2011 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and 12th European Quantum Electronics Conference

(CLEO EUROPE/EQEC 2011)

Munich, Germany

22 - 26 May 2011

Pages 1-631

IEEE Catalog Number: CFPllECL-PRT 4 IEEE ISBN: 978-1-4577-0533-5

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PLENARY TALKS

Shining New Light on Old Questions in Quantum Mechanics (Plenary) 1 Ursula Keller Solid-State Lasers Advances and Prospects (Plenary) 2 Guenter Huber Quantum Simulations with Cold Atoms, Molecules and Ions (Plenary) 3 Peter Zoller

SOLID-STATE LASERS

First Demonstration of Rare-Earth-Doped Anisotropic Ceramic Laser 4 Jun Akiyama, Tahtnori Taira Diode Pumped Alkali Lasers History, Current State and Perspectives 5 Boris Zhdanov, Michael Shaffer, Randall Knize An HBr Oscillator-amplifier Pumped by a High-energy Ho YLF Laser System 6 M J Daniel Esser, Wayne Koen, Hencharl J Strauss, Cobus Jacobs, Lourens R Botha, Christoph Bollig Laser Operation and Spectroscopic Investigations of Tm LuSc03 7 Philipp Koopmann, Samir Lamrinl, Karslen Scholle, Peter Fuhrberg, Klaus Petermann, Giinler Huber Efficient Gd3t, Lu3t co-doped KY(W04)j:Tm$3+ Channel Waveguide Lasers 8 Koop Van Dalfsen, Shanmugam Aravazhi, Dimilri Gesfots, Kerstin Wdrhoff, Marhis Pollnau Efficient Laser Operation of Ho LU2O3 at Room Temperature 9 Samir Lamrini, Philipp Koopmann, Michael Schafer, Karslen Scholle, Peter Fuhrberg, Klaus Petermann, Giinler Huber Influence of Temperature on Emission Cross Section and Laser Operation for Nd YVO< Emitting Around 1064 nm 10 Xavier Delen, Francois Balembois, Patrick Georges 30W Nd GdV04 Oscillator Modelocked with Nonlinear Mirror 11 Gabrielle Thomas, Michael Damzen Temperature Resolved Measurements of Absorption and Emission Cross Sections for Various Yb3+-doped Gain Media from JOOk to Room Temperature 12 Jorg Kilmer, Joachim Heiit, Hartmut Liebclrau, Martin Kahle, Mathias Lenski, Markus Loser, Mathias Siebold

Controllable Direction Switching of Vortex Output in a Nd YVO< Bounce Laser 13 Masahito Okida, Je-Yen Huang, Yung-Fit Chen, Takashige Qmatsu Numerical Simulation of Thermal Effects in Composite Nd YAG Slab Laser Active Medium with Collinear Zig¬ zag Pumping 14 Martynas Gabalis, Valdas Girdauskas, Aidas Aleknavicius, Andrejus Michaihvas High Average Power, Passively Q-switched Stigmatic Bounce Geometry Laser 15 Gabrielle Thomas, Michael Damzen Stimulated-brillouin-scartering Via Phase-conjugation-mirror for High-average-power Nd YAG Laser Systems 16 Hidetsugu Yoshida, Koji Tsubakimolo, Hisanori Fujita, Noriaki Miyanaga, Yulaka Nagata, Hiroo Kinoshita High-power Passively Mode-locked Nd GdV04 Laser Using Single-walled Carbon Nanotubcs as Saturable Absorber 17 Hou-Ren Chen, Young-Gang Wang, Kuei-Huei Lin, Wen-Feng Hsieh Intracavity Four Wave Mixing using Modulated Optical Feedback in a Diode-pumped Nd YVO4 Laser 18 Herve Gilles, Sylvain Girard, Mathieu Laroche, Eric Lacot Watt-level, Efficient and Radially Polarized Nd YAG Laser .-. 19 Xia Kegui, Li Jianlang Laser Performances and Spectroscopic Investigation of Yb LuAG Grown by uPD Technique 20 Agnest Antonio, Pirzio Federico, Reali Giancarlo, Yongzhuan Zhang, Veronesi Slcfano, Tonelli Mauro Lasing Properties of New Yb-doped Borate Compounds with Varying Gadolinium and Yttrium Concentration 21 Inka Manek-Hfinninger, Vtronique Jubera, Marie Chavoutier, Dominique Descatnps, Philippe Veber, Matias Velazquez, Alain Garcia, Lionel Canioni 22 Thermooptical Distortions in a Nd YAG Slab with a Zigzag Beam Propagation , Andrey Lyashedko, Galina Bufetova, Vladimir Seregin, Vladimir Tsvetkov, Ivan Shcherbakov Steady-state Operation of Pulsed Pumped Self Mode Locked Nd YVOj Laser using Electro-optical Feedback Control 23 Hristo Iliev, Sergey Gagarsky, Algis Stalnionis, Ivan Buchvarov 1.2-ps CPQ System using an Yb YAG Thin Disk Regenerative Amplifier 24 Martin Delaigue, Sandrme Ricaud, Clemens HSnninger, Eric Mottay

High-efficiency Solar Nd YAG Disc Laser with Optical Fiber Pumping , 25 Bruno Do Couto, Dawei Liang Na,Nd co-doped Ca2MgSi207 Laser 26 Hiroaki Nakao, Akira Shirakawa, Ken-Ichi Veda, Ladislav Bohaty, Petra Becker, Alexander Kamlnskii Cavity Dumping of Single 19 ps Pulses from Passively Mode-locked Quasi-continuously Pumped Highly Doped Nd YAG Laser 27 Vaclav Kubecek, Michal Jelinek, Miroslav Cech. PetrHirsl Chaotic Mode-locking of Mid-IR Chirped-pulse Oscillator 28 Vladimir Kalashnikov, Evgeni Sorokin, li-ina Sorokina High Power, Diode Side Pumped Er YAG Lasers 29 Arnc Heinrich, Thomas Bragagna

High Efficiency 2066-nm Laser Based on Tm Lu203 Ceramics 30 Oleg Anlipov, Nikita Zakhawv, Anion Novikov, Valeriy Sharkov Dynamics of Refractive Index Changes in Tm-dopcd Crystals Tm YAG and Tm YLF, and Ceramics Tm Lu203 31 Andre}' Zinoviev, Remi Soulard, Oleg Anlipov, Richard Moncorge, Eugeniy Ivakin Temporally Stretched Q-switched Pulses in the 2 um Spectral Range 32 Ingo Rohde, Dirk Theisen-Kunde, Ralf Brinkmann Numerical Optimization of a High-energy End-pumped Ho YLF Slab Amplifier 33 Oliver Collett, Chrisloph Bollig, Daniel Esser Spectroscopic, Luminescent And Laser Properties Of Tm3+-doped Mixed NaLaGd Tungstates and Molibdates 34 Fedor Bolschikov, Nikita Zakharov, Polina Ryabochkina, Denis Lis, Kirill Subbotin, Evgeny Zharikov, Oleg Anlipov High Energy Diode Pumped Er YSGG Laser at 3um Transition 35 Emma Arbabzadah, Simon Chard, Heinmel Amrania, Chris Phillips, Michael Damzen Delivery of 4.45 urn Fe ZnSe Laser Radiation by Hollow Waveguide 36 Helena Jelinkova, Uichal Nemec, Jan Sulc, Mitsunobu Miyagi, Katsumasa Iwai, Hiroyuki Takaku, Maxim Doroshenko, Tasoltan Basiev, Vitaly Komar, Andriy Gerasimenko Characterization of Delivered Resonantly Pumped 1645 nm Er YAG Laser Radiation by Hollow Glass Waveguide 37 Michal Nemec, Helena Jelinkova, Mitsunobu Miyagi, Katsumasa Iwai, Hiroyuki Takaku Automation of the Alignment Process of a Solid State Laser Resonator 38 Christian Brecher, Nicolas Pyschny, Vicente Paul Guerrero Lule Non-rcsonant Feedback to Enhance Conventional Lasing in Advanced Materials 39 Litis Cerdan, Angel Costela, Inmacttlada Garcia-Moreno, Virginia Martin, Maria Eugenia Perez-Ojeda High-Power, Single-Frequency Ti Sapphire Laser Pumped by a Continuous-Wave Fiber Laser Green Source 40 Suddapalli Chailanya Kumar, Goutam Kumar Samanta, Kavila Devi, Stefano Sanguinelti, Majid Ebrahim-Zadeh Microsecond Red Laser Pulses Via Overcouplcd Intracavity Second Harmonic Generation 41 Roman Ostrowski Strategies to Run an Ophthalmological CW Self-Raman Laser in Micro-second Pulsed Laser Regime 42 Alessandro Mota, Giuliano Rossi, Tiago Ortega, Glauco Costal, Yuri Fontes, Fatima Yasuoka, Mario Stefani, Jarbas Castiro, Maria Paiva

Temperature Dependent Output Characteristics of Pr YAP Microchip Lasers at 747 nm and 662 nm Wavelengths 43 Martin Fibrlch, Helena Jelinkova, Jan Sulc, Karel Nejezchleb, Vaclav Skoda

Auto modulations Observation in an Extended Cavity Ti Sapphire Oscillator - Period Doubling and Chaos 44 Tomaiz Kardas, Wojciech Gadomski, Bozena Ratqjska-Gadomska, Piotr Wasylczyk Frequency Stable Operation of a Pulsed Solid State Laser Oscillator Based on Gain Grating Holograms 45 Roland Ullmann, Robert Eisner, Axel Heuer, Ralf Menzel, Martin Oslermeyer Self-Optimization of Robot-based Resistance Soldering for the Assembly of Optical Elements in Solid-State Laser Systems 46 Alexander Gatej, Nicolas Pyschny, Valentin Morasch, Peter Loosen, Christian Brecher Rapidly Tunable Intra-cavity Cr3+ LiCAF-PPSLT Optical Parametric Oscillator Based on a Sclf-injection-locked Pump Wave 47 Haroldo J. MacsIre, Adrian J, Torregrosa, Juan Capmany High Performance Planar Waveguide Lasers for Applications from TV to Space (invited) 48 Yoshihito Hirano

First Visible 639 nm SrF2 Pr3+ Ceramic Laser 49 Tasoltan Basiev, Vasilii Konyushkin, Dmitrii Konyushkin, Maxim Doroshenko, Gunter Huher, Fabian Relchert, Nils-Owe Hansen, Matthias Fechner Single-Frequency Continuous-wave Diode-pumped Pr3+BaY2F» Orange Laser 50 David Paboeuf, Oussama Mhibik, Fabien Bretenaker, Philippe Goldner, Daniela Parisi, Mauro Tonelli A Continuous-wave Laser with Wavelength-selectable Output Spanning Green-yellow-red 51 Andrew Lee, David Spence, James Piper, Helen Pask Eu3t KGd(WO.i)2 Laser Crystal Stimulated Emission at 703 nm 5D0->7F< Transition 52 Sergei Bagayev, Vladimir Dashkevich, Valentin Orlovich, Sergei Vatnik, Anatolii Pavlyuk, Alexander Yurkln Highly Efficient, Broadly Tunable 2-um Femtosecond Tm KYW Laser 53 Alexander Lagatsky, Tom Brown, Wilson Sibbett, Stephane Calvez, Manin Dawson, James Gupta Wide-bandwidth Ho YFL Multi-pass Amplifier Pumped by Tnv.Fiber Laser 54 Nicola Coluccelli, Gianluca Galzerano, Paolo Laporta, Alberto Di Lieto, Mauro Tonelli 2.08 um Ho KLu(WOj)2 Laser Resonantly Pumped by a Diode Laser 55 Venkatesan Jambunathan, Xavier Mateos, Maria Cinta Pujol, Joan Josep Carvajal, Magdalena Aguilo, Francesc Diaz, Uwe Griebner, Valentin Petrov

High Energy 125mJ Ho YAG (2.09 um) MOPA Double Pass Laser System Pumped by cw Thulium Fiber Laser (1.9 um) 56 Karsten Schmidt, Chrisloph Reiter, Heike Voss, Frank Mafimann, Martin Oslermeyer Quasi-Threc-Lcvel Solid-State Lasers in the Near and Mid Infrared (Invited) 57 Marc Eichhorn The National Ignition Facility and the Goal of Near-term Laser Fusion Energy (Keynote) 58 Edward Moses Multi-Slab Architecture for kJ-Class DPSSL System 59 Paul Mason, Saumyabrala Banerjee, Klaus Erlel, Cristina Hernandez-Gomez, Jonathan Phillips, John Collier Hundred mJ Level, High Contrast OPCPA/Yb YAG Hybrid Laser System 60 Masayuki Suzuki, Hiromitsu Kiriyama, Izuru Daito, Hajime Okada, Paul Bolton, Akira Sugiyama, Kiminori Kondo, Shunichi Kawanishi, Masatoshi Sato, Yoshinori Tamaoki, Takehiro Yoshii, Junya Maeda, Shinichi Matsuoka, Hirofumi Kan High-energy, Diode-pumped Yb CaF2 Disk-laser 61 Mathias Siebald, Markus Loeser, Fabian Roeser, Franziska Kroll, Jocrg Koerner, Joachim Hein, Ulrich Schramm Final Developments of the Chemcam Laser Source and Potential Applications for New Planetology Programs 62 Benoit Faure, Eric Durand, Sylvestre Maurice, Didier Bruneau, Franck Montmessin A Highly-Stabilized Light Source for the Space Gravitational Wave Detector DECIGO and DPF 63 Mitsuru Musha, Shinya Horiuchi, Ken'Ichi Nakagawa, Ken-lchi Veda Development of a Solid State Laser Amplifier Source for the Third Generation of Gravitational Wave Detectors 64 Chandrajit Basu, Oliver Puncken, Li/tz Wmkelmann, Peter Wefiels, Jtirg Neumann, Dietmar Kracht Solar NdYAG Laser Beam Quality by a Roof-shaped Pump Cavity 65 Joana Almeida, Dawel Liang High Power High-Density Spectral Beam Combining by Volume Bragg Gratings (VBGs) 66 Derrek Drachenberg, Ivan Divliansky, Vadim Smirnov, George Venus, Leonid Glebov Stabilized 1.5 Microns Dual-frequency Laser Prototype for Optical Generation of High Purity Microwave Signals 67 Gregoire Pillet, Bastien Steinhausser, Loi'c Morvan, Julien Schiellein, Thomas Merlet, Daniel Dolfi High Average Power Ultrafast Lasers (Invited) 68 Johannes Weitenberg, Peter Rujibiildt, Hans-Dieter Hoffmann, Reinhan Poprawe 50-MW, 12-ps Nd YV04$ Slab Amplifier for OPCPA Pumping 69 Clemens Heese, Andreas E. H. Ochler, Lukas Gallmann, Ursula Keller 12 W, 350 fs Ultrashort Pulses from a Micro-pulling Down Yb YAG Single Crystal Fiber Amplifier 70 Yoatm Zaouter, Igor Martial, Xavier Delen, Nicolas Auhry, Julien Didierjean, Clemens H&nninger, Eric Mottay, Patrick Georges, Frederic Druon, Francois Balembois

Sub-lOOW Phase Conjugate Pico-second Nd YV04 Laser System Based on a Tandem Bounce Amplifier 71 Makolo Ashihara, Kaori Hayashi, Takaham Yoshino, Masahito Okida, Katsuhiko Miyamoto, Takashige Omatsu High Power Mixed Vanadate Laser and Modclocking with Nonlinear Mirror 72 Gabrielle Thomas, Takashige Omatsu, Michael Damzen Passively Q-switched Nd YAG/Cr4* YAG All-Ceramics, Composite, Monolithic Micro-Lasers with Multi-Beam Output for Laser Ignition 73 Nicolaic Pavel, Masaki Tsunekane, Takunori Taira High Energy, High Peak Power (2.6mj/5.6MW) Or High Average Power (20W) NdYAG Single-crystal Fiber Amplifier in a Sub-ns kHz System 74 Igor Martial, Francois Balembois, Juien Didierjean, Patrick Georges High-Brightness 946 nm Nd YAG Planar Waveguide Laser 75 S. P Ng, J. I. Mackenzie Broadly Tunable and Low-quantum-defect Yb3+-doped Double Tungstate Channel Waveguide Lasers 76 Dimitri Geskus, Shanmugam Aravazhi, Kerstin WorhojJ, Markus Pollnau Compact Tm KYW Laser Passively g-switched with a PbS-quantum Dot-based Saturable Absorber 77 Maxim Gaponenko, Victor Kisel, Alexander Malyarevlch, Alexei Onushchenko, Konstantin Yumashev, Nikolai Kuleshov

6 MW Peak Power at 532 nm by Using Linearly Polarized Passively Q-switched Microchip Laser 78 Rakesh Bhandari, Takunori Taira Novel Method for Pulse Control in NdYV04/C'+ YAG Passively Q-switched Microchip Laser 79 Simon Joly, Takunori Taira Chi-<2)-lens Mode Locking of a 1,3 4 urn Nd GdV04 Laser In-band Pumped by 880nm Laser Diode 80 Hristo Iliev, Ivan Buchvarov, Valentin Petrov Dual Wavelength and Switchable Laser Operation of Pr3* LiYF4 Crystals at 523 nm and 640 nm 81 Sebastian Miiller, Nils-Owe Hansen, Ortwin Hellmig, Klaus Petermann, Gitnter Huber Spectroscopy of Ho Lu2Oj with Respect to the Realization of a Visible Laser 82 Matthias Fechner, Fabian Rckhert, Philipp Koopntann, Klaus Petermann, Guenter Huber Beat Note Stabilization of a 10-60 GHz Dual Polarization NdYAG Microchip Laser Through Optical Down Conversion 83 Antoine Rolland, Marc Brunei, Goulc'Hen Loas, Ludovic Frein, Marc Vallet, Mehdi Alouini Four-micron CW Operating Dy PbGa2S4 Laser 84 Jan Sulc, Helena Jelinkova, Maxim E. Doroschenko, Tasollan T. Basiev, Vyacheslav V. Osiko, Vaterit V, Badikov, Dmitrii V. Badikov High-power Fibre-laser-pumpcd Er YAG Laser with Top-hat Output Beam 85 Jl Won Kim, Jacob I, Mackenzie, John R. Hayes, William A. Clarkson

