Machine learning: a new tool for ultrafast photonics applications

Goery Genty

Tampere University, Finland

Neural network prediction of supercontinuum generation dynamics

Lauri Salmela¹, Mathilde Hary^1,2, John M. Dudley², Goëry Genty¹

1: Tampere University, Finland; 2: Institut FEMTO-ST, Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté CNRS UMR 6174, France

Robust self-referenced Generator of programmable multi-millijoule terahertz-rate Bursts

Vinzenz Stummer¹, Tobias Flöry¹, Edgar Kaksis¹, Audrius Pugzlys^1,2, Andrius Baltuska^1,2

1: TU Wien, Austria; 2: Center for Physical Sciences & Technology, Lithuania

Mid-infrared laser filaments for local modification of atmospheric aerosol densities

Valentina Shumakova^1,2, Elise Schubert³, Skirmantas Alisauskas¹, Denis Mongin³, Mary Mattews³, Tadas Balciunas³, Audrius Pugzlys^1,4, Jerome Kasparian³, Andrius Baltuska^1,4, Jean-Pierre Wolf³

1: Photonics Institute, TU Wien, Austria; 2: University of Vienna, Faculty of Physics, Faculty Center for Nano Structure Research, Christian Doppler Laboratory for Mid-IR Spectroscopy and Semiconductor Optics, Austria; 3: GAP, Université de Genève, Switzerland; 4: Center for Physical Sciences & Technology, Lithuania

Ultrafast pulse-shaping modulates perceived visual brightness in living animals

Geoffrey Gaulier¹, Quentin Dietschi², Swarnendu Bhattacharyya³, Cedric Schmidt¹, Matteo Montagnese¹, Adrien Chauvet¹, Sylvain Hermelin¹, Florence Chiodini⁴, Luigi Bonacina¹, Pedro L. Herrera⁵, Ursula Rothlisberger³, Ivan Rodriguez², Jean-Pierre Wolf¹

1: Group of Applied Physics, University of Geneva, Switzerland; 2: Department of Genetics and Evolution, University of Geneva, Switzerland; 3: 3Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland; 4: Biobanque de tissus thérapeutiques, Department of Diagnostic, University Hospitals of Geneva, Switzerland; 5: Department of Genetics Medicine and Development, University of Geneva

Long distance laser filamentation using Yb:YAG kHz laser

Pierre Walch¹, Benoît Mahieu¹, Magali Lozano¹, Yves-Bernard André¹, Laurent Bizet¹, Ugo Andral², Victor Moreno², Thomas Produit², Clemens Herkommer³, Robert Bessing³, Thomas Metzger³, Jerôme Kasparian², Jean-Pierre Wolf², André Mysyrowicz^1,4, Aurélien Houard¹

1: Laboratoire d’Optique Appliquée – ENSTA, Ecole Polytechnique, CNRS - 828 boulevard des Maréchaux, 91762 Palaiseau, France; 2: Groupe de Physique Appliquée, Université de Genève, Ch. de Pinchat 22, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland; 3: TRUMPF Scientific Lasers GmbH + Co. KG, Feringastr. 10a, 85774 Unterföhring, Germany; 4: André Mysyrowicz Consultants, 6 Rue Gabriel, 78000 Versailles, France

On-demand ultrafast soliton molecules through genetic algorithm optimization

Jérémie Girardot, Aurélien Coillet, Franck Billard, Malik Nafa, Edouard Hertz, Philippe Grelu

Laboratoire ICB, France

Spectral modeling of LEDs at operating conditions

Julius Muschaweck

JMO GmbH, Germany

Single-cycle optical frequency combs

Scott Diddams

NIST and University of Colorado, United States of America

Simple approach to increase the ambiguity-free measurement range of dual-comb ranging using a single-cavity laser source

Jakob Fellinger¹, Georg Winkler¹, Aline S Mayer¹, Valentina Shumakova^1,2, Lukas W. Perner¹, P. E. Collin Aldia¹, Vito F Pecile¹, Tadeusz Martynkien³, Pawel Mergo⁴, Grzegorz Soboń⁵, Oliver H. Heckl¹

1: University of Vienna, Faculty of Physics, Faculty Center for Nano Structure Research, Christian Doppler Laboratory for Mid-IR Spectroscopy and Semiconductor Optics, Boltzmanngasse 5, 1090 Vienna, Austria; 2: Photonics Institute, TU Wien, Gusshaussstrasse 27-387, 1040 Vienna, Austria; 3: Faculty of Fundamental Problems of Technology, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, 50-370 Wroclaw, Poland; 4: Laboratory of Optical Fiber Technology, M. Curie-Skłodowska University, 20-031 Lublin, Poland; 5: Laser & Fiber Electronics Group, Wroclaw University of Technology, 50-370 Wroclaw, Poland

