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CFP11ECL-PRT 978-1-4577-0533-5

2011 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and 12th European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO EUROPE/EQEC 2011)

Munich, Germany 22 – 26 May 2011

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

PLENARY TALKS Shining New Light on Old Questions in Quantum Mechanics (Plenary)..................................................................................................... 1

Ursula Keller

Solid-State Lasers Advances and Prospects (Plenary) ................................................................................................................................... 2Guenter Huber

Quantum Simulations with Cold Atoms, Molecules and Ions (Plenary)...................................................................................................... 3Peter Zoller

SOLID-STATE LASERS First Demonstration of Rare-Earth-Doped Anisotropic Ceramic Laser ..................................................................................................... 4

Jun Akiyama, Takunori Taira

Diode Pumped Alkali Lasers History, Current State and Perspectives ....................................................................................................... 5Boris Zhdanov, Michael Shaffer, Randall Knize

An HBr Oscillator-amplifier Pumped by a High-energy Ho YLF Laser System........................................................................................ 6M J Daniel Esser, Wayne Koen, Hencharl J Strauss, Cobus Jacobs, Lourens R Botha, Christoph Bollig

Laser Operation and Spectroscopic Investigations of Tm LuScO3............................................................................................................... 7Philipp Koopmann, Samir Lamrini, Karsten Scholle, Peter Fuhrberg, Klaus Petermann, Günter Huber

Efficient Gd3+, Lu3+ co-doped KY(WO4)2:Tm$3+ Channel Waveguide Lasers............................................................................................. 8Koop Van Dalfsen, Shanmugam Aravazhi, Dimitri Geskus, Kerstin Wörhoff, Markus Pollnau

Efficient Laser Operation of Ho Lu2O3 at Room Temperature .................................................................................................................... 9Samir Lamrini, Philipp Koopmann, Michael Schäfer, Karsten Scholle, Peter Fuhrberg, Klaus Petermann, Günter Huber

Influence of Temperature on Emission Cross Section and Laser Operation for Nd YVO4 Emitting Around 1064 nm....................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 10

Xavier Délen, François Balembois, Patrick Georges

30W Nd GdVO4 Oscillator Modelocked with Nonlinear Mirror ................................................................................................................ 11Gabrielle Thomas, Michael Damzen

Temperature Resolved Measurements of Absorption and Emission Cross Sections for Various Yb3+-doped Gain Media from 100k to Room Temperature ....................................................................................................................................................... 12

Jörg Körner, Joachim Hein, Hartmut Liebetrau, Martin Kahle, Mathias Lenski, Markus Löser, Mathias Siebold

Controllable Direction Switching of Vortex Output in a Nd YVO4 Bounce Laser ................................................................................... 13Masahito Okida, Je-Yen Huang, Yung-Fu Chen, Takashige Omatsu

Numerical Simulation of Thermal Effects in Composite Nd YAG Slab Laser Active Medium with Collinear Zig-zag Pumping ...................................................................................................................................................................................................... 14

Martynas Gabalis, Valdas Girdauskas, Aidas Aleknavicius, Andrejus Michailovas

High Average Power, Passively Q-switched Stigmatic Bounce Geometry Laser ...................................................................................... 15Gabrielle Thomas, Michael Damzen

Stimulated-brillouin-scattering Via Phase-conjugation-mirror for High-average-power Nd YAG Laser Systems ............................. 16Hidetsugu Yoshida, Koji Tsubakimoto, Hisanori Fujita, Noriaki Miyanaga, Yutaka Nagata, Hiroo Kinoshita

High-power Passively Mode-locked Nd GdVO4 Laser Using Single-walled Carbon Nanotubes as Saturable Absorber ............................................................................................................................................................................................................ 17

Hou-Ren Chen, Young-Gang Wang, Kuei-Huei Lin, Wen-Feng Hsieh

Intracavity Four Wave Mixing using Modulated Optical Feedback in a Diode-pumped Nd YVO4 Laser ........................................... 18Hervé Gilles, Sylvain Girard, Mathieu Laroche, Eric Lacot

Watt-level, Efficient and Radially Polarized Nd YAG Laser ...................................................................................................................... 19Xia Kegui, Li Jianlang

Laser Performances and Spectroscopic Investigation of Yb LuAG Grown by μPD Technique ............................................................. 20Agnesi Antonio, Pirzio Federico, Reali Giancarlo, Yongzhuan Zhang, Veronesi Stefano, Tonelli Mauro

Lasing Properties of New Yb-doped Borate Compounds with Varying Gadolinium and Yttrium Concentration .............................. 21Inka Manek-Hönninger, Véronique Jubera, Marie Chavoutier, Dominique Descamps, Philippe Veber, Matias Velazquez, Alain Garcia, Lionel Canioni

Thermooptical Distortions in a Nd YAG Slab with a Zigzag Beam Propagation ..................................................................................... 22Andrey Lyashedko, Galina Bufetova, Vladimir Seregin, Vladimir Tsvetkov, Ivan Shcherbakov

Steady-state Operation of Pulsed Pumped Self Mode Locked Nd YVO4 Laser using Electro-optical Feedback Control ............................................................................................................................................................................................................... 23

Hristo Iliev, Sergey Gagarsky, Algis Stalnionis, Ivan Buchvarov

1.2-ps CPQ System using an Yb YAG Thin Disk Regenerative Amplifier ................................................................................................ 24Martin Delaigue, Sandrine Ricaud, Clemens Hönninger, Eric Mottay

High-efficiency Solar Nd YAG Disc Laser with Optical Fiber Pumping ................................................................................................... 25Bruno Do Couto, Dawei Liang

Na,Nd co-doped Ca2MgSi2O7 Laser ................................................................................................................................................................ 26Hiroaki Nakao, Akira Shirakawa, Ken-Ichi Ueda, Ladislav Bohaty, Petra Becker, Alexander Kaminskii

Cavity Dumping of Single 19 ps Pulses from Passively Mode-locked Quasi-continuously Pumped Highly Doped Nd YAG Laser......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 27

Václav Kubecek, Michal Jelínek, Miroslav Cech, Petr Hiršl

Chaotic Mode-locking of Mid-IR Chirped-pulse Oscillator ........................................................................................................................ 28Vladimir Kalashnikov, Evgeni Sorokin, Irina Sorokina

High Power, Diode Side Pumped Er YAG Lasers ........................................................................................................................................ 29Arne Heinrich, Thomas Bragagna

High Efficiency 2066-nm Laser Based on Tm Lu2O3 Ceramics .................................................................................................................. 30Oleg Antipov, Nikita Zakharov, Anton Novikov, Valeriy Sharkov

Dynamics of Refractive Index Changes in Tm-doped Crystals Tm YAG and Tm YLF, and Ceramics Tm Lu2O3 ............................. 31Andrey Zinoviev, Remi Soulard, Oleg Antipov, Richard Moncorgé, Eugeniy Ivakin

Temporally Stretched Q-switched Pulses in the 2 μm Spectral Range ...................................................................................................... 32Ingo Rohde, Dirk Theisen-Kunde, Ralf Brinkmann

Numerical Optimization of a High-energy End-pumped Ho YLF Slab Amplifier ................................................................................... 33Oliver Collett, Christoph Bollig, Daniel Esser

Spectroscopic, Luminescent And Laser Properties Of Tm3+-doped Mixed NaLaGd Tungstates and Molibdates ............................... 34Fedor Bolschikov, Nikita Zakharov, Polina Ryabochkina, Denis Lis, Kirill Subbotin, Evgeny Zharikov, Oleg Antipov

High Energy Diode Pumped Er YSGG Laser at 3μm Transition............................................................................................................... 35Emma Arbabzadah, Simon Chard, Hemmel Amrania, Chris Phillips, Michael Damzen

Delivery of 4.45 μm Fe ZnSe Laser Radiation by Hollow Waveguide........................................................................................................ 36Helena Jelinkova, Michal Nemec, Jan Sulc, Mitsunobu Miyagi, Katsumasa Iwai, Hiroyuki Takaku, Maxim Doroshenko, Tasoltan Basiev, Vitaly Komar, Andriy Gerasimenko

Characterization of Delivered Resonantly Pumped 1645 nm Er YAG Laser Radiation by Hollow Glass Waveguide........................ 37Michal Nemec, Helena Jelinkova, Mitsunobu Miyagi, Katsumasa Iwai, Hiroyuki Takaku

Automation of the Alignment Process of a Solid State Laser Resonator ................................................................................................... 38Christian Brecher, Nicolas Pyschny, Vicente Paul Guerrero Lule

Non-resonant Feedback to Enhance Conventional Lasing in Advanced Materials.................................................................................. 39Luis Cerdán, Angel Costela, Inmaculada García-Moreno, Virginia Martín, Maria Eugenia Pérez-Ojeda

High-Power, Single-Frequency Ti Sapphire Laser Pumped by a Continuous-Wave Fiber Laser Green Source ................................. 40Suddapalli Chaitanya Kumar, Goutam Kumar Samanta, Kavita Devi, Stefano Sanguinetti, Majid Ebrahim-Zadeh

Microsecond Red Laser Pulses Via Overcoupled Intracavity Second Harmonic Generation................................................................. 41Roman Ostrowski

Strategies to Run an Ophthalmological CW Self-Raman Laser in Micro-second Pulsed Laser Regime............................................... 42Alessandro Mota, Giuliano Rossi, Tiago Ortega, Glauco Costal, Yuri Fontes, Fatima Yasuoka, Mario Stefani, Jarbas Castrro, Maria Paiva

Temperature Dependent Output Characteristics of Pr YAP Microchip Lasers at 747 nm and 662 nm Wavelengths ........................ 43Martin Fibrich, Helena Jelínková, Jan Šulc, Karel Nejezchleb, Václav Škoda

Automodulations Observation in an Extended Cavity Ti Sapphire Oscillator - Period Doubling and Chaos ...................................... 44Tomasz Kardas, Wojciech Gadomski, Bozena Ratajska-Gadomska, Piotr Wasylczyk

Frequency Stable Operation of a Pulsed Solid State Laser Oscillator Based on Gain Grating Holograms .......................................... 45Roland Ullmann, Robert Elsner, Axel Heuer, Ralf Menzel, Martin Ostermeyer

Self-Optimization of Robot-based Resistance Soldering for the Assembly of Optical Elements in Solid-State Laser Systems............................................................................................................................................................................................................... 46

Alexander Gatej, Nicolas Pyschny, Valentin Morasch, Peter Loosen, Christian Brecher

Rapidly Tunable Intra-cavity Cr3+ LiCAF-PPSLT Optical Parametric Oscillator Based on a Self-injection-locked Pump Wave ....................................................................................................................................................................................................... 47

Haroldo J. Maestre, Adrián J. Torregrosa, Juan Capmany

High Performance Planar Waveguide Lasers for Applications from TV to Space (invited) ................................................................... 48Yoshihito Hirano

First Visible 639 nm SrF2 Pr3+ Ceramic Laser .............................................................................................................................................. 49Tasoltan Basiev, Vasilii Konyushkin, Dmitrii Konyushkin, Maxim Doroshenko, Gunter Huber, Fabian Reichert, Nils-Owe Hansen, Matthias Fechner

Single-Frequency Continuous-wave Diode-pumped Pr3+BaY2F8 Orange Laser ....................................................................................... 50David Paboeuf, Oussama Mhibik, Fabien Bretenaker, Philippe Goldner, Daniela Parisi, Mauro Tonelli

A Continuous-wave Laser with Wavelength-selectable Output Spanning Green-yellow-red ................................................................. 51Andrew Lee, David Spence, James Piper, Helen Pask

Eu3+ KGd(WO4)2 Laser Crystal Stimulated Emission at 703 nm 5D0→7F4 Transition ............................................................................ 52Sergei Bagayev, Vladimir Dashkevich, Valentin Orlovich, Sergei Vatnik, Anatolii Pavlyuk, Alexander Yurkin

Highly Efficient, Broadly Tunable 2-µm Femtosecond Tm KYW Laser................................................................................................... 53Alexander Lagatsky, Tom Brown, Wilson Sibbett, Stephane Calvez, Martin Dawson, James Gupta

Wide-bandwidth Ho YFL Multi-pass Amplifier Pumped by Tm:Fiber Laser ......................................................................................... 54Nicola Coluccelli, Gianluca Galzerano, Paolo Laporta, Alberto Di Lieto, Mauro Tonelli

2.08 μm Ho KLu(WO4)2 Laser Resonantly Pumped by a Diode Laser ...................................................................................................... 55Venkatesan Jambunathan, Xavier Mateos, Maria Cinta Pujol, Joan Josep Carvajal, Magdalena Aguiló, Francesc Díaz, Uwe Griebner, Valentin Petrov

High Energy 125mJ Ho YAG (2.09 μm) MOPA Double Pass Laser System Pumped by cw Thulium Fiber Laser (1.9 μm) .............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 56

Karsten Schmidt, Christoph Reiter, Heike Voss, Frank Maßmann, Martin Ostermeyer

Quasi-Three-Level Solid-State Lasers in the Near and Mid Infrared (Invited)........................................................................................ 57Marc Eichhorn

The National Ignition Facility and the Goal of Near-term Laser Fusion Energy (Keynote) ................................................................... 58Edward Moses

Multi-Slab Architecture for kJ-Class DPSSL System .................................................................................................................................. 59Paul Mason, Saumyabrata Banerjee, Klaus Ertel, Cristina Hernandez-Gomez, Jonathan Phillips, John Collier

Hundred mJ Level, High Contrast OPCPA/Yb YAG Hybrid Laser System ............................................................................................ 60Masayuki Suzuki, Hiromitsu Kiriyama, Izuru Daito, Hajime Okada, Paul Bolton, Akira Sugiyama, Kiminori Kondo, Shunichi Kawanishi, Masatoshi Sato, Yoshinori Tamaoki, Takehiro Yoshii, Junya Maeda, Shinichi Matsuoka, Hirofumi Kan

High-energy, Diode-pumped Yb CaF2 Disk-laser ........................................................................................................................................ 61Mathias Siebold, Markus Loeser, Fabian Roeser, Franziska Kroll, Joerg Koerner, Joachim Hein, Ulrich Schramm

Final Developments of the Chemcam Laser Source and Potential Applications for New Planetology Programs ................................ 62Benoît Faure, Eric Durand, Sylvestre Maurice, Didier Bruneau, Franck Montmessin

A Highly-Stabilized Light Source for the Space Gravitational Wave Detector DECIGO and DPF....................................................... 63Mitsuru Musha, Shinya Horiuchi, Ken'Ichi Nakagawa, Ken-Ichi Ueda

Development of a Solid State Laser Amplifier Source for the Third Generation of Gravitational Wave Detectors ............................ 64Chandrajit Basu, Oliver Puncken, Lutz Winkelmann, Peter Weßels, Jörg Neumann, Dietmar Kracht

Solar NdYAG Laser Beam Quality by a Roof-shaped Pump Cavity ......................................................................................................... 65Joana Almeida, Dawei Liang

High Power High-Density Spectral Beam Combining by Volume Bragg Gratings (VBGs).................................................................... 66Derrek Drachenberg, Ivan Divliansky, Vadim Smirnov, George Venus, Leonid Glebov

Stabilized 1.5 Microns Dual-frequency Laser Prototype for Optical Generation of High Purity Microwave Signals ......................... 67Grégoire Pillet, Bastien Steinhausser, Loïc Morvan, Julien Schiellein, Thomas Merlet, Daniel Dolfi

High Average Power Ultrafast Lasers (Invited)............................................................................................................................................ 68Johannes Weitenberg, Peter Rußbüldt, Hans-Dieter Hoffmann, Reinhart Poprawe

50-MW, 12-ps Nd YVO4$ Slab Amplifier for OPCPA Pumping ................................................................................................................ 69Clemens Heese, Andreas E. H. Oehler, Lukas Gallmann, Ursula Keller

12 W, 350 fs Ultrashort Pulses from a Micro-pulling Down Yb YAG Single Crystal Fiber Amplifier. ................................................. 70Yoann Zaouter, Igor Martial, Xavier Délen, Nicolas Aubry, Julien Didierjean, Clemens Hönninger, Eric Mottay, Patrick Georges, Frédéric Druon, François Balembois

Sub-100W Phase Conjugate Pico-second Nd YVO4 Laser System Based on a Tandem Bounce Amplifier .......................................... 71Makoto Ashihara, Kaori Hayashi, Takaharu Yoshino, Masahito Okida, Katsuhiko Miyamoto, Takashige Omatsu

High Power Mixed Vanadate Laser and Modelocking with Nonlinear Mirror ........................................................................................ 72Gabrielle Thomas, Takashige Omatsu, Michael Damzen

Passively Q-switched Nd YAG/Cr4+ YAG All-Ceramics, Composite, Monolithic Micro-Lasers with Multi-Beam Output for Laser Ignition ................................................................................................................................................................................ 73

Nicolaie Pavel, Masaki Tsunekane, Takunori Taira

High Energy, High Peak Power (2.6mj/5.6MW) Or High Average Power (20W) NdYAG Single-crystal Fiber Amplifier in a Sub-ns kHz System.................................................................................................................................................................. 74

Igor Martial, François Balembois, Juien Didierjean, Patrick Georges

High-Brightness 946 nm Nd YAG Planar Waveguide Laser ...................................................................................................................... 75S. P Ng, J. I. Mackenzie

Broadly Tunable and Low-quantum-defect Yb3+-doped Double Tungstate Channel Waveguide Lasers ............................................. 76Dimitri Geskus, Shanmugam Aravazhi, Kerstin Wörhoff, Markus Pollnau

Compact Tm KYW Laser Passively Q-switched with a PbS-quantum Dot-based Saturable Absorber ................................................ 77Maxim Gaponenko, Victor Kisel, Alexander Malyarevich, Alexei Onushchenko, Konstantin Yumashev, Nikolai Kuleshov

6 MW Peak Power at 532 nm by Using Linearly Polarized Passively Q-switched Microchip Laser ..................................................... 78Rakesh Bhandari, Takunori Taira

Novel Method for Pulse Control in NdYVO4/C4+ YAG Passively Q-switched Microchip Laser............................................................. 79

Simon Joly, Takunori Taira

Chi-(2)-lens Mode Locking of a 1,3 4 μm Nd GdVO4 Laser In-band Pumped by 880nm Laser Diode.................................................... 80Hristo Iliev, Ivan Buchvarov, Valentin Petrov

Dual Wavelength and Switchable Laser Operation of Pr3+ LiYF4 Crystals at 523 nm and 640 nm ....................................................... 81Sebastian Müller, Nils-Owe Hansen, Ortwin Hellmig, Klaus Petermann, Günter Huber

Spectroscopy of Ho Lu2O3 with Respect to the Realization of a Visible Laser.......................................................................................... 82Matthias Fechner, Fabian Reichert, Philipp Koopmann, Klaus Petermann, Guenter Huber

Beat Note Stabilization of a 10-60 GHz Dual Polarization NdYAG Microchip Laser Through Optical Down Conversion......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 83

Antoine Rolland, Marc Brunel, Goulc'Hen Loas, Ludovic Frein, Marc Vallet, Mehdi Alouini

Four-micron CW Operating Dy PbGa2S4 Laser ........................................................................................................................................... 84Jan Sulc, Helena Jelinkova, Maxim E. Doroschenko, Tasoltan T. Basiev, Vyacheslav V. Osiko, Valerii V. Badikov, Dmitrii V. Badikov

High-power Fibre-laser-pumped Er YAG Laser with Top-hat Output Beam.......................................................................................... 85Ji Won Kim, Jacob I. Mackenzie, John R. Hayes, William A. Clarkson

Radially-polarized, Q-switched Pulses from a Side-pumped Nd YVO4 Compact Stigmatic Bounce Laser with a Photonic Crystal Output Coupler................................................................................................................................................................... 86

Takashige Omatsu, Koki Iwamatsu, Simon P. Chard, Ara Minassian, Michael J. Damzen

High-energy Q-switched Er YAG Laser with Laguerre-Gaussian (LG01) Mode Output ........................................................................ 87Ji Won Kim, Jacob I. Mackenzie, John R. Hayes, William A. Clarkson

Geometric Frustration in Large Arrays of Coupled Lasers ........................................................................................................................ 88Micha Nixon, Eitan Ronen, Asher A. Friesem, Nir Davidson

Maintaining Radial-polarization and Beam-quality in Muli-kw Rod-based Lasers Through the Use of Polycrystalline Nd YAG Rods ......................................................................................................................................................................... 89

Inon Moshe, Steven Jackel, Yaakov Lumer, Avi Meir, Revital Feldman, Yehoshua Shimony

Conical Refraction Beam Evolution ............................................................................................................................................................... 90David Carnegie, Grigorii Sokolovski, Todor Kalkandjiev, Edik Rafailov

Cryogenic Yb YAG Total-Reflection Active-Mirror Lasers (Invited) ....................................................................................................... 91Junji Kawanaka, Hiroaki Furuse, Daniel Albach, Yasuki Takeuchi, Akira Yoshida, Toshiyuki Kawashima, Hirofumi Kan

Yb CaF2 Laser at Cryogenic Temperature ................................................................................................................................................... 92Sandrine Ricaud, Dimitris Papadopoulos, Patrice Camy, Jean-Louis Doualan, Richard Moncorgé, Antoine Courjaud, Eric Mottay, Patrick Georges, Frédéric Druon

Cryogenic-cooled Yb: YAG Amplifier for ns-pulses Obtaining High Optical Efficiencies...................................................................... 93Jörg Körner, Hartmut Liebetrau, Joachim Hein, Martin Kahle, Markus Löser, Mathias Siebold

Alternative Approaches for Highly Efficient Diode-Pumped Lasers ......................................................................................................... 94Martin Kahle, Joachim Hein, Jörg Körner, Hartmut Liebetrau, Mathias Lenski, Reinhard Seifert

Disk Laser Delivering 50 mJ with 400 ns Latency........................................................................................................................................ 95Karsten Schuhmann, Aldo Antognini, Adolf Giesen, Thomas Graf, Tobias Nebel, Randolf Pohl

Octave-Spanning Supercontinuum from an Efficient Gigahertz Femtosecond Yb KGW Laser with 2.2-W Average Power ................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 96

Selina Pekarek, Christian Fiebig, Katrin Paschke, Götz Erbert, Thomas Südmeyer, Ursula Keller

Yb CaGdAlO4 Thin Disk Laser in Continuous-wave ................................................................................................................................... 97Sandrine Ricaud, Birgit Weichelt, Philippe Goldner, Bruno Viana, Marwan Abdou-Ahmed, Andreas Voss, Thomas Graf, Daniel Ritz, Eric Mottay, Patrick Georges, Frédéric Druon

CW and Modelocked Operation of an Yb (Sc,Y,Lu)2O3 Thin-Disk Laser................................................................................................. 98Cyrill Roman Emmanuel Baer, Clara Jody Saraceno, Oliver Hubert Heckl, Matthias Golling, Thomas Südmeyer, Kolja Beil, Christian Kränkel, Klaus Petermann, Günter Huber, Ursula Keller

High Gain Yb CaF2 Amplifier Pumped by a High Brightness Ytterbium Doped Fiber Laser Operating at 976nm ........................... 99Guillaume Machinet, Jerome Lhermite, Dominique Descamps, Giedrius Andriukaitis, Audrius Pugžlys, Daniel Adam, Andrius Baltuška, Eric Cormier

Scalability of Mode-locked Thin-disk Oscillators Issues and Scenarios of Destabilization ...................................................................100Oleg Pronin, Vladimir Kalashnikov, Vladimir Pervak, Catherine Teisset, Mikhail Larionov, Jens Rauschenberger, Alexander Apolonski, Ernst Fill, Ferenc Krausz

New Thin Disk Laser Materials Yb ScYLO and Yb YLF .........................................................................................................................101Kolja Beil, Susanne T. Fredrich-Thornton, Christian Kränkel, Klaus Petermann, Daniela Parisi, Mauro Tonelli, Günter Huber

Continuous-wave Second-StokesSelf-Raman Nd GdVO4 Laser ...............................................................................................................102Jipeng Lin, Andrew J. Lee, Helen M. Pask

Low-loss Synthetic Single-crystal Diamond Raman Gain Measurement and High Power Raman Laser at 1240 nm .......................103Vasili Savitski, David Burns, Alan Kemp

Optical Parametric Oscillators Spanning the Ultraviolet to Mid-Infrared (Invited) .............................................................................104Majid Ebrahim-Zadeh

Ring Cavity Solid-state Raman Lasers Generating in Visible and Eye-safe Spectral Regions .............................................................105Ruslan Chulkov, Vladimir Dashkevich, Pavel Apanasevich, Valentin Orlovich

All-Solid-State, Narrowband, Pulsed Sodium D2 Resonance Light Source .............................................................................................106Norihito Saito, Tomohiro Tsukihana, Takuya Kawahara, Satonori Nozawa, Tetsuya Kawabata, Takuo Tsuda, Toshiro Koizumi, Satoshi Wada

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS The Transistor Laser (Invited)......................................................................................................................................................................107

Milton Feng, Nick Holonyak

Impact of Nonlinear Carrier-carrier Scattering on Gain Dynamics and Nonlinear Optical Properties of Quantum Dot Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers ........................................................................................................................................................108

Niels Majer, Kathy Lüdge, Eckehard Schöll

Birefringence and Spin Controlled Ultrafast Polarization Oscillations in Vertical-cavity Surface-emitting Lasers..........................109M. Y. Li, H. Jaehme, H. Soldat, N. C. Gerhardt, M. R. Hofmann, T. Ackemann

Up to 9 Gbit/s Data Transmission with Monolithically Integrated VCSELs and PIN Photodiodes .....................................................110Alexander Kern, Dietmar Wahl, Sujoy Paul, Mohammad Tanvir Haidar, Rainer Blood, Wolfgang Schwarz, Rainer Michalzik

5 GHz Modulation of 650 nm VCSEL..........................................................................................................................................................111Robert Roßbach, Marcus Eichfelder, Michael Jetter, Peter Michler

Wavelength Multistability in Ring and Fabry-Pérot Lasers The Effect of Spatial Hole Burning ........................................................112Antonio Perez-Serrano, Julien Javaloyes, Salvador Balle

An Asymmetric Integrated Extended Cavity 20GHz Mode-locked Quantum Well Ring Laser Fabricated in the JePPIX Technology Platform........................................................................................................................................................................113

M. Saeed Tahvili, Yohan Barbarin, Xaveer J. M. Leijtens, Tjibbe De Vries, Barry Smalbrugge, Jeroen Bolk, Huub P. M. M Ambrosius, Meint K. Smit, Erwin A. J. M Bente

All-optical Signal Processing Functions Using Semiconductor Ring Lasers (invited)............................................................................114Siyuan Yu, Bei Li

Bichromatic Emission and Coexisting Multimode Dynamics in Ring Lasers .........................................................................................115Antonio Perez-Serrano, Julien Javaloyes, Salvador Balle

Direct Modulation of Bistable Semiconductor Ring Lasers ......................................................................................................................116Xinlun Cai, Gabor Mezosi, Marc Sorel, Zhuoran Wang, Nan Chi, Pisu Jiang, Muhammad Memon, Siyuan Yu

Measurement of the Spectral Amplitude and Phase of a Free-running 40 GHz Quantum-dash Modelocked Laser Diode. ...............................................................................................................................................................................................................117

Stuart Murdoch, Regan Watts, Yiqing Xu, Ramon Maldonado-Basilio, Josue Parra-Cetina, Slywester Latkowski, Pascal Landais, Liam Barry

Extended Ground-state and Excited-state Carrier Dynamics Control in a Mode-locked Two-section Quantum Dot Laser Joining Absorber Reverse-bias and Resistor Self-electro-optic Effect (SEED) Emission-state Regimes ..................................118

Stefan Breuer, Lukas Drzewietzki, Wolfgang Elsässer

Passively Mode-locked Monolithic Two-section Gain-guided Tapered Quan-tum-dot Lasers I. Ultrashort and Stable Pulse Generation .................................................................................................................................................................................119

Lukas Drzewietzki, Myke Ruiz, Stefan Breuer, Michael Tran, Yannick Robert, Mattia Rossetti, Tianhong Xu, Paolo Bardella, Wolfgang Elsäßer, Michel Krakowski, Ivo Montrosset, Igor Krestnikov

Passively Mode-locked Monolithic Two-section Gain-guided Tapered Quantum-dot Lasers II. Record 15 Watt Peak Power Generation .................................................................................................................................................................................120

Daniil I. Nikitichev, Myke Ruiz, Ying Ding, Michael Tran, Yannick Robert, Michel Krakowski, Mattia Rossetti, Paolo Bardella, Ivo Montrosset, Igor Krestnikov, Daniil Livshits, Maria Ana Cataluna, Edik U. Rafailov

Strong Asymmetry of Mode-locking Pulses in Quantum-dot Semiconductor Lasers ............................................................................121Mindaugas Radziunas, Andrei G. Vladimirov, Evgeny A. Viktorov, Gerrit Fiol, Holger Schmeckebier, Dieter Bimberg

320 GHz Time-Domain Multiplexed Pulses From Quantum-Dash Mode-Locked Semiconductor Laser Diodes...............................122Ramón Maldonado-Basilio, Sylwester Latkowski, Pascal Landais

Quantum Cascade Lasers Recent Advances and Future Prospects (Keynote) .......................................................................................123Claire Gmachl

Quantum Cascade Ring Lasers Unidirectional Operation and Coupled Ring Tuning ..........................................................................124Chidi Nshii, Charlie Ironside, Marc Sorel, Thomas Slight, Shiyong Zhang, Dmitry Revin, John Cockburn

Frequency Noise of Free-running Room Temperature Quantum Cascade Lasers ................................................................................125Lionel Tombez, Joab Di Francesco, Stéphane Schilt, Gianni Di Domenico, Daniel Hofstetter, Pierre Thomann

Strain-balanced Quantum Cascade Lasers Influence of Growth Temperature on Interface Roughness and Laser Performance ....................................................................................................................................................................................................126

Alfredo Bismuto, Romain Terazzi, Mattias Beck, Jerome Faist

Polarization Dynamics Of VCSELS with Optical Feedback And Crossed Polarization Reinjection...................................................127Mathias Marconi, Massimo Giudici, Stéphane Barland, Julien Javaloyes, Salvador Balle

Spatial "rocking" in Broad Emission Area Semiconductor Lasers..........................................................................................................128Mindaugas Radziunas, Kestutis Staliunas

Experimental Characterization of Bubbling in Delay-Coupled Semiconductor Lasers ........................................................................129Xavier Porte, Jordi Tiana-Alsina, Konstantin Hicke, Carme Torrent, Jordi García-Ojalvo, Ingo Fischer

Single-Mode Quantum-Dash Laser Submitted to Optical Injection Nonstandard Behaviour with Respect to the Slave Pump ......................................................................................................................................................................................................130

Zhenyu Hao, Pascal Besnard

Dynamics of Coupled Mode-Locked Quantum Dot Semiconductor Lasers (Invited) ............................................................................131Guillaume Huyet, Tatiana Habruseva, Natalia Rebrova, Stephen Hegarty, Dmitrii Rachinskii, Andrei Vladimirov, Evgeniy Viktorov

Generation ofHigh Power (> 7W) Yellow-Orange GaInNAs Semiconductor Disk Laser .....................................................................132Tomi Leinonen, Janne Puustinen, Ville-Markus Korpijärvi, Antti Härkönen, Mircea Guina, Ryan Epstein

Generation of UV Laser Llight via intra-cavity Frequency Doubling of an AlGaInP-VECSEL..........................................................133Thomas Schwarzbäck, Hermann Kahle, Marcus Eichfelder, Wolfgang-Michael Schulz, ##robert Roßbach, Michael Jetter, Peter Michler

PbSe Quantum Well VECSEL on Si ............................................................................................................................................................134Matthias Fill, Mohamed Rahim, Amir Khiar, Ferdinand Felder, Hans Zogg

Narrow Linewidth 2μm GaSb-based Semiconductor Disk Laser .............................................................................................................135Marcel Rattunde, Sebastian Kaspar, Benno Rösener, Tino Töpper, Christian Manz, Klaus Köhler, Oliver Ambacher, Joachim Wagner

Mid-Infrared Continuously Tunable Single Mode VECSEL ....................................................................................................................136Amir Khiar, Ferdinand Felder, Mohamed Rahim, Matthias Fill, Fabian Hobrecker, Hans Zogg

2.5 μm Semiconductor Disk Laser with 130 nm Tuning Range ................................................................................................................137Jari Nikkinen, Jonna Paajaste, Riku Koskinen, Soile Suomalainen, Oleg Okhotnikov

Density-Activated Defect Recombination as a Possible Explanation for the Efficiency Droop in GaN-Based Light Emitters ...........................................................................................................................................................................................................138

Jorg Hader, Jerome V. Moloney, Stephan W. Koch

Near-UV Laser Diodes for External Cavity Lasers ....................................................................................................................................139Wolfgang Scheibenzuber, Ulrich Schwarz

Efficiency-optimized 973nm High Power Broad Area DFB Lasers with Overgrown Aluminium-free Gratings for Peak Power Conversion of 63%....................................................................................................................................................................140

Christoph Matthias Schultz, Paul Crump, Hans Wenzel, Steffen Knigge, Olaf Brox, Andre Maaßdorf, Frank Bugge, Götz Erbert

Picosecond Pulses with More Than 60 W Peak Power Generated by a Single-stage All-semiconductor Master-oscillator Power-amplifier System ................................................................................................................................................................141

Sven Schwerfeger, Andreas Klehr, Armin Liero, Thomas Hoffmann, Hans Wenzel, Götz Erbert

Octave-Spanning Supercontinuum from an Efficient Gigahertz Femtosecond Yb KGW Laser with 2.2-W Average Power ...............................................................................................................................................................................................................142

Selina Pekarek, Christian Fiebig, Katrin Paschke, Götz Erbert, Thomas Südmeyer, Ursula Keller

Compact 1064 nm ps-light Source on a Micro Bench with Free Adjustable Repetition Rate and nJ Pulse Energy ..........................143Andreas Klehr, Armin Liero, Thomas Hoffmann, Sven Schwertfeger, Hans Wenzel, Götz Erbert, Wolfgang Heinrich, Günther Tränkle

Ge-on-Si Lasers for Silicon Photonics (Invited) ..........................................................................................................................................144Jifeng Liu, Lionel C. Kimerling, Jurgen Michel

Flexible Distributed Feedback Colloidal Quantum Dot Laser Patterned by a Submicron Grating Structure ...................................145Yujie Chen, Benoit Guilhabert, Johannes Herrnsdorf, Yanfeng Zhang, Allan Mackintosh, Richard Pethrick, Nicolas Laurand, Martin Dawson

Integrated Tunable Quantum Dot Laser for Optical Coherence Tomography in the 1.7μm Wavelength Region .............................146Bauke W. Tilma, Yuqing Jiao, Junji Kotani, Barry Smalbrugge, Huub P. M. M. Ambrosius, Peter J. Thijs, Xaveer J. M. Leijtens, Richard Nötzel, Meint K. Smit, Erwin A. J. M. Bente

Semiconductor Mode-locked Lasers with Integrated Dispersion Control...............................................................................................147Michael J. Strain, Piotr M. Stolarz, Marc Sorel

Singlemode Tunable VCSELs with Integrated MEMS Technology.........................................................................................................148Benjamin Kögel, Pierluigi Debernardi, Petter Westbergh, Åsa Haglund, Johan Gustavsson, Jörgen Bengtsson, Erik Haglund, Anders Larsson

Reduced Photon Bunching in Cooled Quantum Dot Superluminescent Diodes .....................................................................................149Martin Blazek, Wolfgang Elsäßer

Photonic Crystal Nanolasers, Modulation and Coherence Characteristics .............................................................................................150Remy Braive, Richard Hostein, David Elvira, Xavier Hachair, Sylvain Barbay, Izo Abram, Isabelle Sagnes, Gregoire Beaudoin, Luc Le Gratiet, Anne Talneau, Isabelle Robert-Philip, Alexios Beveratos

A Coupled Quantum Dot Laser Amplifier Using Raman Transitions Between Spin Singlet and Triplet States................................151Jeroen Elzerman, Kathrina Weiss, Javier Miguel Sanchez, Atac Imamoglu

Direct Observation of Slow Light in the Noise Spectrum of a Laser ........................................................................................................152Abdelkrim El Amili, Bernardo-Xavier Miranda, Fabienne Goldfarb, Ghaya Baili, Gregoire Beaudoin, Isabelle Sagnes, Fabien Bretenaker, Mehdi Alouini

Measurement of Phase-Correlation between Optical Modes of Semiconductor Lasers ........................................................................153Marcello Simonetta, Marco Soldo, Marco Zanola, Michael J. Strain, Marc Sorel, Guido Giuliani

Intensity and Frequency Noise in high power highly coherent VeCSELs ...............................................................................................154Alexandre Laurain, Mikhaël Myara, Isabelle Sagnes, Arnaud Garnache

Ultrashort Pulse Surface-Emitting Semiconductor Lasers (Invited)........................................................................................................155Anne Tropper

Femtosecond VECSELs with up to 1 W Average Output Power .............................................................................................................156Martin Hoffmann, Oliver D. Sieber, Valentin J. Wittwer, Wolfgang P. Pallmann, Igor L. Krestnikov, Sergey S. Mikhrin, Daniil A. Livshits, Matthias Golling, Yohan Barbarin, Thomas Südmeyer, Ursula Keller

Pulse Generation in a Semiconductor Disk Laser with Frequency-Shifted Feedback ...........................................................................157Esa Saarinen, Jari Nikkinen, Oleg Okhotnikov