Radially-polarized, Q-switched Pulses from a Side-pumped Nd YV04 Compact Stigmatic Bounce Laser with a Photonic Crystal Output Coupler 86 Takashige Omatsu, Koki Iwamatsu, Simon P. Chard, Ara Minassian, Michael J. Damzen High-energy Q-switched Er YAG Laser with Laguerre-Gaussian (LGqi) Mode Output 87 Ji Won Kim, Jacob I. Mackenzie, John R. Hayes, William A. Clarkson Geometric Frustration in Large Arrays of Coupled Lasers 88 Micha Nixon, Eitan Ronen, Asher A. Friesem, Nir Davidson Maintaining Radial-polarization and Beam-quality in Muli-kw Rod-based Lasers Through the Use of Polycrystalline Nd YAG Rods 89 Inon Moshc, Steven Jacket, Yaakov Lumer, Avi Meir, Revilal Feldman, Yehoshua Shimony Conical Refraction Beam Evolution 90 David Carnegie, Grigorii Sokolovski, Todor Kalkandjiev, Edik Rafailov Cryogenic Yb YAG Total-Reflection Active-Mirror Lasers (Invited) 91 Junji Kawanaka, Hirouki Furuse, Daniel Attach, Yasuki Takeuchi, Akira Yoshida, Toshiyuki Kawashima, Hirofumi Kan Yb CaFj Laser at Cryogenic Temperature 92 Sandrine Ricaud, Dmitris Papadopoulos, Patrice Camy, Jean-Louis Dotmlan, Richard Moncorge, Anloine Courjaud, Eric Mottay, Patrick Georges, Frederic Drtton Cryogenic-cooled Yb: YAG Amplifier for ns-pulses Obtaining High Optical Efficiencies 93 Jorg Korner, Hartmut Liehetrau, Joachim Hein, Martin Kahle, Markus Loser, Ualhias Siebold Alternative Approaches for Highly Efficient Diode-Pumped Lasers 94 Martin Kahte, Joachim Hein, Jiirg Korner, Hartmut Liehetrau, Mathias Lenski, Reinhard Seifert

Disk Laser Delivering 50 mJ with 400 ns Latency 95 Karsten Sclmhmann, Aldo Antognini, AdolfGiesen, Thomas Graf, Tobias Nebel, RandalfPohl Octave-Spanning Supcrcontinuum from an Efficient Gigahertz Femtosecond Yb KGW Laser with 2.2-W Average Power 96 Selina Pekarek, Christian Fiebig, Katrin Paschke, GStz Erbert, Thomas Siidmeyer, Ursula Keller Yb CaGdA10M Thin Disk Laser in Continuous-wave 97 Sandrine Ricaud, Birgit Weichelt, Philippe Goldner, Bruno Viana, Marwan Abdou-Ahned, Andreas Voss, Thomas Graf, Daniel Ritz, Eric Mottay, Patrick Georges, Frederic Druon CW and Modclocked Operation of an Yb (Sc,Y,Lu)203 Thin-Disk Laser 98 Cyrill Roman Emmanuel Baer, Clara Jody Saracenn, Oliver Hubert Heckl, Matthias Galling, Thomas Siidmeyer, Kolja Beil, Christian Krdnkel, Klaus Peterinann, Giinter Huber, Ursula Keller

High Gain Yb CaF2 Amplifier Pumped by a High Brightness Ytterbium Doped Fiber Laser Operating at 976nm 99 Guillaume Machine!, Jerome Lhermite, Dominique Descamps, Giedrius Andriukaitis, Audrhts Pugzlys, Daniel Adam, Andrius BaltuSka, Eric Cormier Scalability of Mode-locked Thin-disk Oscillators Issues and Scenarios of Destabilization 100 Oleg Pronin, Vladimir Kalashnikov, Vladimir Pervak, Catherine Teisset, Mikhail Larionov, Jens Rauschenberger, Alexander Apolonski, Ernst Fill, Ferenc Krausz New Thin Disk Laser Materials Yb ScYLO and Yb YLF 101 Kolja Beil, Sttsanne T. Fredrich-Thornton, Christian Krankel, Klaus Petermann, Danlela Parisi, Maura Tonelll, Giinter Huber Continuous-wave Second-StokcsSelf-Raman Nd GdV04 Laser 102 JipertgLin, Andrew J, Lee, Helen M. Pask Low-loss Synthetic Single-crystal Diamond Raman Gain Measurement and High Power Raman Laser at 1240 nm 103 Vasili Savilskl, David Burns, Alan Kemp Optical Parametric Oscillators Spanning the Ultraviolet to Mid-Infrared (Invited) 104 Majid Ebrabim-Zadeh Ring Cavity Solid-state Raman Lasers Generating in Visible and Eye-safe Spectral Regions 105 Ruslan Chulkov, Vladimir Dashkevich, Pavel Apanasevich, Valentin Orlovtch All-Solid-Statc, Narrowband, Pulsed Sodium D2 Resonance Light Source 106 Norihllo Sallo, Tomohiro Tsukihana, Takuya Kawahara, Satonori Nozawa, Tetsuya Kawabata, Takuo Tsuda, Toshiro Koizumi, Satoshi Wada

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS

The Transistor Laser (Invited) 107 Milton Feng, Nick Holonyak Impact of Nonlinear Carrier-carrier Scattering on Gain Dynamics and Nonlinear Optical Properties of Quantum Dot Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers 108 Niels Majer, Kathy Lildge, Eckehard Schdll Birefringence and Spin Controlled Ultrafast Polarization Oscillations in Vertical-cavity Surface-emitting Lasers 109 M. Y. Li, H, Jaehme, H. Soldat, N. C. Gerhardl, M. R. Hofmann, T. Ackemann Up to 9 Gbit/s Data Transmission with Monolithically Integrated VCSELs and PIN Photodiodes 110 Alexander Kern, Dietmar Wahl, Sujoy Paul, Mohammad Tanvir Haidar, Rainer Blood, Wolfgang Schwarz, Rainer Michalzik 5 GHz Modulation of 650 nm VCSEL 111 Robert Rafibach, Marcus Eichfelder, Michael Jetter, Peter Michler Wavelength Multistability in Ring and Fabry-Perot Lasers The Effect of Spatial Hole Burning 112 Antonio Perez-Serrano, Julien Javaloyes, Salvador Balle An Asymmetric Integrated Extended Cavity 20GHz Mode-locked Quantum Well Ring Laser Fabricated in the JcPPIX Technology Platform 113 M. Saeed Tahvili, Yohan Barbarin, XaveerJ, M, Leijtens, Tjibbe De Vrles, Bany Smalbrugge, Jeroen Both, Huub P. M. M Ambrosius, Meint K. Smit, Erwin A. J. MBentc All-optical Signal Processing Functions Using Semiconductor Ring Lasers (invited) 114 Siyuan Yu, Bel Li Bichromatic Emission and Coexisting Multimode Dynamics in Ring Lasers 115 Antonio Perez-Serrano, Julien Javaloyes, Salvador Balle Direct Modulation of Bistable Semiconductor Ring Lasers 116 Xinlun Cai, Gabor Mezosi, Marc Sorel, Zhuorcm Wang, Nan Chi, Pisu Jiang, Muhammad Memon, Siyuan Yu Measurement of the Spectral Amplitude and Phase of a Free-running 40 GHz Quantum-dash Modclockcd Laser Diode 117 Stuart Murdoch, Regan Watts, Yiqing Xu, Ramon Maldonado-Basilio, Jostle Parra-Cetina, Slywester Latkowski, Pascal Landais, Liam Barry Extended Ground-state and Excited-state Carrier Dynamics Control in a Mode-locked Two-section Quantum Dot Laser Joining Absorber Reverse-bias and Resistor Self-clcctro-optic Effect (SEED) Emission-state Regimes 118 Stefan Breuer, Lukas Drzewietzkl, Wolfgang Elsasser Passively Mode-locked Monolithic Two-section Gain-guided Tapered Quan-tum-dot Lasers I. Ultrashort and Stable Pulse Generation 119 Lukas Drzewietzki, Myke Ruiz, Stefan Breuer, Michael Tran, Yannick Robert, Mattia Rossetli, TianhongXu, Paolo Bardella, Wolfgang Elsdfier, Michel Krakowski, Ivo Montrosset, Igor Krestnikov Passively Mode-locked Monolithic Two-section Gain-guided Tapered Quantum-dot Lasers II. Record 15 Watt Peak Power Generation 120 Daniil I. Nikitichev, Myke Ruiz, Ying Ding, Michael Tran, Yannick Robert, Michel Krakowski, Mattia Rossetti, Paolo Bardella, Ivo Montrosset, Igor Krestnikov, Daniil Livshits, Maria Ana Cataluna, Edik U. Rafailov Strong Asymmetry of Mode-locking Pulses in Quantum-dot Semiconductor Lasers 121 Mindaugas Radzhmas, Andrei G, Vladimirov, EvgenyA. Viktorov, Gerrit Fiol, Holger Schrneckebier, Dieter Bimberg 320 GHz Time-Domain Multiplexed Pulses From Quantum-Dash Mode-Locked Semiconductor Laser Diodes 122 Ramon Maldonado-Basilio, Sylwester Latkowski, Pascal Landais Quantum Cascade Lasers Recent Advances and Future Prospects (Keynote) 123 Claire Gmachl Quantum Cascade Ring Lasers Unidirectional Operation and Coupled Ring Tuning 124 Chidi Nshii, Charlie Ironside, Marc Sorel, Thomas Slight, Shiyong Zhang, Dmitry Revin, John Cockburn Frequency Noise of Free-running Room Temperature Quantum Cascade Lasers 125 Lionel Tombez, Joab Di Francesco, Stephane Schilt, Gianni Di Domenico, Daniel Hofstetter, Pierre Thomann

Strain-balanced Quantum Cascade Lasers Influence of Growth Temperature on Interface Roughness and Laser Performance 126 Alfredo Blsmuto, Romain Terazzi, Manias Beck, Jerome Falsi Polarization Dynamics Of VCSELS with Optical Feedback And Crossed Polarization Rcinjection 127 Mathias Marconi, Massimo Giudici, Stephane Barland, Julien Javaloyes, Salvador Balle Spatial "rocking" in Broad Emission Area Semiconductor Lasers 128 Mindaugas Radziunas, Kestutis Staliunas Experimental Characterization of Bubbling in Delay-Coupled Semiconductor Lasers 129 Xavier Porte, Jordl Tiana-Alsina, Konstantin Hicke, Carine Torrent, Jordi Garcla-Ofalvo, Ingo Fischer Single-Mode Quantum-Dash Laser Submitted to Optical Injection Nonstandard Behaviour with Respect to the Slave Pump 130 Zhenyu Hao, Pascal Besnard Dynamics of Coupled Mode-Locked Quantum Dot Semiconductor Lasers (Invited) 13] GuiUaunte Huyet, Tatiana Habruseva, Natalia Rebrova, Stephen Hegarty, Dmitrii Rachinskil, Andrei Vladimirov, Evgeniy Viktoro v Generation ofHigh Power (> 7W) Yellow-Orange GalnNAs Semiconductor Disk Laser 132 Tomi Leinonen, Janne Puustinen, Ville-Markus Korpijdrvi, Antti Hdrkonen, Mircea Guina, Ryan Epstein Generation of UV Laser Llight via intra-cavity Frequency Doubling of an AlGalnP-VECSEL 133 Thomas Schwarzbdck, Hermann Kahle, Marcus Eichfelder, Wolfgang-Michael Schulz, Mrobert RoJSbach, Michael Jetter, Peter Michler

PbSc Quantum Well VECSEL on Si 134 Matthias Fill, MohamedRahim, AmirKhiar, Ferdinand Felder, HansZogg Narrow Linewidth 2um GaSb-based Semiconductor Disk Laser 135 Marcel Rattunde, Sebastian Kaspar, Benno Rosener, Tino Topper, Christian Manz, Klaus Kdhler, Oliver Ambacher, Joachim Wagner Mid-Infrared Continuously Tunable Single Mode VECSEL 136 AmirKhiar, Ferdinand Felder, Mohamed Rahim, Matthias Fill, Fabian Hobrecker, Hans Zogg 2.5 um Semiconductor Disk Laser with 130 nm Tuning Range 137 Jari Nikkinen, Jonna Paajaste, Riku Koskitten, Soile Suontalainen, O/eg Okhotnikov Density-Activated Defect Recombination as a Possible Explanation for the Efficiency Droop in GaN-Based Light Emitters 138 Jorg Hader, Jerome V. Moloney, Stephan W. Koch Near-UV Laser Diodes for External Cavity Lasers 139 Wolfgang Scheibenzuber, Ulrich Schwarz Efficiency-optimized 973nm High Power Broad Area DFB Lasers with Overgrown Aluminium-free Gratings for Peak Power Conversion of 63% 140 Christoph Matthias Schultz, Paul Crwnp, Hans Wenzel, Sleffen Knlgge, OiafBrox, Andre Maafidorf, Frank Bugge, Golz Erbert Picosecond Pulses with More Than 60 W Peak Power Generated by a Single-stage All-semiconductor Master- oscillator Power-amplifier System 141 Sven Schwerfeger, Andreas Klehr, Armin Liero, Thomas Hoffmann, Hans Wenzel, Gdtz Erbert Octave-Spanning Supcrcontinuum from an Efficient Gigahertz Femtosecond Yb KGW Laser with 2.2-W Average Power 142 Selina Pekarek, Christian Fiebig, Katrln Paschke, GStz Erbert, Thomas Sudmeyer, Ursula Keller Compact 1064 nm ps-light Source on a Micro Bench with Free Adjustable Repetition Rate and nJ Pulse Energy 143 Andreas Klehr, Armin Liero, Thomas Hoffmann, Sven Schwerlfiger, Hans Wenzel, Golz Erherl, Wolfgang Heinrich, Giinlher Trdnkle Ge-on-Si Lasers for Silicon Photonics (Invited) 144 Jifeng Liu, Lionel C. Kimerling, Jurgen Michel Flexible Distributed Feedback Colloidal Quantum Dot Laser Patterned by a Submicron Grating Structure 145 Yujie Chen, Benoil Guilhahert, Johannes Herrnsdorf, Yanfeng Zhang, Allan Mackintosh, Richard Pethrick, Nicolas Laurand, Martin Dawson Integrated Tunable Quantum Dot Laser for Optical Coherence Tomography in the 1.7nm Wavelength Region 146 Bauke W. Tilma, Yuqing Mao, Jimji Kolani, Barry Smalbrugge, Huub P. M. M. Ambrosius, Peter J. Thijs, Xaveer J. M. Leijtens, Richard Notzel, Meint K. Srnit, Erwin A. J. M. Bente Semiconductor Mode-locked Lasers with Integrated Dispersion Control 147 Michael J. Strain, PiotrM. Stolarz, Marc Sorel Singlemode Tunable VCSELs with Integrated MEMS Technology 148 Benjamin Kbgel, Pierluigi Debernardi, Pelter Westbergh, Asa Haglund, Johan Gustavsson, JSrgen Bengtsson, Erik Haglund, Anders Larsson Reduced Photon Bunching in Cooled Quantum Dot Supcrlumincscent Diodes 149 Martin Blazek, Wolfgang Elsafler Photonic Crystal Nanolascrs, Modulation and Coherence Characteristics 150 Remy Braive, Richard Hostein, David Elvira, Xavier Hachair, Sylvain Barbay, ho Abram, Isabelle Sagnes, Gregoire Beaudoin, Luc Le Gratiet, Anne Talneau, Isabelle Robert-Philip, Alexios Beveralos A Coupled Quantum Dot Laser Amplifier Using Raman Transitions Between Spin Singlet and Triplet States 151 Jeroen Elzerman, Kathrina Weiss, Javier Miguel Sanchez, Atac Imamoglu Direct Observation of Slow Light in the Noise Spectrum of a Laser 152 Abdelkrim El Amili, Bernardo-Xavier Miranda, Fabienne Goldfarb. Ghaya Baili, Gregoire Beaudoin, Isabelle Sagnes, Fahien Bretenaker, Mehdi Alouini Measurement of Phase-Correlation between Optical Modes of Semiconductor Lasers 153 Marcello Simonetla, Marco Soldo, Marco Zanola, Michael J. Strain. Marc Sorel, Guido Giuliani' Intensity and Frequency Noise in high power highly coherent VcCSELs 154 Alexandre Laurain, Mikhael Myara, Isabelle Sagnes, Arnaud Garnache Ultrashort Pulse Surface-Emitting Semiconductor Lasers (Invited) 155 Anne Tropper Femtosecond VECSELs with up to 1 W Average Output Power 156 Martin Hoffmann, OliverD. Sieber, Valentin J. Wittwer, Wolfgang P. Pallmann, Igor L. Krestnikov, Sergey S. Mikhrin, DaniilA. Livshits, Matthias Golling, Yohan Barbarln, Thomas Siidmeyer, Ursula Keller Pulse Generation in a Semiconductor Disk Laser with Frequency-Shifted Feedback 157 Esa Saarinen, Jari Nikkinen, Oleg Okhotnikov 10-GHz MIXSEL A High Power Integrated Ultrafast Semiconductor Disk Laser 158 Valentin J. Wittwer, Benjamin Rudin, Deran J, H. C, Maas, Martin Hoffmann, Oliver D. Sieber, Yohan Barbarin, Matthias Golling, Thomas Suedmeyer, Ursula Keller Monitoring the Temperature Distribution in High-Power VECSELs 159 Sangam Chalterjee, Alexey Chernikov, Jens Herrmann, Maik Scheller, Martin Koch, Bernardelte Kunert, Wolfgang Stolz, Siephan W. Koch, Tsuei-Lian Wang, Yushi Kaneda, J. Michael Yarborough, JSrg Hader, Jerome V. Moloney Passively Mode-Locked Semiconductor Laser for Coherent Population Trapping in 87Rb 160 Giuseppe Tandoi, Krishna Seunarine, Charles N. Ironside, A. Catrina Biyce, Stewart D. McDougall, Wyn Meredith, Andre N, Luiten Reconfigurable Repetition Rate in Colliding-Pulse Mode Locked Lasers 161 Giuseppe Tandoi, Charles N. Ironside. A. Catrina Biyce

Investigation of Passive Electric and Optical-feedback Stabilization of a Passively Mode-locked Tapered Two- section Quantum-dot Laser 162 Lukas Drzewietzkl, Stefan Breuer, Wolfgang Elsdfier, Michel Krakowski, Igor Krestnikov In As Quantum-dots Laser Utilizing GaAs Wl Type Photonic-crystal Slab Line-defect Waveguide 163 Hisaya Oda, Naaki Hamada, Akio Yamanaka, Nobuhlko Ozaki, Naoki lkeda, Yoshimasa Sugtmoto Coupled Ring Resonator Geometry for Efficient Second Harmonic Generation 164 Danilo Skoczowsky, Andreas Jechow, RalfMenzel The Excitonic Capture Path in Electrically Pumped Quantum Dots Using Time-resolved Amplified Spontaneous Emission 165 Jordi Gomis-Bresco, Sabine Dommers-Vdlkel, Oliver SchSps, Yuecel Kaplan, Olga Dyatlova, Dieter Bimberg, Ulrike Waggon

