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| European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (ECLO) | |
|---|---|
| Name | European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (ECLO) |
| Status | Active |
| Frequency | Annual |
| Location | Rotating European venues |
| First | 19XX |
| Organizer | Consortium of universities and societies |
European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (ECLO) The European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (ECLO) is an annual scientific conference focused on laser science, photonics, and optical engineering, convening researchers, industry representatives, and policymakers from across Europe and beyond. The conference serves as a forum for exchange among participants affiliated with Optical Society (OSA), European Optical Society, CERN, Max Planck Society, École Polytechnique, and other institutions.
ECLO traces its origins to postwar European coordination in optics linking events associated with Nobel Prize in Physics, Royal Society, Institut d'Optique Graduate School, Fraunhofer Society, and Imperial College London. Early meetings involved collaborations with École Normale Supérieure, University of Cambridge, ETH Zurich, University of Oxford, and University of Paris researchers who had worked on projects at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Bell Labs, and Sandia National Laboratories. Over decades ECLO interacted with programs sponsored by European Commission, Horizon 2020, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, European Research Council, and CERN Openlab to expand themes introduced by pioneers associated with Theodore Maiman, Gordon Gould, Charles Townes, Arthur Schawlow, and Niels Bohr Institute. The conference evolved alongside milestone meetings such as CLEO, Photonics West, SPIE Photonics Europe, ICO Topical Meetings, and LASER World of Photonics.
ECLO covers topics spanning laser development, nonlinear optics, quantum optics, and applied photonics, reflecting research from groups at Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, National Physical Laboratory (United Kingdom), Technische Universität München, and Politecnico di Milano. Sessions often intersect with work by researchers at MIT, Stanford University, Princeton University, Harvard University, and California Institute of Technology on themes such as ultrafast lasers, fiber optics, semiconductor lasers, and integrated photonics. ECLO programming includes contributions referencing technologies developed at Philips Research, Thales Group, Nokia Bell Labs, Siemens, and Schneider Electric as well as laboratory advances from JILA, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, INRIA, CNRS, and CNR.
ECLO is governed by a steering committee composed of representatives from leading institutions including European Optical Society, SPIE, Optical Society (OSA), Fraunhofer Society, Max Planck Society, CNRS, and universities such as University of Manchester, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, and Universität Heidelberg. The governance model draws on precedents from International Council for Science, European Research Area, European Science Foundation, and advisory structures used by ERC Scientific Council, Horizon Europe, and UNESCO science programs. Sponsorship and funding have been secured through partnerships with entities like European Investment Bank, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, UK Research and Innovation, Agence Nationale de la Recherche, and industrial partners such as Bosch and Roche.
Annual ECLO meetings rotate among European cities historically including Paris, London, Berlin, Munich, Zurich, Stockholm, Madrid, Rome, Vienna, and Brussels. Each meeting features plenary lectures, parallel sessions, poster sessions, and workshops with invited speakers drawn from institutions like Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, National Institutes of Health, European Space Agency, European Southern Observatory, and Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics. Satellite workshops often partner with conferences such as CLEO Europe, SPIE Photonics West, Photonics Europe, and OSA Frontiers in Optics and host panels involving participants from European Commission, World Economic Forum, and European Patent Office.
ECLO bestows awards for lifetime achievement, young investigator excellence, and innovation, modelled after honors such as the Nobel Prize in Physics, Wolf Prize, Rolf Widerøe Prize, Max Born Award, and Coblentz Award. Recipients have included researchers affiliated with University of Cambridge, ETH Zurich, Imperial College London, Université PSL, and Delft University of Technology. Awards are adjudicated by committees with members drawn from Royal Society, Academia Europaea, European Academy of Sciences, and national academies like the French Academy of Sciences and German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.
Proceedings and special issues arising from ECLO meetings are published in journals and series managed by publishers and societies such as Optica Publishing Group, Springer Nature, IEEE Photonics Society, IOP Publishing, Wiley-VCH, and SPIE. Collections often appear in journals like Nature Photonics, Physical Review Letters, Optics Letters, Journal of Lightwave Technology, and Applied Physics Letters, with indexing through databases maintained by Web of Science, Scopus, and INSPIRE-HEP.
ECLO has contributed to advances in ultrafast spectroscopy, frequency comb technology, integrated photonics, and quantum communication, complementing breakthroughs associated with Huygens, Einstein, Planck, Heisenberg, and contemporary research groups at EPFL, TU Delft, University of Vienna, University of Copenhagen, and University of Oslo. Work presented at ECLO has influenced industrial applications developed by ASML, Ericsson, ABB, Roche Diagnostics, Philips Healthcare, and standards incorporated by ETSI, ITU, and IEEE. Notable topics first highlighted at ECLO include innovations later cited alongside research from Nobel Prize in Physics 2005, Nobel Prize in Physics 2018, and Nobel Prize in Physics 2022 laureates.