会议名称(英文)： The Nature of Light: Light in Nature V
所属学科： 光学
开始日期： 2014-08-17
结束日期： 2014-08-21
所在国家： 美国
所在城市： 美国
具体地点： San Diego, California, United States
主办单位： 国际光学和光子学学会
摘要截稿日期： 2014-02-03
联系电话： +1 360 685 5600
E-MAIL： saral@spie.org
会议网站： http://spie.org/OPO/conferencedetails/light-in-nature
会议背景介绍：
In the field of optical science and engineering there are many aspects of light we take for granted; yet, do we truly understand and appreciate the nature of light in the world around us? In the natural world there are many fascinating and beautiful effects involving optics. Most of the time we take these effects for granted. Each day optical scientists and engineers discover more about the natural world when we see how new technologies such as photonic crystals mimic the natural world. Photonic crystal-like structures in peacock feathers give the plumes their color. Similar structures in butterfly wing scales provide their iridescent colors.
Beyond these structures there are effects in the natural world such as the aurora borealis or things as everyday as rainbows and oil slicks. Polarization and color effects brighten up our world. When we look more closely we notice that plants glow and self-bioluminescence provides information about the state of health of organisms. We may even wonder why it is that parrots have a visual response much further into the ultraviolet than we do.
征文范围及要求：
As optical scientists and engineers, most of us became fascinated with light at some point in our lives. We observe things in our everyday life that we don't often explore or think about, yet there are researchers who spend their careers looking at these effects in nature. This conference invites papers having to do with light in the natural world and research involving practical and experimental aspects of optics in nature:
the nature of light
how to describe light in nature
how to use light in nature
optics in nature
color in nature
vision in nature
bio-inspired optics
atmospheric optics
mechanisms behind beautiful effects in nature
color effects
polarization effects
visual response in the natural world
unusual means of creating and detecting light - such as sonoluminescence
information transfer in the natural world via light and photons
photonic crystal-like and similar structures in nature
light in art and media
light in biological systems
self-bioluminescence and biophotonic effects in plants, insects, and animals
do organisms communicate with light?
what can we learn from the interaction of light in nature on all scales? - from the macro to the nano?
what is present in the dark? - astronomical topics such as dark energy? dark matter?
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