Photonics North 2018 1 Program at a Glance

Tuesday, June 5, 2018

08:00 - 10:35 Theory Design Nonlinear Optical Quantum Light Matter Cartier 1 Cartier 2 International 1 International 2 10:35 - 11:00 Coffee Break Opening Welcome 11:00 - 12:00 Plenary Lecture - David Payne, ORC Southampton University, UK Symposia 12:00 - 13:15 Lunch on your own

13:15 - 15:05 Theory Design Green Optical Quantum Light Matter Cartier 1 Cartier 2 International 1 International 2 15:05 - 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 - 18:00 Theory Design Green Optical Quantum Light Matter Cartier 1 Cartier 2 International 1 International 2

18:00 - 19:30 Welcome Evening & Cocktail Foyer 3

Wednesday, June 6, 2018

08:00 - 10:30 Theory Design Green High Power Materials Cartier 1 Cartier 2 International 1 International 2 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break & Exhibition Hall Visit Plenary Lecture - Hui Cao, Yale University, USA 11:00 - 11:45 Symposia 11:45 - 13:00 Lunch on your own & Exhibition Hall Visit

13:00 - 15:00 Theory Design Nonlinear High Power Biophotonics Cartier 1 Cartier 2 International 1 International 2 15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Breaz & Exhibition Hall Visit

15:30 - 18:00 Theory Design Nonlinear High Power Biophotonics Cartier 1 Cartier 2 International 1 International 2

18:00 - 19:30 Poster session & cocktail Foyer 4 Thurday, June 7, 2018

08:00 - 10:30 Theory Design Nonlinear Optical Quantum Biophotonics Cartier 1 Cartier 2 International 1 International 2 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break & Exhibition Hall Visit

11:00 - 11:45 Plenary Lecture - Nader Engheta, University of Pennsylvania, USA Symposia 11:45 - 13:00 Lunch on your own & Exhibition Hall Visit

13:00 - 15:00 Theory Design Nonlinear Biophotonics Materials Cartier 1 Cartier 2 International 1 International 2 15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 - 18:30 Nonlinear High Power Materials Cartier 2 International 1 International 2

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General Information �����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������8

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Oral Presentations ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 11

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Exhibition...... 60

Index of Authors ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������70

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Meeting Rooms Floor Layout...... 88

Photonics North 2018 5 Organizing Committee

Conference Chair George A. Lampropoulos A.U.G. Signals Ltd., Photonics North, Toronto, Canada

Scientific Program Co-Chairs Jose Azana EMT-INRS, Montréal, Canada

Ebrahim Karimi Department of and Max Planck Centre for Extreme and Quantum Photonics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

Support Committee Robert Corriveau CPIC, Québec, Canada

Kexing Liu Mira Connections, Ottawa, Canada

Organizing Partners Robert Corriveau CPIC, Québec, Canada

Marie-Christine Ferland Optonique, Montréal, Canada

Pierre Galarneau INO, Québec, Canada

Réal Vallée COPL / Université Laval, Québec, Canada

George A. Lampropoulos A.U.G. Signals Ltd., Photonics North, Toronto, Canada

Logistic Conferium Conferences. Events. Services.

6 Photonics North 2018 Welcoming Message

On behalf of the organizing committee of the 2018 Photonics North Conference I welcome you to this year’s event in the cosmopolitan city of Montreal. This is our 20th event. Photonics have considerably evolved since 1994 when we had our first conference in Toronto, and Photonics North has become the main Photonics event on North America.

In the 21st century, photonics takes center stage just as the 20th century was the era of electronics. Your participation and contribution to this event assists in this technological transformation.

The objective of the conference is to close the gap between theory and applications and have University research move closer to developing industrial products. We are pleased with the participation of leading researchers who share their results at this event and of the industry that present the latest products in the exhibits area. The contributions of research at this conference from year to year are on the rise.

You will find that the technical program makes new inroads in the field. The technical committee, headed by Professors Jose Azana of EMT-INRS and Ebrahim Karimi of the University of Ottawa has done an outstanding job in compiling the conference technical program. I anticipate that you will be very pleased with their work.

Enjoy the conference, Montreal and the upcoming summer and we hope to see all of you again next year, in 2019, in Quebec City.

George A. Lampropoulos, Ph.D., FCAE Conference Chairman

Photonics North 2018 7 General Information

Venue Certifcate of Attendance Centre Mont-Royal An official certificate of attendance is included inside the participant’s envelope. 2200 Mansfield Street Montreal Quebec, H3A 3R8 (514) 844-2000 Internet Access / Mobile Phone Free internet facilities are available to all Parking pariticpants in the Conference venue. During the meetings, please tun off your Le Centre Mont-Royal mobile phone or set it to mute. 2055, rue Metcalfe Montreal, Quebec, H3A 1X7 +1 514-861-9772 Disclaimer Price: 17,75 $ / day The Photonics North 2018 secretariat and organizers cannot assume liability for personal accidents, loss of or damage Registration to private property of participants, and All participants should register at the accompagnying persons, either during or registration desk and take relevant directly arising from the Photonics North certificates, materials and invoice. The 2018 Conference. Participants should make registration desk is located in Foyer 3 and it their own arrangement with respect to will be open at the Conference venue: health and travel insurance.

Tuesday, June 5 07:30 - 18:00 Wednesday, June 6 07:30 - 18:00 Security & Safety Thursday, June 7 07:30 - 14:00 Please do not leave bags and luggage unattended at any time, whether inside or Exhibition Hall outside session rooms.

Wednesday, June 6 10:30 - 18:00 Speaker Ready Desk Thursday, June 7 10:30 - 13:30 All speakers are required to check in at the speaker ready desk to upload their Name Badge presentation at least 1 hour prior to the start Please wear your name badge at all of their session. The staff will be available times. This will ensure your access to the to answer your questions and to help you Conference rooms and exhibition hall. upload your presentation from your USB memory stick.

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8 Photonics North 2018 Social Events

Welcome Evening & Cocktail Tuesday, June 5, from 18:00 to 19:30 Foyer 3 All registered participants are invited to the Welcome Evening. Drink and finger food will be offered. Tout Azimut will be there to ensure the musical atmosphere.

Tuesday, Tuesday, CMC Microsystems - public meeting

June 5 , 2018 Tuesday, June 5, 2018 from 18:30 to 21:00 Cartier 1 Topic of the meeting : Stakeholder engagement sessions regarding the CNDN technology roadmap

Poster session cocktail Wednesday, June 6, from 18:00 to 19:30 Foyer 4 A special time to visit our exhibitors and network with the poster presenters. Poster session provide an opportunity for informal, intercative presentations and discussions. A cocktail will be offered during the poster session. Wednesday, Wednesday,

June 6 , 2018 CMC Microsystems - public meeting Wednesday, June 6, 2018 from 18:30 to 21:00 Cartier 1 Topic of the meeting : Stakeholder engagement sessions regarding the CNDN technology roadmap.

Industry Student Lunch Thursday, June 7, 2018 from 12:00 to 13:00 Foyer 3 A special program for students! Luncheon that gives you the opportunity

Thursday, Thursday, to make valuable connections with industry professionals and peers.

June 7 , 2018 Don’t miss this opportunity to put your networking skills to good use. Registration mandatory.

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Tuesday June 5, 2018

PHOTONIC THEORY DESIGN AND SIMULATIONS

ROOM: CARTIER 1 Chair: Pavel Cheben, National Research Council of Canada, Canada

08:00 - 08:15 TD-1-1-1 / RESIDUAL AMPLITUDE MODULATION OF OPTICAL PHASE MODULATORS Henri Porte, iXblue Photonics, France Clément Guyot, Nicolas Grossard, Jérôme Hauden

08:15 - 08:30 TD-1-1-2 / INTEGRATED OPTICAL FLUID SENSING USING MID-IR SILICON PHOTONICS Christian Ranacher, Carinthian Tech Research AG, Austria Cristina Consani, Andreas Tortschanoff, Thomas Söllradl Gerald Pühringer, Thomas Grille, Bernhard Jakoby

08:30 - 08:45 TD-1-1-3 / SOI DOPED WAVEGUIDE HEATERS FOR IN-SITU DEFECT ANNEALING David Hagan, McMaster University, Canada Andrew P. Knights

08:45 - 09:00 TD-1-1-4 / SPOT-SIZE CONVERTERS WITH SHAPED OXIDE CLADDING Huai Yang, McGill University, Canada Odile Liboiron-Ladouceur

09:00 - 09:45 TD-1-1-5 / GE IMPLANTATION INTO SILICON FOR TRIMMING, WAFER SCALE TESTING AND PROGRAMMABLE PHOTONICS Graham T. Reed, University of Southampton, United Kingdom

09:45 - 10:10 TD-1-1-6 / III-V – SILICON INTEGRATION Dries Van Thourhout, Ghent University, Belgium

10:10 - 10:35 TD-1-1-7 / DESIGN OF PHOTONIC STRUCTURES FOR HIGH EFFICIENCY NANOWIRE QUANTUM DOT EMITTERS Dan Dalacu, National Research Council of Canada, Canada Khaled Mnaymneh, Jean Lapointe, Philip Poole, Robin Williams

Photonics North 2018 11 NONLINEAR , NANOPHOTONICS AND PLASMONICS

ROOM: CARTIER 2 Chair: Riccardo Piccoli, INRS-EMT, Canada

08:30 - 08:45 NONLINEAR-1-2-1 / OPTICAL NONLINEARITY IN INGAASP/INP PASSIVE WAVEGUIDES Kashif Awan, University of Ottawa, Canada Shayan Saeidi, Payman Rasekh, Ksenia Dolgaleva

08:45 - 09:00 NONLINEAR-1-2-2 / DEMONSTRATION OF POCKELS EFFECT IN STRAINED SILICON WAVEGUIDES Mathias Berciano, Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, France Guillaume Marcaud, Pedro Damas, Xavier Le Roux, Paul Crozat, Carlos Alonso Ramos, Diego Pérez Galacho, Daniel Benedikovic, Delphine Marris- Morini, Eric Cassan, Laurent Vivien

09:00 - 09:15 NONLINEAR-1-2-3 / NOISE REDUCTION PERFORMANCE OF NONLINEAR AMPLITUDE DISCRIMINATOR SCHEMES Wasim Lashkor, McGill University, Canada Martin Rochette

09:15 - 09:30 NONLINEAR-1-2-4 / EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF SECOND ORDER NONLINEARITY IN THIN-FILM GLASS STRUCTURES Seyed Hamed Jafari, Carleton University, Canada Salah M. Aljamimi, Jacques Albert, Christopher Smelser

09:30 - 09:45 NONLINEAR-1-2-5 / INVISCID BURGERS EQUATION DYNAMICS IN M-CRESOL/ NYLON THERMAL SOLUTION Domenico Bongiovanni, INRS, Canada June 5 Benjamin Wetzel, Yi Hu, Pengzhen Yang, Yujie Qiu, Jingjun Xu, Stefan Wabnitz, Zhigang Chen, Roberto Morandotti

09:45 - 10:10 NONLINEAR-1-2-6 / NANOSCALE CONTROL OF HIGH-HARMONIC GENERATION FROM SOLIDS Giulio Vampa, Stanford PULSE Institute, United States

10:10 - 10:35 NONLINEAR-1-2-7 / EXTREME NONLINEAR OPTICS FOR TABLE-TOP ULTRAFAST MAGNETIC IMAGING François Légaré, INRS, Canada

12 Photonics North 2018 OPTICAL AND QUANTUM COMMUNICATIONS

ROOM: INTERNATIONAL 1 Chair: Sophie Larochelle, Université Laval, Canada

09:00 - 09:15 OP-COMM-1-3-1 / MULTI-STAGE PERTURBATION TECHNIQUE BASED NONLINEAR FOURIER TRANSFORM FOR FIBER OPTIC SYSTEMS Elham Bidaki, McMaster University, Canada Shiva Kumar

09:15 - 09:30 OP-COMM-1-3-2 / STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF PERFORMANCE MONITORING DATA COLLECTED IN AN OPTICAL LINK Stéphanie Allogba, École de technologie supérieure, Canada Christine Tremblay

09:30 - 09:45 OP-COMM-1-3-3 / 10-100 GBIT/S MIXED-LINE-RATE EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATION Mounia Lourdiane, Telecom SudParis, France Hussein Chouma, Christine Tremblay, Bibechana Adhekari, Cédric Ware, Catherine Lepers

09:45 - 10:00 OP-COMM-1-3-4 / MMI-BASED SILICON MODE (DE)MULTIPLEXER FOR MULTICHANNEL PARALLEL DATA TRANSMISSION Rubana Priti, McGill University, Canada Odile Liboiron-Ladouceur

10:00 - 10:25 OP-COMM-1-3-5 / PLANAR OPTICAL MEMS FOR NEXT-GENERATION PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORKS AND DATA CENTERS MICRO OPTICAL CIRCUIT SWITCHES TO ENABLE ENERGY EFFICIENT UNIVERSAL ACCESS Francois Menard, AEPONYX inc., Canada

Photonics North 2018 13 LIGHT-MATTER INTERACTIONS AT THE QUANTUM LIMIT: ATOMS, MOLECULES AND PHOTONS

ROOM: INTERNATIONAL 2 Chair: Jeff Lundeen, University of Ottawa, Canada

08:25 - 08:40 LM-1-4-1 / A PRIMARY STANDARD FOR RADIOMETRY BASED ON QUANTUM NONLINEAR OPTICS Samuel Lemieux, University of Ottawa, Canada Enno Giese, Robert Fickler, Maria Chekhova, Robert W. Boyd

08:40 - 08:55 LM-1-4-2 / SIMULATIONS AND DYNAMICS OF WAVEPACKETS IN CYCLIC QUANTUM SYSTEMS Farshad Nejadsattari, University of Ottawa, Canada Yingwen Zhang, Frédéric Bouchard, Robert Fickler, Alicia Sit, Hugo Larocque, Eliahu Cohen, Ebrahim Karimi

08:55 - 09:10 LM-1-4-3 / THEORETICAL LIMITS TO EFFICIENCY AND INDISTINGUISHIBILITY OF PULSE-TRIGGERED QUANTUM DOT-CAVITY SINGLE PHOTON SOURCES Chris Gustin, Queen’s University, Canada Stephen Hughes

09:10 - 09:25 LM-1-4-4 / WHAT IS THE BEST HERALDING-ARM FREQUENCY FILTER BANDWIDTH FOR A GIVEN HERALDED SINGLE PHOTON SOURCE? Luke Helt, Queen’s University, Canada Daniel Blay, Michael Steel

09:25 - 09:40 LM-1-4-5 / REAL-TIME SPECTRAL CHARACTERIZATION OF A PHOTON PAIR SOURCE USING A CHIRPED SUPERCONTINUUM SEED , University of Ottawa, Canada

June 5 Jennifer Erskine Duncan England, Connor Kupchak, Benjamin Sussman

09:40 - 09:55 LM-1-4-6 / SINGLE PHOTON SWITCHING AT ULTRAFAST TIMESCALES Connor Kupchak, University of Ottawa, Canada Jennifer Erskine, Duncan England, Benjamin Sussman

09:55 - 10:10 LM-1-4-7 / NOISE CONTRIBUTIONS IN ON-CHIP FOUR-PHOTON STATES Mehedi Islam, INRS-EMT, Canada Yanbing Zhang, Piotr Roztocki, Christian Reimer, Stefania Sciara, Bennet Fischer, Yaron Bromberg, Lucia Caspani, Sai T. Chu, Brent E. Little, David J. Moss, Michael Kues, Roberto Morandotti

10:10 - 10:35 LM-1-4-8 / CAN SPDC PUMPED BY SPATIALLY INCOHERENT LIGHT PRODUCE ENTANGLED PHOTONS? Robert Fickler, University of Ottawa, Canada Wuhong Zhang, Enno Giese, Lixiang Chen, Robert W. Boyd

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14 Photonics North 2018 WELCOMING WORD FROM CONFERENCE CHAIR

ROOM: SYMPOSIA 11:00 - 11:15

PLENARY LECTURE - NO GAIN WITHOUT PAYNE David Payne, ORC Southampton University, UK

ROOM: SYMPOSIA 11:15 - 12:00

LUNCH ON YOUR OWN

PHOTONIC THEORY DESIGN AND SIMULATIONS

ROOM: CARTIER 1 Chair: Andrew Knights, McMaster University, Canada

13:15 - 13:40 TD-2-6-1 / THE INFLUENCE OF ELEMENTAL COMPOSITION ON THE OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF SICXNY THIN FILMS Peter Mascher, McMaster University, Canada Zahra Khatami, Jacek Wojcik

13:40 - 14:05 TD-2-6-2 / MULTIPLEXING SYSTEMS PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENTS WITH ALL-OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING Ivan Glesk, University of Sytrathclyde, United Kingdom Md Shakil Ahmed, Zifei Wang, Lawrence R. Chen

14:05 - 14:50 TD-2-6-3 / CONTROL STRATEGIES FOR PHOTONICS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS Andrea Melloni, Politecnico de Milano,

14:50 - 15:15 TD-2-6-4 / CORNERSTONE: UK SILICON PHOTONICS DEVICE PROTOTYPING CAPABILITY Callum Littlejohn, Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton, United Kingdom S. Stankovic, X. Yan, H. Du, D. T. Tran, G. Sharp, M. Sorel, R. Webb, J. England, H. M. H. Chong, F. Y. Gardes, D. J. Thomson, G. Z. Mashanovich, Graham T. Reed

Photonics North 2018 15 GREEN PHOTONICS, ENERGY, AND RELATED TECHNOLOGIES

ROOM: CARTIER 2 Chair: Maxime Darnon, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada

13:15 - 13:40 GREEN-1-7-1 / PEROVSKITE SOLAR CELLS: PROBING DECOMPOSITION MECHANISMS BY IN OPERANDO GRAZING-INCIDENCE WIDE ANGLE X-RAY SCATTERING Timothy Kelly, University of Saskatchewan, Canada Kyle Fransishyn, Soumya Kundu

13:40 - 14:05 GREEN-1-7-2 / HIGH-EFFICIENCY FLEXIBLE SILICON PHOTOVOLTAICS Nazir P. Kherani, , Canada

14:05 - 14:20 GREEN-1-7-3 / OF SILICON NANO-ANTENNA Alexandre Merlen, IM2NP, Université de Toulon, France

14:20 - 14:35 GREEN-1-7-4 / THE INFLUENCE OF THERMAL EFFECTS IN RAMAN STRAIN MEASUREMENTS Aura Lubio, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada Gitanjali Kolhatkar, Thomas Dequivre, Julien Plathier, Andreas Dörfler, Andreas Ruediger, Serge Charlebois

14:35 - 14:50 GREEN-1-7-5 / PASSIVE BIANISOTROPIC METASURFACE WINDOW FOR THERMAL BLACK-BODY RADIATION CONTROL Nima Chamanara, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada Guillaume Lavigne, Christophe Caloz June 5

16 Photonics North 2018 OPTICAL AND QUANTUM COMMUNICATIONS

ROOM: INTERNATIONAL 1 Chair: Filippo Romanato, University of Padova, Italy

13:15 - 13:40 OP-COMM-2-8-1 / QUANTUM COMMUNICATION WITH PHOTONIC TEMPORAL MODES Vahid Ansari, Paderborn University, Germany John M. Donohue, Markus Allgaier, Linda Sansoni, Georg Harder, Benjamin Brecht, Chrisine Silberhorn

13:40 - 14:05 OP-COMM-2-8-2 / QUANTUM COMMUNICATIONS AND FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS IN SPACE Giuseppe Vallone, University of Padova, Italy

14:05 - 14:20 OP-COMM-2-8-3 / HYBRID QUANTUM STORAGE OF CORRELATED PHOTON PAIRS IN SEPARATE SOLID-STATE MEMORIES Jacob Davidson, University of Calgary, Canada Marcel.li Grimau Puigibert, Mohsen Falamarzi, Gustavo Amaral, Thomas Lutz, Neil Sinclair, Daniel Oblak, Wolfgang Tittel

14:20 - 14:35 OP-COMM-2-8-4 / CHARACTERIZATION OF EAVESDROPPING ATTACKS ON A HIGH-DIMENSIONAL QUANTUM CHANNEL Felix Hufnagel, University of Ottawa, Canada Frédéric Bouchard, Aazad Abbas, Alicia Sit, Khabat Heshami, Robert Fickler, Ebrahim Karimi

14:35 - 14:50 OP-COMM-2-8-5 / DIRECT CHARACTERIZATION OF ULTRAFAST ENERGY-TIME ENTANGLED PHOTON PAIRS Jean-Philippe MacLean, University of Waterloo, Canada John Donohue, Kevin Resch

14:50 - 15:05 OP-COMM-2-8-6 / QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY WITH TWISTED PHOTONS IN AN OUTDOOR SWIMMING POOL Alicia Sit, University of Ottawa, Canada Frédéric Bouchard, Felix Hufnagel, Aazad Abbas, Yingwen Zhang, Khabat Heshami, Robert Fickler, Christoph Marquardt, Gerd Leuchs, Robert W. Boyd, Ebrahim Karimi

Photonics North 2018 17 LIGHT-MATTER INTERACTIONS AT THE QUANTUM LIMIT: ATOMS, MOLECULES AND PHOTONS

ROOM: INTERNATIONAL 2 Chair: Connor Kupchak, University of Ottawa, Canada

13:15 - 13:40 LM-2-9-1 / TOWARDS A SOLID-STATE OPTICAL ATOMIC CLOCK Amar Vutha, University of Toronto, Canada

13:40 - 14:05 LM-2-9-2 /DIAMOND OPTOMECHANICS FOR PULSE STORAGE AND WAVELENGTH CONVERSION Paul Barclay, University of Calgary, Canada

14:05 - 14:20 LM-2-9-3 / HIGH-RESOLUTION MICROSCOPY FOR SINGLE ATOMS IN AN OPTICAL CAVITY Mahmood Sabooni, Institute for Quantum Computing, Canada Hyeran Kong, Chang Liu, Youn seok Lee, Ying Dong, Kyung Soo Choi

14:20 - 14:35 LM-2-9-4 / QUANTUM TRAJECTORY THEORY OF CAVITY-QED SYSTEMS WITH COHERENT OPTICAL FEEDBACK Gavin Crowder, Queen’s University, Canada Stephen Hughes

14:35 - 14:50 LM-2-9-5 / QUANTUM ILLUMINATION ON A NOISY BACKGROUND Duncan England, National Research Council of Canada, Canada Jennifer Erskine, Connor Kupchak, Benjamin Sussman

June 5 14:50 - 15:05 LM-2-9-6 / INTERACTION-FREE GHOST IMAGING Yingwen Zhang, University of Ottawa, Canada Alicia Sit, Frederic Bouchard, Hugo Larocque, Eliahu Cohen, Avshalom Elitzur, James Harden, Robert W. Boyd, Ebrahim Karimi

18 Photonics North 2018 PHOTONICS TECHNOLOGY ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND INNOVATION

ROOM: SYMPOSIA Chair: Velko Tzolov, NRC, Canada

13:15 - 13:40 TEI-1-10-1 / SPIE PHOTONICS INDUSTRY UPDATE Stephen Anderson, SPIE, United States

13:40 - 14:05 TEI-1-10-2 / SOME CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS FOR A TYPICAL PHOTONICS STARTUP George Atanasoff, AccuStrata Inc, United States

14:05 - 14:30 TEI-1-10-3 / USING MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES TO EXAMINE THE PHOTONICS INDUSTRY SECTOR IN CANADA Stoyan Tanev, Carleton University, Canada Velko Tzolov, Heidar Mamosian, Jake MacDonald

14:30 - 14:45 TEI-1-10-4 / BOARD EDGE MOUNT ACTIVE OPTICAL CONNECTOR Pierre Cardinal, Reflex Photonics Inc, Canada Jocelyn Lauzon

14:45 - 15:00 TEI-1-10-5 / INDOOR WIRELESS TRANSMISSION OF UNCOMPRESSED HD AND 4K VIDEOS USING PHOTONICS TECHNOLOGIES Kathirvel Nallappan, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada Hichem Guerboukha, Chahe Nerguizian, Maksim Skorobogatiy

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Photonics North 2018 19 PHOTONIC THEORY DESIGN AND SIMULATIONS

ROOM: CARTIER 1 Chair: Graham Reed, University of Southampton, Canada

15:30 - 16:15 TD-3-11-1 / ADVANCES IN SILICON PHOTONICS Laurent Vivien, CNRS, France

16:15 - 17:00 TD-3-11-2 / RECENT PROGRESS ON SUB-WAVELENGTH ENGINEERED WAVEGUIDE FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS Hon Tsang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Wen Zhou

17:00 - 17:25 TD-3-11-3 / PLASMONIC NANOCAVITIES FOR ENHANCED TERAHERTZ LIGHT MATTER COUPLING Luca Razzari, INRS-EMT, Canada Xin Jin, Andrea Cerea, Gabriele C. Messina, Andrea Rovere, Riccardo Piccoli, Francesco De Donato, Francisco Palazon, Andrea Perucchi, Paola Di Pietro, Roberto Morandotti, Stefano Lupi, Francesco De Angelis, Mirko Prato, Andrea Toma

