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

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

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

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

Harnessing coherence and computational imaging for nanoscale structure characterization using X-rays

Manuel Guizar-Sicairos

Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland

Efficient carrier-envelope phase tunable mid-infrared frequency combs based on CW-seeded optical parametric generation

Mikhail Roiz¹, Jui-Yu Lai², Juho Karhu³, Markku Vainio^1,4

1: Department of Chemistry, University of Helsinki, FI-00560, Helsinki, Finland; 2: HC Photonics Corp. Hsinchu Science Park, Hsinchu 30078, Taiwan; 3: Metrology Research Institute, Aalto University, Espoo, FI-00076, Finland; 4: Photonics Laboratory, Physics Unit, Tampere University, Tampere, FI-33101, Finland

Mid-IR OPCPA operating in the atmospheric transparency window around 8.6 µm

Ignas Astrauskas¹, Claudia Gollner¹, Tobias Flöry¹, Andrius Baltuška^1,2, Audrius Pugžlys^1,2

1: Photonics Institute, TU Wien, Gusshausstrasse 27-387, A-1040 Vienna, Austria; 2: Center for Physical Sciences and Technology, Savanoriu Ave. 231, LT-02300, Vilnius, Lithuania

Frequency divide-and-conquer approach to producing ultra-broadband mid-IR frequency combs and single-cycle pulses

Konstantin Vodopyanov

Univ. Cent. Florida, United States of America

A µJ-level parametric source tunable from 3 to 10 µm by direct difference-frequency generation in LGS at 250 kHz

Vincent Femy, Maxim Neradovskiy, Thomas Pinoteau, José Villanueva, Olivier Albert, Nicolas Forget

FASTLITE, France

Mid-infrared parametric wavelength conversion seeded with fiber optical parametric sources

Ronan A. Battle¹, Anita M. Chandran¹, Timothy H. Runcorn¹, Arnaud Mussot², Alexandre Kudlinski², Robert T. Murray¹, J. Roy Taylor¹

1: Femtosecond Optics Group, Department of Physics, Imperial College London, Prince Consort Road, London SW7 2BW, UK; 2: Université de Lille, CNRS, UMR 8523-PhLAM—Physique des Lasers Atomes et Molécules, F-59000 Lille, France

Molecular level metrology and imaging with topological light and free electrons

Nikolay Zheludev

University of Southampton and NTU Singapore

Precision electric-field-resolved infrared spectroscopy

Ioachim Pupeza

MPI für Quantenoptik, Germany

Cavity-enhanced sub-Doppler optical-optical double-resonance spectroscopy of methane using a frequency comb

Vinicius Silva de Oliveira¹, Isak Silander¹, Lucile Rutkowski², Grzegorz Sobon³, Ove Axner¹, Kevin K. Lehmann⁴, Aleksandra Foltynowicz¹

1: Department of Physics, Umea University, Umea, Sweden; 2: Univ Rennes, CNRS, IPR (Institut de Physique de Rennes), Rennes, France; 3: Laser & Fiber Electronics Group, Faculty of Electronics, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Wrocław, Poland; 4: Departments of Chemistry & Physics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA

Electro-optic Dual-Comb Spectrometer for Applications in the Mid-Infrared

Alexandre Parriaux, Kamal Hammani, Guy Millot

Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne (ICB), UMR6303 CNRS, Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté, Dijon, France

High-resolution optical frequency comb Fourier transform spectroscopy in the near- and mid-infrared wavelength range

Aleksandra Foltynowicz

Department of Physics, Umea University, Sweden

100-W, 100-MW, 50-fs thin-disk laser oscillator based on Yb:YAG

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

University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland

Towards 2-µm high-power ultrafast thin-disk lasers

Yicheng Wang¹, Sergei Tomilov¹, Martin Hoffmann¹, Jonas Heidrich², Behçet Özgür Alaydin², Matthias Golling², Ursula Keller², Clara J. Saraceno¹

