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CFP11ECL-PRT 978-1-4577-0533-5
2011 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and 12th European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO EUROPE/EQEC 2011)
Munich, Germany 22 – 26 May 2011
Pages 1-631
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
PLENARY TALKS Shining New Light on Old Questions in Quantum Mechanics (Plenary)..................................................................................................... 1
Ursula Keller
Solid-State Lasers Advances and Prospects (Plenary) ................................................................................................................................... 2Guenter Huber
Quantum Simulations with Cold Atoms, Molecules and Ions (Plenary)...................................................................................................... 3Peter Zoller
SOLID-STATE LASERS First Demonstration of Rare-Earth-Doped Anisotropic Ceramic Laser ..................................................................................................... 4
Jun Akiyama, Takunori Taira
Diode Pumped Alkali Lasers History, Current State and Perspectives ....................................................................................................... 5Boris Zhdanov, Michael Shaffer, Randall Knize
An HBr Oscillator-amplifier Pumped by a High-energy Ho YLF Laser System........................................................................................ 6M J Daniel Esser, Wayne Koen, Hencharl J Strauss, Cobus Jacobs, Lourens R Botha, Christoph Bollig
Laser Operation and Spectroscopic Investigations of Tm LuScO3............................................................................................................... 7Philipp Koopmann, Samir Lamrini, Karsten Scholle, Peter Fuhrberg, Klaus Petermann, Günter Huber
Efficient Gd3+, Lu3+ co-doped KY(WO4)2:Tm$3+ Channel Waveguide Lasers............................................................................................. 8Koop Van Dalfsen, Shanmugam Aravazhi, Dimitri Geskus, Kerstin Wörhoff, Markus Pollnau
Efficient Laser Operation of Ho Lu2O3 at Room Temperature .................................................................................................................... 9Samir Lamrini, Philipp Koopmann, Michael Schäfer, Karsten Scholle, Peter Fuhrberg, Klaus Petermann, Günter Huber
Influence of Temperature on Emission Cross Section and Laser Operation for Nd YVO4 Emitting Around 1064 nm....................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 10
Xavier Délen, François Balembois, Patrick Georges
30W Nd GdVO4 Oscillator Modelocked with Nonlinear Mirror ................................................................................................................ 11Gabrielle Thomas, Michael Damzen
Temperature Resolved Measurements of Absorption and Emission Cross Sections for Various Yb3+-doped Gain Media from 100k to Room Temperature ....................................................................................................................................................... 12
Jörg Körner, Joachim Hein, Hartmut Liebetrau, Martin Kahle, Mathias Lenski, Markus Löser, Mathias Siebold
Controllable Direction Switching of Vortex Output in a Nd YVO4 Bounce Laser ................................................................................... 13Masahito Okida, Je-Yen Huang, Yung-Fu Chen, Takashige Omatsu
Numerical Simulation of Thermal Effects in Composite Nd YAG Slab Laser Active Medium with Collinear Zig-zag Pumping ...................................................................................................................................................................................................... 14
Martynas Gabalis, Valdas Girdauskas, Aidas Aleknavicius, Andrejus Michailovas
High Average Power, Passively Q-switched Stigmatic Bounce Geometry Laser ...................................................................................... 15Gabrielle Thomas, Michael Damzen
Stimulated-brillouin-scattering Via Phase-conjugation-mirror for High-average-power Nd YAG Laser Systems ............................. 16Hidetsugu Yoshida, Koji Tsubakimoto, Hisanori Fujita, Noriaki Miyanaga, Yutaka Nagata, Hiroo Kinoshita
High-power Passively Mode-locked Nd GdVO4 Laser Using Single-walled Carbon Nanotubes as Saturable Absorber ............................................................................................................................................................................................................ 17
Hou-Ren Chen, Young-Gang Wang, Kuei-Huei Lin, Wen-Feng Hsieh
Intracavity Four Wave Mixing using Modulated Optical Feedback in a Diode-pumped Nd YVO4 Laser ........................................... 18Hervé Gilles, Sylvain Girard, Mathieu Laroche, Eric Lacot
Watt-level, Efficient and Radially Polarized Nd YAG Laser ...................................................................................................................... 19Xia Kegui, Li Jianlang
Laser Performances and Spectroscopic Investigation of Yb LuAG Grown by μPD Technique ............................................................. 20Agnesi Antonio, Pirzio Federico, Reali Giancarlo, Yongzhuan Zhang, Veronesi Stefano, Tonelli Mauro
Lasing Properties of New Yb-doped Borate Compounds with Varying Gadolinium and Yttrium Concentration .............................. 21Inka Manek-Hönninger, Véronique Jubera, Marie Chavoutier, Dominique Descamps, Philippe Veber, Matias Velazquez, Alain Garcia, Lionel Canioni
Thermooptical Distortions in a Nd YAG Slab with a Zigzag Beam Propagation ..................................................................................... 22Andrey Lyashedko, Galina Bufetova, Vladimir Seregin, Vladimir Tsvetkov, Ivan Shcherbakov
Steady-state Operation of Pulsed Pumped Self Mode Locked Nd YVO4 Laser using Electro-optical Feedback Control ............................................................................................................................................................................................................... 23
Hristo Iliev, Sergey Gagarsky, Algis Stalnionis, Ivan Buchvarov
1.2-ps CPQ System using an Yb YAG Thin Disk Regenerative Amplifier ................................................................................................ 24Martin Delaigue, Sandrine Ricaud, Clemens Hönninger, Eric Mottay
High-efficiency Solar Nd YAG Disc Laser with Optical Fiber Pumping ................................................................................................... 25Bruno Do Couto, Dawei Liang
Na,Nd co-doped Ca2MgSi2O7 Laser ................................................................................................................................................................ 26Hiroaki Nakao, Akira Shirakawa, Ken-Ichi Ueda, Ladislav Bohaty, Petra Becker, Alexander Kaminskii
Cavity Dumping of Single 19 ps Pulses from Passively Mode-locked Quasi-continuously Pumped Highly Doped Nd YAG Laser......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 27
Václav Kubecek, Michal Jelínek, Miroslav Cech, Petr Hiršl
Chaotic Mode-locking of Mid-IR Chirped-pulse Oscillator ........................................................................................................................ 28Vladimir Kalashnikov, Evgeni Sorokin, Irina Sorokina
High Power, Diode Side Pumped Er YAG Lasers ........................................................................................................................................ 29Arne Heinrich, Thomas Bragagna
High Efficiency 2066-nm Laser Based on Tm Lu2O3 Ceramics .................................................................................................................. 30Oleg Antipov, Nikita Zakharov, Anton Novikov, Valeriy Sharkov
Dynamics of Refractive Index Changes in Tm-doped Crystals Tm YAG and Tm YLF, and Ceramics Tm Lu2O3 ............................. 31Andrey Zinoviev, Remi Soulard, Oleg Antipov, Richard Moncorgé, Eugeniy Ivakin
Temporally Stretched Q-switched Pulses in the 2 μm Spectral Range ...................................................................................................... 32Ingo Rohde, Dirk Theisen-Kunde, Ralf Brinkmann
Numerical Optimization of a High-energy End-pumped Ho YLF Slab Amplifier ................................................................................... 33Oliver Collett, Christoph Bollig, Daniel Esser
Spectroscopic, Luminescent And Laser Properties Of Tm3+-doped Mixed NaLaGd Tungstates and Molibdates ............................... 34Fedor Bolschikov, Nikita Zakharov, Polina Ryabochkina, Denis Lis, Kirill Subbotin, Evgeny Zharikov, Oleg Antipov
High Energy Diode Pumped Er YSGG Laser at 3μm Transition............................................................................................................... 35Emma Arbabzadah, Simon Chard, Hemmel Amrania, Chris Phillips, Michael Damzen
Delivery of 4.45 μm Fe ZnSe Laser Radiation by Hollow Waveguide........................................................................................................ 36Helena Jelinkova, Michal Nemec, Jan Sulc, Mitsunobu Miyagi, Katsumasa Iwai, Hiroyuki Takaku, Maxim Doroshenko, Tasoltan Basiev, Vitaly Komar, Andriy Gerasimenko
Characterization of Delivered Resonantly Pumped 1645 nm Er YAG Laser Radiation by Hollow Glass Waveguide........................ 37Michal Nemec, Helena Jelinkova, Mitsunobu Miyagi, Katsumasa Iwai, Hiroyuki Takaku
Automation of the Alignment Process of a Solid State Laser Resonator ................................................................................................... 38Christian Brecher, Nicolas Pyschny, Vicente Paul Guerrero Lule
Non-resonant Feedback to Enhance Conventional Lasing in Advanced Materials.................................................................................. 39Luis Cerdán, Angel Costela, Inmaculada García-Moreno, Virginia Martín, Maria Eugenia Pérez-Ojeda
High-Power, Single-Frequency Ti Sapphire Laser Pumped by a Continuous-Wave Fiber Laser Green Source ................................. 40Suddapalli Chaitanya Kumar, Goutam Kumar Samanta, Kavita Devi, Stefano Sanguinetti, Majid Ebrahim-Zadeh
Microsecond Red Laser Pulses Via Overcoupled Intracavity Second Harmonic Generation................................................................. 41Roman Ostrowski
Strategies to Run an Ophthalmological CW Self-Raman Laser in Micro-second Pulsed Laser Regime............................................... 42Alessandro Mota, Giuliano Rossi, Tiago Ortega, Glauco Costal, Yuri Fontes, Fatima Yasuoka, Mario Stefani, Jarbas Castrro, Maria Paiva
Temperature Dependent Output Characteristics of Pr YAP Microchip Lasers at 747 nm and 662 nm Wavelengths ........................ 43Martin Fibrich, Helena Jelínková, Jan Šulc, Karel Nejezchleb, Václav Škoda
Automodulations Observation in an Extended Cavity Ti Sapphire Oscillator - Period Doubling and Chaos ...................................... 44Tomasz Kardas, Wojciech Gadomski, Bozena Ratajska-Gadomska, Piotr Wasylczyk
Frequency Stable Operation of a Pulsed Solid State Laser Oscillator Based on Gain Grating Holograms .......................................... 45Roland Ullmann, Robert Elsner, Axel Heuer, Ralf Menzel, Martin Ostermeyer
Self-Optimization of Robot-based Resistance Soldering for the Assembly of Optical Elements in Solid-State Laser Systems............................................................................................................................................................................................................... 46
Alexander Gatej, Nicolas Pyschny, Valentin Morasch, Peter Loosen, Christian Brecher
Rapidly Tunable Intra-cavity Cr3+ LiCAF-PPSLT Optical Parametric Oscillator Based on a Self-injection-locked Pump Wave ....................................................................................................................................................................................................... 47
Haroldo J. Maestre, Adrián J. Torregrosa, Juan Capmany
High Performance Planar Waveguide Lasers for Applications from TV to Space (invited) ................................................................... 48Yoshihito Hirano
First Visible 639 nm SrF2 Pr3+ Ceramic Laser .............................................................................................................................................. 49Tasoltan Basiev, Vasilii Konyushkin, Dmitrii Konyushkin, Maxim Doroshenko, Gunter Huber, Fabian Reichert, Nils-Owe Hansen, Matthias Fechner
Single-Frequency Continuous-wave Diode-pumped Pr3+BaY2F8 Orange Laser ....................................................................................... 50David Paboeuf, Oussama Mhibik, Fabien Bretenaker, Philippe Goldner, Daniela Parisi, Mauro Tonelli
A Continuous-wave Laser with Wavelength-selectable Output Spanning Green-yellow-red ................................................................. 51Andrew Lee, David Spence, James Piper, Helen Pask
Eu3+ KGd(WO4)2 Laser Crystal Stimulated Emission at 703 nm 5D0→7F4 Transition ............................................................................ 52Sergei Bagayev, Vladimir Dashkevich, Valentin Orlovich, Sergei Vatnik, Anatolii Pavlyuk, Alexander Yurkin
Highly Efficient, Broadly Tunable 2-µm Femtosecond Tm KYW Laser................................................................................................... 53Alexander Lagatsky, Tom Brown, Wilson Sibbett, Stephane Calvez, Martin Dawson, James Gupta
Wide-bandwidth Ho YFL Multi-pass Amplifier Pumped by Tm:Fiber Laser ......................................................................................... 54Nicola Coluccelli, Gianluca Galzerano, Paolo Laporta, Alberto Di Lieto, Mauro Tonelli
2.08 μm Ho KLu(WO4)2 Laser Resonantly Pumped by a Diode Laser ...................................................................................................... 55Venkatesan Jambunathan, Xavier Mateos, Maria Cinta Pujol, Joan Josep Carvajal, Magdalena Aguiló, Francesc Díaz, Uwe Griebner, Valentin Petrov
High Energy 125mJ Ho YAG (2.09 μm) MOPA Double Pass Laser System Pumped by cw Thulium Fiber Laser (1.9 μm) .............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 56
Karsten Schmidt, Christoph Reiter, Heike Voss, Frank Maßmann, Martin Ostermeyer
Quasi-Three-Level Solid-State Lasers in the Near and Mid Infrared (Invited)........................................................................................ 57Marc Eichhorn
The National Ignition Facility and the Goal of Near-term Laser Fusion Energy (Keynote) ................................................................... 58Edward Moses
Multi-Slab Architecture for kJ-Class DPSSL System .................................................................................................................................. 59Paul Mason, Saumyabrata Banerjee, Klaus Ertel, Cristina Hernandez-Gomez, Jonathan Phillips, John Collier
Hundred mJ Level, High Contrast OPCPA/Yb YAG Hybrid Laser System ............................................................................................ 60Masayuki Suzuki, Hiromitsu Kiriyama, Izuru Daito, Hajime Okada, Paul Bolton, Akira Sugiyama, Kiminori Kondo, Shunichi Kawanishi, Masatoshi Sato, Yoshinori Tamaoki, Takehiro Yoshii, Junya Maeda, Shinichi Matsuoka, Hirofumi Kan
High-energy, Diode-pumped Yb CaF2 Disk-laser ........................................................................................................................................ 61Mathias Siebold, Markus Loeser, Fabian Roeser, Franziska Kroll, Joerg Koerner, Joachim Hein, Ulrich Schramm
Final Developments of the Chemcam Laser Source and Potential Applications for New Planetology Programs ................................ 62Benoît Faure, Eric Durand, Sylvestre Maurice, Didier Bruneau, Franck Montmessin
A Highly-Stabilized Light Source for the Space Gravitational Wave Detector DECIGO and DPF....................................................... 63Mitsuru Musha, Shinya Horiuchi, Ken'Ichi Nakagawa, Ken-Ichi Ueda
Development of a Solid State Laser Amplifier Source for the Third Generation of Gravitational Wave Detectors ............................ 64Chandrajit Basu, Oliver Puncken, Lutz Winkelmann, Peter Weßels, Jörg Neumann, Dietmar Kracht
Solar NdYAG Laser Beam Quality by a Roof-shaped Pump Cavity ......................................................................................................... 65Joana Almeida, Dawei Liang
High Power High-Density Spectral Beam Combining by Volume Bragg Gratings (VBGs).................................................................... 66Derrek Drachenberg, Ivan Divliansky, Vadim Smirnov, George Venus, Leonid Glebov
Stabilized 1.5 Microns Dual-frequency Laser Prototype for Optical Generation of High Purity Microwave Signals ......................... 67Grégoire Pillet, Bastien Steinhausser, Loïc Morvan, Julien Schiellein, Thomas Merlet, Daniel Dolfi
High Average Power Ultrafast Lasers (Invited)............................................................................................................................................ 68Johannes Weitenberg, Peter Rußbüldt, Hans-Dieter Hoffmann, Reinhart Poprawe
50-MW, 12-ps Nd YVO4$ Slab Amplifier for OPCPA Pumping ................................................................................................................ 69Clemens Heese, Andreas E. H. Oehler, Lukas Gallmann, Ursula Keller
12 W, 350 fs Ultrashort Pulses from a Micro-pulling Down Yb YAG Single Crystal Fiber Amplifier. ................................................. 70Yoann Zaouter, Igor Martial, Xavier Délen, Nicolas Aubry, Julien Didierjean, Clemens Hönninger, Eric Mottay, Patrick Georges, Frédéric Druon, François Balembois
Sub-100W Phase Conjugate Pico-second Nd YVO4 Laser System Based on a Tandem Bounce Amplifier .......................................... 71Makoto Ashihara, Kaori Hayashi, Takaharu Yoshino, Masahito Okida, Katsuhiko Miyamoto, Takashige Omatsu
High Power Mixed Vanadate Laser and Modelocking with Nonlinear Mirror ........................................................................................ 72Gabrielle Thomas, Takashige Omatsu, Michael Damzen
Passively Q-switched Nd YAG/Cr4+ YAG All-Ceramics, Composite, Monolithic Micro-Lasers with Multi-Beam Output for Laser Ignition ................................................................................................................................................................................ 73
Nicolaie Pavel, Masaki Tsunekane, Takunori Taira
High Energy, High Peak Power (2.6mj/5.6MW) Or High Average Power (20W) NdYAG Single-crystal Fiber Amplifier in a Sub-ns kHz System.................................................................................................................................................................. 74
Igor Martial, François Balembois, Juien Didierjean, Patrick Georges
High-Brightness 946 nm Nd YAG Planar Waveguide Laser ...................................................................................................................... 75S. P Ng, J. I. Mackenzie
Broadly Tunable and Low-quantum-defect Yb3+-doped Double Tungstate Channel Waveguide Lasers ............................................. 76Dimitri Geskus, Shanmugam Aravazhi, Kerstin Wörhoff, Markus Pollnau
Compact Tm KYW Laser Passively Q-switched with a PbS-quantum Dot-based Saturable Absorber ................................................ 77Maxim Gaponenko, Victor Kisel, Alexander Malyarevich, Alexei Onushchenko, Konstantin Yumashev, Nikolai Kuleshov
6 MW Peak Power at 532 nm by Using Linearly Polarized Passively Q-switched Microchip Laser ..................................................... 78Rakesh Bhandari, Takunori Taira
Novel Method for Pulse Control in NdYVO4/C4+ YAG Passively Q-switched Microchip Laser............................................................. 79
Simon Joly, Takunori Taira
Chi-(2)-lens Mode Locking of a 1,3 4 μm Nd GdVO4 Laser In-band Pumped by 880nm Laser Diode.................................................... 80Hristo Iliev, Ivan Buchvarov, Valentin Petrov
Dual Wavelength and Switchable Laser Operation of Pr3+ LiYF4 Crystals at 523 nm and 640 nm ....................................................... 81Sebastian Müller, Nils-Owe Hansen, Ortwin Hellmig, Klaus Petermann, Günter Huber
Spectroscopy of Ho Lu2O3 with Respect to the Realization of a Visible Laser.......................................................................................... 82Matthias Fechner, Fabian Reichert, Philipp Koopmann, Klaus Petermann, Guenter Huber
Beat Note Stabilization of a 10-60 GHz Dual Polarization NdYAG Microchip Laser Through Optical Down Conversion......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 83
Antoine Rolland, Marc Brunel, Goulc'Hen Loas, Ludovic Frein, Marc Vallet, Mehdi Alouini
Four-micron CW Operating Dy PbGa2S4 Laser ........................................................................................................................................... 84Jan Sulc, Helena Jelinkova, Maxim E. Doroschenko, Tasoltan T. Basiev, Vyacheslav V. Osiko, Valerii V. Badikov, Dmitrii V. Badikov
High-power Fibre-laser-pumped Er YAG Laser with Top-hat Output Beam.......................................................................................... 85Ji Won Kim, Jacob I. Mackenzie, John R. Hayes, William A. Clarkson
Radially-polarized, Q-switched Pulses from a Side-pumped Nd YVO4 Compact Stigmatic Bounce Laser with a Photonic Crystal Output Coupler................................................................................................................................................................... 86
Takashige Omatsu, Koki Iwamatsu, Simon P. Chard, Ara Minassian, Michael J. Damzen
High-energy Q-switched Er YAG Laser with Laguerre-Gaussian (LG01) Mode Output ........................................................................ 87Ji Won Kim, Jacob I. Mackenzie, John R. Hayes, William A. Clarkson
Geometric Frustration in Large Arrays of Coupled Lasers ........................................................................................................................ 88Micha Nixon, Eitan Ronen, Asher A. Friesem, Nir Davidson
Maintaining Radial-polarization and Beam-quality in Muli-kw Rod-based Lasers Through the Use of Polycrystalline Nd YAG Rods ......................................................................................................................................................................... 89
Inon Moshe, Steven Jackel, Yaakov Lumer, Avi Meir, Revital Feldman, Yehoshua Shimony
Conical Refraction Beam Evolution ............................................................................................................................................................... 90David Carnegie, Grigorii Sokolovski, Todor Kalkandjiev, Edik Rafailov
Cryogenic Yb YAG Total-Reflection Active-Mirror Lasers (Invited) ....................................................................................................... 91Junji Kawanaka, Hiroaki Furuse, Daniel Albach, Yasuki Takeuchi, Akira Yoshida, Toshiyuki Kawashima, Hirofumi Kan
Yb CaF2 Laser at Cryogenic Temperature ................................................................................................................................................... 92Sandrine Ricaud, Dimitris Papadopoulos, Patrice Camy, Jean-Louis Doualan, Richard Moncorgé, Antoine Courjaud, Eric Mottay, Patrick Georges, Frédéric Druon
Cryogenic-cooled Yb: YAG Amplifier for ns-pulses Obtaining High Optical Efficiencies...................................................................... 93Jörg Körner, Hartmut Liebetrau, Joachim Hein, Martin Kahle, Markus Löser, Mathias Siebold
Alternative Approaches for Highly Efficient Diode-Pumped Lasers ......................................................................................................... 94Martin Kahle, Joachim Hein, Jörg Körner, Hartmut Liebetrau, Mathias Lenski, Reinhard Seifert
Disk Laser Delivering 50 mJ with 400 ns Latency........................................................................................................................................ 95Karsten Schuhmann, Aldo Antognini, Adolf Giesen, Thomas Graf, Tobias Nebel, Randolf Pohl
Octave-Spanning Supercontinuum from an Efficient Gigahertz Femtosecond Yb KGW Laser with 2.2-W Average Power ................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 96
Selina Pekarek, Christian Fiebig, Katrin Paschke, Götz Erbert, Thomas Südmeyer, Ursula Keller
Yb CaGdAlO4 Thin Disk Laser in Continuous-wave ................................................................................................................................... 97Sandrine Ricaud, Birgit Weichelt, Philippe Goldner, Bruno Viana, Marwan Abdou-Ahmed, Andreas Voss, Thomas Graf, Daniel Ritz, Eric Mottay, Patrick Georges, Frédéric Druon
CW and Modelocked Operation of an Yb (Sc,Y,Lu)2O3 Thin-Disk Laser................................................................................................. 98Cyrill Roman Emmanuel Baer, Clara Jody Saraceno, Oliver Hubert Heckl, Matthias Golling, Thomas Südmeyer, Kolja Beil, Christian Kränkel, Klaus Petermann, Günter Huber, Ursula Keller
High Gain Yb CaF2 Amplifier Pumped by a High Brightness Ytterbium Doped Fiber Laser Operating at 976nm ........................... 99Guillaume Machinet, Jerome Lhermite, Dominique Descamps, Giedrius Andriukaitis, Audrius Pugžlys, Daniel Adam, Andrius Baltuška, Eric Cormier
Scalability of Mode-locked Thin-disk Oscillators Issues and Scenarios of Destabilization ...................................................................100Oleg Pronin, Vladimir Kalashnikov, Vladimir Pervak, Catherine Teisset, Mikhail Larionov, Jens Rauschenberger, Alexander Apolonski, Ernst Fill, Ferenc Krausz
New Thin Disk Laser Materials Yb ScYLO and Yb YLF .........................................................................................................................101Kolja Beil, Susanne T. Fredrich-Thornton, Christian Kränkel, Klaus Petermann, Daniela Parisi, Mauro Tonelli, Günter Huber
Continuous-wave Second-StokesSelf-Raman Nd GdVO4 Laser ...............................................................................................................102Jipeng Lin, Andrew J. Lee, Helen M. Pask
Low-loss Synthetic Single-crystal Diamond Raman Gain Measurement and High Power Raman Laser at 1240 nm .......................103Vasili Savitski, David Burns, Alan Kemp
Optical Parametric Oscillators Spanning the Ultraviolet to Mid-Infrared (Invited) .............................................................................104Majid Ebrahim-Zadeh
Ring Cavity Solid-state Raman Lasers Generating in Visible and Eye-safe Spectral Regions .............................................................105Ruslan Chulkov, Vladimir Dashkevich, Pavel Apanasevich, Valentin Orlovich
All-Solid-State, Narrowband, Pulsed Sodium D2 Resonance Light Source .............................................................................................106Norihito Saito, Tomohiro Tsukihana, Takuya Kawahara, Satonori Nozawa, Tetsuya Kawabata, Takuo Tsuda, Toshiro Koizumi, Satoshi Wada
SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS The Transistor Laser (Invited)......................................................................................................................................................................107
Milton Feng, Nick Holonyak
Impact of Nonlinear Carrier-carrier Scattering on Gain Dynamics and Nonlinear Optical Properties of Quantum Dot Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers ........................................................................................................................................................108
Niels Majer, Kathy Lüdge, Eckehard Schöll
Birefringence and Spin Controlled Ultrafast Polarization Oscillations in Vertical-cavity Surface-emitting Lasers..........................109M. Y. Li, H. Jaehme, H. Soldat, N. C. Gerhardt, M. R. Hofmann, T. Ackemann
Up to 9 Gbit/s Data Transmission with Monolithically Integrated VCSELs and PIN Photodiodes .....................................................110Alexander Kern, Dietmar Wahl, Sujoy Paul, Mohammad Tanvir Haidar, Rainer Blood, Wolfgang Schwarz, Rainer Michalzik
5 GHz Modulation of 650 nm VCSEL..........................................................................................................................................................111Robert Roßbach, Marcus Eichfelder, Michael Jetter, Peter Michler
Wavelength Multistability in Ring and Fabry-Pérot Lasers The Effect of Spatial Hole Burning ........................................................112Antonio Perez-Serrano, Julien Javaloyes, Salvador Balle
An Asymmetric Integrated Extended Cavity 20GHz Mode-locked Quantum Well Ring Laser Fabricated in the JePPIX Technology Platform........................................................................................................................................................................113
M. Saeed Tahvili, Yohan Barbarin, Xaveer J. M. Leijtens, Tjibbe De Vries, Barry Smalbrugge, Jeroen Bolk, Huub P. M. M Ambrosius, Meint K. Smit, Erwin A. J. M Bente
All-optical Signal Processing Functions Using Semiconductor Ring Lasers (invited)............................................................................114Siyuan Yu, Bei Li
Bichromatic Emission and Coexisting Multimode Dynamics in Ring Lasers .........................................................................................115Antonio Perez-Serrano, Julien Javaloyes, Salvador Balle
Direct Modulation of Bistable Semiconductor Ring Lasers ......................................................................................................................116Xinlun Cai, Gabor Mezosi, Marc Sorel, Zhuoran Wang, Nan Chi, Pisu Jiang, Muhammad Memon, Siyuan Yu
Measurement of the Spectral Amplitude and Phase of a Free-running 40 GHz Quantum-dash Modelocked Laser Diode. ...............................................................................................................................................................................................................117
Stuart Murdoch, Regan Watts, Yiqing Xu, Ramon Maldonado-Basilio, Josue Parra-Cetina, Slywester Latkowski, Pascal Landais, Liam Barry
Extended Ground-state and Excited-state Carrier Dynamics Control in a Mode-locked Two-section Quantum Dot Laser Joining Absorber Reverse-bias and Resistor Self-electro-optic Effect (SEED) Emission-state Regimes ..................................118
Stefan Breuer, Lukas Drzewietzki, Wolfgang Elsässer
Passively Mode-locked Monolithic Two-section Gain-guided Tapered Quan-tum-dot Lasers I. Ultrashort and Stable Pulse Generation .................................................................................................................................................................................119
Lukas Drzewietzki, Myke Ruiz, Stefan Breuer, Michael Tran, Yannick Robert, Mattia Rossetti, Tianhong Xu, Paolo Bardella, Wolfgang Elsäßer, Michel Krakowski, Ivo Montrosset, Igor Krestnikov
Passively Mode-locked Monolithic Two-section Gain-guided Tapered Quantum-dot Lasers II. Record 15 Watt Peak Power Generation .................................................................................................................................................................................120
Daniil I. Nikitichev, Myke Ruiz, Ying Ding, Michael Tran, Yannick Robert, Michel Krakowski, Mattia Rossetti, Paolo Bardella, Ivo Montrosset, Igor Krestnikov, Daniil Livshits, Maria Ana Cataluna, Edik U. Rafailov
Strong Asymmetry of Mode-locking Pulses in Quantum-dot Semiconductor Lasers ............................................................................121Mindaugas Radziunas, Andrei G. Vladimirov, Evgeny A. Viktorov, Gerrit Fiol, Holger Schmeckebier, Dieter Bimberg
320 GHz Time-Domain Multiplexed Pulses From Quantum-Dash Mode-Locked Semiconductor Laser Diodes...............................122Ramón Maldonado-Basilio, Sylwester Latkowski, Pascal Landais
Quantum Cascade Lasers Recent Advances and Future Prospects (Keynote) .......................................................................................123Claire Gmachl
Quantum Cascade Ring Lasers Unidirectional Operation and Coupled Ring Tuning ..........................................................................124Chidi Nshii, Charlie Ironside, Marc Sorel, Thomas Slight, Shiyong Zhang, Dmitry Revin, John Cockburn
Frequency Noise of Free-running Room Temperature Quantum Cascade Lasers ................................................................................125Lionel Tombez, Joab Di Francesco, Stéphane Schilt, Gianni Di Domenico, Daniel Hofstetter, Pierre Thomann
Strain-balanced Quantum Cascade Lasers Influence of Growth Temperature on Interface Roughness and Laser Performance ....................................................................................................................................................................................................126
Alfredo Bismuto, Romain Terazzi, Mattias Beck, Jerome Faist
Polarization Dynamics Of VCSELS with Optical Feedback And Crossed Polarization Reinjection...................................................127Mathias Marconi, Massimo Giudici, Stéphane Barland, Julien Javaloyes, Salvador Balle
Spatial "rocking" in Broad Emission Area Semiconductor Lasers..........................................................................................................128Mindaugas Radziunas, Kestutis Staliunas
Experimental Characterization of Bubbling in Delay-Coupled Semiconductor Lasers ........................................................................129Xavier Porte, Jordi Tiana-Alsina, Konstantin Hicke, Carme Torrent, Jordi García-Ojalvo, Ingo Fischer
Single-Mode Quantum-Dash Laser Submitted to Optical Injection Nonstandard Behaviour with Respect to the Slave Pump ......................................................................................................................................................................................................130
Zhenyu Hao, Pascal Besnard
Dynamics of Coupled Mode-Locked Quantum Dot Semiconductor Lasers (Invited) ............................................................................131Guillaume Huyet, Tatiana Habruseva, Natalia Rebrova, Stephen Hegarty, Dmitrii Rachinskii, Andrei Vladimirov, Evgeniy Viktorov
Generation ofHigh Power (> 7W) Yellow-Orange GaInNAs Semiconductor Disk Laser .....................................................................132Tomi Leinonen, Janne Puustinen, Ville-Markus Korpijärvi, Antti Härkönen, Mircea Guina, Ryan Epstein
Generation of UV Laser Llight via intra-cavity Frequency Doubling of an AlGaInP-VECSEL..........................................................133Thomas Schwarzbäck, Hermann Kahle, Marcus Eichfelder, Wolfgang-Michael Schulz, ##robert Roßbach, Michael Jetter, Peter Michler
PbSe Quantum Well VECSEL on Si ............................................................................................................................................................134Matthias Fill, Mohamed Rahim, Amir Khiar, Ferdinand Felder, Hans Zogg
Narrow Linewidth 2μm GaSb-based Semiconductor Disk Laser .............................................................................................................135Marcel Rattunde, Sebastian Kaspar, Benno Rösener, Tino Töpper, Christian Manz, Klaus Köhler, Oliver Ambacher, Joachim Wagner
Mid-Infrared Continuously Tunable Single Mode VECSEL ....................................................................................................................136Amir Khiar, Ferdinand Felder, Mohamed Rahim, Matthias Fill, Fabian Hobrecker, Hans Zogg
2.5 μm Semiconductor Disk Laser with 130 nm Tuning Range ................................................................................................................137Jari Nikkinen, Jonna Paajaste, Riku Koskinen, Soile Suomalainen, Oleg Okhotnikov
Density-Activated Defect Recombination as a Possible Explanation for the Efficiency Droop in GaN-Based Light Emitters ...........................................................................................................................................................................................................138
Jorg Hader, Jerome V. Moloney, Stephan W. Koch
Near-UV Laser Diodes for External Cavity Lasers ....................................................................................................................................139Wolfgang Scheibenzuber, Ulrich Schwarz
Efficiency-optimized 973nm High Power Broad Area DFB Lasers with Overgrown Aluminium-free Gratings for Peak Power Conversion of 63%....................................................................................................................................................................140
Christoph Matthias Schultz, Paul Crump, Hans Wenzel, Steffen Knigge, Olaf Brox, Andre Maaßdorf, Frank Bugge, Götz Erbert
Picosecond Pulses with More Than 60 W Peak Power Generated by a Single-stage All-semiconductor Master-oscillator Power-amplifier System ................................................................................................................................................................141
Sven Schwerfeger, Andreas Klehr, Armin Liero, Thomas Hoffmann, Hans Wenzel, Götz Erbert
Octave-Spanning Supercontinuum from an Efficient Gigahertz Femtosecond Yb KGW Laser with 2.2-W Average Power ...............................................................................................................................................................................................................142
Selina Pekarek, Christian Fiebig, Katrin Paschke, Götz Erbert, Thomas Südmeyer, Ursula Keller
Compact 1064 nm ps-light Source on a Micro Bench with Free Adjustable Repetition Rate and nJ Pulse Energy ..........................143Andreas Klehr, Armin Liero, Thomas Hoffmann, Sven Schwertfeger, Hans Wenzel, Götz Erbert, Wolfgang Heinrich, Günther Tränkle
Ge-on-Si Lasers for Silicon Photonics (Invited) ..........................................................................................................................................144Jifeng Liu, Lionel C. Kimerling, Jurgen Michel
Flexible Distributed Feedback Colloidal Quantum Dot Laser Patterned by a Submicron Grating Structure ...................................145Yujie Chen, Benoit Guilhabert, Johannes Herrnsdorf, Yanfeng Zhang, Allan Mackintosh, Richard Pethrick, Nicolas Laurand, Martin Dawson
Integrated Tunable Quantum Dot Laser for Optical Coherence Tomography in the 1.7μm Wavelength Region .............................146Bauke W. Tilma, Yuqing Jiao, Junji Kotani, Barry Smalbrugge, Huub P. M. M. Ambrosius, Peter J. Thijs, Xaveer J. M. Leijtens, Richard Nötzel, Meint K. Smit, Erwin A. J. M. Bente
Semiconductor Mode-locked Lasers with Integrated Dispersion Control...............................................................................................147Michael J. Strain, Piotr M. Stolarz, Marc Sorel
Singlemode Tunable VCSELs with Integrated MEMS Technology.........................................................................................................148Benjamin Kögel, Pierluigi Debernardi, Petter Westbergh, Åsa Haglund, Johan Gustavsson, Jörgen Bengtsson, Erik Haglund, Anders Larsson
Reduced Photon Bunching in Cooled Quantum Dot Superluminescent Diodes .....................................................................................149Martin Blazek, Wolfgang Elsäßer
Photonic Crystal Nanolasers, Modulation and Coherence Characteristics .............................................................................................150Remy Braive, Richard Hostein, David Elvira, Xavier Hachair, Sylvain Barbay, Izo Abram, Isabelle Sagnes, Gregoire Beaudoin, Luc Le Gratiet, Anne Talneau, Isabelle Robert-Philip, Alexios Beveratos
A Coupled Quantum Dot Laser Amplifier Using Raman Transitions Between Spin Singlet and Triplet States................................151Jeroen Elzerman, Kathrina Weiss, Javier Miguel Sanchez, Atac Imamoglu
Direct Observation of Slow Light in the Noise Spectrum of a Laser ........................................................................................................152Abdelkrim El Amili, Bernardo-Xavier Miranda, Fabienne Goldfarb, Ghaya Baili, Gregoire Beaudoin, Isabelle Sagnes, Fabien Bretenaker, Mehdi Alouini
Measurement of Phase-Correlation between Optical Modes of Semiconductor Lasers ........................................................................153Marcello Simonetta, Marco Soldo, Marco Zanola, Michael J. Strain, Marc Sorel, Guido Giuliani
Intensity and Frequency Noise in high power highly coherent VeCSELs ...............................................................................................154Alexandre Laurain, Mikhaël Myara, Isabelle Sagnes, Arnaud Garnache
Ultrashort Pulse Surface-Emitting Semiconductor Lasers (Invited)........................................................................................................155Anne Tropper
Femtosecond VECSELs with up to 1 W Average Output Power .............................................................................................................156Martin Hoffmann, Oliver D. Sieber, Valentin J. Wittwer, Wolfgang P. Pallmann, Igor L. Krestnikov, Sergey S. Mikhrin, Daniil A. Livshits, Matthias Golling, Yohan Barbarin, Thomas Südmeyer, Ursula Keller
Pulse Generation in a Semiconductor Disk Laser with Frequency-Shifted Feedback ...........................................................................157Esa Saarinen, Jari Nikkinen, Oleg Okhotnikov
10-GHz MIXSEL A High Power Integrated Ultrafast Semiconductor Disk Laser ................................................................................158Valentin J. Wittwer, Benjamin Rudin, Deran J. H. C. Maas, Martin Hoffmann, Oliver D. Sieber, Yohan Barbarin, Matthias Golling, Thomas Suedmeyer, Ursula Keller
Monitoring the Temperature Distribution in High-Power VECSELs .....................................................................................................159Sangam Chatterjee, Alexey Chernikov, Jens Herrmann, Maik Scheller, Martin Koch, Bernardette Kunert, Wolfgang Stolz, Stephan W. Koch, Tsuei-Lian Wang, Yushi Kaneda, J. Michael Yarborough, Jörg Hader, Jerome V. Moloney