10-GHz MIXSEL A High Power Integrated Ultrafast Semiconductor Disk Laser ................................................................................158Valentin J. Wittwer, Benjamin Rudin, Deran J. H. C. Maas, Martin Hoffmann, Oliver D. Sieber, Yohan Barbarin, Matthias Golling, Thomas Suedmeyer, Ursula Keller

Monitoring the Temperature Distribution in High-Power VECSELs .....................................................................................................159Sangam Chatterjee, Alexey Chernikov, Jens Herrmann, Maik Scheller, Martin Koch, Bernardette Kunert, Wolfgang Stolz, Stephan W. Koch, Tsuei-Lian Wang, Yushi Kaneda, J. Michael Yarborough, Jörg Hader, Jerome V. Moloney

Passively Mode-Locked Semiconductor Laser for Coherent Population Trapping in 87Rb.................................................................160Giuseppe Tandoi, Krishna Seunarine, Charles N. Ironside, A. Catrina Bryce, Stewart D. McDougall, Wyn Meredith, Andre N. Luiten

Reconfigurable Repetition Rate in Colliding-Pulse Mode Locked Lasers ...............................................................................................161Giuseppe Tandoi, Charles N. Ironside, A. Catrina Bryce

Investigation of Passive Electric and Optical-feedback Stabilization of a Passively Mode-locked Tapered Two-section Quantum-dot Laser ...........................................................................................................................................................................162

Lukas Drzewietzki, Stefan Breuer, Wolfgang Elsäßer, Michel Krakowski, Igor Krestnikov

In As Quantum-dots Laser Utilizing GaAs W1 Type Photonic-crystal Slab Line-defect Waveguide ..................................................163Hisaya Oda, Naoki Hamada, Akio Yamanaka, Nobuhiko Ozaki, Naoki Ikeda, Yoshimasa Sugimoto

Coupled Ring Resonator Geometry for Efficient Second Harmonic Generation ...................................................................................164Danilo Skoczowsky, Andreas Jechow, Ralf Menzel

The Excitonic Capture Path in Electrically Pumped Quantum Dots Using Time-resolved Amplified Spontaneous Emission...........................................................................................................................................................................................................165

Jordi Gomis-Bresco, Sabine Dommers-Völkel, Oliver Schöps, Yuecel Kaptan, Olga Dyatlova, Dieter Bimberg, Ulrike Woggon

Analysis and Characterisation of Experimental Real-Time Series of a Semiconductor Laser under Optical Injection ...........................................................................................................................................................................................................166

Kevin Schires, Antonio Hurtado, Ian Henning, Mike Adams

Physical Modeling of Mechanical and Thermal Properties of 980 nm High-Power Laser Diodes on Composite Submounts .......................................................................................................................................................................................................167

Julien Leclech, Daniel T. Cassidy, François Laruelle, Mauro Bettiati, Jean-Pierre Landesman

High Performance Single-Mode 1060 nm DFB Laser Diodes ...................................................................................................................168Evgeny Zibik, Julien Boucart, Achim Thies, Ian Davies, Chris Button, Norbert Lichtenstein

Narrow-linewidth High-power Semiconductor-based Laser Module ......................................................................................................169Stefan Spießberger, Max Schiemangk, Alexander Sahm, Andreas Wicht, Hans Wenzel, Götz Erbert, Günther Tränkle

Tuning Wavelength and Linewidth of an External Cavity Diode Laser using an Active Control Scheme Based on Polarization Spectroscopy .............................................................................................................................................................................170

Thorsten Führer, Thomas Walther

Hybrid-integrated ECDL for Precision Rubidium Spectroscopy in Space..............................................................................................171Erdenetsetseg Luvsandamdin, Gregor Mura, Andreas Wicht, Alexander Sahm, Götz Erbert, Günther Tränkle

Single-frequency Optically Pumped Semiconductor Vertical External Cavity Laser at 852nm for Cs Atomic Clock ......................172Fabíola A. Camargo, Isabelle Sagnes, Arnaud Garnache, Patrick Georges, Gaëlle Lucas-Leclin

Development and Spectral Characterisation of Discrete Mode Laser Diodes (DMLDs) emitting at 780 nm for Rubidium Atomic Clocks...............................................................................................................................................................................173

Florian Gruet, Thejesh Bandi, Gaetano Mileti, John O'Carroll, Brian Kelly, Richard Phelan, James O'Gorman

Multiple Gain Element GainNAs Disk Laser Generating Narrow Band (2.6 Mhz) Radiation at 1178 Nm ........................................174Antti Härkönen, Tomi Leinonen, Ville-Markus Korpijärvi, Janne Puustinen, Mircea Guina

Modulation Response of Quantum Dot Nano-LEDs and Nano-lasers .....................................................................................................175Troels Suhr, Niels Gregersen, Michael Lorke, Jesper Mørk

Fastly tunable External-Cavity Diode-Lasers Controlled by Electro-Absorption Modulators.............................................................176Hendrik Jähme, Mike Bülters, Dieter Jäger, Martin Hofmann

Performance Optimization of Electrically-injected Nano-spin VCSELs .................................................................................................177K. Alan Shore

Tailored Intensity Distributions with High Power VCSEL Systems ........................................................................................................178Holger Moench, Stephan Gronenborn, Michael Miller, Peter Loosen

Temperature Dependent Dynamics in a 1550nm VCSELs Subject To Polarised Optical Injection ....................................................179Nadir Khan, Kevin Schires, Antonio Hurtado, Ian Henning, Michael Adams

Dual-frequency Operation of a Vertical External Cavity Semiconductor Laser for Coherent Population Trapping Cesium Atomic Clocks ...................................................................................................................................................................................180

Jessica Barrientos, Fabíola Camargo, Sylvie Janicot, Isabelle Sagnes, Arnaud Garnache, Ghaya Baili, Loïc Morvan, Patrick Georges, Gaëlle Lucas-Leclin

Stability Analysis of Spin-Polarized VCSELs .............................................................................................................................................181Rihab Ks Al Seyab, Dimitris Alexandropoulos, Ian D Henning, Mike J Adams

Polarization-Stable Single-Mode VCSELs for Cs-based Miniature Atomic Clocks...............................................................................182Ahmed Al-Samaneh, Mohammad T. Haidar, Dietmar Wahl, Rainer Michalzik

All-optical Inverter based on Polarization Switching in Long-wavelength VCSELs .............................................................................183Ana Quirce, Jose Ramon Cuesta, Antonio Hurtado, Kevin Schires, Angel Valle, Luis Pesquera, Ian Henning, Michael Adams

Gain and Reflectance Measurements of a 1050nm VECSEL Chip ..........................................................................................................184Sebastian Haupt, Michael Furitsch, Hans Lindberg, Ines Pietzonka, Uwe Strauß, Gerd Bacher

Polarisation-Resolved Real-Time Series of the Dynamics of a 1550 nm-VCSEL under Orthogonal Optical Injection.....................185Kevin Schires, Antonio Hurtado, Ian Henning, Mike Adams

Spectral Characterisation of VCSELs Emitting at 894.6 Nm for Cpt-based Miniature Atomic Clocks..............................................186Florian Gruet, Laura Bimboes, Danijela Miletic, Christoph Affolderbach, Gaetano Mileti, Ahmed Al-Samaneh, Dietmar Wahl, Rainer Michalzik

Power Scaling and Heat Management in High-Power VECSELs ............................................................................................................187Sangam Chatterjee, Alexey Chernikov, Jens Herrmann, Maik Scheller, Martin Koch, Bernardette Kunert, Wolfgang Stolz, Stephan W. Koch, Tsuei-Lian Wang, Yushi Kaneda, J. Michael Yarborough, Jörg Hader, Jerome V. Moloney

Free-Running Quantum Dot SESAM Modelocked VECSEL with Record-Low Timing Jitter ............................................................188Valentin J. Wittwer, Christian A. Zaugg, Wolfgang P. Pallmann, Andreas E. H. Oehler, Benjamin Rudin, Martin Hoffmann, Matthias Golling, Yohan Barbarin, Thomas Suedmeyer, Ursula Keller

Fast Absorption Recovery and Wavelength Conversion in 1.5μm AlInGaAs MQW lasers ..................................................................189Richard Green, Mohsin Haji, Lianping Hou, Gabor Mezosi, Rafal Dylewicz, Tony Kelly

The Impact of Thermal Management of Saturable Absorber on the Performance of Mode-Locked Semiconductor Disk Lasers ......................................................................................................................................................................................................190

Antti Rantamäki, Jari Lyytikäinen, Jari Nikkinen, Oleg Okhotnikov

Frequency Chirp Characterization of a Gain-switched Semiconductor Laser Using Photonic Differentiation Based on Polarization Interferometry .....................................................................................................................................................................191

Antonio Consoli, José Manuel Tijero, José Azaña, Yong Woo Park, Ignacio Esquivias

Shoe Box All Semiconductor High Power Femtosecond Laser System....................................................................................................192Jan C. Balzer, Tobias Schlauch, Martin R. Hofmann, Andreas Klehr, Götz Erbert

Saturation of Absorption and Gain in a Quantum Dot Diode with Continuous-wave Driving.............................................................193Thorsten Ackemann, Alessio Tierno, Christopher G. Leburn, C. Tom A. Brown

Integrated Optical Comb Generation for Coherent Communications using Injection Locked Semiconductor Lasers ...............................................................................................................................................................................................................194

William Cotter, David Goulding, Brendan Roycroft, Brian Corbett, Frank Peters

Post-Growth Fabrication of a DFB Laser Array with High Precision Wavelength Spacing.................................................................195Marco Zanola, Michael J. Strain, Guido Giuliani, Marc Sorel

Very Narrow Linewidth of High Power DFB Laser Diode for Cs Pumping ...........................................................................................196Charles Cayron, Mickael Tran, Yannick Robert, Alain Enard, Eric Vinet, Michel Garcia, Michel Lecomte, Laurent Teisseire, Olivier Parillaud, Michel Kralowski

Dynamics of Semiconductor Lasers with Polarization Rotated Feedback and its Applications for Fast Random Bit Generation .......................................................................................................................................................................................................197

Neus Oliver, Miguel C. Soriano, David Sukow, Ingo Fischer

Observation of a Novel Type of Optical Modes in VCSELs ......................................................................................................................198Grigorii Sokolovskii, Vladislav Dudelev, Andrey Monakhov, Alexey Savenko, Sergey Blokhin, Anton Deryagin, Svetlana Zolotovskaya, Alexander Kuzmenkov, Sergey Losev, Victor Luchinin, Nikolai Maleev, Edik Rafailov, Wilson Sibbett, Vladimir Kuchinskii

Transitions Between Regular and Chaotic Behavior in Polarization-stabilized Vertical-cavity Surface-emitting Lasers ...............................................................................................................................................................................................................199

Andreas Molitor, Wolfgang Elsäßer

Tuning dynamics of a > 70 nm continuously tunable MEMS-VCSEL with a hybrid curved mirror ..................................................200Karolina Zogal, Christian Gierl, Hooman Davani, Christian Grasse, Markus Maute, Peter Meissner, Markus Amann

Passive Mode-locking in Quantum Well Fabry-p\'erot Lasers .................................................................................................................201Julien Javaloyes, Piotr Stolarz, Lianping Hou, Marc Sorel, Catrina Bryce, Salvador Balle

80-ghz AlGaInAs/inp 1.55 µm Colliding-pulse Mode-locked Laser with Low Divergence Angle and Timing Jitter .........................202Lianping Hou, Mohsin Haji, Chong Li, Jehan Akbar, John Marsh, Ann Bryce

Active-mode-locked Terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers (invited).........................................................................................................203Stefano Barbieri, Marco Ravaro, Pierre Gellie, Giorgio Santarelli, Christophe Manquest, Carlo Sirtori, Suraj P. Khanna, Sdmund H. Linfield, A. Giles Davies

Passive Harmonic Mode-locking of Discrete Mode Diode Lasers.............................................................................................................204David Bitauld, Simon Osborne, Stephen O'Brien

A Low Jitter Passively Mode Locked Laser Diode at 40 GHz Using Regenerative Feedback Via an Optical Fiber Loop .................................................................................................................................................................................................................205

Mohsin Haji, Anthony Kelly, Lianping Hou, Ann Bryce, John Arnold, Charles Ironside

TERAHERTZ SOURCES AND APPLICATIONS Ultrafast Gain Switching of THz Quantum Cascade Lasers THz pulse amplification and Injection Seeding (Invited) ...........................................................................................................................................................................................................206

Sukhdeep Dhillon, Nathan Jukam, Dimitri Oustinov, Rakchanok Rungsawang, Jean Maysonnave, Julien Madéo, Pierrick Cavallié, Stefano Barbieri, Pascal Filloux, Carlo Sirtori, Xavier Marcadet, Jerome Tignon

THz Time Domain Spectroscopy of Coupled Cavity THz Quantum Cascade Lasers with Metal-Metal Waveguide ........................207Michael Martl, Juraj Darmo, Daniel Dietze, Christoph Deutsch, Martin Brandstetter, Alexander Benz, Aaron Maxwell Andrews, Pavel Klang, Werner Schrenk, Gottfried Strasser, Karl Unterrainer

Ultra-broadband THz Semiconductor Laser Based on Heterogeneous Quantum Cascade Gain Medium .........................................208Dana Turcinkova, Giacomo Scalari, Maria Ines Amanti, Fabrizio Castellano, Mattias Beck, Jerome Faist

Active Photonic Crystal Terahertz Laser Operating in Upper Bands .....................................................................................................209Alexander Benz, Christoph Deutsch, Martin Brandstetter, Aaron Maxwell Andrews, Pavel Klang, Hermann Detz, Werner Schrenk, Gottfried Strasser, Karl Unterrainer

Scattering Processes in Terahertz InGaGs/inAlAs Quantum Cascade Lasers .......................................................................................210Milan Fischer, Giacomo Scalari, Kemal Celebi, Maria Amanti, Christoph Walther, Mattias Beck, Jérôme Faist

THz stop bands by using Metal Slits in Tapered Parallel-Plate Waveguide ...........................................................................................211Eui Su Lee, Young Bin Ji, Tae-In Jeon

Temperature Controllable Terahertz Time-Domain Reflection Spectroscopy of Aqueous Systems....................................................212Wenchao Qiao, Arne Thoma, Thomas Dekorsy

Continuous- wave Terahertz Tomography with Phase Unwrapping .......................................................................................................213Wenfeng Sun, Xinke Wang, Ye Cui, Yan Zhang

Superconducting Waveguides for Terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers .................................................................................................214Martin Brandstetter, Alexander Benz, Christoph Deutsch, Karl Unterrainer, Pavel Klang, Hermann Detz, Werner Schrenk, Aaron Andrews, Gottfried Strasser

Terahertz Plasma Oscillations in Corbino Field-effect Transistors .........................................................................................................215Oleksiy Sydoruk, Richard Syms, Laszlo Solymar

Specific Features of Terahertz Radiation Emitted from Laser Sparks Induced in Gases by Femtosecond Laser Pulses with Linear Polarization ....................................................................................................................................................................216

Daniil Fadeev, Nina Zharova, Vyacheslav Mironov

Autowave of Electron Population Depletion and Sub Terahertz Self-modulations of Light Absorption and Intrinsic Stimulated Emission in GaAs ........................................................................................................................................................................217

Igor Bronevoi

Polarization-Independent Broadband Terahertz Modulator....................................................................................................................218Sanaz Zarei

Terahertz Spectroscopy of Beta- Barium Borate Crystals ........................................................................................................................219Oleg Khasanov, Sebastien Vidal, Jerome Degert, Jean Oberlé, Eric Freysz, Olga Fedotova, Grigory Rusetsky

Tunable THz Source with Less Than 100 GHz Bandwidth.......................................................................................................................220Tobias Bach, Gorazd Poberaj, Marko Zgonik, Carolina Medrano, Peter Günter

Triple-wavelength Cr3+ LiCAF Solid-state Laser for Simultaneous Generation of Two Independently Tunable THz Waves ...............................................................................................................................................................................................................221

Haroldo J. Maestre, Adrián J. Torregrosa, Juan Capmany

Diode-pumped Terahertz Laser Source Based on Stimulated Polariton Scattering ..............................................................................222Helen Pask, Yabai He, Andrew Lee

Progress on InGaAs/GaAsSb based Terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers..............................................................................................223Christoph Deutsch, Hermann Detz, Alexander Benz, Michele Nobile, Aaron Maxwell Andrews, Pavel Klang, Werner Schrenk, Gottfried Strasser, Karl Unterrainer

Metasurfaces Coupled to Terahertz Intersubband Transitions................................................................................................................224Daniel Dietze, Juraj Darmo, Gottfried Strasser, Karl Unterrainer

Watching the Dance of Ions and Molecules in the THz (invited)..............................................................................................................225Martina Havenith

Nondestructive Rapid Measurement of GaAs, GaN, SiC, and Si Semiconductors using One Tunable Terahertz Source...............................................................................................................................................................................................................226

Akihide Hamano, Yoshinobu Takatsu, Seigo Ohno, Hiroaki Minamide, Hiromasa Ito, Yoshiyuki Usuki

Non-Contact Multilayer Thickness Measurements with Reflection-Mode Terahertz Time-Domain Spectroscopy...........................227Volker Feige, Stephan Nix, Frank Ellrich, Joachim Jonuscheit, René Beigang

Nonlinear Spectroscopy Using Intense THz Pulses with Amplitudes Exceeding 1 MV/cm (invited) ...................................................228Koichiro Tanaka

Magnetic-Field Induced Broadband THz Absorption Change in a Multiferroic Hexaferrite at Room Temperature.......................229Eiichi Matsubara, Yohei Onishi, Taishi Ishikura, Tsuyoshi Kimura, Masaaki Ashida

Terahertz Real Time Focal Plane Imaging ..................................................................................................................................................230Yan Zhang, Xinke Wang, Ye Cui, Wenfeng Sun

Field-resolved Four-wave Mixing with Multi-THz Transients in InSb (Invited)....................................................................................231Friederike Junginger, Bernhard Mayer, Sebastian Mährlein, Christian Schmidt, Olaf Schubert, Alexander Sell, Alexej Pashkin, Alfred Leitenstorfer, Rupert Huber

Development of Real-time Near-field THz Microscope .............................................................................................................................232Atsushi Doi, François Blanchard, Tomoko Tanaka, Koichiro Tanaka

Efficient Optical Up-Conversion by Coherent Sum-Frequency Generation for Highly Sensitiv Terahertz Detection ......................233Florian Sedlmeir, Harald G. L. Schwefel, Dmitry V. Strekalov, Sebastian Bauerschmidt, Sascha Preu, Stefan Malzer, Gottfried H. Döhler, Gerd Leuchs

Continuous Wave Intracavity Terahertz Source ........................................................................................................................................234Maik Scheller, Joe M. Yarborough, Jerome V. Moloney, Mahmoud Fallahi, Martin Koch, Stephan W. Koch

Terahertz Emitter Based on the Lateral Photo-dember Effect Excited with an Er Fiber Laser ..........................................................235Gregor Klatt, Bernhard Surrer, Daniel Stephan, Olaf Schubert, Milan Fischer, Jérôme Faist, Alfred Leitenstorfer, Rupert Huber, Thomas Dekorsy

New Generation of the Electro-Optic Terahertz Detectors .......................................................................................................................236Juraj Darmo, Daniel Dietze, Michael Martl, Karl Unterrainer

Terahertz Generation Control by Metal Substrate in Sandwich Structure with Thin LiNbO3 ............................................................237Sergey Bodrov, Igor Ilyakov, Boris Shishkin, Andrey Stepanov

APPLICATIONS OF NONINEAR OPTICS Nonlinear Photonics in Carbon Nanotubes and Graphenes (Invited) ......................................................................................................238

Shinji Yamashita

Tilted Fiber Bragg Grating Assisted Nonlinear Effects in Carbon Nanotube-Coated Optical Fibers .................................................239Guillermo E. Villanueva, Michael B. Jakubinek, Benoit Simard, Claudio J. Otón, Pere Pérez-Millán, Jacques Albert

Spetro-temporal Characterisation of Incoherent Supercontinuum Subnanosecond Laser Emission for Multiplex-CARS Microspectroscopy..............................................................................................................................................................................240

Annalisa De Angelis, Philippe Leproux, Vincent Couderc, Delia Arnaud-Cormos, Philippe Leveque

Coherent Raman Microscopy with a Fiber-Format Femtosecond Oscillator .........................................................................................241Alessio Gambetta, Vikas Kumar, Giulia Grancini, Dario Polli, Cristian Manzoni, Roberta Ramponi, Giulio Cerullo, Marco Marangoni

Chirped-pulse Interferometry for Dispersion-cancelled OCT ..................................................................................................................242Robert Prevedel, Kurt Schreiter, Rainer Kaltenbaek, Jonathan Lavoie, Devon Biggerstaff, Kevin Resch

Following a Chemical Reaction Using High Harmonic Spectroscopy (Invited)......................................................................................243Hans-Jakob Worner, Julien Bertrand, Daniil Kartashov, Paul Corkum, David Villeneuve

High-energy Deep-UV Temporal Pulse Shaping by Chirp-assisted Broadband Frequency Conversion.............................................244Carlo Vicario, Alexandre Trisorio, Christoph P. Hauri, G. Arisholm

Long Hollow Fibers for Strong, Spatially Uniform Spectral Broadening of Ultrashort Pulses ............................................................245Tamas Nagy, Peter Simon

High Stability 100 kHz Mid-IR OPCPA with Passive CEP Stability .......................................................................................................246Alexandre Thai, Olivier Chalus, Philip K. Bates, Jens Biegert

Keldysh-scaling in the Waveform Control of the Dissociative Ionization of D2 ......................................................................................247Irina Znakovskaya, Philipp Von Den Hoff, Gilad Marcus, Sergey Zherebtsov, Xun Gu, Yunpei Deng, Boris Bergues, Marc J. J. Vrakking, Ferenc Krausz, Reinhard Kienberger, Regina De Vivie-Riedle, Matthias Kling

Wave-Particle Duality and Tunable Steering of Solitons in Kerr media .................................................................................................248Chandroth Pannian Jisha, Alessandro Alberucci, Ray-Kuang Lee, Gaetano Assanto

Femtosecond Pulse Written Quasi Phase Matching Element in x-cut Lithium Niobate ........................................................................249Jens Thomas, Vinzenz Hilbert, Reinhard Geiss, Andreas Tünnermann, Stefan Nolte

Broadly Tunable CW Green-to-red Laser Source Based on Frequency Doubling of a Quantum-dot External Cavity Diode Laser in a PPKTP Waveguide ...............................................................................................................................................250

Ksenia A. Fedorova, Maria A. Cataluna, Philip R. Battle, Igor L. Krestnikov, Daniil A. Livshits, Edik U. Rafailov

Nonlinear Optical Diode Based on Nonreciprocal Cross-phase Modulation in Coupled Microcavities ..............................................251Victor Grigoriev, Fabio Biancalana

High Index Glass CMOS Compatible All-optical Chips for Telecom and Optical Interconnects (Invited) ........................................252David Moss, Alessia Pasquazi, Marco Peccianti, Luca Razzari, David Duchesne, Marcello Ferrera, Sai Chu, Brent Little, Roberto Morandotti

Toward Sub-Cycle Field Shaping by Molecular Modulation in Gasses and Solids Raman Coherence at Work (Invited) ...........................................................................................................................................................................................................253

Alexei Sokolov

Linear Precompensation of Phase-modulated Nanosecond Pulse Distortions in Second-harmonic Generation ................................254Sébastien Vidal, Jacques Luce, Denis Penninckx

Four-wave Mixing Based Mid-span Phase Conjugation using slow light engineered Chalcogenide and silicon photonic crystal waveguides ..........................................................................................................................................................................255

Majid Ebnali-Heidari, Hamed Saghaei, Christelle Monat, Christian Grillet

Influence of Modulation and Shape of Laser Pump Pulses on Stimulated Brillouin Scattering in Self-focusing Regime in Silica...............................................................................................................................................................................................256

Sarah Mauger, Luc Bergé, Stefan Skupin

Imaging in Focusing Kerr Media Using Digital Reverse Propagation .....................................................................................................257Alexandre Goy, Demetri Psaltis

Nonlinear Propagation Effects on High-Power Optical-Vortex Pulses in Anisotropic Crystals ...........................................................258Masato Suzuki, Yasunori Toda, Ryuji Morita

Vortex Solitons and Charge Flipping in Nematic Liquid Crystals ...........................................................................................................259Yana Izdebskaya, Anton Desyatnikov, Gaetano Assanto, Yuri Kivshar

Light Propagation in Nonlinear Photonic Lattices Based on Complex Nondiffracting Beams .............................................................260Patrick Rose, Martin Boguslawski, Falko Diebel, Julian Becker, Cornelia Denz

Discrete Solitons in Photonic Lattices with Topological Defects ...............................................................................................................261Matthias Heinrich, Robert Keil, Felix Dreisow, Andreas Tünnermann, Stefan Nolte, Alexander Szameit

Dynamics of Light Bullets in Two-Dimensional Arrays of Waveguides ..................................................................................................262Stefano Minardi, Falk Eilenberger, Yarsolav Kartashov, Alexander Szameit, Ulrich Röpke, Jens Kobelke, Kay Schuster, Hartmut Bartelt, Lluis Torner, Stefan Nolte, Andreas Tünnermann, Falk Lederer, Thomas Pertsch

Generating Ultra-Short High-Energy Pulses using Dissipative Soliton Resonance Pulse Compression Schemes ..............................263Wonkeun Chang, Philippe Grelu, Adrian Ankiewicz, Jose M. Soto-Crespo, Nail Akhmediev

Dispersion-Managed Fibers for All-Optical Regeneration at 160 Gbit/s .................................................................................................264Sy Dat Le, Thierry Chartier, Mathilde Gay, Marcia Costa E Silva, Laurent Bramerie, Michel Joindot, Jean-Claude Simon, Thanh Nam Nguyen

Fiber-Laser-Pumped, High-Power, Continuous-Wave, Singly-Resonant Optical Parametric Oscillator based on MgO sPPLT.....................................................................................................................................................................................................265

Suddapalli Chaitanya Kumar, Majid Ebrahim-Zadeh

Singly Resonant Continuous-Wave Optical Parametric Oscillator with Tunable Output above 4 μm and Low Oscillation Threshold .....................................................................................................................................................................................266

Mikael Siltanen, Tomi Leinonen, Mircea Guina, Lauri Halonen

Dispersion Compensation with a Grism-based Dispersive Line for Fiber Delivery of Sub-30 fs Pulses at 830 nm ............................267Claire Lefort, Méri Kalashyan, Tigran Mansuryan, Donald Peyrot, Levon Mouradian, Frédéric Louradour, Alain Barthélémy

Taper Designs for Semiconductor Filled Fibres..........................................................................................................................................268Neil Broderick, Anna Peacock

High Intensity Pulse Self-compression in Short Hollow Core Capillaries ...............................................................................................269Thomas J Butcher, Patrick N Anderson, Peter Horak, Jeremy G Frey, William S Brocklesby

Activated Escape from Polarization Pulling in Fibre Raman Amplifiers ................................................................................................270Sergey Sergeyev, Sergei Turitsyn

Tunable Multiplication of the Repetition Rate of an Optical Pulse Train Using Dynamic Brillouin Gratings in Optical Fibers..................................................................................................................................................................................................271

Sanghoon Chin, Nikolay Primerov, Salvador Sales, Luc Thévenaz

PCF Infrared Continuum for Multiwavelength Two Photon Microscopy ..............................................................................................272Claudio De Mauro, Domenico Alfieri, Marco Arrigoni, David Armstrong, Francesco Saverio Pavone

Theoretical Study of Dispersive Wave Generation in Ar-Filled Hollow-Core PCF above the Plasma Threshold..............................273Wonkeun Chang, Alexander Nazarkin, John Travers, Philipp Hölzer, Johannes Nold, Nicolas Y. Joly, Philip St. J. Russell

Supercontinuum Generation in Photonic Crystal Fibers Made from Borosilicate Glasses ...................................................................274Marina T. Nery, J. C. Ferreira, Enver F. Chillcce, Luis C. Barbosa, Flavio C. Cruz

Group-Acceleration Matching in Tapered Optical Fibers for Maximising the Power in the Blue-Edge of a Supercontinuum .............................................................................................................................................................................................275

Simon Toft Sørensen, Alex Judge, Carsten L. Thomsen, Ole Bang

Improved Parametric Generation of Light in Optical Fibers ...................................................................................................................276Cesar Jauregui, Dirk Nodop, Jens Limpert, Andreas Tünnermann

OPCPA Using Pump Beams Shaped by Diffractive Optical Elements ....................................................................................................277Alexandre Thai, Enrique Tajahuerce, Pedro Andrés, Philip K Bates, Jens Biegert

Mid-ir Optical Parametric Oscillator Based on LiGaS2 ............................................................................................................................278Aleksey Tyazhev, Vitaly Vedenyapin, Georgi Marchev, Alexander Yelisseyev, Ludmila Isaenko, Marina Starikova, Sergei Lobanov, Valentin Petrov

Generation of Eye-Safe Radiation in Passively Q-Switched Laser with Three Stokes Intracavity Raman Conversion.......................................................................................................................................................................................................279

Pavel Shpak, Sergei Voitikov, Ruslan Chulkov, Pavel Apanasevich, Valentin Orlovich, Alexander Grabtchikov, Anurag Kushwaha, Neena Satti, Lalita Agrawal, Anil Maini, Sergei Kruk

1.5 W Output Two-Color Femtosecond Optical Parametric Oscillator Pumped by a 7.4 W Femtosecond Yb KGW Laser.................................................................................................................................................................................................................280

Robin Hegenbarth, Andy Steinmann, János Hebling, Harald Giessen

A Frequency-swept Source for Broadband Mid-infrared Spectroscopy .................................................................................................281Alissa Silva, Ian Lindsay

High Energy, Sub-nanosecond, 0.5-kHz, Mid-IR OPO based on PPSLT Pumped at 1064 nm ............................................................282Alexander Gaydardzhiev, Danail Chuchumishev, Ivan Buchvarov, Dimitar Shumov, Stuart Samuelson

Mid-Infrared Optical Parametric Generation in CdSiP2...........................................................................................................................283Olivier Chalus, Peter Schunemann, Kevin Zawilski, Jens Biegert, Majid Ebrahim-Zadeh

The kHz Level Stabilization of an Intracavity Doubled Continuous Wave Optical Parametric Oscillator Using Pound-Drever-Hall Scheme...........................................................................................................................................................................284

Oussama Mhibik, David Paboeuf, Cyril Drag, Fabien Bretenaker

Quasi-Continuous-Wave Intracavity KGW Raman Laser Generation at Different Wavelengths .......................................................285Vladimir Dashkevich, Anton Kananovich, Henryk Szymczak, Valentin Orlovich

Wavelength Conversion of a Broadband ASE Source Based on Intra-cavity Difference-frequency-mixing in a Cr3+LiCAF-PPSLT Laser ..............................................................................................................................................................................286

Adrian J. Torregrosa, Haroldo Maestre, Juan Capmany

Narrowband PPKTP Source for Polarization Entangled Photons ...........................................................................................................287Siddarth Joshi, Felix Anger, Antia Lamas-Linares, Christian Kurtsiefer

Full-scanning Nonlinear Fourier-transform Spectroscopy of D2 Using High-order Harmonic Radiation ..........................................288Yusuke Furukawa, Yasuo Nabekawa, Eiji J. Takahashi, Tomoya Okino, Kaoru Yamanouchi, Katsumi Midorikawa

Plasma Filament Decay in an External Electric Field ................................................................................................................................289Sergey Bodrov, Alexey Murzanev, Maxim Tsarev, Andrey Stepanov

Universality in Relativistic Aspirations of Helmholtz Soliton Pulses .......................................................................................................290Gemma Lancaster, Mark Lundie, Timothy Hodgkinson, James Christian, Graham McDonald

Tunable Self-focusing and Self-steering of Nematicons .............................................................................................................................291Alessandro Alberucci, Armando Piccardi, Marco Peccianti, Malgosia Kaczmarek, Gaetano Assanto

Tunable Multiple Soliton Generation in Kerr Media.................................................................................................................................292Chandroth Pannian Jisha, Alessandro Alberucci, Ray-Kuang Lee, Gaetano Assanto

Fast Writing of Soliton Waveguides with Blue-Violet Lasers in Lithium Niobate for Coupling of Femtosecond Infrared Laser Pulses .....................................................................................................................................................................................293

Silviu T. Popescu, Adrian Petris, Valentin I. Vlad, Eugenio Fazio

Group Velocity Control in Reconfigurable Phase-shifted Superstructures.............................................................................................294Sebastian Kroesen, Wolfgang Horn, Cornelia Denz

Second Harmonic Generation from Single Nanoparticles .........................................................................................................................295Amos Schtalheim, Alois Renn, Michele Celebrano, Vahid Sandoghdar

Achromatic Transient-grating for FROG Characterization .....................................................................................................................296Elsa Baynard, Stéphane Faure, Valérie Blanchet

Nonlinear Optics of Randomly Structured Strontium Tetraborate .........................................................................................................297Aleksandr Aleksandrovsky, Andrey Vyunishev, Aleksandre Zaitsev, Anton Ikonnikov, Gennadiy Pospelov, Vitaliy Slabko

90 nm Resolution Reconstruction from a Polychromatic Signal Using Monochromatic Phase Retrieval Techniques ......................298Aaron D. Parsons, Richard T. Chapman, Benjamin Mills, Thomas J. Butcher, Jeremy G. Frey, William S. Brocklesby

Influence of the Acceptance Bandwidth on Frequency Doubling of ps Pulses in a ppMgO LN Ridge Waveguide ............................299Daniel Jedrzejczyk, Sina Riecke, Reiner Güther, Kristian Lauritsen, Katrin Paschke, Götz Erbert

Spectral Study of Propagation Losses of GaAs/AlOx Nonlinear Waveguides ........................................................................................300Marc Savanier, Filippo Ghiglieno, Sara Ducci, Ivan Favero, Giuseppe Leo

Acrylonitrile-Containing Methyl Methacrylate Polymers as New Host Materials for second-order NLO polymers ........................301Atsushi Sugita, Takahiro Kato, Masashi Morimoto, Yasuaki Tamaki, Yasumasa Kawata, Shigeru Tasaka

All - Optical Spatial Light Modulator using CdTe Quantum Dots...........................................................................................................302Ioan Dancus, Valentin I. Vlad, Adrian Petris, Nikolai Gaponik, Vladimir Lesnyak

Four-wave-mixing Efficiency and Conversion Bandwidth in Silicon-nanocrystals Slot Waveguides Fabricated by PECVD.............................................................................................................................................................................................................303

Andrea Trita, Cosimo Lacava, Ilaria Cristiani, Jean-Philippe Colonna, Pauline Gautier, Jean-Marc Fedeli

Hybrid III-V/Silicon on Insulator Nonlinear Nanophotonics (Invited)....................................................................................................304Fabrice Raineri, Alexandre Bazin, Yacine Halioua, Timothy Karle, Paul Monnier, Isabelle Sagnes, Rama Raj

Horizontally Slotted Electro-optic Silicon Waveguides Featuring an Organic Crystalline Slot Material ...........................................305Harry Figi, Denise H. Bale, Attila Szep, Larry R. Dalton, Antao Chen

Spatiotemporal Nonlinear Optics in Arrays of Subwavelength Waveguides ..........................................................................................306Andrey V. Gorbach, Wei Ding, Owain K. Staines, Charles E. De Nobriga, Gareth D. Hobbs, William J. Wadsworth, Jonathan C. Knight, Dmitry V. Skryabin, Antonio Samarelli, Mark Sorel, Richard M. De La Rue

High Average Power Temporal Pulse Compression in a Xe-Filled Kagome-Type Hollow-Core Photonic Crystal Fiber .................................................................................................................................................................................................................307

Clara J Saraceno, Oliver H Heckl, Cyrill R E Baer, Thomas Suedmeyer, Yu Cheng, Ying Y Wang, Fetah Benabid, Ursula Keller

Supercontinuum Generation in a Photonic Crystal Fiber Pumped by a Gain-switched High-power Fiber Laser ............................308Casper Larsen, Peter M. W. Skovgaard, Danny Noordegraaf, Kim P. Hansen, Kent E. Mattsson, Ole Bang

Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Raman Coherence in Hydrogen-filled Hollow Core Photonic Crystal Fibers.......................................309Anton Husakou, Yingying Wang, Brian Mangan, Fetah Benabid

Supercontinuum pulse-to-pulse fluctuations in a photonic bandgap fiber ..............................................................................................310Olivier Vanvincq, Benoit Barviau, Arnaud Mussot, Géraud Bouwmans, Yves Quiquempois, Alexandre Kudlinski

Switching Characteristics of Forward SIPS in Photonic Crystal Fiber ...................................................................................................311Myeong Soo Kang, Anna Butsch, Philip Russell

Transition Dynamics in Optical Fiber Amplifiers Operating in the Normal Dispersion Regime .........................................................312Brandon Bale, Kamal Hammani, Christophe Finot, Sonia Boscolo

Three-Wave Stimulated Raman Scattering in Hydrogen- Filled Photonic Crystal Fiber .....................................................................313Marta Ziemienczuk, Andreas M. Walser, Amir Abdolvand, Alexander Nazarkin, Clemens F. Kaminski, Philip St. J. Russell

