2009 Conference on Lasers & Electro-Optics Europe & 11th European Quantum Electronics Conference

(CLEO EUROPE/EQEC 2009)

Munich, Germany

14 – 19 June 2009

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PLENARY TALKS

Femtosecond Optics: More Than Just Really Fast(Plenary)...... 1 Erich Ippen

Exploring the Quantumness of Light (Plenary)...... 2 Serge Haroche

CLEO®/EUROPE

SOLID STATE LASERS

A 1-kw Radially Polarized Thin-disk Laser ...... 3 Marwan Abdou Ahmed, Moritz Vogel, Andreas Voss, Thomas Graf

High-power Laser with Yb:YAG Crystal Fiber Directly Grown by the Micro-pulling Down Technique ...... 4 Damien Sangla, Nicolas Aubry, Julien Didierjean, Didier Perrodin, Kheirreddine Lebbou, Alain Brenier, Patrick Georges, Jean- Marie Fourmigué, Olivier Tillement

High-power Diode-pumped Tm:YLF Slab Laser ...... 5 Martin Schellhorn, Sandile Ngcobo, Christoph Bollig, M. J. Daniel Esser, Dieter Preussler, Kwanele Nyangaza

Six-fold Residual Birefringence in Radially-Polarized High-Power Nd:YAG Laser Rods...... 6 Yaakov Lumer, Inon Moshe, Steve Jackel, Revital Feldman, Yehoshua Shimony, Zvi Horvitz, Avi Meir

Generation of Near Diffraction Free Beams in Yb:YAG Laser Using an Intracavity Lens with Spherical Aberration ...... 7 Yury Senatsky, Akira Shirakawa, Ken-Ichi Ueda

Faraday Isolator With 2.5 Tesla Magnet Field for High Power Lasers ...... 8 Oleg Palashov, Alexander Voitovich, Ivan Mukhin, Efim Khazanov

227-fs Pulses from a Mode-locked Yb:LuScO3 Thin Disk Laser ...... 9 Christian Kränkel, Cyrill R. E. Baer, Oliver H. Heckl, Matthias Golling, Thomas Südmeyer, Rigo Peters, Klaus Petermann, Guenter Huber, Ursula Keller

Regenerative Yb:KLuW Thin Disk Amplifier ...... 10 Udo Bünting, Hakan Sayinc, Dieter Wandt, Uwe Morgner, Jörg Neumann, Dietmar Kracht

63-W Average Power from Femtosecond Yb:Lu2O3 Thin Disk Laser ...... 11 Cyrill R. E. Baer, Christian Kränkel, Clara J. Saraceno, Oliver H. Heckl, Matthias Golling, Thomas Südmeyer, Rigo Peters, Klaus Petermann, Guenter Huber, Ursula Keller

Yb:kLuW Thin Disk Oscillator in Solitary and Chirped Pulse Operation ...... 12 Guido Palmer, Marcel Schultze, Martin Siegel, Andy Steinmann, Uwe Morgner

Mode-locked Thin Disk Lasers with High Pulse Energies (Invited)...... 13 Joerg Neuhaus, Dominik Bauer, Jochen Kleinbauer, Alexander Killi, Sascha Weiler, Dirk H. Sutter, T. Dekorsy

Wavelength-selective Grating Mirrors for High-power Thin-disk Lasers ...... 14 Marwan Abdou Ahmed, Moritz Vogel, Andreas Voss, Thomas Graf

Yb:KYW Innoslab-Amplifier...... 15 Torsten Mans, Peter Russbueldt, Johannes Weitenberg, Guido Rotarius, Dieter Hoffmann, Reinhart Poprawe

High Efficient Cryogenically-Cooled Yb:YAG Active-Mirror Laser Using Total-Reflection Geometry ...... 16 Hiroaki Furuse, Taku Saiki, Masayuki Fujita, Kazuo Imasaki, Shinya Ishii, Kenji Takeshita, Noriaki Miyanaga, Junji Kawanaka

Power Scaling of High Power Thin-disk Lasers with High Beam Quality...... 17 Jens Mende, Elke Schmid, Jochen Speiser, Gerhard Spindler, Adolf Giesen

Cryogenically Cooled Solid-state Lasers: Recent Developments and Future Prospects (Invited) ...... 18 T. Y. Fan

Operation of the All-Diode-Pumped Multi-Terawatt-Laser POLARIS ...... 19 Joachim Hein, Ragnar Bödefeld, Sebastian Podleska, Marco Hornung, Alexander Sävert, Rico Wachs, Alexander Kessler, Markus Wolf, Sebastian Keppler, Maria Nicolai, Hans-Peter Schlenvoigt, Matthias Schnepp, Marco Hellwing, Fredrik Kronhamn, Petra Mämpel, Jörg Körner, Jens Heymann, Mathias Siebold, Malte Christoph Kaluza

Diode-pumped Spatially Dispersive Yb:KYW Regenerative Amplifier ...... 20 Nikolai Chichkov, Udo Bünting, Dieter Wandt, Uwe Morgner, Jörg Neumann, Dietmar Kracht

High Repetition Rate Diode Pumped Thin Disk Laser of the Joule Class (Invited) ...... 21 Johannes Tümmler, Robert Jung, Holger Stiel, Peter Nickles, Wolfgang Sandner

3+ + 200 fs, 2 mJ Pulses from 1 kHz Yb ,Na :CaF2 Cryogenic Amplifier...... 22 Giedrius Andriukaitis, Audrius Pugzlys, Liangbi Su, Jun Xu, Ruxin Li, Wenn Jing Lai, Poh Boon Phua, Andrius Marcinkevicius, Martin E. Fermann, Linas Giniunas, Romualdas Danielius, Andrius Baltuska

High-energy, Diode-pumped CPA Based on Yb-doped Materials...... 23 Christoph Wandt, Sandro Klingebiel, Izhar Ahmad, Tie-Jun Wang, Sergei Thrushin, Zsuzsanna Major, Mathias Siebold, Ferenc Krausz, Stefan Karsch

High Power, Versatile Pulse Rate Control of Bounce Laser Systems...... 24 Simon Chard, Mike Damzen

High Repetition and High Average Power Solid-State Laser for EUV Lithography ...... 25 Hisanori Fujita, Koji Tsubakimoto, Hidetsugu Yoshida, Ravi Bhushan, Noriaki Miyanaga, Masahiro Nakatsuka

Sub-Nanosecond Passively Q-Switched Multi-kHz MOPA Laser System...... 26 Antonio Agnesi, Paolo Dallocchio, Carlo Di Marco, Federico Pirzio, Giancarlo Reali

Electro-optic Beam Shaping with a PPLN-bulk LiNbO3 Boundary and Its Use for Active Q-switched Operation of 3+ an Intracavity Frequency-doubled Nd :YVO4 Laser...... 27 Adrián J. Torregrosa, Haroldo Maestre, José Antonio Pereda, Carlos R. Fernández-Pousa, Juan Capmany

Synchronized Actively Q-Switched Nd:YAG Laser Generating 3W Average Power at 589 nm...... 28 Morten Thorhauge, Jesper Mortensen, Jesper Rasmussen

Passively Q-switched Nd:YAG Microchip Laser Emits Radially and Azimuthally Polarized Light ...... 29 Jian-Lang Li, Ken-Ichi Ueda, Akira Shirakawa, Lan-Xiang Zhong

Solar-Pumped Solid-State Lasers for Magnesium-Based Energy Cycling (Invited) ...... 30 Takashi Yabe

Inband-pumped Er:Lu2O3 Laser Near 1.6 µm...... 31 Christian Hirt, Marc Eichhorn, Henning Kühn, Klaus Petermann, Guenter Huber

3+ Continuous Wave Pr :LuAlO3 Laser in the Visible Range ...... 32 Matthias Fechner, André Richter, Nils-Owe Hansen, Ashot Petrosyan, Klaus Petermann, Guenter Huber

Resonantly-Pumped Pr3+-Doped Eye-Safe Laser at ~1.65 µm ...... 33 Nikolay Ter-Gabrielyan, Tigran Sanamyan, Mark Dubinskii

Soldering Techniques for the Assembly of High Power Solid-State Lasers...... 34 Jan Dolkemeyer, Max Funck, Valentin Morasch, Claus Schnitzler, Peter Loosen

High-peak power diode-pumped Yb:CaF2 laser ...... 35 Mathias Siebold, Marco Hornung, Joachim Hein, Reinhard Uecker, Malte Christoph Kaluza

Femtosecond oscillators based on Yb:SrF2 and Yb:CaF2 ...... 36 Florence Friebel, Frederic Druon, Dimitris Papadopoulos, Marc Hanna, Patrice Camy, Jean Louis Doualan, Abdeldjid Benayad, Richard Moncorgé, Christophe Cassagne, Georges Boudebs, Patrick Georges

Highly Efficient 4 W, 161 fs, Yb:KGW Laser Oscillator ...... 37 Felix Hoos, Todd Philip Meyrath, Sai Li, Bernd Braun, Harald Giessen

Development of High Power Yb:YAG Pump Source for Few Cycle Pulse Amplification ...... 38 Junji Kawanaka, Ryo Yasuhara, Yasuki Takeuchi, Stuart Pearce, Toshiyuki Kawashima, Hirofumi Kan

Microjoule Pulse Energy from a Chirped-pulse Ti:sapphire Oscillator with Cavity-dumping ...... 39 Martin Siegel, Nils Pfullmann, Guido Palmer, Stefan Rausch, Thomas Binhammer, Uwe Morgner

A Directly Diode Laser Pumped Ti:sapphire Laser: Design, Demonstration and Power-scaling Challenges...... 40 Peter Roth, Alexander Maclean, Alan Kemp, David Burns

Fast Switching Between Continuous-wave and Passively Mode-locked Regimes of Nd:YVO4 and Cr:LiSAF Lasers ...... 41 Vasili Savitski, David Burns, Stephane Calvez

Passively Mode-Locked Yb:CNGG Laser ...... 42 Andreas Schmidt, Uwe Griebner, Huaijin Zhang, Jiyang Wang, Minhua Jiang, Junhai Liu, Valentin Petrov

Continuous-wave and Picosecond Mode-locked Output from an Ultra-violet Ce:LiCAFLaser...... 43 Eduardo Granados, David W. Coutts, David J. Spence

Non-linear Mirror Modelocking of a Bounce Amplifier Laser ...... 44 Gabrielle Thomas, Mike Damzen, Axel Baeuerle, Dominic Farrell

Ultrashort-pulse Laser with Designer Optical Phase ...... 45 Nikolaus Metzger, Walter Lubeigt, David Burns, Alexander Lagatsky, Mike Griffith, Leslie Laycock, T. Brown, Wilson Sibbett

Passively Q-switched and Continuous-wave Yellow Laser Formed by a Self-raman Composite Nd:YVO4/ YVO4 Crystal...... 46 Takashige Omatsu, Andrew Lee, Helen Pask, Jim Piper

Ytterbium-doped Sesquioxides for High-Power Solid-State Lasers: Recent Progress in Crystal Growth and Laser Operation...... 47 Rigo Peters, Kolja Beil, Christian Kränkel, Kerstin Schenk, Klaus Petermann, Guenter Huber

Photoconductivity in Yb-Doped Materials at High Excitation Densities and its Effect on Highly Yb-Doped Thin- Disk Lasers ...... 48 Ulrike Wolters, Susanne T. Fredrich-Thornton, Friedjof Tellkamp, Klaus Petermann, Guenter Huber

New Fabrication Process of Anisotropic Laser Ceramics (Invited)...... 49 Jun Akiyama, Yoichi Sato, Takunori Taira

The Study of Spectroscopic Properties of Nd: PTR Glass...... 50 Yoichi Sato, Takunori Taira, Vadim Smirnov, Larissa Glebova, Leonid Glebov

Comparative Study of Thermal Lensing in Low-doped Nd:YVO and Nd:GdVO4 of Equal Doping Concentration ...... 51 Hencharl J. Strauss, Christoph Bollig, Hubertus M. Von Bergmann, M. J. Daniel Esser

Saturable Absorption Mode-locking Based on Intersubband Transitions in Quantum Wells at 2 Micrometers...... 52 Kejian Yang, Harmut Ruf, Joerg Neuhaus, T. Dekorsy, Christiana Villas-Boas Grimm, Manfred Helm, Ernst Heumann, Guenter Huber, Klaus Biermann, Harald Künzel

Passively Mode-locked Tm,HO:KY(WO4)2 Laser Around 2µm...... 53 Alexander A. Lagatsky, Flavio Fusari, Christian Tom A. Brown, Wilson Sibbett, Stephane Calvez, Martin D. Dawson, James A. Gupta

Highly Efficient, Broadly Tunable Tm:Lu2O3 Laser at 2µm...... 54 Philipp Koopmann, Rigo Peters, Klaus Petermann, Guenter Huber

Spectroscopy and Efficient Room-temperature Laser Operation of Tm,Ho:KY(WO4)2 Around 2µm...... 55 Alexander A. Lagatsky, Flavio Fusari, Sergei V. Kurilchik, Viktor E. Kisel, Anatol S. Yasukevich, Anatol A. Pavlyuk, Christian Tom A. Brown, Nikolay V. Kuleshov, Wilson Sibbett

Cryogenically-cooled Ho:YAG laser In-band Pumped by a Tm Fibre Laser ...... 56 Ji Won Kim, Jacob I. Mackenzie, W. Bailey, Lee Pearson, Deyuan Shen, Yefeng Yang, Andy Clarkson

Compact Fibre-Laser-Pumped Ho:YLF Oscillator-Amplifier System ...... 57 Christoph Bollig, Hencharl J. Strauss, M. J. Daniel Esser, Wayne Koen, Martin Schellhorn, Dieter Preussler, Kwanele Nyangaza, Cobus Jacobs, Edward H. Bernhardi, Lourens R. Botha

Efficient, Green Laser Based on a Blue-diode Pumped Rare Earth Doped Fluoride Crystal in an Extreme Short Resonator...... 58 Michael Strotkamp, Thomas Schwarz, Bernd Jungbluth

Continuous-wave Mode Locked Yellow Raman Laser at 559nm Based on a KGW Crystal ...... 59 Eduardo Granados, Helen M. Pask, David J. Spence

GaN Diode Laser Pumped Solid-State Lasers in the Visible and UV Spectral Region (Invited) ...... 60 Guenter Huber, André Richter, Nils-Owe Hansen, Matthias Fechner, Ernst Heumann

A Self-Raman, Nd:GDVO4 Laser Generating 2.5w Cw Output at 586nm ...... 61 Helen Pask, Andrew Lee, Jim Piper

Power-Scaling Of Blue Diode Pumped Solid-State Lasers For The Visible Wavelength Range...... 62 Ulrich Weichmann, Mackens Uwe, Moench Holger

High Precision Frequency Stabilization of an Injection Seeded Q-switched Nd:YAG Ring Oscillator Thought for LIDAR-applications ...... 63 Martin Ostermeyer, Thomas Waltinger, Markus Gregor, Robert Elsner

Parasitic Control of Unidirectionality of Ring Laser Resonators...... 64 Peter Shardlow, Mike Damzen

Impact of Energy-transfer-upconversion on Performance in Quasi-three-level Solid-state Lasers...... 65 Ji Won Kim, Jacob I. Mackenzie, Andy Clarkson

Nd:YAG Laser Diode-pumped Directly Into the Emitting Level at 938nm ...... 66 Damien Sangla, François Balembois, Patrick Georges

Tapered Diode Laser Pumped 946 Nm Nd:YAG Laser...... 67 Haynes Pak Hay Cheng, Ole Jensen, Paul Michael Petersen, Peter Eskil Andersen, Peter Tidemand-Lichtenberg, Christian Pedersen

Crystalline-orientation Selected Linearly Polarized Yb:YAG Microchip Laser ...... 68 Jun Dong, Akira Shirakawa, Ken-Ichi Ueda

Raman Amplification in KGW Crystal at Femtosecond Pumping...... 69 Oleg Buganov, Dmitrii Bus'Ko, Alexander Grabtchikov, Sergei Tikhomirov, Valentin Orlovich

High-performance Amplification of Coherent ~25-ns Light Pulses from a Tunable Source Operating at ~840 Nm with Bandwidth Near the Fourier Limit...... 70 Brian Orr, Yabai He, Richard White, Mitsuhiko Kono, Kenneth Baldwin

Pr:YAP Q-switched Laser Operation ...... 71 Martin Fibrich, Helena Jelinkova, Miroslav Cech, Petr Hirsl, Karel Nejezchleb, Václav Škoda

Solid-state Frequency-shifted-feedback Laser for Astronomy...... 72 Fabien Marc, Hugues Guillet De Chatellus, Jean-Paul Pique

Intra-cavity Frequency Doubling of an Electrically Pumped Edge-emitting 980 nm Laser Diode with PPLN ...... 73 Kang Li, Aiyun Yao, Nigel Copner, Corin Gawith, Ian Knight

Continuous-wave Ultraviolet Generation at 261.3nm by Intracavity Frequency Doubling of a Laser Diode Pumped Green Emitting Pr:LiYF4 Laser ...... 74 Teoman Gün, André Richter, Ernst Heumann, Guenter Huber

Pulsed Solid State UV-lasers at 374nm and 280nm ...... 75 Ossi Kimmelma, Ilkka Tittonen

Spectroscopic and Oscillation Properties of New ZnMgSe:Cr2+ crystal...... 76 Maxim Doroshenko, Tasoltan Basiev, Vyacheslav Osiko, Helena Jelinkova, Peter Koranda, Vitalii Komar, Andrii Gerasimenko, Vyacheslav Pusikov

Comparison of Resonantly Pumped Er:YAG and Er:YAP Lasers ...... 77 Michal Nemec, Helena Jelinkova, Jan Sulc, Karel Nejezchleb, Vaclav Skoda

Q-switched Microsecond Pulses in the 2 mkm Spectral Range...... 78 Sergej Wexler, Dirk Theisen-Kunde, Ralf Brinkmann

Passive Mode-Locking of a Ho:YSAG Laser With PbS-Quantum Dot-Doped Glass ...... 79 Igor Denisov, Maxim Gaponenko, Alexander Malyarevich, Konstantin Yumashev, Andrey Lipovskii

Saturation Anisotropy in V:YAG Passive Q-switch at 1338nm...... 80 Jan Šulc, Helena Jelinkova, Karel Nejezchleb, Václav Škoda

Tuneable, Hybrid Ho:YAG Laser ...... 81 Jacek Kwiatkowski, Lukasz Gorajek, Jan Jabczynski, Waldemar Zendzian, Helena Jelinkova, Jan Sulc, Michal Nemec, Peter Koranda

Mode-locking of a Cr:ZnSe Laser Using a PPLN Non Linear Mirror : Theoretical Modelling and Cavity Design ...... 82 Jean-Baptiste Dherbecourt, Jean-Michel Melkonian, Myriam Raybaut, Antoine Godard, Michel Lefebvre, Emmanuel Rosencher

High-efficiency Diode-pumped Tm:LiGdF4 Laser at 1.93 µm ...... 83 Gianluca Galzerano, Nicola Coluccelli, Paolo Laporta, Francesco Cornacchia, Alberto Di Lieto, Mauro Tonelli

Fluctuation-free CW Tm:YAP Laser with Monolithic Resonator...... 84 Jan Šulc, Helena Jelinkova, Karel Nejezchleb, Václav Škoda

Spectroscopic Properties of Chromium Doped Sc2O3 Ceramics...... 85 Lupei Voicu, Lupei Aurelia, Ikesue Akio, Florea Stefania

Spectral Characteristics of Yb3+ in Calcium Lithium Niobium Gallium Garnets ...... 86 Lupei Voicu, Lupei Aurelia, Gheorghe Lucian, Gheorghe Cristina, Achim Alexandru

Population Lensing vs Thermal Lensing in Yb:YAG Rods and Disks...... 87 Oleg Antipov, Elena Anashkina, Kseniya Fedorova

Investigation of the Scattering Properties of Yb:Y2O3 and its Effect on Laser Parameters...... 88 Kerstin Schenk, Rigo Peters, Klaus Petermann, Guenter Huber

ESA Spectra and Polarizability Changes in Cr3+ Doped Laser Materials ...... 89 Tomaz Catunda, Romain Caen, Jean Louis Doualan, Richard Moncorgé, Michael Fromager, Kamel Ait-Ameur, Anderson Chaves, Hacene Manaa

Experimental Observation of Thermal Depolarization Suppression in Cubic Crystals with [110] Orientation...... 90 Ivan Mukhin, Oleg Palashov, Efim Khazanov

Influence of Doping Concentration and Corresponding Heat Generation on the Performance of a High Power Two-head Nd:YAG Laser...... 91 Oliver Puncken, Lutz Winkelmann, Peter Wessels, Maik Frede, Dietmar Kracht, Jörg Neumann

Nonlinear Refractive Index of a YAG Crystal at Low Temperature ...... 92 Yasuki Takeuchi, Junji Kawanaka, Masayuki Fujita

Thermal Lens and Laser Oscillating in CaF2 and BaF2 Ceramics...... 93 Ilya Snetkov, Ilya Kozhevatov, Ivan Mukhin, Oleg Palashov, Victor Zelenogorsky, Alexander Soloviev, Efim Khazanov

4+ New View on Optical Quality of Cr :Mg2SiO4 Laser Crystals: Analysis of Absorption Spectra...... 94 Vyacheslav Lebedev, Sergey Tenyakov, Alexander Gaister, Alla Bystrova

Energy Transfer in YAG Ceramics Codoped with Nd3+ and Cr3+ ...... 95 Mitsuo Yamaga, Yohei Oda, Nobuo Kashiwagura, Kazuo Hasegawa, Hiroshi Ito, Shintaro Mizuno

3+ 3+ Spectroscopic and Oscillation Properties of Nd and Yb ions optical centers in BaF2-SrF2-CaF2 Crystals and Ceramics...... 96 Maxim Doroshenko, Tasoltan Basiev, Olimkhon Alimov, Pavel Fedorov, Vasilii Konyushkin, Sergei Kouznetsov, Andrei Nakladov, Vyacheslav Osiko

21 W, 18 ps, Passively Mode-locked Nd:YAG Oscillator with a Single Side-pumped Laser Head ...... 97 Marie-Christine Nadeau, Philippe Balcou, Romain Czarny, Sébastien Montant, Stéphane Petit, Christophe Simon-Boisson

High Temperature Operation of Passively Q-switched, Cr:YAG/Nd:YAG Micro-Laser for Ignition of Engines ...... 98 Masaki Tsunekane, Takunori Taira

Laser Ignition @ Two Wavelengths? ...... 99 Simon Gross, Johannes Tauer, Heinrich Kofler, Georg Reider, Ernst Wintner

Laser Performances of Yb:CaGdAlO4 Around 1 Micrometer...... 100 Bruno Viana, Pierre-Olivier Petit, Philippe Goldner, Justine Boudeile, Julien Didierjean, Frederic Druon, François Balembois, Patrick Georges

Operation at High Temperature of a Diode-Pumped Passively Q-switched Nd:YAG/Cr4+:YAG Laser ...... 101 Traian Dascalu, Nicolaie Pavel, Nicoleta Vasile

YLF Rods Thermal Lens Astigmatism ...... 102 Victor Zelenogorsky, Efim Khazanov

Quasi-continuously Pumped Picosecond Nd:GdVO4 Oscillator-amplifier System in Bounce Geometry ...... 103 Michal Jelinek, Vaclav Kubecek, Petr Hirsl, Miroslav Cech

Large Aperture Nd-Glass Laser Amplifiers...... 104 Alexander V. Charukchev, Vladimir A. Malinov, Sergey L. Potapov, Valerii I. Arbuzov, Konstantin Dukelskii, Sergey I. Kramarev, Valerii M. Volinkin, Roman F. Kurunov, Vladimir G. Smirnov, Stanislav A. Sukharev

3+ High Efficiency Diode-side-pumped Nd :YLiF4 Laser at 1053nm ...... 105 Niklaus Wetter, Eduardo Colombo De Sousa, Fabíola Camargo, Izilda Ranieri, Sonia Baldochi

Cr4:YAG Passive Q-switching of Directly Pumped Nd Lasers ...... 106 Nicolaie Pavel, Traian Dascalu, Voicu Lupei, Nicoleta Vasile

Spectroscopic Bases for Performance Enhancement and Power Scaling of Nd: Gadolinium Scandium Gallium Garnet Lasers...... 107 Lupei Voicu, Lupei Aurelia, Pavel Nicolaie, Ikesue Akio

Radially Polarized Mode-locked Nd:YAG Oscillator ...... 108 Florian Enderli, Thomas Feurer

Cone-refringent Solid-state Bulk Laser ...... 109 Amin Abdolvand, Keith Wilcox, Todor Kalkandjiev, Edik Rafailov

Research on Coherent Beam Combination for Radial Slab Solid-State Laser ...... 110 Zhaoshuo Tian

High Efficiency 17W Single Frequency Ring Laser with Feedback Mirror...... 111 Peter Shardlow, Mike Damzen

Mode-Selective Toroidal Mirrors for Unstable Resonator Planar Waveguide and Thin Slab Solid-State Lasers ...... 112 Krystian L. Wlodarczyk, Ian J. Thomson, Howard J. Baker, Denis R. Hall

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS

Visible and Ultraviolet Semiconductor Disk Lasers (Keynote)...... 113 Martin D. Dawson

Recent Progress in Blue/green InGaN Laser Diodes ...... 114 Adrian Avramescu, Stephan Lutgen, Désirée Queren, Marc Schillgalies, Christoph Eichler, Dini Dimitri, Georg Brüderl, Andreas Breidenassel, Alfred Lell, Uwe Strauß

190-fs Semiconductor Disk Laser and Tapered Diode Amplifier with Ultrafast Pulse Picking...... 115 Peter Klopp, Uwe Griebner, Martin Zorn, Andreas Klehr, Armin Liero, Markus Weyers, Goetz Erbert

Polariton Laser and OPO in Micropillar Cavities (Invited)...... 116 Jacqueline Bloch, Daniele Bajoni, Esther Wertz, Pascale Senellart, Audrey Miard, Elizaveta Semenova, Aristide Lemaître, Isabelle Sagnes, Sophie Bouchoule

Threshold and Dynamic Characteristics of Photonic Crystal Nanolasers with Controlled Spontaneous Emission...... 117 Richard Hostein, Rémy Braive, Audrey Miard, Sylvain Barbay, Noelle Gogneau, Anne Talneau, Luc Le Gratiet, Isabelle Robert- Philip, Isabelle Sagnes, Alexios Beveratos

Nonlinear Dynamics in Photonic Crystal Nanocavity Lasers...... 118 Troels Suhr, Philip Trøst Kristensen, Lars Hagedorn Frandsen, Martin Schubert, Niels Gregersen, Jesper Mørk

Ultra-High Q Photonic Crystal Waveguides for DFB Laser Operation ...... 119 Gauthier-Lafaye Olivier, Larrue Alexandre, Monmayrant Antoine, Bonnefont Sophie, Lozes-Dupuy Françoise

Buried InGaP/GaAs Grating Distributed Feedback Laser with AlGaAs Cladding ...... 120 Benjamin Stevens, Kristian Groom, David Childs, John Roberts, Richard Hogg

Recovery Time Scales In Quantum Dot Devices...... 121 Evgeny Viktorov, Thomas Erneux, Paul Mandel, Tomasz Piwonski, Jaroslaw Pulka, Gillian Madden, John Houlihan, Guillaume Huyet

Joint Theoretical and Experimental Investigations of the CW Lasing and Turn-on Dynamics of a Quantum-dot Semiconductor Laser...... 122 Lukas Drzewietzki, George Thé, Stefan Breuer, Mariangela Gioannini, Wolfgang Elsaesser, Ivo Montrosset, Mark Hopkinson, Michael Krakowski

Advanced Quantum Dot Based Devices (Invited)...... 123 Johan Peter Reithmaier, Emil-Mihai Pavelescu, Christian Gilfert

Controlling the Coherence Properties of Quantum Dot Superluminescent Light Emitting Diodes Via Frequency Selective Optical Feedback...... 124 Martin Blazek, Wolfgang Elsaesser, Mark Hopkinson, Patrick Resneau, Michael Krakowski

High Power Performances of Broad Bandwidths Superluminescent Diodes (SLDs) Based on Chirped-quantum-dot Structures Operating at 1100 and 1200 nm for Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) Applications...... 125 Patrick Resneau, Alain Enard, Yannick Robert, Michel Calligaro, Michael Krakowski, Mark Hopkinson, Paolo Bardella, Mariangela Gioannini, Mattia Rossetti, Ivo Montrosset, Martin Blazek, Wolfgang Elsaesser, John Lynn, Stephen Duffy

Ultrafast Pulse-pair Amplification in InGaAs Quantum-dot Amplifiers...... 126 Paola Borri, Trupti Arekar, Valentina Cesari, Marco Rossetti, Andrea Fiore, Wolfgang Langbein

Hybrid Mode-locking in a 40 GHz Monolithic Quantum Dot Laser...... 127 Evgeny Viktorov, Paul Mandel, Andrei Vladimirov, Matthias Wolfrum, Gerrit Fiol, Dieter Bimberg

Analytical Dissection of a Model for Quantum-dot Lasers...... 128 Kathy Lüdge, Thomas Erneux, Eckehard Schöll

Traveling Wave Modeling of Mode-locked Quantum Dot Semiconductor Lasers ...... 129 Mindaugas Radziunas, Andrei G. Vladimirov, Evgeny A. Viktorov

Observation of Dynamics in a 5 GHz Passively Mode-locked InAs/InP (100) Quantum Dot Ring Laser at 1.5 µm ...... 130 Martijn Heck, Saeed Tahvili, Sanguan Anantathanasarn, Meint Smit, Richard Nötzel, Erwin Bente

Dual-wavelength Mode-locked GaAs-based Quantum-dot Laser ...... 131 Maria Ana Cataluna, Daniil I. Nikitchev, Igor Krestnikov, Daniil A. Livshits, Alexey R. Kovsh, Edik U. Rafailov

High-Power Quantum Dot Based Semiconductor Disk Laser ...... 132 Mantas Butkus, Keith Wilcox, Jussi Rautiainen, Oleg Okhotnikov, Sergey Mikhrin, Igor Krestnikov, Alexey R. Kovsh, Martin Hoffmann, Thomas Südmeyer, Ursula Keller, Edik Rafailov

First Modelocked Vertical External Cavity Surface Emitting Laser Using Quantum Dot Layers for Gain and SESAM...... 133 Martin Hoffmann, Yohan Barbarin, Deran Johannes Henricus Carolina Maas, Aude-Reine Bellancourt, Mohammad Shafiei, Matthias Golling, Thomas Südmeyer, Ursula Keller, Igor Krestnikov, Sergey S. Mikhrin, Alexey R. Kovsh

Wafer Fused Optically-pumped Semiconductor Disk Laser Operating at 1220nm...... 134 Jussi Rautiainen, Lauri Toikkanen, Jari Lyytikäinen, Alexei Sirbu, Alexandru Mereuta, Andrei Caliman, Eli Kapon, Oleg G. Okhotnikov

1.57 µm Passively Mode-Locked Wafer-Fused Semiconductor Disk Laser ...... 135 Esa Saarinen, Jari Lyytikäinen, Jussi Rautiainen, Ville-Markus Korpijärvi, Alexei Sirbu, Alexandru Mereuta, Andrei Caliman, Eli Kapon, Oleg Okhotnikov

Microscopic Modelling and Experimental Results on VECSELS for Optical and THz Applications (Invited) ...... 136 Stephan W. Koch

Modal Structure of Integrated Semiconductor Ring Lasers with Output Waveguides ...... 137 Antonio Pérez-Serrano, Sandor Fürst, Alessandro Scirè, Julien Javaloyes, Marc Sorel, Salvador Balle

Ultrafast All-Optical Switching of Bistable Semiconductor Ring Lasers ...... 138 Julien Javaloyes, Andrea Trita, Gabor Mezosi, Francesca Braghera, Ilaria Cristiani, Guido Giuliani, Marc Sorel, Alessandro Scirè, Salvador Balle

Semiconductor Snail Laser (Invited)...... 139 Michael J. Strain, Antonio Perez-Serrano, Gabor Mezosi, Guy Verschaffelt, Alessandro Scire, Jan Danckaert, Marc Sorel, Salvador Balle

Directional Mode Hopping in Semiconductor Ring Lasers...... 140 Stefano Beri, Lendert Gelens, Guy Van Der Sande, Guy Verschaffelt, Gabor Mezosi, Marc Sorel, Jan Danckaert

Converting 4GB/s IM Data Onto Tunable 60GHz RF Optical Carrier Using Four Wave-mixing in Semiconductor Ring Laser ...... 141 Muhammad Irfan Memon, Bei Li, Gabor Mezosi, Zhuoran Wang, Marc Sorel, Siyuan Yu

The Trapped Rainbow Effect for Broadband Slow Light and Light Storage (Invited) ...... 142 Edmund Kirby, Kosmas Tsakmakidis, Ortwin Hess

Gasb-based mid-IR Electrically-pumped VCSELs Covering the Wavelength Range from 2.3 to 2.7 µm...... 143 Arnaud Ducanchez, Laurent Cerutti, Pierre Grech, Frédéric Genty, Eric Tournié

Tuning and Brightness Optimisation of High-performance GaSb-based Semiconductor Disk Lasers from 1.86 to 2.80µm...... 144 Niels Hempler, John-Mark Hopkins, Marcel Rattunde, Benno Rösener, Rüdiger Moser, Christian Manz, Klaus Köhler, Joachim Wagner, David Burns

Wavelength Stabilization and Mode Selection of a Gasb-based Semiconductor Disk Laser at 2000nm by Using a Volume Bragg Grating...... 145 Karsten Scholle, Samir Lamrini, Peter Fuhrberg, Marcel Rattunde, Joachim Wagner

Power Scaling of GaSb-based Semiconductor Disk Lasers for the 2.x Micron Wavelength Range ...... 146 Marcel Rattunde, Benno Rösener, Rüdiger Moser, Niels Hempler, John-Mark Hopkins, David Burns, Christian Manz, Klaus Köhler, Joachim Wagner

Electrically Induced Two-photon Transparency in Semiconductors (Invited) ...... 147 Alex Hayat, Amir Nevet, Meir Orenstein

Microscopic Modeling of the Optical Properties of Dilute Nitride Semiconductor Gain Materials...... 148 Christina Bückers, Stephan W. Koch, Angela Thränhardt, Jörg Hader, Jerome V. Moloney, Christian Karcher, Wolfram Heimbrodt, Bernardette Kunert, Kerstin Volz, Wolfgang Stolz

Characterisation of a Cavity Soliton Laser Based on a VCSEL with Feedback from a Volume Bragg Grating...... 149 Neal Radwell, Thorsten Ackemann, Roland Jaeger

Role of Thermal Effects on the Onset of Spatially Incoherent Emission in a Broad-area Vertical-cavity Surface- emitting Laser ...... 150 Gordon Craggs, Guy Verschaffelt, Shyam Mandre, Jan Danckaert, Hugo Thienpont, Ingo Fischer

All-optical Memory Based on the Injection Locking Bistability of a Two-colour Laser Diode...... 151 Simon Osborne, Andreas Amann, Stephen O'Brien

Open vs Closed Loop Receivers in All-optical Chaos-based Communication Systems: The Final Round ...... 152 Miguel C. Soriano, Pere Colet, Claudio R. Mirasso

Optical Injection of Quantum Dot and Quantum Dash Semiconductor Lasers ...... 153 Jean-Francois Hayau, Olivier Vaudel, Pascal Besnard, François Lelarge, Benjamin Rousseau, Loic Le Gouezigou, Frédéric Pommereau, Francis Poingt, Odile Le Gouezigou, Alexandre Shen, Guang-Hua Duan, Olivier Dehaese, Frédéric Grillot, Rozenn Piron, Slimane Loualiche, Anthony Martinez, Kamel Merghem, Abderrahim Ramdane