Passively Mode-Locked Semiconductor Laser for Coherent Population Trapping in 87Rb.................................................................160Giuseppe Tandoi, Krishna Seunarine, Charles N. Ironside, A. Catrina Bryce, Stewart D. McDougall, Wyn Meredith, Andre N. Luiten
Reconfigurable Repetition Rate in Colliding-Pulse Mode Locked Lasers ...............................................................................................161Giuseppe Tandoi, Charles N. Ironside, A. Catrina Bryce
Investigation of Passive Electric and Optical-feedback Stabilization of a Passively Mode-locked Tapered Two-section Quantum-dot Laser ...........................................................................................................................................................................162
Lukas Drzewietzki, Stefan Breuer, Wolfgang Elsäßer, Michel Krakowski, Igor Krestnikov
In As Quantum-dots Laser Utilizing GaAs W1 Type Photonic-crystal Slab Line-defect Waveguide ..................................................163Hisaya Oda, Naoki Hamada, Akio Yamanaka, Nobuhiko Ozaki, Naoki Ikeda, Yoshimasa Sugimoto
Coupled Ring Resonator Geometry for Efficient Second Harmonic Generation ...................................................................................164Danilo Skoczowsky, Andreas Jechow, Ralf Menzel
The Excitonic Capture Path in Electrically Pumped Quantum Dots Using Time-resolved Amplified Spontaneous Emission...........................................................................................................................................................................................................165
Jordi Gomis-Bresco, Sabine Dommers-Völkel, Oliver Schöps, Yuecel Kaptan, Olga Dyatlova, Dieter Bimberg, Ulrike Woggon
Analysis and Characterisation of Experimental Real-Time Series of a Semiconductor Laser under Optical Injection ...........................................................................................................................................................................................................166
Kevin Schires, Antonio Hurtado, Ian Henning, Mike Adams
Physical Modeling of Mechanical and Thermal Properties of 980 nm High-Power Laser Diodes on Composite Submounts .......................................................................................................................................................................................................167
Julien Leclech, Daniel T. Cassidy, François Laruelle, Mauro Bettiati, Jean-Pierre Landesman
High Performance Single-Mode 1060 nm DFB Laser Diodes ...................................................................................................................168Evgeny Zibik, Julien Boucart, Achim Thies, Ian Davies, Chris Button, Norbert Lichtenstein
Narrow-linewidth High-power Semiconductor-based Laser Module ......................................................................................................169Stefan Spießberger, Max Schiemangk, Alexander Sahm, Andreas Wicht, Hans Wenzel, Götz Erbert, Günther Tränkle
Tuning Wavelength and Linewidth of an External Cavity Diode Laser using an Active Control Scheme Based on Polarization Spectroscopy .............................................................................................................................................................................170
Thorsten Führer, Thomas Walther
Hybrid-integrated ECDL for Precision Rubidium Spectroscopy in Space..............................................................................................171Erdenetsetseg Luvsandamdin, Gregor Mura, Andreas Wicht, Alexander Sahm, Götz Erbert, Günther Tränkle
Single-frequency Optically Pumped Semiconductor Vertical External Cavity Laser at 852nm for Cs Atomic Clock ......................172Fabíola A. Camargo, Isabelle Sagnes, Arnaud Garnache, Patrick Georges, Gaëlle Lucas-Leclin
Development and Spectral Characterisation of Discrete Mode Laser Diodes (DMLDs) emitting at 780 nm for Rubidium Atomic Clocks...............................................................................................................................................................................173
Florian Gruet, Thejesh Bandi, Gaetano Mileti, John O'Carroll, Brian Kelly, Richard Phelan, James O'Gorman
Multiple Gain Element GainNAs Disk Laser Generating Narrow Band (2.6 Mhz) Radiation at 1178 Nm ........................................174Antti Härkönen, Tomi Leinonen, Ville-Markus Korpijärvi, Janne Puustinen, Mircea Guina
Modulation Response of Quantum Dot Nano-LEDs and Nano-lasers .....................................................................................................175Troels Suhr, Niels Gregersen, Michael Lorke, Jesper Mørk
Fastly tunable External-Cavity Diode-Lasers Controlled by Electro-Absorption Modulators.............................................................176Hendrik Jähme, Mike Bülters, Dieter Jäger, Martin Hofmann
Performance Optimization of Electrically-injected Nano-spin VCSELs .................................................................................................177K. Alan Shore
Tailored Intensity Distributions with High Power VCSEL Systems ........................................................................................................178Holger Moench, Stephan Gronenborn, Michael Miller, Peter Loosen
Temperature Dependent Dynamics in a 1550nm VCSELs Subject To Polarised Optical Injection ....................................................179Nadir Khan, Kevin Schires, Antonio Hurtado, Ian Henning, Michael Adams
Dual-frequency Operation of a Vertical External Cavity Semiconductor Laser for Coherent Population Trapping Cesium Atomic Clocks ...................................................................................................................................................................................180
Jessica Barrientos, Fabíola Camargo, Sylvie Janicot, Isabelle Sagnes, Arnaud Garnache, Ghaya Baili, Loïc Morvan, Patrick Georges, Gaëlle Lucas-Leclin
Stability Analysis of Spin-Polarized VCSELs .............................................................................................................................................181Rihab Ks Al Seyab, Dimitris Alexandropoulos, Ian D Henning, Mike J Adams
Polarization-Stable Single-Mode VCSELs for Cs-based Miniature Atomic Clocks...............................................................................182Ahmed Al-Samaneh, Mohammad T. Haidar, Dietmar Wahl, Rainer Michalzik
All-optical Inverter based on Polarization Switching in Long-wavelength VCSELs .............................................................................183Ana Quirce, Jose Ramon Cuesta, Antonio Hurtado, Kevin Schires, Angel Valle, Luis Pesquera, Ian Henning, Michael Adams
Gain and Reflectance Measurements of a 1050nm VECSEL Chip ..........................................................................................................184Sebastian Haupt, Michael Furitsch, Hans Lindberg, Ines Pietzonka, Uwe Strauß, Gerd Bacher
Polarisation-Resolved Real-Time Series of the Dynamics of a 1550 nm-VCSEL under Orthogonal Optical Injection.....................185Kevin Schires, Antonio Hurtado, Ian Henning, Mike Adams
Spectral Characterisation of VCSELs Emitting at 894.6 Nm for Cpt-based Miniature Atomic Clocks..............................................186Florian Gruet, Laura Bimboes, Danijela Miletic, Christoph Affolderbach, Gaetano Mileti, Ahmed Al-Samaneh, Dietmar Wahl, Rainer Michalzik
Power Scaling and Heat Management in High-Power VECSELs ............................................................................................................187Sangam Chatterjee, Alexey Chernikov, Jens Herrmann, Maik Scheller, Martin Koch, Bernardette Kunert, Wolfgang Stolz, Stephan W. Koch, Tsuei-Lian Wang, Yushi Kaneda, J. Michael Yarborough, Jörg Hader, Jerome V. Moloney
Free-Running Quantum Dot SESAM Modelocked VECSEL with Record-Low Timing Jitter ............................................................188Valentin J. Wittwer, Christian A. Zaugg, Wolfgang P. Pallmann, Andreas E. H. Oehler, Benjamin Rudin, Martin Hoffmann, Matthias Golling, Yohan Barbarin, Thomas Suedmeyer, Ursula Keller
Fast Absorption Recovery and Wavelength Conversion in 1.5μm AlInGaAs MQW lasers ..................................................................189Richard Green, Mohsin Haji, Lianping Hou, Gabor Mezosi, Rafal Dylewicz, Tony Kelly
The Impact of Thermal Management of Saturable Absorber on the Performance of Mode-Locked Semiconductor Disk Lasers ......................................................................................................................................................................................................190
Antti Rantamäki, Jari Lyytikäinen, Jari Nikkinen, Oleg Okhotnikov
Frequency Chirp Characterization of a Gain-switched Semiconductor Laser Using Photonic Differentiation Based on Polarization Interferometry .....................................................................................................................................................................191
Antonio Consoli, José Manuel Tijero, José Azaña, Yong Woo Park, Ignacio Esquivias
Shoe Box All Semiconductor High Power Femtosecond Laser System....................................................................................................192Jan C. Balzer, Tobias Schlauch, Martin R. Hofmann, Andreas Klehr, Götz Erbert
Saturation of Absorption and Gain in a Quantum Dot Diode with Continuous-wave Driving.............................................................193Thorsten Ackemann, Alessio Tierno, Christopher G. Leburn, C. Tom A. Brown
Integrated Optical Comb Generation for Coherent Communications using Injection Locked Semiconductor Lasers ...............................................................................................................................................................................................................194
William Cotter, David Goulding, Brendan Roycroft, Brian Corbett, Frank Peters
Post-Growth Fabrication of a DFB Laser Array with High Precision Wavelength Spacing.................................................................195Marco Zanola, Michael J. Strain, Guido Giuliani, Marc Sorel
Very Narrow Linewidth of High Power DFB Laser Diode for Cs Pumping ...........................................................................................196Charles Cayron, Mickael Tran, Yannick Robert, Alain Enard, Eric Vinet, Michel Garcia, Michel Lecomte, Laurent Teisseire, Olivier Parillaud, Michel Kralowski
Dynamics of Semiconductor Lasers with Polarization Rotated Feedback and its Applications for Fast Random Bit Generation .......................................................................................................................................................................................................197
Neus Oliver, Miguel C. Soriano, David Sukow, Ingo Fischer
Observation of a Novel Type of Optical Modes in VCSELs ......................................................................................................................198Grigorii Sokolovskii, Vladislav Dudelev, Andrey Monakhov, Alexey Savenko, Sergey Blokhin, Anton Deryagin, Svetlana Zolotovskaya, Alexander Kuzmenkov, Sergey Losev, Victor Luchinin, Nikolai Maleev, Edik Rafailov, Wilson Sibbett, Vladimir Kuchinskii
Transitions Between Regular and Chaotic Behavior in Polarization-stabilized Vertical-cavity Surface-emitting Lasers ...............................................................................................................................................................................................................199
Andreas Molitor, Wolfgang Elsäßer
Tuning dynamics of a > 70 nm continuously tunable MEMS-VCSEL with a hybrid curved mirror ..................................................200Karolina Zogal, Christian Gierl, Hooman Davani, Christian Grasse, Markus Maute, Peter Meissner, Markus Amann
Passive Mode-locking in Quantum Well Fabry-p\'erot Lasers .................................................................................................................201Julien Javaloyes, Piotr Stolarz, Lianping Hou, Marc Sorel, Catrina Bryce, Salvador Balle
80-ghz AlGaInAs/inp 1.55 µm Colliding-pulse Mode-locked Laser with Low Divergence Angle and Timing Jitter .........................202Lianping Hou, Mohsin Haji, Chong Li, Jehan Akbar, John Marsh, Ann Bryce
Active-mode-locked Terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers (invited).........................................................................................................203Stefano Barbieri, Marco Ravaro, Pierre Gellie, Giorgio Santarelli, Christophe Manquest, Carlo Sirtori, Suraj P. Khanna, Sdmund H. Linfield, A. Giles Davies
Passive Harmonic Mode-locking of Discrete Mode Diode Lasers.............................................................................................................204David Bitauld, Simon Osborne, Stephen O'Brien
A Low Jitter Passively Mode Locked Laser Diode at 40 GHz Using Regenerative Feedback Via an Optical Fiber Loop .................................................................................................................................................................................................................205
Mohsin Haji, Anthony Kelly, Lianping Hou, Ann Bryce, John Arnold, Charles Ironside
TERAHERTZ SOURCES AND APPLICATIONS Ultrafast Gain Switching of THz Quantum Cascade Lasers THz pulse amplification and Injection Seeding (Invited) ...........................................................................................................................................................................................................206
Sukhdeep Dhillon, Nathan Jukam, Dimitri Oustinov, Rakchanok Rungsawang, Jean Maysonnave, Julien Madéo, Pierrick Cavallié, Stefano Barbieri, Pascal Filloux, Carlo Sirtori, Xavier Marcadet, Jerome Tignon
THz Time Domain Spectroscopy of Coupled Cavity THz Quantum Cascade Lasers with Metal-Metal Waveguide ........................207Michael Martl, Juraj Darmo, Daniel Dietze, Christoph Deutsch, Martin Brandstetter, Alexander Benz, Aaron Maxwell Andrews, Pavel Klang, Werner Schrenk, Gottfried Strasser, Karl Unterrainer
Ultra-broadband THz Semiconductor Laser Based on Heterogeneous Quantum Cascade Gain Medium .........................................208Dana Turcinkova, Giacomo Scalari, Maria Ines Amanti, Fabrizio Castellano, Mattias Beck, Jerome Faist
Active Photonic Crystal Terahertz Laser Operating in Upper Bands .....................................................................................................209Alexander Benz, Christoph Deutsch, Martin Brandstetter, Aaron Maxwell Andrews, Pavel Klang, Hermann Detz, Werner Schrenk, Gottfried Strasser, Karl Unterrainer
Scattering Processes in Terahertz InGaGs/inAlAs Quantum Cascade Lasers .......................................................................................210Milan Fischer, Giacomo Scalari, Kemal Celebi, Maria Amanti, Christoph Walther, Mattias Beck, Jérôme Faist
THz stop bands by using Metal Slits in Tapered Parallel-Plate Waveguide ...........................................................................................211Eui Su Lee, Young Bin Ji, Tae-In Jeon
Temperature Controllable Terahertz Time-Domain Reflection Spectroscopy of Aqueous Systems....................................................212Wenchao Qiao, Arne Thoma, Thomas Dekorsy
Continuous- wave Terahertz Tomography with Phase Unwrapping .......................................................................................................213Wenfeng Sun, Xinke Wang, Ye Cui, Yan Zhang
Superconducting Waveguides for Terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers .................................................................................................214Martin Brandstetter, Alexander Benz, Christoph Deutsch, Karl Unterrainer, Pavel Klang, Hermann Detz, Werner Schrenk, Aaron Andrews, Gottfried Strasser
Terahertz Plasma Oscillations in Corbino Field-effect Transistors .........................................................................................................215Oleksiy Sydoruk, Richard Syms, Laszlo Solymar
Specific Features of Terahertz Radiation Emitted from Laser Sparks Induced in Gases by Femtosecond Laser Pulses with Linear Polarization ....................................................................................................................................................................216
Daniil Fadeev, Nina Zharova, Vyacheslav Mironov
Autowave of Electron Population Depletion and Sub Terahertz Self-modulations of Light Absorption and Intrinsic Stimulated Emission in GaAs ........................................................................................................................................................................217
Igor Bronevoi
Polarization-Independent Broadband Terahertz Modulator....................................................................................................................218Sanaz Zarei
Terahertz Spectroscopy of Beta- Barium Borate Crystals ........................................................................................................................219Oleg Khasanov, Sebastien Vidal, Jerome Degert, Jean Oberlé, Eric Freysz, Olga Fedotova, Grigory Rusetsky
Tunable THz Source with Less Than 100 GHz Bandwidth.......................................................................................................................220Tobias Bach, Gorazd Poberaj, Marko Zgonik, Carolina Medrano, Peter Günter
Triple-wavelength Cr3+ LiCAF Solid-state Laser for Simultaneous Generation of Two Independently Tunable THz Waves ...............................................................................................................................................................................................................221
Haroldo J. Maestre, Adrián J. Torregrosa, Juan Capmany
Diode-pumped Terahertz Laser Source Based on Stimulated Polariton Scattering ..............................................................................222Helen Pask, Yabai He, Andrew Lee
Progress on InGaAs/GaAsSb based Terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers..............................................................................................223Christoph Deutsch, Hermann Detz, Alexander Benz, Michele Nobile, Aaron Maxwell Andrews, Pavel Klang, Werner Schrenk, Gottfried Strasser, Karl Unterrainer
Metasurfaces Coupled to Terahertz Intersubband Transitions................................................................................................................224Daniel Dietze, Juraj Darmo, Gottfried Strasser, Karl Unterrainer
Watching the Dance of Ions and Molecules in the THz (invited)..............................................................................................................225Martina Havenith
Nondestructive Rapid Measurement of GaAs, GaN, SiC, and Si Semiconductors using One Tunable Terahertz Source...............................................................................................................................................................................................................226
Akihide Hamano, Yoshinobu Takatsu, Seigo Ohno, Hiroaki Minamide, Hiromasa Ito, Yoshiyuki Usuki
Non-Contact Multilayer Thickness Measurements with Reflection-Mode Terahertz Time-Domain Spectroscopy...........................227Volker Feige, Stephan Nix, Frank Ellrich, Joachim Jonuscheit, René Beigang
Nonlinear Spectroscopy Using Intense THz Pulses with Amplitudes Exceeding 1 MV/cm (invited) ...................................................228Koichiro Tanaka
Magnetic-Field Induced Broadband THz Absorption Change in a Multiferroic Hexaferrite at Room Temperature.......................229Eiichi Matsubara, Yohei Onishi, Taishi Ishikura, Tsuyoshi Kimura, Masaaki Ashida
Terahertz Real Time Focal Plane Imaging ..................................................................................................................................................230Yan Zhang, Xinke Wang, Ye Cui, Wenfeng Sun
Field-resolved Four-wave Mixing with Multi-THz Transients in InSb (Invited)....................................................................................231Friederike Junginger, Bernhard Mayer, Sebastian Mährlein, Christian Schmidt, Olaf Schubert, Alexander Sell, Alexej Pashkin, Alfred Leitenstorfer, Rupert Huber
Development of Real-time Near-field THz Microscope .............................................................................................................................232Atsushi Doi, François Blanchard, Tomoko Tanaka, Koichiro Tanaka
Efficient Optical Up-Conversion by Coherent Sum-Frequency Generation for Highly Sensitiv Terahertz Detection ......................233Florian Sedlmeir, Harald G. L. Schwefel, Dmitry V. Strekalov, Sebastian Bauerschmidt, Sascha Preu, Stefan Malzer, Gottfried H. Döhler, Gerd Leuchs
Continuous Wave Intracavity Terahertz Source ........................................................................................................................................234Maik Scheller, Joe M. Yarborough, Jerome V. Moloney, Mahmoud Fallahi, Martin Koch, Stephan W. Koch
Terahertz Emitter Based on the Lateral Photo-dember Effect Excited with an Er Fiber Laser ..........................................................235Gregor Klatt, Bernhard Surrer, Daniel Stephan, Olaf Schubert, Milan Fischer, Jérôme Faist, Alfred Leitenstorfer, Rupert Huber, Thomas Dekorsy
New Generation of the Electro-Optic Terahertz Detectors .......................................................................................................................236Juraj Darmo, Daniel Dietze, Michael Martl, Karl Unterrainer
Terahertz Generation Control by Metal Substrate in Sandwich Structure with Thin LiNbO3 ............................................................237Sergey Bodrov, Igor Ilyakov, Boris Shishkin, Andrey Stepanov
APPLICATIONS OF NONINEAR OPTICS Nonlinear Photonics in Carbon Nanotubes and Graphenes (Invited) ......................................................................................................238
Shinji Yamashita
Tilted Fiber Bragg Grating Assisted Nonlinear Effects in Carbon Nanotube-Coated Optical Fibers .................................................239Guillermo E. Villanueva, Michael B. Jakubinek, Benoit Simard, Claudio J. Otón, Pere Pérez-Millán, Jacques Albert
Spetro-temporal Characterisation of Incoherent Supercontinuum Subnanosecond Laser Emission for Multiplex-CARS Microspectroscopy..............................................................................................................................................................................240
Annalisa De Angelis, Philippe Leproux, Vincent Couderc, Delia Arnaud-Cormos, Philippe Leveque
Coherent Raman Microscopy with a Fiber-Format Femtosecond Oscillator .........................................................................................241Alessio Gambetta, Vikas Kumar, Giulia Grancini, Dario Polli, Cristian Manzoni, Roberta Ramponi, Giulio Cerullo, Marco Marangoni
Chirped-pulse Interferometry for Dispersion-cancelled OCT ..................................................................................................................242Robert Prevedel, Kurt Schreiter, Rainer Kaltenbaek, Jonathan Lavoie, Devon Biggerstaff, Kevin Resch
Following a Chemical Reaction Using High Harmonic Spectroscopy (Invited)......................................................................................243Hans-Jakob Worner, Julien Bertrand, Daniil Kartashov, Paul Corkum, David Villeneuve
High-energy Deep-UV Temporal Pulse Shaping by Chirp-assisted Broadband Frequency Conversion.............................................244Carlo Vicario, Alexandre Trisorio, Christoph P. Hauri, G. Arisholm
Long Hollow Fibers for Strong, Spatially Uniform Spectral Broadening of Ultrashort Pulses ............................................................245Tamas Nagy, Peter Simon
High Stability 100 kHz Mid-IR OPCPA with Passive CEP Stability .......................................................................................................246Alexandre Thai, Olivier Chalus, Philip K. Bates, Jens Biegert
Keldysh-scaling in the Waveform Control of the Dissociative Ionization of D2 ......................................................................................247Irina Znakovskaya, Philipp Von Den Hoff, Gilad Marcus, Sergey Zherebtsov, Xun Gu, Yunpei Deng, Boris Bergues, Marc J. J. Vrakking, Ferenc Krausz, Reinhard Kienberger, Regina De Vivie-Riedle, Matthias Kling
Wave-Particle Duality and Tunable Steering of Solitons in Kerr media .................................................................................................248Chandroth Pannian Jisha, Alessandro Alberucci, Ray-Kuang Lee, Gaetano Assanto
Femtosecond Pulse Written Quasi Phase Matching Element in x-cut Lithium Niobate ........................................................................249Jens Thomas, Vinzenz Hilbert, Reinhard Geiss, Andreas Tünnermann, Stefan Nolte
Broadly Tunable CW Green-to-red Laser Source Based on Frequency Doubling of a Quantum-dot External Cavity Diode Laser in a PPKTP Waveguide ...............................................................................................................................................250
Ksenia A. Fedorova, Maria A. Cataluna, Philip R. Battle, Igor L. Krestnikov, Daniil A. Livshits, Edik U. Rafailov
Nonlinear Optical Diode Based on Nonreciprocal Cross-phase Modulation in Coupled Microcavities ..............................................251Victor Grigoriev, Fabio Biancalana
High Index Glass CMOS Compatible All-optical Chips for Telecom and Optical Interconnects (Invited) ........................................252David Moss, Alessia Pasquazi, Marco Peccianti, Luca Razzari, David Duchesne, Marcello Ferrera, Sai Chu, Brent Little, Roberto Morandotti
Toward Sub-Cycle Field Shaping by Molecular Modulation in Gasses and Solids Raman Coherence at Work (Invited) ...........................................................................................................................................................................................................253
Alexei Sokolov
Linear Precompensation of Phase-modulated Nanosecond Pulse Distortions in Second-harmonic Generation ................................254Sébastien Vidal, Jacques Luce, Denis Penninckx
Four-wave Mixing Based Mid-span Phase Conjugation using slow light engineered Chalcogenide and silicon photonic crystal waveguides ..........................................................................................................................................................................255
Majid Ebnali-Heidari, Hamed Saghaei, Christelle Monat, Christian Grillet
Influence of Modulation and Shape of Laser Pump Pulses on Stimulated Brillouin Scattering in Self-focusing Regime in Silica...............................................................................................................................................................................................256
Sarah Mauger, Luc Bergé, Stefan Skupin
Imaging in Focusing Kerr Media Using Digital Reverse Propagation .....................................................................................................257Alexandre Goy, Demetri Psaltis
Nonlinear Propagation Effects on High-Power Optical-Vortex Pulses in Anisotropic Crystals ...........................................................258Masato Suzuki, Yasunori Toda, Ryuji Morita
Vortex Solitons and Charge Flipping in Nematic Liquid Crystals ...........................................................................................................259Yana Izdebskaya, Anton Desyatnikov, Gaetano Assanto, Yuri Kivshar
Light Propagation in Nonlinear Photonic Lattices Based on Complex Nondiffracting Beams .............................................................260Patrick Rose, Martin Boguslawski, Falko Diebel, Julian Becker, Cornelia Denz
Discrete Solitons in Photonic Lattices with Topological Defects ...............................................................................................................261Matthias Heinrich, Robert Keil, Felix Dreisow, Andreas Tünnermann, Stefan Nolte, Alexander Szameit
Dynamics of Light Bullets in Two-Dimensional Arrays of Waveguides ..................................................................................................262Stefano Minardi, Falk Eilenberger, Yarsolav Kartashov, Alexander Szameit, Ulrich Röpke, Jens Kobelke, Kay Schuster, Hartmut Bartelt, Lluis Torner, Stefan Nolte, Andreas Tünnermann, Falk Lederer, Thomas Pertsch
Generating Ultra-Short High-Energy Pulses using Dissipative Soliton Resonance Pulse Compression Schemes ..............................263Wonkeun Chang, Philippe Grelu, Adrian Ankiewicz, Jose M. Soto-Crespo, Nail Akhmediev
Dispersion-Managed Fibers for All-Optical Regeneration at 160 Gbit/s .................................................................................................264Sy Dat Le, Thierry Chartier, Mathilde Gay, Marcia Costa E Silva, Laurent Bramerie, Michel Joindot, Jean-Claude Simon, Thanh Nam Nguyen
Fiber-Laser-Pumped, High-Power, Continuous-Wave, Singly-Resonant Optical Parametric Oscillator based on MgO sPPLT.....................................................................................................................................................................................................265
Suddapalli Chaitanya Kumar, Majid Ebrahim-Zadeh
Singly Resonant Continuous-Wave Optical Parametric Oscillator with Tunable Output above 4 μm and Low Oscillation Threshold .....................................................................................................................................................................................266
Mikael Siltanen, Tomi Leinonen, Mircea Guina, Lauri Halonen
Dispersion Compensation with a Grism-based Dispersive Line for Fiber Delivery of Sub-30 fs Pulses at 830 nm ............................267Claire Lefort, Méri Kalashyan, Tigran Mansuryan, Donald Peyrot, Levon Mouradian, Frédéric Louradour, Alain Barthélémy
Taper Designs for Semiconductor Filled Fibres..........................................................................................................................................268Neil Broderick, Anna Peacock
High Intensity Pulse Self-compression in Short Hollow Core Capillaries ...............................................................................................269Thomas J Butcher, Patrick N Anderson, Peter Horak, Jeremy G Frey, William S Brocklesby
Activated Escape from Polarization Pulling in Fibre Raman Amplifiers ................................................................................................270Sergey Sergeyev, Sergei Turitsyn
Tunable Multiplication of the Repetition Rate of an Optical Pulse Train Using Dynamic Brillouin Gratings in Optical Fibers..................................................................................................................................................................................................271
Sanghoon Chin, Nikolay Primerov, Salvador Sales, Luc Thévenaz
PCF Infrared Continuum for Multiwavelength Two Photon Microscopy ..............................................................................................272Claudio De Mauro, Domenico Alfieri, Marco Arrigoni, David Armstrong, Francesco Saverio Pavone
Theoretical Study of Dispersive Wave Generation in Ar-Filled Hollow-Core PCF above the Plasma Threshold..............................273Wonkeun Chang, Alexander Nazarkin, John Travers, Philipp Hölzer, Johannes Nold, Nicolas Y. Joly, Philip St. J. Russell
Supercontinuum Generation in Photonic Crystal Fibers Made from Borosilicate Glasses ...................................................................274Marina T. Nery, J. C. Ferreira, Enver F. Chillcce, Luis C. Barbosa, Flavio C. Cruz
Group-Acceleration Matching in Tapered Optical Fibers for Maximising the Power in the Blue-Edge of a Supercontinuum .............................................................................................................................................................................................275
Simon Toft Sørensen, Alex Judge, Carsten L. Thomsen, Ole Bang
Improved Parametric Generation of Light in Optical Fibers ...................................................................................................................276Cesar Jauregui, Dirk Nodop, Jens Limpert, Andreas Tünnermann
OPCPA Using Pump Beams Shaped by Diffractive Optical Elements ....................................................................................................277Alexandre Thai, Enrique Tajahuerce, Pedro Andrés, Philip K Bates, Jens Biegert
Mid-ir Optical Parametric Oscillator Based on LiGaS2 ............................................................................................................................278Aleksey Tyazhev, Vitaly Vedenyapin, Georgi Marchev, Alexander Yelisseyev, Ludmila Isaenko, Marina Starikova, Sergei Lobanov, Valentin Petrov
Generation of Eye-Safe Radiation in Passively Q-Switched Laser with Three Stokes Intracavity Raman Conversion.......................................................................................................................................................................................................279
Pavel Shpak, Sergei Voitikov, Ruslan Chulkov, Pavel Apanasevich, Valentin Orlovich, Alexander Grabtchikov, Anurag Kushwaha, Neena Satti, Lalita Agrawal, Anil Maini, Sergei Kruk
1.5 W Output Two-Color Femtosecond Optical Parametric Oscillator Pumped by a 7.4 W Femtosecond Yb KGW Laser.................................................................................................................................................................................................................280
Robin Hegenbarth, Andy Steinmann, János Hebling, Harald Giessen
A Frequency-swept Source for Broadband Mid-infrared Spectroscopy .................................................................................................281Alissa Silva, Ian Lindsay
High Energy, Sub-nanosecond, 0.5-kHz, Mid-IR OPO based on PPSLT Pumped at 1064 nm ............................................................282Alexander Gaydardzhiev, Danail Chuchumishev, Ivan Buchvarov, Dimitar Shumov, Stuart Samuelson
Mid-Infrared Optical Parametric Generation in CdSiP2...........................................................................................................................283Olivier Chalus, Peter Schunemann, Kevin Zawilski, Jens Biegert, Majid Ebrahim-Zadeh
The kHz Level Stabilization of an Intracavity Doubled Continuous Wave Optical Parametric Oscillator Using Pound-Drever-Hall Scheme...........................................................................................................................................................................284
Oussama Mhibik, David Paboeuf, Cyril Drag, Fabien Bretenaker
Quasi-Continuous-Wave Intracavity KGW Raman Laser Generation at Different Wavelengths .......................................................285Vladimir Dashkevich, Anton Kananovich, Henryk Szymczak, Valentin Orlovich
Wavelength Conversion of a Broadband ASE Source Based on Intra-cavity Difference-frequency-mixing in a Cr3+LiCAF-PPSLT Laser ..............................................................................................................................................................................286
Adrian J. Torregrosa, Haroldo Maestre, Juan Capmany
Narrowband PPKTP Source for Polarization Entangled Photons ...........................................................................................................287Siddarth Joshi, Felix Anger, Antia Lamas-Linares, Christian Kurtsiefer
Full-scanning Nonlinear Fourier-transform Spectroscopy of D2 Using High-order Harmonic Radiation ..........................................288Yusuke Furukawa, Yasuo Nabekawa, Eiji J. Takahashi, Tomoya Okino, Kaoru Yamanouchi, Katsumi Midorikawa
Plasma Filament Decay in an External Electric Field ................................................................................................................................289Sergey Bodrov, Alexey Murzanev, Maxim Tsarev, Andrey Stepanov
Universality in Relativistic Aspirations of Helmholtz Soliton Pulses .......................................................................................................290Gemma Lancaster, Mark Lundie, Timothy Hodgkinson, James Christian, Graham McDonald
Tunable Self-focusing and Self-steering of Nematicons .............................................................................................................................291Alessandro Alberucci, Armando Piccardi, Marco Peccianti, Malgosia Kaczmarek, Gaetano Assanto
Tunable Multiple Soliton Generation in Kerr Media.................................................................................................................................292Chandroth Pannian Jisha, Alessandro Alberucci, Ray-Kuang Lee, Gaetano Assanto
Fast Writing of Soliton Waveguides with Blue-Violet Lasers in Lithium Niobate for Coupling of Femtosecond Infrared Laser Pulses .....................................................................................................................................................................................293
Silviu T. Popescu, Adrian Petris, Valentin I. Vlad, Eugenio Fazio
Group Velocity Control in Reconfigurable Phase-shifted Superstructures.............................................................................................294Sebastian Kroesen, Wolfgang Horn, Cornelia Denz
Second Harmonic Generation from Single Nanoparticles .........................................................................................................................295Amos Schtalheim, Alois Renn, Michele Celebrano, Vahid Sandoghdar
Achromatic Transient-grating for FROG Characterization .....................................................................................................................296Elsa Baynard, Stéphane Faure, Valérie Blanchet
Nonlinear Optics of Randomly Structured Strontium Tetraborate .........................................................................................................297Aleksandr Aleksandrovsky, Andrey Vyunishev, Aleksandre Zaitsev, Anton Ikonnikov, Gennadiy Pospelov, Vitaliy Slabko
90 nm Resolution Reconstruction from a Polychromatic Signal Using Monochromatic Phase Retrieval Techniques ......................298Aaron D. Parsons, Richard T. Chapman, Benjamin Mills, Thomas J. Butcher, Jeremy G. Frey, William S. Brocklesby
Influence of the Acceptance Bandwidth on Frequency Doubling of ps Pulses in a ppMgO LN Ridge Waveguide ............................299Daniel Jedrzejczyk, Sina Riecke, Reiner Güther, Kristian Lauritsen, Katrin Paschke, Götz Erbert
Spectral Study of Propagation Losses of GaAs/AlOx Nonlinear Waveguides ........................................................................................300Marc Savanier, Filippo Ghiglieno, Sara Ducci, Ivan Favero, Giuseppe Leo
Acrylonitrile-Containing Methyl Methacrylate Polymers as New Host Materials for second-order NLO polymers ........................301Atsushi Sugita, Takahiro Kato, Masashi Morimoto, Yasuaki Tamaki, Yasumasa Kawata, Shigeru Tasaka
All - Optical Spatial Light Modulator using CdTe Quantum Dots...........................................................................................................302Ioan Dancus, Valentin I. Vlad, Adrian Petris, Nikolai Gaponik, Vladimir Lesnyak
Four-wave-mixing Efficiency and Conversion Bandwidth in Silicon-nanocrystals Slot Waveguides Fabricated by PECVD.............................................................................................................................................................................................................303
Andrea Trita, Cosimo Lacava, Ilaria Cristiani, Jean-Philippe Colonna, Pauline Gautier, Jean-Marc Fedeli
Hybrid III-V/Silicon on Insulator Nonlinear Nanophotonics (Invited)....................................................................................................304Fabrice Raineri, Alexandre Bazin, Yacine Halioua, Timothy Karle, Paul Monnier, Isabelle Sagnes, Rama Raj
Horizontally Slotted Electro-optic Silicon Waveguides Featuring an Organic Crystalline Slot Material ...........................................305Harry Figi, Denise H. Bale, Attila Szep, Larry R. Dalton, Antao Chen
Spatiotemporal Nonlinear Optics in Arrays of Subwavelength Waveguides ..........................................................................................306Andrey V. Gorbach, Wei Ding, Owain K. Staines, Charles E. De Nobriga, Gareth D. Hobbs, William J. Wadsworth, Jonathan C. Knight, Dmitry V. Skryabin, Antonio Samarelli, Mark Sorel, Richard M. De La Rue
High Average Power Temporal Pulse Compression in a Xe-Filled Kagome-Type Hollow-Core Photonic Crystal Fiber .................................................................................................................................................................................................................307
Clara J Saraceno, Oliver H Heckl, Cyrill R E Baer, Thomas Suedmeyer, Yu Cheng, Ying Y Wang, Fetah Benabid, Ursula Keller
Supercontinuum Generation in a Photonic Crystal Fiber Pumped by a Gain-switched High-power Fiber Laser ............................308Casper Larsen, Peter M. W. Skovgaard, Danny Noordegraaf, Kim P. Hansen, Kent E. Mattsson, Ole Bang
Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Raman Coherence in Hydrogen-filled Hollow Core Photonic Crystal Fibers.......................................309Anton Husakou, Yingying Wang, Brian Mangan, Fetah Benabid
Supercontinuum pulse-to-pulse fluctuations in a photonic bandgap fiber ..............................................................................................310Olivier Vanvincq, Benoit Barviau, Arnaud Mussot, Géraud Bouwmans, Yves Quiquempois, Alexandre Kudlinski
Switching Characteristics of Forward SIPS in Photonic Crystal Fiber ...................................................................................................311Myeong Soo Kang, Anna Butsch, Philip Russell
Transition Dynamics in Optical Fiber Amplifiers Operating in the Normal Dispersion Regime .........................................................312Brandon Bale, Kamal Hammani, Christophe Finot, Sonia Boscolo