17:25 - 17:50 TD-3-11-4 / DISTRIBUTED BACKSCATTERING IN VARIOUS PRODUCTION SI PHOTONIC WAVEGUIDES Bo Peng, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, United States Jessie Rosemberg, Wesley D. Sacher, Asger S. Jensen, Marwan Khater, William M. J. Green, Tymon Barwicz

17:50 - 18:05 TD-3-11-5 / ROBUST, TOPOLOGICALLY-PROTECTED PHOTONIC CRYSTAL NANOCAVITIES June 5 Kathleen McGarvey-Lechable, Concordia University, Canada Pablo Bianucci

20 Photonics North 2018 GREEN PHOTONICS, ENERGY, AND RELATED TECHNOLOGIES

ROOM: CARTIER 2 Chair: Alexandre Merlen, Université de Toulon, France

15:30 - 15:55 GREEN-2-12-1 / SELF-ASSEMBLED MONOLAYERS OF ELECTRO- AND PHOTO-ACTIVE SMALL ORGANIC MOLECULES FOR TUNING THE ELECTRICAL AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF SURFACES Lionel Patrone, Institut Matériaux Microélectronique Nanosciences de Provence, IM2NP CNRS UMR 7334, France Volodymyr Malytskyi, Yannick Dufil, Virginie Gadenne, Grégory Delafosse, Younal Ksari, Jean-Jacques Simon, Jean-Manuel Raimundo

15:55 - 16:20 GREEN-2-12-2 / MICROSTRUCTURING TECHNOLOGIES FOR SOLAR ABSORPTION IN THE FIELD OF CSP Yves Jourlin, University of Lyon, Lab Hubert Curien CNRS, France

16:20 - 16:45 GREEN-2-12-3 / NEAR-FIELD TERMOPHOTOVOLTAIC ENERGY CONVERSION FOR WASTE HEAT RECOVERY Raphael St-Gelais, University of Ottawa, Canada

16:45 - 17:10 GREEN-2-12-4 / SOLUTION-PROCESSED NANOMATERIALS FOR ENERGY CONVERSION AND SENSING Ghada Koleilat, Dalhousie University, Canada

17:10 - 17:35 GREEN-2-12-5 / PHOTOCATALYTIC PROPERTIES OF IRON-DOPED BARIUM TITANATE Andreas Ruediger, INRS-EMT, Canada Ifeanyichukwu Amaechi, Shuhui Sun

17:35 - 17:50 GREEN-2-12-6 / ENABLING PLASMON RESONANCES IN THE NEAR AND MID- INFRARED RANGE WITH FRACTAL METAMATERIALS Gregory Q. Wallace, Western University, Canada Francois Lagugne-Labarthet

Photonics North 2018 21 OPTICAL AND QUANTUM COMMUNICATIONS

ROOM: INTERNATIONAL 1 Chair: Giuseppe Vallone, University of Padova, Italy

15:30 - 15:55 OP-COMM-3-13-1 / QUANTUM MULTIMODE RESOURCES BASED ON OPTICAL FREQUENCY COMBS AND IMPLEMENTATION OF QUANTUM COMPLEX NETWORKS Syamsundar De, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Valentina Parigi

15:55 - 16:20 OP-COMM-3-13-2 / MODE MULTIPLEXED TRANSMISSIONS AND OPTICAL FIBER OPTIMIZATION FOR LOW MODE CROSSTALK Sophie LaRochelle, Université Laval, Canada

16:20 - 16:45 OP-COMM-3-13-3 / COHERENT RADIO OVER FIBER FOR HIGH-DATA RATE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS Jianping Yao, University of Ottawa, Canada

16:45 - 17:10 OP-COMM-3-13-4 / MUXER FOR ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM MODE DIVISION MULTIPLEXING Filippo Romanato, University of Padova, Italy Gianluca Ruffato, Marcello Girardi , Michele Massari, Pietro Capaldo, Alessia Mezzadrelli

17:10 - 17:25 OP-COMM-3-13-6 / URBAN FREE-SPACE OPTICAL SYSTEMS THAT EMPLOY SPACE-DIVISION-MULTIPLEXING Mojtaba Mansour Abadi, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom June 5 Rakan E. Alsaigh, Martin P. J. Lavery

17:25 - 17:40 OP-COMM-3-13-7 / FREE-SPACE REMOTE SENSING OF ROTATION AT PHOTON- COUNTING LEVEL Wuhong Zhang, Department of Physics, Xiamen University, China Jingsong Gao, Dongkai Zhang, Yilin He, Tianzhe Xu, Robert Fickler, Lixiang Chen

17:40 - 17:55 OP-COMM-4-32-6 / LONGITUDINAL CONTROL OF POLARIZATION AND TOPOLOGICAL CHARGE OF OAM MODES INSIDE LOSSY MEDIA Ahmed Dorrah, University of Toronto, Canada Mateus Corato-Zanarella, Michel Zamboni-Rached, Mo Mojahedi

22 Photonics North 2018 LIGHT-MATTER INTERACTIONS AT THE QUANTUM LIMIT: ATOMS, MOLECULES AND PHOTONS

ROOM: INTERNATIONAL 2 Chair: Benjamin Sussman, NRC, Canada

15:30 - 15:55 LM-3-14-1 / BUILDING QUANTUM MACHINES OUT OF LIGHT Ian Walmsley, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

15:55 - 16:20 LM-3-14-2 / LARGE-SCALE PROGRAMMABLE PHOTONIC CIRCUITS AND APPLICATIONS IN QUANTUM INFORMATION PROCESSING Dirk Englund, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States

16:20 - 16:45 LM-3-14-3 / QUANTUM NETWORKS: GLOBAL, WARM, BIOLOGICAL? Christoph Simon, University of Calgary, Canada

16:45 - 17:10 LM-3-14-4 /BUILDING A ROOM TEMPERATURE QUANTUM PROCESSING NETWORK Eden Figueroa, Stony Brook University, United States

17:10 - 17:25 LM-3-14-5 / COHERENT STORAGE AND MANIPULATION OF BROADBAND PHOTONS VIA DYNAMICALLY CONTROLLED AUTLER-TOWNES SPLITTING Khabat Heshami, National Research Council of Canada, Taras Hrushevskyi, Anindya Rastogi, Erhan Saglamyurek, Lindsay LeBlanc

17:25 - 17:40 LM-3-14-6 / DEMONSTRATION OF AN ARBITRARY TWO-PHOTON POLARIZATION PROJECTOR Lambert Giner, University of Ottawa, Canada Guillaume S. Thekkadath, Xinyuan Ma, Jefferson Flórez, Jeff S. Lundeen

Photonics North 2018 23 PHOTONICS TECHNOLOGY ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND INNOVATION

ROOM: SYMPOSIA Chair: Stoyan Tanev, Carleton University, Canada

15:30 - 15:55 TEI-2-15-1 / OPTONIQUE: HOW THE NEW POLE OF EXCELLENCE IN OPTICS- PHOTONICS WILL HELP THE INDUSTRY Marie-Christine Ferland, Optonique, Canada

15:55 - 16:20 TEI-2-15-2 / LOOKING FOR TROUBLE - OR THE ART OF FINDING MARKETS FOR PHOTONIC TECHNOLOGIES Sébastien Blais-Ouellette, Photon etc., Canada

16:20 - 16:45 TEI-2-15-3 / OPTICAL TRANSDUCERS: THE CHALLENGES OF TECHNOLOGY AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT Nicholas Burgwin, Fibos, Canada

16:45 - 17:10 TEI-2-15-4 / THE INO/QUEBEC CITY ENTREPRENEUR-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAM : A SUMMARY Pierre Galarneau, INO, Canada

17:10 - 17:25 TEI-2-15-5 / A TUNABLE THERMO-MECHANICAL FIBER OPTIC TEMPERATURE SENSOR Hamid E. Limodehi, INRS-EMT, Canada Roya Mohajeri, Xin Jin, Luca Razzari, François Légaré

June 5 17:25 - 17:40 TEI-2-15-6 / OPTICAL NANO-KEY FOR PERSONALIZED AUTHENTICATION Devarshi Patel, Simon Fraser University, Canada Jasbir Patel, Hao Jiang, Bozena Kaminska

WELCOME COKTAIL

24 Photonics North 2018 Wednesday June 6, 2018

PHOTONIC THEORY DESIGN AND SIMULATIONS

ROOM: CARTIER 1 Chair: Andrew Knights, McMaster University, Canada

08:00 - 08:15 TD-4-16-1 / VERTICALLY COUPLED MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED INP-ALGAINAS WAVEGUIDES Shane Duggan, Tyndall National Institute, Ireland Hua Yang, Agnieszka Gocalinska, Emanuele Pelucchi, Frank H. Peters

08:15 - 08:30 TD-4-16-2 / SMALL PERIOD GRATINGS WRITTEN IN FEW-MODE FIBER USING ELECTRIC ARC DISCHARGES Prabin Pradhan, ETS, Canada Dipankar Sengupta, Christine Tremblay, Bora Ung

08:30 - 08:55 TD-4-16-3 / DISPERSION ENGINEERING IN SYMMETRY BROKEN PHOTONIC CRYSTALS: FROM FLAT-BAND TO DIRAC CONES Pierre Viktorovitch, Institut des Nanotechnologies de Lyon, INL/CNRS, Université de Lyon, France Hai Son Nguyen, Florian Dubois, Thierry Deschamps, Sébastien Cueff, Antonin Pardon, Jean-Louis Leclercq, Xavier Letartre

08:55 - 09:40 TD-4-16-4 / INTEGRATED MICROWAVE PHOTONICS Jose Campany, University of Valencia, Spain

09:40 - 10:05 TD-4-16-5 / ENERGY-PRESERVING FREQUENCY COMB SIGNAL PROCESSING TECHNIQUES: ARBITRARY FSR CONTROL AND NOISE MITIGATION Jose Azana, INRS, Canada

10:05 - 10:30 TD-4-16-6 / ULTRALOW THERMAL SENSITIVITY OF PHASE AND PROPAGATION DELAY IN HOLLOW-CORE FIBRES Radan Slavik, University of Southampton, United Kingdom

Photonics North 2018 25 GREEN PHOTONICS, ENERGY, AND RELATED TECHNOLOGIES

ROOM: CARTIER 2 Chair: Raphaël St-Gelais, University of Ottawa, Canada

08:30 - 08:45 GREEN-3-17-1 / FULLY PRINTED, ZNO PHOTODETECTORS FOR ULTRAVIOLET SENSING Anubha A Gupta, École de technologie supérieure, Canada Shivaram Arunachalam, Sylvain G. Cloutier, Ricardo Izquierdo

08:45 - 09:00 GREEN-3-17-2 / CONTROL AND CHARACTERIZATION OF ORGANIC SOLAR CELL MORPHOLOGY THROUGH VARIABLE-PRESSURE SOLVENT VAPOUR ANNEALING Derek Zomerman, University of Saskatchewan, Canada Seth McAfee, Gregory Welch, Timothy Kelly

09:00 - 09:25 GREEN-3-17-3 / VIRTUAL SUBSTRATE ENGINEERING WITH NANOPOROUS SEMICONDUCTORS AND -BASED NANOCOMPOSITES Abderraouf Boucherif, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada

09:25 - 09:40 GREEN-3-17-4 / METASURFACE CAVITIES FOR LED EFFICIENCY ENHANCEMENT Luzhou Chen, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada Guillaume Lavigne, Christophe Caloz, Efthymios Kallos , Christophe Rodriguez, Paul G. Charette

09:40 - 10:05 GREEN-3-17-5 / A PLASMONIC ANTENNA POLARIZATION-SENSITIVE NEAR- INFRARED PHOTO-DETECTOR Jean-Michel Nunzi, Queens University, Canada Somayeh Mirzaee

10:05 - 10:30 GREEN-3-17-6 / OPTICAL RECTENNAS TO HARVEST VISIBLE AND INFRARED FREQUENCIES David Duche, Aix Marseille Univ, Univ Toulon, CNRS, IM2NP, France Clement Reynaud, Carmen Ruiz, Judikael Le-Rouzo, Sebastien Labau, Marie Panabiere, Cécile Gourgon, Florent Pourcin, Olivier Margeat, Jorg Ackermann,

June 6 Jean-Jacques Simon, Ludovic Escoubas

26 Photonics North 2018 HIGH POWER LASER TECHNOLOGY, ULTRAFAST OPTICS AND APPLICATIONS

ROOM: INTERNATIONAL 1 Chair: Arkady Major, University of Manitoba, Canada

08:15 - 08:30 HIGH-POWER-1-18-1 / ULTRAFAST YB:CALGO LASER WITH LOW REPETITION RATE Arkady Major, University of Manitoba, Canada Sujith Manjooran

08:30 - 08:45 HIGH-POWER-1-18-2 / HIGH-BRIGHTNESS 14.1 KW INCOHERENT BEAM COMBINING OF FIBER LASERS BASED ON AN ALL-FIBER 7_1 SIGNAL COMBINER Zilun Chen, National university of defense and technology, China Chengmin Lei, Yanran Gu, Meng Wang, Zhihong Li, Zefeng Wang, Xiaojun Xu, Jinbao Chen

08:45 - 09:00 HIGH-POWER-1-18-3 / A COMPACT WATT-LEVEL SUB-PICOSECOND FIBER- COUPLED DUAL-WAVELENGTH CPA LASER SYSTEM Xinyang Su, Universiy of Waterloo, Canada Tuyen Hoang, Pin Long, Yi Zheng, Donna Strickland

09:00 - 09:15 HIGH-POWER-1-18-4 / SINGLE-PASS PULSE COMPRESSION FROM 170 FS TO 5.1 FS Young-Gyun Jeong, INRS-EMT, Canada Riccardo Piccoli, Denis Ferachou, Vincent Cardin, Michael Chini, Steffen Hädrich, Jens Limpert, Roberto Morandotti, François Légaré, Bruno E. Schmidt, Luca Razzari

09:15 - 09:40 HIGH-POWER-1-18-5 / UTLRAFAST THIN-DISK OSCILLATORS AT 1 ΜM AND 2 ΜM WAVELENGTHS Oleg Pronin, Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, Germany Jonathan Brons, Jinwei Zhang, Kilian Fritsch, Dominik Bauer, Dirk Sutter, Ferenc Krausz

09:40 - 10:05 HIGH-POWER-1-18-6 / HIGH-PERFORMANCE MAMYSHEV OSCILLATORS Frank Wise, Cornell University, United States

10:05 - 10:30 HIGH-POWER-1-18-7 / ENGINEERING OF EXTREMELY NARROW ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS Michel Piché, Université Laval, Canada

Photonics North 2018 27 PHOTONICS MATERIALS

ROOM: INTERNATIONAL 2 Chair: Tigran Galstian, Université Laval, Canada

08:15 - 08:30 MAT-1-19-1 / STUDY OF PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF NEW ANTIMONY GLASSES Rochdi El Abdi, Université de Rennes, France

08:30 - 08:45 MAT-1-19-2 / HEATING EFFECT IN LASER DIRECT WRITING OF AL AND CU PARTICLES ON SI-WAFER SUBSTRATE Mohammad Hossein Azhdast, Technical University of Berlin, Germany Klaus Dieter Lang, Hans Joachim Eichler

08:45 - 09:00 MAT-1-19-3 / SYNTHESIS OF REPRODUCIBLE PLASMONIC AUAG ALLOY POROUS NANOPARTICLES Lu Wang, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada Sergiy Patskovsky, Michel Meunier

09:00 - 09:15 MAT-1-19-4 / PHOTOVOLTAIC GRAPHENE-BR FILMS FOR PHOTOCELLS AND LIGHT-HARVESTING MICROSYSTEMS George Knopf, The University of Western Ontario, Canada Khaled Al-Aribe

09:15 - 09:30 MAT-1-19-5 / OPTICALLY TRANSPARENT ELECTRODES BASED ON GRAPHENE SILVER-NANOPRISM SUSPENSIONS George Knopf, The University of Western Ontario, Canada Dogan Sinar

09:30 - 09:45 MAT-1-19-6 / SOLUTION PROCESSED SNOX NANOPARTICLES FOR INTERFACIAL MODIFICATION IN BLUE PHOSPHORESCENT ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODES Ayse Turak, McMaster University, Canada Greg Hanta, Kunyu Liang, Seung Ill Lee, Geum Jae Yun, Jin Wook Kim, Lazar Kojovic, Lok Shu Hui, Woo Young Kim

June 6 09:45 - 10:10 MAT-1-19-7 / SILICON-BASED NANOSTRUCTURED THIN FILMS FOR PHOTONIC APPLICATIONS Peter Mascher, McMaster University, Canada Zahra Khatami, Aysegul Abdelal, Jacek Wojcik

10:10 - 10:35 MAT-1-19-8 / ORIGIN OF OPTICAL NONLINEARITY OF PHOTO-RESPONSIVE LIQUID CRYSTALS REVEALED BY TRANSIENT GRATING IMAGING Kenji Katayama, Chuo University, Japan

COFFEE BREAK AND EXHIBITION HALL VISIT

28 Photonics North 2018 PLENARY LECTURE - HARNESSING DISORDER FOR PHOTONIC APPLICATIONS Hui Cao, Yale University, USA

ROOM: SYMPOSIA 11:00 - 11:45

LUNCH ON YOUR OWN AND EXHIBITION HALL VISIT

PHOTONIC THEORY DESIGN AND SIMULATIONS

ROOM: CARTIER 1 Chair: Callum Littlejohns, University of Southampton, United Kingdom

13:00 - 13:15 TD-5-21-1 / DESIGN OF QUANTUM GATES IN PHOTONIC CIRCUITS USING A NON-ABELIAN GEOMETRIC PHASE Henri Morin, University of Ottawa, Canada Michel Poisson, Lambert Giner, Jeff S. Lundeen

13:15 - 13:30 TD-5-21-2 / A MULTIMODE APPROACH TO MODELLING MUTUALLY COUPLED LASERS IN PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS Fabien Dubois, Tyndall National Institute, Ireland Masoud Seifikar, Alison H. Perrott, Frank H. Peters

13:30 - 13:55 TD-5-21-3 / MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES FOR THE DESIGN OF PHOTONIC COMPONENTS Yuri Grinberg, National Research Council of Canada, Canada Dan-xia Xu, Daniele Melati, Jens Schmid, Pavel Cheben

13:55 - 14:20 TD-5-21-4 / DESIGNING TRANSMISSION SPANS WITH ULTRALONG CAVITY AND RANDOM DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK RAMAN FIBER LASER AMPLIFICATION Juan Diego Ania Castañón, Instituto de Óptica, CSIC, Spain Giuseppe Rizzelli, Pawel Rosa, Pedro Corredera

14:20 - 14:45 TD-5-21-5 / ANALYSIS OF DISORDERED NONLINEAR DOMAIN STATISTICS VIA SECOND HARMONIC DIFFRACTION Crina Cojocaru, Polythecnic University of Catalonia, Spain Bingxia Wang, Krzysztof Switkowski, Wieslaw Krolikowski, Michael Scalora, Jose Trull

14:45 - 15:00 TD-5-21-6 / GENERATION OF ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM STATES AT TERAHERTZ FREQUENCIES WITH METAMATERIALS Hichem Guerboukha, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada Kathirvel Nallappan, Mohamed Seghilani, Gabriel Mangeat, Jose Azana, Maksim Skorobogatiy

Photonics North 2018 29 NONLINEAR OPTICS, NANOPHOTONICS AND PLASMONICS

ROOM: CARTIER 2 Chair: Luca Razzari, INRS-EMT, Canada

13:00 - 13:25 NONLINEAR-2-22-1 / ENHANCED SENSING WITH THREE-DIMENSIONAL PLASMONIC NANOSTRUCTURES EXHIBITING EXCEPTIONAL POINTS Boubacar Kante, University of California, United States

13:25 - 13:50 NONLINEAR-2-22-2 / NON-HERMITIAN PHOTONICS: OPTICS AT AN EXCEPTIONAL POINT Mercedeh Khajavikhan, University of Central Florida, United States

13:50 - 14:15 NONLINEAR-2-22-3 / NONLINEAR NANOPHOTONICS VIA METALLIC, DIELECTRIC, AND SEMICONDUCTOR NANOSTRUCTURES Mohsen Rahmani, Australian National University, Australia

14:15 - 14:40 NONLINEAR-2-22-4 / NONLINEAR OPTICAL METASTRUCTURES Robert W. Boyd, University of Ottawa, Canada

14:40 - 14:55 NONLINEAR-2-22-5 / PHOTON-PLASMON MUTUAL COHERENCE IN MULTIPLE- SLIT CONFIGURATIONS Akbar Safari, University of Ottawa, Canada Robert Fickler, Enno Giese, Omar Magañoaiza, Robert W. Boyd, Israel De Leon June 6

30 Photonics North 2018 HIGH POWER LASER TECHNOLOGY, ULTRAFAST OPTICS AND APPLICATIONS

ROOM: INTERNATIONAL 1 Chair: Arkady Major, University of Manitoba, Canada

13:30 - 13:45 HIGH-POWER-2-23-1 / ULTRAFAST ALEXANDRITE LASER WITH QUANTUM- DOT ABSORBER Arkady Major, University of Manitoba, Canada Shirin Ghanbari, Ksenia Fedorova, Andrey Krysa, Edik Rafailov

13:45 - 14:00 HIGH-POWER-2-23-2 / TEMPORAL AND SPECTRAL MEASUREMENT OF RED- SHIFTED SPECTRUM IN MULTI-FREQUENCY RAMAN GENERATION Zujun Xu, University of Waterloo, Canada Abdullah Rahnama, Donna Strickland

14:00 - 14:15 HIGH-POWER-2-23-3 / ADAPTIVE OPTICAL PULSE FRONT TILT USING MEMS MIRRORS Francois Blanchard, École de technologie supérieure, Canada Kosuke Murate, Mehraveh Javan Roshtkhari, Xavier Ropagnol

14:15 - 14:30 HIGH-POWER-2-23-4 / FORMATION OF POLARIZATION DEPENDENT NANO-RIPPLE STRUCTURES ON DIAMOND WITH FEMTOSECOND LASER VORTEX BEAMS Maryam Al-Ameer, University of Ottawa, Canada Mitra Rahimian, Ashish Jain, Ebrahim Karimi, Ravi Bhardwaj

BIOPHOTONICS

ROOM: INTERNATIONAL 2 Chair: Virginijus Barzda, University of Toronto, Canada

13:15 - 13:40 BIO-1-24-1 / TRANSIENT ABSORPTION MICROSCOPY HEMES: CONTRAST MECHANISMS AND POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS Jesse Wilson, Colorado State University, United States Erkang Wang, Randy Bartels, Adam Chicco

13:40 - 14:05 BIO-1-24-2 / TO BE ANNOUNCED

Charles Camp, NIST, United States

14:05 - 14:30 BIO-1-24-3 / NONLINEAR OPTICAL SPECTROSCOPY AND IMAGING Zhiwen Liu, Penn State University, United States William Murray, Yin-Ting Yeh, Yizhu Chen, Ana Laura Elias, Mauricio Terrones, Seong Kim

Photonics North 2018 31 14:30 - 14:55 BIO-1-24-4 / ULTRAFAST PULSE BURST ABLATION OF CARTILAGE FOR APPLICATIONS IN ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY Margarete Akens, University Health Network, Canada Cameron Romanet, Melissa Prickaerts, Tom Dzelzainis, Valentin Demidov, I. Alex Vitkin, Lothar Lilge, Robin Majoribanks

COFFEE BREAK AND EXHIBITION HALL VISIT

PHOTONIC THEORY DESIGN AND SIMULATIONS

ROOM: CARTIER 1 Chair: Laurent Vivien, Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, France

15:30 - 15:55 TD-6-25-1 / GENERATION OF CORRELATED PHOTONS Stefania Sciara, INRS, Canada

15:55 - 16:20 TD-6-25-2 / SUBWAVELENGTH GRATING METAMATERIAL ENGINEERING IN INTEGRATED OPTICS Alejandro Ortega-Monux, University of Malaga, Spain

16:20 - 16:45 TD-6-25-3 / LIGHT-EMITTING AND NONLINEAR SEMICONDUCTOR METASURFACES Isabelle Staude, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany

16:45 - 17:30 TD-6-25-4 / HETEROGENEOUS PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS S. J. Ben Yoo, University of California Davis, United States

17:30 - 17:45 TD-6-25-5 / NONRECIPROCAL BEAM SPLITTER BASED ON SPACE-TIME MODULATION Sajjad Taravati, Concordia University, Canada

June 6 Ahmed A. Kishk

17:45 - 18:10 TD-6-25-6 / ON THE MODELLING OF FEMTOSECOND PULSED LASER GRATING INSCRIPTION IN PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS Tigran Baghdasaryan, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Belgium Thomas Geernaert, Hugo Thienpont, Francis Berghmans

32 Photonics North 2018 NONLINEAR OPTICS, NANOPHOTONICS AND PLASMONICS

ROOM: CARTIER 2 Chair: Andrea Toma, INRS-EMT, Canada

15:30 - 15:55 NONLINEAR-3-26-1 / NON LINEAR ELECTRODYNAMICS RESPONSE IN DIRAC ELECTRON MATERIALS Stefano Lupi, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

15:55 - 16:20 NONLINEAR-3-26-2 / ADVANCES IN ULTRAFAST TERAHERTZ SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY Frank Hegmann, University of Alberta, Canada

16:20 - 16:45 NONLINEAR-3-26-3 / ADVANCED THZ PULSE SHAPING AND APPLICATIONS David Cooke, McGill University, Canada Lauren Gingras