Strong Dependence of the Linewidth Enhancement Factor Onto an Externally Injected Optical Signal for Locked Fabry-Perot Laser Diodes...... 154 Quoc-Thai Nguyen, Pascal Besnard, Olivier Vaudel, Alexandre Shen, Guang-Hua Duan

Multistability of a Semiconductor Laser with Integrated Delayed Optical Feedback ...... 155 André Loose, Binoy K. Goswami, Hans-Jürgen Wünsche, Fritz Henneberger

Experimental Evaluation of Fast Random Bit Sequence Generation Using Chaotic Semiconductor Lasers (Invited)...... 156 Atsushi Uchida, Kunihito Hirano, Kazuya Amano, Masaki Inoue, Sunao Naito, Hiroyuki Someya, Isao Oowada, Shigeru Yoshimori, Kazuyuki Yoshimura, Peter Davis

InP Based, Terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers with 4 Quantum Well Active Region Design...... 157 Milan Fischer, Giacomo Scalari, Maria Amanti, Matthias Beck, Christoph Walther, Jerome Faist

Time of Flight Measurements of the Nanoscale Heat Transfer Dynamic in Terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers...... 158 Miriam Serena Vitiello, Gaetano Scamarcio, Vincenzo Spagnolo

Distributed Feedback Ring Resonators for Vertically Emitting Terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers (Invited) ...... 159 Lukas Mahler, Alessandro Tredicucci, Fabio Beltram, Maria Amanti, Christoph Walther, Jerome Faist, Harvey Beere, David Ritchie

Substrate Emitting Index Coupled Quantum Cascade Lasers Using Biperiodic Top Metal Grating ...... 160 Gregory Maisons, Mathieu Carras, Michel Garcia, Alfredo De Rossi, Olivier Parillaud, Bouzid Simozrag, Xavier Marcadet

Generation of a Narrow Linewidth mm-Wave Signal from Two Phase-Locked DFB Lasers that are Mutually Coupled via Four Wave Mixing...... 161 Marco Soldo, Nicholas Gibbons, Guido Giuliani

Broadband External Cavity Quantum Cascade Laser...... 162 Andreas Hugi, Andreas Wittmann, Yargo Bonetti, Emilio Gini, Matthias Beck, Jerome Faist

Correlation Between Laser-induced Hot-electron Cooling and Quantum Efficiency in THz Quantum Cascade Lasers...... 163 Gaetano Scamarcio, Miriam S. Vitiello, Jerome Faist, Giacomo Scalari, Christophe Walther, Harvey Beere, David A. Ritchie

Modelling Transport in Quantum Cascade Lasers: A Comparison Between Theory and Experiment...... 164 Romain Terazzi, Alfredo Bismuto, Matthias Beck, Jerome Faist

Analysis of Sub-picosecond Mid-infrared Pulse Propagation in a Quantum Cascade Laser Below and Above Threshold...... 165 Wolfgang Parz, Oliver Pfäffli, Thomas Müller, Juraj Darmo, Gottfried Strasser, Luke Wilson, John Cockburn, Andrey Krysa, John Roberts, Karl Unterrainer

Gain/Loss Device Study of Narrow-Ridge Buried Heterostructure Quantum Cascade Lasers Using Broadband Infrared Transmission ...... 166 Peter Friedli, Hans Sigg, Andreas Wittmann, Jerome Faist

Room Temperature Continuous Wave Metal Grating Distributed Feedback Quantum Cascade Lasers...... 167 Mathieu Carras, Gregory Maison, Bouzid Simozrag, Michel Garcia, Xaier Marcadet, Olivier Parillaud

Low-Loss Wavelength Locking of a 49-Element Single Mode Diode Laser Bar with Phase-Plate Beam Correction ...... 168 Natalia Trela, Howard J. Baker, Roy McBride, Denis R. Hall

High-power Distributed Feedback Diode Laser at 780 nm with Sub-100 Khz Linewidth...... 169 Thanh-Phuong Nguyen, Andreas Klehr, Andreas Wicht, Goetz Erbert, Guenther Traenkle

12.2 W Output Power from 1060 nm DBR Tapered Lasers with Narrow Spectral Line Width and Nearly Diffraction Limited Beam Quality...... 170 Bernd Sumpf, Karl-Heinz Hasler, Pawel Adamiec, Frank Bugge, Jörg Fricke, Hans Wenzel, Goetz Erbert, Günther Tränkle

Improving the Brightness of Tapered Diode Laser Using Reverse Bias Absorber Sections...... 171 Christian Fiebig, David Feise, Katrin Paschke, Goetz Erbert

Quasi-diffraction Limited Emission from an Array of Tapered Laser Diodes in Volume Bragg Grating External Cavities...... 172 Gaëlle Lucas-Leclin, David Paboeuf, Nicolas Michel, Michel Calligaro, Michael Krakowski, Patrick Georges

High Power Single-frequency Continuously Tunable Compact Extended-cavity Semiconductor Laser ...... 173 Alexandre Laurain, Mikhael Myara, Arnaud Garnache, Isabelle Sagnes, Grégoire Beaudoin

Pre-Emphasis for Vertical Cavity Laser Modulation Using a Coupled Cavity Structure...... 174 Chen Chen, Kent Choquette

Optimized Active Region Design for High Speed 850 nm VCSELs...... 175 Johan Gustavsson, Sorcha Healy, Petter Westbergh, Åsa Haglund, Anders Larsson, Eoin O'Reilly

1.55-µm Tunable Doped-Fiber Vertical-Cavity Surface Emitting Laser...... 176 Nicolas Laurand, Stephane Calvez, Martin D. Dawson, Sophie Bouchoule, Jean-Christophe Harmand, Jean Decobert

Low Threshold Electrically Pumped Red Emitting InP/AlGaInP Quantum Dot Vertical Microcavity Laser ...... 177 Michael Jetter, Marcus Eichfelder, Wolfgang-Michael Schulz, Matthias Reischle, Michael Wiesner, Robert Roßbach, Peter Michler

High-Speed Tuning in Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers ...... 178 Andreas Hangauer, Jia Chen, Rainer Strzoda, M.-C. Amann

Phase-locked 1.3µm VCSEL Arrays Based on Patterned Tunnel Junction ...... 179 Lukas Mutter, Vladimir Iakovlev, Andrei Caliman, Alexandru Mereuta, Alexei Sirbu, Eli Kapon

A New Concept of an Ultra Fast Pulse Picker for Fs- and Ps-pulses from GHz Pulse-trains with Semiconductor Tapered Elements...... 180 Andreas Klehr, Armin Liero, Thomas Hoffmann, Sven Schwertfeger, Goetz Erbert, Wolfgang Heinrich, Günther Tränkle

First Experimental Verification of Soliton-like Pulse-shaping Mechanisms in Passively Mode-locked VECSELs...... 181 Martin Hoffmann, Deran Johannes Henricus Carolina Maas, Oliver Sieber, Valentin Johannes Wittwer, Aude-Reine Bellancourt, Benjamin Rudin, Yohan Barbarin, Matthias Golling, Thomas Südmeyer, Ursula Keller

Optical Mode Lineshape and Linewidth in Passively Mode-Locked Semiconductor Laser...... 182 Fabien Kéfélian, Shane O'Donoghue, Guillaume Huyet

Linewidth Study of 40-GHz Passively Mode-Locked Multimode Semiconductor Lasers ...... 183 Ramón Maldonado-Basilio, Sylwester Latkovsky, Frederic Surre, Pascal Landais

Temperature Dependence of Picosecond Pulse Spectra of a DFB Laser ...... 184 Sina Riecke, Thomas Eckhardt, Sven Schwertfeger, Andreas Klehr, Hans Wenzel, Günther Tränkle

Theory of Electron Dynamics in Light Emitting Quantum Dot Devices...... 185 Marten Richter, Ermin Malic, Jeong-Eun Kim, Matthias-Rene Dachner, Janik Wolters, Ulrike Woggon, Andreas Knorr

Fast Physical Random Bit Generator Based on Chaotic Semiconductor Lasers: Application to Quantum Cryptography...... 186 Atsushi Uchida, Toshimori Honjo, Kazuya Amano, Kunihito Hirano, Hiroyuki Someya, Haruka Okumura, Shigeru Yoshimori, Kazuyuki Yoshimura, Peter Davis, Yasuhiro Tokura

Vertical Modulator Array for Fast Intra-Cavity Wavelength Control...... 187 Mike Bülters

Optimization of self-mixing modulation in VCSELs for sensing applications ...... 188 David Larsson, Kresten Yvind, Jørn Hvam

1.3 µm VCSEL Transmission Performance over 20 km at 12.5 Gb/s...... 189 Alberto Gatto, Anna Boletti, Pierpaolo Boffi, Christian Neumeyr, Markus Ortsiefer, Enno Roenneberg, Mario Martinelli

Mechanical Properties of a Movable Micro-mirror Membrane for Electro-statically Tunable Optical Filters and Vertical-cavity Surface-emitting Lasers ...... 190 Christian Gierl, Garrett D. Cole, Benjamin Koegel, Sandro Jatta, Karolina Zogal, Hooman Davani, Peter Meissner

Band-structure and Gain-cavity Tuning of 2.4-µm GaSb Buried Tunnel Junction VCSELs ...... 191 Igor Marko, Barnabas Ikyo, Stephen Sweeney, Alfred Adams, Alexander Bachmann, Kaveh Kashani-Shirazi, M.-C. Amann

Incomplete Mode-locking in One-section QD Lasers with Ultra-long Cavity...... 192 Gray Lin, Hsu-Chieh Cheng, Kun-Feng Lin, Rong Xuan, Chien-Ping Lee

Linewidth Narrowing and Phase Locking of Quantum-dot Mode-locked Lasers Emloying Single- and Dual-mode Injection Locking...... 193 Tatsiana Habruseva, Shane O'Donoghue, Natalia Rebrova, Dmitrii Rachinskii, Stephen Hegarty, Guillaume Huyet

Continues-wave Single-mode Operation of Quantum-Dot Photonic-Crystal 1300 nm VCSEL ...... 194 Tomasz Czyszanowski

Ultrafast Processes in InAs/GaAs Quantum Dot Based Electro-Absorbers...... 195 Tomasz Piwonski, Jaroslaw Pulka, Gillian Madden, John Houlihan, Guillaume Huyet, Evgeny Viktorov, Thomas Erneux, Paul Mandel

Phase Dynamics in an Injection-locked System ...... 196 Bryan Kelleher, David Goulding, Stephen P. Hegarty, Guillaume Huyet, Evgeniy Viktorov, Thomas Erneux

Simulation of Switching Between Stable Unidirectional States in Semiconductor Ring Lasers ...... 197 Mindaugas Radziunas

Bit-Error-Rate measurement for an All-Optical Set-Reset Flip-Flop based on Semiconductor Ring Laser...... 198 Maria J. Latorre Vidal, Marco Zanola, Gabor Mezosi, Andrea Trita, Marc Sorel, Guido Giuliani

Noise Spectra of a Semiconductor Ring Laser in the Bidirectional Regime...... 199 Antonio Pérez-Serrano, Alessandro Scirè, Roberta Zambrini, Pere Colet

Quasi Monolithic Ring Resonator for Efficient SHG of 488 nm...... 200 Danilo Skoczowsky, Andreas Jechow, Ralf Menzel

SG-DBR Tunable Laser Linewidth and its Impact on Advanced Modulation Format Transmission ...... 201 Kai Shi, Prince Anandarajah, Doug Reid, Frank Smyth, Liam Barry, Yonglin Yu

Determination of the Thermal Lensing in a Broad Area Semiconductor Laser Amplifier ...... 202 Ahmad Ibrahim Bawamia, Bernd Eppich, Katrin Paschke, Hans Wenzel, Goetz Erbert, Günther Tränkle

Analysis of In-well Pumping of Semiconductor Lasers by Microscopic Gain Calculations ...... 203 Christina Bückers, Ada Bäumner, Angela Thränhardt, Jörg Hader, Jerome V. Moloney, Stephan W. Koch, Wei Zhang, Thorsten Ackemann

Limitation of the Output Power of the Quantum-well Laser Diodes Under Short-pulsed Electrical Pumping...... 204 Grigorii S. Sokolovskii, Anton G. Deryagin, Vladislav V. Dudelev, Vladimir I. Kuchinskii, Sergey N. Losev, Andrey V. Lyutetskiy, Nikita A. Pikhtin, Sergey O. Slipchenko, Zinaida N. Sokolova, Il'Ia S. Tarasov, Dmitry A. Vinokurov

Multiplexing Digital Information Using Hyperchaotic Optoelectronic Oscillators with Nonlinear Time-delayed Feedback Loops ...... 205 Damien Rontani, Alexandre Locquet, Marc Sciamanna, David Citrin

Controlling the Unstable Emission of a Semiconductor Laser Subject to Conventional Optical Feedback with a Filtered Feedback Branch ...... 206 Ilya Ermakov, Vasile Tronciu, Pere Colet, Claudio Mirasso

Breaking Chaotic Encryption using PDEs...... 207 Adrian Jacobo, Miguel Cornelles Soriano, Pere Colet, Claudio Mirasso

TE-TM Coupled Mode Dynamics and Spectrum Splitting in a Semiconductor Laser Subject to Feedback with Variably Rotated Polarization ...... 208 Lev Khaykovich, Tal Galfsky, Zav Shotan, Noam Gross

Bandwidth Enhancement Using Master Laser Modulation and Optical Injection Locking in the Semiconductor Ring Laser ...... 209 Muhammad Irfan Memon, Bei Li, Gabor Mezosi, Zhuoran Wang, Marc Sorel, Siyuan Yu

Nonlinear Dynamics and Synchronization in Two Mutually Coupled Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers...... 210 Ignace Gatare, Hugo Thienpont, Krassimir Panajotov

Synchronization Delays in Optically Coupled Semiconductor Lasers with Feedback...... 211 Jose R Rios Leite, Jhon F Martinez Avila

Chaos Generation, Synchronization and Communications Using an Integrated Source with an Air Gap ...... 212 Vasile Tronciu

Broadband Chaos Generation by Semiconductor Lasers Subject to Bright and Dark Optical Comb Injections ...... 213 Fan-Yi Lin, Yi-Huan Liao

633nm Tapered Diode Lasers with External Wavelength Stabilisation for HeNe Applications ...... 214 Gunnar Blume, Christian Fiebig, David Feise, Christian Kaspari, Alexander Sahm, Katrin Paschke, Goetz Erbert

Calculation of Improved Features of Distributed-feedback Tapered Master-oscillator Power-amplifiers...... 215 Vasile Tronciu

High Brightness External Cavity Broad Area Diode Laser Bar Using Off-axis Spectral Beam Combining...... 216 Deepak Vijayakumar, Ole Jensen, Birgitte Thestrup

Tunable GaAs-based High Power Tapered Amplifiers in an External Cavity Setup...... 217 Christian Schilling, Ralf Ostendorf, Gudrun Kaufel, Rudolf Moritz, Joachim Wagner, Oliver Ambacher

Limitations to Peak Continuous Wave Power in High Power Broad Area Single Emitter 980 nm Diode Lasers ...... 218 Paul Crump, Claudia Roder, Ralf Staske, Agnieska Pietrzak, Wolfgang Pittroff, Arnim Ginolas, Jörg Fricke, Katrin Paschke, Frank Bugge, Peter Ressel, Hans Wenzel, Goetz Erbert

Beam Properties of Gain-guided Array Structures from Low to High Power Operation ...... 219 Martin Spreemann, Hans Wenzel, Bernd Eppich, Goetz Erbert

Comb-referenced Spectroscopy with Quantum Cascade Lasers ...... 220 Simone Borri, Saverio Bartalini, Iacopo Galli, Davide Mazzotti, Giovanni Giusfredi, Pablo Cancio, Paolo De Natale

Comparison Between NEGF Simulation and Experimental Results of Terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers...... 221 Christoph Deutsch, Alexander Benz, Gernot Fasching, Karl Unterrainer, Aaron Andrews, Pavel Klang, Werner Schrenk, Gottfried Strasser, Tillmann Kubis, Catherine Yeh, Peter Vogl

Optically Pumped InGaAs/InGaAsP Asymmetric Quantum Well Structure for Terahertz Difference Frequency Generation Using Two C-band Signals...... 222 Haroldo Maestre, Alvydas Lisauskas, Bernd Sartorius, Hartmut Roskos

HOLOGRAPHY, ADAPTIVE OPTICS, OPTICAL STORAGE AND PHOTOREFRACTIVES

Sub-50 W Pico-second Output from a Nd:YvO4 Phase-conjugate Amplifier...... 223 Koji Nawata, Hidetoshi Kawawa, Takashige Omatsu

Optical Phase Conjugation of ps Pulses at 1.06µm in Sn2P2S6:Te for Abberation Corrections of High-Power Nd- doped Amplifiers ...... 224 Tobias Bach, Kouji Nawata, Mojca Jazbinsek, Takashige Omatsu, Peter Günter

Self-organised Coherent Beam Combination of Self-adaptive Solid-state Lasers ...... 225 Peter Shardlow, Mike Damzen

Intra-cavity MEMS lasers ...... 226 Walter Lubeigt, Joao Gomes, Gordon Brown, Deepak Uttamchandani, David Burns

Laser Ablation Using a Nanosecond Optical Vortex Pulse...... 227 Junichi Hamazaki, Ryuji Morita, Yusuke Kobayashi, Satoshi Tanda, Takashige Omatsu

Nano-particles Transportation Using a Holographic Multiple-vortex Tweezer ...... 228 Masahito Okida, Takeshi Akabane, Ken Kanomata, Takashige Omatsu

Diffraction Limited Microholographic Recording for Terabyte Optical Disk (Invited)...... 229 Susanna Orlic

Volume Holographic Recording in Nanoparticle-Polymer Composites with Reduced Polymerization Shrinkage...... 230 Eiji Hata, Soko Koda, Kohshi Gotoh, Yasuo Tomita

Wavelength Multiplexed Memory Based on a Lippmann Architecture ...... 231 Kevin Contreras, Ziane Izri, Carole Arnaud, Gilles Pauliat, Gerald Roosen

Estimation of Intra-Page and Inter-Page Crosstalk Noise in Collinear Holographic Memory...... 232 Tsutomu Shimura, Yojiro Sumi, Junichiro Tottori, Ryushi Fujimura, Kazuo Kuroda

Dynamic Phase-Shifting Digital Holography Based on the Fractional Talbot Effect...... 233 Lluís Martínez-León, María A. Araiza, Bahram Javidi, Pedro Andrés, Jesús Lancis, Enrique Tajahuerce

Femtosecond Laser Interaction with Photo-refractive Crystals: High Frequency Field and Internal Field Contributions to the Refractive Index Changes...... 234 Saulius Juodkazis, Eugene Gamaly, Vygantas Mizeikis, Hiroaki Misawa, Andrei Rode, Wieslaw Krolikowski, Kenji Kitamura

Dynamic Channel Waveguides Photoinduced by Crossed Lateral Illumination ...... 235 Mohamed Gorram, Virginie Coda, Germano Montemezzani

Non Linear Wave-mixing in Liquid Crystal Light Valves (Invited)...... 236 Stefania Residori, Umberto Bortolozzo, Jean-Pierre Huignard

Photorefractive Simulton in Lithium Niobate...... 237 Fazio Eugenio

Non-steady-state Photo-electromotive Force Effect in Selenium Nanowire Array Within Chrysotile Asbestos Matrix ...... 238 Mikhail Bryushinin, Yurii Kumzerov, Igor Sokolov

Nonlinear Localization of Light Within 1D Photonic Lattices and Superlattices Optically Induced in Photorefractive Lithium Niobate Using Projection Technique...... 239 Vladimir Shandarov, Ksenia Shandarova, Andrew Kanshu, Detlef Kip, Christian Rueter, Yang Tan, Feng Chen

Multiplexing Dynamic Holograms in a Cubic Photorefractive Crystal ...... 240 Roman Romashko, Salvatore Di Girolamo, Yuri Kulchin, Alexei Kamshilin

Self-diffraction of Recording Beams in a 90° Photorefractive Crystal Geometry ...... 241 Salvatore Di Girolamo, Roman V. Romashko, Yuri N. Kulchin, Alexei Kamshilin

Fast Infrared Self-focusing in Photorefractive InP:Fe...... 242 Cristian Dan, Delphine Wolfersberger, Nicolas Fressengeas, Hervé Leblond, Mathieu Chauvet, Fabrice Devaux

Slow Light in Photorefractive Phase-Engineered Index Structures ...... 243 Wolfgang Horn, Jan V. Bassewitz, Cornelia Denz

Photorefraction in LiNbO3:Fe crystals with Femtosecond Laser Pulses ...... 244 Dominik Maxein, Johanna Bückers, Daniel Haertle, Karsten Buse

Volume Hologram Multiplexing in Dye-Doped Jelly-Like Gelatin ...... 245 Terlan Efendiev, Vasili Katarkevich, Anatoli Rubinov

Head-Up-Displays based on Polymethylmethacrylate with Phenanthrenequinone...... 246 Elen Tolstik, Alexander Winkler, Vladislav Matusevich, Richard Kowarschik, Uladzimir Mahilny, Dzianis Marmysh, Yuri Matusevich, Leonid Krul

Efficient Surface-Relief Gratings in Hydrogen-Bonded Polymer-Azobenzene Complexes...... 247 Arri Priimagi, Klas Lindfors, Matti Kaivola, Paul Rochon

A Viable Route to Light Polarization Control...... 248 Pasquale Pagliusi, Clementina Provenzano, Valery P. Shibaev, Gabriella Cipparrone Photoinduced Superstructural Chirality In Photochromic Polymer

Regime Independent Coupled Wave Equations in Anisotropic Media ...... 249 Keith Daly, Giampaolo D'Alessandro, Malgosia Kaczmarek

Adaptive Detection of Laser Induced Ultrasound via Two-wave Mixing in Saturable Erbium-doped Optical Fiber ...... 250 Ponciano Rodriguez Montero, Serguei Stepanov, Fernando Pérez Cota, Alberto Nueñez Quintero

Dynamical Binary Modulation of Ultrabroadband Light Beams by Using Principal States of Polarization of Liquid Crystal Devices...... 251 Vicente Durán, Pere Clemente, Pedro Andrés, Jesús Lancis

A Mobile Adaptive Optics System for Compensation of Atmospheric Turbulence-Induced Phase Distortions...... 252 Ivo Buske, Wolfgang Riede

Holographic Phase-conjugation Through a Sub-wavelength Hole...... 253 Felix Kalkum, Sebastian Broch, Thorsten Brands, Karsten Buse

APPLICATIONS OF NONLINEAR OPTICS

Near-infrared Optical Parametric Amplification in a Gas-filled Hollow Fibre (Invited)...... 254 Alexander Grun, Daniele Faccio, Arnaud Couairon, Philip Bates, Olivier Chalus, Jens Biegert

Generation of Periodic Filament Arrays by Self-focusing of Highly Elliptical Ultrashort Pulsed Laser Beams ...... 255 Vytautas Jukna, Donatas Majus, Gintaras Valiulis, Audrius Dubietis

Efficient Chirped-matched Third Harmonic Generation of Long UV pulses ...... 256 Nicolas Forget, Pierre-Mary Paul, Christoph Hauri, Thomas Oksenhendler, Pierre Tournois

Energy Enhancement of a Highly Coherent VUV Source at 125 nm for Nanopatterning Applications...... 257 Laurent Philippet, Sebastien Chenais, Sebastien Forget, Marie-Claude Castex

Generation of Intense Coherent Continuum XUV Radiation by Many-cycle Laser Fields...... 258 Paris Tzallas, Emmanouil Skantzakis, Jann Kruse, Emmanouil Benis, Grigoris Maravelias, Costas Kalpouzos, Dimitris Charalambidis

Improved SHG Phase Matching Response for Focused Gaussian Beams in Gouy Compensated Quasi-phase- matched Structures ...... 259 Huw Major, James Gates, Corin Gawith, Peter Smith

Phase Locked Second Harmonic Etalon Localization...... 260 Vito Roppo, Giuseppe D'Aguanno, Crina Cojocaru, Fabrice Raineri, Jose Trull, Ramon Vilaseca, Rama Raj, Michael Scalora

Control of Stimulated Polariton Scattering in Periodically Structured KTiOPO4 ...... 261 Gustav Strömqvist, Valdas Pasiskevicius, Carlota Canalias, Fredrik Laurell

236mW Average Second-Harmonic Power Generated from Periodically Poled Silica Fibres...... 262 Albert Canagasabey, Costantino Corbari, Flavien Liegeois, Alexey V. Gladyshev, Sebastien Guillemet, Yves Hernandez, Evgeny Dianov, Morten Ibsen, Peter G. Kazansky, Mikhail V. Yashkov, Alexei Kosolapov

Enhanced Stimulated Raman Scattering in Silicon Nanocrystals Embedded in Silicon-rich Nitride/silicon Superlattice Structures ...... 263 Luigi Sirleto

Fourier Synthesis of Continuous-Wave Raman Sidebands Generated through an Intracavity Raman-Resonant Four-Wave Mixing ...... 264 Shin-Ichi Zaitsu, Hirotomo Izaki, Totaro Imasaka

Independent Trapping, Manipulation, and Characterization Using Fiber Based CARS Microspectroscopy (Invited) ...... 265 Soren Keiding

Arbitrarily Shaped Picosecond Pulses by Spectral Compression of Femtosecond Pulses in Engineered Quadratic Media ...... 266 Marco Marangoni, Daniele Brida, Matteo Conforti, Antonio Daniele Capobianco, Cristian Manzoni, Costantino De Angelis, Roberta Ramponi, Giulio Cerullo

CARS Diagnostics of Phase Transitions of Molecular Media Confined in Nanopores ...... 267 Vladimir Arakcheev, Vyacheslav Morozov, Anton Valeev

All-fiber CW Fiber Optical Parametric Oscillator Tunable Over 240 nm...... 268 Yiqing Xu, Stuart Murdoch, Rainer Leonhardt, John Harvey

Tunable Operation of a Continuous Intracavity Frequency Doubled Singly Resonant Optical Parametric Oscillator ...... 269 Thu Hien My, Oussama Mhibik, Cyril Drag, Fabien Bretenaker

Supercontinuum Generation and Four Wave Mixing in Ge11As22Se67 Rib Waveguides with a Nonlinear Parameter >26000W-1km-1...... 270 Barry Luther-Davies, Amrita Prasad, Steve Madden, Duk-Yong Choi, Douglas Bulla, Xin Gai, Khu Vu

Noise Reduction of High-power Supercontinuum Sources by Back Seeding ...... 271 Peter M. Moselund, Michael H. Frosz, Carsten L. Thomsen, O. Bang

Thermodynamic Approach of Supercontinuum Generation...... 272 Benoit Barviau, Bertrand Kibler, Stephane Coen, Alexandre Kudlinski, Arnaud Mussot, Guy Millot, Antonio Picozzi

Emergence of Extreme Events in Fibre-based Parametric Processes Driven by a Partially Incoherent Pump Wave...... 273 Kamal Hammani, Christophe Finot, Guy Millot

Are Optical Rogue Waves Giant Solitons? ...... 274 Mussot Arnaud, Kudlinski Alexandre, Kolobov Mikhail, Louvergneaux Eric, Douay Marc, Taki Majid

Experimental Characterization of Optical Rogue Waves in the Femtosecond Regime ...... 275 G. Genty, M. Erkintalo, C. Lafargue, F. Diaz, J. Bolger, B. J. Eggleton, J. M. Dudley

2 pm/V in Poled Bismuth-Zinc-Borate High Index Glass...... 276 Costantino Corbari, Lakshmi Chandru, Isabel C. S. Carvalho, Olivier Deparis, Francesco P. Mezzapesa, Peter G. Kazansky, Koichi Sakaguchi

Dependence of Fluorescence on Coupling from Coupled Au Nanoparticle - Semiconductor Quantum Dot Assemblies ...... 277 Li Wang, Damian Ankuciwiez, Jiayu Chen, Ravi Jain

Raman Lasers using Low Birefringence Synthetic Diamond: Material Characterisation, Device Design and an Initial Demonstration ...... 278 Walter Lubeigt, Patricia Millar, Alan Kemp, Jennifer E. Hastie, Martin D. Dawson, David Burns

Periodically-Poled Silicon ...... 279 Nick K. Hon, Kevin K. Tsia, Daniel R. Solli, Bahram Jalali

Ultraviolet Random Lasing in Nd3+ Doped Fluoroindate Glass Powder...... 280 Cid De Araujo, Marcos Oliveira, Younes Messaddeq

Single-Crystalline Organic Electro-Optic Microring Filters and Modulators ...... 281 Harry Figi, Mojca Jazbinsek, Christoph Hunziker, Manuel Koechlin, Peter Günter

Cross-Polarization Modulation Solitons in Birefringent Optical Fibers...... 282 Stefan Wabnitz

Phase Control of Double-Pass Cascaded SHG/DFG Wavelength Conversion in Ti:(Zn:)PPLN-Channel Waveguides...... 283 Rahman Nouroozi, Hubertus Suche, Ansgar Hellwig, Raimund Ricken, Viktor Quiring, Wolfgang Sohler

Sub-nanosecond Nonlinear Pulse Shaping in Microfiber Resonators...... 284 Aurélien Coillet, Philippe Grelu, Guillaume Vienne

Laser Pulse Reshaping by Means of Nonlinear Effects in a Low Birefringence Optical Fiber...... 285 Florent Doutre, Vincent Couderc, Dominique Pagnoux

Efficient 494-mW Sum-frequency Generation of 589-nm Light by Using a Periodically Poled LiNbO3 Ridge Waveguide ...... 286 Tadashi Nishikawa, Yoshiki Nishida, Masaki Asobe, Feng-Lei Hong, Akira Ozawa, Theodor W. Hänsch

Tunable Ultrafast Effective Nonlinearity Using a Nonlinear Amplifying Loop Mirror ...... 287 Klaus Sponsel, Christian Stephan, Georgy Onishchukov, Bernhard Schmauss, Gerd Leuchs

Compact High-Power FCPA Enabled by Chirped Volume Bragg Grating and Chirally-Coupled-Core Fiber Technologies (Invited)...... 288 Matthew Rever, Xiuquan Ma, Shenghong Huang, Caglar Yavuz, Vadim Smirnov, Eugene Rotari, Ion Cohanoshi, Sergiy Mokhov, Leonid Glebov, Almantas Galvanauskas

16.6W, Continuous-Wave, Yb-fiber-Laser-Pumped, Singly-Resonant Optical Parametric Oscillator based on MgO:PPLN...... 289 Chaitanya Kumar Suddapalli, Ritwick Das, Goutam Kumar Samanta, Majid Ebrahim-Zadeh

32% Efficient, 9.6 W, Continuous-wave, Yb-fiber-laser-pumped Single-pass Second-harmonic-generation in MgO:sPPLT ...... 290 Ritwick Das, S. Chaitanya Kumar, Goutam Kumar Samanta, Majid Ebrahim-Zadeh

Is There Raman Lasing in Optical Parametric Oscillators Based on Periodically Poled Lithium Niobate?...... 291 Ingo Breunig, Jens Kiessling, Karsten Buse

Single-frequency and Kerr-Lens Mode-locked Nd:YLF/ppKTP Ring Laser ...... 292 Fabíola Camargo, Thomas Zanon-Willette, Thomas Badr, Niklaus Ursus Wetter, Jean-Jacques Zondy

Ultralow Power Nonlinear Optics in Rb-filled Band-gap Fibers (Invited) ...... 293 Alexander Gaeta

A Chirped Photonic Crystal Fiber for Ultrashort Laser Pulse Delivery...... 294 Julia S. Skibina, Rumen Iliew, Jens Bethge, Martin Bock, Dorit Fischer, Valentin I. Beloglasov, Reiner Wedell, Sven Burger, Günter Steinmeyer

Spectral Broadening of Visible Ultrashort Pulses in Tapered Photonic Crystal Fiber ...... 295 Sebastian P. Stark, Alexander Podlipensky, Nicolas Y. Joly, Philip St. J. Russell

Supercontinuum Generation in Solid-Core Photonic Bandgap Fibers ...... 296 Aurélie Bétourné, Alexandre Kudlinski, Géraud Bouwmans, Arnaud Mussot, Yves Quiquempois

Control of the Harmonic-generation Efficiency in Photonic Crystals Formed by Optically Anisotropic Layers...... 297 Leonid Golovan, Vladislav Shcheslavskiy, Georgi Petrov, Pavel Kashkarov, Victor Timoshenko, Vladislav Yakovlev, Aleksei Zheltikov

All-Optical Routing and Switching in Two-Dimensional Waveguide Arrays (Invited) ...... 298 Robert Keil, Alexander Szameit, Felix Dreisow, Matthias Heinrich, Stefan Nolte, Andreas Tünnermann

All-Optical Signal Processing with Ultralong Bulk Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers for Data Rates above 100Gb/s ...... 299 Patrick Runge, Klaus Petermann

Self-pulsation and Chaos in Micro-coil Resonators...... 300 Neil Broderick

Frequency Doubling of Images Through a Self-imaging Cavity...... 301 Benoit Chalopin, Agnes Maitre, Nicolas Treps, Claude Fabre

Nonlinear Spectral Demultiplexing in Arrays of Curved Waveguides ...... 302 Ivan Garanovich, Andrey Sukhorukov, Dragomir Neshev, Yuri Kivshar

Wavelength-tunable Few-cycle Optical Pulse Generation from an All-fiber Erbium-doped Laser System (Invited) ...... 303 Alexey Andrianov, Sergey Muraviev, Arkady Kim, Alexey Sysoliatin

10 - 40 µm Ultrashort Pulse Generation in Organic Nonlinear Optical Crystal DAST ...... 304 Kazuo Kuroda, Yoshihiro Toya, Takuya Satoh, Tsutomu Shimura, Satoshi Ashihara, Yoshinori Takahashi, Masashi Yoshimura, Yusuke Mori, Takatomo Sasaki

Extended-cavity GHz-Repetition-Rate Femtosecond Optical Parametric Oscillator Pumped at 76 MHz...... 305 Omid Kokabee, Adolfo Esteban-Martin, Konstantinos Moutzouris, Majid Ebrahim-Zadeh

High Repetition Rate Two-color Pump-probe System Directly Pumped by a Femtosecond Ytterbium Oscillator ...... 306 Cristian Manzoni, Roberto Osellame, Marco Marangoni, Giulio Cerullo, Marcel Schultze, Uwe Morgner

9-cycle Duration, Micro-Joule Energy, Mid-IR Pulses from a 100kHz OPCPA...... 307 Olivier Chalus, Philip Bates, Mathias Smolarski, Jens Biegert

Tunable All-optical Pulse Compression and Stretching via Doublet Brillouin Gain Lines in an Optical Fiber ...... 308 Guanshi Qin, Takahide Sakamoto, Naokatsu Yamamoto, Tetsuya Kawanishi, Hideyuki Sotobayshi, Takenobu Suzuki, Yasutake Ohishi

Over 1-W cw 580 nm Light Generation with QPM-Zn:LN Ridge Waveguide and Its Long-term Output Power Stability...... 309 Tsuyoshi Yamada, Jun Nakanishi, Ken-Ichi Hayashi, Yoshiki Nishida

Brillouin Lasing of a Single Mode Tellurite Fiber...... 310 Guanshi Qin, Takenobu Suzuki, Atsushi Mori, Yasutake Ohishi

Generation of Sum Frequency Mixing Radiation at CW Intracavity Raman Conversion...... 311 Anton Kananovich, Alexander Demidovich, Milcho Danailov, Alexander Grabtchikov, Valentin Orlovich

A 160 ps Pulse Generation by Stimulated Brillouin Scattering Phase Conjugation Mirror at 1064 nm Wavelength...... 312 Hidetsugu Yoshida, Hisanori Fujita, Masahiro Nakatsuka, Takaki Hatae, Shigeru Kitamura

Tailored Soliton Statistics in Supercontinuum Generation ...... 313 Bertrand Kibler, Christophe Finot, J. M. Dudley

