January 1, 2005
      
                  
        
  Author(s)
  Kent B. Rochford
 
       
            
    
    
        SOFM 2004 took place September 28-30, and was hosted by NIST's Optoelectronics Division in Boulder, Colorado, in cooperation with the Optical Society of America and the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society. It brought scientists from 15 countries, and