ALPS'15

Invited Talks

Katia Gallo: Royal Inst of Technology, Sweden; "Parametric Processes in Two-Dimensional Nonlinear Photonic Crystals"
A. M. Sergeev: Institute of Applied Physics, RAS, Russia; "Prospects for Advanced X-Ray and Gamma-Ray Sources with Exawatt Laser Facility XCELS"
Chang Hee Nam: Center for Relativistic Laser Science, IBS&GIST, Korea; "Advancement of Laser-Driven Compact Particle Accelerators"
Andrius Baltuska: Vienna University of Technology, Austria; "Development of high-power mid-IR optical parametric amplifiers and their applications in high harmonic generation"
Ruxing Li: Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, China; "Progress Towards a 10 PW Ultraintense Laser Facility: Demonstration of 5 PW High Gain Large Aperture Ti:Sapphire Amplifier"
Stuart Jackson: Macquarie University, Australia; "Challenges and Opportunities for Mid-infrared Fibre Sources"
Jorge J. Rocca: Colorado State University, USA; "High Average Power Table-Top Soft X-Ray Lasers"
Hideki Hirayama and Wataru Terashima: RIKEN, Japan; "First Achievement of Nitirde Semiconductor Based Terahertz Quantum Cascade Laser"
Gabriel Ycas: Univresity of Colorado, USA; "Towards a 30 GHz Astrocomb for The Near-Infrared"
Masanobu Iwanaga: NIMS, Japan; "Recent Progress in Resonance Enhancement of Light Emissions on Metasurfaces"
Yasuyuki Ozeki: University of Tokyo, Japan; "Stimulated Raman Scattering Microscopy for Label-Free Imaging and Spectroscopy"

Martin E. Fermann: IMRA, USA; "High power mid IR fiber frequency combs"
Mamoru Hashimoto: Osaka Univ., Japan; "Nonlinear coherent Raman imaging using fast and wide spectral tuning mode-locked laser "
Jurgen Michel: MIT, USA; "Monolithic Ge lasers for Si CMOS"
Takenori Morita: Hamamatsu Photonics, Japan; "High-power and high-efficiency 9xx-nm laser diodes for pumping applications"
Oliver D. Mucke: DESY CFEL, Germany; "High-energy optical parametric waveform synthesizers"
Thomas Schibli: University of Colorado Boulder, USA; "Graphene devices for ultra-low noise optical frequency combs"
Mark I. Stockman: Georgia State University, USA; "Spaser (plasmonic laser and amplification)"
Tetsuya Yagi: Mitsubishi Electric, Japan; "High power red semiconductor laser for display application"
Nan Ei Yu: GIST, Korea; "THz wave generation using quasi-phase matched devices"
Ji-Ping Zou: LULI, France; "Apollon 10 PW project : An upcoming ultra-intense facility"

M. Hemmer: ICFO, Spain; "3.1um wavelength, 19uJ energy, 160kHz repetition rate OPCPA for strong-field physics"
H. Hirayama: RIKEN, Japan; "Development of Deep-UV LEDs and THz-QCLs and those applications"
A. Shirakawa: Univ. of Electro-Communications, Japan; "Photonic bandgap and multicore fiber lasers for appication for ultrahigh resolution optical coherence tomography"
D. Molter: Univ. Kaiserslautern, Germany; "Photonic terahertz sources and their applications in fundamental and applied research"
Chi-Kuang Sun: National Taiwan Univ., Taiwan; "Optical harmonic generation biopsy of human skin based on a femtosecond Cr:forsterite laser"
T. Klein: Ludwig-Maximilians-Univ. Munchen, Germany; "Fourier domain mode-locked lasers and their application to OCT"
K. Isobe: ASI, RIKEN; "Spatial overlap modulation nonlinear optical microscopy for background-free deep imaging"
C. J. Saraceno: ETH Zurich, Switzerland; "High average power ultrafast thin disk lasers"
J. H. Sung: Inst. Basic Science, Republic of Korea; "Temporal pulse cleaning for high-contrast PW laser pulse"
W. Leemans: LBNL, USA; "Laser plasma accelerators for future colliders and light sources"