Invited Speakers
Solid-State Lasers
High-efficiency repetitively-pulsed 2.3-3.2 μm lasers based on Cr2+-doped single-crystalline or polycrystalline chalcogenides with low-quantum-defect pumping
O. Antipov, Inst. of Applied Physics of RAS, Russia
Burst-mode fiber lasers
Ö. Ilday, Bilkent Univ., Turkey
Wide-angle NOPCPA: towards single-cycle 100PW laser
J. Kawanaka, Osaka Univ., Japan
Thin-Disk regens and parametric amplifiers
P. Kroetz, TRUMPF Scientific Lasers GmbH + Co. KG, Germany
Near-infrared femtosecond direct laser written waveguide lasers
P. Loiko, CIMAP, Univ. de Caen, France
A high-average-power, 1.5/3.2-µm OPCPA driver for a high-flux soft X-ray beamline and attosecond strong-field spectroscopy
M. Mero, MBI, Germany
"Vilnius OPCPA scheme" and progress on the way to 15 TW, CEP-stable sub-6.5fs SYLOS-2 system
A. Michailovas, EKSPLA, Lithuania
Towards 100 TW, sub-5-fs, CEP-stable optical parametric synthesizer for attosecond and laser-plasma physics
L. Veisz, Umea, Sweden
High Power Lasers: Fiber, Solid State, Gas and Hybrid
New kinetic data for processes with excited oxygen and iodine molecules
V. Azyazov, Samara Branch of the Lebedev Physical Inst. RAS, Russia
Experimental and Theoretical Studies of the Diode Pumped Alkali Lasers
B. Barmashenko, Ben-Gurion Univ. of the Negev, Israel
Coherent beam combination of an DPSSL using a solid state stimulated Brillouin scattering phase conjugate mirrors
H.J. Kong, Korea Advanced Inst. of Science and Technology (KAIST),
Republic of Korea
Deformable mirrors for high-power lasers
A. Kudryashov, Inst. of Geospheres Dynamics RAS, Russia
A new approach for terahertz gas lasers
J.-F. Lampin, Inst. of Electronics, Microelectronics and Nanotechnology, Lille Univ., France
40 TW laser system in the visible spectrum range
V.F. Losev, Inst. of High Current Electronics SB RAS, Russia
High-power ultrafast thin-disk lasers for Terahertz science
C. Saraceno, Ruhr Univ. Bochum, Germany
Laser technologies for interferometric gravitational wave detectors developed by IAP RAS
A.V. Starobor, Inst. of Applied Physics RAS, Russia
Semiconductor Lasers, Materials and Applications
Highly nonlinear metasurfaces based on intersubband polaritons
M. Belkin, Technical Univ. of Munich, Germany
Quantum Dot Materials as the Enabling Approach for Compact Terahertz Setups
A. Gorodetsky, ITMO Univ., Russia
Advances in III-V/Si photonic integration technology
M. Guina, Tampere Technical Univ., Finland
Hybrid solutions for the advanced high power laser technologies
R. Gumenyuk, Tampere Technical Univ., Finland
Choosing the best laser for Brillouin spectroscopy and microscopy applications
I. Kabakova, Univ. of Technology Sydney, Australia
Self-injected mode locked lasers for frequency comb generation and application to multi-Terabit/s data transmission
K. Merghem, Inst. Polytechnique de Paris, France
Mid-IR and THz Stimulated Emission in HgCdTe QW Heterostructures with Dielectric and Phonon Waveguides
S. V. Morozov, Inst. for Physics of Microstructures of RAS, Russia
Revival of laser materials with new pump diodes
B. Resan, Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz (FHNW), Switzerland
Frequency conversions and coherent light controlling by means of periodically poled crystals
V. Ya. Shur, Ural Federal Univ., Russia
Manipulation of Optical Modes in OLEDs
F. So, North Carolina State Univ., USA
VCSEL packaging in flexible carriers for interconnects, sensing and imaging
G. Van Steenberge, Gent Univ., Belgium
Noise properties of gigahertz frequency combs
T. Südmeyer, Univ. de Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Mid IR silicon based lasers for spectroscopy
W. Whelan Curtin, Cork Inst. of Technology, Ireland
Laser Beam Control
Two-photon vision: seeing with invisible radiation
P. Artal, Univ. of Murcia, Spain
Liquid crystal technology for dynamic beam control by spin-orbit coupling
E. Brasselet, CNRS, Univ. of Bordeaux, France
Ultrashort pulse lasers applied to vision
Ch. Schwarz, Univ. Hospital Tübingen, Germany