1: Photonics and Ultrafast Laser Science, Ruhr Universität Bochum, Universitätsstraße 150, 44801 Bochum, Germany; 2: Department of Physics, Institute for Quantum Electronics, ETH Zürich, Auguste-Piccard-Hof 1, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland

Few-cycle pulses from efficient Yb-doped solid-state lasers

Francois Labaye¹, Valentin J. Wittwer¹, Marin Hamrouni¹, Norbert Modsching¹, Eric Cormier^2,3, Thomas Südmeyer¹

1: Laboratoire Temps-Fréquence, Institut de Physique, Université de Neuchâtel; 2: Laboratoire Photonique, Numérique et Nanosciences, CNRS-IOGS-Université Bordeaux; 3: Institut Universitaire de France (IUF)

Femtosecond middle IR lasers and frequency combs based on polycrystalline Cr:ZnS

Sergey Vasilyev¹, Viktor Smolski¹, Jeremy Peppers¹, Igor Moskalev¹, Mike Mirov¹, Yury Barnakov¹, Sergey Mirov^1,3, Valentin Gapontsev²

1: IPG Photonics, Southeast Technology Center, AL, USA; 2: IPG Photonics Corporation, MA, USA; 3: University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL, USA

2.4-µm SESAM modelocked high-power repetition rate scalable femtosecond Cr:ZnS oscillator

Ajanta Barh, B. Ozgur Alaydin, Jonas Heidrich, Marco Gaulke, Matthias Golling, Christopher R. Phillips, Ursula Keller

ETH Zürich, Switzerland

Development and optical characterization of 2.1-μm SESAMs optimized for high-power operation in Ho-doped lasers

Jonas Heidrich, Marco Gaulke, B. Ozgur Alaydin, Matthias Golling, Ajanta Barh, Ursula Keller

ETH Zürich, Switzerland

Spatiotemporal mode-locking in fiber lasers

Frank William Wise

Cornell University, United States of America

130 W, 1.3 mJ coherently combined ultrafast Tm-doped fiber laser system operating at 1.9 µm wavelength

Tobias Heuermann^1,2, Ziyao Wang¹, Mathias Lenski¹, Martin Gebhardt^1,2, Christian Gaida³, Arno Klenke², Michael Müller¹, Christian Grebing^1,4, Jens Limpert^1,2,4

1: Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany; 2: Helmholtz-Institute Jena, Jena, Germany; 3: Active Fiber Systems GmbH, Jena, Germany; 4: Fraunhofer Institute for Optics and Fine Mechanics, Jena, Germany

Amplitude noise optimization in mode-locked Yb:doped all polarization-maintaining nonlinear amplifying loop mirror lasers

Vito Fabian Pecile¹, Aline Sophie Mayer¹, Jakob Fellinger¹, Valentina Shumakova^1,2, Oliver Hubert 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, Gusshausstraße 27-29, 1040 Vienna, Austria

Fiber-based laser systems emitting in a broad range of the mid-infrared

Jaroslaw Sotor

Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland

Ultrafast thin-disk amplifier with over 500 mJ pulse energy at 1 kHz repetition rate

Yanik Pfaff, Michael Rampp, Clemens Herkommer, Robert Jung, Catherine Yuriko Teisset, Sandro Klingebiel, Thomas Metzger

TRUMPF Scientific Lasers, Germany

Thin-disk multipass amplifier for multi-kilowatt ultrafast lasers

Johanna Dominik¹, Michael Scharun¹, Benjamin Dannecker¹, Michael Rampp², Simon Nagel¹, Thomas Dekorsy³, Dominik Bauer¹, Alexander Killi¹

1: TRUMPF Laser GmbH, Germany; 2: TRUMPF Scientific Lasers GmbH + Co. KG, Germany; 3: German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Technical Physics and Stuttgart University, Germany

Coherently combined high power 16 core rod-type multicore amplifier

Arno Klenke^1,2, Albrecht Steinkopff¹, Christopher Aleshire¹, Cesar Jauregui¹, Stefan Kuhn³, Johannes Nold³, Christian Hupel³, Sigrun Hein³, Steffen Schulze³, Nicoletta Haarlammert³, Thomas Schreiber³, Andreas Tünnermann^1,2,3, Jens Limpert^1,2,3