Solitons Propagating in Liquid-core Photonic Crystal Fibers ..................................................................................................................314Claudio Conti, Fabio Biancalana, Markus A. Schmidt, Philip St. J. Russell Linearons

Reduced Amplitude Noise in Supercontinuum Generated in Tapered PCFs..........................................................................................315Uffe Moeller, Simon T. Soerensen, Peter M. Moselund, Jeppe Johansen, Carsten L. Thomsen, Ole Bang

Control of Supercontinuum Pulse-to-pulse Fluctuations by Fiber Tapering ..........................................................................................316Benoit Barviau, Alexandre Kudlinski, Arnaud Mussot

Gap Solitons in Inhomogeneous High-index Photonic Bandgap Fibers...................................................................................................317Jesper Laegsgaard

Multi-watt Level Output Power from a Dispersion-shifted Fiber Optical Parametric Oscillator Tunable Over 450 nm.....................................................................................................................................................................................................................318

Yiqing Xu, Ka Fai Mak, Stuart Murdoch

Improving Mid-infrared Supercontinuum Generation Efficency by Pumping a Fluoride Fiber Directly Into the Anomalous Regime at 1995nm......................................................................................................................................................................319

Mathieu Duhant, William Renard, Guillaume Canat, Frédéric Smektala, Johan Troles, Pierre Bourdon, Christophe Planchat

Optimized 4-μm OPO with Intracavity OPA Based on a Dual-Grating PPLN Crystal.........................................................................320Antoine Godard, Myriam Raybaut, Michel Lefebvre, Anne-Marie Michel, Michel Péalat

Picosecond Tunable Mode Locking of a Cr2+:ZnSe Laser with a Frequency-doubling Nonlinear Mirror..........................................321Jean-Baptiste Dherbecourt, Adrien Denoeud, Jean-Michel Melkonian, Myriam Raybaut, Antoine Godard, Michel Lefebvre, Emmanuel Rosencher

Characterization of High-energy Optical-parametric Oscillation by Using Periodically Poled Mg-doped Congruent LiTaO3 .............................................................................................................................................................................................................322

Hideki Ishizuki, Takunori Taira

All-fiber Rayleigh Ring Mirror with an Optical Control of the Resonance ............................................................................................323Irina Petukhova, Andrei Fotiadi, Oleg Antipov, Krassimir Panajotov, Hugo Thienpont, Patrice Mégret

Simple Method for Measuring the Zero-dispersion Wavelength in Optical Fibers................................................................................324Maxime Droques, Benoit Barviau, Alexandre Kudlinski, Geraud Bouwmans, Arnaud Mussot

Bistability and Excitability in 2D Photonic Crystal Nanocavities .............................................................................................................325Alejandro Yacomotti, Maia Brunstein, Isabelle Sagnes, Fabrice Raineri, Ariel Levenson

Enhanced Four Wave Mixing in Slow Light GaInP Photonic Crystals Waveguides and 40Gbit/s Transmission Assessment.......................................................................................................................................................................................................326

Kevin Lengle, Laurent Bramerie, Mathilde Gay, Jean Claude Simon, Sylvain Combrie, Pierre Colman, Alfredo De Rossi

Loss Saturation in Dispersion-Engineered Slow Light Waveguides.........................................................................................................327Thomas White, Andrey Sukhorukov

Time-Resolved Ultrafast All-Optical Switching in Directional Couplers with Second-Order Nonlinearity .......................................328Alexander Solntsev, Dragomir Neshev, Roland Schiek

Vectorial Second Harmonic Generation Imaging of Gold Nanocones .....................................................................................................329Godofredo Bautista, Mikko J. Huttunen, Jouni Mäkitalo, Juha M. Kontio, Janne Simonen, Martti Kauranen

The Origin of Second Harmonic Generation Hotspots in Chiral Optical Metamaterials......................................................................330Ventsislav Valev, Alejandro Silhanek, Xuezhi Zheng, Vladimir Volskiy, Claudiu Biris, Nicolae Panoiu, Ben De Clercq, Marcel Ameloot, Oleg Aktsipetrov, Guy Vandenbosch, Victor Moshchalkov, Thierry Verbiest

Low-threshold Optical Parametric Oscillations in a Whispering Gallery Mode Resonator .................................................................331Josef U. Fürst, Dmitry V. Strekalov, Dominique Elser, Andrea Aiello, Ulrik L. Andersen, Christoph Marquardt, Gerd Leuchs

Broadband, Rapidly Tunable, BiB3O6 Femtosecond Optical Parametric Oscillator Directly Pumped by a Ti sapphire ...........................................................................................................................................................................................................332

Adolfo Esteban-Martin, Venkata Ramaiah-Badarla, Valentin Petrov, Majid Ebrahim-Zadeh

Optimum Output Coupling in Optical Oscillators Using Antiresonant Ring Interferometry ..............................................................333Adolfo Esteban-Martin, Suddapalli Chaitanya Kumar, Majid Ebrahim-Zadeh

Independently Tunable, Dual-Wavelength Source Based on Two-Crystal, Continuous-Wave, Singly Resonant Optical Parametric Oscillator .......................................................................................................................................................................334

Goutam K. Samanta, Majid Ebrahim-Zadeh

Higher-order Cascaded Processes in Continuous-wave Optical Parametric Oscillators .......................................................................335Ingo Breunig, Rosita Sowade, Jens Kiessling, Karsten Buse

Tunable Parametric Oscillation in Radially Poled Whispering Gallery Resonators..............................................................................336Tobias Beckmann, Heiko Linnenbank, Karsten Buse, Ingo Breunig

OPTICAL MATERIALS, FABRICATION AND CHARACTERISATION Direct Refractive Index Measurement Technique to Observe Waveguide Dispersion Characteristics of Short Waveguides Utilising the Higher Order Modes of Integrated Bragg Grating Structures .....................................................................337

Helen L Rogers, Christopher Holmes, James C Gates, Peter G R Smith

Characterization of InGaAs and InGaAsN saturable absorber mirrors for high power mode locked sub-ps thin-disk lasers ........................................................................................................................................................................................................338

Farina Schättiger, Dominik Bauer, Dirk Sutter, Janne Puustinen, Mircea Guina, Thomas Dekorsy

Temperature Dependence of Laser-Induced Damage Thresholds for Dielectric and Metal Coatings.................................................339Katsuhiro Mikami, Shinji Motokoshi, Masayuki Fujita, Takahisa Jitsuno, Kazuo A Tanaka, Hiroshi Azechi

Nano-engineered Bismuth-doped Silica Glasses and Origin of Near Infrared Photoluminescence......................................................340Igor Razdobreev, Hicham El Hamzaoui, Mohamed Bouazaoui, Vladimir Arion

Photo-induced Nonlinear Optical Properties of BiB3O6 Glasses and Composites Containing BiB3O6 Glass Nanoparticles Embedded in Polymers .........................................................................................................................................................341

Andrzej Majchrowski, Zygmunt Mierczyk, Ivan V. Kityk

Cz-Growth of Ferroelectric LaBGeO5 Single Crystals ..............................................................................................................................342Shintaro Miyazawa, Toshiki Kanamori, Satoshi Ichikawa, Hideo Nakae

Self-assembling Active Soft NanoPhotonics on the Kilometre Scale (Invited) ........................................................................................343Jeremy Baumberg, Chris Finlayson, David Snoswell, Andreas Kontogeorgos, Andrew Haines, Qibin Zhao, Peter Spahn, Goetz Hellmann Extruding Opals

Size-dependent Recombination Dynamics in ZnO Nanowires ..................................................................................................................344Juan Sebastian Reparaz, Frank Güell, Markus R. Wagner, Axel Hoffmann, Albert Cornet, Joan Ramon Morante

ZnO-based Nanowires for Hybrid Low-voltage LED ................................................................................................................................345Oleg Lupan, Thierry Pauporté, Bruno Viana

Second Harmonic Generation in GaP Nanopillars .....................................................................................................................................346Reza Sanatinia, Marcin Swillo, Srinivasan Anand

Observation of Higher-Order Optical Nonlinearities in Photopolymerizable Semiconductor CdSe Quantum Dot-Polymer Nanocomposites ...............................................................................................................................................................................347

Yasuo Tomita, Xiangming Liu, Yusuke Adachi, Juro Oshima

Rare-earth Doped Double Tungstate Crystals for Solid-state Bulk, Thin-disk and Waveguide Lasers (invited)...............................348Valentin Petrov

Growth and Characterization of Highly Yb3+doped KY(WO4)2 Thin Layers .........................................................................................349Shanmugam Aravazhi, Dimitri Geskus, Koop Van Dalfsen, Detlef Gunther, Markus Pollnau

Optical and Magneto-optical Properties of Neodymium and Erbium doped Gallium Nitride Epilayers ............................................350Nathaniel Woodward, H. X. Jiang, J. Y. Lin, J. M. Zavada, E. Readinger, V. Dierolf

Excitation Quenching in Er3+-doped Al2O3 Amplifiers ..............................................................................................................................351Laura Agazzi, Kerstin Wörhoff, Markus Pollnau

Red, Green and Violet Up-conversion in Erbium Doped Telluride Glasses ............................................................................................352Krzysztof Anders, Anna Jusza, Michal Malinowski, Dariusz Pysz, Ryszard Stepien, Ryszard Piramidowicz

Physical Properties and Crystal Microstructure of the Single Crystal Fibres Made from Rare-earth Oxides...................................353Valerii Voronov, Alexander Veber, Lyudmila Iskhakova, Vitalii Kashin, Sergey Rusanov, Vladimir Tsvetkov

Structure and Spectral-luminescent Properties of Nanostructured CaF2-TmF3 Ceramics a Potential Active Medium for 2 µm Lasers ...............................................................................................................................................................................354

Polina Ryabochkina, Fedor Bolschikov, Andrey Lyapin, Alexander Malov, Marina Kruglova, Evgeniy Chuprunov, Vyacheslav Osiko, Pavel Fedorov, Sergey Kouznetzov, Sergey Ushakov, Evgeny Garibin

Material Preparation and Optical Properties of Ho-doped KPb2Cl5 and KPb2Br5 for applications as mid-IR gain media ................................................................................................................................................................................................................355

Uwe Hommerich, Olusola Oyebola, Eiei Brown, Althea Bluiett, Sudhir Trivedi

Ir Luminescence from Subvalent Bismuth in Phosphate Glass and Glass-ceramic Matrices a New Insight Into the Nature of Luminescent Bi Species ................................................................................................................................................................356

Alexey Romanov, Zukhra Fattakhova, Denis Zhigunov, Leonid Buchnev, Vladimir Korchak, Vladimir Sulimov

Investigation of Thermal Effects in Nd YAG Ceramics Under High Heat Load ....................................................................................357Mateusz Kaskow, Lukasz Gorajek, Jan K. Jabczynski, Jacek Kwiatkowski, Waldemar Zendzian

Ho-doped Tellurite Glasses for Emission in the Mid Infrared Wavelength Region ...............................................................................358Daniel Milanese, Joris Luosteau, Laercio Gomes, Nadia Boetti, Silvio Abrate, Stuart Jackson

Superfluorescence and Random Quasi-phase-matching in Pulsed Laser Deposited Nd YAG..............................................................359Mathias Hoffmann, Mark Gyamfi, Stefan Schrameyer, Holger Blaschke, Detlev Ristau, Uwe Morgner

Optical Properties of GGG Thin Films Doped with Ni2+ and Co 2+ ions ..................................................................................................360Krzysztof Kopczynski, Jerzy Sarnecki, Jaroslaw Mlynczak, Michal Malinowski, Ryszard Piramidowicz, Zygmunt Mierczyk, Maria Maciejewska, Magdalena Nakielska

Fluorescence Properties of Pr YSZ Doped Polymer Nanocomposites......................................................................................................361Ryszard Piramidowicz, Anna Jusza, Krzysztof Anders, Janusz D. Fidelus, Marek Godlewski, Sergey Yatsunenko

Photoluminescence Centers in Gamma-irradiated Bismuth-doped Glasses............................................................................................362Boris Denker, Boris Galagan, Sergei Sverchkov, Ilya Shulman, Evgeniy Dianov

Thermal Expansion Coefficients Anisotropy of Monoclinic Potassium (Rare-earth) Double Tungstates KRe(WO4) 2{Re=Gd,Y,Lu,Yb) ..........................................................................................................................................................................................363

Pavel Loiko, Konstantin Yumashev, Nikolai Kuleshov, Galina Rachkovskaya, Anatoly Pavlyuk

Transient Saturation Spectroscopy for Measuring the Lifetime of Hyperfine Sublevels in 167Er3+ Ions Doped in a Silicate Glass Fiber .........................................................................................................................................................................................364

Daisuke Hashimoto, Kaoru Shimizu

Optical Properties and Faraday Effects on Terbium Gallium Garnet Ceramics for Faraday Rotator ...............................................365Hidetsugu Yoshida, Koji Tsubakimoto, Yasusi Fujimoro, Hisanori Fujita, Noriaki Miyanaga, Hoshiteru Nozawa, Hideki Yagi, Takagimi Yanagitani, Yutaka Nagata, Hiroo Kinoshita

Optical Characterisation of Carbon-Nanohorn Based Nanofluids for Solar Energy and Life Science Applications.........................366Elisa Sani, Luca Mercatelli, Giovanni Zaccanti, Fabrizio Martelli, Paola Di Ninni, Simona Barison, Cesare Pagura, Annalisa Giannini, David Jafrancesco, Daniela Fontani, Franco Francini

Effect of Porosity on the Laser Induced Damage Threshold of Sol-gel SiO2 and ZrO2 Single Layer Films ........................................367Yuanjun Guo, Shaobo He, Xiaotao Zu, Xiaodong Yuan, Haibin Lv, Xiaodong Jiang

Intrinsic Spectral Selectivity in Ultra-High Temperature Ceramics for Solar Applications.................................................................368Luca Mercatelli, Elisa Sani, Paola Sansoni, Annalisa Giannini, Franco Francini, Diletta Sciti

Study on UV absorption edge of MgO doped LiNbO3 and CTVE excitons.............................................................................................369Feifei Xin, Guoquan Zhang, Yongzhe Zhang, Yongfa Kong, Jingjun Xu

Accurate Measurements of Refractive Indices of Undoped and Mg-doped Stoichiometric LiNbO3 and Litao3.................................370Ichiro Shoji, Daisuke Gunji, Masashi Hakamata, Tatsuo Fukui, Yasunori Furukawa

Variable Stripe Length Method for Optical Gain Measurements Characteristic Lengths ...................................................................371Luis Cerdán, Angel Costela, Inmaculada García-Moreno

Intrinsic Defects Pinned at the Domain Wall in Lithium Niobate ............................................................................................................372Greg Stone, Hendrik Steigerwald, Karsten Buse, Wolfgang Sohler, Venkatraman Gopalan, Simon Phillpot, Volkmar Dierolf

SHG Capabilities of RECOB (RE = Y, Gd) Oxyborate Crystals..............................................................................................................373Pascal Loiseau, Takunori Taira, Gerard Aka

Photoacoustic Detection of Weak Absorption in Lithium Niobate ...........................................................................................................374Niklas Waasem, Stephan Fieberg, Daniel Haertle, Frank Kühnemann, Karsten Buse

Temperature Effect on the Brillouin Gain Spectra of Highly Doped Aluminosilicate Fibers ...............................................................375Francesca H. Mountfort, Seongwoo Yoo, Alexander J. Boyland, Andrew S. Webb, Johan Nilsson, Jayanta K. Sahu

Optical Bistability in Colloidal Solution of Er-Yb Doped LaF3 Nanocrystals .........................................................................................376Egor Pobegalov, Peter Agruzov, Igor Ilichev, Alexander Shamray

A Novel Evaporation Method of Porphyrin/Alq3 Mixture for OLED Fabrication ................................................................................377Seyed Hosein Razavi, Ezeddin Mohajerani, Ali Khabazi, Hashem Shahroosvand, Mohammad Janghoori, Isa Ahmad Alidokht, Hosein Jashnsaz

Titanium free Optical Waveguides in Lithium Niobate produced by Etching During Indiffusion of Titanium (EDIT) ..............................................................................................................................................................................................................378

Tristan Crasto, Vijay Sivan, Thach Nguyen, Arnan Mitchell

Er3+-doped Glass-polymer Composite Thin Films Fabricated Using Combinatorial Pulsed Laser Deposition ..................................379Zhanxiang Zhao, Gin Jose, Mehrdad Irannejad, Paul Steenson, Nikos Bamiedakis, Richard Penty, Ian White

Direct Opal Fabrication From Silver-coated Silica Microspheres............................................................................................................380Michaela K. Micko, Matthias Brendle, Judith M. Dawes

Characterisation of Optical Waveguides in BGO Crystals Fabricated by N+ Ion Implantation ..........................................................381Stefano Pelli, Simone Berneschi, Gualtiero Nunzi Conti, Silvia Soria, Giancarlo Cesare Righini, Istvan Banyasz, Krisztián Lengyel, Ágnes Peter, Andrea Watterich, Tivdar Lohner, Miklós Fried, Zsolt Zolnai

Transient Raman Response of Novel Chalcogenide Micro-structured Optical Fibre ............................................................................382Tomas Kohoutek, Xin Yan, Tetsuro Shiosaka, Shintaro Mizuno, Spyros Yannopoulos, Takenobu Suzuki, Yasutake Ohishi

Tellurite/Phosphate Composite Microstructured Optical Fiber with High Nonlinearity and Flattened Dispersion..........................383Xin Yan, Meisong Liao, Tong Huang Tuan, Takenobu Suzuki, Yasutake Ohishi

Highly Birefringent Microstructured Fibers with Low Mode Field Asymmetry....................................................................................384Alexander Denisov, Andrei Levchenko, Sergei Semjonov, Evgueni Dianov

Partial Power Recovery of Bend-induced Loss Using a Hybrid Index-guiding Photonic Crystal Fiber..............................................385Christos Markos, Kyriakos Vlachos, George Kakarantzas

Gratings in Liquid Crystal Golden Nanosuspensions due to Thermal Nonlinearity ..............................................................................386Elena Ouskova, Dariya Lysenko, Yuriy Reznikov, Stanislav Ksiondzyk, Liliana Cseh, Georg Mehl, Victor Reshentnyak

Autostereoscopic Display Using a Holographic Splitter in Polymer Dispersed Liquid Crystals ..........................................................387Wei Chia Su, Chien Yue Chen, Hsin Wei Ho

Light Interaction with Nematic Liquid Crystals Doped with Azocompounds of Different Molecular Weight ...................................388Ivan Budagovsky, Dmitry Pavlov, Sergei Shvetsov, Mikhail Smayev, Alexander Zolotko, Nataliya Boiko, Mikhail Barnik

Dephasing Relaxation of Localized Surface Plasmons Investigated by Persistent Hole Burning Role of the Stabilizing Molecules in Nanocolloids ..........................................................................................................................................................389

Leonardo De S. Menezes, Euclides Almeida, Augusto C. L. Moreira, Antonio M. Brito-Silva, Cid B. De Araújo

Investigation of Coherent Acoustic Phonons in THz Quantum Cascade Laser Structures...................................................................390Mike Hettich, Axel Bruchausen, James Lloyd-Hughes, Raphael Gebs, Albrecht Bartels, Milan Fischer, Mattias Beck, Giacomo Scalari, Jérome Faist, Thomas Dekorsy

Improving Efficiency of Quantum Dot Infrared Photodetector by using Photonic Crystal Framework in the Active Layer ................................................................................................................................................................................................................391

Zhihui Chen, Ying Fu, Zhongyuan Yu

ARROW Guiding Silicon Photonic Crystal Fibres (invited) .....................................................................................................................392Noel Healy, Justin Sparks, Ronrui He, Pier Sazio, John Badding, Anna Peacock

SF6 Glass Hollow-core Photonic Crystal Fibre...........................................................................................................................................393Xin Jiang, Tijmen Euser, Amir Abdolvand, Fehim Babic, Nicolas Joly, Philip Russell

Polarization Noise Induced by Photon-Phonon Interaction in Hollow-Core Photonic Crystal Fibres.................................................394Wenjia Zhong, Bettina Heim, Dominique Elser, Christoph Marquardt, Gerd Leuchs

Nonlinear Absorption and Self-Phase Modulation in Silicon Optical Fibres ..........................................................................................395Priyanth Mehta, Noel Healy, Justin Sparks, Todd Day, Pier Sazio, John Badding, Anna Peacock

Novel Bend-Resistant Design of Single-Mode Microstructured Fibers....................................................................................................396Victor Shevandin, Vladimir Demidov, Konstantin Dukelskii

Electromechano-optically Tuned Ring Resonator in Silicon on Insulator, Monolithically Integrated with a Microcantilever ...............................................................................................................................................................................................397

Lasse J. Kauppinen, Shahina M. C. Abdulla, Gijs J. M. Krijnen, Markus Pollnau, René M. De Ridder

Distributed Bragg Reflector High-Q Cavities and Lasers in Al2O3 on Silicon ........................................................................................398Edward Bernhardi, Henk Van Wolferen, Kerstin Wörhoff, René De Ridder, Markus Pollnau

Experimental Observation of Whispering Gallery Modes in Novel Silicon Microcylindrical Resonators ..........................................399Natasha Vukovic, Noel Healy, Peter Horak, Ganapathy Murugan, Justin Sparks, Pier Sazio, John Badding, Anna Peacock

Optical Characterization of LiNbO3 Whispering Gallery Mode Micro-Resonators Fabricated by Surface Tension Reshaping ........................................................................................................................................................................................................400

Charlie Ying, Ganapathy Murugan, Gilberto Brambilla, Collin Sones, Elisabeth Soergel, James Wilkinson, Robert Eason, Michalis Zervas, Sakellaris Mailis

Visible Light Trimming of Coupled Ring-Resonator Filters in As2S3 Chalcogenide Glass Technology ..............................................401Antonio Canciamilla, Francesco Morichetti, Nathan Carlie, J. David Musgraves, Bogdan Zdyrko, Igor Luzinov, Kathleen Richardson, Juejun Hu, Vivek Singh, Anu Agarwal, Lionel C. Kimerling, Andrea Melloni

Real-space Distribution of Cavity Modes in Single ZnO Nanowires ........................................................................................................402Frank Güell, Alejandro R. Goñi, Julià López-Vidrier, Josep Oriol Ossó, Luis Alberto Pérez, Eduardo Coronado, Albert Cornet, Joan Ramon Morante

Domain Walls in lithium Niobate and Lithium Tantalate Local Structure and Properties (Invited) ..................................................403Venkatraman Gopalan, Volkmar Dierolf, Long-Qing Chen, Simon Phillpot

Domain Patterning by Strongly Absorbed UV-light in LiNbO3 Crystals ................................................................................................404Hendrik Steigerwald, Yong Jun Ying, Robert W. Eason, Boris Sturman, Sakelaris Mailis, Elisabeth Soergel, Karsten Buse

Electro-Optic Coefficient Enhancement in Poled LiNbO3 Waveguides ...................................................................................................405Charlie Ying, Grigoris Zisis, Andrew Naylor, Pranabendu Gangopadhyay, Collin Sones, Elisabeth Soergel, Robert Eason, Sakellaris Mailis

Photorefractivity, Electro-optical Coefficients and Refractive Indices of Zr-doped LiNbO3 Crystals ................................................406Giovanni Nava, Wenbo Yan, Paolo Minzioni, Daniela Grando, Jacopo Parravicini, Nicola Argiolas, Marco Bazzan, Maria Vittoria Ciampolillo, Cinzia Sada, Luca Saoner, Anna Maria Zaltron, Ilaria Cristiani, Vittorio Degiorgio

Nonlinear Optics with Lithium Niobate Nanocrystals ............................................................................................................................... 407Bastian Knabe, Manuel Peter, Daniel Schütze, Matthias Ackermann, Karsten Buse

Degradation Recoverable DFB Lasers Based on P597 PDMS/PTFEMA ................................................................................................408Hiroaki Yoshioka, Ryo Goto, Soichiro Omi, Yu Yang, Yuji Oki

Highly Photostable Lasing in an Organic Crystal of Thiophene/Phenylene Co-Oligomer ....................................................................409Koji Watanabe, Takeshi Yamao, Kenichi Yamashita, Shu Hotta, Kunishige Oe

Low Threshold All-organic Composite Laser .............................................................................................................................................410Benoit Guilhabert, Nicolas Laurand, Allan R. Mackintosh, Yujie Chen, Johannes Herrnsdorf, Alexander Kanibolotsky, Peter J. Skabara, Martin D. Dawson

Efficiency and Photostability Optimization in Perylene-doped Polymer Distributed Feedback Lasers and Amplifiers ........................................................................................................................................................................................................411

Luis Cerdán, Gonzalo Durán-Sampedro, Inmaculada García-Moreno, Angel Costela, Javier De Abajo

Crystal Orientation and Defects of Opal Films Made by the Capillary Deposition Method .................................................................412Mulda Muldarisnur, Frank Marlow

Quasi-Epitaxial Single-Crystalline Organic OH1 Films with High Electro-Optic Activity on Inorganic Structures for Large-Scale Photonic Integration...........................................................................................................................................................413

Mojca Jazbinsek, Seong-Ji Kwon, Peter Günter

Titanium Dioxide Coated Photoinduced Surface Relief Grating As a Resonant Waveguide Grating .................................................414Tapani Alasaarela, Arri Priimägi, Benfeng Bai, Ari Tervonen, Seppo Honkanen

Light Turning Mirrors for Hybrid Integration of Optical Waveguides in SiON Technology and CMOS based Photo-detectors ...............................................................................................................................................................................................415

Fehmi Civitci, Alfred Driessen, Hugo J. W. M. Hoekstra

Direct Laser Writing of Microoptical Structures Using a Germanium-containing Hybrid Photopolymer.........................................416Mangirdas Malinauskas, Albertas Zukauskas, Vytautas Purlys, Elmina Kambouraki, Arune Gaidukeviciute, Ioanna Sakellari, Stavros Pissadakis, Roaldas Gadonas, Maria Vamvakaki, Maria Farsari

Fabrication of Multilayer Crystalline Rib Waveguides by a Combined Multi-step Pulsed Laser Deposition/precision Machining Technique ................................................................................................................................................417

Katherine Sloyan, Lewis Carpenter, Timothy May-Smith, Christopher Holmes, James Gates, Peter Smith, Robert Eason

Self-induced Patterning of PDMS Microstructures by Photorefractive Effect on Lithium Niobate Crystals .....................................418Lisa Miccio, Melania Paturzo, Andrea Finizio, Pietro Ferraro

Physically Micromachined Silica-on-silicon Integrated Corner Mirrors ................................................................................................419Lewis G. Carpenter, Helen L. Rogers, Christopher Holmes, James C. Gates, Peter G. R. Smith

Linear and NonlinearOptical Properties of Gold nanoparticle-doped Photonic Crystal Fiber ............................................................420Laurent Bigot, Hicham El Hamzaoui, Antoine Le Rouge, Fernand Chassagneux, Géraud Géraud Bouwmans, Bruno Capoen, Mohamed Bouazaoui

Polarizing Very-Large-Mode-Area Bragg fiber..........................................................................................................................................421Svetlana Aleshkina, Mikhail Likhachev, Andrey Pryamikov, Dmitry Gaponov, Alexander Denisov, Mikhail Bubnov, Mikhail Salganskii, Alexei Guryanov, Sebastien Février

Direct Bragg Grating Writing in a Hybrid PDMS/Silica photonic Crystal Fiber ..................................................................................422George Kakarantzas, Antonio Diez, Jose L. Cruz, Christos Markos, Miguel V. Andres, Kyriakos Vlachos

Engineering Mode-gaps in Photonic Crystal Waveguides for Filtering Applications ............................................................................423Naeem Shahid, Mingyu Li, Shagufta Naureen, Marcin Swillo, Srinivasan Anand

Heterogeneous Hybrid Plasmonic-Photonic Crystals for Enhanced Light- Matter Interaction ...........................................................424Sergei Romanov, Alexander Korovin, Ulf Peschel

ULTRAFAST OPTICS AND APPLICATIONS Demonstration of Waveguide Regime for Chalcogenide Hollow-core Optical Fiber with Negative Curvature of Core Boundary from Mid- to Far-infrared .................................................................................................................................................425

Alexey Kosolapov, Andrey Pryamikov, Maxim Astapovich, Vladimir Shiryaev, Gennady Snopatin, Victor Plotnichenko, Alexander Biriukov, Mikhail Churbanov, Evgeny Dianov

Efficient Hollow Fiber Compression Scheme for 1.6 mJ, Waveform-controlled, Sub-5fs Pulses Generation.....................................426Xiaowei Chen, Arnaud Malvache, Aurélien Ricci, Vladimir Pervak, Jens Rauschenberger, Aurélie Jullien, Rodrigo Lopez-Martens

Hollow Fiber Pulse Compression of Multi-millijoule, 200-fs Pulses from a cw-Diode-Pumped Single-Stage Yb CaF2 MOPA ..............................................................................................................................................................................................................427

Daniil Kartashov, Giedrius Andriukaitis, Dušan Lorenc, Audrius Pugžlys, Andrius Baltuška, Linas Giniunas, Romualdas Danielius, Jens Limpert

Carrier-envelope Phase Stabilization of a Grating Based Chirped Pulse Amplified Laser at 17 mJ, 1 KHz Using Regenerative and Cryo-cooled Amplifiers...................................................................................................................................................428

Jean-François Hergott, Pierre-Mary Paul, Olivier Tcherbakoff, Philippe Demengeot, Michel Perdrix, Fabien Lepetit, David Garzella, Delphine Guillaumet, Michel Comte, Olivier Gobert, Pascal D'Oliveira

Towards Single Shot Carrier-envelope Phase Stabilization for Multi KHz Ultrafast Amplifiers ........................................................429Vincent Crozatier, Nicolas Forget, Thomas Oksenhendler

Few-cycle Pulse Generation in a Dispersion-shifted Silica Fiber with Erbium-doped Laser System...................................................430Elena Anashkina, Alexei Andrianov, Sergei Muravyev, Arkady Kim

Sub-20 Fs Energetic Near-IR Pulses Generated with Cascaded Soliton Compression in Short Lithium Niobate Crystals ............................................................................................................................................................................................................431

Binbin Zhou, Andy Chong, Frank W. Wise, Morten Bache

Multi-threaded Parallel Numerical Modellung of Femtosecond Pulse propagation in Laser Machining ...........................................432Mandana Baregheh, Vladimir Mezentsev, Holger Schmitz

Spatio-temporal Rogue Events in Femtosecond Filamentation ................................................................................................................433Donatas Majus, Vytautas Jukna, Gintaras Valiulis, Daniele Faccio, Audrius Dubietis

Single-beam CARS Spectroscopy Using a Soliton Stokes Pulse and a Spectrally-compressed Pump Pulse from a PCF...................................................................................................................................................................................................................434

Kazuhiro Tada, Naoki Karasawa

Transporting Shaped Pulses Through an Optical Fiber in the Nonlinear Regime for Selective Excitation of Two-photon Transitions..........................................................................................................................................................................................435

Monika Pawlowska, Alexander Patas, Georg Achazi, Nona Rahmat, Albrecht Lindinger

Space-time Coupling of Shaped Ultrafast Ultraviolet Pulses from an Acousto-optic Programmable Dispersive Filter.................................................................................................................................................................................................................436

Ayhan Tajalli, David McCabe, Dane Austin, Béatrice Chatel

Design of Time-preserving Grating Monochromators for Ultrashort Extreme-ultraviolet Pulses.......................................................437Luca Poletto, Fabio Frassetto

Failure of the Linear Raman Gain Approximation in Supercontinuum Generation .............................................................................438Miro Erkintalo, Goëry Genty, Benjamin Wetzel, John Dudley

Efficient Spectral Conversion and Temporal Compression of Femtosecond Pulses in SF6 ...................................................................439Zhavoronkov Nickolai

Sub-femtosecond K-Shell Excitation Through Laser-Induced Electron Re-collision ............................................................................440Gilad Marcus, Wolfram Helml, Xun Gu, Yunpei Deng, Robert Hartmann, Takayoshi Kobayashi, Lothar Strueder, Reinhard Kienberger, Ferenc Krausz

Simple and Compact Carrier-Envelope-Phase Stabilized Ti sapphire Laser .........................................................................................441Jinghua Sun, Derryck Reid, Lukasz Kornaszewski, William Miller, Graeme Malcolm

Carrier-envelope Phase Control by Linear Electro-optic Effect in LiNbO3............................................................................................442Olivier Gobert, Pierre-Mary Paul, Jean-François Hergott, Olivier Tcherbakoff, Fabien Lepetit, François Viala, Michel Comte

Asynchronous Modelocked Yb KYW Lasers for Dual-comb Spectroscopy............................................................................................443Zhaowei Zhang, Tom Gardiner, Derryck Reid

Adaptive Wavefront Diagnostics of Ultrashort Pulses with Programmable Microaxicons ...................................................................444Martin Bock, Christoph Schwanke, Susanta Kumar Das, Roland Beutner, Michael Diehl, Carsten Fischer, Ruediger Grunwald

Adaptive Generation of Bessel-like Beams by Reflective Multi-electrode Piezo-axicons.......................................................................445Jens Brunne, Martin Bock, Alexander Treffer, Ulrike Wallrabe, Ruediger Grunwald

Modification of Coherent Acoustic Phonon Lifetimes in Thin Gold Films by Self-assembled Molecular Monolayers .....................446Mike Hettich, Axel Bruchhausen, Stephen Riedel, Simon Verleger, Tobias Geldhauser, Richa Chauhan, Oliver Ristow, Daniel Issenmann, Johannes Boneberg, Paul Leiderer, Elke Scheer, Jürg Dual, Thomas Dekorsy

Extremely White Supercontinuum Generation in Three-hole Suspended-core Fiber ...........................................................................447Igor Shavrin, Peter Tvarožek, Martin Koyš, Kay Schuster, Steffen Novotny, Hanne Ludvigsen

Complete Measurement of 8 fs Pulses with Wideband SPIRIT ................................................................................................................448Lluís Martínez-León, Tigran Mansuryan, Méri Kalashyan, Jerome Lhermite, Frédéric Louradour, Christophe Hazera, Stéphane Petit, Eric Cormier, Alain Barthélémy

High-power Ti Sapphire Oscillator for a MHz EUV Source.....................................................................................................................449Enikoe Seres, Christian Spielmann

Direct Spatial-temporal Discrimination of Modes in a Photonic Lightwave Circuit Using Photon Scanning Tunnelling Microscopy ..................................................................................................................................................................................450

Sam A. Berry, James C. Gates, William S. Brocklesby

Sub-12fs Pulses Characterization by Self-referenced Spectral Interferometry ......................................................................................451Stéphanie Grabielle, Antoine Moulet, Nicolas Forget, Vincent Crozatier, Sébastien Coudreau, Olivier Gobert, Christian Cornaggia, Thomas Oksenhendler

Transmission Bragg-grating Grisms for Pulse Compression ....................................................................................................................452Nicolas Forget, Vincent Crozatier, Pierre Tournois

Self-referenced Spectral Interferometry in the UV Domain .....................................................................................................................453Stéphanie Grabielle, Sébastien Coudreau, Vincent Crozatier, Nicolas Forget, Fabien Lepetit, Olivier Gobert, Thomas Oksenhendler

Fundamental and Harmonic Mode-locking with Pulse Repetition Rate Between 200 MHz and 6.8 GHz in a Quantum-dot External-cavity Laser ............................................................................................................................................................454

Ying Ding, Daniil Nikitichev, Igor Krestnikov, Daniil Livshits, Maria Ana Cataluna, Edik Rafailov

High-Power Ultrafast Laser Source with 300 MHz Repetition Rate for Trapped-Ion Quantum Logic ..............................................455Andreas Jechow, Matthew Petrasiunas, Mick Pullen, John Canning, Michael Stevenson, Paul Westbrook, Kenneth Feder, David Kielpinski

Dissipative Dispersion-Managed Soliton 2 μm Tm-Ho Fiber Laser .........................................................................................................456Regina Gumenyuk, Ismo Vartiainen, Hemmo Tuovinen, Oleg Okhotnikov

Direct Space-to-Time Femtosecond Pulse Shaping based on 2D Phase-Only Spatial Light Modulator ..............................................457Tigran Mansuryan, Meri Kalashyan, Jérome Lhermite, Alain Barthélémy, Vincent Kermene, Frédéric Louradour

Picosecond Pulses from an FDML Laser .....................................................................................................................................................458Christoph Eigenwillig, Wolfgang Wieser, Benjamin Biedermann, Thomas Klein, Robert Huber

Studies and Realization of an Experimental Set-up for Micro Airy Beams Generation ........................................................................459Amaury Mathis, Maxime Jacquot, Francois Courvoisier, Luc Froehly, John M. Dudley

Variable Ultrafast Fiber Bragg Grating Inscription with a Phase Mask and a Deformed Wave Front ..............................................460Christian Voigtländer, Ria Becker, Jens Thomas, Daniel Richter, Andreas Tünnermann, Stefan Nolte

Superfluorescence Dynamics of OPCPAs in the Saturation Regime........................................................................................................461Jeffrey Moses, Cristian Manzoni, Giulio Cerullo, Franz X. Kärtner

Development and Characterization of Stable Fiber-Based Mid-Infrared Sources (Invited).................................................................462Randy A. Bartels

All Passively Phase-Locked Er Fiber Laser System ...................................................................................................................................463David Fehrenbacher, Günther Krauss, Daniele Brida, Claudius Riek, Alexander Sell, Rupert Huber, Alfred Leitenstorfer

