2011 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and 12th European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO EUROPE/EQEC 2011)

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1 2011 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and 12th European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO EUROPE/EQEC 2011) Munich, Germany May 2011 Pages IEEE Catalog Number: ISBN: CFP11ECL-PRT /2

2 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)... 2 Guenter Huber Quantum Simulations with Cold Atoms, Molecules and Ions (Plenary)... 3 Peter 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... 5 Boris Zhdanov, Michael Shaffer, Randall Knize An HBr Oscillator-amplifier Pumped by a High-energy Ho YLF Laser System... 6 M J Daniel Esser, Wayne Koen, Hencharl J Strauss, Cobus Jacobs, Lourens R Botha, Christoph Bollig Laser Operation and Spectroscopic Investigations of Tm LuScO Philipp Koopmann, Samir Lamrini, Karsten Scholle, Peter Fuhrberg, Klaus Petermann, Günter Huber Efficient Gd 3+, Lu 3+ co-doped KY(WO 4 ) 2 :Tm$ 3+ Channel Waveguide Lasers... 8 Koop Van Dalfsen, Shanmugam Aravazhi, Dimitri Geskus, Kerstin Wörhoff, Markus Pollnau Efficient Laser Operation of Ho Lu 2 O 3 at Room Temperature... 9 Samir 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 YVO 4 Emitting Around 1064 nm...10 Xavier Délen, François Balembois, Patrick Georges 30W Nd GdVO 4 Oscillator Modelocked with Nonlinear Mirror...11 Gabrielle Thomas, Michael Damzen Temperature Resolved Measurements of Absorption and Emission Cross Sections for Various Yb 3 +-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 YVO 4 Bounce Laser...13 Masahito Okida, Je-Yen Huang, Yung-Fu Chen, Takashige Omatsu Numerical Simulation of Thermal Effects in Composite Nd YAG Slab Laser Active Medium with Collinear Zigzag Pumping...14 Martynas Gabalis, Valdas Girdauskas, Aidas Aleknavicius, Andrejus Michailovas High Average Power, Passively Q-switched Stigmatic Bounce Geometry Laser...15 Gabrielle Thomas, Michael Damzen Stimulated-brillouin-scattering Via Phase-conjugation-mirror for High-average-power Nd YAG Laser Systems...16 Hidetsugu Yoshida, Koji Tsubakimoto, Hisanori Fujita, Noriaki Miyanaga, Yutaka Nagata, Hiroo Kinoshita High-power Passively Mode-locked Nd GdVO 4 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 YVO 4 Laser...18 Hervé Gilles, Sylvain Girard, Mathieu Laroche, Eric Lacot Watt-level, Efficient and Radially Polarized Nd YAG Laser...19 Xia Kegui, Li Jianlang Laser Performances and Spectroscopic Investigation of Yb LuAG Grown by μpd Technique...20 Agnesi 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...21 Inka 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...22 Andrey Lyashedko, Galina Bufetova, Vladimir Seregin, Vladimir Tsvetkov, Ivan Shcherbakov Steady-state Operation of Pulsed Pumped Self Mode Locked Nd YVO 4 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...24 Martin Delaigue, Sandrine Ricaud, Clemens Hönninger, Eric Mottay High-efficiency Solar Nd YAG Disc Laser with Optical Fiber Pumping...25 Bruno Do Couto, Dawei Liang Na,Nd co-doped Ca 2 MgSi 2 O 7 Laser...26 Hiroaki Nakao, Akira Shirakawa, Ken-Ichi Ueda, Ladislav Bohaty, Petra Becker, Alexander Kaminskii

3 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...28 Vladimir Kalashnikov, Evgeni Sorokin, Irina Sorokina High Power, Diode Side Pumped Er YAG Lasers...29 Arne Heinrich, Thomas Bragagna High Efficiency 2066-nm Laser Based on Tm Lu 2 O 3 Ceramics...30 Oleg Antipov, Nikita Zakharov, Anton Novikov, Valeriy Sharkov Dynamics of Refractive Index Changes in Tm-doped Crystals Tm YAG and Tm YLF, and Ceramics Tm Lu 2 O Andrey Zinoviev, Remi Soulard, Oleg Antipov, Richard Moncorgé, Eugeniy Ivakin Temporally Stretched Q-switched Pulses in the 2 μm Spectral Range...32 Ingo Rohde, Dirk Theisen-Kunde, Ralf Brinkmann Numerical Optimization of a High-energy End-pumped Ho YLF Slab Amplifier...33 Oliver Collett, Christoph Bollig, Daniel Esser Spectroscopic, Luminescent And Laser Properties Of Tm 3+ -doped Mixed NaLaGd Tungstates and Molibdates...34 Fedor Bolschikov, Nikita Zakharov, Polina Ryabochkina, Denis Lis, Kirill Subbotin, Evgeny Zharikov, Oleg Antipov High Energy Diode Pumped Er YSGG Laser at 3μm Transition...35 Emma Arbabzadah, Simon Chard, Hemmel Amrania, Chris Phillips, Michael Damzen Delivery of 4.45 μm Fe ZnSe Laser Radiation by Hollow Waveguide...36 Helena 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...37 Michal Nemec, Helena Jelinkova, Mitsunobu Miyagi, Katsumasa Iwai, Hiroyuki Takaku Automation of the Alignment Process of a Solid State Laser Resonator...38 Christian Brecher, Nicolas Pyschny, Vicente Paul Guerrero Lule Non-resonant Feedback to Enhance Conventional Lasing in Advanced Materials...39 Luis 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...40 Suddapalli Chaitanya Kumar, Goutam Kumar Samanta, Kavita Devi, Stefano Sanguinetti, Majid Ebrahim-Zadeh Microsecond Red Laser Pulses Via Overcoupled Intracavity Second Harmonic Generation...41 Roman Ostrowski Strategies to Run an Ophthalmological CW Self-Raman Laser in Micro-second Pulsed Laser Regime...42 Alessandro 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...43 Martin Fibrich, Helena Jelínková, Jan Šulc, Karel Nejezchleb, Václav Škoda Automodulations Observation in an Extended Cavity Ti Sapphire Oscillator - Period Doubling and Chaos...44 Tomasz Kardas, Wojciech Gadomski, Bozena Ratajska-Gadomska, Piotr Wasylczyk Frequency Stable Operation of a Pulsed Solid State Laser Oscillator Based on Gain Grating Holograms...45 Roland 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 Cr 3+ 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)...48 Yoshihito Hirano First Visible 639 nm SrF 2 Pr 3+ Ceramic Laser...49 Tasoltan Basiev, Vasilii Konyushkin, Dmitrii Konyushkin, Maxim Doroshenko, Gunter Huber, Fabian Reichert, Nils-Owe Hansen, Matthias Fechner Single-Frequency Continuous-wave Diode-pumped Pr 3+ BaY 2 F 8 Orange Laser...50 David Paboeuf, Oussama Mhibik, Fabien Bretenaker, Philippe Goldner, Daniela Parisi, Mauro Tonelli A Continuous-wave Laser with Wavelength-selectable Output Spanning Green-yellow-red...51 Andrew Lee, David Spence, James Piper, Helen Pask Eu 3+ KGd(WO 4 )2 Laser Crystal Stimulated Emission at 703 nm 5 D 0 7 F 4 Transition...52 Sergei Bagayev, Vladimir Dashkevich, Valentin Orlovich, Sergei Vatnik, Anatolii Pavlyuk, Alexander Yurkin Highly Efficient, Broadly Tunable 2-µm Femtosecond Tm KYW Laser...53 Alexander Lagatsky, Tom Brown, Wilson Sibbett, Stephane Calvez, Martin Dawson, James Gupta Wide-bandwidth Ho YFL Multi-pass Amplifier Pumped by Tm:Fiber Laser...54 Nicola Coluccelli, Gianluca Galzerano, Paolo Laporta, Alberto Di Lieto, Mauro Tonelli 2.08 μm Ho KLu(WO 4 ) 2 Laser Resonantly Pumped by a Diode Laser...55 Venkatesan 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)...57 Marc Eichhorn

