Changes in peripheral ocular aberrations with accommodation: pilot study

Sandra Franco, Jessica Gomes, Kishor Sapkota

Centre of Physics, University of Minho, Portugal

Experimental Mueller matrix polarimetry with full Poincaré beams and a CCD camera

Juan C. Suarez-Bermejo¹, J. Carlos González de Sande¹, Massimo Santarsiero², Gemma Piquero³

1: Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain; 2: Università Roma Tre, Italy; 3: Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

Visible light backscatter: Fusing sensing with illumination

Andreas Peter Weiss, Kushal Madane, Christian Fragner, Andreas Kröpfl, Stefan Schantl, Franz Peter Wenzl

JOANNEUM RESEARCH ForschungsgesmbH, Austria

Evaluation of the best solution for the functionalization of photocatalytic, superhydrophobic, and self-cleaning properties on asphalt mixtures

Iran Rocha Segundo¹, Salmon Landi Jr.², Elisabete Freitas³, Cátia Afonso⁴, Manuel Filipe Costa⁵, Behzad Zahabizadeh³, Vítor M.C.F. Cunha³, Graça Soares⁶, Jorge Santos⁶, Vasco Teixeira⁷, Joaquim Carneiro⁷

1: Civil Engineering Department, University of Minho, Azurém, Guimarães, Portugal; 2: Federal Institute Goiano, Rio Verde – GO, Brazil; 3: University of Minho, ISISE, Department of Civil Engineering, Guimarães, Portugal; 4: IPC - Institute for Polymers and Composites, University of Minho, Guimarães, Portugal; 5: Centre of Physics, University of Minho, Gualtar Campus, Braga, Portugal; 6: Textile Engineering Department, University of Minho, Azurém Campus, Guimarães, Portugal; 7: Centre of Physics, University of Minho, Azurém Campus, Guimarães, Portugal

Transient optical simulation by coupling finite elements, elastic multibody systems and ray tracing

Luzia Hahn, Fabian Matter, Peter Eberhard

Institute of Engineering and Computational Mechanics, University of Stuttgart, Germany

Practical QKD based on entanglement

James Grieve

The Technology Innovation Institute, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Hybrid laser-assisted forming process for ultralight three-dimensional glass elements

Robin Hassel¹, Andrea Barz¹, Jens Bliedtner¹, Jörg Steuer², Hans Pitcha², Matthias Eberlein²

1: Ernst-Abbe University of Applied Sciences Jena, Germany; 2: GLAMACO GmbH Coswig, Germany

Optical fiber based Gamma radiation measurement

Bretislav Mikel¹, Michal Jelinek^1,2, Simon Rerucha¹

1: Institute of Scientific Instruments of the CAS, v. v. i., Czech Republic; 2: The Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Communication, Brno University of Technology

Quantum dot PL emission control through a nearby graphene layer

César Rui Bernardo, Peter Schellenberg, Diogo Cunha, Fatima Cerqueira, Michael Belsley, Mikhail Igorevich Vasilevskiy

Minho University, Portugal

Femtosecond laser writing of integrated photonic circuits in diamond

Giulio Coccia¹, Argyro N. Giakoumaki¹, Vibhav Bharadwaj¹, Ottavia Jedrkiewicz², Roberta Ramponi¹, Shane M. Eaton¹

1: Istituto di Fotonica e Nanotecnologie-Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (IFN-CNR) and Dipartimento di Fisica - Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, Milano 20133, Italy; 2: Istituto di Fotonica e Nanotecnologie-Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (IFN-CNR), Department of Science and High Technology, Università degli Studi dell’Insubria, Via Valleggio 11, 22100 Como, Italy

Stabilized, short cavity Brillouin ring laser source design for fiber sensing applications

Leonardo Rossi¹, Filippo Bastianini², Gabriele Bolognini¹

1: National Research Council, IMM Institute, 101 via P. Gobetti, 40129 Bologna Italy; 2: Sestosensor s.r.l., 140 via Gesso, 40069 Zola Predosa, Italy

Optical characterization of strain sensing cables for Brillouin optical time domain analysis

Filippo Bastianini¹, Francesco Falcetelli², Paweł Bocheński³, Leonardo Rossi⁴, Raffaella Di Sante², Gabriele Bolognini⁴

1: Sestosensor s.r.l., 140 via Gesso, 40069 Zola Predosa, Italy; 2: Dept. of Industrial Engineering, University of Bologna, Forlì, Italy; 3: Fibrain Sp. z.o.o., Wspólna 4A, Rzeszów 35-205, Poland; 4: Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, IMM Institute, 101 via P. Gobetti, 40129 Bologna Italy

An analytical approach for unveiling the role of intrinsic and extrinsic factors on photoresponse of graphene transistors.