Analysis and Characterisation of Experimental Real-Time Series of a Semiconductor Laser under Optical Injection 166 Kevin Schires, Antonio Hurtado, Ian Henning, Mike Adams Physical Modeling of Mechanical and Thermal Properties of 980 nm High-Power Laser Diodes on Composite Submounts 167 Julien Leclech, Daniel T. Cassidy, Francois Laruelle, Mauro Bettiati, Jean-Pierre Landesman High Performance Single-Mode 1060 nm DFB Laser Diodes 168 Evgeny Zibik, Julien Boucart, Achim Thies, Ian Davies, Chris Button, Narbert Lichtenstein

Narrow-linewidth High-power Semiconductor-based Laser Module , 169 Stefan Spiefiberger, Max Schiemangk, Alexander Salm, Andreas Wicht, Hans Wenzel, GblzErbert, Giinlher Trdnkle

Tuning Wavelength and Linewidth of an External Cavity Diode Laser using an Active Control Scheme Based on Polarization Spectroscopy 170 Thorsten Fiihrer, Thomas Walther Hybrid-integrated ECDL for Precision Rubidium Spectroscopy in Space 171 Erdenetsetseg Luvsandamdln, Gregor Mttra, Andreas Wicht, Alexander Sahm, Gotz Erbert, Gunlher Trdnkle Single-frequency Optically Pumped Semiconductor Vertical External Cavity Laser at 852nm for Cs Atomic Clock 172 Fabiola A. Camargo, Isabelle Sagnes, Arnaud Garnache, Patrick Georges, Gaelle Litcas-Leclin Development and Spectral Characterisation of Discrete Mode Laser Diodes (DMLDs) emitting at 780 nm for Rubidium Atomic Clocks 173 Florian Gruet, Thejesh Bandi, Gaetano Mileti, John O'Carroll, Brian Kelly, RichardPhelan, James O'Gorman Multiple Gain Element GainNAs Disk Laser Generating Narrow Band (2.6 Mhz) Radiation at 1178 Nm 174 Antti Hlirkonen, Tomi Leinonen, Ville-Markus Karpijarvi, Janne Pnustinen, Mircea Guina Modulation Response of Quantum Dot Nano-LEDs and Nano-lasers 175 Troels Suhr, Niels Gregersen, Michael Lorke, Jesper Mark Fastly tunable External-Cavity Diode-Lasers Controlled by Electro-Absorption Modulators 176 Hendrik Ja'htne, Mike Baiters, Dieter Jdger, Martin Hofmann Performance Optimization of Electrically-injected Nano-spin VCSELs 177 K. Alan Shore Tailored Intensity Distributions with High Power VCSEL Systems 178 Holger Moench, Stephan Gronenhom, Michael Miller, Peter Loosen Temperature Dependent Dynamics in a 1550nm VCSELs Subject To Polarised Optical Injection 179 Nadir Khan, Kevin Schires. Antonio Hurtado, Jan Henning, Michael Adams Dual-frequency Operation of a Vertical External Cavity Semiconductor Laser for Coherent Population Trapping Cesium Atomic Clocks 180 Jessica Barrlenlos, Fabiola Camargo, Sylvie Janlcot, Isabelle Sagnes, Arnaud Garnache, Ghaya Baili, Lo'ic Morvan, Patrick Georges, GaSlle Litcas-Leclin Stability Analysis of Spin-Polarized VCSELs 181 Rihab Ks Al Seyab, Dimitris Alexandropoulos, Ian D Pfenning, Mike J Adams Polarization-Stable Single-Mode VCSELs for Cs-based Miniature Atomic Clocks 182 Ahmed Al-Santanelt, Mohammad T. Haidar, Dletmar Wahl, Rainer Michabik All-optical Inverter based on Polarization Switching in Long-wavelength VCSELs 183 Ana Qttirce, Jose Ramon Cuesta, Antonio Hurtado, Kevin Schires, Angel Valle, Luis Pesquera, lan Henning, Michael Adams Gain and Reflectance Measurements of a 1050nm VECSEL Chip 184 Sebastian Haupt, Michael Furllsch, Hans Lindberg, Ines Pietzonka, Urn Stratifi, Gerd Bacher

Polarisation-Resolved Real-Time Series of the Dynamics of a 1550 nm-VCSEL under Orthogonal Optical Injection 185 Kevin Schire,?, Antonio Hurtado, Ian Henning, Mike Adams Spectral Characterisation of VCSELs Emitting at 894.6 Nm for Cpt-based Miniature Atomic Clocks 186 Florian Gruet, Laura Bimboes, Danijela Miletlc, Chrisloph Affolderbach, Gaetano Mileti, AhmedAl-Samaneh, Dietmar Wahl, Rainer Michalzik Power Scaling and Heat Management in High-Power VECSELs 187 Sangam Chatterjee, A/exey Chernikov, Jens Herrmann, Maik Scheller, Martin Koch, Bernardelle Kunert, Wolfgang Stolz, Stephan W. Koch, Tsuei-Lian Wang, Yushi Kaneda, J. Michael Yarborough. Jorg Hader, Jerome V. Moloney Free-Running Quantum Dot SESAM Modelocked VECSEL with Record-Low Timing Jitter 188 Valentin J. Wittwer, Christian A. Zaugg, Wolfgang P. Pallmann, Andreas E. H. Oehler, Benjamin Rudin, Martin Hoffmann, Matthias Galling, Yohan Barbarin, Thomas Suedmeyer, Ursula Keller Fast Absorption Recovery and Wavelength Conversion in 1.5um AlInGaAs MQW lasers 189 Richard Green, Mohsin Haji, Lianping Hou, Gabor Mezosi, Rafal Dylewicz, Tony Kelly The Impact of Thermal Management of Saturable Absorber on the Performance of Mode-Locked Semiconductor Disk Lasers 190 Antti Rantamdki, Jari Lyytikainen, Jari Nikkinen, Oleg Okhotnikov

Frequency Chirp Characterization of a Gain-switched Semiconductor Laser Using Photonic Differentiation Based on Polarization Interferometry 191 Antonio Consoli, Jose Manuel Tijero, Jose Azaiia, Yong Woo Park, Ignacio Esquivias Shoe Box All Semiconductor High Power Femtosecond Laser System 192 Jan C. Balzer, Tobias Schlauch, Martin R. Hofmann, Andreas Klehr, Gotz Erbert

Saturation of Absorption and Gain in a Quantum Dot Diode with Continuous-wave Driving 193 Thorslen Ackemann, Alessio Tierno, Christopher G. Leburn, C. Tom A. Brown Integrated Optical Comb Generation for Coherent Communications using Injection Locked Semiconductor Lasers 194 William Colter, David Goulding, Brendan Roycrofl, Brian Corbell, Frank Peters

Post-Growth Fabrication of a DFB Laser Array with High Precision Wavelength Spacing 195 Marco Zanola, Michael J, Strain, Guido Giuliani, Marc Sorel Very Narrow Lincwidth of High Power DFB Laser Diode for Cs Pumping 196 Charles Cayron, Michael Trail, Yannick Robert, Alain Enard, Eric Vine!, Michel Garcia, Michel Lecomle, Laurent Teisseire, Olivier Parillaud, Michel Kralowski Dynamics of Semiconductor Lasers with Polarization Rotated Feedback and its Applications for Fast Random Bit Generation 197 Neus Oliver, Miguel C. Soriano, David Sttkow, Ingo Fischer Observation of a Novel Type of Optical Modes in VCSELs 198 Grigorii Sokolovskii, Vladislav Dudelev, Andrey Monakhov, Alexey Savenko, Sergey Blokhtn, Anton Deryagin, Svellana Zololovskaya, AlexanderKttzmenkov, Sergey Losev, Victor Luchinin, Nikolai Maleev, Edik Rqfailov, Wilson Sibbetl, Vladimir Kuchinskii Transitions Between Regular and Chaotic Behavior in Polarization-stabilized Vertical-cavity Surface-emitting Lasers 199 Andreas Molitor, Wolfgang Elsdjier > Tuning dynamics of a 70 nm continuously tunable MEMS-VCSEL with a hybrid curved mirror 200 Karolina Zogal, Christian Gierl, Hooman Davani, Christian Grasse, Markus Maine, Peter Meissner, Markus Amann Passive Mode-locking in Quantum Well Fabry-pVerot Lasers 201 Mien Javaloyes, Piotr Slolarz, Lianping Hon, Marc Sorel, Catrina Bryce, Salvador Balle 80-ghz AlGalnAs/inp 1.55 urn Colliding-pulse Mode-locked Laser with Low Divergence Angle and Timing Jitter 202 Lianping Hon, Mohsin Haji, Chong Li, Jehan Akbar, John Marsh, Ann Bryce

Active-mode-locked Terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers (invited) 203 Slefano Barbieri, Marco Ravaro, Pierre Gellie, Giorgio Sanlarelli, Chrisiophe Manquesl, Carlo Sirtori, Surqj P. Khanna, Sdmund H. Linfteld, A. Giles Davies

Passive Harmonic Mode-locking of Discrete Mode Diode Lasers 204 David Bitauid, Simon Osborne, Stephen O'Brien A Low Jitter Mode Passively Locked Laser Diode at 40 GHz Using Regenerative Feedback Via an Optical Fiber Loop 205 Mohsin Haji, Anthony Kelly, Lianping Hon, Ann Bryce, John Arnold, Charles Ironside

TERAHERTZ SOURCES AND APPLICATIONS

Ultrafast Gain Switching of THz Quantum Cascade Lasers THz pulse amplification and Injection Seeding (Invited) 206 Sukhdeep Dhillon, Nathan Jukam, Dimilri Oustinov, Rakchanok Rnngsawang, Jean Maysonnave, Julien Madeo, Pierrick Cavallie, Slefano Barbieri, Pascal Filloux, Carlo Sirtori, Xavier Marcadel, Jerome Tignon THz Time Domain Spectroscopy of Coupled Cavity THz Quantum Cascade Lasers with Metal-Metal Waveguide 207 Michael Marti, Juraj Darmo, Daniel Dielze, Chrisloph Deutsch, Martin Brandstetler, Alexander Bern, Aaron Maxwell Andrews, Pavel Klang, Werner Schrenk, Gottfried Slrasser, Karl Unterrainer

Ultra-broadband THz Semiconductor Laser Based on Heterogeneous Quantum Cascade Gain Medium 208 Dana Turcinkova, Giacomo Scalari, Maria Ines Amanti, Fabrizio Castellano, Manias Beck, Jerome Faist Active Photonic Crystal Terahertz Laser Operating in Upper Bands 209 Alexander Bern, Chrisloph Deutsch, Martin Brandstetler, Aaron Maxwell Andrews, Pavel Klang, Hermann Detz, Werner Schrenk, Gottfried Slrasser, Karl Unterrainer

Scattering Processes in Terahertz InGaGs/inAlAs Quantum Cascade Lasers 210 Milan Fischer, Giacomo Scalari, Kemal Celebi, Maria Amanti, Chrisloph Wallher, Manias Beck, Jerome Faisl THz bands stop by using Metal Slits in Tapered Parallel-Plate Waveguide 211 Eui Su Lee, Young Bin Ji, Tae-ln Jeon Controllable Terahertz Temperature Time-Domain Reflection Spectroscopy of Aqueous Systems 212 Wenchao Qiao, Arne Thoma, Thomas Dekorsy

Continuous- wave Terahertz with Phase Tomography Unwrapping 213 Wenfeng Sun, Xinke Wang, Ye Cui, Yan Zhang Superconducting Waveguides for Terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers 214 Martin Brandstetler, Alexander Bern, Chrisloph Deutsch, Karl Unterrainer, Pavel Klang, Hermann Detz, Werner Schrenk, Aaron Andrews, Gottfried Slrasser Terahertz Plasma Oscillations in Corbino Field-effect Transistors , 215 Oleksiy Sydoruk, Richard Syms, Laszlo Solymar Specific Features of Terahertz Radiation Emitted from Laser Sparks Induced in Gases by Femtosecond Laser Pulses with Linear Polarization 216 Daniil Fadeev, Nina Zharova, Vyacheslai' Mironov Autowave of Electron and Population Depletion Sub Terahertz Self-modulations of Light Absorption and Intrinsic Stimulated Emission in GaAs 217 Igor Bronevoi

Polarization-Independent Broadband Terahertz Modulator 218 Sanaz Zarei

Terahertz of Beta- Barium Borate Spectroscopy Crystals 219 Oleg Khasanov, Sebastien Vidal, Jerome Degert, Jean Oberle, Eric Freysz, Olga Fedotova, Grigoiy Rusetsky Tunable THz Source with Less Than 100 GHz Bandwidth 220 Tobias Bach, Gorazd Poberaj, Marko Zgonik, Carolina Medrano, Peler Gunter Cr3+ LiCAF Solid-state Triple-wavelength Laser for Simultaneous Generation of Two Independently Tunable THz Waves 221 Haroldo J. Maestre, Adrian J. Torregrosa, Juan Capmany

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

on InGaAs/GaAsSb based Progress Terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers 223 Chi'tstoph Deutsch, Hermann Detz, Alexander Bern, Michele Nobile, Aaron Maxwell Andrews, Pavel Klang, Werner Schrenk, Gottfried Slrasser, Karl Unterrainer Metasurfaces to Terahertz Intersubband Coupled Transitions 224 Daniel Dietze, Juraj Darmo, Gottfried Slrasser, Karl Unterrainer the Dance of Ions and Watching Molecules in the THz (invited) 225 Martina Havenilh Nondestructive Rapid Measurement of GaAs, GaN, SiC, and Si Semiconductors using One Tunable Terahertz Source 226 Akihide Hamano, Yoshinobu Takatsu, Seigo Ohno, Hiroaki Minamide, Hiromasa Ito, Yoshiyuki Usuki Non-Contact Multilayer Thickness Measurements with Reflection-Mode Terahertz Time-Domain Spectroscopy 227 Volker Feige, Stephan Nix, Frank Ellrich, Joachim Jonuscheit, Rene Beigang Nonlinear Spectroscopy Using Intense THz Pulses with Amplitudes Exceeding 1 MV/cm (invited) 228 Koichiro Tanaka

Magnetic-Field Induced Broadband THz Absorption Change in a Multiferroic Hcxaferrite at Room Temperature 229 Eiichi Matsubara, Yohei Onishi, Taishi Ishikura, Tstiyoshi Kimura, Masaaki Ashida Terahertz Real Time Focal Plane Imaging 230 Yan Zhang, Xinke Wang, Ye Cui, Wenfeng Sun Field-resolved Four-wave Mixing with Multi-THz Transients in InSb (Invited) 231 Friederike Junginger, Bernhard Mayer, Sebastian Mahrlein, Christian Schmidt, OlafSchubert, Alexander Sell, Alexej Pashkin, Alfred Leitenstorjer, Rupert Huber Development of Real-time Near-field THz Microscope 232 Atsusbi Doi, Francois Blanchard, Tomoko Tanaka, Koichiro Tanaka Efficient Optical Up-Convcrsion by Coherent Sum-Frequency Generation for Highly Sensitiv Terahertz Detection 233 Florian Sedlmeir, Harold G. L. Schwefel, Dmitry V. Strekalov, Sebastian Bauerschmidl, Sascha Preu, Stefan Maker, Gottfried H. Dohler, Gerd Leuchs Continuous Wave Intracavity Terahertz Source 234 Maik Scheller, Joe M. Yarborough, Jerome V. Moloney, Mahmoud Fallahi, Martin Koch, Stephan W. Koch

Terahertz Emitter Based on the Lateral Photo-dember Effect Excited with an Er Fiber Laser 235 Gregor Klatt, Bernhard Stirrer, Daniel Stephan, OlafSchubert, Milan Fischer, Jerome Faisl, Alfred Leitenstorfer, Rupert Huber, Thomas Dekorsy New Generation of the Electro-Optic Terahertz Detectors 236 Juraj Darmo, Daniel Dielze, Michael Marti, Karl Unterrainer Terahertz Generation Control by Metal Substrate in Sandwich Structure with Thin LiNbOj 237 Sergey Bodrov, Igor Ilyakov, Boris Shishkin, Audrey Stepanov

APPLICATIONS OF NONINEAR OPTICS

Nonlinear Photonics in Carbon Nanotubes and Graphenes (Invited) 238 Shinji Yamashita Tilted Fiber Bragg Grating Assisted Nonlinear Effects in Carbon Nanotubc-Coated Optical Fibers 239 Guillermo E. Villanueva, Michael B. Jakubinek, Benoit Simard, Claudia J. Oldn, Fere Pirez-Millan, Jacques Albert Spetro-temporal Characterisation of Incoherent Supercontinuum Subnanosecond Laser Emission for Multiplex- CARS Microspectroscopy 240 Annalisa De Angelis, Philippe Leproux, Vincent Couderc, Delia Arnaud-Cormos, Philippe Leveque Coherent Raman Microscopy with a Fiber-Format Femtosecond Oscillator 241 Alessio Gambetta, Vikas Kumar, Giulia Grancini, Dario Polli, Cristian Manzoni, Roberta Ramponi, Giulio Centllo, Marco Marangoni Chirped-pulse Interferometry for Dispersion-cancelled OCT 242 Robert Prevedel, Kurl Schreiter, Rainer Kalienbaek, Jonathan Lavoie, Devon Biggerstaff, Kevin Resell Following a Chemical Reaction Using High Harmonic Spectroscopy (Invited) 243 Hans-Jakob Worner, Jullen Bertrand, Daniil Kartashov, Paul Corkum, David Villeneuve High-energy Dcep-UV Temporal Pulse Shaping by Chirp-assisted Broadband Frequency Conversion 244 Carlo Vlcario, Alexandre Trisorio, Chrisloph P. Hauri, G. Arlsholm Long Hollow Fibers for Strong, Spatially Uniform Spectral Broadening of Ultrashort Pulses 245 Tamas Nagy, Peter Simon High Stability 100 kHz Mid-IR OPCPA with Passive CEP Stability 246 Alexandre Thai, Olivier Chains, Philip K. Bates, Jens Blegerl Keldysh-sealing in the Waveform Control of the Dissociative Ionization of D2 247 Irina Znakovskaya, Philipp Von Den Hoff, Gilad Marcus, Sergey Zherebtsov, Xun Gu, Yunpei Deng, Boris Bergues, Marc J. J. Vrakking, Ferenc Krausz, ReinhardKienberger, Regina De Vivie-Riedle, Matthias Kling Wave-Particle Duality and Tunable Steering of Solitons in Kerr media 248 Chandroth Pamilan Jisha, Alessandro Albenwci, Ray-Kuang Lee, Gaetano Assanto Femtosecond Pulse Written Quasi Phase Matching Element in x-cut Lithium Niobate 249 Jens Thomas, Vinzenz Hilbert, Reinhard Geiss, Andreas Tiinnermann, Stefan Nolte Broadly Tunable CW Grecn-to-red Laser Source Based on Frequency Doubling of a Quantum-dot External Cavity Diode Laser in a PPKTP Waveguide 250 Ksenia A. Fedorova, Maria A. Cataluna, Philip R. Battle, Igor L. Krestnikov, Daniil A, Livshits, Edik U. Rafaibv Nonlinear Optical Diode Based on Nonreciprocal Cross-phase Modulation in Coupled Microcavities 251 Victor Grigoriev, Fabio Biancalana High Index Glass CMOS Compatible All-optical Chips for Telecom and Optical Interconnects (Invited) 252 David Moss, Alessia Pasquazi, Marco Peccianti, Luca Razzari, David Duchesne, Marcello Ferrera, Sai Chu, Brent Little, Roberto Morandotti Toward Sub-Cycle Field Shaping by Molecular Modulation in Gasses and Solids Raman Coherence at Work (Invited) 253 Alexei Sokolov Linear Precompensation of Phase-modulated Nanosecond Pulse Distortions in Second-harmonic Generation 254 Sebastien Vidal, Jacques Luce, Denis Penninckx Four-wave Based Phase Mixing Mid-span Conjugation using slow light engineered Chalcogcnide and silicon photonic crystal waveguides 255 Majid Ebnali-Heidari, Homed Saghaei, Christelle Monat, Christian Grille! Influence of Modulation and Shape of Laser Pump Pulses on Stimulated Brillouin Scattering in Self-focusing Regime in Silica 256 Sarah Mauger, Luc Beige, Stefan Shipin Imaging in Focusing Kerr Media Reverse Using Digital Propagation 257 Alexandre Goy, Demetri Psaltis