Three-Wave Stimulated Raman Scattering in Hydrogen- Filled Photonic Crystal Fiber .....................................................................313Marta Ziemienczuk, Andreas M. Walser, Amir Abdolvand, Alexander Nazarkin, Clemens F. Kaminski, Philip St. J. Russell
Solitons Propagating in Liquid-core Photonic Crystal Fibers ..................................................................................................................314Claudio Conti, Fabio Biancalana, Markus A. Schmidt, Philip St. J. Russell Linearons
Reduced Amplitude Noise in Supercontinuum Generated in Tapered PCFs..........................................................................................315Uffe Moeller, Simon T. Soerensen, Peter M. Moselund, Jeppe Johansen, Carsten L. Thomsen, Ole Bang
Control of Supercontinuum Pulse-to-pulse Fluctuations by Fiber Tapering ..........................................................................................316Benoit Barviau, Alexandre Kudlinski, Arnaud Mussot
Gap Solitons in Inhomogeneous High-index Photonic Bandgap Fibers...................................................................................................317Jesper Laegsgaard
Multi-watt Level Output Power from a Dispersion-shifted Fiber Optical Parametric Oscillator Tunable Over 450 nm.....................................................................................................................................................................................................................318
Yiqing Xu, Ka Fai Mak, Stuart Murdoch
Improving Mid-infrared Supercontinuum Generation Efficency by Pumping a Fluoride Fiber Directly Into the Anomalous Regime at 1995nm......................................................................................................................................................................319
Mathieu Duhant, William Renard, Guillaume Canat, Frédéric Smektala, Johan Troles, Pierre Bourdon, Christophe Planchat
Optimized 4-μm OPO with Intracavity OPA Based on a Dual-Grating PPLN Crystal.........................................................................320Antoine Godard, Myriam Raybaut, Michel Lefebvre, Anne-Marie Michel, Michel Péalat
Picosecond Tunable Mode Locking of a Cr2+:ZnSe Laser with a Frequency-doubling Nonlinear Mirror..........................................321Jean-Baptiste Dherbecourt, Adrien Denoeud, Jean-Michel Melkonian, Myriam Raybaut, Antoine Godard, Michel Lefebvre, Emmanuel Rosencher
Characterization of High-energy Optical-parametric Oscillation by Using Periodically Poled Mg-doped Congruent LiTaO3 .............................................................................................................................................................................................................322
Hideki Ishizuki, Takunori Taira
All-fiber Rayleigh Ring Mirror with an Optical Control of the Resonance ............................................................................................323Irina Petukhova, Andrei Fotiadi, Oleg Antipov, Krassimir Panajotov, Hugo Thienpont, Patrice Mégret
Simple Method for Measuring the Zero-dispersion Wavelength in Optical Fibers................................................................................324Maxime Droques, Benoit Barviau, Alexandre Kudlinski, Geraud Bouwmans, Arnaud Mussot
Bistability and Excitability in 2D Photonic Crystal Nanocavities .............................................................................................................325Alejandro Yacomotti, Maia Brunstein, Isabelle Sagnes, Fabrice Raineri, Ariel Levenson
Enhanced Four Wave Mixing in Slow Light GaInP Photonic Crystals Waveguides and 40Gbit/s Transmission Assessment.......................................................................................................................................................................................................326
Kevin Lengle, Laurent Bramerie, Mathilde Gay, Jean Claude Simon, Sylvain Combrie, Pierre Colman, Alfredo De Rossi
Loss Saturation in Dispersion-Engineered Slow Light Waveguides.........................................................................................................327Thomas White, Andrey Sukhorukov
Time-Resolved Ultrafast All-Optical Switching in Directional Couplers with Second-Order Nonlinearity .......................................328Alexander Solntsev, Dragomir Neshev, Roland Schiek
Vectorial Second Harmonic Generation Imaging of Gold Nanocones .....................................................................................................329Godofredo Bautista, Mikko J. Huttunen, Jouni Mäkitalo, Juha M. Kontio, Janne Simonen, Martti Kauranen
The Origin of Second Harmonic Generation Hotspots in Chiral Optical Metamaterials......................................................................330Ventsislav Valev, Alejandro Silhanek, Xuezhi Zheng, Vladimir Volskiy, Claudiu Biris, Nicolae Panoiu, Ben De Clercq, Marcel Ameloot, Oleg Aktsipetrov, Guy Vandenbosch, Victor Moshchalkov, Thierry Verbiest
Low-threshold Optical Parametric Oscillations in a Whispering Gallery Mode Resonator .................................................................331Josef U. Fürst, Dmitry V. Strekalov, Dominique Elser, Andrea Aiello, Ulrik L. Andersen, Christoph Marquardt, Gerd Leuchs
Broadband, Rapidly Tunable, BiB3O6 Femtosecond Optical Parametric Oscillator Directly Pumped by a Ti sapphire ...........................................................................................................................................................................................................332
Adolfo Esteban-Martin, Venkata Ramaiah-Badarla, Valentin Petrov, Majid Ebrahim-Zadeh
Optimum Output Coupling in Optical Oscillators Using Antiresonant Ring Interferometry ..............................................................333Adolfo Esteban-Martin, Suddapalli Chaitanya Kumar, Majid Ebrahim-Zadeh
Independently Tunable, Dual-Wavelength Source Based on Two-Crystal, Continuous-Wave, Singly Resonant Optical Parametric Oscillator .......................................................................................................................................................................334
Goutam K. Samanta, Majid Ebrahim-Zadeh
Higher-order Cascaded Processes in Continuous-wave Optical Parametric Oscillators .......................................................................335Ingo Breunig, Rosita Sowade, Jens Kiessling, Karsten Buse
Tunable Parametric Oscillation in Radially Poled Whispering Gallery Resonators..............................................................................336Tobias Beckmann, Heiko Linnenbank, Karsten Buse, Ingo Breunig
OPTICAL MATERIALS, FABRICATION AND CHARACTERISATION Direct Refractive Index Measurement Technique to Observe Waveguide Dispersion Characteristics of Short Waveguides Utilising the Higher Order Modes of Integrated Bragg Grating Structures .....................................................................337
Helen L Rogers, Christopher Holmes, James C Gates, Peter G R Smith
Characterization of InGaAs and InGaAsN saturable absorber mirrors for high power mode locked sub-ps thin-disk lasers ........................................................................................................................................................................................................338
Farina Schättiger, Dominik Bauer, Dirk Sutter, Janne Puustinen, Mircea Guina, Thomas Dekorsy
Temperature Dependence of Laser-Induced Damage Thresholds for Dielectric and Metal Coatings.................................................339Katsuhiro Mikami, Shinji Motokoshi, Masayuki Fujita, Takahisa Jitsuno, Kazuo A Tanaka, Hiroshi Azechi
Nano-engineered Bismuth-doped Silica Glasses and Origin of Near Infrared Photoluminescence......................................................340Igor Razdobreev, Hicham El Hamzaoui, Mohamed Bouazaoui, Vladimir Arion
Photo-induced Nonlinear Optical Properties of BiB3O6 Glasses and Composites Containing BiB3O6 Glass Nanoparticles Embedded in Polymers .........................................................................................................................................................341
Andrzej Majchrowski, Zygmunt Mierczyk, Ivan V. Kityk
Cz-Growth of Ferroelectric LaBGeO5 Single Crystals ..............................................................................................................................342Shintaro Miyazawa, Toshiki Kanamori, Satoshi Ichikawa, Hideo Nakae
Self-assembling Active Soft NanoPhotonics on the Kilometre Scale (Invited) ........................................................................................343Jeremy Baumberg, Chris Finlayson, David Snoswell, Andreas Kontogeorgos, Andrew Haines, Qibin Zhao, Peter Spahn, Goetz Hellmann Extruding Opals
Size-dependent Recombination Dynamics in ZnO Nanowires ..................................................................................................................344Juan Sebastian Reparaz, Frank Güell, Markus R. Wagner, Axel Hoffmann, Albert Cornet, Joan Ramon Morante
ZnO-based Nanowires for Hybrid Low-voltage LED ................................................................................................................................345Oleg Lupan, Thierry Pauporté, Bruno Viana
Second Harmonic Generation in GaP Nanopillars .....................................................................................................................................346Reza Sanatinia, Marcin Swillo, Srinivasan Anand
Observation of Higher-Order Optical Nonlinearities in Photopolymerizable Semiconductor CdSe Quantum Dot-Polymer Nanocomposites ...............................................................................................................................................................................347
Yasuo Tomita, Xiangming Liu, Yusuke Adachi, Juro Oshima
Rare-earth Doped Double Tungstate Crystals for Solid-state Bulk, Thin-disk and Waveguide Lasers (invited)...............................348Valentin Petrov
Growth and Characterization of Highly Yb3+doped KY(WO4)2 Thin Layers .........................................................................................349Shanmugam Aravazhi, Dimitri Geskus, Koop Van Dalfsen, Detlef Gunther, Markus Pollnau
Optical and Magneto-optical Properties of Neodymium and Erbium doped Gallium Nitride Epilayers ............................................350Nathaniel Woodward, H. X. Jiang, J. Y. Lin, J. M. Zavada, E. Readinger, V. Dierolf
Excitation Quenching in Er3+-doped Al2O3 Amplifiers ..............................................................................................................................351Laura Agazzi, Kerstin Wörhoff, Markus Pollnau
Red, Green and Violet Up-conversion in Erbium Doped Telluride Glasses ............................................................................................352Krzysztof Anders, Anna Jusza, Michal Malinowski, Dariusz Pysz, Ryszard Stepien, Ryszard Piramidowicz
Physical Properties and Crystal Microstructure of the Single Crystal Fibres Made from Rare-earth Oxides...................................353Valerii Voronov, Alexander Veber, Lyudmila Iskhakova, Vitalii Kashin, Sergey Rusanov, Vladimir Tsvetkov
Structure and Spectral-luminescent Properties of Nanostructured CaF2-TmF3 Ceramics a Potential Active Medium for 2 µm Lasers ...............................................................................................................................................................................354
Polina Ryabochkina, Fedor Bolschikov, Andrey Lyapin, Alexander Malov, Marina Kruglova, Evgeniy Chuprunov, Vyacheslav Osiko, Pavel Fedorov, Sergey Kouznetzov, Sergey Ushakov, Evgeny Garibin
Material Preparation and Optical Properties of Ho-doped KPb2Cl5 and KPb2Br5 for applications as mid-IR gain media ................................................................................................................................................................................................................355
Uwe Hommerich, Olusola Oyebola, Eiei Brown, Althea Bluiett, Sudhir Trivedi
Ir Luminescence from Subvalent Bismuth in Phosphate Glass and Glass-ceramic Matrices a New Insight Into the Nature of Luminescent Bi Species ................................................................................................................................................................356
Alexey Romanov, Zukhra Fattakhova, Denis Zhigunov, Leonid Buchnev, Vladimir Korchak, Vladimir Sulimov
Investigation of Thermal Effects in Nd YAG Ceramics Under High Heat Load ....................................................................................357Mateusz Kaskow, Lukasz Gorajek, Jan K. Jabczynski, Jacek Kwiatkowski, Waldemar Zendzian
Ho-doped Tellurite Glasses for Emission in the Mid Infrared Wavelength Region ...............................................................................358Daniel Milanese, Joris Luosteau, Laercio Gomes, Nadia Boetti, Silvio Abrate, Stuart Jackson
Superfluorescence and Random Quasi-phase-matching in Pulsed Laser Deposited Nd YAG..............................................................359Mathias Hoffmann, Mark Gyamfi, Stefan Schrameyer, Holger Blaschke, Detlev Ristau, Uwe Morgner
Optical Properties of GGG Thin Films Doped with Ni2+ and Co 2+ ions ..................................................................................................360Krzysztof Kopczynski, Jerzy Sarnecki, Jaroslaw Mlynczak, Michal Malinowski, Ryszard Piramidowicz, Zygmunt Mierczyk, Maria Maciejewska, Magdalena Nakielska
Fluorescence Properties of Pr YSZ Doped Polymer Nanocomposites......................................................................................................361Ryszard Piramidowicz, Anna Jusza, Krzysztof Anders, Janusz D. Fidelus, Marek Godlewski, Sergey Yatsunenko
Photoluminescence Centers in Gamma-irradiated Bismuth-doped Glasses............................................................................................362Boris Denker, Boris Galagan, Sergei Sverchkov, Ilya Shulman, Evgeniy Dianov
Thermal Expansion Coefficients Anisotropy of Monoclinic Potassium (Rare-earth) Double Tungstates KRe(WO4) 2{Re=Gd,Y,Lu,Yb) ..........................................................................................................................................................................................363
Pavel Loiko, Konstantin Yumashev, Nikolai Kuleshov, Galina Rachkovskaya, Anatoly Pavlyuk
Transient Saturation Spectroscopy for Measuring the Lifetime of Hyperfine Sublevels in 167Er3+ Ions Doped in a Silicate Glass Fiber .........................................................................................................................................................................................364
Daisuke Hashimoto, Kaoru Shimizu
Optical Properties and Faraday Effects on Terbium Gallium Garnet Ceramics for Faraday Rotator ...............................................365Hidetsugu Yoshida, Koji Tsubakimoto, Yasusi Fujimoro, Hisanori Fujita, Noriaki Miyanaga, Hoshiteru Nozawa, Hideki Yagi, Takagimi Yanagitani, Yutaka Nagata, Hiroo Kinoshita
Optical Characterisation of Carbon-Nanohorn Based Nanofluids for Solar Energy and Life Science Applications.........................366Elisa Sani, Luca Mercatelli, Giovanni Zaccanti, Fabrizio Martelli, Paola Di Ninni, Simona Barison, Cesare Pagura, Annalisa Giannini, David Jafrancesco, Daniela Fontani, Franco Francini
Effect of Porosity on the Laser Induced Damage Threshold of Sol-gel SiO2 and ZrO2 Single Layer Films ........................................367Yuanjun Guo, Shaobo He, Xiaotao Zu, Xiaodong Yuan, Haibin Lv, Xiaodong Jiang
Intrinsic Spectral Selectivity in Ultra-High Temperature Ceramics for Solar Applications.................................................................368Luca Mercatelli, Elisa Sani, Paola Sansoni, Annalisa Giannini, Franco Francini, Diletta Sciti
Study on UV absorption edge of MgO doped LiNbO3 and CTVE excitons.............................................................................................369Feifei Xin, Guoquan Zhang, Yongzhe Zhang, Yongfa Kong, Jingjun Xu
Accurate Measurements of Refractive Indices of Undoped and Mg-doped Stoichiometric LiNbO3 and Litao3.................................370Ichiro Shoji, Daisuke Gunji, Masashi Hakamata, Tatsuo Fukui, Yasunori Furukawa
Variable Stripe Length Method for Optical Gain Measurements Characteristic Lengths ...................................................................371Luis Cerdán, Angel Costela, Inmaculada García-Moreno
Intrinsic Defects Pinned at the Domain Wall in Lithium Niobate ............................................................................................................372Greg Stone, Hendrik Steigerwald, Karsten Buse, Wolfgang Sohler, Venkatraman Gopalan, Simon Phillpot, Volkmar Dierolf
SHG Capabilities of RECOB (RE = Y, Gd) Oxyborate Crystals..............................................................................................................373Pascal Loiseau, Takunori Taira, Gerard Aka
Photoacoustic Detection of Weak Absorption in Lithium Niobate ...........................................................................................................374Niklas Waasem, Stephan Fieberg, Daniel Haertle, Frank Kühnemann, Karsten Buse
Temperature Effect on the Brillouin Gain Spectra of Highly Doped Aluminosilicate Fibers ...............................................................375Francesca H. Mountfort, Seongwoo Yoo, Alexander J. Boyland, Andrew S. Webb, Johan Nilsson, Jayanta K. Sahu
Optical Bistability in Colloidal Solution of Er-Yb Doped LaF3 Nanocrystals .........................................................................................376Egor Pobegalov, Peter Agruzov, Igor Ilichev, Alexander Shamray
A Novel Evaporation Method of Porphyrin/Alq3 Mixture for OLED Fabrication ................................................................................377Seyed Hosein Razavi, Ezeddin Mohajerani, Ali Khabazi, Hashem Shahroosvand, Mohammad Janghoori, Isa Ahmad Alidokht, Hosein Jashnsaz
Titanium free Optical Waveguides in Lithium Niobate produced by Etching During Indiffusion of Titanium (EDIT) ..............................................................................................................................................................................................................378
Tristan Crasto, Vijay Sivan, Thach Nguyen, Arnan Mitchell
Er3+-doped Glass-polymer Composite Thin Films Fabricated Using Combinatorial Pulsed Laser Deposition ..................................379Zhanxiang Zhao, Gin Jose, Mehrdad Irannejad, Paul Steenson, Nikos Bamiedakis, Richard Penty, Ian White
Direct Opal Fabrication From Silver-coated Silica Microspheres............................................................................................................380Michaela K. Micko, Matthias Brendle, Judith M. Dawes
Characterisation of Optical Waveguides in BGO Crystals Fabricated by N+ Ion Implantation ..........................................................381Stefano Pelli, Simone Berneschi, Gualtiero Nunzi Conti, Silvia Soria, Giancarlo Cesare Righini, Istvan Banyasz, Krisztián Lengyel, Ágnes Peter, Andrea Watterich, Tivdar Lohner, Miklós Fried, Zsolt Zolnai
Transient Raman Response of Novel Chalcogenide Micro-structured Optical Fibre ............................................................................382Tomas Kohoutek, Xin Yan, Tetsuro Shiosaka, Shintaro Mizuno, Spyros Yannopoulos, Takenobu Suzuki, Yasutake Ohishi
Tellurite/Phosphate Composite Microstructured Optical Fiber with High Nonlinearity and Flattened Dispersion..........................383Xin Yan, Meisong Liao, Tong Huang Tuan, Takenobu Suzuki, Yasutake Ohishi
Highly Birefringent Microstructured Fibers with Low Mode Field Asymmetry....................................................................................384Alexander Denisov, Andrei Levchenko, Sergei Semjonov, Evgueni Dianov
Partial Power Recovery of Bend-induced Loss Using a Hybrid Index-guiding Photonic Crystal Fiber..............................................385Christos Markos, Kyriakos Vlachos, George Kakarantzas
Gratings in Liquid Crystal Golden Nanosuspensions due to Thermal Nonlinearity ..............................................................................386Elena Ouskova, Dariya Lysenko, Yuriy Reznikov, Stanislav Ksiondzyk, Liliana Cseh, Georg Mehl, Victor Reshentnyak
Autostereoscopic Display Using a Holographic Splitter in Polymer Dispersed Liquid Crystals ..........................................................387Wei Chia Su, Chien Yue Chen, Hsin Wei Ho
Light Interaction with Nematic Liquid Crystals Doped with Azocompounds of Different Molecular Weight ...................................388Ivan Budagovsky, Dmitry Pavlov, Sergei Shvetsov, Mikhail Smayev, Alexander Zolotko, Nataliya Boiko, Mikhail Barnik
Dephasing Relaxation of Localized Surface Plasmons Investigated by Persistent Hole Burning Role of the Stabilizing Molecules in Nanocolloids ..........................................................................................................................................................389
Leonardo De S. Menezes, Euclides Almeida, Augusto C. L. Moreira, Antonio M. Brito-Silva, Cid B. De Araújo
Investigation of Coherent Acoustic Phonons in THz Quantum Cascade Laser Structures...................................................................390Mike Hettich, Axel Bruchausen, James Lloyd-Hughes, Raphael Gebs, Albrecht Bartels, Milan Fischer, Mattias Beck, Giacomo Scalari, Jérome Faist, Thomas Dekorsy
Improving Efficiency of Quantum Dot Infrared Photodetector by using Photonic Crystal Framework in the Active Layer ................................................................................................................................................................................................................391
Zhihui Chen, Ying Fu, Zhongyuan Yu
ARROW Guiding Silicon Photonic Crystal Fibres (invited) .....................................................................................................................392Noel Healy, Justin Sparks, Ronrui He, Pier Sazio, John Badding, Anna Peacock
SF6 Glass Hollow-core Photonic Crystal Fibre...........................................................................................................................................393Xin Jiang, Tijmen Euser, Amir Abdolvand, Fehim Babic, Nicolas Joly, Philip Russell
Polarization Noise Induced by Photon-Phonon Interaction in Hollow-Core Photonic Crystal Fibres.................................................394Wenjia Zhong, Bettina Heim, Dominique Elser, Christoph Marquardt, Gerd Leuchs
Nonlinear Absorption and Self-Phase Modulation in Silicon Optical Fibres ..........................................................................................395Priyanth Mehta, Noel Healy, Justin Sparks, Todd Day, Pier Sazio, John Badding, Anna Peacock
Novel Bend-Resistant Design of Single-Mode Microstructured Fibers....................................................................................................396Victor Shevandin, Vladimir Demidov, Konstantin Dukelskii
Electromechano-optically Tuned Ring Resonator in Silicon on Insulator, Monolithically Integrated with a Microcantilever ...............................................................................................................................................................................................397
Lasse J. Kauppinen, Shahina M. C. Abdulla, Gijs J. M. Krijnen, Markus Pollnau, René M. De Ridder
Distributed Bragg Reflector High-Q Cavities and Lasers in Al2O3 on Silicon ........................................................................................398Edward Bernhardi, Henk Van Wolferen, Kerstin Wörhoff, René De Ridder, Markus Pollnau
Experimental Observation of Whispering Gallery Modes in Novel Silicon Microcylindrical Resonators ..........................................399Natasha Vukovic, Noel Healy, Peter Horak, Ganapathy Murugan, Justin Sparks, Pier Sazio, John Badding, Anna Peacock
Optical Characterization of LiNbO3 Whispering Gallery Mode Micro-Resonators Fabricated by Surface Tension Reshaping ........................................................................................................................................................................................................400
Charlie Ying, Ganapathy Murugan, Gilberto Brambilla, Collin Sones, Elisabeth Soergel, James Wilkinson, Robert Eason, Michalis Zervas, Sakellaris Mailis
Visible Light Trimming of Coupled Ring-Resonator Filters in As2S3 Chalcogenide Glass Technology ..............................................401Antonio Canciamilla, Francesco Morichetti, Nathan Carlie, J. David Musgraves, Bogdan Zdyrko, Igor Luzinov, Kathleen Richardson, Juejun Hu, Vivek Singh, Anu Agarwal, Lionel C. Kimerling, Andrea Melloni
Real-space Distribution of Cavity Modes in Single ZnO Nanowires ........................................................................................................402Frank Güell, Alejandro R. Goñi, Julià López-Vidrier, Josep Oriol Ossó, Luis Alberto Pérez, Eduardo Coronado, Albert Cornet, Joan Ramon Morante
Domain Walls in lithium Niobate and Lithium Tantalate Local Structure and Properties (Invited) ..................................................403Venkatraman Gopalan, Volkmar Dierolf, Long-Qing Chen, Simon Phillpot
Domain Patterning by Strongly Absorbed UV-light in LiNbO3 Crystals ................................................................................................404Hendrik Steigerwald, Yong Jun Ying, Robert W. Eason, Boris Sturman, Sakelaris Mailis, Elisabeth Soergel, Karsten Buse
Electro-Optic Coefficient Enhancement in Poled LiNbO3 Waveguides ...................................................................................................405Charlie Ying, Grigoris Zisis, Andrew Naylor, Pranabendu Gangopadhyay, Collin Sones, Elisabeth Soergel, Robert Eason, Sakellaris Mailis
Photorefractivity, Electro-optical Coefficients and Refractive Indices of Zr-doped LiNbO3 Crystals ................................................406Giovanni Nava, Wenbo Yan, Paolo Minzioni, Daniela Grando, Jacopo Parravicini, Nicola Argiolas, Marco Bazzan, Maria Vittoria Ciampolillo, Cinzia Sada, Luca Saoner, Anna Maria Zaltron, Ilaria Cristiani, Vittorio Degiorgio
Nonlinear Optics with Lithium Niobate Nanocrystals ............................................................................................................................... 407Bastian Knabe, Manuel Peter, Daniel Schütze, Matthias Ackermann, Karsten Buse
Degradation Recoverable DFB Lasers Based on P597 PDMS/PTFEMA ................................................................................................408Hiroaki Yoshioka, Ryo Goto, Soichiro Omi, Yu Yang, Yuji Oki
Highly Photostable Lasing in an Organic Crystal of Thiophene/Phenylene Co-Oligomer ....................................................................409Koji Watanabe, Takeshi Yamao, Kenichi Yamashita, Shu Hotta, Kunishige Oe
Low Threshold All-organic Composite Laser .............................................................................................................................................410Benoit Guilhabert, Nicolas Laurand, Allan R. Mackintosh, Yujie Chen, Johannes Herrnsdorf, Alexander Kanibolotsky, Peter J. Skabara, Martin D. Dawson
Efficiency and Photostability Optimization in Perylene-doped Polymer Distributed Feedback Lasers and Amplifiers ........................................................................................................................................................................................................411
Luis Cerdán, Gonzalo Durán-Sampedro, Inmaculada García-Moreno, Angel Costela, Javier De Abajo
Crystal Orientation and Defects of Opal Films Made by the Capillary Deposition Method .................................................................412Mulda Muldarisnur, Frank Marlow
Quasi-Epitaxial Single-Crystalline Organic OH1 Films with High Electro-Optic Activity on Inorganic Structures for Large-Scale Photonic Integration...........................................................................................................................................................413
Mojca Jazbinsek, Seong-Ji Kwon, Peter Günter
Titanium Dioxide Coated Photoinduced Surface Relief Grating As a Resonant Waveguide Grating .................................................414Tapani Alasaarela, Arri Priimägi, Benfeng Bai, Ari Tervonen, Seppo Honkanen
Light Turning Mirrors for Hybrid Integration of Optical Waveguides in SiON Technology and CMOS based Photo-detectors ...............................................................................................................................................................................................415
Fehmi Civitci, Alfred Driessen, Hugo J. W. M. Hoekstra
Direct Laser Writing of Microoptical Structures Using a Germanium-containing Hybrid Photopolymer.........................................416Mangirdas Malinauskas, Albertas Zukauskas, Vytautas Purlys, Elmina Kambouraki, Arune Gaidukeviciute, Ioanna Sakellari, Stavros Pissadakis, Roaldas Gadonas, Maria Vamvakaki, Maria Farsari
Fabrication of Multilayer Crystalline Rib Waveguides by a Combined Multi-step Pulsed Laser Deposition/precision Machining Technique ................................................................................................................................................417
Katherine Sloyan, Lewis Carpenter, Timothy May-Smith, Christopher Holmes, James Gates, Peter Smith, Robert Eason
Self-induced Patterning of PDMS Microstructures by Photorefractive Effect on Lithium Niobate Crystals .....................................418Lisa Miccio, Melania Paturzo, Andrea Finizio, Pietro Ferraro
Physically Micromachined Silica-on-silicon Integrated Corner Mirrors ................................................................................................419Lewis G. Carpenter, Helen L. Rogers, Christopher Holmes, James C. Gates, Peter G. R. Smith
Linear and NonlinearOptical Properties of Gold nanoparticle-doped Photonic Crystal Fiber ............................................................420Laurent Bigot, Hicham El Hamzaoui, Antoine Le Rouge, Fernand Chassagneux, Géraud Géraud Bouwmans, Bruno Capoen, Mohamed Bouazaoui
Polarizing Very-Large-Mode-Area Bragg fiber..........................................................................................................................................421Svetlana Aleshkina, Mikhail Likhachev, Andrey Pryamikov, Dmitry Gaponov, Alexander Denisov, Mikhail Bubnov, Mikhail Salganskii, Alexei Guryanov, Sebastien Février
Direct Bragg Grating Writing in a Hybrid PDMS/Silica photonic Crystal Fiber ..................................................................................422George Kakarantzas, Antonio Diez, Jose L. Cruz, Christos Markos, Miguel V. Andres, Kyriakos Vlachos
Engineering Mode-gaps in Photonic Crystal Waveguides for Filtering Applications ............................................................................423Naeem Shahid, Mingyu Li, Shagufta Naureen, Marcin Swillo, Srinivasan Anand
Heterogeneous Hybrid Plasmonic-Photonic Crystals for Enhanced Light- Matter Interaction ...........................................................424Sergei Romanov, Alexander Korovin, Ulf Peschel
ULTRAFAST OPTICS AND APPLICATIONS Demonstration of Waveguide Regime for Chalcogenide Hollow-core Optical Fiber with Negative Curvature of Core Boundary from Mid- to Far-infrared .................................................................................................................................................425
Alexey Kosolapov, Andrey Pryamikov, Maxim Astapovich, Vladimir Shiryaev, Gennady Snopatin, Victor Plotnichenko, Alexander Biriukov, Mikhail Churbanov, Evgeny Dianov
Efficient Hollow Fiber Compression Scheme for 1.6 mJ, Waveform-controlled, Sub-5fs Pulses Generation.....................................426Xiaowei Chen, Arnaud Malvache, Aurélien Ricci, Vladimir Pervak, Jens Rauschenberger, Aurélie Jullien, Rodrigo Lopez-Martens
Hollow Fiber Pulse Compression of Multi-millijoule, 200-fs Pulses from a cw-Diode-Pumped Single-Stage Yb CaF2 MOPA ..............................................................................................................................................................................................................427
Daniil Kartashov, Giedrius Andriukaitis, Dušan Lorenc, Audrius Pugžlys, Andrius Baltuška, Linas Giniunas, Romualdas Danielius, Jens Limpert
Carrier-envelope Phase Stabilization of a Grating Based Chirped Pulse Amplified Laser at 17 mJ, 1 KHz Using Regenerative and Cryo-cooled Amplifiers...................................................................................................................................................428
Jean-François Hergott, Pierre-Mary Paul, Olivier Tcherbakoff, Philippe Demengeot, Michel Perdrix, Fabien Lepetit, David Garzella, Delphine Guillaumet, Michel Comte, Olivier Gobert, Pascal D'Oliveira
Towards Single Shot Carrier-envelope Phase Stabilization for Multi KHz Ultrafast Amplifiers ........................................................429Vincent Crozatier, Nicolas Forget, Thomas Oksenhendler
Few-cycle Pulse Generation in a Dispersion-shifted Silica Fiber with Erbium-doped Laser System...................................................430Elena Anashkina, Alexei Andrianov, Sergei Muravyev, Arkady Kim
Sub-20 Fs Energetic Near-IR Pulses Generated with Cascaded Soliton Compression in Short Lithium Niobate Crystals ............................................................................................................................................................................................................431
Binbin Zhou, Andy Chong, Frank W. Wise, Morten Bache
Multi-threaded Parallel Numerical Modellung of Femtosecond Pulse propagation in Laser Machining ...........................................432Mandana Baregheh, Vladimir Mezentsev, Holger Schmitz
Spatio-temporal Rogue Events in Femtosecond Filamentation ................................................................................................................433Donatas Majus, Vytautas Jukna, Gintaras Valiulis, Daniele Faccio, Audrius Dubietis
Single-beam CARS Spectroscopy Using a Soliton Stokes Pulse and a Spectrally-compressed Pump Pulse from a PCF...................................................................................................................................................................................................................434
Kazuhiro Tada, Naoki Karasawa
Transporting Shaped Pulses Through an Optical Fiber in the Nonlinear Regime for Selective Excitation of Two-photon Transitions..........................................................................................................................................................................................435
Monika Pawlowska, Alexander Patas, Georg Achazi, Nona Rahmat, Albrecht Lindinger
Space-time Coupling of Shaped Ultrafast Ultraviolet Pulses from an Acousto-optic Programmable Dispersive Filter.................................................................................................................................................................................................................436
Ayhan Tajalli, David McCabe, Dane Austin, Béatrice Chatel
Design of Time-preserving Grating Monochromators for Ultrashort Extreme-ultraviolet Pulses.......................................................437Luca Poletto, Fabio Frassetto
Failure of the Linear Raman Gain Approximation in Supercontinuum Generation .............................................................................438Miro Erkintalo, Goëry Genty, Benjamin Wetzel, John Dudley
Efficient Spectral Conversion and Temporal Compression of Femtosecond Pulses in SF6 ...................................................................439Zhavoronkov Nickolai
Sub-femtosecond K-Shell Excitation Through Laser-Induced Electron Re-collision ............................................................................440Gilad Marcus, Wolfram Helml, Xun Gu, Yunpei Deng, Robert Hartmann, Takayoshi Kobayashi, Lothar Strueder, Reinhard Kienberger, Ferenc Krausz
Simple and Compact Carrier-Envelope-Phase Stabilized Ti sapphire Laser .........................................................................................441Jinghua Sun, Derryck Reid, Lukasz Kornaszewski, William Miller, Graeme Malcolm
Carrier-envelope Phase Control by Linear Electro-optic Effect in LiNbO3............................................................................................442Olivier Gobert, Pierre-Mary Paul, Jean-François Hergott, Olivier Tcherbakoff, Fabien Lepetit, François Viala, Michel Comte
Asynchronous Modelocked Yb KYW Lasers for Dual-comb Spectroscopy............................................................................................443Zhaowei Zhang, Tom Gardiner, Derryck Reid
Adaptive Wavefront Diagnostics of Ultrashort Pulses with Programmable Microaxicons ...................................................................444Martin Bock, Christoph Schwanke, Susanta Kumar Das, Roland Beutner, Michael Diehl, Carsten Fischer, Ruediger Grunwald
Adaptive Generation of Bessel-like Beams by Reflective Multi-electrode Piezo-axicons.......................................................................445Jens Brunne, Martin Bock, Alexander Treffer, Ulrike Wallrabe, Ruediger Grunwald
Modification of Coherent Acoustic Phonon Lifetimes in Thin Gold Films by Self-assembled Molecular Monolayers .....................446Mike Hettich, Axel Bruchhausen, Stephen Riedel, Simon Verleger, Tobias Geldhauser, Richa Chauhan, Oliver Ristow, Daniel Issenmann, Johannes Boneberg, Paul Leiderer, Elke Scheer, Jürg Dual, Thomas Dekorsy
Extremely White Supercontinuum Generation in Three-hole Suspended-core Fiber ...........................................................................447Igor Shavrin, Peter Tvarožek, Martin Koyš, Kay Schuster, Steffen Novotny, Hanne Ludvigsen
Complete Measurement of 8 fs Pulses with Wideband SPIRIT ................................................................................................................448Lluís Martínez-León, Tigran Mansuryan, Méri Kalashyan, Jerome Lhermite, Frédéric Louradour, Christophe Hazera, Stéphane Petit, Eric Cormier, Alain Barthélémy
High-power Ti Sapphire Oscillator for a MHz EUV Source.....................................................................................................................449Enikoe Seres, Christian Spielmann
Direct Spatial-temporal Discrimination of Modes in a Photonic Lightwave Circuit Using Photon Scanning Tunnelling Microscopy ..................................................................................................................................................................................450
Sam A. Berry, James C. Gates, William S. Brocklesby
Sub-12fs Pulses Characterization by Self-referenced Spectral Interferometry ......................................................................................451Stéphanie Grabielle, Antoine Moulet, Nicolas Forget, Vincent Crozatier, Sébastien Coudreau, Olivier Gobert, Christian Cornaggia, Thomas Oksenhendler
Transmission Bragg-grating Grisms for Pulse Compression ....................................................................................................................452Nicolas Forget, Vincent Crozatier, Pierre Tournois
Self-referenced Spectral Interferometry in the UV Domain .....................................................................................................................453Stéphanie Grabielle, Sébastien Coudreau, Vincent Crozatier, Nicolas Forget, Fabien Lepetit, Olivier Gobert, Thomas Oksenhendler
Fundamental and Harmonic Mode-locking with Pulse Repetition Rate Between 200 MHz and 6.8 GHz in a Quantum-dot External-cavity Laser ............................................................................................................................................................454
Ying Ding, Daniil Nikitichev, Igor Krestnikov, Daniil Livshits, Maria Ana Cataluna, Edik Rafailov
High-Power Ultrafast Laser Source with 300 MHz Repetition Rate for Trapped-Ion Quantum Logic ..............................................455Andreas Jechow, Matthew Petrasiunas, Mick Pullen, John Canning, Michael Stevenson, Paul Westbrook, Kenneth Feder, David Kielpinski
Dissipative Dispersion-Managed Soliton 2 μm Tm-Ho Fiber Laser .........................................................................................................456Regina Gumenyuk, Ismo Vartiainen, Hemmo Tuovinen, Oleg Okhotnikov
Direct Space-to-Time Femtosecond Pulse Shaping based on 2D Phase-Only Spatial Light Modulator ..............................................457Tigran Mansuryan, Meri Kalashyan, Jérome Lhermite, Alain Barthélémy, Vincent Kermene, Frédéric Louradour
Picosecond Pulses from an FDML Laser .....................................................................................................................................................458Christoph Eigenwillig, Wolfgang Wieser, Benjamin Biedermann, Thomas Klein, Robert Huber
Studies and Realization of an Experimental Set-up for Micro Airy Beams Generation ........................................................................459Amaury Mathis, Maxime Jacquot, Francois Courvoisier, Luc Froehly, John M. Dudley
Variable Ultrafast Fiber Bragg Grating Inscription with a Phase Mask and a Deformed Wave Front ..............................................460Christian Voigtländer, Ria Becker, Jens Thomas, Daniel Richter, Andreas Tünnermann, Stefan Nolte
Superfluorescence Dynamics of OPCPAs in the Saturation Regime........................................................................................................461Jeffrey Moses, Cristian Manzoni, Giulio Cerullo, Franz X. Kärtner
Development and Characterization of Stable Fiber-Based Mid-Infrared Sources (Invited).................................................................462Randy A. Bartels
All Passively Phase-Locked Er Fiber Laser System ...................................................................................................................................463David Fehrenbacher, Günther Krauss, Daniele Brida, Claudius Riek, Alexander Sell, Rupert Huber, Alfred Leitenstorfer
Pulse Train Amplitude Modulation due to Continuum Resonances in GHz Soliton Fiber Lasers .......................................................464Ingmar Hartl, Albert Romann, Thomas R. Schibli, Martin E. Fermann