Underwater laser beam propagation, characterization of oceanic turbulence and possibilities of its compensation
S. Gładysz, Fraunhofer Inst. of Optronics, Germany
Polymer-based 1D photonic crystals for optical switching
I.M. Kislyakov, Shanghai Inst. of Optics and Fine Mechanics, CAS, China
Nonlinearity and Optical rectification in Photodetectors
J.-M. Nunzi, Queen's Univ., Canada
Controlling light's OAM for telecommunications
J. Wang, Wuhan National Lab. for Optoelectronics, Huazhong Univ. of Science and Technology, China
Bacterially synthesized tellurium nanostructures for broadband ultrafast photonic applications
J. Wang, Shanghai Inst. of Optics and Fine Mechanics, CAS, China
Super-Intense Light Fields and Ultra-Fast Processes
Laser-triggered generation of charge wave and related phenomena
A. Brantov, V.Bychenkov, Lebedev Phisical Inst. RAS, Russia
Enhancing and single-shot measuring the temporal contrast of ultraintense laser pulses
Jun Liu, Shanghai Inst. of Optics and Fine Mechanics, China
Collective absorption of laser radiation in plasma at sub-relativistic intensities
V. Tikhonchuk, CELIA, France
Collimated electron bunches from relativistic laser solid interaction
A. Savel’ev, Moscow State Univ., Russia
Lasers and Systems for Imaging, Green Photonics and Sustainability
Lidar profiling of biological targets
M. Brydegaard, Lund Univ., Sweden
Morpho-mechanics of human collagen unveiled by correlative optical microscopy
R. Cicchi, National Inst. of Optics, National Research Council, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy &
European Lab. for Non-linear Spectroscopy (LENS), Italy
Diode-Pumped Alexandrite lasers for space-borne atmospheric and vegetation lidar
M. Damzen, Imperial College London, UK
Effects of focused NIR lasers on cell behavior and cell membrane
R. A. Foucat, CFATA - UNAM Campus Juriquilla, México
High-throughput live imaging using Light sheet microscopy
E. Gualda, ICFO, Spain
Lasers for MERLIN mission, development of ESA-AIRBUS laser platform for satellites
M. Hoefer, Fraunhofer Inst. for Laser Technology, Germany
Multi-species emitters and differential absorption Lidars for green-house gases monitoring
M. Raybaut, Office National d'Etudes et de Recherches Aérospatiales (ONERA), France
Bringing people together the light sheet way
E. G. Reynaud, Univ. College Dublin, Ireland
On the spectroscopic properties of plants and the assignment of Vegetation Indices to specific crops
E. Solarte, Univ. del Valle, Colombia
Free Electron Lasers
Nanoscale dynamics probed by extreme ultraviolet transient gratings
F. Bencivenga, Elettra-Sincrotrone, Italy
Optical magnetic skyrmion nucleation and nonlinearity in X-ray-matter
interaction
S. Eisebitt, Max-Born-Inst., Germany
HIgh-resolution X-ray phase-contrast imaging of plasma hydrodynamics
phenomena with XFEL probe
S. Pikuz, Joint Inst. for High Temperature RAS, Russia
Ultrafast dynamics of spatial magnetic fluctuations in Co/Pt
multilayers studied at European XFEL
I. Pronin, ITMO Univ., Ioffe Inst. RAS, Russia
Nonlinear Photonics: Fundamentals and Applications
Light beam and soliton dynamics in quadratically nonlinear waveguides with gain and loss
F. Abdullaev, Physical-Technical Inst., Uzbekistan
Self-induced transparency mode-locking: towards to single-cycle pulses
R. Arkhipov, St.-Petersburg State Univ., Russia
Dirac-like photonic lattices: from pseudospin to topology
Zh. Chen, Tianjin, China
Wave Complexity and Computing
C. Conti, Univ. Roma, Italy
Advances in THz generation by nonlinear metasurfaces
T. Ellenbogen, Tel Aviv, Israel
Addressing chaos: observation and manipulation of chimera-like states in driven resonators
M. Erkintalo, The Univ. of Auckland, New Zealand
Integrated optical neurophotonic chip for universal computing
A. Fratalocchi, KAUST, Saudi Arabia
Giant Kerr nonlinearity, slow-light bullets & vortices, and their active manipulation in Rydberg atomic gases
G. Huang, East China Normal Univ., China
The nonlinearity of the refractive index of condensed matter in the terahertz spectral range.
