2019 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2019)

Munich, Germany 23-27 June 2019

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CONVERSION OF TWO WITH DIFFERENT COLOR BY A SINGLE WAVEGUIDE FOR QUANTUM NETWORKS ...... 1 Chris Müller ; Tim Kroh ; Oliver Benson

MULTIMODE OPTO-ELECTRO-MECHANICAL TRANSDUCER FOR NON-RECIPROCAL CONVERSION OF RADIO-FREQUENCY AND OPTICAL SIGNALS ...... 2 Nicola Malossi ; Iman Moaddel Haghighi ; Riccardo Natali ; Giovanni Di Giuseppe ; David Vitali

GENERATING MAXIMAL ENTANGLEMENT BETWEEN SPECTRALLY DISTINCT SOLID-STATE EMITTERS ...... 3 Kristoffer B. Joanesarson ; David L. Hurst ; Jake Iles-Smith ; Jesper Mørk ; Pieter Kok

SHORT-WAVELENGTH, NEAR-DIFFRACTION-LIMITED BEAM, 792 NM CLADDING PUMPED EFFICIENT THULIUM-DOPED FIBER LASER IN A POWER-SCALABLE FIBER DESIGN...... 4 Shankar Pidishety ; Pranabesh Barua ; Peter C. Shardlow ; Pablo G. Rojas Hernández ; Mohammad Belal ; Yutong Feng ; Naresh Kumar Thipparapu ; Jayanta K. Sahu ; Johan Nilsson

THULIUM-DOPED FIBRE LASER WITH 25 W SINGLE-MODE OUTPUT AT 1726 NM ...... 5 M. D. Burns ; P. C. Shardlow ; P. Barua ; T. L. Jefferson-Brain ; J. K. Sahu ; W. A. Clarkson

ALL-NORMAL-DISPERSION MODE-LOCKED TM:ZBLAN FIBER LASER ...... 6 Hiromu Sagara ; Masaki Tokurakawa

ULTRAFAST LIGHT SOURCE AT 1.8 μM BASED ON THULIUM-DOPED FIBERS FOR THREE- MICROSCOPY ...... 7 Yutaka Nomura ; Hideji Murakoshi ; Takao Fuji

TUNABLE MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASER IN 1750–1870NM BY BENDING NORMAL DISPERSION THULIUM-DOPED FIBER AS A DISTRIBUTION FILTER...... 8 Shaoxiang Chen ; Yuhao Chen ; Kun Liu ; Qijie Wang ; Dingyuan Tang ; Seongwoo Yoo

96 FS ALL-FIBER POLARIZATION MAINTAINING THULIUM DOPED AMPLIFIER SEEDED BY COHERENT SUPERCONTINUUM ...... 9 Anupamaa Rampur ; Grzegorz Stepniewski ; Dominik Dobrakowski ; Yuriy Stepanenko ; Thomas Feurer ; Alexander Heidt ; Mariusz Klimczak

A 290 W RADIALLY POLARIZED OUTPUT POWER FROM A SINGLE-STAGE SINGLE-CRYSTAL YB:YAG AMPLIFIER ...... 10 Frieder Beirow ; Michael Eckerle ; Nicolas Aubry ; Matthieu Perrier ; Julien Didierjean ; Patrick Beaure D'Augères ; Thomas Graf ; Marwan Abdou Ahmed

HYBRID HO:YAG LASER WITH 50W RADIALLY-POLARISED OUTPUT ...... 11 P. C. Shardlow ; M. J. Barber ; A. C. Butler ; W. A. Clarkson

COMPACT NON-ASTIGMATIC ALEXANDRITE RING LASER WITH UNIDIRECTIONAL SINGLE- LONGITUDINAL-MODE OPERATION...... 12 Juna Sathian ; Goronwy Tawy ; Xin Sheng ; Ara Minassian ; Michael J. Damzen

GENERATION OF MULTIPLE UP-CONVERTED OAM STATES FROM A TUNABLE OPTICAL VORTEX PARAMETRIC LASER SOURCE ...... 13 Roukuya Mamuti ; Shigeki Nishida ; Katsuhiko Miamoto ; Takashige Omatsu

HANDEDNESS CONTROL OF VISIBLE OPTICAL VORTEX OUTPUT FROM A DIODE-PUMPED PR3+:YLF LASER...... 14 Yuanyuan Ma ; Jung-Chen Tung ; Yung-Fu Chen ; Adam Valle-Mari ; Kohei Toyoda ; Katsuhiko Miyamoto ; Takashige Omatsu

COHERENT BEAM COMBINING OF 37 FEMTOSECOND FIBER AMPLIFIERS ...... 15 Ihsan Fsaifes ; Louis Daniault ; Anke Heilmann ; Jeremy Le Dortz ; Séverine Bellanger ; Jérôme Ourderionnet ; Christian Larat ; Eric Lallier ; Marie Antier ; Eric Durand ; A. Brignon ; Jean-Christophe Chanteloup

COMPARATIVE STUDY OF HARMONIC GENERATION IN AIR AND ARGON IN LIGHT FILAMENTS DRIVEN BY CIRCULARLY POLARIZED MID-IR PULSES ...... 16 Valentina Shumakova ; Claudia Gollner ; Alexander Voronin ; Alexander Mitrofanov ; Dmitriy Sidorov-Biryukov ; Aleksei Zheltikov ; Daniil Kartashov ; Andrius Baltuska ; Audrius Pugzlys

MULTIOCTAVE SUPERCONTINUA FROM SHOCK-COUPLED SOLITON SELF-COMPRESSION IN HOLLOW-CORE ANTIRESONANCE-GUIDING PCF...... 17 Evgeny A. Stepanov ; Aleksandr A. Voronin ; Fanchao Meng ; Aleksandr V. Mitrofanov ; Dmitry A. Sidorov-Biryukov ; Mikhail V. Rozhko ; Pavel B. Glek ; Yanfeng Li ; Andrei B. Fedotov ; Audrius Pugžlys ; Andrius Baltuška ; Chingyue Wang ; Minglie Hu ; Aleksei M. Zheltikov

SOLITON SELF-COMPRESSION IN AIR FILLED KAGOME HCPCF...... 18 Martin Maurel ; Foued Amrani ; Benoit Debord ; Frédéric Gérôme ; Fetah Benabid

TOPOLOGICAL CONTROL OF OPTICAL NONLINEAR WAVES...... 19 Giulia Marcucci ; Davide Pierangeli ; Aharon J. Agranat ; Eugenio Delre ; Claudio Conti

THE CONTINUUM MECHANICS OF SOLITON COLLISIONS...... 20 Oliver Melchert ; Stephanie Willms ; Ihar Babushkin ; Bernhard Roth ; Günter Steinmeyer ; Uwe Morgner ; Ayhan Demircan

EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION OF COEXISTING DIFFERENTLY POLARIZED CAVITY SOLITONS IN A MONOCHROMATICALLY DRIVEN PASSIVE KERR RESONATOR...... 21 Alexander U. Nielsen ; Bruno Garbin ; Stephane Coen ; Stuart G. Murdoch ; Miro Erkintalo

TUNING THE CHIRALITY OF A DIPOLE MOMENT IN AN ACHIRAL PARTICLE WITH STRUCTURED LIGHT ...... 22 Jörg S. Eismann ; Martin Neugebauer ; Peter Banzer

EXPERIMENTAL REALIZATION OF A HANDEDNESS-PRESERVING CHIRAL PHOTONIC CRYSTAL MIRROR ...... 23 Behrooz Semnani ; Jeremy Flannery ; Rubayet Al Maruf ; Michal Bajcsy

AIRY PLASMON PULSES INVESTIGATED BY MULTIPHOTON PHOTOEMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY (PEEM)...... 24 Amit Vikram Singh ; Matthias Falkner ; Thomas Kaiser ; Matthias Zilk ; Michael Steinert ; Thomas Pertsch

SPATIAL PHASE MODULATOR BASED ON OPTOMECHANICALLY DEFORMABLE GRATINGS...... 25 Carol Bibiana Rojas Hurtado ; Johannes Dickmann ; Stefanie Kroker

GENERALIZED CONDUCTANCE FLUCTUATIONS IN ANDERSON LOCALIZATION AT THE TWO LIMITS OF DISORDER...... 26 Randhir Kumar ; Sandip Mondal ; M. Balasubrahmaniyam ; Martin Kamp ; Sushil Mujumdar

FUNDAMENTAL DESIGN PRINCIPLES FOR REFLECTIVE MEMBRANES IN THERMAL NOISE LIMITED CAVITIES...... 27 Johannes Dickmann ; Jan Meyer ; Tim Kaseberg ; Florian F. Bruns ; Richard Norte ; Peter G. Steeneken ; Stefanie Kroker

TEMPORAL AIRY PULSES: HIGH ASPECT RATIO NANOMACHINING OF DIELECTRICS, CELL PORATION AND LIGHT AMPLIFICATION IN EXCITED DIELECTRICS ...... 28 Thomas Baumert

SHAPED ACCELERATING BEAMS FOR MATERIALS PROCESSING ...... 29 Dimitris Mansour ; Dimitris G. Papazoglou

CONICAL-PHASE FRONT BEAM SHAPING FOR DEEP LASER-WRITING OF OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES...... 30 Ehsan Alimohammadian ; Sifan Liu ; Erden Ertorer ; Jianzhao Li ; Peter R. Herman

BEAM SHAPING WITH HIGHER LAGUERRE-GAUSSIAN ORDERS FOR HIGH POWER BESSEL BEAMS ...... 31 Malte Per Siems ; Jens Ulrich Thomas ; Christian Vetter ; Klaus Bergner ; Herbert Gross ; Stefan Nolte

GENERATION OF VECTOR MATHIEU BEAMS USING GEOMETRICAL PHASE ELEMENTS AND THEIR APPLICATION TO LASER MICRO-PROCESSING...... 32 Sergej Orlov ; Paulius Šlevas ; Vitalis Vosylius ; Pavel Gotovski ; Orestas Ulcinas ; Titas Gertus

FEMTOSECOND COVARIANCE ...... 33 Francesca Giusti ; Alexandre Marciniak ; Angela Montanaro ; Giorgia Sparapassi ; Filippo Glerean ; Stefano Marcantoni ; Fabio Benatti ; Shahaf Asban ; Shaul Mukamel ; Daniele Fausti

GENERALIZING TIME-DOMAIN PTYCHOGRAPHY FOR SINGLE BEAM APPLICATIONS...... 34 Dirk-Mathys Spangenberg ; Michael Brügmann ; Erich Rohwer ; Thomas Feurer

BI-ELLIPTICAL HIGH HARMONIC SPECTROSCOPY OF ATOMIC POTENTIALS ...... 35 Eliyahu Bordo ; Ofer Neufeld ; Ofer Kfir ; Avner Fleischer ; Oren Cohen

OBSERVING MOLECULAR DYNAMICS USING FREQUENCY RESOLVED X-RAY SCATTERING...... 36 James M. Glownia ; Matthew Ware ; Noor Al-Sayyad ; Philip Bucksbaum

ALL-OPTICAL BACKGROUND-FREE DETECTION OF RING CURRENTS BY DYNAMICAL SYMMETRY BREAKING HIGH HARMONIC SPECTROSCOPY ...... 37 Ofer Neufeld ; Oren Cohen

GRAVITATIONAL WITH ATOMIC QUANTUM SENSORS...... 38 Guglielmo M. Tino

IMPROVING THE ACCURACY OF ATOM GRAVIMETERS WITH ULTRACOLD SOURCES...... 39 Romain Karcher ; Almazbek Imanaliev ; Sébastien Merlet ; Franck Pereira Dos Santos

THE ROLE OF TRAP SYMMETRY IN AN ATOM-CHIP INTERFEROMETER ABOVE THE BOSE- EINSTEIN CONDENSATION THRESHOLD ...... 40 M. Dupont-Nivet ; C. I. Westbrook ; S. Schwartz

QUANTUM-LIMITED TIME-FREQUENCY MULTIPARAMETER ESTIMATION THROUGH MODE- SELECTIVE PHOTON MEASUREMENT ...... 41 Vahid Ansari ; John M. Donohue ; Jano G. López ; Jaroslav Rehácek ; Zdenek Hradil ; Bohumil Stoklasa ; Martin Paúr ; Benjamin Brecht ; Luis L. Sánchez-Soto ; Christine Silberhorn

