Session Chair: Manijeh Razeghi, Northwestern Univ. (USA)

SPIE announces the Innovation Award in Quantum Sensing and Nano Electronics and Photonics at SPIE Photonics West OPTO. These awards will recognize the outstanding scientific contribution of students and outstanding scientists who present the most notable recent discoveries with broad impact in the areas of quantum sensing, nano electronics, and photonics. These discoveries should be innovative in that they represent a new paradigm or way of thinking which will have a broad impact in quantum science and their application for improving human life. Participants will give a 15-minute presentation in this Tuesday evening session chaired by Prof. Manijeh Razeghi. The winner(s) will be announced at the end of the session and will be awarded a commemorative plaque.
Applicants for this year are:

On-chip quantum secure communications
Taofiq K. Paraiso, Joseph A. Dolphin, Thomas Roger, Davide G. Marangon, Mirko Sanzaro, Robert I. Woodward, James F. Dynes, Andrew J. Shields, Toshiba Research Europe Ltd. (United Kingdom)

Phase-locked low spatial coherence emission in random quantum cascade lasers for hyperspectral nano-imaging in the THz range
Author(s): Alessandra Di Gaspare, Eva A. A. Pogna, Valentino Pistore, Elisa Riccardi, NEST, the National Enterprise for nanoScience and nanoTechnology (Italy), CNR-Istituto di Fotonica e Nanotecnologie (Italy), Scuola Normale Superiore (Italy); Harvey E. Beere, David A. Ritchie, Univ. of Cambridge (United Kingdom); Lianhe Li, Giles A. Davies, Edmund H. Linfield, Univ. of Leeds (United Kingdom); Andrea C. Ferrari, Univ. of Cambridge (United Kingdom); Miriam S. Vitiello, NEST, the National Enterprise for nanoScience and nanoTechnology (Italy), CNR-Istituto di Fotonica e Nanotecnologie (Italy), Scuola Normale Superiore (Italy)

Second-order nonlinear optical amplification in CMOS silicon
David Heydari, Stanford Univ. (United States); Mircea Cătuneanu, Tech. Univ. Dresden (Germany); Edwin Ng, Stanford Univ. (United States), NTT Research Inc. (United States); Jatadhari Mishra, Stanford Univ. (United States); Ryan Hamerly, NTT Research Inc. (United States), MIT (United States); Dodd J. Gray, Jr., MIT (United States); Marc Jankowski, Stanford Univ. (United States), NTT Research Inc. (United States); Martin M. Fejer, Stanford Univ. (United States); Hideo Mabuchi, Stanford Univ. (United States); Kambiz Jamshidi, Tech. Univ. Dresden (Germany)