S. Kozlov, ITMO Univ., Russia
Geometric Phase and Nonlinear Photonic Metasurface
G. Li, Shenzhen, China
Transformation of the orbital and spin parts of the angular momentum of laser beams in the course of their interaction in nonlinear gyrotropic media in the framework of classical electrodynamics
V. Makarov, Moscow State Univ., Russia
Optical Wave Turbulence
S. Nazarenko, Univ. Cote D’Azur, Nice, France
Nonlinear optical interactions of topological plasmons in graphene metasurfaces
N.C. Panoiu, Univ. College London, UK
Tailored light generation in nonlinear metasurfaces
T. Pertsch, Univ. Jena, Germany
Terahertz photonics of dense medium: from gas to liquid
A. Shkurinov, Moscow State Univ., Russia
A journey from the Kerr to Chi_2 frequency combs in microresonators
D. Skryabin, Univ. Bath, UK
Gain-through-losses in nonlinear fibers: controlled instabilities and tunable frequency combs
K. Staliunas, Inst. Catalana de Recerca iEstudis Avancats, Univ. Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Nonlinear stage of modulational instability: towards global understanding
S. Trillo, Ferrara, Italy
Topological solitons in lasers and laser media with saturable absorption
N. Veretenov, Ioffe Inst., Russia
Symmetry breaking of solitons in parity-time-symmetric optical systems
J. Yang, Univ. of Vermont, USA
Multidecade supercontinua driven by ultrashort pulses in the mid-infrared
A. Zheltikov, Moscow State Univ., Russia
New nonlinear multimode fiber phenomena
M. Zitelli, Sapienza Univ. di Roma, Italy
Optical Nanomaterials
Nanowire photovoltaics
A. Fontcuberta i Morral, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland
Nanostructures for the manipulation of THz radiation
A. Gallant, Durham Univ., UK
HVPE growth of III-V and III-N nanowires
E. Gil, Inst. Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France
Nonlinear and Quantum Integrated Optics
Nonlinear self-guiding in biological suspensions
Z. Chen, San Francisco State Univ., USA
Generation and manipulation of high dimensional quantum states of light with AlGaAs chips
S. Ducci, Univ. Paris Diderot, France
Chasing Dissipative Light-Bullets in Vertical External-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers
M. Giudici, Univ. Côte d'Azur, Inst. de Physique de Nice, France
Nonlinear dielectric metasurfaces for imaging and quantum applications
D. Neshev, Australian National Univ., Australia
Silicon core fibres for integrated nonlinear photonics
A. Peacock, Univ. Southampton, UK
Quadratic optical frequency combs: towards a new platform for multi-octave microcombs
S. Wabnitz, Sapienza Univ. di Roma, Italy
6th International Symposium on Lasers in Medicine and Biophotonics