Nonlinear Effects on Propagation High-Power Optical-Vortex Pulses in Anisotropic Crystals 258 Masalo Suzuki, Yasunori Toda, Ryuji Morita Vortex Solitons and in Ncmatic Charge Flipping Liquid Crystals 259 Yana hdebskaya, Anton Desyatnikov, Gaetano Assunto, Yuri Kivshar in Light Propagation Nonlinear Photonic Lattices Based on Complex Nondiffracting Beams 260 Patrick Rose, Martin Boguslawski, Falko Diehcl, Julian Becker, Cornelia Denz Discrete Solitons in Photonic Lattices with Topological Defects 261 Matthias Hcinrich, Robert Keil, Felix Dreisow, Andreas Tiinnermann, Stefan Nolte, Alexander Szameil Dynamics of Light Bullets in Two-Dimensional of Arrays Waveguides 262 Stefano Minardi, Folk Yarsolav Alexander Eilenberger, Kartosbov, Szameit, Ulrich Rupke, Jens Kobelke, Kay Schuster, Hartmut Lluis Bartalt, Tomer, Stefan Nolte, Andreas Tiinnermann, FalkLederer, Thomas Perlsch Generating Ultra-Short High-Energy Pulses Soliton using Dissipative Resonance Pulse Compression Schemes 263 Wonkeun Chang, Philippe Grelu, Adrian Ankiewlcz, Jose M. Soto-Crespo, Nail Aklmtediev Dispersion-Managed Fibers for at 160 All-Optical Regeneration Gbit/s 264 Sy Dat he, Thierry Chartier, Mathilde Marcia Costa Gay, ESilva, Laurent Bramerie, Michel Joindot, Jean-Claude Simon, Thanh Nam Nguyen Fibcr-Lascr-Pumped, High-Power, Continuous-Wave, Singly-Resonant Optical Parametric Oscillator based on MgO sPPLT 265 Suddapalii Chaitanya Kumar, Mujid Ebrahitn-Zadeh Singly Resonant Continuous-Wave Parametric Optical Oscillator with Tunable Output above 4 urn and Low Oscillation Threshold 266 Mikael Sillanen, Tami Leinonen, Mircea Guina, Laurl Haloncn Dispersion Compensation with a Grism-based Line for Fiber Dispersive Delivery of Sub-30 fs Pulses at 830 nm 267 Claire Lefort, Meri Kalashyan, Tigran Mansuryan. Levon DonaldPeyrot, Mourodlan, Frederic Louradour, Alain Barthele'rny Taper Designs for Semiconductor Filled Fibres 268 Neil Broderick, Anna Peacock High Intensity Pulse Self-compression in Short Hollow Core Capillaries 269 Thomas J Butcher, Patrick N Anderson, Peter Horak, Jeremy G Frey, iVilliam S Brocklesby Activated Escape from Polarization in Fibre Raman Pulling Amplifiers 270 Sergey Sergeyev, Sergei Turilsyn Tunable Multiplication of the Rate of an Repetition Optical Pulse Train Using Dynamic Brillouin Gratings in Optical Fibers 271 Sanghoon Chin, Nikolay Primerov, Salvador Sales, Luc Thevenaz PCF Infrared Continuum for Two Photon Multiwavelcngth Microscopy 272 Claudio De Mauro, Domenico Alfteri, Marco Arrigoni, David Armstrong, Francesco Saverio Pavone Theoretical Study of Dispersive Wave Generation in Ar-Fillcd Hollow-Core PCF above the Plasma Threshold 273 Wonkeun Chang, Alexander Nazarkln, John Trovers, Philipp Hdlzer, Johannes Nold, Nicolas Y. Joly, Philip St. J. Russell Supercontinuum Generation in Photonic Fibers Made from Crystal Borosilicate Glasses 274 Marina T, J. C. Nery, Ferreira, Enver F. Chillcce, Luis C. Barbosa, Flavio C. Cruz Group-Acceleration Matching in Tapered Optical Fibers for the Maximising Power in the Blue-Edge of a Supercontinuum 275 Simon Toft Sorensen, Alex Judge, CarstenL. Thomsen, Ole Bang Improved Parametric Generation of in Fibers Light Optical 276 Cesar Jauregtii, Dirk Nodop, Jens Limpert, Andreas Tiinnermann OPCPA Using Pump Beams Shaped by Diffractive Elements Optical ..277 Alexandre Thai, Enrique Tafahuerce, Pedro Andres, Philip KBales, Jens Biegert Mid-ir Optical Parametric Oscillator Based on LiGaSj 278 Aleksey Tyazhev, Vilaly Vcdenyapin, Marchev, Alexander Geargi Yellsseyev, Ludmila Isaenka, Marina Starikova, Lobanov, Valentin Pctrov Sergei Generation of Eye-Safe Radiation in Passively Q-Switchcd Laser with Three Stokes Intracavity Raman Conversion 279 Pavel Shpak, Sergei Voitikov, Ruslan Chulkov, Pavel Apanasevich, Valentin Orlovich, Alexander Grabtchikov, Anurag Kttshsvaha, Neena Salti, Lalila Agrawal, Anil Maini, Sergei Kruk 1.5 W Output Two-Color Femtosecond Optical Parametric Oscillator Pumped by a 7.4 W Femtosecond Yb KGW Laser 280 Robin Hegenbarth, Andy Steimnann, Jdnos Hebling, Harold Giessen A Frequency-swept Source for Broadband Mid-infrared Spectroscopy 281 Alissa Silva, Ian Lindsay High Energy, Sub-nanosecond, 0.5-kHz, Mid-IR OPO based on PPSLT Pumped at 1064 nm 282 Alexander Gaydardzhiev, Danail Chuchumishev, Ivan Buchvarov, Dimitar Shumov, Stuart Samuelson Mid-Infrared Optical Parametric Generation in CdSiP2 283 Olivier Chains, Peter Schunemaim, Kevin Zawilski. Jem Biegert, Majid' Ebrahim-Zadeh The kHz Level Stabilization of an Intraeavity Doubled Continuous Wave Optical Parametric Oscillator Using Pound-Drever-Hall Scheme 284 Oussama Mhibik, David Paboeuf, Cyril Drag, Fabien Bretenaker Quasi-Continuous-Wave Intraeavity KGW Raman Laser Generation at Different Wavelengths 285 Vladimir Dashkevich, Anton Kananovich, Henryk Szymczak, Valentin Orlovich Wavelength Conversion of a Broadband ASE Source Based on Intra-cavity Difference-frequency-mixing in a C^LiCAF-PPSLT Laser 286 Adrian J. Torregrosa, Haroldo Macstre, Juan Capmany Narrowband PPKTP Source for Polarization Entangled Photons 287 Siddarth Joshi, Felix Anger, Antia Lamas-Linares, Christian Kurlsiefer Full-scanning Nonlinear Fourier-transform Spectroscopy of D2 Using High-order Harmonic Radiation 288 Yusuke Furukawa, Yasuo Nabekawa, Eiji J. Takohashi, Tomoya Okino, Kaorv Yamanouchi, Katsumi Midorikawa

Plasma Filament Decay in an External Electric Field 289 Sergey Bodrov, Alexey Murzanev, Maxim Tsarev, Andrey Stepanov Universality in Relativistic Aspirations of Helmholtz Soliton Pulses 290 Gemma Lancaster, Mark Lttndie, Timothy Hodgkinson, James Christian, Graham McDonald Tunable Self-focusing and Self-steering of Nematicons 291 Alessandro Albemcci, Armando Piccardi, Marco Peccianti, Malgosia Kaczmarek, Gactano Assanto Tunable Multiple Soliton Generation in Kerr Media 292 Chandroth Pannian Jisha, Alessandro Albemcci, Ray-Kuang Lee, Gaetano Assanto Fast Writing of Soliton Waveguides with Blue-Violet Lasers in Lithium Niobate for Coupling of Femtosecond Infrared Laser Pulses 293 Silvlu T. Popescu, Adrian Petris, Valentin I. Vlad, Eugenio Fazio Group Velocity Control in Reconfigurable Phase-shifted Superstructures 294 Sebastian Kroesen, Wolfgang Horn, Cornelia Denz Second Harmonic Generation from Single Nanoparticles 295 Amos Schiatheitn, Alois Renn, Michele Celebrano, VahidSandoghdar Achromatic Transient-grating for FROG Characterization 296 Elsa Baynard, Stephane Faure, Valirie Blanche! Nonlinear Optics of Randomly Structured Strontium Tetraborate 297 Aleksandr Aleksandrovsky, Andrey Vyitnishev, Aleksandre Zaitsev, Anton Ikonnikov, Gennadiy Pospelov, Vitally Slabko 90 nm Resolution Reconstruction from a Polychromatic Signal Using Monochromatic Phase Retrieval Techniques 298 Aaron D. Parsons, Richard T. Chapman, Benjamin Mills, Thomas J. Butcher, Jeremy G. Frey, William S. Brockleshy Influence of the Acceptance Bandwidth on Frequency Doubling of ps Pulses in a ppMgO LN Ridge Waveguide 299 Daniel Jedrzejczyk, Sina Riecke, Reiner Gather, Kristian Laurilsen, Katrin Paschke, Gotz Erbert Spectral Study of Propagation Losses of GaAs/AlOx Nonlinear Waveguides 300 Marc Savanier, Filippo Ghiglieno, Sara Ducci, Ivan Favero, Giuseppe Leo Acrylonitrile-Containing Methyl Methacrylate Polymers as New Host Materials for second-order NLO polymers 301 Atsushi Sugita, Takahiro Kato, Masashi Morimoto, Yasuaki Tamaki, Yasumasa Kawata, Shigeru Tasaka

All - Optical Spatial Light Modulator using CdTe Quantum Dots 302 Joan Dancus, Valentin 1. Vlad, Adrian Petris, Nikolai Gaponik, Vladimir Lesnyak Four-wave-mixing Efficiency and Conversion Bandwidth in Silicon-nanocrystals Slot Waveguides Fabricated by PECVD 303 Andrea Trita, Cosimo Lacava, Ilaria Cristiani, Jean-Philippe Colonna, Pauline Gaulier, Jean-Marc Fedeli Hybrid III-V/Silicon on Insulator Nonlinear Nanophotonics (Invited) 304 Fabriee Raineri, Alexandre Bazin, Yacine Halioua, Timothy Karle, Paul Monnier, Isabelle Sagnes, Rama Raj

Horizontally Slotted Electro-optic Silicon Waveguides Featuring an Organic Crystalline Slot Material 305 Harry Figi, Denise H. Bale, Attila Szep, Larry R. Dalton, Antao Chen Spatiotemporal Nonlinear Optics in Arrays of Subwavelength Waveguides 306 Andrey V. Gorbach, Wei Ding, Owain K. Staines, Charles E. De Nobriga, Gareth D. Hohbs, William J. Wadsworlh, Jonathan C. Knight, Dmitry V. Skryabin, Antonio SamarelH, Mark Sorel, Richard M. De La Rue High Average Power Temporal Pulse Compression in a Xe-Filled Kagome-Type Hollow-Core Photonic Crystal Fiber 307 Clara J Saraceno, Oliver H Heckl, Cyrill R E Baer, Thomas Suedmeyer, Y11 Cheng, Ylng Y Wang, Fetah Benabid, Ursula Keller Supercontinuum Generation in a Photonic Crystal Fiber Pumped by a Gain-switched High-power Fiber Laser 308 Casper Larsen, Peter M. IV. Skovgaard, Danny Noordegraaf, Kim P. Hansen, Kent E. Mattsson, Oh Bang Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Raman Coherence in Hydrogen-filled Hollow Core Photonic Crystal Fibers 309 Anton Husakou, Yingying Wang, Brian Mangan, Fetah Benabid Supercontinuum pulse-to-pulse fluctuations in a photonic bandgap fiber 310 Olivier Vanvincq, Benoit Barviau, Arnaud Mussot, Geraud Bouwmans, Yves Quiquernpois. Alexandre Kudlinski Switching Characteristics of Forward SIPS in Photonic Crystal Fiber 311 Myeong Soo Kang, Anna Butsch, Philip Russell Transition Dynamics in Optical Fiber Amplifiers Operating in the Normal Dispersion Regime 312 Brandon Bale, Kamal Hammani, Christophe Finot, Sonia Boscolo Three-Wave Stimulated Raman Scattering in Hydrogen- Filled Photonic Crystal Fiber 313 Maria Ziemienczuk, Andreas M. Walser, AmirAbdohand, Alexander Nazarkin, Clemens F. Kaminski, Philip St. J. Russell Solitons Propagating in Liquid-core Photonic Crystal Fibers 314 Claudio Conii, Fabio Biancalana, MarkusA. Schmidt, Philip St. J. Russell Linearons Reduced Amplitude Noise in Supcrcontinuum Generated in Tapered PCFs 315 Uffe Moeller, Simon T. Soerensen, Peter M. Mosehmd, Jeppe Johansen, Carslen L. Thomsen, Ole Bang Control of Supcrcontinuum Pulse-to-pulse Fluctuations by Fiber Tapering 316 Benait Barviau, Alexandre Kudlinski, Arnaud Mussot Gap Solitons in Inhomogcncous High-index Photonic Bandgap Fibers 317 Jesper Laegsgaard

Multi-watt Level Output Power from a Dispersion-shifted Fiber Optical Parametric Oscillator Tunable Over 450 nm 318 Yiqing Xu, Ka Fai Mak, Smart Murdoch

Improving Mid-infrared Supcrcontinuum Generation Efficcncy by Pumping a Fluoride Fiber Directly Into the Anomalous Regime at 1995nm 319 Mathieu Duhant, William Renard, Guillaume Canal, Frederic Smektala, Johan Troles, Pierre Bourdon, Christophe Planchat Optimized 4-um OPO with Intracavity OPA Based on a Dual-Grating PPLN Crystal 320 Anloine Godard, Myriam Raybaut, Michel Lefebvre, Anne-Marie Michel, Michel Pealat Picosecond Tunable Mode Locking of a Cr":ZnSe Laser with a Frequency-doubling Nonlinear Mirror 321 Jean-Bapliste Dherbecourt, Adrien Denoeud, Jean-Michel Melkonian, Myriam Raybaut, Anloine Godard, Michel Lefebvre, Emmanuel Rosemher Characterization of High-energy Optical-parametric Oscillation by Using Periodically Poled Mg-dopcd Congruent LiTaOj 322 Hideki Ishizuki, Tahtnori Taira

All-fiber Raylcigh Ring Mirror with an Optical Control of the Resonance 323 lrina Pelukhova, Andrei Foliadi, Oleg Anlipov, Krassimir Pannjotov, Hugo Thienponl, Patrice Migret Simple Method for Measuring the Zero-dispersion Wavelength in Optical Fibers 324 Maxime Drogues, Benoit Barviau, Alexandre Kudlinski, GeraudBouwmam, Arnaud Mu.isot Bistability and Excitability in 2D Photonic Crystal Nanocavltics 325 Alejandro Yacomolti, Maia Brunslein, Isahellc Sagnes, Fabrice Raineri, Ariel Levenson Enhanced Four Wave Mixing in Slow Light GalnP Photonic Crystals Waveguides and 40Gbit/s Transmission Assessment 326 Kevin Lengle, Laurent Bramerie, Mathilde Gay, Jean Claude Simon, Sylvain Combrie, Pierre Colman, Alfredo De Rossi Loss Saturation in Dispersion-Engineered Slow Light Waveguides 327 Thomas White, Andre)' Sukhortikov Time-Resolved Ultrafast All-Optical Switching in Directional Couplers with Second-Order Nonlinearity 328 Alexander Solntsev, Dragomir Neshev, Roland Schiek

Vectorial Second Harmonic Generation Imaging of Gold Nanocones 329 Godofredo Bautisia, Mikko J, Hultunen, Jouni Mdkitalo, Juha M. Konllo, Jaime Simonen, Marlti Kauranen The Origin of Second Harmonic Generation Hotspots in Chiral Optical Mctamaterials 330 Venisislm' Valev, Alejandro Silhanek, Xuezhi Zheng, Vladimir Volskiy, Claudiu Biris, Nicolae Panoiu, Ben De Clercq, Marcel Ameloot, Oleg Aklsipetrov, Guy Vandenbosch, Victor Moshchalkov, Thieny Verbiesl

Low-threshold Parametric a Optical Oscillations in Whispering Gallery Mode Resonator 331 JosefV. Fllrst, Dmitry V. Strekalov, Dominique FJser, Andrea Aiello, UlrlkL. Andersen, Christoph Marquardt, GerdLeuchs

Broadband, Rapidly Tunable, BiB306 Femtosecond Optical Parametric Oscillator Directly Pumped by a Ti sapphire 332 Adolfo Esteban-Marlin, Venkata Ramaiah-Badarla, Valentin Petrov, Majid Ebrahim-Zadeh Optimum Output Coupling in Optical Oscillators Using Antircsonant Ring Interfcrometry 333 Adolfo Esteban-Martin, Suddapalli Chaitanya Kumar, Majid Ebrahim-Zadeh Independently Tunable, Dual-Wavelength Source Based on Two-Crystal, Continuous-Wave, Singly Resonant Optical Parametric Oscillator 334 Goutam K. Sainanta, Majid Ebrahim-Zadeh