THE PHOTONIC GUITAR PICKUP: A HIGH-SENSITIVITY, HIGH-BANDWIDTH FIBER STRAIN SENSOR...... 42 Jack A. Barnes ; Hans-Peter Loock

FUNCTIONALIZED CARBON REINFORCEMENT STRUCTURES WITH OPTICAL FIBRE SENSORS FOR CARBON CONCRETE COMPOSITES ...... 43 K. Bremer ; L. S. M. Alwis ; F. Weigand ; M. Kuhne ; R. Heibig ; B. Roth

OPTICAL FIBRE SENSORS FOR MONITORING SEWER CONCRETE CORROSION ...... 44 Martin Ams ; Paritosh Giri ; Peter Dekker ; Shima Taheri ; Jose Gonzalez ; Simon Clark ; Thomas Kuen ; Louisa Vorreiter ; Heriberto Bustamante ; Michael J. Withford

TWIN MULTICORE FIBER INTERFEROMETERS FOR PRECISION SENSING...... 45 J. Villatoro ; E. Antonio-Lopez ; J. Zubia ; A. Schülzgen ; R. Amezcua-Correa

A COMPRESSED SENSING APPROACH TO FIBRE BRAGG INTERROGATION ...... 46 Srikanth Sugavanam ; Adenowo A. Gbadebo ; Morteza Kamalian-Kopae ; Angshul Majumdar

350-W AVERAGE-POWER SESAM-MODELOCKED ULTRAFAST THIN-DISK LASER ...... 47 F. Saltarelli ; I. J. Graumann ; L. Lang ; D. Bauer ; C. R. Phillips ; U. Keller

TOWARDS 45 WATT SINGLE-CYCLE PULSES FROM YB:YAG THIN-DISK OSCILLATORS ...... 48 Gaia Barbiero ; Raja N. Ahmad ; Haochuan Wang ; Felix Köttig ; David Novoa ; Francesco Tani ; Jonathan Brons ; Philip St. J. Russell ; Ferenc Krausz ; Hanieh Fattahi

OVERCOMING THE CHALLENGES IN POWER SCALING ULTRAFAST THIN-DISK OSCILLATORS: NONLINEARITY MANAGEMENT AND THERMAL EFFECTS ...... 49 F. Saltarelli ; A. Diebold ; I. J. Graumann ; C. R. Phillips ; U. Keller

FIELD ENHANCEMENT IN AN DOUBLY RESONANT OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATOR ...... 50 C. M. Dietrich ; I. Babushkin ; J. R. C. Andrade ; L. Rust ; U. Morgner

POWER-SCALING NONLINEAR-MIRROR MODELOCKED THIN-DISK LASERS...... 51 I. J. Graumann ; F. Saltarelli ; L. Lang ; V. J. Wittwer ; T. Südmeyer ; C. R. Phillips ; U. Keller

STATISTICAL PROPERTIES OF PHASE AND EIGENVALUES OF NONLINEAR FOURIER TRANSFORM OF SECOND ORDER SOLITONS...... 52 Marco Tanner ; Wen Qi Zhang ; Terence Chan ; Tanya M. Monro ; Afshar V. Shahraam

SIGNAL-DEPENDENT NOISE FOR B-MODULATION NFT-BASED TRANSMISSION...... 53 Anastasiia Vasylchenkova ; Maryna Pankratova ; Jaroslaw Prilepsky ; Nikolay Chichkov ; Sergei Turitsyn

PROBABILISTIC SHAPING AND ITS APPLICATIONS FOR OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS...... 54 Georg Böcherer

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK-BASED EQUALISER IN THE NONLINEAR FOURIER DOMAIN FOR FIBRE-OPTIC COMMUNICATION APPLICATIONS ...... 55 Morteza Kamalian-Kopae ; A. Vasylchenkova ; O. Kotlyar ; M. Pankratova ; J. Prilepsky ; S. Turitsyn

A NOVEL FOURTH-ORDER DIFFERENCE SCHEME FOR THE DIRECT ZAKHAROV-SHABAT PROBLEM...... 56 Sergey B. Medvedev ; Irina A. Vaseva ; Igor S. Chekhovskoy ; Mikhail P. Fedoruk

NEW OPPORTUNITIES WITH OLD OPTICAL MATERIALS ...... 57 Marko Loncar

THZ SPECTROSCOPY OF PHOTOGENERATED CARRIERS IN FE:LINBO3 FOR OPTICAL CONTROL OF 2D MATERIALS ...... 58 Sophie Blundell ; Jon Gorecki ; Nikitas Papasimakis ; Sakellaris Mailis ; Vasilis Apostolopoulos

INTEGRATED WAVEGUIDE FOURIER TRANSFORM SPECTROMETER ON THIN-FILM LITHIUM NIOBATE...... 59 David Pohl ; Marc Reig Escalé ; Mohammad Madi ; Peter Brotzer ; Fabian Kaufmann ; Anton Sergeyev ; Philippe Giaccari ; Urs Meier ; Edoardo Alberti ; Rachel Grange

3D VERTICAL DIRECTIONAL COUPLER USING SLOPE WAVEGUIDES ON SI ...... 60 Vinita Mittal ; Antulio Tarazona ; Ali Khokar ; Mehdi Banakar ; David Thomson ; Graham T. Reed ; Harold M. H. Chong

DEVELOPMENT OF ORIENTATION-PATTERNED GAP GROWTH ON GAAS FOR NONLINEAR FREQUENCY CONVERSION ...... 61 Axel Strömberg ; Giriprasanth Omanakuttan ; Hoon Jang ; Pooja V. Natesan ; Tajkia S. Tofa ; Myriam Bailly ; Arnaud Grisard ; Bruno Gérard ; Valdas Pasiskevicius ; Fredrik Laurell ; Sebastian Lourdudoss ; Yan-Ting Sun

INTEGRATED SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM PHOTONICS...... 62 Gregor Weihs ; Silke Auchter ; Huan Chen ; Kaisa Laiho ; Benedikt Pressi ; Alexander Schlager ; Hannah Thiel ; Holger Suchomel ; Christian Schneider ; Martin Kamp ; Sven Höfling

DETERMINISTIC INTEGRATION OF QUANTUM DOTS INTO ON-CHIP MULTI-MODE INTERFERENCE COUPLERS VIA IN-SITU ELECTRON BEAM LITHOGRAPHY ...... 63 P. Schnauber ; J. Schall ; S. Bounouar ; T. Höhne ; Suk-In Park ; Geun-Hwan Ryu ; T. Heindel ; S. Burger ; J.-D. Song ; S. Rodt ; S. Reitzenstein

INTEGRATION OF SINGLE QUANTUM DOTS IN SUSPENDED PHONONIC WAVEGUIDES ...... 64 Anja Vogele ; Xueyong Yuan ; Maximilian M. Sonner ; Matthias Weiß ; Emeline D. S. Nysten ; Saimon F. C. Da Silva ; Armando Rastelli ; Hubert J. Krenner

ON-CHIP PHOTON PAIR SOURCE WITH PUMP REJECTION FILTER...... 65 Dorian Oser ; Florent Mazeas ; Carlos Alonso Ramos ; Xavier Le Roux ; Laurent Vivien ; Sébastien Tanzilli ; Éric Cassan ; Laurent Labonté

TIME/FREQUENCY HIGH-DIMENSIONAL ENTANGLEMENT VIA ENGINEERED PARAMETRIC DOWNCONVERSION ...... 66 Francesco Graffitti ; Alexander Pickston ; Peter Barrow ; Massimiliano Proietti ; Dmytro Kundys ; Agata M. Branczyk ; Alessandro Fedrizzi

INVESTIGATION OF NOISE SOURCES DOWN TO THE SHOT-NOISE LIMIT IN YB-DOPED FIBER AMPLIFERS FOR TMI INVESTIGATIONS...... 67 Alexandra Popp ; Victor Bock ; Florian Sedlmeir ; Christian R. Müller ; Nicoletta Haarlammert ; Thomas Schreiber ; Christoph Marquardt ; Andreas Tünnermann ; Gerd Leuchs

TIME RESPONSE CHARACTERISTICS OF PHOTODARKENING-INDUCED LOSS IN YB-DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIER ...... 68 Yutong Feng ; Christophe A. Codemard ; Pranabesh Barua ; Huaiqin Lin ; Sheng Zhu ; Yujun Feng ; Shankar Pidishety ; Soonki Hong ; Jayanta K. Sahu ; Johan Nilsson

POWER DEPENDENT NOISE PERFORMANCE OF FS SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATION IN NORMAL DISPERSION FIBERS WITH A LONG ZERO-DISPERSION WAVELENGTH ...... 69 D. S. Shreesha Rao ; Rasmus D. Engelsholm ; Iván B. Gonzalo ; Binbin Zhou ; Patrick Bowen ; Peter M. Moselund ; Morten Bache ; Ole Bang

A COMBINATORIAL BUFFERED OXIDE ETCHING METHOD FOR HIGH-POWER CLADDING LIGHT STRIPPER ...... 70 Elif Yapar Yildirim ; Ali Karatutlu ; Ekin Teslime Balk ; Yakup Midilli ; Bülend Ortaç

FIBER FUSE EFFECT IN HOLLOW CORE OPTICAL FIBERS...... 71 Igor Bufetov ; Anton Kolyadin ; Alexey Kosolapov

MACHINE LEARNING BASED CHARACTERISATION OF DISSIPATIVE SOLITONS...... 72 Alexey Kokhanovskiy ; Anastasia Bednyakova ; Evgeny Kuprikov ; Aleksey Ivanenko ; Sergey Turitsyn

FROM COHERENT RAMAN MICROSCOPY TO ENDOSCOPY ...... 73 Hervé Rigneault

THE POTENTIAL OF LINEAR AND NON-LINEAR RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY FOR BEDSIDE AND INTRAOPERATIVE MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS AND THERAPY...... 74 Jürgen Popp

DUAL-COLOUR-PUMP BROADBAND CARS IN SINGLE-RING GAS-FILLED PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBRE ...... 75 R. Tyumenev ; L. Späth ; B. M. Trabold ; G. Ahmed ; M. H. Frosz ; P. St. J. Russell

RETRIEVING THE COMPLEX VIBRATIONAL SUSCEPTIBILITY WITH INTERFEROMETRIC STIMULATED RAMAN SCATTERING ...... 76 Carlo Michele Valensise ; Vikas Kumar ; Sandro De Silvestri ; Giulio Cerullo ; Dario Polli

PHONON TRANSPORT IN DISORDERED 2D PHONONIC CRYSTALS...... 77 Marianna Sledzinska ; Bartlomiej Graczykowski ; David Lacroix ; Francesc Alzina ; Konstantinos Termentzidis ; Umberto Melia ; Clivia M. Sotomayor Torres

DYNAMICS OF HIGHLY EXCITED ELECTRONS IN 3D AND 2D SEMICONDUCTORS: THEORY AND EXPERIMENTS...... 78 Jelena Sjakste ; Luca Perfetti ; Nathalie Vast ; Katsumi Tanimura

VERSATILE OPCPA PUMP-PROBE LASER SYSTEM FOR THE FLASH2 XUV FEL BEAMLINE AT DESY ...... 79 T. Lang ; S. Alisauskas ; U. Große-Wortmann ; T. Hülsenbusch ; B. Manschwetus ; C. Mohr ; J. Müller ; F. Peters ; N. Schirmel ; S. Schulz ; A. Swiderski ; J. Zheng ; I. Hartl

PROGRESS OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW VULCAN PW OPCPA BEAMLINE...... 80 Giedre Archipovaite ; Mario Galletti ; Pedro Oliveira ; Munadi Ahmad ; Rob Clarke ; David Neely ; Nicola Booth ; Rob Heathcote ; Marco Galimberti ; Ian Musgrave ; Cristina Hernandez-Gomez

CHARACTERIZATION, INTEGRATION AND OPERATION OF A 100-W SOLID STATE AMPLIFIER IN THE ADVANCED-VIRGO PRE-STABILIZED LASER SYSTEM ...... 81 Frédéric Cleva ; Jean-Pierre Coulon ; Fabien Kéfélian

HIGH-ENERGY, SUB-20 FS OPCPA LASER SYSTEM OPERATING AT 1 KHZ REPETITION RATE ...... 82 Robert Boge ; František Batysta ; Jakub Novák ; Zbynek Hubka ; Michael Greco ; Václav Šobr ; Emily Erdman ; Alex Špacek ; Lukáš Indra ; Murat Torun ; Boguslaw Tykalewicz ; Petr Mazurek ; Karel Majer ; Roman Antipenkov ; Jonathan T. Green ; Jack A. Naylon ; Pavel Bakule ; Bedrich Rus