4 The National Ignition Facility and the Goal of Near-term Laser Fusion Energy (Keynote)...58 Edward Moses Multi-Slab Architecture for kj-class DPSSL System...59 Paul Mason, Saumyabrata Banerjee, Klaus Ertel, Cristina Hernandez-Gomez, Jonathan Phillips, John Collier Hundred mj Level, High Contrast OPCPA/Yb YAG Hybrid Laser System...60 Masayuki 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...61 Mathias 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...62 Benoît Faure, Eric Durand, Sylvestre Maurice, Didier Bruneau, Franck Montmessin A Highly-Stabilized Light Source for the Space Gravitational Wave Detector DECIGO and DPF...63 Mitsuru 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...64 Chandrajit Basu, Oliver Puncken, Lutz Winkelmann, Peter Weßels, Jörg Neumann, Dietmar Kracht Solar NdYAG Laser Beam Quality by a Roof-shaped Pump Cavity...65 Joana Almeida, Dawei Liang High Power High-Density Spectral Beam Combining by Volume Bragg Gratings (VBGs)...66 Derrek 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...67 Grégoire Pillet, Bastien Steinhausser, Loïc Morvan, Julien Schiellein, Thomas Merlet, Daniel Dolfi High Average Power Ultrafast Lasers (Invited)...68 Johannes Weitenberg, Peter Rußbüldt, Hans-Dieter Hoffmann, Reinhart Poprawe 50-MW, 12-ps Nd YVO 4 $ Slab Amplifier for OPCPA Pumping...69 Clemens 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...70 Yoann 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 YVO 4 Laser System Based on a Tandem Bounce Amplifier...71 Makoto Ashihara, Kaori Hayashi, Takaharu Yoshino, Masahito Okida, Katsuhiko Miyamoto, Takashige Omatsu High Power Mixed Vanadate Laser and Modelocking with Nonlinear Mirror...72 Gabrielle Thomas, Takashige Omatsu, Michael Damzen Passively Q-switched Nd YAG/Cr 4+ 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...75 S. P Ng, J. I. Mackenzie Broadly Tunable and Low-quantum-defect Yb 3+ -doped Double Tungstate Channel Waveguide Lasers...76 Dimitri Geskus, Shanmugam Aravazhi, Kerstin Wörhoff, Markus Pollnau Compact Tm KYW Laser Passively Q-switched with a PbS-quantum Dot-based Saturable Absorber...77 Maxim 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...78 Rakesh Bhandari, Takunori Taira Novel Method for Pulse Control in NdYVO 4 /C 4+ YAG Passively Q-switched Microchip Laser...79 Simon Joly, Takunori Taira Chi- (2) -lens Mode Locking of a 1,3 4 μm Nd GdVO 4 Laser In-band Pumped by 880nm Laser Diode...80 Hristo Iliev, Ivan Buchvarov, Valentin Petrov Dual Wavelength and Switchable Laser Operation of Pr 3+ LiYF 4 Crystals at 523 nm and 640 nm...81 Sebastian Müller, Nils-Owe Hansen, Ortwin Hellmig, Klaus Petermann, Günter Huber Spectroscopy of Ho Lu 2 O 3 with Respect to the Realization of a Visible Laser...82 Matthias Fechner, Fabian Reichert, Philipp Koopmann, Klaus Petermann, Guenter Huber Beat Note Stabilization of a 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 PbGa 2 S 4 Laser...84 Jan 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...85 Ji 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 (LG 01 ) Mode Output...87 Ji Won Kim, Jacob I. Mackenzie, John R. Hayes, William A. Clarkson Geometric Frustration in Large Arrays of Coupled Lasers...88 Micha Nixon, Eitan Ronen, Asher A. Friesem, Nir Davidson

5 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...90 David Carnegie, Grigorii Sokolovski, Todor Kalkandjiev, Edik Rafailov Cryogenic Yb YAG Total-Reflection Active-Mirror Lasers (Invited)...91 Junji Kawanaka, Hiroaki Furuse, Daniel Albach, Yasuki Takeuchi, Akira Yoshida, Toshiyuki Kawashima, Hirofumi Kan Yb CaF 2 Laser at Cryogenic Temperature...92 Sandrine 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...93 Jörg Körner, Hartmut Liebetrau, Joachim Hein, Martin Kahle, Markus Löser, Mathias Siebold Alternative Approaches for Highly Efficient Diode-Pumped Lasers...94 Martin Kahle, Joachim Hein, Jörg Körner, Hartmut Liebetrau, Mathias Lenski, Reinhard Seifert Disk Laser Delivering 50 mj with 400 ns Latency...95 Karsten 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 CaGdAlO 4 Thin Disk Laser in Continuous-wave...97 Sandrine 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) 2 O 3 Thin-Disk Laser...98 Cyrill 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 CaF 2 Amplifier Pumped by a High Brightness Ytterbium Doped Fiber Laser Operating at 976nm...99 Guillaume 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 Oleg 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 Kolja Beil, Susanne T. Fredrich-Thornton, Christian Kränkel, Klaus Petermann, Daniela Parisi, Mauro Tonelli, Günter Huber Continuous-wave Second-StokesSelf-Raman Nd GdVO 4 Laser Jipeng Lin, Andrew J. Lee, Helen M. Pask Low-loss Synthetic Single-crystal Diamond Raman Gain Measurement and High Power Raman Laser at 1240 nm Vasili Savitski, David Burns, Alan Kemp Optical Parametric Oscillators Spanning the Ultraviolet to Mid-Infrared (Invited) Majid Ebrahim-Zadeh Ring Cavity Solid-state Raman Lasers Generating in Visible and Eye-safe Spectral Regions Ruslan Chulkov, Vladimir Dashkevich, Pavel Apanasevich, Valentin Orlovich All-Solid-State, Narrowband, Pulsed Sodium D 2 Resonance Light Source Norihito Saito, Tomohiro Tsukihana, Takuya Kawahara, Satonori Nozawa, Tetsuya Kawabata, Takuo Tsuda, Toshiro Koizumi, Satoshi Wada SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS The Transistor Laser (Invited) Milton Feng, Nick Holonyak Impact of Nonlinear Carrier-carrier Scattering on Gain Dynamics and Nonlinear Optical Properties of Quantum Dot Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers Niels Majer, Kathy Lüdge, Eckehard Schöll Birefringence and Spin Controlled Ultrafast Polarization Oscillations in Vertical-cavity Surface-emitting Lasers M. 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 Alexander Kern, Dietmar Wahl, Sujoy Paul, Mohammad Tanvir Haidar, Rainer Blood, Wolfgang Schwarz, Rainer Michalzik 5 GHz Modulation of 650 nm VCSEL Robert Roßbach, Marcus Eichfelder, Michael Jetter, Peter Michler Wavelength Multistability in Ring and Fabry-Pérot Lasers The Effect of Spatial Hole Burning Antonio Perez-Serrano, Julien Javaloyes, Salvador Balle An Asymmetric Integrated Extended Cavity 20GHz Mode-locked Quantum Well Ring Laser Fabricated in the JePPIX Technology Platform 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) Siyuan Yu, Bei Li Bichromatic Emission and Coexisting Multimode Dynamics in Ring Lasers Antonio Perez-Serrano, Julien Javaloyes, Salvador Balle

6 Direct Modulation of Bistable Semiconductor Ring Lasers Xinlun 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 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 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 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 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 Mindaugas 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 Ramón Maldonado-Basilio, Sylwester Latkowski, Pascal Landais Quantum Cascade Lasers Recent Advances and Future Prospects (Keynote) Claire Gmachl Quantum Cascade Ring Lasers Unidirectional Operation and Coupled Ring Tuning Chidi Nshii, Charlie Ironside, Marc Sorel, Thomas Slight, Shiyong Zhang, Dmitry Revin, John Cockburn Frequency Noise of Free-running Room Temperature Quantum Cascade Lasers Lionel 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 Alfredo Bismuto, Romain Terazzi, Mattias Beck, Jerome Faist Polarization Dynamics Of VCSELS with Optical Feedback And Crossed Polarization Reinjection Mathias Marconi, Massimo Giudici, Stéphane Barland, Julien Javaloyes, Salvador Balle Spatial "rocking" in Broad Emission Area Semiconductor Lasers Mindaugas Radziunas, Kestutis Staliunas Experimental Characterization of Bubbling in Delay-Coupled Semiconductor Lasers Xavier 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 Zhenyu Hao, Pascal Besnard Dynamics of Coupled Mode-Locked Quantum Dot Semiconductor Lasers (Invited) Guillaume Huyet, Tatiana Habruseva, Natalia Rebrova, Stephen Hegarty, Dmitrii Rachinskii, Andrei Vladimirov, Evgeniy Viktorov Generation ofhigh Power (> 7W) Yellow-Orange GaInNAs Semiconductor Disk Laser Tomi 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 Thomas Schwarzbäck, Hermann Kahle, Marcus Eichfelder, Wolfgang-Michael Schulz, ##robert Roßbach, Michael Jetter, Peter Michler PbSe Quantum Well VECSEL on Si Matthias Fill, Mohamed Rahim, Amir Khiar, Ferdinand Felder, Hans Zogg Narrow Linewidth 2μm GaSb-based Semiconductor Disk Laser Marcel Rattunde, Sebastian Kaspar, Benno Rösener, Tino Töpper, Christian Manz, Klaus Köhler, Oliver Ambacher, Joachim Wagner Mid-Infrared Continuously Tunable Single Mode VECSEL Amir Khiar, Ferdinand Felder, Mohamed Rahim, Matthias Fill, Fabian Hobrecker, Hans Zogg 2.5 μm Semiconductor Disk Laser with 130 nm Tuning Range Jari 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 Jorg Hader, Jerome V. Moloney, Stephan W. Koch Near-UV Laser Diodes for External Cavity Lasers Wolfgang Scheibenzuber, Ulrich Schwarz Efficiency-optimized 973nm High Power Broad Area DFB Lasers with Overgrown Aluminium-free Gratings for Peak Power Conversion of 63% 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 Masteroscillator Power-amplifier System 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 Selina Pekarek, Christian Fiebig, Katrin Paschke, Götz Erbert, Thomas Südmeyer, Ursula Keller