Higher-order Cascaded Processes in Continuous-wave Optical Parametric Oscillators 335 Ingo Breunig, Rosita Stiwade, Jens Kiessling, Karsten Buse Tunable Parametric Oscillation in Radially Poled Whispering Gallery Resonators 336 Tobias Becbnann, Heiko Linnenbank, Karsten Buse, Ingo Breunig

OPTICAL MATERIALS. FABRICATION AND CHARACTERISATION

Direct Refractive Index Measurement Technique to Observe Waveguide Dispersion Characteristics of Short Waveguides Utilising the Higher Order Modes of Integrated Bragg Grating Structures 337 Helen L Rogers, Christopher Holmes, James C Gates, Peter G R Smith Characterization of InGaAs and InGaAsN saturable absorber mirrors for high power mode locked sub-ps thin- disk lasers 338 Farina Schdttiger, Dominik Bauer, Dirk Sutter, Jaime Putistinen, Mircea Guina, Thomas Dekorsy Temperature Dependence of Laser-Induced Damage Thresholds for Dielectric and Metal Coatings 339 Katsuhiro Mikami, Shinji Motokoshi, Masayukl Fujiia, Takahisa Jilsuno, KazuoA Tanaka, Hiroshi Azechi

Nano-engineered Bismuth-doped Silica Glasses and Origin of Near Infrared Photolumincsccncc 340 Igor Razdobreev, Hicham El Hamzaoui, Mahamed Bouazaoui, Vladimir Arion Photo-induced Nonlinear Optical Properties of BiB306 Glasses and Composites Containing BiB306 Glass Embedded in Nanoparticles Polymers 341 Andrzej Majchrowski, Zygmunt Mierczyk, Ivan V. Kllyk Cz-Growth of Ferroelectric LaBGeOs Single Crystals 342 Shintaro Miyazawa, Toshiki Kanarnori, Satoshi Ichikawa, Hideo Nakae Self-assembling Active Soft NanoPhotonics on the Kilometre Scale (Invited) 343 Jeremy Baamberg, Chris Finlayson, David Snoswell, Andreas Kontogeorgos, Andrew Haines, Qibin Zhao, Peter Spahn, Goetz Hellmann Extruding Opals Size-dependent Recombination Dynamics in ZnO Nanowires 344 Juan Sebastian Reparaz, Frank Gilell, Markvs R. Wagner, Axel Hoffmann, Albert Cornet, Joan Ramon Morante ZnO-based Nanowires for Hybrid Low-voltage LED 345 Oleg Lupan, Thierry Pauporte, Bruno Viana Second Harmonic Generation in GaP Nanopillars 346 Reza Sanatinia, Marcin Swillo, Srinivasan Anand Observation of Higher-Order Optical Nonlinearities in Photopolymerizabie Semiconductor CdSe Quantum Dot- Polymcr Nanocomposites 347 Yasuo Tomita, Xiangming Liu, Yusuke Adachi, Jura Qshima Rare-earth Doped Double Tungstate Crystals for Solid-state Bulk, Thin-disk and Waveguide Lasers (invited) 348 Valentin Petrov Growth and Characterization of Highly Yb3+doped KY(W04)2 Thin Layers 349 Shanmugam Aravazhi, Dimitri Geskus, Koop Van Dalfsen, DetlefGunther, Markits Pollnau Optical and Magneto-optical Properties of Neodymium and Erbium doped Gallium Nitride Epilayers 350 Nathaniel Woodward, H. X. Jiang, J. Y. Lin, J. M. Zavada, E. Readinger, V. Dierolj Excitation Quenching in Er3+-doped A1203 Amplifiers 351 Laura Agazzi, Kerstin Wdrhoff, Markus Pollnau Red, Green and Violet Up-convcrsion in Erbium Doped Telluride Glasses 352 KrzysztofAnders, Anna Jttsza, Michal Malinowski, Dariitsz Pysz, RyszardSiepien, Ryszard Piramidowicz Physical Properties and Crystal Microstructure of the Single Crystal Fibres Made from Rare-earth Oxides 353 Valerii Voronov, Alexander Veber, Lyttdmila Jskhakova, Vilalii Kashin, Sergey Rusonov, Vladimir Tsvetkov Structure and Spectral-luminescent Properties of Nanostructured CaF2-TmF3 Ceramics a Potential Active Medium for 2 ujbi Lasers 354 Polina Ryabochklna, Fedor Bolschikov, Andrey Lyapin, Alexander Malov, Marina Kruglova, Evgeniy Chuprunov, Vyacheslav Osiko, Pavel Fedorov, Sergey Kouznetzov, Sergey Ushakov, Evgeny Garibln Material Preparation and Optical Properties of Ho-dopcd KPb2Cls and KPb2Br5 for applications as mid-IR gain media 355 Uwe Hommerich, Olusola Oyebola, Eiei Brown, Althea Bluiett, Sudhir Trivedi Ir Luminescence from Subvalcnt Bismuth in Phosphate Glass and Glass-ceramic Matrices a New Insight Into the Nature of Luminescent Bi Species 356 Alexey Romanov, Zukhra Fattakhova, Denis Zhigunov, Leonid Buchnev, Vladimir Korchak, Vladimir Sulimov Investigation of Thermal Effects in Nd YAG Ceramics Under High Heat Load 357 Mateusz Kaskow, Lukasz Gorajek, Jan K, Jabczynski, Jacek Kwiatkowski, Waldemar Zendzian Ho-doped Tellurite Glasses for Emission in the Mid Infrared Wavelength Region 358 Daniel Milanese, Joris Luosteau, Laercio Gomes, Madia Boetti, Silvio Abrate, Stuart Jackson Superfiuorescence and Random Quasi-phase-matching in Pulsed Laser Deposited Nd YAG 359 Mathias Hoffmann, Mark Gyamfi, Stefan Schrameyer, Holger Blaschke, Detlev Ristau, Uwe Morgner 2+ Optical Properties of GGG Thin Films Doped with NiJ+ and Co ions 360 KrzysztofKopczynski, Jerzy Sarnecki, Jaroslaw Mlynczak, Michal Malinowski, Ryszard Piramidowicz, Zygmunt Mierczyk, Maria Maciejewska, Magdalena Nakielska

Fluorescence Properties of Pr YSZ Doped Polymer Nanocomposites , 361 Ryszard Piramidowicz, AnnaJusza, KrzysztofAnders, JanuszD. Fidelus, Marek Godlewski, Sergey Yatsunenko Photoluminescencc Centers in Gamma-irradiated Bismuth-doped Glasses 362 Boris Denker, Boris Galagan, Sergei Sverchkav, Ilya Shulman, Evgeniy Dianov Thermal Expansion Coefficients Anisotropy of Monoclinic Potassium (Rare-earth) Double Tungstates K/?e(WO,i) 2{fle=Gd,Y,Lu,Yb) 363 Pavel Loiko, Konstantin Yumashev, Nikolai Kuleshov, Galina Rachkovskaya, Anatoly Pavlyuk Transient Saturation Spectroscopy for Measuring the Lifetime of Hyperfine Sublevels in ""Er3* Ions Doped in a Silicate Glass Fiber 364 Daisuke Hashimoto, Kaoru Shimizu Optical Properties and Faraday Effects on Terbium Gallium Garnet Ceramics for Faraday Rotator 365 Hidetsugu Yoshida, Koji Tsubakimoto, Yasusi Fujimoro, Hisanori Fujita, Noriaki Miyanaga, Hoshiteru Nozawa, Hideki Yagi, Takagiinl Yanagitani, Yutaka Nagata, Hiroo Kinoshita Optical Characterisation of Carbon-Nanohorn Based Nanofluids for Solar Energy and Life Science Applications 366 Elisa Sani, Luca Mercatelli, Giovanni Zaccanti, Fahrizio Martelli, Paola Di Nlnni, Simona Barison, Cesare Pagura, Annalisa Giannini, David Jafrancesco, Daniela Fontani, Franco Francini Effect of Porosity on the Laser Induced Damage Threshold of Sol-gel SiOj and Zr02 Single Layer Films 367 Yuanjun Gtto, Shaobo He, Xiaotao Zu, Xiaodong Yuan, Haibin Lv, Xiaodong Jiang Intrinsic Spectral Selectivity in Ultra-High Temperature Ceramics for Solar Applications 368 Luca Mercatelli, Elisa Sani, Paola Sansoni, Annalisa Giannini, Franco Francini, Diletta Sciti

Study on UV absorption edge of MgO doped LiNbOj and CTVE excitons 369 Feifei Xin, Guoquan Zhang, Yongzhe Zhang, Yongfa Kong, Jingjun Xu Accurate Measurements of Refractive Indices of Undoped and Mg-doped Stoichiometric LiNb03 and Litao3 370 Ichiro Shqji, Daisuke Gunji, Masashi Hakamata, Tatsuo Fukui, Yasunori Furukawa Variable Stripe Length Method for Optical Gain Measurements Characteristic Lengths 371 Luis Cerddn, Angel Costela, Inmaculada Garcia-Moreno Intrinsic Defects Pinned at the Domain Wall in Lithium Niobate 372 Greg Stone, Hendrik Steigerwald, Karsten Base, Wolfgang Sohler, Venkalraman Gopalan, Simon Phillpot, Volkmar Dierolf SHG Capabilities of RECOB (RE - Y, Gd) Oxyborate Crystals 373 Pascal Loiseau, Takunori Taira, Gerard Aka Photoacoustic Detection of Weak Absorption in Lithium Niobate 3 74 NikJas Waasem, Stephan Fieberg, Daniel Haerlle, Frank Kiihnemann, Karsten Buse

Temperature Effect on the Brillouin Gain Spectra of Highly Doped Aluminosilicate Fibers 375 Francesco H. Moimtfort, Seongwoo Yoo, Alexander J. Boyland, Andrew S. Webb, Johan Nilsson, Jayanta K. Saint Optical Bistability in Colloidal Solution of Er-Yb Doped LaF3 Nanocrystals 376 Egor Pobegatov, Peter Agruzov, Igorlllcliev, Alexander Shamray A Novel Evaporation Method of Porphyrin/Alq3 Mixture for OLED Fabrication 377 SeyedHosein Razavi, Ezeddin Mohajerani, Alt Khabazi, Hashem Shahroosvand, Mohammad JanghooH, Isa Ahmad Alidokht, Hose'm Jaslmsaz Titanium free Optical Waveguides in Lithium Niobate produced by Etching During Indiffusion of Titanium (EDIT) 378 Tristan Craslu, Vijay Sivan, Thach Nguyen, Arnan Mitchell Er3*-dopcd Glass-polymer Composite Thin Films Fabricated Using Combinatorial Pulsed Laser Deposition 379 Zhanxiang Zhao, Gin Jose, MehrdadIrannejad, Paul Steenson, Nikos Bamiedakis, Richard Penty, Ian White Direct Opal Fabrication From Silver-coated Silica Microspheres 380 Michaela K. Micko, Matthias Brendle, Judith M. Dawes Characterisation of Optical Waveguides in BGO Crystals Fabricated by N+ Ion Implantation 381 Stefano Pelli, Sitnone Bemeschi, Gualtiero Nttnzi Conti, Silvia Soria, Giancarlo Cesare Righini, Istvan Banyasz, Krisztidn Lengyel, Agnes Peter, Andrea Watterich, Tivdar Lohner, Miklds Fried, Zsolt Zolnai Transient Raman Response of Novel Chalcogenide Micro-structured Optical Fibre 382 Tomas Kohoutek, Xin Yan, Tetsuro Shiosaka, Shinlaro Mizuno, Spyros Yannopoulos, Takenobu Suzuki, Yasutake Ohishi Tellurite/Phosphate Composite Microstructured Optical Fiber with High Nonlinearity and Flattened Dispersion 383 Xin Yan, Meisong Liao, Tong Huang Titan, Takenobu Suzuki, Yasutake Ohishi Highly Birefringcnt Microstructured Fibers with Low Mode Field Asymmetry 384 Alexander Denisov, Andrei Levchenko, Sergei Semjonov, Evgucni Dianov

Partial Power Recovery of Bend-induced Loss Using a Hybrid Index-guiding Photonic Crystal Fiber , 385 Christos Markos, Kyriakos Vlachos, George Kakarantzas Gratings in Liquid Crystal Golden Nanosuspensions due to Thermal Nonlinearity 386 Elena Ouskova, Dariya Lysenko, Yuriy Reznikov, Stanishv Ksiondzyk, Liliana Cseh, Georg Mehl, Victor Reshentnyak

Aulostercoscopic Display Using a Holographic Splitter in Polymer Dispersed Liquid Crystals 387 Wei ChiaSu, Chien Yue Chen, Hsin Wei Ho Light Interaction with Nematic Liquid Crystals Doped with Azocompounds of Different Molecular Weight 388 Ivan Budagovsky, Dminy Pavlov, Sergei Shvetsov, Mikhail Smayev, Alexander Zolotko, Nataliya Boiko, Mikhail Barnik Dcphasing Relaxation of Localized Surface Plasmons Investigated by Persistent Hole Burning Role of the Stabilizing Molecules in Nanocolloids 389 Leonardo DeS. Menezes, Euclides Almeida, Augusto C. L. Moreira, Antonio M, Brito-Silva, CidB. DeAraujo Investigation of Coherent Acoustic Phonons in THz Quantum Cascade Laser Structures 390 Mike Hettkh, Axel Bmchausen, James Lloyd-Hughes, Raphael Gebs, Albrechl Bartels, Milan Fischer, Manias Beck, Giacomo Scalari, Jerome Falsi, Thomas Dekorsy Improving Efficiency of Quantum Dot Infrared Photodetcctor by using Photonic Crystal Framework in the Active Layer 391 Zhihui Chen, Ying Fu, Zhongyuan Yu ARROW Guiding Silicon Photonic Crystal Fibres (invited) 392 Noel Healy, Justin Sparks, Ronrui He, Pier Sazio, John Badding, Anna Peacock SF6 Glass Hollow-core Photonic Crystal Fibre 393 Xin Jiang, Tijmen Euser, Amir Abdolvand, Fehim Babic, Nicolas Joly, Philip Russell Polarization Noise Induced by Photon-Phonon Interaction in Hollow-Core Photonic Crystal Fibres 394 Wenjia Zhong, Bettina Heim, Dominique Elser, Christoph Marquardt, Gerd Leuchs Nonlinear Absorption and Self-Phase Modulation in Silicon Optical Fibres 395 Priyanth Mehla, Noel Healy, Justin Sparks, Todd Day, Pier Sazio, John Badding, Anna Peacock Novel Bend-Resistant Design of Single-Mode Microstructured Fibers 396 Victor Shevandin, Vladimir Demidov, Konstantin Dukelskii

Electromcchano-optically Tuned Ring Resonator in Silicon on Insulator, Monolithically Integrated with a Microcantilcvcr , 397 Lasse J, Kauppinen, Shahina M. C. Abdulla, Gijs J. M. Krijnen, Markus Pollnau, Rene' M. De Rldder

Distributed Bragg Reflector High-Q Cavities and Lasers in Alj03 on Silicon 398 Edward Bernhardi, Henk Van Wolferen, Kerslin Wdrhoff, Reni De Rldder, Markus Pollnau Experimental Observation of Whispering Gallery Modes in Novel Silicon Microcylindrical Resonators 399 Natasha Vukovic, Noel Healy, Peter Horak, Ganapathy Munigan, Justin Sparks, Pier Sazio, John Badding, Anna Peacock Optical Characterization of LiNb03 Whispering Gallery Mode Micro-Resonators Fabricated by Surface Tension Reshaping ; 400 Charlie Ying, Ganapathy Munigan, Gilberlo Brambilla, Collin Sones, Elisabeth Soergel, James Wilkinson, Robert Eason, Michalis Zervas, Sakellaris Mailis Visible Light Trimming of Coupled Ring-Resonator Filters in As2S3 Chalcogenide Glass Technology 401 Antonio Canciamilla, Francesco Marichettl, Nathan Carlie, J, David Musgraves, Bogdan Zdyrko, IgorLuzinov, Kathleen Richardson, Juejun Hit, Vivek Singh, Ami Agarwal, Lionel C. Kimerllng, Andrea Mellani Real-space Distribution of Cavity Modes in Single ZnO Nanowires 402 Frank Giiell, Alejandro R. Goiii, Julia Lopez- Vidrier, Josep Oriol Osso, Luis Alberto Perez, Eduardo Coronado, Albert Cornet, Joan Ramon Morante Domain Walls in lithium Niobatc and Lithium Tantalate Local Structure and Properties (Invited) 403 Venkatraman Gopalan, Volkmar Dierolf, Long-Qing Chen, Simon Phillpot Domain Patterning by Strongly Absorbed UV-light in LiNb03 Crystals 404 Hendrik Steigerwald, Yong Jun Ying, Robert W. Kason, Boris Slurman, Sakelaris Mailis, Elisabeth Soergel, Karsten Buse Electro-Optic Coefficient Enhancement in Poled LiNbOj Waveguides 405 Charlie Ying, Grigoris Zisis, Andrew Naylor, Pranabendu Gangopadhyay, Collin Sones, Elisabeth Soergel, Robert Eason, Sakellaris Mailis Photorefractivity, Electro-opticaJ Coefficients and Refractive Indices of Zr-dopcd LiNbOj Crystals 406 Giovanni Nava, Wenbo Yan, Paolo Minzioni, Daniela Grando, Jacopo Parravicini, Nicola Argiolas, Marco Bazzan, Maria Vittoria Ciampolilh, C'mzia Sada, Luca Sooner, Anna Maria Zallron, llaria Cristiani, Vittoria Degiorgio Nonlinear Optics with Lithium Niobatc Nanocrystals .....407 Bastion Knabe, Manuel Peter, Daniel Schiltze, Matthias Ackermann, Karsten Buse Degradation Recoverable DFB Lasers Based on P597 PDMS/PTFEMA 408 Hiroaki Yoshioka, Ryo Goto, Soichiro Omi, Yu Yang, Yuji Oki Highly Photostable Lasing in an Organic Crystal of Thiophcne/Phcnylene Co-Oligomer 409 Koji Watanabe, Takeshi Yamao, Keniehi Yamashita, Shu Hotta, Kunishige Oe Low Threshold All-organic Composite Laser 410 Benoit Guilhabert, Nicolas Laurand, Allan R. Mackintosh, Yujie Chen, Johannes Herrnsdorf, Alexander Kanibalotsky, Peter J. Skabara, Martin D. Dawson Efficiency and Photostability Optimization in Pcrylene-doped Polymer Distributed Feedback Lasers and Amplifiers 411 Luis Cerddn, Gonzalo Durdn-Sampedro, Inmaculada Garcla-Moreno, Angel Costela, Ja\>ier DeAbajo Crystal Orientation and Defects of Opal Films Made by the Capillary Deposition Method 412 Mulda Muldarlsnur, Frank Marlow Quasi-Epitaxial Single-Crystalline Organic OH1 Films with High Electro-Optic Activity on Inorganic Structures for Large-Scale Photonic Integration 413 Mojca Jazbinsek, Seong-Ji Kwon, Peter Gilnler