Pulse Train Amplitude Modulation due to Continuum Resonances in GHz Soliton Fiber Lasers .......................................................464Ingmar Hartl, Albert Romann, Thomas R. Schibli, Martin E. Fermann

Coherent Tm-Fiber Raman-Soliton Amplifier............................................................................................................................................465Jie Jiang, Axel Ruehl, Ingmar Hartl, Martin Fermann

Properties of a microjoule-class fiber oscillator mode-locked with a SESAM ........................................................................................466Caroline Lecaplain, Bülend Ortaç, Guillaume Machinet, Johan Boullet, Martin Baumgartl, Thomas Schreiber, Eric Cormier, Ammar Hideur

Ultrabroad Bandwidth Signal Generation Based on Frequency-to-time Mapping in the Temporal Fresnel Regime .......................467Victor Torres-Company, Daniel Leaird, Andrew Weiner

Supercontinuum Generation in Laser Host Materials with Pulse Durations Over the Entire Femtosecond Regime ........................468Maximilian Bradler, Eberhard Riedle

Laser-driven Parametric Amplification of Soft X-rays (invited) ..............................................................................................................469Jozsef Seres, Enikoe Seres, Daniel Hochhaus, Boris Ecker, Bastian Aurand, Daniel Zimmer, Bernhard Zielbauer, Björn Landgraf, Vincente Bagnoud, Thomas Kuehl, Christian Spielmann

Compact and Tunable Sub-20 fs Laser Source for Ultrafast Nonlinear Applications ...........................................................................470Bernd Metzger, Andy Steinmann, Gelon Albrecht, Harald Giessen

Sub-two Cycle Pulse Generation with All Normal Dispersion Photonic Crystal Fiber and Linear Chirp Compensation..................................................................................................................................................................................................471

Jan Rothhardt, Alexander Heidt, Alexander Hartung, Hartmut Bartelt, Erich Rohwer, Jens Limpert, Andreas Tünnermann

All-Optical Transistor Using an Optical Event Horizon............................................................................................................................472Jens Bethge, Carsten Bree, Shalva Amiranashvili, Frank Noack, Günter Steinmeyer, Ayhan Demircan

Tailored Accelerating Beam Profiles Through a Caustic-based Approach to Wavefront Design ........................................................473Luc Froehly, Remo Giust, François Courvoisier, Amaury Mathis, Maxime Jacquot, Luca Furfaro, John Michael Dudley

The Spectrum of THz Radiation from Plasma Produced by Strong Multicolor Optical Fields ...........................................................474Ihar Babushkin, Stefan Skupin, Christian Koehler, Luc Berge, Joachim Herrmann

Direction of THz Emission by Ionizing Two-Color Pulses ........................................................................................................................475Christian Köhler, Eduardo Cabrera-Granado, Ihar Babushkin, Joachim Herrmann, Stefan Skupin, Luc Bergé

Carrier-envelope Phase in Pulse Compression Mediated by Filamentation............................................................................................476Luc Bergé, Charles-Louis Soulez, Christian Köhler, Stefan Skupin

Towards High Energy 10 fs Laser Pulse Via Regenerative Pulse Shaping ..............................................................................................477Pierre-Mary Paul, Fabien Ple, Luc Vigroux, Franck Falcoz, Federico Canova, Gilles Riboulet

Waveform Characterization of Few-Cycle Laser Pulses in Real-Time using Above-Threshold Ionization ........................................478Arthur Sayler, Tim Rathje, Max Möller, Dominik Hoff, Gero Stibenz, Walter Müller, Christian Kürbis, Klaus Rühle, Gerhard Paulus

Carrier-envelope Phase Stabilization of a Soliton-effect Compressed Sub-two-cycle Pulse Source .....................................................479Alexandra Agra Amorim, Luís M. Bernardo, Franz X. Kärtner, Helder M. Crespo

Characterization of Ultrashort Laser Pulses with a Terahertz Streak Camera .....................................................................................480Olaf Schubert, Claudius Riek, Friederike Junginger, Alexander Sell, Alfred Leitenstorfer, Rupert Huber

Precise Phase Shaping and Characterization of the Mid-infrared Femtosecond Pulses ........................................................................481Satoshi Ashihara, Yuta Hirasawa, Kaori Enomoto

Theoretical and Experimental Analysis of Spatiotemporal Field Coupling of Ultrashort Pulses Diffracted by Circular Amplitude Apertures......................................................................................................................................................................482

Benjamin Alonso, Omel Mendoza-Yero, Iñigo J. Sola, Oscar Varela, Gladys Minguez-Vega, Jesus Lancis, Vicent Climent, Luis Roso

Two-photon Absorption As Convenient Method for 20 fs Pulse Length Measurement in the Deep UV .............................................483Nils Krebs, Christian Homann, Peter Lang, Alexandra Waritschlager, Eberhard Riedle

High-Power Mid-Infrared Optical Parametric Chirped-Pulse Amplifier Based on Aperiodically Poled Mg LiNbO3 ......................484Clemens Heese, Christopher R. Phillips, Lukas Gallmann, Martin M. Fejer, Ursula Keller

Compact OPCPA System Generating CEP-stabilized Two-cycle Pulses with Repetition Rates up to 500 kHz .................................485Marcel Schultze, Thomas Binhammer, Moritz Emons, Tino Lang, Uwe Morgner

Demonstration of Phase Matching Bandwidth Extension in Cavity-Enhanced Optical Parametric Chirped Pulse Amplification...................................................................................................................................................................................................486

Aleem Siddiqui, Kyung-Han Hong, Jeffrey Moses, Jonathan Cox, Franz X. Kärtner

Self Frequency Shift Near 2 μm in Periodically Poled Lithium Niobate Waveguides............................................................................487Christopher R. Phillips, Jie Jiang, Carsten Langrock, Ingmar Hartl, Martin M. Fejer, Martin Fermann

Tuneable Broadband Optical Parametric Oscillator Pumped by an Yb KLu(WO4)2$ Thin-Disk Laser Oscillator ..........................488Tino Lang, Thomas Binhammer, Stefan Rausch, Guido Palmer, Marcel Schultze, Uwe Morgner

650-nJ Pulses from a Cavity-Dumped Yb Fiber-Pumped Ultrafast Optical Parametric Oscillator.....................................................489Tobias P. Lamour, Derryck T. Reid

Generation of High Energy, Sub-20-fs Vacuum UV Pulses by Noncollinear Four-wave-mixing in Argon .........................................490Marcus Beutler, Masood Ghotbi, Frank Noack

High Energy, Sub-20 Fs Pulses in the Deep Ultraviolet by Using Filamentation in Argon ...................................................................491Masood Ghotbi, Peter Trabs, Marcus Beutler

Filamentation-based Polarization Pulse Shaping for High Order Harmonic Generation .....................................................................492Matteo Negro, Caterina Vozzi, Francesca Calegari, Sandro De Silvestri, Salvatore Stagira

Chirp Controlled Pulse Self-compression in Filaments and Its Spatio-temporal Characterization .....................................................493Oscar Varela, Benjamín Alonso, Julio San Román, Íñigo J. Sola, Luis Roso

Filamentation of Beam Shaped Femtosecond Laser Pulses in Gases and Liquids (Invited) .................................................................494Pavel Polynkin

Dispersive Optics Paving the Way to Sub-cycle Optical Pulses (invited).................................................................................................495Vladimir Pervak, Alexander Apolonskiy, Ivan Angelov, Olga Razskazovskaya, Eleftherios Goulielmakis, Ferenc Krausz

High Average Power Ultrashort Pulses with >5 GW Peak Power ............................................................................................................496Steffen Hädrich, Henning Carstens, Jan Rothhardt, Jens Limpert, Andreas Tünnermann

High Efficient XPW Generation for High Contrast High Energy Ultrashort Laser Pulses ..................................................................497Lourdes Patricia Ramirez, Dimitris N. Papadopoulos, Alain Pellegrina, Pascal Monot, Aurélien Ricci, Aurélie Jullien, Xiaowei Chen, Jean Philippe Rouseau, Rodrigo Lopez-Martens, Patrick Georges, Frédéric Druon

HIGH-FIELD LASER PHYSICS AND ATTOSECOND TECHNOLOGIES Ultra-fast Writing of Self-organized Bubble Networks Using Femtosecond Laser Exposure in the Cumulative Regime .............................................................................................................................................................................................................498

Yves Bellouard, Max-Olivier Hongler

Sub-cycle Double Ionization Dynamics of Argon and Neon ......................................................................................................................499Boris Bergues, Matthias Kübel, Nora Johnson, Kelsie Betsch, Robert Jones, Gerhard Paulus, Robert Moshammer, Joachim Ullrich, Ferenc Krausz, Matthias Kling

High Energy Proton Ejection from Hydrocarbon Molecules Driven by Highly Efficient Field Ionization .........................................500Stefan Roither, Xinhua Xie, Daniil Kartashov, Li Zhang, Markus Schöffler, Huailiang Xu, Atshushi Iwasaki, Tomoyo Okino, Kaoru Yamanouchi, Andrius Baltuska, Markus Kitzler

Recent Experiments at LCLS Multidimensional Imaging of X-ray Induced Ultrafast Reactions (invited) ........................................501Artem Rudenko

Sub-cycle Time-resolved Single Photon Ionization.....................................................................................................................................502Aart Verhoef, Alexander Mitrofanov, Maria Krikunova, Nikolay Kabachnik, Armin Scrinzi, Markus Drescher, Andrius Baltuska

Breakdown of the Independent Electron Approximation in Sequential Double Ionization ..................................................................503Claudio Cirelli, Adrian N Pfeiffer, Mathias Smolarski, Reinhard Dörner, Ursula Keller

High-harmonic Generation from Solid Targets at 1 KHz Using Waveform-controlled Few-cycle Pulses ..........................................504Antonin Borot, Arnaud Malvache, Xiaowei Chen, Aurélie Jullien, Patrick Audebert, Jean-Paul Geindre, Gérard Mourou, Fabien Quéré, Rodrigo Lopez-Martens

Observation of few-cycle, strong-field phenomena in surface plasmon fields .........................................................................................505Péter Dombi, Scott Irvine, Péter Rácz, Miklós Lenner, Norbert Kroó, Gyozo Farkas, Alexander Mitrofanov, Andrius Baltuska, Takao Fuji, Ferenc Krausz, Abdul Elezzabi

Femtosecond XUV Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Ultrafast Magnetization Dynamics in Gadolinium and Terbium ......................506Robert Carley, Björn Frietsch, Kristian Döbrich, Martin Teichmann, Cornelius Gahl, Olaf Schwarzkopf, Philippe Wernet, Frank Noack, Martin Weinelt

Efficient On-axis Third Harmonic Generation in a Light Filament.........................................................................................................507Emilia Schulz, Daniel S. Steingrube, Tobias Vockerodt, Thomas Binhammer, Uwe Morgner, Milutin Kovacev

Laser-induced Water Condensation in Air (invited) ..................................................................................................................................508Jérôme Kasparian, Philipp Rohwetter, Kamil Stelmaszczyk, Zuoqiang Hao, Stefano Henin, Noëlle Lascoux, Walter M Nakaema, Yannick Petit, Manuel Queißer, Rami Salamé, Estelle Salmon, Ludger Wöste, Jean-Pierre Wolf

Attosecond Dynamic Imaging Ideas, Results, and Hopes (Tutorial) ........................................................................................................509Misha Ivanov

Controlling and Reading Interference Structures Created by Strong Field Ionizing Attosecond Electron Wave Packets .............................................................................................................................................................................................................510

Xinhua Xie, Stefan Roither, Daniil Kartashov, Li Zhang, Emil Persson, Stefanie Gräfe, Markus Schöffler, Joachim Burgdörfer, Andrius Baltuska, Markus Kitzler

Single-Shot Ultrafast Electron Diffraction Using Electrons Accelerated by an Intense Femtosecond Laser Pulse............................511Shuji Sakabe, Shigeki Tokita, Masaki Hashida, Kazuto Otani, Shunsuke Inoue, Toshihiko Nishoji

Quantum-path Interferometry for High-harmonic Generation ...............................................................................................................512Dane R. Austin, Ian A. Walmsley

Single Attosecond Pulse from Terahertz Assisted High-order Harmonic Generation ...........................................................................513Emeric Balogh, Katalin Kovács, József A. Fülöp, Péter Dombi, Gyozo Farkas, János Hebling, Valer Tosa, Katalin Varjú

High-flux capillary based XUV source via the direct engineering of a laser induced ionization profile ..............................................514Patrick Anderson, Thomas Butcher, Peter Horak, Jeremy Frey, William Brocklesby

Yield Enhancement in Multicolour High-Order Harmonic Generation Superposition of Multiple Un-Related Frequencies......................................................................................................................................................................................................515

David Hoffmann, Thomas Siegel, Ricardo Torres, Leonardo Brugnera, Luke Chipperfield, Amelle Zair, Immacolata Procino, Emma Springate, Edmond Turcu, Jonathan Underwood, Jonathan Marangos

XUV to SXR Enhancement in HHG with a Quasi-Static Electric Field ..................................................................................................516Carles Serrat, Jens Biegert

Angle-Dependent High-Order Harmonic Generation from a Single N2 and O2 Molecule.....................................................................517Kazumichi Yoshii, Godai Miyaji, Kenzo Miyazaki

Stable Relativistic UV Self-Channeling in Multi-Layer Gel Targets........................................................................................................518Alex B. Borisov, Charles K. Rhodes

High Power Enhancement Cavities for Generation of XUV and X-Ray Radiation of High Brilliance ................................................519Jan Kaster, Ioachim Pupeza, Tino Eidam, Christoph Jocher, Ernst Fill, Jens Limpert, Ronald Holzwarth, Birgitta Bernhardt, Thomas Udem, Theodor W. Hänsch, Andreas Tünnermann, Ferenc Krausz

Spatially Resolved Characterization of Sub-4-fs Laser Pulses Using Spatially Encoded Spectral Shearing Interferometry ................................................................................................................................................................................................520

Tobias Witting, Felix Frank, Chris Arrell, William Okell, Jon Marangos, John Tisch

Generation of Sub-15fs Pulses with Multi-terawatt Peak Power at 100-Hz Repetition Rate ................................................................521Yasuo Nabekawa, Yusuke Furukawa, Abdolreza Amani Eilanlou, Kenichi L. Ishikawa, Hiroyuki Takahashi, Eiji J. Takahashi, Katsumi Midorikawa

Incommensurate Frequency Waveform Synthesis by Optical Parametric Amplification .....................................................................522Tadas Balciunas, Stefan Haessler, Giedrius Andriukaitis, Oliver D. Muecke, Audrius Pugzlys, Andrius Baltuska, Richard Squibb, Leszek Frasinski, Jon Marangos, John W. G. Tisch, Linas Giniunas, Romas Danielius, Ronald Holzwarth

Millijoule-level CEP Stable 1.8 μm 1.6 Cycle Laser Pulses .......................................................................................................................523Francois Legare, Bruno E Schmidt, Andrew D Shiner, Philippe Lassonde, David M Villeneuve, Paul B Corkum, Jean-Claude Kieffer

A System for Doing Surface Science with Attosecond Pulses ....................................................................................................................524Christopher Arrell, Eva Skopolova, Dangyuan Lei, Thorsten Uphues, Yannick Sonnefraud, William Okell, Felix Frank, Tobias Witting, Stefan Maier, Jon Marangos, John Tisch

Measuring the Influence of the Coulomb Binding Potential on the Trajectories of Strong-field Driven Electronic Wave Packets ..................................................................................................................................................................................................525

Xinhua Xie, Stefan Roither, Daniil Kartashov, Emil Persson, Li Zhang, Stefanie Gräfe, Markus Schöffler, Matthias Lezius, Joachim Burgdörfer, Andrius Baltuska, Markus Kitzler

Direct Optical Observation of Attosecond Electron Wavepacket Interference ......................................................................................526Lukas Gallmann, Mirko Holler, Florian Schapper, Ursula Keller

From OPA To OPCPA Boosting Laser Pulses To Extreme Intensities (Keynote)..................................................................................527Algis Piskarskas, Rytis Butkus

Sub-Optical-Cycle Waveform Synthesis of Light .......................................................................................................................................528Eleftherios Goulielmakis, Adrian Wirth, Ivanka Grguras, Mohammed Hassan, Justin Gagnon, Antoine Moulet, Tran Trung Luu, Vladimir Pervak, Ferenc Krausz

Seeding of Extreme Ultraviolet Free Electron Laser with High-order Harmonic ..................................................................................529Eiji Takahashi, Tadashi Togashi, Katsumi Midorikawa, Makoto Aoyama, Koichi Yamakawa, Takahiro Sato, Atsushi Iwasaki, Shigeki Owada, Kaoru Yamanouchi, Toru Hara, Shinichi Matsubara, Takashi Ohshima, Yuji Otake, Hitoshi Tanaka, Takashi Tanaka, Hiromitsu Tomizawa, Takahiro Watanabe, Makina Yabashi, Tetsuya Ishikawa

Scientific Study of ELI Attosecond Light Pulse Source .............................................................................................................................530Peter Dombi, Istvan B. Foldes, Jozsef A. Fulop, Janos Hebling, Karoly Osvay, Gabor Szabo, Katalin Varju

Revealing the Giant Resonance in Xe Via HHG with Sub-two Cycle 1.8 μm Laser Pulses ..................................................................531Bruno Eugen Schmidt, Andrew Shiner, Carlos Trallero-Herrero, Hans Jakob Wörner, Serguei Patchkovskii, Jean-Claude Kieffer, Paul Corkum, David Villeneuve, Francois Légaré

Efficient Attosecond Pulse Generation by Gating HHG with Sub-cycle Ionization Dynamics .............................................................532Francesca Calegari, Federico Ferrari, Matteo Lucchini, Caterina Vozzi, Salvatore Stagira, Giuseppe Sansone, Mauro Nisoli

Optimization of High Harmonic Generation Driven by an Ytterbium-doped Fiber Chirped Pulse Amplification at a Repetition Rate of 100 kHz.........................................................................................................................................................................533

Amélie Cabasse, Guillaume Machinet, Antoine Dubrouil, Eric Cormier, Eric Constant

Phase-matched Harmonic Generation Beyond the Water Window with a Mid-IR Parametric Amplifier .........................................534Giedrius Andriukaitis, Tadas Balciunas, Audrius Pugzlys, Andrius Baltuska, Tenio Popmintchev, Ming-Chang Chen, Margaret M. Murnane, Henry C. Kapteyn

Direct Generation of Highly Phase-matched Isolated Attosecond Pulses Using Multi-mJ, Carrier-envelope Phase Stabilized, Few-cycle Laser Pulses................................................................................................................................................................535

Tsuneto Kanai, Yuxi Fu, Yasuhiro Kamba, Samuel Bohman, Hiroshi Yoshida, Takuya Kanai, Shigeru Yamaguchi, Eiji Takahashi, Yasuo Nabekawa, Akira Suda, Katsumi Midorikawa

OPTICAL SENSING AND METROLOGY Gating of High-order Harmonic Emission Driven by a Two-color Mid-IR Optical Parametric Amplifie ..........................................536

Caterina Vozzi, Matteo Negro, Katalin Kovàcs, Valer Tosa, Carlo Altucci, Raffaele Velotta, Fabio Frassetto, Paolo Villoresi, Luca Poletto, Sandro De Silvestri, Salvatore Stagira

Standoff Spectroscopy via Remote Generation of Backward Lasing and/or Gain Swept Superradiance in Air (Invited) ...........................................................................................................................................................................................................537

Marlan Scully

Optofluidic Integrated Bragg Grating Chemical Sensor Utilising a Sodium-selective Receptor Surface to Enhance Detection ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................538

Richard M Parker, James C Gates, Martin C Grossel, Peter G R Smith

High Speed Pump-Probe Spectroscopy of SI3N4-based Micromechanical Systems ................................................................................539Oliver Ristow, Mike Hettich, Axel Bruchhausen, Stefan Bächle, Artur Erbe, Elke Scheer, Thomas Dekorsy

Performance Improvement on Fiber-Based CW Modulation Laser Absorption Spectrometer System for CO2 Sensing .............................................................................................................................................................................................................540

Shumpei Kameyama, Masaharu Imaki, Yoshihito Hirano, Shinichi Ueno, Daisuke Sakaizawa, Shuji Kawakami, Masakatsu Nakajima

An Integrated Bragg Grating Oxygen Sensor Using A Hydrophobic Sol-gel Layer Doped with An Organic Dye ............................541Dominic J. Wales, Richard M. Parker, James C. Gates, Martin C. Grossel, Peter G. R. Smith

Erbium-doped Sodium-lead and Tungsten-lead Metaphosphate Glasses for Temperature Sensing ...................................................542Ricardo Momberg, Roger Gomes, Gaël Poirier, Fábia Cassanjes, Jandir Hickmann, Márcio Alencar

Performance comparison between Raman and Brillouin intensity based sub metre spatial resolution temperature compensated disstributed strain sensor .......................................................................................................................................................543

Mohammad Belal, Trevor Newson

Mid-infrared Waveguide Evanescent Field Chemical Sensor for Liquids ..............................................................................................544Yu-Chi Chang, Vincent Paeder, Lubos Hvozdara, Philip Wägli, Alexandra Homsy, Jean-Michel Hartmann, Hans Peter Herzig

Mid-infrared Photoacoustic Sensing of Glucose in Keratinocyte Solutions ............................................................................................545Jonas Kottmann, Tobias Rosskopf, Julien M. Rey, Joachim Luginbühl, Ernst Reichmann, Markus W. Sigrist

Infrared Spectroscopic Determination of Drugs in Saliva .........................................................................................................................546Kerstin M.-C. Hans, Susanne Müller, Markus W. Sigrist

Photochemical Synthesis of Biphasic Gold-Silver Nanoalloys for Optical Fiber Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering Sensor ............................................................................................................................................................................................547

Changxi Yang, Ting Liu

Mid-IR Imaging of Doped Silicon Gratings at a Decananometer Scale ...................................................................................................548Zohreh Sedaghat, Aurelien Bruyant, Michel Kazan, Julien Vaillant, Sylvain Blaize, Névine Rochat, Nicolas Chevalier, Enric Garcia-Caudel, Pierre Morin, Pascal Royer

Mid-infrared Laser-induced Breakdown Spectroscopy Emissions from Energetic Materials..............................................................549Clayton Yang, Ei Brown, Uwe Hommerich, Sudhir Trivedi, Peter Snyder, Alan Samuels

High Temperature, Robust Herriott Cell for Sensitive NH3 Spectroscopy to Optimize NOx Removal................................................550Deran Johannes Henricus Carolina Maas, Barbara Panella, Hubert Braendle

Analysis and Simulation of Optical Response of Au-nanoparticle-fixed Beads for Optical Sensors of Microscopic Local Environment .........................................................................................................................................................................................551

Shiho Tokonami, Taichi Hamada, Yojiro Yamamoto, Hidenobu Nakao, Hiroshi Shiigi, Tsutomu Nagaoka, Takuya IIda

Biosensor for Human Blood Types Determination Based on Chirped Photonic Fiber ..........................................................................552Julia Skibina, Anton Malinin, Anastasija Zanishevskaja, Valery Tuchin, Valentin Beloglazov, Mikhail Chainikov, Valery Dubrovsky, Aleksey Dolmashkin

Application of Artificial Neural Networks in Analysis of the LIBS Spectrum........................................................................................553Asiyeh Moosavi, Hossein Saghafifar

Remote Gas Leak Detection Using a Portable Mini-Lidar Based on a Doubly-Resonant OPO ...........................................................554Bertrand Hardy, Myriam Raybaut, Antoine Godard, Ajmal K. Mohamed, Jean-Michel Melkonian, Michel Lefebvre

Photoacoustic Gas Detection with LED QEPAS .........................................................................................................................................555Stefan Böttger, Martin Angelmahr, Wolfgang Schade

Fluorescence/depolarization LIDAR for Mid-range Stand-off Detection of Biological Agents ............................................................556Zygmunt Mierczyk, Krzysztof Kopczynski, Marek Zygmunt, Jacek Wojtanowski, Jaroslaw Mlynczak, Andrzej Gawlikowski, Andrzej Mlodzianko, Wieslaw Piotrowski, Andrzej Gietka, Piotr Knysak, Tadeusz Drozd, Michal Muzal, Miroslawa Kaszczuk, Roman Ostrowski, Marcin Jakubaszek

Combining Physical Micro-machining and Direct UV Writing to Fabricate Novel Planar Tilted Bragg Grating Refractometers................................................................................................................................................................................................557

Christopher Holmes, Lewis G. Carpenter, James C. Gates, Ian J. G. Sparrow, Peter G. R. Smith

UV-Written Bragg Gratings in a Flat-fiber Platform as a Bending and Twisting Sensor .....................................................................558Sumiaty Ambran, Christopher Holmes, James C. Gates, Andrew S. Webb, Jayanta K. Sahu, Peter G. R. Smith

Pump Induced Refractive Index Changes in Gamma-irradiated Yb-doped Optical Fibers .................................................................559Irina Petukhova, Andrei Fotiadi, Alexey Shubin, Alexander Tomashuk, Sergey Novikov, Igor Zolotovskiy, Oleg Antipov, Krassimir Panajotov, Hugo Thienpont, Patrice Mégret

Application of Temporal Superresolution for Measuring Fast Single-Shot Optical Waveforms .........................................................560Naum Berger

Multi-Channel Adaptive Interferometer Based on Orthogonal Wave Mixing in Photorefractive Crystal .........................................561Roman Romashko, Michail Bezruk, Yuri Kulchin, Alexei Kamshilin

Interferometry for Picometer-level Dimensional Stability Measurements ..............................................................................................562Dirk Voigt, Jonathan Ellis, Ad Verlaan, Rob Bergmans, Jo Spronck, Robert Munnig Schmidt

Metrological Interferometric Tool for Guided-wave Optic Components ................................................................................................563Anne-Françoise Obaton, Jimmy Dubard

Dual-comb Spectroscopy with Adaptive Sampling.....................................................................................................................................564Takuro Ideguchi, Antonin Poisson, Guy Guelachvili, Theodor Hänsch, Nathalie Picqué

Cold Atom Sagnac Interferometer ...............................................................................................................................................................565Sven Abend, Peter Berg, Michael Gilowski, Christian Schubert, Gunnar Tackmann, Wolfgang Ertmer, Ernst M. Rasel

Relative Calibration Techniques for Characterising Single Photon Detectors .......................................................................................566Silke Peters, Waldemar Schmunk, Mark Rodenberger, Helmuth Hofer, Stefan Kück

New Optical Fiber Based Microresonators Theory and Applications (Invited)......................................................................................567Misha Sumetsky

Investigation of Thermal Effects on Embedded Microcoil Resonators ....................................................................................................568George Chen, Timothy Lee, Yongmin Jung, Mohammad Belal, Gilberto Brambilla, Neil Broderick, Trevor Newson

Plasmonic Properties of Copper Nanoparticles Deposited on Tilted Fiber Bragg Gratings .................................................................569Li-Yang Shao, Jason Coyle, Sean Barry, Jacques Albert

Monitoring of Catalytic Reactions in Photonic Crystal Fiber ...................................................................................................................570Ana Cubillas, Matthias Schmidt, Michael Scharrer, Tijmen G. Euser, Bastian Etzold, Nicola Taccardi, Peter Wasserscheid, Philip St. J. Russell

Characterization of the influence of strain on the optical properties of waveguides and microresonators in silicon-on-insulator technology..................................................................................................................................................................................571

Wouter Westerveld, Peter Harmsma, Ruud Schmits, Erik Tabak, Jose Pozo, Paul Urbach, Mirvais Yousefi

Visualizing Coherent Phonon Propagation in the 100 GHz Range a Broadband Picosecond Acoustics Approach ...........................572Emanuele Pontecorvo, Dario Polli, Michele Ortolani, Marco Ferretti, Giancarlo Ruocco, Giulio Cerullo, Tullio Scopigno

Surface profilometry and low coherence interferometry by electronically controlled optical sampling .............................................573Stefan Kray, Felix Spöler, Thomas Hellerer, Heinrich Kurz

Quantitative Optical Coherence Tomography for Characterization of Microscopic Structures with Varying Refractive Index..............................................................................................................................................................................................574

Janarthanan Rasakanthan, Mandana Baregheh, Mykhaylo Dubov, Vladimir Mezentsev, Graham Smith, Kate Sugden, Peter D. Woolliams, Peter H. Tomlins

Optical Encryption with Compressive Ghost Imaging ..............................................................................................................................575Vicente Durán, Pere Clemente, Víctor Torres-Company, Enrique Tajahuerce, Jesús Lancis, Pedro Andrés

Transmission Matrix in Optics Taking Advantage of Transmission Channels for Image Transmission in Disordered Materials......................................................................................................................................................................................576

Sebastien Popoff, Geoffroy Lerosey, Mathias Fink, Claude Boccara, Sylvain Gigan

Fibered Interference Scanning Optical Microscopy for Living Cell Imaging .........................................................................................577Jochen Fick, Hervé Guillou, Catherine Villard, Joël Chevrier, Serge Huant

DNA Immobilisation and Hydrogel Matrix Formation in Suspended-Core Optical Fibre ...................................................................578Monika Rutowska, Fatima Garcia Gunning, Waclaw Urbanczyk, Andrew Ellis

Optical Detection of Molecular Species at Sub-ppt Concentration Levels (invited)...............................................................................579Davide Mazzotti, Saverio Bartalini, Simone Borri, Pablo Cancio, Iacopo Galli, Giovanni Giusfredi, Paolo De Natale

Fluorescence Spectroscopy in Photonic Crystal Fiber ............................................................................................................................... 580Gareth Williams, Tijmen Euser, Jocelyn Chen, Philip Russell, Anita Jones

Long Distance Measurement with Sub-micrometer Accuracy Using a Frequency Comb Laser..........................................................581Mounir Zeitouny, Moxi Cui, Nandini Bhattacharya, Paul Urbach, Steven Van Den Berg, Augustus Janssen

Pulse-shaper Assisted Spatio-temporal Ultrashort Pulse Characterisation ............................................................................................582Seth L Cousin, Juan M Bueno, Nicolas Forget, Dane R Austin, Jens Biegert

Closed-Loop Adaptive Optics with a single Spatial Light Modulator......................................................................................................583Raúl Martínez-Cuenca, Vicente Durán, Jesús Lancis, Zbigniew Jaroszewicz, Justo Arines, Salvador Bará

Integrated Arrayed Waveguide Grating Spectrometer for Measuring Raman Spectra........................................................................584Nur Ismail, Fei Sun, Kerstin Wörhoff, Alfred Driessen, René M. De Ridder, Markus Pollnau

Studying Photon Number Distribution of NV-Centre-Emission in Diamond .........................................................................................585Waldemar Schmunk, Marco Gramegna, Giorgio Brida, Ivo Pietro Degiovanni, Marco Genovese, Helmuth Hofer, Stefan Kück, Lapo Lolli, Matteo G. A. Paris, Silke Peters, Mauro Rajteri, Andreas Ruschhaupt, Emanuele Taralli, Paolo Traina

Broadband Quantum Cascade Lasers for Mid-Infrared White Light Applications ..............................................................................586Andreas Hugi, Stéphane Blaser, Mattias Beck, Jérôme Faist

Ultra-long Range Distributed Fibre Sensing Using Virtually Transparent Propagation (invited).......................................................587Miguel Gonzalez-Herraez, Sonia Martin-Lopez, Mercedes Alcon-Camas, Pedro Corredera, Luc Thevenaz, Juan Diego Ania-Castañon

Photonic Crystal Fiber Sensor Array Based on Cladding Mode Resonance ...........................................................................................588Guillermo Alejandro Cárdenas Sevilla, Vittoria Finazzi, Joel Villatoro, Valerio Pruneri

A Vectorial Magnetometer Utilising a Microstructured Optical Fibre Bragg Grating Infiltrated by a Ferrofluid ...........................589Alessandro Candiani, Walter Margulis, Carola Sterner, Maria Konstantaki, Paul Childs, Stavros Pissadakis

High Frequency Current Sensing using Optical Fiber Micro-wire ..........................................................................................................590George Chen, Mohammad Belal, Yongmin Jung, Gilberto Brambilla, Trevor Newson

OPTICAL TECHNOLOGIES FOR COMMUNICATIONS AND DATA STORAGE Amplitude Noise Reduction in Multilevel QAM Formats Using a Nonlinear Amplifying Loop Mirror with a Saturable Amplifier........................................................................................................................................................................................591

Tobias Roethlingshoefer, Georgy Onishchukov, Bernhard Schmauss, Gerd Leuchs

Effect of Amplitude Noise on Multi-Level Phase Regeneration ................................................................................................................592Moritz Lenz, Georgy Onishchukov, Bernhard Schmauss, Gerd Leuchs

Potential and Practical Implementations of Phase Sensitive Amplifiers for All-Optical Signal Regeneration (Invited) ...........................................................................................................................................................................................................593

Francesca Parmigiani, Joseph Kakande, Radan Slavík, Periklis Petropoulos, David J Richardson

DQPSK Optical Packet Switching using an SG-DBR laser .......................................................................................................................594Tam N. Huynh, Kai Shi, Frank Smyth, Liam P. Barry

Direct Modulation Optical OFDM Performance Enhancement by External Optical Injection ...........................................................595Colm Browning, Kai Shi, Frank Smyth, Barry Cardiff, Prince Anandarajah, Liam Barry

Pulse Shaping-Assisted Nonlinear Spectral Broadening............................................................................................................................596Xin Yang, David J. Richardson, Periklis Petropoulos

Optical Comb Generation and Expansion by Gain Switched Discrete Mode Laser Diode ...................................................................597Sylwester Latkowski, Yiqing Xu, Stuart Murdoch, Liam Barry, Prince Anandarajah

Patterning Effects in Ultrafast All-Optical Photonic Crystal Nanocavity Switches ...............................................................................598Mikkel Heuck, Philip Trøst Kristensen, Jesper Mørk

Intra-cavity Frequency Shifted Laser Pumps for Non-degenerate and Partially Coherent Bragg-scattering FWM in Nonlinear Fiber ..........................................................................................................................................................................................599

Katarzyna Krupa, Michela Bettenzana, Alessandro Tonello, Daniele Modotto, Gabriele Manili, Vincent Couderc, Philippe Di Bin, Stefan Wabnitz, Alain Barthélémy

High-Frequency RIN Transfer in Fibre Optic Parametric Amplifiers ....................................................................................................600Zohreh Lali-Dastjerdi, Toke Lund-Hansen, Ning Kang, Karsten Rottwitt, Micheal Galili, Chiristophe Peucheret

Q-factor Dependent Kerr Switching of Semiconductor Microcavities.....................................................................................................601Emre Yüce, Georgios Ctistis, Julien Claudon, Maela Bazin, Jean-Michel Gérard, Willem L. Vos

Coherent All-optical Switching in a Bistable Waveguide-cavity-waveguide System..............................................................................602Philip Trøst Kristensen, Mikkel Heuck, Jesper Mørk

Optimization of 2- and 4-dimensional Modulation Constellations for Optical Adaptive Transmission Using the Genetic Algorithm ..........................................................................................................................................................................................603

Ahmed S. Abdelhamid, Michael H. Eiselt

Digital Key Chaos-communication Systems with Delay Time Concealment ...........................................................................................604Romain Modeste Nguimdo, Pere Colet, Laurent Larger, Luís Pesquera

Tellurite Composite Microstructured Fibers with Tailed Chromatic Dispersion for Nonlinear Applications ...................................605Zhongchao Duan, Meisong Liao, Xin Yan, Chihiro Kito, Takenobu Suzuki, Yasutake Ohishi

Nonlinear Distortion of 16QAM Constellations in Intradyne Coherent Receiver ..................................................................................606Takahide Sakamoto, Akito Chiba, Tetsuya Kawanishi

Theory of Fiber Optic Co- and Counter-pumped Raman Polarizers.......................................................................................................607Stefan Wabnitz, Victor Kozlov, Javier Nuño, Juan Diego Ania-Castañón

Theory of Fiber Optic Lossless Polarizers ...................................................................................................................................................608Stefan Wabnitz, Victor Kozlov, Javier Nuño

2.56x1017 Hz/s Frequency Chirp Signal Generation Using DSB-SC Optical Modulation with out Optical Filters ............................609Atsushi Kanno, Shinnosuke Honda, Ryuta Yamanaka, Hideyuki Sotobayashi, Tetsuya Kawanishi

Creation of Multi-Carrier Millimeter-Wave Signal Using Mach-Zehnder-Modulator-Based Flat Comb Generator .......................610Isao Morohashi, Takahide Sakamoto, Tetsuya Kawanishi, Iwao Hosako

Field Experiment Optical Chaos Communication @ 10Gb/s Demonstrating Electro-optic Phase Chaos Principles ........................611Maxime Jacquot, Roman Lavrov, Jérémy Oden, Yanne Chembo, Modeste Nguimdo, Pere Colet, Laurent Larger

A Liénard Optoelectronic Oscillator with Time-Delayed Feedback ........................................................................................................612Bruno Romeira, Kris Seunarine, Charles Ironside, Julien Javaloyes, Anthony Kelly, José Figueiredo

Reduced Lorentzian linewidth for monolithic widely tunable C-band lasers utilising InGaAlAs/InP active region .........................613Samuel Davies, Neil Whitbread, Andrew Ward, Robert Griffin, Michael Wale, Martin Arnold