7 Compact 1064 nm ps-light Source on a Micro Bench with Free Adjustable Repetition Rate and nj Pulse Energy Andreas Klehr, Armin Liero, Thomas Hoffmann, Sven Schwertfeger, Hans Wenzel, Götz Erbert, Wolfgang Heinrich, Günther Tränkle Ge-on-Si Lasers for Silicon Photonics (Invited) Jifeng Liu, Lionel C. Kimerling, Jurgen Michel Flexible Distributed Feedback Colloidal Quantum Dot Laser Patterned by a Submicron Grating Structure Yujie 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 Bauke 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 Michael J. Strain, Piotr M. Stolarz, Marc Sorel Singlemode Tunable VCSELs with Integrated MEMS Technology Benjamin Kögel, Pierluigi Debernardi, Petter Westbergh, Åsa Haglund, Johan Gustavsson, Jörgen Bengtsson, Erik Haglund, Anders Larsson Reduced Photon Bunching in Cooled Quantum Dot Superluminescent Diodes Martin Blazek, Wolfgang Elsäßer Photonic Crystal Nanolasers, Modulation and Coherence Characteristics Remy 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 Jeroen Elzerman, Kathrina Weiss, Javier Miguel Sanchez, Atac Imamoglu Direct Observation of Slow Light in the Noise Spectrum of a Laser Abdelkrim 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 Marcello Simonetta, Marco Soldo, Marco Zanola, Michael J. Strain, Marc Sorel, Guido Giuliani Intensity and Frequency Noise in high power highly coherent VeCSELs Alexandre Laurain, Mikhaël Myara, Isabelle Sagnes, Arnaud Garnache Ultrashort Pulse Surface-Emitting Semiconductor Lasers (Invited) Anne Tropper Femtosecond VECSELs with up to 1 W Average Output Power Martin 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 Esa Saarinen, Jari Nikkinen, Oleg Okhotnikov 10-GHz MIXSEL A High Power Integrated Ultrafast Semiconductor Disk Laser Valentin 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 Sangam 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 Giuseppe 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 Giuseppe Tandoi, Charles N. Ironside, A. Catrina Bryce Investigation of Passive Electric and Optical-feedback Stabilization of a Passively Mode-locked Tapered Twosection Quantum-dot Laser 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 Hisaya Oda, Naoki Hamada, Akio Yamanaka, Nobuhiko Ozaki, Naoki Ikeda, Yoshimasa Sugimoto Coupled Ring Resonator Geometry for Efficient Second Harmonic Generation Danilo Skoczowsky, Andreas Jechow, Ralf Menzel The Excitonic Capture Path in Electrically Pumped Quantum Dots Using Time-resolved Amplified Spontaneous Emission 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 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 Julien Leclech, Daniel T. Cassidy, François Laruelle, Mauro Bettiati, Jean-Pierre Landesman High Performance Single-Mode 1060 nm DFB Laser Diodes Evgeny Zibik, Julien Boucart, Achim Thies, Ian Davies, Chris Button, Norbert Lichtenstein Narrow-linewidth High-power Semiconductor-based Laser Module Stefan 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 Thorsten Führer, Thomas Walther

8 Hybrid-integrated ECDL for Precision Rubidium Spectroscopy in Space Erdenetsetseg 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 Fabíola 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 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 Antti Härkönen, Tomi Leinonen, Ville-Markus Korpijärvi, Janne Puustinen, Mircea Guina Modulation Response of Quantum Dot Nano-LEDs and Nano-lasers Troels Suhr, Niels Gregersen, Michael Lorke, Jesper Mørk Fastly tunable External-Cavity Diode-Lasers Controlled by Electro-Absorption Modulators Hendrik Jähme, Mike Bülters, Dieter Jäger, Martin Hofmann Performance Optimization of Electrically-injected Nano-spin VCSELs K. Alan Shore Tailored Intensity Distributions with High Power VCSEL Systems Holger Moench, Stephan Gronenborn, Michael Miller, Peter Loosen Temperature Dependent Dynamics in a 1550nm VCSELs Subject To Polarised Optical Injection Nadir 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 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 Rihab Ks Al Seyab, Dimitris Alexandropoulos, Ian D Henning, Mike J Adams Polarization-Stable Single-Mode VCSELs for Cs-based Miniature Atomic Clocks Ahmed Al-Samaneh, Mohammad T. Haidar, Dietmar Wahl, Rainer Michalzik All-optical Inverter based on Polarization Switching in Long-wavelength VCSELs Ana 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 Sebastian 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 Kevin Schires, Antonio Hurtado, Ian Henning, Mike Adams Spectral Characterisation of VCSELs Emitting at Nm for Cpt-based Miniature Atomic Clocks Florian 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 Sangam 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 Valentin 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 Richard 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 Antti Rantamäki, Jari Lyytikäinen, Jari Nikkinen, Oleg Okhotnikov Frequency Chirp Characterization of a Gain-switched Semiconductor Laser Using Photonic Differentiation Based on Polarization Interferometry Antonio Consoli, José Manuel Tijero, José Azaña, Yong Woo Park, Ignacio Esquivias Shoe Box All Semiconductor High Power Femtosecond Laser System Jan 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 Thorsten Ackemann, Alessio Tierno, Christopher G. Leburn, C. Tom A. Brown Integrated Optical Comb Generation for Coherent Communications using Injection Locked Semiconductor Lasers William Cotter, David Goulding, Brendan Roycroft, Brian Corbett, Frank Peters Post-Growth Fabrication of a DFB Laser Array with High Precision Wavelength Spacing Marco Zanola, Michael J. Strain, Guido Giuliani, Marc Sorel Very Narrow Linewidth of High Power DFB Laser Diode for Cs Pumping Charles 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 Neus Oliver, Miguel C. Soriano, David Sukow, Ingo Fischer Observation of a Novel Type of Optical Modes in VCSELs Grigorii 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

9 Transitions Between Regular and Chaotic Behavior in Polarization-stabilized Vertical-cavity Surface-emitting Lasers Andreas Molitor, Wolfgang Elsäßer Tuning dynamics of a > 70 nm continuously tunable MEMS-VCSEL with a hybrid curved mirror Karolina Zogal, Christian Gierl, Hooman Davani, Christian Grasse, Markus Maute, Peter Meissner, Markus Amann Passive Mode-locking in Quantum Well Fabry-p\'erot Lasers Julien 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 Lianping Hou, Mohsin Haji, Chong Li, Jehan Akbar, John Marsh, Ann Bryce Active-mode-locked Terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers (invited) Stefano 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 David 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 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) 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 Michael 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 Dana Turcinkova, Giacomo Scalari, Maria Ines Amanti, Fabrizio Castellano, Mattias Beck, Jerome Faist Active Photonic Crystal Terahertz Laser Operating in Upper Bands Alexander 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 Milan 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 Eui Su Lee, Young Bin Ji, Tae-In Jeon Temperature Controllable Terahertz Time-Domain Reflection Spectroscopy of Aqueous Systems Wenchao Qiao, Arne Thoma, Thomas Dekorsy Continuous- wave Terahertz Tomography with Phase Unwrapping Wenfeng Sun, Xinke Wang, Ye Cui, Yan Zhang Superconducting Waveguides for Terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers Martin 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 Oleksiy Sydoruk, Richard Syms, Laszlo Solymar Specific Features of Terahertz Radiation Emitted from Laser Sparks Induced in Gases by Femtosecond Laser Pulses with Linear Polarization 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 Igor Bronevoi Polarization-Independent Broadband Terahertz Modulator Sanaz Zarei Terahertz Spectroscopy of Beta- Barium Borate Crystals Oleg Khasanov, Sebastien Vidal, Jerome Degert, Jean Oberlé, Eric Freysz, Olga Fedotova, Grigory Rusetsky Tunable THz Source with Less Than 100 GHz Bandwidth Tobias Bach, Gorazd Poberaj, Marko Zgonik, Carolina Medrano, Peter Günter Triple-wavelength Cr 3+ LiCAF Solid-state Laser for Simultaneous Generation of Two Independently Tunable THz Waves Haroldo J. Maestre, Adrián J. Torregrosa, Juan Capmany Diode-pumped Terahertz Laser Source Based on Stimulated Polariton Scattering Helen Pask, Yabai He, Andrew Lee Progress on InGaAs/GaAsSb based Terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers Christoph Deutsch, Hermann Detz, Alexander Benz, Michele Nobile, Aaron Maxwell Andrews, Pavel Klang, Werner Schrenk, Gottfried Strasser, Karl Unterrainer Metasurfaces Coupled to Terahertz Intersubband Transitions Daniel Dietze, Juraj Darmo, Gottfried Strasser, Karl Unterrainer Watching the Dance of Ions and Molecules in the THz (invited) Martina Havenith

