Northern Optics 2006

The Northern Optics meetings are organized jointly by the Optical Societies of Denmark, Finland, Lithuania, and Sweden, and the Physical Societies of Estonia, Latvia, and Norway.

Northern Optics 2006 (NO2006) was the third meeting in the Northern Optics series. The previous meetings took place in Uppsala in 2000 and Espoo in 2003. The Norwegian Electro-optics meeting 2006 was incorporated in NO2006.

NO2006 was organized on behalf of the Norwegian Physical Society by

UniK (University Graduate Center, Kjeller)
FFI (Norwegian Defence Research Establishment)
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
University of Bergen

The conference was co-sponsored by

European Optical Society (EOS)
Laser and Electrooptics Society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE-LEOS):

Program

Program (PDF).

Proceedings

The proceedings are available through IEEE Xplore.

Exhibition

The following companies and institutions (listed alphabetically) took part in the exhibition and supported the conference financially:

Azpect Photonics AB, Södertälje, Sweden
BFi Optilas, Uppsala, Sweden
Cheos, Espoo, Finland
Cobolt AB, Stockholm, Sweden
Comsol AS, Trondheim, Norway
FLIR Systems AB, Danderyd, Sweden
Gammadata Norge, Holmestrand, Norway
Hamamatsu Photonics Norden AB, Solna, Sweden
Ignis Photonyx AS, Horten, Norway
Kista Photonics Research Center (KTH + Acreo), Kista, Sweden
Laser 2000 AB, Norrköping, Sweden
Norsk Elektro Optikk AS, Lørenskog, Norway
Optronic, Sweden
ORC and the Laser Competence Centre , Tampere, Finland
Parameter AB
Spiricon, Germany
VTT, Oulu, Finland

Sponsors

We are also grateful for financial support from the following companies and institutions (listed alphabetically):

FFI (Norwegian Defence Research Establishment), Kjeller, Norway
FOI (Swedish Defence Research Agency), Linköping, Sweden
id Quantique SA, Geneva, Switzerland
Norges forskningsråd (The Research Council of Norway)
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Department of Physics, Trondheim, Norway
Optoplan AS, Trondheim, Norway
Simrad Optronics, Oslo, Norway
Sintef, Norway
Telenor, Norway
Tomra, Asker, Norway

Bergen

Bergen is the major city of western Norway. It has many interesting attractions and is beautifully situated among mountains and fjords.

Photo: Bergen Reiselivslag / Willy Haraldsen

Tourist information

International program committee

Chairman: Prof. Mikael Lindgren, NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), Trondheim, Norway
Dr. Gunnar Arisholm, FFI (Norwegian defence research establishment), Kjeller
Prof. Alexandr Dementjev, Institute of Physics, Vilnius, Lithuania
Dr. Steen G. Hanson, Risø National Laboratory, Roskilde, Denmark
Prof. Martti Kauranen, Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland
Dr. Ulf Olin, Micronic Laser Systems AB, Sweden
Prof. Peeter Saari, Institute of Physics, University of Tartu, Estonia
Prof. Janis Spigulis, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia

Local organizing committee

Dr. Gunnar Arisholm (leader), FFI (Norwegian defence research establishment), Kjeller
Dr. Øyvind Frette, University of Bergen
Arild Hemstad, UniK (University Graduate Center), Kjeller
Prof. Mikael Lindgren, NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), Trondheim
Hellfrid Newman, UniK (University Graduate Center), Kjeller
Gerd Pettersen, UniK (University Graduate Center), Kjeller
Prof. Jakob J. Stamnes, University of Bergen
Prof. Aasmund Sudbø (editor, proceedings), UniK (University Graduate Center), Kjeller
Dr. Svein Winther, Unifob, Bergen

Links

Danish Optical Society
Finnish Optical Society
Norwegian Physical Society
SPIE/Baltics
Swedish Optical Society
European Optical Society
IEEE
IEEE-LEOS

Next NO-meeting

The next NO meeting will take place in 2009. The dates and location will be announced here some time in 2007.

Contact address

NO2006
UniK
Postboks 70
NO-2027 Kjeller
Norway

Fax: +47 6381 8146
E-mail: no2006(at sign)unik.no

Last update: 2007-04-25