Inducing a Detector Efficiency Mismatch to Hack a Commercial Quantum Key Distribution System...............................................614Nitin Jain, Lars Lydersen, Christoffer Wittmann, Carlos Wiechers, Dominique Elser, Christoph Marquardt, Vadim Makarov, Gerd Leuchs

Improved Accuracy of a Fourier-domain Optical Processor with Feedback. .........................................................................................615Stuart Murdoch, Regan Watts, Richard Provo, Ray Xu, Liam Barry

Optical Linear Feedback Shift Register.......................................................................................................................................................616Mirco Scaffardi, Gianluca Berrettini, An Nguyen, Francesca Bontempi, Antonella Bogoni

All-Optical Modulation Converter for On-Off Keying to Duobinary and Alternate-Mark Inversion at 42.6 Gbps ..........................617James M. Dailey, Mark J. Power, Roderick P. Webb, Robert J. Manning

Electronically-Tuned Optical Delay Lines in Silicon..................................................................................................................................618Saeed Khan, Sasan Fathpour

All-optical Signal Processing Using Slow Light Enhanced Nonlinearities in Silicon Waveguides (invited) ........................................619Bill Corcoran, Christelle Monat, Mark Pelusi, Christian Grillet, Thomas White, Juntao Li, Liam O'Faolain, Thomas Krauss, David Moss, Benjamin Eggleton

Dynamic Compensation of Two-Photon Absorption Induced Distortions in Silicon Photonics Filters ...............................................620Carlo Ferrari, Francesco Morichetti, Antonio Canciamilla, Marc Sorel, Andrea Melloni

Integrated All-optical SSB Modulator Using Photonic Hilbert Transformer with Planar Bragg Gratings ........................................621Chaotan Sima, James Gates, Helen Rogers, Christopher Holmes, Michalis Zervas, Peter Smith

FIBRE AND GUIDED WAVE LASERS AND AMPLIFIERS Dual Wavelength Passively Mode-locked Raman Fiber Laser Pumped by Semiconductor Disk Lasers ............................................622

Alexander Chamorovskiy, Jussi Rautiainen, Jari Lyytikäinen, Oleg G. Okhotnikov

High-harmonic km-long Self-pulsed Raman Fiber Laser..........................................................................................................................623Anne Boucon, Benoit Barviau, Julien Fatome, Christophe Finot, Thibaut Sylvestre, Min Won Lee, Philippe Grelu, Guy Millot

A Fiber Based Synchronously Pumped Tunable Raman Laser in the NIR.............................................................................................624Shaif-Ul Alam, Dejiao Lin, Peh Teh, Kang Chen, David Richardson

Multi-stage Er-doped Fiber Amplifier for Gain-switched Laser Diodes .................................................................................................625Laura Abrardi, Lauryna Petraviciute Loetscher, Sergio Vincenzo Marchese, Thomas Feurer

High Energy Pulsed Eye-safe Fiber Amplifier ............................................................................................................................................626Eric Lallier, Dominique Papillon-Ruggeri

Theoretical and Experimental Comparison of Different Configurations of Tapered Fiber Lasers .....................................................627Juho Kerttula, Valery Filippov, Yuri Chamorovskii, V. Ustimchik, Konstantin Golant, Oleg Okhotnikov

High Power Fused Single Mode Optical Fiber Coupler.............................................................................................................................628Thomas Theeg, Katharina Hausmann, Maik Frede, Hakan Sayinc, Jörg Neumann, Dietmar Kracht

Reducing Loss in Practical Single Ring Antiresonant Hollow Core Fibres .............................................................................................629John R. Hayes, Francesco Poletti, David J. Richardson

Ultrafast Laser Direct-Write Inscription of Monolithic Fibre and Waveguide Lasers (Invited)..........................................................630Michael with ford

Polarization-maintaining Ytterbium-doped Fibre with an Aluminosilicate Inner-cladding Fabricated Using In-situ Doping Technique...........................................................................................................................................................................................631

Seongwoo Yoo, Andrew S. Webb, Alexander J. Boyland, Robert J. Standish, Anirban Dhar, Jayanta K. Sahu

Giant Gain in a Rare-earth-ion-doped Waveguide.....................................................................................................................................632Dimitri Geskus, Shanmugam Aravazhi, Sonia García Blanco, Markus Pollnau

Phase-Matching and Gain of Deep-UV Dispersive-Wave Generation .....................................................................................................633John C. Travers, Philipp Hölzer, Wonkeun Chang, Johannes Nold, Alexander Nazarkin, Nicolas Joly, Philip St. J. Russell

Internally-Frequency-Doubled Yb Fiber Laser with 15 W CW Green Output ......................................................................................634Rafal Cieslak, William Andrew Clarkson

High Average Power Supercontinuum Sources (Invited) ..........................................................................................................................635John Travers, Edmund Kelleher, Benjamin Chapman, Sergei Popov, Roy Taylor

Dynamic Waveguide Properties of Active Fibers Under High Power Operation ...................................................................................636Fabian Stutzki, Florian Jansen, Cesar Jauregui, Jens Limpert, Andreas Tünnermann

Brillouin Lasing with Incoherent Feedback in Optical Fibers ..................................................................................................................637Andrei Fotiadi, Elena Preda, Patrice Mégret

Sub-200-fs Microjoule Pulses from an All-fiber CPA System ...................................................................................................................638Dirk Mortag, Thomas Theeg, Katharina Hausmann, Lars Grüner-Nielsen, Kim G. Jespersen, Dieter Wandt, Uwe Morgner, Dietmar Kracht, Jörg Neumann

Ytterbium Fiber System using a Dispersion Compensating Fiber Stretcher ..........................................................................................639Aart Verhoef, Alma Fernández, Kim Jespersen, Lingxiao Zhu, Lars Grüner-Nielsen, Almantas Galvanauskas, Andrius Baltuska

High Gain Fiber Optical Parametric Chirped Pulse Amplification of Femtosecond Pulses at 1 μm ...................................................640Arnaud Mussot, Damien Bigourd, Laure Lago, Alexandre Kudlinski, Emmanuel Hugonnot

Rod-type Fiber Amplifier for Pulse Compression of High Power Thin-Disk Lasers .............................................................................641Oliver H. Heckl, Clara J. Saraceno, Cyrill R. E. Baer, Thomas Südmeyer, Ursula Keller

40 W Narrow-bandwidth Ps Yb-doped Fiber Laser at 976 nm and Frequency Conversion to 488 nm...............................................642Guillaume Machinet, Jerome Lhermite, Eric Cormier

All-fiber Optically Synchronized Hybrid Er/Yb Laser System for High Power Femtosecond Pulse Generation ..............................643Alexey Andrianov, Elena Anashkina, Sergey Muravyev, Arkady Kim

High Power 100fs Fiber Oscillator ...............................................................................................................................................................644Martin Baumgartl, Florian Jansen, Fabian Stutzki, Cesar Jauregui, Jens Limpert, Andreas Tünnermann

8 Watts Actively Mode-Locked Ytterbium Doped Fiber Laser Delivering 15 ps pulses at 40 MHz.....................................................645Pierre Deslandes, Damien Sangla, Mathias Perrin, Julien Saby, Francois Salin, Eric Freysz

Highest Peak Power from a Normal-Dispersion Yb-Fiber Oscillator with Anomalous Dispersion Higher-Order-Mode Fiber ......................................................................................................................................................................................................646

Alma Fernandez, Lingxiao Zhu, Aart Verhoef, Kim Jespersen, Dusan Lorenc, Lars Grüner-Nielsen, Andrius Baltuska

0.5 μj Femtosecond Pulses from a Giant-chirp Ytterbium Fiber Oscillator............................................................................................647Nikolai Chichkov, Christian Hapke, Katharina Hausmann, Thomas Theeg, Dieter Wandt, Uwe Morgner, Dietmar Kracht, Jörg Neumann

500 nJ Femtosecond Fiber Laser at 976 nm ................................................................................................................................................648Jérôme Lhermite, Guillaume Machinet, Caroline Lecaplain, Romain Royon, Ammar Hideur, Eric Cormier

High-energy All-normal-dispersion Graphene Mode-locked Yb-doped Fiber Laser.............................................................................649Jiang Liu, Sida Wu, Quan-Hong Yang, Pu Wang

High Power Ultrafast Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers Design, Performance and Potential (Keynote) ....................................................650Jens Limpert

Comparison Between Multiple Quantum Wells and Carbon Nanotubes to Generate High Power in Mode-locked Fiber Oscillator ...............................................................................................................................................................................................651

Amélie Cabasse, Gilles Martel, Trung Nguyen, Jean-Louis Oudar, Sylvain Maine, Yann Battie, Brigitte Attal-Trétout

Liquid-Nitrogen-Cooled High-Concentration Erbium-Doped Fibre Laser.............................................................................................652Ruth Steinborn, Tianfu Yao, Andrew Webb, Jayanta Sahu, Johan Nilsson

Athermal Ho3+-Doped Amplifier with Two Pumps ...................................................................................................................................653Galina Nemova, Raman Kashyap

697 W 12 pm Linewidth of Fiber Generated and Amplified Spontaneous Emission (ASE) at 1 μm....................................................654Oliver Schmidt, Christian Wirth, Stephan Rhein, Miroslaw Rekas, Andrea Kliner, Thomas Schreiber, Ramona Eberhardt, Andreas Tünnermann

Spectral Characterization of a Narrow Linewidth, Single-frequency 780 nm Fiber Laser Source for Atom Cooling Applications.....................................................................................................................................................................................................655

Alain Mugnier, Eric Lemercier, Ronan Lebref, Mathieu Jacquemet, David Pureur

Phase Noise Reduction of Narrow Linewidth Optical Fibre-Ring Based Microwave Oscillators Modelling and Experimental Results .....................................................................................................................................................................................656

Aude Bouchier, Khaldoun Saleh, Pierre-Henri Merrer, Olivier Llopis

Single-frequency Yb-doped PCF MOPA with 294 W of Output Power for Gravitational Wave Detection .......................................657Malte Karow, Chandrajit Basu, Dietmar Kracht, Jörg Neumann, Peter Wessels

Yb-free Er-doped 980nm Pumped Single-Frequency Fiber Amplifier with Output Power of 54W and Near-Diffraction Limited Beam Quality................................................................................................................................................................658

Vincent Kuhn, Dietmar Kracht, Jörg Neumann, Peter Weßels

Sbs Suppression in High Power Fiber Pulse Amplifiers Employing a Superluminescence Diode As Seed Source.............................659Dirk Nodop, Damian Schimpf, Jens Limpert, Andreas Tuennermann

Femtosecond Laser Written Pr SrAl12O19 Channel-waveguide Laser in the Visible Spectral Range...................................................660Thomas Calmano, Joerg Siebenmorgen, Fabian Reichert, Matthias Fechner, Anna-Greta Paschke, Nils-Owe Hansen, Klaus Petermann, Guenter Huber

High-power cw 127 μm Bi-doped Fiber Laser ............................................................................................................................................661Igor Bufetov, Alexey Shubin, Sergey Firstov, Mikhail Melkumov, Vladimir Khopin, Alexey Guryanov, Evgeny Dianov

High Power Wavelength Stabilized Tm-Fibre Laser with FBG Written into the Core of the Active Fibre ........................................662Karsten Scholle, Samir Lamrini, Philipp Koopmann, Michael Schäfer, Jens Thomas, Christian Voigtländer, Stefan Nolte, Peter Fuhrberg

High Gain Erbium Doped Tellurium Oxide Waveguide Amplifier..........................................................................................................663Khu Vu, Steve Madden

Two Micron Tellurite Fibre Lasers (Invited) ..............................................................................................................................................664David Binks, Yuen Tsang, Billy Richards, Joris Lousteau, Animesh Jha

Compact 80 mW Picosecond Pulsed Source with Variable Repetition Rate and Pulse Energy at 531 nm..........................................665Thomas Schönau, Kristian Lauritsen, Sina Riecke, Thomas Eckhart, Rainer Erdmann

Fiber Laser with Cladding-Mode Feedback Based on Intracavity Long Period Grating......................................................................666David Sáez-Rodríguez, José Luis Cruz, Antonio Díez, Miguel Vicente Andrés

Symmetrically Side-pumped 10-W Ytterbium-doped Fiber Laser by Sub-wavelength Grating Coupler ...........................................667Chieh-Wei Huang, Chun-Lin Chang, Dong-Yo Jheng, Kuang-Yu Hsu, Sheng-Lung Huang, Ding-Wei Huang

Off-axis Pumping of Air Clad Photonic Crystal Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers .......................................................................................668Boris Shulga, Amiel Ishaaya

Laser Oscillation in 4-cm Single-transverse-mode Nd-doped Silica Fiber Fabricated by Zeolite Method ..........................................669Motoichiro Murakami, Minoru Yoshida, Hitoshi Nakano, Yasushi Fujimoto, Hiroyuki Shiraga, Shinji Motokoshi, Shinichi Matsuoka, Jun-Ya Maeda, Hirofumi Kan, Tatsuhiro Sato

Sub-watt Output Power at 638nm in Wavelength by Direct Oscillation with Pr-doped Waterproof Fluoro-aluminate Glass Fiber Laser .........................................................................................................................................................................670

Jun Nakanishi, Tsuyoshi Yamada, Yasushi Fujimoto, Osamu Ishii, Masaaki Yamazaki

On Two-wavelength Raman Fibre Laser Based on Spectral Broadening ...............................................................................................671Anastasia Bednyakova, Mikhail Fedoruk, Sergey Turitsyn, Andrey Kurkov, Oleg Medvedkov

High Power All-in-fibre Continuous Wave Raman Laser Based on Phosphosilicate Fibre ..................................................................672Sébastien Guillemet, Damien Kinet, Francois Narbonneau, Yves Hernandez, Domenico Giannone

Linearly Polarized 100kW Peak Power Pulsed Fiber Laser......................................................................................................................673Yasuhiro Kamba, Kazuyoku Tei, Shigeru Yamaguchi

Low Threshold Fiber Taper Coupled Silica Microsphere Laser in the 2 μm Wavelength Region .......................................................674Atasi Pal, Shu Ying Chen, Shyamal Das, Archi Bhattacharya, Tong Sun, Ranjan Sen, K T V Grattan

All-fiber Q-switched Er Tm laser. ................................................................................................................................................................675Andrey Kurkov, Yana Sadovnikova, Evgenii Sholokhov, Andrey Marakulin

83 W, 1 ns, 3.1 MHz All-fiber Laser for Micromachining .........................................................................................................................676Kivanc Özgören, Bulent Oktem, Sinem Yilmaz, Fatih Ömer Ilday, Ece Pasin, Koray Eken

Continuously Tunable Sub-ns Ytterbium-doped MPOA System for Frequency Conversion ...............................................................677Romain Royon, Jerome Lhermite, Guillaume Machinet, Laurent Sarger, Eric Cormier

All-glass kW Fibre Laser End-pumped by Mccp-cooled Diode Stacks....................................................................................................678John Minelly, Luis Spinelli, Rick Tumminelli, Sergei Govorkov, Doug Anthon, Eric Pooler, Rajiv Pathak, David Roh, Dan Grasso, David Scleuning, Bruce Perilloux, Paolo Zambon

High Energy All Fiber Picosecond Laser.....................................................................................................................................................679Simonette Pierrot, Benjamin Cocquelin, Julien Saby, François Salin

Actively Mode-Locked Fibre Ring Laser Based on In-Fibre Acousto-Optic Amplitude Modulation ..................................................680Miguel Bello-Jiménez, Christian Cuadrado-Laborde, Antonio Díez, José Luis Cruz, Miguel V. Andrés

Energy Scalable Passively Mode-locked Mid-IR Tm-fiber Laser.............................................................................................................681Vladimir Kalashnikov, V. Dvoyrin, Irina Sorokina

Basic Considerations on Coherent Combining of Ultrafast CPA Amplifiers ..........................................................................................682Arno Klenke, Enrico Seise, Jens Limpert, Andreas Tünnermann

Anticrossings Induced by Index Depressions and their Impact on Mode Area Scaling of Active Large Pitch Fibers .......................683Florian Jansen, Fabian Stutzki, Cesar Jauregui, Jens Limpert, Andreas Tünnermann

Single-Mode Regime of Large Mode Area Double Cladding Photonic Crystal Fibers ..........................................................................684Enrico Coscelli, Federica Poli, Davide Passaro, Annamaria Cucinotta, Stefano Selleri, Thomas T. Alkeskjold, Lasse Leick, Jes Broeng

Propagation and Break-up of Pulses in Fiber Amplifiers with Third-Order Dispersion.......................................................................685Claude Aguergaray, Vladimir Kruglov, John D. Harvey

Modal Decomposition of Self-Focusing Effects in Optical Fibres.............................................................................................................686Graham Hesketh, Francesco Poletti, Peter Horak

Electronic vs Thermal Index Changes in Pulsed and CW Yb-Doped Fiber Amplifiers ........................................................................687Maxim Kuznetsov, Oleg Antipov, Andrei Fotiadi, Patrice Mégret

Large-Mode-Area Highly Yb-doped Photodarkening-Free Al2O3-P2O5-SiO2-Based Fiber ..................................................................688Mikhail Likhachev, Svetlana Aleshkina, Alexey Shubin, Mikhail Bubnov, Evgeny Dianov, Denis Lipatov, Alexey Guryanov

Control of Spectral and Statistical Properties of Raman Fiber Lasers ....................................................................................................689Dmitriy Churkin, Oleg Gorbunov, Sergey Smirnov

Statistical Properties and Optical Spectra of Raman Fiber Lasers Influence of Bragg-Grating Mirrors ...........................................690Stéphane Randoux, Nicolas Dalloz, Pierre Suret

Iterative Method for Brillouin Fiber Ring Resonator ................................................................................................................................691Cristina Elena Preda, Gautier Ravet, Andrei A. Fotiadi, Patrice Mégret

Dynamics of Passively Phased Fiber Laser Arrays. ...................................................................................................................................692Adrian Jacobo, Pere Colet, Erik J. Bochove, Yehuda Braiman, Alejandro B. Aceves, Ralf Deiterding, Casey A. Miller, Charles Rhodes, Sami A. Shakir

Control of The Operation Regimes of a Passively Modelocked Fiber Laser Based on An Intracavity Polarizing Fiber .................................................................................................................................................................................................................693

Guillermo E. Villanueva, María Ferri, Pere Pérez-Millán

Super-Broadband Near-Infrared Photoluminescence from Thulium, Bismuth, and Thulium-Bismuth Doped Sodium Germanium Gallate Glasses and Waveguides ..............................................................................................................................694

Bo Zhou, Baojie Chen, Edwin Pun

Concentration Effects in Ho-Doped Fiber Lasers.......................................................................................................................................695Andrey Kurkov, Evgenii Sholokhov, Vladimir Tsvetkov, Andrey Marakulin

Sub-mJ Nano-Second Vortex Pulse Generation from a Stressed Yb-Doped Double Clad Fiber Amplifier........................................696Mio Koyama, Tetsuya Hirose, Yuichi Tanaka, Katsuhiko Miyamoto, Takashige Omatsu

Coherent Beam Combination of Pulse Fiber Amplifiers in 100ns-Pulse Regime ...................................................................................697Laurent Lombard, Adrian Azarian, Kevin Cadoret, Pierre Bourdon, Didier Goular, Guillaume Canat, Véronique Jolivet, Yves Jaouën, Olivier Vasseur

High Energy Coherently Combined Femtosecond Fiber CPA System ....................................................................................................698Enrico Seise, Arno Klenke, Sven Breitkopf, Marco Plötner, Jens Limpert, Andreas Tünnermann

Coherent Beam Combining of Fiber Amplifiers in The Femtosecond Regime .......................................................................................699Louis Daniault, Marc Hanna, Laurent Lombard, Yoann Zaouter, Eric Mottay, Didier Goular, Patrick Bourdon, Frederic Druon, Patrick Georges

Phase Locking Fluctuations of 25 Coupled Fiber Lasers...........................................................................................................................700Micha Nixon, Moti Fridman, Rami Pugatch, Asher A. Friesem, Nir Davidson

Multicore Photonic-Crystal-Fiber Sources of Ultrashort Pulses ..............................................................................................................701Ming-Lie Hu, Xiao-Hui Fang, Bo-Wen Liu, Lu Chai, Yan-Feng Li, Aleksei Zheltikov, Ching-Yue Wang

Femtosecond Laser Induced Fiber Bragg Gratings in Active and Multi Mode Fibers (Invited) ..........................................................702Stefan Nolte, Jens Thomas, Christian Voigtländer, Ria G. Becker, Daniel Richter, Andreas Tünnermann

Dual Wavelength Waveguide Lasers Fabricated Using Femtosecond Laser Inscription in Yb Doped Phosphate Glass .................................................................................................................................................................................................................703

Martin Ams, Peter Dekker, Graham Marshall, Michael with ford

Erbium Doped Glass-Semiconductor Integrated Waveguide Amplifier..................................................................................................704Mehrdad Irannejad, Gin Jose, Mehrdad Pasha, Paul Steenson, Qi Jiang, Ziang Zhaung, Richard Hogg, Animesh Jha

Distributed Feedback Channel Waveguide Lasers in Erbium- and Ytterbium-Doped Al2O3 on Silicon.............................................705Edward Bernhardi, Henk van Wolferen, Kerstin Wörhoff, René de Ridder, Markus Pollnau

A 40% Slope Efficiency 790nm Pumped 1.9micrometre Tm3+ ZBLAN Directly-Written Waveguide Laser......................................706David Lancaster, Simon Gross, Heike Ebendorff-Heidepriem, Kevin Kuan, Tanya Monro, Alex Fuerbach, Michael with ford

MICRO- AND NANO-PHOTONICS Electromechanical Tuning of Double-Membrane Photonic Crystal Cavities..........................................................................................707

Leonardo Midolo, Peterus Johannes van Veldhoven, Richard Nötzel, Mehmet Ali Dundar, Andrea Fiore

Low-Power Continuous-Wave Frequency Conversion in Far-Field Optimized Silicon Photonic Crystal Nanocavities ....................................................................................................................................................................................................708

Dario Gerace, Matteo Galli, Simone L. Portalupi, Karl Welna, Christopher Reardon, Thomas Krauss, Liam O'Faolain, Giorgio Guizzetti, Lucio C. Andreani

Photonic Crystal Nanocavities and Broad-Area Cavities (Invited) ..........................................................................................................709Susumu Noda, Takashi Asano

Bistable Switching in Chalcogenide 1D Photonic Crystal Nanocavities...................................................................................................710Thomas White, Xin Gai, Steve Madden, Duk-Yong Choi, Sukhanta Debbarma, Barry Luther-Davies

Experimental Observation of Sub-Bragg Frequency Gaps in Photonic Crystals ...................................................................................711Simon R. Huisman, Rajesh V. Nair, Alex Hartsuiker, Léon A. Woldering, Allard P. Mosk, Willem L. Vos

Compact Integrated Optical Sensors Based on a Si3N4 Grated Waveguide Optical Cavity ..................................................................712So V. Pham, Meindert Dijkstra, Anton J.F. Hollink, Rene M. de Ridder, Markus Pollnau, Hugo J.W.M. Hoekstra

Photoluminescence Spectroscopy of Silicon Photonic Crystal Nanocavities ...........................................................................................713Roberto Lo Savio, Simone Luca Portalupi, Matteo Galli, Dario Gerace, Lucio Claudio Andreani, Abdul Shakoor, Liam O'Faolain, Thomas F. Krauss, Alessia Irrera, Giorgia Franzo', Francesco Priolo

All-Optical Differentiation of Sub-Picosecond Pulses in SOI Bragg Gratings ........................................................................................714Michael J. Strain, Katarzyna A. Rutkowska, David Duchesne, Roberto Morandotti, Marc Sorel, Jose Azaña

Optical Characterisation of High Q Silicon Rich Silicon Nitride U-Disks in The Visible Range ..........................................................715Daniel Navarro Urrios, Federico Ferrarese Lupi, Josep Montserrat, Carlos Domínguez, Paolo Pellegrino, Blas Garrido

Nanocrystalline Silicon As a New Platform to Widen The Scope of Silicon Photonics (Invited) ..........................................................716Paolo Bettotti, Lorenzo Pavesi

Single Crystalline Optical Antennas (Invited).............................................................................................................................................717Bert Hecht, Peter Geisler, Christoph Brüning, Johannes Kern, Jord C. Prangsma, Xiaofei Wu, Thorsten Feichtner, Johannes Ziegler, Pia Weinmann, Martin Kamp, Alfred Forchel, Paolo Biagioni, Jer-Shing Huang

Enhancement and Tailoring of Hybrid Self-Assembled Photonic-Plasmonic Crystals Emission .........................................................718Martin Lopez- Garcia, Juan Francisco Galisteo-Lopez, Alvaro Blanco, Antonio Garcia-Martin, Cefe Lopez

Multi-Beam Excitation and Interference Interaction of Surface Plasmon Polaritons ...........................................................................719Carsten Reinhardt, Andrey B. Evlyukhin, Andreas Seidel, Roman Kiyan, Wei Cheng, Arseniy I. Kuznetsov, Boris N. Chichkov

Near-Field Optical Imaging of Plasmonic Waveguides Using Heterodyne Optical Feedback on Er Doped DFB Fibre Laser ......................................................................................................................................................................................................720

Matthieu Roblin, Sylvain Girard, Hervé Gilles, Mathieu Laroche, Julien Cardin, Christian Dufour

From Near-Field to Far-Field Radiative Coupling of Particle Plasmon Resonances in Three-Dimensional Geometries.......................................................................................................................................................................................................721

Richard Taubert, Ralf Ameling, Thomas Weiss, André Christ, Harald Giessen

Few-Quantum-Dot Lasing in Photonic Crystal Nanocavities....................................................................................................................722Jin Liu, Serkan Ates, Søren Stobbe, Michael Lorke, Peter Lodahl

Highly Efficient Organic Microlasers on a Pedestal...................................................................................................................................723Sergii Lozenko, Joseph Lautru, Melanie Lebental, Christian Ulysse, Joseph Zyss

Control of Evanescent Coupling in Hybrid III-V/SOI Nanolasers ...........................................................................................................724Alexandre Bazin, Yacine Halioua, Timothy Karle, Paul Monnier, Frederic Bordas, Isabelle Sagnes, Rama Raj, Fabrice Raineri

Optical Amplification Enhancement in Photonic Crystals ........................................................................................................................725Marco Leonetti, Riccardo Sapienza, Louis Froufe-Perez, Juan Galisteo-Lopez, Claudio Conti, Cefe Lopez

Sub-Microwatt Lasing of Whispering Gallery Mode Microcavities Functionalized with Lanthanide Oxide Nanoparticles ..................................................................................................................................................................................................726

Guoping Lin, Yves Candela, Olivier Tillement, Valérie Lefèvre-Seguin, Jean Hare

Upconversion Green-Light-Emitting Macroporous Er LN Random Laser ............................................................................................727Fan Shi, Xinzheng Zhang, Pidong Wang, Feifei Xin, Xuanyi Yu, Qiang Wu, Jingjun Xu

Band-Gap Guidance in Chalcogenide-Silica Photonic Crystal Fibers .....................................................................................................728Nicolai Granzow, Markus A. Schmidt, Andrey S. Tverjanovich, Lothar Wondraczek, Philip St.J. Russell

An InAs/iNP(100) QD Waveguide Photodetector for OCT Application ..................................................................................................729Yuqing Jiao, Bauke Tilma, Junji Kotani, Richard Notzel, Meint Smit, Erwin Bente

Nano-Optical Gratings for Integrated Laser Interferometer Arrays.......................................................................................................730Dirk Michaelis, Maria Oliva, Tino Benkenstein, Torsten Harzendorf, Andre Matthes, Uwe Zeitner

Polymer MEMS for The Active Control of VCSEL Beam ........................................................................................................................731Benjamin Reig, Thierry Camps, Véronique Bardinal, David Barat, Emmanuelle Daran, Jean Baptiste Doucet

Integration of Organic Semiconductor Lasers and Waveguides Into PMMA Based Microfluidic Lab-On-A-Chip Systems.............................................................................................................................................................................................................732

Christoph Vannahme, Sönke Klinkhammer, Uli Lemmer, Timo Mappes

Integrated Optic Glass Microcantilever with Bragg Gratings Forming a Fabry-Pérot Interferometer for Force Sensing .............................................................................................................................................................................................................733

Lewis G. Carpenter, Christopher Holmes, Peter G.R. Smith, James C. Gates

Nanowire Superconducting Single-Photon Detectors Integrated with Optical Microcavities Based on GaAs Substrates ........................................................................................................................................................................................................734

Saeedeh Jahanmiri Nejad, Alessandro Gaggero, Francesco Marsili, Francesco Mattioli, Roberto Leoni, David Bitauld, Dondu Sahin, Gerrit Jan Hamhuis, Richard Nötzel, Rosendo Sanjines, Andrea Fiore

Vertically Confined Phase Matched Second Harmonic Generation in Sub-Diffractive Planar Two-Dimensional Photonic Crystals ............................................................................................................................................................................................735

Cristian Nistor, Timothy Karle, Fabrice Raineri, Crina Cojocaru, Jose Trull, Rama Raj, Kestutis Staliunas

Design for An Electrically-Pumped Photonic Nanowire Single-Photon Source with An Efficiency of 89 % ......................................736Niels Gregersen, Torben Nielsen, Jesper Mørk, Julien Claudon, Jean-Michel Gérard

Competition Between Electronic Kerr and Free Carrier Effects in An Ultimate Fast Switched Semiconductor Microcavity......................................................................................................................................................................................................737

Emre Yüce, Georgios Ctistis, Julien Claudon, Maela Bazin, Jean-Michel Gérard, Willem L. Vos

3D Active Photonic Nanostructures .............................................................................................................................................................738Elmina Kabouraki, Ioanna Sakellari, Costas Fotakis, Maria Vamvakaki, Maria Farsari

Polarization Gating for High-Harmonic Generation in The Vicinity of Metal Nanostructures ...........................................................739Anton Husakou, Freek Kelkensber, Joachim Herrmann, Marc Vrakking

Coherent Optical Imaging Through Opaque Layers .................................................................................................................................740Elbert G. van Putten, Duygu Akbulut, Jacopo Bertolotti, Ad Lagendijk, Allard P. Mosk

Light Propagation in Self-Assembled Hybrid Metallodielectric Structures ............................................................................................741Juan Francisco Galisteo-Lopez, Martin López-García, Antonio García-Martín, Alvaro Blanco, Cefe Lopez

Time- and Frequency-Domain Measurements of Solitons in Subwavelength Silicon Waveguides Using Cross-Correlation ......................................................................................................................................................................................................742

Wei Ding, Andrey Gorbach, William Wadsworth, Jonathan Knight, Dmitry Skryabin, Michael Strain, Marc Sorel, Richard De La Rue

Enhanced Coupling Between Waveguides Through Randomness ...........................................................................................................743Alexander Szameit, Mikael Rechtsman, Matthias Heinrich, Felix Dreisow, Robert Keil, Stefan Nolte, Mordechai Segev

Focusing Light Through Turbid Media By Binary Amplitude Modulation............................................................................................744Duygu Akbulut, Thomas J Huisman, Elbert G van Putten, Willem L Vos, Allard P Mosk

"Guidonics" in Functionalized Waveguide Arrays Theoretical and Experimental Determination of Coupling Constants and Band Structures ....................................................................................................................................................................745

Nadia Belabas Plougonven, Christophe Minot, Ariel Levenson, Jean-Marie Moison

Surface Waves in Two-Dimensional Modulated Photonic Lattices ..........................................................................................................746Ivan Garanovich, Alexander Szameit, Andrey Sukhorukov, Matthias Heinrich, Felix Dreisow, Thomas Pertsch, Stefan Nolte, Andreas Tünnermann, Yuri Kivshar

Broad Spectral Range Phase Matched Second Harmonic Generation in Sub-Diffractive Two-Dimensional Photonic Crystals ............................................................................................................................................................................................747

Cristian Nistor, Crina Cojocaru, Jose Trull, Kestutis Staliunas

Experimental Signature of a Broad 3D Photonic Band Gap in Silicon Nanostructures ........................................................................748Simon R. Huisman, Rajesh V. Nair, Léon A. Woldering, Merel D. Leistikow, Allard P. Mosk, Willem L. Vos

Demonstration of Ultra Slow Optical Pulse Propagation Inside a Photonic Crystal Waveguide .........................................................749Kadir Üstün, Hamza Kurt

Ultrahigh Q-Factor Ge11.5As24Se64.5 Chalcogenide Glass Photonic Crystal Cavity Embedded in Silica ...............................................750Xin Gai, Thomas White, Barry Luther-Davies

Complex Photonic Superlattices Via Induced Optical Incremental Multiplexing ..................................................................................751Martin Boguslawski, Andreas Kelberer, Patrick Rose, Cornelia Denz

GaAs Based Mid Infrared Filter with Resonant Gratings........................................................................................................................752Kristel Chan Shin Yu, Anne Laure Fehrembach, Fabien Lemarchand, Olivier Gauthier-Lafaye, Antoine Monmayrant, Philippe Arguel, Sophie Bonnefont, Françoise Lozes-Dupuy, Anne Sentenac

Modulated Nanowire Couplers for Ultrashort Pulses ................................................................................................................................753Alexander Solntsev, Andrey Sukhorukov, Yuri Kivshar

Coupling of Angle Polished Waveguides to High-Q Whispering Gallery Mode Resonators.................................................................754Gualtiero Nunzi Conti, Simone Berneschi, Franco Cosi, Stefano Pelli, Silvia Soria, Giancarlo C Righini, Pierre-Henri Merrer, Massimiliano Dispenza, Alberto Secchi

Grating-Assisted Micro-Ring Resonators for Silicon Dual Mode Filters ................................................................................................755Antonio Samarelli, Antonio Canciamilla, Giuseppe Morea, Francesco Morichetti, Richard De La Rue, Andrea Melloni, Marc Sorel

Berry's Phase Magnification in Microcoil Resonators ............................................................................................................................... 756Timothy Lee, Neil Broderick, Gilberto Brambilla

Optical Pulse Drives a Movement of a Microsphere ..................................................................................................................................757Yundong Zhang, Hanyang Li, Jin Li, Liangsheng Qiang, Ping Yuan

Generalized Schawlow-Townes Formula for Natural Bandwidth of Nano Laser ..................................................................................758Arkadi Chipouline, Markus Mundus, Anatoly Chirkin

Theory of Superradiance By Nano-Array of Quantum-Well Dots ...........................................................................................................759Akira Ishikawa, Takashi Yatsui, Kiyoshi kobayashi, Motoichi Ohtsu, Jinkyoung Yoo, Gyu-Chul Yi, Hajime Ishihara

Improved Lasing Action from Dye Doped SU8 Films Exploiting Biologically Derived Nanostructures .............................................760Dingke Zhang, Gorgi Kostovski, Christian Karnutsch, Arnan Mitchell

Multiple Scattering of Light in Finite-Size Superdiffusive Media ............................................................................................................761Jacopo Bertolotti, Kevin Vynck, Diederik Sybolt Wiersma

Analysis of Anderson Localization of Light in Gan Nanocolumns ...........................................................................................................762Masaru Sakai, Yuta Inose, Tomi Ohtsuki, Kazuhiro Ema, Akihiko Kikuchi, Katsumi Kishino

Anderson Localization of Light in Two-Dimensional Random Media.....................................................................................................763Yuta Inose, Masaru Sakai, Kazuhiro Ema, Akihiko Kikuchi, Katsumi Kishino, Tomi Ohtsuki

Tunable Near Field Dipole-Dipole Coupling Between Cdse/Cds Nanorods ............................................................................................764Peristera Andreakou, Jan J. Rindermann, Marco Zanella, Liberato Manna, Pavlos G. Lagoudakis

Symmetry Breaking in Plasmonic Waveguides with Metal Nonlinearities..............................................................................................765Artur Davoyan, Ilya Shadrivov, Yuri Kivshar, Meir Orenstein

Superoscillatory Diffraction-Free Beams ....................................................................................................................................................766Konstantinos Makris, Demetri Psaltis

Photonic Graphene Broken PT-Symmetry, Strain, and Optical Tachyons .............................................................................................767Alexander Szameit, Mikael Rechtsman, Omri Bahat-Treidel, Mordechai Segev

Experimental Evidence of Asymmetrical Spectrum Broadening in a Heavy-Metal Oxide Glass Doped with Silver Nanoparticles ..................................................................................................................................................................................................768

Nikolai Zhavoronkov, Rodislav Driben, Bruna Andressa Bregadiolli, Marcelo Nalin, Boris Malomed

Significant Enhancement of Second-Harmonic Generation in SiNx Resonant Waveguide Grating ....................................................769Henna Pietarinen, Outi Hyvärinen, Ravi Kumar, Tommi Kaplas, Janne Simonen, Goery Genty, Martti Kauranen

Balanced Detection to Reduce Noise in a Supercontinuum Light Source for Applications in Broadband Interferometry ................................................................................................................................................................................................770

Elizabeth Robinson, Henkjan Gersen, Johanna Tragardh

Three-Port Interferometer in Silicon-On-Insulator for Wavelength Monitoring and Displacement Measurement ..........................771Peter Harmsma, John-Paul Staats, Dario Lo Cascio, Lun Cheng

Enhancing Chemical Sensitivity of a Tilted Planar Bragg Grating Using a Thin Gold Layer..............................................................772Christopher Holmes, Keith R. Daly, Lewis G. Carpenter, James C. Gates, Ian J.G. Sparrow, Giampaolo D'Alessandro

All-Optical Electric Field Sensor in Domain Inverted LiNbo3 for Harsh Environment ........................................................................773Domenico Tulli, Davide Janner, Valerio Pruneri