16:45 - 17:00 NONLINEAR-3-26-4 / TERAHERTZ VORTEX PHASE PLATE FROM A PRINTED ELECTRONIC DEVICE François Blanchard, École de technologie supérieure, Canada Mariia Zhuldybina, Charles Trudeau, Xavier Ropagnol, Martin Bolduc, Ricardo Zednik

17:00 - 17:15 NONLINEAR-3-26-5 / OPTIMIZING THE NONLINEAR TERAHERTZ RESPONSE OF GRAPHENE IN A PARALLEL-PLATE WAVEGUIDE Parvin Navaeipour, Queen’s University, Canada Ibraheem Al-Naib , Marc M. Dignam

17:15 - 17:30 NONLINEAR-3-26-6 / HOW OPTICAL PHONON SCATTERING CAN ENHANCE THE TRANSMISSION OF TERAHERTZ FIELDS THROUGH GRAPHENE Luke Helt, Queen’s University, Canada Marc M. Dignam

17:30 - 17:45 NONLINEAR-3-26-7 / COMPACT WIRE GRID FABRY PEROT INTERFEROMETER FOR ANALYSIS Ivan Konoplev, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, United Kingdom H. Harrison, A. Lancaster, G. Doucas, A. Aryshev, M. Shevelev, N. Terunuma, J. Urakawa, P. G. Huggard

17:45 - 18:00 NONLINEAR-3-26-8 / CHARACTERIZATION OF THIN-FILM OPTICAL PROPERTIES BY THZ NEAR-FIELD IMAGING François Blanchard, École de technologie supérieure, Canada Fatemeh Amirkhan, Riad Nechache, R. Sakata, Kenji Takiguchi, Takashi Arikawa, Tsuneyuki Ozaki, Koichiro Tanaka

Photonics North 2018 33 HIGH POWER LASER TECHNOLOGY, ULTRAFAST OPTICS AND APPLICATIONS

ROOM: INTERNATIONAL 1 Chair: Bernd Witzel, Université Laval, Canada

15:30 - 15:55 HIGH-POWER-3-27-1 / HIGH-HARMONIC GENERATION IN GASES AND SOLIDS USING WAVEFORM-SYNTHESIZED MID-IR PULSES Kyung-Han Hong, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States

15:55 - 16:20 HIGH-POWER-3-27-2 / MOLECULAR FRAME RECONSTRUCTION USING ROTATIONAL WAVEPACKET PHOTOIONIZATION INTERFEROMETRY Claude Marceau, Joint Attosecond Science Laboratory, National Research Council and the University of Ottawa, Canada Varun Makhija, Varun Makhija, Dominique Platzer, Dominique Platzer, A. Yu. Naumov, A. Yu. Naumov, Paul B. Corkum, Paul B. Corkum, Albert Stolow, Albert Stolow, D. M. Villeneuve, D. M. Villeneuve, Paul Hockett, Paul Hockett

16:20 - 16:45 HIGH-POWER-3-27-3 / ADDING AN EXTRA STEP TO THE THREE-STEP MODEL OF HIGH-ORDER HARMONICS Tsuneyuki Ozaki, INRS-EMT, Canada

16:45 - 17:10 HIGH-POWER-3-27-4 / ULTRAFAST STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS: DEVELOPMENTS AND APPLICATIONS Germán Sciaini, University of Waterloo, Canada

17:10 - 17:25 HIGH-POWER-3-27-5 / LASER WAKEFIELD DRIVEN X-RAY SOURCES AT INRS : A BRILLANT FUTURE FOR AGRICULTURE AND GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY Jean Claude Kieffer, INRS, Canada Sylvain Fourmaux, Emil Hallin

17:25 - 17:40 HIGH-POWER-3-27-6 / ENHANCING LASER-DRIVEN PROTON BEAMS USING NANOSTRUCTURED FOILS Simon Vallières, INRS, Canada

June 6 Massimiliano Sciscio, Simona Veltri, Marianna Barberio, Emmanuel d’Humières, Patrizio Antici

17:40 - 17:55 HIGH-POWER-3-27-7 / A REAL-SPACE PERSPECTIVE ON HIGH HARMONIC GENERATION IN SOLIDS Guilmot Ernotte, University of Ottawa, Canada Marco Taucer, Paul B. Corkum

34 Photonics North 2018 BIOPHOTONICS

ROOM: INTERNATIONAL 2 Chair: Virginijus Barzda, University of Toronto, Canada

15:30 - 15:55 BIO-2-28-1 / TO BE ANNOUNCED Daniel Coté, Université Laval, Canada

15:55 - 16:20 BIO-2-28-2 / FRUIT DIMERS AS SUB-WAVELENGTH MICROWAVE RESONATORS Aaron Slepkov, Trent University, Canada Hamza Khattak, Pablo Bianucci

16:20 - 16:45 BIO-2-28-3 / ANOMALOUS, CAGED AND OBSTRUCTED DIFFUSION AS SEEN THROUGH THE LENS OF INVERTED VARIABLE-LENGTHSCALE FLUORESCENCE CORRELATION SPECTROSCOPY Cecile Fradin, McMaster University, Canada Michael Stolle

16:45 - 17:00 BIO-2-28-4 / INVESTIGATION OF COLLAGEN CHIRALITY IN TISSUE USING DOUBLE STOKES-MUELLER POLARIMETRY Ahmad Golaraei, University of Toronto, Canada Lukas Kontenis, Yeji Ro, Margarete Akens, Brian Wilson, Virginijus Barzda

17:00 - 17:15 BIO-2-28-5 / HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGING OF PHARMACEUTICAL DRUGS WITH SPECTRAL FOCUSING CARS Jeremy Porquez, Trent University, Canada Aaron Slepkov

17:15 - 17:30 BIO-2-28-6 / POLARIZATION DEPENDENT SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION MICROSCOPY FOR TISSUE ANALYSIS WITH A MICRORETARDER ARRAY Changqin Ding, Purdue University, United States James Ulcickas, Fengyuan Deng, Garth Simpson

17:30 - 17:45 BIO-2-28-7 / APPLICATION OF POLARIMETRIC SECOND-HARMONIC GENERATION MICROSCOPY IN STRUCTURAL CHARACTERIZATION OF HUMAN CARDIAC CONDUCTIVE SYSTEM Kamdin Mirsanaye, University of Toronto, Canada Edvardas Zurauskas, Jonas Venius, Ricardas Rotomskis, Virginijus Barzda

17:45 - 18:00 BIO-2-28-8 / MULTI-MODAL SENSORLESS ADAPTIVE OPTICS SMALL ANIMAL RETINAL IMAGING Daniel Wahl, Simon Fraser University, Canada Christine Huang, Ringo Ng, Myeong Jin Ju, Joey Huang, Yifan Jian, Marinko Sarunic

POSTER SESSION AND COCKTAIL

Photonics North 2018 35 Thursday June 7, 2018

PHOTONIC THEORY DESIGN AND SIMULATIONS

ROOM: CARTIER 1 Chair: Lukas Chrostowski, University of British Columbia, Canada

08:20 - 08:35 TD-7-30-1 / ANNULAR FOCUSING BY A GRIN LENS Jason Guenette, Université Laval, Canada Simon Thibault, Pierre-André Bélanger

08:35 - 08:50 TD-7-30-2 / NEAR-FIELD ENHANCEMENT OPTIMIZATION BY TAPERING TERAHERTZ GOLD NANOANTENNAS Vincenzo Aglieri, INRS, Canada Xin Jin, Andrea Rovere, Riccardo Piccoli, Diego Caraffini, Andrea Cerea, Francesco De Angelis, Roberto Morandotti, Roberto Macaluso, Andrea Toma, Luca Razzari

08:50 - 09:15 TD-7-30-3 / HYBRID PHOTONIC CRYSTAL DEVICES FOR 3D INTEGRATED PHOTONICS Weidong Zhou, University of Texas Arlington, United States

09:15 - 09:40 TD-7-30-4 / BLOCH SURFACE WAVE BASED BIOSENSING Norbert Danz, Fraunhofer IOF Jena, Germany Alberto Sinibaldi, Francesco Michelotti, Christoph Wächter

09:40 - 10:05 TD-7-30-5 / A COMPRESSIVE-SENSING FOURIER-TRANSFORM ON-CHIP RAMAN SPECTROMETER Hugh Podmore, York University, Canada

10:05 - 10:30 TD-7-30-6 / UNCERTAINTY-AWARE DESIGN OF PHOTONIC DEVICES Daniele Melati, National Research Council of Canada, Canada Yuri Gringberg, Dan-Xia Xu, Abi Waqas, Andrea Melloni, Siegfried Janz, Jens Schmid June 7

36 Photonics North 2018 NONLINEAR OPTICS, NANOPHOTONICS AND PLASMONICS

ROOM: CARTIER 2 Chair: Amr Helmy, University of Toronto, Canada

08:00 - 08:25 NONLINEAR-4-31-1 / HARMONIC GENERATION FROM METAL-METAL AND METAL-OXIDE BOUNDARIES Michael Scalora, Charles M. Bowden Research Center U.S. Army AMRDEC, RDECOM, United States

08:25 - 08:40 NONLINEAR-4-31-2 / ULTRAFAST OPTICAL PULSE SHAPING USING DIELECTRIC METASURFACES Amit Agrawal, National Institute of Standards and Technology, United States Shawn Divitt, Wenqi Zhu, Cheng Zhang, Henri Lezec

08:40 - 08:55 NONLINEAR-4-31-3 / DUAL-PROBE SNOM FOR THE NEAR-FIELD STUDY OF NANOSTRUCTURES Najmeh Abbasirad, Institute of Applied Physics, Abbe Center of Photonics, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany Dennis Arslan, Stefan Fasold, Isabelle Staude, Frank Setzpfandt, Thomas Pertsch

08:55 - 09:10 NONLINEAR-4-31-4 / TUNABLE LONGITUDINAL MODES IN SELF-ASSEMBLED SILVER NANOPARTICLES Amy Blum, McGill University, Canada

09:10 - 09:25 NONLINEAR-4-31-5 / ULTRA-HIGH QUALITY FACTOR PLASMONIC METASURFACES ENABLED BY SURFACE LATTICE RESONANCES Md Saad-Bin-Alam, University of Ottawa, Canada Orad Reshef, Mikko J.Huttunen, Robert W. Boyd, Ksenia Dolgaleva

09:25 - 09:40 NONLINEAR-4-31-6 / MACHINE LEARNING APPLICATIONS IN PLASMONICS Josh Baxter, Department of Physics and Center for Research in Photonics, University of Ottawa, Canada Antonino Calà Lesina, Lora Ramunno

09:40 - 09:55 NONLINEAR-4-31-7 / REGULARIZED QUASINORMAL MODES FOR PLASMONICS AND CAVITY PHOTONICS Mohsen Kamandar Dezfouli, Queen’s University, Canada Stephen Hughes

09:55 - 10:10 NONLINEAR-4-31-8 / HIGH-PERFORMANCE OPTOELECTRONIC AND NANOPHOTONIC DEVICES ENABLED BY ULTRA-THIN, SMOOTH, AND LOW- LOSS DOPED SILVER Cheng Zhang, Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, National Institute of Standards and Technology, United States Wenqi Zhu, Amit Agrawal, Henri J. Lezec

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10:10 - 10:35 NONLINEAR-4-31-9 / TOPOLOGICAL PHENOMENA IN PLASMONIC ARRAYS OF INTERACTING METALLIC NANOPARTICLES Guillaume Weick, Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, France

OPTICAL AND QUANTUM COMMUNICATIONS

ROOM: INTERNATIONAL 1 Chair: Robert Fickler, University of Ottawa, Canada

08:00 - 08:15 OP-COMM-4-32-1 / AN EXPERIMENTALLY SIMPLE METHOD TO WEAKLY MEASURE INCOMPATIBLE QUANTUM OBSERVABLES Aldo C. Martinez, University of Ottawa, Canada Gabriel Bussières, Davor Curic, Lambert Giner, Jeff S. Lundeen

08:15 - 08:40 OP-COMM-4-32-2 / SILICON PHOTONICS INVERSE TAPERS AND BENDS Nate Quitoriano, McGill University, Canada

08:40 - 08:55 OP-COMM-4-32-3 / HIGH-DIMENSIONAL MULTI-RAIL QUANTUM STATE TOMOGRAPHY Davor Curic, University of Ottawa, Canada Lambert Giner, Jeff S. Lundeen

08:55 - 09:20 OP-COMM-4-32-0 / ULTRAFAST QUANTUM PROCESSING Benjamin Sussman, NRC, Canada

09:20 - 09:45 OP-COMM-4-32-4 / REE-SPACE AND UNDERWATER OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS USING ORBITAL-ANGULAR-MOMENTUM MULTIPLEXING Alan Willner,University of Southern California, United States

09:50 - 10:15 OP-COMM-4-32-7 / CONTROLLABLE OPTICAL EXTREME EVENTS IN THE SEMICONDUCTOR LASER OUTPUT POWER Frederic Grillot, Telecom ParisTech, France

10:15 - 10:40 OP-COMM-4-32-8 / ULTRACOMPACT CMOS-COMPATIBLE OPTICAL LOGIC Dusan Gostimirovic, Carleton University, Canada

June 7

38 Photonics North 2018 BIOPHOTONICS

ROOM: INTERNATIONAL 2 Chair: Aaron Slepkov, Trent University, Canada

08:00 - 08:15 BIO-3-33-1 / THERMOPHOTONIC LOCK-IN IMAGING AND SPECTRAL-DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY AS TWO PROMISING OPTICAL-BASED METHODS IN DETECTION OF EARLY DENTAL CARIES Elnaz Baradaran Shokouhi, York University, Canada Nima Tabatabaei

08:15 - 08:30 BIO-3-33-2 / WIDE FIELD RAMAN IMAGING SYSTEM - EX VIVO BRAIN STRUCTURE MARGIN RECOGNITION François Daoust, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada Frédéric Leblond

08:30 - 08:45 BIO-3-33-3 / INTRACELLULAR REFRACTIVE INDEX AND CELL THICKNESS MEASURED WITH DIGITAL HOLOGRAPHIC MICROSCOPY Erik Belanger, Université Laval, Canada Emile Rioux-Pellerin, Pauline Lavergne, Jean-Michel Mugnes, Sebastien A. Levesque, Pierre Marquet

08:45 - 09:00 BIO-3-33-4 / USE OF A DOUBLE CLAD FIBER FOR OCT SURVEILLANCE OF LASER THERAPY USING REAL-TIME SPECKLE VARIANCE Raphaël Maltais-Tariant, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada Caroline Boudoux, Nestor Uribe-Patarroyo

09:00 - 09:25 BIO-3-33-5 / HIGH SPEED, UHR-OCT FOR IN-VIVO MORPHOLOGICAL, FUNCTIONAL AND VASCULAR IMAGING OF THE EYE IN HEALTH AND DISEASE Kostadinka Bizheva, University of Waterloo, Canada Zohreh Hosseinaee

09:25 - 09:40 BIO-3-33-6 / HIGH POWER FEMTOSECOND YB:KGW OSCILLATOR FOR WIDE FIELD SHG MICROSCOPY OF BIOLOGICAL TISSUES Leonardo Jose Uribe Castano, University of Toronto, Canada Haitao Zhao, Richard Cisek, Virginijus Barzda

09:40 - 10:05 BIO-3-33-7 / FLUORESCENCE DETECTION OF RARE CIRCULATING CELLS IN VIVO: TECHNOLOGY, APPLICATIONS AND FUTURE PROSPECTS Mark Niedre, Northeastern University, Canada

10:05 - 10:30 BIO-3-33-8 / FROM LAB TO MARKET: THE STORY OF DOUBLE-CLAD FIBER COUPLERS Caroline Boudoux, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada

COFFEE BREAK AND EXHIBITION HALL VISIT

Photonics North 2018 39 PLENARY LECTURE - LET WAVES DO THE MATH Nader Engheta, University of Pennsylvania, USA

ROOM: SYMPOSIA 11:00 - 11:45

LUNCH ON YOUR OWN AND EXHIBITION HALL VISIT

PHOTONIC THEORY DESIGN AND SIMULATIONS

ROOM: CARTIER 1 Chair: Pavel Cheben, National Research Council of Canada, Canada

13:00 - 13:25 TD-8-35-1 / SUBWAVELENGTH GRATING WAVEGUIDE-BASED SENSORS Lukas Chrostowski, University of British Columbia, Canada

13:25 - 13:50 TD-8-35-2 / MICROCHIP LASERS Takunori Taira, Institute for Molecular Science, Japan

13:50 - 14:05 TD-8-35-3 / ACCESSIBLE SNAPSHOT HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGING ARCHITECTURES C. Harrison Brodie, University of Guelph, Canada Jasen Devasagayam, Christopher Collier

NONLINEAR OPTICS, NANOPHOTONICS AND PLASMONICS

ROOM: CARTIER 2 Chair: Stefano Lupi, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, Italy

13:00 - 13:25 NONLINEAR-5-36-1 / SINGLE DIGIT NANOFABRICATION FOR PHOTONICS AT NANOSCALE Erika Penzo, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, United States

13:25 - 13:50 NONLINEAR-5-36-2 / SIEVING PHOTONS FOR OPTICAL WAVEFRONT MANIPULATION Jinghua Teng, Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE), A*STAR, Singapore

13:50 - 14:15 NONLINEAR-5-36-3 / DYNAMICS OF EXCITONS AND SURFACE PLASMON June 7 POLARITONS IN STRONGLY COUPLED REGIME Andrea Toma, Instituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy Hai-Yu Wang, Hong-Bo Sun, Francesco De Angelis, Remo Proietti Zaccaria, Hai Wang

14:15 - 14:40 NONLINEAR-5-36-4 / RECENT ADVANCES IN HYBRID PLASMONICS Amr Helmy, University of Toronto, Canada

40 Photonics North 2018 14:40 - 14:55 NONLINEAR-5-36-5 / EPITAXIAL ELECTROCHEMICAL DEPOSITION: A NEW BOTTOM-UP STRATEGY FOR PLASMONIC, NANOPHOTONIC AND NANOELECTRONIC APPLICATIONS Sasan Vosoogh-Grayli, Simon Fraser University, Canada

BIOPHOTONICS

ROOM: INTERNATIONAL 1 Chair: Aaron Slepkov, Trent University, Canada

13:15 - 13:30 BIO-4-37-1 / A HIGH Q-FACTOR OPTICAL RESONATOR INDUCED BY A WATER DROPLET IN A SILICA MICROCAPILLARY Tabassom Hamidfar, Concordia University, Canada Kirill Tokmakov, Brian J. Mangan, Robert S. Windeler, Artemiy V. Dmitriev, Dashiell L. P. Vitullo, Pablo Bianucci, Michael Sumetsky

13:30 - 13:45 BIO-4-37-2 / BACTERIAL DETECTION USING METALLIC FLOW-THROUGH NANOHOLE ARRAYS Juan Gomez-Cruz, Queen’s University - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Canada Srijit Nair, Gabriel Ascanio, Carlos Escobedo

13:45 - 14:00 BIO-4-37-3 / CHARACTERIZATION OF THE PHOTOTHERMAL HEATING PROPERTIES OF NANOPARTICLES BY TERAHERTZ RADIATION Holger Breitenborn, INRS-EMT, Canada Junliang Dong, Andrew Bruhacs, Diego Caraffini, Riccardo Piccoli, Riccardo Marin, Artiom Skripka, Fiorenzo Vetrone, Rafik Naccache, Roberto Morandotti

14:00 - 14:15 BIO-4-37-4 / WIDE-FIELD IMAGING OF MICROORGANISMS IN MICROFLUIDIC DEVICES USING A MOBILE PHONE Sara Kheireddine, McGill University, Canada Ayyappasamy Sudalaiyadum Perumal

14:15 - 14:30 BIO-4-37-5 / SURFACE NANOSTRUCTURING FOR IMPROVED RESOLUTION IN SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE IMAGING Frederic Alexandre Banville, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada Julien Moreau, Mitradeep Sarkar, Mondher Besbes, Michael Canva, Paul G. Charette

14:30 - 14:45 BIO-4-37-6 / PORTABLE MID-IR HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGER - MICROXCAM-384I-HS Hélène Spisser, Institut National d’Optique (INO), Canada David Béland, Denis Dufour, Loïc Le Noc, Francis Picard, Patrice Topart

14:45 - 15:00 BIO-4-37-8 / COMPARISON OF DEEP LEARNING ARCHITECTURES FOR PRE- SCREENING OF BREAST CANCER THERMOGRAMS Juan Carlos Torres-Galván, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, Mexico Edgar Guevara, Francisco Javier González

Photonics North 2018 41 PHOTONICS MATERIALS

ROOM: INTERNATIONAL 2 Chair: Kalaichelvi Saravanamuttu, McMaster University, Canada

13:00 - 13:25 MAT-2-38-1 / MOTILE BACTERIA AT INTERFACES OF LIQUID CRYSTALS Nicholas Abbott, University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States

13:25 - 13:50 MAT-2-38-2 / USING LIQUID CRYSTALS TO STUDY THE BEHAVIOR OF MOTILE BACTERIA AND VICE VERSA Simon Rainville, Université Laval, Canada Ismaël Duchesne, Tigran Galstian

13:50 - 14:15 MAT-2-38-3 / LIGHT-DRIVEN MOTIONS OF POLYMERS Yue Zhao, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada

14:15 - 14:40 MAT-2-38-4 / LIQUID CRYSTAL DEVICES FOR OPTICAL SHUTTER TECHNOLOGY Ethan Jull, , United Kingdom Helen Gleeson

14:40 - 15:05 MAT-2-38-5 / OPTICAL PHASE PROPERTIES OF A LARGE DIAMETER LIQUID CRYSTAL LENS Marenori Kawamura, Akita University, Japan Shintaro Saito, Susumu Sato

NSERC CREATE GUIDED LIGHT SESSION

ROOM: SYMPOSIA Chair: Peter Herman, University of Toronto, Canada

13:20 - 13:30 NSRTC CREATE - GUIDED LIGHT TRAINING PROGRAM - OPENNING COMMENTS Peter Herman, University of Toronto, Canada

13:30 - 14:00 NSERC-1-39-1 / ACETVISION - INSECT-INSPIRED IMAGING SYSTEMS Andreas Tuennermann, Fraunhofer IOF Jena, Germany

June 7 14:00 - 14:15 NSERC-1-39-2 / 20 W MONOLITHIC ERBIUM FLUORIDE FIBER LASER AT 2.8 µM Yigit Ozan Aydin, Centre d’optique, photonique et laser, Canada Vincent Fortin, Réal Vallée, Martin Bernier

42 Photonics North 2018 14:15 - 14:30 NSERC-1-39-3 / SUPERCONTINUUM AND FEW CYCLE PULSE GENERATION IN ANTIRESONANT HOLLOW CORE FIBERSW Rudrakant Sollapur, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany Daniil Kartashov, Michael Zuerch, Bruno E. Schmidt, Andreas Hoffmann, Teodora Grigorova , Alexander Hartung, Anka Schwuchow, Joerg Bierlich, Jens Kobelke, Mario Chemnitz, Shoufei Gao, Yingying Wang, Pu Wang, Philippe Lassonde, Markus A. Schmidt, François Légaré, Christian Spielmann

14:30 - 14:45 NSERC-1-39-4 / FLUORIDE-BASED RARE-EARTH-DOPED FIBERS FOR LASER EMISSION BEYOND 3 M Frédéric Maes, Université Laval, Canada Vincent Fortin, Martin Bernier, Réal Vallée

14:45 - 15:00 NSERC-1-39-5 / TWIN PULSE HIGH HARMONIC GENERATION FOR XUV FOURIER TRANSFORM SPECTROSCOPY Vittoria Schuster, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Institute of Applied Physics - Abbe Center of Photonics, Germany Robert Klas, Vinzenz Hilbert, Maxim Tschernajew, Jan Rothhardt, Jens Limpert, Birgitta Bernhardt

COFFEE BREAK

NONLINEAR OPTICS, NANOPHOTONICS AND PLASMONICS

ROOM: CARTIER 2 Chair: Young-Gyun Jeong, INRS-EMT, Canada

15:30 - 15:45 NONLINEAR-6-41-1 / CHARACTERIZATION OF OPTICAL POLARIZATION KNOTS Hugo Larocque, University of Ottawa, Canada Danica Sugic, Dominic Mortimer, Alexander Taylor, Robert Fickler, Robert W. Boyd, Mark Dennis, Ebrahim Karimi

15:45 - 16:00 NONLINEAR-6-41-2 / WEAK MEASUREMENTS OF THE DIPOLAR EMITTER POLARIZATION STATE Sergey Nechayev, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Germany Martin Neugebauer, Martin Vorndran, Gerd Leuchs, Peter Banzer

16:00 - 16:15 NONLINEAR-6-41-3 / DESIGN AND FABRICATION OF NOVEL PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBER FOR SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATION OF OAM BEAM Manish Sharma, École de technologie supérieure, Canada Bora Ung

Photonics North 2018 43 16:15 - 16:30 NONLINEAR-6-41-4 / FOUR-WAVE MIXING THEORY FOR CYLINDRICAL VECTOR BEAMS IN OPTICAL FIBRE Scott Goudreau, University of Ottawa, Canada Robert W. Boyd, Jeff S. Lundeen