TIME-DOMAIN PTYCHOGRAPHY ...... 83 Thomas Feurer ; Michael Brügmann ; Tobias Schweizer ; Alexander Heidt ; Dirk Spangenberg ; Erich Rohwer

NEAR-INFRARED FIELDOSCOPY OF WATER ...... 84 Ayman Alismail ; Haochuan Wang ; Gaia Barbiere ; Ferenc Krausz ; Hanieh Fattahi

INTERFEROMETRIC FOURIER-TRANSFORM STIMULATED RAMAN SCATTERING ...... 85 Alejandro De La Cadena Pérez-Gallardo ; Vikas Kumar ; Antonio Perri ; Fabrizio Preda ; Giulio Cerullo ; Dario Polli

NON-COLLINEAR OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATOR FOR VIDEO RATE STIMULATED RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY OF MICROPLASTICS...... 86 Luise Beichert ; Yuliya Binhammer ; José Ricardo Andrade ; Ann-Kathrin Kniggendorf ; Bernhard Roth ; Uwe Morgner

OUT-OF-PLANE FOCUSSING POLARIZATION CONTROL GRATING COUPLERS FOR PHOTONIC- SPINTRONIC INTEGRATION...... 87 Hanna Becker ; Clemens J. Krückel ; Dries Van Thourhout ; Martijn J. R. Heck

TAILORED COUPLING COEFFICIENT WITHIN SUB-WAVELENGTH NANOSTRUCTURED WAVEGUIDES ARRAYS: TOWARDS COMPACT AND EFFICIENT DEVICES...... 88 A. Talneau ; F. Hentinger ; N. Belabas

COUPLING QUANTUM EMITTERS IN NANODIAMONDS TO MICRORING RESONATORS FOR INTEGRATED QUANTUM PHOTONICS...... 89 Victor Leong ; Dmitry A. Kalashnikov ; Jibo Dai ; Gandhi Alagappan ; Ting Hu ; Valery A. Davydov ; Viatcheslav N. Agafonov ; Leonid A. Krivitskiy

SUSPENDED EPOXY POLYMER INVERTED TAPERS FOR SCALABLE FIBRE-COUPLED SINGLE- PHOTON DEVICES...... 90 Asli D. Ugurlu ; Henri Thyrrestrup ; Ravitej Uppu ; Claudéric Ouellet-Plamondon ; Rüdiger Schott ; Andreas D. Wieck ; Arne Ludwig ; Peter Lodahl ; Leonardo Midolo

TAPERED FIBER COUPLING OF SINGLE DEFECT CENTERS IN TWO-DIMENSIONAL MATERIALS...... 91 Andreas W. Schell ; Hideaki Takashima ; Toan Tron Tran ; Igor Aharonovich ; Shigeki Takeuchi

INTERNAL STRUCTURING OF SILICON BY ULTRAFAST LASER IRRADIATION...... 92 David Grojo

SPATIAL-CONTROL OF LASER-WRITTEN IN-CHIP SI STRUCTURES WITH BESSEL BEAMS ...... 93 Ahmet Turnali ; Aqiq Ishraq ; G. Makey ; Onur Tokel

ANATOMY OF PICOSECOND LASER-WRITTEN WAVEGUIDES INSIDE SILICON ...... 94 Maxime Chambonneau ; Helena Kämmer ; Gabor Matthäus ; Kilian Pollok ; Markus Blothe ; Falko Langenhorst ; Stefan Nolte

NANOSTRUCTURE FORMATION ON SILICON SUBOXIDE WITH PLASMONIC NEAR-FIELD ABLATION INDUCED BY FEMTOSECOND LASER PULSES...... 95 Tatsutoshi Takaya ; Godai Miyaji ; Lukas Janos Richter ; Jürgen Ihlemann

SLICING CRYSTALLINE SILICON WAFER BY DEEP SUBSURFACE LASER PROCESSING AND SELECTIVE CHEMICAL ETCHING...... 96 Mona Zolfaghari Borra ; Hisham Nasser ; Emine Hande Ciftpinar ; Ahmet Turnali ; Petro Deminskyi ; Tahir Colakoglu ; Onur Tokel ; Fatih Omer Ilday ; Ihor Pavlov ; Rasit Turan ; Alpan Bek

FEW-FEMTOSECOND PLASMON TRANSIENTS PROBED WITH NM-SCALE SENSITIVITY ...... 97 Béla Lovász ; Péter Sándor ; Zsuzsanna Pápa ; Bálint Éles ; Balázs Bánhegyi ; Péter Rácz ; Christine Prietl ; Joachim R. Krenn ; Péter Dombi

OBSERVING NONLINEAR PLASMON-EXCITON COUPLING FOR ENHANCED HARMONIC GENERATION...... 98 Jinhui Zhong ; Juemin Yi ; Dong Wang ; Anke Korte ; Abbas Chimeh ; Peter Schaaf ; Erich Runge ; Christoph Lienau

MAGNETIC FIELD IMAGING WITH MICROFABRICATED OPTICALLY-PUMPED MAGNETOMETER ARRAYS...... 99 N. Nardelli ; S. Krzyzewski ; B. Korenko ; G. Romanov ; J. Hughes ; O. Alem ; S. Knappe

TOWARDS ROOM-TEMPERATURE LASER MAGNETOMETRY WITH NV CENTRES IN OPEN FIBRE CAVITIES...... 100 Sarath Raman Nair ; Lachlan J. Rogers ; Jan Jeske ; Xavier Vidal ; Andrew Wood ; Fedor Jelezko ; Andrew D. Greentree ; Thomas Volz

USE OF OPTICAL QUANTUM SENSORS TO STUDY CHEMICAL PROCESSES ...... 101 Valeria Cimini ; Ilaria Gianani ; Ludovica Ruggiero ; Tecla Gasperi ; Marco Sbroscia ; Emanuele Roccia ; Daniela Tofani ; Fabio Bruni ; Maria Antonietta Ricci ; Marco Barbieri

QUANTUM SENSING OF ABSORBANCE AND THE BEER-LAMBERT LAW...... 102 Euan J. Allen ; Javier Sabines-Chesterking ; Patrick M. Birchall ; Alex McMillan ; Siddarth K. Joshi ; Jonathan C. F. Matthews

SPECKLE NOISE REDUCTION BY FIBER SCRAMBLING FOR IMPROVING THE MEASUREMENT PRECISION OF AN AIRBORNE WIND LIDAR SYSTEM...... 103 Oliver Lux ; Christian Lemmerz ; Fabian Weiler ; Uwe Marksteiner ; Benjamin Witschas ; Engelbert Nagel ; Oliver Reitebuch

SHORT-RANGE SUPERCONTINUUM BASED LIDAR FOR TEMPERATURE PROFILING...... 104 Abba Saleh ; Antti Aalto ; Piotr Ryczkowski ; Tommi Mikkonen ; Juha Toivonen

EXTENDING THE EXPOSURE TIME IN HIGH-RESOLUTION MOBILE TUNNEL LIDAR ...... 105 Takeharu Murakami ; Norihito Saito ; Takashi Michikawa ; Yuichi Komachi ; Michio Sakasita ; Shigeru Kogure ; Kiwamu Kase ; Satoshi Wada ; Katsumi Midorikawa

ATMOSPHERIC CO2-DETECTION VIA SCHEIMPFLUG DIAL EMPLOYING A SIMPLE FIBER AMPLIFIER ...... 106 X. Yang ; J. Larsson ; R. Lindberg ; C. Xu ; J. Bood ; M. Brydegaard ; F. Laurell

A SINGLE FREE-RUNNING DUAL-COMB MIXSEL FOR FAST AND PRECISE DISTANCE MEASUREMENTS...... 107 J. Nürnberg ; C. G. E. Alfieri ; D. Waldburger ; L. Krüger ; M. Golling ; U. Keller

DUAL-COLOR 1.25-MHZ SUB-70-FS SOURCE AT 1.3 AND 1.7 μM FOR MULTIMODAL 3-PHOTON MICROSCOPY IN WATER-TRANSPARENCY BANDS ...... 108 Frédéric Druon ; Khmaies Guesmi ; Lamiae Abdeladim ; Tiphaine Berberian ; Philippe Rigaud ; Júlia Ferrer Ortas ; Marc Hanna ; Pierre Mahou ; Jean Livet ; Willy Supatto ; Patrick Georges ; Emmanuel Beaurepaire

DIRECTLY DIODE-PUMPED, KERR-LENS MODE-LOCKED CR:ZNSE OSCILLATOR...... 109 Nathalie Nagl ; Sebastian Gröbmeyer ; Vladimir Pervak ; Oleg Pronin ; Ka Fai Mak ; Ferenc Krausz

TOWARDS FULLY STABILIZED 10GHZ OPTICAL FREQUENCY COMBS FROM SESAM-MODELOCKED YB:CALGO LASERS...... 110 L. M. Krüger ; A. S. Mayer ; C. R. Phillips ; U. Keller

76 FS SWCNT-SA MODE-LOCKED TM:MGWO4 LASER AT 2 μM...... 111 Li Wang ; Yongguang Zhao ; Yicheng Wang ; Lizhen Zhang ; Haifeng Lin ; Ji Eun Bae ; Sun Young Choi ; Fabian Rotermund ; Pavel Loiko ; Xavier Mateos ; Uwe Griebner ; Valentin Petrov ; Weidong Chen

CHIRPED-PULSE OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS ...... 112 Pei Liu ; Zhaowei Zhang

WAVELENGTH INDEPENDENT IMAGE CLASSIFICATION THROUGH A MULTIMODE FIBER USING DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS...... 113 Eirini Kakkava ; Navid Borhani ; Babak Rahmani ; Ugur Tegin ; Christophe Moser ; Demetri Psaltis

MODE-DEPENDENT CROSSTALK PENALTY IN FEW-MODE MULTI-CORE FIBER TRANSMISSION ...... 114 Georg Rademacher ; Benjamin J. Puttnam ; Ruben S. Luis ; Andrew Ross-Adams ; Simon Gross ; Michael Withford ; Nicolas Riesen ; Yusuke Sasaki ; Hideaki Furukawa ; Kunimasa Saitoh ; Kazuhiko Aikawa ; Yoshinari Awaji ; Naoya Wada

MULTI-BAND OPTICAL SYSTEMS TO ENABLE ULTRA-HIGH SPEED TRANSMISSIONS ...... 115 Alessio Ferrari ; Antonio Napoli ; Nelson Costa ; Johannes K. Fischer ; Joao Pedro ; Wladek Forysiak ; Andre Richter ; Erwan Pincemin ; Vittorio Curri

EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION OF PROPAGATION DIRECTION DEPENDENT PERFORMANCE OF SINGLE-MODE MULTI-CORE AND FEW-MODE FIBER LINKS...... 116 Ruben S. Luis ; Georg Rademacher ; Benjamin J. Puttnam ; Hideaki Furukawa ; Yoshinari Awaji ; Ryo Maruyama ; Kazuhiko Aikawa ; Naoya Wada

COMBINING THE DISCRETE NFT SPECTRUM WITH B-MODULATION FOR HIGH-EFFICIENCY OPTICAL TRANSMISSION...... 117 Anastasiia Vasylchenkova ; Jaroslaw E. Prilepsky ; Nikolay B. Chichkov ; Sergei K. Turitsyn

TRANSPARENT YB:LU3AL5O12 LASER CERAMICS BASED ON NANOPOWDERS PRODUCED BY LASER ABLATION...... 118 Liza Basyrova ; Roman Maksimov ; Vladislav Shitov ; Mikhail Baranov ; Xavier Mateos ; Pavel Loiko

RF-SPUTTERING TECHNIQUE FOR FABRICATION OF DIELECTRIC MULTILAYER STRUCTURES WITH LOW-THRESHOLD COHERENT EMISSION AT 1.5 μM...... 119 Alessandro Chiasera ; Cesare Meroni ; Francesco Scotognella ; Yann Boucher ; Anna Lukowiak ; Davor Ristic ; Giorgio Speranza ; Stefano Varas ; Lidia. Zur ; Mile Ivanda ; Stefano Taccheo ; Lam T. N. Tran ; Daniele Zonta ; Roberta Ramponi ; Giancarlo C. Righini ; Maurizio Ferrari

