Optical Solitons and Frequency Comb Generation - Program

Wednesday, September 18, 08:30 - 20:00, ESH
08:30 - 09:20Registration
09:20 - 09:30Opening
09:30 - 10:00Nail Akhmediev (Canberra)Recent advances in rogue wave theory (abstract)
10:00 - 10:30Giovanna Tissoni (Nice)Spatiotemporal extreme events in spatially extended lasers (abstract)
10:30 - 11:00Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30Sergei Turitsyn (Birmingham)Characterisation of solitons in fibre lasers (abstract)
11:30 - 12:00Goëry Genty (Tampere)Real-time characterization of nonlinear instabilities in optical fibre systems (abstract)
12:00 - 12:30Maria Chernysheva (Jena)Ultrafast dissipative soliton dynamics in isolator-free ring mode-locked laser (abstract)
12:30 - 14:00Lunch break
14:00 - 14:30Guillaume Huyet (Nice)Optical feedback in frequency swept sources
14:30 - 15:00Dmitry Skryabin (Bath)Parametric frequency comb in microresonators (abstract)
15:00 - 15:30Kestutis Staliunas (Barcelona)Gain-through-filtering enables tuneable frequency comb generation in passive optical resonators (abstract)
15:30 - 16:00Sergey Sergeyev (Birmingham)Vector spatiotemporal structures in mode-locked fibre lasers (abstract)
16:00 - 16:30Coffee break
16:30 - 17:00Svetlana Slepneva (Nice)Dynamics of long cavity lasers (abstract)
17:00 - 17:20Mark Schmidt (Munich)On the formation of frequency combs in Fourier domain mode-locked (FDML) lasers (abstract)
17:20 - 17:40Pedro Parra-Rivas (Brussels)Localized structures and frequency combs in dispersive optical parametric oscillators (abstract)
17:40 - 18:00Sebastian Eydam (Berlin)Mode-locked solutions in systems of globally-coupled phase oscillators (abstract)
18:00 - 20:00Get-together
 
Thursday, September 19, 09:00 - 22:00, ESH
09:00 - 09:30Ulf Leonhardt (Rehovot)Optical analogue of the event horizon (abstract)
09:30 - 10:00Fabio Biancalana (Edinburgh)From black holes to solitons, and viceversa (abstract)
10:00 - 10:20Svetlana Gurevich (Münster)Impact of high-order effects on soliton explosions in the complex cubic-quintic Ginzburg--Landau equation (abstract)
10:20 - 11:00Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30Stefan Rotter (Vienna)Introducing the random anti-laser: Coherent perfect absorption in disordered media (abstract)
11:30 - 12:00Vladimir Konotop (Lisbon)Nonlinearity controlled by an exceptional point: Solitons in waveguides with absorbing boundary conditions (abstract)
12:00 - 12:30Matthias Heinrich (Rostock)Nonlinear discrete optics in femtosecond laser-written photonic lattices (abstract)
12:30 - 14:00Lunch break
14:00 - 14:30Mustapha Tlidi (Bruxelles)Nonlocal-delayed Raman effect induces moving localized structures in optical resonators (abstract)
14:30 - 15:00Serhiy Yanchuk (Berlin)Temporal dissipative solitons in delay feedback systems (abstract)
15:00 - 15:30Yuriy Maistrenko (Jülich)Dissipative solitons for delayed-feedback systems (abstract)
15:30 - 16:00Coffee break
16:00 - 16:30Krassimir Panayotov (Brussels)Polarization dynamics of mode-locked VECSELs (abstract)
16:30 - 17:00Günter Steinmeyer (Berlin)Pseudo mode-locking (abstract)
17:00 - 17:30Julien Javaloyes (Palma de Mallorca)Third order dispersion in mode-locked vertical external-cavity surface-emitting lasers (abstract)
17:30 - 17:50Christian Schelte (Palma de Mallorca)Tunable Kerr frequency combs and cavity solitons in a nonlinear time-delayed Gires--Tournois interferometer (abstract)
19:00 - 22:00Conference dinner
 
Friday, September 20, 09:00 - 12:10, ESH
09:00 - 09:30Stephan Reitzenstein (Berlin)Physics and applications of nano- and microlasers operating close to the thresholdless regime (abstract)
09:30 - 10:00Alexey Yulin (St. Petersburg)Spontaneous symmetry breaking and the formation of nonlinear optical patterns in the systems with bound states in the continuum (abstract)
10:00 - 10:30Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00Kathy Lüdge (Berlin)Localization features in passively mode-locked lasers with V-shaped cavity geometry (abstract)
11:00 - 11:30Massimo Giudici (Nice)Temporal localized structures in mode-locked vertical external-cavity surface-emitting lasers (abstract)
11:30 - 11:50Rostislav Arkhipov (Saint-Petersburg)Self-induced transparency mode-locking: Towards to single-cycle pulse generation (abstract)
11:50 - 12:00Closing