CA – Solid-State Lasers
Mark Dubinskii US Army Research Laboratory, Maryland USA
“Low-phonon-energy rare-earth-doped laser gain materials: crystals vs. glasses”
Miftar Ganija School of Physical Sciences and School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Adelaide
“Australia High-power Q-switched near infrared cryogenic lasers”
Eduardo Granados CERN, Geneva Switzerland
“Monolithically integrated widely tunable single-frequency diamond Raman lasers”
Zsuzsanna Heiner Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Germany
“Broadband direct frequency down-conversion to wavelengths beyond 5 µm using wide-gap non-oxide crystals”
Valentin Petrov Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy, Berlin Germany
“Towards few-optical-cycle generation from Thulium / Holmium mode-locked lasers”
CB – Semiconductor Lasers
Hui Deng University of Michigan, USA
“Different Phases of Polariton lasers”
Åsa Haglund Chalmers University, Göteborg, Sweden
“The quest for ultraviolet vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers”
Boubacar Kante, UC Berkeley, USA
“Scalable Berkeley surface emitting semiconductor laser”
Susumu Noda, Kyoto University, Japan
“Recent progress of photonic-crystal surface-emitting lasers”
CC – Terahertz Sources and Applications
Cristina Benea-Chelmus, EPFL – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland
Jeremy A. Johnson, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT USA
Hartmut Roskos, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt, Germany
CD – Applications of Nonlinear Optics
Tobias J. Kippenberg, EPFL – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne Switzerland
“Hybrid Integrated Nonlinear Photonics: From Chipscale frequency combs, Traveling wave parametric amplifiers to cryogenic Quantum interconnects”
Marko Loncar, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA USA
“Nonlinear Photonics with Lithium Niobate”
Daria A. Smirnova, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia –
“Yong Zhang Nanjing University China Nonlinear optics in 3D χ(2) structures”
CE – Optical Materials, Fabrication and Characterization
Michael Fokine, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Roman Krahne, IIT – Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova, Italy
Laeticia Petit, Tampere University, Finland
CF
– Ultrafast Optical Technologies
Laura Cattaneo, Max-Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg, Germany
“Liquid crystals meet strong-field physics: first attempts of HHG in soft matter”
Nirit Dudovich, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
“Resolving light-driven solid-state dynamics via multiband high-harmonic spectroscopy”
Yangyang Liu, University of Central Florida, USA
“Sampling Mid-infrared Waveforms in Time and Space”
Eiji Takahashi, RIKEN Center for Advanced Photonics, Wako, Saitama, Japan
“Advent of a gigawatt-class, tabletop, isolated-attosecond-pulse light source”
CG – High-field Laser and Attosecond Science
Sangeeta Sharma, Max-Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics, Berlin, Germany
“Femto- Phono- magnetism”
Paraskevas Tzallas, Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser, Heraklion, Greece
“Generation of optical Schrodinger ‘cat’ states using intense laser-atom interactions”
CH
– Optical Sensing and Microscopy
Subhasis Adhikari, Leiden Institute of Physics, The Netherlands
“Imaging circular dichroism of single nanoparticles using photothermal microscopy”
Weidong Cheng, Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie de l’Atmosphère, Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale, Dunkerque, France
“Chemical sensing (trace gas and particles) with optical cavities”
Jana Jagerska, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromso, Norway
“Trace gas absorption spectroscopy on a chip”
Ferruccio Pisanello, Instituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Center for Biomolecular Nanotechnologies, Arnesano (Lecce), Italy “Optical sensing in the brain with tapered optical fibers: from photoelectric free optrodes to implantable neuroplasmonics”
CI – Optical Technologies for Communications and Data Storage
Juerg Leuthold, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
“Highest-Speed Photonics – enabled by Plasmonics”
Francesco Poletti, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
“Optical Communications: a hollow future ahead?”
Andrew Shields, Toshiba Europe Ltd, Cambridge, United Kingdom
“Integrated Photonics for Quantum Secured Communications”
CJ
– Fibre and Guided Wave Lasers and Amplifiers
Ryszard Buczynski, University of Warsaw,Poland
“Nanostructructured core fibres – ultimate solution for large mode area fibres for fibre lasers? “
Maria Chernysheva, Leibniz Institute of Photonics Technology, Jena, Germany
“Omitting conventional saturable absorbers in mode-locked fibre lasers”
Jens Limpert, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany
“Recent development of coherently combined fiber CPA laser system”
Jeff Nicholson, OFS Laboratories, Somerset, NJ, USA
“Advances in mode scaling and TMI suppression in high-power fiber lasers”
Martin Rochette, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
“Harnessing the nonlinear gain of soft glasses for all-fiber light sources”
CK – Micro- and Nano-Photonics
Anais Dréau, Laboratoire Charles Coulomb, CNRS, Montpelier, France
“Photodynamics of single color centers in silicon”
Leif Oxenløwe, DTU Fotonik , Lyngby, Denmark
Joyce Poon, Max-Planck-Institute for Microstructure Physics, Halle, Germany
“Visible light integrated photonics on silicon”
CL
– Photonic Applications in Biology and Medicine
Keisuke Goda, University of Tokyo, Japan
“Ultrafast optical imaging for biology”
Elisabeth M.C. Hillman, Columbia University, USA
“Real-time volumetric microscopy of in vivo dynamics”
CM – Materials Processing with Lasers
Peter Zalden, European XFEL and University of Hamburg, Germany
“The switching cycle of Phase-Change Materials: Time-resolved diffraction after laser excitation”
Leonid Zhigilei, University of Virginia, USA
“Atomistic Modeling of Short Pulse Laser Induced Generation of Crystal Defects”
Ioanna Zergioti, National Technical University, Athens, Grece
“Laser Induced Forward Transfer: Digital Additive Manufacturing solution for electronics”