Invited talks
CLEO/Europe 2013 - Invited Speakers
CLEO/Europe 2013:
CA - Solid-state Lasers
Chair: David Burns, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Collier John, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK
High-Efficiency 10 J Diode Pumped Cryogenic Gas Cooled Yb:YAG Multislab Amplifier
Galzerano Gianluca, Istituto di Fotonica e Nanotecnologie - CNR, Milano, Italy
Mid-IR Solid-State Lasers for Spectroscopy and Metrology Applications
Rotermund Fabian, Ajou University, Korea
Carbon Nanotube and Graphene Saturable Absorbers: a New Generic Mode-Locking Technology?
Sheik-Bahae Mansoor, University of New Mexico, USA
Solid State Crycoolers: Developments and Prospective
CB - Semiconductor Lasers
Chair: Guido Giuliani, Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
Delfyett Peter J., CREOL, University of Central Florida, USA
Optical Frequency Combs using Ultrafast Diode Lasers: Techniques and Applications
Hader Jörg, University of Arizona, USA
Efficiency droop of GaN Lasers and LEDs
Heck Martijn, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Multi-wavelength Hybrid Silicon Lasers for Optical Interconnects
Hinkov Borislav, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Recent Progress on Single-mode Quantum Cascade Lasers
CC - Terahertz Sources and Applications
Chair: Jérôme Faist, ETH - Institute for Quantum Electronics, Zürich, Switzerland
Kadowaki Kazuo, Tsukuba University, Japan
THz Emission from Intrinsic Josephson Junctions in High Tc Superconductors for Imaging Applications
Koch Martin, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany
THz Generation Using Non-linear Optics in VECSEL and Applications
CD - Applications of Nonlinear Optics
Chair: Ulf Peschel, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany
Brunner Daniel, Instituto de Fisica Interdisciplinar y Sistemas Complejos, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
High Speed, High Performance All-optical Information Processing Utilizing Nonlinear Optical Transients
Fratalocchi Andrea, KAUST, Saudi Arabia
Enlightening the Rules of Disorder: from Broadband Energy Harvesting to Many Body Solitons and Light Condensation Dynamics
Kartashov Daniil, TU Wien, Austria
Nonlinear Optics with High Power Femtosecond Mid-infrared Pulses
Piccardi Armando, Roma University, Italy
Electro-optic Routing of Spatial Solitons in Nematic Liquid Crystals
Rigneault Hervé, Aix Marseille University, France
Label Free Nonlinear Imaging in Microscopy and Endoscopy
CE - Optical Materials, Fabrication and Characterization
Chair: Stefan Kück, Physikalisch- Technische Bundesanstalt, Braunschweig, Germany
Christen Jürgen, Otto-von-Guericke-University, Magdeburg, Germany
Nano-scale Characterization of Semiconductors Using Helium Temperature Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy Cathodoluminescence
Noginov M. A., Norfolk State University, USA
Optical Gain in Metamaterials and Plasmonic Systems: from Loss Compensation to Stimulated Emission
Pollnau Markus, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
Engineering of Refractive Index and Doping Level of KY(1-x-y-z)Gd(x)Lu(y)Yb(z)(WO4)2 Layers for a Cladding-side-pumped Channel Waveguide Laser
Samuelson Lars, Nanometer Structure Consortium at Lund University, Sweden
III-V and III-Nitride Nanowires for LED Applications
CF/IE - Ultrafast Science and Technology (joint topic area with IQEC 2013)
Chair: Giulio Cerullo, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy
Elsaesser Thomas, Max-Born Institute Berlin, Germany
Ultrafast Electronic Charge Dynamics in Solids Mapped by Femtosecond X-ray Diffraction
Renninger W.H., Cornell University, USA
High-performance Femtosecond Fiber Lasers Based on Self-Similar Pulse Propagation
Ropers Claus, Göttingen University, Germany
Strong-field Photoemission of Electron Pulses from Sharp Metallic Tips
Takahashi Eiji, RIKEN, Japan
Generation of Gigawatt-scale Isolated Attosecond Pulses
Tyler Cocker, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Imaging Ultrafast Nanoscale Dynamics with a THz-pulse-coupled STM
CG - High-field Laser Physics and Attosecond Technologies
Chair: Matthias Kling, Max Planck Institute, Garching, Germany
Dudovich Nirit, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel
Looking Inside the Recollision Process
Santra Robin, CFEL, Hamburg , Germany
Non-linear FEL Science
Wheeler Jonathan, Laboratoire d'Optique Appliquée, ENSTA-Paristech, Ecole Polytechnique, CNRS UMR 7639