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

KW average power, high pulse energy, ultrafast lasers based on cryo-cooled Yb:YAG

Jorge J. Rocca

Colorado State University, United States of America

Tunable, light-emitting and nonlinear all-dielectric metasurfaces

Isabelle Staude

Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany

High-energy multidimensional solitary states in hollow-core fibers

Reza Safaei¹, Guangyu Fan¹, Ojoon Kwon¹, Katherine Légaré¹, Bruno E. Schmidt², Philippe Lassonde¹, Heide Ibrahim¹, François Legare¹

1: INRS-EMT, Canada; 2: few-cycle Inc., Canada

Single-stage few-cycle nonlinear compression of Ti:Sa femtosecond pulses in a multipass cell

Louis Daniault¹, Zhao Cheng¹, Jean-François Hergott², Fabrice Réau², Olivier Tcherbakoff², Nour Daher³, Xavier Delen³, Marc Hanna³, Rodrigo Lopez-Martens¹

1: Laboratoire d’Optique Appliquée, CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, ENSTA Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris; 2: Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, LIDYL; 3: Université Paris-Saclay, Institut d'Optique Graduate School, CNRS, Laboratoire Charles Fabry

Post-compression of 9.2-um terawatt laser pulses to femtoseconds

Igor V. Pogorelsky, Mikhail N. Polyanskiy, Marcus Babzien, Mark A. Palmer

Brookhaven National Laboratory, United States of America

Near-single-cycle pulses generated through post-compression on FAB1 laser at ATTOLAB-Orme facility

Jean-Francois Hergott¹, Hugo J.B. Marroux¹, Rodrigo Lopez-Martens², Fabrice Réau¹, Fabien Lepetit¹, Olivier Tcherbakoff¹, Thierry Auguste¹, Lucie Maeder¹, Xiaowei Chen³, Benoit Bussière³, Pierre-Mary Paul³, Pascal D'Oliveira¹, Pascal Salières¹

1: Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, LIDYL, 91191, Gif-sur-Yvette, France; 2: Laboratoire d’Optique Appliquée, CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, ENSTA Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, 91120 Palaiseau, France; 3: Amplitude 2-4 rue du Bois Chaland CE 2926, 91029 Evry, France

Divided-pulse nonlinear compression in a multipass cell

Henning Stark¹, Joachim Buldt¹, Michael Müller¹, Christian Grebing^1,2, Arno Klenke^1,3, Jens Limpert^1,2,3

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

Meta-optics: from flat lenses to cameras and structured light

Federico Capasso

Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, United States of America

Attosecond electron motion control in solid-state

Dandan Hui¹, Husain Alqattan¹, Shunsuke Yamada^2,3, Vladimir Pervak⁴, Kazuhiro Yabana^2,3, Mohammed Hassan¹

1: University of Arizona, United States of America; 2: Graduate School of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Japan.; 3: Center for Computational Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Japan.; 4: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany.

Time-resolved high harmonic spectroscopy of ultrafast solid-state dynamics in VO2

Mina R. Bionta^1,2, Elissa Haddad¹, Adrien Leblanc¹, Vincent Gruson^1,3, Philippe Lassonde¹, Heide Ibrahim¹, Jérémie Chaillou¹, Nicolas Émond¹, Martin R. Otto⁴, Álvaro Jiménez-Galán⁵, Rui E. F. Silva⁶, Misha Ivanov^5,7,8, Bradley J. Siwick⁴, Mohamed Chaker¹, François Légaré¹

1: Centre Énergie Matériaux Télécommunications, Institut national de la recherche scientifique, Varennes, Québec, Canada; 2: Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; 3: Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA; 4: Department of Physics and Department of Chemistry, Center for the Physics of Materials, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada; 5: Max-Born-Institute, Berlin, Germany; 6: Departamento de Física Teórica de la Materia Condensada, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain; 7: Deparment of Physics, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany; 8: Department of Physics, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Tracing liquid-phase femtosecond dynamics in biomolecules and nano-solids using water-window X-ray transient absorption spectroscopy