10 Nondestructive Rapid Measurement of GaAs, GaN, SiC, and Si Semiconductors using One Tunable Terahertz Source Akihide Hamano, Yoshinobu Takatsu, Seigo Ohno, Hiroaki Minamide, Hiromasa Ito, Yoshiyuki Usuki Non-Contact Multilayer Thickness Measurements with Reflection-Mode Terahertz Time-Domain Spectroscopy Volker Feige, Stephan Nix, Frank Ellrich, Joachim Jonuscheit, René Beigang Nonlinear Spectroscopy Using Intense THz Pulses with Amplitudes Exceeding 1 MV/cm (invited) Koichiro Tanaka Magnetic-Field Induced Broadband THz Absorption Change in a Multiferroic Hexaferrite at Room Temperature Eiichi Matsubara, Yohei Onishi, Taishi Ishikura, Tsuyoshi Kimura, Masaaki Ashida Terahertz Real Time Focal Plane Imaging Yan Zhang, Xinke Wang, Ye Cui, Wenfeng Sun Field-resolved Four-wave Mixing with Multi-THz Transients in InSb (Invited) Friederike 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 Atsushi Doi, François Blanchard, Tomoko Tanaka, Koichiro Tanaka Efficient Optical Up-Conversion by Coherent Sum-Frequency Generation for Highly Sensitiv Terahertz Detection Florian Sedlmeir, Harald G. L. Schwefel, Dmitry V. Strekalov, Sebastian Bauerschmidt, Sascha Preu, Stefan Malzer, Gottfried H. Döhler, Gerd Leuchs Continuous Wave Intracavity Terahertz Source Maik 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 Gregor 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 Juraj Darmo, Daniel Dietze, Michael Martl, Karl Unterrainer Terahertz Generation Control by Metal Substrate in Sandwich Structure with Thin LiNbO Sergey Bodrov, Igor Ilyakov, Boris Shishkin, Andrey Stepanov APPLICATIONS OF NONINEAR OPTICS Nonlinear Photonics in Carbon Nanotubes and Graphenes (Invited) Shinji Yamashita Tilted Fiber Bragg Grating Assisted Nonlinear Effects in Carbon Nanotube-Coated Optical Fibers Guillermo 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 Annalisa De Angelis, Philippe Leproux, Vincent Couderc, Delia Arnaud-Cormos, Philippe Leveque Coherent Raman Microscopy with a Fiber-Format Femtosecond Oscillator Alessio Gambetta, Vikas Kumar, Giulia Grancini, Dario Polli, Cristian Manzoni, Roberta Ramponi, Giulio Cerullo, Marco Marangoni Chirped-pulse Interferometry for Dispersion-cancelled OCT Robert Prevedel, Kurt Schreiter, Rainer Kaltenbaek, Jonathan Lavoie, Devon Biggerstaff, Kevin Resch Following a Chemical Reaction Using High Harmonic Spectroscopy (Invited) Hans-Jakob Worner, Julien Bertrand, Daniil Kartashov, Paul Corkum, David Villeneuve High-energy Deep-UV Temporal Pulse Shaping by Chirp-assisted Broadband Frequency Conversion Carlo Vicario, Alexandre Trisorio, Christoph P. Hauri, G. Arisholm Long Hollow Fibers for Strong, Spatially Uniform Spectral Broadening of Ultrashort Pulses Tamas Nagy, Peter Simon High Stability 100 khz Mid-IR OPCPA with Passive CEP Stability Alexandre Thai, Olivier Chalus, Philip K. Bates, Jens Biegert Keldysh-scaling in the Waveform Control of the Dissociative Ionization of D Irina 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 Chandroth Pannian Jisha, Alessandro Alberucci, Ray-Kuang Lee, Gaetano Assanto Femtosecond Pulse Written Quasi Phase Matching Element in x-cut Lithium Niobate Jens 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 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 Victor Grigoriev, Fabio Biancalana High Index Glass CMOS Compatible All-optical Chips for Telecom and Optical Interconnects (Invited) David 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) Alexei Sokolov

11 Linear Precompensation of Phase-modulated Nanosecond Pulse Distortions in Second-harmonic Generation Sébastien Vidal, Jacques Luce, Denis Penninckx Four-wave Mixing Based Mid-span Phase Conjugation using slow light engineered Chalcogenide and silicon photonic crystal waveguides 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 Sarah Mauger, Luc Bergé, Stefan Skupin Imaging in Focusing Kerr Media Using Digital Reverse Propagation Alexandre Goy, Demetri Psaltis Nonlinear Propagation Effects on High-Power Optical-Vortex Pulses in Anisotropic Crystals Masato Suzuki, Yasunori Toda, Ryuji Morita Vortex Solitons and Charge Flipping in Nematic Liquid Crystals Yana Izdebskaya, Anton Desyatnikov, Gaetano Assanto, Yuri Kivshar Light Propagation in Nonlinear Photonic Lattices Based on Complex Nondiffracting Beams Patrick Rose, Martin Boguslawski, Falko Diebel, Julian Becker, Cornelia Denz Discrete Solitons in Photonic Lattices with Topological Defects Matthias Heinrich, Robert Keil, Felix Dreisow, Andreas Tünnermann, Stefan Nolte, Alexander Szameit Dynamics of Light Bullets in Two-Dimensional Arrays of Waveguides Stefano 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 Wonkeun Chang, Philippe Grelu, Adrian Ankiewicz, Jose M. Soto-Crespo, Nail Akhmediev Dispersion-Managed Fibers for All-Optical Regeneration at 160 Gbit/s Sy 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 Suddapalli Chaitanya Kumar, Majid Ebrahim-Zadeh Singly Resonant Continuous-Wave Optical Parametric Oscillator with Tunable Output above 4 μm and Low Oscillation Threshold 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 Claire Lefort, Méri Kalashyan, Tigran Mansuryan, Donald Peyrot, Levon Mouradian, Frédéric Louradour, Alain Barthélémy Taper Designs for Semiconductor Filled Fibres Neil Broderick, Anna Peacock High Intensity Pulse Self-compression in Short Hollow Core Capillaries Thomas J Butcher, Patrick N Anderson, Peter Horak, Jeremy G Frey, William S Brocklesby Activated Escape from Polarization Pulling in Fibre Raman Amplifiers Sergey Sergeyev, Sergei Turitsyn Tunable Multiplication of the Repetition Rate of an Optical Pulse Train Using Dynamic Brillouin Gratings in Optical Fibers Sanghoon Chin, Nikolay Primerov, Salvador Sales, Luc Thévenaz PCF Infrared Continuum for Multiwavelength Two Photon Microscopy Claudio 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 Wonkeun 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 Marina 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 Simon Toft Sørensen, Alex Judge, Carsten L. Thomsen, Ole Bang Improved Parametric Generation of Light in Optical Fibers Cesar Jauregui, Dirk Nodop, Jens Limpert, Andreas Tünnermann OPCPA Using Pump Beams Shaped by Diffractive Optical Elements Alexandre Thai, Enrique Tajahuerce, Pedro Andrés, Philip K Bates, Jens Biegert Mid-ir Optical Parametric Oscillator Based on LiGaS Aleksey 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 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 Robin Hegenbarth, Andy Steinmann, János Hebling, Harald Giessen A Frequency-swept Source for Broadband Mid-infrared Spectroscopy Alissa Silva, Ian Lindsay High Energy, Sub-nanosecond, 0.5-kHz, Mid-IR OPO based on PPSLT Pumped at 1064 nm Alexander Gaydardzhiev, Danail Chuchumishev, Ivan Buchvarov, Dimitar Shumov, Stuart Samuelson