Single Attosecond Pulses from Plasma Mirrors
CH - Optical Sensing and Metrology
Chair: Tomas Nasilowski, Military University of Technology (MUT), Warsaw, Poland
Bagci Tolga, QUANTOP, Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark
Optical Readout of Coupling Between a Nanomembrane and an LC Circuit at Room Temperature
Fleischer Jason W., Princeton University, USA
Phase-Space Measurement and Coherence Synthesis of Optical Beams
Newbury Nathan R., NIST Boulder, USA
Precision Metrology with Coherent Dual Frequency Combs
CI - Optical Technologies for Communications and Data Storage
Chair: Stefan Wabnitz, Università di Brescia, Brescia, Italy
Chandrasekhar Sethumadhavan and LIU Xiang, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, USA
400G/1T Superchannels Enabling Next Generation Optical Communications
Vivien Laurent, Université Paris Sud, Orsay, France
Low Energy Consumption and High Speed Germanium-Based Optoelectronic Devices
CJ - Fibre and Guided Wave Lasers and Amplifiers
Chair: Thomas Schreiber, Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering IOF, Jena, Germany
Eidam Tino, Institute of Applied Physics, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany
Mode Instabilities in Large Mode Area Fiber Amplifiers
Benabid Fetah, University of Bath, UK
Inhibited-coupling Guiding Hollow Core Photonic Crystal Fibers
Haxsen Frithjof, Laser Zentrum Hannover, Germany
Investigations on Positively Chirped Pulses in a Thulium-Doped Fiber Laser
CK - Micro- and Nano-Photonics
Chair: Valerio Pruneri, ICFO-The Institute of Photonic Sciences and ICREA, Castelldefels, Barcelona, Spain
Altug Hatice, Boston University, Boston, USA
Integrated Plasmonic NanoBiosensors
Matsuda Nobuyuki, NTT Basic Research Laboratories, Atsugi, Japan
Ultra-Narrowband Nonlinear Wavelength Conversion Using Coupled Photonic Crystal Nanocavities
Sorger Volker, George Washington University, Washington, USA
Graphene, Plasmonic and Silicon Optical Modulators
Wale Mike, Oclaro Inc., UK
Integrated Photonic Devices in III-V Semiconductors for Optical Communications
CL - Biophotonics and Applications
Chair: Kishan Dholakia, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, Fife, United Kingdom
Peterman Erwin, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Super Resolution Imaging of Single DNA-Protein Interactions
Joint session CL / ECBO:
Bowen Warwick, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Improved Precision in Optical Tweezers via Squeezed Light
Krafft Christoph, Institute of Photonic Technology, Jena, Germany
Combination of Optical Micromanipulation with Raman Spectroscopy for Cell Sorting
Bertolotti Jacopo, Complex Photonic Systems (COPS), MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
Noninvasive Fluorescence Imaging through Strongly Scattering Layers
Brasselet Sophie, Institut Fresnel, Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France
Imaging Molecular Organization of Cell Membranes and Proteins Assemblies using Polarimetric Fluorescence Microscopy
CM - Materials Processing with Lasers
Chair: Boris Chichkov, Laser Zentrum Hannover, Hannover, Germany
Serra Pere, Universitat de Barcelona, Applied Physics and Optics, Spain
Film-Free Laser Microprinting of Complex Materials
Courvoisier François, Université de Franche Comté, Institut FEMTO-ST, Besançon, France
Femtosecond Laser Micro/Nano Processing with Nondiffracting Airy and Bessel Beams
See also CM / LIM Joint Session
IQEC 2013 Invited Talks
IA - Quantum Optics
Chair: Axel Kuhn, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom
O'Brien Jeremy, University of Bristol, United Kingdom
Photonic Quantum Technologies
Ritter Stephan, Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, Garching, Germany
Quantum Networks based on Single Atoms in Optical Cavities
Taylor Michael, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Biological Measurement Beyond the Quantum Limit
IB - Quantum Information, Communication, and Simulation
Chair: Christine Silberhorn, Universität Paderborn, Germany
Kimble H. Jeff, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
Quantum Networks Enabled by Quantum Optics
H. Jeff Kimble is the 2013 winner of the Herbert Walther award. He is the Director of the Institute for Quantum Information and Matter (IQIM). His talk will be given during the CLEO/Europe-IQEC Awards Ceremony on Tuesday morning May, 14th 2013.