Tadas Balciunas^1,2, Yi-Ping Chang¹, Zhong Yin², Vit Svoboda², Jean-Pierre Wolf¹, Hans Jakob Wörner²

1: GAP-Biophotonics, Université de Genéve, 1205 Geneva, Switzerland; 2: Laboratory for Physical Chemistry, ETH Zürich, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland

Dynamical imaging of local photovoltage at semiconductor surface by photo-assisted ultrafast scanning electron microscopy

Mohamed Zaghloul^1,3, Silvia Maria Pietralunga^2,3, Gabriele Irde^1,3, Vittorio Sala^1,3, Giulio Cerullo¹, Hao Chen^1,3, Giovanni Isella⁴, Guglielmo Lanzani^1,3, Maurizio Zani¹, Alberto Tagliaferri^1,3

1: Dipartimento di Fisica, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci, 32, 20133 Milano, Italy; 2: Institute for Photonics and Nanotechnologies (IFN)—National Research Council (CNR), Piazza L. da Vinci, 32, 20133 Milano, Italy; 3: CNST@PoliMi, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), Via Giovanni Pascoli 70/3, Milano, Italy; 4: LNESS-Dipartimento di Fisica, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133 Milano, Italy

Study of the ultrafast electron-temperature dynamics in photo-excited Au nanoparticles by Transient Photoemission Spectroscopy

Maria Sygletou¹, Stefania Benedetti², Marzia Ferrera¹, Gian Marco Pierantozzi³, Riccardo Cucini³, Giuseppe Della Valle⁴, Pietro Carrara⁵, Alessandro De Vita⁵, Alessandro di Bona², Piero Torelli³, Daniele Catone⁶, Giancarlo Panaccione³, Maurizio Canepa¹, Francesco Bisio⁷

1: OptMatLab, Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, via Dodecaneso 33, I-16146 Genova, Italy; 2: CNR-Istituto Nanoscienze, via Campi 213/a, 41125 Modena, Italy; 3: Istituto Officina dei Materiali-CNR Laboratorio TASC, Area Science Park, S.S. 14, Km 163.5, Trieste I-34149, Italy; 4: Dipartimento di Fisica, IFN-CNR, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, I-20133 Milano, Italy; 5: Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Celoria 16, Milano, Italy; 6: Istituto di Struttura della Materia - CNR (ISM-CNR) EuroFEL Support Laboratory (EFSL), via del Fosso del Cavaliere, 100 I-00133 Rome, Italy; 7: CNR-SPIN, Istituto Superconduttori Materiali Innovativi e Dispositivi, C.so Perrone 24, I-16152 Genova, Italy

Real-time full-field characterization of ultrafast soliton fission induced by modulation instability

Francesca Gallazzi¹, Shanti Toenger¹, Mikko Närhi¹, John M. Dudley², Goëry Genty¹

1: Photonics Laboratory, Tampere University, Finland; 2: institut FEMTO-ST, Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté

Tunable isolated attosecond pulses generated by synthesized optical waveforms

Roland E. Mainz^1,2, Giulio Maria Rossi^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, Hamburg; 2: Physics Department and The Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging, University of Hamburg

Wavelength-tunable few-cycle pulses with millijoule-level pulse energies in the short-wavelength IR for ultrafast control of molecular dynamics

Patrick Rupprecht, Lennart Aufleger, Alexander Magunia, Stefano Amberg, Nikola Mollov, Felix Henrich, Christian Ott, Thomas Pfeifer

Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Saupfercheckweg 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany

New platforms for generating and characterizing few-cycle laser waveforms

Michael Chini

University of Central Florida, United States of America

Characterization of mid-infrared few-cycle pulses: temporal profile and CEP stability