Tarique Anwar, Hongyu Tang, Giulia Tagliabue

Laboratory of Nanoscience for Energy Technologies (LNET), IGM-STI, EPFL, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland

On polarization characteristics of highly focused fields concentrated along the axis

Rosario Martínez-Herrero¹, Artur Carnicer², Ignasi Juvells², Angel S, Sanz¹

1: Universidad Complutense, Spain; 2: Universitat de Barcelona

A comprehensive transmedia activity to commemorate the International Day of Light 2021 on social networks

Carlos Damián Rodríguez Fernández, Bastián Carnero, Mónica Canabal, Damián Ínsua-Costa, Alejandro Doval, Alicia Muñoz-Ramos, Raúl Sánchez-Cruz, Rocío Liñares, Xoán González-Iglesias, M.T. Flores-Arias

Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Low-cost interrogation system for dynamic sensor applications using a resin based fiber Fabry Perot filter

João Preizal, Lúcia Bilro, Ricardo Oliveira

Instituto de Telecomunicações and Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Balanced differential common-path interferometer with low cyclic error and no zero-drift

Simon Rerucha, Miroslava Hola, Ondrej Cip, Josef Lazar

Institute of Scientific Instruments of the CAS (ISI), Czech Republic

Advances in the use of real-time measurements in nonlinear fibre optics

John Dudley¹, Fanchao Meng¹, Coraline Lapre¹, Mehdi Mabed¹, Christophe Finot², Mathilde Hary³, Lauri Salmela³, Goery Genty³

1: Institut FEMTO-ST, Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté, France; 2: Laboratoire ICB, Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté, France; 3: Tampere University, Tampere, Finland

Concurrent passive Mode-Locked and Self-Q-Switched operation in laser systems

Steven Cundiff¹, J.M. Soto-Crespo², Nail Akhmediev³, Jiahao Guo¹

1: University of Michigan, United States of America; 2: CSIC, Spain; 3: School of Physics and Engineering Institute of Advanced Studies, Australia

Ultra-broadband stochastic resonance of light enabled by memory effects in the nonlinear response

Kevin Peters¹, Zhou Geng¹, Kiana Malmir², Jason Smith², Said Rodriguez¹

1: Center for Nanophotonics, AMOLF, Science Park 104, 1098 XG Amsterdam, The Netherlands; 2: Department of Materials, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PH, UK

Towards few photon bifurcations in coupled nanocavities

Alejandro M. Yacomotti, Bruno Garbin, Juan A. Levenson

CNRS, France

Cavity-Induced Bound Excitons

Erika Cortese¹, Ngoc-Linh Tran², Jean-Michel Manceau², Adel Bousseksou², Iacopo Carusotto³, Giorgio Biasol⁴, Raffaele Colombelli², Simone De Liberato¹

1: University of Southampton, United Kingdom; 2: Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, France; 3: Laboratorio TASC, CNR-IOM, Trieste, Italy; 4: Universita di Trento, Italy

Indistinguishable photons from a single molecule under pulsed excitation

Pietro Lombardi^1,2, Maja Colautti^1,2, Rocco Duquennoy³, Ghulam Murtaza^1,2, Prosenjit Majumder^1,2, Costanza Toninelli^1,2

1: National Institute of Optics (CNR-INO), Largo Enrico Fermi 6, Firenze 50125, Italy; 2: European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy (LENS), Via Nello Carrara 1, Sesto F.no 50019, Italy; 3: Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Universita degli Studi di Firenze, Via G. Sansone 1, Sesto F.no 50019, Italy

