Travel Support for the Sixteenth International Quantum Electronics Conference, Tokyo, Japan, July 18-21, 1988

这笔拨款为应邀参加1988年7月18日至21日在日本东京举行的第16届国际量子电子学会议（icec）的美国演讲者提供旅费支持。自1959年成立以来，icec一直是介绍和讨论量子电子学各个方面的主要国际论坛，强调激光和电光的基础科学研究。今年将进一步强调半导体激光器、光纤及其应用，这些领域目前正在日本进行深入研究。由于前往日本的高额差旅费给潜在的美国与会者造成了潜在的困难，并且需要在这个重要的国际会议上有来自美国科学界的强大代表，本提案要求为受邀演讲者和其他有成就的美国学术研究界的科学家提供部分差旅费支持。

This grant provides travel support for US invited speakers to attend the 16th International Quantum Electronics Conference (IQEC), Tokyo, Japan, 18-21 July 1988. IQEC has been, since its establishment in 1959, the major international forum for the presentation and discussion of all aspects of quantum electronics, emphasizing basic scientific research in lasers and electro-optics. Additional emphasis will be given this year to semiconductor lasers, fiber optics and their applications, areas which are now studied intensively in Japan. Because of the potential difficulties which high travel expenditures to Japan are causing for prospective US attendees and the need to have strong representation from the American scientific community at this important international conference, this proposal requests partial travel support for invited speakers and other meritorious scientists from the US academic research community.