Extreme Nonlinear Optics & Solitons - Program

Monday, October 28, 09:00 - 17:10, Erhard-Schmidt lecture room
09:00 - 09:30Registration
09:30 - 09:45Opening
09:45 - 10:45Rogue Waves I  —  Chair: Uwe Bandelow
09:45 - 10:15Günter Steinmeyer (Berlin)Spatiotemporal rogue events in multiple filamentation
10:15 - 10:45Jerome Kasparian (Geneva)Filamentation, non-Gaussian distributions and rogue waves
10:45 - 11:15Coffee break
11:15 - 12:55Fiber Solitons I  —  Chair: Andrei G. Vladimirov
11:15 - 11:45Sergei Turitsyn (Birmingham)Optical wave turbulence in fibre lasers: Science and applications
11:45 - 12:15Carsten Fallnich (Münster)Transverse mode conversion in optical fibers using transient long-period gratings induced by ultrashort pulses
12:15 - 12:35Tatiana Habruseva (Birmingham)Dynamics of passively mode locked Er-doped fiber laser with carbon nanotubes based absorber
12:35 - 12:55Shalva Amiranashvili (Berlin)Solitons that are too short in duration
12:55 - 14:00Lunch break 12:55 - 14:00
14:00 - 15:30Filaments And Higher Harmonics I  —  Chair: Carsten Brée
14:00 - 14:30Luc Bergé (Arpajon)Quantum tests of nonlinear polarizations and self-compression of mid-infrared filaments
14:30 - 15:00Mikhail Ivanov (Berlin)'Lasing without inversion' during laser filamentation
15:00 - 15:30Alejandro Saenz (Berlin)Strong-field response of atoms and molecules in the non-perturbative regime
15:30 - 15:50Coffee break
15:50 - 17:10  —  Chair: Guillaume  Huyet
15:50 - 16:20Thorsten Ackemann (Glasgow)Vortex solitons and mode-locked solitons in vertical-cavity semiconductor lasers with frequency-selective feedback
16:20 - 16:50Svetlana Gurevich (Münster)Dynamics of localized structures in dissipative systems with delayed feedback
16:50 - 17:10Pedro Parra-Rivas (Brussels)Dissipative soliton exitability induced by spatial defects and advection
 
Monday, October 28, 18:00 - 20:10, Poster Session, Room 405-406, 4th floor
18:00 - 20:10 Arkhipov, R.

Gustave, F.
Hofmann, M.
Kretschmar, M.
Pimenov, A.
Rodriguez-Garcia, P.
Zajnulina, M.
Transient Cherenkov radiation from an inhomogeneous resonant string excited at superluminal velocity
Mode locking and solitons in semiconductors
Probing the transient optical response in femtosecond filaments
Direct observation of pulse dynamics and self-compression along a femtosecond filament
Theoretical analysis of delayed feedback control of solitons in semiconductor cavity
Modelling pulse propagation equations in optical fibers using wavelet filters and graphics processing units
Noise characteristics of optical frequency combs in fibres
 
Tuesday, October 29, 09:00 - 21:00, Erhard-Schmidt lecture room
09:00 - 10:30Filaments And Higher Harmonics II  —  Chair: Luc Bergé
09:00 - 09:30Pavel Polynkin (Tucson)Control of femtosecond laser filamentation by laser beam shaping
09:30 - 10:00Stefan Skupin (Jena)Simultaneous spatial and temporal focusing: A route towards conned optical breakdown formation
10:00 - 10:30Milutin Kovacev (Hannover)Filamentation dynamics probed by strong field processes
10:30 - 11:00Coffee break
11:00 - 12:30Fiber Solitons II  —  Chair: Sergei Turitsyn
11:00 - 11:30Fedor Mitschke (Rostock)Soliton molecules in dispersion-managed fibers: Experiments and simulations
11:30 - 12:00David Bermudez (Rechovot)Optical analogue of the event horizon
12:00 - 12:30Anton Husakou (Berlin)Pulse delivery and solitonic compression in hollow kagome waveguides in regime of photoionization
12:30 - 13:30Lunch break + PHOTO !!!
13:30 - 15:00Localized Structures II  —  Chair: Thorsten Ackemann
13:30 - 14:00Kurt Busch (Berlin)Quantum photonics: Nonlinearities on the few-photon level
14:00 - 14:30Mustapha Tlidi (Brussels)Delayed feedback control of self-mobile localized structures
14:30 - 15:00Stephane Barland (Valbonne)Buffering optical data with topological localized structures
15:00 - 15:30Coffee break
15:30 - 16:50Mode Locked Lasers I  —  Chair: Carsten Fallnich
15:30 - 16:00Guillaume Huyet (Cork)Coherence of Fourier domain mode locked lasers
16:00 - 16:30J. Nathan Kutz (Seattle)Adaptive control: Self-tuning mode-locked fiber lasers for optimizing power and energy
16:30 - 16:50Michael Kues (Münster)Phase-dependent evolution of second-order modulation instability
18:30 - 21:00Workshop Dinner, Restaurant
 
Wednesday, October 30, 09:00 - 16:50, Erhard-Schmidt lecture room
09:00 - 10:30Collective Excitations & Photonic Lattices  —  Chair: Kurt Busch
09:00 - 09:30William J. Firth (Glasgow)Extreme nonlinearity from linear optical scattering in cold atoms
09:30 - 10:00Jörg Imbrock (Münster)Soliton dynamics in complex photonic lattices
10:00 - 10:30Oleg Egorov (Jena)Spin-induced collective dynamics of exciton-polaritons
10:30 - 10:50Coffee break
10:50 - 12:00Rogue Waves II  —  Chair: Jerome Kasparian
10:50 - 11:20Ayhan Demircan (Hannover)Accelerated rogue solitons
11:20 - 11:40Uwe Bandelow (Berlin)Heteroclinic connections and limiting cases in integrable NLS-type equations
11:40 - 12:00Jordi Zamora Munt (Palma de Mallorca)Predictability, control, and mechanisms responsible for the appearance of extreme intensity pulses in semiconductor lasers
12:00 - 13:00Lunch break 12:00 -13:00
13:00 - 14:30Localized Structures III  —  Chair: Svetlana Gurevich
13:00 - 13:30Dmitry Turaev (London)Fermi acceleration in time-dependent billiards
13:30 - 14:00Sergey Zelik (Guildford)Center manifold reduction for weakly interacting dissipative solitons
14:00 - 14:30Dmitry Skryabin (Bath)Localised structures associated with intrinsic bistability of microcavity polaritons
14:30 - 15:00Coffee break
15:00 - 16:20Cavity Solitons  —  Chair: Günter Steinmeyer
15:00 - 15:20Etienne Averlant (Brussels)Localized structures in a medium size VCSEL
15:20 - 15:40lyes Bahloul (Kouba Alger)Drift cavity solitons in a photonic crystal fiber resonator L. Bahloul, L. Cherbi and M. Tlidi
15:40 - 16:00Enrico Tesio (Glasgow)Opto-mechanical dissipative solitons in cold atoms
16:00 - 16:20Cristian Fernandez Oto (Brussels)Strong nonlocal interaction stabilizes a new type of cavity solitons with a varying size plateau
16:20 - 16:30Closing