Photonic Crystal Cavities from Nonlinear Optics At a Few Photons Level, to Fast, Energy Efficient Information Processing (Invited) ........................................................................................................................................................................................774

Jelena Vuckovic, Arka Majumdar, Kelley Rivoire, Sonia Buckley, Alexander Papageorge, Erik Kim, Michal Bajcsy

Mapping of Whispering-Gallery-Modes in Coupled Disk Microresonators ...........................................................................................775Carsten Schmidt, Mattes Liebsch, Arkadi Chipouline, Norik Janunts, Ernst-Bernhard Kley, Andreas Tünnermann, Thomas Pertsch

Focused-Ion-Beam Nanostructured Photonic Cavities for Integrated Lasers in Crystalline Double Tungstate Channel Waveguides ......................................................................................................................................................................................776

Feridun Ay, Dimitri Geskus, Ion Iñurrategui, Shanmugam Aravazhi, Markus Pollnau

Photonic Wire Held By Resonant Nanotethers for Improved Filtering ...................................................................................................777Anne Talneau, Isabelle Sagnes

Optomechanical Coupling in a Two-Dimensional Photonic Crystal Defect Cavity................................................................................778Emanuel Gavartin, Rémy Braive, Isabelle Sagnes, Olivier Arcizet, Alexios Beveratos, Tobias Kippenberg, Isabelle Robert-Philip

Thermal Nonlinearity in Coupled Disk Microresonators ..........................................................................................................................779Carsten Schmidt, Arkadi Chipouline, Ernst-Bernhard Kley, Andreas Tünnermann, Thomas Pertsch

Effect of Stretch Factor and Uniaxial Strain on H1 Photonic Crystal Nanocavities ..............................................................................780Ehsaneh D. Ahmadi, Isaac J. Luxmoore, Mark Fox, Alexander I. Tartakovskii, Maxim Hugues, Maurice S. Skolnick

Detection of Nanobubble Generation and Stability by a SOI Nanophotonic Ring Resonator ..............................................................781Shangjiong Yang, Peter Harmsma, Jose Pozo, Mirvais Yousefi

Direct Molding Chalcogenide Glass Waveguides Using Thermal Nanoimprint Lithography with a Soft PDMS Stamp ...............................................................................................................................................................................................................782

Ting Han, Steve Madden, Douglas Bulla, Sukanta Debbarma, Barry Luther-Davies

An Optical Fiber Long-Period Grating Sensor for Organic Vapors Utilizing a ZnO Nanorod Out-Cladding...................................783Argiro Klini, Maria Konstantaki, Demetrios Anglos, Stavros Pissadakis

Cross-Polarization Breakdown in 3-Dimensional Opal Photonic Crystals..............................................................................................784Christian Wolf, Jens Küchenmeister, Kurt Busch, Sergei Romanov, Ulf Peschel

BIOPHOTONICS AND APPLICATIONS (JOINTLY CLEO®/EUROPE AND EQEC) Label-Free Live Brain Imaging with Third-Harmonic Generation Microscopy (Invited) ....................................................................785

Stefan Witte, Adrian Negrean, Hans Lodder, Guilherme Silva, Christiaan de Kock, Huibert Mansvelder, Marloes Groot

Optical Coherence Tomography Imaging Technology and Applications (Tutorial) ..............................................................................786James G. Fujimoto

Differential CARS Microscopy with Chirped Femtosecond Laser Pulses (Invited) ...............................................................................787Paola Borri

Second-Harmonic Nanoparticles for Deep Tissue in Vivo Imaging .........................................................................................................788Rachel Grange, Thomas Lanvin, Chia-Lung Hsieh, Ye Pu, Demetri Psaltis

Slow Light Filters with MHz Frequency Resolution for Enhancing The Contrast in Ultrasound-Modulated Optical Tomography ....................................................................................................................................................................................................789

Huiliang Zhang, Mahmood Sabooni, Lars Rippe, Chulhong Kim, Stefan Kroll, Lihong V. Wang, Philip Hemmer

Polarization-Resolved Second Harmonic Generation Microscopy in Biological Tissues.......................................................................790Gaël Latour, Ivan Gusachenko, Marie-Claire Schanne-Klein

Imaging Single 5 Nm Gold Nanoparticles Through Interferometric Cross-Polarization Microscopy .................................................791Xin Hong, Henkjan Gersen

Nonlinear Microscopy of Tissues and Embryo Morphogenesis (Invited) ................................................................................................792Emmanuel Beaurepaire

Silk - New Opportunities in Optics and Photonics for An Ancient Material (Invited)...........................................................................793Fiorenzo G. Omenetto

Development of Transient Absorption Ultrasonic Microscopy (Invited).................................................................................................794Brian E. Applegate, Ryan L. Shelton

Indirect Photoionization of Water and OH- in Aqueous Solution Studied By Pump-Repump-Probe Spectroscopy .........................795Martin K. Fischer, Hubert Rossmadl, Hristo Iglev, Alfred Laubereau

Layer-By-Layer (Chitosan/ Polysodium 4-Styrenesulfonate) Membrane-Based Fiber Optic Sensor ..................................................796Xiu Min Ang, Li Han Chen, Chi Chiu Chan

Colloidal Nanoprobes for The Optical Detection of Ethanol.....................................................................................................................797Peristera Andreakou, Sarah Hands, Pavlos G. Lagoudakis

Fine Structure in The Reflection of Cylindrical Light Beams...................................................................................................................798Jörg Götte, Mark Dennis

Holographic Optical Tweezers Induced Hierarchical Supramolecular Organization ...........................................................................799Mike Woerdemann, Christina Alpmann, André Devaux, Luisa De Cola, Cornelia Denz

Investigation of Shaped Laser Beam Propagation in Turbid Media ........................................................................................................800Tansu Ersoy, Berna Yalizay, Inci Cilesiz, Selcuk Akturk

Intrinsic Precision Limit in Steady-State and Time-Domain Fluorescence Diffuse Optical Imaging ..................................................801Matthieu Boffety, Marc Allain, Anne Sentenac, Marc Massoneau, Rémi Carminati

Calculation of Focusing Properties of a Radially Polarized Beam with Annular Intensity Distribution.............................................802Masato Niwa, Yuichi Kozawa, Shunichi Sato

Self-Healing of Vector Bessel-Gauss Beam in High Numerical Aperture Focusing ...............................................................................803Sunil Vyas, Yuichi Kozawa, Shunichi Sato

Two-Photon Fluorescence Excitation Spectroscopy of Photosynthetic Pigments and Pigment-Protein Complexes ..........................804Alexander Betke, Bernd Voigt, Heiko Lokstein, Ralf Menzel

Luminescence Diffuse Optical Tomography on a Reflectance Imaging Set-Up......................................................................................805Matthieu Boffety, Marc Allain, Anne Sentenac, Marc Massonneau, Rémi Carminati

Laser Speckle Contrast Imaging for Assessing Flow Velocities and Scatterer Concentration in Capillary Phantoms .....................806Sujatha Narayanan Unni, Jayanthy A Kandasamy, Ramasubba Reddy M

Integrated Waveguide Probes for Efficient Backscattered-Light Collection from Thin Samples ........................................................807Nur Ismail, Fehmi Civitci, Kerstin Wörhoff, René M. de Ridder, Markus Pollnau, Alfred Driessen

Laser Microstructured 3D Polymeric Biocompatible Implants ................................................................................................................808Mangirdas Malinauskas, Daiva Baltriukiene, Antanas Kraniauskas, Paulius Danilevicius, Evaldas Balciunas, Albertas Zukauskas, Vytautas Purlys, Raimondas Sirmenis, Virginija Bukelskiene, Roaldas Gadonas, Vytautas Sirvydis, Algis Piskarskas

Pulsed Laser Sintering of Photo-Active Calcium Phosphates for Dental Enamel Restoration .............................................................809Animesh Jha, Esam Elmadani, Gin Jose, Chris G Leburn, C T A Brown, Wilson Sibbett, M S Duggal, Jack Toumba

Superresolved Femtosecond Laser Nanosurgery of Cells..........................................................................................................................811Matthias Pospiech, Moritz Emons, Kai Kuetemeyer, Alexander Heisterkamp, Uwe Morgner

Direct Laser Writing of Polylactide 3D Scaffolds .......................................................................................................................................812Vasileia Melissinaki, Andrew Gill, Ilida Ortega, Maria Vamvakaki, Anthi Ranella, Costas Fotakis, Maria Farsari, Frederik Clayessens

Doppler Velocimetry of Microspheres Laser-Propelled in Liquid-Filled Hollow-Core Photonic Crystal Fiber ................................813Martin Garbos, Tijmen Euser, Sarah Unterkofler, Philip Russell

Tailored Light Fields Ince Gaussian Beams Offer Novel Opportunities in Optical Micromanipulation.............................................814Christina Alpmann, Mike Woerdemann, Cornelia Denz

Evaluation of Forces Levitating a Particle in Optical Vortex Beam.........................................................................................................815Niko Eckerskorn, Vladlen Shvedov, Wieslaw Krolikowski, Andrei Rode

Integrated Spectrometers for Spectral-Domain Optical Coherence Tomography .................................................................................816B. Imran Akca, V.Duc Nguyen, Jeroen Kalkman, Ton G. van Leeuwen, Kerstin Worhoff, Rene de Ridder, Markus Pollnau

Learning from Fluorescence Decay Dynamics a Better Read Out from The Spectroscopic Ruler ......................................................817Junis J. Rinderman, Yosef Akhtman, James Richardson, Tom Brown, Pavlos G. Lagoudakis

Optical Fiber Tweezers Fabricated By Two Photon Lithography............................................................................................................818Carlo Liberale, Enzo Di Fabrizio, Gheorghe Cojoc, Gerardo Perozziello, Patrizio Candeloro, Francesca Bragheri, Lorenzo Ferrara, Paolo Minzioni, Ilaria Cristiani

MATERIALS PROCESSING WITH LASERS Laser Shooting Single Gold Nanoparticles - a Novel Lithographic Strategy...........................................................................................819

Andrey Lutich, Alexander Urban, Fernando Stefani, Jochen Feldmann

Femtosecond Laser Fabrication of Functional Nanoparticle Structures and Their Applications ........................................................820Arseniy Kuznetsov, Andrey Evlyukhin, Wei Cheng, Anastasia Koroleva, Roman Kiyan, Carsten Reinhardt, Manuel Gonçalves, Othmar Marti, Boris Chichkov

Formation of Highly Dispersed AuAg Nanoalloys By Femtosecond Laser Irradiation of Metal Salts in Normal Hexane .............................................................................................................................................................................................................821

Yuliati Herbani, Takahiro Nakamura, Shunichi Sato

Direct Laser Writing of 3D Scaffolds for Neural Tissue Engineering Applications ...............................................................................822Vasileia Melissinaki, Andrew Gill, Ilida Ortega, Maria Vamvakaki, Anthi Ranella, Costas Fotakis, Maria Farsari, Frederik Claeyssens

Formation Process of Femtosecond Laser-Induced Nanogratings At High Repetition Rates...............................................................823Sören Richter, Matthias Heinrich, Sven Döring, Andreas Tünnermann, Stefan Nolte

Arrays of Nanofeatures in Thin Film Materials By Femtosecond Laser Light Confinements with Microspheres ............................824David Grojo, Laurent Charmasson, Antonio Pereira, Marc Sentis, Philippe Delaporte

Ultrafast Laser Micro/Nano Processing for Microfluidic and Tissue Engineering Apllications (Invited)...........................................825Emmanuel Stratakis

Beyond Conventional 3D Ultrafast Laser Material Processing (Invited) ................................................................................................826Peter Kazansky, Martynas Beresna, Yves Bellouard

Imprinting Local Field Structure of Ultra-Short Pulses ............................................................................................................................827Cyril Hnatovsky, Vladlen Shvedov, Wieslaw Krolikowski, Andrei Rode

Super-Dense Al Formed By Ultrafast Laser Microexplosion ....................................................................................................................828Arturas Vailionis, Eugene Gamaly, Vygantas Mizeikis, Wenge Yang, Andrei Rode, Saulius Juodkazis

Demonstration of Negative Refractive Index Photosensitivity Mechanism in a Phosphate Glass Optical Fibre Using 248nm, 500fs Laser Radiation .......................................................................................................................................................................829

Michele Sozzi, Aashia Rahman, Stavros Pissadakis

Study of The Refractive Index Modification Mechanisms of Femtosecond Laser Processed Waveguides in Doped Phosphate Glass Through Its Micro Photoluminescence Properties........................................................................................................830

Andrés Ferrer, Daniel Jaque, Jan Siegel, Alexandro Ruiz de la Cruz, Javier Solís

Fabrication of Depressed Cladding Waveguide Bragg-Gratings in Rare-Earth Doped Heavy-Metal Fluoride Glass ......................831Simon Gross, David G. Lancaster, Heike Ebendorff-Heidepriem, Kevin Kuan, Tanya M. Monro, Michael J. with ford, Alex Fuerbach

Efficient Volume Bragg Gratings in Various Transparent Materials Induced By Femtosecond Laser Pulses...................................832Daniel Richter, Christian Voigtländer, Ria Becker, Jens Thomas, Andreas Tünnermann, Stefan Nolte

Femtosecond Direct Written Waveguides in Bismuth Germanate ...........................................................................................................833Christopher Miese, Michael J. with ford, Alex Fuerbach

Waveguides Photo-Written By Femtosecond Laser Filament in Chalcogenide Glass ...........................................................................834Ophélie Caulier, David Le Coq, Marc Fourmentin, Laurent Calvez, Eugene Bychkov, Pascal Masselin

Apodized Point-By-Point Fiber Bragg Gratings .........................................................................................................................................835Robert J. Williams, Christian Voigtländer, M. J. Steel, Graham D. Marshall, Andreas Tünnermann, Stefan Nolte, Michael J. with ford

3D Active Photonic Nanostructures .............................................................................................................................................................836Elmina Kabouraki, Ioanna Sakellari, Costas Fotakis, Maria Vamvakaki, Maria Farsari

Computer-Generated Holograms Written Directly on Silicon..................................................................................................................837Kristian Waedegaard, Peter Balling

Femtosecond Laser Direct Written Computer Generated Holograms ....................................................................................................838René Berlich, Stefan Nolte, Martin Richardson

Femtosecond Laser Ablation from Silicon and Ripples Formation Evolution of Surface Excitation ..................................................839Mourad Bounhalli, Marco Muth, Olga Varlamova, Juergen Reif

Femtosecond Laser Patterning of PMMA for Spatially Tailored Wettabilty .........................................................................................840Carmela De Marco, Shane M. Eaton, Stefano Rampini, Giulio Cerullo, Roberta Ramponi, Stefano Turri, Marinella Levi, Roberto Osellame

Ultrashort Pulse Laser Ablation of Dielectric Materials Experiments and Modeling............................................................................841Kristian Waedegaard, Bjarke H. Christensen, Mehrnaz N. Christensen, Peter Balling

Femtosecond Laser Ablation of Dielectrics Experimental Studies of Fundamental Processes .............................................................842Stephane Guizard, Nikita Fedorov, Alexandros Mouskeftaras, Sergey Klimentov

About The Mechanisms of Femtosecond Laser Damage and Ablation of Dielectric Materials ............................................................843Olivier Utéza, Benoît Chimier, Nicolas Sanner, Marc Sentis, Tatiana Itina, Philippe Lassonde, François Légaré, François Vidal, Jean-Claude Kieffer

Single Shot Nanochannel Processing with Femtosecond Bessel Beams....................................................................................................844Francois Courvoisier, Manoj K. Bhuyan, Maxime Jacquot, Pierre-Ambroise Lacourt, Roland Salut, Luca Furfaro, John M. Dudley

Tilting Metal Micro-Needle Fabrication Based on Optical Vortex Laser Ablation................................................................................845Kohei Toyoda, Katsuhiko Miyamoto, Masahito Okida, Ryuji Morita, Takashige Omatsu

Overview and Development of Metallic Photocathodes .............................................................................................................................846Antonella Lorusso

Nanofabrication with Pulsed Lasers (Invited).............................................................................................................................................847Andrei Kabashin, David Grojo, Thierry Sarnet, Philippe Delaporte, Pierre Blandin, Laurent Charmasson, Remi Torres, Thibault Derrien, Marc Sentis

Longitudinally Polarized Light and Its Applications (Invited) .................................................................................................................848Haifeng Wang, Boris Luk'yanchuk

Laser Nanofabrication Applications in Micro-Optics, Micro-Electronics, Micromachines, and Microfluidics (Invited) ...........................................................................................................................................................................................................849

Qi-Dai Chen, Hong Xia, Yong-Lai Zhang, Hong-Bo Sun

Fabrication of Cu Nanoparticles By High-Intensity Femtosecond Laser Irradiation of Solution ........................................................850Takahiro Nakamura, Yuliati Herbani, Shunichi Sato

Fabrication of Radial DOEs with Quantized Relief by Two-Photon Polymerization Technique .........................................................851Vladimir Osipov, Vladimir Pavelyev, Denis Kachalov, Boris Chichkov

Efficiency of Energy Deposition By Fundamental and Second Harmonics in Femtosecond Laser Inscription ..................................852Alexandr Dostovalov, Sergey Babin, Mandana Baregheh, Mykhaylo Dubov, Vladimir Mezentsev

In-Volume Waveguides By Femtosecond Laser Double Pulses in Glass Materials ................................................................................853Dagmar Esser, Judith Kumstel, Jens Gottmann

Two-Photons Micro-Structuring of a Polymer Containing Y-Shape Azo-Chromophores ....................................................................854Antonio Ambrosio, Pasqualino Maddalena, Andrea Camposeo, Marco Polo, Antonio Neves, Dario Pisignano, Antonio Carella, Fabio Borbone, Antonio Roviello

Nanostructuring of Silicon Surface with Near-Field Enhanced in Femtosecond Laser Ablation .........................................................855Godai Miyaji, Kaifeng Zhang, Junya Fujita, Kenzo Miyazaki

Printing of Amorphous and Crystalline Materials Pre-Machined Using Focussed Ion Beam Patterning...........................................856Collin Sones, Kamalpreet Kaur, Matthias Feinaeugle, Jun Ou, Kate Sloyan, Timothy May-Smith, Fabio Di Pietrantonio, Enrico Verona, Robert Eason

Grating Fabrication in Dielectric Coatings By TWIN-LIBWE ................................................................................................................857Csaba Vass, Balint Kiss, Aron Sipos, Ferenc Ujhelyi, Peter Dombi, Karoly Osvay

Permanent Volume Bragg Grating Fabrication in Pure Lithium Niobate Crystal Using Direct Laser Writing Technique ........................................................................................................................................................................................................858

Domas Paipulas, Mangirdas Malinauskas, Valerijus Smilgevicius, Valdas Sirutkaitis

Single-Shot Ultrashort-Pulse Laser Ablation of Single-Crystalline Metal Samples ...............................................................................859Juha-Matti Savolainen, Martin Snogdahl Christensen, Peter Balling

Laser Ablation in Selected Minerals for Extracting Fluid in Inclusions..................................................................................................860Marcin Swillo, Magnus Ivarsson, Anna Neubeck, Nils Holm, Curt Broman, Gunnar Björk

Rapid Calculation of The Energy Deposition Profiles for Processing of Dielectrics with Femtosecond Lasers..................................861Alexandro Ruiz de la Cruz, Edward J. Grace, Andrés Ferrer, Jan Siegel, Javier Solís

Controlled Self-Formation of Nanofibers and Nanomembranes in Polymers Induced By Laser Direct Writing ..............................862Mangirdas Malinauskas, Aleksandr Ovsianikov, Gabija Bickauskaite, Xiao Shizhou, Boris Chichkov, Roaldas Gadonas

Surface Structuring of ZnOWafers with Femtosecond Laser Pulses from Laser-Induced Periodic Surface Structures to Doping ......................................................................................................................................................................................863

Apurba Dev, Andreas Schneider, Kathrin Sebald, Tobias Voss

Optimization of Laser Interconnection Processes in Thin Film A-Si H Modules Working At Cell Level ...........................................864Juan José García-Ballesteros, Ignacio Torres, Miguel Morales, David Canteli, Julio Cárabe, José Javier Gandía, Carlos Molpeceres

Controllable Bumps and Holes Fabrication on The Surface of Fused Silica By Processing Bulk Material with Ultrashort Laser Pulses..................................................................................................................................................................................865

Sergey Oshemkov, Vladimir Kruglyakov, Ralph Klaesges, Markus Mengel

In-Situ Observation of Ultrashort Pulse Deep Drilling in Silicon At 1030 nm and 515 nm...................................................................866Sven Döring, Sören Richter, Andreas Tünnermann, Stefan Nolte

Real-Time In-Situ Measurement of the Penetration Depth in Short Pulse Laser Percussion Drilling of Metal Targets .............................................................................................................................................................................................................867

Francesco Paolo Mezzapesa, Antonio Ancona, Teresa Sibillano, Francesco De Lucia, Maurizio Dabbicco, Pietro Mario Lugarà, Gaetano Scamarcio

QUANTUM OPTICS Multimode Squeezing of Transverse Modes with a Self-Imaging Optical Parametric Oscillator ........................................................868

Benoît Chalopin, Francesco Scazza, Claude Fabre, Nicolas Treps

Multimode Ultrafast Broadband Information Coding State Generation, Characterization and Loss Evaluation.............................869Andreas Christ, Cosmo Lupo, Kaisa Laiho, Andreas Eckstein, Katiuscia N. Cassemiro, Christine Silberhorn

Generation and Characterization of Multimode Frequency Combs ........................................................................................................870Renné Medeiros de Araújo, Olivier Pinel, Pu Jian, Jinxia Feng, Benoît Chalopin, Claude Fabre, Nicolas Treps

Spatial Reshaping of a Squeezed State of Light ..........................................................................................................................................871Jean-François Morizur, Pu Jian, Seiji Armstrong, Nicolas Treps, Warwick Bowen, Jiri Janousek, Hans-A. Bachor

Quantum Correlations Between Intense Beams Using Four Wave Mixing in Atomic Vapors Theory and Experiments ....................................................................................................................................................................................................872

Thomas Coudreau, Quentin Glorieux, Romain Dubessy, Luca Guidoni, Jean-Pierre Likforman, Samuel Guibal, Ennio Arimondo

Reconfigurable Multi-Mode Entanglement with in One Beam.................................................................................................................873Seiji Armstrong, Jiri Janousek, Boris Hage, Jean-Francois Morizur, Hans-Albert Bachor, Ping Koy Lam

Ions Inside a Parabolic Mirror - Surrounding Absorbers with Reflective Geometry Allows for Efficient Free Space-Coupling ...............................................................................................................................................................................................874

Robert Maiwald, Andrea Golla, Benoît Chalopin, Martin Fischer, Alessandro S. Villar, Markus Sondermann, Gerd Leuchs

Pulsed Sagnac Source of Polarisation Entangled Photon Pairs ................................................................................................................875Stephanie Grabher, Immo Soellner, Ana Predojevi?, Gregor Weihs

Spot Size Measurement and Focusing of Momentum Entangled Photon Pairs ......................................................................................876Daniel Schlenk, Harald Weinfurter

Generation of Pulsed Squeezed Light At Telecommunication Wavelength Using a High Efficiency PPLN Optical Waveguide .......................................................................................................................................................................................................877

Masayoshi Yoshimura, Toshio Sugaya, Takuya Hirano, Kiyofumi Kikuchi, Kaori Sugiura, Sunao Kurimura, Hirochika Nakajima

Highly Efficient State-Selective Submicrosecond Photoionization Detection of Single Atoms..............................................................878Michael Krug, Florian Henkel, Julian Hofmann, Norbert Ortegel, Wenjamin Rosenfeld, Markus Weber, Harald Weinfurter

Measurement and Modification of Biexciton-Exciton Time Correlation from An Inas Quantum Dot................................................879Tobias Huber, Ana Predojevi?, Harishankar Jayakumar, Glenn S. Solomon, Gregor Weihs

Collinear Ultra-Broadband Parametric Fluorescence Generated from 10%-Chirped Quasi Phase Matched Device.......................880Akira Tanaka, Ryo Okamoto, Hwan Hong Lim, Shanthi Subashchandran, Masayuki Okano, Sunao Kurimura, Shigeki Takeuchi

Coherent Spectroscopy of Single Semiconductor Quantum Dots .............................................................................................................881Christian Wolpert, Lijuan Wang, Paola Atkinson, Armando Rastelli, Oliver G. Schmidt, Markus Lippitz

Matter Wave Interferometry Exploring The Importance of The Internal Molecular Properties ........................................................882Sandra Eibenberger, Stefan Gerlich, Mathias Tomandl, Klaus Hornberger, Stefan Nimmrichter, Jens Tüxen, Marcel Mayor, Markus Arndt

Low Noise Quantum Optical Amplification Using An Optical Amplifier ...............................................................................................883John Jeffers

CW-Laser-Pumped Telecom-Band Polarization-Entangled Photon-Pair Source with a Fidelity of 97.8%........................................884Yinghong Xue, Akio Yoshizawa, Hidemi Tsuchida

Measurement of Reduced Four-Photon De Broglie Wavelength At Telecom Wavelength ...................................................................885Masahiro Yabuno, Ryosuke Shimizu, Yasuyoshi Mitsumori, Hideo Kosaka, Keiichi Edamatsu

Limits to The Efficiency of Quantum Lithography ....................................................................................................................................886Gunnar Björk, Christian Kothe, Mohamed Bourennane, Shuichiro Inoue

Classical and Quantum Properties of Cylindrically Polarized Beams of Light Via a Poincaré Sphere Representation ................................................................................................................................................................................................887

Annemarie Holleczek, Andrea Aiello, Christian Gabriel, Christoph Marquardt, Gerd Leuchs

Demonstrating Hybrid Quantum Effects with Two Entangled Laser Beams .........................................................................................888Boris Hage, Jiri Janousek, Seiji Armstrong, Thomas Symul, Julien Bernu, Helen Chrzanowski, Pink Koy Lam, Hans Bachor

Quantum Fluctuations in Compressed Sensing ..........................................................................................................................................889Hui Wang, Shensheng Han, Mikhail I Kolobov

Generation of a Light Mode Optimized for Efficient Free-Space Photon-Atom Coupling ...................................................................890Andrea Golla, Benoît Chalopin, Robert Maiwald, Alessandro S. Villar, Irina Harder, Markus Sondermann, Gerd Leuchs

Accessing Photon Bunching with Photon Number Resolving Multi-Pixel Detector ...............................................................................891Leonid Krivitsky, Dmitry Kalashnikov, Maria Chekhova

Experimental Study of Non-Classicality Indicators and Extremal Quantum Correlations in Two-Qubit States ..............................892Andrea Chiuri, Giuseppe Vallone, Mauro Paternostro, Gerardo Adesso, Paolo Mataloni

Hybrid Squeezing of Solitonic Resonant Radiation in Photonic Crystal Fibers .....................................................................................893Truong X. Tran, Fabio Biancalana

Quantum Theory of a Single-Emitter Nanolaser ........................................................................................................................................894Nikolay Larionov, Mikhail Kolobov

Enhanced Resolution of Lossy Interferometry By Coherent Amplification............................................................................................895Chiara Vitelli, Nicolo' Spagnolo, Lorenzo Toffoli, Francesco De Martini, Fabio Sciarrino

Quantum Optics Meets Mesoscopic Physics (Tutorial)..............................................................................................................................896Atac Imamoglu

Multiple Scattering of Quantum Optical States..........................................................................................................................................897Johan Raunkjaer Ott, Niels Asger Mortensen, Peter Lodahl

Observation of Non-Markovian Dynamics of a Single Quantum Dot in a Micropillar Cavity .............................................................898Kristian Høeg Madsen, Serkan Ates, Toke Lund-Hansen, Andreas Löffler, Stephan Reitzenstein, Alfred Forchel, Peter Lodahl

Phase Control of a Laser Beam By a Single Molecule................................................................................................................................899Martin Pototschnig, Yannick Chassagneux, Jaesuk Hwang, Gert Zumofen, Alois Renn, Vahid Sandoghdar

Entangling Two Single Atoms At Remote Locations..................................................................................................................................900Julian Hofmann, Micheal Krug, Norbert Ortegel, Florian Henkel, Wenjamin Rosenfeld, Markus Weber, Harald Weinfurter

Entanglement-Preserving Absorption of Single SPDC Photons By a Single Atom ................................................................................901Jan Huwer, Nicolas Piro, Michael Schug, Joyee Ghosh, Jürgen Eschner

Spectroscopy of a Single Molecule Using Single Photons Emitted By Another Molecule......................................................................902Samuel Walt, Yves Rezus, Gert Zumofen, Stephan Götzinger, Vahid Sandoghdar

Integrated Optics Components for Quantum Information (Invited) .......................................................................................................903Alberto Politi, Jonathan Matthews, Anthony Laing, Alberto Peruzzo, Konstantinos Poulios, Jasmin Meinecke, Damien Bonneau, Pete Shadbolt, Pruet Kalasuwan, Xiao-Qi Zhou, Maria Verde, Mirko Lobino, Terry Rudolph, John Rarity, Mark Thompson, Jeremy O'Brien

Role of The Light-Matter Coupling Strength on Non-Markovian Effects in Semiconductor Cavity QED .........................................904Per Kaer, Torben Roland Nielsen, Peter Lodahl, Antti-Pekka Jauho, Jesper Mørk

Exploring The Spatio-Temporal Correlation of Twin Photons Via Frequency Up-Conversion...........................................................905Enrico Brambilla, Alessandra Gatti Gatti, Ottavia Jedrkiewicz, Jean-Luc Blanchet Blanchet, Paolo Di Trapani, Luigi Lugiato

Quantum Pulse Gate Based on Ultrafast Frequency Upconversion .........................................................................................................906Benjamin Brecht, Andreas Eckstein, Christine Silberhorn

A Planar Dielectric Antenna for Directional Single-Photon Emission and Near-Unity Collection Efficiency ....................................907Kwanggeol Lee, Xuewen Chen, Hadi Eghlidi, Alois Renn, Stephan Götzinger, Vahid Sandoghdar

Quantum Light Generation By Semiconductor Devices (Invited) ............................................................................................................908Andrew Shields

Measuring Nanomechanical Motion with An Imprecision Below That At The Standard Quantum Limit.........................................909Georg Anetsberger, Pierre Verlot, Emanuel Gavartin, Olivier Arcizet, Quirin Unterreithmeier, Eva Weig, Michael Gorodetsky, Jorg Kotthaus, Tobias Kippenberg

Improvement of An Atomic Measurement By Multi-Photon Interference..............................................................................................910Florian Wolfgramm, Alessandro Cere, Yannick A. de Icaza Astiz, Federica A. Beduini, Morgan W. Mitchell

Quantum Entanglement in Strongly Non-Degenerate OPOs The Doubly and Singly Resonant Cases ...............................................911Domenico Cuozzo, John Jeffers, Gian-Luca Oppo

Detecting Non-Locality in Macroscopic Systems ........................................................................................................................................912Nicolò Spagnolo, Chiara Vitelli, Mauro Paternostro, Lorenzo Toffoli, Francesco De Martini, Fabio Sciarrino

Multi-Order Interference and Born's Rule .................................................................................................................................................913Immo Söllner, Benjamin Gschösser, Patrick Mai, Zoltán Vörös, Gregor Weihs

Born's Rule and Single-Photon Diffraction By a Triangular Slit .............................................................................................................914Jandir M. Hickmann, Eduardo J. S. Fonseca, Alcenisio J. Jesus-Silva

Experimental Light-Squeezing-Enhanced Magnetometry ........................................................................................................................915Alessandro Cere, Florian Wolfgramm, Federica A. Beduini, Ana Predojevic, Marco Koschorreck, Morgan W. Mitchell

Time-Resolved Detection of Relative Intensity Squeezed Nanosecond Pulses in a 87Rb Vapor ...........................................................916Imad Agha, Christina Giarmatzi, Philippe Grangier, Gaetan Messin

Many-Particle Pairwise Entanglement Induced By Temporal Anti-Correlation of a Stokes Parameter. ...........................................917Federica A. Beduini, Morgan W. Mitchell

Schrödinger Kitten and Cat States Characterisation Using Only Continuous Variables and Gaussian Resources...........................918Helen Chrzanowski, Thomas Symul, Julien Bernu, Boris Hage, Austin Lund, Tim Ralph, Ping Koy Lam

Nonlinear Quantum Atom Optics - Squeezing and Interferometry (Invited) .........................................................................................919Markus Oberthaler

Defects in Diamond Bright Light for The Quantum World (Keynote) ....................................................................................................920Jörg Wrachtrup

Efficient Single Photon Source At Telecommunication Wavelength........................................................................................................921David Elvira, Remy Braive, Richard Hostein, Bruno Fain, Gregoire Beaudoin, Luc LeGratiet, Jean-Christophe Girard, Christophe David, Zhao-Zhong Wang, Isabelle Robert-Philip, Isabelle Sagnes, Alexios Beveratos, Ivan Maksymov, Mondher Besbes, Jean-Pierre Hugonin, Philippe Lalanne

High-Frequency Electrically Driven Quantum Dot Single-Photon Source .............................................................................................922Christian Kessler, Matthias Reischle, Wolfgang-Michael Schulz, Marcus Eichfelder, Robert Roßbach, Michael Jetter, Peter Michler

Towards Parallel Control of Multiple Single-Photon Emitters.................................................................................................................923Edouard Brainis, Karel Lambert, Klara Cielen, Adrien Licari, Philippe Emplit, Zeger Hens

Permutationally Invariant Tomography of a Four-Qubit Symmetric Dicke State.................................................................................924Christian Schwemmer, Géza Tóth, Witlef Wieczorek, David Gross, Roland Krischek, Harald Weinfurter

Displaced Fock States and Photon Correlations in Glauber-Fock Photonic Lattices ............................................................................925Robert Keil, Armando Perez-Leija, Felix Dreisow, Matthias Heinrich, Hector Moya-Cessa, Stefan Nolte, Demetrios Christodoulides, Alexander Szameit

Sequential Quantum Measurements on Entangled States .........................................................................................................................926Eleonora Nagali, Simone Felicetti, Pierre-Louis De Assis, Radim Filip, Fabio Sciarrino

Observation of Topologically Protected Bound States in Photonic Quantum Walks.............................................................................927Takuya Kitagawa, Matthew A. Broome, Alessandro Fedrizzi, Mark S. Rudner, Erez Berg, Ivan Kassal, Alan Aspuru-Guzik, Eugene Demler, Andrew G. White

Classical Characterisation of Correlated Biphotons in Waveguide Lattices ...........................................................................................928Robert Keil, Felix Dreisow, Matthias Heinrich, Andreas Tünnermann, Stefan Nolte, Alexander Szameit

Probabilistic Amplification and Cloning of Phase-Covariant Coherent States.......................................................................................929Christian R. Müller, Christoffer Wittmann, Petr Marek, Radim Filip, Mario A. Usuga, Christoph Marquardt, Ulrik L. Andersen, Gerd Leuchs

Cavity Electromagnetically Induced Transparency and Optical Switching with Ion Coulomb Crystals ............................................930Aurelien Dantan, Magnus Albert, Michael Drewsen

Atom-Light Interface in Strong Focusing Geometry .................................................................................................................................931Gleb Maslennikov, Syed Abdullah Aljunid, Brenda Chng, Martin Paesold, Dao Hoang Lan, Kadir Durak, Jianwei Lee, Christian Kurtsiefer

Coherent Shaping of Photons Using Electromagnetically Induced Transparency .................................................................................932Andreas Neuzner, Eden Figueroa, Gerhard Rempe

Coupling Single Molecules to Microcavities ................................................................................................................................................933Costanza Toninelli, Martin Huppert, Alois Renn, Stephan Goetzinger, Vahid Sandoghdar

Observation of Time-Dependent Third-Order Correlations in Cavity QED ..........................................................................................934Christian Sames, Markus Koch, Maximilian Balbach, Haytham Chibani, Alexander Kubanek, Tatjana Wilk, Karim Murr, Gerhard Rempe

Decay Time in a Cavity in Slow Or Fast Light Regime..............................................................................................................................935Thomas Laupretre, Cedric Proux, Rupamanjari Ghosh, Sylvain Schwartz, Fabienne Goldfarb, Fabien Bretenaker

COLD ATOMS AND MOLECULES Controlling Spin Motion and Interactions in a One-Dimensional Bose Gas (Invited) ...........................................................................936

Shannon Whitlock, Philipp Wicke, Klaasjan van Druten

Generation of a Macroscopic Singlet State in An Atomic Ensemble ........................................................................................................937Naeimeh Behbood, Brice Dubost, Mario Napolitano, Marco Koscherrock, Robert J. Sewell, Geza Toth, Morgan W. Mitchell

Interferometry with Bose-Einstein Condensates in Microgravity ............................................................................................................938Holger Ahlers, Ernst Maria Rasel, the QUANTUS-Team

Simulating Quantum-Optical Phenomena with Optical Lattices .............................................................................................................939Carlos Navarrete-Benlloch, Inés de Vega, Diego Porras, Juan Ignacio Cirac

Merging Quantum Optics and Quantum Many-Body Atomic Systems...................................................................................................940Igor Mekhov

Ultracold Chemistry and Dipolar Collisions in a Quantum Gas of Polar Molecules (Invited) .............................................................941Silke Ospelkaus

Rotational Laser Cooling of Vibrationally and Translationally Cold Molecular Ions ...........................................................................942Anders K. Hansen, Peter F. Staanum, Klaus Højbjerre, Peter S. Skyt, Magnus A. Sørensen, Simon B. Kristensen, Alex Gingell, Michael Drewsen