Coherent Tm-Fiber Raman-Soliton Amplifier............................................................................................................................................465Jie Jiang, Axel Ruehl, Ingmar Hartl, Martin Fermann
Properties of a microjoule-class fiber oscillator mode-locked with a SESAM ........................................................................................466Caroline Lecaplain, Bülend Ortaç, Guillaume Machinet, Johan Boullet, Martin Baumgartl, Thomas Schreiber, Eric Cormier, Ammar Hideur
Ultrabroad Bandwidth Signal Generation Based on Frequency-to-time Mapping in the Temporal Fresnel Regime .......................467Victor Torres-Company, Daniel Leaird, Andrew Weiner
Supercontinuum Generation in Laser Host Materials with Pulse Durations Over the Entire Femtosecond Regime ........................468Maximilian Bradler, Eberhard Riedle
Laser-driven Parametric Amplification of Soft X-rays (invited) ..............................................................................................................469Jozsef Seres, Enikoe Seres, Daniel Hochhaus, Boris Ecker, Bastian Aurand, Daniel Zimmer, Bernhard Zielbauer, Björn Landgraf, Vincente Bagnoud, Thomas Kuehl, Christian Spielmann
Compact and Tunable Sub-20 fs Laser Source for Ultrafast Nonlinear Applications ...........................................................................470Bernd Metzger, Andy Steinmann, Gelon Albrecht, Harald Giessen
Sub-two Cycle Pulse Generation with All Normal Dispersion Photonic Crystal Fiber and Linear Chirp Compensation..................................................................................................................................................................................................471
Jan Rothhardt, Alexander Heidt, Alexander Hartung, Hartmut Bartelt, Erich Rohwer, Jens Limpert, Andreas Tünnermann
All-Optical Transistor Using an Optical Event Horizon............................................................................................................................472Jens Bethge, Carsten Bree, Shalva Amiranashvili, Frank Noack, Günter Steinmeyer, Ayhan Demircan
Tailored Accelerating Beam Profiles Through a Caustic-based Approach to Wavefront Design ........................................................473Luc Froehly, Remo Giust, François Courvoisier, Amaury Mathis, Maxime Jacquot, Luca Furfaro, John Michael Dudley
The Spectrum of THz Radiation from Plasma Produced by Strong Multicolor Optical Fields ...........................................................474Ihar Babushkin, Stefan Skupin, Christian Koehler, Luc Berge, Joachim Herrmann
Direction of THz Emission by Ionizing Two-Color Pulses ........................................................................................................................475Christian Köhler, Eduardo Cabrera-Granado, Ihar Babushkin, Joachim Herrmann, Stefan Skupin, Luc Bergé
Carrier-envelope Phase in Pulse Compression Mediated by Filamentation............................................................................................476Luc Bergé, Charles-Louis Soulez, Christian Köhler, Stefan Skupin
Towards High Energy 10 fs Laser Pulse Via Regenerative Pulse Shaping ..............................................................................................477Pierre-Mary Paul, Fabien Ple, Luc Vigroux, Franck Falcoz, Federico Canova, Gilles Riboulet
Waveform Characterization of Few-Cycle Laser Pulses in Real-Time using Above-Threshold Ionization ........................................478Arthur Sayler, Tim Rathje, Max Möller, Dominik Hoff, Gero Stibenz, Walter Müller, Christian Kürbis, Klaus Rühle, Gerhard Paulus
Carrier-envelope Phase Stabilization of a Soliton-effect Compressed Sub-two-cycle Pulse Source .....................................................479Alexandra Agra Amorim, Luís M. Bernardo, Franz X. Kärtner, Helder M. Crespo
Characterization of Ultrashort Laser Pulses with a Terahertz Streak Camera .....................................................................................480Olaf Schubert, Claudius Riek, Friederike Junginger, Alexander Sell, Alfred Leitenstorfer, Rupert Huber
Precise Phase Shaping and Characterization of the Mid-infrared Femtosecond Pulses ........................................................................481Satoshi Ashihara, Yuta Hirasawa, Kaori Enomoto
Theoretical and Experimental Analysis of Spatiotemporal Field Coupling of Ultrashort Pulses Diffracted by Circular Amplitude Apertures......................................................................................................................................................................482
Benjamin Alonso, Omel Mendoza-Yero, Iñigo J. Sola, Oscar Varela, Gladys Minguez-Vega, Jesus Lancis, Vicent Climent, Luis Roso
Two-photon Absorption As Convenient Method for 20 fs Pulse Length Measurement in the Deep UV .............................................483Nils Krebs, Christian Homann, Peter Lang, Alexandra Waritschlager, Eberhard Riedle
High-Power Mid-Infrared Optical Parametric Chirped-Pulse Amplifier Based on Aperiodically Poled Mg LiNbO3 ......................484Clemens Heese, Christopher R. Phillips, Lukas Gallmann, Martin M. Fejer, Ursula Keller
Compact OPCPA System Generating CEP-stabilized Two-cycle Pulses with Repetition Rates up to 500 kHz .................................485Marcel Schultze, Thomas Binhammer, Moritz Emons, Tino Lang, Uwe Morgner
Demonstration of Phase Matching Bandwidth Extension in Cavity-Enhanced Optical Parametric Chirped Pulse Amplification...................................................................................................................................................................................................486
Aleem Siddiqui, Kyung-Han Hong, Jeffrey Moses, Jonathan Cox, Franz X. Kärtner
Self Frequency Shift Near 2 μm in Periodically Poled Lithium Niobate Waveguides............................................................................487Christopher R. Phillips, Jie Jiang, Carsten Langrock, Ingmar Hartl, Martin M. Fejer, Martin Fermann
Tuneable Broadband Optical Parametric Oscillator Pumped by an Yb KLu(WO4)2$ Thin-Disk Laser Oscillator ..........................488Tino Lang, Thomas Binhammer, Stefan Rausch, Guido Palmer, Marcel Schultze, Uwe Morgner
650-nJ Pulses from a Cavity-Dumped Yb Fiber-Pumped Ultrafast Optical Parametric Oscillator.....................................................489Tobias P. Lamour, Derryck T. Reid
Generation of High Energy, Sub-20-fs Vacuum UV Pulses by Noncollinear Four-wave-mixing in Argon .........................................490Marcus Beutler, Masood Ghotbi, Frank Noack
High Energy, Sub-20 Fs Pulses in the Deep Ultraviolet by Using Filamentation in Argon ...................................................................491Masood Ghotbi, Peter Trabs, Marcus Beutler
Filamentation-based Polarization Pulse Shaping for High Order Harmonic Generation .....................................................................492Matteo Negro, Caterina Vozzi, Francesca Calegari, Sandro De Silvestri, Salvatore Stagira
Chirp Controlled Pulse Self-compression in Filaments and Its Spatio-temporal Characterization .....................................................493Oscar Varela, Benjamín Alonso, Julio San Román, Íñigo J. Sola, Luis Roso
Filamentation of Beam Shaped Femtosecond Laser Pulses in Gases and Liquids (Invited) .................................................................494Pavel Polynkin
Dispersive Optics Paving the Way to Sub-cycle Optical Pulses (invited).................................................................................................495Vladimir Pervak, Alexander Apolonskiy, Ivan Angelov, Olga Razskazovskaya, Eleftherios Goulielmakis, Ferenc Krausz
High Average Power Ultrashort Pulses with >5 GW Peak Power ............................................................................................................496Steffen Hädrich, Henning Carstens, Jan Rothhardt, Jens Limpert, Andreas Tünnermann
High Efficient XPW Generation for High Contrast High Energy Ultrashort Laser Pulses ..................................................................497Lourdes Patricia Ramirez, Dimitris N. Papadopoulos, Alain Pellegrina, Pascal Monot, Aurélien Ricci, Aurélie Jullien, Xiaowei Chen, Jean Philippe Rouseau, Rodrigo Lopez-Martens, Patrick Georges, Frédéric Druon
HIGH-FIELD LASER PHYSICS AND ATTOSECOND TECHNOLOGIES Ultra-fast Writing of Self-organized Bubble Networks Using Femtosecond Laser Exposure in the Cumulative Regime .............................................................................................................................................................................................................498
Yves Bellouard, Max-Olivier Hongler
Sub-cycle Double Ionization Dynamics of Argon and Neon ......................................................................................................................499Boris Bergues, Matthias Kübel, Nora Johnson, Kelsie Betsch, Robert Jones, Gerhard Paulus, Robert Moshammer, Joachim Ullrich, Ferenc Krausz, Matthias Kling
High Energy Proton Ejection from Hydrocarbon Molecules Driven by Highly Efficient Field Ionization .........................................500Stefan Roither, Xinhua Xie, Daniil Kartashov, Li Zhang, Markus Schöffler, Huailiang Xu, Atshushi Iwasaki, Tomoyo Okino, Kaoru Yamanouchi, Andrius Baltuska, Markus Kitzler
Recent Experiments at LCLS Multidimensional Imaging of X-ray Induced Ultrafast Reactions (invited) ........................................501Artem Rudenko
Sub-cycle Time-resolved Single Photon Ionization.....................................................................................................................................502Aart Verhoef, Alexander Mitrofanov, Maria Krikunova, Nikolay Kabachnik, Armin Scrinzi, Markus Drescher, Andrius Baltuska
Breakdown of the Independent Electron Approximation in Sequential Double Ionization ..................................................................503Claudio Cirelli, Adrian N Pfeiffer, Mathias Smolarski, Reinhard Dörner, Ursula Keller
High-harmonic Generation from Solid Targets at 1 KHz Using Waveform-controlled Few-cycle Pulses ..........................................504Antonin Borot, Arnaud Malvache, Xiaowei Chen, Aurélie Jullien, Patrick Audebert, Jean-Paul Geindre, Gérard Mourou, Fabien Quéré, Rodrigo Lopez-Martens
Observation of few-cycle, strong-field phenomena in surface plasmon fields .........................................................................................505Péter Dombi, Scott Irvine, Péter Rácz, Miklós Lenner, Norbert Kroó, Gyozo Farkas, Alexander Mitrofanov, Andrius Baltuska, Takao Fuji, Ferenc Krausz, Abdul Elezzabi
Femtosecond XUV Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Ultrafast Magnetization Dynamics in Gadolinium and Terbium ......................506Robert Carley, Björn Frietsch, Kristian Döbrich, Martin Teichmann, Cornelius Gahl, Olaf Schwarzkopf, Philippe Wernet, Frank Noack, Martin Weinelt
Efficient On-axis Third Harmonic Generation in a Light Filament.........................................................................................................507Emilia Schulz, Daniel S. Steingrube, Tobias Vockerodt, Thomas Binhammer, Uwe Morgner, Milutin Kovacev
Laser-induced Water Condensation in Air (invited) ..................................................................................................................................508Jérôme Kasparian, Philipp Rohwetter, Kamil Stelmaszczyk, Zuoqiang Hao, Stefano Henin, Noëlle Lascoux, Walter M Nakaema, Yannick Petit, Manuel Queißer, Rami Salamé, Estelle Salmon, Ludger Wöste, Jean-Pierre Wolf
Attosecond Dynamic Imaging Ideas, Results, and Hopes (Tutorial) ........................................................................................................509Misha Ivanov
Controlling and Reading Interference Structures Created by Strong Field Ionizing Attosecond Electron Wave Packets .............................................................................................................................................................................................................510
Xinhua Xie, Stefan Roither, Daniil Kartashov, Li Zhang, Emil Persson, Stefanie Gräfe, Markus Schöffler, Joachim Burgdörfer, Andrius Baltuska, Markus Kitzler
Single-Shot Ultrafast Electron Diffraction Using Electrons Accelerated by an Intense Femtosecond Laser Pulse............................511Shuji Sakabe, Shigeki Tokita, Masaki Hashida, Kazuto Otani, Shunsuke Inoue, Toshihiko Nishoji
Quantum-path Interferometry for High-harmonic Generation ...............................................................................................................512Dane R. Austin, Ian A. Walmsley
Single Attosecond Pulse from Terahertz Assisted High-order Harmonic Generation ...........................................................................513Emeric Balogh, Katalin Kovács, József A. Fülöp, Péter Dombi, Gyozo Farkas, János Hebling, Valer Tosa, Katalin Varjú
High-flux capillary based XUV source via the direct engineering of a laser induced ionization profile ..............................................514Patrick Anderson, Thomas Butcher, Peter Horak, Jeremy Frey, William Brocklesby
Yield Enhancement in Multicolour High-Order Harmonic Generation Superposition of Multiple Un-Related Frequencies......................................................................................................................................................................................................515
David Hoffmann, Thomas Siegel, Ricardo Torres, Leonardo Brugnera, Luke Chipperfield, Amelle Zair, Immacolata Procino, Emma Springate, Edmond Turcu, Jonathan Underwood, Jonathan Marangos
XUV to SXR Enhancement in HHG with a Quasi-Static Electric Field ..................................................................................................516Carles Serrat, Jens Biegert
Angle-Dependent High-Order Harmonic Generation from a Single N2 and O2 Molecule.....................................................................517Kazumichi Yoshii, Godai Miyaji, Kenzo Miyazaki
Stable Relativistic UV Self-Channeling in Multi-Layer Gel Targets........................................................................................................518Alex B. Borisov, Charles K. Rhodes
High Power Enhancement Cavities for Generation of XUV and X-Ray Radiation of High Brilliance ................................................519Jan Kaster, Ioachim Pupeza, Tino Eidam, Christoph Jocher, Ernst Fill, Jens Limpert, Ronald Holzwarth, Birgitta Bernhardt, Thomas Udem, Theodor W. Hänsch, Andreas Tünnermann, Ferenc Krausz
Spatially Resolved Characterization of Sub-4-fs Laser Pulses Using Spatially Encoded Spectral Shearing Interferometry ................................................................................................................................................................................................520
Tobias Witting, Felix Frank, Chris Arrell, William Okell, Jon Marangos, John Tisch
Generation of Sub-15fs Pulses with Multi-terawatt Peak Power at 100-Hz Repetition Rate ................................................................521Yasuo Nabekawa, Yusuke Furukawa, Abdolreza Amani Eilanlou, Kenichi L. Ishikawa, Hiroyuki Takahashi, Eiji J. Takahashi, Katsumi Midorikawa
Incommensurate Frequency Waveform Synthesis by Optical Parametric Amplification .....................................................................522Tadas Balciunas, Stefan Haessler, Giedrius Andriukaitis, Oliver D. Muecke, Audrius Pugzlys, Andrius Baltuska, Richard Squibb, Leszek Frasinski, Jon Marangos, John W. G. Tisch, Linas Giniunas, Romas Danielius, Ronald Holzwarth
Millijoule-level CEP Stable 1.8 μm 1.6 Cycle Laser Pulses .......................................................................................................................523Francois Legare, Bruno E Schmidt, Andrew D Shiner, Philippe Lassonde, David M Villeneuve, Paul B Corkum, Jean-Claude Kieffer
A System for Doing Surface Science with Attosecond Pulses ....................................................................................................................524Christopher Arrell, Eva Skopolova, Dangyuan Lei, Thorsten Uphues, Yannick Sonnefraud, William Okell, Felix Frank, Tobias Witting, Stefan Maier, Jon Marangos, John Tisch
Measuring the Influence of the Coulomb Binding Potential on the Trajectories of Strong-field Driven Electronic Wave Packets ..................................................................................................................................................................................................525
Xinhua Xie, Stefan Roither, Daniil Kartashov, Emil Persson, Li Zhang, Stefanie Gräfe, Markus Schöffler, Matthias Lezius, Joachim Burgdörfer, Andrius Baltuska, Markus Kitzler
Direct Optical Observation of Attosecond Electron Wavepacket Interference ......................................................................................526Lukas Gallmann, Mirko Holler, Florian Schapper, Ursula Keller
From OPA To OPCPA Boosting Laser Pulses To Extreme Intensities (Keynote)..................................................................................527Algis Piskarskas, Rytis Butkus
Sub-Optical-Cycle Waveform Synthesis of Light .......................................................................................................................................528Eleftherios Goulielmakis, Adrian Wirth, Ivanka Grguras, Mohammed Hassan, Justin Gagnon, Antoine Moulet, Tran Trung Luu, Vladimir Pervak, Ferenc Krausz
Seeding of Extreme Ultraviolet Free Electron Laser with High-order Harmonic ..................................................................................529Eiji Takahashi, Tadashi Togashi, Katsumi Midorikawa, Makoto Aoyama, Koichi Yamakawa, Takahiro Sato, Atsushi Iwasaki, Shigeki Owada, Kaoru Yamanouchi, Toru Hara, Shinichi Matsubara, Takashi Ohshima, Yuji Otake, Hitoshi Tanaka, Takashi Tanaka, Hiromitsu Tomizawa, Takahiro Watanabe, Makina Yabashi, Tetsuya Ishikawa
Scientific Study of ELI Attosecond Light Pulse Source .............................................................................................................................530Peter Dombi, Istvan B. Foldes, Jozsef A. Fulop, Janos Hebling, Karoly Osvay, Gabor Szabo, Katalin Varju
Revealing the Giant Resonance in Xe Via HHG with Sub-two Cycle 1.8 μm Laser Pulses ..................................................................531Bruno Eugen Schmidt, Andrew Shiner, Carlos Trallero-Herrero, Hans Jakob Wörner, Serguei Patchkovskii, Jean-Claude Kieffer, Paul Corkum, David Villeneuve, Francois Légaré
Efficient Attosecond Pulse Generation by Gating HHG with Sub-cycle Ionization Dynamics .............................................................532Francesca Calegari, Federico Ferrari, Matteo Lucchini, Caterina Vozzi, Salvatore Stagira, Giuseppe Sansone, Mauro Nisoli
Optimization of High Harmonic Generation Driven by an Ytterbium-doped Fiber Chirped Pulse Amplification at a Repetition Rate of 100 kHz.........................................................................................................................................................................533
Amélie Cabasse, Guillaume Machinet, Antoine Dubrouil, Eric Cormier, Eric Constant
Phase-matched Harmonic Generation Beyond the Water Window with a Mid-IR Parametric Amplifier .........................................534Giedrius Andriukaitis, Tadas Balciunas, Audrius Pugzlys, Andrius Baltuska, Tenio Popmintchev, Ming-Chang Chen, Margaret M. Murnane, Henry C. Kapteyn
Direct Generation of Highly Phase-matched Isolated Attosecond Pulses Using Multi-mJ, Carrier-envelope Phase Stabilized, Few-cycle Laser Pulses................................................................................................................................................................535
Tsuneto Kanai, Yuxi Fu, Yasuhiro Kamba, Samuel Bohman, Hiroshi Yoshida, Takuya Kanai, Shigeru Yamaguchi, Eiji Takahashi, Yasuo Nabekawa, Akira Suda, Katsumi Midorikawa
OPTICAL SENSING AND METROLOGY Gating of High-order Harmonic Emission Driven by a Two-color Mid-IR Optical Parametric Amplifie ..........................................536
Caterina Vozzi, Matteo Negro, Katalin Kovàcs, Valer Tosa, Carlo Altucci, Raffaele Velotta, Fabio Frassetto, Paolo Villoresi, Luca Poletto, Sandro De Silvestri, Salvatore Stagira
Standoff Spectroscopy via Remote Generation of Backward Lasing and/or Gain Swept Superradiance in Air (Invited) ...........................................................................................................................................................................................................537
Marlan Scully
Optofluidic Integrated Bragg Grating Chemical Sensor Utilising a Sodium-selective Receptor Surface to Enhance Detection ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................538
Richard M Parker, James C Gates, Martin C Grossel, Peter G R Smith
High Speed Pump-Probe Spectroscopy of SI3N4-based Micromechanical Systems ................................................................................539Oliver Ristow, Mike Hettich, Axel Bruchhausen, Stefan Bächle, Artur Erbe, Elke Scheer, Thomas Dekorsy
Performance Improvement on Fiber-Based CW Modulation Laser Absorption Spectrometer System for CO2 Sensing .............................................................................................................................................................................................................540
Shumpei Kameyama, Masaharu Imaki, Yoshihito Hirano, Shinichi Ueno, Daisuke Sakaizawa, Shuji Kawakami, Masakatsu Nakajima
An Integrated Bragg Grating Oxygen Sensor Using A Hydrophobic Sol-gel Layer Doped with An Organic Dye ............................541Dominic J. Wales, Richard M. Parker, James C. Gates, Martin C. Grossel, Peter G. R. Smith
Erbium-doped Sodium-lead and Tungsten-lead Metaphosphate Glasses for Temperature Sensing ...................................................542Ricardo Momberg, Roger Gomes, Gaël Poirier, Fábia Cassanjes, Jandir Hickmann, Márcio Alencar
Performance comparison between Raman and Brillouin intensity based sub metre spatial resolution temperature compensated disstributed strain sensor .......................................................................................................................................................543
Mohammad Belal, Trevor Newson
Mid-infrared Waveguide Evanescent Field Chemical Sensor for Liquids ..............................................................................................544Yu-Chi Chang, Vincent Paeder, Lubos Hvozdara, Philip Wägli, Alexandra Homsy, Jean-Michel Hartmann, Hans Peter Herzig
Mid-infrared Photoacoustic Sensing of Glucose in Keratinocyte Solutions ............................................................................................545Jonas Kottmann, Tobias Rosskopf, Julien M. Rey, Joachim Luginbühl, Ernst Reichmann, Markus W. Sigrist
Infrared Spectroscopic Determination of Drugs in Saliva .........................................................................................................................546Kerstin M.-C. Hans, Susanne Müller, Markus W. Sigrist
Photochemical Synthesis of Biphasic Gold-Silver Nanoalloys for Optical Fiber Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering Sensor ............................................................................................................................................................................................547
Changxi Yang, Ting Liu
Mid-IR Imaging of Doped Silicon Gratings at a Decananometer Scale ...................................................................................................548Zohreh Sedaghat, Aurelien Bruyant, Michel Kazan, Julien Vaillant, Sylvain Blaize, Névine Rochat, Nicolas Chevalier, Enric Garcia-Caudel, Pierre Morin, Pascal Royer
Mid-infrared Laser-induced Breakdown Spectroscopy Emissions from Energetic Materials..............................................................549Clayton Yang, Ei Brown, Uwe Hommerich, Sudhir Trivedi, Peter Snyder, Alan Samuels
High Temperature, Robust Herriott Cell for Sensitive NH3 Spectroscopy to Optimize NOx Removal................................................550Deran Johannes Henricus Carolina Maas, Barbara Panella, Hubert Braendle
Analysis and Simulation of Optical Response of Au-nanoparticle-fixed Beads for Optical Sensors of Microscopic Local Environment .........................................................................................................................................................................................551
Shiho Tokonami, Taichi Hamada, Yojiro Yamamoto, Hidenobu Nakao, Hiroshi Shiigi, Tsutomu Nagaoka, Takuya IIda
Biosensor for Human Blood Types Determination Based on Chirped Photonic Fiber ..........................................................................552Julia Skibina, Anton Malinin, Anastasija Zanishevskaja, Valery Tuchin, Valentin Beloglazov, Mikhail Chainikov, Valery Dubrovsky, Aleksey Dolmashkin
Application of Artificial Neural Networks in Analysis of the LIBS Spectrum........................................................................................553Asiyeh Moosavi, Hossein Saghafifar
Remote Gas Leak Detection Using a Portable Mini-Lidar Based on a Doubly-Resonant OPO ...........................................................554Bertrand Hardy, Myriam Raybaut, Antoine Godard, Ajmal K. Mohamed, Jean-Michel Melkonian, Michel Lefebvre
Photoacoustic Gas Detection with LED QEPAS .........................................................................................................................................555Stefan Böttger, Martin Angelmahr, Wolfgang Schade
Fluorescence/depolarization LIDAR for Mid-range Stand-off Detection of Biological Agents ............................................................556Zygmunt Mierczyk, Krzysztof Kopczynski, Marek Zygmunt, Jacek Wojtanowski, Jaroslaw Mlynczak, Andrzej Gawlikowski, Andrzej Mlodzianko, Wieslaw Piotrowski, Andrzej Gietka, Piotr Knysak, Tadeusz Drozd, Michal Muzal, Miroslawa Kaszczuk, Roman Ostrowski, Marcin Jakubaszek
Combining Physical Micro-machining and Direct UV Writing to Fabricate Novel Planar Tilted Bragg Grating Refractometers................................................................................................................................................................................................557
Christopher Holmes, Lewis G. Carpenter, James C. Gates, Ian J. G. Sparrow, Peter G. R. Smith
UV-Written Bragg Gratings in a Flat-fiber Platform as a Bending and Twisting Sensor .....................................................................558Sumiaty Ambran, Christopher Holmes, James C. Gates, Andrew S. Webb, Jayanta K. Sahu, Peter G. R. Smith
Pump Induced Refractive Index Changes in Gamma-irradiated Yb-doped Optical Fibers .................................................................559Irina Petukhova, Andrei Fotiadi, Alexey Shubin, Alexander Tomashuk, Sergey Novikov, Igor Zolotovskiy, Oleg Antipov, Krassimir Panajotov, Hugo Thienpont, Patrice Mégret
Application of Temporal Superresolution for Measuring Fast Single-Shot Optical Waveforms .........................................................560Naum Berger
Multi-Channel Adaptive Interferometer Based on Orthogonal Wave Mixing in Photorefractive Crystal .........................................561Roman Romashko, Michail Bezruk, Yuri Kulchin, Alexei Kamshilin
Interferometry for Picometer-level Dimensional Stability Measurements ..............................................................................................562Dirk Voigt, Jonathan Ellis, Ad Verlaan, Rob Bergmans, Jo Spronck, Robert Munnig Schmidt
Metrological Interferometric Tool for Guided-wave Optic Components ................................................................................................563Anne-Françoise Obaton, Jimmy Dubard
Dual-comb Spectroscopy with Adaptive Sampling.....................................................................................................................................564Takuro Ideguchi, Antonin Poisson, Guy Guelachvili, Theodor Hänsch, Nathalie Picqué
Cold Atom Sagnac Interferometer ...............................................................................................................................................................565Sven Abend, Peter Berg, Michael Gilowski, Christian Schubert, Gunnar Tackmann, Wolfgang Ertmer, Ernst M. Rasel
Relative Calibration Techniques for Characterising Single Photon Detectors .......................................................................................566Silke Peters, Waldemar Schmunk, Mark Rodenberger, Helmuth Hofer, Stefan Kück
New Optical Fiber Based Microresonators Theory and Applications (Invited)......................................................................................567Misha Sumetsky
Investigation of Thermal Effects on Embedded Microcoil Resonators ....................................................................................................568George Chen, Timothy Lee, Yongmin Jung, Mohammad Belal, Gilberto Brambilla, Neil Broderick, Trevor Newson
Plasmonic Properties of Copper Nanoparticles Deposited on Tilted Fiber Bragg Gratings .................................................................569Li-Yang Shao, Jason Coyle, Sean Barry, Jacques Albert
Monitoring of Catalytic Reactions in Photonic Crystal Fiber ...................................................................................................................570Ana Cubillas, Matthias Schmidt, Michael Scharrer, Tijmen G. Euser, Bastian Etzold, Nicola Taccardi, Peter Wasserscheid, Philip St. J. Russell
Characterization of the influence of strain on the optical properties of waveguides and microresonators in silicon-on-insulator technology..................................................................................................................................................................................571
Wouter Westerveld, Peter Harmsma, Ruud Schmits, Erik Tabak, Jose Pozo, Paul Urbach, Mirvais Yousefi
Visualizing Coherent Phonon Propagation in the 100 GHz Range a Broadband Picosecond Acoustics Approach ...........................572Emanuele Pontecorvo, Dario Polli, Michele Ortolani, Marco Ferretti, Giancarlo Ruocco, Giulio Cerullo, Tullio Scopigno
Surface profilometry and low coherence interferometry by electronically controlled optical sampling .............................................573Stefan Kray, Felix Spöler, Thomas Hellerer, Heinrich Kurz
Quantitative Optical Coherence Tomography for Characterization of Microscopic Structures with Varying Refractive Index..............................................................................................................................................................................................574
Janarthanan Rasakanthan, Mandana Baregheh, Mykhaylo Dubov, Vladimir Mezentsev, Graham Smith, Kate Sugden, Peter D. Woolliams, Peter H. Tomlins
Optical Encryption with Compressive Ghost Imaging ..............................................................................................................................575Vicente Durán, Pere Clemente, Víctor Torres-Company, Enrique Tajahuerce, Jesús Lancis, Pedro Andrés
Transmission Matrix in Optics Taking Advantage of Transmission Channels for Image Transmission in Disordered Materials......................................................................................................................................................................................576
Sebastien Popoff, Geoffroy Lerosey, Mathias Fink, Claude Boccara, Sylvain Gigan
Fibered Interference Scanning Optical Microscopy for Living Cell Imaging .........................................................................................577Jochen Fick, Hervé Guillou, Catherine Villard, Joël Chevrier, Serge Huant
DNA Immobilisation and Hydrogel Matrix Formation in Suspended-Core Optical Fibre ...................................................................578Monika Rutowska, Fatima Garcia Gunning, Waclaw Urbanczyk, Andrew Ellis
Optical Detection of Molecular Species at Sub-ppt Concentration Levels (invited)...............................................................................579Davide Mazzotti, Saverio Bartalini, Simone Borri, Pablo Cancio, Iacopo Galli, Giovanni Giusfredi, Paolo De Natale
Fluorescence Spectroscopy in Photonic Crystal Fiber ............................................................................................................................... 580Gareth Williams, Tijmen Euser, Jocelyn Chen, Philip Russell, Anita Jones
Long Distance Measurement with Sub-micrometer Accuracy Using a Frequency Comb Laser..........................................................581Mounir Zeitouny, Moxi Cui, Nandini Bhattacharya, Paul Urbach, Steven Van Den Berg, Augustus Janssen
Pulse-shaper Assisted Spatio-temporal Ultrashort Pulse Characterisation ............................................................................................582Seth L Cousin, Juan M Bueno, Nicolas Forget, Dane R Austin, Jens Biegert
Closed-Loop Adaptive Optics with a single Spatial Light Modulator......................................................................................................583Raúl Martínez-Cuenca, Vicente Durán, Jesús Lancis, Zbigniew Jaroszewicz, Justo Arines, Salvador Bará
Integrated Arrayed Waveguide Grating Spectrometer for Measuring Raman Spectra........................................................................584Nur Ismail, Fei Sun, Kerstin Wörhoff, Alfred Driessen, René M. De Ridder, Markus Pollnau
Studying Photon Number Distribution of NV-Centre-Emission in Diamond .........................................................................................585Waldemar Schmunk, Marco Gramegna, Giorgio Brida, Ivo Pietro Degiovanni, Marco Genovese, Helmuth Hofer, Stefan Kück, Lapo Lolli, Matteo G. A. Paris, Silke Peters, Mauro Rajteri, Andreas Ruschhaupt, Emanuele Taralli, Paolo Traina
Broadband Quantum Cascade Lasers for Mid-Infrared White Light Applications ..............................................................................586Andreas Hugi, Stéphane Blaser, Mattias Beck, Jérôme Faist
Ultra-long Range Distributed Fibre Sensing Using Virtually Transparent Propagation (invited).......................................................587Miguel Gonzalez-Herraez, Sonia Martin-Lopez, Mercedes Alcon-Camas, Pedro Corredera, Luc Thevenaz, Juan Diego Ania-Castañon
Photonic Crystal Fiber Sensor Array Based on Cladding Mode Resonance ...........................................................................................588Guillermo Alejandro Cárdenas Sevilla, Vittoria Finazzi, Joel Villatoro, Valerio Pruneri
A Vectorial Magnetometer Utilising a Microstructured Optical Fibre Bragg Grating Infiltrated by a Ferrofluid ...........................589Alessandro Candiani, Walter Margulis, Carola Sterner, Maria Konstantaki, Paul Childs, Stavros Pissadakis
High Frequency Current Sensing using Optical Fiber Micro-wire ..........................................................................................................590George Chen, Mohammad Belal, Yongmin Jung, Gilberto Brambilla, Trevor Newson
OPTICAL TECHNOLOGIES FOR COMMUNICATIONS AND DATA STORAGE Amplitude Noise Reduction in Multilevel QAM Formats Using a Nonlinear Amplifying Loop Mirror with a Saturable Amplifier........................................................................................................................................................................................591
Tobias Roethlingshoefer, Georgy Onishchukov, Bernhard Schmauss, Gerd Leuchs
Effect of Amplitude Noise on Multi-Level Phase Regeneration ................................................................................................................592Moritz Lenz, Georgy Onishchukov, Bernhard Schmauss, Gerd Leuchs
Potential and Practical Implementations of Phase Sensitive Amplifiers for All-Optical Signal Regeneration (Invited) ...........................................................................................................................................................................................................593
Francesca Parmigiani, Joseph Kakande, Radan Slavík, Periklis Petropoulos, David J Richardson
DQPSK Optical Packet Switching using an SG-DBR laser .......................................................................................................................594Tam N. Huynh, Kai Shi, Frank Smyth, Liam P. Barry
Direct Modulation Optical OFDM Performance Enhancement by External Optical Injection ...........................................................595Colm Browning, Kai Shi, Frank Smyth, Barry Cardiff, Prince Anandarajah, Liam Barry
Pulse Shaping-Assisted Nonlinear Spectral Broadening............................................................................................................................596Xin Yang, David J. Richardson, Periklis Petropoulos
Optical Comb Generation and Expansion by Gain Switched Discrete Mode Laser Diode ...................................................................597Sylwester Latkowski, Yiqing Xu, Stuart Murdoch, Liam Barry, Prince Anandarajah
Patterning Effects in Ultrafast All-Optical Photonic Crystal Nanocavity Switches ...............................................................................598Mikkel Heuck, Philip Trøst Kristensen, Jesper Mørk
Intra-cavity Frequency Shifted Laser Pumps for Non-degenerate and Partially Coherent Bragg-scattering FWM in Nonlinear Fiber ..........................................................................................................................................................................................599
Katarzyna Krupa, Michela Bettenzana, Alessandro Tonello, Daniele Modotto, Gabriele Manili, Vincent Couderc, Philippe Di Bin, Stefan Wabnitz, Alain Barthélémy
High-Frequency RIN Transfer in Fibre Optic Parametric Amplifiers ....................................................................................................600Zohreh Lali-Dastjerdi, Toke Lund-Hansen, Ning Kang, Karsten Rottwitt, Micheal Galili, Chiristophe Peucheret
Q-factor Dependent Kerr Switching of Semiconductor Microcavities.....................................................................................................601Emre Yüce, Georgios Ctistis, Julien Claudon, Maela Bazin, Jean-Michel Gérard, Willem L. Vos
Coherent All-optical Switching in a Bistable Waveguide-cavity-waveguide System..............................................................................602Philip Trøst Kristensen, Mikkel Heuck, Jesper Mørk
Optimization of 2- and 4-dimensional Modulation Constellations for Optical Adaptive Transmission Using the Genetic Algorithm ..........................................................................................................................................................................................603
Ahmed S. Abdelhamid, Michael H. Eiselt
Digital Key Chaos-communication Systems with Delay Time Concealment ...........................................................................................604Romain Modeste Nguimdo, Pere Colet, Laurent Larger, Luís Pesquera
Tellurite Composite Microstructured Fibers with Tailed Chromatic Dispersion for Nonlinear Applications ...................................605Zhongchao Duan, Meisong Liao, Xin Yan, Chihiro Kito, Takenobu Suzuki, Yasutake Ohishi
Nonlinear Distortion of 16QAM Constellations in Intradyne Coherent Receiver ..................................................................................606Takahide Sakamoto, Akito Chiba, Tetsuya Kawanishi
Theory of Fiber Optic Co- and Counter-pumped Raman Polarizers.......................................................................................................607Stefan Wabnitz, Victor Kozlov, Javier Nuño, Juan Diego Ania-Castañón
Theory of Fiber Optic Lossless Polarizers ...................................................................................................................................................608Stefan Wabnitz, Victor Kozlov, Javier Nuño
2.56x1017 Hz/s Frequency Chirp Signal Generation Using DSB-SC Optical Modulation with out Optical Filters ............................609Atsushi Kanno, Shinnosuke Honda, Ryuta Yamanaka, Hideyuki Sotobayashi, Tetsuya Kawanishi
Creation of Multi-Carrier Millimeter-Wave Signal Using Mach-Zehnder-Modulator-Based Flat Comb Generator .......................610Isao Morohashi, Takahide Sakamoto, Tetsuya Kawanishi, Iwao Hosako
Field Experiment Optical Chaos Communication @ 10Gb/s Demonstrating Electro-optic Phase Chaos Principles ........................611Maxime Jacquot, Roman Lavrov, Jérémy Oden, Yanne Chembo, Modeste Nguimdo, Pere Colet, Laurent Larger
A Liénard Optoelectronic Oscillator with Time-Delayed Feedback ........................................................................................................612Bruno Romeira, Kris Seunarine, Charles Ironside, Julien Javaloyes, Anthony Kelly, José Figueiredo
Reduced Lorentzian linewidth for monolithic widely tunable C-band lasers utilising InGaAlAs/InP active region .........................613Samuel Davies, Neil Whitbread, Andrew Ward, Robert Griffin, Michael Wale, Martin Arnold
Inducing a Detector Efficiency Mismatch to Hack a Commercial Quantum Key Distribution System...............................................614Nitin Jain, Lars Lydersen, Christoffer Wittmann, Carlos Wiechers, Dominique Elser, Christoph Marquardt, Vadim Makarov, Gerd Leuchs
Improved Accuracy of a Fourier-domain Optical Processor with Feedback. .........................................................................................615Stuart Murdoch, Regan Watts, Richard Provo, Ray Xu, Liam Barry
Optical Linear Feedback Shift Register.......................................................................................................................................................616Mirco Scaffardi, Gianluca Berrettini, An Nguyen, Francesca Bontempi, Antonella Bogoni
All-Optical Modulation Converter for On-Off Keying to Duobinary and Alternate-Mark Inversion at 42.6 Gbps ..........................617James M. Dailey, Mark J. Power, Roderick P. Webb, Robert J. Manning