Broadband Parametric Wavelength Conversion in Microstructure Fibre with Germanosilicate Core ...... 314 Yuri Yatsenko, Alexei Kosolapov, Andrey Levchenko, Michel Likhachev, Sergey Semjonov, Evgeny Dianov

Nonlinear Optical Down- and Up-Conversion in PPLN Waveguides for Mid-Infrared Spectroscopy...... 315 Kai-Daniel Büchter, Marie-Christin Wiegand, Harald Herrmann, Wolfgang Sohler

Control of Radiation Spatial Coherence in Crystalline LiF:F2- Amplifier ...... 316 Dmitrii Chunaev, Vasilii Konushkin, Alexander Karasik

0.6W Single-Frequency Nd:YVO4/BiB3O6 Laser at 671nm...... 317 Fabíola Camargo, Thomas Zanon-Willette, Thomas Badr, Niklaus Ursus Wetter, Jean-Jacques Zondy

Nonlinear Optics and Self-lensing in Self-assembled Quantum Dots with CW Driving ...... 318 Alessio Tierno, Thorsten Ackemann, Tommaso Maggipinto, Massimo Brambilla

Design of λ/4 Phase Shifted DFB Fibre Raman Laser...... 319 Youfang Hu, Neil Broderick

Conversion of Radiation in Nonlinear Photonic Crystals of Strontium Tetraborate...... 320 Aleksandr Aleksandrovsky, Andrey Vyunishev, Vitaliy Slabko, Aleksandre Zaitsev, Anatoliy Zamkov

Green-Pumped CW Singly Resonant Optical Parametric Oscillator Based on MgO:PPLN with Frequency Stabilization...... 321 Sebastian Zaske, Dong-Hoon Lee, Christoph Becher

Light Localization Enhancement of Optical Nonlinearities for Optical Switching ...... 322 Alexandre Baron, Philippe Delaye, Nicolas Dubreuil, Robert Frey, Gerald Roosen

Generation of Supercontinuum in Erbium-doped Microstructured Optical Fibers ...... 323 Jaime Cascante-Vindas, Antonio Díez, Salvador Torres-Peiró, José L. Cruz, Miguel V. Andrés

Degenerate Multi-wave Mixing Inside the 4f Coherent Imaging System...... 324 Kamil Fedus, Georges Boudebs

Simple Rules and Chart to Design an All-optical SPM-based Regenerator ...... 325 Thanh Nam Nguyen, Thierry Chartier, Jean-Claude Simon

Enhancement of the Two-photon Absorption and Nonlinear-optical Refraction in Mesoporous Silicon...... 326 Leonid Golovan, Maksim Kopylovskii, Stanislav Zabotnov, Nikolai Piskunov, Vladimir Gayvoronsky, Pavel Kashkarov, Victor Timoshenko

Stable, High-Power, Continuous-Wave, Single-Frequency Optical Parametric Oscillator Pumped by a Frequency- Doubled Fiber Laser...... 327 Goutam Kumar Samanta, Chaitanya Kumar Suddapalli, Ritwick Das, Majid Ebrahim-Zadeh

Spectral "soliton" Transformation and Four-wave Mixing Under Femtosecond Laser Radiation Filamentation in Molecular Gases...... 328 Maria Kurilova, Anna Mazhorova, Daria Uryupina, Stepan Gorgutsa, Nikolai Panov, Grigory Golovin, Roman Volkov, Olga Kosareva, Andrei Savel'Ev

Crystal Length in Optical Parametric Oscillators - Size Matters!...... 329 Ingo Breunig, Rosita Sowade, Karsten Buse

Laser Beam Self-focusing in the Atmosphere...... 330 Alexander Rubenchik, Michael Fedoruk, Sergei Turitsyn

Femtosecond Optical Parametric Amplification using ß-BaB2O4 and BiB3O6 consecutively ...... 331 Florent Deloison, Caroline Crotti, Donald A. Peyrot, Olivier Albert, Rodrigo Lopez-Martens, Frédérika Augé-Rochereau, Karsten Plamann

Nonlinear Optical Thresholding using a Saturable Absorber and Two-Photon Absorption Based Device...... 332 Karl Dexter, Douglas Reid, Liam Barry

Generation of Orange Light from a PPKTP Waveguide End-pumped by a Quantum-dot Tuneable Laser ...... 333 Kseniya Fedorova, Maria Ana Cataluna, Amin Abdolvand, Phil Battle, Igor Krestnikov, D. Livshits, M. Khomylev, Edik Rafailov

Optical Pulse Delay or Advance and Frequency Tuning with Mismatched Three-Wave Interaction ...... 334 Valery Lobanov, Anatoly Sukhorukov

Effect of Acoustic Wave Inertia on Stokes Pulse Delay Via Stimulated Brillouin Scattering: Implications to Slow Light...... 335 Valeri Kovalev, Nadezhda Kotova, Robert Harrison

Enhanced Raman Gain Coefficients and Bandwidths of Sodium-niobium-phosphate Glasses for Raman Gain Media ...... 336 Luigi Sirleto

Solitonic Waveguide Laser In Erbium Doped Lithium Niobate...... 337 Massimo Alonzo, Alessandra Toncelli, Marco Bazzan, Nicola Argiolas, Maria Vittoria Ciampolillo, Cinzia Sada, Eugenio Fazio

Anisotropic Nonlinear Optical Properties of Metal Nanocomposite Glass...... 338 Sabitha Mohan, Ulrich Skrzypczak, Heinrich Graener

Generation of Triangular Pulses in Normally Dispersive Fibre ...... 339 Hua Wang, Anton Latkin, Sonia Boscolo, Paul Harper, Sergei Turitsyn

Supercontinuum Spectral Control...... 340 Juan Jose Miret, Pedro Andrés, Enrique Silvestre

1.2 W, Tunable, Continuous-Wave, Single-Frequency, Solid-State Blue Source...... 341 Goutam Kumar Samanta, Majid Ebrahim-Zadeh

Improved Flatness of a Supercontinuum at 1.55 µm in Tapered Microstructured Optical Fibres ...... 342 Natasha Vukovic, Neil Broderick

Periodically Poled Lithium Tantalate Crystals for Efficient SHG Generation...... 343 Jussi Rautiainen, Kseniya Fedorova, David Eger, Ville-Markus Korpijärvi, Oleg G. Okhotnikov, Amin Abdolvand, Edik U. Rafailov

OPTICAL MATERIALS, FABRICATION AND CHARACTERISATION

Specific Spectral Features of Green to UV and Violet Up-conversion in Nd3+-doped Fluorozirconate Glass ...... 344 Mariusz Klimczak, Michal Malinowski, Ryszard Piramidowicz

Frequency Upconversion in Er3+ and Yb3+-doped Zirconia and Hafnia Nanocrystals Excited at 980 nm in the Continuous-wave Regime ...... 345 Leonardo De Souza Menezes, Luis Arturo Gómez, Cid De Araujo, Rogéria Rocha Gonçalves, Sidney José Lima Ribeiro, Younes Messaddeq

Energy Migration Governs Upconversion Losses in Er3+-doped Integrated Amplifiers...... 346 Laura Agazzi, Jonathan Bradley, Feridun Ay, Andreas Kahn, Hanno Scheife, Guenter Huber, Rene De Ridder, Kerstin Wörhoff, Markus Pollnau

3+ Higher Gain in 977-nm-pumped Al2O3:Er Integrated Optical Amplifiers ...... 347 Jonathan Bradley, Laura Agazzi, Dimitri Geskus, Feridun Ay, Kerstin Wörhoff, Markus Pollnau

Rare Earth Doped Crystals for Quantum Information Devices (Invited) ...... 348 Olivier Guillot-Noël, Philippe Goldner, Florian Beaudoux, Julien Lejay, Atia Amari, Andreas Walther, Lars Rippe, Stefan Kröll, Thierry Chanelière, Jean-Louis Le Gouët

Testing of Laser Optical Components for Space-based Laser Systems ...... 349 Wolfgang Riede, Helmut Schroeder, Paul Allenspacher

Reduction of Thermal Effect in Hetero Composite Laser Materials...... 350 Pierre-Olivier Petit, Cédric Boissière, Philippe Goldner, Julien Didierjean, François Balembois

GHz Micro-modulators for Telecommunications Based on SBN and KTN Bulk Crystals ...... 351 M Bouvrot, J C Poncot, C Guichard, L Larger

5.2µs-response Variable Focal-length Lenses Using KTa1-xNbxO3 Crystals ...... 352 Tadayuki Imai, Shogo Yagi, Seiji Toyoda, Jun Miyazu, Masahiro Sasaura, Kazunori Naganuma

Current Status of Ceramic Lasers (Invited)...... 353 Akio Ikesue

Simultaneous Tapering and Crystallisation of Silicon Core Optical Fibres...... 354 Noel Healy, Anna C. Peacock, Justin R. Sparks, Neil F. Baril, Pier J. A. Sazio, John V. Badding

Wavelength-dependent Loss Measurements in Polysilicon Modified Optical Fibres...... 355 Laura Lagonigro, Noel Healy, Justin R. Sparks, Neil F. Baril, Pier J. A. Sazio, John V. Badding, Anna C. Peacock

Measurement of Thermal Binding Energy of Photodarkening-induced Color Centers in Ytterbium-doped Silica Fibers ...... 356 Mikko Söderlund, Joan Montiel I Ponsoda, Seppo Honkanen

Highly Nonlinear Non-silica Glass Microstructured Optical Fibers with Near-zero Dispersion and Dispersion Slope for 1.55 µm Applications ...... 357 Xian Feng, Angela Camerlingo, Francesco Poletti, Periklis Petropoulos, Ken Frampton, Nicholas White, Claudio Oton, Wei Loh, David Richardson

Relaxation Dynamics Measurements in Bi-fiber Lasers...... 358 Lasse Orsila, Samuli Kivistö, Oleg G. Okhotnikov, Artem V. Kholodkov, Evgeny Dianov

Optically Detected Magnetic Resonance in Bismuth-doped Silica Glasses...... 359 Igor Razdobreev, Laurent Bigot, Vitaliy Ivanov, Marek Godlewski

Low-threshold Laser in a High-index-contrast Double Tungstate Waveguide...... 360 Dimitri Geskus, Shanmugam Aravazhi, Kerstin Wörhoff, Markus Pollnau

Fabrication of Sub-micron Thick, Low Loss As2S3 Planar Waveguides...... 361 Duk-Yong Choi, Steve Madden, Douglas Bulla, Rongping Wang, Andrei Rode, Barry Luther-Davies

Er,Yb:YAl3(BO3)4 Crystalline Layers Grown by Liquid-phase Epitaxy ...... 362 Nikolai Tolstik, Nikolai Kuleshov, Sebastian Heinrich, Andreas Kahn, Guenter Huber, Elena Volkova, Nikolai Leonyuk

Microfluidic Channels Fabricated by Femtosecond Laser Irradiation and Chemical Etching for Optofluidic Devices ...... 363 Krishna Chaitanya Vishnubhatla, Jenny Clarck, Guglielmo Lanzani, Roberta Ramponi, Roberto Osellame, Tersilla Virgili

Moire Reflecting Bragg Gratings Recorded in Photo-thermo-refractive Glass...... 364 Leonid Glebov, Julien Lumeau, Sergiy Mokhov, Vadim Smirnov, Boris Zeldovich

Sub-Micron Period Relief Grating Structures Inscribed on Erbium Doped Ta2O5 Waveguides Using 213 nm, 150 ps Laser Radiation...... 365 Ananth Z. Subramanian, Stavros Pissadakis, Claudio J. Oton, James S. Wilkinson

B/P Doping in Application of Silicon Oxynitride Based Integrated Optics ...... 366 Fei Sun, Mohamed Hussein, Kerstin Wörhoff, Gabriel Sengo, Alfred Driessen

Transfer of InGaP/GaAs Double-Junction Micro-Cuboid Array onto Foreign Substrates Using Epitaxial Lift-Off (ELO) Technique...... 367 Jiun-Jie Chao, Shu-Chia Shiu, Ching-Fuh Lin

Fabrication of Submicron Si Spheres on SOI Platform by Using Excimer Laser Reformation Technique ...... 368 Shih-Che Hung, Shu-Chia Shiu, Cha-Shin Chao, Ching-Fuh Lin

~1meV Inhomogeneous Broadening of Large Area (~cm2) Arrays of Site-controlled Pyramidal Quantum Dots...... 369 Arun Mohan, Marco Felici, Pascal Gallo, Benjamin Dwir, Alok Rudra, Jerome Faist, Eli Kapon

Optical Microcavities with Pyramidal Shape...... 370 Daniel Rülke, Matthias Karl, Torsten Beck, Daniel M. Schaadt, Dongzhi Hu, Heinz Kalt, Michael Hetterich

Hole Character and Photon Polarization Switching in Quantum Dot-in-Dots and Quantum Dot Molecules...... 371 Valentina Troncale, Eli Kapon, Karl Fredrik Karlsson

High Refractive Index Contrast Ridge Waveguides in LiNbO3 Thin Films...... 372 Hui Hu, Raimund Ricken, Wolfgang Sohler

Periodically Poled Ridge Waveguide on X-Cut LiNbO3 and its Application for Second Harmonic Generation...... 373 Li Gui, Hui Hu, Miguel Garcia-Granda, Wolfgang Sohler

Lithium Niobate Nanowires: Growth, Second-harmonic and Dielectrophoretic Properties (Invited)...... 374 Rachel Grange, Jae-Woo Choi, Chia-Lung Hsieh, Ye Pu, Arnaud Magrez, Laszlo Forro, Demetri Psaltis

UV Laser-induced Poling Inhibition in Lithium Niobate Crystals...... 375 Yonjun Ying, Collin Sones, Hendrik Steigerwald, Florian Johann, Elisabeth Soergel, Karsten Buse, Robert Eason, Sakellaris Mailis

Optical Cleaning of Lithium Niobate Crystals...... 376 Michael Kösters, Boris Sturman, Daniel Haertle, Karsten Buse

Raman Enhancement Across the Domain Wall in Ferroelectric Lithium Niobate ...... 377 Greg Stone, Volkmar Dierolf

Optical Waveguides and Integrated Electro-Optic Modulators Based on Highly-Efficient Organic Nonlinear Optical Crystal OH1 (Invited) ...... 378 Mojca Jazbinsek, Christoph Hunziker, Seong-Ji Kwon, Harry Figi, O-Pil Kwon, Peter Günter

Wavelength Sensitive Organic Photo-diodes Patterned by Ink-jet Method ...... 379 Yu Yang, Hajime Imaoka, Ryo Goto, Hirofumi Watanabe, Kenichi Yamashita, Masaya Miyazaki, Yuji Oki

Dye-doped Fluorinated Polyimides As Efficient Long-lived Wave-guide Lasers and Amplifiers ...... 380 Luis Cerdán, Angel Costela, Inmaculada García-Moreno, Olga García, Roberto Sastre, Javier De Abajo

Soft UV-Nanoimprint lithography for the Fabrication of Frequency Selective Components ...... 381 Jukka Viheriälä, Juha Tommila, Antti Laakso, Sanna Ranta, Ismo Vartiainen, Hemmo Tuovinen, Jarkko Telkkälä, Tuomas Vallius, Tapio Niemi, Mihail Dumitrescu, Markus Pessa

Organic Distribute-Feedback Laser with Simultaneous Three-Colour (R, G, & B) Operations...... 382 Kenichi Yamashita, Takehide Kimura, Nobutaka Takeuchi, Hisao Yanagi, Kunishige Oe

Evidences of the Existence of a Correlation Between Structural Stress and Laser Operation in Monoclinic Double Tungstate Epitaxial Lasers...... 383 J. J. Carvajal, Balaji Raghothamachar, Oscar Silvestre, Hui Chen, Maria Cinta Pujol, Xavier Mateos, Valentin Petrov, Michael Dudley, M. Aguiló, F. Diaz

Controlling Linear and Nonlinear Optical Properties Associated with Surface Plasmon Resonance Effect of Colloidal Gold Nanoparticles ...... 384 Márcio A. R. C. Alencar, Eduardo Fonseca, Cássio E. A. Santos, Sara F. A. Moraes, Marcos A. Gelesky, Mario R. Meneghetti, Jandir Hickmann

Improved Photostability of Disperse Red 1 Infused in a Nanoporous Silicate Monolith ...... 385 Vanessa Velasquez, Dann Martin, David McGee, Howard Katz

Low-loss Waveguides in Borosilicate Glass Fabricated by High-repetition-rate Femtosecond Chirp-pulsed Oscillator ...... 386 Mykhaylo Dubov, Tomas D. P. Allsop, Seriampalayam Natarajan, Vladimir K. Mezentsev, Ian Bennion

Properties and Stability of Ge-As-Se Evaporated Thin Films for Nonlinear Waveguides ...... 387 Barry Luther-Davies, Douglas Bulla, Rongping Wang, Amrita Prasad, Steve Madden, Duk-Yong Choi

Transparent Metal Electrodes ...... 388 Dhriti Sundar Ghosh, Luis Martinez, Valerio Pruneri

Synthesis Conditions Influence on the Properties of Bi-activated Mg-Al-silicate NIR-emitting Glasses...... 389 Boris Denker, Eugenii Dianov, Boris Galagan, Sergey Sverchkov, Ilia Shulman

2+ 2+ Blue White to Warm White Tunable Luminescent Properties of Eu , Mn Doped Ca8MgY(PO4)7 Phosphor As a Potential Phosphor for UV Leds...... 390 Jie Liu, Raffaele Faoro, Xibin Yu, Mauro Tonelli

Structure and Luminescent Properties of Calcium and Manganese Rare-Earth Tetrametagermanates...... 391 Ivan Leonidov, Vladimir Zubkov, Nadezda Tarakina, Ludmila Surat, Alexander Tyutyunnik, Inna Baklanova, Lina Perelyaeva, Olga Koryakova

2+ 3+ Spectrally flat Co :Al :SiO2 Fibre Attenuator...... 392 Martin Neff, Valerio Romano, Willy Lüthy

Thermal properties of the Monoclinic KGd(PO3)4 ...... 393 R. Solé, M. C. Pujol, J. J. Carvajal, X Mateos, J Massons, M. Aguiló, F. Diaz, M. T. Borowiec, A Szewczyk, M. U. Gutowska, T Zayarniuk, M Massot, A Salazar, V Petrov

Terbium Gallium Garnet for High Average Power Faraday Isolators: Modern Aspects of Growing and Characterization ...... 394 Igor Ivanov, Alexey Bulkanov, Efim Khazanov, Ivan Mukhin, Oleg Palashov, Vladimir Tsvetkov, Pavel Popov

Stimulated Emission Cross Sections of Pr Doped Fluoride Glass Evaluated by Judd-Ofelt Analysis ...... 395 Yasushi Fujimoto, Masaaki Yamazaki

3+ Energy Transfer Processes in Crystalline Er ,Yb3+:Sc2O3...... 396 Henning Kühn, Matthias Fechner, Andreas Kahn, Hanno Scheife, Guenter Huber

Spectroscopic Characterization of Tm-doped Sodium-yttrium Double Fluoride Crystals for LD Pumped Tuneable IR Lasers ...... 397 Svetlana Ivanova, Alexandra Tkachuk, Anastasiya Mirzaeva, Fabienne Pellé

Effect of Ce Co-doping on Fluorescence Dynamics of Er:NaLa(WO4)2 Crystals ...... 398 L. Bonelli, F. Cornacchia, M. Tonelli, E. Zharikov, D. Lis, K. Subbotin

Upconversion Luminescence of Er3+ / Yb3+ -codoped Germanium-gallium-sulfide Glass-ceramics...... 399 Erwan Guillevic, Xianghua Zhang, Jean-Luc Adam, Xunsi Wang, Shixun Dai, Xusheng Qiao, Xianping Fan

Investigation of Rare Earth Doped BaY2F8 Crystals As Visible Emitters...... 400 Raffaele Faoro, Francesca Moglia, Alessandra Toncelli, Mauro Tonelli

A PSQ-L Polymer Microring Resonator Fabricated by a Simple UV-based Soft-lithography Process...... 401 Jie Teng, Stijn Scheerlinck, Geert Morthier, Roel Baets

Ultrafast Laser Deposition of Oxide Glass Film ...... 402 Gin Jose, Mehrdad Irannejad, Paul Steenson, Animesh Jha

Solution-processed Fullerene Interlayer for Organic-inorganic Hybrid Solar Cells...... 403 Jing-Shun Huang, Chen-Yu Chou, Chung-Hao Wu, Meng-Yueh Liu, Jiun-Jie Chao, Ching-Fuh Lin

Processing a LiNbO3 Crystal Fibre for Optical Applications...... 404 Alexandre Ruso, Michel Aillerie, Nicolas Fressengeas, Michel Ferriol

Use of SiO2 Nanoparticles As Etch Mask to Generate Large-area GaAs Nanowires by Induced-coupled Plasma Reactive Ion Etcher ...... 405 Ding-Shin Wang, Jiun-Jie Chao, Ching-Fuh Lin

Fabrication of Microlens by Nd:YVO4 Laser Irradiation of Glass Frit Layers...... 406 Daniel Nieto, María Teresa Flores-Arias, Carlos Gómez-Reino

Polarization Maintaining Square Lattice Multicore Fiber ...... 407 Eric Suran, Alexandre Kudlinski, Gilbert Martinelli, Yves Quiquempois, Marc Douay, Frédéric Louradour, Dominique Pagnoux, Alain Barthélémy

Air-Stable Polymer/ZnO Nanorod Hybrid Solar Cell...... 408 Meng-Yueh Liu, Chin-Hsiang Chang, Chih-Hua Chang, Jing-Shun Huang, Chen-Yu Chou, Jiun-Jie Chao, Yao-Neng Yu, Yu-Hong Lin, Wen-Han Lin, Ching-Fuh Lin

Ultra-low Bending Loss of 0.007 dB/loop for 10 mm of Bending Diameter at 1550 nm in the Double Trenched Bend Insensitive Optical Fiber...... 409 Pramod Watekar, Seongmin Ju, Young Sik Yoon, Yeong Seop Lee, Jinhan Kim, Won -Taek Han

Three Types of Microstructured Large Core Fibers: Development and Investigation...... 410 Peter Agruzov, Konstantin Dukelskii, Victor Shevandin

Acceleration of Photodarkening Measurements in Yb-Doped Fibers by Enhanced Temperatures...... 411 Martin Leich, Sylvia Jetschke, Sonja Unger, Volker Reichel

Single Crystal Fibres Grown from Refractory Oxides for Application in Middle IR Range ...... 412 Sergey Rusanov, Vitaliy Kashin, Valeriy Voronov, Vladimir Tsvetkov, Ivan Shcherbakov, Lyudmila Iskhakova

High Aspect Ratio Inductively Coupled Plasma (ICP) Etching of InP/InGaAsP/AlGaInAs Using Cl2/Ar/N2 Gas Mixture ...... 413 Rafal Dylewicz, Catrina Bryce, Marc Sorel, Richard De La Rue

A General Z-scan Theory ...... 414 László Pálfalvi, Bálint Tóth, Gábor Almási, József Fülöp, János Hebling

ULTRAFAST OPTICS, ELECTROOPTICS AND APPLICATIONS

Towards High-Power XUV Generation Using an Yb-Based Enhancement Cavity...... 415 Ioachim Pupeza, Jens Rauschenberger, Tino Eidam, Fabian Röser, Birgitta Bernhardt, Akira Ozawa, Ronald Holzwarth, Thomas Udem, Jens Limpert, A. Apolonski, Theodor W. Hänsch, Andreas Tünnermann, Ferenc Krausz

Space-time Focusing of Phase-stabilized Nanojoule-level 2.5-cycle Pulses to Peak Intensities >3E13/cm2 at 80 Mhz...... 416 Miguel Miranda, Pedro Oliveira, Luis Bernardo, Franz Kärtner, Helder Crespo

Ultrashort-pulsed Kerr-lens modelocked Cr2+:ZnSe laser ...... 417 Evgeni Sorokin, Irina T. Sorokina

Dispersion Management in Femtosecond Laser Oscillators with Highly Dispersive Mirrors...... 418 Péter Dombi, Péter Rácz, Miklós Lenner, Volodymyr Pervak, Ferenc Krausz

Wide Range 40-GHz Passive Mode-Locking Operation of an AlGaInAs 1.55µm Strained Quantum Well Laser...... 419 Julien Javaloyes, Lianping Hou, Piotr Stolarz, Richard Green, Charles Ironside, Marc Sorel, John Arnold, Catrina Bryce, Salvador Balle

Fast Antiresonant Quantum-Dot SESAMs for MIXSEL Integration...... 420 Mohammad Shafiei, Yohan Barbarin, Aude-Reine Bellancourt, Deran J. H. C Maas, Martin Hoffmann, Matthias Golling, Thomas Südmeyer, Ursula Keller

Sub-90-fs Ytterbium All-fiber Laser ...... 421 Michael Schultz, Dieter Wandt, Uwe Morgner, Siddharth Ramachandran, Samir Ghalmi, Dietmar Kracht, Jörg Neumann

Generation of 49 fs, 41 MW Peak Power Pulses from Fiber Laser Using Nonlinear Compression in Rod Type Fiber...... 422 Igor Martial, Dimitris Papadopoulos, Marc Hanna, Frederic Druon, Patrick Georges

93 fs Pulses from a Low Repetition Rate Fiber Laser ...... 423 Dirk Mortag, Hakan Sayinc, Dieter Wandt, Uwe Morgner, Dietmar Kracht, Jörg Neumann

Quantum-limited Noise Performance of an Ultrafast Yb All-fiber Laser ...... 424 Oliver Prochnow, Rüdiger Paschotta, Erik Benkler, Uwe Morgner, Dieter Wandt, Dietmar Kracht, Jörg Neumann

8-fs Pulses from a Compact Er:fiber Laser System (Invited)...... 425 Günther Krauss, Alexander Sell, Sebastian Lohss, Rupert Huber, Alfred Leitenstorfer

Generation of 7-fs Pulses at 800 nm from a Blue-pumped Optical Parametric Amplifier at Degeneracy...... 426 Aleem Siddiqui, Giovanni Cirmi, Daniele Brida, Franz Kärtner, Giulio Cerullo

80 Khz Repetition Rate Compact High Power Fiber Amplifier Pumped OPCPA Delivering 50 Fs Pulses ...... 427 Jan Rothhardt, Steffen Hädrich, Stefan Hanf, Jens Limpert, Andreas Tünnermann

Simple and Efficient 2-TW Optical Parametric Chirped Pulse Amplifier ...... 428 Pawel Wnuk, Yuriy Stepanenko, Czeslaw Radzewicz

Optimization for Optical Parametric Chirped-pulse Amplification Bandwidth Using Partially Deuterated KDP...... 429 Kanade Ogawa, Keiichi Sueda, Yutaka Akahane, Makoto Aoyama, Koichi Tsuji, Kana Fujioka, Tadashi Kanabe, Koichi Yamakawa, Noriaki Miyanaga

Hybrid Pulse Compressor for 1.5 mJ, sub-23 fs CPA System...... 430 Izhar Ahmad, Sergei Trushin, Vladimir Pervak, Christoph Wandt, Sandro Klingebiel, Zsuzsanna Major, Mathias Siebold, Ferenc Krausz, Stefan Karsch

Carrier-envelope Phase Stabilized mJ Level Two-cycle Pulse Generation Via Compression of Circularly Polarized Pulses in a Gas-filled Hollow-core Fiber...... 431 Xiaowei Chen, Aurelie Jullien, Lorenzo Canova, Arnaud Malvache, Alexander Trisorio, Rodrigo Lopez-Martens, Andreas Assion, Gabriel Tempea

1-µJ, Sub-100-fs Pulses from a High-Repetition-Rate Optical Parametric Chirped-Pulse Amplifier in the Mid- Infrared (Invited)...... 432 Erny Christian, Heese Clemens, Haag Martin, Gallmann Lukas, Keller Ursula

15fs-1µJ-100kHz by Direct Seeding of a Nopa and Its Fiber Pump by a CEP-stabilized Oscillator ...... 433 Julien Nillon, Sebastien Montant, Johan Boullet, Rudy Desmarchelier, Yoann Zaouter, Eric Cormier, Stephane Petit

Octave-wide Tunable UV-pumped NOPA Pulses at MHz Repetition Rate...... 434 Christian Homann, Christian Schriever, Eberhard Riedle

Amplification of Ultrashort Pulses with a Single-pass Cryogenic Ti:sapphire Amplifier at 80MHz Repetition Rate ...... 435 Akira Ozawa, Waldemar Schneider, Faraz Najafi, Theodor W. Hänsch, Peter Hommelhoff, Thomas Udem

Ultrafast Double-Slab Regenerative Amplifier with Combined Gain Spectra...... 436 Alexander Büttner, Udo Bünting, Dieter Wandt, Uwe Morgner, Dietmar Kracht, Jörg Neumann

Sub-10-fs Ultrabroad Supercontinuum Generated by Self-focusing of Few-cycle 800-nm Pulses in Argon (Invited) ...... 437 Sergei Trushin, Werner Fuss, Wolfram Schmid

Self-healing of Compressed Pulses in Gas-cell-based Filamentation Experiments...... 438 Luc Bergé, Stefan Skupin, Günter Steinmeyer

Multi-mJ Single-Filament Supercontinuum Generation from IR OPCPA ...... 439 Oliver D. Mücke, Aart J. Verhoef, Audrius Pugžlys, Andrius Baltuška, Skirmantas Ališauskas, Valerijus Smilgevicius, Jonas Pocius, Linas Giniunas, Romualdas Danielius, Nicolas Forget

Nonlinear Photon Z-pinching in Filamentary Self-compression...... 440 Carsten Brée, Ayhan Demircan, Stefan Skupin, Luc Bergé, Günter Steinmeyer

Physical Characterization of Light-Plasma Filaments in Water Using Time Resolved Shadowgraphy ...... 441 Stefano Minardi, Amrutha Gopal, Arnaud Couairon, Gintaras Tomasauskas, Rimtautas Piskarskas, Audrius Dubietis, Paolo Di Trapani

Capturing Rogue Events with the Time-Stretch Recording Scope...... 442 Shalabh Gupta, Daniel Solli, Ali Motafakker-Fard, Bahram Jalali

Self-diffraction SPIDER ...... 443 Simon Birkholz, Jens Bethge, Christian Grebing, Sebastian Koke, Günter Steinmeyer

Phase Retrieval of Complex Ultrashort Pulses Using Multiple-shearing Spectral Interferometry ...... 444 Dane Austin, Tobias Witting, Ian Walmsley

Self-referenced Spectral Interferometry...... 445 Thomas Oksenhendler, Sebastien Coudreau, Nicolas Forget, Stephanie Grabielle, Daniel Kaplan, Olivier Gobert

Optimization of Plasma-blue-shift Spectral Shear Interferometry for Characterization of Few-cycle Pulses...... 446 Alexander Mitrofanov, Aart Verhoef, Aleksei Zheltikov, Andrius Baltuška

Measuring the Spatiotemporal Electric Field of Superluminal Ultrashort Pulses...... 447 Pamela Bowlan, Rick Trebino, Heli Valtna-Lukner, Madis Lohmus, Peeter Piksarv, Peeter Saari

Frequency Conversion of Ultrashort Pulses Through Filamentation in Gases (Invited)...... 448 Takao Fuji, Takuya Horio, Toshinori Suzuki

Shaping of Tunable UV Ultrashort Pulses...... 449 Weber Sébastien, Barthélémy Marie, Chatel Béatrice

Generation and Characterization of Energetic Sub-20 fs DUV Pulses ...... 450 Tamas Nagy, Peter Simon

Investigation and Optimization of Continuum Generation in Crystals - White-light beyond Sapphire...... 451 Maximilian Bradler, Christian Homann, Eberhard Riedle

Dispersive Waves in fs Cascaded Second-harmonic Generation ...... 452 Morten Bache, O. Bang, Wieslaw Krolikowski, Frank W. Wise

Generation of Phase-stable Infrared Transients and Electro-optic Detection at Frequencies Up to 140 THz with a Compact Er:fiber Laser...... 453 Alexander Sell, Rüdiger Scheu, Alfred Leitenstorfer, Rupert Huber

Standoff Chemical Detection Using Single-beam CARS...... 454 Haowen Li, D. Ahmasi Harris, Bingwei Xu, Paul J. Wrzesinski, Vadim V. Lozovoy, Marcos Dantus

Observation of Carrier Relaxation and Recombination Dynamics in Optically Pumped Epitaxial Graphene Heterostructures Using Terahertz Emission Spectroscopy ...... 455 Hiromi Karasawa, Tsuneyoshi Komori, Takayuki Watanabe, Maki Suemisu, Victor Ryzhii, Taiichi Otsuji

Sub-100 fs Time-domain Spectroscopy Using High-speed ASOPS...... 456 Raphael Gebs, Gregor Klatt, Hanjo Schäfer, T. Dekorsy, A. Bartels

Observation of High-Frequency Coherent Vibrations with Strongly Chirped Probe Pulses...... 457 Dario Polli, Daniele Brida, Guglielmo Lanzani, Giulio Cerullo

Probing the Roto-vibrational Dynamics Occurring in the Wake of Optical Filamentation...... 458 Francesca Calegari, Caterina Vozzi, Sandro De Silvestri, Salvatore Stagira

Few Optical-cycle Pulses in the Near- and Mid-infrared by Optical Parametric Amplifiers (Invited)...... 459 Daniele Brida, Cristian Manzoni, Giovanni Cirmi, Marco Marangoni, Stefano Bonora, Paolo Villoresi, Giulio Cerullo, Sandro De Silvestri

All-fibered High-quality 1.5-2 THz Femtosecond Pulse Sources ...... 460 Coraline Fortier, Julien Fatome

Compression of Ultrashort Laser Pulses in a Planar Hollow Waveguide...... 461 Cord L. Arnold, Selcuk Akturk, Bing Zhou, Michel Franco, Arnaud Couairon, Andre Mysyrowicz

10 GHz Ultra-low Jitter Optical Pulse Stream Generated by Optoelectronic Delay Oscillators with Soliton Compression...... 462 Abdelhamid Hmima, Laurent Larger, Pierre-Ambroise Lacourt, Yanne Chembo, J. M. Dudley

Supercontinuum Generation in Aqueous Colloids with Silver Nanoparticles Inclusions...... 463 Rodislav Driben, Anton Husakou, Joachim Herrmann

Flexible Spatial-domain Beam Shaping of Few-cycle Pulses with Reflective Phase-only Liquid Crystal Displays ...... 464 Martin Bock, Ruediger Grunwald

Noise Properties of Mode-Locked Microjoule Thin-Disk Oscillators ...... 465 V. L. Kalashnikov, C. Teisset, A. Sugita, O. Pronin, A. Apolonski

Novel Optical Pulse Characterization Technique Using Sinusoidal Optical Phase Modulation with a Broad Usable Modulation Amplitude Range...... 466 Weihua Guo, Douglas Reid, John O'Dowd, Liam Barry, John Donegan

Automated Optimization of the Temporal Duration of a 21 fs, 4 mJ Cpa Laser System with High B-integral...... 467 Lorenzo Canova, Xiaowei Chen, Brigitte Mercier, Olivier Albert, Rodrigo Lopez Martens, Nicolas Forget, Thomas Oksenhendler

Generation of THz Pulse in Air Plasma Controlled by External Electric Field...... 468 Wenfeng Sun, Xinke Wang, Yunsong Zhou, Yan Zhang

Annealing Properties of Waveguides and Bragg Gratings Fabricated in a Phosphate Glass Host using the Femtosecond-Laser Direct-Write technique ...... 469 Graham Marshall, Peter Dekker, Martin Ams, Michael Withford

A Petawatt Beamline on SG-II-U Laser System ...... 470 Tao Wang, Guang Xu, Yaping Dai, Zunqi Lin, Yuan Gu, Jianqiang Zhu

Generation of Blue-green Femtosecond Multi-mJ Seed Pulses for a Photochemically Driven Ultrahigh Peak Power Gas Amplifier...... 471 Vadim Tcheremiskine, Alexey Mavritskiy, Sergey Tenyakov, Olivier Uteza, Raphael Clady, Gaelle Coustiller, Laurent Charmasson, Vladislav Ginsburg, Andrey Aristov, Timofey Moskalev, Marc Sentis, Alexander Konyashchenko, Leonid Mikheev