MID-INFRARED (MIR) GLASSES AND FIBRES FOR MEDICAL APPLICATIONS ...... 120 Angela B. Seddon

SUPER-QUADRATIC UPCONVERSION LUMINESCENCE AMONG LANTHANIDE IONS...... 121 Irene Carrasco ; Laetitia Laversenne ; Stefano Bigotta ; Alessandra Toncelli ; Mauro Tonelli ; Alexander I. Zagumennyi ; Markus Pollnau

GE/YBF3 AND ZNS/YBF3 THIN-FILM COMBINATIONS OPEN NEW PERSPECTIVES IN PRODUCTION OF BROADBAND OPTICS FOR MID-INFRARED LASER APPLICATIONS...... 122 Tatiana Amotchkina ; Michael Trubetskov ; Marcus Schulz ; Vladimir Pervak

IN-MEMORY COMPUTING USING ELECTRICAL AND PHOTONIC MEMORY DEVICES ...... 123 Abu Sebastian

PHOTONIC RESERVOIR COMPUTING BASED ON THE RANDOM INTERACTION OF TRANSVERSE OPTICAL MODES IN LARGE CROSS-SECTION WAVEGUIDES ...... 124 Charis Mesaritakis

NON-VOLATILE PHOTONIC WEIGHTS AND THEIR IMPACT ON PHOTONIC RESERVOIR COMPUTING SYSTEMS...... 125 P. Stark ; J. Geler Kremer ; F. Eltes ; D. Caimi ; J. Fompeyrine ; B. J. Offrein ; S. Abel

NANOPHOTONIC HARDWARE FOR RESERVOIR COMPUTING — SPECTRALLY HOMOGENEOUS MICROLASER ARRAYS...... 126 Jan Große ; Tobias Heuser ; Daniel Brunner ; Ingo Fischer ; Stephan Reitzenstein

QUBITS IN SPACE ...... 127 Giuseppe Vallone ; Francesco Vedovato ; Luca Calderaro ; Costantino Agnesi ; Matteo Schiavon ; Alberto Santamanto ; Andrea Stanco ; Vincenza Luceri ; Daniele Dequal ; Giuseppe Bianco ; Paolo Villoresi

CO-EXISTENCE OF 87 MBIT/S QUANTUM AND 10 GBIT/S CLASSICAL COMMUNICATIONS IN 37-CORE FIBER ...... 128 B. Da Lio ; D. Bacco ; D. Cozzolino ; F. Da Ros ; X. Guo ; Y. Ding ; Y. Sasaki ; K. Aikawa ; S. Miki ; H. Terai ; T. Yamashita ; J. S. Neergaard-Nielsen ; M. Galili ; K. Rottwitt ; U. L. Andersen ; T. Morioka ; L. K. Oxenløwe

QUANTUM RANGEFINDNG...... 129 Stefan Frick ; John Rarity

ULTRA-VIOLET OPTICAL AMPLIFIER BASED ON PLASMA-CORE PCF ...... 130 Frédéric Delahaye ; Foued Amrani ; Benoît Debord ; Frédéric Gérôme ; Fetah Benabid

ACTIVATION OF THE SELF-FOCUSING PROCESS IN HOLLOW-CORE FIBERS: INFLUENCE OF THE SPATIO-TEMPORAL DYNAMICS ...... 131 Aurora Crego ; Enrique Conejero Jarque ; Julio San Roman

ALL-FIBER HIGH-AVERAGE-POWER 4.42-μM RAMAN LASER BASED ON SILICA FIBER...... 132 Alexey V. Gladyshev ; Maxim S. Astapovich ; Maxim M. Khudyakov ; Alexey F. Kosolapov ; Mikhail E. Likhachev ; Igor A. Bufetov

MID-IR HCPCF GAS-LASER EMITTING AT 4.6 μM ...... 133 Frédéric Gérôme ; Farzin Aghbolagh ; Vasudevan Nampoothiri ; Benoit Debord ; Luca Vincetti ; Fetah Benabid ; Wolfgang Rudolph

355 NM-LASER PUMPED HYDROGEN UV RAMAN COMB...... 134 Matthieu Chafer ; Benoit Beaudou ; Jonas H. Osório ; Frédéric Delahaye ; Foued Amrani ; Benoit Debord ; Frédéric Gérôme ; Fetah Benabid

NON-INVASIVE REAL-TIME CHARACTERIZATION OF HOLLOW-CORE PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBRES USING WHISPERING GALLERY MODE SPECTROSCOPY...... 135 Michael H. Frosz ; Riccardo Pennetta ; Michael T. Enders ; Goran Ahmed ; Philip St J. Russell

PROBING NEURONAL ACTIVITY USING MEMBRANE INTERFACIAL WATER ...... 136 S. Roke

PHASE-CONTRAST MICROSCOPE WITH MOLECULAR CONTRAST...... 137 Keiichiro Toda ; Miu Tamamitsu ; Ryoichi Horisaki ; Takuro Ideguchi

VISUALIZING CELLULAR SECRETION WITH SINGLE-PROTEIN SENSITIVITY VIA INTERFEROMETRIC SCATTERING MICROSCOPY (ISCAT)...... 138 André Gemeinhardt ; Katharina König ; Francesca Nicoli ; Mahyar Dahmardeh ; Vahid Sandoghdar

HIGH-CONTRAST COHERENT RAMAN SCATTERING IMAGING USING A SELF-SYNCHRONIZED DUAL-COLOR FIBER LASER ...... 139 Cihang Kong ; Christian Pilger ; Henning Hachmeister ; Xiaoming Wei ; Kevin K. Tsia ; Thomas Huser ; Kenneth K. Y. Wong

LIGHT SHAPING FOR RECONFIGURABLE MICROSCALE TEMPERATURE CONTROL...... 140 Chang Liu ; Pascal Berto ; Iván Flores ; Marc Guillon ; Gilles Tessier

PERIODIC AMPLIFICATION OF RADIATIVE HEAT TRANSFER...... 141 Jose Ordonez-Miranda ; Karl Joulain ; Younès Ezzahri ; Jérémie Drevillon ; J. J. Alvarado-Gil

THREE-DIMENSIONAL LASER NANOSTRUCTURING OF OPTICAL CRYSTALS: TOWARDS NANOPHOTONIC-ENGINEERED SOLID-STATE-MEDIA...... 142 Airán Rodenas ; Min Gu ; Giacomo Corrielli ; Petra Paiè ; Sajeev John ; Ajoy K. Kar ; Roberto Osellame

YB:KLUW CHANNEL WAVEGUIDE LASERS PASSIVELY Q-SWITCHED BY EVANESCENT-FIELD INTERACTION WITH CARBON NANOTUBES ...... 143 Ji Eun Bae ; Tae Gwan Park ; Esrom Kifle ; Xavier Mateos ; Magdalena Aguiló ; Francesc Díaz ; Carolina Romero ; Javier Rodríguez Vázquez De Aldana ; Fabian Rotermund

FEMTOSECOND-LASER-WRITTEN WAVEGUIDE LASERS AT ~2 μM...... 144 Xavier Mateos ; Esrom Kifle ; Pavel Loiko ; Carolina Romero ; Javier Rodríguez Vázquez De Aldana ; Airán Ródenas ; Sun Yung Choi ; Ji Eun Bae ; Fabian Rotermund ; Uwe Griebner ; Valentin Petrov ; Magdalena Aguiló ; Francesc Díaz

IN-BAND PUMPING OF TM:LIYF4 CHANNEL WAVEGUIDE: A POWER SCALING STRATEGY FOR ~2 μM WAVEGUIDE LASERS...... 145 Pavel Loiko ; Romain Thouroude ; Rémi Soulard ; Gurvan Brasse ; Jean-Louis Doualan ; Blandine Guichardaz ; Alain Braud ; Aleksey Tyazhev ; Ammar Hideur ; Mathieu Laroche ; Patrice Camy

VERSATILE WAVEGUIDE CHIP LASER FOR 2.9 μM EMISSION...... 146 Philippe Guay ; Nicolas Bourbeau Hébert ; Jérôme Genest ; David G. Lancaster

DEGENERATE MIRRORLESS OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATOR...... 147 Anne-Lise Viotti ; Patrick Mutter ; Andrius Zukauskas ; Valdas Pasiskevicius ; Carlota Canalias

PHOTON PAIR GENERATION AT 2.080μM BY DOWN-CONVERSION ...... 148 Taylor Shields ; Shashi Prabhakar ; Damian Powell ; Gregor G. Taylor ; Dmitry Morozov ; Mehdi Ebrahim ; Michael Kues ; Lucia Caspani ; Corin Gawith ; Robert H. Hadfield ; Matteo Clerici

CONTINUOUS TUNABILITY OF A MICRORESONATOR PARAMETRIC OSCILLATOR ...... 149 Toby Bi ; Noel Lito B. Sayson ; Vincent Ng ; Luke S. Trainor ; Harald G. L. Schwefel ; Stéphane Coen ; Miro Erkintalo ; Stuart G. Murdoch

BROAD-BAND OPTICAL PARAMETRIC AMPLIFICATION IN A TAPERED SILICON CORE FIBER PUMPED IN THE TELECOM BAND ...... 150 D. Wu ; L. Shen ; H. Ren ; T. Hawkins ; J. Ballato ; U. J. Gibson ; A. C. Peacock

INFRARED ULTRA-SHORT PULSES GENERATION USING STIMULATED RAMAN SCATTERING IN GAS-FILLED HC-PCF ...... 151 D. Kergoustin ; F. Amrani ; B. Debord ; F. Gérôme ; F. Benabid

HIGH POWER 2ND STOKES DIAMOND RAMAN OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION ...... 152 Matthias Heinzig ; G. Palma-Vega ; Benjamin Yildiz ; Till Walbaum ; Thomas Schreiber ; Ramona Eberhardt ; Andreas Tünnermann

III-V ON SOI PHOTONIC CRYSTAL NANO-AMPLIFIER AND NANOLASER...... 153 F. Manegatti ; D. Fitsios ; D. Sanchez ; R. Raj ; F. Raineri

THREE-DIMENSIONAL PYRAMID MICROLASERS...... 154 Stefan Bittner ; Melissa A. Guidry ; Yalei Song ; Clément Lafargue ; Roch Sobcyk ; Dominique Decanini ; Barbara Dietz ; Liang Huang ; Joseph Zyss ; Alain Grigis ; Mélanie Lebental

OPTICALLY CONTROLLING THE EMISSION CHIRALITY OF MICROLASERS...... 155 N. Carlon Zambón ; P. St-Jean ; M. Milicevic ; A. Lemaître ; L. Le Gratiet ; A. Harouri ; I. Sagnes ; O. Bleu ; D. D. Solnyshkov ; G. Malpuech ; S. Ravets ; A. Amo ; J. Bloch

BI-JUNCTION CARRIER DEPLETION TYPE ELECTRO-OPTIC PHASE-SHIFTERS...... 156 Mohamed Ashour ; Simon Schneider ; Eva M. Weig ; Jan N. Caspers

SATURABLE ABSORPTION WITH CNT COUPLED WGM AND FABRICATION OF ER-DOPED MICRORESONATOR FOR ON-CHIP MODE-LOCKED LASER...... 157 Riku Imamura ; Shun Fujii ; Tomoki S. L. Prugger Suzuki ; Ryo Suzuki ; Rammaru Ishida ; Mizuki Ito ; Hideyuki Maki ; Lan Yang ; Takasumi Tanabe

STRONG ENHANCEMENT OF LIGHT EXTRACTION EFFICIENCY IN SUB-WAVELENGTH ALGAAS/GAAS VERTICAL-EMITTING NANOPILLARS ...... 158 Bruno Romeira ; Jérôme Borme ; Hélder Fonseca ; João Gaspar ; Jana B. Nieder

FABRICATION OF METAL MICROSTRUCTURES IN ELASTIC HYDROGEL BY MULTIPHOTON PHOTOREDUCTION ...... 159 Mitsuhiro Terakawa ; Manan Machida ; Hiroaki Onoe ; Takuro Niidome ; Alexander Heisterkamp

DIRECT PHOTOREDUCTION OF GRAPHENE OXIDE FILM FOR FLEXIBLE ELECTRONICS USING FEMTOSECOND LASER PULSES...... 160 Truong-Son Dinh Le ; Jianing An ; Young-Jin Kim

