Invited Speakers
Solid State Lasers
Wavelength tuned mid-IR lasers based on Cr2+-doped single-crystalline or polycrystalline chalcogenides with 2.1 μm pumping
O. Antipov, Nizhny Novgorod State Univ., Russia
Yb-doped high power cryogenic amplifiers
M. Pergament, CFEL, Germany
Extending the parameter space of ultrafast laser technology by multi-pass post-compression
Ch. Heyl, DESY, Germany
Ablation-cooled ultrafast laser-material ablation at GHz repetition rates
Ö. Ilday, Bilkent Univ., Turkey
Ultrafast Thin-Disk Amplifiers
Th. Metzger, TRUMPF Scientific Lasers GmbH + Co, Germany
Progress in FeZnSe femtosecond lasers/amplifiers and their application for driving extreme nonlinear optics
E.A. Migal, Lomonosov Moscow State Univ., Russia
Polarization dynamics in ultrafast thulium fiber lasers
M. Sander, Boston Univ., USA
High Power Lasers: Solid State, Gas and Hybrid
Optically pumped rare gas lasers in RFNC-VNIIEF
Yu. Adamenkov, Russian Federal Nuclear Center – VNIIEF, Russia
Near-IR lasing in caesium vapour
A. Babin, Russian Federal Nuclear Center – VNIIEF, Russia
Compact Multifunctional Cryogenic Slab RF Discharge Carbon Monoxide Lasers and Their Applications
A. Kozlov, Lebedev Physical Institute RAS, Russia
Terahertz generation from femtosecond plasma channels
O. Kosareva, Moscow State Univ., Russia
Adaptive optics for aberration correction in petawatt lasers
A. Kudryashov, Inst. of Geosphere Dynamics, Russia
Formation of radiation divergence on the THL-100 laser system
V. Losev, High-Current Electronics Inst. SB RAS, Russia
Nanosecond Nd:glass Laser with Variable Radiation Coherence of "Kanal-2" Facility
A. Sahakyan, Lebedev Physical Inst. RAS, Russia
Formation of Low-Coherence Laser Beams in Dense Mixtures of Solid-State Microparticles and Liquids
Yu. Senatsky, Lebedev Physical Inst. of RAS, Russia
The progress on the OPCPA front end for SEL-100PW laser facility
Yi Xu 1, X. Wang 1, X. Lu 1, Ya. Li 1, Yu. Peng 1, X. Liang 1, Yu. Leng 1,2, R. Li 1,2,3; 1 - Shanghai Inst. of Optics and Fine Mechanics (SIOM), CAS, China; 2 - Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, Univ. of CAS, China; 3 - CAS Center for Excellence in Ultra-intense Laser Science, China
Semiconductor Lasers, Materials and Applications
Mode locked laser diodes by using highly stacked InAs quantum dot on InP(311)B substrate
K. Akahane, National Inst. of Information and Communications Technology, Japan
Lasers with asymmetric barrier layers: Obstacles toward ideal performance
L. Asryan, Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State Univ., USA
Towards mid- and far-infrared HgCdTe-based lasers
V. Gavrilenko, Inst. for Physics of Microstructures RAS, Russia
Room Temperature Macroscopic Quantum Phase Transitions: Superfluorescence in Hybrid Perovskites
K. Gundogdu, North Carolina State Univ., USA
Progress of high efficiency UVC LEDs and challenge to UVC LDs
H. Hirayama, RIKEN, Japan
THz quantum cascade lasers with two-photon emission in the gain module
R. Khabibullin, Inst. of Ultra-high Frequency Semiconductor Electronics of RAS, Russia
Spatially modulated photonic-crystal lasers for vector beams generation
K. Kitamura, S. Noda, Kyoto Inst. of Technology, Japan
Bright laser produced x-ray source based on interaction of solid Xe target and high fluence fs laser pulses
O. Khodykin, KLA, USA
Recent advances of VCSEL photonics for optical interconnects and 3D sensing
F. Koyama, Inst. of Innovative Research, Tokyo Inst. of Technology, Japan
Semiconductor optical amplifier for time-of-flight optical phased array LiDAR system
Y. Nakano, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan
Laser diodes amplified in fibre
M. Odnoblyudov, Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic Univ., Russia
DFB cavity design for perovskite lasers
F. So, North Carolina State Univ., USA
Thick-film SiN platform for hybrid integrated lasers
A. Stroganov, LIGENTEC SA, Switzerland
Laser Beam Control
High-power discrete vortex with phase locked lasers
V. Dev, V. Pa; Indian Inst. of Technology Ropar, India
Requirement for dynamic characteristics of adaptive optical systems
V.P. Lukin, V.E. Zuev Inst. of Atmospheric Optics SB RAS, Russia