Spin-3 Dynamics Study in a Chromium Bose-Einstein Condensate.........................................................................................................943Olivier Gorceix, Benjamin Pasquiou, Gabriel Bismut, Etienne Marechal, Paolo Pedri, Laurent Vernac, Bruno Laburthe-Tolra

Rydberg Excitation in One Dimensional System and Optical Lattices ....................................................................................................944Nicola Malossi, Matthieau Viteau, Mark Bason, Jagoda Radogostowicz, Donatella Ciampini, Oliver Morsch, Ennio Arimondo

Coherent Population Trapping with Controlled Interparticle Interactions ............................................................................................945Hanna Schempp, Georg Günter, Christoph Hofmann, Thomas Amthor, Matthias Weidemüller, Sevilay Sevincli, Cenap Ates, Thomas Pohl

Manipulating The Structure of Ion Coulomb Crystals with Light ...........................................................................................................946Peter Horak, Aurelien Dantan, Michael Drewsen

Stabilization of a Specific Configuration of a Two-Species Ion Chain By Selective Vibrational Excitation .......................................947Kazuhiro Hayasaka

Imaging The Temperature of Trapped Ions................................................................................................................................................948Benjamin Norton, Erik Streed, Andreas Jechow, Matthew Petrasiunas, David Kielpinski

Feedback Cooling of a Single Neutral Atom ...............................................................................................................................................949Markus Koch, Christian Sames, Alexander Kubanek, Matthias Apel, Maximilian Balbach, Alexei Ourjoumtsev, Haytham Chibani, Tatjana Wilk, Pepijn W.H. Pinkse, Karim Murr, Gerhard Rempe

Single Atom Occupancy in a Microscopic Dipole Trap .............................................................................................................................950Andrew Hilliard, Mathew McGovern, Tzahi Grünzweig, Mikkel Andersen

Control of Refractive Index and Motion of a Single Atom By Quantum Interference ..........................................................................951Tobias Kampschulte, Wolfgang Alt, Stefan Brakhane, Martin Eckstein, Miguel Martinez-Dorantes, René Reimann, Artur Widera, Dieter Meschede

Dynamics of Vortex Structure Formation During The Evolution of Modulation Instability of Dark Solitons...................................952Lev Smirnov, Alexander Smirnov, Vyacheslav Mironov

Towards a Magnesium Optical Lattice Clock .............................................................................................................................................953Steffen Rühmann, Matthias Riedmann, Temmo Wübbena, André Kulosa, André Pape, Dominika Fim, Klaus Zipfel, Birte Lampmann, Jan Friebe, Hrishikesh Kelkar, Wolfgang Ertmer, Ernst Rasel

Quantum Optics with a New Cavity QED Setup ........................................................................................................................................954Haytham Chibani, Markus Koch, Christian Sames, Maximilian Balbach, Alexander Kubanek, Alexei Ourjoumtsev, Tatjana Wilk, Pepijn W.H. Pinkse, Karim Murr, Gerhard rempe

Vibrational Ground State Cooling of a Neutral Atom in a Tightly Focused Optical Dipole Trap. ......................................................955Syed Abdullah Aljunid, Jianwei Lee, Martin Paesold, Brenda Chng, Gleb Maslennikov, Christian Kurtsiefer

Experimental Study of Excitations in a Dipolar Bose-Einstein Condensate............................................................................................956Gabriel Bismut, Benjamin Pasquiou, Etienne Marechal, Paolo Pedri, Laurent Vernac, Bruno Laburthe-Tolra, Olivier Gorceix

Relaxation to Negative Temperature Breathers in Bose-Einstein Condensates in Optical Lattices.....................................................957Roberto Franzosi, Stefano Iubini, Roberto Livi, Antonio Politi, Gian-Luca Oppo

A Continuously Loaded Dipole Trap for Magnesium ................................................................................................................................958Andre Pape, Matthias Riedmann, Hrishikesh Kelkar, Jan Friebe, Temmo Wübbena, Andre Kulosa, Steffen Rühmann, Klaus Zipfel, Dominika Fim, Birte Lampmann, Wolfgang Ertmer, Ernst Rasel

Van Der Waals Transitions of Slow Metastable Argon Atoms Ar*(3P2)..................................................................................................959Mehdi Hamamda, Thierry Taillandier-Loize, Francisco Perales, Gabriel Dutier, Marie-Pascale Gorza, Jacques Baudon, Martial Ducloy

Classical and Quantum Dynamics of Cold Atoms in Optical Cavities Pumped By Phase-Modulated Light ......................................960Gordon Robb, Michal Hemmerling

Collapse Suppression in Bose-Einstein Condensate Clouds with Orbital Angular Momentum ...........................................................961Jasur Abdullaev, Anton Desyatnikov, Elena Ostrovskaya

Filtering of Matter Wave Vibrational States Via Spatial Adiabatic Passage ..........................................................................................962Yury Loiko, Verònica Ahufinger, Ramón Corbalán, Gerhard Birkl, Jordi Mompart

QUANTUM INFORMATION AND CRYPTOGRAPHY Photonic Quantum Memories (Tutorial) .....................................................................................................................................................963

Ian Walmsley, Joshua Nunn, Nathan Langford, Klaus Reim, Patrick Michelberger, Tessa Champion

Exciton-Spin Memory with a Single Semiconductor Quantum Dot Molecule ........................................................................................964Niklas Sköld, Antoine Boyer de la Giroday, R. Mark Stevenson, Ian Farrer, David A. Ritchie, Andrew J. Shields

EIT Enhancement in a Doppler Broadened Medium.................................................................................................................................965Michael Scherman, Oxana Mishina, Pietro Lombardi, Alexandra Sheremet, Dmitriy Kuprianov, Elisabeth Giacobino, Julien Laurat

Quantum Memories for Single Photons from Cavity-QED.......................................................................................................................966Axel Kuhn, Peter Nisbet, Jerome Dilley, Gunnar Langfahl-Klabes, Matt Himsworth

Remote Entanglement Between a Single Atom and a Bose-Einstein Condensate...................................................................................967Carolin Hahn, Matthias Letter, Martin Mücke, Stefan Riedl, Christoph Vo, Simon Baur, Jörg Bochmann, Stephan Ritter, Stephan Dürr, Gerhard Rempe

Quantum Feedback for Preparation and Protection of Quantum States of Light..................................................................................968Clément Sayrin, Igor Dotsenko, Sébastien Gleyzes, Michel Brune, Jean-Michel Raimond, Serge Haroche

A Single-Atom Optical Quantum Memory..................................................................................................................................................969Andreas Reiserer, Holger P. Specht, Christian Nölleke, Manuel Uphoff, Eden Figueroa, Stephan Ritter, Gerhard Rempe

A Semiconductor Deterministic Bright Source of Entangled Photon Pairs (Invited) ............................................................................970Adrien Dousse, Jan Suffczynskii, Olivier Krebs, Alexios Beveratos, Aristide Lemaitre, Isabelle Sagnes, Jacqueline Bloch, Paul Voisin, Pascale Senellart

Generation of Non-Degenerated Polarization Entangled Photon Pairs in Periodically Poled Ti Linbo3 Waveguides with Interlaced Domains................................................................................................................................................................................971

Abu Thomas, Harald Herrmann, Wolfgang Sohler

A High Brightness Source of Polarization Entangled Photons..................................................................................................................972Fabian Steinlechner, Pavel Trojek, Marc Jofre, Arnaud Gardelein, Harald Weinfurter, Valerio Pruneri

Bell Inequality Violation in Frequency Domain using 25 Ghz Frequency Sideband Modulation Architecture. ................................973Jean-Marc Merolla, Ismael Mbodji, Laurent Olislager, Erik Woodhead, Kien Phan Huy, Luca Furfaro, Serge Massar

Active and Passive Optical Sources for QKD..............................................................................................................................................974Marc Jofre, Fabian Steinlechner, Gabriele Anzolin, Waldimar Amaya, Jose Capmany, Rupert Ursin, Jose Luis Vilas, Eusebio Bernabeu, Juan Pérez Torres, Morgan Mitchell, Valerio Pruneri

Optical Quantum Circuit Combining Tailored Optical Nonlinearities ...................................................................................................975Shigeki Takeuchi, Ryo Okamoto, Masazumi Fujiwara, Hong-Quan Zhao, Holger Hofmann, Jeremy O'Brien

Integrated Optical Circuits for Polarisation-Entangled Photons .............................................................................................................976Andrea Crespi, Linda Sansoni, Fabio Sciarrino, Giuseppe Vallone, Roberta Ramponi, Roberto Osellame, Paolo Mataloni

Improving Entangled Free-Space Quantum Key Distribution in The Turbulent Atmosphere ............................................................977Bettina Heim, Chris Erven, Ray Laflamme, Gregor Weihs, Thomas Jennewein

Imaging of Trapped Ions with Wavelength-Scale Resolution Using a Microfabricated Optic .............................................................978Andreas Jechow, Erik Streed, Benjamin Norton, David Kielpinski

Quantum Random Numbers Based on The Vacuum State .......................................................................................................................979Christian Gabriel, Christoffer Wittmann, Denis Sych, Ruifang Dong, Wolfgang Mauerer, Ulrik L. Andersen, Christoph Marquardt, Gerd Leuchs

Unveiling Two-Dimensional Discrete Quantum Walks Dynamics Via Dispersion Relations................................................................980Sergio Cantero, Alejandro Romanelli, Eugenio Roldán, Germán J. de Valcárcel

Cracking Quantum Cryptography (Invited) ...............................................................................................................................................981Vadim Makarov

High-Photon-Detection-Efficiency Silicon Avalanche Photodiode with Charge-Sensitive Amplifier...................................................982Kenji Tsujino, Akihisa Tomita

Wavegiude Source for An On-Demand Entanglement Distribution Network ........................................................................................983Isabelle Herbauts, Bibiane Blauensteiner, Andreas Poppe, Thomas Jennewein, Hannes Hübel

Semiconductor Integrated Sources of Two-Photon States At Room Temperature ................................................................................984Adeline Orieux, Aristide Lemaître, Pascal Filloux, Ivan Favero, Giuseppe Leo, Sara Ducci

Single-Photon-Level Memory At Room Temperature ............................................................................................................................... 985Klaus Reim, Patrick Michelberger, Ka Lee, Joshua Nunn, Nathan Langford, Ian Walmsley

Large Violation of Bell Inequalities Using Both Particle and Wave Measurements ..............................................................................986Nicolas Brunner, Daniel Cavalcanti, Paul Skrzypczyk, Alejo Salles, Valerio Scarani

Cluster State Generation Using Fibre Sources............................................................................................................................................987Alex Clark, Bryn Bell, Matthäus Halder, Jérémie Fulconis, Mark Tame, Myungshik Kim, William Wadsworth, John Rarity

Engineering of Photonic Orbital Angular Momentum Quantum States for Quantum Information Processing ................................988Eleonora Nagali, Lorenzo Marrucci, Enrico Santamato, Fabio Sciarrino

Experimental Demonstration of a Hadamard Gate for Coherent State Qubits......................................................................................989Anders Tipsmark, Ruifang Dong, Amine Laghout, Miroslav Jezek, Ulrik L. Andersen

Quantum Computing with Linear Optics and Multi-Photon Entanglement...........................................................................................990Fumihiro Kaneda, Ryosuke Shimizu, Satoshi Ishizaka, Hideo Kosaka, Keiichi Edamatsu

PRECISION METROLOGY AND FUNDAMENTAL LIMITS Generation and Superactivation of Bound Entanglment...........................................................................................................................991

C.-Y. Lu, J.-W. Pan

Laser-Pumped Double-Resonance Atomic Clock Using a Micro-Fabricated Rb Cell ...........................................................................992Matthieu Pellaton, Yves Pétremand, Christoph Affolderbach, Gaetano Mileti, Nico de Rooij

Rydberg Atoms in An Optical Lattice for High Precision Measurements of Blackbody Temperatures .............................................993Andrei Derevianko, Kurt Gibble, Vitaly Ovsiannikov

First Observation of The Temperature Dependence of The Van Der Waals Casimir-Polder Interaction in The Condition of Thermal Equilibrium ..............................................................................................................................................................994

Athansios Laliotis, Thierry Passerat de Silans, Marie-Pascale Gorza, Isabelle Maurin, Philippe Ballin, Martial Ducloy, Daniel Bloch

New Determination of The Fine Structure Constant and Test of The Quantum Electrodynamic .......................................................995Rym Bouchendira, Pierre Cladé, Saïda Guellati-Khélifa, François Nez, François Biraben

The Size of The Proton (Invited)...................................................................................................................................................................996Randolf Pohl

Testing The Universality of Free Fall with a Two Species Atomic Gravimeter ......................................................................................997Jonas Hartwig, Dennis Schlippert, Ulrich Velte, Daniel Tiarks, Nils Winter, Maic Zaiser, Vyacheslav Lebedev, Wolfgang Ertmer, Ernst Maria Rasel

The Role of Berry's Geometric Phase in The Mode Spectrum of a Fabry-Pérot Resonator .................................................................998Pepijn Pinkse, Markus Koch, Borys Hagemann, Michael Motsch, Martin Zeppenfeld, Gerhard Rempe

Towards An All Fibre Based Optical Frequency Standard Using Acetylene-Filled Hollow-Core Photonic Bandgap Fibres ...............................................................................................................................................................................................................999

Jan Hald, Anders Brusch, Charlotte I. Falk, Jan C. Petersen, Lars Nielsen

Crystalline Whispering Gallery Mode Stabilized Ring-Laser.................................................................................................................1000Michele Collodo, Benjamin Sprenger, Florian Sedlmeir, Harald G. L. Schwefel, L. J. Wang

Optical Properties of a Tilted Polarizer and Geometric Spin Hall Effect of Light ...............................................................................1001Jan Korger, Andrea Aiello, Christian Gabriel, Peter Banzer, Tobias Kolb, Christoph Marquardt, Gerd Leuchs

Phase Super-Resolution Using a Photonic Crystal Fibre .........................................................................................................................1002Srikanth Kannan, Bryn Bell, Alex Clark, William Wadsworth, John Rarity

Interaction-Based Quantum Metrology Giving a Scaling Beyond The Heisenberg Limit...................................................................1003Mario Napolitano, Marco Koschorreck, Brice Dubost, Naeimeh Behbood, Robert Sewell, Morgan Mitchell

General Cramér-Rao Bound for Parameter Estimation Using Gaussian Multimode Quantum Resources......................................1004Olivier Pinel, Julien Fade, Nicolas Treps, Claude Fabre

Efficient Photon Number Detection with Silicon Avalanche Photodiodes .............................................................................................1005Oliver Thomas, Zhiliang L Yuan, James F Dynes, Andrew W Sharpe, Andrew J Shields

Noise Limitations in Microwave Generation from Optical References..................................................................................................1006Franklyn Quinlan, Tara Fortier, Matthew Kirchner, Jennifer Taylor, Jim Bergquist, Till Rosenband, Nathan Lemke, Andrew Ludlow, Yanyi Jiang, Chris Oates, Scott Diddams

Thermal-Noise Limited Laser Stabilization to a Crystalline Whispering-Gallery Mode Resonator..................................................1007Janis Alnis, Albert Schliesser, Christine Wang, Tobias Kippenberg, Theodor Hänsch

FUNDAMENTALS OF NONLINEAR OPTICS Wavelength Shift of Four-Wave Mixing Bands in Photonic Crystal Fibers..........................................................................................1008

Lorena Velazquez-Ibarra, Antonio Díez, Enrique Silvestre, Miguel V. Andrés, J.L. Cruz, Ma. A. Martínez, J.L. Lucio

Superfluid Motion of Coupled Light in a Fiber Transmission Line .......................................................................................................1009Sascha Batz, Ulf Peschel

Breakup of Discrete Temporal Solitons in a Fibre Transmission Line ..................................................................................................1010Christoph Bersch, Georgy Onishchukov, Ulf Peschel

Symmetry-Breaking Dynamics of The Modulational Instability Spectrum ..........................................................................................1011Arnaud Mussot, Maxime Droques, Benoit Barviau, Alexandre Kudlinski, Majid Taki, Tibaut Sylvestre, Anne Boucon

Optical Pulse Transforms using Tapered Optical Fibres ........................................................................................................................1012Neil Broderick

Self-Phase Matching and X Pulse Formation in Phase-Mismatched Second Harmonic Generation Due to Dimensionality Transition ...........................................................................................................................................................................1013

Gintaras Valiulis, Vytautas Jukna, Ottavia Jedrkiewicz, Matteo Clerici, Eleonora Rubino, Paolo Ditrapani

Solitons in Waveguide Arrays with Competing Quadratic Nonlinearities ............................................................................................1014Frank Setzpfandt, Andrey A. Sukhorukov, Thomas Pertsch

Second Harmonic Generation Using Laser Beams Transformed By Internal Conical Refraction ....................................................1015Viktor Peet

Angular Tolerances of Non Collinear Optical Parametric Amplification in Uniaxial and Biaxial Crystals .....................................1016Benoît Trophème, Gabriel Mennerat, Benoît Boulanger

Slow-Light Dissipative Solitons ...................................................................................................................................................................1017Gian-Luca Oppo

Interaction of Self-Induced Transparency Pulses with Surface Anderson Localizations of Light .....................................................1018Viola Folli, Claudio Conti

Effective Polarization Method for Controlling a Sign of The Nonlinear Subnatural Resonances......................................................1019Denis Brazhnikov, Alexey Taichenachev, Valery Yudin, Maxim Basalaev, Igor Ryabtsev, Vasily Entin

Pulsed-Light-Induced Absorption in LiNbO3 and LiTaO3 Crystals with MgO Doping ......................................................................1020Satoshi Ashihara, Satoshi Enomoto

Effects of Nonlinear Refractive Index on Few-Cycle PW-Class OPCPA...............................................................................................1021Alexandre Thai, Christoph Skrobol, Philip K. Bates, Gunnar Arisholm, Zsuzsanna Major, Ferenc Krausz, Stefan Karsch, Jens Biegert

Generation and Control of Accelerating Airy Beams in Nonlinear Photonic Crystals (Invited) ........................................................1022Ady Arie

Scale-Free Optics and Diffractionless Waves in Nano-Disordered Ferroelectrics................................................................................1023Eugenio DelRe, Elisa Spinozzi, Aharon J. Agranat, Claudio Conti

From Disorder to Order Second Harmonic Generation in a Multi-Domain χ(2) Nonlinearity ............................................................1024Mousa Ayoub, Jörg Imbrock, Cornelia Denz

Generation of White-Light Optical Vortices Through Four-Wave Mixing...........................................................................................1025Peter Hansinger, Georgi Maleshkov, Ivan Garanovich, D. Skryabin, Dragomir Neshev, Yuri Kivshar, Alexander Dreischuh, Gerhard Paulus

Stable Fundamental and Vortex Solitons Supported By Localized Gain ..............................................................................................1026Valery Lobanov, Yaroslav Kartashov, Vladimir Konotop, Victor Vysloukh, Lluis Torner

Bacteriorhodopsin Films As Efficient Material for Nonlinear Optical Devices ....................................................................................1027F.A. Bovino, C. Gergely, G. Varo, M.C. Larciprete, C. Sibilia

Suppression of Multipole Effects in Second-Harmonic Generation from L-Shaped Gold Nanoparticles .........................................1028Robert Czaplicki, Mariusz Zdanowicz, Kalle Koskinen, Hannu Husu, Janne Laukkanen, Markku Kuittinen, Martti Kauranen

Nonlinear Optics in Subwavelength Plasmonic Nanostructures (Invited).............................................................................................1029Nicolae Panoiu, Claudiu Biris, Fangwei Ye, Lina Cao, Richard Osgood

Nonlinear Circular Dichroism in Self-Organized Metal Nanowires Arrays .........................................................................................1030Alessandro Belardini, Maria Cristina Larciprete, Marco Centini, Eugenio Fazio, Concita Sibilia, Daniele Chiappe, Cristian Martella, Andrea Toma, Francesco Buatier de Mongeot

Second Harmonic Generation (SHG) from Resonant GaAs Gratings ...................................................................................................1031Domenico de Ceglia, Giuseppe D'Aguanno, Nadia Mattiucci, Maria Antonietta Vincenti, Michael Scalora

3-Octave High-Energy Supercontinuum from a 2 μm Source ................................................................................................................1032Francisco Silva, Dane R. Austin, Arnaud Couairon, Philip K. Bates, Jens Biegert

Complete Characterization of Supercontinuum Coherence Properties.................................................................................................1033Goery Genty, Minna Surakka, Jari Turunen, Ari Friberg

Management of Interactions Between Raman Induced Solitons and Dispersive Waves in Photonic Crystal Fibers At The Advanced Stage of Supercontinuum Generation.........................................................................................................................1034

Rodislav Driben, Fedor Mitschke, Nickolai Zhavoronkov

Experimental Observation of Raman-Shifting Soliton Pairs ..................................................................................................................1035Alexander Hause, Philipp Rohrmann, Haldor Hartwig, Fedor Mitschke

Raman Multi-Peak Solitons in Photonic Crystal Fibers ..........................................................................................................................1036Truong X. Tran, Fabio Biancalana

Scalable Collinear BiB3O6 OPA for Few-Cycle CEP Stable Pulses At 2.1 μm ......................................................................................1037Francisco Silva, Philip K. Bates, Adolfo Esteban-Martin, Majid Ebrahim-Zadeh, Alexander Gruen, Seth Cousin, Jens Biegert

All-Optical Coherent Manipulation of Magnetization Vector in An Antiferromagnetic NiO Crystal...............................................1038Natsuki Kanda, Takuya Higuchi, Hirokatsu Shimizu, Kuniaki Konishi, Kosuke Yoshioka, Makoto Kuwata-Gonokami

Optical Control of Magnetization By Linearly Polarized Laser Pulses in a Crystal with Three-Fold Symmetry ............................1039Takuya Higuchi, Natsuki Kanda, Hiroharu Tamaru, Makoto Kuwata-Gonokami

Optical Supercavitation in Soft-Matter .....................................................................................................................................................1040Claudio Conti, Eugenio DelRe

Highly Efficient Frequency Downconversion At The Single Photon Level ...........................................................................................1041Sebastian Zaske, Andreas Lenhard, Christoph Becher

Nonlocal Quintic Nonlinearity By Cascaded THG in Dispersive Media................................................................................................1042Falk Eilenberger, Morten Bache, Stefano Minardi, Thomas Pertsch

Saturation of the All-Optical Kerr Effect ..................................................................................................................................................1043Carsten Brée, Ayhan Demircan, Günter Steinmeyer

Photon Pair Generation and Quantum Walks in Arrays of Quadratic Nonlinear Waveguides .........................................................1044Alexander Solntsev, Andrey Sukhorukov, Dragomir Neshev, Yuri Kivshar

Bloch Cavity Solitons in An All-Photonic Crystal Fabry-Pérot Cavity .................................................................................................1045Rumen Iliew, Christoph Etrich, Kestutis Staliunas, Falk Lederer, Oleg Egorov

Nonlinear Pulse Transformation and Phase Transitions in LiNbO3 Waveguide Arrays.....................................................................1046Frank Setzpfandt, Andrey A. Sukhorukov, Dragomir N. Neshev, Roland Schiek, Alexander S. Solntsev, Yuri S. Kivshar, Thomas Pertsch

Self-Trapping of Broad Beams in Defocusing Nonlinear Lithium Niobate Waveguide Arrays..........................................................1047Francis Bennet, Tristram Alexander, Franz Haslinger, Arnan Mitchell, Dragomir Neshev, Yuri Kivshar

Parametric Polariton Solitons in Coherently Pumped Semiconductor Microcavities..........................................................................1048Oleg Egorov, Dmitry Skryabin, Falk Lederer

Dark Solitons in Nonlinear Media with Arbitrary Degree of Nonlocality .............................................................................................1049Qian Kong, Qi Wang, Ole Bang, Wieslaw Krolikowski

ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA AND FREQUENCY COMBS Coherent Transfer Over 1.1 Spectral Octave with a Fiber Frequency Comb.......................................................................................1050

Axel Ruehl, Michael J. Martin, Kevin C. Kossel, Lisheng Chen, Craig Benko, Hugh McKay, Brian Thomas, Liang Dong, Martin E. Fermann, John M. Dudley, Ingmar Hartl, Jun Ye

Frequency Comb Generation in Crystalline MgF2 Whispering-Gallery Mode Resonators ................................................................1051Tobias Herr, Christine Wang, Pascal Del'Haye, Albert Schliesser, Klaus Hartinger, Ronald Holzwarth, Tobias Kippenberg

Sub-Poissonian Noise Signatures in The Carrier-Envelope Phase Jitter of Highly Stabilized Mode-Locked Lasers ......................1052Sebastian Koke, Bastian Borchers, Christian Grebing, Harald Frei, Alexandria Anderson, Andreas Assion, Günter Steinmeyer

Widely Tunable Extreme Ultraviolet Frequency Comb Generation......................................................................................................1053Tjeerd Pinkert, Dominik Kandula, Christoph Gohle, Jonas Morgenweg, Itan Barmes, Wim Ubachs, Kjeld Eikema

Divide-and-Conquer Approach to the Generation of Mid-Infrared Frequency Combs (Invited) ......................................................1054Konstantin Vodopyanov, Nick Leindecker, Alireza Marandi, Robert Byer, Vladimir Pervak

Electron-Phonon Coupling in Cuprate High-Temperature Superconductors Determined from Electron Relaxation Rates...............................................................................................................................................................................................................1055

Daniele Brida, Christoph Gadermaier, Alexandre S. Alexandrov, Viktor V. Kabanov, Primoz Kusar, Tomaz Mertelj, Xin Yao, Cristian Manzoni, Giulio Cerullo, Dragan Mihailovic

Conical Intersection Dynamics in a Rhodopsin Analog 9-cis Isorhodopsin ..........................................................................................1056Dario Polli, Daniele Brida, Cristian Manzoni, Katelyn Spillane, Marco Garavelli, Philipp Kukura, Richard Mathies, Giulio Cerullo

Förster Resonant Energy Transfer (FRET) in Orthogonal Chromophores..........................................................................................1057Igor Pugliesi, Heinz Langhals, Eberhard Riedle

Initial Process of Proton Transfer in Salicylideneaniline Studied By Time-Resolved Photoelectron Spectroscopy .........................1058Taro Sekikawa, Oliver Schalk, Gourong Wu, Andrey E. Boguslavskiy, Albert Stolow

Ultrafast Time-Resolved Photoelectron Spectroscopy with Tunable Deep UV-Pulses ........................................................................1059Peter Lang, Christian Homann, Igor Pugliesi, Reinhard Kienberger, Eberhard Riedle

Interband Transitions in InP Biased with THz Fields of 4 MV/m..........................................................................................................1060Christian Schmidt, Olaf Schubert, Friederike Junginger, Sebastian Mährlein, Bernhard Mayer, Alexander Sell, Rupert Huber, Alfred Leitenstorfer

Dual-Comb Spectroscopy of Molecules (Invited)......................................................................................................................................1061Theodor W. Hänsch, Nathalie Picqué

Absolute Frequency Spectroscopy At 4.3 μm By Direct Referencing of a Quantum-Cascade-Laser to an Er Fiber Laser-Based Frequency-Comb....................................................................................................................................................................1062

Alessio Gambetta, Davide Gatti, Antonio Castrillo, Gianluca Galzerano, Paolo Laporta, Livio Gianfrani, Marco Marangoni

Direct Frequency-Comb Spectroscopy of a Dipole-Forbidden Clock Transition in Trapped 40Ca+ Ions ..........................................1063Anne Lisa Wolf, Jonas Morgenweg, Jeroen Koelemeij, Steven van den Berg, Wim Ubachs, Kjeld Eikema

Absolute and Relative Determination of CEP from The Interference of Multiple Low-Order Harmonics ......................................1064Daniil Kartashov, Tadas Balciunas, Giedrius Andriukaitis, Audrius Pugzlys, Andrius Baltuska

Attosecond Emission Dynamics in Nonlinear Photoemission from Metal Tips ....................................................................................1065Michael Krüger, Markus Schenk, Peter Hommelhoff

Coherent Multi-Order Stimulated Raman Generated By Two-Frequency Pumping of Hydrogen-Filled Hollow Core PCF .......................................................................................................................................................................................................1066

Amir Abdolvand, Alexander Podlipensky, Alexander Nazarkin, Philip St.J. Russell

Nonparaxial Pulse Compression Through Spatial Chirp Management in a Laser-Induced Filament ..............................................1067Aleksandr Voronin, Skirmantas Alisauskas, Oliver Mucke, Audrius Pugzlys, Andrius Baltuska, Aleksei Zheltikov

Coherent In-Plane Charge Oscillations in GaAs Quantum Wells ..........................................................................................................1068Shekhar Priyadarshi, Klaus Pierz, Uwe Siegner, Philip Dawson, Mark Bieler

Heterodyne CARS Measurement of Inhalational Anesthetic Molecules Using Adaptively Phase-Modulated Femtosecond Pulses ......................................................................................................................................................................................1069

Kazuhiko Misawa, Yu Nagashima, Takayuki Suzuki, Sumio Terada

Low-Noise Near-Infrared Optical Frequency Comb from a Femtosecond Diode-Pumped Solid State Laser ..................................1070Stephane Schilt, Vladimir Dolgovskiy, Nikola Bucalovic, Lionel Tombez, Max Stumpf, Gianni Di Domenico, Christian Schori, Selina Pekarek, Andreas Oehler, Thomas Südmeyer, Ursula Keller, Pierre Thomann

Investigation of Surface Recombination Processes of Semiconducting Materials Using Ultrafast Laser Assisted Atom Probe Tomography ............................................................................................................................................................................1071

Mazumder Baishakhi, Vurpillot François, Vella Angela, Deconihout Bernard, Martel Gilles

Trapping Dynamics of Electron in TiO2 Investigated By Femtosecond Transient Absorption Spectroscopy ..................................1072Shota Tsuchida, Kazuhiro Ema, Hiroshi Sakama, Hideyuki Kunugita

DYNAMICS, INSTABILITIES, AND PATTERNS Ubiquitous Rogue Waves (Invited) .............................................................................................................................................................1073

Nail Akhmediev

Rogue Waves in a Mode-Locked Fiber Laser ...........................................................................................................................................1074Alexandr Zaviyalov, Oleg Egorov, Rumen Iliew, Falk Lederer

Anomalous Thermalization of Nonlinear Optical Wave Systems ...........................................................................................................1075Pierre Suret, Claire Michel, Antonio Picozzi, Stéphane Randoux

Universal Spectral Dynamics of Modulation Instability Theory, Simulation, Experiment .................................................................1076K Hammani, B Wetzel, B Kibler, J Fatome, C Finot, N Akhmediev, J M Dudley

Akhmediev Breathers and Pulsed Modulation Instability.......................................................................................................................1077Miro Erkintalo, Goëry Genty, Benjamin Wetzel, John Dudley

Relativistic Physics in Waveguide Arrays The Zitterbewegung...............................................................................................................1078Felix Dreisow, Matthias Heinrich, Robert Keil, Andreas Tünnermann, Stefan Nolte, Stefano Longhi, Alexander Szameit

Three Dimensional Woodpile Photonic Crystal for Collimation of Light Beams .................................................................................1079Lina Maigyte, Jose Trull, Crina Cojocaru, Vygantas Mizeikis, Mangirdas Malinauskas, Saulius Juodkazis, Marius Rutkauskas, Martynas Peckus, Valdas Sirutkaitis, Kestutis Staliunas

Hydrodinamical Phenomena in Polariton Condensates (Invited)...........................................................................................................1080Daniele Sanvitto

Accelerating Light Beams Along Arbitrary Trajectories. .......................................................................................................................1081Elad Greenfield, Raz Oren, Mordechai Segev

Nonlocal Effects in Waveguide Arrays with PT-Symmetric Defects ......................................................................................................1082Andrey Sukhorukov, Sergey Dmitriev, Sergey Suchkov, Yuri Kivshar

Characteristic Triangular Spectra of Extreme Localised Structures Insight from Optics into Rogue Wave Early Warning .........................................................................................................................................................................................................1083

Nail Akhmediev, Adrian Ankiewicz, Jose M. Soto-Crespo, Benjamin Wetzel, John M. Dudley

Frequency-Doubling and Recurrence Phenomena in Akhmediev Breathers Pulse Trains .................................................................1084Miro Erkintalo, Goery Genty, Benjamin Wetzel, John Dudley

Frequency and Phase Locking in a Cavity Soliton Laser ........................................................................................................................1085Craig McIntyre, Gian-Luca Oppo, Neal Radwell, Yoann Noblet, Thorsten Ackemann, William J. Firth, Pavel Paulau

Incoherent Fibre Supercontinuum Generation for all-Optical Random Number Generation ...........................................................1086Benjamin Wetzel, Laurent Larger, Keith J. Blow, Sergei K. Turitsyn, John M. Dudley

Different Operation States of Passive Synchronization Between a 1.03 μm Single-Pulse and a 1.56 μm Bound-Soliton Mode-Locked Fiber Lasers ............................................................................................................................................................1087

Wei-Wei Hsiang, Wei-Chih Chao, Chia-Yi Wu, Yinchieh Lai

Soliton Dynamics in a Semicondutor Cavity Soliton Laser with Broken Translational Symmetry ...................................................1088Giovanna Tissoni, Franco Prati, Luigi A. Lugiato, Massimo Brambilla

Discriminating Chaotic and Stochastic Dynamics in An Optoelectronic Oscillator with Delayed Feedback....................................1089Miguel C. Soriano, Luciano Zunino, Laurent Larger, Ingo Fischer, Claudio R. Mirasso

Zero-Lag Synchronization of Two Delay-Coupled Lasers The Role of Detuning.................................................................................1090Konstantin Hicke, Jordi Tiana-Alsina, Xavier Porte, Jordi Garcia-Ojalvo, Ingo Fischer

Square-Wave Oscillations with Different Duty Cycles.............................................................................................................................1091Lionel Weicker, Thomas Erneux, Ottilde D'Huys, Jan Danckaert, Yanne Chembo, Maxime Jacquot, Laurent Larger

Computational Performance of a Single Bandpass Electro-Optic Delay Oscillator .............................................................................1092Lennert Appeltant, Guy Van der Sande, Sergei Rybalko, Romain Martinenghi, Maxime Jacquot, Yanne Chembo, Laurent Larger, Ingo Fischer, Jan Danckaert

Bistability in a Two-Colour Semiconductor Laser with Dual Injection .................................................................................................1093Patrycja Heinricht, Benjamin Wetzel, Stephen O'Brien, Andreas Amann, Simon Osborne

Multi-Longitudinal Mode Emission in a Bidirectional Laser Model......................................................................................................1094Robert Höppner, Germán J. de Valcárcel, Eugenio Roldán

Bistable Phase Locking in a Low Fresnel Number Nondegenerate Optical Oscillator with Injected Signal.....................................1095Stanislav Kolpakov, Fernando Silva, Germán de Valcárcel, Eugenio Roldán, Kestutis Staliunas

Bloch Oscillations in Zigzag Waveguide Arrays .......................................................................................................................................1096Felix Dreisow, Gang Wang, Matthias Heinrich, Robert Keil, Stefan Nolte, Andreas Tünnermann, Alexander Szameit

Synchronization of Interacting Temporal Cavity Oscillons ....................................................................................................................1097Andrei G. Vladimirov, Dmitry Turaev, Sergey Zelik

A Novel Strategy to Experimentally Find Bound States of Solitons .......................................................................................................1098Philipp Rohrmann, Haldor Hartwig, Alexander Hause, Fedor Mitschke

Mode-Locked Laser Cavity Solitons ..........................................................................................................................................................1099Craig McIntyre, Gian-Luca Oppo, Neal Radwell, Thorsten Ackemann, William J Firth

Localized States, Q-Switching and Excitability in Coupled Semiconductor Microcavities .................................................................1100Margherita Turconi, Patrice Genevet, Stephane Barland, Massimo Giudici, Jorge Tredicce

Pulsing and Excitable Solitons in a Semiconductor Laser with Saturable Absorber ...........................................................................1101Giovanna Tissoni, Franco Prati, Massimo Brambilla

Mobility Properties of 2D Cavity Solitons in Systems with Delayed Feedback.....................................................................................1102Mustapha Tlidi, Andrei Vladimirov, Dmitry Turaev

Analysis of Pattern Formation in Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers with Feedback of a Volume Bragg Grating...........................................................................................................................................................................................................1103

Yoann Noblet, Thorsten Ackemann

Spontaneous Spatial Fractals Universal Contexts and Applications ......................................................................................................1104Graham McDonald, James Christian, Abi Heyes, Nicholas Millington, Thomas Walsh, Jungang Huang

Experimental Evidence of Solitons and Domain Walls in Diffractive and Antidiffractive Configurations of a Passive Kerr Fabry-Pérot Cavity................................................................................................................................................................1105

Eric Louvergneaux, Vincent Odent, Saliya Coulibaly, Pierre Glorieux, Majid Taki

New Forms of Synchronization Dynamics of a Dual-Polarization Laser with Frequency-Shifted Feedback ...................................1106Jérémie Thévenin, Marc Brunel, Marc Vallet, Marco Romanelli, Thomas Erneux

Multiple Delay Nonlinear Wavelength Dynamics for Photonic Reservoir Computing ........................................................................1107Romain Martinenghi, Lennert Appeltant, Sergei Rybalko, Guy Van der Sand, Jan Danckaert, Maxime Jacquot, Yanne Chembo, Laurent Larger