High-resolution spectroscopy driven by a free-running dual-comb thin-disk laser oscillator

Norbert Modsching, Jakub Drs, Pierre Brochard, Julian Fischer, Stéphane Schilt, Valentin J. Wittwer, Thomas Südmeyer

Laboratoire Temps-Fréquence, Institut de Physique, Université de Neuchâtel, Avenue de Bellevaux 51, 2000 Neuchâtel, Switzerland

Frequency up- and down-conversion of electro-optic frequency combs with flexible GHz repetition rate

Hanyu Ye¹, Valerian Freysz², Ramatou Bello-Doua³, Lilia Pontagnier¹, Eric Freysz², Giorgio Santarelli¹, Eric Cormier^1,4

1: Laboratoire Photonique Numérique et Nanosciences (LP2N); 2: Université de Bordeaux; 3: ALPhANOV, Institut d’Optique d’Aquitaine; 4: Institut Universitaire de France (IUF)

CEO-frequency dynamics of a 10-GHz straight-cavity laser modelocked via cascaded quadratic nonlinearities

Léonard Matthieu Krüger, Sandro Luca Camenzind, Benjamin Willenberg, Christopher Richard Phillips, Ursula Keller

ETH Zürich, Switzerland

Spectral shaping of 100-W Yb:fiber laser system with preservation of the low noise performance

Vito Pecile¹, Valentina Shumakova^1,2, Jakob Fellinger¹, Collin Aldia¹, Aline Mayer¹, Sarper Salman³, Mingqi Fan³, Prannay Balla³, Stephane Schilt⁴, Christoph Heyl^3,5, Ingmar Hartl³, Gil Porat^6,7, Oliver Heckl¹

1: University of Vienna, Faculty of Physics, Faculty Center for Nano Structure Research, Christian Doppler Laboratory for Mid-IR Spectroscopy and Semiconductor Optics, Boltzmanngasse 5, A-1090 Vienna, Austria; 2: Photonics Institute, TU Wien, Gusshaussstrasse 27-387, A-1040 Vienna, Austria; 3: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Notkestraße 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany; 4: Laboratoire Temps-Fréquence, Université de Neuchâtel, CH-2000 Neuchâtel, Switzerland; 5: GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH Planckstraße 1, 64291 Darmstadt, Germany; 6: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 1H9, Canada; 7: Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E1, Canada

Noise characterization of a 160 MHz Yb:CaF2 dual-comb laser

Sandro Luca Camenzind, Daniel Koenen, Benjamin Willenberg, Justinas Pupeikis, Christopher Richard Phillips, Ursula Keller

ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Photoacoustic & photothermal techniques for material testing: principles and applications

Roberto Li Voti

Roberto Li Voti, Professor at Sapienza Università di Roma, Dipartimento di Scienze di Base ed Applicate per l'Ingegneria, Italy

Modelling of processes in optical fabrication and photonics systems generation

Oliver Faehnle

Applied Sciences University ODT in Buchs, Switzerland

Sub-cycle waveform synthesis with optical parametric amplifiers

Giulio Maria Rossi^1,2, Roland E. Mainz^1,2, Yudong Yang^1,2, Fabian Scheiba^1,2, Miguel A. Silva-Toledo^1,2, Giovanni Cirmi^1,2, Franz X. Kärtner^1,2

1: Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Notkestraße 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany; 2: Physics Department and The Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging, University of Hamburg, Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761 Hamburg, Germany

53-W ultrafast non-collinear near-degenerate optical parametric oscillator

Lukas Lang, Carolin P. Bauer, Christopher R. Phillips, Ursula Keller

ETH Zürich, Switzerland

Two ultra-broadband OPOs in the visible spectral range

Robin Mevert^1,2, Yuliya Binhammer^1,2, Christian M Dietrich^1,2, Luise Beichert^1,2, Jintao Fan^1,2, Thomas Binhammer³, Uwe Morgner^1,2

1: Leibniz University of Hannover, Institute of Quantum Optics, Welfengarten 1, D-30167 Hannover, Germany; 2: Cluster of Excellence PhoenixD, Welfengarten 1, D-30167 Hannover, Germany; 3: neoLASE GmbH, Hollerithallee 17, D-30419 Hannover, Germany

