Nonlinear Optics in Guided Geometries - Program

Monday, May 18, 08:00 - 18:00, Erhard Schmidt lecture room (WIAS)
Please note: Duration of talks includes 5 minutes for discussion.
08:00 - 09:00Registration (First Floor Foyer)
08:00 - 09:00
08:00 - 09:00Registration (First Floor Foyer)
09:00 - 09:15Opening
09:15 - 10:15Session M1: Rogue Waves and Turbulence in Fibers  —  Chair: Dmitry Skryabin
09:15 - 09:45Majid Taki (Lille)Optical rogue wave formation (abstract)
09:45 - 10:15Sergei K. Turitsyn (Birmingham)Optical turbulence in ultra-long fibre lasers (abstract)
09:15 - 10:15Session M1 -- Rogue Waves and Turbulence in Fibers
10:15 - 10:45Coffee Break
10:45 - 11:45Session M2: Rogue Waves II  —  Chair: Carsten Fallnich
10:45 - 11:15John Dudley (Pierre-Ambroise Lacourt) (Besançon)Optical rogue wave instabilities: Dynamics and experiments (abstract)
11:15 - 11:45Goëry Genty (Tampere)Optical rogue wave instabilities: Further insight and route to control (abstract)
11:45 - 13:15Lunch Break
13:15 - 14:40Session M3: Novel Hollow Fiber Geometries  —  Chair: Michael H. Frosz
13:15 - 13:45Joachim Herrmann (Berlin)High-power soliton-induced supercontinuum generation in metal-dielectric hollow waveguides (abstract)
13:45 - 14:15Anton Husakou (Berlin)High-coherence supercontinuum and single-cycle soliton compression in metal-dielectric hollow waveguides (abstract)
14:15 - 14:40Jens Bethge (Berlin)A chirped photonic crystal fiber for high-fidelity guiding of sub-100 fs pulses (abstract)
13:15 - 14:40Session M3 -- Novel Hollow Fiber Geometries
14:40 - 15:10Coffee Break
15:10 - 16:35Session M4: Advances in Modeling  —  Chair: Luc Bergé
15:10 - 15:40Paul Kinsler (London)Towards the far end of that fibre: Pulse propagation models with minimal assumptions (abstract)
15:40 - 16:10Kurt Oughstun (Burlington (Vermont))Dispersive pulse dynamics in the few-cycle pulse limit (abstract)
16:10 - 16:35Shalva Amiranashvili (Berlin)Modeling of medium dispersion for ultrashort optical pulses (abstract)
16:35 - 17:05Coffee Break
17:05 - 18:00Session M5: Few-Cycle Pulses  —  Chair: Goëry Genty
17:05 - 17:35Eleftherios Goulielmakis (Garching)Supercontinuum generation at the single optical cycle limit: New routes to lightwave electronics (abstract)
17:35 - 18:00Larisa Tatarinova (Kassel)Analytical study of intense light propagation in highly nonlinear media (abstract)
 
Tuesday, May 19, 09:00 - 18:10, Erhard Schmidt lecture room (WIAS)
Please note: Duration of talks includes 5 minutes for discussion.
09:00 - 10:25Session T1: Feedback Systems  —  Chair: Sergei K. Turitsyn
09:00 - 09:30Fedor Mitschke (Rostock)Supercontinuum from a feedback configuration (abstract)
09:30 - 10:00Carsten Fallnich (Münster)Nonlinear dynamics of femtosecond supercontinuum generation with feedback (abstract)
10:00 - 10:25Uwe Bandelow (Berlin)Solitary wave solutions for few-cycle optical pulses (abstract)
10:25 - 10:55Coffee Break
10:55 - 11:55Session T2: Bloch Waves  —  Chair: Kestutis Staliunas
10:55 - 11:25Vladimir Konotop (Lisbon)Dissipative Bloch waves (abstract)
11:25 - 11:55Oleg Egorov (Jena)Bloch cavity solitons (abstract)
11:55 - 13:25Lunch Break
13:25 - 14:55Session T3: Localized Structures and Pattern Formation  —  Chair: Majid Taki
13:25 - 13:55Kamil Stelmaszczyk (Berlin)New aspects of multiple filamentation and supercontinuum generation in experiments on many fold supercritical beams (P>10 000 Pcr) (abstract)
13:55 - 14:25Mustapha Tlidi (Brussels)Localized structures in photonic crystal fiber resonators (abstract)
14:25 - 14:55Stephane Barland (Valbonne)Stability properties of bidimensional localized states in a cavity soliton laser (abstract)
14:55 - 15:25Coffee Break
15:25 - 16:55Session T4: Solitons  —  Chair: Vladimir Konotop
15:25 - 15:55Dmitry Skryabin (Bath)Polariton solitons in semiconductor microcavities (abstract)
15:55 - 16:25Kestutis Staliunas (Barcelona)Bandgap solitons and subdiffractive solitons (abstract)
16:25 - 16:55Andrey A. Sukhorukov (Canberra)Polychromatic light control in nonlinear photonic lattices (abstract)
16:55 - 17:25Coffee Break
17:25 - 18:10Session T5: Semiconductor Devices  —  Chair: Andrei G. Vladimirov
17:25 - 17:55Patrick Runge (Berlin)Supercontinuum generation in ultralong semiconductor optical amplifiers (abstract)
17:55 - 18:20Julien Javaloyes (Glasgow)Wide range 40-GHz passive mode-locking operation of an AlGaInAs 1.55-μm strained quantum well laser (abstract)
 
Tuesday, May 19, 19:00 - 23:00, Restaurant "Brauhaus Georgbraeu"
 
Wednesday, May 20, 09:00 - 11:00, Erhard Schmidt lecture room (WIAS)
Please note: Duration of talks includes 5 minutes for discussion.
09:00 - 10:25Session W1: Self-Compression in Filaments - Theory  —  Chair: Fedor Mitschke
09:00 - 09:30Luc Bergé (Arpajon)Pulse self-compression mediated by filamentation: From UV to IR (abstract)
09:30 - 10:00Stefan Skupin (Dresden)Self-healing mechanism of compressed femtosecond filaments (abstract)
10:00 - 10:25Carsten Brée (Berlin)Quasi-hydrodynamic spatio-temporal shaping in filamentary propagation of femtosecond pulses (abstract)
10:25 - 10:55Coffee Break
10:55 - 11:00Session W2: Novel Nonlinear Optical Effects  —  Chair: Stefan Skupin
10:55 - 11:25Michael H. Frosz (Kongens Lyngby)Nonlinear microstructured polymer optical fibres (abstract)
11:25 - 11:55Luis Roso (Julio San Roman) (Salamanca)Different schemes to generate high energy filaments in the near infrared (abstract)
11:55 - 12:20Ihar Babushkin (Berlin)Optical amplification by four-wave mixing in gases using quasi-phase-matching with ultrasound waves (abstract)