Electronically-Tuned Optical Delay Lines in Silicon..................................................................................................................................618Saeed Khan, Sasan Fathpour
All-optical Signal Processing Using Slow Light Enhanced Nonlinearities in Silicon Waveguides (invited) ........................................619Bill Corcoran, Christelle Monat, Mark Pelusi, Christian Grillet, Thomas White, Juntao Li, Liam O'Faolain, Thomas Krauss, David Moss, Benjamin Eggleton
Dynamic Compensation of Two-Photon Absorption Induced Distortions in Silicon Photonics Filters ...............................................620Carlo Ferrari, Francesco Morichetti, Antonio Canciamilla, Marc Sorel, Andrea Melloni
Integrated All-optical SSB Modulator Using Photonic Hilbert Transformer with Planar Bragg Gratings ........................................621Chaotan Sima, James Gates, Helen Rogers, Christopher Holmes, Michalis Zervas, Peter Smith
FIBRE AND GUIDED WAVE LASERS AND AMPLIFIERS Dual Wavelength Passively Mode-locked Raman Fiber Laser Pumped by Semiconductor Disk Lasers ............................................622
Alexander Chamorovskiy, Jussi Rautiainen, Jari Lyytikäinen, Oleg G. Okhotnikov
High-harmonic km-long Self-pulsed Raman Fiber Laser..........................................................................................................................623Anne Boucon, Benoit Barviau, Julien Fatome, Christophe Finot, Thibaut Sylvestre, Min Won Lee, Philippe Grelu, Guy Millot
A Fiber Based Synchronously Pumped Tunable Raman Laser in the NIR.............................................................................................624Shaif-Ul Alam, Dejiao Lin, Peh Teh, Kang Chen, David Richardson
Multi-stage Er-doped Fiber Amplifier for Gain-switched Laser Diodes .................................................................................................625Laura Abrardi, Lauryna Petraviciute Loetscher, Sergio Vincenzo Marchese, Thomas Feurer
High Energy Pulsed Eye-safe Fiber Amplifier ............................................................................................................................................626Eric Lallier, Dominique Papillon-Ruggeri
Theoretical and Experimental Comparison of Different Configurations of Tapered Fiber Lasers .....................................................627Juho Kerttula, Valery Filippov, Yuri Chamorovskii, V. Ustimchik, Konstantin Golant, Oleg Okhotnikov
High Power Fused Single Mode Optical Fiber Coupler.............................................................................................................................628Thomas Theeg, Katharina Hausmann, Maik Frede, Hakan Sayinc, Jörg Neumann, Dietmar Kracht
Reducing Loss in Practical Single Ring Antiresonant Hollow Core Fibres .............................................................................................629John R. Hayes, Francesco Poletti, David J. Richardson
Ultrafast Laser Direct-Write Inscription of Monolithic Fibre and Waveguide Lasers (Invited)..........................................................630Michael with ford
Polarization-maintaining Ytterbium-doped Fibre with an Aluminosilicate Inner-cladding Fabricated Using In-situ Doping Technique...........................................................................................................................................................................................631
Seongwoo Yoo, Andrew S. Webb, Alexander J. Boyland, Robert J. Standish, Anirban Dhar, Jayanta K. Sahu
Giant Gain in a Rare-earth-ion-doped Waveguide.....................................................................................................................................632Dimitri Geskus, Shanmugam Aravazhi, Sonia García Blanco, Markus Pollnau
Phase-Matching and Gain of Deep-UV Dispersive-Wave Generation .....................................................................................................633John C. Travers, Philipp Hölzer, Wonkeun Chang, Johannes Nold, Alexander Nazarkin, Nicolas Joly, Philip St. J. Russell
Internally-Frequency-Doubled Yb Fiber Laser with 15 W CW Green Output ......................................................................................634Rafal Cieslak, William Andrew Clarkson
High Average Power Supercontinuum Sources (Invited) ..........................................................................................................................635John Travers, Edmund Kelleher, Benjamin Chapman, Sergei Popov, Roy Taylor
Dynamic Waveguide Properties of Active Fibers Under High Power Operation ...................................................................................636Fabian Stutzki, Florian Jansen, Cesar Jauregui, Jens Limpert, Andreas Tünnermann
Brillouin Lasing with Incoherent Feedback in Optical Fibers ..................................................................................................................637Andrei Fotiadi, Elena Preda, Patrice Mégret
Sub-200-fs Microjoule Pulses from an All-fiber CPA System ...................................................................................................................638Dirk Mortag, Thomas Theeg, Katharina Hausmann, Lars Grüner-Nielsen, Kim G. Jespersen, Dieter Wandt, Uwe Morgner, Dietmar Kracht, Jörg Neumann
Ytterbium Fiber System using a Dispersion Compensating Fiber Stretcher ..........................................................................................639Aart Verhoef, Alma Fernández, Kim Jespersen, Lingxiao Zhu, Lars Grüner-Nielsen, Almantas Galvanauskas, Andrius Baltuska
High Gain Fiber Optical Parametric Chirped Pulse Amplification of Femtosecond Pulses at 1 μm ...................................................640Arnaud Mussot, Damien Bigourd, Laure Lago, Alexandre Kudlinski, Emmanuel Hugonnot
Rod-type Fiber Amplifier for Pulse Compression of High Power Thin-Disk Lasers .............................................................................641Oliver H. Heckl, Clara J. Saraceno, Cyrill R. E. Baer, Thomas Südmeyer, Ursula Keller
40 W Narrow-bandwidth Ps Yb-doped Fiber Laser at 976 nm and Frequency Conversion to 488 nm...............................................642Guillaume Machinet, Jerome Lhermite, Eric Cormier
All-fiber Optically Synchronized Hybrid Er/Yb Laser System for High Power Femtosecond Pulse Generation ..............................643Alexey Andrianov, Elena Anashkina, Sergey Muravyev, Arkady Kim
High Power 100fs Fiber Oscillator ...............................................................................................................................................................644Martin Baumgartl, Florian Jansen, Fabian Stutzki, Cesar Jauregui, Jens Limpert, Andreas Tünnermann
8 Watts Actively Mode-Locked Ytterbium Doped Fiber Laser Delivering 15 ps pulses at 40 MHz.....................................................645Pierre Deslandes, Damien Sangla, Mathias Perrin, Julien Saby, Francois Salin, Eric Freysz
Highest Peak Power from a Normal-Dispersion Yb-Fiber Oscillator with Anomalous Dispersion Higher-Order-Mode Fiber ......................................................................................................................................................................................................646
Alma Fernandez, Lingxiao Zhu, Aart Verhoef, Kim Jespersen, Dusan Lorenc, Lars Grüner-Nielsen, Andrius Baltuska
0.5 μj Femtosecond Pulses from a Giant-chirp Ytterbium Fiber Oscillator............................................................................................647Nikolai Chichkov, Christian Hapke, Katharina Hausmann, Thomas Theeg, Dieter Wandt, Uwe Morgner, Dietmar Kracht, Jörg Neumann
500 nJ Femtosecond Fiber Laser at 976 nm ................................................................................................................................................648Jérôme Lhermite, Guillaume Machinet, Caroline Lecaplain, Romain Royon, Ammar Hideur, Eric Cormier
High-energy All-normal-dispersion Graphene Mode-locked Yb-doped Fiber Laser.............................................................................649Jiang Liu, Sida Wu, Quan-Hong Yang, Pu Wang
High Power Ultrafast Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers Design, Performance and Potential (Keynote) ....................................................650Jens Limpert
Comparison Between Multiple Quantum Wells and Carbon Nanotubes to Generate High Power in Mode-locked Fiber Oscillator ...............................................................................................................................................................................................651
Amélie Cabasse, Gilles Martel, Trung Nguyen, Jean-Louis Oudar, Sylvain Maine, Yann Battie, Brigitte Attal-Trétout
Liquid-Nitrogen-Cooled High-Concentration Erbium-Doped Fibre Laser.............................................................................................652Ruth Steinborn, Tianfu Yao, Andrew Webb, Jayanta Sahu, Johan Nilsson
Athermal Ho3+-Doped Amplifier with Two Pumps ...................................................................................................................................653Galina Nemova, Raman Kashyap
697 W 12 pm Linewidth of Fiber Generated and Amplified Spontaneous Emission (ASE) at 1 μm....................................................654Oliver Schmidt, Christian Wirth, Stephan Rhein, Miroslaw Rekas, Andrea Kliner, Thomas Schreiber, Ramona Eberhardt, Andreas Tünnermann
Spectral Characterization of a Narrow Linewidth, Single-frequency 780 nm Fiber Laser Source for Atom Cooling Applications.....................................................................................................................................................................................................655
Alain Mugnier, Eric Lemercier, Ronan Lebref, Mathieu Jacquemet, David Pureur
Phase Noise Reduction of Narrow Linewidth Optical Fibre-Ring Based Microwave Oscillators Modelling and Experimental Results .....................................................................................................................................................................................656
Aude Bouchier, Khaldoun Saleh, Pierre-Henri Merrer, Olivier Llopis
Single-frequency Yb-doped PCF MOPA with 294 W of Output Power for Gravitational Wave Detection .......................................657Malte Karow, Chandrajit Basu, Dietmar Kracht, Jörg Neumann, Peter Wessels
Yb-free Er-doped 980nm Pumped Single-Frequency Fiber Amplifier with Output Power of 54W and Near-Diffraction Limited Beam Quality................................................................................................................................................................658
Vincent Kuhn, Dietmar Kracht, Jörg Neumann, Peter Weßels
Sbs Suppression in High Power Fiber Pulse Amplifiers Employing a Superluminescence Diode As Seed Source.............................659Dirk Nodop, Damian Schimpf, Jens Limpert, Andreas Tuennermann
Femtosecond Laser Written Pr SrAl12O19 Channel-waveguide Laser in the Visible Spectral Range...................................................660Thomas Calmano, Joerg Siebenmorgen, Fabian Reichert, Matthias Fechner, Anna-Greta Paschke, Nils-Owe Hansen, Klaus Petermann, Guenter Huber
High-power cw 127 μm Bi-doped Fiber Laser ............................................................................................................................................661Igor Bufetov, Alexey Shubin, Sergey Firstov, Mikhail Melkumov, Vladimir Khopin, Alexey Guryanov, Evgeny Dianov
High Power Wavelength Stabilized Tm-Fibre Laser with FBG Written into the Core of the Active Fibre ........................................662Karsten Scholle, Samir Lamrini, Philipp Koopmann, Michael Schäfer, Jens Thomas, Christian Voigtländer, Stefan Nolte, Peter Fuhrberg
High Gain Erbium Doped Tellurium Oxide Waveguide Amplifier..........................................................................................................663Khu Vu, Steve Madden
Two Micron Tellurite Fibre Lasers (Invited) ..............................................................................................................................................664David Binks, Yuen Tsang, Billy Richards, Joris Lousteau, Animesh Jha
Compact 80 mW Picosecond Pulsed Source with Variable Repetition Rate and Pulse Energy at 531 nm..........................................665Thomas Schönau, Kristian Lauritsen, Sina Riecke, Thomas Eckhart, Rainer Erdmann
Fiber Laser with Cladding-Mode Feedback Based on Intracavity Long Period Grating......................................................................666David Sáez-Rodríguez, José Luis Cruz, Antonio Díez, Miguel Vicente Andrés
Symmetrically Side-pumped 10-W Ytterbium-doped Fiber Laser by Sub-wavelength Grating Coupler ...........................................667Chieh-Wei Huang, Chun-Lin Chang, Dong-Yo Jheng, Kuang-Yu Hsu, Sheng-Lung Huang, Ding-Wei Huang
Off-axis Pumping of Air Clad Photonic Crystal Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers .......................................................................................668Boris Shulga, Amiel Ishaaya
Laser Oscillation in 4-cm Single-transverse-mode Nd-doped Silica Fiber Fabricated by Zeolite Method ..........................................669Motoichiro Murakami, Minoru Yoshida, Hitoshi Nakano, Yasushi Fujimoto, Hiroyuki Shiraga, Shinji Motokoshi, Shinichi Matsuoka, Jun-Ya Maeda, Hirofumi Kan, Tatsuhiro Sato
Sub-watt Output Power at 638nm in Wavelength by Direct Oscillation with Pr-doped Waterproof Fluoro-aluminate Glass Fiber Laser .........................................................................................................................................................................670
Jun Nakanishi, Tsuyoshi Yamada, Yasushi Fujimoto, Osamu Ishii, Masaaki Yamazaki
On Two-wavelength Raman Fibre Laser Based on Spectral Broadening ...............................................................................................671Anastasia Bednyakova, Mikhail Fedoruk, Sergey Turitsyn, Andrey Kurkov, Oleg Medvedkov
High Power All-in-fibre Continuous Wave Raman Laser Based on Phosphosilicate Fibre ..................................................................672Sébastien Guillemet, Damien Kinet, Francois Narbonneau, Yves Hernandez, Domenico Giannone
Linearly Polarized 100kW Peak Power Pulsed Fiber Laser......................................................................................................................673Yasuhiro Kamba, Kazuyoku Tei, Shigeru Yamaguchi
Low Threshold Fiber Taper Coupled Silica Microsphere Laser in the 2 μm Wavelength Region .......................................................674Atasi Pal, Shu Ying Chen, Shyamal Das, Archi Bhattacharya, Tong Sun, Ranjan Sen, K T V Grattan
All-fiber Q-switched Er Tm laser. ................................................................................................................................................................675Andrey Kurkov, Yana Sadovnikova, Evgenii Sholokhov, Andrey Marakulin
83 W, 1 ns, 3.1 MHz All-fiber Laser for Micromachining .........................................................................................................................676Kivanc Özgören, Bulent Oktem, Sinem Yilmaz, Fatih Ömer Ilday, Ece Pasin, Koray Eken
Continuously Tunable Sub-ns Ytterbium-doped MPOA System for Frequency Conversion ...............................................................677Romain Royon, Jerome Lhermite, Guillaume Machinet, Laurent Sarger, Eric Cormier
All-glass kW Fibre Laser End-pumped by Mccp-cooled Diode Stacks....................................................................................................678John Minelly, Luis Spinelli, Rick Tumminelli, Sergei Govorkov, Doug Anthon, Eric Pooler, Rajiv Pathak, David Roh, Dan Grasso, David Scleuning, Bruce Perilloux, Paolo Zambon
High Energy All Fiber Picosecond Laser.....................................................................................................................................................679Simonette Pierrot, Benjamin Cocquelin, Julien Saby, François Salin
Actively Mode-Locked Fibre Ring Laser Based on In-Fibre Acousto-Optic Amplitude Modulation ..................................................680Miguel Bello-Jiménez, Christian Cuadrado-Laborde, Antonio Díez, José Luis Cruz, Miguel V. Andrés
Energy Scalable Passively Mode-locked Mid-IR Tm-fiber Laser.............................................................................................................681Vladimir Kalashnikov, V. Dvoyrin, Irina Sorokina
Basic Considerations on Coherent Combining of Ultrafast CPA Amplifiers ..........................................................................................682Arno Klenke, Enrico Seise, Jens Limpert, Andreas Tünnermann
Anticrossings Induced by Index Depressions and their Impact on Mode Area Scaling of Active Large Pitch Fibers .......................683Florian Jansen, Fabian Stutzki, Cesar Jauregui, Jens Limpert, Andreas Tünnermann
Single-Mode Regime of Large Mode Area Double Cladding Photonic Crystal Fibers ..........................................................................684Enrico Coscelli, Federica Poli, Davide Passaro, Annamaria Cucinotta, Stefano Selleri, Thomas T. Alkeskjold, Lasse Leick, Jes Broeng
Propagation and Break-up of Pulses in Fiber Amplifiers with Third-Order Dispersion.......................................................................685Claude Aguergaray, Vladimir Kruglov, John D. Harvey
Modal Decomposition of Self-Focusing Effects in Optical Fibres.............................................................................................................686Graham Hesketh, Francesco Poletti, Peter Horak
Electronic vs Thermal Index Changes in Pulsed and CW Yb-Doped Fiber Amplifiers ........................................................................687Maxim Kuznetsov, Oleg Antipov, Andrei Fotiadi, Patrice Mégret
Large-Mode-Area Highly Yb-doped Photodarkening-Free Al2O3-P2O5-SiO2-Based Fiber ..................................................................688Mikhail Likhachev, Svetlana Aleshkina, Alexey Shubin, Mikhail Bubnov, Evgeny Dianov, Denis Lipatov, Alexey Guryanov
Control of Spectral and Statistical Properties of Raman Fiber Lasers ....................................................................................................689Dmitriy Churkin, Oleg Gorbunov, Sergey Smirnov
Statistical Properties and Optical Spectra of Raman Fiber Lasers Influence of Bragg-Grating Mirrors ...........................................690Stéphane Randoux, Nicolas Dalloz, Pierre Suret
Iterative Method for Brillouin Fiber Ring Resonator ................................................................................................................................691Cristina Elena Preda, Gautier Ravet, Andrei A. Fotiadi, Patrice Mégret
Dynamics of Passively Phased Fiber Laser Arrays. ...................................................................................................................................692Adrian Jacobo, Pere Colet, Erik J. Bochove, Yehuda Braiman, Alejandro B. Aceves, Ralf Deiterding, Casey A. Miller, Charles Rhodes, Sami A. Shakir
Control of The Operation Regimes of a Passively Modelocked Fiber Laser Based on An Intracavity Polarizing Fiber .................................................................................................................................................................................................................693
Guillermo E. Villanueva, María Ferri, Pere Pérez-Millán
Super-Broadband Near-Infrared Photoluminescence from Thulium, Bismuth, and Thulium-Bismuth Doped Sodium Germanium Gallate Glasses and Waveguides ..............................................................................................................................694
Bo Zhou, Baojie Chen, Edwin Pun
Concentration Effects in Ho-Doped Fiber Lasers.......................................................................................................................................695Andrey Kurkov, Evgenii Sholokhov, Vladimir Tsvetkov, Andrey Marakulin
Sub-mJ Nano-Second Vortex Pulse Generation from a Stressed Yb-Doped Double Clad Fiber Amplifier........................................696Mio Koyama, Tetsuya Hirose, Yuichi Tanaka, Katsuhiko Miyamoto, Takashige Omatsu
Coherent Beam Combination of Pulse Fiber Amplifiers in 100ns-Pulse Regime ...................................................................................697Laurent Lombard, Adrian Azarian, Kevin Cadoret, Pierre Bourdon, Didier Goular, Guillaume Canat, Véronique Jolivet, Yves Jaouën, Olivier Vasseur
High Energy Coherently Combined Femtosecond Fiber CPA System ....................................................................................................698Enrico Seise, Arno Klenke, Sven Breitkopf, Marco Plötner, Jens Limpert, Andreas Tünnermann
Coherent Beam Combining of Fiber Amplifiers in The Femtosecond Regime .......................................................................................699Louis Daniault, Marc Hanna, Laurent Lombard, Yoann Zaouter, Eric Mottay, Didier Goular, Patrick Bourdon, Frederic Druon, Patrick Georges
Phase Locking Fluctuations of 25 Coupled Fiber Lasers...........................................................................................................................700Micha Nixon, Moti Fridman, Rami Pugatch, Asher A. Friesem, Nir Davidson
Multicore Photonic-Crystal-Fiber Sources of Ultrashort Pulses ..............................................................................................................701Ming-Lie Hu, Xiao-Hui Fang, Bo-Wen Liu, Lu Chai, Yan-Feng Li, Aleksei Zheltikov, Ching-Yue Wang
Femtosecond Laser Induced Fiber Bragg Gratings in Active and Multi Mode Fibers (Invited) ..........................................................702Stefan Nolte, Jens Thomas, Christian Voigtländer, Ria G. Becker, Daniel Richter, Andreas Tünnermann
Dual Wavelength Waveguide Lasers Fabricated Using Femtosecond Laser Inscription in Yb Doped Phosphate Glass .................................................................................................................................................................................................................703
Martin Ams, Peter Dekker, Graham Marshall, Michael with ford
Erbium Doped Glass-Semiconductor Integrated Waveguide Amplifier..................................................................................................704Mehrdad Irannejad, Gin Jose, Mehrdad Pasha, Paul Steenson, Qi Jiang, Ziang Zhaung, Richard Hogg, Animesh Jha
Distributed Feedback Channel Waveguide Lasers in Erbium- and Ytterbium-Doped Al2O3 on Silicon.............................................705Edward Bernhardi, Henk van Wolferen, Kerstin Wörhoff, René de Ridder, Markus Pollnau
A 40% Slope Efficiency 790nm Pumped 1.9micrometre Tm3+ ZBLAN Directly-Written Waveguide Laser......................................706David Lancaster, Simon Gross, Heike Ebendorff-Heidepriem, Kevin Kuan, Tanya Monro, Alex Fuerbach, Michael with ford
MICRO- AND NANO-PHOTONICS Electromechanical Tuning of Double-Membrane Photonic Crystal Cavities..........................................................................................707
Leonardo Midolo, Peterus Johannes van Veldhoven, Richard Nötzel, Mehmet Ali Dundar, Andrea Fiore
Low-Power Continuous-Wave Frequency Conversion in Far-Field Optimized Silicon Photonic Crystal Nanocavities ....................................................................................................................................................................................................708
Dario Gerace, Matteo Galli, Simone L. Portalupi, Karl Welna, Christopher Reardon, Thomas Krauss, Liam O'Faolain, Giorgio Guizzetti, Lucio C. Andreani
Photonic Crystal Nanocavities and Broad-Area Cavities (Invited) ..........................................................................................................709Susumu Noda, Takashi Asano
Bistable Switching in Chalcogenide 1D Photonic Crystal Nanocavities...................................................................................................710Thomas White, Xin Gai, Steve Madden, Duk-Yong Choi, Sukhanta Debbarma, Barry Luther-Davies
Experimental Observation of Sub-Bragg Frequency Gaps in Photonic Crystals ...................................................................................711Simon R. Huisman, Rajesh V. Nair, Alex Hartsuiker, Léon A. Woldering, Allard P. Mosk, Willem L. Vos
Compact Integrated Optical Sensors Based on a Si3N4 Grated Waveguide Optical Cavity ..................................................................712So V. Pham, Meindert Dijkstra, Anton J.F. Hollink, Rene M. de Ridder, Markus Pollnau, Hugo J.W.M. Hoekstra
Photoluminescence Spectroscopy of Silicon Photonic Crystal Nanocavities ...........................................................................................713Roberto Lo Savio, Simone Luca Portalupi, Matteo Galli, Dario Gerace, Lucio Claudio Andreani, Abdul Shakoor, Liam O'Faolain, Thomas F. Krauss, Alessia Irrera, Giorgia Franzo', Francesco Priolo
All-Optical Differentiation of Sub-Picosecond Pulses in SOI Bragg Gratings ........................................................................................714Michael J. Strain, Katarzyna A. Rutkowska, David Duchesne, Roberto Morandotti, Marc Sorel, Jose Azaña
Optical Characterisation of High Q Silicon Rich Silicon Nitride U-Disks in The Visible Range ..........................................................715Daniel Navarro Urrios, Federico Ferrarese Lupi, Josep Montserrat, Carlos Domínguez, Paolo Pellegrino, Blas Garrido
Nanocrystalline Silicon As a New Platform to Widen The Scope of Silicon Photonics (Invited) ..........................................................716Paolo Bettotti, Lorenzo Pavesi
Single Crystalline Optical Antennas (Invited).............................................................................................................................................717Bert Hecht, Peter Geisler, Christoph Brüning, Johannes Kern, Jord C. Prangsma, Xiaofei Wu, Thorsten Feichtner, Johannes Ziegler, Pia Weinmann, Martin Kamp, Alfred Forchel, Paolo Biagioni, Jer-Shing Huang
Enhancement and Tailoring of Hybrid Self-Assembled Photonic-Plasmonic Crystals Emission .........................................................718Martin Lopez- Garcia, Juan Francisco Galisteo-Lopez, Alvaro Blanco, Antonio Garcia-Martin, Cefe Lopez
Multi-Beam Excitation and Interference Interaction of Surface Plasmon Polaritons ...........................................................................719Carsten Reinhardt, Andrey B. Evlyukhin, Andreas Seidel, Roman Kiyan, Wei Cheng, Arseniy I. Kuznetsov, Boris N. Chichkov
Near-Field Optical Imaging of Plasmonic Waveguides Using Heterodyne Optical Feedback on Er Doped DFB Fibre Laser ......................................................................................................................................................................................................720
Matthieu Roblin, Sylvain Girard, Hervé Gilles, Mathieu Laroche, Julien Cardin, Christian Dufour
From Near-Field to Far-Field Radiative Coupling of Particle Plasmon Resonances in Three-Dimensional Geometries.......................................................................................................................................................................................................721
Richard Taubert, Ralf Ameling, Thomas Weiss, André Christ, Harald Giessen
Few-Quantum-Dot Lasing in Photonic Crystal Nanocavities....................................................................................................................722Jin Liu, Serkan Ates, Søren Stobbe, Michael Lorke, Peter Lodahl
Highly Efficient Organic Microlasers on a Pedestal...................................................................................................................................723Sergii Lozenko, Joseph Lautru, Melanie Lebental, Christian Ulysse, Joseph Zyss
Control of Evanescent Coupling in Hybrid III-V/SOI Nanolasers ...........................................................................................................724Alexandre Bazin, Yacine Halioua, Timothy Karle, Paul Monnier, Frederic Bordas, Isabelle Sagnes, Rama Raj, Fabrice Raineri
Optical Amplification Enhancement in Photonic Crystals ........................................................................................................................725Marco Leonetti, Riccardo Sapienza, Louis Froufe-Perez, Juan Galisteo-Lopez, Claudio Conti, Cefe Lopez
Sub-Microwatt Lasing of Whispering Gallery Mode Microcavities Functionalized with Lanthanide Oxide Nanoparticles ..................................................................................................................................................................................................726
Guoping Lin, Yves Candela, Olivier Tillement, Valérie Lefèvre-Seguin, Jean Hare
Upconversion Green-Light-Emitting Macroporous Er LN Random Laser ............................................................................................727Fan Shi, Xinzheng Zhang, Pidong Wang, Feifei Xin, Xuanyi Yu, Qiang Wu, Jingjun Xu
Band-Gap Guidance in Chalcogenide-Silica Photonic Crystal Fibers .....................................................................................................728Nicolai Granzow, Markus A. Schmidt, Andrey S. Tverjanovich, Lothar Wondraczek, Philip St.J. Russell
An InAs/iNP(100) QD Waveguide Photodetector for OCT Application ..................................................................................................729Yuqing Jiao, Bauke Tilma, Junji Kotani, Richard Notzel, Meint Smit, Erwin Bente
Nano-Optical Gratings for Integrated Laser Interferometer Arrays.......................................................................................................730Dirk Michaelis, Maria Oliva, Tino Benkenstein, Torsten Harzendorf, Andre Matthes, Uwe Zeitner
Polymer MEMS for The Active Control of VCSEL Beam ........................................................................................................................731Benjamin Reig, Thierry Camps, Véronique Bardinal, David Barat, Emmanuelle Daran, Jean Baptiste Doucet
Integration of Organic Semiconductor Lasers and Waveguides Into PMMA Based Microfluidic Lab-On-A-Chip Systems.............................................................................................................................................................................................................732
Christoph Vannahme, Sönke Klinkhammer, Uli Lemmer, Timo Mappes
Integrated Optic Glass Microcantilever with Bragg Gratings Forming a Fabry-Pérot Interferometer for Force Sensing .............................................................................................................................................................................................................733
Lewis G. Carpenter, Christopher Holmes, Peter G.R. Smith, James C. Gates
Nanowire Superconducting Single-Photon Detectors Integrated with Optical Microcavities Based on GaAs Substrates ........................................................................................................................................................................................................734
Saeedeh Jahanmiri Nejad, Alessandro Gaggero, Francesco Marsili, Francesco Mattioli, Roberto Leoni, David Bitauld, Dondu Sahin, Gerrit Jan Hamhuis, Richard Nötzel, Rosendo Sanjines, Andrea Fiore
Vertically Confined Phase Matched Second Harmonic Generation in Sub-Diffractive Planar Two-Dimensional Photonic Crystals ............................................................................................................................................................................................735
Cristian Nistor, Timothy Karle, Fabrice Raineri, Crina Cojocaru, Jose Trull, Rama Raj, Kestutis Staliunas
Design for An Electrically-Pumped Photonic Nanowire Single-Photon Source with An Efficiency of 89 % ......................................736Niels Gregersen, Torben Nielsen, Jesper Mørk, Julien Claudon, Jean-Michel Gérard
Competition Between Electronic Kerr and Free Carrier Effects in An Ultimate Fast Switched Semiconductor Microcavity......................................................................................................................................................................................................737
Emre Yüce, Georgios Ctistis, Julien Claudon, Maela Bazin, Jean-Michel Gérard, Willem L. Vos
3D Active Photonic Nanostructures .............................................................................................................................................................738Elmina Kabouraki, Ioanna Sakellari, Costas Fotakis, Maria Vamvakaki, Maria Farsari
Polarization Gating for High-Harmonic Generation in The Vicinity of Metal Nanostructures ...........................................................739Anton Husakou, Freek Kelkensber, Joachim Herrmann, Marc Vrakking
Coherent Optical Imaging Through Opaque Layers .................................................................................................................................740Elbert G. van Putten, Duygu Akbulut, Jacopo Bertolotti, Ad Lagendijk, Allard P. Mosk
Light Propagation in Self-Assembled Hybrid Metallodielectric Structures ............................................................................................741Juan Francisco Galisteo-Lopez, Martin López-García, Antonio García-Martín, Alvaro Blanco, Cefe Lopez
Time- and Frequency-Domain Measurements of Solitons in Subwavelength Silicon Waveguides Using Cross-Correlation ......................................................................................................................................................................................................742
Wei Ding, Andrey Gorbach, William Wadsworth, Jonathan Knight, Dmitry Skryabin, Michael Strain, Marc Sorel, Richard De La Rue
Enhanced Coupling Between Waveguides Through Randomness ...........................................................................................................743Alexander Szameit, Mikael Rechtsman, Matthias Heinrich, Felix Dreisow, Robert Keil, Stefan Nolte, Mordechai Segev
Focusing Light Through Turbid Media By Binary Amplitude Modulation............................................................................................744Duygu Akbulut, Thomas J Huisman, Elbert G van Putten, Willem L Vos, Allard P Mosk
"Guidonics" in Functionalized Waveguide Arrays Theoretical and Experimental Determination of Coupling Constants and Band Structures ....................................................................................................................................................................745
Nadia Belabas Plougonven, Christophe Minot, Ariel Levenson, Jean-Marie Moison
Surface Waves in Two-Dimensional Modulated Photonic Lattices ..........................................................................................................746Ivan Garanovich, Alexander Szameit, Andrey Sukhorukov, Matthias Heinrich, Felix Dreisow, Thomas Pertsch, Stefan Nolte, Andreas Tünnermann, Yuri Kivshar
Broad Spectral Range Phase Matched Second Harmonic Generation in Sub-Diffractive Two-Dimensional Photonic Crystals ............................................................................................................................................................................................747
Cristian Nistor, Crina Cojocaru, Jose Trull, Kestutis Staliunas
Experimental Signature of a Broad 3D Photonic Band Gap in Silicon Nanostructures ........................................................................748Simon R. Huisman, Rajesh V. Nair, Léon A. Woldering, Merel D. Leistikow, Allard P. Mosk, Willem L. Vos
Demonstration of Ultra Slow Optical Pulse Propagation Inside a Photonic Crystal Waveguide .........................................................749Kadir Üstün, Hamza Kurt
Ultrahigh Q-Factor Ge11.5As24Se64.5 Chalcogenide Glass Photonic Crystal Cavity Embedded in Silica ...............................................750Xin Gai, Thomas White, Barry Luther-Davies
Complex Photonic Superlattices Via Induced Optical Incremental Multiplexing ..................................................................................751Martin Boguslawski, Andreas Kelberer, Patrick Rose, Cornelia Denz
GaAs Based Mid Infrared Filter with Resonant Gratings........................................................................................................................752Kristel Chan Shin Yu, Anne Laure Fehrembach, Fabien Lemarchand, Olivier Gauthier-Lafaye, Antoine Monmayrant, Philippe Arguel, Sophie Bonnefont, Françoise Lozes-Dupuy, Anne Sentenac
Modulated Nanowire Couplers for Ultrashort Pulses ................................................................................................................................753Alexander Solntsev, Andrey Sukhorukov, Yuri Kivshar
Coupling of Angle Polished Waveguides to High-Q Whispering Gallery Mode Resonators.................................................................754Gualtiero Nunzi Conti, Simone Berneschi, Franco Cosi, Stefano Pelli, Silvia Soria, Giancarlo C Righini, Pierre-Henri Merrer, Massimiliano Dispenza, Alberto Secchi
Grating-Assisted Micro-Ring Resonators for Silicon Dual Mode Filters ................................................................................................755Antonio Samarelli, Antonio Canciamilla, Giuseppe Morea, Francesco Morichetti, Richard De La Rue, Andrea Melloni, Marc Sorel
Berry's Phase Magnification in Microcoil Resonators ............................................................................................................................... 756Timothy Lee, Neil Broderick, Gilberto Brambilla
Optical Pulse Drives a Movement of a Microsphere ..................................................................................................................................757Yundong Zhang, Hanyang Li, Jin Li, Liangsheng Qiang, Ping Yuan
Generalized Schawlow-Townes Formula for Natural Bandwidth of Nano Laser ..................................................................................758Arkadi Chipouline, Markus Mundus, Anatoly Chirkin
Theory of Superradiance By Nano-Array of Quantum-Well Dots ...........................................................................................................759Akira Ishikawa, Takashi Yatsui, Kiyoshi kobayashi, Motoichi Ohtsu, Jinkyoung Yoo, Gyu-Chul Yi, Hajime Ishihara
Improved Lasing Action from Dye Doped SU8 Films Exploiting Biologically Derived Nanostructures .............................................760Dingke Zhang, Gorgi Kostovski, Christian Karnutsch, Arnan Mitchell
Multiple Scattering of Light in Finite-Size Superdiffusive Media ............................................................................................................761Jacopo Bertolotti, Kevin Vynck, Diederik Sybolt Wiersma
Analysis of Anderson Localization of Light in Gan Nanocolumns ...........................................................................................................762Masaru Sakai, Yuta Inose, Tomi Ohtsuki, Kazuhiro Ema, Akihiko Kikuchi, Katsumi Kishino
Anderson Localization of Light in Two-Dimensional Random Media.....................................................................................................763Yuta Inose, Masaru Sakai, Kazuhiro Ema, Akihiko Kikuchi, Katsumi Kishino, Tomi Ohtsuki
Tunable Near Field Dipole-Dipole Coupling Between Cdse/Cds Nanorods ............................................................................................764Peristera Andreakou, Jan J. Rindermann, Marco Zanella, Liberato Manna, Pavlos G. Lagoudakis
Symmetry Breaking in Plasmonic Waveguides with Metal Nonlinearities..............................................................................................765Artur Davoyan, Ilya Shadrivov, Yuri Kivshar, Meir Orenstein
Superoscillatory Diffraction-Free Beams ....................................................................................................................................................766Konstantinos Makris, Demetri Psaltis
Photonic Graphene Broken PT-Symmetry, Strain, and Optical Tachyons .............................................................................................767Alexander Szameit, Mikael Rechtsman, Omri Bahat-Treidel, Mordechai Segev
Experimental Evidence of Asymmetrical Spectrum Broadening in a Heavy-Metal Oxide Glass Doped with Silver Nanoparticles ..................................................................................................................................................................................................768
Nikolai Zhavoronkov, Rodislav Driben, Bruna Andressa Bregadiolli, Marcelo Nalin, Boris Malomed
Significant Enhancement of Second-Harmonic Generation in SiNx Resonant Waveguide Grating ....................................................769Henna Pietarinen, Outi Hyvärinen, Ravi Kumar, Tommi Kaplas, Janne Simonen, Goery Genty, Martti Kauranen
Balanced Detection to Reduce Noise in a Supercontinuum Light Source for Applications in Broadband Interferometry ................................................................................................................................................................................................770
Elizabeth Robinson, Henkjan Gersen, Johanna Tragardh
Three-Port Interferometer in Silicon-On-Insulator for Wavelength Monitoring and Displacement Measurement ..........................771Peter Harmsma, John-Paul Staats, Dario Lo Cascio, Lun Cheng
Enhancing Chemical Sensitivity of a Tilted Planar Bragg Grating Using a Thin Gold Layer..............................................................772Christopher Holmes, Keith R. Daly, Lewis G. Carpenter, James C. Gates, Ian J.G. Sparrow, Giampaolo D'Alessandro
All-Optical Electric Field Sensor in Domain Inverted LiNbo3 for Harsh Environment ........................................................................773Domenico Tulli, Davide Janner, Valerio Pruneri
Photonic Crystal Cavities from Nonlinear Optics At a Few Photons Level, to Fast, Energy Efficient Information Processing (Invited) ........................................................................................................................................................................................774
Jelena Vuckovic, Arka Majumdar, Kelley Rivoire, Sonia Buckley, Alexander Papageorge, Erik Kim, Michal Bajcsy