12 Mid-Infrared Optical Parametric Generation in CdSiP Olivier 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 Oussama Mhibik, David Paboeuf, Cyril Drag, Fabien Bretenaker Quasi-Continuous-Wave Intracavity KGW Raman Laser Generation at Different Wavelengths Vladimir Dashkevich, Anton Kananovich, Henryk Szymczak, Valentin Orlovich Wavelength Conversion of a Broadband ASE Source Based on Intra-cavity Difference-frequency-mixing in a Cr 3+ LiCAF-PPSLT Laser Adrian J. Torregrosa, Haroldo Maestre, Juan Capmany Narrowband PPKTP Source for Polarization Entangled Photons Siddarth Joshi, Felix Anger, Antia Lamas-Linares, Christian Kurtsiefer Full-scanning Nonlinear Fourier-transform Spectroscopy of D 2 Using High-order Harmonic Radiation Yusuke Furukawa, Yasuo Nabekawa, Eiji J. Takahashi, Tomoya Okino, Kaoru Yamanouchi, Katsumi Midorikawa Plasma Filament Decay in an External Electric Field Sergey Bodrov, Alexey Murzanev, Maxim Tsarev, Andrey Stepanov Universality in Relativistic Aspirations of Helmholtz Soliton Pulses Gemma Lancaster, Mark Lundie, Timothy Hodgkinson, James Christian, Graham McDonald Tunable Self-focusing and Self-steering of Nematicons Alessandro Alberucci, Armando Piccardi, Marco Peccianti, Malgosia Kaczmarek, Gaetano Assanto Tunable Multiple Soliton Generation in Kerr Media Chandroth 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 Silviu T. Popescu, Adrian Petris, Valentin I. Vlad, Eugenio Fazio Group Velocity Control in Reconfigurable Phase-shifted Superstructures Sebastian Kroesen, Wolfgang Horn, Cornelia Denz Second Harmonic Generation from Single Nanoparticles Amos Schtalheim, Alois Renn, Michele Celebrano, Vahid Sandoghdar Achromatic Transient-grating for FROG Characterization Elsa Baynard, Stéphane Faure, Valérie Blanchet Nonlinear Optics of Randomly Structured Strontium Tetraborate Aleksandr Aleksandrovsky, Andrey Vyunishev, Aleksandre Zaitsev, Anton Ikonnikov, Gennadiy Pospelov, Vitaliy Slabko 90 nm Resolution Reconstruction from a Polychromatic Signal Using Monochromatic Phase Retrieval Techniques Aaron 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 Daniel Jedrzejczyk, Sina Riecke, Reiner Güther, Kristian Lauritsen, Katrin Paschke, Götz Erbert Spectral Study of Propagation Losses of GaAs/AlOx Nonlinear Waveguides Marc Savanier, Filippo Ghiglieno, Sara Ducci, Ivan Favero, Giuseppe Leo Acrylonitrile-Containing Methyl Methacrylate Polymers as New Host Materials for second-order NLO polymers Atsushi Sugita, Takahiro Kato, Masashi Morimoto, Yasuaki Tamaki, Yasumasa Kawata, Shigeru Tasaka All - Optical Spatial Light Modulator using CdTe Quantum Dots Ioan 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 Andrea Trita, Cosimo Lacava, Ilaria Cristiani, Jean-Philippe Colonna, Pauline Gautier, Jean-Marc Fedeli Hybrid III-V/Silicon on Insulator Nonlinear Nanophotonics (Invited) Fabrice 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 Harry Figi, Denise H. Bale, Attila Szep, Larry R. Dalton, Antao Chen Spatiotemporal Nonlinear Optics in Arrays of Subwavelength Waveguides Andrey 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 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 Casper 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 Anton Husakou, Yingying Wang, Brian Mangan, Fetah Benabid Supercontinuum pulse-to-pulse fluctuations in a photonic bandgap fiber Olivier Vanvincq, Benoit Barviau, Arnaud Mussot, Géraud Bouwmans, Yves Quiquempois, Alexandre Kudlinski Switching Characteristics of Forward SIPS in Photonic Crystal Fiber Myeong Soo Kang, Anna Butsch, Philip Russell Transition Dynamics in Optical Fiber Amplifiers Operating in the Normal Dispersion Regime Brandon Bale, Kamal Hammani, Christophe Finot, Sonia Boscolo Three-Wave Stimulated Raman Scattering in Hydrogen- Filled Photonic Crystal Fiber Marta Ziemienczuk, Andreas M. Walser, Amir Abdolvand, Alexander Nazarkin, Clemens F. Kaminski, Philip St. J. Russell Solitons Propagating in Liquid-core Photonic Crystal Fibers Claudio Conti, Fabio Biancalana, Markus A. Schmidt, Philip St. J. Russell Linearons

13 Reduced Amplitude Noise in Supercontinuum Generated in Tapered PCFs Uffe Moeller, Simon T. Soerensen, Peter M. Moselund, Jeppe Johansen, Carsten L. Thomsen, Ole Bang Control of Supercontinuum Pulse-to-pulse Fluctuations by Fiber Tapering Benoit Barviau, Alexandre Kudlinski, Arnaud Mussot Gap Solitons in Inhomogeneous High-index Photonic Bandgap Fibers Jesper Laegsgaard Multi-watt Level Output Power from a Dispersion-shifted Fiber Optical Parametric Oscillator Tunable Over 450 nm 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 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 Antoine Godard, Myriam Raybaut, Michel Lefebvre, Anne-Marie Michel, Michel Péalat Picosecond Tunable Mode Locking of a Cr 2+ :ZnSe Laser with a Frequency-doubling Nonlinear Mirror Jean-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 LiTaO Hideki Ishizuki, Takunori Taira All-fiber Rayleigh Ring Mirror with an Optical Control of the Resonance Irina Petukhova, Andrei Fotiadi, Oleg Antipov, Krassimir Panajotov, Hugo Thienpont, Patrice Mégret Simple Method for Measuring the Zero-dispersion Wavelength in Optical Fibers Maxime Droques, Benoit Barviau, Alexandre Kudlinski, Geraud Bouwmans, Arnaud Mussot Bistability and Excitability in 2D Photonic Crystal Nanocavities Alejandro 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 Kevin Lengle, Laurent Bramerie, Mathilde Gay, Jean Claude Simon, Sylvain Combrie, Pierre Colman, Alfredo De Rossi Loss Saturation in Dispersion-Engineered Slow Light Waveguides Thomas White, Andrey Sukhorukov Time-Resolved Ultrafast All-Optical Switching in Directional Couplers with Second-Order Nonlinearity Alexander Solntsev, Dragomir Neshev, Roland Schiek Vectorial Second Harmonic Generation Imaging of Gold Nanocones Godofredo Bautista, Mikko J. Huttunen, Jouni Mäkitalo, Juha M. Kontio, Janne Simonen, Martti Kauranen The Origin of Second Harmonic Generation Hotspots in Chiral Optical Metamaterials Ventsislav 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 Josef 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 Adolfo Esteban-Martin, Venkata Ramaiah-Badarla, Valentin Petrov, Majid Ebrahim-Zadeh Optimum Output Coupling in Optical Oscillators Using Antiresonant Ring Interferometry Adolfo Esteban-Martin, Suddapalli Chaitanya Kumar, Majid Ebrahim-Zadeh Independently Tunable, Dual-Wavelength Source Based on Two-Crystal, Continuous-Wave, Singly Resonant Optical Parametric Oscillator Goutam K. Samanta, Majid Ebrahim-Zadeh Higher-order Cascaded Processes in Continuous-wave Optical Parametric Oscillators Ingo Breunig, Rosita Sowade, Jens Kiessling, Karsten Buse Tunable Parametric Oscillation in Radially Poled Whispering Gallery Resonators Tobias 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 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 thindisk lasers Farina Schättiger, Dominik Bauer, Dirk Sutter, Janne Puustinen, Mircea Guina, Thomas Dekorsy Temperature Dependence of Laser-Induced Damage Thresholds for Dielectric and Metal Coatings Katsuhiro Mikami, Shinji Motokoshi, Masayuki Fujita, Takahisa Jitsuno, Kazuo A Tanaka, Hiroshi Azechi Nano-engineered Bismuth-doped Silica Glasses and Origin of Near Infrared Photoluminescence Igor Razdobreev, Hicham El Hamzaoui, Mohamed Bouazaoui, Vladimir Arion Photo-induced Nonlinear Optical Properties of BiB 3 O 6 Glasses and Composites Containing BiB 3 O 6 Glass Nanoparticles Embedded in Polymers Andrzej Majchrowski, Zygmunt Mierczyk, Ivan V. Kityk