CEP-stable infrared OPCPA sources

Nicolas Thiré, Raman Maksimenka, Yoann Pertot, José Villanueva, Thomas Pinoteau, Nicolas Forget

FASTLITE, France

How to generate continuously tunable ultrafast optical pulses from 4–12 µm, and applications for this versatile new light source in spectroscopy and sensing

Derryck T Reid¹, Luke Maidment³, Oguzhan Kara⁶, Carl Farrell², Marius Rutkauskas¹, Kerr Johnson², Jake Charsley¹, Pablo Castro¹, Yiwen Shi⁴, Peter G Schunemann⁵

1: Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom; 2: Chromacity Ltd, Edinburgh, United Kingdom; 3: ICFO – Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques, Barcelona, Spain; 4: University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China; 5: BAE Systems, Nashua, USA; 6: ETH Zürich

Fundamentals and applications of metamaterial silicon photonic devices

Jens Schmid

National Research Council Canada, Canada

Light waves in complex environments

Diederik Wiersma

INRIM, LENS, Univ. of Florence, Italy

Disorder and topology in planar arrays of resonant scatterers

Sergey E. Skipetrov, Pierre Wulles

Universite Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, LPMMC, 38000 Grenoble, France

Fluctuating forces induced by non equilibrium and coherent light flow

Erik Akkermans

Technion, Israel

The PST beamline: a laboratory-scale setup for extreme ultraviolet ptychography in the silicon transparency window

Lars Loetgering^1,2,3, Wilhelm Eschen^1,2, Vittoria Schuster^1,2, Robert Klas^1,2, Michael Steinert¹, Thomas Pertsch^1,4, Jens Limpert^1,2,4, Jan Rothhardt^1,2,4

1: Institute of Applied Physics, Abbe Center of Photonics, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Albert-Einstein-Str. 6, 07745 Jena, Germany; 2: Helmholtz-Institute Jena, Fröbelstieg 3, 07743 Jena, Germany; 3: Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology, Albert-Einstein-Str. 9, 07745, Jena, Germany; 4: Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering, Albert-Einstein-Str. 7, 07745 Jena, Germany

Microwatt-class intra-oscillator high harmonic generation in argon, krypton, and xenon

Julian Fischer, Jakub Drs, Francois Labaye, Norbert Modsching, Valentin J. Wittwer, Thomas Südmeyer

Time and Frequency Laboratory (LTF), Switzerland

Continuously tunable high photon flux high harmonic source at 50 – 70 eV

Alexander Kirsche^1,2, Robert Klas^1,2, Martin Gebhardt^1,2, Lucas Eisenbach¹, Wilhelm Eschen¹, Joachim Buldt¹, Henning Stark¹, Jan Rothhardt^1,2,3, Jens Limpert^1,2,3

1: Institute of Applied Physics, Abbe Center of Photonics, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Albert-Einstein-Str. 15, 07745 Jena, Germany; 2: Helmholtz-Institute Jena, Fröbelstieg 3, 07743 Jena, Germany; 3: Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering, Albert-Einstein-Str. 7, 07745 Jena, Germany

Sub-light-cycle control of relativistic plasma-mirrors

Marie Ouillé^1,2, Jaismeen Kaur^1,2, Stefan Haessler¹, Zhao Cheng¹, Aline Vernier¹, Jérôme Faure¹, Rodrigo Lopez-Martens¹

1: Laboratoire d'Optique Appliquée, France; 2: Ardop Engineering

Laser wakefield accelerators as a broadband radiation source

Amina Hussein

University of Alberta, Canada

"First time right" - calculating imaging systems from scratch

Fabian Duerr, Hugo Thienpont

Brussels Photonics, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium

Freeform design of a two-reflector system to collimate and shape a point source distribution

Teun van Roosmalen¹, Jan ten Thije Boonkkamp¹, Wilbert IJzerman^1,2, Martijn Anthonissen¹

1: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands; 2: Signify Research, The Netherlands

Thin multi-channel freeform optics for lighting applications

Youri Meuret, Karel Desnijder

KU Leuven, Belgium

Multi-source light shaping with diffractive optical elements

Alexander Heemels, Auèle Adam, Paul Urbach

TU Delft, Applied Physics, Imaging Physics, Optics Research Group, Lorentzweg 1, 2628 CJ, Delft, The Netherlands

Large field of view raman spectroscopy

Roozbeh Shokri

Thorlabs GmbH, Germany