Adrien Leblanc^1,2

1: LOA, CNRS, France; 2: INSTN-EMT, Varennes, CA

Rotational Doppler effect for characterizing femtosecond laser pulses

Pierre Béjot¹, Ester Szmygel^1,2, Antoine Dubrouil², Franck Billard¹, Olivier Faucher¹, Edouard Hertz¹

1: Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgone, France; 2: Femto Easy

Ultrafast optical response of two-dimensional materials

Giulio Cerullo

Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Two-stage multi-pass cell scheme for kilowatt-class compression of millijoule-class pulses to the few-cycle regime

Christian Grebing^1,2, Michael Müller¹, Joachim Buldt¹, Henning Stark¹, Jens Limpert^1,2,3

1: Institute of Applied Physics, Abbe Center of Photonics, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany; 2: Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering, Jena, Germany; 3: Helmholtz-Institute Jena, Germany

Post-compression of high-peak power pulses in a compact bulk multi-pass cell

Ann-Kathrin Raab¹, Marcus Seidel², Ivan Sytcevich¹, Chen Guo¹, Gunnar Arisholm³, Anne l'Huillier¹, Cord L. Arnold¹, Anne-Lise Viotti^1,2

1: Department of Physics, Lund University, P.O. Box 118, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden; 2: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Notkestraße 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany; 3: FFI (Norwegian Defence Research Establishment), P.O. Box 25, NO-2027, Kjeller, Norway

Pulse post-compression via multi-pass cells for FEL pump-probe experiments at FLASH

Anne-Lise Viotti^1,2, Marcus Seidel¹, Skirmantas Alisauskas¹, Esmerando Escoto¹, Henrik Tünnermann¹, Katharina Dudde¹, Ayhan Tajalli¹, Bastian Manschwetus¹, Ingmar Hartl¹, Christoph M. Heyl^1,3,4

1: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Notkestraße 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany; 2: Department of Physics, Lund University, P.O Box 118, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden; 3: Helmholtz-Institute Jena, Fröbelstieg 3, 07743 Jena, Germany; 4: GSI Helmhotzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Planckstraße 1, 64291 Darmstadt, Germany

10mJ Hollow-Core Fiber compression at 250W average power with 90% efficiency

Derrek Wilson^1,2, Maksym Ivanov^1,2, Gabriel Tempea¹, Alexis Labranche¹, Alicia Ramirez¹, Francois Legare², Clement Paradis³, Arvid Hage³, Torsten Mans³, Carlos Trallero-Herrero⁴, Bruno Eugen Schmidt¹

1: few-cycle Inc., Canada; 2: INRS, Canada; 3: Amphos GmbH, Germany; 4: University of Connecticut, USA

Post-pulse compression of 8.6 mJ pulses using a compact multi-pass cell

Praveen Kumar Velpula¹, Supriya Rajhans¹, Esmerando Escoto¹, Rob Shalloo¹, Bonaventura Farace¹, Kris Poder¹, Jens Osterhoff¹, Wim P. Leemans¹, Ingmar Hartl¹, Christoph M. Heyl^1,2,3

1: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Notkestraße 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany; 2: Helmholtz-Institute Jena, Fröbelstieg 3, 07743 Jena, Germany; 3: GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Planckstraße 1, 64291 Darmstadt, Germany.

Sub-two-cycle pulses in the mid-IR based on thin plate compression at high average power

Mate Kurucz^1,2, Roland Flender¹, Krishna Murari¹, Ugnius Gimzevskis³, Arturas Samalius³, Dominik Hoff⁴, Balint Kiss¹

1: ELI-ALPS, ELI-HU Non-Profit Ltd., Wolfgang Sandner utca 3., Szeged, H-6728, Hungary; 2: University of Szeged, Dom ter 9., H-6720 Szeged, Hungary; 3: OPTOMAN, Ukmerges g.427, Vilnius, LT-14185, Lithuania; 4: Single Cycle Instruments, Hans-Knöll-Straße 6, 07745 Jena, Germany