DIAMOND FUNCTIONALIZATION BY ULTRAFAST LASER PULSES...... 161 Patrick Salter

LASER-INDUCED MULTI-FUNCTIONAL BIOMIMETIC SURFACES...... 162 E. Skoulas ; A. Mimidis ; A. Papadopoulos ; C. Lanara ; N. Livakas ; E. Petrakakis ; G. D. Tsibidis ; E. Stratakis

LASER WRITING OF 2D NANOSTRUCTURES IN SILVER-DOPED PHOSPHATE GLASS ...... 163 Evgeniya Smetanina ; Benoit Chimier ; Yannick Petit ; Jin Myoung Mok ; Chang Hyun Park ; Seung Han Park ; Thierry Cardinal ; Lionel Canioni ; Guillaume Duchateau

QUANTUM MEASUREMENT OF A MECHANICAL RESONATOR AT AND BELOW THE STANDARD QUANTUM LIMIT...... 164 Massimiliano Rossi ; David Mason ; Junxin Chen ; Yeghishe Tsaturyan ; Albert Schliesser

SANDWICH IN THE MIDDLE: ENHANCING THE OPTOMECHANICAL COUPLING ...... 165 Paolo Piergentili ; Letizia Catalini ; Mateusz Bawaj ; Stefano Zippili ; Nicola Malossi ; Riccardo Natali ; David Vitali ; Giovanni Di Giuseppe

LONG RANGE DISTRIBUTED OPTICAL ACOUSTIC SENSOR BASED ON IN-LINE RAMAN AMPLIFICATION...... 166 Ali Masoudi ; Trevor P. Newson ; Gilberto Brambilla

NOVEL DAS EXTENSION SYSTEM BASED ON PULSE REGENERATION...... 167 D. Sanahuja ; J. Preciado ; J. Subías ; C. D. Heras ; P. Sevillano ; J. J. Martínez ; A. Villafranca

COMPACT PHOTOACOUSTIC SPECTROMETER BASED ON A WIDELY TUNABLE MID-INFRARED PULSED OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATOR ...... 168 Laurent Lamard ; David Balslev-Harder ; Andre Peremans ; Jan C. Petersen ; Mikael Lassen

OPTICAL FREQUENCY COMB PHOTOACOUSTIC SPECTROSCOPY ...... 169 Ibrahim Sadiek ; Tommi Mikkonen ; Markku Vainio ; Juha Toivonen ; Aleksandra Foltynowicz

SENSITIVITY ENHANCEMENT OF A CANTILEVER-ENHANCED PHOTO-ACOUSTIC SPECTROSCOPIC SENSOR BY AN OPTICAL BUILD-UP CAVITY...... 170 Teemu Tomberg ; Tuomas Hieta ; Markku Vainio ; Lauri Halonen

FOURIER TRANSFORM PHOTOACOUSTIC SPECTROSCOPY WITH SUPERCONTINUUM LIGHT SOURCE...... 171 Tommi Mikkonen ; Caroline Amiot ; Antti Aalto ; Kim Patokoski ; Goëry Genty ; Juha Toivonen

ULTRAFAST SPECTROSCOPY AND CONTROL IN THE LIMITS OF SINGLE ELECTRONS AND VIRTUAL PHOTONS ...... 172 Alfred Leitenstorfer

100 μJ 100 KHZ, CEP-STABLE HIGH-POWER FEW-CYCLE FIBER LASER ...... 173 E. Shestaev ; D. Hoff ; S. Hädrich ; F. Just ; T. Eidam ; P. Jójárt ; Z. Várallyay ; K. Osvay ; G. G. Paulus ; A. Tünnermann ; J. Limpert

ALL-POLARIZATION-MAINTAINING DUAL-COLOR/DUAL-COMB YB:FIBER LASER...... 174 Jakob Fellinger ; Aline S. Mayer ; Georg Winkler ; Stefan Droste ; Chen Li ; Christoph M. Heyl ; Ingmar Hartl ; Oliver H. Heckl

GENERATING PICOSECOND PULSES FROM MID-INFRARED FIBER LASERS USING FREQUENCY- SHIFTED FEEDBACK ...... 175 Matthew R. Majewski ; Robert I. Woodward ; Stuart D. Jackson

HIGH ENERGY LEVEL RAMAN-ASSISTED FIBER OPTICAL PARAMETRIC CHIRPED PULSE AMPLIFICATION...... 176 Lauriane Fouché-Forté ; Claire Grosset-Grange ; Philippe Morin ; Jérôme Dubertrand ; Patrick Beaure D' Augères ; Yves Quiquempois ; Géraud Bouwmans ; Arnaud Mussot ; Emmanuel Hugonnot

VCSEL TECHNOLOGIES FOR HIGH-CAPACITY DENSE WDM NETWORKS...... 177 Mariangela Rapisarda ; Alberto Gatto ; Paolo Martelli ; Paola Parolari ; Christian Neumeyr ; Michela Svaluto Moreolo ; Josep M. Fabrega ; Laia Nadal ; Pierpaolo Boffi

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK EQUALIZERS FOR PAM-4 USING DML-ON-SILICON...... 178 Nikolaos-Panteleimon Diamantopoulos ; Takuro Fujii ; Hidetaka Nishi ; Koji Takeda ; Takaaki Kakitsuka ; Shinji Matsuo

TWO-WAY PAM8/PAM4 VCSEL-BASED IVLLC SYSTEM WITH PARALLEL OPTICAL INJECTION LOCKING...... 179 You-Ruei Wu ; Chung-Wei Su ; Chung-Yi Li ; Wen-Shing Tsai ; Hai-Han Lu

28-GBUAD PAM-4 SIGNAL DETECTION THROUGH 16-CORE FIBER USING HIGH SPEED 2D PHOTODETECTOR ARRAY DEVICE...... 180 Toshimasa Umezawa ; Naokatsu Yamamoto

FSO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM WITH MULTI ACTUATOR ADAPTIVE LENS...... 181 Seyed Ayoob Moosavi ; Martino Quintavalla ; Jacopo Mocci ; Riccardo Muradore ; Hossein Saghafifar ; Stefano Bonora

TAILORING RANDOM LASING EMISSION BY PULSED POLYMER ABLATION...... 182 Esther Soria ; Antonio Consoli ; Niccolò Caselli ; Cefe Lopez

NEURO-INSPIRED COMPUTING: FROM RESISTIVE MEMORY TO OPTICS ...... 183 Charles Mackin ; Pritish Narayanan ; Hsinyu Tsai ; Stefano Ambrogio ; An Chen ; Geoffrey W. Burr

RANDOM LASER ACTION FROM ELECTROSPUN POLYMERIC NANOFIBERS DOPED EITHER WITH ORGANIC DYE OR SEMICONDUCTOR NANOPRISMS ...... 184 Leonardo De S. Menezes ; Mário C. A. De Oliveira ; Manoel L. Da S. Neto ; Pablo I. R. Pincheira ; Carlos Rojas-Ulloa ; Nikifor R. Gomez ; Helinando P. De Oliveira ; Cid B. De Araújo ; Anderson S. L. Gomes

PLASMONIC RANDOM LASER WITH THE EMBEDDING OF SILVER NANOSTRUCTURE MATERIALS ...... 185 Zhen-Ying Li ; Jia-Huei Hsiao ; Jin-Jei Wu ; Shwu-Yun Tsay ; Yao-Hui Chen ; Ja-Hon Lin

SIGNAL SHAPING AND NEUROMORPHIC PROCESSING FOR OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS ...... 186 Mariia Sorokina ; Sergei Turitsyn

SCALING LAWS AND TOPOLOGY-PROPERTIES OF BOOLEAN REINFORCEMENT LEARNING IN PHOTONIC NEURAL NETWORKS...... 187 Louis Andreoli ; Xavier Porte ; Maxime Jacquot ; Laurent Larger ; Daniel Brunner

REINFORCEMENT LEARNING IN A LARGE SCALE PHOTONIC NETWORK ...... 188 Sheler Maktoobi ; Louis Andreoli ; Laurent Larger ; Maxime Jacquot ; Daniel Brunner

TOWARDS CONTINUOUS VARIABLES QUANTUM COMPUTING WITH TRAPPED IONS ...... 189 Gleb Maslennikov ; Jaren Gan ; Ko-Wei Tseng ; Chi Huan Nguyen ; Dzmitry Matsukevich

8×8 PROGRAMMABLE SI3N4 PHOTONIC PROCESSOR FOR LINEAR QUANTUM PROCESSING ...... 190 Caterina Taballione ; Tom A. W. Wolterink ; Jasleen Lugani ; Andreas Eckstein ; Bryn A. Bell ; Robert Grootjans ; Ilka Visscher ; Dimitri Geskus ; Chris G. H. Roeloffzen ; Jelmer J. Renema ; Ian A. Walmsley ; Pepijn W. H. Pinkse ; Klaus-J. Boller

TIME-DOMAIN MULTIPLEXED TWO-DIMENSIONAL CLUSTER STATE FOR LARGE-SCALE UNIVERSAL MULTI-INPUT ONE-WAY QUANTUM COMPUTATION ...... 191 W. Asavanant ; Y. Shiozawa ; B. Charoensombutamon ; H. Emura ; S. Yokoyama ; R. N. Alexander ; N. C. Menicucci ; S. Takeda ; J. Yoshikawa ; H. Yonezawa ; A. Furusawa

OPTICAL D-LEVEL FREQUENCY-TIME-BASED CLUSTER STATES...... 192 Michael Kues ; Christian Reimer ; Stefania Sciara ; Piotr Roztocki ; Mehedi Islam ; Luis Romero Cortés ; Yanbing Zhang ; Bennet Fischer ; Sébastien Loranger ; Raman Kashyap ; Alfonso Cino ; Sai T. Chu ; Brent E. Little ; David J. Moss ; Lucia Caspani ; William J. Munro ; José Azaña ; Roberto Morandotti

71 W AVERAGE POWER SUB-MW PEAK POWER DIFFRACTION-LIMITED MONOLITHIC TAPERED FIBER AMPLIFIER...... 193 Konstantin K. Bobkov ; Andrey E. Levchenko ; Vladimir V. Velmiskin ; Tatyana A. Kochergina ; Svetlana S. Aleshkina ; Mikhail M. Bubnov ; Denis S. Lipatov ; Alexander Y. Laptev ; Alexei N. Guryanov ; Mikhail E. Likhachev

THE IMPACT OF FIBER CORE DESIGN AND THERMALLY-INDUCED PHASE SHIFTS ON THE THRESHOLD OF MODE INSTABILITIES...... 194 Cesar Jauregui ; Christoph Stihler ; Andreas Tünnermann ; Jens Limpert

HIGH GAIN AND PER IN DOUBLE-PASS ROD FIBER AMPLIFIER MODULE...... 195 Jean-François Lupi ; Mette Marie Johansen ; Mattia Michieletto ; Jesper Lægsgaard

PUMP-POWER-NOISE INFLUENCE ON MODE INSTABILITIES IN HIGH-POWER FIBER LASER SYSTEMS...... 196 Christoph Stihler ; Cesar Jauregui ; Andreas Tünnermann ; Jens Limpert

ULTRAFAST THERMO-OPTICAL DYNAMICS OF PLASMONIC NANOPARTICLES ...... 197 Francesco Banfi ; Paolo Maioli ; Aurélien Crut ; Marco Gandolfi ; Fabio Medeghini ; Fabrice Vallée ; Natalia Del Fatti

TRACKING ULTRAFAST ENERGY FLOW IN PLASMONIC NANOCRYSTAL ASSEMBLIES...... 198 Andrea Mazzanti ; Zhijie Yang ; Marie-Paule Pileni ; Giulio Cerullo ; Paolo Laporta ; Giuseppe Della Valle

INTERFACIAL THERMAL RESISTANCE BETWEEN LIGHT AND MATTER ...... 199 Cheng-Li Chiu ; Tzu-Kan Hsiao ; Bo-Yi Chen ; Chih-Wei Chang

ADVANCES IN PHOTOACOUSTIC AND PHOTOTHERMAL TECHNIQUES FOR NONDESTRUCTIVE CHARACTERIZATION AT NANOSCOPIC SCALE...... 200 R. Li Voti ; G. Leahu ; E. Petronijevic ; A. Belardini ; M. Centini ; C. Sibilia ; M. Bertolotti

3+ DIODE-PUMPED VISIBLE LASER OPERATION OF TB :LILUF4...... 201 Elena Castellano-Hernández ; Christian Kränkel