Two-color Chirped Pulse Amplification with AOPGCF for Self-stabilized Mid-infrared Radiation Generation...... 472 Pierre-Mary Paul, Adeline Bonvalet, Nicolas Forget, Thomas Okshendler, Christoph Hauri

Feasibility Study for Few-cycle Optical Parametric Chirped Pulse Amplication at Mid-IR Wavelengths ...... 473 Olivier Chalus, Philip Bates, Jens Biegert

Compression of Megawatt Femtosecond Laser Pulses Using a Large-mode-area All-silica Photonic Band-gap Fiber...... 474 Ilya Fedotov, Andrei Fedotov, Olga Egorova, Sergei Semjonov, Andrei Pryamikov, Aleksei Zheltikov

Multiplication Operation of an Optical Frequency Shifter Using Cascaded Electrooptic Traveling Phase Grating...... 475 Shintaro Hisatake, Takaaki Konishi, Tadao Nagatsuma

Highly Nondegenerate Cascaded Four-wave Mixing of Femtosecond Pulses: 2D Simulation and Experiment ...... 476 João L. Silva, Rosa Weigand, Helder Crespo

Long-term Stabilization of Pulse-to-pulse Energy of a High-energy Multipass Ti:sapphire CPA System...... 477 Shigeki Tokita, Masaki Hashida, Shin-Ichiro Masuno, Shin Namba, Shuji Sakabe

Unique Phase Retrieval of Ultrafast Optical Fields by Double - Blind Correlation Techniques ...... 478 Birger Seifert, Karsten Sperlich, Heinrich Stolz

Local Spectral Compression Method for CPA lasers...... 479 Stephanie Grabielle, Nicolas Forget, Sebastien Coudreau, Thomas Oksenhendler, Daniel Kaplan, Jean-François Hergott, Olivier Gobert

Pump-probe Measurement of Closed Loop Coherence in a Quasi One-dimensional Ring Crystal Using a Polarization Vortex ...... 480 Yu Tokizane, Katsuhiro Shimatake, Yasunori Toda, Kazuhiko Oka, Masakatsu Tsubota, Satoshi Tanda, Ryuji Morita

Generation of High Energy 4.8 fs Pulses From Helium-Argon Mixture Filled Hollow Waveguide ...... 481 Haowen Li, D. Ahmasi Harris, Bingwei Xu, Paul J. Wrzesinski, Vadim V. Lozovoy, Marcos Dantus

Coherent Control of an Electric Dipole in Air Plasma Created by Femtosecond Laser Pulses ...... 482 Yi Liu, Magali Durand, Bing Zhou, Aurélien Houard, Bernard Prade, André Mysyrowicz

Time Domain Travelling Wave Model for Simulation of Passive Mode Locking in Quantum Dot Lasers ...... 483 Mattia Rossetti, Paolo Bardella, Mariangela Gioannini, Ivo Montrosset

Distance Measurement in Air with a Femtosecond Frequency Comb ...... 484 Moxi Cui, Mounir Zeitouny, Steven Van Den Berg, Nandini Bhattacharya, Paul Urbach

Gain Narrowing and Spectral Shifting Control in Apollon-10P, Petawatt Hybrid CPA Laser System...... 485 Fabio Giambruno, Christophe Radier, Gilles Cheriaux

Analysis of Space-time Coupling in SEA-SPIDER Measurements...... 486 Adam Wyatt, Ian Walmsley

Pulse Dynamics of All-normal Dispersion Mode-locked Ytterbium Lasers ...... 487 Heike Karow, Michael Schultz, Dieter Wandt, Uwe Morgner, Dietmar Kracht, Jörg Neumann

Experimental Demonstration of Sub-two-cycle Soliton-effect Pulse Compression in a Photonic Crystal Fiber...... 488 Alexandra Amorim, Marco Tognetti, Pedro Oliveira, Luis Bernardo, Franz Kärtner, Helder Crespo

Compact Pulse Repetition Rate Multiplication Scheme Using Micro Ring Resonator ...... 489 Hua Ji, Minhao Pu, Michael Galili, Leif K. Oxenløwe, Palle Jeppesen

HIGH-FIELD LASER PHYSICS AND APPLICATIONS

The 10 PW OPCPA Vulcan Laser Upgrade...... 490 Andrey Lyachev, O. Chekhlov, J. Collier, R. J. Clark, C. Hernandez Gomez, P. Matousek, I. O. Musgrave, D. Neely, P. A. Norreys, I. Ross, Y. Tang, T. B. Winstone, B. E. Wyborn

Petawatt Lasers Based on Hybrid, OPCPA-Nd:glass Amplification...... 491 Erhard Gaul, Mikael Martinez, Joel Blakeney, Martin Ringuette, Doug Hammond, Axel Jochmann, Ramiro Escamilla, Teddy Broger, Gilless Dyer, Todd Ditmire

Generation of Three-cycle, 16 TW Light Pulses by use of Optical Parametric Chirped Pulse Amplification ...... 492 Daniel Herrmann, Laszlo Veisz, Raphael Tautz, Alexander Buck, Franz Tavella, Karl Schmid, Vladimir Pervak, Michael Scharrer, Philip Russell, Ferenc Krausz

Generation of High-Power Femtosecond Pulses Near 532 nm...... 493 Mark Mero, Gabor Kurdi, Aron Sipos, Karoly Osvay

Preservation of CEP Upon Generation of XPW Pulses ...... 494 Károly Osvay, Lorenzo Canova, Charles Durfee, Attila Pál Kovács, Ádám Börzsönyi, Olivier Albert, Rodrigo Lopez Martens

Carrier-envelope Phase Control Using a Transmission Grating Compressor and an AOPDF ...... 495 Lorenzo Canova, Aurelie Jullien, Xiaowei Chen, Alexandre Trisorio, Rodrigo Lopez Martens, Andreas Assion, Gabriel Tempea, Nicolas Forget, Thomas Oksenhendler, Daniel Kaplan

Attosecond Electron Interferometry (Invited) ...... 496 Johan Mauritsson, Thomas Remetter, Marko Swoboda, Kathrin Klünder, Anne L'Huillier, Kenneth J. Schafer, Omair Ghafur, Freek Kelkensberg, Wing Kiu Siu, Per Johnsson, Marc J. J. Vrakking, Irina Znakovskaya, Thorsten Uphues, Sergey Zherebtsov, Matthias Kling, Frank Lépine, Enrico Benedetti, Federico Ferrari, Guiseppe Sansone, Mauro Nisoli

Saddle Point Approach For The Study Of HHG On Both fs And as Timescales...... 497 Katalin Varjú, Thierry Ruchon, Anne L'Huillier, Pascal Salières

Controlling High-order Harmonic Cut-off Extension using Two Delayed Pulses of the Same Colour...... 498 José Antonio Pérez-Hernández, Amelle Zaïr, David Hoffmann, Luis Plaja, Luis Roso, Camilo Ruiz

Phase Matching Effects in High-order Harmonics Generated by 1.5 Micron Few-cycle Pulses...... 499 Caterina Vozzi, Francesca Calegari, Mauro Nisoli, Giuseppe Sansone, Sandro De Silvestri, Salvatore Stagira, Fabio Frassetto, Luca Poletto, Paolo Villoresi, Emeric Balogh, Valer Tosa

High-order Harmonic Source for X-ray Laser Seeding Driven by Two-color Laser Field ...... 500 Jozsef Seres, Daniel Hochhaus, Boris Ecker, Daniel Zimmer, Thomas Kuehl, Christian Spielmann

Light Waveform Controlled Electron Dynamics in the Dissociative Ionization of CO...... 501 Philipp Von Den Hoff, Irina Znakovskaya, Matthias Kling, Regina De Vivie-Riedle

Hydrogen Migration During Laser-induced Two-body Coulomb Explosion in Polyatomic Hydrocarbon Molecules ...... 502 Stefan Roither, Markus Schöffler, Daniil Kartashov, Xinhua Xie, Johannes Wild, Birte Ulrich, Matthias Kühnel, Georg Reider, Armin Scrinzi, Matthias Lezius, Reinhard Dörner, Andrius Baltuska, Markus Kitzler

Laser Induced Tunneling Ionization in Less Than 12 Attoseconds Measured by Attosecond Angular Streaking (Invited) ...... 503 Claudio Cirelli, Adrian N Pfeiffer, Petrissa Eckle, André Staudte, Reinhard Dörner, Harm Geert Muller, Ursula Keller

Probing Molecular Structure with Alignment-Dependent High-Order Harmonic Generation...... 504 Kazumichi Yoshii, A Abdurrouf, Godai Miyaji, Kenzo Miyazaki

Photoionization with Large Exchange Transfer of Angular Momentum ...... 505 Antonio Picón, Jordi Mompart, Javier R. Vázquez De Aldana, Luis Plaja, Gabriel F. Calvo, Luis Roso

Laser-driven Ultra-thin Foils Used As Relativistic Mirrors...... 506 Juergen Meyer-Ter-Vehn, Hui-Chun Wu

GeV Mono-energetic Proton Beam Generation in Laser Foil-plasma Interactions ...... 507 Xueqing Yan, Juergen Meyer-Ter-Vehn, Huicun Wu

Initial Experiments on Electron Acceleration Driven by OPCPA Laser ...... 508 Ivan Yakovlev, Vladislav Ginzburg, Eugeny Katin, Efim Khazanov, Alexey Kirsanov, Vladimir Lozhkarev, Grigory Luchinin, Anatoly Mal'Shakov, Mikhail Martyanov, Oleg Palashov, Anatoly Poteomkin, Alexandr Sergeev, Andrey Shaykin, Alexandr Soloviev, Mikhail Starodubtsev

Laser-irradiated Heteronuclear Clusters: Resonant Ignition Through Nanoplasma Elongation ...... 509 Alexey Mikaberidze, Ulf Saalmann, Jan-Michael Rost

High Order Harmonic Generation in a He+ Ion Channel...... 510 Enikoe Seres, Jozsef Seres, Christian Spielmann

Cold Avalanche Ionisation...... 511 Rajeev Paramel Pattathil, Marina Gertsvolf, Paul Corkum, David Rayner

Multimillijoule Optical Parametric Chirped-Pulse Amplifier as an Alternative to Yb:YAG Regenerative Amplifiers at 1030 nm...... 512 Masayuki Suzuki, Hiromitsu Kiriyama, Izuru Daito, Hajime Okada, Masatoshi Sato, Shin-Ichi Matsuoka, Yoshinori Tamaoki, Takehiro Yoshii, Hirofumi Kan, Paul Bolton, Hiroyuki Daido

1 Petawatt OPCPA Laser in Russia: Status and Expectations...... 513 Andrey Shaykin, Gennadiy Freidman, Vladislav Ginzburg, Eugeny Katin, Efim Khazanov, Alexey Kirsanov, Vladimir Lozhkarev, Grigory Luchinin, Sergey Garanin, Alexander Kedrov, Lev L'Vov, Anatoly Mal'Shakov, Mikhail Martyanov, Vladimir Osin, Oleg Palashov, Anatoly Poteomkin, Nikolay Rukavishnikov, Vitaly Romanov, Anton Savkin, Alexander Sergeev, Stanislav Sukharev, Olga Trikanova, Ivan Voronich, Ivan Yakovlev, Boris Zimalin

Development of a Novel Large Bandwidth Front-end System for High Peak Power OPCPA Systems ...... 514 Andrey Lyachev, O. Chekhlov, J. Collier, C. Hernandez Gomez, P. Matousek, I. O. Musgrave, I. Ross, Y. Y. Tang

Nonlinear Optical Mode Coupling by Ionization in an Ar-Filled Capillary with High-Power Short-Pulse Excitation ...... 515 Peter Horak, Richard T. Chapman, Francesco Poletti, Jeremy G. Frey, William S. Brocklesby

Feasibility of Compact Neutron Sources Generated by Intense Femtosecond Laser - Cluster Interactions...... 516 Shuji Sakabe, Masaki Hashida, Shigeki Tokita, Kazuto Otani

Detailed Observation of Dependence of Few-cycle Laser Pulse Driven High-order Harmonics Spectrum on Carrier-envelope Phase...... 517 Hidetoshi Nakano, Atsushi Ishizawa, Katsuya Oguri

Efficient Polarization Switching with Holographic Cut Cubic Crystals ...... 518 Canova Lorenzo, Kourtev Stoyan, Minkovski Nikolai, Jullien Aurélie, Albert Olivier, Lopez-Martens Rodrigo, Saltiel Solomon M.

Chirped Pulse Amplification Laser Using Nd:glass Zig-zag Slab Pumped by Laser Diodes...... 519 Keiichi Sueda, Takashi Kurita, Takashi Sekine, Zhao Baozhen, Jiang Yongliang, Osamu Matsumoto, Toshiyuki Kawashima, Koichi Yamakawa, Junji Kawanaka, Masayuki Fujita, Noriaki Miyanaga

Design of an Adaptive Compressor and Pulse-shaper for Attosecond XUV Pulses...... 520 Roberto Antonio Ineschi, Katalin Varjú, Fabio Frassetto, Luca Poletto, Paolo Villoresi

Mid-infrared High-order Harmonic Yield Scaling: Where to Look and What to See...... 521 Luis Plaja, Jose Antonio Pérez-Hernández, Luis Roso

Phase-matching High-order Harmonics in a Semi-infinite Gas Cell Geometry...... 522 Daniel S. Steingrube, Tobias Vockerodt, Uwe Morgner, Milutin Kovacev

Gemini: A High-repetition Rate, Ultra-intense Dual Beam Laser Facility for Plasma Physics Experiments in Extreme Conditions...... 523 Peta Foster, Matthew Streeter, James Green, Fiona Cameron, Chris Spindloe, Gabriel Schumann, Martin Tolley, Rob Clarke, J. Collier, David Neely, Edwin Divall, Darren Neville, Phil Rice, Rich Bickerton, Paul Holligan, Steve Blake, Pete Brummitt, Rajeev Pattathil

OPTICAL SENSING AND METROLOGY

Observation of Optomechanical Coupling in Crystalline Whispering Gallery Mode Resonators...... 524 Johannes Hofer, Albert Schließer, Pascal Del' Haye, Georg Anetsberger, Tobias Kippenberg

Back-Scattering of Whispering-Gallery-Modes Resonances of Cylindrical Microcavities: Refractometric Applications...... 525 Vanessa Zamora, Antonio Díez, Miguel V. Andrés, Benito Gimeno

Photochemistry in Photonic Crystal Fibers...... 526 Jocelyn S. Y. Chen, Tijmen G. Euser, Nicky J. Farrer, Peter J. Sadler, Philip St. J. Russell

Sensing Through Suspended Solid Core Photonic Crystal Fiber ...... 527 Stefano Selleri, Enrico Coscelli, Federica Poli, Davide Passaro, Annamaria Cucinotta

All-fiber Fabry-Perot Cavity Enhanced Spectroscopy of Acetylene ...... 528 Patrick Thomas Marty, Thomas Feurer, Jacques Morel

Encapsulated and Coated Photonic Crystal Fibre Sensor for Temperature Measurements Up to 1000°C ...... 529 Gianluca Coviello, Vittoria Finazzi, Joel Villatoro, Valerio Pruneri

Doppler Wind Lidar Using a MOPA Semiconductor Laser at Stable Single-frequency Operation ...... 530 Peter John Rodrigo, Christian Pedersen

Picometer and Nanoradian Interferometry for the LISA Gravitational Reference Sensor and its Application to Technology Verification...... 531 Thilo Schuldt, Martin Gohlke, Dennis Weise, Ulrich Johann, Achim Peters, Claus Braxmaier

Astrophotonics: The Next Wave in Observational Cosmology (Keynote) ...... 532 Joss Bland-Hawthorn

Residual Speckle Removal by Aperture Modification ...... 533 Erez Ribak, Szymon Gladysz

Femtosecond Time-resolved Investigation of Coherent Acoustic Modes of Free-standing Si Membranes ...... 534 F. Hudert, M. Hettich, R. Gebs, A. Bartels, A. Mlayah, J. R. Huntzinger, A. Bruchhausen, R. Waitz, O. Schecker, E. Scheer, T. Dekorsy

Iterative Improvement of Shadowgraphic Phase Maps...... 535 Dimitris Pliakis, Stefano Minardi

Phase-Contrast Serial Time-Encoded Amplified Microscopy...... 536 Keisuke Goda, Ali Motafakker-Fard, Bahram Jalali

Optical Vortex Metrology for Non-Destructive Testing (Invited) ...... 537 Wei Wang, Steen Hanson

A Microfabricated Photonic Magnetometer...... 538 J. Kitching, J. Preusser, S. Knappe, V. Gerginov

Magnetic Tuning of Optical Fibre Long Period Gratings ...... 539 Alessandro Candiani, Maria Konstantaki, Stavros Pissadakis

Tilted Fiber Bragg Grating for Direct Liquid Level Sensing ...... 540 Wei Zhang, Steve Grice, Kate Sugden, Ian Bennion

CO2-laser Writing of Long Period Fiber Grating in Photonic Crystal Fiber by Frozen-in Viscoelasticity ...... 541 Ho Wai Lee, Kin Seng Chiang

In Vacuo Measurement of the Sensitivity Limit of Planar Bragg Sensors...... 542 Richard M. Parker, James Gates, Neil P. Sessions, Dmytro O. Kundys, Corin Gawith, Martin C. Grossel, Peter G. R. Smith

Optical Differential Pressure Transducer using Planar Bragg Gratings in an Etched Membrane...... 543 Christopher Holmes, James Gates, Dmytro Kundys, Corin Gawith, Ian Sparrow, Greg Emmerson, Peter Smith

Structural and Chemical Surface Analysis with EUV/XUV Radiation Using a Broadband Laser Plasma Source and Optics System ...... 544 Armin Bayer, Frank Barkusky, Stefan Döring, Bernhard Flöter, Christian Peth, Klaus Mann

Optical Fiber Probes with Laser-induced Silver Deposition on the Core for Surface-enhanced Raman Scattering...... 545 Mingshan Li, Changxi Yang

Surface Plasmon Resonance Biosensing (Invited) ...... 546 Jiri Homola

Multilayered Coated Infra-red Surface Plasmon Resonance Fibre Sensors for Chemical Sensing ...... 547 Thomas Allsop, Ron Neal, Chengbo Mou, Phil Brown, Saeed Rehnam, Kyriacos Kalli, David Webb, Des Mapps, Ian Bennion

Real-Time Monitoring of Self-Assembled Monolayer Using Biaxial Nanohole Arrays ...... 548 Fatima Eftekhari, Jacqueline Ferreira, Reuven Gordon, Alexandre G. Brolo, David Sinton

Emission Spectrum and Spectral Diffusion of a Single CdSe/ZnS Nanocrystal Probed by Photon-correlation Fourier Spectroscopy (PCFS) ...... 549 Laurent Coolen, Piernicola Spinicelli, Jean-Pierre Hermier

Zero-background Tunable Diode Laser Absorption Spectroscopies Using Balanced Interferometers ...... 550 Zuguang Guan, Märta Lewander, Sune Svanberg

Broadband Trace Sensing Using Supercontinuum Light Sources...... 551 Toni Laurila, Rosalynne Watt, Clemens Kaminski, Johan Hult

Compact Transportable Diode Laser Absorption Spectrometer for Multi-species Probing of Gases ...... 552 Raphaël Vallon, Ajmal Mohamed

Compact All-diffractive Setup for Spectral Synthesis with Non-uniform Illumination...... 553 Omel Mendoza-Yero, Gladys Mínguez-Vega, Enrique Tajahuerce, Jesús Lancis, Vicent Climent, Pedro Andrés

New Measurement of the 2S Hyperfine Splitting in Atomic Hydrogen ...... 554 Arthur Matveev, Janis Alnis, Christian Parthey, Nikolay Kolachevsky, Theodor W. Hänsch

Acoustic Emission Detection Using Optical Fiber Based Fabry Perot Sensor And Quadrature Recombination Technique ...... 555 Raja Pappu, Wei Zhang, Ian Bennion, Kate Sugden

Nonlinear Laser Optoacoustics of Cracks in Light-absorbing Materials ...... 556 Nikolay Chigarev, Jacek Zakrzewski, Vincent Tournat, Vitalyi Gusev

Development of an Optical, Non-destructive Technique for Inspection of Zirconia Ceramic Parts ...... 557 Mateusz Matysiak, Jonathan P. Parry, J. Graham Crowder, Nick Jones, Kevyn Jonas, Nick Weston, Duncan P. Hand, Jonathan D. Shephard

Magnetic-field Measurements Based on Quantum Superpositions ...... 558 Szymon Pustelny, Maria Koczwara, Przemyslaw Wlodarczyk, Wojciech Gawlik

Characterization of an Optical Mg Frequency Standard via a Dark Telecommunication Fiber ...... 559 Jan Friebe, Matthias Riedmann, André Pape, Temmo Wübbena, Ernst M. Rasel, Wolfgang Ertmer, Osama Terra, Gesine Grosche, Burghard Lipphardt, Katharina Predehl, Thorsten Feldmann, Harald Schnatz

Actively Q-Switched DFB Fiber Laser for Brillouin Sensor Applications...... 560 Chistian Cuadrado-Laborde, Miguel V. Andrés, Antonio Díez, José L. Cruz, Yuri O. Barmenkov

CO2 Laser Wave Front and Beam Metrology Using Quadri-wave Lateral Shearing Interferometry ...... 561 Sabrina Velghe, William Boucher, Djamel Brahmi, Benoit Wattellier

2D Angular Synthetic Aperture Laser Optical Feedback Imaging ...... 562 Eric Lacot, Olivier Hugon, Olivier Jacquin

Simple Method to Measure Laser Linewidth Using Intensity Noise Spectrum Based on Rayleigh Backscattering Effect ...... 563 Quoc-Thai Nguyen, Pascal Besnard, Laurent Bramerie, Olivier Vaudel, Gwenaëlle Girault, Yohann Léguillon

Elimination of Residual Amplitude Modulation in TDLS-WMS...... 564 Arup Lal Chakraborty, Keith Ruxton, Walter Johnstone, Kevin Duffin, Michael Lengden

Ultra-sensitive Thermal Lens Spectroscopy of Water...... 565 Renato Antonio Cruz, Tomaz Catunda, Carlos Jacinto, Aristides Marcano

Sulfur Dioxide Measurements by Correlation Spectroscopy Using an Ultraviolet Light-emitting Diode ...... 566 Xiutao Lou, Gabriel Somesfalean, Zhiguo Zhang, Sune Svanberg

Infrared Laser Spectroscopy On Surgical Smoke ...... 567 Michele Gianella, Markus Sigrist

A Novel 2 Micrometer Laser Source for CO2 DIAL...... 568 Myriam Raybaut, Antoine Godard, Ajmal K. Mohamed, Michel Lefebvre, Axel Bohman, Peter Geiser, Peter Kaspersen

Monitoring the Water Status of Economic Plants with Continuous Wave Terahertz Radiation ...... 569 Mohammad Khaled Shakfa, Maik Scheller, Björn Breitenstein, Dirk Selmar, Martin Koch

Multi-wavelength Rapid and Random Scanning for Time-resolved Mid-infrared Laser Spectroscopy ...... 570 Masaki Yumoto, Yasuhiro Maeda, Norihito Saito, Takayo Ogawa, Masafumi Yamashita, Satoshi Wada

Two-finesse Fabry-Perot Interferometer for Probing Intracavity Lossy Samples ...... 571 Marco Romanelli, Marc Vallet

LIDAR Techniques for Studying Insect Migration and Distributions...... 572 Mikkel Brydegaard, Zu Guang Guan, Sune Svanberg

Sensing Characteristics of Rocking Filters Fabricated in Microstructured Birefringent Fibers...... 573 Gabriela Statkiewicz-Barabach, Alicja Anuszkiewicz, Kamil Durakiewicz, Waclaw Urbanczyk, Jan Wojcik

Photonic Crystal Fibres: Selective Filling Delays ...... 574 Monika Rutowska, Laura Horan, Fatima C. Garcia Gunning

A Bragg Grating Sensor for Detection of Monolayers at a Surface...... 575 Richard M. Parker, James Gates, Peter G. R. Smith, Martin C. Grossel

Photonic Pressure Sensor in Silicon On Insulator ...... 576 Peter Harmsma, Michael Engelmann, Ruud Schmits, Wouter Westerveld, Hans Van Den Berg, Kemo Agovic, Roland Van Vliet, Mirvais Yousefi

In-line Quasi-distributed Sensor Interrogated by a Wavelength Tunable Narrow Band Reflectometric Technique ...... 577 Christophe Caucheteur, Damien Kinet, Victor Garcia-Munoz, Karima Chah, Marc Wuilpart, Patrice Mégret

Diffractive Spectrograph For Real Time Circular Dichroism Measurements...... 578 Clementina Provenzano, Pasquale Pagliusi, Alfredo Mazzulla, Gabriella Cipparrone

OPTICAL TECHNOLOGIES FOR LIGHTWAVE COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKS

Cumulative Channel Gain Saturation in Cascaded Backward-Pumped All-Raman Transmission Spans ...... 579 Daniel C. Kilper, Chongjin Xie, Christopher A. White

42.6Gb/s RZ-ASK Transmission Over 2500km Using Quasi-lossless Transmission Spans...... 580 Lee Barker, Atalla El-Taher, Mercedes Alcon-Camas, Juan-Diego Ania-Castanon, Paul Harper

100-Gb/s Polarization Multiplexed DQPSK Transmission with Automatic Polarization Stabilization...... 581 Pierpaolo Boffi, Maddalena Ferrario, Lucia Marazzi, Paolo Martelli, Paola Parolari, Aldo Righetti, Rocco Siano, Mario Martinelli

All-Optical Tunable Delay with CSRZ-OOK to RZ-OOK Pulse Format Conversion...... 582 Alan Cheng, Mable P. Fok, Chester Shu

Effect of Histogram Resolution on Demodulation of Optical Quadrature Amplitude Modulation Signal by Adaptive Threshold Adjustment...... 583 Akito Chiba, Takahide Sakamoto, Tetsuya Kawanishi

Phase-Preserving Amplitude Regeneration using a Nonlinear Amplifying Loop Mirror in a DPSK Transmission System ...... 584 Christian Stephan, Klaus Sponsel, Georgy Onishchukov, Bernhard Schmauss, Gerd Leuchs

Investigation of Patterning Effect in Ultrafast SOA-based Optical Switches...... 585 Jing Xu, Xinliang Zhang, Jesper Mørk

All-optical Wavelength Conversion of a Polarization Multiplexed Signal...... 586 Paolo Martelli, Pierpaolo Boffi, Maddalena Ferrario, Lucia Marazzi, Paola Parolari, Rocco Siano, Vincenzo Pusino, Paolo Minzioni, Ilaria Cristiani, Carsten Langrock, Martin M. Fejer, Mario Martinelli, Vittorio Degiorgio

Quantum Theory and Applications of Fiber-based Parametric Devices (Invited) ...... 587 Colin McKinstrie

Efficient All-optical Wavelength Converter Using Saw-tooth Pulses...... 588 Francesca Parmigiani, Morten Ibsen, Periklis Petropoulos, David J. Richardson

All-optical Digital Logic XOR Gate Using Bistable Semiconductor Ring Lasers...... 589 Bei Li, Muhammad Irfan Memon, Gabor Mezosi, Zhuoran Wang, Marc Sorel, Siyuan Yu

Wireless Injection Locking and Phase Noise Reduction in a Semiconductor Laser driven by a Resonant Tunnelling Diode Nonlinear Oscillator...... 590 Bruno Romeira, José Figueiredo, Thomas Slight, Liquan Wang, Edward Wasige, Charles Ironside

Fiber Distribution of IR-UWB Signals Based on an Externally Injected Gain Switched Laser ...... 591 Haymen Shams Eldin, Aleksandra Kaszubowska, Philip Perry, Liam Barry, Prince Anandarajah

Performance Assessment of Low Temperature-grown GaAs-based Optoelectronic Devices Dedicated to RF Sampling Applications ...... 592 Jean-Marie Delord, Jean-Francois Roux, Jean-Louis Coutaz, Nicolas Breuil

10-Gb/s Colorless Re-modulation of Signal from 1550nm Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser Array in WDM PON...... 593 Lin Xu, Hon Ki Tsang, Werner Hofmann, M.-C. Amann

A Polarization-assisted Multicast Overlay Scheme for WDM-PONs...... 594 Yang Qiu, Chun-Kit Chan

Nanosecond Switching Characteristics of a DS-DBR Tunable Laser...... 595 Benjamin J Puttnam, Benn C Thomsen, Raimund Muckstein, Alessandro Bianciotto, Polina Bayvel

Electro-optic Nonlinear Phase Dynamics, Chaos Generation, and Cancellation...... 596 Roman Lavrov, Michael Peil, Maxime Jacquot, Yanne Chembo, Laurent Larger

Liquid Crystal Based Tunable WDM Planar Bragg Grating Devices Based on Precision Sawn Groove Substrates ...... 597 Benjamin Snow, James Gates, Rafiq Adikan, Corin Gawith, Andre Dyadyusha, Huw Major, Dmytro Kundys, Malgosia Kaczmarek, Peter Smith

3+ 40 Gbit/s Transmission in a Silicon-compatible Al2O3:Er Integrated Optical Amplifier...... 598 Jonathan Bradley, Mathilde Gay, Jean Claude Simon, Kerstin Wörhoff, Markus Pollnau

10 GHz-spaced, 20 THz-Wide Comb Generation from CW Light using Mach-Zehnder Modulator Based Comb Generator and Dispersion-Flattened Dispersion-Decreasing Fiber...... 599 Isao Morohashi, Takahide Sakamoto, Hideyuki Sotobayashi, Tetsuya Kawanishi, Iwao Hosako

All-optical Waveform Sampling (Invited) ...... 600 Peter Andrekson

Design Optimization and Testing of Low Bending Loss Hole Assisted Fibers ...... 601 Simon Richard, Nelly Montaigne, Nicolas Mariette, Anne Fleureau, Simon Lempereur, Géraud Bouwmans, Pascale Nouchi

Single-shot All-optical Sampling Oscilloscope with Fiber Pulse Replicator...... 602 Pavel Honzatko, Matej Komanec

Multi-channel Mm-wave Generation by Frequency Quadrupling Using an Optical Modulator and a Cascaded Silicon Microring Filter ...... 603 Lin Xu, C. Y. Wong, Chao Li, Chi-Wai Chow, Hon Ki Tsang

Low Vpi High-speed Gaas Travelling-wave Electrooptic Phase Modulators Using an n-i-p-n Structure...... 604 Qiaoyin Lu, Weihua Guo, Diarmuid Byrne, John Donegan

A Widely-Variable Optical Attenuator for Multimode Fibers with a MEMS Micromirror...... 605 Makoto Fujino, Hirotake Maruyama, Yoshiaki Goto, Michiko Nakanishi, Akio Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Kawashima, Taichi Yuasa, Ikuo Ishinabe, Hirokazu Tamura

High-Q Optical Resonators for Laser Stabilization in Microwave Photonics Oscillators ...... 606 Pierre-Henri Merrer, Aude Bouchier, Houda Brahimi, Olivier Llopis, Gilles Cibiel

Low Voltage Ridge Guide LiNbO3 Mach-Zehnder Modulator...... 607 Miguel Garcia-Granda, Hui Hu, Jose Rodriguez-Garcia, Wolfgang Sohler

All-Optical Signal Regeneration using a Bistable Semiconductor Ring Laser...... 608 Bei Li, Muhammad Irfan Memon, Gabor Mezosi, Zhuoran Wang, Marc Sorel, Siyuan Yu

Temporal Self-Imaging Effect in a Polarization Mode Dispersion Context ...... 609 José Caraquitena, Javier Martí

Linewidth Tolerance of Digital Coherent Receiver Using Viterbi & Viterbi RF Carrier Recovery for Radio-over- fibre Links ...... 610 Neil Guerrero Gonzalez, Darko Zibar, Knud J. Larsen, Idelfonso Tafur Monroy

Cladding Mode Suppression in Bend-Insenstivie Fiber with Epoxy-filled Air Holes...... 611 Ngoc Hai Vu, Chang-Hyun Jun, Kyung-Goo Lee, In-Kag Hwang

FIBRE AND GUIDED WAVE LASERS AND AMPLIFIERS

Fiber Bragg Gratings in Active Large Mode Area Fiber Written with Femtosecond Pulses...... 612 Jens Thomas, Christian Voigtländer, Stefan Nolte, Andreas Tünnermann

Influence of Temperature on the Post-irradiation Temporal Loss Evolution in Yb-doped Aluminosilicate Fibers, Photodarkened by 488 nm CW Irradiation...... 613 Chandrajit Basu, Seongwoo Yoo, Alexander Boyland, Andrew Webb, Collin Sones, Jayanta Sahu

Stimulated Brillouin Threshold Reduction by Core Microstructuration in Multifilament Core Fibers ...... 614 Guillaume Canat, Sylvia Jetschke, Laurent Lombard, Sonja Unger, Pierre Bourdon, Johannes Kirchhof, Véronique Jolivet, Olivier Vasseur

Detection and Simulation of Thermally Induced Deformation of Brillouin Scattering Spectra in a High-power PCF Amplifier...... 615 Matthias Hildebrandt, Sebastian Büsche, Peter Weßels, Maik Frede, Jörg Neumann, Dietmar Kracht

Design of All-solid Photonic-bandgap Fibers for Raman-free Propagation...... 616 Stéphane Blin, Laurent Provino, Nicholas Traynor, Alain Mugnier, David Pureur, Thierry Chartier

Pump Absorption in Airclad Step Index and Photonic Crystal Fibres for High Power Applications...... 617 Christina B. Olausson, Kim P. Hansen, Anders Bjarklev

Ytterbium Doped Nanostructured Optical Fibers for High Power Fiber Lasers ...... 618 Jayanta Kumar Sahu, Mukul Chandra Paul, Mridu P. Kalita, Alexander Boyland, C. A. Codemard, Seongwoo Yoo, Andrew Webb, Robert J. Standish, Johan Nilsson, Shyamal Das, Shyamal Bhadra, Mrinmay Pal, Anirban Dhar, Ranjan Sen

Power Scaling of Resonantly Cladding-Pumped Er-doped Narrowband Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers ...... 619 Mark Dubinskii, Jun Zhang, Valerii Ter-Mikirtychev

Thin-Disk Laser-pumped High-Power Ytterbium-doped Fiber Laser ...... 620 Andreas Popp, Andreas Voss, Thomas Graf

Fiber Lasers with Increased Output Brightness ...... 621 Moti Fridman, Vardit Eckhouse, Micha Nixon, Nir Davidson, Asher Friesem

Spatial Self-Action of Light in a Large-Mode-Area Photonic-Crystal Fiber ...... 622 Thomas Ganz, Catherine Teisset, Alexander Apolonskiy, Jens Kobelke, Kay Schuster, Hartmut Bartelt, Aleksei Zheltikov, Ferenc Krausz

Probing LMA Optical Fibres with Real-Time SLM...... 623 Edward Grace, Steffan Lewis

Diffraction-limited Output from Multi-core Fibers Using Coherent Beam Combination and a Diffractive Optical Element (Invited)...... 624 Axel Ruehl, Ingmar Hartl, Andrius Marcinkevicius, Hugh McKay, Liang Dong, Martin Fermann

All-fiber Coherent Combining of Er-doped Amplifiers via Refractive Index Control in Yb-doped Fibers by Two- wavelengths Optical Signal...... 625 Andrei Fotiadi, Oleg Antipov, Patrice Mégret

Coherent Fiber Combining by Digital Holography...... 626 Cindy Bellanger, Arnaud Brignon, Joseph Colineau, Jean-Pierre Huignard

1.1 Kw Nanosecond Fiber Amplifier Based on Spectral Beam Combination...... 627 Oliver Schmidt, Christian Wirth, Igor Tsybin, Thomas Schreiber, Ramona Eberhardt, Jens Limpert, Andreas Tünnermann