16:30 - 16:45 NONLINEAR-6-41-5 / LIMITATIONS TO THE SENSITIVITY OF A THREE-MODE NONLINEAR INTERFEROMETER Jefferson Florez, University of Ottawa, Canada Davor Curic, Lambert Giner, Enno Giese, Jeff S. Lundeen

16:45 - 17:00 NONLINEAR-6-41-6 / TUNABLE FIELD DYNAMICS FROM A FIGURE-EIGHT LASER FEATURING AN ON-CHIP NONLINEAR WAVEGUIDE Piotr Roztocki, INRS-EMT, Canada A. Aadhi, Anton Kovalev, Michael Kues, Christian Reimer, Young Zhang, Tao Wang, Sai T. Chu, David J. Moss, Zhiming Wang, Evgeny Viktorov, Roberto Morandotti

17:00 - 17:15 NONLINEAR-6-41-7 / REALIZING ON-CHIP, FLAT-BAND PHOTONIC CRYSTAL SUPERPRISMS Jeremy Upham, University of Ottawa, Canada Boshen Gao, Sebastian Schulz, Liam O’Faolain, Robert W. Boyd

17:15 - 17:30 NONLINEAR-6-41-8 / IMAGING BASED ON LOW-COHERENCE INTERFEROMETRY IN THE VISIBLE SPECTRUM Mikel Bravo Acha, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada Régis Robles, Paul G. Charette, Laurent Bechou, Julien Sylvestre

17:30 - 17:45 NONLINEAR-6-41-9 / A NEW NANO-OPTICAL APPROACH FOR NANOIMPRINTING-STAMP ORIGINATION TARGETTING DATA STORAGE Mahssa Abdolahi, Simon Fraser University, Canada Hao Jiang, Bozena Kaminska

17:45 - 18:00 NONLINEAR-6-41-10 / MULTILAYERED DOPED FIBER STRUCTURE FOR HIGH SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION Salah Abdullah, Université Laval, Canada Christopher Smelser, S. H. Jafari, N. Grégoire, S. Morency, Jacques Albert, Younes Messaddeq

18:00 - 18:15 NONLINEAR-6-41-11 / IMPURITY EFFECTS ON SURFACE PLASMONS IN GRAPHENE Mousa Bahrami, Concordia University, Canada Panagiotis Vasilopoulos

June 7

44 Photonics North 2018 HIGH POWER LASER TECHNOLOGY, ULTRAFAST OPTICS AND APPLICATIONS

ROOM: INTERNATIONAL 1 Chair: Arkady Major, University of Manitoba, Canada

15:30 - 15:55 HIGH-POWER-4-42-1 / RESOLVING DYNAMICS OF CORRELATED MATERIALS IN THE THZ REGIME Jacob Burgess, University of Manitoba, Canada Aimé Braconnier, Akif Ahmed, Steffen Rolf-Pissarczyk, Mohamad Abdo, Luigi Malavolti, Gregory McMurtrie, Max Haenze, Bjoern Schlie, Sebastian Loth

15:55 - 16:20 HIGH-POWER-4-42-2 / MEASUREMENTS OF SUB-PICOSECOND AND FEMTOSECOND SEPARATIONS OF CHARGED PARTICLE MICRO-BUNCHES USING THZ RADIATION Ivan Konoplev, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, United Kingdom H. Zhang, A. Lancaster, H. Harrison, G. Doucas, A. Aryshev, M. Shevelev, N. Terunuma, J. Urakawa

16:20 - 16:35 HIGH-POWER-4-42-3 / PHASE CONTROL OF BROADBAND THZ PULSES Lauren Gingras, McGill University, Canada Wei Cui, Aidan Schiff-Kearn, Jean-Michel Ménard, David Cooke

16:35 - 16:50 HIGH-POWER-4-42-4 / FREQUENCY-TUNABLE THZ SOURCE USING AR-FILLED HC-PCF PULSE SHAPER Wei Cui, University of Ottawa, Canada Aidan Schiff-Kearn, Emily Zhang, Nicolas Couture, Francesco Tani, David Novoa, Philip Russell, Jean-Michel Ménard

16:50 - 17:05 HIGH-POWER-4-42-5 / DEEP SUB-WAVELENGTH SIN-BASED METALLIC SLIT FOR ULTRA-BROADBAND THZ COHERENT DETECTION Alessandro Tomasino, INRS-EMT, Canada Riccardo Piccoli, Yoann Jestin, Sebastien Deprat, Mohamed Chaker, Marco Peccianti, Matteo Clerici, Alessandro Busacca, Luca Razzari, Roberto Morandotti

17:05 - 17:20 HIGH-POWER-4-42-6 / NONLINEAR FREQUENCY MIXING BETWEEN TERAHERTZ AND OPTICAL WAVES IN SILICA Diego Caraffini, INRS, Canada Alessandro Tomasino, Riccardo Piccoli, Yoann Jestin, Alessandro Busacca, Luca Razzari, Roberto Morandotti

17:20 - 17:35 HIGH-POWER-4-42-7 / DESIGN AND FABRICATION OF TERAHERTZ BRAGG GRATINGS ON A TWO-WIRE WAVEGUIDE Giacomo Balistreri, INRS-EMT, Canada Alessandro Tomasino, Vincenzo Aglieri, Riccardo Piccoli, Caroline Foucher, Andrey Markov, Salvatore Stivala, Alessandro Busacca, Francesco De Angelis, Riccardo Carzino, Andrea Toma, Luca Razzari, José Azaña, Roberto Morandotti

Photonics North 2018 45 17:35 - 17:50 HIGH-POWER-4-42-8 / TERAHERTZ SPECTRAL ENCODING OF THE K-SPACE Hichem Guerboukha, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada Kathirvel Nallappan, Maksim Skorobogatiy

17:50 - 18:05 HIGH-POWER-4-42-9 / AVERAGING OF THE PUMP-PROBE TRACES USING STATISTICAL MODELS: DENOISING IN THZ TIME-DOMAIN SPECTROSCOPY Hichem Guerboukha, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada Maksim Skorobogatiy, Jayesh Sadasivan

18:05 - 18:20 HIGH-POWER-4-42-10 / ULTRAFAST ELECTRON EMISSION BY INTENSE THZ PULSES Dominique Matte, McGill University, Canada Lauren Gingras, Mark Sutton, Bradley J. Siwick, David G. Cooke

PHOTONICS MATERIALS

ROOM: INTERNATIONAL 2 Chair: Simon Rainville, Université Laval, Canada

15:30 - 15:45 MAT-3-43-1 / TERAHERTZ PHOTOCONDUCTIVITY OF GERMANIUM INVERSE OPAL STRUCTURES Mary Alvean Narreto, University of Alberta, Canada Michael Giebel, Naaman Amer, Thomas Fassler, Frank Hegmann

15:45 - 16:00 MAT-3-43-2 / PHOTOLUMINESCENCE DYNAMICS OF FUNCTIONALIZED TWO- DIMENSIONAL SILICON NANOSHEETS Mary Alvean Narreto, University of Alberta, Canada Alina Lyuleeva, Tobias Helbich, Bernhard Rieger, Jonathan Veinot, Paolo Lugli, Frank Hegmann

16:00 - 16:25 MAT-3-43-3 / OPTOCHEMICAL WAVES: FROM BIO-INSPIRED OPTICS, 3-D PRINTING TO MATERIALS FOR ALL-OPTICAL ENCODING Kalaichelvi Saravanamuttu, McMaster University, Canada

16:25 - 16:40 MAT-3-43-4 / DYNAMIC LIGHT SHAPING FOR LED SOURCES USING LIQUID CRYSTALS; THE LAST MILE IN SMART LIGHTING Tigran Galstian, Université Laval, Canada

16:40 - 16:55 MAT-3-43-5 / NEW INSIGHTS INTO SOLID STATE LASER COOLING USING OXYFLUORIDE GLASS-CERAMICS June 7 Jyothis Thomas, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada Lauro J.Q. Maia, Wonji Park, Yannick Ledemi, Denis Seletskiy, Younès Messaddeq, Raman Kashyap

46 Photonics North 2018 16:55 - 17:10 MAT-3-43-6 / ENHANCED THZ ABSORPTION OF A ONE-DIMENSIONAL PHOTONIC CRYSTAL INCORPORATING A GATED MONOLAYER GRAPHENE IN EXTERNAL MAGNETIC FIELD Arezou Rashidi, University of Tabriz, Iran Abdolrahman Namdar, Ali Hatef

17:10 - 17:25 MAT-3-43-7 / HALF HETCH SLOT WAVEGUIDES FOR LOW-COST INTEGRATION OF CMOS COMPATIBLE LOW REFRACTIVE INDEX ACTIVE MATERIALS IN SILICON PHOTONICS Régis Orobtchouk, Institut of Nanotechnologies of Lyon (INL), France Ali Belarouci, Bertran Vilquin, Jordan Bouaziz, Pedro Rojo Romeo

17:25 - 17:40 MAT-3-43-8 / SIGNAL ENHANCEMENT FROM SILICON SLOT WAVEGUIDE WITH ECR-PEVCD ERBIUM-DOPED SILICA CLADDING Jeremy Miller, McMaster University, Canada Andrew P. Knights, Jonathan D. B. Bradley, Peter Mascher

17:40 - 17:55 MAT-3-43-9 / DEVELOPMENT OF MODIFIED PHOTONIC SURFACES FOR APPLICATION IN SENSING Sabad-e- Gul, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland Dervil Cody, Suzanne Martin, Svetlana Mintova, John Cassidy, Izabela Naydenova

NSERC CREATE GUIDED LIGHT SESSION

ROOM: SYMPOSIA Chair: Andreas Tuennermann/Stefan Nolte, Fraunhofer IOF Jena, Germany

15:30 - 15:45 NSERC-2-44-01 / MODELING OF ULTRAFAST FIBER AMPLIFIERS AT 2.8 µM Simon Duval, Université Laval, Canada Michel Olivier, Louis-Rafaël Robichaud, Vincent Fortin, Martin Bernier, Michel Piché, Réal Vallée

15:45 - 16:00 NSERC-2-44-02 / EMBEDDED NANOGRATINGS FOR POLARIZATION CONTROL IN FEMTOSECOND LASER DIRECT WRITTEN WAVEGUIDES Kim Lammers, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany Stefan Nolte

16:00 - 16:15 NSERC-2-44-03 / EXPERIMENTAL AND NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS OF 3.5 MICRON GAIN-SWITCHED FIBER LASERS Frédéric Jobin, Université Laval, Canada Vincent Fortin, Frédéric Maes, Martin Bernier, Réal Vallée

16:15 - 16:30 NSERC-2-44-04 / FEMTOSECOND-WRITTEN LONG PERIOD GRATINGS IN FLUORIDE FIBERS Maximilian Heck, IAP FSU Jena, Germany Réal Vallée, Andreas Tünnermann, Stefan Nolte, Martin Bernier

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16:30 - 16:45 NSERC-2-44-05 / HIGHLY NONLINEAR AUGMENTED-LOW-INDEX GUIDING WAVEGUIDE ON POLYMER/SILICON-ON-INSULATOR PLATFORM Todd Darcie, Aitchison Group, ECE department, University of Toronto, Canada Stewart Aitchison

16:45 - 17:00 NSERC-2-44-06 / PLASMONIC NANOPARTICLE-FUNCTIONALISED MICROSTRUCTURED OPTICAL FIBRES FOR BIOSENSING Brenda Mary Doherty, Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology, Germany Markus A. Schmidt

17:00 - 17:15 NSERC-2-44-07 / FEMTOSECOND LASER PROCESSING OF INTEGRATED OPTO- MECHANICAL SENSING CIRCUITS WITH FIBER SOCKET PACKAGING Gligor Djogo, University of Toronto, Canada Stephen Ho, Zhangchao Wei, Sifan Liu, Erden Ertorer, Moez Haque, Jianzhao Li, Peter Herman

17:15 - 17:30 NSERC-2-44-08 / PHOTONIC POTENTIAL FOR TM WAVES Alessandro Alberucci, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany Chandroth Pannian Jisha, Stefan Nolte

17:30 - 17:45 NSERC-2-44-09 / INHIBITION OR ENHANCEMENT OF FEMTOSECOND LASER NONLINEAR INTERACTIONS FOR EXTENDING FILAMENT TRACKS, IMPROVING WAVEGUIDE LOSS, SPEEDING ETCHING RATE IN BULK FUSED SILICA Ehsan Alimohammadian, University of Toronto, Canada Erden Ertorer, Sifan Liu, Erick Mejia Uzeda, Jianzhao Li, Peter Herman

17:45 - 18:00 NSERC-2-44-10 / SPIN-DEPENDENT ASYMMETRIES IN THE PHOTOELECTRON MOMENTUM DISTRIBUTIONS IN SINGLE-PHOTON DOUBLE IONIZATION Friedrich Georg Fröbel, Friedrich Schiller University, Germany Stefanie Gräfe

18:00 - 18:15 NSERC-2-44-11 / ON-CHIP GENERATION AND COHERENT CONTROL OF ENTANGLED D-LEVEL BIPHOTON STATES Stefania Sciara, INRS, Canada Michael Kues, Christian Reimer, Piotr Roztocki, Luis Romero Cortes, Benjamin Wetzel, Yanbing Zhang, Alfonso Carmelo Cino, Sai T. Chu, Brent E. Little, David J. Moss, Lucia Caspani, Jose Azana, Roberto Morandotti

18:15 - 18:30 NSERC-2-44-12 / GOUY PHASE SHIFT MEASUREMENT USING INTERFEROMETRIC SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION Maxime Pinsard, INRS-EMT, Canada Stéphane Bancelin, Jarno Van der Kolk, Andrew S. Quigley, Samuel P. Veres,

June 7 Laurent Kreplak, Lora Ramunno, François Légaré

18:30 - 18:35 SESSION CLOSE WITH OVERVIEW OF NSERC CREATE TRAINING PROGRAM François Légaré, INRS, Canada

48 Photonics North 2018 Poster Presentations

Wednesday June 6, 2018 FROM 18:00 TO 19:30

BIOPHOTONICS

POSTER-01 A NON-INVASIVE METHOD FOR INTRACELLULAR LOCALIZATION OF GOLD NANOPARTICLES IN CANCER CELLS Ahmad Sohrabi Kashani, Concordia University, Canada Kiran Kuruvinashetti, Simona Badilescu, Alisa Piekny, Muthukumaran Packirisamy

POSTER-02 CLINICAL SENSORLESS ADAPTIVE OPTICS RETINAL OCT Myeong Jin Ju, Simon Fraser University, Canada Morgan Heisler, Daniel Wahl, Yifan Jian, Marinko Sarunic

POSTER-03 DEMONSTRATION OF SILICON NITRIDE BASED PHOTONIC BIO-SENSING IN 300 MM INDUSTRIAL ENVIRONMENT Michele Calvo, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada Sylvain Guerber, Guillaume Beaudin, Michael Canva, Charles Baudot, Frederic Boeuf, Stephane Monfray, Regis Orobtchouk, Paul G. Charette

POSTER-05 HYBRID SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE-ELECTROCHEMILUMINESCENCE SENSING OF BREAST CANCER BIOMARKER HER2 Marie-Pier Dinel, Université de Montréal, Canada Federico Polo, Jean-François Masson

POSTER-06 INNOVATIVE GOLD NANOSTRUCTURED BIOCHIPS FOR SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE IMAGING AND SURFACE ENHANCED RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY Jean-Francois Bryche, Laboratoire Nanotechnologies et Nanosystèmes CNRS-3IT, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada Julien Moreau, Grégory Barbillon, Mitradeep Sarkar, Emmanuel Maillart, Frederic Banville, Paul G Charette, Marc Lamy de la Chapelle, Jean-Pierre Cloarec, Bernard Bartenlian, Michael Canva

POSTER-07 COST-EFFECTIVE IMAGING TECHNIQUES FOR DETECTION AND DIFFERENTIATION OF INDIVIDUAL PLASMONIC NANOPARTICLES IN CELLULAR ENVIRONMENTS Mengjiao Qi, École polytechnique de Montréal, Canada Jennyfer Zapata-Farfan, Sergiy Patskovsky, Michel Meunier

Photonics North 2018 49 POSTER-08 A LASER INDUCED IR PHOTONIC DEVICE FOR CONTINUOUS WATER QUALITY ANALYSIS AND BACTERIAL DETECTION Cindy Dongxin Hu, A.U.G. Signals Hellas Single Member P.C., Greece Eric Morris, Alexandros Antonerias, Antonio Varriale, Stéphane Blaser, Aleksandra Sosna, Stephan Freitag

POSTER-09 WAVELENGTH OPTIMIZATION IN MULTISPECTRAL PHOTOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY Ihab Abi Nassif, Ryerson University, Canada Xun Zhou, Yeni Yücel, Vladislav Toronov

POSTER-10 MEASURING FLUID FLOW VELOCITY USING BESSEL BEAM FRINGES Brahim Chebbi, Laurentian University, Canada Mahmud Sakah

POSTER-11 VISIBILITY OF PARTICLES AND WIRES PASSING THROUGH BESSEL BEAM FRINGES Brahim Chebbi, Laurentian University, Canada Chilam Pou, Mahmud Sakah

POSTER-12 A SIMPLE SYSTEM TO GENERATE A THIN WIDE LIGHT PLANE Brahim Chebbi, Laurentian University, Canada Haouas Mouna, Ilya Golub

POSTER-13 TOWARDS REAL-TIME COMBINED OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY AND HYPER-SPECTRAL IMAGING Billie Maubois, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada Xavier Attendu, Camille Crunelle, Martin Poinsinet De Sivry-Houle, Chloe Turrell, Mathias Strupler, Nicolas Godbout, Caroline Boudoux

POSTER-14 SIMULTANEOUS ACCURATE DETECTION OF METHANOL AND WATER IN ETHANOL USING LPFG Krishnendu Dandapat, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India Indrajeet Kumar, Saurabh Mani Tripathi, Predrag Mikulic, Wojtek Bock

POSTER-15 A MOEMS BASED INTEGRATED SPECTROMETER FOR OCT Ranim El Ahdab, École de technologie supérieure, Canada

POSTER-16 PLASMONIC NANOPARTICLE-MEDIATED HYPERTHERMIA AS RETINOBLASTOMA THERAPY Cécile Darviot, LP2L, Canada Pierre Hardy, Michel Meunier

POSTER-17 PULSE MODULATION FOR PHOTOACOUSTIC DOSIMETRY AND IMAGING Suzie Dufour, INO, Canada Robert B. Brown, Pascal Gallant, Ozzy Mermut

POSTER-18 TUNING THE OPTICAL RESOLUTION OF A LENS Ilya Golub, Algonquin College, Canada Taylor Breen

50 Photonics North 2018 POSTER-19 FIBER-BASED HYPERTHERMAL THERAPEUTIC DEVICE: EX VIVO STUDIED AND MATHEMATICAL MODELLING Sondos Alqarni, Carleton University, Canada Jacques Albert, Christopher Smelser

GREEN PHOTONICS, ENERGY, AND RELATED TECHNOLOGIES

POSTER-20 NEAR INFRARED ELECTROLUMINESCENCE FROM SOLUTION-PROCESSED LANTHANIDE ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DIODES Afshin Shahalizad Namin, Queen’s University, Canada Anthony Daléo, Chantal Andraud, Muhammad Hasnan Sazzad, Dae-Hyeon Kim, Youichi Tsuchiya, Jean-Charles Ribierre, Jean-Michel Nunzi, Chihaya Adachi

POSTER-21 DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF A DOUBLE-GRATING PLASMONIC SOLAR CELL Azzouz Sellai, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman

POSTER-22 STANDOFF DETECTION OF AROMATICS WITH UV LED-BASED GAS CORRELATION SPECTROSCOPY François Châeauneuf, INO, Canada Pascal Dufour, François Babin, Jean-François Gravel

POSTER-23 BIFACIAL SOLAR PANEL ENERGY YIELD IN NORTHERN CANADA Mandy R. Lewis, University of Ottawa, Canada Christopher E. Valdivia, Chu Tu Li, Annie Russell

HIGH POWER LASER TECHNOLOGY, ULTRAFAST OPTICS AND APPLICATIONS

POSTER-24 SYNTHESIS OF GRAPHITE EMBEDDED SIO2 NANOFIBERS WITH CONTROLLED CONDUCTIVITY Amirkianoosh Kiani, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT), Canada Chirag Paladiya

POSTER-25 ENHANCEMENT OF BIOACTIVITY OF GLASS BY DEPOSITION OF NANOFIBROUS TI USING HIGH INTENSITY LASER INDUCED REVERSE TRANSFER METHOD Amirkianoosh Kiani, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT), Canada Naghmeh Safaie

POSTER-26 1.5 M HIGH-POWER FIBER GAS RAMAN LASER SOURCE Zefeng Wang, National university of defense and technology, China Zhixian Li, Meng Wang, Zilun Chen, Zhihong Li, Xiaojun Xu, Jinbao Chen

Photonics North 2018 51 POSTER-27 TUNABLE MID-INFRARED FIBER GAS LASER Zefeng Wang, National university of defense and technology, China Zhiyue Zhou, Meng Wang, Zilun Chen, Zhihong Li, Xiaojun Xu, Jinbao Chen

POSTER-28 SUPPRESSION OF STIMULATED RAMAN SCATTERING IN TWO-STAGE HIGH- POWER 1090 NM FIBER AMPLIFIERS USING CHIRPED AND TILTED FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS Zefeng Wang, National university of defense and technology, China Meng Wang, Zilun Chen, Zhihong Li, Xiaojun Xu, Jinbao Chen, Xijia Gu

POSTER-29 FABRICATION OF CHIRPED AND TILTED FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS ON LARGE- MODE-AREA DOUBLED-CLADDING FIBER Zefeng Wang, National university of defense and technology, China Meng Wang, Zilun Chen, Zhihong Li, Xiaojun Xu, Jinbao Chen, Xijia Gu

POSTER-30 FEMTOSECOND YB:KGW LASER WITH ADDITIONAL KERR MEDIUM Arkady Major, University of Manitoba, Canada Reza Akbari

POSTER-31 IN-BAND PUMPED ND:CAYALO4 AND ND:SCYSIO5 LASERS Arkady Major, University of Manitoba, Canada Tanant Waritanant, Veselin Aleksandrov, Jun Xu, Xiaodong Xu, Ivan Buchvarov

POSTER-32 DUAL-WAVELENGTH HIGH-POWER ALEXANDRITE LASER Arkady Major, University of Manitoba, Canada Shirin Ghanbari

POSTER-33 POWER SCALING OF CONICAL REFRACTION LASER Arkady Major, University of Manitoba, Canada Chandan Howlader, Mohammad Nadimi, Tanant Waritanant, Ksenia Fedorova, Grgorii Sokolovskii, Edik Rafailov

POSTER-34 TIGHTER FOCUS FOR ULTRASHORT PULSE VECTOR LIGHT BEAMS: CHANGE OF THE RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION OF DIFFERENT FIELD COMPONENTS TO THE FOCAL SPOT UPON PULSE SHORTENING Ilya Golub, Algonquin College, Canada Svetlana Khonina

POSTER-35 FABRICATION OF HIGH-BEAM QUALITY SIGNAL AND PUMP COMBINER WITH LARGE-MODE-AREA FIBER Yanran Gu, National university of defense and technology, China Chengmin Lei, Meng Wang, Zhihong Li, Zilun Chen, Zefeng Wang, Xiaojun Xu, Jinbao Chen

POSTER-36 SINGLE-PIXEL TERAHERTZ IMAGING USING A TIME-DOMAIN SPECTROSCOPY SETUP Luca Zanotto, INRS-EMT, Canada Riccardo Piccoli, Junliang Dong, Holger Breitenborn, Rafik Naccache, Roberto Morandotti, Luca Razzari

52 Photonics North 2018 POSTER-37 NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF A NOVEL LASER-ASSISTED METHOD ENABLING MULTISCALE BIO-PRINTING Christos Boutopoulos, Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital Research Center, Canada Hamid Ebrahimi Orimi, Sivakumar Narayanswamy

POSTER-38 THERMAL LENSING IN HIGH POWER ND:GDVO4 LASER Arkady Major, University of Manitoba, Canada Mohammad Nadimi, Tanant Waritanant

POSTER-39 AN IN-BAND DIODE-PUMPED ND:YLF LASER Arkady Major, University of Manitoba, Canada Zohreh Sedaghati, Mohammad Nadimi

POSTER-40 DUAL-WAVELENGTH CONTINUOUS WAVE YB:CALGO LASER Arkady Major, University of Manitoba, Canada Sujith Manjooran

POSTER-41 DIVING AXIS BIREFRINGENT FILTER FOR YB-ION LASERS Mohammad Anisur Rahman Reza, University of Manitoba, Canada Arkady Major, Sujith Manjooran, C. Dyck

POSTER-42 IMPROVING THE FIBER COUPLING EFFICIENCY WITH A FIBER END FACE POLISHING METHOD BASED ON QUARTZ TUBE Xinyang Su, Beijing Jiaotong University, Canada Yi Zheng, Qingling Li, Jianwei Li

POSTER-43 COMPRESSING ULTRAFAST ELECTRON PULSE USING STRONGLY FOCUSED TERAHERTZ WAVES Simon Robitaille, Université Laval, Canada Michel Piché