A FASCINATING MATERIAL FOR METROLOGY: THE PR:LIGDF4 SOLID-STATE LASER...... 202 Alberto Di Lieto ; Eugenio Damiano ; Alberto Sottile ; Mauro Tonelli

THE FIRST DEMONSTRATION OF A 639-NM REGENERATIVE LASER AMPLIFIER ...... 203 Naoto Sugiyama ; Shogo Fujita ; Yusaku Hara ; Fumihiko Kannari

GENERATION OF 10W, 1NS DEEP ULTRAVIOLET PULSE AT 193NM...... 204 Hironori Igarashi ; Yuki Tamaru ; Chen Qu ; Atsushi Fuchimukai ; Yoshihiko Murakami ; Yasuhiro Kamba ; Taisuke Miura ; Junichi Fujimoto ; Hakaru Mizoguchi

SPACE-QUALIFIED PULSED DPSS UV LASER FOR MARTIAN SUBSURFACE EXPLORATION ...... 205 A. Büttner ; M. Ernst ; M. Hunnekuhl ; R. Kalms ; L. Willemsen ; P. Weßels ; D. Kracht ; J. Neumann

HIGH-ENERGY TWO-COLOUR PICOSECOND ND:YAG LASER FOR SATELLITE LASER RANGING...... 206 Alexey Kornev ; Roman Balmashnov ; Igor Kuchma ; Arsen Davtian

CHALLENGES AND TRENDS IN OPTICAL MOLECULAR IMAGING ...... 207 Sophie Brasselet

3+ PASSIVELY Q-SWITCHED ND :YVO4 LASER SYSTEM FOR SELF-ILLUMINATED AND SELF- SYNCHRONIZED UP-CONVERSION OF IMAGES ...... 208 A. J. Torregrosa ; H. Maestre ; M. L. Rico ; J. Capmany

THEORETICAL MODELLING AND EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATION OF A MID-INFRARED FEMTOSECOND UPCONVERSION SYSTEM ...... 209 A. S. Ashik ; Callum F. O'Donnell ; S. Chaitanya Kumar ; M. Ebrahim-Zadeh ; Peter Tidemand-Lichtenberg ; Christian Pedersen

ELECTRO-OPTIC CONTROL OF INTRA-CAVITY IMAGE UP-CONVERSION FOR FAST RANGE-GATED SYSTEMS...... 210 A. J. Torregrosa ; H. Maestre ; M. L. Rico ; J. Capmany

FLEXIBLE AND ULTRA-LIGHTWEIGHT POLYMER MEMBRANE LASERS ...... 211 Markus Karl ; James M. E. Glackin ; Marcel Schubert ; Nils M. Kronenberg ; Graham A. Turnbull ; Ifor D. W. Samuel ; Malte C. Gather

THRESHOLD POWER INVESTIGATIONS OF OPTICALLY-PUMPED PHOTONIC CRYSTAL LASERS WITH BURIED HETEROSTRUCTURE GAIN REGIONS...... 212 A. Sakanas ; K. S. Mathiesen ; Y. Yu ; E. Semenova ; L. Ottaviano ; J. Mork ; K. Yvind

MECHANISM OF WAVELENGTH TUNING OVER 200 NM RANGE FROM INP/INGAAS NANO-LASERS GROWN ON SOI ...... 213 Wai Kit Ng ; Yu Han ; Kei May Lau ; Kam Sing Wong

LOSS-COUPLED DFB NANO-RIDGE LASER MONOLITHICALLY GROWN ON A STANDARD 300-MM SI WAFER ...... 214 Yuting Shi ; Marina Baryshnikova ; Yves Mols ; Marianna Pantouvaki ; Joris Van Campenhout ; Bernardette Kunert ; Dries Van Thourhout

MICROPILLAR LASERS WITH SITE-CONTROLLED QUANTUM DOTS AS ACTIVE MEDIUM ...... 215 Arsenty Kaganskiy ; Sören Kreinberg ; Xavier Porte ; Stephan Reitzenstein

BROADBAND MID-INFRARED DIRECTIONAL AND MULTIMODE INTERFERENCE COUPLERS IN GLS GLASS FABRICATED USING FEMTOSECOND LASER DIRECT-WRITING...... 216 T. Gretzinger ; S. Gross ; A. Arrióla ; T. T. Fernandez ; D. Strixner ; J. Tepper ; L. Labadie ; M. J. Withford

DIRECT LASER WRITING OF MID-INFRARED STRAIGHT AND BENT WAVEGUIDES...... 217 Pascal Masselin ; Julie Carcreff ; David Le Coq

BOSON BAND VIBRATIONS AID REFRACTIVE INDEX MAPPING OF WAVEGUIDES IN HIGH INDEX CHALCOGENIDE GLASS...... 218 Thomas Gretzinger ; Toney Teddy Fernandez ; Simon Gross ; Alexander Arrióla ; Michael Withford

DIRECT WRITING OF 3D INTEGRATED PHOTONIC CIRCUITS FOR ASTROPHOTONICS...... 219 S. Piacentini ; G. Corrielli ; A. S. Nayak ; E. Pedretti ; S. Minardi ; R. Osellame

LOW BEND LOSS FEMTOSECOND WRITTEN WAVEGUIDES EXPLOITING MICROCRACK ENHANCED MODAL CONFINEMENT ...... 220 Timothy Lee ; Qi Sun ; Rand Ismaeel ; Martynas Beresna ; Gilberto Brambilla

FEMTOSECOND PULSE INSCRIPTION OF 3D ARRAYS OF BRAGG GRATINGS IN SELECTED CORES OF A MULTICORE OPTICAL FIBER...... 221 Alexey Wolf ; Kirill Bronnikov ; Alexandr Dostovalov ; Sergey Babin

ON-CHIP INFRARED SENSOR TECHNOLOGIES FOR CHEM/BIO DIAGNOSTICS: QUO VADIS? ...... 222 Boris Mizaikoff

ALL-DIELECTRIC HIGH-Q METASURFACES FOR INFRARED ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY APPLICATIONS...... 223 Aleksandrs Leitis ; Andreas Tittl ; Mingkai Liu ; Filiz Yesilkoy ; Duk-Yong Choi ; Dragomir N. Neshev ; Yuri S. Kivshar ; Hatice Altug

TOWARDS A MID-INFRARED LAB-ON-CHIP SENSOR USING GE-ON-SI WAVEGUIDES ...... 224 R. W. Millar ; U. Griskevicuite ; K. Gallacher ; L. Baldassarre ; M. Sorel ; M. Ortolani ; D. J. Paul

SUSPENDED TANTALUM PENTOXIDE RIB WAVEGUIDES FOR LASER ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY ...... 225 Marek Vlk ; Vinita Mittal ; Ganapathy S. Murugan ; Jana Jágerská

NON-LINEAR PROPAGATION OF ULTRASHORT MID-IR PULSES...... 226 Valentina Shumakova ; Skirmantas Alisauskas ; Pavel Malevich ; Claudia Gollner ; Alexander Voronin ; Alexander Mitrofanov ; Dmitriy Sidorov-Biryukov ; Aleksei Zheltikov ; Daniil Kartashov ; Andrius Baltuska ; Audrius Pugzlys

SOLITON SELF-COMPRESSION IN HOLLOW CAPILLARY FIBRES ...... 227 John C. Travers ; Teodora Grigorova ; Christian Brahms ; Federico Belli

SOLITON COMPRESSION IN A MULTIPASS CELL...... 228 Gaëtan Jargot ; Nour Daher ; Loïc Lavenu ; Xavier Delen ; Nicolas Forget ; Marc Hanna ; Patrick Georges

TWO-COLOR SOLITON MOLECULES ...... 229 Oliver Melchert ; Stephanie Willms ; Ihar Babushkin ; Surajit Bose ; Bernhard Roth ; Uwe Morgner ; Ayhan Demircan

SOLITON SELF-COMPRESSION AND SPECTRAL BROADENING OF 1 μM FEMTOSECOND PULSES IN SINGLE-DOMAIN KTIOPO4 ...... 230 Anne-Lise Viotti ; Björn Hessmo ; Sara Mikaelsson ; Chen Guo ; Cord Arnold ; Anne L'Huillier ; Balys Momgaudis ; Andrius Melnikaitis ; Fredrik Laurell ; Valdas Pasiskevicius

PASSIVE SI3N4 PHOTONIC INTEGRATED PLATFORM AT 1μM FOR SHORT-RANGE OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS ...... 231 Xiaonan Hu ; Zhichao Ye ; Marcello Girardi ; Pascual Muñoz ; Anders Larsson ; Victor Torres-Company

SILICON-INTEGRATED HIGH-SPEED MODULATORS BASED ON BARIUM TITANATE WITH RECORD- LARGE POCKELS COEFFICIENTS ...... 232 Felix Eltes ; J. Elliott Ortmann ; Pau Castera ; Darius Urbonas ; Daniele Caimi ; Lukas Czornomaz ; Pablo Sanchis ; Jean Fompeyrine ; Stefan Abel

SIC-SIO2 MEMS-DBR BASED WIDELY TUNABLE OPTICAL FILTERS AROUND 1550 NM WITH NARROW FWHM ...... 233 Julijan Cesar ; Sujoy Paul ; Franko Küppers ; Thomas Kusserow

HIGH-SPEED BALANCED AVALANCHE PHOTODETECTOR FOR HOMODYNE DETECTION...... 234 Tobias Beckerwerth ; Felix Ganzer ; Patrick Runge ; Martin Schell

INP MEMS MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETER OPTICAL SWITCH ON SILICON...... 235 Tianran Liu ; Francesco Pagliano ; René Van Veldhoven ; Vadim Pogoretskii ; Yuqing Jiao ; Andrea Fiore

TOWARDS HIGH-SPEED ENERGY-EFFICIENT PULSE-SWITCHING NETWORKS IMPLEMENTED IN CARRIER-INJECTION-BASED SI-PHOTONICS...... 236 Clemens J. Krückel ; Hanna Becker ; Yoojin Ban ; Martijn J. R. Heck ; Joris Van Campenhout ; Dries Van Thourhout

GAP STATES CONTRIBUTION IN THE NON-LINEAR OPTICAL RESPONSE OF GLASSY SEMICONDUCTORS ...... 237 Elena Romanova ; Andrei Afanasev ; Maxim Sukhanov ; Alexander Velmuzhov ; Vladimir Shiryaev ; Alexei Nezhdanov ; Yulia Kuzyutkina ; David Furniss ; Trevor Benson ; Angela Seddon ; Stephane Guizard

NONLINEAR CHARACTERIZATION OF BLUE-LUMINESCENT GRAPHENE QUANTUM DOTS IN WATER IN ULTRAVIOLET, VISIBLE AND INFRARED DOMAINS...... 238 Charles Ciret ; Hongzhen Wang ; Christophe Cassagne ; Georges Boudebs

NONLINEAR OPTICS OF MULTIFERROIC MATERIALS ...... 239 Manfred Fiebig

SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION IN THERMALLY POLED NITROANILINE ALL-SOLID MICROSTRUCTURED OPTICAL FIBERS ...... 240 Georgios Violakis ; Stavros Pissadakis

FOUR-WAVE MIXING PARAMETRIC OSCILLATION IN DEUTERATED SILICON NITRIDE MICRORESONATORS PREPARED BY LOW-TEMPERATURE (100 C) PECVD PLATFORM ...... 241 Zeru Wu ; Zihan Xu ; Yanfeng Zhang ; Hui Chen ; Yujie Chen ; Siyuan Yu

MULTIWAVELENGTH NEUROMORPHIC SILICON PHOTONICS ...... 242 Bhavin J. Shastri ; Alexander N. Tait ; Mitchell A. Nahmias ; Thomas Ferreira De Lima ; Hsuan-Tung Peng ; Paul R. Prucnal

SOLVING MAXCUT OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS WITH A COHERENT ISING MACHINE BASED ON OPTO-ELECTRONIC OSCILLATORS ...... 243 Fabian Böhm ; Guy Verschaffelt ; Guy Van Der Sande

LARGE-SCALE ISING MACHINE BASED ON SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATION...... 244 D. Pierangeli ; G. Marcucci ; C. Conti

MULTIPLE ROUND-TRIP DELAY-BASED ARCHITECTURE FOR SI-INTEGRATED PHOTONIC RESERVOIR COMPUTING...... 245 Florian Denis-Le Coarer ; Damien Rontani ; Marc Sciamanna