LIGHT-MATTER INTERACTIONS AT THE NANO-SCALE Pulse Shaping in Mode-Locked Ring-Cavity Fibre Lasers......................................................................................................................1108

Sonia Boscolo, Sergei K Turitsyn

Polariton Quantum Optics and Quantum Collective Phenomena Overview and Perspectives (Invited) ..........................................1109Vincenzo Savona

Towards The Generation of Entangled Microcavity Polaritons .............................................................................................................1110Peter Cristofolini, Patrick Mai, Mathias Sassermann, Zoltán Vörös, Gregor Weihs, Loren Pfeiffer, Kenneth West, Christian Schneider, Andreas Löffler, Sven Höfling, Alfred Forchel

Ultimate Fast Optical Switching of a Semiconductor Photonic Microcavity.........................................................................................1111Georgios Ctistis, Emre Yüce, Alex Hartsuiker, Maela Bazin, Julien Claudon, Jean-Michel Gérard, Willem L. Vos

Strong-Field Above-Threshold Photoemission from Sharp Metal Tips .................................................................................................1112Markus Schenk, Michael Krüger, Peter Hommelhoff

Controlled Electron Acceleration from Dielectric Nanospheres in Intense Few-Cycle Laser Fields .................................................1113Sergey Zherebtsov, Thomas Fennel, Jürgen Plenge, Egill Antonsson, Irina Znakovskaya, Adrian Wirth, Oliver Herrwerth, Frederik Süßmann, Christian Peltz, Izhar Ahmad, Sergei Trushin, Volodymyr Pervak, Stefan Karsch, Marc Vrakking, Burkhard Langer, Christina Graf, Mark Stockman, Ferenc Krausz, Eckart Rühl, Matthias Kling

Plasmonic Airy Beam Manipulation By Linear Optical Potentials ........................................................................................................1114Wei Liu, Dragomir Neshev, Ilya Shadrivov, Andrey Miroshnichenko, Yuri Kivshar

Electromagnetic Force Density and Energy-Momentum Tensor in Medium .......................................................................................1115Andriy Shevchenko, Matti Kaivola

Electromagnetic Resonances in Nanoparticles of Arbitrary Shape........................................................................................................1116Francesco Papoff, Benjamin Hourahine

Conditions to Cancel The Laser Polarization Dependence of Tip Field Enhancement........................................................................1117Houard Jonathan, Vella Angela, Vurpillot François, Deconihout Bernard

Optical Properties of Silver Nanoparticle Dispersed in Polymer Matrix...............................................................................................1118Abolfazl Ziaeemehr, Reza Pursalehi

Vapour Confined in An Opal of Nanospheres Observation of Sub-Doppler Optical Resonances Reminiscent of The Dicke Narrowing...........................................................................................................................................................................................1119

Philippe Ballin, Isabelle Maurin, Athanasios Laliotis, Daniel Bloch

Few-Cycle Laser Induced Photoemission and Electron Rescattering At a Metal Surface ..................................................................1120Markus Schenk, Michael Krüger, Sebastian Thomas, Peter Hommelhoff

Self-Collimation and Spatial Filtering in 2D Gain/Loss Periodic Spatially Modulated Materials .....................................................1121Muriel Botey, Ramon Herrero, Nikhil P. Kumar, Ramon Vilaseca, Kestutis Staliunas

Complete Phase-Space Control of Photoexcitation of Micro\-Cavity Polaritons Using Spatial Light Modulators ..........................1122Peter Cristofolini, Patrick Mai, Mathias Sassermann, Loren Pfeiffer, Kenneth West, Zoltán Vörös, Gregor Weihs

Hybrid Nanostructures for Enhanced Light Absorption.........................................................................................................................1123Jing Xiao, Jiansheng Liu

Nonlinear Silicon Photonics (Keynote).......................................................................................................................................................1124Michal Lipson

Fabrication and Characterization of Photonic Crystal Microcavities in Quasi-Single Crystal Diamond Films...............................1125Janine Riedrich-Möller, Laura Kipfstuhl, Christian Hepp, Martin Fischer, Stefan Gsell, Matthias Schreck, Christoph Becher

Slow-Light Enhanced Forces Between Shifted Photonic-Crystal Waveguides .....................................................................................1126Yue Sun, Thomas White, Andrey Sukhorukov

A Nanophotonic Probe for Quantum Electrodynamics in Random Cavities ........................................................................................1127Simon R. Huisman, Eric H. Frater, Jeroen P. Korterik, Jennifer L. Herek, Allard P. Mosk, Herman L. Offerhaus, Ad Lagendijk, Søren Stobbe, Henri Thyrrestrup, Peter Lodahl, Willem L. Vos, Pepijn. W.H. Pinkse

Imaging Single Molecules By Optical Absorption At Room Temperature............................................................................................1128Michele Celebrano, Philipp Kukura, Alois Renn, Vahid Sandoghdar

Ultrafast Exciton Dephasing in PbS Colloidal Quantum Dots ................................................................................................................1129Francesco Masia, Iwan Moreels, Zeger Hens, Wolfgang Langbein, Paola Borri

Towards Detection of Single Solid-State Ions............................................................................................................................................1130Lutz Petersen, Alois Renn, Stephan Götzinger, Vahid Sandoghdar

Narrow-Bandwidth High-Brightness Single Photon Emission from Silicon-Vacancy Colour Centres in CVD-Nano-Diamonds .......................................................................................................................................................................................................1131

Elke Neu, David Steinmetz, Carsten Arend, Janine Riedrich-Möller, Martin Fischer, Stefan Gsell, Matthias Schreck, Christoph Becher

Fluorescence Properties of Thick Shell CdSe/CdS Quantum Dots At Cryogenic Temperature .........................................................1132Gaëlle Camps, Stéphanie Buil, Xavier Quélin, Clémentine Javaux, Benoît Mahler, Benoît Dubertret, Jean-Pierre Hermier

Experiments with a Fiber-Based Optical Dipole Trap for Cold Cs-Atoms ...........................................................................................1133Daniel Reitz, Rudolf Mitsch, Samuel T. Dawkins, Melanie Müller, Eugen Vetsch, Arno Rauschenbeutel

Quantum Optics with Quantum Dots in Photonic Nanowires (Invited) ................................................................................................1134Jean-Michel Gérard, Julien Claudon, Joël Bleuse, Nitin M Singh, Niels Gregersen, Philippe Lalanne

Controlling The Coupling of a Single Nitrogen Vacancy Center to a Silver Nanowire .......................................................................1135Alexander Huck, Shailesh Kumar, Abdul Shakoor, Ulrik L. Andersen

Directional Control of Molecular Fluorescence with Bull's Eye Apertures...........................................................................................1136Heykel Aouani, Oussama Mahboub, Eloïse Devaux, Hervé Rigneault, Thomas Ebbesen, Jérôme Wenger

Ultrafast Coupling of An Emitter to a Plasmonic Antenna .....................................................................................................................1137Xuewen Chen, Vahid Sandoghdar, Mario Agio

Impedance of a Nanoantenna......................................................................................................................................................................1138Francois Marquier, Jean-Jacques Greffet

Enhanced Light-Matter Interaction At The Nanoscale Using Localized Plasmon Modes on Disordered Metallic Films ...............................................................................................................................................................................................................1139

Remi Carminati, Etienne Castanie, Valentina Krachmalnicoff, Alexandre Caze, Romain Pierrat, Yannick De Wilde

Controlling The Emission of Single Giant CdSe/CdS Nanocrystals Through Their Coupling to Random Gold Films...............................................................................................................................................................................................................1140

Damien Canneson, Ikbel Mallek-Zouari, Stéphanie Buil, Xavier Quélin, Clémentine Javaux, Benoît Mahler, Benoît Dubertret, Jean-Pierre Hermier

Purcell Factor for 3D-Dipolar Emitter Coupling to 2D-Plasmonic Waveguides ..................................................................................1141Julien Barthes, Gérard Colas des Francs, Alexandre Bouhelier, Jean-Claude Weeber, Alain Dereux

Dynamic Control of Collective Modes of Localized Surface Plasmon in Metallic Nanoparticles by Optical Tweezers...................1142Takuya Iida

Second Harmonic Generation By Excitation of Coupled Two Dimensional Silver Nanoresonantors................................................1143Marco Centini, Alessio Benedetti, Concita Sibilia, Mario Bertolotti

Generation of Two-Color Near-Field Lights At a Nano-Slit for High Spatial Resolution Detection of Atoms with Two-Step Photoionization............................................................................................................................................................................1144

Hiroaki Ohki, Tomohiro Sato, Kenta Sagawa, Haruhiko Ito

PLASMONICS AND METAMATERIALS Localized Surface Plasmon Evanescent Excitation At Telecom Wavelength ........................................................................................1145

Mickael Fevrier, Philippe Gogol, Abdelhanin Aassime, Robert Megy, Alexandre Bondi, Jean-Michel Lourtioz, Beatrice Dagens

Probing Nanoplasmonic Waveguides and Couplers with Optical Antennas .........................................................................................1146Arian Kriesch, Daniel Ploss, Jing Wen, Peter Banzer, Ulf Peschel

Investigating Plasmonic Gap Modes Coupled to Nanoantennas.............................................................................................................1147Jing Wen, Arian Kriesch, Daniel Ploss, Peter Banzer, Bernhard Schmauss, Ulf Peschel

Selective Excitation of Guided Surface Plasmons on Uniform and Conically-Tapered Au Nanowires .............................................1148Ho Wai Lee, Markus Schmidt, Rufus Russell, Nicolas Joly, Hemant Tyagi, Patrick Uebel, Philip Russell

Optical Transmissivity of Single Metallic V-Grooves ..............................................................................................................................1149Norik Janunts, Michael Steinert, Ernst-Bernhard Kley, Andreas Tuennermann, Thomas Pertsch, Khachatur Nerkararyan

Superconducting Analogue of Optical Plasmonic Waveguides ...............................................................................................................1150Anagnostis Tsiatmas, Vassili A. Fedotov, Nikolay I. Zheludev

Plasmons and Rust for Solar Energy Conversion.....................................................................................................................................1151Isabell Thomann, Blaise Pinaud, Ragip Pala, Min-Kyo Seo, Zhebo Chen, Thomas Jaramillo, Mark Brongersma

III-V Plasmonic Solar Cells Targeting Absorption Enhancements Close to The GaAs Band Edge...................................................1152Nicholas Hylton, Vincenzo Giannini, Dries Vercruysse, Pol Van Dorpe, Kan-Hua Lee, Xiaofeng Li, Nicholas Ekins-Daukes, Stefan Maier

Integrated Devices for Active Plasmonics and Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering (Invited) .........................................................1153Pol Van Dorpe, Pieter Neutens, Chang Chen, Jian Ye, Vercruysse Dries, Liesbet Lagae

Electron-Beam-Driven Nanoscale Metamaterial Light Sources .............................................................................................................1154Giorgio Adamo, Jun-Yu Ou, Kevin MacDonald, Francesco De Angelis, Enzo Di Fabrizio, Nikolay Zheludev

Enhancing The Photoluminescence Properties of Single Epitaxial GaAs Quantum Dots using Optical Antennas ..........................1155Klas Lindfors, Markus Pfeiffer, Paola Atkinson, Mohamed Benyoucef, Armando Rastelli, Oliver G. Schmidt, Harald Giessen, Markus Lippitz

Prospects for Metallic and Plasmonic Nano-Lasers (Keynote) ...............................................................................................................1156Martin Hill

Electrically-Driven Surface Plasmon Polariton Generation Using Conjugated Polymers ..................................................................1157Ryan McCarron, Wayne Dickson, Jean-Sebastien Bouillard, Stephane Kéna-Cohen, Paul Stavrinou, Donal D. C. Bradley, Stefan A. Maier, Anatoly V. Zayats

Direct Laser Writing of Gain and Metallic Nanostructures....................................................................................................................1158Ioanna Sakellari, Elmina Kabouraki, Vytautas Purlys, Arune Gaidukeviciute, David Gray, Costas Fotakis, Maria Vamvakaki, Maria Farsari

Reconfigurable Nanostructured Photonic Metamaterials .......................................................................................................................1159Jun-Yu Ou, Eric Plum, Liudi Jiang, Nikolay Zheludev

Mid-Infrared Nanophotonics Based on Antennas and Transmission Lines (Invited) ..........................................................................1160Martin Schnell, Pablo Alonso-González, Felix Casanova, Libe Arzubiaga, Luis E. Hueso, Andrey Chuvilin, Rainer Hillenbrand

Tailoring GaAs THz Radiative Properties with Plasmons and Surface Phonon Polaritons................................................................1161Simon Vassant, Francois Marquier, Jean-Jacques Greffet, Fabrice Pardo, Patrick Bouchon, Jean-Luc Pelouard

Frequency and Time Mapping of Terahertz Meta-Atoms.......................................................................................................................1162Juraj Darmo, Kazunori Serita, Daniel Dietze, Iwao Kawayama, Masayoshi Tonouchi, Karl Unterrainer

3D Cartography of Light Scattered By Plasmonic Nanostructures At Resonance Obtained By Digital Heterodyne Holography....................................................................................................................................................................................................1163

Sarah Yasmine Suck, Stéphane Collin, Yannick De Wilde, Gilles Tessier

Longitudinal and Transversal Optical Antenna Plasmon Resonance Spectra from Two-Photon Laser Excitation ........................1164Matthias D. Wissert, Carola Moosmann, Konstantin S. Ilin, Michael Siegel, Uli Lemmer, Hans-Jürgen Eisler

Near-Field Microscopy Study of Propagation and Focusing of Designer's Surface Plasmons Polaritons At Mid-Infrared Wavelength ....................................................................................................................................................................................1165

Arthur Babuty, Ioana Moldovan-Doyen, Yannick De Wilde, Adel Bousseksou, Jean-Philippe Tetienne, Raffaele Colombelli, Grégoire Beaudoin, Isabelle Sagnes

Near-Field Mapping of Airy Plasmons ......................................................................................................................................................1166Alexander Minovich, Angela E. Klein, Norik Janunts, Thomas Pertsch, Dragomir N. Neshev, Yuri S. Kivshar

Radial and Angular Coordinate Transformations for Subwavelength Confinement of Light............................................................1167Vincent Ginis, Philippe Tassin, Jan Danckaert, Costas M. Soukoulis, Irina Veretennicoff

Polychromatic Nanofocusing of Surface Plasmons...................................................................................................................................1168Wei Liu, Dragomir Neshev, Andrey Miroshnichenko, Ilya Shadrivov, Yuri Kivshar

Light Localization in Disordered Metamaterials ......................................................................................................................................1169Salvatore Savo, Nikitas Papasimakis, Nikolay Zheludev

Demonstrating Elusive Toroidal Dipolar Response in Metamaterials ...................................................................................................1170Vassili Fedotov, Thomas Kaelberer, Nikitas Papasimakis, Vassili Savinov, Alexandra Rogacheva, Din Ping Tsai, Nikolay Zheludev

Nanoantenna-Enhanced Ultrafast Nonlinear Spectroscopy of a Single Plasmonic Nanodisc .............................................................1171Thorsten Schumacher, Kai Kratzer, Daniela Ullrich, Mario Hentschel, Harald Giessen, Markus Lippitz

Coherent Control of Nanoscale Light Localization Creating and Positioning Isolated Sub-Wavelength Energy Hot-Spots ...............................................................................................................................................................................................................1172

Tsung Sheng Kao, Stewart Jenkins, Janne Ruostekoski, Nikolay Zheludev

Measurement of Plasmon Response Functions of Nanostructures with Femtosecond Laser Cross-Correlation Microscopy Toward Spatiotemporal Plasmon Control............................................................................................................................1173

Jun Oi, Shutaro Onishi, Keiichiro Matsuishi, Takuya Harada, Fumihiko Kannari

Ultrafast Manipulation of The Large Rabi Splitting in Metal-J-Aggregate Hybrid Nanostructures.................................................1174Parinda Vasa, Robert Pomraenke, Giovanni Cirmi, Elenora De Re, Wei Wang, Stephan Schwieger, David Leipold, Erich Runge, Giulio Cerullo, Christoph Lienau

Nonlinear Chiral Imaging of Twisted-Cross Gold Nano-Objects ...........................................................................................................1175Mikko J. Huttunen, Godofredo Baustista, Manuel Decker, Stefan Linden, Martin Wegener, Martti Kauranen

Multi-Photon Autocorrelation in Gold Nanostructures ...........................................................................................................................1176Daniele Brida, Paolo Biagioni, Jer-Shing Huang, Johannes Kern, Lamberto Duò, Bert Hecht, Marco Finazzi, Giulio Cerullo

Time Dependent Transformation Optics Frequency Conversion Using The Dielectric Analogue of The Robertson-Walker Universe ...........................................................................................................................................................................................1177

Vincent Ginis, Philippe Tassin, Ben Craps, Irina Veretennicoff

Stable Spatial Plasmon Solitons in IMI Waveguides with Gain and Loss .............................................................................................1178Andrea Marini, Dmitry Skryabin, Boris Malomed

Metamaterials in Waveguide Geometries ..................................................................................................................................................1179Thomas Kaiser, Christian Helgert, Thomas Paul, Rainer Wolf, Carsten Rockstuhl, Falk Lederer, Thomas Pertsch

Quenched Optical Transmission in Ultrathin, Plasmonic Gratings .......................................................................................................1180Giuseppe D'Aguanno, Nadia Mattiucci, Andrea Alu, Mark J. Bloemer

CdSe/CDs Nanocrystals Coupled to a Self-Assembled Plasmonic Crystal ............................................................................................1181Hugo Frederich, Fangfang Wen, Julien Laverdant, Laurent Coolen, Catherine Schwob, Clémentine Javaux, Benoit Dubertret, Agnès Maitre

Interaction of Twisted Split Ring Resonators ...........................................................................................................................................1182David Powell, Kirsty Hannam, Ilya Shadrivov, Yuri Kivshar

Generation of Rational Optical Vortices in a Plasmonic Spiral ..............................................................................................................1183Wei-Lun Huang, Hsiu-Hao Tsao, Chen-Bin Huang

Photorefractive Manipulation of Plasmons in Hybrid Liquid Crystal Cells .........................................................................................1184Keith Daly, Stephen Abbott, Giampaolo D'Alessandro, David Smith, Malgosia Kaczmarek

Interferometric Method for The Characterization of Optically Active Metamaterials .......................................................................1185Matthias Falkner, Ekaterina Pshenay-Severin, Christian Helgert, Thomas Pertsch

High Harmonic Generation Assisted By The Field Enhancement Near Rough Metallic Surface ......................................................1186Anton Husakou, Kwang-Hyon Kim, Joachim Herrmann

Low Loss Wireless Interconnects in Plasmonic Nanocircuitry ...............................................................................................................1187Daniel Ploss, Arian Kriesch, Jing Wen, Ulf Peschel

Plasmonic Brewster Angle Broadband Extraordinary Transmission Through Optical Gratings .....................................................1188Andrea Alu, Giuseppe D'Aguanno, Nadia Mattiucci, Mark J. Bloemer

Resonant Transmission Mediated By Dyakonov Surface Waves............................................................................................................1189Osamu Takayama, Alexey Nikitin, Luis Martin-Moreno, Francisco García-Vidal, David Artigas

QUANTUM OPTO-MECHANICS – FROM FUNDAMENTALS TO APPLICATIONS Optomecanical Correlations and Sensitivity Improvement By Backaction Amplification..................................................................1190

Alexandros Tavernarakis, Pierre Verlot, Tristan Briant, Pierre-Francois Cohadon, Antoine Heidmann

Classical and Quantum Theory of Photothermal Cavity Cooling of a Mechanical Oscillator. ...........................................................1191Juan Restrepo, Julien Gabelli, Cristiano Ciuti, Ivan Favero

Optoelectronic Cooling of Mechanical Modes in a Semiconductor Nanomembrane ...........................................................................1192Andreas Naesby, Koji Usami, Tolga Bagci, Bo Melholt Nielsen, Jin Liu, Soeren Stobbe, Peter Lodahl, Eugene Polzik

Cooling of a Mechanical Oscillator Close to The Quantum Regime (Invited) ......................................................................................1193Rémi Rivière, Samuel Deléglise, Stefan Weis, Ewold Verhagen, Emanuel Gavartin, Olivier Arcizet, Albert Schliesser, Tobias Kippenberg

GaAs Disks Optomechanics.........................................................................................................................................................................1194Christophe Baker, Lu Ding, Pascale Senellart, Aristide Lemaitre, Sara Ducci, Giuseppe Leo, Ivan Favero

Cavity Optomechanics with Micromirrors................................................................................................................................................1195A. Kuhn, C. Molinelli, T. Antoni, J. Teissier, T. Briant, P.-F. Cohadon, A. Heidmann

Microwave Optomechanics in The Strong Coupling Regime (Invited)..................................................................................................1196John Teufel

Optomechanical Crystals and Their Quantum Optical Applications (Keynote) ..................................................................................1197Oskar Painter

Optomechanically Induced Transparency.................................................................................................................................................1198Stefan Weis, Samuel Deléglise, Rémi Rivière, Emanuel Gavartin, Olivier Arcizet, Albert Schliesser, Tobias Kippenberg

Cavity Optomechanics with Nonlinear Mechanical Resonators in The Quantum Regime .................................................................1199Simon Rips, Martin Kiffner, Ignacio Wilson-Rae, Michael Hartmann

Macroscopic Quantum Resonators in Space .............................................................................................................................................1200Rainer Kaltenbaek, Gerald Hechenblaikner, Nikolai Kiesel, Ulrich Johann, Markus Aspelmeyer

LOW-DIMENSIONAL CARBON NANO-STRUCTURES IN PHOTONICS Ultrafast Energy Flow in a Carbon Nanotube Network ..........................................................................................................................1201

Daniele Brida, Dario Polli, Jared Crochet, Tobias Hertel, Giulio Cerullo, Guglielmo Lanzani

Non-Linear Photoluminescence from Graphene ......................................................................................................................................1202Matthias Handloser, Giovanni Piredda, Antonio Lombardo, Andrea C. Ferrari, Achim Hartschuh

Broadband Ultrafast Spectroscopy of Bilayer Graphene (Invited) ........................................................................................................1203Enrico Da Como

Ultrafast and High-Energy Pulsed Lasers with Graphene Mode-Lockers ............................................................................................1204Daniel Popa, Zhipei Sun, Felice Torrisi, Tawfique Hasan, Fengqiu Wang, Andrea Ferrari

Mode-Locked Operation of An Erbium-Doped Fiber Laser Using a Self-Assembled Graphene Membrane After Excitation of Q-Switched Pulse ...................................................................................................................................................................1205

Lili Gui, Wei Zhang, Xiao Li, Xiaosheng Xiao, Hongwei Zhu, Kunlin Wang, Dehai Wu, Changxi Yang

Passive Mode Locking in Erbium-Doped Fibre Laser By Carbon Nanotubes......................................................................................1206Chengbo Mou, Aleksey Rozhin, Sergey Sergeyev, Sergei Turistyn

Nanotube-Based Passively Mode-Locked Ytterbium-Pumped Raman Laser.......................................................................................1207Carlos E. Schmidt Castellani, Edmund J. R. Kelleher, Daniel Popa, Zhipei Sun, Tawfique Hasan, Andrea C. Ferrari, Sergei V. Popov, James R. Taylor

Carbon Nanotube Photonics Single Nanotube Versus Nanotube Thin Film (Invited) .........................................................................1208Mathias Steiner

Broadband Ultrafast Pulse Generation with Double Wall Carbon Nanotubes.....................................................................................1209Tawfique Hasan, Zhipei Sun, Daniel Popa, Edmund J. R. Kelleher, Francesco Bonaccorso, Emmanuel Flahaut, Felice Torrisi, Oksana Trushkevych, Giulia Privitera, Valeria Nicolosi, James R. Taylor, Andrea C. Ferrari

Wideband Tunable, High-Power, Graphene Mode-Locked Ultrafast Lasers .......................................................................................1210Z. Sun, X. C. Lin, D. Popa, H. J. Yu, T. Hasan, F. Torrisi, E. J. R. Kelleher, L. Zhang, L. Sun, L. Guo, W. Hou, J. M. Li, J. R. Taylor, A. C. Ferrari

ASTROPHOTONICS Answering The Big Questions in Astronomy with Astrophotonic Spectroscopy (Invited) ..................................................................1211

Jeremy Allington-Smith, Ray Sharples

PIONIER Combining 4 Telescopes of the Very Large Telescope Interferometer using a Photonics Beam Combiner....................1212Pierre Kern, Laurent Jocou, Jean-Philippe Berge, Jean-Baptiste Lebouquin, Bernard Lazazeff, Gérard Zins, Pierre Labeye, Rafael Millan-Gabet, Wes Traub, Pierre Haguenauer

A Three-Dimensional Photonic Beam Combiner for Astronomical Interferometery ..........................................................................1213Stefano Minardi, Nadya Chakrova, Felix Dreisow, Stefan Nolte, Thomas Pertsch

Dragonfly On-Chip Pupil Remapping for Optical Stellar Interferometry ............................................................................................1214Nemanja Jovanovic, Peter Tuthill, Sylvstre Lacour, Martin Ams, Simon Gross, Barnaby Norris, Paul Stewart, Jon Lawrence, Andrew Lehmann, Clementine Niel, Ned Charles, Graham Marshall, Gordon Roberston, Michael Ireland, Michael with ford

Approaching cm/sec Calibration of High Resolution Astronomical Spectrograph ..............................................................................1215Antonio Manescau, Gaspare Lo Curto, Luca Pasquini, Jonay I. González Hernández, Rafael Rebolo, Tilo Steinmetz, Rafael Probst, Ronald Holzwarth, Tobias Wilken, Theodor W. Hänsch, Thomas Udem

Multicore Optical Fibres for Astrophotonics (Invited) ............................................................................................................................1216Tim Birks, Brian Mangan, Antonio Diez, Jose-Luis Cruz, Sergio Leon-Saval, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Dominic Murphy

Ultrafast Laser Inscription of an Integrated Multimode-to-Single-Modes Waveguide Transition for Astrophotonics...................1217Robert Thomson, Tim Birks, Sergio Leon-Saval, Ajoy Kar, Joss Bland-Hawthorn

Arrayed Waveguide Gratings for Astronomy with Multiple Off-Axis Fibre Launch ..........................................................................1218Nick Cvetojevic, Nemanja Jovanovic, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Roger Haynes, Jon Lawrence

High-Repetition-Rate Pulses for Optical Frequency Comb Generation ................................................................................................1219Jose Chavez Boggio, Andres Rieznik, Harendra Fernando, Roger Haynes, Martin Roth, William Rambold, Jean Olaya

Active Y-Junctions in The Mid-IR Based on Lithium Niobate Ti-Diffused Waveguides.....................................................................1220Samuel Heidmann, Nadège Courjal, Guillermo Martin

14 GHz Supercontinua Generation Calibration Sources for Astronomical Spectrographs ................................................................1221Application to Nulling Interferometry Sebastian Stark, Holger Hundertmark, Philip Russell, Rafael Probst, Tobias Wilken, Theodor Hänsch, Thomas Udem, Tilo Steinmetz, Ronald Holzwarth

Ultrafast Laser Inscription of Mid-IR Integrated Optics for Astronomy..............................................................................................1222Airan Rodenas, Brahim Arezki, Guillermo Martin, John McCarthy, Henry Bookey, Ajoy Kar, Pierre Kern, Robert Thomson

Integrated Optics Beam Combiner At 2.2μm for Astronomical Interferometers.................................................................................1223Pierre Labeye, Axelle Nolot, Sébastien Lardenois, Steve Oliver, Laurent Jocou, Karine Perraut, Jean-Philippe Berger, Franck Eisenhauer

Fibre Bragg Grating Stopband Profile Trade-Off for Temporal Spectral Astronomy........................................................................1224Geraldine Mariën, Nick Cvetojevic, Nemanja Jovanovic, Judith Dawes, Roger Haynes, Jon Lawrence, Quentin Parker, Michael with ford

GNOSIS An OH Suppressing Near-Infrared Spectrograph for Astronomy Using Fibre Bragg Gratings........................................1225Jon Lawrence, Simon Ellis, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Julia Bryant, Scott Case, Luke Gers, Roger Haynes, Anthony Horton, Steve Lee, Sergio Leon-Saval, Hans Loehmannsroeben, Stan Miziarski, Jana Mladenoff, John O'byrne, William Rambold, Martin Roth, Scott Smedley, Chris Trinh

Integrated Photonics Beyond Communication Micro and Nano Technologies to Explore The Universe..........................................1226Harendra Fernando, Jean-Christophe Olaya, Jose Chavez Boggio, William Rambold, Roger Haynes, Martin Roth

Hexabundles - Imaging Fibre Bundles for Astronomy ............................................................................................................................1227Julia Bryant, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Sergio Leon-Saval

The Application of Multicore Photonic Crystal Fibres (M-PCF) in Astronomical Instrumentation .................................................1228Claire Poppett, Jermey Allington-Smith

The Effect of Fibre Core Geometry on Focal Ratio Degradation ...........................................................................................................1229Anthony Horton, Brian Baumgartner

OPTICAL BIO-SENSORS Experimental and Numerical Study of Trapping of Cells on a Waveguide...........................................................................................1230

Balpreet S. Ahluwalia, Pål Løvhaugen, Peter McCourt, James S. Wilkinson, Thomas Huser, Olav Gaute Hellesø

Label-Free DNA Detection with PNA Modified Long Period Fiber Grating-Based Sensor................................................................1231Michele Sozzi, Annamaria Cucinotta, Roberto Corradini, Rosangela Marchelli, Maria Konstantaki, Stavros Pissadakis, Stefano Selleri

Novel Ring Resonator Based Biosensors (Invited)....................................................................................................................................1232Peter Bienstman, Tom Claes, Cristina Lerma Arce, Wim Bogaerts, Katarzyna Komorowska, Dries Van Thourhout

Spatial Scan of Light Intensity By Retinal Rod Cells ...............................................................................................................................1233Nigel Sim, Dmitri Bessarab, C. Michael Jones, Leonid Krivitsky

Dispersive Single Particle Sensing with μs Time Resolution Using Toroidal Microresonators...........................................................1234Jens Dobrindt, Sebastian Karpf, Stefanie Krysiak, Bastian Schröter, Bert Nickel, Joachim Rädler, Tobias Kippenberg

Amorphous Silicon Based Photodetectors for Biosensing (Invited)........................................................................................................1235Markus B. Schubert, Marc Sämann, Dominik Furin, Johannes Thielmann, Christine Harendt, Günter Gauglitz

On-Chip Micro-Spectrometer for Fluorescence Bio-Sensing ..................................................................................................................1236Zhixion Hu, Andrew Glidle, Charles N. Ironside, Marc Sorel, Michael J. Strain, Huabing Yin

Specific (Bio-)Chemical Sensing with Organic Microlasers ....................................................................................................................1237Sergii Lozenko, Djibril Faye, Melanie Lebental, Joseph Lautru, Isabelle Ledoux, Isabelle Leray, Jean-Pierre Lefevre, Jacques Delaire, Joseph Zyss

Single Cell Trapping and Stretching in An Optofluidic Chip Fabricated By Femtosecond Laser Micromachining .......................1238Francesca Bragheri, Lorenzo Ferrara, Paolo Minzioni, Ilaria Cristiani, Krishna Vishnubhatla, Nicola Bellini, Roberta Ramponi, Roberto Osellame

A Self-Referencing Detection Technique for Whispering Gallery Mode Biosensors ...........................................................................1239Joachim Knittel, Jon Swaim, Warwick Bowen

PROGRESS IN FIBER LASERS AND EMERGING APPLICATIONS Applications of Femtosecond Fiber Lasers in Material Processing (Tech Focus).................................................................................1240

Alan Arai, Jingzhou Xu, Jin Sohn, Gyu C. Cho

Fraction-Limited Fiber Lasers for Welding and Cutting (Tech Focus) .................................................................................................1241Eckhard Beyer

Fiberlaser Universal Production Tool for Industrial Manufacturing (Tech Focus) .............................................................................1242Wolfram Rath

MATERIAL PROCESSING WITH ULTRASHORT LASER PULSES Ultrafast Fiber Lasers The Hunt for Killer Applications (Tech Focus) .................................................................................................1243

Anatoly Grudinin, John Clowes, Pascal Dupriez

Nanosecond Fibre MOPAs Technological Approaches and New Applications (Tech Focus) .............................................................1244Michael Durkin

High Power Tm Silica Fiber Lasers Current Status, Prospects and Challenges (Tech Focus) ...........................................................1245Peter Moulton

ADDITIONAL PAPERS (POST DEADLINE) Extremely High Temperature (220 C) Continuous-Wave Operation of 1300-nm-Range Quantum-Dot Lasers (Post-Deadline) ........................................................................................................................................................................................................1246

Takeo Kageyama, Kenichi Nishi, Masaomi Yamaguchi, Reio Mochida, Yasunari Maeda, Keizo Takemasa, Yu Tanaka, Tsuyoshi Yamamoto, Mituru Sugawara, Yasuhiko Arakawa

Multi-Watt Continuous-Wave Diamond Raman Laser at 1217 nm (Post-Deadline) ...........................................................................1247Vasili Savitski, Jennifer Hastie, Martin Dawson, David Burns, Alan Kemp

Photonic Heterostructures a New Concept for High Power Surface Emission in Thz Quantum Cascade Lasers (Post-Deadline)..............................................................................................................................................................................................1248

Gangyi Xu, Elodie Strupiechonski, Gregoire Sevin, Raffaele Colombelli, Ali Belarouci, Xavier Letartre, Suraj Khanna, Lianhe Li, Edmund Linfield, A. Giles Davies

Coherent Phase Combining of 64 Fibers (Post-Deadline)........................................................................................................................1249Jérôme Bourderionnet, Cindy Bellanger, Jérôme Primot, Arnaud Brignon

Stable, Highly Efficient QCW All-Fiber Laser at 2.8 Microns (Post-Deadline)....................................................................................1250Dominic Faucher, Nicolas Caron, Martin Bernier, Guillaume Androz, Réal Vallée

Millijoule Pulse Energy Second Harmonic Generation with Single-Stage Photonic Bandgap Rod Fiber Laser (Post-Deadline) ........................................................................................................................................................................................................1251

Marko Laurila, Julien Saby, Thomas T. Alkeskjold, Lara Scolari, Benjamin Cocquelin, Francois Salin, Jes Broeng, Jesper Laegsgaard

The 20 W CW Fibre Laser At 1460 nm Based on Si-Associated Bismuth Active Centres in Germanosilicate Fibres (Post-Deadline)..............................................................................................................................................................................................1252

Sergey Firstov, Alexey Shubin, Vladimir Khopin, Igor Bufetov, Alexey Guryanov, Evgeny Dianov

Localization of Light in an Optical Fiber with Nanoscale Radius Variation (Post-Deadline).............................................................1253Misha Sumetsky

High Damage Threshold Sesams for High Power Femtosecond Modelocking 23 W, 235 fs Yb LuScO3 Thin Disk Laser (Post-Deadline) ...................................................................................................................................................................................1254

Clara J. Saraceno, Oliver H. Heckl, Cyrill R. E. Baer, Matthias Golling, Thomas Südmeyer, Kolja Beil, Christian Kränkel, Klaus Petermann, Günter Huber, Ursula Keller

Fully Stabilized, Self-Referenced Thulium Fiber Frequency Comb (Post-Deadline) ...........................................................................1255Jie Jiang, Christian Mohr, Jens Bethge, Martin Fermann, Ingmar Hartl

Long-Term CEP-Stable Few-Cycle Pulses Using The Feed-Forward Method in An All-Monolithic Setup (Post-Deadline) ........................................................................................................................................................................................................1256

Fabian Lücking, Andreas Assion, Alexander Apolonski, Ferenc Krausz

Light-Field Control of Electric Current in Metal-Dielectric Nano-Circuits (Post-Deadline)..............................................................1257Agustin Schiffrin, Tim Paasch-Colberg, Daniel Gerster, Nicholas Karpowicz, Sascha Mühlbrandt, Joachim Reichert, Johannes V. Barth, Reinhard Kienberger, Ralph Ernstorfer, Ferenc Krausz

Mid-Infrared Frequency Combs Based on Microresonators (Post-Deadline) ......................................................................................1258Christine Wang, Tobias Herr, Pascal Del'Haye, Albert Schliesser, Ronald Holzwarth, Theodor Haensch, Nathalie Picque, Tobias Kippenberg

Magnetoelastic Metamaterials (Post-Deadline).........................................................................................................................................1259Mikhail Lapine, Ilya Shadrivov, David Powell, Yuri Kivshar

Reversible Switching of Ultrastrong Light-Molecule Coupling (Post-Deadline) ..................................................................................1260Tal Schwartz, James A. Hutchison, Cyriaque Genet, Thomas W. Ebbesen

Strongly Interacting Photons in Quantum Dot Cavity-QED (Post-Deadline) .......................................................................................1261Andreas Reinhard, Thomas Volz, Atac Imamoglu

Entanglement-Enhanced Classical Communication Over a Noisy Classical Channel (Post-Deadline) .............................................1262Robert Prevedel, Yang Lu, Will Matthews, Rainer Kaltenbaek, Kevin Resch

Room Temperature Terahertz Intersubband Polariton Electroluminescence (Post-Deadline) ..........................................................1263Markus Geiser, Giacomo Scalari, Fabrizio Castellano, Mattias Beck, Jérôme Faist

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