Stable Self-Pulse Behavour of Two-Core Yb/Sm Fiber Laser...... 628 Andrei Fotiadi, Igor Razdobreev, Bernard Segard, Andrei Kurkov

12W Ytterbium Doped All-Fiber Laser at 1179 nm...... 629 Jayanta K. Sahu, Mridu P. Kalita, Shaif-Ul Alam, Morten Ibsen, Alexander Boyland

1178 nm Yb-doped Solid-core Photonic Bandgap Fiber Laser Source for 589 nm Generation...... 630 Hiroki Maruyama, Akira Shirakawa, Ken-Ichi Ueda, Christina B. Olausson, Jens K. Lyngsø, Jes Broeng

Bismuth Doped Fiber Laser Performance on Effective Fiber Cooling ...... 631 Mridu P. Kalita, Seongwoo Yoo, Jayanta K. Sahu

Passively Mode-Locked All-Fiber Bismuth Laser with Dispersion Compensation by a Chirped Fiber Bragg Grating...... 632 Samuli Kivistö, Regina Gumenyuk, Janne Puustinen, Mircea Guina, Evgeny Dianov, Oleg Okhotnikov

Bismuth Fiber Lasers (Invited)...... 633 Evgeny Dianov

More than 15 W CW, 10 MHz Linewidth Laser at 589 nm Using Raman Fiber Amplifier...... 634 Yan Feng, Luke Taylor, Domenico Bonaccini Calia, Ronald Holzlöhner, Wolfgang Hackenberg

A Watt-level Fiber-based Femtosecond Source at 980 nm ...... 635 Pascal Dupriez, John Clowes

Towards Coherent Supercontinuum Generation in the Long Pulse Regime ...... 636 G Genty, J M Dudley

Efficient Four Wave Mixing from a Picosecond Fibre Laser in Photonic Crystal Fibre...... 637 Laure Lavoute, William J. Wadsworth, Jonathan C. Knight

Efficient High Power Generation of Pulsed Red Light Via Four-wave-mixing in a Large-mode-area, Endlessly Single-mode Photonic-crystal Fiber ...... 638 Dirk Nodop, Caesar Jauregui, Damian Schimpf, Jens Limpert, Andreas Tünnermann

Ultra-long Raman Laser with a Feedback Based on the Rayleigh Scattering...... 639 Sergey Babin, Atalla El-Taher, Paul Harper, Dmitriy Churkin, Sergey Kablukov, Evgeniy Podivilov, Sergei Turitsyn

All-fiber Q-switched Yb:Ho laser ...... 640 Andrey Kurkov, Evgenii Sholokhov, Oleg Medvedkov

High Energy Q-switched Er-doped Fiber Laser...... 641 Eric Lallier, Dominique Papillon-Ruggeri

Mode-Locked and Q-Switched 2-µm Fibre Lasers Based on Semiconductor Saturable Absorber Technology (Invited) ...... 642 Mircea Guina, Samuli Kivistö, Soile Suomalinen, Oleg Okhotnikov

Single Frequency Tm-doped Fibre DBR Laser at 1943 nm...... 643 Zhaowei Zhang, Alex Boyland, Jayanta Saha, Andy Clarkson, Morten Ibsen

Ho-doped Silica Fibre Laser In-band Pumped by a Tm-doped Fibre Laser...... 644 Ji Won Kim, Alex Boyland, Jayanta Sahu, Andy Clarkson

Efficient Femtosecond Laser Written Nd:YAG Channel Waveguide Laser with an Output Power of more than 1W ...... 645 Joerg Siebenmorgen, Thomas Calmano, Ortwin Hellmig, Klaus Petermann, Guenter Huber

Performance Studies of Directly Written High Power Monolithic Ytterbium Waveguide Oscillators...... 646 Martin Ams, Peter Dekker, Graham Marshall, Michael Withford

Yb:KGd(WO4)2 Channel Waveguide Laser Fabricated by Ultrafast Laser Writing...... 647 Fiona M. Bain, Alexander A. Lagatsky, Wilson Sibbett, Christian Tom A. Brown, Robert R. Thomson, Nic D. Psaila, Ajoy K. Kar, Nikolay V. Kuleshov

The Waveguide Saturable Absorber Fabricated in The Bulk YAG:Cr4+ Crystal ...... 648 Andrey Okhrimchuk, Vladimir Mezentsev, Ian Bennion, Alexander Shestakov

Nd-doped Polymer Waveguide Amplifiers at 850-930 nm...... 649 Jing Yang, Mart Diemeer, Gabriël Sengo, Markus Pollnau, Alfred Driessen

Development of Print-like-fabrication Techniques for Solid-state & Dual-core-waveguide DFB Dye Lasers...... 650 Yu Yang, Noriyuki Kamogawa, Soichiro Oomi, Hirofumi Watanabe, Kenichi Yamashita, Masaya Miyazaki, Yuji Oki

90 nJ Energy Femtosecond Fiber-based Chirped-pulse Oscillator ...... 651 Caroline Lecaplain, Bülend Ortac, Ammar Hideur, Jens Limpert, Andreas Tünnermann

Versatile Yb-fiber-amplifier-based CEP-stable Front-end for OPCPA ...... 652 Alma Fernandez, Lingxiao Zhu, Aart Verhoef, Dmitry Sidorov-Biryukov, Chi-Hung Liu, Kai-Hsiu Liao, Almantas Galvanauskas, Steve Kane, Audrius Pugzlys, Andrius Baltuska

Compensation of Self-phase Modulation by Positive Dispersion in Ultra-compact Chirped Pulse Amplification Systems...... 653 Damian Schimpf, Enrico Seize, Jens Limpert, Andreas Tünnermann

High-energy All-fiber All-positive-dispersion Mode-locked Ring Yb Laser with 8 Km Optical Cavity Length...... 654 Sergei Kobtsev, Sergei Kukarin, Sergei Smirnov, Anton Latkin, Sergei Turitsyn

Microjoule-level Picosecond and Femtosecond Mode-locked Fiber Oscillators (Invited) ...... 655 Bülend Ortaç, Martin Baumgartl, Olivier Schmidt, Ammar Hideur, Isabelle Sagnes, Arnaud Garnache, Jens Limpert, Andreas Tünnermann

Peak-power Scaling Induced by Spectral Clipping in Nonlinear CPA-systems...... 656 Enrico Seise, Damian Schimpf, Jens Limpert, Andreas Tünnermann

Chirped-pulse Amplification of an Erbium-doped Fiber Laser at 1.6 µm ...... 657 Franck Morin, Frederic Druon, Marc Hanna, Patrick Georges

Pulse Dynamics in Chirped-pulse Fiber Oscillators - Scaling Towards 100 µJ ...... 658 Martin Baumgartl, Bülend Ortaç, Jens Limpert, Andreas Tünnermann

Distributed Nonlinear Fiber Chirped-pulse Amplification System ...... 659 Dimitris Papadopoulos, Marc Hanna, Frederic Druon, Patrick Georges

High-Quality Energy-Scalable Femtosecond Pulses from a Fibre-Based Chirped Pulse Amplification System via Adaptive Pulse Shaping (Invited) ...... 660 Jerry Prawiharjo, Florian Kienle, Nikita Daga, David Hanna, David Richardson, David Shepherd

Mode-Locking Fibre Lasers with the E22 Transition of Carbon Nanotubes...... 661 John Travers, Elena Obraztsova, Anatoly Lobach, Alexander Chernov, Edmund Kelleher, Sergei Popov, Roy Taylor

2 ns Pulses from a Fibre Laser Mode-Locked by Carbon Nanotubes...... 662 Edmund Kelleher, John Travers, Zhipei Sun, Alex Rozhin, Andrea Ferrari, Sergei Popov, Roy Taylor

Raman Pumped Fourier Domain Mode Locked (FDML) Laser: Analysis of Operation and Application for Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) ...... 663 Thomas Klein, Wolfgang Wieser, Benjamin Biedermann, Christoph Eigenwillig, Gesa Palte, Robert Huber

All-Fiber Ring Similariton Laser with Raman Gain...... 664 David Mechin, Vladimir Kruglov, John Harvey

High Modulation Depth SESAM for High Power Dissipative Soliton in an Erbium-doped Fiber Laser ...... 665 Amélie Cabasse, Gilles Martel, Ammar Hideur, Jean-Louis Oudar

High-energy Soliton Pulse Generation with a Passively Mode-locked Er/yb-doped Multifilament-core Large-mode- area Fiber Laser ...... 666 Bülend Ortaç, Sylvia Jetschke, Sonja Unger, Volker Reichel, Jens Limpert, Andreas Tünnermann

Large Hollow-Core Fiber Random Dye Laser...... 667 Renato Juliani Ribamar Vieira, Christiano José Santiago De Matos, Arismar Cerqueira Sodré Jr., François Couny, Fetah Benabid, Laércio Gomes, Niklaus Ursus Wetter

Spatially and Temporally Shaped, 100W, All-Fiber, Pulsed Laser at 1.0 µm...... 668 Shaif-Ul Alam, Dejiao Lin, Andrew Malinowski, John Hayes, Kangkang Chen, Joanne Flannagan, Vicki Geddes, Johan Nilsson, Stewart Ingram, Steve Norman, Ali Khan, William O'Neil, David Richardson

Ytterbium Doped Phosphate Glass Air-Clad Photonic Crystal Fiber Laser...... 669 Marcin Franczyk, Ryszard Stepien, Dariusz Pysz, Ireneusz Kujawa, Ryszard Buczynski, Jan Jabczynski

High-peak Power Yb-doped Fiber Laser System in 68-µm Core Multimode Fiber with Second Air-hole Cladding Structure...... 670 Hisetsugu Yoshida, Koji Tsubakimoto, Hisanori Fujita, Noriaki Miyanaga, Masahiro Nakatsuka

Thermal Resilience of Polymer-Coated Double-Clad Fiber ...... 671 C. A. Codemard, Akira Shirakawa, Jayanta Sahu, Seongwoo Yoo, Y. Jeong, Johan Nilsson

Er-doped Photonic Crystal Fibre Characterization Method Based on McCumber Theory ...... 672 José Antonio Sánchez-Martín, Miguel Ángel Rebolledo, José Miguel Álvarez, Juan Antonio Vallés, Antonio Díez, Salvador Torres- Peiró, Miguel Vicente Andrés

A Broadband Light Source in Near Infrared Region Generated by a Bismuth-doped Silica Fiber...... 673 Yasushi Fujimoto, Eisuke Kawakami, Minoru Yoshida, Junya Maeda, Hirofumi Kan

Composite Tellurite - Fluorophosphate Fiber for Parametric Amplification ...... 674 Chitrarekha Chaudhari, Takenobu Suzuki, Yasutake Ohishi

Determination of Modal Content in Multimode Fibers by Simultaneous Intensity and Phase Measurements ...... 675 Mathieu Paurisse, Marc Hanna, Frederic Druon, Patrick Georges

Pico-second Vortex Output from a Large-mode Area Fiber Amplifier ...... 676 Yuichi Tanaka, Kenji Furuki, Yuichi Maeda, Takashige Omatsu

Extension of the Double-Clad Yb-Doped Fiber Laser Oscillation Range Thanks to Long-Period Fiber Grating Filters ...... 677 Pavel Peterka, Radan Slavik

Stimulated Brillouin Scattering Threshold in Double-clad Fibers with Various Cladding Shapes...... 678 Luca Tartara, C. A. Codemard, Jean-Noel Maran

Near-ultraviolet Laser Based on Organic Waveguide Dye Laser Containing a Random Scattering Active Media ...... 679 Hirofumi Watanabe, Yuji Oki, Takashige Omatsu

33-Channels Multiwavelength Generation of L-Band Brillouin-Erbium Fiber Laser...... 680 Mohammed Al-Mansoori, Mohd Adzir Mahdi

Modeling the Suppression of Stimulated Raman Scattering in Active and Passive Fibers by Lumped Spectral Filtering Elements ...... 681 Florian Jansen, Caesar Jauregui, Dirk Nodop, Jens Limpert, Andreas Tünnermann

All-fiber Supercontinuum Generator with High-energy Pulses...... 682 Sergei Kobtsev, Sergey Kukarin, Yurii Fedotov, Sergey Smirnov

Microchip Laser with Specialty-Fiber Amplifier with a 1-mJ, 1-ns Output at a Multi-kHz Repetition Rate...... 683 Sergei Klimentov, Alexander Kiryanov, Igor Melnikov, Alexander Shestakov

Dispersion, Coherence and Noise of Fourier Domain Mode Locked (FDML) Lasers...... 684 Benjamin Biedermann, Wolfgang Wieser, Christoph Eigenwillig, Thomas Klein, Robert Huber

Soliton Dynamics in Transmission Through Ultralong Lasers ...... 685 Juan-Diego Ania-Castanon, Mercedes Alcon-Camas, Atalla El-Taher, Hua Wang, Paul Harper

Whispering Gallery Mode Microresonator Stabilized Fiber Loop Laser...... 686 Benjamin Sprenger, Harald G. L. Schwefel, Lijun Wang

Passively Mode-locked All-fiber Ytterbium Oscillator with Integrated Hollow-core Photonic Bandgap Fiber ...... 687 Julia Fekete, Andras Cserteg, Robert Szipocs

Single-mode Amplification in Yb-doped Rod-type Photonic Crystal Fibers for High Brilliance Lasers...... 688 Federica Poli, Jesper Laegsgaard, Davide Passaro, Annamaria Cucinotta, Stefano Selleri, Jes Broeng

Experimental Study of a Passively Mode-locked Yb-doped Single-polarization Microstructure Fiber Laser ...... 689 Caroline Lecaplain, Bülend Ortac, Ammar Hideur

Actively Mode-locked Fiber Laser with an Acousto-optic In-fiber Superlattice Modulator...... 690 Chistian Cuadrado-Laborde, Antonio Díez, José L. Cruz, Miguel V. Andrés

Pump Beam Combiner Based on Single Mode Fibres...... 691 Hong-Seok Seo, Joon Tae Ahn, Bong Je Park

Pulse-repetition-frequency-variable Mode-locked Fiber Laser ...... 692 Yoshiharu Urata, Satoshi Wada

Numerical Simulations of Transverse Mode Coupling in Large-mode-area Fibre Amplifiers...... 693 Niklas Andermahr, Carsten Fallnich

Modelling of Remote Coherent Combining of Fiber Amplifiers with Compensation of Atmospheric Turbulences...... 694 Laurent Lombard, Véronique Jolivet, Pierre Bourdon, Baya Bennaï, Mathieu Valla, Guillaume Canat, Olivier Vasseur

Dispersion and Nonlinearity-management in Mode-locked Fibre Lasers ...... 695 Brandon Bale, Sonia Boscolo, Sergei Turitsyn

20 ns Smooth Pulse Generation in Single Mode Actively Q-switched Double Clad Yb-doped Fiber Laser...... 696 Patrick Beaure D'Augères, Alain Mugnier, David Pureur, Thierry Chartier

Spectral Broadening and Power Leakage in CW Yb-doped Fibre Laser...... 697 Anton I Latkin, Andrey S Kurkov, Sergei K Turitsyn

Self-Pulsing Ti:Er:LiNbO3 Waveguide Laser ...... 698 Mathew George, Selim Reza, Hubertus Suche, Raimund Ricken, Viktor Quiring, Wolfgang Sohler

Active Fibre Design with Flattened Fundamental Mode Profile...... 699 Dmitry Vysotsky, Nikolay Elkin, Anatoly Napartovich, Vera Troshchieva

Two Section Fibre Approach to Suppression of Polarization Dependent Gain in Low PMD Distributed Fibre Raman Amplifier...... 700 Sergey Sergeyev, Sergei Popov, Ari Friberg

High-Power Fiber Amplifier with Laser Cooled Cladding...... 701 Galina Nemova, Raman Kashyap

Femtosecond Laser Written Nd:YAG Channel Waveguide Laser with a PLD grown Cr4+:YAG Thin Film Absorber ...... 702 Friedjof Tellkamp, Jörg Siebenmorgen, Thomas Calmano, Ortwin Hellmig, Klaus Petermann, Guenter Huber

Prospects of High Energy Ultrashort Pulse Generation with Frequency Shifted Feedback Fiber Oscillators ...... 703 Alexander Heidt, Gurthwin Bosman, Martin Becker, Manfred Rothhardt, Kai Schuster, Jens Kobelke, Hartmut Bartelt

Optimizing Waveguide Array Mode-Locking for High-Power Fiber Lasers...... 704 J. Nathan Kutz, Brandon Bale, Bjorn Sandstede

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS, PHOTONIC NANOSTRUCTURES AND INTEGRATED OPTICS

Spatially Resolved Modes in GaAs/AlAs Micropillar Resonators ...... 705 Georgios Ctistis, Edwin Van Der Pol, Alex Hartsuiker, Julien Claudon, Maela Bazin, Jean-Michel Gérard, Willem L. Vos

What is the Real Quality Factor of an Ultrafast Planar Photonic Microcavity? ...... 706 Alex Hartsuiker, Allard P. Mosk, Yoanna-Reine Nowicki-Bringuier, Jean-Michel Gérard, Willem L. Vos

Resonant Scattering of Light by High-Q Photonic Crystal Nanocavities (Invited) ...... 707 Simone Luca Portalupi, Matteo Galli, Michele Belotti, Lucio Claudio Andreani, Liam O'Faolain, Thomas Krauss

External Field Enhancement in Coupled Polymer Microcavities - New Options for Integrated Photonic Components...... 708 Nicolas Innocenti, Sergei Popov, Sergey Sergeyev, Ari Friberg

Cavity-Enhanced Polarization Control and Observation of Off-Resonant Coupling in Quantum Dot Nanocavities...... 709 Ruth Oulton, Ben D Jones, Sang Lam, Alexander R. A. Chalcraft, Dominik Szymanskii, David O'Brien, Thomas Krauss, Daniele Sanvitto, A. Mark Fox, David Whittaker, Mark Hopkinson, Maurice Skolnick

Structure of Light in the Near Field of Photonic Crystals -losses, Highly Structured Intensity Patterns and Polarization Singularities- (Invited) ...... 710 Kobus Kuipers

Subwavelength Structure of the Evanescent Field of an Optical Bloch Wave ...... 711 Rob Engelen, Aron Opheij, Daisuke Mori, Toshihiko Baba, Kobus Kuipers

Observation of Polarization Singularities at the Nanoscale...... 712 Matteo Burresi, Dries Van Oosten, Rob Engelen, Aron Opheij, Daisuke Mori, Toshihiko Baba, Laurens Kuipers

Near-field Control of Optical Bistability in a Nanocavity...... 713 Damien Brissinger, Benoit Cluzel, Aurélien Coillet, Colette Dumas, Philippe Grelu, Frédérique De Fornel

Influence of a NSOM Probe Shape on a Photonic Crystal Microcavity Mode Coupling...... 714 Gaëlle Le Gac, Christian Seassal, Emmanuel Picard, Emmanuel Hadji, Ségolène Callard

Nonlinear Phenomena in Synthetic Opals ...... 715 Anna Kudryavtseva, Nikolay Tcherniega

Nonlinear Light Generation at the High Energy Range of a 3D Opal Film ...... 716 Muriel Botey, Marc Maymó, Alberto Molinos-Gómez, Luis A. Dorado, Ricardo Depine, Gabriel Lozano, Agustín Mihi, Hernán Míguez, Jordi Martorell

Dispersion of the Nonlinear Refractive Index in Photonic Bandgap Waveguides ...... 717 Anatoly Sherman, Erik Benkler, Harald Telle

Second Harmonic Generation of Narrow Beams in Subdiffractive Photonic Crystals ...... 718 Cristian Nistor, Yurii Loiko, Crina Cojocaru, Jose Trull, Ramon Herrero, Kestutis Staliunas

High Harmonic Generation (HHG) in a Kagome-type Hollow-Core Photonic Crystal Fiber (HC-PCF) ...... 719 Oliver H. Heckl, Cyrill R. E. Baer, Christian Kränkel, Sergio V. Marchese, Florian Schapper, Mirko Holler, Thomas Südmeyer, Joseph S. Robinson, John W. G. Tisch, François Couny, Philip Light, Fetah Benabid, Philip St. J. Russell, Ursula Keller

Landau-Zener Tunneling Dynamics in Hexagonal Photonic Lattices...... 720 Bernd Terhalle, Anton Desyatnikov, Dragomir N. Neshev, Wieslaw Krolikowski, Cornelia Denz, Yuri Kivshar

Nanophotonics - Research Challenges and Applications (Tutorial) ...... 721 Alfred Forchel

Laser Fabrication of Nonlinear and Metallic Photonic Nanostructures...... 722 Carsten Reinhardt, Konstantina Terzaki, Arune Gaidukeviciute, Anastasia Giakoumaki, Vasilia Melissinaki, Andreas Seidel, Ralf Wilhelm, Roman Kiyan, Maria Vamvakaki, Maria Farsari, Costas Fotakis, Boris N. Chichkov

Photonic Crystal Structures in Ion-Sliced LiNbO3 Thin Films...... 723 Frederik Sulser, Manuel Koechlin, Gorazd Poberaj, Peter Günter

Nanoplasmonics from Attoseconds to Terahertz (Keynote)...... 724 Mark Stockman

Eccentric Coaxial Gap-Plasmon Aperture Arrays for Enhanced Extraordinary Optical Transmission and Applications...... 725 Reuven Gordon, Asif I. K. Choudhury, Fatima Eftekhari

Optical and Magnetic Properties of Transition Metal Films with Subwavelength Hole Arrays ...... 726 Georgios Ctistis, Evangelos Papaioannou, Piotr Patoka, Paul Fumagalli, Michael Giersig

Observation of Slow-Light Dynamics in Coupled Periodic Waveguides ...... 727 Sangwoo Ha, Andrey Sukhorukov, David Powell, Ilya Shadrivov, Andrei Lavrinenko, Dmitry Chigrin, Yuri Kivshar

Slow-light Tailoring in Photonic Crystal Waveguides Through Additional Longitudinal Periodicity ...... 728 Parini Alberto, Aubin Guy, Sagnes Isabelle, Talneau Anne

Losses in Engineered Slow Light Photonic Crystal Waveguides ...... 729 Liam O'Faolain, Sebastian Schulz, Daryl M. Beggs, Thomas P White, Thomas Krauss, Antonio Samarelli, Marc Sorel, Richard De La Rue

Reconfigurable CROW Delay Lines on a Silicon Platform ...... 730 Antonio Canciamilla, Carlo Ferrari, Andrea Melloni, Matteo Torregiani, Francesco Morichetti, Antonio Samarelli, Marc Sorel, Richard De La Rue

Precise Fabrication of Coupled Ring-resonator Structures ...... 731 Antonio Samarelli, Marc Sorel, Richard De La Rue, Andrea Melloni, Antonio Canciamilla, Francesco Morichetti

Slow Surface Plasmons on Moire Surface ...... 732 Servet Seckin Senlik, Askin Kocabas, Atilla Aydinli

Non-Single Exponential Switching Dynamics of a GaAs/AlAs Microcavity...... 733 Alex Hartsuiker, Philip J. Harding, Yoanna-Reine Nowicki-Bringuier, Jean-Michel Gérard, Willem L. Vos

Silicon Photonic Microcavities for Optical Switching ...... 734 Sophie Schönenberger, Marcus S. Dahlem, Thilo Stöferle, Nikolaj Moll, Rainer F. Mahrt, Bert J. Offrein, Erich Ippen, Thorsten Wahlbrink, Jens Bolten, Tobias Plötzing, Michael Waldow, Michael Först, Heinrich Kurz, Stephan Götzinger, Vahid Sandoghdar

All-optical Logical Operation in Photonic Wire Nano-cavities...... 735 Michele Belotti, Matteo Galli, Dario Gerace, Lucio Claudio Andreani, Ahmad R. Md Zain, Nigel P. Johnson, Marc Sorel, Richard De La Rue

Instantaneous Switching of Photonic Cavity Structure by Electronic Kerr Nonlinearity ...... 736 Alex Hartsuiker, Philip J. Harding, Yoanna-Reine Nowicki-Bringuier, Jean-Michel Gérard, Willem L. Vos

Electro-optically Active Microring Resonators in Lithium Niobate...... 737 Manuel Koechlin, Aleksej Majkic, Frederik Sulser, Gorazd Poberaj, Peter Günter

Competing Ultrafast Switching Mechanisms in Silicon Woodpile Photonic Crystals Near Telecom Wavelengths...... 738 Philip J. Harding, Tijmen G. Euser, Willem L. Vos

Optimal Concentration of Light in Turbid Materials ...... 739 Elbert Van Putten, Allard Mosk

Resonance-driven Random Lasers ...... 740 Riccardo Sapienza, Stefano Gottardo, P. David Garcia, Alvaro Blanco, Diederik Wiersma, Cefe Lopez

Observation of Fluctuations of the Local Density States in Disordered Photonic Media ...... 741 Muhammad Danang Birowosuto, Willem Vos, Allard Mosk

Nanostructured Graded Index Materials ...... 742 Florian Hudelist, Andrew J. Waddie, Jedrzej M Nowosielski, Ryszard Buczynski, Mohammad R. Taghizadeh

New Classes of Non-crystalline Photonic Band Gap Materials (Invited)...... 743 Marian Florescu, Salvatore Torquato, Paul Steinhardt

Towards External Control of the Emission Directionality of Organic Microlasers ...... 744 Djellali Nadia

Online Tuning of Active Photonic Crystal Quantum-Cascade Lasers...... 745 Alexander Benz, Christoph Deutsch, Gernot Fasching, Karl Unterrainer, Aaron Andrews, Pavel Klang, Werner Schrenk, Gottfried Strasser

Interaction of a Nano-Object with a High-Q Microcavity (Invited)...... 746 Vahid Sandoghdar

Two-Dimensional Surface Emitting Photonic Crystal Laser with Hybrid Triangular-Graphite Structure ...... 747 Luis Javier Martinez, Benito Alén, Iván Prieto, Christian Seassal, Pierre Viktorovitch, J. F. Galisteo-López, Matteo Galli, Lucio Claudio Andreani, Pablo Aitor Postigo

Optofluidic Evanescent Dye Laser ...... 748 Wuzhou Song, Andreas E. Vasdekis, Demetri Psaltis

Very Large Area Single-mode Multi-core Fiber...... 749 Moritz M. Vogel, Marwan Abdou-Ahmed, Andreas Voss, Thomas Graf

Integrated Chirped Bragg Gratings with Control Over Complex Reflectivity...... 750 Michael J. Strain, Marc Sorel

Infiltration Liquid Crystal in Microstructured Polymer Optical Fibers ...... 751 Wu Yuan, Lei Wei, O. Bang

Exciton-Plasmon Coupling in ZnO-MgO-Au Waveguide Structures ...... 752 Benjamin Lawrie, Richard Haglund, Richard Mu

Dispersion Properties of Photonic Crystal Coupled-Cavity Waveguides ...... 753 Jana Jágerská, Hua Zhang, Nicolas Le Thomas, Vasily Zabelin, Romuald Houdré

Filling of Slot Waveguides with Atomic Layer Deposition ...... 754 Tapani Alasaarela, Antti Säynätjoki, Petri Stenberg, Markku Kuittinen, Seppo Honkanen

Strong Angular Intensity Redistribution of Near-infrared Light Emitted by Sources Inside Photonic Crystals...... 755 Bart H. Husken, Willem L. Vos

Angle- and Time-resolved Luminescence of CdSe/ZnS Nanocrystals in 3D Photonic Crystals...... 756 Celine Vion, Carlos Barthou, Paul Benalloul, Catherine Schwob, Laurent Coolen, Alex Gruzintev, Arkadi Redkin, Jean-Marc Frigerio, Agnes Maitre, Thomas Pons, Benoit Mahler, Benoit Dubertret

Ultralow Dissipation Optomechanical Resonators on a Chip (Invited) ...... 757 Georg Anetsberger, Rémi Rivière, Albert Schliesser, Olivier Arcizet, Tobias Kippenberg

Stacked Integrated Double-disks for Cavity Optomechanics...... 758 Qiang Lin, Xiaoshun Jiang, Matthew Eichenfield, Ryan Camacho, Kerry Vahala, Oskar Painter

An Optical Microcantilever with Integrated Grating Coupler ...... 759 Selim Olcum, Ertugrul Karademir, Vahdettin Tas, Imran Akca, Askin Kocabas, Abdullah Atalar, Atilla Aydinli

Optical Performance Investigation of Focused Ion Beam Nanostructured Integrated Fabry-perot Microcavities in Al2O3...... 760 Feridun Ay, Jonathan Bradley, Kerstin Wörhoff, Rene De Ridder, Markus Pollnau

Radiation Loss Reduction of Membrane Photonic Crystal Waveguides ...... 761 Rumen Iliew, Christoph Etrich, Thomas Pertsch, Falk Lederer

Disorder-induced Multiple-scattering in Photonic-crystal Waveguides ...... 762 Simon Mazoyer, Jean Paul Hugonin, Philippe Lalanne

Detecting Spurious Reflections in Integrated Photonic Devices...... 763 Robert Halir, Íñigo Molina-Fernández, Alejandro Ortega-Moñux, Pavel Cheben, Siegfried Janz, Dan-Xia Xu

Direct Imaging of the Leaky Modes in a 2-D Photonic Crystal Slab...... 764 Eduard Driessen, Michiel De Dood

Impact of Lithographic Irregularity Across Mm-scale Photonic-crystal Notch Filters ...... 765 Talneau Anne, Lemarchand Fabien, Fehrembach Anne-Laure, Sentenac Anne

Spectral Analysis of UV-written Waveguides in LiNbO3 : Measurement of Cut-off Wavelengths ...... 766 Collin Sones, Pranabendu Ganguly, Yongjun Ying, Hendric Steigerwald, Karsten Buse, Elisabeth Soergel, Robert Eason, Sakellaris Mailis

2D Hexagonal Resonant Grating Filters Performances: Measurement and Modelling...... 767 Gauthier-Lafaye Olivier, Chan-Shin-Yu Kristel, Fehrembach Anne-Laure, Hernandez Stephan, Arguel Philippe, Monmayrant Antoine, Bonnefont Sophie, Lozes-Dupuy Françoise, Sentenac Anne

A Novel Design for a Compact Integrated Optical Isolator Based on a Unidrectional Band Gap in a 2D Magnetophotonic Crystal ...... 768 Mathias Vanwolleghem, Kamil Postava, Wojciech Smigaj, Liubov Magdenko, Boris Gralak, Jean-Michel Lourtioz, Béatrice Dagens

Non-Birefringent Cross-Slot Waveguide ...... 769 Amit Khanna

Solution-based Grown ZnO Nanorods/polyfluorene Light Emitting Diodes for White Light Emission...... 770 Chun-Yu Lee, Jiun-Jie Chao, Ching-Fuh Lin

Investigation of Enhanced Light Extraction Efficiency of Light Emitting Diodes with ZnO Nanorod Arrays ...... 771 Cha-Hsin Chao, Chang-Ho Chen, Ching-Hua Changjean, Ching-Fuh Lin

Ulltrafast Dynamics of Band Edge Two-dimensional III-v Semiconductor Photonic Crystal Lasers...... 772 Fabrice Raineri, Alejandro Yacomotti, Timothy Karle, Isabelle Sagnes, Rama Raj

Photonic Crystal Cavity Coupled to N-V Centres in Diamond ...... 773 Luca Marseglia

Silica-based Optical Interposer for Si photonics...... 774 Kei Watanabe, Arne Leinse, Dries Van Thourhout, Rene Heideman, Roel Baets

Colloidal Photonic Hetero-crystals with Controllable Coupling...... 775 Boyang Ding, Maria Bardosova, Martyn Pemble, Ulf Peschel, Sergei Romanov

Diffraction Manipulated Resonators with Intracavity Photonic Crystals ...... 776 Martynas Peckus, Robertas Rogalskis, Mindaugas Andrulevicius, Tomas Tamulevicius, Asta Guobiene, Valdas Sirutkaitis, Kestutis Staliunas

Anomalous Group Velocity in a 3D Photonic Nanostructure...... 777 Muriel Botey, Luis A. Dorado, Ricardo Depine, Gabriel Lozano, Hernán Míguez, Jordi Martorell

Modal Analysis of a Highly Multimoded Microstructured Optical Fibre Using a Deflated Nonlinear Eigenvalue Solver ...... 778 Andrew Docherty, Leon Poladian

Tunable and Rotatable Birefringence Controller Based on Electrical Control of Liquid Crystal Filled Photonic Bandgap Fibers...... 779 Lei Wei, Thomas Tanggaard Alkeskjold, Anders Bjarklev

Diffraction Analysis of Extraction Efficiency for Photonic Crystal Based White Light Emitting Diodes ...... 780 Milad Khoshnegar, Majid Sodagar, Amin Eftekharian, Sina Khorasani

Generation of Two Colliding Pulses With Tunable THz-range Frequency...... 781 Yulia Mazhirina, Leonid Melnikov, Andrey Konukhov

Negative Refraction in Optical Waveguide Arrays with Loss Layers...... 782 Peng Zhang, Sheng Liu, Xiaosheng Wang, Jianlin Zhao, Zhigang Chen

Surface Addressable Cavity-confined Slow Light Modes for Quantum Photonic Devices: Design and Investigation...... 783 Patrick Nedel, Christian Seassal, Xavier Letartre, Mathieu Munsch, Alexia Auffeves, Jean-Philippe Poizat, Yoanna Nowicki, Maela Bazin, Julien Claudon, Jean-Michel Gérard, Pierre Viktorovitch

Chirped Multilayer Hollow Waveguides with Broadband Transmission...... 784 Anton Husakou, Joachim Herrmann

Characterization of Deeply Etched Uniform Sidewall Gratings in InP/InGaAsP Ridge Waveguides ...... 785 Rafal Dylewicz, Richard Green, Marc Sorel, Catrina Bryce, Richard De La Rue

Novel Optical Multiplexers Based on the Double Grating Frustrated Coupler...... 786 Lu-Min Tsai, F Causa, J Sarma, S Dupont, J. C. Kastelik, V Zhang

BIOPHOTONICS AND APPLICATIONS

Measurement of Absolute Two-photon Excitation Spectrum of Various Fluorophores with Fourier Transform Nonlinear Spectroscopy ...... 787 Hiroshi Hashimoto, Keisuke Isobe, Akira Suda, Fumihiko Kannari, Hiroyuki Kawano, Hideaki Mizuno, Atsushi Miyawaki, Katsumi Midorikawa

Measurement of the Concentration Dependent Refractive Index of Dark-Adapted Wild-type Bacteriorhodopsin in 390-880 nm ...... 788 Zsuzsanna Heiner, Karoly Osvay

Femtosecond-laser-written Optical Waveguides for Optical Communications and Biophotonic Applications (Keynote) ...... 789 Giulio Cerullo

Nanoscale Plasmonics for Molecular Recognition and Light-triggered Molecular Release (Invited)...... 790 Naomi J. Halas, Oara Neumann, Ryan Huschka, Aoune Barhoumi, Carly S. Levin, Janardan Kundu

Diamond Photoluminescent Nanoparticles As Innovative Markers to Study Intracellular Processes...... 791 Orestis Faklaris, Damien Garrot, Vandana Joshi, Frederic Druon, Jean-Paul Boudou, Thierry Sauvage, Patrick Georges, Patrick Curmi, François Treussart

Four-wave Mixing of Gold Nanoparticles for Three-dimensional Cell Microscopy...... 792 Francesco Masia, Wolfgang Langbein, Peter Watson, Paola Borri

Statistical Tracking of Nanoparticles Using Selective Plane Illumination Microscope...... 793 Ivan Fedosov, Igor Nefedov, Boris Khlebtsov, Valery Tuchin

Second-harmonic Efficiency of Single Barium Titanate Nanoparticles Used As Biomarkers for Cells Imaging ...... 794 Rachel Grange, Chia-Lung Hsieh, Ye Pu, Demetri Psaltis

