CLEO/Europe Keynote talks
ANATOLY ZAYATS
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