Mapping of Whispering-Gallery-Modes in Coupled Disk Microresonators ...........................................................................................775Carsten Schmidt, Mattes Liebsch, Arkadi Chipouline, Norik Janunts, Ernst-Bernhard Kley, Andreas Tünnermann, Thomas Pertsch
Focused-Ion-Beam Nanostructured Photonic Cavities for Integrated Lasers in Crystalline Double Tungstate Channel Waveguides ......................................................................................................................................................................................776
Feridun Ay, Dimitri Geskus, Ion Iñurrategui, Shanmugam Aravazhi, Markus Pollnau
Photonic Wire Held By Resonant Nanotethers for Improved Filtering ...................................................................................................777Anne Talneau, Isabelle Sagnes
Optomechanical Coupling in a Two-Dimensional Photonic Crystal Defect Cavity................................................................................778Emanuel Gavartin, Rémy Braive, Isabelle Sagnes, Olivier Arcizet, Alexios Beveratos, Tobias Kippenberg, Isabelle Robert-Philip
Thermal Nonlinearity in Coupled Disk Microresonators ..........................................................................................................................779Carsten Schmidt, Arkadi Chipouline, Ernst-Bernhard Kley, Andreas Tünnermann, Thomas Pertsch
Effect of Stretch Factor and Uniaxial Strain on H1 Photonic Crystal Nanocavities ..............................................................................780Ehsaneh D. Ahmadi, Isaac J. Luxmoore, Mark Fox, Alexander I. Tartakovskii, Maxim Hugues, Maurice S. Skolnick
Detection of Nanobubble Generation and Stability by a SOI Nanophotonic Ring Resonator ..............................................................781Shangjiong Yang, Peter Harmsma, Jose Pozo, Mirvais Yousefi
Direct Molding Chalcogenide Glass Waveguides Using Thermal Nanoimprint Lithography with a Soft PDMS Stamp ...............................................................................................................................................................................................................782
Ting Han, Steve Madden, Douglas Bulla, Sukanta Debbarma, Barry Luther-Davies
An Optical Fiber Long-Period Grating Sensor for Organic Vapors Utilizing a ZnO Nanorod Out-Cladding...................................783Argiro Klini, Maria Konstantaki, Demetrios Anglos, Stavros Pissadakis
Cross-Polarization Breakdown in 3-Dimensional Opal Photonic Crystals..............................................................................................784Christian Wolf, Jens Küchenmeister, Kurt Busch, Sergei Romanov, Ulf Peschel
BIOPHOTONICS AND APPLICATIONS (JOINTLY CLEO®/EUROPE AND EQEC) Label-Free Live Brain Imaging with Third-Harmonic Generation Microscopy (Invited) ....................................................................785
Stefan Witte, Adrian Negrean, Hans Lodder, Guilherme Silva, Christiaan de Kock, Huibert Mansvelder, Marloes Groot
Optical Coherence Tomography Imaging Technology and Applications (Tutorial) ..............................................................................786James G. Fujimoto
Differential CARS Microscopy with Chirped Femtosecond Laser Pulses (Invited) ...............................................................................787Paola Borri
Second-Harmonic Nanoparticles for Deep Tissue in Vivo Imaging .........................................................................................................788Rachel Grange, Thomas Lanvin, Chia-Lung Hsieh, Ye Pu, Demetri Psaltis
Slow Light Filters with MHz Frequency Resolution for Enhancing The Contrast in Ultrasound-Modulated Optical Tomography ....................................................................................................................................................................................................789
Huiliang Zhang, Mahmood Sabooni, Lars Rippe, Chulhong Kim, Stefan Kroll, Lihong V. Wang, Philip Hemmer
Polarization-Resolved Second Harmonic Generation Microscopy in Biological Tissues.......................................................................790Gaël Latour, Ivan Gusachenko, Marie-Claire Schanne-Klein
Imaging Single 5 Nm Gold Nanoparticles Through Interferometric Cross-Polarization Microscopy .................................................791Xin Hong, Henkjan Gersen
Nonlinear Microscopy of Tissues and Embryo Morphogenesis (Invited) ................................................................................................792Emmanuel Beaurepaire
Silk - New Opportunities in Optics and Photonics for An Ancient Material (Invited)...........................................................................793Fiorenzo G. Omenetto
Development of Transient Absorption Ultrasonic Microscopy (Invited).................................................................................................794Brian E. Applegate, Ryan L. Shelton
Indirect Photoionization of Water and OH- in Aqueous Solution Studied By Pump-Repump-Probe Spectroscopy .........................795Martin K. Fischer, Hubert Rossmadl, Hristo Iglev, Alfred Laubereau
Layer-By-Layer (Chitosan/ Polysodium 4-Styrenesulfonate) Membrane-Based Fiber Optic Sensor ..................................................796Xiu Min Ang, Li Han Chen, Chi Chiu Chan
Colloidal Nanoprobes for The Optical Detection of Ethanol.....................................................................................................................797Peristera Andreakou, Sarah Hands, Pavlos G. Lagoudakis
Fine Structure in The Reflection of Cylindrical Light Beams...................................................................................................................798Jörg Götte, Mark Dennis
Holographic Optical Tweezers Induced Hierarchical Supramolecular Organization ...........................................................................799Mike Woerdemann, Christina Alpmann, André Devaux, Luisa De Cola, Cornelia Denz
Investigation of Shaped Laser Beam Propagation in Turbid Media ........................................................................................................800Tansu Ersoy, Berna Yalizay, Inci Cilesiz, Selcuk Akturk
Intrinsic Precision Limit in Steady-State and Time-Domain Fluorescence Diffuse Optical Imaging ..................................................801Matthieu Boffety, Marc Allain, Anne Sentenac, Marc Massoneau, Rémi Carminati
Calculation of Focusing Properties of a Radially Polarized Beam with Annular Intensity Distribution.............................................802Masato Niwa, Yuichi Kozawa, Shunichi Sato
Self-Healing of Vector Bessel-Gauss Beam in High Numerical Aperture Focusing ...............................................................................803Sunil Vyas, Yuichi Kozawa, Shunichi Sato
Two-Photon Fluorescence Excitation Spectroscopy of Photosynthetic Pigments and Pigment-Protein Complexes ..........................804Alexander Betke, Bernd Voigt, Heiko Lokstein, Ralf Menzel
Luminescence Diffuse Optical Tomography on a Reflectance Imaging Set-Up......................................................................................805Matthieu Boffety, Marc Allain, Anne Sentenac, Marc Massonneau, Rémi Carminati
Laser Speckle Contrast Imaging for Assessing Flow Velocities and Scatterer Concentration in Capillary Phantoms .....................806Sujatha Narayanan Unni, Jayanthy A Kandasamy, Ramasubba Reddy M
Integrated Waveguide Probes for Efficient Backscattered-Light Collection from Thin Samples ........................................................807Nur Ismail, Fehmi Civitci, Kerstin Wörhoff, René M. de Ridder, Markus Pollnau, Alfred Driessen
Laser Microstructured 3D Polymeric Biocompatible Implants ................................................................................................................808Mangirdas Malinauskas, Daiva Baltriukiene, Antanas Kraniauskas, Paulius Danilevicius, Evaldas Balciunas, Albertas Zukauskas, Vytautas Purlys, Raimondas Sirmenis, Virginija Bukelskiene, Roaldas Gadonas, Vytautas Sirvydis, Algis Piskarskas
Pulsed Laser Sintering of Photo-Active Calcium Phosphates for Dental Enamel Restoration .............................................................809Animesh Jha, Esam Elmadani, Gin Jose, Chris G Leburn, C T A Brown, Wilson Sibbett, M S Duggal, Jack Toumba
Superresolved Femtosecond Laser Nanosurgery of Cells..........................................................................................................................811Matthias Pospiech, Moritz Emons, Kai Kuetemeyer, Alexander Heisterkamp, Uwe Morgner
Direct Laser Writing of Polylactide 3D Scaffolds .......................................................................................................................................812Vasileia Melissinaki, Andrew Gill, Ilida Ortega, Maria Vamvakaki, Anthi Ranella, Costas Fotakis, Maria Farsari, Frederik Clayessens
Doppler Velocimetry of Microspheres Laser-Propelled in Liquid-Filled Hollow-Core Photonic Crystal Fiber ................................813Martin Garbos, Tijmen Euser, Sarah Unterkofler, Philip Russell
Tailored Light Fields Ince Gaussian Beams Offer Novel Opportunities in Optical Micromanipulation.............................................814Christina Alpmann, Mike Woerdemann, Cornelia Denz
Evaluation of Forces Levitating a Particle in Optical Vortex Beam.........................................................................................................815Niko Eckerskorn, Vladlen Shvedov, Wieslaw Krolikowski, Andrei Rode
Integrated Spectrometers for Spectral-Domain Optical Coherence Tomography .................................................................................816B. Imran Akca, V.Duc Nguyen, Jeroen Kalkman, Ton G. van Leeuwen, Kerstin Worhoff, Rene de Ridder, Markus Pollnau
Learning from Fluorescence Decay Dynamics a Better Read Out from The Spectroscopic Ruler ......................................................817Junis J. Rinderman, Yosef Akhtman, James Richardson, Tom Brown, Pavlos G. Lagoudakis
Optical Fiber Tweezers Fabricated By Two Photon Lithography............................................................................................................818Carlo Liberale, Enzo Di Fabrizio, Gheorghe Cojoc, Gerardo Perozziello, Patrizio Candeloro, Francesca Bragheri, Lorenzo Ferrara, Paolo Minzioni, Ilaria Cristiani
MATERIALS PROCESSING WITH LASERS Laser Shooting Single Gold Nanoparticles - a Novel Lithographic Strategy...........................................................................................819
Andrey Lutich, Alexander Urban, Fernando Stefani, Jochen Feldmann
Femtosecond Laser Fabrication of Functional Nanoparticle Structures and Their Applications ........................................................820Arseniy Kuznetsov, Andrey Evlyukhin, Wei Cheng, Anastasia Koroleva, Roman Kiyan, Carsten Reinhardt, Manuel Gonçalves, Othmar Marti, Boris Chichkov
Formation of Highly Dispersed AuAg Nanoalloys By Femtosecond Laser Irradiation of Metal Salts in Normal Hexane .............................................................................................................................................................................................................821
Yuliati Herbani, Takahiro Nakamura, Shunichi Sato
Direct Laser Writing of 3D Scaffolds for Neural Tissue Engineering Applications ...............................................................................822Vasileia Melissinaki, Andrew Gill, Ilida Ortega, Maria Vamvakaki, Anthi Ranella, Costas Fotakis, Maria Farsari, Frederik Claeyssens
Formation Process of Femtosecond Laser-Induced Nanogratings At High Repetition Rates...............................................................823Sören Richter, Matthias Heinrich, Sven Döring, Andreas Tünnermann, Stefan Nolte
Arrays of Nanofeatures in Thin Film Materials By Femtosecond Laser Light Confinements with Microspheres ............................824David Grojo, Laurent Charmasson, Antonio Pereira, Marc Sentis, Philippe Delaporte
Ultrafast Laser Micro/Nano Processing for Microfluidic and Tissue Engineering Apllications (Invited)...........................................825Emmanuel Stratakis
Beyond Conventional 3D Ultrafast Laser Material Processing (Invited) ................................................................................................826Peter Kazansky, Martynas Beresna, Yves Bellouard
Imprinting Local Field Structure of Ultra-Short Pulses ............................................................................................................................827Cyril Hnatovsky, Vladlen Shvedov, Wieslaw Krolikowski, Andrei Rode
Super-Dense Al Formed By Ultrafast Laser Microexplosion ....................................................................................................................828Arturas Vailionis, Eugene Gamaly, Vygantas Mizeikis, Wenge Yang, Andrei Rode, Saulius Juodkazis
Demonstration of Negative Refractive Index Photosensitivity Mechanism in a Phosphate Glass Optical Fibre Using 248nm, 500fs Laser Radiation .......................................................................................................................................................................829
Michele Sozzi, Aashia Rahman, Stavros Pissadakis
Study of The Refractive Index Modification Mechanisms of Femtosecond Laser Processed Waveguides in Doped Phosphate Glass Through Its Micro Photoluminescence Properties........................................................................................................830
Andrés Ferrer, Daniel Jaque, Jan Siegel, Alexandro Ruiz de la Cruz, Javier Solís
Fabrication of Depressed Cladding Waveguide Bragg-Gratings in Rare-Earth Doped Heavy-Metal Fluoride Glass ......................831Simon Gross, David G. Lancaster, Heike Ebendorff-Heidepriem, Kevin Kuan, Tanya M. Monro, Michael J. with ford, Alex Fuerbach
Efficient Volume Bragg Gratings in Various Transparent Materials Induced By Femtosecond Laser Pulses...................................832Daniel Richter, Christian Voigtländer, Ria Becker, Jens Thomas, Andreas Tünnermann, Stefan Nolte
Femtosecond Direct Written Waveguides in Bismuth Germanate ...........................................................................................................833Christopher Miese, Michael J. with ford, Alex Fuerbach
Waveguides Photo-Written By Femtosecond Laser Filament in Chalcogenide Glass ...........................................................................834Ophélie Caulier, David Le Coq, Marc Fourmentin, Laurent Calvez, Eugene Bychkov, Pascal Masselin
Apodized Point-By-Point Fiber Bragg Gratings .........................................................................................................................................835Robert J. Williams, Christian Voigtländer, M. J. Steel, Graham D. Marshall, Andreas Tünnermann, Stefan Nolte, Michael J. with ford
3D Active Photonic Nanostructures .............................................................................................................................................................836Elmina Kabouraki, Ioanna Sakellari, Costas Fotakis, Maria Vamvakaki, Maria Farsari
Computer-Generated Holograms Written Directly on Silicon..................................................................................................................837Kristian Waedegaard, Peter Balling
Femtosecond Laser Direct Written Computer Generated Holograms ....................................................................................................838René Berlich, Stefan Nolte, Martin Richardson
Femtosecond Laser Ablation from Silicon and Ripples Formation Evolution of Surface Excitation ..................................................839Mourad Bounhalli, Marco Muth, Olga Varlamova, Juergen Reif
Femtosecond Laser Patterning of PMMA for Spatially Tailored Wettabilty .........................................................................................840Carmela De Marco, Shane M. Eaton, Stefano Rampini, Giulio Cerullo, Roberta Ramponi, Stefano Turri, Marinella Levi, Roberto Osellame
Ultrashort Pulse Laser Ablation of Dielectric Materials Experiments and Modeling............................................................................841Kristian Waedegaard, Bjarke H. Christensen, Mehrnaz N. Christensen, Peter Balling
Femtosecond Laser Ablation of Dielectrics Experimental Studies of Fundamental Processes .............................................................842Stephane Guizard, Nikita Fedorov, Alexandros Mouskeftaras, Sergey Klimentov
About The Mechanisms of Femtosecond Laser Damage and Ablation of Dielectric Materials ............................................................843Olivier Utéza, Benoît Chimier, Nicolas Sanner, Marc Sentis, Tatiana Itina, Philippe Lassonde, François Légaré, François Vidal, Jean-Claude Kieffer
Single Shot Nanochannel Processing with Femtosecond Bessel Beams....................................................................................................844Francois Courvoisier, Manoj K. Bhuyan, Maxime Jacquot, Pierre-Ambroise Lacourt, Roland Salut, Luca Furfaro, John M. Dudley
Tilting Metal Micro-Needle Fabrication Based on Optical Vortex Laser Ablation................................................................................845Kohei Toyoda, Katsuhiko Miyamoto, Masahito Okida, Ryuji Morita, Takashige Omatsu
Overview and Development of Metallic Photocathodes .............................................................................................................................846Antonella Lorusso
Nanofabrication with Pulsed Lasers (Invited).............................................................................................................................................847Andrei Kabashin, David Grojo, Thierry Sarnet, Philippe Delaporte, Pierre Blandin, Laurent Charmasson, Remi Torres, Thibault Derrien, Marc Sentis
Longitudinally Polarized Light and Its Applications (Invited) .................................................................................................................848Haifeng Wang, Boris Luk'yanchuk
Laser Nanofabrication Applications in Micro-Optics, Micro-Electronics, Micromachines, and Microfluidics (Invited) ...........................................................................................................................................................................................................849
Qi-Dai Chen, Hong Xia, Yong-Lai Zhang, Hong-Bo Sun
Fabrication of Cu Nanoparticles By High-Intensity Femtosecond Laser Irradiation of Solution ........................................................850Takahiro Nakamura, Yuliati Herbani, Shunichi Sato
Fabrication of Radial DOEs with Quantized Relief by Two-Photon Polymerization Technique .........................................................851Vladimir Osipov, Vladimir Pavelyev, Denis Kachalov, Boris Chichkov
Efficiency of Energy Deposition By Fundamental and Second Harmonics in Femtosecond Laser Inscription ..................................852Alexandr Dostovalov, Sergey Babin, Mandana Baregheh, Mykhaylo Dubov, Vladimir Mezentsev
In-Volume Waveguides By Femtosecond Laser Double Pulses in Glass Materials ................................................................................853Dagmar Esser, Judith Kumstel, Jens Gottmann
Two-Photons Micro-Structuring of a Polymer Containing Y-Shape Azo-Chromophores ....................................................................854Antonio Ambrosio, Pasqualino Maddalena, Andrea Camposeo, Marco Polo, Antonio Neves, Dario Pisignano, Antonio Carella, Fabio Borbone, Antonio Roviello
Nanostructuring of Silicon Surface with Near-Field Enhanced in Femtosecond Laser Ablation .........................................................855Godai Miyaji, Kaifeng Zhang, Junya Fujita, Kenzo Miyazaki
Printing of Amorphous and Crystalline Materials Pre-Machined Using Focussed Ion Beam Patterning...........................................856Collin Sones, Kamalpreet Kaur, Matthias Feinaeugle, Jun Ou, Kate Sloyan, Timothy May-Smith, Fabio Di Pietrantonio, Enrico Verona, Robert Eason
Grating Fabrication in Dielectric Coatings By TWIN-LIBWE ................................................................................................................857Csaba Vass, Balint Kiss, Aron Sipos, Ferenc Ujhelyi, Peter Dombi, Karoly Osvay
Permanent Volume Bragg Grating Fabrication in Pure Lithium Niobate Crystal Using Direct Laser Writing Technique ........................................................................................................................................................................................................858
Domas Paipulas, Mangirdas Malinauskas, Valerijus Smilgevicius, Valdas Sirutkaitis
Single-Shot Ultrashort-Pulse Laser Ablation of Single-Crystalline Metal Samples ...............................................................................859Juha-Matti Savolainen, Martin Snogdahl Christensen, Peter Balling
Laser Ablation in Selected Minerals for Extracting Fluid in Inclusions..................................................................................................860Marcin Swillo, Magnus Ivarsson, Anna Neubeck, Nils Holm, Curt Broman, Gunnar Björk
Rapid Calculation of The Energy Deposition Profiles for Processing of Dielectrics with Femtosecond Lasers..................................861Alexandro Ruiz de la Cruz, Edward J. Grace, Andrés Ferrer, Jan Siegel, Javier Solís
Controlled Self-Formation of Nanofibers and Nanomembranes in Polymers Induced By Laser Direct Writing ..............................862Mangirdas Malinauskas, Aleksandr Ovsianikov, Gabija Bickauskaite, Xiao Shizhou, Boris Chichkov, Roaldas Gadonas
Surface Structuring of ZnOWafers with Femtosecond Laser Pulses from Laser-Induced Periodic Surface Structures to Doping ......................................................................................................................................................................................863
Apurba Dev, Andreas Schneider, Kathrin Sebald, Tobias Voss
Optimization of Laser Interconnection Processes in Thin Film A-Si H Modules Working At Cell Level ...........................................864Juan José García-Ballesteros, Ignacio Torres, Miguel Morales, David Canteli, Julio Cárabe, José Javier Gandía, Carlos Molpeceres
Controllable Bumps and Holes Fabrication on The Surface of Fused Silica By Processing Bulk Material with Ultrashort Laser Pulses..................................................................................................................................................................................865
Sergey Oshemkov, Vladimir Kruglyakov, Ralph Klaesges, Markus Mengel
In-Situ Observation of Ultrashort Pulse Deep Drilling in Silicon At 1030 nm and 515 nm...................................................................866Sven Döring, Sören Richter, Andreas Tünnermann, Stefan Nolte
Real-Time In-Situ Measurement of the Penetration Depth in Short Pulse Laser Percussion Drilling of Metal Targets .............................................................................................................................................................................................................867
Francesco Paolo Mezzapesa, Antonio Ancona, Teresa Sibillano, Francesco De Lucia, Maurizio Dabbicco, Pietro Mario Lugarà, Gaetano Scamarcio
QUANTUM OPTICS Multimode Squeezing of Transverse Modes with a Self-Imaging Optical Parametric Oscillator ........................................................868
Benoît Chalopin, Francesco Scazza, Claude Fabre, Nicolas Treps
Multimode Ultrafast Broadband Information Coding State Generation, Characterization and Loss Evaluation.............................869Andreas Christ, Cosmo Lupo, Kaisa Laiho, Andreas Eckstein, Katiuscia N. Cassemiro, Christine Silberhorn
Generation and Characterization of Multimode Frequency Combs ........................................................................................................870Renné Medeiros de Araújo, Olivier Pinel, Pu Jian, Jinxia Feng, Benoît Chalopin, Claude Fabre, Nicolas Treps
Spatial Reshaping of a Squeezed State of Light ..........................................................................................................................................871Jean-François Morizur, Pu Jian, Seiji Armstrong, Nicolas Treps, Warwick Bowen, Jiri Janousek, Hans-A. Bachor
Quantum Correlations Between Intense Beams Using Four Wave Mixing in Atomic Vapors Theory and Experiments ....................................................................................................................................................................................................872
Thomas Coudreau, Quentin Glorieux, Romain Dubessy, Luca Guidoni, Jean-Pierre Likforman, Samuel Guibal, Ennio Arimondo
Reconfigurable Multi-Mode Entanglement with in One Beam.................................................................................................................873Seiji Armstrong, Jiri Janousek, Boris Hage, Jean-Francois Morizur, Hans-Albert Bachor, Ping Koy Lam
Ions Inside a Parabolic Mirror - Surrounding Absorbers with Reflective Geometry Allows for Efficient Free Space-Coupling ...............................................................................................................................................................................................874
Robert Maiwald, Andrea Golla, Benoît Chalopin, Martin Fischer, Alessandro S. Villar, Markus Sondermann, Gerd Leuchs
Pulsed Sagnac Source of Polarisation Entangled Photon Pairs ................................................................................................................875Stephanie Grabher, Immo Soellner, Ana Predojevi?, Gregor Weihs
Spot Size Measurement and Focusing of Momentum Entangled Photon Pairs ......................................................................................876Daniel Schlenk, Harald Weinfurter
Generation of Pulsed Squeezed Light At Telecommunication Wavelength Using a High Efficiency PPLN Optical Waveguide .......................................................................................................................................................................................................877
Masayoshi Yoshimura, Toshio Sugaya, Takuya Hirano, Kiyofumi Kikuchi, Kaori Sugiura, Sunao Kurimura, Hirochika Nakajima
Highly Efficient State-Selective Submicrosecond Photoionization Detection of Single Atoms..............................................................878Michael Krug, Florian Henkel, Julian Hofmann, Norbert Ortegel, Wenjamin Rosenfeld, Markus Weber, Harald Weinfurter
Measurement and Modification of Biexciton-Exciton Time Correlation from An Inas Quantum Dot................................................879Tobias Huber, Ana Predojevi?, Harishankar Jayakumar, Glenn S. Solomon, Gregor Weihs
Collinear Ultra-Broadband Parametric Fluorescence Generated from 10%-Chirped Quasi Phase Matched Device.......................880Akira Tanaka, Ryo Okamoto, Hwan Hong Lim, Shanthi Subashchandran, Masayuki Okano, Sunao Kurimura, Shigeki Takeuchi
Coherent Spectroscopy of Single Semiconductor Quantum Dots .............................................................................................................881Christian Wolpert, Lijuan Wang, Paola Atkinson, Armando Rastelli, Oliver G. Schmidt, Markus Lippitz
Matter Wave Interferometry Exploring The Importance of The Internal Molecular Properties ........................................................882Sandra Eibenberger, Stefan Gerlich, Mathias Tomandl, Klaus Hornberger, Stefan Nimmrichter, Jens Tüxen, Marcel Mayor, Markus Arndt
Low Noise Quantum Optical Amplification Using An Optical Amplifier ...............................................................................................883John Jeffers
CW-Laser-Pumped Telecom-Band Polarization-Entangled Photon-Pair Source with a Fidelity of 97.8%........................................884Yinghong Xue, Akio Yoshizawa, Hidemi Tsuchida
Measurement of Reduced Four-Photon De Broglie Wavelength At Telecom Wavelength ...................................................................885Masahiro Yabuno, Ryosuke Shimizu, Yasuyoshi Mitsumori, Hideo Kosaka, Keiichi Edamatsu
Limits to The Efficiency of Quantum Lithography ....................................................................................................................................886Gunnar Björk, Christian Kothe, Mohamed Bourennane, Shuichiro Inoue
Classical and Quantum Properties of Cylindrically Polarized Beams of Light Via a Poincaré Sphere Representation ................................................................................................................................................................................................887
Annemarie Holleczek, Andrea Aiello, Christian Gabriel, Christoph Marquardt, Gerd Leuchs
Demonstrating Hybrid Quantum Effects with Two Entangled Laser Beams .........................................................................................888Boris Hage, Jiri Janousek, Seiji Armstrong, Thomas Symul, Julien Bernu, Helen Chrzanowski, Pink Koy Lam, Hans Bachor
Quantum Fluctuations in Compressed Sensing ..........................................................................................................................................889Hui Wang, Shensheng Han, Mikhail I Kolobov
Generation of a Light Mode Optimized for Efficient Free-Space Photon-Atom Coupling ...................................................................890Andrea Golla, Benoît Chalopin, Robert Maiwald, Alessandro S. Villar, Irina Harder, Markus Sondermann, Gerd Leuchs
Accessing Photon Bunching with Photon Number Resolving Multi-Pixel Detector ...............................................................................891Leonid Krivitsky, Dmitry Kalashnikov, Maria Chekhova
Experimental Study of Non-Classicality Indicators and Extremal Quantum Correlations in Two-Qubit States ..............................892Andrea Chiuri, Giuseppe Vallone, Mauro Paternostro, Gerardo Adesso, Paolo Mataloni
Hybrid Squeezing of Solitonic Resonant Radiation in Photonic Crystal Fibers .....................................................................................893Truong X. Tran, Fabio Biancalana
Quantum Theory of a Single-Emitter Nanolaser ........................................................................................................................................894Nikolay Larionov, Mikhail Kolobov
Enhanced Resolution of Lossy Interferometry By Coherent Amplification............................................................................................895Chiara Vitelli, Nicolo' Spagnolo, Lorenzo Toffoli, Francesco De Martini, Fabio Sciarrino
Quantum Optics Meets Mesoscopic Physics (Tutorial)..............................................................................................................................896Atac Imamoglu
Multiple Scattering of Quantum Optical States..........................................................................................................................................897Johan Raunkjaer Ott, Niels Asger Mortensen, Peter Lodahl
Observation of Non-Markovian Dynamics of a Single Quantum Dot in a Micropillar Cavity .............................................................898Kristian Høeg Madsen, Serkan Ates, Toke Lund-Hansen, Andreas Löffler, Stephan Reitzenstein, Alfred Forchel, Peter Lodahl
Phase Control of a Laser Beam By a Single Molecule................................................................................................................................899Martin Pototschnig, Yannick Chassagneux, Jaesuk Hwang, Gert Zumofen, Alois Renn, Vahid Sandoghdar
Entangling Two Single Atoms At Remote Locations..................................................................................................................................900Julian Hofmann, Micheal Krug, Norbert Ortegel, Florian Henkel, Wenjamin Rosenfeld, Markus Weber, Harald Weinfurter
Entanglement-Preserving Absorption of Single SPDC Photons By a Single Atom ................................................................................901Jan Huwer, Nicolas Piro, Michael Schug, Joyee Ghosh, Jürgen Eschner
Spectroscopy of a Single Molecule Using Single Photons Emitted By Another Molecule......................................................................902Samuel Walt, Yves Rezus, Gert Zumofen, Stephan Götzinger, Vahid Sandoghdar
Integrated Optics Components for Quantum Information (Invited) .......................................................................................................903Alberto Politi, Jonathan Matthews, Anthony Laing, Alberto Peruzzo, Konstantinos Poulios, Jasmin Meinecke, Damien Bonneau, Pete Shadbolt, Pruet Kalasuwan, Xiao-Qi Zhou, Maria Verde, Mirko Lobino, Terry Rudolph, John Rarity, Mark Thompson, Jeremy O'Brien
Role of The Light-Matter Coupling Strength on Non-Markovian Effects in Semiconductor Cavity QED .........................................904Per Kaer, Torben Roland Nielsen, Peter Lodahl, Antti-Pekka Jauho, Jesper Mørk
Exploring The Spatio-Temporal Correlation of Twin Photons Via Frequency Up-Conversion...........................................................905Enrico Brambilla, Alessandra Gatti Gatti, Ottavia Jedrkiewicz, Jean-Luc Blanchet Blanchet, Paolo Di Trapani, Luigi Lugiato
Quantum Pulse Gate Based on Ultrafast Frequency Upconversion .........................................................................................................906Benjamin Brecht, Andreas Eckstein, Christine Silberhorn
A Planar Dielectric Antenna for Directional Single-Photon Emission and Near-Unity Collection Efficiency ....................................907Kwanggeol Lee, Xuewen Chen, Hadi Eghlidi, Alois Renn, Stephan Götzinger, Vahid Sandoghdar
Quantum Light Generation By Semiconductor Devices (Invited) ............................................................................................................908Andrew Shields
Measuring Nanomechanical Motion with An Imprecision Below That At The Standard Quantum Limit.........................................909Georg Anetsberger, Pierre Verlot, Emanuel Gavartin, Olivier Arcizet, Quirin Unterreithmeier, Eva Weig, Michael Gorodetsky, Jorg Kotthaus, Tobias Kippenberg
Improvement of An Atomic Measurement By Multi-Photon Interference..............................................................................................910Florian Wolfgramm, Alessandro Cere, Yannick A. de Icaza Astiz, Federica A. Beduini, Morgan W. Mitchell
Quantum Entanglement in Strongly Non-Degenerate OPOs The Doubly and Singly Resonant Cases ...............................................911Domenico Cuozzo, John Jeffers, Gian-Luca Oppo
Detecting Non-Locality in Macroscopic Systems ........................................................................................................................................912Nicolò Spagnolo, Chiara Vitelli, Mauro Paternostro, Lorenzo Toffoli, Francesco De Martini, Fabio Sciarrino
Multi-Order Interference and Born's Rule .................................................................................................................................................913Immo Söllner, Benjamin Gschösser, Patrick Mai, Zoltán Vörös, Gregor Weihs
Born's Rule and Single-Photon Diffraction By a Triangular Slit .............................................................................................................914Jandir M. Hickmann, Eduardo J. S. Fonseca, Alcenisio J. Jesus-Silva
Experimental Light-Squeezing-Enhanced Magnetometry ........................................................................................................................915Alessandro Cere, Florian Wolfgramm, Federica A. Beduini, Ana Predojevic, Marco Koschorreck, Morgan W. Mitchell
Time-Resolved Detection of Relative Intensity Squeezed Nanosecond Pulses in a 87Rb Vapor ...........................................................916Imad Agha, Christina Giarmatzi, Philippe Grangier, Gaetan Messin
Many-Particle Pairwise Entanglement Induced By Temporal Anti-Correlation of a Stokes Parameter. ...........................................917Federica A. Beduini, Morgan W. Mitchell
Schrödinger Kitten and Cat States Characterisation Using Only Continuous Variables and Gaussian Resources...........................918Helen Chrzanowski, Thomas Symul, Julien Bernu, Boris Hage, Austin Lund, Tim Ralph, Ping Koy Lam
Nonlinear Quantum Atom Optics - Squeezing and Interferometry (Invited) .........................................................................................919Markus Oberthaler
Defects in Diamond Bright Light for The Quantum World (Keynote) ....................................................................................................920Jörg Wrachtrup
Efficient Single Photon Source At Telecommunication Wavelength........................................................................................................921David Elvira, Remy Braive, Richard Hostein, Bruno Fain, Gregoire Beaudoin, Luc LeGratiet, Jean-Christophe Girard, Christophe David, Zhao-Zhong Wang, Isabelle Robert-Philip, Isabelle Sagnes, Alexios Beveratos, Ivan Maksymov, Mondher Besbes, Jean-Pierre Hugonin, Philippe Lalanne
High-Frequency Electrically Driven Quantum Dot Single-Photon Source .............................................................................................922Christian Kessler, Matthias Reischle, Wolfgang-Michael Schulz, Marcus Eichfelder, Robert Roßbach, Michael Jetter, Peter Michler
Towards Parallel Control of Multiple Single-Photon Emitters.................................................................................................................923Edouard Brainis, Karel Lambert, Klara Cielen, Adrien Licari, Philippe Emplit, Zeger Hens
Permutationally Invariant Tomography of a Four-Qubit Symmetric Dicke State.................................................................................924Christian Schwemmer, Géza Tóth, Witlef Wieczorek, David Gross, Roland Krischek, Harald Weinfurter
Displaced Fock States and Photon Correlations in Glauber-Fock Photonic Lattices ............................................................................925Robert Keil, Armando Perez-Leija, Felix Dreisow, Matthias Heinrich, Hector Moya-Cessa, Stefan Nolte, Demetrios Christodoulides, Alexander Szameit
Sequential Quantum Measurements on Entangled States .........................................................................................................................926Eleonora Nagali, Simone Felicetti, Pierre-Louis De Assis, Radim Filip, Fabio Sciarrino
Observation of Topologically Protected Bound States in Photonic Quantum Walks.............................................................................927Takuya Kitagawa, Matthew A. Broome, Alessandro Fedrizzi, Mark S. Rudner, Erez Berg, Ivan Kassal, Alan Aspuru-Guzik, Eugene Demler, Andrew G. White
Classical Characterisation of Correlated Biphotons in Waveguide Lattices ...........................................................................................928Robert Keil, Felix Dreisow, Matthias Heinrich, Andreas Tünnermann, Stefan Nolte, Alexander Szameit
Probabilistic Amplification and Cloning of Phase-Covariant Coherent States.......................................................................................929Christian R. Müller, Christoffer Wittmann, Petr Marek, Radim Filip, Mario A. Usuga, Christoph Marquardt, Ulrik L. Andersen, Gerd Leuchs
Cavity Electromagnetically Induced Transparency and Optical Switching with Ion Coulomb Crystals ............................................930Aurelien Dantan, Magnus Albert, Michael Drewsen
Atom-Light Interface in Strong Focusing Geometry .................................................................................................................................931Gleb Maslennikov, Syed Abdullah Aljunid, Brenda Chng, Martin Paesold, Dao Hoang Lan, Kadir Durak, Jianwei Lee, Christian Kurtsiefer
Coherent Shaping of Photons Using Electromagnetically Induced Transparency .................................................................................932Andreas Neuzner, Eden Figueroa, Gerhard Rempe
Coupling Single Molecules to Microcavities ................................................................................................................................................933Costanza Toninelli, Martin Huppert, Alois Renn, Stephan Goetzinger, Vahid Sandoghdar
Observation of Time-Dependent Third-Order Correlations in Cavity QED ..........................................................................................934Christian Sames, Markus Koch, Maximilian Balbach, Haytham Chibani, Alexander Kubanek, Tatjana Wilk, Karim Murr, Gerhard Rempe
Decay Time in a Cavity in Slow Or Fast Light Regime..............................................................................................................................935Thomas Laupretre, Cedric Proux, Rupamanjari Ghosh, Sylvain Schwartz, Fabienne Goldfarb, Fabien Bretenaker
COLD ATOMS AND MOLECULES Controlling Spin Motion and Interactions in a One-Dimensional Bose Gas (Invited) ...........................................................................936
Shannon Whitlock, Philipp Wicke, Klaasjan van Druten
Generation of a Macroscopic Singlet State in An Atomic Ensemble ........................................................................................................937Naeimeh Behbood, Brice Dubost, Mario Napolitano, Marco Koscherrock, Robert J. Sewell, Geza Toth, Morgan W. Mitchell
Interferometry with Bose-Einstein Condensates in Microgravity ............................................................................................................938Holger Ahlers, Ernst Maria Rasel, the QUANTUS-Team
Simulating Quantum-Optical Phenomena with Optical Lattices .............................................................................................................939Carlos Navarrete-Benlloch, Inés de Vega, Diego Porras, Juan Ignacio Cirac
Merging Quantum Optics and Quantum Many-Body Atomic Systems...................................................................................................940Igor Mekhov
Ultracold Chemistry and Dipolar Collisions in a Quantum Gas of Polar Molecules (Invited) .............................................................941Silke Ospelkaus