Coherent focal plane arrays in silicon photonics, towards high performance 3D Imaging using LIDAR

Remus Nicolaescu¹, Steven A. Fortune¹, Andrew J. Compston¹, Ion E. Opris², David J. Thomson³, Christopher Rogers¹, Alexander Y. Piggott¹, Alexander Gondarenko¹, Fanfan Meng³, Xia Chen³, Graham T. Reed³

1: Pointcloud Inc, United States of America; 2: Opris Consulting; 3: University of Southampton

Advances in high-average power ultrafast THz sources

Frank Wulf, Tim Vogel, Samira Mansourzadeh, Felix Fobbe, Denizhan Kesim, Martin Saraceno, Clara Saraceno

Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

Fiber-laser driven gas-plasma based generation of high-power THz radiation

Joachim Buldt¹, Henning Stark¹, Michael Mueller¹, Christian Grebing^1,2, César Jauregui¹, Jens Limpert^1,2,3

1: Institute of Applied Physics, Jena, Germany; 2: Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering, Jena, Germany; 3: Helmholtz-Institute, Jena, Germany

Electro-Absorption Modulation in colloidal Quantum Dots directly driven by MV/cm-THz Fields

Claudia Gollner¹, Rokas Jutas¹, Dimitry Dirin^2,3, Simon Boehme^2,3, Andrius Baltuška^1,4, Maksym Kovalenko^2,3

1: TU Wien, Austria; 2: Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Switzerland; 3: Empa-Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Switzerland; 4: Center for Physical Sciences & Technology, Lithuania

Time and frequency-resolved nonlinear optical spectroscopy with amplified femtosecond pulse bursts

Andrius Baltuska

TU Wien, Austria

Ultrafast soliton-driven light sources based on gas-filled hollow-fibre nonlinear optics

John C. Travers, Christian Brahms, Teodora F. Grigorova, Athanasios Lekosiotis, Federico Belli

Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom

Post compression and broadly tunable frequency conversion via Stimulated Raman scattering for high-peak power pulses

Paolo Antonio Carpeggiani¹, Valentina Shumakova¹, Martin Kirchner¹, Markus Zeiler¹, Giulio Coccia¹, Guangyu Fan^1,2, Edgar Kaksis¹, Audrius Pugzlys^1,3, Andrius Baltuska^1,3, Riccardo Piccoli², Young-Gyun Jeong², Andrea Rovere², Roberto Morandotti^2,4, Luca Razzari², Bruno Schmidt⁵, Vladimir Pervak^6,7, Alexander A. Voronin^8,9, Aleksei Zheltikov^8,9,10

1: Institut für Photonik, Technische Universität Wien, Gußhausstrasse 27/387, 1040 Vienna, Austria; 2: Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS), Centre Énergie, Matériaux et Télécommunications (EMT), Varennes, Québec J3X 1S2, Canada; 3: Center for Physical Sciences and Technology, Savanoriu Ave. 231, LT-02300, Vilnius, Lithuania; 4: Institute of Fundamental and Frontier Sciences, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, Sichuan, China; 5: Few-Cycle Inc., 2890 Rue de Beaurivage, Montreal, Quebec H1L 5W5, Canada; 6: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Department of Physics, Am Coulombwall 1, 85748 Garching, Germany; 7: UltraFast Innovations GmbH, Am Coulombwall 1, 85748 Garching, Germany; 8: Physics Department, International Laser Center, M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow 119992, Russia; 9: Russian Quantum Center, Skolkovo, Moscow Region, 143025, Russia; 10: Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas A M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA

Novel soliton self-compression spectral dynamics in air-filled Kagome HCPCF

Martin Maurel^1,2, Foued Amrani^1,2, Ihar Babushkin^3,4, Benoit Debord^1,2, Frédéric Gérôme^1,2, Fetah Benabid^1,2

1: GLOphotonics, 123 avenue Albert Thomas Limoges, France; 2: GPPMM group, Xlim laboratory, CNRS- Université de Limoges, France; 3: Institute of Quantum Optics, Leibnitz Hannover University, Hannover, Germany; 4: Cluster of Excellence PhoenixD Welfengarten 1, 30167 Hannover, Germany