POSTER-44 DEVELOPMENT OVERVIEW OF 3D INTEGRATED DIGITAL SILICON PHOTOMULTIPLIE Serge Charlebois, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada Simon Carrier, Audrey Corbeil-Therrien, Frédérik Dubois, Pascal Gendron, Michel Labrecque-Dias, William Lemaire, Frédéric Nolet, Samuel Parent, Tommy Rossignol, Nicolas Roy, Gabriel St-Hilaire, Robert Groulx, Stéphane Martel, Henri Dautet, Réjean Fontaine, Jean-François Pratte

NONLINEAR OPTICS, NANOPHOTONICS AND PLASMONICS

POSTER-45 DETECTION OF PSYCHOACTIVE DRUGS BY SURFACE ENHANCED RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY Alexandre Merlen, IM2NP, Université de Toulon, France

Photonics North 2018 53 POSTER-47 NANODISKS ARRAYS FOR ENVIRONNEMENTAL RAMAN SENSING Benjamin Charron, Université de Montréal, Canada Jean-François Masson

POSTER-48 FABRICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF A BROADBAND MODE CONVERTER OPERATING AT 1 M Zefeng Wang, National university of defense and technology, Le Liu, Meng Wang, Zilun Chen, Zhihong Li, Xiaojun Xu, Jinbao Chen

POSTER-50 1-BUTHYL-3- METHYLIMIDAZOLIUM TETRAFLUOROBORATE NONLINEAR OPTICAL PARAMETERS Monica Trejo Duran, Universidad de Guanajuato, Mexico Hector Jalil Valenzuela Loubet, Flor Andrea Correa Díaz Fernández, Edgar Alvarado-Mendez, Orlando Ortiz-Jimenez, Israel Severiano-Carrillo

POSTER-51 RAMAN SUPPRESSION USING CHIRP-MOIRE FIBER BRAGG GRATING IN HIGH-POWER FIBER LASERS Weixuan Lin, McGill University, Canada Martin Rochette

POSTER-52 3-D NONLINEAR INSCRIPTION OF COMPLEX MICRO-COMPONENTS (3D NSCRIPT): 3-D PRINTING COMPLEX, SEAMLESS OBJECTS WITH SELF-TRAPPED BEAMS OF INCOHERENT LIGHT Oscar Alejandro Herrera Cortes, McMaster University, Canada Diego Colin, Dinesh Kumar, Kalaichelvi Saravanamuttu

POSTER-53 COUPLED LASERS ON A PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUIT Alison H. Perrott, University College Cork & Tyndall National Institute, Ireland Ludovic Caro, Mohamad Dernaika, Frank H. Peters

POSTER-54 EXPLOITING THE PLASMONIC PROPERTIES OF DENDRITIC FRACTALS FOR SERS-BASED SENSING Gregory Q. Wallace, Western University, Canada François Lagugné-Labarthet

POSTER-55 ENHANCED FIELDS OF VIEW IN WAVEGUIDE ARRAYS DOPED WITH AU NANOPARTICLES Yi Pan, McMaster University, Canada Lin Hao, Dinesh Baskera , Kalaichelvi Saravanamuttu, Cecile Fradin, Kalaichelvi Saravanamuttu

POSTER-56 ENGINEERING OF THE ULTRAFAST PULSE FOR PLASMONIC MEDIATED NANOCAVITATION Leonidas Agiotis, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada

54 Photonics North 2018 POSTER-57 TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT OF SINGLE NANOPARTICLE UNDER LASER IRRADIATION Cécile Darviot, LP2L, Canada Michel Meunier

POSTER-58 DOUBLE HOT-SPOT DUAL-POLARIZATION CHAND-BALI NANOANTENNA FOR NIR DETECTION APPLICATIONS Ahmed Y. Elsharabasy, McMaster University, Canada Mohamed H. Bakr, M. Jamal Deen

POSTER-59 ANN-BASED MITIGATION OF OPTICAL FIBER NONLINEAR DISTORTIONS IN DATA CENTER NETWORKS Mahmoud Maghrabi, McMaster University, Canada Shiva Kumar, Mohamed H. Bakr

PHOTONIC THEORY DESIGN AND SIMULATIONS

POSTER-70 HOLOGRAPHIC SCANNING MICROSCOPY THEORY AND SIMULATION Yuri Zakharov, Harvard University, United States Maria Muravyeva, Umar Khan, Lei Zhang, Vladimir Turzhitsky, Edvard Vitkin, Irving Itzkan, Le Qiu, Lev Perelman

POSTER-72 INTRODUCTION TO EQUILIBRATED SPACE-TIME-VARYING ELECTROMAGNETIC SYSTEMS Sajjad Taravati, Concordia University, Canada Ahmed A. Kishk

POSTER-73 APODIZED PI-PSFBG MOISTURE/TEMPERATURE SENSOR Navjot kaur Sidhu, Concordia University, Canada Peter Kung, Mojtaba Kahrizi

POSTER-74 MODELING OF FBG MOISTURE SENSOR IN COMSOL Navjot kaur Sidhu, Concordia University, Canada Parsoua Abedini Sohi, Sevin Samadi, Mojtaba Kahrizi

POSTER-75 NEAR-FIELD CHEMICAL MAPPING OF GOLD NANOSTRUCTURES USING A FUNCTIONALIZED SCANNIG PROBE Chahinez Dab, INRS, Canada Chawki Awada, Alexandre Merlen, Andreas Ruediger

POSTER-76 NEAR-UNITY ABSORPTION IN A ONE-DIMENSIONAL PHOTONIC CRYSTAL INCORPORATING A VANADIUM DIOXIDE LAYER Arezou Rashidi, Nipissing University, Canada Ali Hatef

Photonics North 2018 55 POSTER-77 OPTOFLUIDIC LENSES WITH SUB-UNIT ASPECT RATIOS Shravani Prasad, University of Guelph, Canada Michelle Del Rosso, Julie Vale, Christopher Collier

POSTER-78 GENERATION OF HIGH POWER CONTINUOUS WAVE TERAHERTZ RADIATION USING NONLINEAR CRYSTAL Kathirvel Nallappan, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada Roberto Morandotti, Maksim Skorobogatiy

POSTER-79 MODELING LIGHT-MATTER INTERACTION IN TERAHERTZ PLASMONIC NANOCAVITIES Xin Jin, INRS-EMT, Canada Andrea Cerea, Gabriele C. Messina, Andrea Rovere, Riccardo Piccoli, Roberto Morandotti, Francesco De Angelis, Andrea Toma, Luca Razzari

POSTER-80 OPTICAL SENSING IN LAB-ON-A-CHIP SYSTEMS WITH EMBEDDED FIBRE- OPTIC CABLES Isaac Spotts, University of Guelph, Canada Dima Ismail, Noor Jaffar, Christopher Collier

POSTER-81 DISCRIMINATION OF PRESSURE WITH MICRO POLYMERIC CURVED DIAPHRAGM FABRY PEROT OPTICAL FIBER SENSOR Omid Reza Ranjbar Naeini, Shahid Beheshti University (SBU), Iran Ali Barandak, Mohammad Mehdi Tahmasbi, Hamid Latifi

POSTER-82 METASURFACE-BASED DOUBLE-IMAGE 3D HOLOGRAPHY Ashutosh Patri, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada Nima Chamanara, Christophe Caloz

POSTER-83 METASURFACE ABSORBING CONDITION (MAC) FOR COMPUTATIONAL ELECTROMAGNETICS BASED ON SUSCEPTIBILITY GSTCS Xiao Jia, Department of Electronic Engineering Tsinghua University, China Fan Yang, Guillaume Lavigne, Christophe Caloz

POSTER-84 INVERSE PRISM: SPACE-TIME DUAL OF A PRISM Alireza Akbarzadeh, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada Christophe Caloz

POSTER-85 TOWARDS PANORAMIC TIME OF FLIGHT IMAGING Mathieu Gagnon, Centre for optics, photonics and lasers, Canada Anne-Sophie Poulin-Girard, Marc-Antoine Legault, Simon Thibault

POSTER-86 BLOCH WAVES IN OPTICAL RING RESONATORS Kathleen McGarvey-Lechable, Concordia University, Canada Pablo Bianucci

56 Photonics North 2018 PHOTONICS MATERIALS

POSTER-92 TUNING OPTICAL PROPERTIES AND OPTICAL ACTIVITY OF 3-MERCAPTOPROPIONIC ACID CAPPED ORGANIC-INORGANIC HYBRID PEROVSKITES Shuhong Xu, Advanced Photonics Center, Southeast University, Canada Chunlei Wang, Dayan Ban

POSTER-93 A NOVEL BIOSILICA-BASED PLASMONIC SUBSTRATE ON ADHESIVE TAPES Juanjuan Liu, McGill University, Canada Ayyappasamy Sudalaiyadum Perumal, Aysun Korkmaz, Maya Kenton, Gulsen Aksin, Sara Kheireddine, Mehmet Kahraman, Sebastian Wachsmann Hogiu

POSTER-94 A MATERIAL THAT COMPUTES WITH LIGHT Fariha Mahmood, McMaster University, Canada Alexander Hudson, Matthew Ponte, Thomas Pena Ventura, Kalaichelvi Saravanamuttu

POSTER-95 BIO-INSPIRED WAVEGUIDE ENCODED LATTICES (WELS): FROM SLIM POLYMER FILMS WITH WIDE FIELDS OF VIEW TO DYNAMIC LENSES Kathryn Benincasa, McMaster University, Canada Hao Lin, Alexander Hudson, Derek Morim, Ian Hosein, Kalaichelvi Saravanamuttu

POSTER-96 INSCRIPTION OF OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES IN PHOTORESPONSIVE POLYMERS USING SELF-TRAPPED LIGHT BEAMS Derek Morim, McMaster University, Canada Ankita Shastri, Andy Tran, Damian Bevern, Fariha Mahmood, Joanna Aizenberg, Ignacio Vargas-Baca, Kalaichelvi Saravanamuttu

OPTICAL AND QUANTUM COMMUNICATIONS

POSTER-97 REVEALING OPTICAL VORTICES WITH A SMALL NUMBER OF PHOTONS Wuhong Zhang, Department of Physics, Xiamen University, China Lixiang Chen, Ebrahim Karimi

POSTER-98 SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATOR OPTICAL SWITCH FOR MULTICORE FIBER Mahmoud Gadalla, École de technologie supérieure, Canada Véronique François, Bora Ung

POSTER-99 PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF A PHOTONIC LANTERN BY TRANSMITTING MICROWAVE SIGNALS Ignacio Enrique Zaldivar Huerta, Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica, Mexico José Roberto Warnes Lora, Ignacio Enrique Zaldivar Huerta, Jorge Rodriguez Asomoza, Rodrigo Amezcua Correa, José Enrique Antonio Lopez, Alejandro García Juárez

Photonics North 2018 57 POSTER-100 EXPERIMENTAL OPTICAL TRANSMISSION OF HDMI SIGNALS José Humberto Abril García, Universidad de Sonora, Mexico Alejandro García Juárez, Ignacio Enrique Zaldívar-Huerta, José Rafael Benito Noriega Luna, Luis Arturo García Delgado, María del Rocío Gómez Colín, Jorge Rodríguez Asomoza

POSTER-101 SQUEEZED STATE EVOLUTION IN LOSSY COUPLED RESONATOR OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES Hossein Seifoory, Queen’s University, Canada Marc M. Dignam

POSTER-102 PROPOSED PROTECTION SCHEMES TO PRESERVE ELASTIC OPTICAL NETWORK RESOURCES Melissa Stapleton, University of Ottawa, Canada Khaled Maamoun, Nabil Naas, Hussein T. Mouftah

POSTER-103 REFRACTOMETRY OF PHOTO-INDUCED OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES WITH DIGITAL HOLOGRAPHIC MICROSCOPY Erik Belanger, Université Laval, Canada Bertrand De Dorlodot, Jean-Philippe Berube, Réal Vallée, Pierre Marquet

58 Photonics North 2018 Thursday June 7, 2018 FROM 15:00 TO 15:30

NSERC CREATE GUIDED LIGHT SESSION

POSTER-60 MODELESS PROPERTY OF HIGH-POWER CW YTTERBIUM-DOPED FIBER LASERS Mathieu Huneault, Université Laval, Canada Michel Olivier, Michel Piché

POSTER-61 NONLINEAR PLASMONIC ALGAAS WAVEGUIDES Kyle Johnson, University of Toronto, Canada Stewart Aitchison

POSTER-62 THERMALLY-INDUCED REFRACTIVE INDEX GRATINGS ENABLING MODAL ENERGY TRANSFER IN YB-DOPED FIBERS Christoph Stihler, Institute of Applied Physics, Abbe Center of Photonics, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany Cesar Jauregui, Andreas Tünnermann, Jens Limpert

POSTER-63 ELECTRICALLY INDUCED TUNABILITY OF SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS IN GOLD COATED TAPERED FIBERS Tilman Lühder, IPHT Jena, Germany Torsten Wieduwilt, Henrik Schneidewind, Markus A. Schmidt

POSTER-64 NONLINEAR WAVE COLLAPSE AT MW-POWER Andre Luiz Marques Muniz, Institute of Condensated Matter and Optics, Germany Martin Wimmer, Arstan Bisianov, Demetrios N. Christodoulides, Roberto Morandotti, Ulf Peschel

POSTER-65 EXPERIMENTS ON NONLINEARITY-DRIVEN EXCITATION OF TOPOLOGICAL AND TRIVIAL STATES Arstan Bisianov, Institute of Condensed Matter Theory and Optics at Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany Mark Kremer, Martin Wimmer, Ulf Peschel

POSTER-66 HIGHER-ORDER MODE THIRD HARMONIC GENERATION IN LIQUID-CORE- OPTICAL-FIBER USING ULTRAFAST PULSES Kay Schaarschmidt, Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology, Germany Markus A. Schmidt

POSTER-67 TOWARDS HIGHLY CARRIER-ENVELOPE STABLE HIGH-POWER FEW-CYCLE FIBER LASERS Evgeny Shestaev, Institute of Applied Physics, Abbe Center of Photonics, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany Dominik Hoff, Steffen Hädrich, Florian Just, Tino Eidam, Max Sayler, András Drozdy, Péter Jójárt, Aaron Szabó, Zoltán Várallyay, Károly Osvay, Gerhard Paulus, Andreas Tünnermann, Jens Limpert

Photonics North 2018 59 Exhibition

Exhibition Booths Table tops Aerotech, Inc. 9 Advanced Photonic Sciences, LLC T9 Alazar Technologies Inc. 5 COPL - Université Laval T8 AMEC Usinage 11 CPIC - Photons Canada T18 Blacktek Inc. 8 few-cycle Inc. T10 BMV Optical Technologies Inc 1 Gentec-EO Inc. T 11 INO 12 Public Services and Procurement T17 Canada - NSERC Keysight Technologies 4 O-m6 Technologies Inc. T5 Laserand 10 Optonique T16 OZ Optics Limited 6 Photon Design T1 TeraXion 3 Photonics Media T14 Zurich Instrument AG 7 Santec USA Corporation T3 Upcoming events in Photonics 2 UC Components Inc. T2

COFFEE BREAK AREA

60 Photonics North 2018 Advanced Photonic Sciences, LLC Advanced Photonic Sciences, LLC (“APS”) develops, manufactures, and supports microlaser and laser module products. We provide miniature diode pumped solid state lasers, laser systems, and laser modules to a large number of industrial and government organizations worldwide for biomedical, illumination, and aiming applications. APS is a leader in the development and manufacturing of high average power cryogenic lasers, and develops diode- pumped solid-state lasers operating in the UV, visible, and near and mid-infrared spectral regions. We also conduct research and development in collaboration with a number of organizations to develop novel new optical and laser materials. www.advancedphotonicsciences.com

Aerotech, Inc. Aerotech manufactures motion control and positioning systems and components including direct-drive and piezo nanopositioners; hexapods; planar and rotary air-bearing stages; high-speed gantries; mechanical-bearing linear, rotary, and lift stages; brushless linear and rotary servomotors and drives; stand-alone and software-based motion controllers; goniometers; galvanometers; and gimbals/optical mounts. Custom, vacuum prepped, and cleanroom-ready positioning systems and components are available. Aerotech’s precision motion control products provide the critical performance for demanding applications in markets including photonics, medical device/life sciences, semiconductor and flat panel, automotive, data storage, laser processing, military/aerospace, electronic manufacturing and test, assembly, R&D, and others requiring high precision, high throughput motion solutions. www.aerotech.com

Alazar Technologies Inc. Alazar Technologies Inc. is a manufacturer of high-performance waveform digitizer (DAQ) cards for PCIe bus featuring data streaming rates up to 6.9 GB/s and on-FPGA signal processing. Our products are used in biomedical, fiber sensing, defense and general research applications. One of our fastest growing markets is Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT). Our unique clocking technology, which allows the use of k-clocks directly for A/D conversion, has made AlazarTech the de facto standard for data acquisition and signal processing in the OCT community. At Photonics North, we will be showing ATS-GMA-OCT, our new out-of-the-box OCT imaging solution capable of calculating 1,900,000 FFTs per second. www.alazartech.com

Photonics North 2018 61 AMEC Usinage AMEC Machining specializes and diversifies in small and medium machining parts in different markets, including energy, manufacturing, medical, aerospace, but also optics and photonics. For more than 20 years now, AMEC has developed the optics/photonics market to the point where it now represents more than 30% of its annual turnover. Ranging from very small and high-precision parts, such as Feedtrough 1/4 NPT plugs and optical housings, to larger assemblies, such as hydrogen-moistures sensors, and multi- gas analyzers, AMEC ranks among the best in this specialty. www.amecusinage.com

BMV Optical Technologies Inc. BMV is a manufacturer of precision optical components and systems in both custom and volume quantities. Our complete services include, optical, thin film and mechanical design as well as complete in house machine shop. Products include spherical and cylindrical lenses, lens systems, precision flats, laser windows, wedges, etalons, beam-splitters, sapphire optics, metal optics, complex machined optics, Gaussian reflectivity mirror’s, etc. BMV provides design and application of UV, VIS and IR thin film coatings, such as anti- reflection, beam splitting, beam combining, dielectric and metal films. BMV is ISO 9001:2008 certified and registered with the Controlled Goods Program of Canada. No. 21199 www.bmvoptical.com

CMC Microsystem Introducing a powerful new design environment for photonics innovators. We’re developing a novel augmented design environment that enables you to manage the complexity of designing, simulating and verifying silicon photonic integrated circuits faster and more successfully, with capability for scale-up. Platform includes: - Design kit that supports schematic design, circuit simulation, schematic-driven layout, and physical verification - DRC and LVS. - Library of silicon-verified components with layout & simulation models. - Design tools from international suppliers. - Engineering support, reference guides and training from CMC. - Access to CMC’s cost-effective Multi-Project Wafer service. Coming soon to researchers in academia and industry across Canada’s National Design Network® Explore the future of integrated silicon photonics design! www.cmc.ca

62 Photonics North 2018 COPL - Université Laval The Center for Optics, Photonics and Lasers (COPL) is a strategic cluster of optics/photonics researchers from Université Laval, CO PL École Polytechnique de Montréal, McGill, INRS, École de Centre d'optique, technologie supérieure, Université de Sherbrooke and Université photonique et laser du Québec à Montréal who share the following objectives: • To train graduate students and post-docs who will form the next generation of optics/photonics scientists • To perform fundamental and applied research • To contribute to socio-economic development by supporting industry www.copl.ulaval.ca

CPIC - Photons Canada With its photonic network including industries, R&D centres and academia, CPIC provides a rapid access to the up-to-date photonic knowhow and technologies. As efficient network between researchers and the industry, CPIC is the best vehicle to manage information on the photonic possibilities, to identify appropriate solutions, and to respond to the Canadian industry needs. www.photonscanada.ca few-cycle Inc. few-cycle Inc. is a Canadian spin-off developing different solutions for high-power, few-cycle pulses based on either hollow-core fiber compression with >10mJ output or based on FOPA yielding 30mJ, 2 cycle pulses at 1.8µm. These optical technologies are complemented by the screwedTM series of springless optic mounts and practical vacuum beam routing systems. www.few-cycle.com

Photonics North 2018 63 Gentec-EO Inc. Located in Quebec City, Canada, Gentec Electro-Optics is a leader in the laser measurement field with 45 years of experience. In 2000, Gentec Electro-Optics, Inc. was formed from Gentec, Inc. so that the focus was entirely on laser measurement. The company now manufactures a complete range of laser power and energy meters, high speed joulemeters, THz sensors, beam diagnostics and diffractive optics. Gentec Electro-Optics is also known as the first worldwide supplier of large aperture calorimeters to measure the highest pulse energies. Their products are sold around the world, with distributors and representatives in over 35 countries and offices in Canada, USA and Japan. www.gentec-eo.fr INO INO is a world-class technology developer and provider, using is core expertise in optics and photonics to bring to the industry custom solutions that enable more competitive products and production processes. INO produces in-house prototypes and short run products tailored to the needs of parnters & clients. www.ino.ca

Keysight Technologies Keysight offers a wide-range of innovative test and measurement solutions to accelerate the progress of next-generation intelligent optical networks. Our mission in the optical market is to shorten time-to-market and reduce cost-of-test for customers in R&D and manufacturing, as well as enable new technologies which include innovative optical components, network elements & systems, and all-optical fiber networks. www.keysight.com/find/photonic

Laserand Laserand Inc. is a Montreal based company working in the fields of photonics, robotics and industrial manufacturing & automation. Being a supplier of photonics components, scientific & industrial equipment for customers in North America (USA & Canada), we offer optical components & systems; single frequency DPSS lasers; NIR-UV, VUV, EUV, x-ray CCD cameras; Synchrotron and Astronomy Mirrors; motion control solutions including high accuracy positioning hexapods; nanopositioning piezo stages & controllers as well as sub-THz cameras, detectors and IMPATT diodes. laserand.com

64 Photonics North 2018 Macmillan Publisher Ltd / Nature Reviews Physics Launching in January 2019, Nature Reviews Physics is an online-only journal publishing high-quality articles in all areas of fundamental and applied physics. The content will include technical reviews focused on techniques & instrumentation and software & data analysis, roadmap-type articles and expert advice and tutorials, in addition to more traditional article types such as reviews, perspectives and commentary pieces. Nature Reviews Physics hopes to become a high-quality, trusted source of technical reference, concise overview and timely comment for all physicists. www.nature.com

National Research Council Canada

The National Research Council (NRC) is the Government of Canada’s largest research organization supporting industrial innovation, the advancement of knowledge and technology development, and fulfilling government mandates. www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca

O-m6 Technologies Inc. O-m6 Technologies is a leader in the manufacture of fiber optic assemblies. Founded in 1996, we were quickly recognized for our technical expertise and we rapidly earned an excellent reputation for the quality of our products. • Patchcords • Pigtails • Multi fiber cables • Speciality fibers, including PM, Puremode, custom cables • Speciality jackets such as loose tube, flexible and metallized jackets • Terminations such as ferrules and connectors • Si-V groove array blocks • Custom cables and harnesses www.om6.com

Optonique Optonique is a non-profit organization, established from the merger of the Quebec Photonic Network (QPN) and the Optics-Photonics Industry Circle (CIOP) of the Capitale- Nationale Region. It is recognized by the Ministry of the Economy, Science and Innovation as the Pole of Excellence in Optics-photonics of Quebec. Optonique is born due to the willingness of both industrialists and researchers to unite around the same dynamic in order to position Quebec at the 1st rank of the Optics-photonics sector. Its main role is to federate more than 140 industries and academic centres in the sector. www.optonique.com

Photonics North 2018 65 OZ Optics Limited High Power Components/ Isolators/Combiners/Patchcords/ Connectors/ Intelligent Tunable Laser Diode Sources/Safety Interlocks/Shutters/Optical Coatings, Laser to Fiber Delivery Components, Adjustable Collimators/Focusers, PM/SM/MM Fused Fiber Couplers, PM Patchcords/Connectors/Splitters/ Switch, Polarized Sources, Polarization Rotators/Controllers/ Analyzers, Polarizers, PDL Emulators, Extinction Ratio Meter, Turnkey Laser Diode Sources, Hermetically Sealable Patchcords, Fiber Optic Sensors OZ-PEN, Ultra –Narrow-Line-Width-Stable Laser Source, Mode-Field –Adaptor, Fiber Optic Test Equipment, Power Meters, Smart Detector Heads, Fault Finders, Smart Patchcords, Optical Power Monitors, Fixed / Tunable Filters, Optical Delay Lines, High Power Visual Fault Locators, Light Sources, Attenuators, High Speed Polarization Controllers / Scramblers, PDL Emulators, Switches, PLCS. Benchtop family: ER Meters, Backreflection Meters, Fiber Length Meters. www.ozoptics.com

Photon Design Photon Design was started in 1992 and supplies a wide range of innovative photonics CAD tools to most of the World’s leading photonics companies, universities and government research labs, with customers in 35 countries around the world. Our CAD products include tools for both passive and active (semiconductor) optical components and optical circuit modelling. The company has a team of the brightest people in photonics modelling, developing original and innovative solutions for tomorrow’s photonics design projects, saving designers significant time and money. www.photond.com

Photonics Media Photonics Media invites you to explore the world of light-based technology at www.photonics.com and on our FREE mobile apps. As the publisher of Photonics Spectra, Industrial Photonics, BioPhotonics, and EuroPhotonics magazines as well as the Photonics Buyers’ Guide, Photonics.com, and more, we bring you the news, research and applications articles you need to succeed. Our flagship publication, Photonics Spectra, has defined the science and industry of photonics, providing both technical and practical information for every aspect of the global industry and promoting an international dialogue among the engineers, scientists and end users who develop, commercialize and buy photonics products. www.photonics.com

66 Photonics North 2018 Public Services and Procurement Canada

The Build in Canada Innovation Program helps Canadian innovators get their product to market faster, and helps them succeed in the marketplace, by buying and testing innovations in real-operational settings. Through the program, innovators can sell their pre- commercial products or services for testing, but keep the intellectual property and retain all equity in their company. The program pays up to $500,000 for non-military innovations, and up to $1,000,000 for military innovations. The Program allows innovators to: • land a first sale – and keep their intellectual property • get their innovation tested in a real-life setting • receive feedback on how the innovation tested • accelerate entry to the commercial market

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) supports university students in their advanced studies, promotes discovery research, and fosters innovation by encouraging more than 3,000 Canadian companies to participate and invest in postsecondary research projects. For example, the Engage Grant can fund a new university or college collaboration project with a company for up to $25,000 for six months. Moreover, a company may obtain a $4,500 scholarship to hire an undergraduate intern to work on a 16-week research project. Interested! Visit the NSERC booth at Photonics North!