Roos Christian, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Trapped Ions for Simulating Interacting Spins
Sciarrino Fabio, Universita di Roma “La Sapienza", Italy
Quantum Simulation with Integrated Photonics
IC - Ultracold Quantum Matter
Chair: Giovanni Modugno, LENS / University of Florence, Italy
Donner Tobias, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Exploring Cavity-Mediated Long-Range Interactions in a Quantum Gas
Mueller Holger, UC Berkeley, USA
Matter-Wave Clocks: Measuring Time and Mass, and Testing General Relativity
ID – Precision Metrology and Frequency Combs
Chair: Ekkehard Peik, Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) Braunschweig, Germany
Hinds Edward, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Is the Electron Round? Particle Physics with Cold and Ultracold Molecular Beams
Papp Scott, NIST Boulder, USA
Microresonator Frequency Combs
IE/CF - Ultrafast Science and Technology (joint topic area with CLEO/Europe 2013)
Chair: Giulio Cerullo, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy
Elsaesser Thomas, Max-Born Institute Berlin, Germany
Ultrafast Electronic Charge Dynamics in Solids Mapped by Femtosecond X-ray Diffraction
Renninger W.H., Cornell University, USA
High-performance Femtosecond Fiber Lasers Based on Self-Similar Pulse Propagation in the Amplifier
Ropers Claus, Göttingen University, Germany
Strong-field Photoemission of Electron Pulses from Sharp Metallic Tips
Takahashi Eiji, RIKEN, Japan
Generation of Gigawatt-scale Isolated Attosecond Pulses
IF - Fundamentals of Nonlinear Optics
Chair: Sophie Brasselet, Fresnel Institute, Marseille, France
Crespo Helder, University of Porto, Portugal
Broadband Deep-Ultraviolet Femtosecond Pulse Generation by Third-order Nonlinear Optical Processes in Thin Media
Guerin William, University of Tübingen, Germany
Optical Parametric Oscillation with Distributed Feedback in Cold Atoms
IG – Dynamics, Instabilities, and Patterns
Chair: Thorsten Ackemann, Strathclyde University, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Kaiser Robin, INLN, Valbonne, France
Synchronization of N coupled dipoles: From Anderson to Dicke
Lanco Loïc, Laboratoire de Photonique et de Nanostructures, Marcoussis, France
Optical Nonlinearity with Few-Photon Pulses Using a Quantum Dot-Pillar Cavity Device
Marquardt Florian, University of Erlangen-Nüremberg, Erlangen, Germany
Collective Dynamics in Optomechanical Arrays
IH – Light-matter Interactions at the Nano-scale
Chair: Jean-Jacques Greffet, Institut d’Optique, Palaiseau, France
Atature Mete, Cambridge University, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Controlling Stationary and Flying Qubits for Solid-state Quantum Networks
Zia Rashid, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
Accessing Forbidden Transitions: Magnetic Dipoles and Electric Quadrupoles for Nano-optics
II – Plasmonics and Metamaterials
Chair: Stefan Maier, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
Aizpurua Javier, CSIC, San Sebastian, Spain
Quantum Effects in Tunnelling Plasmonics
Nordlander Peter, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA
Plasmonic Nanoantennas & Hot Electron Generation
JSI - Joint Symposium on Nuclear Photonics
Co-chairs: Franck Gobet, Centre Etudes Nucléaires, Bordeaux, France
Ken Ledingham, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Barty Chris P.J., Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, CA, USA
Nuclear Photonics with Extreme Gamma-ray Sources
Méot Vincent, CEA/Bruyères-le-Châtel, Arpajon, France
Nuclear Processes and Nuclear Decay Modifications in Plasmas