SHORT AND LONG TERM MEMORY IN REGENERATIVE SPIKING MICROPILLAR LASERS ...... 246 V. A. Pammi ; S. Terrien ; N. G. R. Broderick ; B. Krauskopf ; S. Barbay

IMPROVEMENT IN RADIATIVE RECOMBINATION EFFICIENCY AND EMISSION POWER DENSITY OF SURFACE-PASSIVATED INGAN NANO-DISK IN A WIRE HETEROSTRUCTURE ARRAY ...... 247 Pratim Kumar Saha ; Vikas Pendem ; Swaroop Ganguly ; Dipankar Saha

THERMAL RADIATION POLARIZATION ANALYSIS OF THE CRYSTAL FIBER GROWTH ZONE: DETERMINATION OF THE CRYSTAL MELT REFRACTIVE INDEX...... 248 Galina Bufetova ; Sergey Rusanov ; Vladimir Seregin ; Vitaly Kashin ; Vladimir Tsvetkov

LIGHT TRANSPORT AND VORTEX FORMATION IN ALL SOLID BAND GAP FIBRES...... 249 Andrey D. Pryamikov ; Grigory K. Alagashev ; Sergei Turitsyn

OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF CE-DOPED SILICA FIBER ...... 250 Amit Yadav ; Evgeny Zherebtsov ; Nikolay B. Chichkov ; Regina Gumenyuk ; Mikhail A. Melkumov ; Mikhail V. Yashkov ; Evgeny M. Dianov ; Edik U. Rafailov

HIGH-POWER LIMITATIONS OF GRAPHENE NANOCOATED OPTICAL TAPER SATURABLE ABSORBERS...... 251 Paul Mouchel ; Meriem Kemel ; Georges Semaan ; Mohamed Salhi ; Marc Le Flohic ; François Sanchez

FABRICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF NEW PHOSPHATE GLASSES AND GLASS-CERAMICS SUITABLE FOR DRAWING OPTICAL AND BIOPHOTONIC FIBERS...... 252 Pablo Lopez-Iscoa ; Nirajan Ojha ; Diego Pugliese ; Regina Gumenyuk ; Jonathan Massera ; Nadia Giovanna Boetti ; Davide Janner ; Catherine Boussard-Plédel ; Daniel Milanese ; Laeticia Petit

3+ MID-INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY OF PR :LU2O3 SINGLE CRYSTAL...... 253 Alessandra Toncelli ; Jihua Xu ; Alessandro Tredicucci ; Alexander Heuer ; Christian Krankel

SUPPRESSING 1.06 μM EMISSION OF ND3+ IONS IN TELLURITE ALL SOLID PHOTONIC BANDGAP FIBERS WITH DOUBLE CLADDING ...... 254 Tong Hoang Tuan ; Kou Miura ; Nobuhiko Nishiharaguchi ; Takenobu Suzuki ; Yasutake Ohishi

RARE-EARTH DOPED OXIDE GLASSES AND FIBERS FOR LASERS EMITTING IN THE 2÷3 μM SPECTRAL RANGE ...... 255 Boris Denker ; Boris Galagan ; Vitaly Dorofeev ; Sergei Motorin ; Vasily Koltashev ; Sergey Sverchkov

PHOTO DARKENING SUPPRESSION IN HIGHLY YB-DOPED ALUMINOPHOSPHOSILICATE FIBER BY ADDITION OF CERIUM ...... 256 R. Sidharthan ; H. Li ; K. J. Lim ; S. H. Lim ; Y. M. Seng ; S. L. Chua ; S. Yoo

2+ 3+ PERSISTENT LUMINESCENCE FEATURES IN HEXAGONAL SR1-X/2AL2-XSIXO4:EU ,DY COMPOUNDS ...... 257 V. Castaing ; C. Monteiro ; M. Allix ; B. Viana

FABRICATION OF FLUORESCENT GOLD NANOCLUSTERS IN THIN POLYMER FILMS BY DIRECT LASER WRITING ...... 258 Mohammad Bitarafan ; Sofia Suomala ; Juha Toivonen

OPTICALLY RECONFIGURABLE SURFACE MICROSTRUCTURES ON POLYMERIC THIN FILMS...... 259 Jan Krüger ; Troishenley Calvelo ; Nicholas Bolle ; Ian Reed ; Stefan Masiuk ; Robert Conwell ; David J. McGee

OPTICAL SIMULATIONS OF PRINTED POLYMER OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES (POWS): SEARCH FOR THEIR OPTICAL LIMITATIONS CAUSED BY FABRICATION AND APPLICATION GEOMETRY ...... 260 C. Backhaus ; C. Vögl ; J. Zeitler ; T. Reitberger ; N. Lindlein ; J. Franke

X-RAY MICROSCOPY OF POLYMER PHOTONIC STRUCTURES...... 261 Evangelos Marakis ; Ravitej Uppu ; Alexandra T. J. Pacureanu ; Peter Cloetens ; Willem L. Vos ; Pepijn W. H. Pinkse

LASER-INDUCED DAMAGE IN PASSIVE AND ACTIVE POLYMER OPTICAL FIBERS...... 262 Kevin Kiedrowski ; Florian Jakobs ; Jana Kielhorn ; Hans-Hermann Johannes ; Wolfgang Kowalsky ; Dietmar Kracht ; Istvan Balasa ; Detlev Ristau

SPECTROSCOPIC CHARACTERIZATION OF ER,YB:Y2TI2O7 NANOPARTICLES FOR FORENSIC APPLICATIONS...... 263 Alessandra Toncelli ; Jihua Xu ; Mouna Gouiaa ; Ramzi Maalej

3+ COMPARATIVE STUDY OF SPECTROSCOPIC PROPERTIES OF PR -DOPED LIY0.3LU0.7F4, LIYF4 AND LILUF4 CRYSTALS ...... 264 Maxim Demesh ; Natali Gusakova ; Alexey Nizamutdinov ; Oleg Morozov ; Stella Korableva ; Anatol Yasukevich ; Viktor Kisel ; Vadim Semashko ; Nikolai Kuleshov

SPECTROSCOPY OF TM:Y2O3 TRANSPARENT CERAMIC AT CRYOGENIC TEMPERATURES ...... 265 Fangxin Yue ; Venkatesan Jambunathan ; Samuel Paul David ; Petr Navratil ; Josep Maria Serres ; Xavier Mateos ; Magdalena Aguiló ; Francesc Díaz ; Antonio Lucianetti ; Tomas Mocek

UV LUMINESCENCE IN HO:ZBLAN GLASSES ...... 266 Anna Jusza ; Pawel Komorowski ; Joanna Olas ; Krzysztof Anders ; Ryszard Piramidowicz

TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE OF MAGNETIC PERMEABILITY AND OPTICAL POLARIZATION ROTATION OF GALLIUM-TERBIUM GARNET CRYSTALS...... 267 Renata Ismagilova ; Renat Shaidullin ; Oleg Ryabushkin

CHARACTERIZATION OF THE VERDET CONSTANT OF DY2O3 CERAMICS IN THE TWO-MICRON SPECTRAL RANGE ...... 268 David Vojna ; Ondrej Slezák ; Hiroaki Furuse ; Ryo Yasuhara ; Antonio Lucianetti ; Tomáš Mocek ; Miroslav Cech

TERBIUM ALUMINIUM GARNET CERAMICS FOR ULTRAHIGH POWER LASER ISOLATORS...... 269 Shigeki Tokita ; Megumi Nishio ; Hiyori Uehara ; Takagimi Yanagitani ; Kana Fujioka ; Junji Kawanaka ; Ryo Yasuhara

MEASURING THE THERMAL EXPANSION COEFFICIENT OF ULTRASTABLE MATERIALS WITH 10-9 K-1 UNCERTAINTY ...... 270 Maryam Ghazi Zahedi ; Thomas Legero ; Uwe Sterr

MEASUREMENT OF EFFECTIVE FOUR-PHOTON ABSORPTION IN SEMICONDUCTORS...... 271 G. Polónyi ; B. Monoszlai ; P. S. Nugraha ; G. Tóth ; L. Pálfalvi ; L. Nasi ; Z. Ollmann ; E. J. Rohwer ; G. Gäumann ; T. Feurer ; J. Hebling ; J. A. Fülöp

THERMAL ANALYSIS OF NEW IONIC LIQUIDS BY EZ-SCAN TECHNIQUE...... 272 Vinícius C. Ferreira ; Graciane Marin ; Jairton Dupont ; Ricardo R. B. Correia

GLASS-HOSTED CARBON NANOTUBES AS A SATURABLE ABSORBER FOR ULTRAFAST LASER...... 273 Cuihong Jin ; Yudong Cui ; Xueming Liu

TUNABLE LINBO3-BASED DIFFRACTION OPTICAL ELEMENTS FOR CONTROL OF COHERENT LIGHT ...... 274 Andrey R. Akhmatkhanov ; Alexander A. Esin ; Vladimir S. Pavelyev ; Vladimir Y. Shur

PERIODICALLY POLED MGO:LINBO3, MGO:LITAO3 AND KTIOPO4 CRYSTALS FOR LASER LIGHT FREQUENCY CONVERSION ...... 275 Vladimir Y. Shur ; Andrey R. Akhmatkhanov ; Maria A. Chuvakova ; Alexander A. Esin ; Oleg L. Antipov ; Andrey A. Boyko ; Dmitry B. Kolker

SPECTRAL CHARACTERIZATION OF TRANSVERSE MODES IN RANDOM LASERS...... 276 Antonio Consoli ; Shirley Robalino ; Niccoló Caselli ; Cefe Lopez

LOW STRESS, ANOMALOUS DISPERSIVE SILICON NITRIDE WAVEGUIDES FABRICATED BY REACTIVE SPUTTERING...... 277 Andreas Frigg ; Andreas Boes ; Guanghui Ren ; Duk-Yong Choi ; Silvio Gees ; Arnan Mitchell

SILICON PHOTONICS AT THE INTERFACE WITH A PHASE CHANGE MATERIAL ...... 278 Alain Haché ; Nandja Safarou

ULTRAFAST DYNAMICS IN QUANTUM DOT DOPED NANOCOMPOSITES AT LOW TEMPERATURES: STUDY BY MEANS OF SITE-SELECTIVE SPECTROSCOPY ...... 279 Kamil Karimullin ; Artem Arzhanov ; Andrei Naumov

PLACING QUANTUM DOTS IN 3D PHOTONIC CRYSTALS AND FINDING THEM BACK ...... 280 A. S. Schulz ; D. A. Grishina ; C. A. M. Harteveld ; A. Pacureanu ; A. Lagendijk ; J. Huskens ; G. J. Vancso ; P. Cloetens ; W. L. Vos

SIMULATION OF THE PLASMONIC PROPERTIES OF GOLD NANOSPONGES WITH NANOTOMOGRAPHICALLY RECONSTRUCTIONED MODELS...... 281 Hauke Honig ; Dong Wang ; Peter Schaaf

OPTICAL PULSEWIDTH MEASUREMENT TECHNOLOGY BASED ON CARBON NANOTUBE SATURABLE ABSORBER ...... 282 Pushan Xiao ; Kan Wu ; Dong Mao ; Jianping Chen

HIGH-ACQUISITION-RATE SINGLE-SHOT PUMP-PROBE MEASUREMENT USING CHIRPED-FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS ...... 283 Masataka Kobayashi ; Yusuke Arashida ; Genki Yamashita ; Eiichi Matsubara ; Masaaki Ashida ; Jeremy A. Johnson ; Kufumi Katayama

ULTRASHORT, PICOSECOND OPCPA FRONTEND FOR THE NEW VULCAN TAP BEAMLINE ...... 284 Mario Galletti ; Giedre Archipovaite ; Pedro Oliveira ; Munadi Ahmad ; Emerald Dilworth ; Nathan Rutherford ; Marco Galimberti ; Ian Musgrave ; Cristina Hernandez-Gomez

REAL-TIME OBSERVATION OF BUILD-UP AND SHUT-DOWN DYNAMICS OF DISPERSION-MANAGED SOLITON FÍBER LASER ...... 285 Yudong Cui ; Xueming Liu

LASER BEAM HOMOGENIZATION TECHNOLOGY AND ITS APPLICATION IN HIGH SPEED PHOTOGRAPHY ...... 286 Zhao Xincai ; Wen Weifeng ; Chang Lihua ; Gao Peng ; Ran Maojie ; Li Jian ; Liu Ningwen