Santec USA Corporation Established in 1979, Santec is a global photonics engineering company and a leading manufacturer of Tunable Lasers, Optical Test and Measurement Products, and Advanced Optical Components. Santec products are widely used in Telecom, Medical and Scientific fields, with notable pioneering work in micro optics, passive component testing and optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging. Santec’s tunable lasers and test systems are known for high resolution, high accuracy, and high wavelength stability for high performance in photonic device characterization. Santec, headquartered in Komaki, Japan has wholly owned subsidiaries in London, New Jersey, California and Shanghai. Think Precise. www.santec.com

Photonics North 2018 67 Teraxion TeraXion designs and manufactures innovative photonic components for more power, speed and precision. Serving the manufacturing, telecom, and sensing markets, TeraXion delivers a wide range of fiber Bragg grating-based stretchers, reflectors, filters and dispersion compensators as well as low-noise (narrow linewidth) lasers and micro-optic SiP-based modules. Based in Quebec City, our components are used in high-power and ultrafast laser systems, optical communication networks and sensing equipment around the globe. www.teraxion.com

UC Components Inc. UC Components Inc. manufacturer of Redivac® Vented, Coated, Plated, Polished & Cleaned Fasteners & Redivac® Cleaned and Vacuum Baked O-Rings for vacuum applications. All Redivac® Products are Precision Cleaned & Class 100 Packaged for immediate vacuum use. Reduce pump-down times & contamination in your UHV system! UC now offers a full line of Redivac® Slot-Vented with Gold, Silver Plated and other surface treated Fasteners in Inch and Metric standards. Call for our latest catalog or visit & buy on-line. www.uccomponents.com

Université d’Ottawa / CRPuO The University of Ottawa’s Centre for Research in Photonics (CRPuO) regroups 24 professors and 200 graduate students and PDFs working in all areas of photonics (www.photonics. uottawa.ca). The CRPuO also provides academic and industrial researchers with open access to cutting-edge tools within a state- of-the-art nanofabrication and characterisation facility, ideal for prototype development and fabrication. Fee-for-service is also available. The three labs, wet chemistry, metrology, and white and yellow clean rooms, have a processing capability of up to four-inch diameter wafers. Typical projects include fabrication of integrated optical structures, silicon waveguides, plasmonic waveguides, metasurfaces, photonic crystal waveguides, photodetectors, modulators, lasers and . www.photonics.uottawa.ca

68 Photonics North 2018 Zurich Instruments AG Zurich Instruments is a test and measurement company based in Zurich, Switzerland, developing and selling measurement instruments and delivering customer support in key markets around the world, either directly or with carefully selected partners. Zurich Instruments makes cutting-edge instrumentation for scientists and technologists in advanced labs who are passionate about phenomena that are often notoriously difficult to measure. Our core offering includes lock-in amplifiers, phase-locked loops, arbitrary waveform generator, impedance analyzers, digitizers and boxcar averagers. We believe that system integration is good. We believe that system integration leads to significant time savings, reduced lab setup complexity, efficient workflows and reliable, accurate measurements. www.zhinst.com

Photonics North 2018 69 Index of Authors

Alvarado-Mendez, Edgar - POSTER-50 54 A Aadhi, A. - NONLINEAR-6-41-6, 45 Amaechi, Ifeanyichukwu - GREEN-2-12-5 21 NONLINEAR-6-41-6 Amaral, Gustavo - OP-COMM-2-8-3 17 Abbas, Aazad - OP-COMM-2-8-4, OP- 17 Amer, Naaman - MAT-3-43-1 46 COMM-2-8-6 Amezcua Correa, Rodrigo - POSTER-99 57 Abbasirad, Najmeh - 37 Amirkhan, Fatemeh - 33 NONLINEAR-4-31-3 NONLINEAR-3-26-8 Abbott, Nicholas - MAT-2-38-1 42 Anderson, Stephen - TEI-1-10-1 19 Abdelal, Aysegul - MAT-1-19-7 28 Andraud, Chantal - POSTER-20 51 Abdo, Mohamad - HIGH-POWER-4-42-1 45 Ania Castañón, Juan Diego - TD-5-21-4 29 Abdolahi, Mahssa - NONLINEAR-6-41-9 45 Ansari, Vahid - OP-COMM-2-8-1 17 Abdullah, Salah - NONLINEAR-6-41-10 45 Antici, Patrizio - HIGH-POWER-3-27-6 34 Abedini Sohi, Parsoua - POSTER-74 55 Antonerias, Alexandros - POSTER-08 50 Abi Nassif, Ihab - POSTER-09 50 Antonio Lopez, José Enrique - 57 Abril García, José Humberto - 58 POSTER-99 POSTER-100 Arikawa , Takashi - NONLINEAR-3-26-8 33 Ackermann, Jorg - GREEN-3-17-6 26 Arslan, Dennis - NONLINEAR-4-31-3 37 Adachi, Chihaya - POSTER-20 51 Arunachalam, Shivaram - GREEN-3-17-1 26 Adhekari, Bibechana - OP-COMM-1-3-3 13 Aryshev, A. - NONLINEAR-3-26-7, HIGH- 33, 45 Agiotis, Leonidas - POSTER-56 54 POWER-4-42-2 Aglieri, Vincenzo - TD-7-30-2, HIGH- 36, 45 Ascanio, Gabriel - BIO-4-37-2 41 POWER-4-42-7 Atanasoff, George - TEI-1-10-2 19 Agrawal, Amit - NONLINEAR-4-31-2, 37 Attendu, Xavier - POSTER-13 50 NONLINEAR-4-31-8 Awada, Chawki - POSTER-75 55 Ahmed, Akif - HIGH-POWER-4-42-1 45 Awan, Kashif - NONLINEAR-1-2-1 12 Ahmed, Md Shakil - TD-2-6-2 15 Aydin, Yigit Ozan - NSERC-1-39-2 43 Aitchison, Stewart - NSERC-2-44-05, 48, 59 NSERC-2-44-11, HIGH-POWER-4-42-7 25, 29, POSTER-61 48, 45 Aizenberg, Joanna - POSTER-96 57 Azhdast, Mohammad Hossein - MAT-1- 28 Akbari, Reza - POSTER-30 52 19-2 Akbarzadeh, Alireza - POSTER-84 56 B Akens, Margarete - BIO-1-24-4, BIO- 32, 35 Babin, François - POSTER-22 51 2-28-4 Badilescu, Simona - POSTER-01 49 Aksin, Gulsen - POSTER-93 57 Baghdasaryan, Tigran - TD-6-25-6 32 Al-Ameer, Maryam - HIGH- 31 Bahrami, Mousa - NONLINEAR-6-41-11 45 POWER-2-23-4 Bakr, Mohamed H. - POSTER-58, 55 Al-Aribe, Khaled - MAT-1-19-4 28 POSTER-59 Al-Naib , Ibraheem - NONLINEAR-3-26-5 33 Balistreri, Giacomo - HIGH- 45 Albert, Jacques - NONLINEAR-1-2-4, 2, 45, 51 POWER-4-42-7 NONLINEAR-6-41-10, POSTER-19 Ban, Dayan - POSTER-92 57 Alberucci, Alessandro - NSERC-2-44-08 48 Bancelin, Stéphane - NSERC-2-44-12 48 Aleksandrov, Veselin - POSTER-31 52 Banville, Frederic - BIO-4-37-5 - 41 , 49 Alimohammadian, Ehsan - 48 POSTER-06 NSERC-2-44-09 Banzer, Peter - NONLINEAR-6-41-2 44 Aljamimi, Salah M. - NONLINEAR-1-2-4 2 Baradaran Shokouhi, Elnaz - BIO-3-33-1 39 Allgaier, Markus - OP-COMM-2-8-1 17 Barandak, Ali - POSTER-81 56 Allogba, Stéphanie - OP-COMM-1-3-2 13 Barberio, Marianna - HIGH- 34 Alonso Ramos, Carlos - 12 POWER-3-27-6 NONLINEAR-1-2-2 Barbillon, Grégory - POSTER-06 49 Alqarni, Sondos - POSTER-19 51 Barclay, Paul - LM-2-9-2 18 Alsaigh, Rakan E. - OP-COMM-3-13-5 22

70 Photonics North 2018 Bartels, Randy - BIO-1-24-1 31 Boyd, Robert W. - LM-1-4-1, 14, 17, Bartenlian, Bernard - POSTER-06 49 LM-1-4-8, OP-COMM-2-8-6, 18, 30, Barwicz, Tymon - TD-3-11-4 20 LM-2-9-6, NONLINEAR-2-22-4, 37, 44, Barzda, Virginijus - BIO-2-28-4, BIO-2- 35, 39 NONLINEAR-2-22-5, 45 28-7, BIO-3-33-6 NONLINEAR-4-31-5, NONLINEAR-6-41-1, Baskera , Dinesh - POSTER-55 54 NONLINEAR-6-41-4 Baudot, Charles - POSTER-03 49 Boyd, Robert W. - NONLINEAR-6-41-7 45 Bauer, Dominik - HIGH-POWER-1-18-5 27 Braconnier, Aimé - HIGH- 45 Baxter, Josh - NONLINEAR-4-31-6 37 POWER-4-42-1 Beaudin, Guillaume - POSTER-03 49 Bradley, Jonathan D. B. - MAT-3-43-8 47 Bechou, Laurent - NONLINEAR-6-41-8 45 Bravo Acha, Mikel - NONLINEAR-6-41-8 45 Béland, David - BIO-4-37-6 41 Brecht, Benjamin - OP-COMM-2-8-1 17 Belanger, Erik - BIO-3-33-3, 39, 58 Breen, Taylor - POSTER-18 50 POSTER-103 Breitenborn, Holger - BIO-4-37-3, 41, 52 Bélanger, Pierre-André - TD-7-30-1 36 POSTER-36 Belarouci, Ali - MAT-3-43-7 47 Brodie, C. Harrison - TD-8-35-3 40 Benedikovic, Daniel - NONLINEAR-1-2-2 12 Bromberg, Yaron - LM-1-4-7 14 Benincasa, Kathryn - POSTER-95 57 Brons, Jonathan - HIGH-POWER-1-18-5 27 Berciano, Mathias - NONLINEAR-1-2-2 12 Brown, Robert B. - POSTER-17 50 Berghmans, Francis - TD-6-25-6 32 Bruhacs, Andrew - BIO-4-37-3 41 Bernhardt, Birgitta - NSERC-1-39-5 44 Bryche, Jean-Francois - POSTER-06 49 Bernier, Martin - NSERC-1-39-2, 43, 44, Buchvarov, Ivan - POSTER-31 52 NSERC-1-39-4, NSERC-2-44-01, 47 Burgess, Jacob - HIGH-POWER-4-42-1 45 NSERC-2-44-03, NSERC-2-44-04 Burgwin, Nicholas - TEI-2-15-3 24 Berube, Jean-Philippe - POSTER-103 58 Busacca, Alessandro - HIGH- 45 Besbes, Mondher - BIO-4-37-5 41 POWER-4-42-5, HIGH-POWER-4-42-6, Bevern, Damian - POSTER-96 57 HIGH-POWER-4-42-7 Bhardwaj, Ravi - HIGH-POWER-2-23-4 31 Bussières, Gabriel - OP-COMM-4-32-1 38 Bianucci, Pablo - TD-3-11-5, BIO-2-28-2, 20, 35, POSTER-86 56 C Bianucci, Pablo - BIO-4-37-1 41 Cabrini, Stefano - NONLINEAR-5-36-1 40 Bidaki, Elham - OP-COMM-1-3-1 13 Calà Lesina, Antonino - 37 Bierlich, Joerg - NSERC-1-39-3 44 NONLINEAR-4-31-6 Bisianov, Arstan - POSTER-64, 59 Caloz, Christophe - GREEN-1-7-5, 16, 26, POSTER-65 GREEN-3-17-4, POSTER-82, 56 Bizheva, Kostadinka - BIO-3-33-5 39 POSTER-83, POSTER-84 Blais-Ouellette, Sébastien - TEI-2-15-2 24 Calvo, Michele - POSTER-03 49 Blanchard, Francois - HIGH- 31, 33 Camp, Charles - BIO-1-24-2 31 POWER-2-23-3, NONLINEAR-3-26-4, Campany, Jose - TD-4-16-4 25 NONLINEAR-3-26-8 Canva, Michael - BIO-4-37-5, 41, 49 Blaser, Stéphane - POSTER-08 50 POSTER-03, POSTER-06 Blay, Daniel - LM-1-4-4 14 Capaldo, Pietro - OP-COMM-3-13-4 22 Blum, Amy - NONLINEAR-4-31-4 37 Caraffini, Diego - TD-7-30-2, BIO-4-37-3, 36, 41, Bock, Wojtek - POSTER-14 50 HIGH-POWER-4-42-6 45 Boeuf, Frederic - POSTER-03 49 Cardin, Vincent - HIGH-POWER-1-18-4 27 Bolduc, Martin - NONLINEAR-3-26-4 33 Cardinal, Pierre - TEI-1-10-4 19 Bongiovanni, Domenico - 12 Caro, Ludovic - POSTER-53 54 NONLINEAR-1-2-5 Carrier, Simon - POSTER-44 53 Bouaziz, Jordan - MAT-3-43-7 47 Carzino, Riccardo - HIGH- 45 Bouchard, Frederic - LM-2-9-6, LM-1-4- 18, 14, POWER-4-42-7 2, OP-COMM-2-8-4, OP-COMM-2-8-6 17 Caspani, Lucia - LM-1-4-7, 14, 48 Boucherif, Abderraouf - GREEN-3-17-3 26 NSERC-2-44-11 Boudoux, Caroline - BIO-3-33-4, BIO-3- 39, 39, Cassan, Eric - NONLINEAR-1-2-2 12 33-8, POSTER-13 50 Cassidy, John - MAT-3-43-9 47 Boutopoulos, Christos - POSTER-37 53

Photonics North 2018 71 Cerea, Andrea - TD-3-11-3, TD-7-30-2, 20, 36, Corato-Zanarella, Mateus - OP- 22 POSTER-79 56 COMM-3-13-7 Chaker, Mohamed - HIGH- 45 Corbeil-Therrien, Audrey - POSTER-44 53 POWER-4-42-5 Corkum, Paul B. - HIGH-POWER-3-27-2, 34 Chamanara, Nima - GREEN-1-7-5, 16, 56 HIGH-POWER-3-27-2, HIGH- POSTER-82 POWER-3-27-7 Charette, Paul G - POSTER-06 49 Correa Díaz Fernández, Flor Andrea 54 Charette, Paul G. - GREEN-3-17-4, 26, 41, Correa Díaz - POSTER-50 BIO-4-37-5, NONLINEAR-6-41-8, 45, 49 Corredera, Pedro - TD-5-21-4 29 POSTER-03 Cortes, Luis Romero - TD-4-16-5 25 Charlebois, Serge - GREEN-1-7-4, 16, 53 Coté, Daniel - BIO-2-28-1 35 POSTER-44 Couture, Nicolas - HIGH-POWER-4-42-4 45 Charron, Benjamin - POSTER-47 54 Crowder, Gavin - LM-2-9-4 18 Châteauneuf, François - POSTER-22 51 Crozat, Paul - NONLINEAR-1-2-2 12 Chebbi, Brahim - POSTER-10, 50 Crunelle, Camille - POSTER-13 50 POSTER-11, POSTER-12 Cueff, Sébastien - TD-4-16-3 25 Cheben, Pavel - TD-5-21-3 29 Cui, Wei - HIGH-POWER-4-42-3, HIGH- 45 Chekhova, Maria - LM-1-4-1 14 POWER-4-42-4 Chemnitz, Mario - NSERC-1-39-3 44 Curic, Davor - OP-COMM-4-32-1, OP- 38, 45 Chen, Jinbao - HIGH-POWER-1-18-2, 27, 51, COMM-4-32-3, NONLINEAR-6-41-5 POSTER-26, POSTER-27, POSTER-28, 52, 54 POSTER-29, POSTER-35, POSTER-48 D d'Humières, Emmanuel - HIGH- 34 Chen, Lawrence R. - TD-2-6-2 15 POWER-3-27-6 Chen, Lixiang - LM-1-4-8, POSTER-97 14, 57 Dab, Chahinez - POSTER-75 55 Chen, Luzhou - GREEN-3-17-4 26 Dalacu, Dan - TD-1-1-7 11 Chen, Yizhu - BIO-1-24-3 31 Daléo, Anthony - POSTER-20 51 Chen, Zhigang - NONLINEAR-1-2-5 12 Damas, Pedro - NONLINEAR-1-2-2 12 Chen, Zilun - HIGH-POWER-1-18-2, 27, 51, Dandapat, Krishnendu - POSTER-14 50 POSTER-26, POSTER-27, POSTER-28, 52, 54 Danz, Norbert - TD-7-30-4 36 POSTER-29, POSTER-35, POSTER-48 Daoust, François - BIO-3-33-2 39 Chen , Lixiang - OP-COMM-3-13-6 22 Darcie, Todd - NSERC-2-44-05 48 Cheng, PoHan - NONLINEAR-5-36-4 40 Darviot, Cécile - POSTER-16, 50, 55 Chicco, Adam - BIO-1-24-1 31 POSTER-57 Chini, Michael - HIGH-POWER-1-18-4 27 Dautet, Henri - POSTER-44 53 Choi, Kyung Soo - LM-2-9-3 18 Davidson, Jacob - OP-COMM-2-8-3 17 Chong, H. M. H. - TD-2-6-4 15 De, Syamsundar - OP-COMM-3-13-1 22 Chouma, Hussein - OP-COMM-1-3-3 13 De Angelis, Francesco - TD-3-11-3, 20, 36, Chrostowski, Lukas - TD-8-35-1 40 TD-7-30-2, NONLINEAR-5-36-3, HIGH- 40, 45, Chu, Sai T. - LM-1-4-7, 14, 45, POWER-4-42-7, POSTER-79 56 NONLINEAR-6-41-6, NSERC-2-44-11 48 De Donato, Francesco - TD-3-11-3 20 Cino, Alfonso Carmelo - NSERC-2-44-11 48 De Dorlodot, Bertrand - POSTER-103 58 Cisek, Richard - BIO-3-33-6 39 De Leon, Israel - NONLINEAR-2-22-5 30 Clerici, Matteo - HIGH-POWER-4-42-5 45 Deen, M. Jamal - POSTER-58 55 Cloarec, Jean-Pierre - POSTER-06 49 Del Rosso, Michelle - POSTER-77 56 Cloutier, Sylvain G. - GREEN-3-17-1 26 Delafosse, Grégory - GREEN-2-12-1 21 Cody, Dervil - MAT-3-43-9 47 Demidov, Valentin - BIO-1-24-4 32 Cohen, Eliahu - LM-1-4-2, LM-2-9-6 14, 18 Deng, Fengyuan - BIO-2-28-6 35 Cojocaru, Crina - TD-5-21-5 29 Dennis, Mark - NONLINEAR-6-41-1 44 Colin, Diego - POSTER-52 54 Deprat, Sebastien - HIGH- 45 Collier, Christopher - TD-8-35-3, 40, 56 POWER-4-42-5 POSTER-77, POSTER-80 Dequivre, Thomas - GREEN-1-7-4 16 Consani, Cristina - TD-1-1-2 11 Dernaika, Mohamad - POSTER-53 54 Cooke, David - NONLINEAR-3-26-3, 33, 45 Deschamps, Thierry - TD-4-16-3 25 HIGH-POWER-4-42-3 Devasagayam, Jasen - TD-8-35-3 40

72 Photonics North 2018 Di Pietro, Paola - TD-3-11-3 20 F Dignam, Marc M. - NONLINEAR-3-26-5, 33, 58 Falamarzi, Mohsen - OP-COMM-2-8-3 17 NONLINEAR-3-26-6, POSTER-101 Fasold, Stefan - NONLINEAR-4-31-3 37 Dinel, Marie-Pier - POSTER-05 49 Fassler, Thomas - MAT-3-43-1 46 Ding, Changqin - BIO-2-28-6 35 Fedorova, Ksenia - HIGH- 31, 52 Divitt, Shawn - NONLINEAR-4-31-2 37 POWER-2-23-1, POSTER-33 Djogo, Gligor - NSERC-2-44-07 48 Ferachou, Denis - HIGH-POWER-1-18-4 27 Dmitriev, Artemiy V. - BIO-4-37-1 41 Ferland, Marie-Christine - TEI-2-15-1 24 Doherty, Brenda Mary - NSERC-2-44-06 48 Fickler, Robert - LM-1-4-1, LM-1-4-2, 14, 17, Dolgaleva, Ksenia - NONLINEAR-1-2-1, 12, 37 LM-1-4-8, OP-COMM-2-8-4, OP- 30, 44 NONLINEAR-4-31-5 COMM-2-8-6, NONLINEAR-2-22-5, Dong, Junliang - BIO-4-37-3, POSTER-36 41, 52 NONLINEAR-6-41-1 Dong, Ying - LM-2-9-3 18 Fickler, Robert - OP-COMM-3-13-6 22 Donohue, John - OP-COMM-2-8-5 17 Figueroa, Eden - LM-3-14-4 23 Donohue, John M. - OP-COMM-2-8-1 17 Fischer, Bennet - LM-1-4-7 14 Dörfler, Andreas - GREEN-1-7-4 16 Florez, Jefferson - NONLINEAR-6-41-5, 45, 23 Dorrah, Ahmed - OP-COMM-3-13-7 22 LM-3-14-6 Doucas, G. - NONLINEAR-3-26-7, HIGH- 33, 45 Fontaine, Réjean - POSTER-44 53 POWER-4-42-2 Fortin, Vincent - NSERC-1-39-2, 43, 44, Drozdy, András - POSTER-67 59 NSERC-1-39-4, NSERC-2-44-01, 47 Du, H. - TD-2-6-4 15 NSERC-2-44-03 Dubois, Fabien - TD-5-21-2 29 Foucher, Caroline - HIGH- 45 Dubois, Florian - TD-4-16-3 25 POWER-4-42-7 Dubois, Frédérik - POSTER-44 53 Fourmaux, Sylvain - HIGH- 34 Duche, David - GREEN-3-17-6 26 POWER-3-27-5 Duchesne, Ismaël - MAT-2-38-2 42 Fradin, Cecile - POSTER-55, BIO-2-28-3 54, 35 Dufil, Yannick - GREEN-2-12-1 21 François, Véronique - POSTER-98 57 Dufour, Denis - BIO-4-37-6 41 Fransishyn, Kyle - GREEN-1-7-1 16 Dufour, Pascal - POSTER-22 51 Freitag, Stephan - POSTER-08 50 Dufour, Suzie - POSTER-17 50 Fritsch, Kilian - HIGH-POWER-1-18-5 27 Duggan, Shane - TD-4-16-1 25 Fröbel, Friedrich Georg - NSERC-2-44-10 48 Duval, Simon - NSERC-2-44-01 47 G Dyck, C. - POSTER-41 53 G. Cooke, David - HIGH- 46 Dzelzainis, Tom - BIO-1-24-4 32 POWER-4-42-10 E Gadalla, Mahmoud - POSTER-98 57 Gadenne, Virginie - GREEN-2-12-1 21 Ebrahimi Orimi, Hamid - POSTER-37 53 Gagnon, Mathieu - POSTER-85 56 Eichler, Hans Joachim - MAT-1-19-2 28 Galarneau, Pierre - TEI-2-15-4 24 Eidam, Tino - POSTER-67 59 Gallant, Pascal - POSTER-17 50 El Abdi, Rochdi - MAT-1-19-1 28 Galstian, Tigran - MAT-2-38-2, MAT-3- 42, 46 El Ahdab, Ranim - POSTER-15 50 43-4 Elias, Ana Laura - BIO-1-24-3 31 Gao, Boshen - NONLINEAR-6-41-7 45 Elitzur, Avshalom - LM-2-9-6 18 Gao, Jingsong - OP-COMM-3-13-6 22 Elsharabasy, Ahmed Y. - POSTER-58 55 Gao, Shoufei - NSERC-1-39-3 44 England, Duncan - LM-1-4-5, LM-1-4-6, 14, 18 García Delgado, Luis Arturo - 58 LM-2-9-5 POSTER-100 England, J. - TD-2-6-4 15 García Juárez, Alejandro - POSTER-99, 57, 58 Englund, Dirk - LM-3-14-2 23 POSTER-100 Ernotte, Guilmot - HIGH-POWER-3-27-7 34 Gardes, F. Y. - TD-2-6-4 15 Erskine, Jennifer - LM-1-4-5, LM-1-4-6, 14, 18 Geernaert, Thomas - TD-6-25-6 32 LM-2-9-5 Gendron, Pascal - POSTER-44 53 Ertorer, Erden - NSERC-2-44-07, 48 Ghanbari, Shirin - HIGH-POWER-2-23-1, 31, 52 NSERC-2-44-09 POSTER-32 Escobedo, Carlos - BIO-4-37-2 41 Giebel, Michael - MAT-3-43-1 46 Escoubas, Ludovic - GREEN-3-17-6 26