14 Cz-Growth of Ferroelectric LaBGeO 5 Single Crystals Shintaro Miyazawa, Toshiki Kanamori, Satoshi Ichikawa, Hideo Nakae Self-assembling Active Soft NanoPhotonics on the Kilometre Scale (Invited) Jeremy Baumberg, Chris Finlayson, David Snoswell, Andreas Kontogeorgos, Andrew Haines, Qibin Zhao, Peter Spahn, Goetz Hellmann Extruding Opals Size-dependent Recombination Dynamics in ZnO Nanowires Juan Sebastian Reparaz, Frank Güell, Markus R. Wagner, Axel Hoffmann, Albert Cornet, Joan Ramon Morante ZnO-based Nanowires for Hybrid Low-voltage LED Oleg Lupan, Thierry Pauporté, Bruno Viana Second Harmonic Generation in GaP Nanopillars Reza Sanatinia, Marcin Swillo, Srinivasan Anand Observation of Higher-Order Optical Nonlinearities in Photopolymerizable Semiconductor CdSe Quantum Dot- Polymer Nanocomposites Yasuo Tomita, Xiangming Liu, Yusuke Adachi, Juro Oshima Rare-earth Doped Double Tungstate Crystals for Solid-state Bulk, Thin-disk and Waveguide Lasers (invited) Valentin Petrov Growth and Characterization of Highly Yb 3+ doped KY(WO 4 ) 2 Thin Layers Shanmugam Aravazhi, Dimitri Geskus, Koop Van Dalfsen, Detlef Gunther, Markus Pollnau Optical and Magneto-optical Properties of Neodymium and Erbium doped Gallium Nitride Epilayers Nathaniel Woodward, H. X. Jiang, J. Y. Lin, J. M. Zavada, E. Readinger, V. Dierolf Excitation Quenching in Er 3+ -doped Al 2 O 3 Amplifiers Laura Agazzi, Kerstin Wörhoff, Markus Pollnau Red, Green and Violet Up-conversion in Erbium Doped Telluride Glasses Krzysztof 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 Valerii Voronov, Alexander Veber, Lyudmila Iskhakova, Vitalii Kashin, Sergey Rusanov, Vladimir Tsvetkov Structure and Spectral-luminescent Properties of Nanostructured CaF 2 -TmF 3 Ceramics a Potential Active Medium for 2 µm Lasers 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 KPb 2 Cl 5 and KPb 2 Br 5 for applications as mid-ir gain media 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 Alexey Romanov, Zukhra Fattakhova, Denis Zhigunov, Leonid Buchnev, Vladimir Korchak, Vladimir Sulimov Investigation of Thermal Effects in Nd YAG Ceramics Under High Heat Load Mateusz Kaskow, Lukasz Gorajek, Jan K. Jabczynski, Jacek Kwiatkowski, Waldemar Zendzian Ho-doped Tellurite Glasses for Emission in the Mid Infrared Wavelength Region Daniel Milanese, Joris Luosteau, Laercio Gomes, Nadia Boetti, Silvio Abrate, Stuart Jackson Superfluorescence and Random Quasi-phase-matching in Pulsed Laser Deposited Nd YAG Mathias Hoffmann, Mark Gyamfi, Stefan Schrameyer, Holger Blaschke, Detlev Ristau, Uwe Morgner Optical Properties of GGG Thin Films Doped with Ni 2+ and Co 2+ ions Krzysztof Kopczynski, Jerzy Sarnecki, Jaroslaw Mlynczak, Michal Malinowski, Ryszard Piramidowicz, Zygmunt Mierczyk, Maria Maciejewska, Magdalena Nakielska Fluorescence Properties of Pr YSZ Doped Polymer Nanocomposites Ryszard Piramidowicz, Anna Jusza, Krzysztof Anders, Janusz D. Fidelus, Marek Godlewski, Sergey Yatsunenko Photoluminescence Centers in Gamma-irradiated Bismuth-doped Glasses Boris Denker, Boris Galagan, Sergei Sverchkov, Ilya Shulman, Evgeniy Dianov Thermal Expansion Coefficients Anisotropy of Monoclinic Potassium (Rare-earth) Double Tungstates KRe(WO 4 ) 2{Re=Gd,Y,Lu,Yb) Pavel Loiko, Konstantin Yumashev, Nikolai Kuleshov, Galina Rachkovskaya, Anatoly Pavlyuk Transient Saturation Spectroscopy for Measuring the Lifetime of Hyperfine Sublevels in 167 Er 3+ Ions Doped in a Silicate Glass Fiber Daisuke Hashimoto, Kaoru Shimizu Optical Properties and Faraday Effects on Terbium Gallium Garnet Ceramics for Faraday Rotator Hidetsugu 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 Elisa 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 SiO 2 and ZrO 2 Single Layer Films Yuanjun Guo, Shaobo He, Xiaotao Zu, Xiaodong Yuan, Haibin Lv, Xiaodong Jiang Intrinsic Spectral Selectivity in Ultra-High Temperature Ceramics for Solar Applications Luca Mercatelli, Elisa Sani, Paola Sansoni, Annalisa Giannini, Franco Francini, Diletta Sciti Study on UV absorption edge of MgO doped LiNbO 3 and CTVE excitons Feifei Xin, Guoquan Zhang, Yongzhe Zhang, Yongfa Kong, Jingjun Xu Accurate Measurements of Refractive Indices of Undoped and Mg-doped Stoichiometric LiNbO 3 and Litao Ichiro Shoji, Daisuke Gunji, Masashi Hakamata, Tatsuo Fukui, Yasunori Furukawa Variable Stripe Length Method for Optical Gain Measurements Characteristic Lengths Luis Cerdán, Angel Costela, Inmaculada García-Moreno

15 Intrinsic Defects Pinned at the Domain Wall in Lithium Niobate Greg Stone, Hendrik Steigerwald, Karsten Buse, Wolfgang Sohler, Venkatraman Gopalan, Simon Phillpot, Volkmar Dierolf SHG Capabilities of RECOB (RE = Y, Gd) Oxyborate Crystals Pascal Loiseau, Takunori Taira, Gerard Aka Photoacoustic Detection of Weak Absorption in Lithium Niobate Niklas Waasem, Stephan Fieberg, Daniel Haertle, Frank Kühnemann, Karsten Buse Temperature Effect on the Brillouin Gain Spectra of Highly Doped Aluminosilicate Fibers Francesca H. Mountfort, Seongwoo Yoo, Alexander J. Boyland, Andrew S. Webb, Johan Nilsson, Jayanta K. Sahu Optical Bistability in Colloidal Solution of Er-Yb Doped LaF 3 Nanocrystals Egor Pobegalov, Peter Agruzov, Igor Ilichev, Alexander Shamray A Novel Evaporation Method of Porphyrin/Alq3 Mixture for OLED Fabrication Seyed 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) Tristan Crasto, Vijay Sivan, Thach Nguyen, Arnan Mitchell Er 3+ -doped Glass-polymer Composite Thin Films Fabricated Using Combinatorial Pulsed Laser Deposition Zhanxiang Zhao, Gin Jose, Mehrdad Irannejad, Paul Steenson, Nikos Bamiedakis, Richard Penty, Ian White Direct Opal Fabrication From Silver-coated Silica Microspheres Michaela K. Micko, Matthias Brendle, Judith M. Dawes Characterisation of Optical Waveguides in BGO Crystals Fabricated by N + Ion Implantation Stefano 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 Tomas 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 Xin Yan, Meisong Liao, Tong Huang Tuan, Takenobu Suzuki, Yasutake Ohishi Highly Birefringent Microstructured Fibers with Low Mode Field Asymmetry Alexander Denisov, Andrei Levchenko, Sergei Semjonov, Evgueni Dianov Partial Power Recovery of Bend-induced Loss Using a Hybrid Index-guiding Photonic Crystal Fiber Christos Markos, Kyriakos Vlachos, George Kakarantzas Gratings in Liquid Crystal Golden Nanosuspensions due to Thermal Nonlinearity Elena Ouskova, Dariya Lysenko, Yuriy Reznikov, Stanislav Ksiondzyk, Liliana Cseh, Georg Mehl, Victor Reshentnyak Autostereoscopic Display Using a Holographic Splitter in Polymer Dispersed Liquid Crystals Wei Chia Su, Chien Yue Chen, Hsin Wei Ho Light Interaction with Nematic Liquid Crystals Doped with Azocompounds of Different Molecular Weight Ivan 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 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 Mike 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 Zhihui Chen, Ying Fu, Zhongyuan Yu ARROW Guiding Silicon Photonic Crystal Fibres (invited) Noel Healy, Justin Sparks, Ronrui He, Pier Sazio, John Badding, Anna Peacock SF6 Glass Hollow-core Photonic Crystal Fibre Xin Jiang, Tijmen Euser, Amir Abdolvand, Fehim Babic, Nicolas Joly, Philip Russell Polarization Noise Induced by Photon-Phonon Interaction in Hollow-Core Photonic Crystal Fibres Wenjia Zhong, Bettina Heim, Dominique Elser, Christoph Marquardt, Gerd Leuchs Nonlinear Absorption and Self-Phase Modulation in Silicon Optical Fibres Priyanth Mehta, Noel Healy, Justin Sparks, Todd Day, Pier Sazio, John Badding, Anna Peacock Novel Bend-Resistant Design of Single-Mode Microstructured Fibers Victor Shevandin, Vladimir Demidov, Konstantin Dukelskii Electromechano-optically Tuned Ring Resonator in Silicon on Insulator, Monolithically Integrated with a Microcantilever 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 Al 2 O 3 on Silicon Edward Bernhardi, Henk Van Wolferen, Kerstin Wörhoff, René De Ridder, Markus Pollnau Experimental Observation of Whispering Gallery Modes in Novel Silicon Microcylindrical Resonators Natasha Vukovic, Noel Healy, Peter Horak, Ganapathy Murugan, Justin Sparks, Pier Sazio, John Badding, Anna Peacock Optical Characterization of LiNbO 3 Whispering Gallery Mode Micro-Resonators Fabricated by Surface Tension Reshaping 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 As 2 S 3 Chalcogenide Glass Technology Antonio 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