Orbital Poincaré solid-state lasers
T. Omatsu, Chiba Univ., Japan
Generation of circular polarization under tight focusing condition of linearly polarized light
S.S. Stafeev 1,2, V.D. Zaicev 1,2, V.V. Kotlyar 1,2; 1 - IPSI RAS – Branch of the FSRC “Crystallography and Photonics” RAS, Russia; 2 - Samara National Research Univ., Russia
Noble metal selenides for all-optical switching"
J. Wang, I. Kislyakov, Shanghai Inst. of Optics and Fine Mecanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Intense high-order harmonics and attosecond pulses carrying angular momentum
J. Wang1, S. G. Rykovanov2, 1- Shanghai Inst. of Optics and Fine Mechanics, CAS, China, 2 - Center for Computational and Data-Intensive Science and Engineering, Skolkovo Inst. of Science and Technology, Russia
Super-Intense Light Fields and Ultra-Fast Processes
Laser based source of electrons/ions for nuclear medicine and nuclear waste transmutation
A.V. Brantov 1,2, V.G. Lobok 1,2, O.E. Vais 1,2, S.G. Bochkarev 1,2, V.Yu. Bychenkov1,2; 1- Lebedev Physics Inst. RAS; 2 Dukhov Research Inst. of Automatics (VNIIA), Russia
Lightwave control of relativistic plasma mirrors
R. Lopez-Martens, LOA, France
Strong-field QED processes in the presence of laser beams of complex space-time structure
A. Di Piazza, MPI for Nuclear Physics, Germany
Dynamic stabilization of plasma instability
Sh. Kawata, Utsunomiya Univ., Japan
Lasers and Systems for Imaging, Green Photonics and Sustainability
Spectroscopic monitoring of atmospheric mercury pollution - a 40-year experience
S. Svanberg, Lund Univ., Sweden, and South China Normal Univ., China:
Free Electron Lasers
Nanoscale dynamics probed by extreme ultraviolet transient gratings
F. Bencivenga, Elettra-Sincrotrone, Italy
Ultrafast optical and X-ray laser pulses unravel fundamental biological functions
M. Chergui, École polytechnique fédérale, Lausanne, Switzerland
Topological Phase Transitions and Nonlinear Interaction of X-Rays with Matter
S. Eisebitt, Max-Born-Inst., Germany
Ultrafast laser sources for free electron laser science and operation
I. Hartl, DESY, Hamburg, Germany
TELBE: From THz HHG in Dirac materials to Higgs spectroscopy of superconducors
S. Kovalev, HZBR/Dresden, Germany
New time-domain spectroscopic methods at Novosibirsk FEL
V.V. Kubarev1, E.N. Chesnokov2, 1 – Budker INP, 2 – Inst. of Chemical Kinetics and Combustion, Russia
XFEL phase-contrast imaging studies of micron-scale phenomena in a turbulent laser produced plasma
S. Pikuz, Joint Inst. for High Temperature RAS, Russia
FLASH: Present and new opportunities
E. Plönjes-Palm, FLASH/DESY, Hamburg, Germany
Nonlinear Photonics: Fundamentals and Applications
Tunable metasurfaces for frequency conversion at the nanoscale
C. De Angeles, Univ. Brescia, Italy
Theory of exciton-polariton lasing in 2D photonic lattices
O. Egorov, Univ. Jena, Germany
Non-linear polaritonics: from novel coherent light sources to optical digital and analogue computing
P. G. Lagoudakis, Skoltech, Russia
Squeezed light and interferometric sensitivity – a novel scheme, practical and robust
G. Leuchs, Max Planck Inst., Germany
Nonlinear metasurfaces for quantum state generation
Th. Pertsch, Univ. Jena, Germany
Microresonator as an atom
D. Skryabin, Univ. Bath, GB
Nonlinear terahertz photonics of nanocluster media
A.P. Shkurinov, Lomonosov Moscow State Univ., Russia
Linear and Nonlinear Surface Nanoscale Axial Photonics
M. Sumetsky, Aston Univ., GB
Exotic nonlinear optical effects in multimode fibers
S. Wabnitz, Univ. Roma, Italy
Resonant interaction of short pulses and continuous waves in laser systems
A.V. Yulin, ITMO Univ., Russia.
Optical Nanomaterials
Functions for describing non-exponential photoluminescence decay kinetics in semiconductor nanocrystals
A. L. Simões Gamboa, E N. Bodunov, ITMO Univ., Russia
Nonlinear and Quantum Photonics in Waveguide Systems
X(2) photonics in silicon nitride waveguides
C.-S. Brès, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
Neural networks for ultrafast nonlinear photonics in waveguides
Ch. Finot, Univ. Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France
Integrated waveguide technologies for quantum applications
A. L. Giesecke, AMO, Germany