscopy

 Photochemistry and photobiology

 Laser tissue interactions and laser surgery

 Minimally invasive optical diagnostics

 Photo-acoustic techniques

 Optics in biotechnology