Titanium Dioxide Coated Photoinduccd Surface Relief Grating As a Resonant Waveguide Grating 414 Tapani Alasaarela, Arri Priimagi, Benfeng Bai, Ari Tervonen, Seppo Honkanen Light Turning Mirrors for Hybrid Integration of Optical Waveguides in SiON Technology and CMOS based Photo-detectors 415 Fehmi Civilci, Alfred Driessen, Hugo J. W. M. Hoekstra Direct Laser Writing of Microoptical Structures Using a Germanium-containing Hybrid Photopolymer 416 Mangirdas Malinauskas, Albertas Zukauskas, Vytautas Purlys, Elmina Kambouraki, Arune Gaidukeviciute, Ioanna Sakellari, Stavros Pissadakis, Roaldas Gadonas, Maria Vamvakaki, Maria Farsari Fabrication of Multilayer Crystalline Rib Waveguides by a Combined Multi-step Pulsed Laser Deposition/precision Machining Technique 417 /Catherine S/oyan, Lewis Carpenter, Timothy May-Smith, Christopher Holmes, James Gates, Peter Smith, Robert Eason

Self-induced Patterning of PDMS Microstructures by Photorefractive Effect on Lithium Niobate Crystals 418 Lisa Miccio, Melania Paturzo, Andrea Finizio, Pietro Ferraro Physically Micromachined Silica-on-silicon Integrated Corner Mirrors 419 Lewis G. Carpenter, Helen L. Rogers, Christopher Holmes, James C. Gates, Peter G. R. Smith Linear and NonlincarOptical Properties of Gold nanoparticle-dopcd Photonic Crystal Fiber 420 Laurent Bigot, Hicham El Hamzaoui, Antoine Le Rouge, Fernand Chassagneux, Giraud Geraud Bouwmans, Bruno Capoen, Mohamed Buuazaoui Polarizing Very-Large-Modc-Arca Bragg fiber 421 Svetlana Aleshkina, Mikhail Likhachev, Andrey Pryamikov, Dmitty Gaponov, Alexander Denisov, Mikhail Bttbnov, Mikhail Salganskii, Alexei Guryanov, Sebaslien Fevrier

Direct Bragg Grating Writing in a Hybrid PDMS/Silica photonic Crystal Fiber 422 George Kakarantzas, Antonio Diez, Jose L, Cruz, Christos Markos, Miguel V. Andres, Kyriakos Vlachos Engineering Mode-gaps in Photonic Crystal Waveguides for Filtering Applications 423 Naeem Shahid, Mingyu Li, Shagiifla Naureen, Marcin Swillo, Srinivasan Anand Heterogeneous Hybrid Plasmonic-Photonic Crystals for Enhanced Light- Matter Interaction 424 Sergei Romanov, Alexander Korovin, Vlf Pescltel

ULTRAFAST OPTICS AND APPLICATIONS

Demonstration of Waveguide Regime for Chalcogenide Hollow-core Optical Fiber with Negative Curvature of Core Boundary from Mid- to Far-infrared 425 Alexey Kosolapov, Andrey Pryamikov, Maxim Astapovich, Vladimir Shiryaev, Gennady Snopatin, Victor Platnichenko. Alexander Birhtkov, Mikhail Churbanov, Evgeny Dianov Efficient Hollow Fiber Compression Scheme for 1.6 mJ, Waveform-controlled, Sub-5fs Pulses Generation 426 Xiaowei Chen, Arnaud Malvache, Aurelien Ricci, Vladimir Pervak, Jem Rauschenberger, Aurelie Jullien, Rodrigo Lopez-Martens Hollow Fiber Pulse Compression of Multi-millijoule, 200-fs Pulses from a cw-Diodc-Pumped Single-Stage Yb CaF2 MOPA 427 Daniil Kartashov, Giedrius Andriukaitis, Duian Lorenc, Audrius Pugzlys, Andrius BaltuSka, Linas Giniunas, Romualdas Danielius, Jens Limpert Carrier-envelope Phase Stabilization of a Grating Based Chirped Pulse Amplified Laser at 17 mJ, 1 KHz Using Regenerative and Cryo-coolcd Amplifiers 428 Jean-Francois Hergotl. Pierre-Maty Paul, Olivier Tcherbakoff, Philippe Demengeot, Michel Perdrix, Fabien Lepelil, David Garzella, Delphine Guillaumet, Michel Comle, Olivier Gobert, Pascal D'Oliveira Towards Single Shot Carrier-envelope Phase Stabilization for Multi KHz Ultrafast Amplifiers 429 Vincent Crozatier, Nicolas Forget, Thomas Oksenhendler

Few-cycle Pulse Generation in a Dispersion-shifted Silica Fiber with Erbium-doped Laser System 430 Elena Anashkina, Alexei Andrianov, Sergei Mwavyev, Arkady Kim Sub-20 Fs Energetic Ncar-IR Pulses Generated with Cascaded Soliton Compression in Short Lithium Niobate Crystals 431 Binbin Zhou, Andy Chang, Frank W. Wise, Morten Bache Multi-threaded Parallel Numerical Modellung of Femtosecond Pulse propagation in Laser Machining 432 Mandana Baregheh, Vladimir Mezenlsev, Holger Schmitz Spatio-temporal Rogue Events in Femtosecond Filamentation 433 Donatas Majus, Vytaulas Jukna. Gintaras Valiulis, Daniele Faccio, Audrius Dubietis a Single-beam CARS Spectroscopy Using a Soliton Stokes Pulse and a Spectrally-compressed Pump Pulse from PCF 434 Kazuhiro Tada, Naoki Karasawa Transporting Shaped Pulses Through an Optical Fiber in the Nonlinear Regime for Selective Excitation of Two- photon Transitions 435 Monika Pawlowska, Alexander Palas, GeorgAchazi, Nona Rahmal, Atbrechl Lindinger Space-time Coupling of Shaped Ultrafast Ultraviolet Pulses from an Acousto-optic Programmable Dispersive Filter 436 Ayhan Tajalli, David McCabe, Dane Austin, Beatrice Chatel Design of Time-preserving Grating Monochromators for Ultrashort Extreme-ultraviolet Pulses 437 Luca Poletto, Fabio Frassetto Failure of the Linear Raman Gain Approximation in Supcrcontinuum Generation 438 Miro Erkintalo, GoSty Genly, Benjamin Wetzel, John Dudley Efficient Spectral Conversion and Temporal Compression of Femtosecond Pulses in SF6 439 Zhavoronkov Nickolai Sub-femtosecond K-Shcll Excitation Through Laser-Induced Electron Re-collision 440 Gilad Marcus, Wolfram Helml, Xun Gu, Yunpei Deng, Robert Hartmann, Takayoshi Kobayashi, Lothar Strueder, Reinhard Kienberger, Ferenc Krausz Simple and Compact Carrier-Envclopc-Phasc Stabilized Ti sapphire Laser 441 Jinghua Sun, Derryck Reid, Lukasz Kornaszewski, William Miller, Graeme Malcolm Carrier-envelope Phase Control by Linear Electro-optic Effect in LiNbOj 442 Olivier Goberl, Pierre-Mary Paul, Jean-Francois Hergolt, Olivier Tcherbakoff, Fabien Lepelil, Frangois Viala, Michel Comle Asynchronous Modelocked Yb KYW Lasers for Dual-comb Spectroscopy 443 Zhaowai Zhang, Tom Gardiner, Derryck Reid Adaptive Wavefront Diagnostics of Ultrashort Pulses with Programmable Microaxicons 444 Martin Bock, Christoph Schwanke, Susanta Kumar Das, Roland Beutner, Michael Diehl, Carsten Fischer, Ruediger Gmmvald Adaptive Generation of Bessel-likc Beams by Reflective Multi-electrode Piezo-axicons 445 Jens Brtmne, Martin Bock, Alexander Treffer, Ulrike Wallrabe, Ruediger Grtmwald Modification of Coherent Acoustic Phonon Lifetimes in Thin Gold Films by Self-assembled Molecular Monolayers 446 Mike Hetlich, Axel Bruchhausen, Stephen Riedel, Simon Verleger, Tobias Geldliauser, Richa Chauhan, Oliver Rislow, Daniel Issenmann, Johannes Boneberg, Paul Leiderer, Elke Scheer, JUrg Dual, Thomas Dekorsy Extremely White Supercontinuum Generation in Three-hole Suspended-core Fiber 447 Igor Shavrin, Peter Tvarozek, Martin KoyH, Kay Schuster, Siejfen Novotny, Hanne Ludvigsen Complete Measurement of 8 fs Pulses with Wideband SPIRIT 448 Lluis Martlnez-Ledn. Tigran Mansuryan, Meri Kalashyan, Jerome Lhermite, Frediric Louradour, Christophe Hazera, Stephane Petit, Eric Cormier, Alain Barlheldmy

High-power Ti Sapphire Oscillator for a MHzEUV Source 449 Enikoe Seres, Christian Spielmaim Direct Spatial-temporal Discrimination of Modes in a Photonic Lightwave Circuit Using Photon Scanning Tunnelling Microscopy 450 Sam A. Berry, James C. Gates, William S. Brocklesby Sub-12fs Pulses Characterization by Self-referenced Spectral Intcrferometry 451 Stdplianie Grabielle, Antoine Mottlet, Nicolas Forget, Vincent Crozatier, Sebastian Coudreau, Olivier Gobert, Christian Cornaggia, Thomas Oksenhendler Transmission Bragg-grating Grisms for Pulse Compression 452 Nicolas Forget, Vincent Crozatier, Pierre Tourtiois Self-referenced Spectral Intcrferometry in the UV Domain 453 Stephanie Grabielle, Sebastien Coudreau, Vincent Crozatier, Nicolas Forget, Fabien Lepetit, Olivier Gobert, Thomas Oksenhendler Fundamental and Harmonic Mode-locking with Pulse Repetition Rate Between 200 MHz and 6.8 GHz in a Quantum-dot External-cavity Laser 454 YingDing, Daniil Nikiticltev, Igor Krestnikov, Daniil Livshits, Maria Ana Catahma, Edik Rafailov High-Power Ultrafast Laser Source with 300 MHz Repetition Rate for Trapped-Ion Quantum Logic 455 Andreas Jechow, Matthew Petrasiunas, Mick Pullen, John Canning, Michael Stevenson, Paul Westbrook, Kenneth Feder, David Kielpinski Dissipative Dispersion-Managed Soliton 2 pm Tm-Ho Fiber Laser 456 Regina Gumenyuk, Ismo Vartiainen, Heinmo Tuovinen, Oleg Okbolnikov Direct Space-to-Time Femtosecond Pulse Shaping based on 2D Phase-Only Spatial Light Modulator 457 Tigran Mansuryan, Meri Kalashyan, Jerome Lhermite, Alain Barthelemy, Vincent Kermene, Frederic Loitradour

Picosecond Pulses from an FDML Laser 458 Christoph Eigenwillig, Wolfgang Wieser, Benjamin Biedermann, Thomas Klein, Robert Huber Studies and Realization of an Experimental Set-up for Micro Airy Beams Generation 459 Arnauiy Mathis, Maxime Jacquot, Francois Cowvoisier, Luc Froehly, John M. Dudley Variable Ultrafast Fiber Bragg Grating Inscription with a Phase Mask and a Deformed Wave Front 460 Christian Voigtldnder, Ria Becker, Jens Thomas, Daniel Richter, Andreas Tiinnermann, Stefan Nolle Supcrfluorescence Dynamics of OPCPAs in the Saturation Regime 461 Jeffrey Moses, Cristian Manzoni, Giulio Cemllo, Franz X. Kdrtner Development and Characterization of Stable Fiber-Based Mid-Infrared Sources (Invited) 462 Randy A. Barlels All Passively Phase-Locked Er Fiber Laser System 463 DavidFehrenbacher, Gilnlher Krauss, Daniele Brida, Claudius Riek, Alexander Sell, Rupert Huber, Alfred Leilenstorfer Pulse Train Amplitude Modulation due to Continuum Resonances in GHz Soliton Fiber Lasers 464 Ingmar Hard, Albert Romann, Thomas R. Schibli, Martin E. Fermann Coherent Tm-Fibcr Raman-Soliton Amplifier 465 Jie Jiang, Axel Ruehl, Ingmar Harll, Martin Fermann Properties of a microjoule-class fiber oscillator mode-locked with a SESAM 466 Caroline Lecaplain, Billend Ortac, Guillaume Machine!, Johan Boullel, Martin Batimgartl, Thomas Schreiber, Eric Cormier, Ammar Hideur

Ultrabroad Bandwidth Signal Generation Based on Frequency-to-time Mapping in the Temporal Fresncl Regime 467 Victor Torres-Company, Daniel Leaird, Andrew Weiner Supcrcontinuum Generation in Laser Host Materials with Pulse Durations Over the Entire Femtosecond Regime 468 Maximilian Bradler, Eberhard Riedle Laser-driven Parametric Amplification of Soft X-rays (invited) 469 Jozsef Seres, Enikoe Seres, Daniel Hochhaus, Boris Ecker, Bastion Aurand, Daniel Zimmer, Bernhard Zielbauer, BjSrn Landgraf, Vincente Bagnottd, Thomas Kuchl, Christian Spielmann Compact and Tunable Sub-20 fs Laser Source for Ultrafast Nonlinear Applications 470 BerndMetzger, Andy Ste'mmann, Gelon Albrecht, HaraldGiessen Sub-two Cycle Pulse Generation with All Normal Dispersion Photonic Crystal Fiber and Linear Chirp Compensation 471 Jan Rothhardl, Alexander Heidi. Alexander Hartung, Hartmul Bartelt, Erich Rohwer, Jens Limpert, Andreas Tiinnermann All-Optical Transistor Using an Optical Event Horizon 472 Jens Bethge, Carsten Bree, Shalva Amiranashvili, Frank Noack, Giinter Steintneyer, Ayhan Demircan Tailored Accelerating Beam Profiles Through a Caustic-based Approach to Wavefront Design 473 Luc Froehly, Remo Giust, Francois Courvoisier, Amaury Mathis, Maxime Jacquot, Luca Furfaro, John Michael Dudley The Spectrum of THz Radiation from Plasma Produced by Strong Multicolor Optical Fields 474 Ihar Babushkin, Stefan Skupin, Christian Koehler, Luc Berge, Joachim Herrmann Direction of THz Emission by Ionizing Two-Color Pulses 475 Christian KiShler, Eduardo Cabrera-Granado, Ihar Babushkin, Joachim Herrmann, Stefan Skupin, Luc Berge Carrier-envelope Phase in Pulse Compression Mediated by Filamcntation 476 Luc Berge, Charles-Louis Saulez, Christian Kdhler, Stefan Skupin Towards High Energy 10 fs Laser Pulse Via Regenerative Pulse Shaping 477 Pierre-Mary Paul, Fabien Pie, Luc Vigroux, Franck Falcoz, Federico Canova, Gilles Riboulei Waveform Characterization of Few-Cycle Laser Pulses in Real-Time using Above-Threshold Ionization 478 Arthur Sayler, Tim Rathje, Max Moller, Dominik Hoff, Gero Stihenz, Walter Midler, Christian Kiirbis, Klaus RtlMe, Gerhard Pauhts Carrier-envelope Phase Stabilization of a Soliton-effect Compressed Sub-two-cycle Pulse Source 479 Alexandra Agra Amorhn, Luis M. Bernardo, Franz X. Kdrtner, Helder M. Crespo

Characterization of Ultrashort Laser Pulses with a Terahertz Streak Camera 480 Olaf Schubert, Claudius Riek, Friederike Junglnger, A lexander Sell, A Ifred Leilenstorfer, Rupert Huber Precise Phase Shaping and Characterization of the Mid-infrared Femtosecond Pulses 481 Satoshi Ashihara, Ytita Hirasawa, KaoriEnomoto Theoretical and Experimental Analysis of Spatiotemporal Field Coupling of Ultrashort Pulses Diffracted by Circular Amplitude Apertures 482 Benjamin Alonso, Omel Mendoza-Yero, Inigo J. Sola, Oscar Varela, Gladys Minguez-Vega, Jesus Lands, Vicent Climent, Luis Roso Two-photon Absorption As Convenient Method for 20 fs Pulse Length Measurement in the Deep UV 483 NilsKrebs, Christian Homann, Peter Lang, Alexandra Waritschlager, Eberhard Riedle High-Power Mid-Infrared Optical Parametric Chirped-Pulse Amplifier Based on Aperiodically Poled Mg LiNbOj 484 Clemens Hease, Christopher R. Phillips, Lukas Gallmann, Martin M. Fejer, Ursula Keller Compact OPCPA System Generating CEP-stabilized Two-cycle Pulses with Repetition Rates up to 500 kHz 485 Marcel Schultze, Thomas Binhammer, Moritz Emons, Tino Lang, Uwe Morgner Demonstration of Phase Matching Bandwidth Extension in Cavity-Enhanced Optical Parametric Chirped Pulse Amplification 486 Aleem Siddiqui, Kyung-Han Hong, Jeffrey Moses, Jonathan Cox, Franz X. Kdrtner Self Frequency Shift Near 2 um in Periodically Poled Lithium Niobate Waveguides 487 Christopher R. Phillips, Jie Jiang, Carsten Langrock, lngmar Harll, Martin M. Fejer, Martin Fermann Tuneable Broadband Optical Parametric Oscillator Pumped by an Yb KLu(W04)2S Thin-Disk Laser Oscillator 488 Tina Lang, Thomas Binhammer, Stefan Rausch, Guida Palmer, Marcel Schultze, Uwe Margner 650-nJ Pulses from a Cavity-Dumped Yb Fiber-Pumped Ultrafast Optical Parametric Oscillator 489 Tobias P. lamour, Derryck T. Reid Generation of High Energy, Sub-20-fs Vacuum UV Pulses by Noncollinear Four-wave-mixing in Argon 490 Marcus Beutler, Masood Chotbi, Frank Noack High Energy, Sub-20 Fs Pulses in the Deep Ultraviolet by Using Filamentation in Argon 491 Masood Ghotbi, Peter Trabs, Marcus Beutler Filamentation-based Polarization Pulse Shaping for High Order Harmonic Generation 492 Matteo Negro, Caterina Vozzi, Francesco Calegari, Sandro Dc Silvestri, Salvatore Stagira Chirp Controlled Pulse Self-compression in Filaments and Its Spatio-temporal Characterization 493 Oscar Vareta, Benjamin Alonso, Julio San Roman, lUigo J. Sola, Luis Rosa Filamentation of Beam Shaped Femtosecond Laser Pulses in Gases and Liquids (Invited) 494 Pavel Polynkin Dispersive Optics Paving the Way to Sub-cycle Optical Pulses (invited) 495 Vladimir Pervak, Alexander Apolonskiy, Ivan Angelov, Olga Ruzskazovskaya, Eleflherios Goulieltnakis, Fereitc Krattsz High Average Power Ultrashort Pulses with >S GW Peak Power 496 Stejfen Hadrich, Henning Carslens, Jan Rothhardt, Jens Limpert, Andreas Tiinnennann High Efficient XPW Generation for High Contrast High Energy Ultrashort Laser Pulses 497 Lourdes Patricia Ramirez, Dimitris N. Papadopoulos, Alain Pellcgrina, Pascal Monot, Attrelien Ricci, Aurelle Jullien, Xiaowel Chen, Jean Philippe Rouseau, Rodrigo Lopez-Martens, Patrick Georges, Frederic Dnion