Surface-generated polarization-entangled photons

Vitaliy Sultanov^1,2, Tomàs Santiago-Cruz^1,2, Andrei Rasputnyi³, Sylvain D. Gennaro⁴, Sadhvikas Addamane⁴, John Reno⁴, Igal Brener⁴, Maria Chekhova^1,2

1: Max-Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Erlangen, Germany; 2: Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany; 3: Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia; 4: Sandia National Laboratory, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

Microcombs based on laser configuration: laser cavity solitons in a nested cavity geometry

Alessia Pasquazi

University of Sussex, United Kingdom

Free-running single-cavity dual-comb optical parametric oscillator in the mid-infrared

Carolin Patrizia Bauer, Justinas Pupeikis, Benjamin Willenberg, Christopher Richard Phillips, Ursula Keller

ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Sources of Water-Window Radiation at 100 kHz

Pierre-Alexis Chevreuil, Stefan Hrisafov, Fabian Brunner, Justinas Pupeikis, Christopher R. Phillips, Lukas Gallmann, Ursula Keller

ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Comparative study on highly efficient THz generation by optical rectification of mid-IR pulses in the organic crystal DAST

Claudia Gollner¹, Rokas Jutas¹, Mostafa Shalaby^2,3, Corinne Brodeur², Ignas Astrauskas¹, Andrius Baltuška^1,4, Audrius Pugžlys^1,4

1: TU Wien, Austria; 2: Swiss Terahertz Research-Zurich, Switzerland; 3: Key Lab of Terahertz Optoelectronics, China; 4: Center for Physical Sciences & Technology, Lithuania

Nanoscale nonlinear optics with structured media and structured light

Anatoly Zayats

King's College London, United Kingdom

Nonlinear light scattering & imaging: Quantifying interfacial properties on the nanoscale

Sylvie Roke

EPFL, Switzerland

Hadamard-transform multiplexing for a high speed and high spectral resolution broadband Stimulated Raman Microscope using a multi-channel acousto-optic tunable filter

Luca Genchi¹, Andrea Bucci¹, Sergey P. Laptenok¹, Carlo Liberale^1,2

1: Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia; 2: Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

Free-space dark pulse laser source based on sum-frequency generation

Martin Brunzell, Max Widarsson, Christoffer Krook, Laura Barrett, Andrius Zukauskas, Fredrik Laurell, Valdas Pasiskevicius

Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)

Integrated lithium-niobate electro-optic devices

Mengjie Yu

Harvard University, United States of America

Ridge optical waveguide curved in a KTiOPO4 single crystal for triple photon generation: preliminary characterization by birefringence phase-matched third-harmonic generation

Augustin Vernay¹, Veronique Boutou¹, Corinne Felix¹, Florent Bassignot², Mathieu Chauvet³, Benoit Boulanger¹

1: Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Institut Néel, Grenoble France; 2: Femto-Engineering, Besançon, France; 3: FEMTO-ST Institute, UMR CNRS 6174, Besançon France

Efficient watt-level 0.775 µm SHG and 3.3 µm DFG in annealed and reverse proton exchanged diced PPLN ridge waveguides

Sergiy Suntsov, Kore Hasse, Detlef Kip

Helmut-Schmidt-University/Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg, Germany

Second-harmonic generation from multiply-resonant metasurfaces supporting plasmonic surface lattice resonances

Timo Stolt¹, Anna Vesala¹, Heikki Rekola², Petri Karvinen², Tommi K. Hakala², Mikko J. Huttunen¹

1: Tampere University, Finland; 2: University of Eastern Finland, Finland

Maximizing second-harmonic generation with film-coupled nanopatch anten-nas through doubly-resonant mode overlap

Ahsan Noor^1,5, Anoop Rama Damodaran², In-Ho Lee², Stefan Alexander Maier^3,4, Sang-Hyun Oh², Antonella D' Orazio¹, Cristian Ciraci⁵

1: Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica e dell’Informazione, Politecnico di Bari, Via Re David 200, 70125, Bari, Italy; 2: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minnesota, 55455, Minneapolis, United States; 3: Fakultät für Physik, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität, Königinstrasse 10, 80539 München, Germany; 4: Department of Physics, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom; 5: Center for Biomolecular Nanotechnologies, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Via Barsanti 14, 73010 Arnesano (LE), Italy.