Transient Transfection of Mammalian Cells Using a Violet Diode Laser ...... 795 Maria Leilani Torres, Frank Gunn-Moore, Kishan Dholakia

Effect of KrF, Excimer Laser (248nm) on Airborne Micro-Organisms ...... 796 Takashi Mine, Anand Krishnan, Andrew Dallas, Roger Parton, Ian Watson

Second Order Hyperpolarizability of the Collagen Triple Helix: Measurement and Determination of Its Physical Origin...... 797 Ariane Deniset-Besseau, Julien Duboisset, Claire Loison, François Hache, Emmanuel Benichou, Pierre-François Brevet, Marie- Claire Schanne-Klein

Transport and Concentration of Blood in Capillary Tube using Flexural Acoustic Wave...... 798 Eun-Sun Kim, Bang-Deok Song, In-Kag Hwang

Nonlinear Polarimetric Analysis of DNA Liquid Crystalline Domains...... 799 Halina Mojzisova, Joanna Olesiak, Marcin Zielinski, Katarzyna Matczyszyn, Dominique Chauvat, Joseph Zyss

Photo-transfection of Mammalian Cells via Femtosecond Laser Pulses...... 800 Patience Mthunzi, Frank Gunn-Moore, Kishan Dholakia

Bioimaging by Fourier-transform Coherent Anti-stokes Raman Scattering Microscopy ...... 801 Keisuke Isobe, Akira Suda, Hiroshi Hashimoto, Fumihiko Kannari, Hiroyuki Kawano, Hideaki Mizuno, Atsushi Miyawaki, Katsumi Midorikawa

CARS Microscopy Using Linearly-chirped Ultrafast Laser Pulses...... 802 Wolfgang Langbein, Israel Rocha-Mendoza, Paola Borri

Combining Coherent Imaging and Nonlinear Microscopy for Early-Stage Cancer Detection...... 803 Stefan Witte, Marian Salumbides, Guus Van Dongen, Ruud Brakenhoff, Marie Louise Groot

Surface Plasmon-mediated Fluorescence Microscopy: A Powerful Imaging Technique for Membrane Imaging ...... 804 Karla Balaa, Viviane Devauges, Yannick Goulam, Sandrine Lévêque-Fort, Emmanuel Fort

Single-Scattering Optical Tomography...... 805 Lucia Florescu, John C. Schotland, Vadim A. Markel

Electro-optical Imaging Microscopy of Dye Doped Lipid Membrane ...... 806 Bassam Hajj, Sophie De Reguardati, Loïc Hugonin, Toshihisa Osaki, Hiroaki Suzuki, Shoji Takeuchi, Bruno Le Pioufle, Dominique Chauvat, Joseph Zyss

Application of Optical Coherence Tomography to Detect Failures at the Enamel Dental Restoration Interface: An in Vivo Study...... 807 Cláudia Cristina Brainer De Oliveira Mota, Hannah Usha Katharina Schweizer-Kashyap, Bernardo Barros Correia Kyotoku, Anderson Stevens Leonidas Gomes

Evaluation of Sensibility and Specificity of NIR Transillumination on Early Enamel Caries Detection: An in Vitro Study ...... 808 Ana Marly Araújo Maia, Deborah Daniella Diniz Fonseca, Bernardo Barros Correia Kyotoku, Anderson Stevens Leonidas Gomes

Mobile E-health Sensor for Non-invasive Multi Parameter Diagnostics of Blood Biochemistry...... 809 Vladimir Saetchnikov, Elina Tcherniavskaia, Vasili Zaitsev, Ludmila Alexeichuk, Gustav Schweiger

Autocorrelation Low Coherence Interferometry for Scattering Media...... 810 Alexander Kalyanov, Vladislav Lychagov, Dmitry Lyakin, Vladimir Ryabukho

Measurement of Damage Threshold of Human Anterior Corneal Layers Irradiated by Femtosecond Laser Pulses for Corneal Graft Surgery...... 811 Nicolas Sanner, Olivier Utéza, Louis Hoffart, Marc Sentis, John Conrath, Bernard Ridings

Optical Parametric Oscillator System for CARS Microscopy ...... 812 Wei Zhang, Gail McConnell, Maddy Parsons

Full-Field Micro-Interferometry of Crystallized Blood Plasma ...... 813 Vladislav Lychagov, Alexander Kalyanov, Vladimir Ryabukho

Optical Crosstalk Impact in the Contrast of Fiber Endoscopy Images...... 814 Noé Ortega-Quijano, Félix Fanjul-Vélez, Alfonso Borragán-Torre, José Luis Arce-Diego

Dynamics of Nitric Oxide Rebinding to Ferric Myoglobin in D2O Probed by Femtosecond Mid-IR Spectroscopy...... 815 Jaehun Park, Taegon Lee, Jeaheung Park, Manho Lim, Chulhoon Kim

The Effect of Different Laser Parameters During Endovenous Laser Treatment...... 816 Nermin Topaloglu, Ozgur Tabakoglu, Mehmet Umit Ergenoglu, Murat Gulsoy

Skin Tissue Ablation by Thulium (Tm:YAP) laser at 1980nm ...... 817 Temel Bilici, Özgür Tabakoglu, Hamit Kalaycioglu, Adnan Kurt, Alphan Sennaroglu, Murat Gulsoy

Integrated Optofluidic Strategies for a System Level Understanding of Pathological States during Space Flights...... 818 Filippo Menolascina, Caterina Ciminelli, Mario Nicola Armenise

Light Propagation in Novel Fluid Infiltrated Polymer Waveguide Arrays ...... 819 Francis Bennet, Eike Zeller, Tegan Larter, Arnan Mitchell, Dragomir Neshev, Yuri Kivshar

Design and Characterization of SiON Integrated Optics Components for Optical Coherence Tomography...... 820 Duc Nguyen, Jeroen Kalkman, Nur Ismail, Fei Sun, Kerstin Wörhoff, Alfred Driessen, Markus Pollnau, Ton Van Leeuwen

LASCA System Calibration for Single Exposure Time Measurements...... 821 Tomi Smausz, Béla Hopp, Zsolt Bor

Low-Power Skin Welding by Thulium (Tm:YAP) laser at 1980-nm...... 822 Temel Bilici, Özgür Tabakoglu, Hamit Kalaycioglu, Adnan Kurt, Alphan Sennaroglu, Murat Gulsoy

FUNDAMENTALS AND MODELLING OF MATERIALS PROCESSING WITH LASERS

Applications of Femtosecond Lasers in Materials Processing (Tutorial)...... 823 Eric Mazur

Multifunctional and Responsive Surfaces Based on Fs Laser Micro/nano Structuring of Silicon...... 824 Emmanuel Stratakis, Marios Barberoglou, Alexios Pagkozidis, Vassilia Zorba, Anca Mateescu, Dimitra Achilleos, Maria Vamvakaki, Spiros Anastasiadis, Costas Fotakis

3D Microstructuring of Hybrid Photosensitive Materials by Two-Photon Polymerization Technique for Applications in Photonics ...... 825 Aleksandr Ovsianikov, Belal Bhuian, Mohamed Oubaha, Brian Maccraith, Maria Farsari, Maria Vamvakaki, Costas Fotakis, Boris Chichkov

Imaging of Plasma Formation, Ablation and Phase Explosion Upon Femtosecond Laser Irradiation of Crystalline Si and Ge...... 826 Daniel Puerto, Jan Siegel, Marcial Galvan-Sosa, Wojciech Gawelda, Andres Ferrer, Alexandro Ruiz De La Cruz, Javier Solis

Micro-welding of Glass by Fs-laser Irradiation and Process Observation Using Fs-pump-probe White Light Interference Microscopy...... 827 Dirk Wortmann, Ilja Mingareev, Andreas Brand, Alexander Horn

Measuring the Deterministic Character of Laser Damage of Dielectrics in Ultrashort Pulsed Regime ...... 828 Nicolas Sanner, Olivier Utéza, Marc Sentis, Philippe Lassonde, François Légaré, Jean-Claude Kieffer

Soft and Hard Laser Treatments of Noble Metals Nanoparticles. How Do They Work in Particle Size and Shape Control?...... 829 Alexander Pyatenko, Munehiro Yamaguchi, Masaaki Suzuki

Energy Density, Temperature, and Pressure upon Generation and Collapse of Spherical Cavitation Bubbles in Water Produced by Femtosecond Optical Breakdown (Invited)...... 830 Alfred Vogel, Norbert Linz, Sebastian Freidank, Günther Paltauf

Ultrafast Laser Processing of Glass for Mems and Micro-fluidic Applications (Invited)...... 831 Yves Bellouard

Femtosecond Laser-Induced Nanostructuring of Gold Films ...... 832 Arseniy Kuznetsov, Jurgen Koch, Boris Chichkov

Ultrafast Laser Patterning of OLED Stacks on a Multilayered Flexible Substrate for Solid-state Lighting ...... 833 Dimitris Karnakis, Andrew Kearsley, Martyn Knowles

Short Pulse Laser Shock Microforming of Thin Metal MEMS Components ...... 834 José L. Ocaña, Miguel Morales, Juan A. Porro, Juan J. García-Ballesteros, Oscar García, Carlos Molpeceres, Miguel Holgado

Femtosecond Micromachining of High Aspect Ratio Structures in Fused Silica Using Bessel Beams...... 835 Manoj K. Bhuyan, François Courvoisier, Pierre-Ambroise Lacourt, Maxime Jacquot, Luca Furfaro, Michael J. Withford, J. M. Dudley

Mechanisms of Femtosecond-Laser Induced Surface Structuring of Zinc Oxide Crystals ...... 836 Danny Dufft, Arkadi Rosenfeld, Susanta Kumar Das, Ruediger Grunwald, Jörn Bonse

Photoinduced Wettability Transition and Electrowetting in Hierarchical ZnO and TiO2 Structures...... 837 Evie Papadopoulou, Marios Barberoglou, Aleka Manousaki, Emmanouel Stratakis, Costas Fotakis

High Speed Fabrication of Periodical Nanostructures by Fs-laser Direct Writing on Surfaces and in the Volume of Transparent Materials ...... 838 Jens Gottmann, Maren Hörstmann-Jungemann, Jan Kolf

Surface Percolation and Growth (SPAG), an Innovative Approach to Far Field Optical Nano-lithography...... 839 Dario Kunik, Lia Pietrasanta, Oscar Martinez

Mechanism for Self-Organization of Periodic Structures on a Metal Surface by Femtosecond Laser Pulses (Invited) ...... 840 Shuji Sakabe, Masaki Hashida, Shigeki Tokita, Shin Namba, Kiminori Okamuro

Fundamentals of Fiber Laser Remote Welding and Deep Penetration Welding (Invited)...... 841 Seiji Katayama

Principles of Femtosecond Pulse Tailoring for Adanced Material Processing (Invited)...... 842 Mathias Wollenhaupt

Ultrafast Laser Induced Microexplosion: A New Strategy to Synthesise Super-dense Nanomaterials (Invited)...... 843 Saulius Juodkazis, Hiroaki Misawa, Eugene Gamaly, Andrei Rode

Mechanism of Resonant Infrared Laser Ablation of Polystyrene...... 844 Richard Haglund, Stephen Johnson, Daniel Bubb

Selective Micrometer Hole Morphology Shaped by an Ultrashort Laser...... 845 Olivier Utéza, Nicolas Sanner, Benoît Chimier, Marc Sentis, Philippe Lassonde, François Légaré, Jean-Claude Kieffer

Micro Bump Formation on Preheated BK7-glass by Excimer Laser Irradiation...... 846 Peter Zahariev, Nikola Mechkarov, Gencho Danev, Jürgen Ihlemann

Shape Control in Nanostructuring of Thin Film Surface with Femtosecond Laser Pulses ...... 847 Godai Miyaji, Kenzo Miyazaki

Wavelength Dependence of Nanosecond and Femtosecond Optical Breakdown in Water: Experimental Investigations ...... 848 Sebastian Freidank, Norbert Linz, Hannes Vogelmann, Thomas Trickl, Kristian Werelius, Alfred Vogel

Wavelength Dependence of Nanosecond and Femtosecond Optical Breakdown in Water: Theoretical Analysis...... 849 Norbert Linz, Xiao Xuan Liang, Joachim Noack, Alfred Vogel

Femtosecond Laser Fabrication of Waveguides and Microchannels in Polymers for Optofluidic Sensing...... 850 Shane Eaton, Jose Pinazo, Raffaela Suriano, Roberta Ramponi, Stefano Turri, Marinella Levi, Giulio Cerullo, Roberto Osellame

Processing of Chalcogenide Glass by the Femtosecond Laser Pulses for Achieving Highly Non-Linear Photonic Structures ...... 851 Elena Romanova, Andrey Konyukhov, Sergey Muraviov, Alexey Andrianov, Trevor Benson, Angela Seddon, David Furniss

Simultaneous Production of Multiple Waveguides for Photonic Devices by Femtosecond Laser Writing...... 852 Matthias Pospiech, Moritz Emons, Andy Steinmann, Guido Palmer, Uwe Morgner, Roberto Osellame, Nicola Bellini, Giulio Cerullo

Photosensitivity and Grating Recording in All-silica Standard and Microstructured Optical Fibres using 248nm, fs and ps Laser Radiation ...... 853 Stavros Pissadakis, Georgios Tsibidis, Michalis Livitziis

Influence of the Pulse Energy on the Morphology of Waveguide Written by Use of Femtosecond Laser...... 854 Pascal Masselin, David Le Coq, Eugene Bychkov

Selective Machining of Organic Thin Film Photovoltaic Cell by a Ultra-short Pulse Laser ...... 855 Yoshiro Ito, Daisuke Miyata, Rie Tanabe, Masahiro Ichihara, Yoshiko Abe, Eiichi Matsumoto, Tetsuya Taima, Yuji Yoshida, Atsushi Masuda

Drilling Speed Optimization with Wavelength and Repetition Rate for Frequency Tripled and Doubled Femtosecond Laser Pulses...... 856 Dmitry Antonov, Eric Weynant, Guillaume Petite, Stephane Guizard, Eric Mottay, Antoine Courjaud

X-Ray Diffraction Measurements of a Femtosecond-Laser Written Waveguides in a YAG Single Crystal ...... 857 Oliver Henneberg, Ralf Menzel, Robert Elsner, Dietmar Korn, Joerg Siebenmorgen, Guenter Huber

Deposition of Pepsin Thin Layer Using IR-MAPLE Procedure ...... 858 Béla Hopp, Tomi Smausz, Balázs Zsibrita, Gábor Szabó

Laser-induced Chemical Liquid Phase Deposition Method for Precipitation of Au-Cu Alloy...... 859 Anastasia Povolotskaya, Margarita Lesik, Alexey Povolotskiy, Alina Manshina

Phase Relation, Dielectric and Ferroelectric Properties of Lead-free Ferroelectric (1*x)Na0.5Bi0.5TiO3-xBaTiL3 Thin Films Obtained by Pld and Rf-Pld ...... 860 Nicu Doinel Scarisoreanu, Floriana Craciun, Ruxandra Birjega, Maria Dinescu

Silicon Nanocrystal Formation via Laser Ablation in Liquid Media ...... 861 Paul Perminov, Irina Dzhun, Stanislav Zabotnov, Alexander Ezhov, Elena Gatskevich, Leonid Golovan, Pavel Kashkarov

Ablation of Pristine and Radiation Exposed CR-39 Polymer Using a 157nm Laser ...... 862 Stephanie Cockcroft, Peter E Dyer, Craig Moore, Christopher D Walton, Rozalina Zakaria

Controlling Patterning of Polymeric Surfaces during Flexible Fabrication with Excimer Laser...... 863 Elena Mocanu, Paul Sterian

Using Thin Films As Debris Shields for Laser Micro-machining and High Energy Laser Target Interactions ...... 864 Jens Schwarz, Mark Kimmel, Patrick Rambo, Briggs Atherton

Fabrication of Micro-channels and Waveguides by fs-laser Direct Writing in Glasses ...... 865 Jens Gottmann, Dagmar Esser, Maren Hörstmann-Jungemann

Modelling Ultrashort-pulse Laser Ablation of Dielectrics...... 866 Peter Balling, Bjarke H. Christensen

Dynamics of Waveguide Writing Using a High Pulse Energy (600 nJ) Mhz Femtosecond Oscillator ...... 867 Christopher Miese, Alexander Fuerbach, Michael Withford

Thermal Diffusion Control of Femtosecond Laser Generated Modifications of Nanoscale Pulsed-laser Deposited Diamond-like Carbon Films...... 868 Magdalena Forster, László Égerházi, Christian Haselberger, Christoph Huber, Tamás Szörényi, Wolfgang Kautek

Femtosecond Laser Writing of Optical Waveguides Using Astigmatic-elliptical Beams Produced by a Phase-only Spatial Light Modulator ...... 869 Alexandro Ruiz De La Cruz, Andres Ferrer, Daniel Puerto, Marcial Galvan-Sosa, Wojciech Gawelda, Jan Siegel, Javier Solis

ESEM and AFM Analysis of Human Dentine Irradiated with Femtosecond Laser Pulses...... 870 Albena Daskalova, Shazia Bashir, Wolfgang Husinsky

Laser Sintering of Photoelectrode Layers for Dye Solar Cell Technology ...... 871 Girolamo Mincuzzi, Luigi Vesce, Riccardo Riccitelli, Andrea Reale, Aldo Di Carlo, T. Brown

Model Based Analysis of the Effect of Irradiation Parameters on the Plasma Driven Thermal Fluxes in Laser Shock Processing ...... 872 Miguel Morales, Juan Antonio Porro, Radomir Sevillano, Carlos Molpeceres, Miguel Holgado, José Luis Ocaña

Laser Structured Biomimetic Artificial Surfaces That Quantitatively Reproduce the Water Repellency of a Lotus Leaf...... 873 Marios Barberoglou, Emmanuel Stratakis, Vassilia Zorba, Emmanuel Spanakis, Panagiotis Tzanetakis, Spiros Anastasiadis, Costas Fotakis

Evidence of Explosive Boiling During Laser Ablation of InSb ...... 874 Amit Garg, Surendera Kumar Bansal, Avinashi Kapoor, Kailash Narain Tripathi

Modeling of Optical Breakdown in Dielectrics Including Thermal Effects Relevant for Nanosecond Pulses and Sequences of Ultra-Short Laser Pulses ...... 875 Xiao Xuan Liang, Norbert Linz, Joachim Noack, Alfred Vogel

Laser Wavelength Dependences of Amorphization and Crystalization of Si by Femtosecond Laser Pulses ...... 876 Masayuki Fujita, Yusaku Izawa, Takayoshi Norimatsu, Noriaki Miyanaga, Yasukazu Izawa

EQEC

QUANTUM OPTICS

Resonance Fluorescence from a Singly Charged Quantum Dot ...... 877 Yong Zhao, Nick Vamivakas, Chao-Yang Lu, Mete Atature

Optically Detected Magnetic Resonance of a Single Nitrogen-vacancy Electronic Spin in Diamond Nanocrystals...... 878 Ngoc Diep Lai, Dingwei Zheng, Fedor Jelezko, François Treussart, Jean-François Roch

Substantial Scattering of a Weak Coherent Beam by a Single Atom (Invited)...... 879 Syed Abdullah Aljunid, Meng Khoon Tey, Brenda Chng, Zilong Chen, Jianwei Lee, Gleb Maslennikov, Christian Kurtsiefer

Light-Matter Interaction of a Site-controlled Quantum Dot- Micropillar Cavity System ...... 880 Christian Schneider, Tobias Heindel, Alexander Huggenberger, Caroline Kistner, Pia Weinmann, Stephan Reitzenstein, Martin Kamp, Sven Höfling, Alfred Forchel

Collective Strong Coupling with Ion Coulomb Crystals in an Optical Cavity...... 881 Aurélien Dantan, Peter Herskind, Joan Marler, Magnus Albert, Michael Drewsen

Quantum Jumps and Continuous Spin Measurement in a Strongly Coupled Atom-Cavity System...... 882 Sebastian Reick, Wolfgang Alt, Tobias Kampschulte, Mkrtych Khudaverdyan, Alexander Thobe, Artur Widera, Dieter Meschede

Dipole-dipole Interactions Experiment with a Few Cold Rb Rydberg Atoms ...... 883 Vasiliy M. Entin, Denis B. Tretyakov, Ilya I. Beterov, Igor I. Ryabtsev

Storage and Manipulation of Orbital Angular Momentum of Light in a Cold Atomic Ensemble ...... 884 Danieverton Moretti, Daniel Felinto, Jose Tabosa

A Waveguided Parametric Downconversion Source for Pure Heralded Single Photons at Telecommunication Wavelength...... 885 Andreas Eckstein, Malte Avenhaus, Andreas Christ, Peter Mosley, Christine Silberhorn

Nonclassical Interferences with Separate Fibre Sources of Intrinsically Time Bandwidth Limited Photon Pairs...... 886 Matthaeus Halder, Jeremie Fulconis, Ben Cemlyn, Alex Clark, Chunle Xiong, William Wadsworth, John Rarity

Fibre assisted Single Photon Spectrograph ...... 887 Malte Avenhaus, Andreas Eckstein, Peter J. Mosley, Christine Silberhorn

Generation of Multimode Squeezing and Entanglement in the Space and Frequency Domains: A General "supermode" Approach...... 888 Benoit Chalopin, Giuseppe Patera, German De Valcarcel, Claude Fabre, Nicolas Treps

Continuous Variable Entanglement of Orbital Angular Momentum States...... 889 Mikael Lassen, Gerd Leuchs, Ulrik Andersen

Entangling Spatial Modes Within a Single Beam ...... 890 Jiri Janousek, Katherine Wagner, Jean-François Morizur, Nicolas Treps, Ping Koy Lam, Charles C. Harb, Hans-A. Bachor

Angular Entanglement of Two Photons...... 891 Eric Eliel, Bart-Jan Pors, Sumant Oemrawsingh, A. Aiello, Martin Van Exter, Han Woerdman

Experimental Realization of an Optical Entanglement Filter (Invited)...... 892 Ryo Okamoto, Jeremy O'Brien, Holger Hofmann, Tomohisa Nagata, Keiji Sasaki, Shigeki Takeuchi

Steady State Entanglement in the Mechanical Vibrations of Two Nanomechanical Oscillators ...... 893 Michael J Hartmann, Martin B Plenio

Quantum Dispersion Cancellation in Frequency and in Space...... 894 Alexander V. Sergienko, Olga Minaeva, David Simon, Bahaa E. A. Saleh, Cristian Bonato

Novel Sources for Polarisation Squeezing and Polarisation Entanglement using Photonic Crystal Fibres...... 895 Josip Milanovic, Mikael Lassen, Michael Förtsch, Christoph Marquardt, Ulrik Andersen, Gerd Leuchs

Demonstration of Quadrature Squeezed Surface-Plasmons in a Gold Waveguide ...... 896 Alexander Huck, Stephan Smolka, Leonid Krivitsky, Peter Lodahl, Anders S. Sorensen, Alexandra Boltasseva, Ulrik L. Andersen

Squeezed Light for Gravitational Wave Detection (Invited) ...... 897 Roman Schnabel

Coherent Patterning of Matter Waves with Subwavelength Localization...... 898 Jordi Mompart, Veronica Ahufinger, Gerhard Birkl

Diffraction Elimination of Slow Images...... 899 Ofer Firstenberg, Moshe Shuker, Amiram Ron, Nir Davidson

Compact Coupler Designs for Quantum Optical Circuits Produced by Direct UV Writing...... 900 Dmytro Kundys, James Gates, Corin Gawith, Brian Smith, Jeff Lundeen, Ian Walmsley, Peter Smith

Integrated Photon Pair Source for SOI-based Quantum Optics ...... 901 Stéphane Clemmen, Kien Phan Huy, Wim Bogaerts, Roel Baets, Philippe Emplit, Serge Massar

Experimental Optomechanics with Silicon Micro-mirrors ...... 902 Chiara Molinelli, Aurélien Kuhn, Tristan Briant, Pierre-François Cohadon, Antoine Heidmann

Radiation Pressure Excitation and Cooling of a Cryogenic MEMS-cavity ...... 903 Mario Siciliani De Cumis, Alessandro Farsi, Francesco Marino, Giuseppe D'Arrigo, Francesco Marin, Francesco Saverio Cataliotti, Emanuele Rimini

Afshar's Experiment Revisited: A Demonstration of Bohr's Complementary Principle...... 904 Ngoc Diep Lai, Vincent Jacques, Anaïs Dréau, Dingwei Zheng, Dominique Chauvat, François Treussart, Philippe Grangier, Jean- François Roch

Testing Born's Rule in Quantum Mechanics for Three Mutually Exclusive Events ...... 905 Immo Soellner, Urbasi Sinha, Christophe Couteau, Zachari Medendorp, Raymond Laflamme, Rafael Sorkin, Gregor Weihs

Ultra-sensitive Faraday Rotation Measurements from an Atom-Light Quantum Interface...... 906 Marco Koschorreck, Mario Napolitano, Brice Dubost, Naeimeh Behbood, Morgan Mitchell

Single- and Multi-photon Imaging with a Nanoscale Detector...... 907 David Bitauld, Francesco Marsili, Alessandro Gaggero, Francesco Mattioli, Roberto Leoni, Saeedeh Jahanmiri Nejad, Andrea Fiore

Cavity-enhanced Rayleigh scattering...... 908 Pepijn Pinkse, Michael Motsch, Martin Zeppenfeld, Gerhard Rempe

Coherent Coupling of Ion Coulomb Crystals to different transverse Modes of an Optical Cavity ...... 909 Magnus Albert, Aurélien Dantan, Joan Marler, Peter Herskind, Michael Drewsen

Tunable Diode Laser Based Biphoton Source for Quantum Spectroscopy ...... 910 Andreas Jechow, Axel Heuer, Ralf Menzel

Purely Spatial Coincidences in Parametric Spontaneous Down Conversion ...... 911 Jean-Luc Blanchet, Fabrice Devaux, Luca Furfaro, Eric Lantz

X-entanglement of PDC Photon Pairs...... 912 Alessandra Gatti, Enrico Brambilla, Lucia Caspani, Ottavia Jedrkiewicz, Luigi A. Lugiato

Ultra-Bright Narrow-Band Down-Conversion Source for Atom-Photon Interaction...... 913 Florian Wolfgramm, Xingxing Xing, Alessandro Cerè, Ana Predojevic, Aephraim M. Steinberg, Morgan W. Mitchell

Resonator Modes Beyond the Paraxial Approximation: Spin-orbit Coupling of Light...... 914 Martin Zeppenfeld, Markus Koch, Borys Hagemann, Michael Motsch, Pepijn W. H. Pinkse, Gerhard Rempe

Full Characterization of Bipartite Entangled States by Means of a Single Homodyne Detector...... 915 Virginia D'Auria, Alberto Porzio, Stefano Fornaro, Salvatore Solimeno, Stefano Olivares, Matteo G. A. Paris

Characterization of the Spatial Correlation of Biphotons Using a Blazed Grazting...... 916 Dirk Puhlmann, Dietmar Korn, Martin Ostermeyer

Pure Single Photon Generation by Type-I PDC with Backward-wave Amplification ...... 917 Andreas Christ, Andreas Eckstein, Peter J. Mosley, Christine Silberhorn

Extra Phase Noise from Thermal Fluctuations in Non-linear Optical Crystals...... 918 Antônio S. Coelho, Jonatas E. S. César, Katiúscia N. Cassemiro, Alessandro S. Villar, Paulo Nussenzveig, Marcelo Martinelli

Interferometric Phase Measurement with Two-photon States ...... 919 Marcin Kacprowicz, Wojciech Wasilewski, Rafal Demkowicz-Dobrzanski, Konrad Banaszek

Rubidium Resonant Squeezed Light from a Diode-pumped Optical Parametric Oscillator...... 920 Ana Predojevic, Zehui Zhai, José Manuel Caballero, Morgan W. Mitchell

Focussing of Momentum Entangled Photons ...... 921 Daniel Schlenk, Harald Weinfurter

Two Photon Interference Under Einstein's Locality Condition...... 922 Stefan Zotter, Xiao-Song Ma, Nuray Tetik, Thomas Jennewein, Anton Zeilinger

Hybrid Entanglement and a Non-local Quantum Eraser ...... 923 Xiaosong Ma, Angie Qurry, Johannes Kofler, Thomas Jennewein, Anton Zeilinger

Asynchronous Entanglement from Coherently Coupled Nonlinear Cavities...... 924 Terry McRae, Warwick Bowen

Creating Highly Squeezed Vacua in Hybrid Laguerre-Gauss Modes...... 925 Carlos Navarrete-Benlloch, German De Valcarcel, Eugenio Roldán

Narrow-band Filter for Quantum Light...... 926 Alessandro Cerè, Florian Wolfgramm, Mario Napolitano, Morgan W. Mitchell

Squeezing Induced by Spontaneous Rotational Symmetry Breaking ...... 927 Carlos Navarrete-Benlloch, Ferrán V. García-Ferrer, Alejandro Romanelli, Eugenio Roldán, German De Valcarcel

Doppler-free Adiabatic Self-Induced Transparency ...... 928 Yurii Loiko, Carles Serrat, Ramon Vilaseca, Veronica Ahufinger, Jordi Mompart, Ramon Corbalan

Optimal Spatial Mode Distributions for the Coupling of a Single Photon to an Atomic Dipole Transition in Free Space ...... 929 Markus Sondermann, Norbert Lindlein, Gerd Leuchs

QUANTUM AND ATOM OPTICS IN MICROSTRUCTURES

Ultracold Atoms Coupled to Micro- and Nanomechanical Oscillators: Towards Hybrid Quantum Systems ...... 930 Stephan Camerer, David Hunger, Theodor W. Hänsch, Daniel König, Jörg P. Kotthaus, Jakob Reichel, Margareta Wallquist, Klemens Hammerer, Claudiu Genes, Peter Zoller, Philipp Treutlein

State Selective Microwave Nearfield Potentials on Atom Chips ...... 931 Max F. Riedel, Pascal Böhi, Theodor W. Hänsch, Philipp Treutlein

Cooling and Measurement of a Micromechanical Oscillator Close to the Quantum Limit (Invited)...... 932 Albert Schliesser, Rémi Rivière, Olivier Arcizet, Tobias Kippenberg

Ultra-high-Q Tunable Whispering-gallery-mode Microresonator...... 933 Michael Pöllinger, Danny O'Shea, Florian Warken, Arno Rauschenbeutel

Ions on a Needle's Tip ...... 934 Robert Maiwald, Dietrich Leibfried, Joe Britton, J. C. Bergquist, Gerd Leuchs, D. J. Wineland

Light Emission of Surface Plasmon Excited by Fast Electrons (Invited)...... 935 Naoki Yamamoto, Takahiro Suzuki

Two-photon Gateway in One-atom Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics ...... 936 Alexander Kubanek, Alexei Ourjoumtsev, Ingrid Schuster, Markus Koch, Pepijn Pinkse, Karim Murr, Gerhard Rempe

Photonic Interactions of Resonant Cesium Atoms and Opal ...... 937 Pepijn W. H. Pinkse, Philip J. Harding, Allard. P. Mosk, Willem L. Vos

Resonantly Probing Micropillar Cavity Modes by Photocurrent Spectroscopy...... 938 Caroline Kistner, Stephan Reitzenstein, Christian Schneider, Sven Höfling, Alfred Forchel

Resonantly Driving Crown Modes in an Optomechanical Resonator...... 939 Kwan Hee Lee, Terry McRae, Warwick Bowen

Investigation of Micrometre Scale Parabolic Mirrors for Use As Single Atom Quantum Registers...... 940 Paul Griffin, John Harris, Gail McConnell, Aidan Arnold, David Cox, Erling Riis

A Single Photon Source with Diamond Nanocrystals...... 941 Juliane Bahe, Xiaoqing Zhou, Tobias Kippenberg, Ariane Stiebeiner, Arno Rauschenbeutel, James Rabeau, Harald Weinfurter

Interactions of Ultracold Atoms with Magnetic Fields from Domain Walls in Nanowires ...... 942 Kevin Weatherill, Thomas Hayward, Adam West, Thomas Schrefl, Paul Fry, Charles Adams, Dan Allwood, Ifan Hughes

Miniaturized Microwave Paul-Traps for Electron Guiding...... 943 Johannes Hoffrogge, Peter Hommelhoff

"Meta-Optics" for Matter Waves...... 944 Mehdi Hamamda, Gabriel Dutier, Mohammed Boustimi, Valja Bocvarski, Jules Grucker, Francisco Perales, Jacques Baudon, Martial Ducloy

Electric Field Noise Above Surfaces: A Model for Heating Rate Scaling Law in Ion Traps...... 945 Romain Dubessy, Thomas Coudreau, Luca Guidoni

A Slowed Coherent Atomic Beam As a New Source for Atomic Interferometry...... 946 Mehdi Hamamda, Gabriel Dutier, Valja Bocvarski, Jules Grucker, Francisco Perales, Jacques Baudon, Martial Ducloy

Source of Photons Entangled with Photon-Holes ...... 947 Serge Rosenblum, Meir Orenstein

Effect of Temperature and Phonons on the Spectral Properties of a Multi-level Semiconductor Quantum Dot Single-photon Source ...... 948 Per Kaer, Torben Roland Nielsen, Peter Lodahl, Jesper Mørk

COLD ATOMS AND MOLECULES, BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATES

All-optical Production of a Doubly Degenerate Fermi-fermi Mixture (Invited)...... 949 Rudolf Grimm, Frederik Spiegelhalder, Andreas Trenkwalder, Eric Wille, Gerhard Hendl, Devang Naik, Florian Schreck

Guiding of Cold Atoms Through Photonic Crystal Fibres...... 950 Stefan Vorrath, Sönke Möller, Kai Bongs, Klaus Sengstock

An Ion-Trap Phonon Laser ...... 951 Kerry Vahala, Maximilian Herrmann, Sebastian Knünz, Valentin Batteiger, Guido Saathoff, Theodor W. Hänsch, Thomas Udem

Laser Cooling by Collisional Redistribution of Fluorescence ...... 952 Ulrich Vogl, Martin Weitz

Preparation of an Ion Chain Consisting of Ca+ and In+ with a Specified Arrangement...... 953 Kazuhiro Hayasaka

Demonstration of Internal State Laser Cooling of Molecular Ions ...... 954 Tobias Schneider, Bernhard Roth, Michael Hansen, Sergey Vasilyev, Ingo Ernsting, Ulf Bressel, Alexander Nevsky, Stephan Schiller

Cavity-enhanced Sideband Cooling of Molecules to the Ground State of a Harmonic Trap ...... 955 Markus Kowalewski, Giovanna Morigi, Pepijn W. H. Pinkse, Regina De Vivie-Riedle

Ultracold Collisions in Chromium: D-wave Feshbach Resonance and RF-assisted Molecule Association...... 956 Quentin Beaufils, Thomas Zanon, Anne Crubellier, Bruno Laburthe-Tolra, Etienne Maréchal, Laurent Vernac, Olivier Gorceix

A Pump-Probe Study of the Photoassociation of Cold Rubidium Molecules ...... 957 David McCabe, Duncan England, Hugo Martay, Melissa Friedman-Yalonetzky, Emiliya Dimova, Jovana Petrovic, Ian Walmsley

Enhanced Laser-Induced Alignment and Orientation of Molecules Using Quantum-State-Selection...... 958 Jens Hedegaard Nielsen, Lotte Holmegaard, Iftach Nevo, Jonas Lerche Hansen, Jochen Maurer, Henrik Stapelfeldt, Frank Filsinger, Küpper Jochen, Gerard Meijer

Conformer Separation of 3-aminophenol Using an Electrostatic Deflector ...... 959 Jonas Lerche Hansen, Jens Hedegaard Nielsen, Jochen Maurer, Frank Filsinger, Jochen Küpper, Gerard Meijer, Henrik Stapelfeldt

Matter Wave Interference of Single Trapped Atoms...... 960 Jai-Min Choi, Leonid Forster, Michal Karski, Andreas Steffen, Tan Wang, Wolfgang Alt, Artur Widera, Dieter Meschede