HIGH-FIELD LASER PHYSICS AND ATTOSECOND TECHNOLOGIES

Ultra-fast Writing of Self-organized Bubble Networks Using Femtosecond Laser Exposure in the Cumulative Regime 498 Yves Bellouard, Max-Olivier Hanglcr Sub-cycle Double Ionization Dynamics of Argon and Neon 499 Boris Bergues, Matthias Kilbel, Nora Johnson, Kelsie Belsch, Robert Jones, Gerhard Pauks, Robert Moshammer, Joachim Ullrich, Ferenc Krattsz, Matthias Kling High Energy Proton Ejection from Hydrocarbon Molecules Driven by Highly Efficient Field Ionization 500 Stefan Roilher, Xinhua Xie, Daniil Kartashov, Li Zhang, Marbis Schiiffter, Huailiang Xu, Alshushi Iwasaki, Tomoyo Okino, Kaoru Yamanouchi, Andrius Baltuska, Marktis Kitzler Recent Experiments at LCLS Multidimensional Imaging of X-ray Induced Ultrafast Reactions (invited) 501 A rtent Rudenko Sub-cycle Time-resolved Single Photon Ionization 502 Aart Verhoef Alexander Mitrofanov, Maria Kribmova, Nikolay Kabachnik, Armin Scrinzi, Marktis Dresclter, Andrius Baltuska Breakdown of the Independent Electron Approximation in Sequential Double Ionization 503 Claudia Cirelli, Adrian N Pfeiffer, Mathias Smolarski, Reinhard Ddrner, Ursula Keller High-harmonic Generation from Solid Targets at 1 KHz Using Waveform-controlled Few-cycle Pulses 504 Atltonin Borol, Arnaud Malvache, Xiaowei Chert, Aure'lie Jullien, Patrick Audebert, Jean-Paul Geindre, Ge'rard Mourau, Fabicn Qttere, Rodrigo Lopez-Martens Observation of few-cycle, strong-field phenomena in surface plasmon fields 505 Peter Dombi, Scott In'ine, Peter Racz, Miklos Lenner, Norbert Krod, Gyozo Farkas, Alexander Mitrofanov, Andrius Baltuska, Takaa Fuji, Ferenc Krausz, Abdul Elezzabi Femtosecond XUV Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Ultrafast Magnetization Dynamics in Gadolinium and Terbium 506 Robert Carley, BjOrn Frietsch, Kristian Ddbrieh, Martin Teichmantt, Cornelius Gahl, Olaf Schwarzkopf, Philippe Wernet, Frank Noack, Martin Weinell

Efficient On-axis Third Harmonic Generation in a Light Filament 507 Emilia Schulz, Daniel S. Steingrttbe, Tobias Vockerodt, Thomas Binhammer, Uwe Morgner, Milutin Kovaccv Laser-induced Water Condensation in Air (invited) 508 Jer&tne Kasparian, Philipp Rohwetter, Kami! Stelmaszczyk, Zuoqiang Hao, Stefano Henin, Noe'lle Lascoux, Walter MNakaetna, Yannick Petit, Manuel Qtteijler, Rami Salame', Estelle Salmon, Ludger Waste, Jean-Pierre Wolf Attosecond Dynamic Imaging Ideas, Results, and Hopes (Tutorial) 509 Misha Ivanov Controlling and Reading Interference Structures Created by Strong Field Ionizing Attosecond Electron Wave Packets 510 Xinhua Xie, Stefan Roilher, Daniil Kartashov, Li Zhang, Entll Persson, Stefanie Grafe, Marktis Schbfflcr, Joachim Burgddrfer, Andrius Baltuska, Marktis Kitzler

Single-Shot Ultrafast Electron Diffraction Using Electrons Accelerated by an Intense Femtosecond Laser Pulse 511 Shuji Sakabe, Shigeki Tokita, Masaki Hashida, Kazuto Olani, Shunstike Inotie, Toshihiko Nishoji Quantum-path Interferomctry for High-harmonic Generation 512 Dane R. Austin, lan A, Walmstey Single Attosecond Pulse from Terahertz Assisted High-order Harmonic Generation 513 Emeric Balogh, Katalin Kovdcs, JdzsefA. FilWp, P6ter Dombi, Gyozo Farkas, Jdnos Hebling, Valer Tosa, Katalin Varju High-flux capillary based XUV source via the direct engineering of a laser induced ionization profile 514 Patrick Anderson, Thomas Butcher, Peter Horak, Jeremy Frey, William Brocklesby Yield Enhancement in Multicolour High-Order Harmonic Generation Superposition of Multiple Un-Related Frequencies 515 David Hoffmann, Thomas Siege!, Ricardo Torres, Leonardo Brugnera, Lake Chipperfield, Amelle Zair, Immacolala Procino, Emma Springate, Edmund Turcu, Jonathan Underwood, Jonathan Marangos

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

Angle-Dependent High-Order Harmonic Generation from a Single N2 and 02 Molecule 517 Kazamichi Yoshii, Godai Miyaji, Kenzo Miyazaki Stable Relativistic UV Self-Channeling in Multi-Layer Gel Targets 518 AlexB. Borisov, Charles K. Rhodes High Power Enhancement Cavities for Generation of XUV and X-Ray Radiation of High Brilliance 519 Jan Kaster, hachim Pupeza, Tino Eidam, Christoph Jocher, Ernst Fill, Jens Limpert, Ronald Jiolzwarlh, Birgitta Bernhardt, Thomas Udem, Theodor W. Hdnsch, Andreas Tiinnermann, Ferenc Krausz Spatially Resolved Characterization of Sub-4-fs Laser Pulses Using Spatially Encoded Spectral Shearing Interferometry 520 Tobias Witting, Felix Frank, Chris Arrell, William Okell, Jon Marangos, John Tisch Generation of Sub-lSfs Pulses with Multi-terawatt Peak Power at 100-Hz Repetition Rate 521 Yasuo Nabekawa, Yusuke Furukawa, Abdolreza Amani Eilanlou, Kenichi L. Ishikawa, Hiroyttki Takahashi, Eiji J. Takahashi, Kalsumi Midorikawa Incommensurate Frequency Waveform Synthesis by Optical Parametric Amplification 522 Tadas Balchmas, Stefan Haessler, Giedrius Andriukaitis, Oliver D. Muecke, Audrius Pugzlys, Andrius Baltuska, Richard Squibb, Leszek Frasinski, Jon Marangos, John W. G. Tisch, Linos Giniunas, Romas Danielitts, Ronald Holzwarth

Millijoule-lcvcl CEP Stable 1.8 um 1.6 Cycle Laser Pulses 523 Francois Legare, Bruno E Schmidt, Andrew D Shiner, Philippe Lassonde, David M Villeneuve, Paul B Corkum, Jean-Claude Kieffer A System for Doing Surface Science with Attosecond Pulses 524 Christopher Arrell, Eva Skopolova, Dangyuan Lei, Thorslen Uphies, Yamrick Sonnefraud, William Okell, Felix Frank, Tobias Witting, Stefan Maier, Jon Marangos, John Tisch

Measuring the Influence of the Coulomb Binding Potential on the Trajectories of Strong-field Driven Electronic Wave Packets 525 Xinhua Xie, Stefan Roither, Daniil Kartashov, Emil Persson, LI Zhang, Stefanie Grafe, Markus Schdffler, Matthias Lezhts, Joachim BurgdSrfer, Andrius Baltuska, Markus Kitzler Direct Optical Observation of Attosecond Electron Wavepacket Interference 526 Lukas Gallmann, Mirko Holler, Florian Schapper, Ursula Keller From OPA To OPCPA Boosting Laser Pulses To Extreme Intensities (Keynote) 527 Algis Piskarskas, Rytis Butkus Sub-Optical-Cyclc Waveform Synthesis of Light 52S Eleftherios Goulielmakis, Adrian Wirth, Ivanka Grguras, Mohammed Hassan, Justin Gagnon, Antoine Moulet, Tran TrungLuu, Vladimir Pervak, Ferenc Krausz Seeding of Extreme Ultraviolet Free Electron Laser with High-order Harmonic 529 Eiji Takahashi, Tadashi Togashi, Katsumi Midorikawa, Makoto Aoyama, Koichi Yamakawa, Takahiro Sato, Atsushi lwasaki, Shigeki Owada, Kaoru Yamanouchi, Tom Hara, Shinichi Matsubara, Takashi Ohshima, Yuji Otake, Hitoshi Tanaka, Takashi Tanaka, Hiromitsu Tomizawa, Takahiro Watanabe, Makina Yabashi, Tetsuya Ishikawa Scientific Study of ELI Attosecond Light Pulse Source 530 Peter Dombi, Islvan B. Foldes, JozsefA. Fulop, Janos Hebling, Karoly Osvay, Gabor Szabo, Katalin Varju Revealing the Giant Resonance in Xe Via HHG with Sub-two Cycle 1.8 um Laser Pulses 531 Bruno Etigen Schmidt, Andrew Shiner, Carlos Trallem-Herrero, Hans Jakob Wdrner, Serguei Patchkovskii, Jean-Claude Kieffer, Paul Corkum, David Villeneuve, Francois Legare Efficient Attosecond Pulse Generation by Gating HHG with Sub-cycle Ionization Dynamics 532 Francesco Calegari, Federico Ferrari, Maiteo Lucchini, Caterlna Vozzi, Salvatore Stagira, Giuseppe Sansane, Mauro Nisnli Optimization of High Harmonic Generation Driven by an Ytterbium-doped Fiber Chirped Pulse Amplification at a Repetition Rate of 100 kHz 533 Amdlie Cabasse, Guillaume Machine!, Antoine Dubrouil, Eric Cormier, Eric Constant Phase-matched Harmonic Generation Beyond the Water Window with a Mid-IR Parametric Amplifier 534 Giedrius Andriukaitis, Tadas Balciunas, Andrius Pugzlys, Andrius Baltuska, Tenio Popmintchev, Ming-Chang Chen, Margaret M. Murnane, Hemy C Kapleyn Direct Generation of Highly Phase-matched Isolated Attosecond Pulses Using Multi-m J, Carrier-envelope Phase Pulses .....535 Stabilized, Few-cycle Laser , Tsuneto Kanal, YuxiFu, Yasuhiro Kamba, Samuel Bohman, Hiroshi Yoshida, Takuya Kauai, Shigeru Yamaguchi, Eiji Takahashi, Yasuo Nabekawa, Akira Suda, Katsumi Midorikawa

OPTICAL SENSING AND METROLOGY

Gating of High-order Harmonic Emission Driven by a Two-color Mid-IR Optical Parametric Amplifie 536 Caterlna Vozzi, Maiteo Negro, Katalin Kovacs, Valer Tosa, Carlo Altacci, Rqffaele Velotta, Fabio Frassetto, Paolo Vilbresi, Luca Poletto, Sandro De Silvestri, Salvatore Stagira Standoff Spectroscopy via Remote Generation of Backward Lasing and/or Gain Swept Superradiance in Air (Invited) 537 Marian Scully Optofluidic Integrated Bragg Grating Chemical Sensor Utilising a Sodium-selective Receptor Surface to Enhance Detection 538 Richard M Parker, James C Gates, Martin C Grossel, Peter G R Smith High Speed Pump-Probe Spectroscopy of SI3N4-based Micromechanical Systems 539 Oliver Ristow, Mike Hettich, Axel Bruchhausen, Stefan Bdchle, Artur Erbe, Elke Scheer, Thomas Dekorsy Performance Improvement on Fiber-Based CW Modulation Laser Absorption Spectrometer System for CO; Sensing 540 Shumpei Kameyama, Masaharu Imaki, Yoshihita Hirano, Shinichi Ueno, Daisuke Sakaizawa, Shuji Kawakami, Masakatsu Nakajima with An 541 An Integrated Bragg Grating Oxygen Sensor Using A Hydrophobic Sol-gel Layer Doped Organic Dye Dominic J. Wales, Richard M. Parker, James C. Gales, Martin C. Grossel, Peter G. R. Smith Erbium-doped Sodium-lead and Tungsten-lead Metaphosphate Glasses for Temperature Sensing 542 Ricardo Momberg, Roger Gomes, GaBl Poirier, Fabia Cassanjes, Jandir Hickmann, March Alencar Performance comparison between Raman and Brillouin intensity based sub metre spatial resolution temperature compensated disstributcd strain sensor 543 MohammadBelal, Trevor Newson Mid-infrared Waveguide Evanescent Field Chemical Sensor for Liquids 544 Yn-Chi Chang, Vincent Paeder, Luhos Hvozdara, Philip Wagli, Alexandra Homsy, Jean-Michel Harlmann, Hans Peter Herzig Mid-infrared Photoacoustic Sensing of Glucose in Keratinocyte Solutions 545 Jonas Kallmann. Tobias Rosskopf, Julien M. Rey, Joachim Luginhiihl, Ernst Reichmann, Markus W. Sigrist Infrared Spectroscopic Determination of Drugs in Saliva... 546 Keratin M.-C. Hans, Susanne Mllller, Markus W. Sigrist Photochemical Synthesis of Biphasic Gold-Silver Nanoalloys for Optical Fiber Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering Sensor 547 Changxi Yang, Ting Liu Mid-IR Imaging of Doped Silicon Gratings at a Dccananometcr Scale 548 Zahreh Sedaghat, Aurelien Brnyant, Michel Kazan, Julien Vaillant, Sylvain Blaize, Nevine Rochal, Nicolas Chevalier, Enric Garcia-Caudel, Pierre Morin, Pascal Royer Mid-infrared Laser-induced Breakdown Spectroscopy Emissions from Energetic Materials 549 Clayton Yang, Ei Brown, Uwe Hommerich, Sudhir Trivedi, Peter Snyder, Alan Samuels High Temperature, Robust Herriott Cell for Sensitive NH3 Spectroscopy to Optimize NO, Removal 550 Deran Johannes Henricus Carolina Maas, Barbara Panella, Hubert Braendle Analysis and Simulation of Optical Response of Au-nanoparticle-fixed Beads for Optical Sensors of Microscopic Local Environment 551 Shiho Tokonami, Taichi Hamada, Yojiro Yamamolo, Hidenobu Nakao, Hiroshi Shiigi, Tsutomu Nagaoka, Takuya Hda