16 Real-space Distribution of Cavity Modes in Single ZnO Nanowires Frank 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) Venkatraman Gopalan, Volkmar Dierolf, Long-Qing Chen, Simon Phillpot Domain Patterning by Strongly Absorbed UV-light in LiNbO 3 Crystals Hendrik Steigerwald, Yong Jun Ying, Robert W. Eason, Boris Sturman, Sakelaris Mailis, Elisabeth Soergel, Karsten Buse Electro-Optic Coefficient Enhancement in Poled LiNbO 3 Waveguides Charlie 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 LiNbO 3 Crystals Giovanni 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 Bastian Knabe, Manuel Peter, Daniel Schütze, Matthias Ackermann, Karsten Buse Degradation Recoverable DFB Lasers Based on P597 PDMS/PTFEMA Hiroaki Yoshioka, Ryo Goto, Soichiro Omi, Yu Yang, Yuji Oki Highly Photostable Lasing in an Organic Crystal of Thiophene/Phenylene Co-Oligomer Koji Watanabe, Takeshi Yamao, Kenichi Yamashita, Shu Hotta, Kunishige Oe Low Threshold All-organic Composite Laser Benoit 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 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 Mulda Muldarisnur, Frank Marlow Quasi-Epitaxial Single-Crystalline Organic OH1 Films with High Electro-Optic Activity on Inorganic Structures for Large-Scale Photonic Integration Mojca Jazbinsek, Seong-Ji Kwon, Peter Günter Titanium Dioxide Coated Photoinduced Surface Relief Grating As a Resonant Waveguide Grating Tapani 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 Fehmi Civitci, Alfred Driessen, Hugo J. W. M. Hoekstra Direct Laser Writing of Microoptical Structures Using a Germanium-containing Hybrid Photopolymer Mangirdas 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 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 Lisa Miccio, Melania Paturzo, Andrea Finizio, Pietro Ferraro Physically Micromachined Silica-on-silicon Integrated Corner Mirrors Lewis 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 Laurent Bigot, Hicham El Hamzaoui, Antoine Le Rouge, Fernand Chassagneux, Géraud Géraud Bouwmans, Bruno Capoen, Mohamed Bouazaoui Polarizing Very-Large-Mode-Area Bragg fiber Svetlana 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 George Kakarantzas, Antonio Diez, Jose L. Cruz, Christos Markos, Miguel V. Andres, Kyriakos Vlachos Engineering Mode-gaps in Photonic Crystal Waveguides for Filtering Applications Naeem Shahid, Mingyu Li, Shagufta Naureen, Marcin Swillo, Srinivasan Anand Heterogeneous Hybrid Plasmonic-Photonic Crystals for Enhanced Light- Matter Interaction Sergei 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 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 Xiaowei 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 CaF 2 MOPA Daniil Kartashov, Giedrius Andriukaitis, Dušan Lorenc, Audrius Pugžlys, Andrius Baltuška, Linas Giniunas, Romualdas Danielius, Jens Limpert

17 Carrier-envelope Phase Stabilization of a Grating Based Chirped Pulse Amplified Laser at 17 mj, 1 KHz Using Regenerative and Cryo-cooled Amplifiers 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 Vincent Crozatier, Nicolas Forget, Thomas Oksenhendler Few-cycle Pulse Generation in a Dispersion-shifted Silica Fiber with Erbium-doped Laser System Elena Anashkina, Alexei Andrianov, Sergei Muravyev, Arkady Kim Sub-20 Fs Energetic Near-IR Pulses Generated with Cascaded Soliton Compression in Short Lithium Niobate Crystals Binbin Zhou, Andy Chong, Frank W. Wise, Morten Bache Multi-threaded Parallel Numerical Modellung of Femtosecond Pulse propagation in Laser Machining Mandana Baregheh, Vladimir Mezentsev, Holger Schmitz Spatio-temporal Rogue Events in Femtosecond Filamentation Donatas 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 Kazuhiro Tada, Naoki Karasawa Transporting Shaped Pulses Through an Optical Fiber in the Nonlinear Regime for Selective Excitation of Twophoton Transitions 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 Ayhan Tajalli, David McCabe, Dane Austin, Béatrice Chatel Design of Time-preserving Grating Monochromators for Ultrashort Extreme-ultraviolet Pulses Luca Poletto, Fabio Frassetto Failure of the Linear Raman Gain Approximation in Supercontinuum Generation Miro Erkintalo, Goëry Genty, Benjamin Wetzel, John Dudley Efficient Spectral Conversion and Temporal Compression of Femtosecond Pulses in SF Zhavoronkov Nickolai Sub-femtosecond K-Shell Excitation Through Laser-Induced Electron Re-collision Gilad 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 Jinghua Sun, Derryck Reid, Lukasz Kornaszewski, William Miller, Graeme Malcolm Carrier-envelope Phase Control by Linear Electro-optic Effect in LiNbO Olivier Gobert, Pierre-Mary Paul, Jean-François Hergott, Olivier Tcherbakoff, Fabien Lepetit, François Viala, Michel Comte Asynchronous Modelocked Yb KYW Lasers for Dual-comb Spectroscopy Zhaowei Zhang, Tom Gardiner, Derryck Reid Adaptive Wavefront Diagnostics of Ultrashort Pulses with Programmable Microaxicons Martin 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 Jens Brunne, Martin Bock, Alexander Treffer, Ulrike Wallrabe, Ruediger Grunwald Modification of Coherent Acoustic Phonon Lifetimes in Thin Gold Films by Self-assembled Molecular Monolayers Mike 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 Igor Shavrin, Peter Tvarožek, Martin Koyš, Kay Schuster, Steffen Novotny, Hanne Ludvigsen Complete Measurement of 8 fs Pulses with Wideband SPIRIT Lluís 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 Enikoe Seres, Christian Spielmann Direct Spatial-temporal Discrimination of Modes in a Photonic Lightwave Circuit Using Photon Scanning Tunnelling Microscopy Sam A. Berry, James C. Gates, William S. Brocklesby Sub-12fs Pulses Characterization by Self-referenced Spectral Interferometry Stéphanie Grabielle, Antoine Moulet, Nicolas Forget, Vincent Crozatier, Sébastien Coudreau, Olivier Gobert, Christian Cornaggia, Thomas Oksenhendler Transmission Bragg-grating Grisms for Pulse Compression Nicolas Forget, Vincent Crozatier, Pierre Tournois Self-referenced Spectral Interferometry in the UV Domain Stéphanie 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 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 Andreas Jechow, Matthew Petrasiunas, Mick Pullen, John Canning, Michael Stevenson, Paul Westbrook, Kenneth Feder, David Kielpinski