Directed Transport of Ultracold Atoms in a Hamiltonian Quantum Ratchet...... 961 Tobias Salger, Sebastian Kling, Tim Hecking, Martin Weitz

Bragg Spectroscopy in Optical Lattices ...... 962 Philipp T. Ernst, Sören Götze, Jasper Krauser, Karsten Pyka, Klaus Sengstock

Coherent Control of Tunneling and Quantum Phase Transitions in Strongly Driven Lattices...... 963 Alessandro Zenesini, Hans Lignier, Donatella Ciampini, Oliver Morsch, Ennio Arimondo

Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensates in Triangular Optical Lattices ...... 964 Parvis Soltan-Panahi, Julian Struck, Georg Meineke, Christoph Becker, Klaus Sengstock

How to Characterize the Dynamics of Cold Atoms in Non Dissipative Optical Lattices? ...... 965 Daniel Hennequin, Philippe Verkerk

Oscillations, Interaction and Collision of Solitons in Bose-Einstein Condensates ...... 966 Christoph Becker, Simon Stellmer, Parvis Soltan-Panahi, Sören Dörscher, Mathis Baumert, Eva-Maria Richter, Jochen Kronjäger, Kai Bongs, Klaus Sengstock

Fabry-Perot Resonators for Matter-wave Solitons...... 967 Veronica Ahufinger, Boris Malomed, Gerhard Birkl, Ramon Corbalan, Anna Sanpera

Resonant Amplification of Quantum Fluctuations with a Spinor Gas...... 968 Carsten Klempt, Oliver Topic, Manuel Scherer, Thorsten Henninger, Gebremedhn Gebreyesus, Philipp Hyllus, Wolfgang Ertmer, Luis Santos, Jan Arlt

Dark Region of Quantum Well Excitons in Stress-induced Potentials...... 969 David Snoke, Nicholas Sinclair, Loren Pfeiffer, Kenneth West, Zoltán Vörös

Anderson Localization of Matter-waves in an Optical Speckle: A Quantum Simulator? (Invited) ...... 970 Alain Aspect, Laurent Sanchez-Palencia

RF-induced Magnetic Degeneracy and Dipolar Relaxation in a Chromium Bose-einstein Condensate...... 971 Quentin Beuafils, Benjamin Pasquiou, Gabriel Bismut, Paolo Pedri, Bruno Laburthe-Tolra, Etienne Maréchal, Laurent Vernac, Olivier Gorceix

Dynamic Wavepackets in Coherently Controlled Rubidium Dimers...... 972 Hugo E. L. Martay, David J. McCabe, Duncan England, Melissa Friedman-Yalonetzky, Jovana Petrovic, Ian A. Walmsley

Sub-doppler Extra-lines in the Vicinity of the 388 nm Line of CS: A Signature for Dimer Photoassociation in a Thermal Vapour? ...... 973 Thierry Passerat De Silans, Isabelle Maurin, Athanasios Laliotis, Daniel Bloch

Inelastic Collisions Near Feshbach Resonances in Ultra-cold 7li...... 974 Noam Gross, Zav Shotan, Lev Khaykovich

Adiabatic Splitting and Self-Trapping of a Bose-Einstein Condensate in a Double-Well Potential ...... 975 Carlo Ottaviani, Veronica Ahufinger, Ramon Corbalan, Jordi Mompart

Cold Ytterbium Atoms in High-finesse Optical Cavities: Cavity Cooling and Collective Interactions ...... 976 Tristan Valenzuela, Matteo Cristiani, Hannes Gothe, Juergen Eschner

Rydberg Excitation of Ultracold Atoms in Optical Lattices...... 977 Viteau Matthieu, Radogostowicz Jagoda, Zenesini Alessandro, Ciampini Donatella, Morsch Oliver, Arimondo Ennio

Bosons and Fermions in Dynamic Optical Lattices ...... 978 Gordon Robb, Pamela Johnston, William Firth

Interspecies Interaction in a Strongly Imbalanced Bose-Bose Mixture ...... 979 Shincy John, Nicolas Spethmann, Claudia Weber, Tatjana Weikum, Artur Widera, Dieter Meschede

Better-than-Heisenberg Scaling of Sensitivity with Light and Cold Atomic Ensembles...... 980 Mario Napolitano, Naeimeh Behbood, Alessandro Cerè, Brice Dubost, Marco Koschorreck, Morgan Mitchell

Single-laser, One-beam, Tetrahedral Magneto-optical Trap ...... 981 Matthieu Vangeleyn, Paul Griffin, Ian McGregor, Erling Riis, Aidan Arnold

Production and Study of Spinor Condensates of 87Rb Released from a Magnetic Trap ...... 982 Rafal Gartman, Marcin Piotrowski, Jacek Szczepkowski, Lukasz Tracewski, Marcin Witkowski, Michal Zawada, Wojciech Gawlik

Superfluid Critical Velocity of a Bose-einstein Condensate in a Flat Potential ...... 983 Sebastian Schnelle, Kristian Weekink, Chao Feng, Erik Van Ooijen, Matthew Davis, Norman Heckenberg, Halina Rubinsztein- Dunlop

Degenerate Bose-Fermi Gases in Microgravity...... 984 Waldemar Herr, Tim Van Zoest, Naceur Gaaloul, Yeshpal Singh, Holger Ahlers, Stephan Seidel, Wolfgang Ertmer, Ernst M. Rasel, Nadine Meyer, Annika Vogel, Kai Bongs, Klaus Sengstock, Wojciech Lewoczko-Adamcsyk, Max Schiemangk, Achim Peters, Thorben Könnemann, Hauke Müntinga, Claus Lämmerzahl, Hansjörg Dittus, Endre Kajari, Rainer Walser, Wolfgang P. Schleich, Tilo Steinmetz, Jakob Reichelt

QUANTUM INFORMATION AND CRYPTOGRAPHY

Orbital Angular Momentum and Quantum Entanglement (Keynote)...... 985 Han Woerdman

Compact Sagnac-type Source for Entangled Photon Pairs ...... 986 Michael Hentschel, Hannes Huebel, Andreas Poppe, Anton Zeilinger

Packaged Integrated SPDC Photon Pair Source with Polarisation Splitter...... 987 Abu Thomas, Harald Herrmann, Viktor Quiring, Raimund Ricken, Wolfgang Sohler

Optical Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics (Tutorial)...... 988 Gerhard Rempe

Quantum Engineering of Colloidal Core-shell Quantum Dots: Towards Non Blinking Quantum Dots and Biexcitonic Emission...... 989 Piernicola Spinicelli, Benoit Malher, Stéphanie Buil, Xavier Quélin, Benoit Dubertret, Jean-Pierre Hermier

Quantum Benchmarks for the Teleportation and Storage of Squeezed States for Noisy Squeezed States...... 990 Masaki Owari, Martin. B Plenio, Eugene S Polzik, Alessio Serafini, Michael M. Wolf

Exprimental Maniplulation of Photons and Cold Atoms: Towards Scalable Quantum Information Processing (Invited) ...... 991 Jian Wei Pan

Preparation of a Three-photon W State from Two EPR Photon Pairs by LOCC ...... 992 Toshiyuki Tashima, Tetsurho Wakatsuki, Sahin Kaya Ozdemir, Takashi Yamamoto, Masato Koashi, Nobuyuki Imoto

Generation of a High Visibility Rotationally Invariant Six-photon Entangled State ...... 993 Magnus Rådmark, Marek Zukowski, Mohamed Bourennane

Linear Optics Implementation of Symmetric Matchgates...... 994 Alessandro Fedrizzi, Sven Ramelow, Marcelo Almeida, Matthew Broome, Benjamin Lanyon, Aephraim Steinberg, Andrew White

Integrated Quantum Information Science with Photons ...... 995 Alberto Politi, Jonathan C. F. Matthews, Anthony Laing, Alberto Peruzzo, Pruet Kalasuwan, Mian Zhang, Xiao-Qi Zhou, Graham D. Marshall, Peter Dekker, Martin Ams, Michael Withford, Maria Rodas, Martin J. Cryan, John G. Rarity, Andre Stefanov, Siyuan Yu, Mark G. Thompson, Jeremy L. O'Brien

Experimental Demonstration of Near-optimal Quantum Receiver Using a Superconducting Transition Edge Sensor...... 996 Kenji Tsujino, Daiji Fukuda, Go Fujii, Masahiro Takeoka, Mikio Fujiwara, Shuichiro Inoue, Masahide Sasaki

Quantum Hacking: How Eve Can Exploit Component Imperfections to Control Yet Another of Bob's Single- photon Qubit Detectors...... 997 Sebastien Sauge, Vadim Makarov, Andrey Anisimov

Long-Distance Atom-Photon Entanglement...... 998 Wenjamin Rosenfeld, Fredrik Hocke, Florian Henkel, Michael Krug, Norbert Ortegel, Julian Hofmann, Markus Weber, Harald Weinfurter

A Single Ion Interacting with Single Spontaneous Parametric Down-Conversion Photons...... 999 Felix Rohde, Nicolas Piro, Carsten Schuck, Marc Almendros, Jan Huwer, Markus Hennrich, Albrecht Haase, Morgan Mitchell, Francois Dubin, Juergen Eschner

Entangling Two and More Ions with Collective Laser-ion Interactions (Invited) ...... 1000 Christian Roos, Gerhard Kirchmair, Florian Zähringer, Jan Benhelm, Rene Gerritsma, Rainer Blatt

Results from the SECOQC Quantum-Key-Distribution Network ...... 1001 Andreas Poppe, Thomas Länger, Thomas Lorünser, Oliver Maurhart, Christoph Pacher, Momtchil Peev

High Bit Rate QKD Using Sideband Modulation Scheme with Active Dispersion Compensation...... 1002 F Patois, J Cussey, N Butterlin, N Pelloquin, J M Merolla, J M Dudley

Continuous Phase-Shift Quantum Key Distribution...... 1003 Denis Sych, Gerd Leuchs

Free Space Quantum Key Distribution with Coherent Polarization States...... 1004 Bettina Heim, Dominique Elser, Tim Bartley, Christoffer Wittmann, Denis Sych, Gerd Leuchs

Daylight Free-Space Quantum Key Distribution...... 1005 Markus Rau, Martin Fürst, Harald Krauss, Sebastian Schreiner, Henning Weier, Harald Weinfurter

Entanglement-Based Quantum Key Distribution with Biased Basis Choice...... 1006 Chris Erven, Xiongfeng Ma, Raymond Laflamme, Gregor Weihs

Four-state Discrimination via a Homodyne-Kennedy Hybrid Receiver ...... 1007 Mario A. Usuga, Christian R. Müller, Christoffer Wittmann, Masahiro Takeoka, Ulrik L. Andersen, Gerd Leuchs

"Nonlocal" Dispersion Cancellation with Classical Light ...... 1008 Victor Torres-Company, Hanna Lajunen, Ari Friberg

Complete Bell Measurement on Psi x Psi...... 1009 Elias Amselem, Mohamed Bourennane

Reliable Hands-off Entanglement-based QKD System for Fiber Networks...... 1010 Alexander Treiber, Andreas Poppe, Michael Hentschel, Thomas Lorünser, Hannes Hübel, Anton Zeilinger

Quantum Key Distribution with Heterodyne Detection ...... 1011 Christoffer Wittmann, Josef Füerst, Carlos Wiechers, Dominique Elser, Denis Sych, Gerd Leuchs

Quantum Key Distribution With Time Coding And Decoy States ...... 1012 D. I. Pustakhod, D. B. Horoshko, V. N. Chizhevsky, S. Ya. Kilin

Excess Noise in Bandwidth-Resource-Efficient Entanglement Distribution ...... 1013 Han Chuen Lim, Akio Yoshizawa, Hidemi Tsuchida, Kazuro Kikuchi

Secure Multiparty Quantum Communication Over Telecom Fiber Networks...... 1014 Jan Bogdanski, Johan Ahrens, Nima Rafiei, Alma Imamovic, Mohamed Bourennane

A Short and Efficient Quantum-erasure Code for Polarization-coded Photonic Qubits...... 1015 Jonas Almlöf, Gunnar Björk

On the Impossibility to Perform a Global Unitary Operation Sequentially...... 1016 Lucas Lamata, Juan Leon, David Perez-Garcia, David Salgado, Enrique Solano

High Speed Infrared Photon Counting with Photon Number Resolving Superconducting Single-Photon Detectors (SSPDs) ...... 1017 Olga Minaeva, Alexander Divochiy, Alexander Korneev, Alexander V. Sergienko, Gregory N. Gol'Tsman

Squeezed Vacuum Pulse Generation by χ (3) Nonlinearity in a Quasi-phase-matched PPLN and a Short Fibre...... 1018 Hisayuki Nakagome, Kenichi Hirosawa, Yuji Fujiwara, Hidetake Ushio, Yasuyuki Ito, Fumihiko Kannari

Time-Resolved Studies of Pulsed Electrical Spin Injection into Single InGaAs Quantum Dots...... 1019 Pablo Asshoff, Jochen Zimmer, Heiko Füser, Dongzhi Hu, Daniel M. Schaadt, Michael Hetterich, Heinz Kalt

PRECISION METROLOGY AND FUNDAMENTAL LIMITS

A Laboratory Test of the Isotropy of Light Propagation at the 10-17 Level...... 1020 Christian Eisele, Alexander Nevsky, Stephan Schiller

Ultra-Stable Optical Frequency Transfer over an Optical Telecommunications Network with Live Data Traffic ...... 1021 Fabien Kéfélian, Olivier Lopez, Haifeng Jiang, Christian Chardonnet, Giorgio Santarelli, Anne Amy-Klein

Optical Lattice Clock on Bosonic Strontium Atoms...... 1022 Nicola Poli, Marco Tarallo, Marco Schioppo, Denis Sutyrin, Niccolo' Beverini, Christopher Oates, Guglielmo Tino

Frequency Metrology on Single Trapped Ions in the Weak Binding Limit: the 3s-3p Fine Structure Doublet in Mg+ ...... 1023 Valentin Batteiger, Maximilian Herrmann, Sebastian Knünz, Guido Saathoff, Theodor W. Hänsch, Thomas Udem

Optical Lattice Clocks (Invited)...... 1024 Pierre Lemonde

Temperature-dependent Van Der Waals Atom-surface Interaction...... 1025 Thierry Passerat De Silans, Isabelle Maurin, Athanasios Laliotis, Philippe Ballin, Pedro Chaves De Souza Segundo, Solomon Saltiel, Marie-Pascale Gorza, Martial Ducloy, Daniel Bloch, Domingos De Sousa Meneses, Patrick Echegut

Tomography of Spatially Entangled Biphotons ...... 1026 Dietmar Korn, Dirk Puhlmann, Carsten Henkel, Robert Elsner, Martin Ostermeyer

Cryogenic Properties of Optomechanical Silica Microcavities ...... 1027 Olivier Arcizet, Rémi Rivière, Albert Schliesser, Georg Anetsberger, Tobias Kippenberg

A Scheme to Probe Optomechanical Correlations Between Two Optical Beams Down to the Quantum Level ...... 1028 Pierre Verlot, Alexandros Tavernarakis, Tristan Briant, Pierre-François Cohadon, Antoine Heidmann

Antihydrogen (Invited) ...... 1029 Jochen Walz

Ultra Low Frequency Noise Laser by Locking to an All-Fibered Interferometer...... 1030 Fabien Kéfélian, Haifeng Jiang, Pierre Lemonde, Giorgio Santarelli

Quantum-enhanced Phase Estimation in the Presence of Loss...... 1031 Rafal Demkowicz-Dobrzanski, Marcin Kacprowicz, Wojciech Wasilewski, Konrad Banaszek, Uwe Dorner, Brian J. Smith, Jeff S. Lundeen, Ian A. Walmsley

Cesium Fountain Clock with a Cold Atomic Pulse Beam...... 1032 Akifumi Takamizawa, Yusuke Shirakawa, Shinya Yanagimachi, Takeshi Ikegami

High-precision Measurement of the 87Rb Ground-state Hyperfine Splitting in an Atomic Fountain...... 1033 Yuri Ovchinnikov, Giuseppe Marra, Krzysztof Szymaniec, Witold Chalupczak, Vyacheslav Lebedev

Application of a Differential Optical Atomic Magnetometer to Ultra-low Field NMR Detection ...... 1034 Valerio Biancalana, Jacopo Belfi, Giuseppe Bevilacqua, Stefka Cartaleva, Yordanka Dancheva, Karen Khanbekyan, Luigi Moi

CS Magnetometers Optically Pumped with Radiation of Diode Lasers ...... 1035 Alexei Klimakov, Alexander Kozlov, Vitaliy Vassiliev, Vladimir Velichansky, Valeriy Yakovlev, Elena Zhivun, Andrei Zhukov, Sergei Zibrov

A Spectroscopic Determination of the Boltzmann Constant ...... 1036 Jan Hald, Lars Nielsen, Jan C. Petersen

A High Resolution Anharmonic λ/2 Fringe Spacing Interferometer...... 1037 Hugues Guillet De Chatellus, Jean-Paul Pique

Performance of an Onboard Gravimeter Based on Atom Interferometry ...... 1038 Olivier Carraz, Renée Charrière, Malo Cadoret, Nassim Zahzam, Yannick Bidel, Alexandre Bresson

High Resolution Sagnac Interferometry with Cold Atoms...... 1039 Michael Gilowski, Christian Schubert, Thijs Wendrich, Gunnar Tackmann, Peter Berg, Wolfgang Ertmer, Ernst Maria Rasel

FUNDAMENTALS OF NONLINEAR OPTICS

Observation of Three-dimensional Discrete X-waves in Femtosecond Laser-written Waveguide Arrays (Invited) ...... 1040 Matthias Heinrich, Alexander Szameit, Felix Dreisow, Robert Keil, Stefan Nolte, Andreas Tünnermann

Observation of Discrete-Continuous Optical Bullets...... 1041 Falk Eilenberger, Stefano Minardi, Thomas Pertsch, Stefan Nolte, Falk Lederer, Andreas Tünnermann, Ulrich Röpke, Jens Kobelke, Kay Schuster, Hartmut Bartlet, Yaroslav Khartashov, Lluis Torner

Mobile Light Bullets in Curved Waveguide Arrays ...... 1042 Michal Matuszewski, Andrey Sukhorukov, Ivan Garanovich

Observation of Two-dimensional Coherent Surface Vector Solitons in Femtosecond Laser-written Waveguide Arrays ...... 1043 Matthias Heinrich, Yaroslav Kartashov, Alexander Szameit, Felix Dreisow, Robert Keil, Thomas Pertsch, Stefan Nolte, Andreas Tünnermann, Victor A. Vysloukh, Lluis Torner

Nonlinear Surface Waves in Curved Waveguide Arrays...... 1044 Xinyuan Qi, Ivan Garanovich, Zhiyong Xu, Andrey Sukhorukov, Dragomir Neshev, Wieslaw Krolikowski, Arnan Mitchell, Yuri Kivshar

Optical Rogue Waves and Soliton Turbulence in Nonlinear Fibre Optics ...... 1045 G. Genty, J. M. Dudley, C. M. De Sterke, A. Judge, B. J. Eggleton, O. Bang

Extremely Short High-energy UV Pulses from a High-pressure Gas: Understanding the Physical Limits ...... 1046 Ulrich Graf, Evgenii Serebryannikov, Markus Fieß, Martin Schultze, Reinhard Kienberger, Ferenc Krausz, Aleksei Zheltikov, Eleftherios Goulielmakis

The Photon Sheds Light on the Quantum: Fluctuations and Correlations Tell the Story (Invited)...... 1047 Marlan Scully

Waves That Appear from Nowhere - Rogue Waves in Optics ...... 1048 Nail Akhmediev, Adrian Ankiewicz, Majid Taki

Solitons in Curved Space ...... 1049 Sascha Batz, Vincent Schultheiss, Ulf Peschel

Generation of Subnanosecond Solitary Pulses by Backward Stimulated Raman Scattering in Hydrogen-filled Photonic Crystal Fibres ...... 1050 Amin Abdolvand, Alexey Chugreev, Alexander Nazarkin, Clemens Kaminski, Philip St. J. Russell

Effect of Raman Slow Light on Pulse Walk-off and Frequency Chirp ...... 1051 Gil Fanjoux, Thibaut Sylvestre

Optical Control of Transverse Acoustic Resonances in PCF Core by Multi-Frequency Laser Light...... 1052 Myeong Soo Kang, Alexander Nazarkin, André Brenn, Philip Russell

Solitons in Dispersion-Managed Fibers: Bond of the Soliton Molecule ...... 1053 Alexander Hause, Haldor Hartwig, Christoph Mahnke, Michael Böhm, Fedor Mitschke

Long-Period Oscillations and Soliton Content of Dispersion-Managed Solitons...... 1054 Haldor Hartwig, Michael Böhm, Alexander Hause, Fedor Mitschke

Soliton Pulse Compression in the Single-Cycle Regime in Dielectric-coated Metallic Hollow Waveguides ...... 1055 Anton Husakou, Joachim Herrmann

Spectral Incoherent Solitons ...... 1056 Antonio Picozzi, Stephane Pitois, Benoit Barviau, Bertrand Kibler, Guy Millot

Modulational Instability of Bright Solitons of the Hyperbolic Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation ...... 1057 Simon-Pierre Gorza, Philippe Emplit, Marc Haelterman

Beam Self-trapping in Pyroelectric Photorefractive Crystals ...... 1058 Jassem Safioui, Fabrice Devaux, Kien Phan Huy, Mathieu Chauvet

Photovoltaic Self-focusing in Lithium Niobate...... 1059 Jacopo Parravicini, Paolo Minzioni, Vittorio Degiorgio, Eugenio Delre

Nematicons in Liquid Crystal Light Valves ...... 1060 Umberto Bortolozzo, Armando Piccardi, Stefania Residori, Gaetano Assanto

Diffusion and Self-Similarity of Stored Light in Vapor ...... 1061 Ofer Firstenberg, Rami Pugatch, Moshe Shuker, Amiram Ron, Nir Davidson

Phase Modulation Transfer in Mirrorless Optical Parametric Oscillators ...... 1062 Valdas Pasiskevicius, Gustav Strömqvist, Carlota Canalias, Carlos Montes

Sub-Threshold Giant Noise Amplification in Synchronously Pumped Optical Parametric Oscillators ...... 1063 Giampaolo D'Alessandro, Gian-Luca Oppo, Francesco Papoff

Second Harmonic Generation in Periodic and Aperiodic Transversely Poled Crystals ...... 1064 Solomon M. Saltiel, Yan Sheng, Noa Voloch, Dragomir N. Neshev, Wieslaw Krolikowski, Kaloian Koyonov, Boqin Ma, Ady Arie, Yuri Kivshar

Surface Nonlinear Light Generation in Microresonators...... 1065 Jorge Luis Dominguez Juarez, Gregory Kozyreff, Jordi Martorell

Second Harmonic Generation from Two-dimensional Gold Nano-rods of Arbitrary Shape: Numerical study...... 1066 Marco Centini, Alessio Benedetti, Michael Scalora, Concita Sibilia, Mario Bertolotti

Size Dependent Nonlinear Properties of Thiol-capped CdTe QD...... 1067 Ioan Dancus, Valentin I. Vlad, Adrian I. Petris, Nikolai Gaponik, Vladimir Lesnyak

Raman-Nath Nonlinear Diffraction in Second Harmonic Generation...... 1068 Solomon Saltiel, Dragomir Neshev, Wieslaw Krolikowski, Ady Arie, Noa Voloch, Ole Bang, Yuri Kivshar

Interface Solitons in Electro-Optically Configurable Waveguide Arrays ...... 1069 Nicolas Marsal, Ivan Garanovich, Tristan Crasto, Arnan Mitchell, Delphine Wolfersberger, Marc Sciamanna, Germano Montemezzani, Andrey Sukhorukov, Dragomir Neshev, Yuri Kivshar

Soliton Interactions and Transformations in Hard-sphere Colloids ...... 1070 Michal Matuszewski, Wieslaw Krolikowski, Yuri Kivshar

Solitons in optical lattices with spatially modulated nonlinearity...... 1071 Yaroslav Kartashov, Victor Vysloukh, Lluis Torner

Spatial-Spectral Discrete Vortex Solitons in Quadratic Lattices ...... 1072 Zhiyong Xu, Andrey Sukhorukov

Kerr Spatial Solitons in Chalcogenide Waveguides ...... 1073 Kien Phan Huy, Mathieu Chauvet, Gil Fanjoux, Virginie Nazabal, Frédéric Charpentier, Thierry Billeton, Georges Boudebs, Michel Cathelinaud, Simon-Pierre Gorza

Calculation of SIT Soliton Collisions for Optical Computing ...... 1074 Willem P. Beeker, Edip Can, Chris J. Lee, Klaus -J. Boller

Spatial Solitons in Periodic Semiconductor-Dielectric Nano-Structures ...... 1075 Andrey Gorbach, Dmitry Skryabin

Describing Third-order Nonlinear Optical Properties of Nanocrystalline Porous Silicon Using Bruggeman Model ...... 1076 Tatiana Bazaru, Valentin Ionel Vlad, Adrian Petris, Petronela Simona Gheorghe, Eugenio Fazio

Theory of Time-Resolved Raman and Fluorescence Emission of Semiconductor Quantum Dots ...... 1077 Julia Kabuß, Andreas Knorr, Marten Richter

Spatiotemporal Nonlinear Optical Self-Similarity in Three Dimensions...... 1078 J. M. Dudley, Shihua Chen

Localized Cavity Polaritons Supported by the Exciton Field Discontinuities ...... 1079 Andrey Gorbach, Alex Yulin, Dmitry Skryabin

Light Interactions in Rydberg Ensembles ...... 1080 Kevin Weatherill, Jonathan Pritchard, Richard Able, Mark Bason, Ashok Mohapatra, Charles Adams

Reflectionless Defects in Coupled Resonator Waveguides...... 1081 Andrey Sukhorukov

Characterization of Nonlinear Absorption in Femtosecond Laser Inscription...... 1082 Andrey Okhrimchuk, Vladimir Mezentsev, Holger Schmitz, Mykhaylo Dubov, Ian Bennion

ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA AND FREQUENCY COMBS

Direct Frequency Comb Spectroscopy of Trapped Ions...... 1083 Anne Lisa Wolf, Steven Van Den Berg, Wim Ubachs, Kjeld Eikema

Precision Multiplex Molecular Fingerprinting with Femtosecond Frequency Combs ...... 1084 Julien Mandon, Patrick Jacquet, Birgitta Bernhardt, Ronald Holzwarth, Guy Guelachvili, Theodor W. Hänsch, Nathalie Picqué

Broadband Precision Spectroscopy Using a Scanning Diode Laser and a Frequency Comb...... 1085 Pascal Del'Haye, Olivier Arcizet, Ronald Holzwarth, Tobias Kippenberg

An Ultra-stable, Widely Tunable and CS-traceable Mid-IR Coherent Source...... 1086 Davide Mazzotti, Saverio Bartalini, Simone Borri, Pablo Cancio, Iacopo Galli, Giovanni Giusfredi, Paolo De Natale

XUV Frequency Comb Spectroscopy (Invited)...... 1087 Christoph Gohle, Dominik Zbigniew Kandula, Tjeerd Jan Pinkert, Wim Ubachs, Kjeld Eikema

Photoelectron Spectroscopy for Polyatomic Molecules with 22-fs Time Resolution ...... 1088 Takao Fuji, Takuya Horio, Toshinori Suzuki

Vibrational Wave-packet Control in Cyanine Dye Molecules with Free and Restricted Conjugated Backbones...... 1089 Kengo Horikoshi, Tomotaka Tsukamoto, Kazuhiko Misawa

Reorientation of Hydroxide Ions in Water ...... 1090 Soren Keiding, Jan Thøgersen, Christian Petersen, Svend Knak-Jensen

New Frontiers in Ultrafast Broadband Pump-probe Spectroscopy for the Investigation of Electron Transfer Processes ...... 1091 Igor Pugliesi, Uwe Megerle, Maximilian Bradler, Eberhard Riedle

Combining Ultrafast Laser and X-ray Spectroscopies for New Insights Into Molecular Dynamics (Invited) ...... 1092 Philippe Wernet

Ultrafast Nanometric Electron Sources: Current Status, First Applications, and Suitable Laser Sources...... 1093 Peter Hommelhoff, Markus Schenk, Johannes Hoffrogge, Michael Krüger, Faraz Najafi

Thermalization of Spins and Charges in Ni Thin Films...... 1094 Mircea Vomir, Jean-Yves Bigot

Ultrafast Confocal Microscope for Time-Resolved Imaging of Thin Films...... 1095 Dario Polli, Jenny Clark, Michele Celebrano, Giulia Grancini, Guglielmo Lanzani, Giulio Cerullo

Coherent Spin Dynamics Induced by Femtosecond Pulses in Ferromagnets...... 1096 Jean-Yves Bigot, Mircea Vomir

Ultrafast Dynamics in a Single CdSe/ZnSe Quantum Dot...... 1097 Tim Thomay, Jan Korger, Florian Sotier, Tobias Hanke, Suddhasatta Mahapatra, Alexander Frey, Karl Brunner, Rudolf Bratschitsch, Alfred Leitesntorfer

Ultrafast Electron-Hole Dynamics in Core/Shell CdSe/CdS Dot/Rod Nanocrystals ...... 1098 Maria Grazia Lupo, Fabio Della Sala, Luigi Carbone, Margherita Zavelani-Rossi, Angela Fiore, Larry Lüer, Dario Polli, Roberto Cingolani, Liberato Manna, Guglielmo Lanzani

Self-referencing of Optical Frequency Combs ...... 1099 Christian Grebing, Sebastian Koke, Günter Steinmeyer

Investigation of Tunnelling-ionization-induced Third Harmonic Generation ...... 1100 Aart Verhoef, Alexander Mitrofanov, Evgenii Serebryannikov, Aleksei Zheltikov, Andrius Baltuska

Laser Frequency Combs for Precision Astrophysical Spectroscopy (Invited) ...... 1101 Chih-Hao Li, Andrew Benedick, Claire Cramer, Guoqing Chang, Li-Jen Chen, Peter Fendel, Gabor Furesz, Alexander Glenday, Franz Kaertner, David Phillips, Dimitar Sasselov, Andrew Szentgyorgyi, Ronald Walsworth

Isochronic Control of the Carrier-envelope Phase-shift ...... 1102 Christian Grebing, Mihály Görbe, Günter Steinmeyer, Karoly Osvay

Coherence Preservation in Supercontinuum Generation in Hollow Waveguides Due to Contribution from Plasma ...... 1103 Anton Husakou, Joachim Herrmann

Ultrafast Coherent Electron Emission from Ultrasharp Metal Tips...... 1104 Markus Schenk, Michael Krüger, Johannes Hoffrogge, Peter Hommelhoff

Ti:sapphire Frequency Comb with Octave-Spanning Spectrum for Spectroscopy and Few-Cycle Pulse Shaping...... 1105 Stefan Rausch, Thomas Binhammer, Anne Harth, Martin Siegel, Uwe Morgner

Exciton Dynamics in (6,5) Single-walled Carbon Nanotubes Studied with Sub-20 fs Pump-probe Spectroscopy...... 1106 Larry Lüer, Sajjad Hoseinkhani, Dario Polli, Jared Crochet, Tobias Hertel, Guglielmo Lanzani

Dephasing Dynamics of Coherent Phonons in Heavily Doped Si Under Non-resonant Photoexcitation ...... 1107 Keiko Kato, Atsushi Ishizawa, Katsuya Oguri, Kouta Tateno, Takehiko Tawara, Masahiro Kitajima, Hidetoshi Nakano

Coherent Control of Quinquethiophene Photoluminescence ...... 1108 Giovanni Cirmi, Daniele Brida, Alessio Gambetta, Giulio Cerullo, Guglielmo Lanzani, Laura Favaretto, Giovanna Barbarella

From Breast Tissue Diagnosis by Raman Spectroscopy to Femtosecond Dynamics at the Phospholipid Membrane- water Interface...... 1109 Piotr Ciacka, Jakub Surmacki, Beata Brozek-Pluska, Joanna Jablonska, Radzislaw Kordek, Halina Abramczyk

Optical Bloch Equations for Light Harvesting Complexes: Pump Probe Spectra and Saturation Dynamics at High Light Intensity Excitation...... 1110 Marten Richter, Alexander Carmele, Thomas Renger, Andreas Knorr

DYNAMICS, INSTABILITIES, AND PATTERNS

Cavity Soliton Laser Based on Two Mutually Coupled Broad Area Micro-resonators...... 1111 Patrice Genevet, Stéphane Barland, Massimo Giudici, Jorge R. Tredicce

Collisions of Asymmetric 1D-Spatial Laser Solitons ...... 1112 Nikolay Rosanov, Sergei Fedorov, Anatolii Shatsev

Bistable Localized Light Structure with Linear Polarization in Medium Size Vertical-cavity Surface-emitting Lasers...... 1113 Krassimir Panajotov, Xavier Hachair, Giovanna Tissoni, Hugo Thienpont

All-Optical Delay Line with a Cavity Soliton Laser ...... 1114 Gian-Luca Oppo, Craig McIntyre, Alison Yao, Franco Prati, Giovanna Tissoni

Control of Cavity Solitons and Inhomogeneity Compensation in VCSELs with Frequency Selective Feedback...... 1115 Neal Radwell, Patrick Rose, Carsten Cleff, Cornelia Denz, Thorsten Ackemann

Cavity Soliton Properties and Dynamics in a VCSEL with Frequency-Filtered Feedback...... 1116 William Firth, Damia Gomila, Pavel Paulau

Nonlinear Optical Response of Silica and Hybrid Silica/Silicon Disc Micro Resonators...... 1117 Carsten Schmidt, Arkadi Chipouline, Thomas Kaesebier, Ernst-Bernhard Kley, Andreas Tuennermann, Lev Deych, Thomas Pertsch

Logical Operations Using Excitable Cavity Solitons ...... 1118 Adrian Jacobo, Damia Gomila, Pere Colet, Manuel Matías

Complexes and Molecules of Dissipative Solitons in Mode-locked Lasers (Invited) ...... 1119 Philippe Grelu, Souad Chouli, Jose M. Soto-Crespo, Nail Akhmediev, Adil Haboucha, François Sanchez

Stable Dissipative Soliton Molecules in Mode-Locked Laser ...... 1120 Aleksandr Zavyalov, Rumen Iliew, Oleg Egorov, Falk Lederer

Pulsating Dissipative Light Bullets ...... 1121 Aladji Kamagate, Philippe Grelu, Patrice Tchofo-Dinda, Jose M. Soto-Crespo, Nail Akhmediev

2D Polariton-Solitons in Semiconductor Microcavities ...... 1122 Oleg Egorov, Dmitry V. Skryabin, Alexey V. Yulin, Falk Lederer

Four-Phase Patterns in a Forced Nonlinear Optical Oscillator ...... 1123 Stanis Kolpakov, Victor Taranenko, Fernando Silva, Javier García, Kestutis Staliunas, Eugenio Roldán, German De Valcarcel

Bloch-zener Dynamics in Binary Waveguide Arrays (Invited)...... 1124 Felix Dreisow, Alexander Szameit, Matthias Heinrich, Stefan Nolte, Andreas Tünnermann, Stefano Longhi

Experimental Observation of Speckle Instability in Kerr Random Media ...... 1125 Patrick Sebbah, Umberto Bortolozzo, Stefania Residori

Clusters of Localized Structures in a Cavity Soliton Laser: Properties of the Homoclinic Snaking Bifurcation Diagram ...... 1126 Patrice Genevet, Stéphane Barland, Massimo Giudici, Jorge R. Tredicce

Non-Linear Dynamics of an Injection Locked Single-Mode Quantum Dot Laser...... 1127 David Goulding, Bryan Kelleher, Stephen Hegarty, Guillaume Huyet

Bistable Self-starting Pulses with THz Repetition Rate in a Semiconductor Microring Laser ...... 1128 Lionel Gil, Lorenzo Columbo