Photonics North 2018 73 Giese, Enno - LM-1-4-1, LM- 14, 30, H 1-4-8, NONLINEAR-2-22-5, 45 Hädrich, Steffen - HIGH-POWER-1-18-4, 27, 59 NONLINEAR-6-41-5 POSTER-67 Giner, Lambert - LM-3-14-6, TD-5-21-1, 23, 29, Haenze, Max - HIGH-POWER-4-42-1 45 OP-COMM-4-32-1, OP-COMM-4-32-3, 38, 45 Hagan, David - TD-1-1-3 11 NONLINEAR-6-41-5 Hallin, Emil - HIGH-POWER-3-27-5 34 Gingras, Lauren - NONLINEAR-3-26-3, 33, 45, HIGH-POWER-4-42-3, HIGH- 46 Hamidfar, Tabassom - BIO-4-37-1 41 POWER-4-42-10 Hanta, Greg - MAT-1-19-6 28 Girardi , Marcello - OP-COMM-3-13-4 22 Hao, Lin - POSTER-55 54 Gleeson, Helen - MAT-2-38-4 42 Haque, Moez - NSERC-2-44-07 48 Glesk, Ivan - TD-2-6-2 15 Harden, James - LM-2-9-6 18 Gocalinska, Agnieszka - TD-4-16-1 25 Harder, Georg - OP-COMM-2-8-1 17 Godbout, Nicolas - POSTER-13 50 Hardy , Pierre - POSTER-16 50 Golaraei, Ahmad - BIO-2-28-4 35 Harrison, H - NONLINEAR-3-26-7 33 Golub, Ilya - POSTER-12, POSTER-18, 50, 52 Harrison, H. - HIGH-POWER-4-42-2 45 POSTER-34 Hartung, Alexander - NSERC-1-39-3 44 Gómez Colín, María del Rocío - 58 Hasnan Sazzad, Muhammad - 51 POSTER-100 POSTER-20 Gomez-Cruz, Juan - BIO-4-37-2 41 Hatef, Ali - MAT-3-43-6, POSTER-76 47, 55 González, Francisco Javier - BIO-4-37-8 41 Hauden, Jérôme - TD-1-1-1 11 Gostimirovic, Dusan - OP-COMM-4-32-7 38 He, Yilin - OP-COMM-3-13-6 22 Goudreau, Scott - NONLINEAR-6-41-4 45 Heck, Maximilian - NSERC-2-44-04 47 Gourgon, Cécile - GREEN-3-17-6 26 Hegmann, Frank - NONLINEAR-3-26-2, 33, 46 Gräfe, Stefanie - NSERC-2-44-10 48 MAT-3-43-1, MAT-3-43-2 Gravel, Jean-François - POSTER-22 51 Heisler, Morgan - POSTER-02 49 Green, William M. J. - TD-3-11-4 20 Helbich, Tobias - MAT-3-43-2 46 Grégoire, N. - NONLINEAR-6-41-10 45 Helmy, Amr - NONLINEAR-5-36-4 40 Grigorova , Teodora - NSERC-1-39-3 44 Helt, Luke - LM-1-4-4, 14, 33 Grille, Thomas - TD-1-1-2 11 NONLINEAR-3-26-6 Grillot, Frederic - OP-COMM-4-32-6 38 Herman, Peter - NSERC-2-44-07, 48 NSERC-2-44-09 Grimau Puigibert, Marcel.li - OP- 17 COMM-2-8-3 Herrera Cortes, Oscar Alejandro - 54 POSTER-52 Grinberg, Yuri - TD-5-21-3 29 Heshami, Khabat - OP-COMM-2-8-4, 17, 23 Gringberg, Yuri - TD-7-30-6 36 OP-COMM-2-8-6, LM-3-14-5 Grossard, Nicolas - TD-1-1-1 11 Hilbert, Vinzenz - NSERC-1-39-5 44 Groulx, Robert - POSTER-44 53 Ho, Stephen - NSERC-2-44-07 48 Gu, Xijia - POSTER-28, POSTER-29 52 Hoang, Tuyen - HIGH-POWER-1-18-3 27 Gu, Yanran - HIGH-POWER-1-18-2, 27, 52 Hockett, Paul - HIGH-POWER-3-27-2, 34 POSTER-35 HIGH-POWER-3-27-2 Guenette, Jason - TD-7-30-1 36 Hoff, Dominik - POSTER-67 59 Guerber, Sylvain - POSTER-03 49 Hoffmann, Andreas - NSERC-1-39-3 44 Guerboukha, Hichem - TEI-1-10-5, TD-5- 19, 29, Hong, Kyung-Han - HIGH- 34 21-6, HIGH-POWER-4-42-8, HIGH- 46 POWER-3-27-1 POWER-4-42-9 Hosein, Ian - POSTER-95 57 Guevara, Edgar - BIO-4-37-8 41 Hosseinaee, Zohreh - BIO-3-33-5 39 Guillet de Chatellus, Hugues - TD-4-16-5 25 Howlader, Chandan - POSTER-33 52 Gul, Sabad-e- - MAT-3-43-9 47 Hrushevskyi, Taras - LM-3-14-5 23 Gupta, Anubha A - GREEN-3-17-1 26 Hu, Cindy Dongxin - POSTER-08 50 Gustin, Chris - LM-1-4-3 14 Hu, Yi - NONLINEAR-1-2-5 12 Guyot, Clément - TD-1-1-1 11 Huang, Christine - BIO-2-28-8

74 Photonics North 2018 Huang, Joey - BIO-2-28-8 K Hudson, Alexander - POSTER-94, 57 Kahraman, Mehmet - POSTER-93 57 POSTER-95 Kahrizi, Mojtaba - POSTER-73, 55 Hufnagel, Felix - OP-COMM-2-8-6 17 POSTER-74 Hufnagel, Felix - OP-COMM-2-8-4 17 Kallos , Efthymios - GREEN-3-17-4 26 Huggard, P. G. - NONLINEAR-3-26-7 33 Kamandar Dezfouli, Mohsen - 37 Hughes, Stephen - LM-1-4-3, LM-2-9-4, 14, 18, NONLINEAR-4-31-7 NONLINEAR-4-31-7 37 Kaminska, Bozena - TEI-2-15-6, 24, 45 Hui, Lok Shu - MAT-1-19-6 28 NONLINEAR-6-41-9 Huneault, Mathieu - POSTER-60 59 Kante, Boubacar - NONLINEAR-2-22-1 30 Huttunen, Mikko J. - 37 Karimi, Ebrahim - LM-1-4-2, OP- 14, 17, NONLINEAR-4-31-5 COMM-2-8-4, OP-COMM-2-8-6, 18, 31, I LM-2-9-6, HIGH-POWER-2-23-4, 44, 57 Islam, Mehedi - LM-1-4-7 14 NONLINEAR-6-41-1, POSTER-97 Ismail, Dima - POSTER-80 56 Kartashov, Daniil - NSERC-1-39-3 44 Itzkan, Irving - POSTER-70 55 Kashyap, Raman - MAT-3-43-5 46 Izquierdo, Ricardo - GREEN-3-17-1 26 Katayama, Kenji - MAT-1-19-8 28 Kawamura, Marenori - MAT-2-38-5 42 J Kelly, Timothy - GREEN-1-7-1, 16, 26 J. Siwick, Bradley - HIGH- 46 GREEN-3-17-2 POWER-4-42-10 Kenton, Maya - POSTER-93 57 Jafari, S. H. - NONLINEAR-6-41-10 45 Khajavikhan, Mercedeh - 30 Jafari, Seyed Hamed - 2 NONLINEAR-2-22-2 NONLINEAR-1-2-4 Khan, Umar - POSTER-70 55 Jaffar, Noor - POSTER-80 56 Khatami, Zahra - TD-2-6-1, MAT-1-19-7 15, 28 Jain, Ashish - HIGH-POWER-2-23-4 31 Khater, Marwan - TD-3-11-4 20 Jakoby, Bernhard - TD-1-1-2 11 Khattak, Hamza - BIO-2-28-2 35 Janz, Siegfried - TD-7-30-6 36 Kheireddine, Sara - BIO-4-37-4, 41, 57 Jauregui, Cesar - POSTER-62 59 POSTER-93 Javan Roshtkhari, Mehraveh - HIGH- 31 Kherani, Nazir P. - GREEN-1-7-2 16 POWER-2-23-3 Khonina, Svetlana - POSTER-34 52 Jensen, Asger S. - TD-3-11-4 20 Kiani, Amirkianoosh - POSTER-24, 51 Jeong, Young-Gyun - HIGH- 27 POSTER-25 POWER-1-18-4 Kieffer, Jean Claude - HIGH- 34 Jestin, Yoann - HIGH-POWER-4-42-5, 45 POWER-3-27-5 HIGH-POWER-4-42-6 Kim, Dae-Hyeon - POSTER-20 51 Jia, Xiao - POSTER-83 56 Kim, Jin Wook - MAT-1-19-6 28 Jian, Yifan - BIO-2-28-8, POSTER-02 49 Kim, Seong - BIO-1-24-3 31 Jiang, Hao - TEI-2-15-6, 24, 45 Kim, Woo Young - MAT-1-19-6 28 NONLINEAR-6-41-9 Kishk, Ahmed A. - TD-6-25-5, 32, 55 Jin, Xin - TD-3-11-3, TEI-2-15-5, TD-7- 20, 24, POSTER-72 30-2, POSTER-79 36, 56 Klas, Robert - NSERC-1-39-5 44 Jisha, Chandroth Pannian - 48 Knights, Andrew P. - TD-1-1-3, MAT-3- 11, 47 NSERC-2-44-08 43-8 Jobin, Frédéric - NSERC-2-44-03 47 Knopf, George - MAT-1-19-4, MAT-1- 28 Johnson, Kyle - POSTER-61 59 19-5 Jójárt, Péter - POSTER-67 59 Kobelke, Jens - NSERC-1-39-3 44 Jone, Saul - S8-1-3 28 Kojovic, Lazar - MAT-1-19-6 28 Jourlin, Yves - GREEN-2-12-2 21 Koleilat, Ghada - GREEN-2-12-4 21 Ju, Myeong Jin - BIO-2-28-8, POSTER-02 49 Kolhatkar, Gitanjali - GREEN-1-7-4 16 Jull, Ethan - MAT-2-38-4 42 Kong, Hyeran - LM-2-9-3 18 Just, Florian - POSTER-67 59

Photonics North 2018 75 Konoplev, Ivan - NONLINEAR-3-26-7, 33, 45 Légaré, François - NONLINEAR-1-2-7, 12, 24, HIGH-POWER-4-42-2 TEI-2-15-5, HIGH-POWER-1-18-4, 27, 48 Kontenis, Lukas - BIO-2-28-4 35 NSERC-2-44-12 Korkmaz, Aysun - POSTER-93 57 Légaré, François - NSERC-1-39-3 44 Kovalev, Anton - NONLINEAR-6-41-6 45 Legault, Marc-Antoine - POSTER-85 56 Krausz, Ferenc - HIGH-POWER-1-18-5 27 Lei, Chengmin - HIGH-POWER-1-18-2, 27, 52 Kremer, Mark - POSTER-65 59 POSTER-35 Kreplak, Laurent - NSERC-2-44-12 48 Lemaire, William - POSTER-44 53 Krolikowski, Wieslaw - TD-5-21-5 29 Lemieux, Samuel - LM-1-4-1 14 Krysa, Andrey - HIGH-POWER-2-23-1 31 Lepers, Catherine - OP-COMM-1-3-3 13 Ksari, Younal - GREEN-2-12-1 21 Letartre, Xavier - TD-4-16-3 25 Kues, Michael - LM-1-4-7, 14, 45, Leuchs, Gerd - OP-COMM-2-8-6, 17, 44 NONLINEAR-6-41-6, NSERC-2-44-11 48 NONLINEAR-6-41-2 Kumar, Dinesh - POSTER-52 54 Levesque, Sebastien A. - BIO-3-33-3 39 Kumar, Indrajeet - POSTER-14 50 Lezec, Henri - NONLINEAR-4-31-2 - 37 Kumar, Shiva - POSTER-59 55 NONLINEAR-4-31-8 Kumar, Shiva - OP-COMM-1-3-1 13 Li, Jianwei - POSTER-42 53 Kundu, Soumya - GREEN-1-7-1 16 Li, Jianzhao - NSERC-2-44-07, 48 NSERC-2-44-09 Kung, Peter - POSTER-73 55 Li, Qingling - POSTER-42 53 Kupchak, Connor - LM-1-4-5, LM-1-4-6, 14, 18 LM-2-9-5 Li, Zhihong - HIGH-POWER-1-18-2, 27, 51, POSTER-26, POSTER-27, POSTER-28, 52, 54 Kuruvinashetti, Kiran - POSTER-01 49 POSTER-29, POSTER-35, POSTER-48 L Li, Zhixian - POSTER-26 51 Labau, Sebastien - GREEN-3-17-6 26 Liang, Kunyu - MAT-1-19-6 28 Labrecque-Dias, Michel - POSTER-44 53 Liboiron-Ladouceur, Odile - TD-1-1-4, 11, 13 Lagugne-Labarthet, Francois - 21, 54 OP-COMM-1-3-4 GREEN-2-12-6, POSTER-54 Lilge, Lothar - BIO-1-24-4 32 Lammers, Kim - NSERC-2-44-02 47 Limodehi, Hamid E. - TEI-2-15-5 24 Lamy de la Chapelle, Marc - POSTER-06 49 Limpert, Jens - HIGH-POWER-1-18-4, 27, 44, Lancaster, A. - NONLINEAR-3-26-7, 33, 45 NSERC-1-39-5, POSTER-62, POSTER-67 59 HIGH-POWER-4-42-2 Lin, C. - NONLINEAR-5-36-4 40 Lang, Klaus Dieter - MAT-1-19-2 28 Lin, Hao - POSTER-95 57 Lapointe, Jean - TD-1-1-7 11 Lin, Weixuan - POSTER-51 54 LaRochelle, Sophie - OP-COMM-3-13-2 22 Little, Brent E. - LM-1-4-7, 14, 48 Larocque, Hugo - LM-1-4-2, LM-2-9-6, 14, 18, NSERC-2-44-11 NONLINEAR-6-41-1 44 Littlejohn, Callum - TD-2-6-4 15 Lashkor, Wasim - NONLINEAR-1-2-3 12 Liu, Chang - LM-2-9-3 18 Lassonde, Philippe - NSERC-1-39-3 44 Liu, Juanjuan - POSTER-93 57 Latifi, Hamid - POSTER-81 56 Liu, Le - POSTER-48 54 Lauzon, Jocelyn - TEI-1-10-4 19 Liu, Sifan - NSERC-2-44-07, 48 Lavergne, Pauline - BIO-3-33-3 39 NSERC-2-44-09 Lavery, Martin P. J. - OP-COMM-3-13-5 22 Liu, Zhiwen - BIO-1-24-3 31 Lavigne, Guillaume - GREEN-1-7-5, 16, 26, Long, Pin - HIGH-POWER-1-18-3 27 GREEN-3-17-4, POSTER-83 56 Loth, Sebastian - HIGH-POWER-4-42-1 45 Le Noc, Loïc - BIO-4-37-6 41 Lourdiane, Mounia - OP-COMM-1-3-3 13 Le Roux, Xavier - NONLINEAR-1-2-2 12 Lubio, Aura - GREEN-1-7-4 16 Le-Rouzo, Judikael - GREEN-3-17-6 26 Lugli, Paolo - MAT-3-43-2 46 LeBlanc, Lindsay - LM-3-14-5 23 Lühder, Tilman - POSTER-63 59 Leblond, Frédéric - BIO-3-33-2 39 Lundeen, Jeff S. - LM-3-14-6, TD- 23, 29, Leclercq, Jean-Louis - TD-4-16-3 25 5-21-1, OP-COMM-4-32-1, OP- 38, 45 Ledemi, Yannick - MAT-3-43-5 46 COMM-4-32-3, NONLINEAR-6-41-4, Lee, Seung Ill - MAT-1-19-6 28 NONLINEAR-6-41-5 Lee, Youn seok - LM-2-9-3 18 Lupi, Stefano - TD-3-11-3, 20, 33 NONLINEAR-3-26-1

76 Photonics North 2018 Lutz, Thomas - OP-COMM-2-8-3 17 Mascher, Peter - TD-2-6-1, MAT-1-19-7, 15, 28, Lyuleeva, Alina - MAT-3-43-2 46 MAT-3-43-8 47 M Mashanovich, G. Z. - TD-2-6-4 15 Massari, Michele - OP-COMM-3-13-4 22 Ma, Xinyuan - LM-3-14-6 23 Masson, Jean-François - POSTER-05, 49, 54 Maamoun, Khaled - POSTER-102 58 POSTER-47 Macaluso, Roberto - TD-7-30-2 36 Matte, Dominique - HIGH- 46 MacDonald, Jake - TEI-1-10-3 19 POWER-4-42-10 MacLean, Jean-Philippe - OP- 17 Maubois, Billie - POSTER-13 50 COMM-2-8-5 McAfee, Seth - GREEN-3-17-2 26 Maes, Frédéric - NSERC-1-39-4, 44, 47 McGarvey-Lechable, Kathleen - TD-3- 20, 56 NSERC-2-44-03 11-5, POSTER-86 Magaña-Loaiza, Omar - 30 McMurtrie, Gregory - HIGH- 45 NONLINEAR-2-22-5 POWER-4-42-1 Maghrabi, Mahmoud - POSTER-59 55 Mejia Uzeda, Erick - NSERC-2-44-09 48 Mahmood, Fariha - POSTER-94, 57, 57 Melati, Daniele - TD-5-21-3, TD-7-30-6 29, 36 POSTER-96 Melloni, Andrea - TD-2-6-3, TD-7-30-6 15, 36 Maia, Lauro J.Q. - MAT-3-43-5 46 Menard, Francois - OP-COMM-1-3-5 13 Maillart, Emmanuel - POSTER-06 49 Ménard, Jean-Michel - HIGH- 45, 45 Major, Arkady - HIGH-POWER-1-18-1, 27, 31, POWER-4-42-3, HIGH-POWER-4-42-4 HIGH-POWER-2-23-1, POSTER-30, 52, 53 POSTER-31, POSTER-32, POSTER-33, Merlen, Alexandre - GREEN-1-7-3, 16, 53, POSTER-38, POSTER-39, POSTER-40 POSTER-45, POSTER-75 55 Major, Arkady - POSTER-41 53 Mermut, Ozzy - POSTER-17 50 Majoribanks, Robin - BIO-1-24-4 32 Messaddeq, Younès - 45, 46 NONLINEAR-6-41-10, MAT-3-43-5 Makhija, Varun - HIGH-POWER-3-27-2, 34 HIGH-POWER-3-27-2 Messina, Gabriele C. - TD-3-11-3, 20, 56 POSTER-79 Malavolti, Luigi - HIGH-POWER-4-42-1 45 Meunier, Michel - MAT-1-19-3, 28, 49, Maltais-Tariant, Raphaël - BIO-3-33-4 39 POSTER-07, POSTER-16, POSTER-57 50, 55 Malytskyi, Volodymyr - GREEN-2-12-1 21 Mezzadrelli, Alessia - OP-COMM-3-13-4 22 Mamosian, Heidar - TEI-1-10-3 19 Michelotti, Francesco - TD-7-30-4 36 Mangan, Brian J. - BIO-4-37-1 41 Mikulic, Predrag - POSTER-14 50 Mangeat, Gabriel - TD-5-21-6 29 Miller, Jeremy - MAT-3-43-8 47 Manjooran, Sujith - HIGH- 27, 53 Mintova, Svetlana - MAT-3-43-9 47 POWER-1-18-1, POSTER-40, POSTER-41 Mirsanaye, Kamdin - BIO-2-28-7 35 Mansour Abadi, Mojtaba - OP- 22 Mirzaee, Somayeh - GREEN-3-17-5 26 COMM-3-13-5 Mnaymneh, Khaled - TD-1-1-7 11 Maram, Reza - TD-4-16-5 25 Mohajeri, Roya - TEI-2-15-5 24 Marcaud, Guillaume - 12 Mojahedi, Mo - OP-COMM-3-13-7 22 NONLINEAR-1-2-2 Monfray, Stephane - POSTER-03 49 Marceau, Claude - HIGH- 34 Morandotti, Roberto - 12, 14, POWER-3-27-2 NONLINEAR-1-2-5, LM-1-4-7, 20, 27, Margeat, Olivier - GREEN-3-17-6 26 TD-3-11-3, HIGH-POWER-1-18-4, 32, 36, Marin, Riccardo - BIO-4-37-3 41 TD-6-25-1, TD-7-30-2, BIO-4-37-3, 41, 45, HIGH-POWER-4-42-5, HIGH- 48, 52, Markov, Andrey - HIGH-POWER-4-42-7 45 POWER-4-42-6, HIGH-POWER-4-42-7, 56, 59 Marquardt, Christoph - OP- 17 NONLINEAR-6-41-6, NSERC-2-44-11, COMM-2-8-6 POSTER-36, POSTER-78, POSTER-79, Marques Muniz, Andre Luiz - POSTER-64 59 POSTER-64 Marquet, Pierre - BIO-3-33-3, 39, 58 Moreau, Julien - BIO-4-37-5, POSTER-06 41, 49 POSTER-103 Morency, S. - NONLINEAR-6-41-10 45 Marris-Morini, Delphine - 12 Morim, Derek - POSTER-95, POSTER-96 57 NONLINEAR-1-2-2 Morin, Henri - TD-5-21-1 29 Martel, Stéphane - POSTER-44 53 Morris, Eric - POSTER-08 50 Martin, Suzanne - MAT-3-43-9 47 Mortimer, Dominic - 44 Martinez, Aldo C. - OP-COMM-4-32-1 38 NONLINEAR-6-41-1