Rotational Laser Cooling of Vibrationally and Translationally Cold Molecular Ions ...........................................................................942Anders K. Hansen, Peter F. Staanum, Klaus Højbjerre, Peter S. Skyt, Magnus A. Sørensen, Simon B. Kristensen, Alex Gingell, Michael Drewsen
Spin-3 Dynamics Study in a Chromium Bose-Einstein Condensate.........................................................................................................943Olivier Gorceix, Benjamin Pasquiou, Gabriel Bismut, Etienne Marechal, Paolo Pedri, Laurent Vernac, Bruno Laburthe-Tolra
Rydberg Excitation in One Dimensional System and Optical Lattices ....................................................................................................944Nicola Malossi, Matthieau Viteau, Mark Bason, Jagoda Radogostowicz, Donatella Ciampini, Oliver Morsch, Ennio Arimondo
Coherent Population Trapping with Controlled Interparticle Interactions ............................................................................................945Hanna Schempp, Georg Günter, Christoph Hofmann, Thomas Amthor, Matthias Weidemüller, Sevilay Sevincli, Cenap Ates, Thomas Pohl
Manipulating The Structure of Ion Coulomb Crystals with Light ...........................................................................................................946Peter Horak, Aurelien Dantan, Michael Drewsen
Stabilization of a Specific Configuration of a Two-Species Ion Chain By Selective Vibrational Excitation .......................................947Kazuhiro Hayasaka
Imaging The Temperature of Trapped Ions................................................................................................................................................948Benjamin Norton, Erik Streed, Andreas Jechow, Matthew Petrasiunas, David Kielpinski
Feedback Cooling of a Single Neutral Atom ...............................................................................................................................................949Markus Koch, Christian Sames, Alexander Kubanek, Matthias Apel, Maximilian Balbach, Alexei Ourjoumtsev, Haytham Chibani, Tatjana Wilk, Pepijn W.H. Pinkse, Karim Murr, Gerhard Rempe
Single Atom Occupancy in a Microscopic Dipole Trap .............................................................................................................................950Andrew Hilliard, Mathew McGovern, Tzahi Grünzweig, Mikkel Andersen
Control of Refractive Index and Motion of a Single Atom By Quantum Interference ..........................................................................951Tobias Kampschulte, Wolfgang Alt, Stefan Brakhane, Martin Eckstein, Miguel Martinez-Dorantes, René Reimann, Artur Widera, Dieter Meschede
Dynamics of Vortex Structure Formation During The Evolution of Modulation Instability of Dark Solitons...................................952Lev Smirnov, Alexander Smirnov, Vyacheslav Mironov
Towards a Magnesium Optical Lattice Clock .............................................................................................................................................953Steffen Rühmann, Matthias Riedmann, Temmo Wübbena, André Kulosa, André Pape, Dominika Fim, Klaus Zipfel, Birte Lampmann, Jan Friebe, Hrishikesh Kelkar, Wolfgang Ertmer, Ernst Rasel
Quantum Optics with a New Cavity QED Setup ........................................................................................................................................954Haytham Chibani, Markus Koch, Christian Sames, Maximilian Balbach, Alexander Kubanek, Alexei Ourjoumtsev, Tatjana Wilk, Pepijn W.H. Pinkse, Karim Murr, Gerhard rempe
Vibrational Ground State Cooling of a Neutral Atom in a Tightly Focused Optical Dipole Trap. ......................................................955Syed Abdullah Aljunid, Jianwei Lee, Martin Paesold, Brenda Chng, Gleb Maslennikov, Christian Kurtsiefer
Experimental Study of Excitations in a Dipolar Bose-Einstein Condensate............................................................................................956Gabriel Bismut, Benjamin Pasquiou, Etienne Marechal, Paolo Pedri, Laurent Vernac, Bruno Laburthe-Tolra, Olivier Gorceix
Relaxation to Negative Temperature Breathers in Bose-Einstein Condensates in Optical Lattices.....................................................957Roberto Franzosi, Stefano Iubini, Roberto Livi, Antonio Politi, Gian-Luca Oppo
A Continuously Loaded Dipole Trap for Magnesium ................................................................................................................................958Andre Pape, Matthias Riedmann, Hrishikesh Kelkar, Jan Friebe, Temmo Wübbena, Andre Kulosa, Steffen Rühmann, Klaus Zipfel, Dominika Fim, Birte Lampmann, Wolfgang Ertmer, Ernst Rasel
Van Der Waals Transitions of Slow Metastable Argon Atoms Ar*(3P2)..................................................................................................959Mehdi Hamamda, Thierry Taillandier-Loize, Francisco Perales, Gabriel Dutier, Marie-Pascale Gorza, Jacques Baudon, Martial Ducloy
Classical and Quantum Dynamics of Cold Atoms in Optical Cavities Pumped By Phase-Modulated Light ......................................960Gordon Robb, Michal Hemmerling
Collapse Suppression in Bose-Einstein Condensate Clouds with Orbital Angular Momentum ...........................................................961Jasur Abdullaev, Anton Desyatnikov, Elena Ostrovskaya
Filtering of Matter Wave Vibrational States Via Spatial Adiabatic Passage ..........................................................................................962Yury Loiko, Verònica Ahufinger, Ramón Corbalán, Gerhard Birkl, Jordi Mompart
QUANTUM INFORMATION AND CRYPTOGRAPHY Photonic Quantum Memories (Tutorial) .....................................................................................................................................................963
Ian Walmsley, Joshua Nunn, Nathan Langford, Klaus Reim, Patrick Michelberger, Tessa Champion
Exciton-Spin Memory with a Single Semiconductor Quantum Dot Molecule ........................................................................................964Niklas Sköld, Antoine Boyer de la Giroday, R. Mark Stevenson, Ian Farrer, David A. Ritchie, Andrew J. Shields
EIT Enhancement in a Doppler Broadened Medium.................................................................................................................................965Michael Scherman, Oxana Mishina, Pietro Lombardi, Alexandra Sheremet, Dmitriy Kuprianov, Elisabeth Giacobino, Julien Laurat
Quantum Memories for Single Photons from Cavity-QED.......................................................................................................................966Axel Kuhn, Peter Nisbet, Jerome Dilley, Gunnar Langfahl-Klabes, Matt Himsworth
Remote Entanglement Between a Single Atom and a Bose-Einstein Condensate...................................................................................967Carolin Hahn, Matthias Letter, Martin Mücke, Stefan Riedl, Christoph Vo, Simon Baur, Jörg Bochmann, Stephan Ritter, Stephan Dürr, Gerhard Rempe
Quantum Feedback for Preparation and Protection of Quantum States of Light..................................................................................968Clément Sayrin, Igor Dotsenko, Sébastien Gleyzes, Michel Brune, Jean-Michel Raimond, Serge Haroche
A Single-Atom Optical Quantum Memory..................................................................................................................................................969Andreas Reiserer, Holger P. Specht, Christian Nölleke, Manuel Uphoff, Eden Figueroa, Stephan Ritter, Gerhard Rempe
A Semiconductor Deterministic Bright Source of Entangled Photon Pairs (Invited) ............................................................................970Adrien Dousse, Jan Suffczynskii, Olivier Krebs, Alexios Beveratos, Aristide Lemaitre, Isabelle Sagnes, Jacqueline Bloch, Paul Voisin, Pascale Senellart
Generation of Non-Degenerated Polarization Entangled Photon Pairs in Periodically Poled Ti Linbo3 Waveguides with Interlaced Domains................................................................................................................................................................................971
Abu Thomas, Harald Herrmann, Wolfgang Sohler
A High Brightness Source of Polarization Entangled Photons..................................................................................................................972Fabian Steinlechner, Pavel Trojek, Marc Jofre, Arnaud Gardelein, Harald Weinfurter, Valerio Pruneri
Bell Inequality Violation in Frequency Domain using 25 Ghz Frequency Sideband Modulation Architecture. ................................973Jean-Marc Merolla, Ismael Mbodji, Laurent Olislager, Erik Woodhead, Kien Phan Huy, Luca Furfaro, Serge Massar
Active and Passive Optical Sources for QKD..............................................................................................................................................974Marc Jofre, Fabian Steinlechner, Gabriele Anzolin, Waldimar Amaya, Jose Capmany, Rupert Ursin, Jose Luis Vilas, Eusebio Bernabeu, Juan Pérez Torres, Morgan Mitchell, Valerio Pruneri
Optical Quantum Circuit Combining Tailored Optical Nonlinearities ...................................................................................................975Shigeki Takeuchi, Ryo Okamoto, Masazumi Fujiwara, Hong-Quan Zhao, Holger Hofmann, Jeremy O'Brien
Integrated Optical Circuits for Polarisation-Entangled Photons .............................................................................................................976Andrea Crespi, Linda Sansoni, Fabio Sciarrino, Giuseppe Vallone, Roberta Ramponi, Roberto Osellame, Paolo Mataloni
Improving Entangled Free-Space Quantum Key Distribution in The Turbulent Atmosphere ............................................................977Bettina Heim, Chris Erven, Ray Laflamme, Gregor Weihs, Thomas Jennewein
Imaging of Trapped Ions with Wavelength-Scale Resolution Using a Microfabricated Optic .............................................................978Andreas Jechow, Erik Streed, Benjamin Norton, David Kielpinski
Quantum Random Numbers Based on The Vacuum State .......................................................................................................................979Christian Gabriel, Christoffer Wittmann, Denis Sych, Ruifang Dong, Wolfgang Mauerer, Ulrik L. Andersen, Christoph Marquardt, Gerd Leuchs
Unveiling Two-Dimensional Discrete Quantum Walks Dynamics Via Dispersion Relations................................................................980Sergio Cantero, Alejandro Romanelli, Eugenio Roldán, Germán J. de Valcárcel
Cracking Quantum Cryptography (Invited) ...............................................................................................................................................981Vadim Makarov
High-Photon-Detection-Efficiency Silicon Avalanche Photodiode with Charge-Sensitive Amplifier...................................................982Kenji Tsujino, Akihisa Tomita
Wavegiude Source for An On-Demand Entanglement Distribution Network ........................................................................................983Isabelle Herbauts, Bibiane Blauensteiner, Andreas Poppe, Thomas Jennewein, Hannes Hübel
Semiconductor Integrated Sources of Two-Photon States At Room Temperature ................................................................................984Adeline Orieux, Aristide Lemaître, Pascal Filloux, Ivan Favero, Giuseppe Leo, Sara Ducci
Single-Photon-Level Memory At Room Temperature ............................................................................................................................... 985Klaus Reim, Patrick Michelberger, Ka Lee, Joshua Nunn, Nathan Langford, Ian Walmsley
Large Violation of Bell Inequalities Using Both Particle and Wave Measurements ..............................................................................986Nicolas Brunner, Daniel Cavalcanti, Paul Skrzypczyk, Alejo Salles, Valerio Scarani
Cluster State Generation Using Fibre Sources............................................................................................................................................987Alex Clark, Bryn Bell, Matthäus Halder, Jérémie Fulconis, Mark Tame, Myungshik Kim, William Wadsworth, John Rarity
Engineering of Photonic Orbital Angular Momentum Quantum States for Quantum Information Processing ................................988Eleonora Nagali, Lorenzo Marrucci, Enrico Santamato, Fabio Sciarrino
Experimental Demonstration of a Hadamard Gate for Coherent State Qubits......................................................................................989Anders Tipsmark, Ruifang Dong, Amine Laghout, Miroslav Jezek, Ulrik L. Andersen
Quantum Computing with Linear Optics and Multi-Photon Entanglement...........................................................................................990Fumihiro Kaneda, Ryosuke Shimizu, Satoshi Ishizaka, Hideo Kosaka, Keiichi Edamatsu
PRECISION METROLOGY AND FUNDAMENTAL LIMITS Generation and Superactivation of Bound Entanglment...........................................................................................................................991
C.-Y. Lu, J.-W. Pan
Laser-Pumped Double-Resonance Atomic Clock Using a Micro-Fabricated Rb Cell ...........................................................................992Matthieu Pellaton, Yves Pétremand, Christoph Affolderbach, Gaetano Mileti, Nico de Rooij
Rydberg Atoms in An Optical Lattice for High Precision Measurements of Blackbody Temperatures .............................................993Andrei Derevianko, Kurt Gibble, Vitaly Ovsiannikov
First Observation of The Temperature Dependence of The Van Der Waals Casimir-Polder Interaction in The Condition of Thermal Equilibrium ..............................................................................................................................................................994
Athansios Laliotis, Thierry Passerat de Silans, Marie-Pascale Gorza, Isabelle Maurin, Philippe Ballin, Martial Ducloy, Daniel Bloch
New Determination of The Fine Structure Constant and Test of The Quantum Electrodynamic .......................................................995Rym Bouchendira, Pierre Cladé, Saïda Guellati-Khélifa, François Nez, François Biraben
The Size of The Proton (Invited)...................................................................................................................................................................996Randolf Pohl
Testing The Universality of Free Fall with a Two Species Atomic Gravimeter ......................................................................................997Jonas Hartwig, Dennis Schlippert, Ulrich Velte, Daniel Tiarks, Nils Winter, Maic Zaiser, Vyacheslav Lebedev, Wolfgang Ertmer, Ernst Maria Rasel
The Role of Berry's Geometric Phase in The Mode Spectrum of a Fabry-Pérot Resonator .................................................................998Pepijn Pinkse, Markus Koch, Borys Hagemann, Michael Motsch, Martin Zeppenfeld, Gerhard Rempe
Towards An All Fibre Based Optical Frequency Standard Using Acetylene-Filled Hollow-Core Photonic Bandgap Fibres ...............................................................................................................................................................................................................999
Jan Hald, Anders Brusch, Charlotte I. Falk, Jan C. Petersen, Lars Nielsen
Crystalline Whispering Gallery Mode Stabilized Ring-Laser.................................................................................................................1000Michele Collodo, Benjamin Sprenger, Florian Sedlmeir, Harald G. L. Schwefel, L. J. Wang
Optical Properties of a Tilted Polarizer and Geometric Spin Hall Effect of Light ...............................................................................1001Jan Korger, Andrea Aiello, Christian Gabriel, Peter Banzer, Tobias Kolb, Christoph Marquardt, Gerd Leuchs
Phase Super-Resolution Using a Photonic Crystal Fibre .........................................................................................................................1002Srikanth Kannan, Bryn Bell, Alex Clark, William Wadsworth, John Rarity
Interaction-Based Quantum Metrology Giving a Scaling Beyond The Heisenberg Limit...................................................................1003Mario Napolitano, Marco Koschorreck, Brice Dubost, Naeimeh Behbood, Robert Sewell, Morgan Mitchell
General Cramér-Rao Bound for Parameter Estimation Using Gaussian Multimode Quantum Resources......................................1004Olivier Pinel, Julien Fade, Nicolas Treps, Claude Fabre
Efficient Photon Number Detection with Silicon Avalanche Photodiodes .............................................................................................1005Oliver Thomas, Zhiliang L Yuan, James F Dynes, Andrew W Sharpe, Andrew J Shields
Noise Limitations in Microwave Generation from Optical References..................................................................................................1006Franklyn Quinlan, Tara Fortier, Matthew Kirchner, Jennifer Taylor, Jim Bergquist, Till Rosenband, Nathan Lemke, Andrew Ludlow, Yanyi Jiang, Chris Oates, Scott Diddams
Thermal-Noise Limited Laser Stabilization to a Crystalline Whispering-Gallery Mode Resonator..................................................1007Janis Alnis, Albert Schliesser, Christine Wang, Tobias Kippenberg, Theodor Hänsch
FUNDAMENTALS OF NONLINEAR OPTICS Wavelength Shift of Four-Wave Mixing Bands in Photonic Crystal Fibers..........................................................................................1008
Lorena Velazquez-Ibarra, Antonio Díez, Enrique Silvestre, Miguel V. Andrés, J.L. Cruz, Ma. A. Martínez, J.L. Lucio
Superfluid Motion of Coupled Light in a Fiber Transmission Line .......................................................................................................1009Sascha Batz, Ulf Peschel
Breakup of Discrete Temporal Solitons in a Fibre Transmission Line ..................................................................................................1010Christoph Bersch, Georgy Onishchukov, Ulf Peschel
Symmetry-Breaking Dynamics of The Modulational Instability Spectrum ..........................................................................................1011Arnaud Mussot, Maxime Droques, Benoit Barviau, Alexandre Kudlinski, Majid Taki, Tibaut Sylvestre, Anne Boucon
Optical Pulse Transforms using Tapered Optical Fibres ........................................................................................................................1012Neil Broderick
Self-Phase Matching and X Pulse Formation in Phase-Mismatched Second Harmonic Generation Due to Dimensionality Transition ...........................................................................................................................................................................1013
Gintaras Valiulis, Vytautas Jukna, Ottavia Jedrkiewicz, Matteo Clerici, Eleonora Rubino, Paolo Ditrapani
Solitons in Waveguide Arrays with Competing Quadratic Nonlinearities ............................................................................................1014Frank Setzpfandt, Andrey A. Sukhorukov, Thomas Pertsch
Second Harmonic Generation Using Laser Beams Transformed By Internal Conical Refraction ....................................................1015Viktor Peet
Angular Tolerances of Non Collinear Optical Parametric Amplification in Uniaxial and Biaxial Crystals .....................................1016Benoît Trophème, Gabriel Mennerat, Benoît Boulanger
Slow-Light Dissipative Solitons ...................................................................................................................................................................1017Gian-Luca Oppo
Interaction of Self-Induced Transparency Pulses with Surface Anderson Localizations of Light .....................................................1018Viola Folli, Claudio Conti
Effective Polarization Method for Controlling a Sign of The Nonlinear Subnatural Resonances......................................................1019Denis Brazhnikov, Alexey Taichenachev, Valery Yudin, Maxim Basalaev, Igor Ryabtsev, Vasily Entin
Pulsed-Light-Induced Absorption in LiNbO3 and LiTaO3 Crystals with MgO Doping ......................................................................1020Satoshi Ashihara, Satoshi Enomoto
Effects of Nonlinear Refractive Index on Few-Cycle PW-Class OPCPA...............................................................................................1021Alexandre Thai, Christoph Skrobol, Philip K. Bates, Gunnar Arisholm, Zsuzsanna Major, Ferenc Krausz, Stefan Karsch, Jens Biegert
Generation and Control of Accelerating Airy Beams in Nonlinear Photonic Crystals (Invited) ........................................................1022Ady Arie
Scale-Free Optics and Diffractionless Waves in Nano-Disordered Ferroelectrics................................................................................1023Eugenio DelRe, Elisa Spinozzi, Aharon J. Agranat, Claudio Conti
From Disorder to Order Second Harmonic Generation in a Multi-Domain χ(2) Nonlinearity ............................................................1024Mousa Ayoub, Jörg Imbrock, Cornelia Denz
Generation of White-Light Optical Vortices Through Four-Wave Mixing...........................................................................................1025Peter Hansinger, Georgi Maleshkov, Ivan Garanovich, D. Skryabin, Dragomir Neshev, Yuri Kivshar, Alexander Dreischuh, Gerhard Paulus
Stable Fundamental and Vortex Solitons Supported By Localized Gain ..............................................................................................1026Valery Lobanov, Yaroslav Kartashov, Vladimir Konotop, Victor Vysloukh, Lluis Torner
Bacteriorhodopsin Films As Efficient Material for Nonlinear Optical Devices ....................................................................................1027F.A. Bovino, C. Gergely, G. Varo, M.C. Larciprete, C. Sibilia
Suppression of Multipole Effects in Second-Harmonic Generation from L-Shaped Gold Nanoparticles .........................................1028Robert Czaplicki, Mariusz Zdanowicz, Kalle Koskinen, Hannu Husu, Janne Laukkanen, Markku Kuittinen, Martti Kauranen
Nonlinear Optics in Subwavelength Plasmonic Nanostructures (Invited).............................................................................................1029Nicolae Panoiu, Claudiu Biris, Fangwei Ye, Lina Cao, Richard Osgood
Nonlinear Circular Dichroism in Self-Organized Metal Nanowires Arrays .........................................................................................1030Alessandro Belardini, Maria Cristina Larciprete, Marco Centini, Eugenio Fazio, Concita Sibilia, Daniele Chiappe, Cristian Martella, Andrea Toma, Francesco Buatier de Mongeot
Second Harmonic Generation (SHG) from Resonant GaAs Gratings ...................................................................................................1031Domenico de Ceglia, Giuseppe D'Aguanno, Nadia Mattiucci, Maria Antonietta Vincenti, Michael Scalora
3-Octave High-Energy Supercontinuum from a 2 μm Source ................................................................................................................1032Francisco Silva, Dane R. Austin, Arnaud Couairon, Philip K. Bates, Jens Biegert
Complete Characterization of Supercontinuum Coherence Properties.................................................................................................1033Goery Genty, Minna Surakka, Jari Turunen, Ari Friberg
Management of Interactions Between Raman Induced Solitons and Dispersive Waves in Photonic Crystal Fibers At The Advanced Stage of Supercontinuum Generation.........................................................................................................................1034
Rodislav Driben, Fedor Mitschke, Nickolai Zhavoronkov
Experimental Observation of Raman-Shifting Soliton Pairs ..................................................................................................................1035Alexander Hause, Philipp Rohrmann, Haldor Hartwig, Fedor Mitschke
Raman Multi-Peak Solitons in Photonic Crystal Fibers ..........................................................................................................................1036Truong X. Tran, Fabio Biancalana
Scalable Collinear BiB3O6 OPA for Few-Cycle CEP Stable Pulses At 2.1 μm ......................................................................................1037Francisco Silva, Philip K. Bates, Adolfo Esteban-Martin, Majid Ebrahim-Zadeh, Alexander Gruen, Seth Cousin, Jens Biegert
All-Optical Coherent Manipulation of Magnetization Vector in An Antiferromagnetic NiO Crystal...............................................1038Natsuki Kanda, Takuya Higuchi, Hirokatsu Shimizu, Kuniaki Konishi, Kosuke Yoshioka, Makoto Kuwata-Gonokami
Optical Control of Magnetization By Linearly Polarized Laser Pulses in a Crystal with Three-Fold Symmetry ............................1039Takuya Higuchi, Natsuki Kanda, Hiroharu Tamaru, Makoto Kuwata-Gonokami
Optical Supercavitation in Soft-Matter .....................................................................................................................................................1040Claudio Conti, Eugenio DelRe
Highly Efficient Frequency Downconversion At The Single Photon Level ...........................................................................................1041Sebastian Zaske, Andreas Lenhard, Christoph Becher
Nonlocal Quintic Nonlinearity By Cascaded THG in Dispersive Media................................................................................................1042Falk Eilenberger, Morten Bache, Stefano Minardi, Thomas Pertsch
Saturation of the All-Optical Kerr Effect ..................................................................................................................................................1043Carsten Brée, Ayhan Demircan, Günter Steinmeyer
Photon Pair Generation and Quantum Walks in Arrays of Quadratic Nonlinear Waveguides .........................................................1044Alexander Solntsev, Andrey Sukhorukov, Dragomir Neshev, Yuri Kivshar
Bloch Cavity Solitons in An All-Photonic Crystal Fabry-Pérot Cavity .................................................................................................1045Rumen Iliew, Christoph Etrich, Kestutis Staliunas, Falk Lederer, Oleg Egorov
Nonlinear Pulse Transformation and Phase Transitions in LiNbO3 Waveguide Arrays.....................................................................1046Frank Setzpfandt, Andrey A. Sukhorukov, Dragomir N. Neshev, Roland Schiek, Alexander S. Solntsev, Yuri S. Kivshar, Thomas Pertsch
Self-Trapping of Broad Beams in Defocusing Nonlinear Lithium Niobate Waveguide Arrays..........................................................1047Francis Bennet, Tristram Alexander, Franz Haslinger, Arnan Mitchell, Dragomir Neshev, Yuri Kivshar
Parametric Polariton Solitons in Coherently Pumped Semiconductor Microcavities..........................................................................1048Oleg Egorov, Dmitry Skryabin, Falk Lederer
Dark Solitons in Nonlinear Media with Arbitrary Degree of Nonlocality .............................................................................................1049Qian Kong, Qi Wang, Ole Bang, Wieslaw Krolikowski
ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA AND FREQUENCY COMBS Coherent Transfer Over 1.1 Spectral Octave with a Fiber Frequency Comb.......................................................................................1050
Axel Ruehl, Michael J. Martin, Kevin C. Kossel, Lisheng Chen, Craig Benko, Hugh McKay, Brian Thomas, Liang Dong, Martin E. Fermann, John M. Dudley, Ingmar Hartl, Jun Ye
Frequency Comb Generation in Crystalline MgF2 Whispering-Gallery Mode Resonators ................................................................1051Tobias Herr, Christine Wang, Pascal Del'Haye, Albert Schliesser, Klaus Hartinger, Ronald Holzwarth, Tobias Kippenberg
Sub-Poissonian Noise Signatures in The Carrier-Envelope Phase Jitter of Highly Stabilized Mode-Locked Lasers ......................1052Sebastian Koke, Bastian Borchers, Christian Grebing, Harald Frei, Alexandria Anderson, Andreas Assion, Günter Steinmeyer
Widely Tunable Extreme Ultraviolet Frequency Comb Generation......................................................................................................1053Tjeerd Pinkert, Dominik Kandula, Christoph Gohle, Jonas Morgenweg, Itan Barmes, Wim Ubachs, Kjeld Eikema
Divide-and-Conquer Approach to the Generation of Mid-Infrared Frequency Combs (Invited) ......................................................1054Konstantin Vodopyanov, Nick Leindecker, Alireza Marandi, Robert Byer, Vladimir Pervak
Electron-Phonon Coupling in Cuprate High-Temperature Superconductors Determined from Electron Relaxation Rates...............................................................................................................................................................................................................1055
Daniele Brida, Christoph Gadermaier, Alexandre S. Alexandrov, Viktor V. Kabanov, Primoz Kusar, Tomaz Mertelj, Xin Yao, Cristian Manzoni, Giulio Cerullo, Dragan Mihailovic
Conical Intersection Dynamics in a Rhodopsin Analog 9-cis Isorhodopsin ..........................................................................................1056Dario Polli, Daniele Brida, Cristian Manzoni, Katelyn Spillane, Marco Garavelli, Philipp Kukura, Richard Mathies, Giulio Cerullo
Förster Resonant Energy Transfer (FRET) in Orthogonal Chromophores..........................................................................................1057Igor Pugliesi, Heinz Langhals, Eberhard Riedle
Initial Process of Proton Transfer in Salicylideneaniline Studied By Time-Resolved Photoelectron Spectroscopy .........................1058Taro Sekikawa, Oliver Schalk, Gourong Wu, Andrey E. Boguslavskiy, Albert Stolow
Ultrafast Time-Resolved Photoelectron Spectroscopy with Tunable Deep UV-Pulses ........................................................................1059Peter Lang, Christian Homann, Igor Pugliesi, Reinhard Kienberger, Eberhard Riedle
Interband Transitions in InP Biased with THz Fields of 4 MV/m..........................................................................................................1060Christian Schmidt, Olaf Schubert, Friederike Junginger, Sebastian Mährlein, Bernhard Mayer, Alexander Sell, Rupert Huber, Alfred Leitenstorfer
Dual-Comb Spectroscopy of Molecules (Invited)......................................................................................................................................1061Theodor W. Hänsch, Nathalie Picqué
Absolute Frequency Spectroscopy At 4.3 μm By Direct Referencing of a Quantum-Cascade-Laser to an Er Fiber Laser-Based Frequency-Comb....................................................................................................................................................................1062
Alessio Gambetta, Davide Gatti, Antonio Castrillo, Gianluca Galzerano, Paolo Laporta, Livio Gianfrani, Marco Marangoni
Direct Frequency-Comb Spectroscopy of a Dipole-Forbidden Clock Transition in Trapped 40Ca+ Ions ..........................................1063Anne Lisa Wolf, Jonas Morgenweg, Jeroen Koelemeij, Steven van den Berg, Wim Ubachs, Kjeld Eikema
Absolute and Relative Determination of CEP from The Interference of Multiple Low-Order Harmonics ......................................1064Daniil Kartashov, Tadas Balciunas, Giedrius Andriukaitis, Audrius Pugzlys, Andrius Baltuska
Attosecond Emission Dynamics in Nonlinear Photoemission from Metal Tips ....................................................................................1065Michael Krüger, Markus Schenk, Peter Hommelhoff
Coherent Multi-Order Stimulated Raman Generated By Two-Frequency Pumping of Hydrogen-Filled Hollow Core PCF .......................................................................................................................................................................................................1066
Amir Abdolvand, Alexander Podlipensky, Alexander Nazarkin, Philip St.J. Russell
Nonparaxial Pulse Compression Through Spatial Chirp Management in a Laser-Induced Filament ..............................................1067Aleksandr Voronin, Skirmantas Alisauskas, Oliver Mucke, Audrius Pugzlys, Andrius Baltuska, Aleksei Zheltikov
Coherent In-Plane Charge Oscillations in GaAs Quantum Wells ..........................................................................................................1068Shekhar Priyadarshi, Klaus Pierz, Uwe Siegner, Philip Dawson, Mark Bieler
Heterodyne CARS Measurement of Inhalational Anesthetic Molecules Using Adaptively Phase-Modulated Femtosecond Pulses ......................................................................................................................................................................................1069
Kazuhiko Misawa, Yu Nagashima, Takayuki Suzuki, Sumio Terada
Low-Noise Near-Infrared Optical Frequency Comb from a Femtosecond Diode-Pumped Solid State Laser ..................................1070Stephane Schilt, Vladimir Dolgovskiy, Nikola Bucalovic, Lionel Tombez, Max Stumpf, Gianni Di Domenico, Christian Schori, Selina Pekarek, Andreas Oehler, Thomas Südmeyer, Ursula Keller, Pierre Thomann
Investigation of Surface Recombination Processes of Semiconducting Materials Using Ultrafast Laser Assisted Atom Probe Tomography ............................................................................................................................................................................1071
Mazumder Baishakhi, Vurpillot François, Vella Angela, Deconihout Bernard, Martel Gilles
Trapping Dynamics of Electron in TiO2 Investigated By Femtosecond Transient Absorption Spectroscopy ..................................1072Shota Tsuchida, Kazuhiro Ema, Hiroshi Sakama, Hideyuki Kunugita
DYNAMICS, INSTABILITIES, AND PATTERNS Ubiquitous Rogue Waves (Invited) .............................................................................................................................................................1073
Nail Akhmediev
Rogue Waves in a Mode-Locked Fiber Laser ...........................................................................................................................................1074Alexandr Zaviyalov, Oleg Egorov, Rumen Iliew, Falk Lederer
Anomalous Thermalization of Nonlinear Optical Wave Systems ...........................................................................................................1075Pierre Suret, Claire Michel, Antonio Picozzi, Stéphane Randoux
Universal Spectral Dynamics of Modulation Instability Theory, Simulation, Experiment .................................................................1076K Hammani, B Wetzel, B Kibler, J Fatome, C Finot, N Akhmediev, J M Dudley
Akhmediev Breathers and Pulsed Modulation Instability.......................................................................................................................1077Miro Erkintalo, Goëry Genty, Benjamin Wetzel, John Dudley
Relativistic Physics in Waveguide Arrays The Zitterbewegung...............................................................................................................1078Felix Dreisow, Matthias Heinrich, Robert Keil, Andreas Tünnermann, Stefan Nolte, Stefano Longhi, Alexander Szameit
Three Dimensional Woodpile Photonic Crystal for Collimation of Light Beams .................................................................................1079Lina Maigyte, Jose Trull, Crina Cojocaru, Vygantas Mizeikis, Mangirdas Malinauskas, Saulius Juodkazis, Marius Rutkauskas, Martynas Peckus, Valdas Sirutkaitis, Kestutis Staliunas
Hydrodinamical Phenomena in Polariton Condensates (Invited)...........................................................................................................1080Daniele Sanvitto
Accelerating Light Beams Along Arbitrary Trajectories. .......................................................................................................................1081Elad Greenfield, Raz Oren, Mordechai Segev
Nonlocal Effects in Waveguide Arrays with PT-Symmetric Defects ......................................................................................................1082Andrey Sukhorukov, Sergey Dmitriev, Sergey Suchkov, Yuri Kivshar
Characteristic Triangular Spectra of Extreme Localised Structures Insight from Optics into Rogue Wave Early Warning .........................................................................................................................................................................................................1083
Nail Akhmediev, Adrian Ankiewicz, Jose M. Soto-Crespo, Benjamin Wetzel, John M. Dudley
Frequency-Doubling and Recurrence Phenomena in Akhmediev Breathers Pulse Trains .................................................................1084Miro Erkintalo, Goery Genty, Benjamin Wetzel, John Dudley
Frequency and Phase Locking in a Cavity Soliton Laser ........................................................................................................................1085Craig McIntyre, Gian-Luca Oppo, Neal Radwell, Yoann Noblet, Thorsten Ackemann, William J. Firth, Pavel Paulau
Incoherent Fibre Supercontinuum Generation for all-Optical Random Number Generation ...........................................................1086Benjamin Wetzel, Laurent Larger, Keith J. Blow, Sergei K. Turitsyn, John M. Dudley
Different Operation States of Passive Synchronization Between a 1.03 μm Single-Pulse and a 1.56 μm Bound-Soliton Mode-Locked Fiber Lasers ............................................................................................................................................................1087
Wei-Wei Hsiang, Wei-Chih Chao, Chia-Yi Wu, Yinchieh Lai
Soliton Dynamics in a Semicondutor Cavity Soliton Laser with Broken Translational Symmetry ...................................................1088Giovanna Tissoni, Franco Prati, Luigi A. Lugiato, Massimo Brambilla
Discriminating Chaotic and Stochastic Dynamics in An Optoelectronic Oscillator with Delayed Feedback....................................1089Miguel C. Soriano, Luciano Zunino, Laurent Larger, Ingo Fischer, Claudio R. Mirasso
Zero-Lag Synchronization of Two Delay-Coupled Lasers The Role of Detuning.................................................................................1090Konstantin Hicke, Jordi Tiana-Alsina, Xavier Porte, Jordi Garcia-Ojalvo, Ingo Fischer
Square-Wave Oscillations with Different Duty Cycles.............................................................................................................................1091Lionel Weicker, Thomas Erneux, Ottilde D'Huys, Jan Danckaert, Yanne Chembo, Maxime Jacquot, Laurent Larger
Computational Performance of a Single Bandpass Electro-Optic Delay Oscillator .............................................................................1092Lennert Appeltant, Guy Van der Sande, Sergei Rybalko, Romain Martinenghi, Maxime Jacquot, Yanne Chembo, Laurent Larger, Ingo Fischer, Jan Danckaert
Bistability in a Two-Colour Semiconductor Laser with Dual Injection .................................................................................................1093Patrycja Heinricht, Benjamin Wetzel, Stephen O'Brien, Andreas Amann, Simon Osborne
Multi-Longitudinal Mode Emission in a Bidirectional Laser Model......................................................................................................1094Robert Höppner, Germán J. de Valcárcel, Eugenio Roldán
Bistable Phase Locking in a Low Fresnel Number Nondegenerate Optical Oscillator with Injected Signal.....................................1095Stanislav Kolpakov, Fernando Silva, Germán de Valcárcel, Eugenio Roldán, Kestutis Staliunas
Bloch Oscillations in Zigzag Waveguide Arrays .......................................................................................................................................1096Felix Dreisow, Gang Wang, Matthias Heinrich, Robert Keil, Stefan Nolte, Andreas Tünnermann, Alexander Szameit
Synchronization of Interacting Temporal Cavity Oscillons ....................................................................................................................1097Andrei G. Vladimirov, Dmitry Turaev, Sergey Zelik
A Novel Strategy to Experimentally Find Bound States of Solitons .......................................................................................................1098Philipp Rohrmann, Haldor Hartwig, Alexander Hause, Fedor Mitschke
Mode-Locked Laser Cavity Solitons ..........................................................................................................................................................1099Craig McIntyre, Gian-Luca Oppo, Neal Radwell, Thorsten Ackemann, William J Firth
Localized States, Q-Switching and Excitability in Coupled Semiconductor Microcavities .................................................................1100Margherita Turconi, Patrice Genevet, Stephane Barland, Massimo Giudici, Jorge Tredicce
Pulsing and Excitable Solitons in a Semiconductor Laser with Saturable Absorber ...........................................................................1101Giovanna Tissoni, Franco Prati, Massimo Brambilla
Mobility Properties of 2D Cavity Solitons in Systems with Delayed Feedback.....................................................................................1102Mustapha Tlidi, Andrei Vladimirov, Dmitry Turaev
Analysis of Pattern Formation in Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers with Feedback of a Volume Bragg Grating...........................................................................................................................................................................................................1103
Yoann Noblet, Thorsten Ackemann
Spontaneous Spatial Fractals Universal Contexts and Applications ......................................................................................................1104Graham McDonald, James Christian, Abi Heyes, Nicholas Millington, Thomas Walsh, Jungang Huang
Experimental Evidence of Solitons and Domain Walls in Diffractive and Antidiffractive Configurations of a Passive Kerr Fabry-Pérot Cavity................................................................................................................................................................1105
Eric Louvergneaux, Vincent Odent, Saliya Coulibaly, Pierre Glorieux, Majid Taki