Synchronization of Quasiperiodic Oscillations in Semiconductor Lasers ...... 1129 André Loose, Hans-Jürgen Wünsche, Fritz Henneberger

Transient and sustained mode-locking of cavity solitons in a VCSEL with frequency-selective feedback...... 1130 Neal Radwell, Thorsten Ackemann, Andrew J. Scroggie, Gian-Luca Oppo, William Firth

Lag Syncronization in Delay-coupled Semiconductor Lasers (Invited) ...... 1131 Cristina M. González, Ingo Fischer, Jordi Tiana, M. Carme Torrent, Jordi Garcia-Ojalvo

Evolution and Stability of Pulse Regimes in SESAM-mode-locked Femtosecond Fiber Lasers ...... 1132 Olga Shtyrina1, Michael Fedoruk, Sergei Turitsyn, Robert Herda, Oleg Okhotnikov

Triangular Slit Interference Pattern of Single Photons with Orbital Angular Momentum: Another Beautiful Experiment?...... 1133 Wyllamis Soares, Itamar Vidal, Dilson Caetano, Eduardo Fonseca, Jandir Hickmann, Sabino Chavez-Cerda

Cavity Solitons in Lasers with Spatially Modulated Injected Signal...... 1134 German De Valcarcel, Kestutis Staliunas

Dissipative Ring Solitons with High Values of Vorticity...... 1135 Natasha Devine, Jose-Maria Soto-Crespo, Cristian Mejia-Cortes, Nail Akhmediev

Mode Selection in GaAs Micropillar Polariton Lasers ...... 1136 Maria Maragkou, Alastair Grundy, Esther Wertz, Jacqueline Bloch, Pavlos Lagoudakis

Emission Directionality of Semiconductor Ring Lasers...... 1137 Julien Javaloyes, Gabor Mezosi, Marc Sorel, Salvador Balle

Signal Splitter by Nonlocal Coupling ...... 1138 Roberta Zambrini, Francesco Papoff

Bubbling in Delay-Coupled Lasers...... 1139 Valentin Flunkert, Otti D'Huys, Jan Danckaert, Ingo Fischer, Eckehard Schöll

Diffusion Stabilizes Cavity Solitons In Bidirectional Lasers ...... 1140 Isabel Pérez-Arjona, Víctor J. Sánchez-Morcillo, Javier Redondo, Kestutis Staliunas, Eugenio Roldán

Moving Cavity Solitons in a Cavity Soliton Laser ...... 1141 Giovanna Tissoni, Keivan M. Aghdami, Franco Prati, Luigi A. Lugiato, Massimo Brambilla

Discrete Family of Soliton Pairs in Mode-Locked Fiber Laser...... 1142 Aleksandr Zavyalov, Oleg Egorov, Rumen Iliew, Falk Lederer

Lag Alternance in Unidirectional Coupled Semiconductor Lasers ...... 1143 Jordi Tiana-Alsina, Juan Hugo Garcia-Lopez, M. Carme Torrent, Jordi Garcia-Ojalvo

Strong Enhancement of Interaction of Optical Pulses Induced by Oscillatory Instability ...... 1144 Dmitry Turaev, Andrei Vladimirov, Sergey Zelik

Multimode Dynamics in a Semiconductor Laser with Optical Injection ...... 1145 Simon Osborne, Andreas Amann, Stephen O'Brien

Theoretical Prediction of Cavity Solitons in a Face-to-face VCSELs Configuration ...... 1146 Lorenzo Columbo, Lionel Gil

Stability Analysis of Three Coupled Lasers Using Mode-Coupling and Laser-Coupling...... 1147 Hartmut Erzgraber, Nicholas Blackbeard, Sebastian Wieczorek, Bernd Krauskopf

Spectral Properties of Coupled Silica Disc Micro Resonators ...... 1148 Carsten Schmidt, Arkadi Chipouline, Thomas Kaesebier, Lev Deych, Ernst-Bernhard Kley, Andreas Tuennermann, Thomas Pertsch

Observing Odd Numbers of Polaritons in Pillar Microcavities ...... 1149 Alastair Grundy, Maria Maragkou, Esther Wertz, Jacqueline Bloch, Pavlos Lagoudakis

Control of Spatial Instabilities with Intracavity Photonic Crystals...... 1150 Damia Gomila, Maria Moreno, Roberta Zambrini

Locking and Merging of Cavity Solitons ...... 1151 Gian-Luca Oppo, Marina Zajnulina, Craig McIntyre

Bistable Phase Locking of a Laser Via Monochromatic Signal Injection...... 1152 Kestutis Staliunas, German De Valcarcel, Eugenio Roldán

NANOPHOTONICS, PLASMONICS, NEAR FIELD OPTICS

Plasmonics: From Nanoscale Integrated Circuits to Nano-photovoltaics (Keynote)...... 1153 Albert Polman

Silicon Integrated Nanophotonics for On-chip Optical Interconnects (Invited)...... 1154 Yurii Vlasov

Fano Resonances in Spectroscopy of Individual Hybridized Plasmonic Nanocavities (Invited)...... 1155 Yannick Sonnefraud, Niels Verellen, Heidar Sobhani, Feng Hao, Victor V. Moshchalkov, Pol Van Dorpe, Peter Nordlander, Stefan A. Maier

Coupling of Self-Assembled Quantum Dots to Plasmonic Nanoantennas ...... 1156 Markus Pfeiffer, Lijuan Wang, Armando Rastelli, Oliver G. Schmidt, Harald Giessen, Markus Lippitz

Vibration Dynamics of Supra-crystals of Cobalt Nano-crystals Studied with Femtosecond Laser Pulses...... 1157 Valerie Halte, Isabelle Lisiecki, Christophe Petit, Marie-Paule Pileni, Jean-Yves Bigot

Dynamical Back-Action Using Optical Gradient Forces ...... 1158 Georg Anetsberger, Olivier Arcizet, Tobias Kippenberg

Radially-polarized Surface Plasmon Microscopy for Sensitive Detection of Nanometric-sized Fluorescent Spheres and Nonlinearly Active Nanocrystals...... 1159 Chih-Hsiang Sung, Dominique Chauvat, Chih-Kung Lee, Joseph Zyss

Nonlinear Emission from a Single Metal Nanoantenna (Invited)...... 1160 Tobias Hanke, Daniel Träutlein, Barbara Wild, Alfred Leitenstorfer, Rudolf Bratschitsch

Second-Harmonic Generation from Single Core-Shell CdTe(CdS) Quantum Dots...... 1161 Marcin Zielinski, Dan Oron, Dominique Chauvat, Joseph Zyss

Propagation and Active Control of Femtosecond Plasmon Pulses ...... 1162 Zsolt Sámson, Kevin Macdonald, Peter Horak, Mark Stockman, Nikolay Zheludev

Ultrafast Optical Nonlinearities in Hybrid Metal-j-aggregate Nanostructures ...... 1163 Parinda Vasa, Robert Pomraenke, Stephan Schwieger, Erich Runge, Christoph Lienau

Far-field Optical Nanoscopy of Diamond Color Centers...... 1164 Eva Rittweger, Kyu Young Han, Scott Irvine, Dominik Wildanger, Christian Eggeling, Stefan Hell

Spontaneous Emission Lifetimes of Infrared Quantum Dots Controlled with Photonic Crystals...... 1165 Bart H. Husken, Willem L. Vos

"On Donuts and Peanuts": Strongly Orientation-dependent Spontaneous Emission Rates in any Nanophotonic Environment...... 1166 Willem L. Vos, A. Femius Koenderink, Ivan S. Nikolaev

Modification of Single CdSe-CdS Nanocrystals Fluorescence Through Their Coupling to a Gold Semicontinuous Film ...... 1167 Ikbel Mallek Zouari, Stéphanie Buil, Xavier Quélin, Benoit Mahler, Benoit Dubertret, Jean-Pierre Hermier

Observation of Dyakonov Surface Wave...... 1168 Osamu Takayama, Lucian Crasovan, David Artigas, Lluis Torner

Near-Field Observation of Modes in Subwavelength Plasmonic Slot Waveguides...... 1169 Marko Spasenovic, Dries Van Oosten, Kobus Kuipers

Long Range Surface Polaritons Supported by Thin Absorbing Layers...... 1170 Yichen Zhang, Vincenzo Giannini, Jaime Gomez Rivas

Ultrafast Coherent Control of Plasmon Polaritons on the Nanoscale ...... 1171 Tobias Utikal, Mark I. Stockman, Albert P. Heberle, Markus Lippitz, Harald Giessen

Dark-bright Exciton Spin-flip Rates of Quantum Dots Determined by a Modified Local Density of Optical States...... 1172 Peter Lodahl, Jeppe Johansen, Brian Julsgaard, Jørn Hvam

Optimizing the Spontaneous-emission ß Factor for Single Optical Plasmon Generation...... 1173 Yuntian Chen, Torben Nielsen, Niels Gregersen, Peter Lodahl, Jesper Mørk

Optimized Single Photons Sources Through Interaction of Colloidal CdSe/ZnS Quantum Dots with Gold Surface Plasmons ...... 1174 Céline Vion, Piernicola Spinicelli, Laurent Coolen, Catherine Schwob, Carlos Barthou, Paul Benalloul, Jean-Marc Frigerio, Jean- Pierre Hermier, Agnès Maître

Quantum Optics at Nanoscales (Invited) ...... 1175 Mikhail Lukin

Ponderomotive Force: The Fundamental Nonlinearity in Plasmonics...... 1176 Pavel Ginzburg, Alex Hayat, Meir Orenstein

Drastic Enhancement of Optical Response in a Molecular Dark State by a Designed Light Field with Metal Nanostructures...... 1177 Takuya IIda, Hajime Ishihara

Controlling Light with Light at the Nanoscale: Backward-wave Optical Parametric Amplification and Generation in Negative-index Metamaterials ...... 1178 Alexander Popov, Sergey Myslivets, Vladimir Shalaev

Au-ZnO: A Tunable Plasmonic Nanocomposite for SERS and Switching ...... 1179 Yogendra Kumar Mishra, Seid Jebril, Dinesh Chandra Agarwal, Satyabrata Mohapatra, Rahul Singhal, Debesh Kumar Avasthi, Rainer Adelung

Photonic Bandstructure of a Metal Hole Array with Pillars ...... 1180 Michiel De Dood, Marc Verschuuren, Eduard Driessen, Gert 'T Hooft, Martin Van Exter

Single KTiOPO4 Nanocrystals for Nonlinear Probing of Local Optical Fields and Interaction with a Metallic Nanostructure ...... 1181 Loc Le Xuan, Abdallah Slablab, Chunyuan Zhou, Dominique Chauvat, Yannick De Wilde, Sandrine Perruchas, Cédric Tard, Thierry Gacoin, Philippe Villeval, Jean-François Roch

Tailored Emission Properties of Second Harmonic Generation from Self-organized Metal Nanowires Arrays ...... 1182 Alessandro Belardini, Maria Cristina Larciprete, Marco Centini, Eugenio Fazio, Concita Sibilia, Mario Bertolotti, Andrea Toma, Daniele Chiappe, Francesco Buatier De Mongeot

Tailoring Polaritonic Dephasing in Magnetic Photonic Crystals...... 1183 Michael Geiselmann, Tobias Utikal, Markus Lippitz, Harald Giessen

Size Dependent Oscillator Strength of CdSe Quantum Dots Determined by Nanophotonic Control ...... 1184 Merel D. Leistikow, Jeppe Johansen, A. J. Kettelarij, Peter Lodahl, Willem L. Vos

Formation of Tio-single Crystals in Ag-TiO2 Based Nanocomposites by Swift Heavy Ion(SHI) Irradiation...... 1185 Venkata Sai Kiran Chakravadhanula, Yogendra Kumar Mishra, Venkata Girish Kotnur, Tomislav Hrkac, Lorenz Kienle, Debesh Kumar Avasthi, Dietmar Fink, Vladimir Zaporotchenko, Faupel Franz

Strong Multiphoton-Absorption-Induced UV Luminescence from ZnO Nanorod Arrays Grown by Vapour- Liquid-Solid Mechanism...... 1186 Susanta Kumar Das, Martin Bock, Mahua Biswas, Enda McGlynn, Ruediger Grunwald

Subdiffraction and Spatial Filtering Due to Periodic Spatial Modulation of the Gain/loss Profile ...... 1187 Kestutis Staliunas, Ramon Herrero, Ramon Vilaseca

Interaction of Focused Light with a Prolate Spheroidal Nanoparticle near a Metallic Layer ...... 1188 Kursat Sendur, Ahmet Sahinoz

Nanoparticle Based Integrated Plasmonic Component...... 1189 Julie Delahaye, Samuel Gresillon, Emmanuel Fort

Modeling of Terahertz Near-Field Imaging: Rigorous Simulation and Antenna Approach...... 1190 Sergei Popov, Yanlu Li, Sergey Sergeyev, Ari Friberg

Motion Bistability of the Plasmon Nanoaggregate Due to the Light Induced Interparticle Forces...... 1191 Sergey Perminov, Vladimir Drachev, Sergey Rautian

Effects of Inhomogeneous Background to the Surface Plasmon Resonance Modes of Metal Nanoparticle Chains...... 1192 Ergun Simsek

Modelling of Surface Plasmon Polaritons in a 2D Superlattice...... 1193 Thomas Weiss, Georgi Kichin, Sergei Tikhodeev, Teri Odom, Harald Giessen

Surface Plasmon Polaritons in Linear Chains of Metallic Nanoparticles...... 1194 Alexander A. Govyadinov, Vadim A. Markel

METAMATERIALS, OPTICAL INVISIBLITY, AND TRANSFORMATION OPTICS

Metamaterials (Tutorial) ...... 1195 Allan Boardman

Spectral and Spatial Mode Engineering of Plasmonic Nanocavities: Subradiant Modes and Tunable Fano Resonances ...... 1196 Yannick Sonnefraud, Niels Verellen, Heidar Sobhani, Feng Hao, Victor V. Moshchalkov, Pol Van Dorpe, Peter Nordlander, Stefan A. Maier

Multipole Metamaterials ...... 1197 Jörg Petschulat, Arkadi Chipouline, Christof Menzel, Carsten Rockstuhl, Andreas Tuennermann, Falk Lederer, Thomas Pertsch

Tuning Chirality in Photonic Metamaterials ...... 1198 Eric Plum, Xing-Xiang Liu, Vassili Fedotov, Yifang Chen, Din P. Tsai, Nikolay I. Zheludev

Slow Light with Electromagnetically Induced Transparency in Metamaterials...... 1199 Philippe Tassin, Lei Zhang, Thomas Koschny, Eleftherios N. Economou, Costas M. Soukoulis

Photonic Metamaterials: Recent Progress (Invited)...... 1200 Martin Wegener

Periodic Large-area Metallic Split-ring Resonator Metamaterial Fabrication Based on Shadow Nanosphere Lithography...... 1201 Michael C. Gwinner, Elisabeth Koroknay, Liwei Fu, Piotr Patoka, Witold Kandulski, Michael Giersig, Harald Giessen

Localizing Light Using Metamaterial Nanotips ...... 1202 Carsten Rockstuhl, Constantin R. Simovski, Sergei A. Tretyakov, Falk Lederer

Metamaterials: A Paradigm for Tailoring Light (Keynote) ...... 1203 Nader Engheta

Metamaterial Analogue of the Mössbauer Effect ...... 1204 Vassili Fedotov, Nikitas Papasimakis, Andreas Bitzer, Markus Walther, Nikolay Zheludev

Index-Near-Zero Properties of Metallic Meander Structures...... 1205 Heinz Schweizer, Liwei Fu, Thomas Weiss, Sergei Tikhodeev, Harald Giessen

Chirality As a Bulk Property Retrieved from the Dispersion Relation...... 1206 Carsten Rockstuhl, Christoph Menzel, Thomas Paul, Falk Lederer

Enhanced Third Harmonic Generation Using Plasmonic Metamaterials ...... 1207 Thomas Paul, Michael Geiselmann, Tobias Utikal, Thomas Zentgraf, Harald Giessen, Carsten Rockstuhl, Falk Lederer

Surface Bloch Waves in Periodic Metamaterial Structures ...... 1208 Slobodan Vukovic, Ilya Shadrivov, Yuri Kivshar

Quasicrystalline Metamaterials ...... 1209 G. Kobiela, Ch. Bauer, Harald Giessen

Metamaterials with 100% Absorption over a Large Frequency Range...... 1210 Eduard Driessen, Michiel De Dood

CLEO®/EUROPE-EQEC JOIN SYMPOSIA

LARGE SCALE PHOTONIC INTEGRATION

Prospects of Silicon Photonics for Future Large Scale Photonic Integration (Invited)...... 1211 Haisheng Rong, Mario Paniccia

InP and Silica Photonic Integrated Circuits for High Spectral Efficiency Fiber-optic Communications (Invited)...... 1212 Christopher Doerr

Towards a New Platform for Integrated Optics: III-V Photonic Crystals Bonded to Silicon on Insulator Wire Waveguides...... 1213 Yacine Halioua, Fabrice Raineri, Timothy Karle, Isabelle Sagnes, Gunther Roelkens, Driess Van Thourhout, Rama Raj

QUANTUM STATES OF LIGHT ON DEMAND: CONCEPTS TO APPLICATIONS

Statistical Design in Integrated Optics...... 1214 Andrea Melloni, Davide Roncelli, Antonio Canciamilla, Francesco Morichetti, Arjen Bakker

Generation and Reconstruction of Schrödinger Cat States of Light in a Cavity by Quantum Nondemolition Measurements (Invited) ...... 1215 Igor Dotsenko, Samuel Deléglise, Clement Sayrin, Julien Bernu, Michel Brune, Jean-Michel Raimond, Serge Haroche

Two-photon Interference from the Resonance Fluorescence of a Single Quantum Dot in a Microcavity ...... 1216 Serkan Ates, Sven Marcus Ulrich, Stephan Reitzenstein, Andreas Löffler, Alfred Forchel, Peter Michler

Time-Evolving Entanglement and Violation of Bell Inequalities using a Quantum Dot Photon-Pair Emitter...... 1217 Mark Stevenson, Robert Young, Andrew Hudson, Anthony Bennett, Christine Nicoll, David Ritchie, Andrew Shields

Direct Production of Three Entangled Fields at Different Wavelengths ...... 1218 Antônio S. Coelho, Fellipe A. S. Barbosa, Jonatas E. S. César, Katiúscia N. Cassemiro, Alessandro S. Villar, Marcelo Martinelli, Paulo Nussenzvieg

Quantum Optics With Nanoscale Surface Plasmons...... 1219 Alexey Akimov, Brendan Shields, Chun Yu, Darrick Chang, Alexander Zibrov, Philip Hemmer, Frank Koppens, Hongkun Park, Nathalie Leon, Parag Deotare, Mughees Khan, Irfan Bulu, Marko Loncar, Mikhail Lukin

Single-Photon Statistics Generated by Narrow-Band Cavity-Enhanced Parametric Down-Conversion ...... 1220 Lars Koch, Matthias Scholz, Oliver Benson

Towards Optimized Single Photon Sources Based on Color Centers in Diamond ...... 1221 David Steinmetz, Roland Albrecht, Elke Neu, Slimane Ghodbane, Doris Steinmüller-Nethl, Christian Deutsch, Jakob Reichel, Christoph Becher

Heralded Preparation and Distillation of Entangled Light (Invited) ...... 1222 Jens Eisert

Design of Microcavities in Diamond-based Photonic Crystals...... 1223 Janine Riedrich-Möller, Elke Neu, Christian Hepp, Christoph Becher

Antibunched Statistics of Heralded Photon States ...... 1224 Alex Hayat, Pavel Ginzburg, Meir Orenstein

Implementations of Atom-Photon Interfaces for Quantum Networking ...... 1225 Peter B. R. Nisbet, Jerome Dilley, Gunnar Langfahl-Klabes, Daniel Ljunggren, Genko Vasilev, Axel Kuhn

Metrological Validation of Photodetectors by Using a Single Photon Source Based on NV-centers in Diamond...... 1226 Silke Peters, Waldemar Schmunk, Helmuth Hofer, Stefan Kück

LASER TWEEZERS AND LIGHT MATTER INTERACTIONS

A Double-SLM Technique for Designing Arbitrary Optical Trapping Patterns (Invited)...... 1227 Christian Maurer, Alexander Jesacher, Stefan Bernet, Monika Ritsch-Marte

Optical Trapping and Manipulation Involving Liquid Crystals and Vectorial Holography...... 1228 Ibis Ricardez-Vargas, Clementina Provenzano, Pasquale Pagliusi, Gabriella Cipparrone

Optical Vortex Pipeline...... 1229 Vladlen Shvedov, Andrei Rode, Yana Izdebskaya, Anton Desyatnikov, Wieslaw Krolikowski, Yuri Kivshar

Calibration of Hologram Coefficients in Holographic Optical Tweezers and Automized Trapping ...... 1230 Susanne Zwick, Michael Warber, Lin He, Christian Schaub, Tobias Haist, Wolfgang Osten

Optical Binding Mechanisms ...... 1231 Jonathan Taylor, Gordon Love

Optical Tweezers for Manipulating Single Atoms (Invited)...... 1232 Lukas Brandt, Cecilia Muldoon, Edouard Brainis, Axel Kuhn

Wide Optical Lenses for Atomic Beams...... 1233 Ole Steuernagel

Using a Birefringent Probe Particle in Variable Polarisation Optical Tweezers to Probe Properties of Biological Materials...... 1234 Simon Parkin, Maren Funk, Kristen Tandy, Timo Nieminen, Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Norman Heckenberg

Trapping a Gas Bubble in Water with Tightly Focused Ultrashort Laser Pulses ...... 1235 Sergey Oshemkov, Lev Dvorkin

Electric Currents Induced by Twisted Light in Bulk Semiconductors ...... 1236 Guillermo Quinteiro, Pablo Tamborenea

TERAHERTZ SOURCES AND APPLICATIONS

THz Scattering-type Near-Field Microscopy of Semiconductor Conductivity and Mobility (Invited) ...... 1237 Fritz Keilmann, Andy J. Huber, Rainer Hillenbrand, Javier Aizpurua, Jesper Wittborn

Imaging Electric and Magnetic Near-fields in Terahertz Metamaterials...... 1238 Andreas Bitzer, Markus Walther

Terahertz Near-field Measurements of Subwavelength Antenna Structures and Metamaterials...... 1239 Aurele Adam, Joseph Knab, Lucie Guestin, Eric Shaner, Paul Planken

2-Dimensional Mapping of Frequency Response of a Single THz Split-Ring Resonator Probed by High Speed Asynchronous Optical Sampling...... 1240 Arne Thoma, Matthias Beck, Wenchao Qiao, Gregor Klatt, R. Gebs, A. Bartels, Michael Nagel, T. Dekorsy

Terahertz Waveguide Emitters for Investigation of Subwavelength structures ...... 1241 Michael Martl, Juraj Darmo, Karl Unterrainer, Erich Gornik

Giant Terahertz Field Enhancement with Plasmonic Antennas...... 1242 Audrey Berrier, Vincenzo Giannini, Stefan Maier, Jaime Gómez Rivas

Polarization of THz Radiation from Laser Generated Plasma Filaments...... 1243 Daniel Dietze, Juraj Darmo, James Heyman, Alexander Urich, Karl Unterrainer

Microscopic Theory of the Linear and Nonlinear Terahertz Response of Semiconductors...... 1244 Daniel Golde, Johannes T. Steiner, Mackillo Kira, Torsten Meier, Stephan W. Koch

All-Optical Coherently Controlled Terahertz AC Charge Currents from Excitons in Semiconductors ...... 1245 Christian Sames, Jean-Michel Ménard, Markus Betz, Arthur L. Smirl, Henry M. Van Driel

Ultra-intense THz Source and Extreme Thz Nonlinearities in Condensed Matter (Invited) ...... 1246 Alexander Sell, Aji A. Anappara, Georg Günter, Silvan Leinß, Konrad Von Volkmann, Tobias Kampfrath, Martin Wolf, Alessandro Tredicucci, Alfred Leitenstorfer, Rupert Huber

Terahertz Quantum Cascade Laser Sources for High Temperature Operation (Invited) ...... 1247 Mikhail Belkin

In-plane and Surface Emitting High Performance THz Pillar Type Photonic Crystal Lasers with Complete Photonic Bandgaps ...... 1248 Hua Zhang, Giacomo Scalari, Romuald Houdré, Jerome Faist

Transfer of a GHz Modulation from an Optical Carrier at Telecom Wavelengths to a Free Space THz Beam ...... 1249 Mangeney Juliette, Martin Matthieu, Crozat Paul, Chassagneux Yannick, Colombelli Raffaele, Vivien Laurent, Blary Karine

Design of High-Energy THz Sources Based on Optical Rectification ...... 1250 József Fülöp, László Pálfalvi, Gábor Almási, János Hebling

Velocity-Matched THz Generation by Optical Rectification in the Organic Nonlinear Optical Crystal COANP Using a Ti:Sapphire Laser...... 1251 Fabian D. J. Brunner, Arno Schneider, Peter Günter

Multi-pixel Continuous-wave THz-imaging by Electro-optic Sampling Using a Photonic-mixer-device Camera...... 1252 Fabian Friederich, Gunnar Spickermann, Peter Haring Bolívar, Torsten Löffler, Hartmut Roskos

CW Terahertz Spectrometer with High-Precision Frequency Control ...... 1253 Axel Roggenbuck, Anselm Deninger, Iván Cámara Mayorga, Holger Schmitz, Joachim Hemberger, Frank Lison, Markus Grüninger

128 Channel THz Ultrashort Pulse System...... 1254 Boris Pradarutti, Sven Scharnowski, Gabor Matthäus, Claudia Brückner, Stefan Riehemann, Stefan Nolte, Gunther Notni, Andreas Tünnermann, Anika Brahm

Increased Sensitivity in the Electro-Optic Detection of Focused Terahertz Pulses ...... 1255 Arno Schneider

New THz Emitter Device Concept Based on Lateral Photo-dember Currents ...... 1256 Gregor Klatt, Florian Hilser, Matthias Beck, Klaus Huska, Georg Bastian, T. Dekorsy

Free-space Propagation of Radially and Azimuthally Polarized Terahertz Bessel-gauss Beams ...... 1257 Stephan Winnerl, Burkhard Zimmermann, Ralf Hubrich, Falk Peter, Harald Schneider, Manfred Helm

Far-infrared Power Detector with Optical Readout...... 1258 Juraj Darmo, Michael Martl, Daniel Dietze, Alexander Urich, Karl Unterrainer

Ultra-broadband Field-resolved Detection Using Photoconductive Antenna from Sub-THz to Near-infrared...... 1259 Masaaki Ashida, Michitaka Bito, Hiroshi Shimosato, Ikufumi Katayama

Microlens Coupled Photoconductive Switch ...... 1260 Gabor Matthäus, Rico Hohmuth, Martin Voitsch, Wolfgang Richter, Boris Pradarutti, Stefan Riehemann, Gunther Notni, Stefan Nolte, Andreas Tünnermann

Terahertz Radiation Mechanism in a Laser Plasma Filament...... 1261 Hui-Chun Wu, J. Meyer-Ter-Vehn

Probing the Conformation-dependent Properties of ß-glucan in Laminarin by Terahertz Time-domain Spectroscopy...... 1262 Hee Jun Shin, Seung Jae Oh, Sung In Kim, Ha Won Kim, Joo-Hiuk Son

Nanomechanical Systems with Plasmonic Resonances as Detectors of Modulated Terahertz Radiation...... 1263 Vladimir Leiman, Aleksey Arsenin, Anatoly Gladun, Victor Ryzhii, Vyacheslav Semenenko

Terahertz Plasmons in Grating-Gate AlGaN/GaN HEMTs...... 1264 Andrey Muravjov, Dmitry Veksler, Vyacheslav Popov, Michael Shur, Nezih Pala, Xuhong Hu, Remis Gaska, Himanshu Saxena, Robert Peale

Enhancement Effect of THz Emission and Detection by THz One-dimensional Photonic Crystal with a Nonlinear Material ...... 1265 Hideto Shirai, Keisuke Hattroi, Shyun Koshiba, Syunsuke Nakanishi, Hiroshi Itoh, Keisuke Takano, Masanori Hangyo, Tae Geun Kim, Noriaki Tsurumachi

THz Differential Near-Field Scanning Optical Microscopy for Biological Applications ...... 1266 Riccardo Degl'Innocenti, Michele Montinaro, Vincenzo Piazza, Pasqualantonio Pingue, Alessandro Tredicucci, Fabio Beltram

Efficient Coupling Into THz PCF Fibres Using Specially Designed Lenses ...... 1267 Rainer Leonhardt, Jessienta Anthony, Yat Hei Lo, Alexander Argyros, Maryanne Large

OPTICS BEYOND THE RAYLEIGH RESOLUTION LIMIT

Sub-Diffraction Resolution CARS Microscopy via Rabi Modulation--a Theoretical Investigation...... 1268 Willem P. Beeker, Petra Groß, Chris J. Lee, Carsten Cleff, Herman L. Offerhaus, Carsten Fallnich, Jennifer L. Herek, Klaus -J. Boller

Resonant Interferometric Lithography beyond the Diffraction Limit...... 1269 Martin Kiffner, Jörg Evers, Muhammad S. Zubairy

Far-field Optical Nanoscopy (Invited) ...... 1270 Stefan Hell

Superresolution without Evanescent Fields...... 1271 Fumin Huang, Tsung Sheng Kao, Nikolay Zheludev

Resonantly-Enhanced Single-Aperture Transmission for Near-Field Probes...... 1272 Yuanjie Pang, Reuven Gordon

Optical Superoscillations (Keynote) ...... 1273 Michael Berry

Fractional Talbot Effect in a Dielectric Micro-spheres Array ...... 1274 Zengbo Wang, Tsung Sheng Kao, Nikolay Zheludev

Photonic Nanojets in Coupled Microcavities...... 1275 Yury Rakovich, David McCloskey, John Donegan

ECBO-CLEO/EUROPE JOINT SESSION

Dynamics of DNA-Based Molecular Motors Measured with 1-bp Resolution ...... 1276 Thomas T. Perkins

Good Shape Photolysis...... 1277 Valentina Emiliani

State-of-the-Art and Future of Ultrahigh Speed OCT ...... 1278 Robert Huber

Maintaining Health: Optical Spectroscopy for Assessment of Metabolic Tissue Aging ...... 1279 Lothar Lilge

FIBER LASERS AND AMPLIFIERS: CONCEPTS TO APPLICATIONS

Technology Trends for High Power Fiber Lasers (Tech Focus) ...... 1280 John Minelly

Recent Technical and Marketing Developments in High Power Fiber Lasers (Tech Focus) ...... 1281 Bill Shiner

Recent Progress In High Efficiency Tm-doped Fiber Lasers (Tech Focus)...... 1282 Bryce Samson, Adrian Carter, Kanishka Tankala

400w Class Fibre Lasers for Manufacturing Applications (Tech Focus)...... 1283 Steve Norman, Andy Appleyard, Michael Duka

High Power Fibre Lasers: Exploitation of Unique Properties (Tech Focus) ...... 1284 Johann Nilsson, Y. Jeong, C. A. Codemard, C. Farrell, L. Vasquez, J. Ji, M. S. Z. Abidin, G. Van Der Westhuizen, S. Yoo, J. K. Sahu

Latest Multi kW Fiber Laser Application in Japan (Tech Focus)...... 1285 Takashi Ishide

ADDITIONAL PAPERS

Monolithic Multistage Optical Switch Operating at 160 Gb/s line Rate...... 1286 Aaron Albores-Mejia, Kevin Williams, Fausto Gomez-Agis, Shangjian Zhang, Harm Dorren, Xaveer Leijtens, Tjibbe De Vries, Siang Oei, Martijn Heck, Luc Augustin, Richard Nötzel, David Robbins, Meint Smit

Optical Clock Generation at 170 GHz from a 42.5 GHz Quantum Dash Fabry Perot Actively Mode-locked Laser Filtered by a Tunable Multi-line Notch Filter...... 1287 Alexandra Lagrost, Mathilde Gay, Maria Costaesilva, Laurent Bramerie, Sophie Larochelle, Youngjae Kim, Pascal Besnard, Alexandre Shen, Guang-Hua Duan

First Ceo Beat Frequency Directly from a 1.5-µm Er:Yb:Glass Laser Oscillator...... 1288 Max Christoph Stumpf, Selina Pekarek, Andreas Ernst Heinz Oehler, Thomas Südmeyer, Ursula Keller

Low-Noise Microwave Signals From a Frequency-Stabilized Yb:Tungstate Optical Frequency Comb ...... 1289 Stephanie Meyer, Steve Lecomte, Jennifer Taylor, Scott Diddams

Rapidly Scanning, High Resolution Yb Fiber Based Frequency Comb-Fourier Transform Spectrometer ...... 1290 Axel Ruehl, Ingmar Hartl, Martin E. Fermann

Diffraction-limited Operation from a Multimode Lma Fiber Using Active Digital Holography Precompensation...... 1291 Mathieu Paurisse, Marc Hanna, Frederic Druon, Patrick Georges, Cindy Bellanger, Arnaud Brignon, Jean-Pierre Huignard

20 W at 589 nm Via Frequency Doubling of Coherently Beam Combined 2-mhz 1178-nm CW Signals Amplified in Raman PM Fiber Amplifiers...... 1292 Luke Taylor, Axel Friedenauer, Vladimir Protopopov, Yan Feng, Domenico Bonaccini Calia, Vladimir Karpov, Wolfgang Hackenberg, Ronald Holzlöhner, Wallace Clements, Manfred Hager, Frank Lison, Wilhelm Kaenders

CARS Spectroscopy from a Single Fiber Laser Oscillator...... 1293 Marco Marangoni, Vikas Kumar, Cristian Manzoni, Alessio Gambetta, Roberta Ramponi, Giulio Cerullo

All-Fiber Multimodal CARS Microscopy of Live Cells ...... 1294 Adrian Frank Pegoraro, Andrew Ridsdale, Rune Lausten, Douglas J. Moffatt, Albert Stolow, Brian K. Thomas, Libin Fu, Liang Dong, Martin E. Fermann

Ultrasensitive Second Harmonic Generation Nanoprobes Via Plasmonic Core-shell Structures...... 1295 Ye Pu, Rachel Grange, Chia-Lung Hsieh, Demetri Psaltis

Controlling the Optical Properties of Single Molecules by Optical Confinement in a Tunable Microcavity...... 1296 Raphael Gutbrod, Alexey Chizhik, Anna Chizhik, Dmitry Khoptyar, Sebastian Bär, Jörg Enderlein, Alfred J. Meixner

Nonlinear Faraday Rotation in Cold Atoms for Quantum Information and Magnetometry...... 1297 Adam Wojciechowski, Eric Corsini, Jerzy Zachorowski, Wojciech Gawlik

Noise Enhanced Transport in Light-harvesting Complexes and Networks...... 1298 Animesh Datta, Filippo Caruso, Alex Chin, Susana Huelga, Martin Plenio

Observing Nonspecular Reflection of a Light Beam ...... 1299 J. P. Woerdman, M. Merano, A. Aiello, M. P. Van Exter

Quantum Optical Control of Micro-mechanical Resonators ...... 1300 Simon Gröblacher, Michael R. Vanner, Alexey Trubarov, Garrett D. Cole, Nikolai Kiesel, Markus Aspelmeyer

A Single-Molecule Optical Transistor...... 1301 Jaesuk Hwang, Martin Pototschnig, Robert Lettow, Gert Zumofen, Alois Renn, Stephan Götzinger, Vahid Sandoghdar

Discrete, Tunable Color-Entanglement ...... 1302 Sven Ramelow, Lothar Ratschbacher, Alessandro Fedrizzi, Nathan K. Langford, Anton Zeilinger

Molecular Lithography - A Quantum Optical Approach...... 1303 Stefan Truppe, Thomas Juffmann, Philipp Geyer, Andras Major, Hendrik Ulbricht, Markus Arndt

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