Photonics North 2018 77 Moss, David J. - LM-1-4-7, 14, 45, Osvay, Károly - POSTER-67 59 NONLINEAR-6-41-6, NSERC-2-44-11 48 Ozaki, Tsuneyuki - NONLINEAR-3-26-8 - 33, 34 Mouftah, Hussein T. - POSTER-102 58 HIGH-POWER-3-27-3 Mouna, Haouas - POSTER-12 50 P Mugnes, Jean-Michel - BIO-3-33-3 39 Packirisamy, Muthukumaran - 49 Murate, Kosuke - HIGH-POWER-2-23-3 31 POSTER-01 Muravyeva, Maria - POSTER-70 55 Paladiya, Chirag - POSTER-24 51 Murray, William - BIO-1-24-3 31 Palazon, Francisco - TD-3-11-3 20 N Pan, Yi - POSTER-55 54 N. Christodoulides, Demetrios - 59 Panabiere, Marie - GREEN-3-17-6 26 POSTER-64 Pardon, Antonin - TD-4-16-3 25 Naas, Nabil - POSTER-102 58 Parent, Samuel - POSTER-44 53 Naccache, Rafik - BIO-4-37-3, 41, 52 Parigi, Valentina - OP-COMM-3-13-1 22 POSTER-36 Park, Wonji - MAT-3-43-5 46 Nadimi, Mohammad - POSTER-33, 52, 53 Patel, Devarshi - TEI-2-15-6 24 POSTER-38, POSTER-39 Patel, Jasbir - TEI-2-15-6 24 Nair, Srijit - BIO-4-37-2 41 Patri, Ashutosh - POSTER-82 56 Nallappan, Kathirvel - TEI-1-10-5, 19, 29, Patrone, Lionel - GREEN-2-12-1 21 TD-5-21-6, HIGH-POWER-4-42-8, 46, 56 Patskovsky, Sergiy - MAT-1-19-3, 28, 49 POSTER-78 POSTER-07 Namdar, Abdolrahman - MAT-3-43-6 47 Paulus, Gerhard - POSTER-67 59 Narayanswamy, Sivakumar - POSTER-37 53 Peccianti, Marco - HIGH-POWER-4-42-5 45 Narreto, Mary Alvean - MAT-3-43-1, 46 Pelucchi, Emanuele - TD-4-16-1 25 MAT-3-43-2 Pena Ventura, Thomas - POSTER-94 57 Naumov, A. Yu. - HIGH-POWER-3-27-2, 34 Peng, Bo - TD-3-11-4 20 HIGH-POWER-3-27-2 Penzo, Erika - NONLINEAR-5-36-1 40 Navaeipour, Parvin - 33 Perelman, Lev - POSTER-70 55 NONLINEAR-3-26-5 Pérez Galacho, Diego - 12 Naydenova, Izabela - MAT-3-43-9 47 NONLINEAR-1-2-2 Nechache, Riad - NONLINEAR-3-26-8 33 Perrott, Alison H. - TD-5-21-2, 29, 54 Nechayev, Sergey - NONLINEAR-6-41-2 44 POSTER-53 Nejadsattari, Farshad - LM-1-4-2 14 Pertsch, Thomas - NONLINEAR-4-31-3 37 Nerguizian, Chahe - TEI-1-10-5 19 Perucchi, Andrea - TD-3-11-3 20 Neugebauer, Martin - 44 Peschel, Ulf - POSTER-64, POSTER-65 59 NONLINEAR-6-41-2 Peters, Frank H. - TD-4-16-1, TD-5-21-2, 25, 29, Ng, Ringo - BIO-2-28-8 POSTER-53 54 Nguyen, Hai Son - TD-4-16-3 25 Picard, Francis - BIO-4-37-6 41 Niedre, Mark - BIO-3-33-7 39 Piccoli, Riccardo - TD-3-11-3, HIGH- 20, 27, Nolet, Frédéric - POSTER-44 53 POWER-1-18-4, TD-7-30-2, BIO-4- 36, 41, Nolte, Stefan - NSERC-2-44-02, 47, 48 37-3, HIGH-POWER-4-42-5, HIGH- 45, 52, NSERC-2-44-04, NSERC-2-44-08 POWER-4-42-6, HIGH-POWER-4-42-7, 56 Noriega Luna, José Rafael Benito - 58 POSTER-36, POSTER-79 POSTER-100 Piché, Michel - HIGH-POWER-1-18-7, 27, 47, Novoa, David - HIGH-POWER-4-42-4 45 NSERC-2-44-01, POSTER-43, 53, 59 Nunzi, Jean-Michel - GREEN-3-17-5, 26, 51 POSTER-60 GREEN-3-17-5, POSTER-20 Piekny, Alisa - POSTER-01 49 O Pinsard, Maxime - NSERC-2-44-12 48 O'Faolain, Liam - NONLINEAR-6-41-7 45 Plathier, Julien - GREEN-1-7-4 16 Oblak, Daniel - OP-COMM-2-8-3 17 Platzer, Dominique - HIGH- 34 Olivier, Michel - NSERC-2-44-01, 47, 59 POWER-3-27-2, HIGH-POWER-3-27-2 POSTER-60 Podmore, Hugh - TD-7-30-5 36 Orobtchouk, Regis - POSTER-03, MAT- 49, 47 Poinsinet De Sivry-Houle, Martin - 50 3-43-7 POSTER-13 Ortega-Monux, Alejandro - TD-6-25-2 32 Poisson, Michel - TD-5-21-1 29 Ortiz-Jimenez, Orlando - POSTER-50 54 Polo, Federico - POSTER-05 49

78 Photonics North 2018 Ponte, Matthew - POSTER-94 57 Rieger, Bernhard - MAT-3-43-2 46 Poole, Philip - TD-1-1-7 11 Rioux-Pellerin, Emile - BIO-3-33-3 39 Porquez, Jeremy - BIO-2-28-5 35 Rizzelli, Giuseppe - TD-5-21-4 29 Porte, Henri - TD-1-1-1 11 Ro, Yeji - BIO-2-28-4 35 Pou, Chilam - POSTER-11 50 Robichaud, Louis-Rafaël - 47 Poulin-Girard, Anne-Sophie - POSTER-85 56 NSERC-2-44-01 Pourcin, Florent - GREEN-3-17-6 26 Robitaille, Simon - POSTER-43 53 Pradhan, Prabin - TD-4-16-2 25 Robles, Régis - NONLINEAR-6-41-8 45 Prasad, Shravani - POSTER-77 56 Rochette, Martin - NONLINEAR-1-2-3, 12, 54 Prato, Mirko - TD-3-11-3 20 POSTER-51 Pratte, Jean-François - POSTER-44 53 Rodriguez, Christophe - GREEN-3-17-4 26 Prickaerts, Melissa - BIO-1-24-4 32 Rodriguez Asomoza, Jorge - POSTER-99, 57, 58 Priti, Rubana - OP-COMM-1-3-4 13 POSTER-100 Proietti Zaccaria, Remo - 40 Rojo Romeo, Pedro - MAT-3-43-7 47 NONLINEAR-5-36-3 Rolf-Pissarczyk, Steffen - HIGH- 45 Pronin, Oleg - HIGH-POWER-1-18-5 27 POWER-4-42-1 Pühringer, Gerald - TD-1-1-2 11 Romanato, Filippo - OP-COMM-3-13-4 22 Romanet, Cameron - BIO-1-24-4 32 Q Romero Cortes, Luis - NSERC-2-44-11 48 Qi, Mengjiao - POSTER-07 49 Ropagnol, Xavier - HIGH- 31, 33 Qiu, Le - POSTER-70 55 POWER-2-23-3- NONLINEAR-3-26-4 Qiu, Yujie - NONLINEAR-1-2-5 12 Rosa, Pawel - TD-5-21-4 29 Quigley, Andrew S. - NSERC-2-44-12 48 Rosemberg, Jessie - TD-3-11-4 20 Quitoriano, Nate - OP-COMM-4-32-2 38 Rossignol, Tommy - POSTER-44 53 R Rothhardt, Jan - NSERC-1-39-5 44 Rafailov, Edik - HIGH-POWER-2-23-1, 31, 52 Rotomskis, Ricardas - BIO-2-28-7 35 POSTER-33 Rovere, Andrea - TD-3-11-3, TD-7-30-2, 20, 36, Rahimian, Mitra - HIGH-POWER-2-23-4 31 POSTER-79 56 Rahmani, Mohsen - NONLINEAR-2-22-3 30 Roy, Nicolas - POSTER-44 53 Rahnama, Abdullah - HIGH- 31 Roztocki, Piotr - LM-1-4-7, 14, 45, POWER-2-23-2 NONLINEAR-6-41-6, NSERC-2-44-11 48 Raimundo, Jean-Manuel - GREEN-2-12-1 21 Ruediger, Andreas - GREEN-1-7-4, 16, 21, Rainville, Simon - MAT-2-38-2 42 GREEN-2-12-5, POSTER-75 55 Ramunno, Lora - NONLINEAR-4-31-6 - 37, 48 Ruffato, Gianluca - OP-COMM-3-13-4 22 NSERC-2-44-12 Ruiz, Carmen - GREEN-3-17-6 26 Ranacher, Christian - TD-1-1-2 11 Russell, Philip - HIGH-POWER-4-42-4 45 Ranjbar Naeini, Omid Reza - POSTER-81 56 S Rasekh, Payman - NONLINEAR-1-2-1 12 Saad-Bin-Alam, Md - 37 Rashidi, Arezou - MAT-3-43-6, 47, 55 NONLINEAR-4-31-5 POSTER-76 Sabooni, Mahmood - LM-2-9-3 18 Rastogi, Anindya - LM-3-14-5 23 Sacher, Wesley D. - TD-3-11-4 20 Razzari, Luca - TD-3-11-3, TEI-2-15-5, 20, 24, Sadasivan, Jayesh - HIGH- 46 HIGH-POWER-1-18-4, TD-7-30-2, 27, 36, POWER-4-42-9 HIGH-POWER-4-42-5, HIGH- 45, 52, Saeidi, Shayan - NONLINEAR-1-2-1 12 POWER-4-42-6, HIGH-POWER-4-42-7, 56 Safaie, Naghmeh - POSTER-25 51 POSTER-36, POSTER-79 Safari, Akbar - NONLINEAR-2-22-5 30 Reed, Graham T. - TD-1-1-5, TD-2-6-4 11, 15 Saglamyurek, Erhan - LM-3-14-5 23 Reimer, Christian - LM-1-4-7, 14, 45, NONLINEAR-6-41-6, NSERC-2-44-11 48 Saito, Shintaro - MAT-2-38-5 42 Resch, Kevin - OP-COMM-2-8-5 17 Sakah, Mahmud - POSTER-10, 50 POSTER-11 Reshef, Orad - NONLINEAR-4-31-5 37 Sakata, R. - NONLINEAR-3-26-8 33 Reynaud, Clement - GREEN-3-17-6 26 Samadi, Sevin - POSTER-74 55 Reza, Mohammad Anisur Rahman - 53 POSTER-41 Sansoni, Linda - OP-COMM-2-8-1 17 Ribierre, Jean-Charles - POSTER-20 51

Photonics North 2018 79 Saravanamuttu, Kalaichelvi - MAT-3-43- 46, 54, Sinibaldi, Alberto - TD-7-30-4 36 3, POSTER-52, POSTER-55, POSTER-55, 57, 57 Sit, Alicia - LM-1-4-2, OP-COMM-2-8-6, 14, 17, POSTER-94, POSTER-95, POSTER-96 LM-2-9-6 18 Sarkar, Mitradeep - BIO-4-37-5, 41, 49 Sit, Alicia - OP-COMM-2-8-4 17 POSTER-06 Skorobogatiy, Maksim - TEI-1-10-5, TD- 19, 29, Sarunic, Marinko - BIO-2-28-8, ,49 5-21-6, HIGH-POWER-4-42-8, HIGH- 46, 56 POSTER-02 POWER-4-42-9, POSTER-78 Sato, Susumu - MAT-2-38-5 42 Skripka, Artiom - BIO-4-37-3 41 Sayler, Max - POSTER-67 59 Slavik, Radan - TD-4-16-6 25 Scalora, Michael - TD-5-21-5, 29, 37 Slepkov, Aaron - BIO-2-28-2, BIO-2-28-5 35 NONLINEAR-4-31-1 Smelser, Christopher 2, 45, 51 Schaarschmidt, Kay - POSTER-66 59 - NONLINEAR-1-2-4, Schiff-Kearn, Aidan - HIGH- 45 NONLINEAR-6-41-10, POSTER-19 POWER-4-42-3, HIGH-POWER-4-42-4 Sohrabi Kashani, Ahmad - POSTER-01 49 Schlie, Bjoern - HIGH-POWER-4-42-1 45 Sokolovskii, Grgorii - POSTER-33 52 Schmid, Jens - TD-5-21-3, TD-7-30-6 29, 36 Sollapur, Rudrakant - NSERC-1-39-3 44 Schmidt, Bruno E. - HIGH- 27, 44 Söllradl, Thomas - TD-1-1-2 11 POWER-1-18-4, NSERC-1-39-3 Sorel, M. - TD-2-6-4 15 Schmidt, Markus A. - NSERC-1-39-3, 44, 48, Sosna, Aleksandra - POSTER-08 50 NSERC-2-44-06, POSTER-63, 59, 59 Spielmann , Christian - NSERC-1-39-3 44 POSTER-66 Spisser, Hélène - BIO-4-37-6 41 Schneidewind, Henrik - POSTER-63 59 Spotts, Isaac - POSTER-80 56 Schulz, Sebastian - NONLINEAR-6-41-7 45 St-Gelais, Raphael - GREEN-2-12-3 21 Schuster, Vittoria - NSERC-1-39-5 44 St-Hilaire, Gabriel - POSTER-44 53 Schwuchow, Anka - NSERC-1-39-3 44 Stankovic, S. - TD-2-6-4 15 Sciaini, Germán - HIGH-POWER-3-27-4 34 Stapleton, Melissa - POSTER-102 58 Sciara, Stefania - LM-1-4-7, 14, 48 Staude, Isabelle - TD-6-25-3, 32, 37 NSERC-2-44-11 NONLINEAR-4-31-3 Scisciò, Massimiliano - HIGH- 34 Steel, Michael - LM-1-4-4 14 POWER-3-27-6 Stihler, Christoph - POSTER-62 59 Sedaghati, Zohreh - POSTER-39 53 Stivala, Salvatore - HIGH- 45 Seghilani, Mohamed - TD-5-21-6 29 POWER-4-42-7 Seifikar, Masoud - TD-5-21-2 29 Stolle, Michael - BIO-2-28-3 35 Seifoory, Hossein - POSTER-101 58 Stolow, Albert - HIGH-POWER-3-27-2, 34 Seletskiy, Denis - MAT-3-43-5 46 HIGH-POWER-3-27-2 Sellai, Azzouz - POSTER-21 51 Strickland, Donna - HIGH- 27, 31 Sengupta, Dipankar - TD-4-16-2 25 POWER-1-18-3, HIGH-POWER-2-23-2 Setzpfandt, Frank - NONLINEAR-4-31-3 37 Strupler, Mathias - POSTER-13 50 Severiano-Carrillo, Israel - POSTER-50 54 Su, Xinyang - HIGH-POWER-1-18-3 27 Shahalizad Namin, Afshin - POSTER-20 51 Su, Xinyang - POSTER-42 53 Sharma, Manish - NONLINEAR-6-41-3 44 Su, Y. - NONLINEAR-5-36-4 40 Sharp, G. - TD-2-6-4 15 Sudalaiyadum Perumal, Ayyappasamy - 41 Shastri, Ankita - POSTER-96 57 BIO-4-37-4 Shestaev, Evgeny - POSTER-67 59 Sudalaiyadum Perumal, Ayyappasamy - 57 Shevelev, M. - NONLINEAR-3-26-7, 33, 45 POSTER-93 HIGH-POWER-4-42-2 Sugic, Danica - NONLINEAR-6-41-1 44 Sidhu, Navjot kaur - POSTER-73, 55 Sumetsky, Michael - BIO-4-37-1 41 POSTER-74 Sun, Hong-Bo - NONLINEAR-5-36-3 40 Silberhorn, Chrisine - OP-COMM-2-8-1 17 Sun, Shuhui - GREEN-2-12-5 21 Simon, Christoph - LM-3-14-3 23 Sussman, Benjamin - LM-1-4-5, LM-1-4- 14, 18, Simon, Jean-Jacques - GREEN-2-12-1, 21, 26 6, LM-2-9-5, OP-COMM-3-13-4 38 GREEN-3-17-6 Sutter, Dirk - HIGH-POWER-1-18-5 27 Simpson, Garth - BIO-2-28-6 35 Sutton, Mark - HIGH-POWER-4-42-10 46 Sinar, Dogan - MAT-1-19-5 28 Switkowski, Krzysztof - TD-5-21-5 29 Sinclair, Neil - OP-COMM-2-8-3 17 Sylvestre, Julien - NONLINEAR-6-41-8 45

80 Photonics North 2018 Szabó, Áron - POSTER-67 59 U T Ulcickas, James - BIO-2-28-6 35 Tabatabaei, Nima - BIO-3-33-1 39 Ung, Bora - TD-4-16-2, 25, 44, Tahmasbi, Mohammad Mehdi - 56 NONLINEAR-6-41-3, POSTER-98 57 POSTER-81 Upham, Jeremy - NONLINEAR-6-41-7 45 Taira, Takunori - TD-8-35-2 40 Urakawa, J. - NONLINEAR-3-26-7, 33, 45 Takiguchi, Kenji - NONLINEAR-3-26-8 33 HIGH-POWER-4-42-2 Tanaka, Koichiro - NONLINEAR-3-26-8 33 Uribe Castano, Leonardo Jose - BIO-3- 39 Tanev, Stoyan - TEI-1-10-3 19 33-6 Tani, Francesco - HIGH-POWER-4-42-4 45 Uribe-Patarroyo, Nestor - BIO-3-33-4 39 Taravati, Sajjad - TD-6-25-5, POSTER-72 32, 55 V Taucer, Marco - HIGH-POWER-3-27-7 34 Vale, Julie - POSTER-77 56 Taylor, Alexander - NONLINEAR-6-41-1 44 Valenzuela Loubet, Hector Jalil - 54 Teng, Jinghua - NONLINEAR-5-36-2 40 POSTER-50 Terrones, Mauricio - BIO-1-24-3 31 Vallee, Real - POSTER-103, 58, 43, Terunuma, N. - NONLINEAR-3-26-7, 33, 45 NSERC-1-39-2, NSERC-1-39-4, 44, 47 HIGH-POWER-4-42-2 NSERC-2-44-01, NSERC-2-44-03, Thekkadath, Guillaume S. - LM-3-14-6 23 NSERC-2-44-04 Thibault, Simon - TD-7-30-1, POSTER-85 36, 56 Vallières, Simon - HIGH-POWER-3-27-6 34 Thienpont, Hugo - TD-6-25-6 32 Vallone, Giuseppe - OP-COMM-2-8-2 17 Thomas, Jyothis - MAT-3-43-5 46 Vampa, Giulio - NONLINEAR-1-2-6 12 Thomson, D. J. - TD-2-6-4 15 Van der Kolk, Jarno - NSERC-2-44-12 48 Tittel, Wolfgang - OP-COMM-2-8-3 17 Van Thourhout, Dries - TD-1-1-6 11 Tokmakov, Kirill - BIO-4-37-1 41 Várallyay, Zoltán - POSTER-67 59 Toma, Andrea - TD-3-11-3, TD-7- 20, 36, Vargas-Baca, Ignacio - POSTER-96 57 30-2, NONLINEAR-5-36-3, HIGH- 40, 45, Varriale, Antonio - POSTER-08 50 POWER-4-42-7, POSTER-79 56 Vasilopoulos, Panagiotis - 45 Tomasino, Alessandro - HIGH- 45 NONLINEAR-6-41-11 POWER-4-42-5, HIGH-POWER-4-42-6, Veinot, Jonathan - MAT-3-43-2 46 HIGH-POWER-4-42-7 Veltri, Simona - HIGH-POWER-3-27-6 34 Topart, Patrice - BIO-4-37-6 41 Venius, Jonas - BIO-2-28-7 35 Toronov, Vladislav - POSTER-09 50 Veres, Samuel P. - NSERC-2-44-12 48 Torres-Galván, Juan Carlos - BIO-4-37-8 41 Vetrone, Fiorenzo - BIO-4-37-3 41 Tortschanoff, Andreas - TD-1-1-2 11 Viktorov, Evgeny - NONLINEAR-6-41-6 45 Tran, Andy - POSTER-96 57 Viktorovitch, Pierre - TD-4-16-3 25 Tran, D. T. - TD-2-6-4 15 Villeneuve, D. M. - HIGH- 34 Trejo Duran, Monica - POSTER-50 54 POWER-3-27-2, HIGH-POWER-3-27-2 Tremblay, Christine - OP-COMM-1-3-2, 13, 25 Vilquin, Bertran - MAT-3-43-7 47 OP-COMM-1-3-3, TD-4-16-2 Vitkin, Edvard - POSTER-70 55 Tripathi, Saurabh Mani - , POSTER-14 50 Vitkin, I. Alex - BIO-1-24-4 32 Trudeau , Charles - NONLINEAR-3-26-4 33 Vitullo, Dashiell L. P. - BIO-4-37-1 41 Trull, Jose - TD-5-21-5 29 Vivien, Laurent - NONLINEAR-1-2-2, 12, 20 Tsang, Hon - TD-3-11-2 20 TD-3-11-1 Tschernajew, Maxim - NSERC-1-39-5 44 Vorndran, Martin - NONLINEAR-6-41-2 44 Tsuchiya, Youichi - POSTER-20 51 Vosoogh-Grayli, Sasan - 41 Tünnermann, Andreas - NSERC-1-39-1, 43, 47, NONLINEAR-5-36-5 NSERC-1-39-1, NSERC-2-44-04, 59 Vutha, Amar - LM-2-9-1 18 POSTER-62, POSTER-67 W Turak, Ayse - MAT-1-19-6 28 Wabnitz, Stefan - NONLINEAR-1-2-5 12 Turrell, Chloe - POSTER-13 50 Wachsmann-Hogiu, Sebastian - 57 Turzhitsky, Vladimir - POSTER-70 55 POSTER-93 Tzolov, Velko - TEI-1-10-3 19 Wächter, Christoph - TD-7-30-4 36

Photonics North 2018 81 Wahl, Daniel - BIO-2-28-8, POSTER-02 49 Y Wallace, Gregory Q. - GREEN-2-12-6, 21, 54 Yan, X. - TD-2-6-4 15 POSTER-54 Yang, Fan - POSTER-83 56 Walmsley, Ian - LM-3-14-1 23 Yang, Hua - TD-4-16-1 25 Wang, Bingxia - TD-5-21-5 29 Yang, Huai - TD-1-1-4 11 Wang, Chunlei - POSTER-92 57 Yang, Pengzhen - NONLINEAR-1-2-5 12 Wang, Erkang - BIO-1-24-1 31 Yao, Jianping - OP-COMM-3-13-3 22 Wang, Hai - NONLINEAR-5-36-3 40 Ye, Winnie - OP-COMM-4-32-7 38 Wang, Hai-Yu - NONLINEAR-5-36-3 40 Yeh, Yin-Ting - BIO-1-24-3 31 Wang, Lu - MAT-1-19-3 28 Yoo, S. J. Ben - TD-6-25-4 32 Wang, Meng - HIGH-POWER-1-18-2, 27, 51, Yücel , Yeni - POSTER-09 50 POSTER-26, POSTER-27, POSTER-28, 52, 54 Yun, Geum Jae - MAT-1-19-6 28 POSTER-29, POSTER-35, POSTER-48 Wang, Pu - NSERC-1-39-3 44 Z Wang, Tao - NONLINEAR-6-41-6 45 Zakharov, Yuri - POSTER-70 55 Wang, Yingying - NSERC-1-39-3 44 Zaldivar Huerta, Ignacio Enrique - 57 Wang, Zefeng - HIGH-POWER-1-18-2, 27, 51, POSTER-99, POSTER-99 POSTER-26, POSTER-27, POSTER-28, 52, 54 Zaldívar-Huerta, Ignacio Enrique - 58 POSTER-29, POSTER-35, POSTER-48 POSTER-100 Wang, Zhiming - NONLINEAR-6-41-6 45 Zamboni-Rached, Michel - OP- 22 Wang, Zifei - TD-2-6-2 15 COMM-3-13-7 Waqas, Abi - TD-7-30-6 36 Zanotto, Luca - POSTER-36 52 Ware, Cédric - OP-COMM-1-3-3 13 Zapata-Farfan, Jennyfer - POSTER-07 49 Waritanant, Tanant - POSTER-31, 52, 53 Zednik, Ricardo - NONLINEAR-3-26-4 33 POSTER-33, POSTER-38 Zhang, Cheng - NONLINEAR-4-31-2, 37 Warnes Lora, José Roberto - POSTER-99 57 NONLINEAR-4-31-8 Webb, R. - TD-2-6-4 15 Zhang, Dongkai - OP-COMM-3-13-6 22 Wei, Zhangchao - NSERC-2-44-07 48 Zhang, Emily - HIGH-POWER-4-42-4 45 Weick, Guillaume - NONLINEAR-4-31-9 38 Zhang, H. - HIGH-POWER-4-42-2 45 Welch, Gregory - GREEN-3-17-2 26 Zhang, Jinwei - HIGH-POWER-1-18-5 27 Wetzel, Benjamin - NONLINEAR-1-2-5, 12, 48 Zhang, Lei - POSTER-70 55 NSERC-2-44-11 Zhang, Wuhong - LM-1-4-8, OP- 14, 22, Wieduwilt, Torsten - POSTER-63 59 COMM-3-13-6, POSTER-97 57 Williams, Robin - TD-1-1-7 11 Zhang, Yanbing - LM-1-4-7, 14, 48 Willner, Alan - OP-COMM-4-32-5 38 NSERC-2-44-11 Wilson, Brian - BIO-2-28-4 35 Zhang, Yingwen - LM-1-4-2, OP- 14, 17, COMM-2-8-6, LM-2-9-6 18 Wilson, Jesse - BIO-1-24-1 31 Zhang, Young - NONLINEAR-6-41-6 45 Wimmer, Martin - POSTER-64, 59 POSTER-65 Zhao, Haitao - BIO-3-33-6 39 Windeler, Robert S. - BIO-4-37-1 41 Zhao, Yue - MAT-2-38-3 42 Wise, Frank - HIGH-POWER-1-18-6 27 Zheng, Yi - HIGH-POWER-1-18-3, 27, 53 POSTER-42 Wojcik, Jacek - TD-2-6-1, MAT-1-19-7 15, 28 Zhou, Weidong - TD-7-30-3 36 X Zhou, Wen - TD-3-11-2 20 Xu, Dan-xia - TD-5-21-3, TD-7-30-6 29, 36 Zhou, Xun - POSTER-09 50 Xu, Jingjun - NONLINEAR-1-2-5 12 Zhou, Zhiyue - POSTER-27 52 Xu, Jun - POSTER-31 52 Zhu, Wenqi - NONLINEAR-4-31-2, 37 Xu, shuhong - POSTER-92 57 NONLINEAR-4-31-8 Xu, Tianzhe - OP-COMM-3-13-6 22 Zhuldybina, Mariia - NONLINEAR-3-26-4 33 Xu, Xiaodong - POSTER-31 52 Zomerman, Derek - GREEN-3-17-2 26 Xu, Xiaojun - HIGH-POWER-1-18-2, 27, 51, Zuerch, Michael - NSERC-1-39-3 44 POSTER-26, POSTER-27, POSTER-28, 52, 54 Zurauskas, Edvardas - BIO-2-28-7 35 POSTER-29, POSTER-35, POSTER-48 Xu, Zujun - HIGH-POWER-2-23-2 31

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