JSII - Joint Symposium on Photonics for Defence and Security
Co-chairs: Eric Lallier, Thales Research and Technology, Palaiseau, France
Jerry Meyer, Naval Research Labs, USA
Joachim Wagner, Fraunhofer IAF, Freiburg, Germany
Schunemann Peter, BAE Systems, Nashua, NH, USA
CW mid-IR OPO Based on OP-GaAs
Patel Kumar, Pranalytica Inc., Santa Monica, CA, USA
QCL Based Detection of Hazardous Substances
JSIII - Joint Symposium on Dynamics of Random Waves and Extreme Events
Co-chairs: Goëry Genty, Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland
Stefan Skupin, Max Planck Dresden, Germany
Cao Hui, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
Tailoring the Spatial Coherence of Random Laser
Conti Claudio, Università "La Sapienza" di Roma, Rome, Italy
Solitonization of the Anderson Localization
JSIV - Joint Symposium on Quantum Coherent Effects in Biology
Co-chairs: Philipp Kukura, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
Marcus Motzkus, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
Buchleitner Andreas, Albert-Ludwigs-University, Freiburg in Brisgau, Germany
Robust Design Principles for Quantum Enhanced Excitation Transport
Van Hulst Niek, ICFO, Castelldefels, Spain
Quantum Coherence Explored at the Level of Individual Light-Harvesting Complexes
JSV - Joint Symposium on Superconducting Optics
Co-chairs: Franco Nori, RIKEN Advanced Science Institute, Saitama, Japan
Robert Hadfield, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Johansson Göran, Chalmers University, Göteborg, Sweden
Producing Correlated Photons Using Superconducting Circuits
Nam Sae Woo, NIST, USA
Superconducting Single Photon Detectors
CLEO®/Europe 2013 Joint session with LIM:
Precision Processing in Micro to Nano Scale by Ultrafast Lasers
Co-chairs: Michael Schmidt, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany (LIM chair)
Boris Chichkov, Laser Zentrum Hannover, Hannover, Germany (CLEO CM chair)
Vitaly Konov, General Physics Insitute, Moscow, Russia
Delocalization of Focused Intense Ultra-short Laser Pulses in Air and Transparent Solids
Miyamoto Isamu, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
Welding of Glass/Glass and Si/Glass Using Ultrashort Laser Pulses
von Freymann Georg, University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany
Three-Dimensional Laser Lithography: Finer Features Faster
CLEO®/Europe 2013 Tech Focus Session jointly held with LIM:
Fibre and Solid-State Lasers - A Comparison from an Industrial Point of View - High Power
Co-chairs: Michael Schmidt, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany (LIM chair)
Clemens Hönninger, Amplitude Systèmes, Pessac, France (CLEO chair)
The session will comprise two sub-sessions (TF1 and TF2) including only invited speakers as follows:
Amler Hans, Photon Energy GmbH, Ottensoos, Germany
Ultrafast Solid State Laser with High Pulse Energy - New Applications
Gries Wolfgang, Directphotonics Industries GmbH, Berlin, Germany
Applications and Market Segments for Ultra-High Brightness Direct Diode Lasers
Grupp Michael, IPG Photonics GmbH, Burbach, Germany
Recent Developments in Fiber Lasers and their Applications
Hodgson Norman, Coherent Inc., Santa Clara, CA, USA
Ultrafast Fiber Lasers and Bulk Lasers for Material Processing - A Comparison
Liebowitz Jay, TeraDiode, Inc., Wilmington, MA, USA
Introduction to and Applications for Ultra High Brightness Wavelength Beam Combined Direct Diode Lasers
Löffler Klaus, Trumpf Laser- und Systemtechnik GmbH, Ditzingen, Germany
The Power of Choice of Solid State Lasers for Successful Industrial Laser Applications
