CLEO/Europe Keynote talks

ANATOLY ZAYATS

King’s College London, UK

King’s College London, UK

Nonlinear optics with nanoparticles and metamaterials

Weak nonlinearity of conventional materials can be enhanced by their nanostructuring. We will overview recent developments and trends in engineering spectral and temporal response of coherent and incoherent optical nonlinearities with dielectric, plasmonic and hybrid nanoparticles, nanostructures and metamaterials.

CLARA SARACENO

Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

High power ultrafast moves into the Terahertz domain

We discuss latest advances in high average power laser driven THz sources, discuss limitations and present future applications.

FRANCESCA CALEGARI

Synchrotron DESY, Hambourg, Germany

Synchrotron DESY, Hambourg, Germany

Ultrafast attosecond and few-fs sources for control of molecular reactivity at the electron time scale

Attosecond science offers formidable tools for investigating electronic processes. An overview on developments for compact few-femtosecond UV and attosecond VUVsoft-x ray sources, together with their application for studying charge migration in chiral molecules, is presented.

TOBIAS KIPPENBERG

EPFL, Lausanne , Switzerland

EPFL, Lausanne , Switzerland

Ultra-low loss hybrid silicon nitride integrated photonics: from chipscale frequency combs, frequency agile lasers to Erbium amplifiers on chip

Recent advances allowed to create ultra-low-loss, meter-long waveguides in silicon nitride. I will review advances of this technology, from chipscale frequency combs, parametric amplifiers, ultra-narrow linewidth lasers with fiber laser-coherence, and erbium amplifiers on chip.

EQEC Keynote talks

STEFAN SKUPIN

Institut Lumière Matière (ILM), Université de Lyon, France

Institut Lumière Matière (ILM), Université de Lyon, France

Air photonics

Interacions of ionizing ultrashort laser pulses in ambient air are frequenly exploited in nonlinear photonics. We review major applications ranging from femtosecond filamentation and pulse compression to broadband THz generation and describe challenges and trends.

THOMAS UDEM

Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (MPI) Garching, Germany

Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (MPI) Garching, Germany

Laser spectroscopy as a probe for physics beyond the standard model

Precision spectroscopy of atomic hydrogen and other simple atomic systems is required for testing quantum electrodynamics, the determination of fundamental constants and to probe for physics beyond the Standard Model.

HUI CAO

YALE University, New Haven, USA

YALE University, New Haven, USA

Physics and application of complex lasers

A complex laser supports many spatio-temporal modes that interact nonlinearly with the gain material. We have controlled spatio-temporal dynamics of many-mode lasers and applied them to speckle-free imaging, holography and parallel ultrafast random number generation.

KESTUTIS STALIUNAS

Polytechnic University of Catalonia and ICREA, Barcelona, Spain

Polytechnic University of Catalonia and ICREA, Barcelona, Spain

Laser transverse patterns control by nonhermitian actions

The classical spatial pattern formation theory optical vortices, spatial solitons, optical turbulence in broad area lasers will be revised. New mechanisms of pattern control, in particular the turbulence control by nonhermitian background potentials, will be presented.

Jesper Mørk

Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Lyngby, Denmark

Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Lyngby, Denmark

Semiconductor nanolasers

A new generation of semiconductor nanolasers with ultralow thresholds and important applications in integrated photonics is emerging. The talk gives an overview of recent experimental and theoretical progress, highlighting the interesting physics and new opportunities.

MILES PADGETT

University of Glasgow, UK

University of Glasgow, UK

Imaging at the single-photon limit using homodyne detection

Using homodyne detection we obtain images in the short-wave infrared region of the spectrum with an illumination flux of order one photon per image pixel despite the camera having a noise floor one to two order of magnitude higher.