CA – Solid-State Lasers
Ei Ei Brown, DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, 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
“High-power Q-switched near infrared cryogenic lasers”
Eduardo Granados CERN, Geneva Switzerland
“A simple pathway to widely tunable single-frequency light using monolithic diamond Raman resonators”
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
“The Berkeley Surface Emitting Laser (BerkSEL): a scale-invariant laser?”
Susumu Noda, Kyoto University, Japan
“Recent progress of photonic-crystal surface-emitting lasers”
Andres Remis, University of Montpellier, France
“Monolithic integration of GaSb diode lasers on a silicon photonic circuit”
CC – Terahertz Sources and Applications
Cristina Benea-Chelmus, EPFL – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland
“Miniaturised terahertz photonic chips”
Jeremy A. Johnson, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT USA
“THz Bandwidth Activation of Anharmonic Coupling in CdWO4”
Hartmut Roskos, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt, Germany
“Holographic THz Imaging by Fourier-Domain Detection with Feld-Effect Transistors, and the Quest for Phase Retrieval by Physics-Informed”
CD – Applications of Nonlinear Optics
Aurelien Houard, Ecole Polytechnique, CNRS, Paris, France
“Laser-guioded lightning using kHz filamentation at 1030 nm”
Michael Kues, Liebniz University Hannover, Germany
“Fully On-chip Laser-integrated Quantum Source of Entangled Photon States”
Marko Loncar, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA USA
“Nonlinear Photonics with Lithium Niobate”
Daria A. Smirnova, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
“Localized States in Nonlinear Topological Photonics”
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
“Laser based 3D printing of fused silica glass”
Roman Krahne, IIT – Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova, Italy
“Vibrations and Photophysics in White Light Emitting Two-Dimensional”
Laeticia Petit, Tampere University, Finland
“Glass-based materials for (bio)photonic applications”
Nathalie Vermeulen, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
“Post-2000 nonlinear optical materials and their characterization: data and best practices”
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”
Yu-Chieh Lin, RIKEN Center for Advance Photonics, Wako, Saitama, Japan
“Arbitrary CEP Manipulation for Spatiotemporal Control of Sub-cycle Optical Vortex”
Shima Gholam Mirzaeimoghadar, National Researche Council and University of Ottawa, Canada
“Sampling Mid-infrared Waveforms in Time and Space”
Felix Ritzowsky, Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron, Hamburg
“Single-Shot CEP Change Detection in a Nanoantenna Network”
Eiji Takahashi, RIKEN Center for Advanced Photonics, Wako, Saitama, Japan
“Novel ultrafast laser technology for generating gigawatt-class isolated attosecond pulses”
CG – High-field Laser and Attosecond Science
Nirit Dudovich, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
“Attosecond Interfermometry”
Paraskevas Tzallas, Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser, Heraklion, Greece
“Engineering optical Schrödinger “cat” and entangled 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 Chen, Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie de l’Atmosphère, Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale, Dunkerque, France
“Chemical sensing of trace gases and particulate matter with optical cavities”
Jana Jagerska, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromso, Norway
“Trace gas absorption spectroscopy on a chip”
Ronald K. Hanson, Stanford University, Stanford, USA (Recipient of the Applied Physics B Julius Springer Prize)
“Laser-based Sensing for Energy and Propulsion Sciences”
Korenobu Matsuzaki, RIKEN Center for advanced Photonics, Wako, Japan
“Ultrasensitive Concentration and Chirality Measurments Realized by Sub-Shot-Noise Absorption Spectroscopy Using Entangled Photon Pairs”
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
“Graphene Plasmonics – A Beyond 100 Ghz Technology”
Francesco Poletti, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
“Optical Communications: a hollow future ahead?”
Thomas Roger, Toshiba Europe Ltd, Cambridge, United Kingdom
“High-rate quantum key distribution over free-space links”
CJ
– Fibre and Guided Wave Lasers and Amplifiers
Ryszard Buczynski, University of Warsaw,Poland
“Development of active fibres with nanostructured cores”
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
“Coherently combined high power multicore fibers”
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
“All soft glass fiber components and sources”
CK – Micro- and Nano-Photonics
Francesco Ceccarelli, Instituto di Fotonica e Nonotechnologie (IFN-CNR), Milano, Italy
“Femtosecond-Laser Written Universal Photonic Processors”
Anais Dréau, Laboratoire Charles Coulomb, CNRS, Montpelier, France
“Photophysics of single color centers in silicon”
Leif Oxenløwe, DTU Fotonik , Lyngby, Denmark
“Optical Combs for High-Capacity Transmission and Energy-Optimization of Long-Haul Fiber Cables”
Joyce Poon, Max-Planck-Institute for Microstructure Physics, Halle, Germany
“Lighting up the brain: Implantable neural probes using wafer-scale integrated photonics”
CL
– Photonic Applications in Biology and Medicine
Keisuke Goda, University of Tokyo, Japan
“Unconventional SERS: from meta/plasmon-free to wearable/flexible SERS”
Johann Danzl, Institute of Science and Technology (ISTA), Austria
“Reconstructing brain tissue with light microscopy”
Hadrien M.L. Robert, Sorbonne Université, Paris
“Thermal wavefront shaping: Application in fluorescent microscopy”
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
“Spatially and time resolved maps of transient nonequilibrium states in pulsed laser ablation in liquid from large-scale atomistic modeling”
Ioanna Zergioti, National Technical University, Athens, Grece
“Laser Induced Forward Transfer: Digital Additive Manufacturing solution for electronics”