New Forms of Synchronization Dynamics of a Dual-Polarization Laser with Frequency-Shifted Feedback ...................................1106Jérémie Thévenin, Marc Brunel, Marc Vallet, Marco Romanelli, Thomas Erneux
Multiple Delay Nonlinear Wavelength Dynamics for Photonic Reservoir Computing ........................................................................1107Romain Martinenghi, Lennert Appeltant, Sergei Rybalko, Guy Van der Sand, Jan Danckaert, Maxime Jacquot, Yanne Chembo, Laurent Larger
LIGHT-MATTER INTERACTIONS AT THE NANO-SCALE Pulse Shaping in Mode-Locked Ring-Cavity Fibre Lasers......................................................................................................................1108
Sonia Boscolo, Sergei K Turitsyn
Polariton Quantum Optics and Quantum Collective Phenomena Overview and Perspectives (Invited) ..........................................1109Vincenzo Savona
Towards The Generation of Entangled Microcavity Polaritons .............................................................................................................1110Peter Cristofolini, Patrick Mai, Mathias Sassermann, Zoltán Vörös, Gregor Weihs, Loren Pfeiffer, Kenneth West, Christian Schneider, Andreas Löffler, Sven Höfling, Alfred Forchel
Ultimate Fast Optical Switching of a Semiconductor Photonic Microcavity.........................................................................................1111Georgios Ctistis, Emre Yüce, Alex Hartsuiker, Maela Bazin, Julien Claudon, Jean-Michel Gérard, Willem L. Vos
Strong-Field Above-Threshold Photoemission from Sharp Metal Tips .................................................................................................1112Markus Schenk, Michael Krüger, Peter Hommelhoff
Controlled Electron Acceleration from Dielectric Nanospheres in Intense Few-Cycle Laser Fields .................................................1113Sergey Zherebtsov, Thomas Fennel, Jürgen Plenge, Egill Antonsson, Irina Znakovskaya, Adrian Wirth, Oliver Herrwerth, Frederik Süßmann, Christian Peltz, Izhar Ahmad, Sergei Trushin, Volodymyr Pervak, Stefan Karsch, Marc Vrakking, Burkhard Langer, Christina Graf, Mark Stockman, Ferenc Krausz, Eckart Rühl, Matthias Kling
Plasmonic Airy Beam Manipulation By Linear Optical Potentials ........................................................................................................1114Wei Liu, Dragomir Neshev, Ilya Shadrivov, Andrey Miroshnichenko, Yuri Kivshar
Electromagnetic Force Density and Energy-Momentum Tensor in Medium .......................................................................................1115Andriy Shevchenko, Matti Kaivola
Electromagnetic Resonances in Nanoparticles of Arbitrary Shape........................................................................................................1116Francesco Papoff, Benjamin Hourahine
Conditions to Cancel The Laser Polarization Dependence of Tip Field Enhancement........................................................................1117Houard Jonathan, Vella Angela, Vurpillot François, Deconihout Bernard
Optical Properties of Silver Nanoparticle Dispersed in Polymer Matrix...............................................................................................1118Abolfazl Ziaeemehr, Reza Pursalehi
Vapour Confined in An Opal of Nanospheres Observation of Sub-Doppler Optical Resonances Reminiscent of The Dicke Narrowing...........................................................................................................................................................................................1119
Philippe Ballin, Isabelle Maurin, Athanasios Laliotis, Daniel Bloch
Few-Cycle Laser Induced Photoemission and Electron Rescattering At a Metal Surface ..................................................................1120Markus Schenk, Michael Krüger, Sebastian Thomas, Peter Hommelhoff
Self-Collimation and Spatial Filtering in 2D Gain/Loss Periodic Spatially Modulated Materials .....................................................1121Muriel Botey, Ramon Herrero, Nikhil P. Kumar, Ramon Vilaseca, Kestutis Staliunas
Complete Phase-Space Control of Photoexcitation of Micro\-Cavity Polaritons Using Spatial Light Modulators ..........................1122Peter Cristofolini, Patrick Mai, Mathias Sassermann, Loren Pfeiffer, Kenneth West, Zoltán Vörös, Gregor Weihs
Hybrid Nanostructures for Enhanced Light Absorption.........................................................................................................................1123Jing Xiao, Jiansheng Liu
Nonlinear Silicon Photonics (Keynote).......................................................................................................................................................1124Michal Lipson
Fabrication and Characterization of Photonic Crystal Microcavities in Quasi-Single Crystal Diamond Films...............................1125Janine Riedrich-Möller, Laura Kipfstuhl, Christian Hepp, Martin Fischer, Stefan Gsell, Matthias Schreck, Christoph Becher
Slow-Light Enhanced Forces Between Shifted Photonic-Crystal Waveguides .....................................................................................1126Yue Sun, Thomas White, Andrey Sukhorukov
A Nanophotonic Probe for Quantum Electrodynamics in Random Cavities ........................................................................................1127Simon R. Huisman, Eric H. Frater, Jeroen P. Korterik, Jennifer L. Herek, Allard P. Mosk, Herman L. Offerhaus, Ad Lagendijk, Søren Stobbe, Henri Thyrrestrup, Peter Lodahl, Willem L. Vos, Pepijn. W.H. Pinkse
Imaging Single Molecules By Optical Absorption At Room Temperature............................................................................................1128Michele Celebrano, Philipp Kukura, Alois Renn, Vahid Sandoghdar
Ultrafast Exciton Dephasing in PbS Colloidal Quantum Dots ................................................................................................................1129Francesco Masia, Iwan Moreels, Zeger Hens, Wolfgang Langbein, Paola Borri
Towards Detection of Single Solid-State Ions............................................................................................................................................1130Lutz Petersen, Alois Renn, Stephan Götzinger, Vahid Sandoghdar
Narrow-Bandwidth High-Brightness Single Photon Emission from Silicon-Vacancy Colour Centres in CVD-Nano-Diamonds .......................................................................................................................................................................................................1131
Elke Neu, David Steinmetz, Carsten Arend, Janine Riedrich-Möller, Martin Fischer, Stefan Gsell, Matthias Schreck, Christoph Becher
Fluorescence Properties of Thick Shell CdSe/CdS Quantum Dots At Cryogenic Temperature .........................................................1132Gaëlle Camps, Stéphanie Buil, Xavier Quélin, Clémentine Javaux, Benoît Mahler, Benoît Dubertret, Jean-Pierre Hermier
Experiments with a Fiber-Based Optical Dipole Trap for Cold Cs-Atoms ...........................................................................................1133Daniel Reitz, Rudolf Mitsch, Samuel T. Dawkins, Melanie Müller, Eugen Vetsch, Arno Rauschenbeutel
Quantum Optics with Quantum Dots in Photonic Nanowires (Invited) ................................................................................................1134Jean-Michel Gérard, Julien Claudon, Joël Bleuse, Nitin M Singh, Niels Gregersen, Philippe Lalanne
Controlling The Coupling of a Single Nitrogen Vacancy Center to a Silver Nanowire .......................................................................1135Alexander Huck, Shailesh Kumar, Abdul Shakoor, Ulrik L. Andersen
Directional Control of Molecular Fluorescence with Bull's Eye Apertures...........................................................................................1136Heykel Aouani, Oussama Mahboub, Eloïse Devaux, Hervé Rigneault, Thomas Ebbesen, Jérôme Wenger
Ultrafast Coupling of An Emitter to a Plasmonic Antenna .....................................................................................................................1137Xuewen Chen, Vahid Sandoghdar, Mario Agio
Impedance of a Nanoantenna......................................................................................................................................................................1138Francois Marquier, Jean-Jacques Greffet
Enhanced Light-Matter Interaction At The Nanoscale Using Localized Plasmon Modes on Disordered Metallic Films ...............................................................................................................................................................................................................1139
Remi Carminati, Etienne Castanie, Valentina Krachmalnicoff, Alexandre Caze, Romain Pierrat, Yannick De Wilde
Controlling The Emission of Single Giant CdSe/CdS Nanocrystals Through Their Coupling to Random Gold Films...............................................................................................................................................................................................................1140
Damien Canneson, Ikbel Mallek-Zouari, Stéphanie Buil, Xavier Quélin, Clémentine Javaux, Benoît Mahler, Benoît Dubertret, Jean-Pierre Hermier
Purcell Factor for 3D-Dipolar Emitter Coupling to 2D-Plasmonic Waveguides ..................................................................................1141Julien Barthes, Gérard Colas des Francs, Alexandre Bouhelier, Jean-Claude Weeber, Alain Dereux
Dynamic Control of Collective Modes of Localized Surface Plasmon in Metallic Nanoparticles by Optical Tweezers...................1142Takuya Iida
Second Harmonic Generation By Excitation of Coupled Two Dimensional Silver Nanoresonantors................................................1143Marco Centini, Alessio Benedetti, Concita Sibilia, Mario Bertolotti
Generation of Two-Color Near-Field Lights At a Nano-Slit for High Spatial Resolution Detection of Atoms with Two-Step Photoionization............................................................................................................................................................................1144
Hiroaki Ohki, Tomohiro Sato, Kenta Sagawa, Haruhiko Ito
PLASMONICS AND METAMATERIALS Localized Surface Plasmon Evanescent Excitation At Telecom Wavelength ........................................................................................1145
Mickael Fevrier, Philippe Gogol, Abdelhanin Aassime, Robert Megy, Alexandre Bondi, Jean-Michel Lourtioz, Beatrice Dagens
Probing Nanoplasmonic Waveguides and Couplers with Optical Antennas .........................................................................................1146Arian Kriesch, Daniel Ploss, Jing Wen, Peter Banzer, Ulf Peschel
Investigating Plasmonic Gap Modes Coupled to Nanoantennas.............................................................................................................1147Jing Wen, Arian Kriesch, Daniel Ploss, Peter Banzer, Bernhard Schmauss, Ulf Peschel
Selective Excitation of Guided Surface Plasmons on Uniform and Conically-Tapered Au Nanowires .............................................1148Ho Wai Lee, Markus Schmidt, Rufus Russell, Nicolas Joly, Hemant Tyagi, Patrick Uebel, Philip Russell
Optical Transmissivity of Single Metallic V-Grooves ..............................................................................................................................1149Norik Janunts, Michael Steinert, Ernst-Bernhard Kley, Andreas Tuennermann, Thomas Pertsch, Khachatur Nerkararyan
Superconducting Analogue of Optical Plasmonic Waveguides ...............................................................................................................1150Anagnostis Tsiatmas, Vassili A. Fedotov, Nikolay I. Zheludev
Plasmons and Rust for Solar Energy Conversion.....................................................................................................................................1151Isabell Thomann, Blaise Pinaud, Ragip Pala, Min-Kyo Seo, Zhebo Chen, Thomas Jaramillo, Mark Brongersma
III-V Plasmonic Solar Cells Targeting Absorption Enhancements Close to The GaAs Band Edge...................................................1152Nicholas Hylton, Vincenzo Giannini, Dries Vercruysse, Pol Van Dorpe, Kan-Hua Lee, Xiaofeng Li, Nicholas Ekins-Daukes, Stefan Maier
Integrated Devices for Active Plasmonics and Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering (Invited) .........................................................1153Pol Van Dorpe, Pieter Neutens, Chang Chen, Jian Ye, Vercruysse Dries, Liesbet Lagae
Electron-Beam-Driven Nanoscale Metamaterial Light Sources .............................................................................................................1154Giorgio Adamo, Jun-Yu Ou, Kevin MacDonald, Francesco De Angelis, Enzo Di Fabrizio, Nikolay Zheludev
Enhancing The Photoluminescence Properties of Single Epitaxial GaAs Quantum Dots using Optical Antennas ..........................1155Klas Lindfors, Markus Pfeiffer, Paola Atkinson, Mohamed Benyoucef, Armando Rastelli, Oliver G. Schmidt, Harald Giessen, Markus Lippitz
Prospects for Metallic and Plasmonic Nano-Lasers (Keynote) ...............................................................................................................1156Martin Hill
Electrically-Driven Surface Plasmon Polariton Generation Using Conjugated Polymers ..................................................................1157Ryan McCarron, Wayne Dickson, Jean-Sebastien Bouillard, Stephane Kéna-Cohen, Paul Stavrinou, Donal D. C. Bradley, Stefan A. Maier, Anatoly V. Zayats
Direct Laser Writing of Gain and Metallic Nanostructures....................................................................................................................1158Ioanna Sakellari, Elmina Kabouraki, Vytautas Purlys, Arune Gaidukeviciute, David Gray, Costas Fotakis, Maria Vamvakaki, Maria Farsari
Reconfigurable Nanostructured Photonic Metamaterials .......................................................................................................................1159Jun-Yu Ou, Eric Plum, Liudi Jiang, Nikolay Zheludev
Mid-Infrared Nanophotonics Based on Antennas and Transmission Lines (Invited) ..........................................................................1160Martin Schnell, Pablo Alonso-González, Felix Casanova, Libe Arzubiaga, Luis E. Hueso, Andrey Chuvilin, Rainer Hillenbrand
Tailoring GaAs THz Radiative Properties with Plasmons and Surface Phonon Polaritons................................................................1161Simon Vassant, Francois Marquier, Jean-Jacques Greffet, Fabrice Pardo, Patrick Bouchon, Jean-Luc Pelouard
Frequency and Time Mapping of Terahertz Meta-Atoms.......................................................................................................................1162Juraj Darmo, Kazunori Serita, Daniel Dietze, Iwao Kawayama, Masayoshi Tonouchi, Karl Unterrainer
3D Cartography of Light Scattered By Plasmonic Nanostructures At Resonance Obtained By Digital Heterodyne Holography....................................................................................................................................................................................................1163
Sarah Yasmine Suck, Stéphane Collin, Yannick De Wilde, Gilles Tessier
Longitudinal and Transversal Optical Antenna Plasmon Resonance Spectra from Two-Photon Laser Excitation ........................1164Matthias D. Wissert, Carola Moosmann, Konstantin S. Ilin, Michael Siegel, Uli Lemmer, Hans-Jürgen Eisler
Near-Field Microscopy Study of Propagation and Focusing of Designer's Surface Plasmons Polaritons At Mid-Infrared Wavelength ....................................................................................................................................................................................1165
Arthur Babuty, Ioana Moldovan-Doyen, Yannick De Wilde, Adel Bousseksou, Jean-Philippe Tetienne, Raffaele Colombelli, Grégoire Beaudoin, Isabelle Sagnes
Near-Field Mapping of Airy Plasmons ......................................................................................................................................................1166Alexander Minovich, Angela E. Klein, Norik Janunts, Thomas Pertsch, Dragomir N. Neshev, Yuri S. Kivshar
Radial and Angular Coordinate Transformations for Subwavelength Confinement of Light............................................................1167Vincent Ginis, Philippe Tassin, Jan Danckaert, Costas M. Soukoulis, Irina Veretennicoff
Polychromatic Nanofocusing of Surface Plasmons...................................................................................................................................1168Wei Liu, Dragomir Neshev, Andrey Miroshnichenko, Ilya Shadrivov, Yuri Kivshar
Light Localization in Disordered Metamaterials ......................................................................................................................................1169Salvatore Savo, Nikitas Papasimakis, Nikolay Zheludev
Demonstrating Elusive Toroidal Dipolar Response in Metamaterials ...................................................................................................1170Vassili Fedotov, Thomas Kaelberer, Nikitas Papasimakis, Vassili Savinov, Alexandra Rogacheva, Din Ping Tsai, Nikolay Zheludev
Nanoantenna-Enhanced Ultrafast Nonlinear Spectroscopy of a Single Plasmonic Nanodisc .............................................................1171Thorsten Schumacher, Kai Kratzer, Daniela Ullrich, Mario Hentschel, Harald Giessen, Markus Lippitz
Coherent Control of Nanoscale Light Localization Creating and Positioning Isolated Sub-Wavelength Energy Hot-Spots ...............................................................................................................................................................................................................1172
Tsung Sheng Kao, Stewart Jenkins, Janne Ruostekoski, Nikolay Zheludev
Measurement of Plasmon Response Functions of Nanostructures with Femtosecond Laser Cross-Correlation Microscopy Toward Spatiotemporal Plasmon Control............................................................................................................................1173
Jun Oi, Shutaro Onishi, Keiichiro Matsuishi, Takuya Harada, Fumihiko Kannari
Ultrafast Manipulation of The Large Rabi Splitting in Metal-J-Aggregate Hybrid Nanostructures.................................................1174Parinda Vasa, Robert Pomraenke, Giovanni Cirmi, Elenora De Re, Wei Wang, Stephan Schwieger, David Leipold, Erich Runge, Giulio Cerullo, Christoph Lienau
Nonlinear Chiral Imaging of Twisted-Cross Gold Nano-Objects ...........................................................................................................1175Mikko J. Huttunen, Godofredo Baustista, Manuel Decker, Stefan Linden, Martin Wegener, Martti Kauranen
Multi-Photon Autocorrelation in Gold Nanostructures ...........................................................................................................................1176Daniele Brida, Paolo Biagioni, Jer-Shing Huang, Johannes Kern, Lamberto Duò, Bert Hecht, Marco Finazzi, Giulio Cerullo
Time Dependent Transformation Optics Frequency Conversion Using The Dielectric Analogue of The Robertson-Walker Universe ...........................................................................................................................................................................................1177
Vincent Ginis, Philippe Tassin, Ben Craps, Irina Veretennicoff
Stable Spatial Plasmon Solitons in IMI Waveguides with Gain and Loss .............................................................................................1178Andrea Marini, Dmitry Skryabin, Boris Malomed
Metamaterials in Waveguide Geometries ..................................................................................................................................................1179Thomas Kaiser, Christian Helgert, Thomas Paul, Rainer Wolf, Carsten Rockstuhl, Falk Lederer, Thomas Pertsch
Quenched Optical Transmission in Ultrathin, Plasmonic Gratings .......................................................................................................1180Giuseppe D'Aguanno, Nadia Mattiucci, Andrea Alu, Mark J. Bloemer
CdSe/CDs Nanocrystals Coupled to a Self-Assembled Plasmonic Crystal ............................................................................................1181Hugo Frederich, Fangfang Wen, Julien Laverdant, Laurent Coolen, Catherine Schwob, Clémentine Javaux, Benoit Dubertret, Agnès Maitre
Interaction of Twisted Split Ring Resonators ...........................................................................................................................................1182David Powell, Kirsty Hannam, Ilya Shadrivov, Yuri Kivshar
Generation of Rational Optical Vortices in a Plasmonic Spiral ..............................................................................................................1183Wei-Lun Huang, Hsiu-Hao Tsao, Chen-Bin Huang
Photorefractive Manipulation of Plasmons in Hybrid Liquid Crystal Cells .........................................................................................1184Keith Daly, Stephen Abbott, Giampaolo D'Alessandro, David Smith, Malgosia Kaczmarek
Interferometric Method for The Characterization of Optically Active Metamaterials .......................................................................1185Matthias Falkner, Ekaterina Pshenay-Severin, Christian Helgert, Thomas Pertsch
High Harmonic Generation Assisted By The Field Enhancement Near Rough Metallic Surface ......................................................1186Anton Husakou, Kwang-Hyon Kim, Joachim Herrmann
Low Loss Wireless Interconnects in Plasmonic Nanocircuitry ...............................................................................................................1187Daniel Ploss, Arian Kriesch, Jing Wen, Ulf Peschel
Plasmonic Brewster Angle Broadband Extraordinary Transmission Through Optical Gratings .....................................................1188Andrea Alu, Giuseppe D'Aguanno, Nadia Mattiucci, Mark J. Bloemer
Resonant Transmission Mediated By Dyakonov Surface Waves............................................................................................................1189Osamu Takayama, Alexey Nikitin, Luis Martin-Moreno, Francisco García-Vidal, David Artigas
QUANTUM OPTO-MECHANICS – FROM FUNDAMENTALS TO APPLICATIONS Optomecanical Correlations and Sensitivity Improvement By Backaction Amplification..................................................................1190
Alexandros Tavernarakis, Pierre Verlot, Tristan Briant, Pierre-Francois Cohadon, Antoine Heidmann
Classical and Quantum Theory of Photothermal Cavity Cooling of a Mechanical Oscillator. ...........................................................1191Juan Restrepo, Julien Gabelli, Cristiano Ciuti, Ivan Favero
Optoelectronic Cooling of Mechanical Modes in a Semiconductor Nanomembrane ...........................................................................1192Andreas Naesby, Koji Usami, Tolga Bagci, Bo Melholt Nielsen, Jin Liu, Soeren Stobbe, Peter Lodahl, Eugene Polzik
Cooling of a Mechanical Oscillator Close to The Quantum Regime (Invited) ......................................................................................1193Rémi Rivière, Samuel Deléglise, Stefan Weis, Ewold Verhagen, Emanuel Gavartin, Olivier Arcizet, Albert Schliesser, Tobias Kippenberg
GaAs Disks Optomechanics.........................................................................................................................................................................1194Christophe Baker, Lu Ding, Pascale Senellart, Aristide Lemaitre, Sara Ducci, Giuseppe Leo, Ivan Favero
Cavity Optomechanics with Micromirrors................................................................................................................................................1195A. Kuhn, C. Molinelli, T. Antoni, J. Teissier, T. Briant, P.-F. Cohadon, A. Heidmann
Microwave Optomechanics in The Strong Coupling Regime (Invited)..................................................................................................1196John Teufel
Optomechanical Crystals and Their Quantum Optical Applications (Keynote) ..................................................................................1197Oskar Painter
Optomechanically Induced Transparency.................................................................................................................................................1198Stefan Weis, Samuel Deléglise, Rémi Rivière, Emanuel Gavartin, Olivier Arcizet, Albert Schliesser, Tobias Kippenberg
Cavity Optomechanics with Nonlinear Mechanical Resonators in The Quantum Regime .................................................................1199Simon Rips, Martin Kiffner, Ignacio Wilson-Rae, Michael Hartmann
Macroscopic Quantum Resonators in Space .............................................................................................................................................1200Rainer Kaltenbaek, Gerald Hechenblaikner, Nikolai Kiesel, Ulrich Johann, Markus Aspelmeyer
LOW-DIMENSIONAL CARBON NANO-STRUCTURES IN PHOTONICS Ultrafast Energy Flow in a Carbon Nanotube Network ..........................................................................................................................1201
Daniele Brida, Dario Polli, Jared Crochet, Tobias Hertel, Giulio Cerullo, Guglielmo Lanzani
Non-Linear Photoluminescence from Graphene ......................................................................................................................................1202Matthias Handloser, Giovanni Piredda, Antonio Lombardo, Andrea C. Ferrari, Achim Hartschuh
Broadband Ultrafast Spectroscopy of Bilayer Graphene (Invited) ........................................................................................................1203Enrico Da Como
Ultrafast and High-Energy Pulsed Lasers with Graphene Mode-Lockers ............................................................................................1204Daniel Popa, Zhipei Sun, Felice Torrisi, Tawfique Hasan, Fengqiu Wang, Andrea Ferrari
Mode-Locked Operation of An Erbium-Doped Fiber Laser Using a Self-Assembled Graphene Membrane After Excitation of Q-Switched Pulse ...................................................................................................................................................................1205
Lili Gui, Wei Zhang, Xiao Li, Xiaosheng Xiao, Hongwei Zhu, Kunlin Wang, Dehai Wu, Changxi Yang
Passive Mode Locking in Erbium-Doped Fibre Laser By Carbon Nanotubes......................................................................................1206Chengbo Mou, Aleksey Rozhin, Sergey Sergeyev, Sergei Turistyn
Nanotube-Based Passively Mode-Locked Ytterbium-Pumped Raman Laser.......................................................................................1207Carlos E. Schmidt Castellani, Edmund J. R. Kelleher, Daniel Popa, Zhipei Sun, Tawfique Hasan, Andrea C. Ferrari, Sergei V. Popov, James R. Taylor
Carbon Nanotube Photonics Single Nanotube Versus Nanotube Thin Film (Invited) .........................................................................1208Mathias Steiner
Broadband Ultrafast Pulse Generation with Double Wall Carbon Nanotubes.....................................................................................1209Tawfique Hasan, Zhipei Sun, Daniel Popa, Edmund J. R. Kelleher, Francesco Bonaccorso, Emmanuel Flahaut, Felice Torrisi, Oksana Trushkevych, Giulia Privitera, Valeria Nicolosi, James R. Taylor, Andrea C. Ferrari
Wideband Tunable, High-Power, Graphene Mode-Locked Ultrafast Lasers .......................................................................................1210Z. Sun, X. C. Lin, D. Popa, H. J. Yu, T. Hasan, F. Torrisi, E. J. R. Kelleher, L. Zhang, L. Sun, L. Guo, W. Hou, J. M. Li, J. R. Taylor, A. C. Ferrari
ASTROPHOTONICS Answering The Big Questions in Astronomy with Astrophotonic Spectroscopy (Invited) ..................................................................1211
Jeremy Allington-Smith, Ray Sharples
PIONIER Combining 4 Telescopes of the Very Large Telescope Interferometer using a Photonics Beam Combiner....................1212Pierre Kern, Laurent Jocou, Jean-Philippe Berge, Jean-Baptiste Lebouquin, Bernard Lazazeff, Gérard Zins, Pierre Labeye, Rafael Millan-Gabet, Wes Traub, Pierre Haguenauer
A Three-Dimensional Photonic Beam Combiner for Astronomical Interferometery ..........................................................................1213Stefano Minardi, Nadya Chakrova, Felix Dreisow, Stefan Nolte, Thomas Pertsch
Dragonfly On-Chip Pupil Remapping for Optical Stellar Interferometry ............................................................................................1214Nemanja Jovanovic, Peter Tuthill, Sylvstre Lacour, Martin Ams, Simon Gross, Barnaby Norris, Paul Stewart, Jon Lawrence, Andrew Lehmann, Clementine Niel, Ned Charles, Graham Marshall, Gordon Roberston, Michael Ireland, Michael with ford
Approaching cm/sec Calibration of High Resolution Astronomical Spectrograph ..............................................................................1215Antonio Manescau, Gaspare Lo Curto, Luca Pasquini, Jonay I. González Hernández, Rafael Rebolo, Tilo Steinmetz, Rafael Probst, Ronald Holzwarth, Tobias Wilken, Theodor W. Hänsch, Thomas Udem
Multicore Optical Fibres for Astrophotonics (Invited) ............................................................................................................................1216Tim Birks, Brian Mangan, Antonio Diez, Jose-Luis Cruz, Sergio Leon-Saval, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Dominic Murphy
Ultrafast Laser Inscription of an Integrated Multimode-to-Single-Modes Waveguide Transition for Astrophotonics...................1217Robert Thomson, Tim Birks, Sergio Leon-Saval, Ajoy Kar, Joss Bland-Hawthorn
Arrayed Waveguide Gratings for Astronomy with Multiple Off-Axis Fibre Launch ..........................................................................1218Nick Cvetojevic, Nemanja Jovanovic, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Roger Haynes, Jon Lawrence
High-Repetition-Rate Pulses for Optical Frequency Comb Generation ................................................................................................1219Jose Chavez Boggio, Andres Rieznik, Harendra Fernando, Roger Haynes, Martin Roth, William Rambold, Jean Olaya
Active Y-Junctions in The Mid-IR Based on Lithium Niobate Ti-Diffused Waveguides.....................................................................1220Samuel Heidmann, Nadège Courjal, Guillermo Martin
14 GHz Supercontinua Generation Calibration Sources for Astronomical Spectrographs ................................................................1221Application to Nulling Interferometry Sebastian Stark, Holger Hundertmark, Philip Russell, Rafael Probst, Tobias Wilken, Theodor Hänsch, Thomas Udem, Tilo Steinmetz, Ronald Holzwarth
Ultrafast Laser Inscription of Mid-IR Integrated Optics for Astronomy..............................................................................................1222Airan Rodenas, Brahim Arezki, Guillermo Martin, John McCarthy, Henry Bookey, Ajoy Kar, Pierre Kern, Robert Thomson
Integrated Optics Beam Combiner At 2.2μm for Astronomical Interferometers.................................................................................1223Pierre Labeye, Axelle Nolot, Sébastien Lardenois, Steve Oliver, Laurent Jocou, Karine Perraut, Jean-Philippe Berger, Franck Eisenhauer
Fibre Bragg Grating Stopband Profile Trade-Off for Temporal Spectral Astronomy........................................................................1224Geraldine Mariën, Nick Cvetojevic, Nemanja Jovanovic, Judith Dawes, Roger Haynes, Jon Lawrence, Quentin Parker, Michael with ford
GNOSIS An OH Suppressing Near-Infrared Spectrograph for Astronomy Using Fibre Bragg Gratings........................................1225Jon Lawrence, Simon Ellis, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Julia Bryant, Scott Case, Luke Gers, Roger Haynes, Anthony Horton, Steve Lee, Sergio Leon-Saval, Hans Loehmannsroeben, Stan Miziarski, Jana Mladenoff, John O'byrne, William Rambold, Martin Roth, Scott Smedley, Chris Trinh
Integrated Photonics Beyond Communication Micro and Nano Technologies to Explore The Universe..........................................1226Harendra Fernando, Jean-Christophe Olaya, Jose Chavez Boggio, William Rambold, Roger Haynes, Martin Roth
Hexabundles - Imaging Fibre Bundles for Astronomy ............................................................................................................................1227Julia Bryant, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Sergio Leon-Saval
The Application of Multicore Photonic Crystal Fibres (M-PCF) in Astronomical Instrumentation .................................................1228Claire Poppett, Jermey Allington-Smith
The Effect of Fibre Core Geometry on Focal Ratio Degradation ...........................................................................................................1229Anthony Horton, Brian Baumgartner
OPTICAL BIO-SENSORS Experimental and Numerical Study of Trapping of Cells on a Waveguide...........................................................................................1230
Balpreet S. Ahluwalia, Pål Løvhaugen, Peter McCourt, James S. Wilkinson, Thomas Huser, Olav Gaute Hellesø
Label-Free DNA Detection with PNA Modified Long Period Fiber Grating-Based Sensor................................................................1231Michele Sozzi, Annamaria Cucinotta, Roberto Corradini, Rosangela Marchelli, Maria Konstantaki, Stavros Pissadakis, Stefano Selleri
Novel Ring Resonator Based Biosensors (Invited)....................................................................................................................................1232Peter Bienstman, Tom Claes, Cristina Lerma Arce, Wim Bogaerts, Katarzyna Komorowska, Dries Van Thourhout
Spatial Scan of Light Intensity By Retinal Rod Cells ...............................................................................................................................1233Nigel Sim, Dmitri Bessarab, C. Michael Jones, Leonid Krivitsky
Dispersive Single Particle Sensing with μs Time Resolution Using Toroidal Microresonators...........................................................1234Jens Dobrindt, Sebastian Karpf, Stefanie Krysiak, Bastian Schröter, Bert Nickel, Joachim Rädler, Tobias Kippenberg
Amorphous Silicon Based Photodetectors for Biosensing (Invited)........................................................................................................1235Markus B. Schubert, Marc Sämann, Dominik Furin, Johannes Thielmann, Christine Harendt, Günter Gauglitz
On-Chip Micro-Spectrometer for Fluorescence Bio-Sensing ..................................................................................................................1236Zhixion Hu, Andrew Glidle, Charles N. Ironside, Marc Sorel, Michael J. Strain, Huabing Yin
Specific (Bio-)Chemical Sensing with Organic Microlasers ....................................................................................................................1237Sergii Lozenko, Djibril Faye, Melanie Lebental, Joseph Lautru, Isabelle Ledoux, Isabelle Leray, Jean-Pierre Lefevre, Jacques Delaire, Joseph Zyss
Single Cell Trapping and Stretching in An Optofluidic Chip Fabricated By Femtosecond Laser Micromachining .......................1238Francesca Bragheri, Lorenzo Ferrara, Paolo Minzioni, Ilaria Cristiani, Krishna Vishnubhatla, Nicola Bellini, Roberta Ramponi, Roberto Osellame
A Self-Referencing Detection Technique for Whispering Gallery Mode Biosensors ...........................................................................1239Joachim Knittel, Jon Swaim, Warwick Bowen
PROGRESS IN FIBER LASERS AND EMERGING APPLICATIONS Applications of Femtosecond Fiber Lasers in Material Processing (Tech Focus).................................................................................1240
Alan Arai, Jingzhou Xu, Jin Sohn, Gyu C. Cho
Fraction-Limited Fiber Lasers for Welding and Cutting (Tech Focus) .................................................................................................1241Eckhard Beyer
Fiberlaser Universal Production Tool for Industrial Manufacturing (Tech Focus) .............................................................................1242Wolfram Rath
MATERIAL PROCESSING WITH ULTRASHORT LASER PULSES Ultrafast Fiber Lasers The Hunt for Killer Applications (Tech Focus) .................................................................................................1243
Anatoly Grudinin, John Clowes, Pascal Dupriez
Nanosecond Fibre MOPAs Technological Approaches and New Applications (Tech Focus) .............................................................1244Michael Durkin
High Power Tm Silica Fiber Lasers Current Status, Prospects and Challenges (Tech Focus) ...........................................................1245Peter Moulton
ADDITIONAL PAPERS (POST DEADLINE) Extremely High Temperature (220 C) Continuous-Wave Operation of 1300-nm-Range Quantum-Dot Lasers (Post-Deadline) ........................................................................................................................................................................................................1246
Takeo Kageyama, Kenichi Nishi, Masaomi Yamaguchi, Reio Mochida, Yasunari Maeda, Keizo Takemasa, Yu Tanaka, Tsuyoshi Yamamoto, Mituru Sugawara, Yasuhiko Arakawa
Multi-Watt Continuous-Wave Diamond Raman Laser at 1217 nm (Post-Deadline) ...........................................................................1247Vasili Savitski, Jennifer Hastie, Martin Dawson, David Burns, Alan Kemp
Photonic Heterostructures a New Concept for High Power Surface Emission in Thz Quantum Cascade Lasers (Post-Deadline)..............................................................................................................................................................................................1248
Gangyi Xu, Elodie Strupiechonski, Gregoire Sevin, Raffaele Colombelli, Ali Belarouci, Xavier Letartre, Suraj Khanna, Lianhe Li, Edmund Linfield, A. Giles Davies
Coherent Phase Combining of 64 Fibers (Post-Deadline)........................................................................................................................1249Jérôme Bourderionnet, Cindy Bellanger, Jérôme Primot, Arnaud Brignon
Stable, Highly Efficient QCW All-Fiber Laser at 2.8 Microns (Post-Deadline)....................................................................................1250Dominic Faucher, Nicolas Caron, Martin Bernier, Guillaume Androz, Réal Vallée
Millijoule Pulse Energy Second Harmonic Generation with Single-Stage Photonic Bandgap Rod Fiber Laser (Post-Deadline) ........................................................................................................................................................................................................1251
Marko Laurila, Julien Saby, Thomas T. Alkeskjold, Lara Scolari, Benjamin Cocquelin, Francois Salin, Jes Broeng, Jesper Laegsgaard
The 20 W CW Fibre Laser At 1460 nm Based on Si-Associated Bismuth Active Centres in Germanosilicate Fibres (Post-Deadline)..............................................................................................................................................................................................1252
Sergey Firstov, Alexey Shubin, Vladimir Khopin, Igor Bufetov, Alexey Guryanov, Evgeny Dianov
Localization of Light in an Optical Fiber with Nanoscale Radius Variation (Post-Deadline).............................................................1253Misha Sumetsky
High Damage Threshold Sesams for High Power Femtosecond Modelocking 23 W, 235 fs Yb LuScO3 Thin Disk Laser (Post-Deadline) ...................................................................................................................................................................................1254
Clara J. Saraceno, Oliver H. Heckl, Cyrill R. E. Baer, Matthias Golling, Thomas Südmeyer, Kolja Beil, Christian Kränkel, Klaus Petermann, Günter Huber, Ursula Keller
Fully Stabilized, Self-Referenced Thulium Fiber Frequency Comb (Post-Deadline) ...........................................................................1255Jie Jiang, Christian Mohr, Jens Bethge, Martin Fermann, Ingmar Hartl
Long-Term CEP-Stable Few-Cycle Pulses Using The Feed-Forward Method in An All-Monolithic Setup (Post-Deadline) ........................................................................................................................................................................................................1256
Fabian Lücking, Andreas Assion, Alexander Apolonski, Ferenc Krausz
Light-Field Control of Electric Current in Metal-Dielectric Nano-Circuits (Post-Deadline)..............................................................1257Agustin Schiffrin, Tim Paasch-Colberg, Daniel Gerster, Nicholas Karpowicz, Sascha Mühlbrandt, Joachim Reichert, Johannes V. Barth, Reinhard Kienberger, Ralph Ernstorfer, Ferenc Krausz
Mid-Infrared Frequency Combs Based on Microresonators (Post-Deadline) ......................................................................................1258Christine Wang, Tobias Herr, Pascal Del'Haye, Albert Schliesser, Ronald Holzwarth, Theodor Haensch, Nathalie Picque, Tobias Kippenberg
Magnetoelastic Metamaterials (Post-Deadline).........................................................................................................................................1259Mikhail Lapine, Ilya Shadrivov, David Powell, Yuri Kivshar
Reversible Switching of Ultrastrong Light-Molecule Coupling (Post-Deadline) ..................................................................................1260Tal Schwartz, James A. Hutchison, Cyriaque Genet, Thomas W. Ebbesen
Strongly Interacting Photons in Quantum Dot Cavity-QED (Post-Deadline) .......................................................................................1261Andreas Reinhard, Thomas Volz, Atac Imamoglu
Entanglement-Enhanced Classical Communication Over a Noisy Classical Channel (Post-Deadline) .............................................1262Robert Prevedel, Yang Lu, Will Matthews, Rainer Kaltenbaek, Kevin Resch
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