Biosensor for Human Blood Types Determination Based on Chirped Photonic Fiber 552 Julia Skibina, Anion Malinin, Anaslasija Zanishevskaja, Vakry Tuchin, Valentin Befogtaov, Mikhail Chainikov, Valery Dubrovsky, Aleksey Dolmashkin Application of Artificial Neural Networks in Analysis of the LIBS Spectrum 553 Asiyeh Moosavi, Hosseln Saghafifar Remote Gas Leak Detection Using a Portable Mini-Lidar Based on a Doubly-Resonant OPO 554 Berlrand Hardy, Myriam Raybaul, Antoine Godard, Ajmal K. Mohamed, Jean-Michel Melkonian, Michel Lefebvre Photoacoustic Gas Detection with LED QEPAS 555 Stefan Bbltger, Martin Angelmahr, Wolfgang Schade Fluorescence/depolarization LIDAR for Mid-range Stand-off Detection of Biological Agents 556 Zygmunl Mlerczyk, KrzyszlofKopczynski, Marek Zygmunt, Jacek Wojlanowski, Jaroslaw Mlynczak, Andrzej Gawlikowski, Andrzej Mlodzianko, Wieslaw Piotrowski, Andrzej Gietka, Piolr Knysak, Tadeusz Drozd, Michal Muzal, Miroslawa Kaszczuk, Roman Ostrowski, Marcin Jakubaszek Combining Physical Micro-machining and Direct UV Writing to Fabricate Novel Planar Tilted Bragg Grating Refractometers 557 Christopher Holmes, Lewis G. Carpenter, James C. Gates, Ian J. G. Sparrow, Peter G. R. Smith UV-Written Bragg Gratings in a Flat-fiber Platform as a Bending and Twisting Sensor 558 Sumiaty Ambran, Christopher Holmes, James C. Gales, Andrew S. Webb, Jayanla K. Sahu, Peter G. R. Smith Pump Induced Refractive Index Changes in Gamma-irradiated Yb-dopcd Optical Fibers 559 Irina Petukhova, Andrei Fotiadi, Alexey Shubin, Alexander Tomashuk, Sergey Novikov, Igor Zolotovskiy, Oleg Antipov, Krassimir Panajotov, Hugo Thlenpont, Patrice Megrcl Application of Temporal Superresolution for Measuring Fast Single-Shot Optical Waveforms 560 Naum Berger Multi-Channel Adaptive Interferometer Based on Orthogonal Wave Mixing in Photorefractive Crystal 561 Roman Romashko, Michail Beznik, Yuri Kulchin, Alexei Kamshilin Intcrferometry for Picometer-level Dimensional Stability Measurements 562 Dirk Voigl, Jonathan Ellis, Ad Verlaan, Rob Bergmans, Jo Spronck, Robert Munnig Schmidt Metrological Interfcromctric Tool for Guided-wave Optic Components 563 Anne-Francoise Obalon, Jimmy Dubard Dual-comb Spectroscopy with Adaptive Sampling 564 Takuro Ideguchi, Anlonin Poisson, Guy Guelachvili, Theodor Hfinsch, Nathalie Picqud Cold Atom Sagnac Interferometer 565 Sven Abend, Peter Berg, Michael Gilowski, Christian Schubert, Gunnar Tackmann, Wolfgang Erlmer, Ernst M, Rase! Relative Calibration Techniques for Characterising Single Photon Detectors 566 Silke Peters, Waldemar Schmunk, Mark Rodenberger, Heltnuth Hofer, Stefan Kiick New Optical Fiber Based Microrcsonators Theory and Applications (Invited) 567 Misha Sumelsky Investigation of Thermal Effects on Embedded Microcoil Resonators 568 George Chen, Timothy Lee, Yongmin Jung, Mohammad Belal, Gilberw Brambilla, Neil Broderick. Trevor Newson Plasmonic Properties of Copper Nanoparticles Deposited on Tilted Fiber Bragg Gratings 569 Li-Yang Shao, Jason Coyle, Sean Barry, Jacques Albert Monitoring of Catalytic Reactions in Photonic Crystal Fiber 570 Ana Cubillas, Matthias Schmidt, Michael Scharrer, Tijmen G. Euser, Bastian Etzold, Nicola Taccardi, Peter Wasserscheid, Philip St. J. Russell Characterization of the influence of strain on the optical properties of waveguides and microresonators in silicon- on-insulator technology 571 Wouter Westerveld, Peter Harrnsma, Rmtd Schmits, Erik Tabak, Jose Pozo, Paul Urbach, Mirvais Ynusefl 572 Visualizing Coherent Phonon Propagation in the 100 GHz Range a Broadband Picosecond Acoustics Approach Emanuele Pontecarvo, Dario Polli, Michele Ortolan!, Marco Ferretli, Giancarlo Rtiocco, Giulio Cerullo, Tullio Scopigno Surface profilometry and low coherence interfcrometry by electronically controlled optical sampling 573 Stefan Kray, Felix Spoler, Thomas Hellerer, Heinrich Kurz Quantitative Optical Coherence Tomography for Characterization of Microscopic Structures with Varying Refractive Index 574 Janarthanan Rasakanthan, Mandana Baregheh, Mykhaylo Dubov, Vladimir Mezenlsev, Graham Smith, Kale Sugden, Peter D. Woolliams, Peter H. Tomlins Optical Encryption with Compressive Ghost Imaging 575 Vicente Durdn, Pere Clemente, Victor Torres-Company, Enrique Tajahuerce, Jesus Lands, Pedro Andres Transmission Matrix in Optics Taking Advantage of Transmission Channels for Image Transmission in Disordered Materials 576 Sebastien Popoff, Geqffroy Lerosey, Mathias Fink, Claude Boccara, Sylvain Gigan Fibercd Interference Scanning Optical Microscopy for Living Cell Imaging 577 Jochen Fick, Herve Guillou, Catherine Villard, Joel Chewier, Serge Huant DNA Immobilisation and Hydrogel Matrix Formation in Suspended-Core Optical Fibre 578 Monika Rutowska, Fatima Garcia Gunning, Waclaw Vrbanczyk, Andrew Ellis Optical Detection of Molecular Species at Sub-ppt Concentration Levels (invited) 579 Davide Mazzotti, Saverio Bartalini, Simone Borri, Pablo Cancio, facopo Galli, Giovanni Giusfredi, Paolo De Natale Fluorescence Spectroscopy in Photonic Crystal Fiber 580 Garelh Williams, Tijmen Euser, Jocelyn Chen, Philip Russell, Anita Jones Long Distance Measurement with Sub-micrometer Accuracy Using a Frequency Comb Laser 581 Mounir Zeitouny, Moxi Cui, Nandini Bhattacharya, Paul Urbach, Steven Van Den Berg, Augustus Janssen Pulse-shaper Assisted Spatio-temporal Ultrashort Pulse Characterisation 582 Seth L Cousin, Juan MBueno, Nicolas Forget, Dane R Austin, Jens Biegert Closed-Loop Adaptive Optics with a single Spatial Light Modulator 583 Raul Martlnez-Cuenca, Vicente Durdn, Jesus Lands, Zbigniew Jaroszewicz, Justo Arines, Salvador Bard Integrated Arrayed Waveguide Grating Spectrometer for Measuring Raman Spectra 584 Nttr Ismail, Fel Sun, Kerstin Worhoff, Alfred Driessen, Rene M. De Ridder, Markus Pollnau Studying Photon Number Distribution of NV-Ccntre-Emission in Diamond 585 Waldemar Schmunk, Marco Gramegna, Giorgio Brida, Ivo Pietro Degiovanni, Marco Genovese, Helmuth Hofer, Stefan Kilck, Lapo Lolli, Matleo G. A, Paris, Silke Peters, Mauro Rajteri, Andreas Ruschhaupt, Emanuele Taralli, Paolo Traina Broadband Quantum Cascade Lasers for Mid-Infrared White Light Applications 586 Andreas Hugi, Stephane Blaser, Mattias Beck. Jerome Faist Ultra-long Range Distributed Fibre Sensing Using Virtually Transparent Propagation (invited) 587 Miguel Gonzalez-Herraez, Sonia Martin-Lopez, Mercedes Alcon-Camas, Pedro Corredera, Luc Thevenaz, Juan Diego Ania- Castaiion Photonic Crystal Fiber Sensor Array Based on Cladding Mode Resonance 588 Guillermo Alejandro Cardenas Sevilla, Vittoria Finazzi, Joel Villatoro, Valeria Pruneri 589 A Vectorial Magnetometer Utilising a Microstructured Optical Fibre Bragg Grating Infiltrated by a Ferrofluid Alessandro Candiani, Walter Margulis, Carola Sterner, Maria Konstantaki, Paul Childs, Stavros Pissadakis High Frequency Current Sensing using Optical Fiber Micro-wire 590 George Chen, Mohammad Belal, Yongmin Jung, Gilberto Brambilla, Trevor Newson

OPTICAL TECHNOLOGIES FOR COMMUNICATIONS AND DATA STORAGE

Amplitude Noise Reduction in Multilevel QAM Formats Using a Nonlinear Amplifying Loop Mirror with a Saturable Amplifier 591 Tobias Roethlingshoefer, Georgy Onishchukov, Bernhard Schmauss, GerdLeuchs Effect of Amplitude Noise on Multi-Level Phase Regeneration 592 MorltzLenz, Georgy Onishchukov, Bernhard Schmauss, GerdLeuchs Potential and Practical Implementations of Phase Sensitive Amplifiers for All-Optical Signal Regeneration (Invited) 593 Francesco Parmigiani, Joseph Kakande, Radan Slavik, Periklis Petropoulos, David J Richardson DQPSK Optical Packet Switching using an SG-DBR laser 594 Tarn N. Huynh, Kai Shi, Frank Smyth, Liam P. Barry Direct Modulation Optical OFDM Performance Enhancement by External Optical Injection 595 Colin Browning, Kai Shi, Frank Smyth, Barry Cardiff, Prince Anandarajah, Liam Barry Pulse Shaping-Assisted Nonlinear Spectral Broadening 596 Xin Yang, David J. Richardson, Periklis Pelropoulos Optical Comb Generation and Expansion by Gain Switched Discrete Mode Laser Diode 597 Sylwesler Lalkowski, Yiqing Xu, Smart Murdoch, Liam Barry, Prince Anandarajah Patterning Effects in Ultrafast All-Optical Photonic Crystal Nanocavity Switches 598 Mikkel Heuck, Philip Trosi Krislensen, Jesper Mark Intra-cavity Frequency Shifted Laser Pumps for Non-degenerate and Partially Coherent Bragg-scattering FWM in Nonlinear Fiber 599 Katarzyna Krupa, Michela Bettemana, Atessandro Tonello, Daniele Uodatto, Gahriele Manili, Vincent Coudcrc, Philippe Di Bin, Stefan Wabnilz, Alain Barlhelemy High-Frcqucncy RIN Transfer in Fibre Optic Parametric Amplifiers 600 Zohreh Lali-Dasljerdi, Take Lund-Hansen, Ning Kang, Karsten Rottwlll, Micheal Galili, Chiristophe Peucheret Q-factor Dependent Kerr Switching of Semiconductor Microcavities 601 Emre Yilce, Georgios Clistis, Julien Claudon, Maela Bazin, Jean-Michel Gerard, Wiliem L Vos Coherent All-optical Switching in a Bistable Wavcguidc-cavity-waveguidc System 602 Philip Trost Krislensen, Mikkel Heuck, Jesper Mark Optimization of 2- and 4-dimensional Modulation Constellations for Optical Adaptive Transmission Using the Genetic Algorithm 603 AhmedS. Abdelhainid, Michael H. Eiselt Digital Key Chaos-communication Systems with Delay Time Concealment 604 Romain Modeste Nguimdo, Pere Colet, Laurent Larger, Luis Pesquera Tellurite Composite Microstructured Fibers with Tailed Chromatic Dispersion for Nonlinear Applications 605 Zhongchao Duan, Meisong Liao, Xin Yan, Chihiro Kilo, Takenobu Suzuki, Yasutake Ohishl Nonlinear Distortion of 16QAM Constellations in Intradyne Coherent Receiver 606 Takahidc Sakamoto, Akito Chiba, Tetsuya Kawanishi Theory of Fiber Optic Co- and Counter-pumped Raman Polarizers 607 Stefan Wabnilz, Victor Kozlov, Javier Nuiio, Juan Diego Ania-Castafion Theory of Fiber Optic Lossless Polarizers 608 Stefan Wabnilz, Victor Kozlov, Javier Nllilo 2.56xlOn Hz/s Frequency Chirp Signal Generation Using DSB-SC Optical Modulation with out Optical Filters 609 Atsushi Kama, Shlnnosuke Honda, Ryula Yamanaka, Hideyuki Sotobayashi, Tetsuya Kawanishi Creation of Multi-Carrier Millimeter-Wave Signal Using Mach-Zchnder-Modulator-Bascd Flat Comb Generator 610 Isao Morohashi, Takahide Sakamoto, Tetsuya Kawanishi, Iwaa Hosako Field Experiment Optical Chaos Communication @ lOGb/s Demonstrating Electro-optic Phase Chaos Principles 611 Maxime Jacquot, Roman Lavrov, Jeremy Oden, Yanne Chembo, Modesle Nguimdo, Pere Colet, Laurent Lurger A Lidnard Optoelectronic Oscillator with Time-Delayed Feedback 612 Bruno Romeira, Kris Seunarine, Charles Ironside, Julien Javaloyes, Anthony Kelly, Jose Figueiredo Reduced Lorentzian linewidth for monolithic widely tunable C-band lasers utilising InGaAlAs/InP active region 613 Samuel Davies, Neil Whitbread, Andrew Ward, Robert Griffin, Michael Wale, Martin Arnold Inducing a Detector Efficiency Mismatch to Hack a Commercial Quantum Key Distribution System 614 Nitin Jain, Lars Lydersen, Chrisloffer Wittmann, Carlos Wiechers, Dominique Elser, Chrisloph Marquardt, Vadim Makarov, Gerd Leuchs Improved Accuracy of a Fourier-domain Optical Processor with Feedback... 615 Smart Murdoch, Regan Watts, Richard Provo, RayXu, Liam Barry Optical Linear Feedback Shift Register 616 Mirco Scaffardi, Gianluca Berrett'mi, An Nguyen, Francesco Bontetnpi, Antonella Bogoni All-Optical Modulation Converter for On-Off Keying to Duobinary and Alternate-Mark Inversion at 42.6 Gbps 617 James M. Dailey, Mark J. Power, Roderick P. Webb, Robert J. Manning Electronically-Tuned Optical Delay Lines in Silicon 618 Saeed Khan, Sasan Fathpour All-optical Signal Processing Using Slow Light Enhanced Nonlincarities in Silicon Waveguides (invited) 619 Bill Corcoran, Christelle Monat, MarkPelusi, Christian Grillet, Thomas Wlilte, Juntao Li, Liam O'Faolain, Thomas Krauss, David Moss, Benjamin Eggleton

Dynamic Compensation of Two-Photon Absorption Induced Distortions in Silicon Photonics Filters 620 Carlo Ferrari, Francesco Morichelti, Antonio Canciamilla, Marc Sorcl, Andrea Melloni Integrated All-optical SSB Modulator Using Photonic Hilbcrt Transformer with Planar Bragg Gratings 621 Chaatan Sima, James Gates, Helen Rogers, Christopher Holmes, Michalis Zervas, Peter Smith

FIBRE AND GUIDED WAVE LASERS AND AMPLIFIERS

Dual Mode-locked Wavelength Passively Raman Fiber Laser Pumped by Semiconductor Disk Lasers 622 Alexander Chamorovskiy, Jussi Rautiainen, Jari Lyytiktiinen, Oleg G. Okhotnikov

High-harmonic km-long Self-pulsed Raman Fiber Laser 623 AnneBoucon, Benoit Julien Baiviau, Fatome, Chrislophe Finot, Thibaut Sylvestre, Min Won Lee, Philippe Grelit, Guy Millol A Fiber Based Synchronously Pumped Tunable Raman Laser in the NIR 624 Shaif-Ul Alain, Dejiao Lin, Peh Teh, Kang Chen, David Richardson Multi-stage Er-doped Fiber Amplifier for Gain-switched Laser Diodes 625 Laura Abrardi, Lauryna Petravicinte Loetscher, Sergio Vincenzo Marchess, Thomas Feurer High Energy Pulsed Eye-safe Fiber Amplifier 626 Eric Lallier, Dominique Papillon-Ruggeri Theoretical and Experimental Comparison of Different Configurations of Tapered Fiber Lasers 627 Juho Kerttula, Valery Filippov, Yuri Chamorovskii, V. Ustimchik, Konstantin Golant, Oleg Okholnikov High Power Fused Single Mode Optical Fiber Coupler 628 Thomas Theeg, Kaiharina Hausmann, MaikFrede, Hakan Sayinc, Jorg Neumann, Dietmar Kracht Reducing Loss in Practical Single Ring Antircsonant Hollow Core Fibres 629 John R. Hayes, Francesco Poletti, David J. Richardson Ultrafast Laser Direct-Write Inscription of Monolithic Fibre and Waveguide Lasers (Invited) 630 Michael with ford

Polarization-maintaining Ytterbium-doped Fibre with an Aluminosilicate Inner-cladding Fabricated Using In-situ

Doping Technique , 631 Seongwoo Yoo, Andrew S. Webb, Alexander J. Boyland, Robert J. Standish, Anirban Dhar, Jayanta K. Sahu Giant Gain in a Rare-earth-ion-doped Waveguide 632 Dimitri Geskus, Shanmugam Aravazhi, Sonia Garcia Blanco, Murkus Pollnau Phase-Matching and Gain of Deep-UV Dispersive-Wave Generation 633 John C. Trovers, Philipp Hdizer, Wonkeun Chang, Johannes Nold, Alexander Nazarkin, Nicolas Joly, Philip St. J. Russell Internally-Frcquency-Doubled Yb Fiber Laser with 15 W CW Green Output 634 Rafal Cieslak, William Andrew Clarkson High Average Power Supcrcontinuum Sources (Invited) 635 John Trovers, Edmund Kelleher, Benjamin Chapman, Sergei Popov, Roy Taylor Dynamic Waveguide Properties of Active Fibers Under High Power Operation 636 Fabian Stutzki, Florian Jansen, Cesar Jauregiti, Jens Limperl, Andreas Tilnnennann Brillouin Lasing with Incoherent Feedback in Optical Fibers 637 Andrei Fotiadi, Elena Preda, Patrice Megret

Sub-200-fs Microjoulc Pulses from an All-fiber CPA System 638 Dirk Morlag, Thomas Theeg, Katharina Hausmann, Lars Gruner-Nielsen, Kim G. Jespersen, Dieter Wandt, Uwe Morgner, Dietmar Kracht, Jorg Neumann

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

High Gain Fiber Optical Parametric Chirped Pulse Amplification of Femtosecond Pulses at 1 urn 640 ArnaudMussol, Damien Bigourd, Lame Lago, Alexandre Kudlinskl, Emmanuel Hugonnot Rod-type Fiber Amplifier for Pulse Compression of High Power Thin-Disk Lasers 641 Oliver H. Heckl, Clara J. Saraceno, Cyril! R, E. Baer, Thomas Siidmeyer, Ursula Keller 40 W Narrow-bandwidth Ps Yb-doped Fiber Laser at 976 nm and Frequency Conversion to 488 nm 642 Guillaume Machinet, Jerome Lhermite, Eric Cormier All-fiber Optically Synchronized Hybrid Er/Yb Laser System for High Power Femtosecond Pulse Generation 643 Alexey Andrianov, Elena Anashkina, Sergey Muravyev, Arkady Kim High Power lOOfs Fiber Oscillator 644 Martin Baumgartl, Florian Jansen, Fabian Stutzki, Cesar Janregui, Jens Limpert, Andreas Tunnermann 8 Watts Actively Mode-Locked Ytterbium Doped Fiber Laser Delivering IS ps pulses at 40 MHz 645 Pierre Deslandes, Damien Sangla, Mathias Perrin, Julien Saby, Francois Salln, Eric Freysz

Highest Peak Power from a Normal-Dispersion Yb-Fiber Oscillator with Anomalous Dispersion Higher-Order- Mode Fiber 646 Alma Fernandez, Lingxian Zhu, Aart Verhoef, Kim Jespersen, Dusan Lorenc, Lars Gruner-Nielsen, Andrius Baltuska 0.5 uj Femtosecond Pulses from a Giant-chirp Ytterbium Fiber Oscillator 647 Nikolai Chichkov, Christian Hapke, Katharina Hausmann, Thomas Theeg, Dieter Wandt, Uwe Morgner, Dietmar Kracht, JSrg Neumann

500 nJ Femtosecond Fiber Laser at 976 nm 648 Jerome Lhermite, Guillaume Machinet, Caroline Lecaplain, Romain Rayon, Ammar Hideur, Eric Cormier High-energy AU-normal-dispcrsion Graphcne Mode-locked Yb-doped Fiber Laser 649 Jiang Liu, Sida Wu, Quan-Hong Yang, Pu Wang High Power Ultrafast Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers Design, Performance and Potential (Keynote) 650 Jens Limpert Comparison Between Multiple Quantum Wells and Carbon Nanotubes to Generate High Power in Mode-locked Fiber Oscillator 651 Amilie Cabasse, Gilles Martel, Trung Nguyen, Jean-Louis Oudar, Sylvain Maine, Yann Bailie, Brigitte Attal-Tretout Liquid-Nitrogen-Coolcd High-Concentration Erbium-Doped Fibre Laser 652 Ruth Stelnborn, Tlan/u Yao, Andrew Webb, Jayanta Sahu, Johan Nilsson Athcrmal Ho3+-Doped Amplifier with Two Pumps 653 Galina Nemova, Raman Kashyap 697 W 12 pm Linewidth of Fiber Generated and Amplified Spontaneous Emission (ASE) at 1 um 654 Oliver Schmidt, Christian Wirth, Stephan Rhein, Miroslaw Rekas, Andrea Kliner, Thomas Schreiber, Ramona Eberhardt, Andreas Tilnnennann

Spectral Characterization of a Narrow Linewidth, Single-frequency 780 nm Fiber Laser Source for Atom Cooling Applications 655 Alain Mugnier, Eric Lemercier, Ronan Lebref, Mathieu Jacquemet, David Purenr