18 Dissipative Dispersion-Managed Soliton 2 μm Tm-Ho Fiber Laser Regina Gumenyuk, Ismo Vartiainen, Hemmo Tuovinen, Oleg Okhotnikov Direct Space-to-Time Femtosecond Pulse Shaping based on 2D Phase-Only Spatial Light Modulator Tigran Mansuryan, Meri Kalashyan, Jérome Lhermite, Alain Barthélémy, Vincent Kermene, Frédéric Louradour Picosecond Pulses from an FDML Laser Christoph Eigenwillig, Wolfgang Wieser, Benjamin Biedermann, Thomas Klein, Robert Huber Studies and Realization of an Experimental Set-up for Micro Airy Beams Generation Amaury 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 Christian Voigtländer, Ria Becker, Jens Thomas, Daniel Richter, Andreas Tünnermann, Stefan Nolte Superfluorescence Dynamics of OPCPAs in the Saturation Regime Jeffrey Moses, Cristian Manzoni, Giulio Cerullo, Franz X. Kärtner Development and Characterization of Stable Fiber-Based Mid-Infrared Sources (Invited) Randy A. Bartels All Passively Phase-Locked Er Fiber Laser System David 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 Ingmar Hartl, Albert Romann, Thomas R. Schibli, Martin E. Fermann Coherent Tm-Fiber Raman-Soliton Amplifier Jie Jiang, Axel Ruehl, Ingmar Hartl, Martin Fermann Properties of a microjoule-class fiber oscillator mode-locked with a SESAM Caroline 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 Victor Torres-Company, Daniel Leaird, Andrew Weiner Supercontinuum Generation in Laser Host Materials with Pulse Durations Over the Entire Femtosecond Regime Maximilian Bradler, Eberhard Riedle Laser-driven Parametric Amplification of Soft X-rays (invited) Jozsef 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 Bernd Metzger, Andy Steinmann, Gelon Albrecht, Harald Giessen Sub-two Cycle Pulse Generation with All Normal Dispersion Photonic Crystal Fiber and Linear Chirp Compensation Jan Rothhardt, Alexander Heidt, Alexander Hartung, Hartmut Bartelt, Erich Rohwer, Jens Limpert, Andreas Tünnermann All-Optical Transistor Using an Optical Event Horizon Jens Bethge, Carsten Bree, Shalva Amiranashvili, Frank Noack, Günter Steinmeyer, Ayhan Demircan Tailored Accelerating Beam Profiles Through a Caustic-based Approach to Wavefront Design Luc 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 Ihar Babushkin, Stefan Skupin, Christian Koehler, Luc Berge, Joachim Herrmann Direction of THz Emission by Ionizing Two-Color Pulses Christian Köhler, Eduardo Cabrera-Granado, Ihar Babushkin, Joachim Herrmann, Stefan Skupin, Luc Bergé Carrier-envelope Phase in Pulse Compression Mediated by Filamentation Luc Bergé, Charles-Louis Soulez, Christian Köhler, Stefan Skupin Towards High Energy 10 fs Laser Pulse Via Regenerative Pulse Shaping Pierre-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 Arthur 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 Alexandra Agra Amorim, Luís M. Bernardo, Franz X. Kärtner, Helder M. Crespo Characterization of Ultrashort Laser Pulses with a Terahertz Streak Camera Olaf Schubert, Claudius Riek, Friederike Junginger, Alexander Sell, Alfred Leitenstorfer, Rupert Huber Precise Phase Shaping and Characterization of the Mid-infrared Femtosecond Pulses Satoshi Ashihara, Yuta Hirasawa, Kaori Enomoto Theoretical and Experimental Analysis of Spatiotemporal Field Coupling of Ultrashort Pulses Diffracted by Circular Amplitude Apertures 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 Nils Krebs, Christian Homann, Peter Lang, Alexandra Waritschlager, Eberhard Riedle High-Power Mid-Infrared Optical Parametric Chirped-Pulse Amplifier Based on Aperiodically Poled Mg LiNbO Clemens 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 Marcel Schultze, Thomas Binhammer, Moritz Emons, Tino Lang, Uwe Morgner Demonstration of Phase Matching Bandwidth Extension in Cavity-Enhanced Optical Parametric Chirped Pulse Amplification Aleem Siddiqui, Kyung-Han Hong, Jeffrey Moses, Jonathan Cox, Franz X. Kärtner

19 Self Frequency Shift Near 2 μm in Periodically Poled Lithium Niobate Waveguides Christopher R. Phillips, Jie Jiang, Carsten Langrock, Ingmar Hartl, Martin M. Fejer, Martin Fermann Tuneable Broadband Optical Parametric Oscillator Pumped by an Yb KLu(WO 4 ) 2 $ Thin-Disk Laser Oscillator Tino 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 Tobias P. Lamour, Derryck T. Reid Generation of High Energy, Sub-20-fs Vacuum UV Pulses by Noncollinear Four-wave-mixing in Argon Marcus Beutler, Masood Ghotbi, Frank Noack High Energy, Sub-20 Fs Pulses in the Deep Ultraviolet by Using Filamentation in Argon Masood Ghotbi, Peter Trabs, Marcus Beutler Filamentation-based Polarization Pulse Shaping for High Order Harmonic Generation Matteo Negro, Caterina Vozzi, Francesca Calegari, Sandro De Silvestri, Salvatore Stagira Chirp Controlled Pulse Self-compression in Filaments and Its Spatio-temporal Characterization Oscar Varela, Benjamín Alonso, Julio San Román, Íñigo J. Sola, Luis Roso Filamentation of Beam Shaped Femtosecond Laser Pulses in Gases and Liquids (Invited) Pavel Polynkin Dispersive Optics Paving the Way to Sub-cycle Optical Pulses (invited) Vladimir Pervak, Alexander Apolonskiy, Ivan Angelov, Olga Razskazovskaya, Eleftherios Goulielmakis, Ferenc Krausz High Average Power Ultrashort Pulses with >5 GW Peak Power Steffen Hädrich, Henning Carstens, Jan Rothhardt, Jens Limpert, Andreas Tünnermann High Efficient XPW Generation for High Contrast High Energy Ultrashort Laser Pulses Lourdes 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 Yves Bellouard, Max-Olivier Hongler Sub-cycle Double Ionization Dynamics of Argon and Neon Boris 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 Stefan 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) Artem Rudenko Sub-cycle Time-resolved Single Photon Ionization Aart Verhoef, Alexander Mitrofanov, Maria Krikunova, Nikolay Kabachnik, Armin Scrinzi, Markus Drescher, Andrius Baltuska Breakdown of the Independent Electron Approximation in Sequential Double Ionization Claudio 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 Antonin 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 Péter 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 Robert 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 Emilia Schulz, Daniel S. Steingrube, Tobias Vockerodt, Thomas Binhammer, Uwe Morgner, Milutin Kovacev Laser-induced Water Condensation in Air (invited) Jérôme 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) Misha Ivanov Controlling and Reading Interference Structures Created by Strong Field Ionizing Attosecond Electron Wave Packets 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 Shuji Sakabe, Shigeki Tokita, Masaki Hashida, Kazuto Otani, Shunsuke Inoue, Toshihiko Nishoji Quantum-path Interferometry for High-harmonic Generation Dane R. Austin, Ian A. Walmsley Single Attosecond Pulse from Terahertz Assisted High-order Harmonic Generation Emeric 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 Patrick Anderson, Thomas Butcher, Peter Horak, Jeremy Frey, William Brocklesby

20 Yield Enhancement in Multicolour High-Order Harmonic Generation Superposition of Multiple Un-Related Frequencies 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 Carles Serrat, Jens Biegert Angle-Dependent High-Order Harmonic Generation from a Single N 2 and O 2 Molecule Kazumichi Yoshii, Godai Miyaji, Kenzo Miyazaki Stable Relativistic UV Self-Channeling in Multi-Layer Gel Targets Alex B. Borisov, Charles K. Rhodes High Power Enhancement Cavities for Generation of XUV and X-Ray Radiation of High Brilliance Jan 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 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 Yasuo Nabekawa, Yusuke Furukawa, Abdolreza Amani Eilanlou, Kenichi L. Ishikawa, Hiroyuki Takahashi, Eiji J. Takahashi, Katsumi Midorikawa Incommensurate Frequency Waveform Synthesis by Optical Parametric Amplification Tadas 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 Francois 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 Christopher 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 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 Lukas Gallmann, Mirko Holler, Florian Schapper, Ursula Keller From OPA To OPCPA Boosting Laser Pulses To Extreme Intensities (Keynote) Algis Piskarskas, Rytis Butkus Sub-Optical-Cycle Waveform Synthesis of Light Eleftherios 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 Eiji 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 Peter 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 Bruno 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 Francesca 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 Amélie Cabasse, Guillaume Machinet, Antoine Dubrouil, Eric Cormier, Eric Constant Phase-matched Harmonic Generation Beyond the Water Window with a Mid-IR Parametric Amplifier Giedrius 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 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 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) Marlan Scully