Octave-spanning infrared supercontinuum generation in a graded-index multimode Tellurite fiber

Ekaterina Krutova¹, Zahra Eslami¹, Tanvi Karpate^2,3, Mariusz Klimczak³, Ryszard Buczynski^2,3, Goëry Genty¹

1: Tampere University, Finland; 2: Institute of Microelectronics and Photonics, Poland; 3: University of Warsaw, Poland

Towards advanced near-infrared spectroscopy at megahertz repetition rates

Anchit Srivastava^1,2, Andreas Herbst^1,2, Daniel Schade^1,2, Mahdi Mohammadi Bidhendi^1,2, Max Kieker^1,2, Francesco Tani¹, Hanieh Fattahi^1,2

1: Max-Planck-Institute for the Science of Light, Erlangen, Germany; 2: Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen, Germany

Polarized microscopy, towards molecular-organization imaging in cells and tissues

Sophie Brasselet

Institut Fresnel, France

A new tool for measuring ultrashort laser pulses directly on-target during high-intensity laser-matter interactions

Helder M. Crespo^1,2, Tobias Witting³, Miguel Canhota², Miguel Miranda⁴, John W.G. Tisch¹

1: Imperial College London, United Kingdom; 2: Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, Portugal; 3: Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy, Berlin, Germany; 4: Sphere Ultrafast Photonics, Porto, Portugal

Controlling the focusing properties of attosecond XUV beams

Eric Constant¹, Fabrice Catoire², Kevin Veyrinas², Constance Valentin², Jan Vabek^2,3,4, Eric Mevel²

1: Université de Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS, Institut Lumière Matière (ILM), rue A. Byron, 69622 Villeurbanne, France; 2: Université de Bordeaux, CNRS, CEA, Centre Laser Intenses et Applications (CELIA), 43 rue P. Noailles, 33400 Talence, France; 3: ELI Beamlines Centre, Institute of Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Za Radnicí 835, 25241 Dolní Břežany, Czech Republic; 4: Czech Technical University in Prague – Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Jugoslávských partyzánů 1580/3, 160 00 Praha 6, Czech Republic

13 mW average power ultrafast HHG source

Robert Klas^1,2, Alexander Kirsche^1,2, Martin Gebhardt^1,2, Joachim Buldt¹, Henning Stark¹, Steffen Hädrich³, Jan Rothhardt^1,2,4, Jens Limpert^1,2,4

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: Active Fiber Systems GmbH, Ernst-Ruska-Ring 17, 07745 Jena, Germany.; 4: Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering, Albert-Einstein-Str. 7, 07745 Jena, Germany.

Broadband UV-Vis frequency combs from high-harmonic generation in quasi-phase-matched waveguides

Jay Rutledge¹, Anthony Catanese¹, Daniel Hickstein^2,3, Thomas Allison¹, Scott Diddams^2,3, Abijith Kowligy^2,3

1: Stony Brook University, USA; 2: National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA; 3: Dept. of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder

Raman red-shift compressor: A simple approach for scaling the high harmonic generation cut-off

Katherine Légaré¹, Reza Safaei¹, Guillaume Barrette¹, Loïc Arias¹, Philippe Lassonde¹, Heide Ibrahim¹, Boris Vodungbo², Emmanuelle Jal², Jan Lüning³, Nicolas Jaouen⁴, Andrius Baltuška⁵, François Légaré¹, Guangyu Fan¹

1: Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Canada; 2: Sorbonne Université, France; 3: Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, Germany; 4: Synchrotron SOLEIL, France; 5: Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Quantum network technology – the second life of rare-earth crystals

Wolfgang Tittel

QuTech & Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, The

Engineered nonlocalities in metasurfaces

Andrea Alú

Advanced Science Research Center, City University of New York, United States of America

Photo-acoustic detection of buried gratings

Paul Planken

Advanced Research Center for Nanolithography & University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, The