NONLINEAR POLARIZATION EVOLUTION INFLUENCE ON PUMP-INDUCED REPETITION FREQUENCY DYNAMICS IN HYBRIDLY MODE-LOCKED ERBIUM FIBER LASER ...... 287 Stanislav Leonov ; Alexander Krylov

DIRECT OBSERVATION OF INTRACAVITY PULSE DYNAMICS IN ALL-NORMAL DISPERSION ALL- FIBER OSCILLATOR ...... 288 Jan Szczepanek ; Tomasz M. Kardas ; Czeslaw Radzewicz ; Yuriy Stepanenko

GENERATION OF IDENTICAL FEMTOSECOND PULSES WITH ADJUSTABLE CARRIER-ENVELOPE PHASE...... 289 Nickolai Golovin ; Nadezhda Dmitrieva ; Eugeniy Gorohov ; Alexander Dmitriev

PASSIVELY MODE-LOCKED DEPRESSED-CLADDING WAVEGUIDE LASER IN YB FLUOROZIRCONATE GLASS ...... 290 Fiorina Piantedosi ; George Y. Chen ; Tanya M. Monro ; David G. Lancaster

INTERFEROMETRIC AUTOCORRELATION MEASUREMENTS OF SUPERCONTINUUM BY TWO- PHOTON ABSORPTION IN A GAP PHOTODETECTOR...... 291 Shanti Toenger ; Roosa Mäkitalo ; Jani Ahvenjärvi ; Piotr Ryczkowski ; Mikko Närhi ; John Dudley ; Goëry Genty

LIGHT BULLETS FROM CHIRPED HIGH-POWER FEMTOSECOND PULSES UNDER NORMAL GVD FOR MID-IR OPTICAL PARAMETRIC AMPLIFICATION ...... 292 E. Smetanina ; E. Migal ; I. Thiele ; F. Potemkin

MEGAWATT PEAK-POWER FEMTOSECOND ULTRALONG RING FIBRE LASER WITH INN SESAM...... 293 Francesca Gallazzi ; Marco Jimenez-Rodriguez ; Eva Monroy ; Pedro Corredera ; Miguel González-Herráez ; Fernando B. Naranjo ; Juan Diego Ania Castañón

ULTRAFAST MID-IR DYSPROSIUM FLUORIDE FIBER LASER ...... 294 Yuchen Wang ; Frédéric Jobin ; Simon Duval ; Vincent Fortin ; Paolo Laporta ; Martin Bernier ; Gianluca Galzerano ; Réal Vallee

QUANTUM-EFFICIENCY AND BANDWIDTH OPTIMIZED ELECTRO-OPTIC SAMPLING...... 295 Christina Hofer ; Syed A. Hussain ; Wolfgang Schweinberger ; Marinus Huber ; Thomas P. Butler ; Daniel Gerz ; Nicholas Karpowicz ; Ferenc Krausz ; Ioachim Pupeza

CONTROLLING THE SPATIO-TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION OF ULTRASHORT PULSES NEAR FOCUS BY MEANS OF DIFFRACTIVE FOCUSING AND PULSE SHAPING ...... 296 Í. J. Sola ; J. Pérez-Vizcaíno ; G. Mínguez-Vega ; C. Hernández-García ; B. Alonso

DEVELOPMENT OF HIGH-EFFICIENCY BEAM CONVERTER FOR ULTRAFAST SPATIO-TEMPORAL CONTROL OF LIGHT WAVES ...... 297 Keisaku Yamane ; Kohei Iwasa ; Rin Sasaki ; Kazuhiko Oka ; Yasunori Toda ; Ryuji Morita

MONOLITHIC AND IN-LINE METHOD FOR THE MEASUREMENT OF TIME-DEPENDENT POLARIZATION OF ULTRASHORT PULSES...... 298 Benjamín Alonso ; Carlos Hernández-García ; Íñigo J. Sola

OCTAVE-SPANNING HIGH-REPETITION-RATE MID-IR SUPERCONTINUUM FOR FREQUENCY COMB SYNTHESIS...... 299 Yuchen Wang ; Stanislav O. Leonov ; Vladimir S. Shiryaev ; Gennady E. Snopatin ; Boris S. Stepanov ; Victor G. Plotnichenko ; Valeriy E. Karasik ; Edoardo Vicentini ; Alessio Gambetta ; Nicola Coluccelli ; Cesare Svelto ; Paolo Laporta ; Gianluca Galzerano

NOVEL INN-BASED SESAMS WITH ULTRA-SHORT TIME RESPONSE ...... 300 Laura Monroy ; Eva Monroy ; Miguel González-Herráez ; Fernando B. Naranjo

WIDE AND CONTINUOUS TUNABLE MODE-LOCKED ERBIUM-DOPED FIBER LASER BASED ON THE GRAPHENE OXIDE ...... 301 Zhen-Ying Li ; Li-Yen Tsai ; Jin-Jei Wu ; Shwu-Yun Tsay ; Yao-Hui Chen ; Ja-Hon Lin

SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATION IN A AS2S3-SILICA NANOSPIKE WAVEGUIDE PUMPED BY TM- DOPED FIBER LASER ...... 302 A. Donodin ; S. Xie ; V. Voropaev ; A. Voronets ; D. Vlasov ; V. Lazarev ; M. Tarabrin ; J. Troles ; P. St. J. Russell ; V. Karasik

FREQUENCY-TUNABLE TWO-COLOUR ULTRAFAST FIBER LASER FOR NONLINEAR MICROSCOPY IN THE FINGERPRINT REGIME EMITTING AT CENTRAL FREQUENCIES 780 NM AND 810 NM TO 950 NM...... 303 Konrad J. Birkmeier ; Andreas Brodschelm ; Achim Hartschuh

DOUBLE-PASS AMPLIFICATION OF PICOSECOND PULSES WITH A TAPERED QUANTUM-DOT SEMICONDUCTOR AMPLIFIER ...... 304 Adam F. Forrest ; Michel Krakowski ; Paolo Bardella ; Maria Ana Cataluna

4-NJ ERBIUM ALL-FIBER HYBRID HIGHLY CHIRPED DISSIPATIVE SOLITON OSCILLATOR...... 305 I. S. Zhdanov ; D. S. Kharenko ; A. E. Bednyakova ; M. P. Fedoruk ; S. K. Turitsyn ; S. A. Babin

RADIALLY AND AZIMUTHALLY POLARIZED FEW-CYCLE PULSES BY POST-COMPRESSION IN A MULTIPASS CELL...... 306 Huabao Cao ; Roland S. Nagymihaly ; Vladimir Chvykov ; Nikita Khodakovskiy ; Karoly Osvay ; Mikhail Kalashnikov

ALL-FIBER MODE-LOCKED THULIUM DOPED FIBER LASER USING A NOVEL FEMTOSECOND LASER INSCRIBED 45 TILTED FIBER GRATING ...... 307 Antreas Theodosiou ; Jan Aubrecht ; Nithyanandan Kanagaraj ; Pavel Peterka ; Kyriacos Kalli ; Ivan Kašík ; Pavel Honzátko

PLASMA PROFILE ALONG A HOLLOW-CORE PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBRE MEASURED WITH COUNTER-PROPAGATING PROBE SOLITONS...... 308 Francesco Tani ; Mallika I. Suresh ; Johannes R. Koehler ; Philip St. J. Russell

ULTRA-BROADBAND PARTIALLY COHERENT ACCELERATING BEAMS...... 309 Dimitris Mansour ; Dimitris G. Papazoglou

NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION OF BROADBAND OPCPA CONFIGURATIONS FOR DIRECT AMPLIFICATION OF TW-LEVEL, TWO-CYCLE PULSES...... 310 Sz. Tóth ; T. Stanislauskas ; I. Balciunas ; R. Budriunas ; G. Veitas ; D. Gadonas ; J. Csontos ; A. Börzsönyi ; T. Somoskoi ; L. Tóth ; K. Osvay

DUAL-COMB SPECTROSCOPY USING A SINGLE FREQUENCY-SHIFTING LOOP ...... 311 Vicente Durán ; Léo Djevarhidjian ; Hugues Guillet De Chatellus

HIGH POWER, ULTRAFAST YELLOW LASER USING FOURTH-HARMONIC GENERATION OF ULTRAFAST MID-IR CR2+:ZNS LASER IN MGO:PPLN CRYSTAL...... 312 Deepika Yadav ; Anirban Ghosh ; Ravi K. Saripalli ; Goutam K. Samanta

DESIGN OF A 10 KHZ, MJ-LEVEL MID-IR OPCPA SYSTEM...... 313 Sz. Tóth ; R. S. Nagymihály ; R. Flender ; B. Kiss ; M. Kurucz ; L. Haizer ; E. Cormier ; K. Osvay

ENERGY SCALABLE SELF-COMPRESSION AT 1 μM WAVELENGTH IN ALL-BULK MULTI-PASS GEOMETRY ...... 314 Sebastian Gröbmeyer ; Kilian Fritsch ; Benedikt Schneider ; Markus Poetzlberger ; Vladimir Pervak ; Jonathan Brons ; Oleg Pronin

FEMTOSECOND PULSE SHORTENING USING CASCADED QUADRATIC NONLINEARITIES FOR HIGH TEMPORAL CONTRAST...... 315 Veselin Aleksandrov ; Gabriel Bleotu ; Daniel Ursescu

CEP-STABILIZED, SUB-18 FS, 10 KHZ AND TW-CLASS 1 KHZ DUAL OUTPUT TI: SA LASER WITH WAVELENGTH TUNABILITY OPTION...... 316 X. Chen ; A. Golinelli ; B. Bussière ; E. Gontier ; P.-M. Paul ; O. Tcherbakoff ; P. D'Oliveira ; J.-F. Hergott

OCTAVE SPANNING FLAT-PLATEAU WHITE-LIGHT GENERATION IN MULTI-THIN PLATES BY UTILIZING SELF-STEEPENING AND INDUCED PHASE MODULATION ...... 317 Shaobo Fang ; Yabei Su ; Jianwang Jiang ; Heyuan Liu ; Zhiyi Wei

HIGH-FIDELITY FEW-CYCLE LASER PULSES GENERATED VIA NONLINEAR ELLIPSE ROTATION ...... 318 N. G. Khodakovskiy ; M. P. Kalashnikov ; B. Mercier ; V. Pajer ; Z. Cheng ; M. Lozano ; A. Blumenstein ; P. Simon ; T. Nagy ; R. Lopez-Martens

STUDYING THE ROLE OF NONLINEAR MEDIUM THICKNESS IN THE CHARACTERIZATION OF 1.5- CYCLE PULSES USING XPW DISPERSION SCAN ...... 319 Ayhan Tajalli ; Marie Ouille ; Aline Vernier ; Frederik Bohle ; Esmerando Escoto ; Sven Kleinert ; Rosa Romero ; Janos Csontos ; Uwe Morgner ; Günter Steinmeyer ; Helder Crespo ; Rodrigo Lopez-Martens ; Tamas Nagy

TOWARDS ULTRAFAST ALL-FIBER LASER AT 2.8 μM BASED ON A SESAM AND A FIBER BRAGG GRATING ...... 320 Pascal Paradis ; Simon Duval ; Vincent Fortin ; Réal Vallée ; Martin Bernier

HIGH-POWER SHORT-WAVELENGTH INFRARED SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATION IN A MULTIMODE FLUORIDE FIBER ...... 321 Zahra Eslami ; Piotr Ryczkowski ; Caroline Amiot ; Lauri Salmela ; Goery Genty

COMPACT SINGLE-SHOT D-SCAN SETUP FOR THE CHARACTERIZATION OF FEW-CYCLE LASER PULSES ...... 322 Ivan Sytcevich ; Maite Louisy ; Chen Guo ; Lana Neoricic ; Sara Mikaelsson ; Jan Vogelsang ; Fabian Langer ; Shiyang Zhong ; Anne L'Huillier ; Cord L. Arnold ; Miguel Miranda

SOLITON RAMAN SELF-FREQUENCY SHIFTING OF HIGH-POWER 1 μM, μJ-LEVEL FEMTOSECOND PULSES AT MULTI-MEGAHERTZ REPETITION RATE ...... 323 Kilian Fritsch ; Sebastian Gröbmeyer ; Markus Poetzlberger ; Ka Fai Mak ; Ferenc Krausz ; Jonathan Brons ; Oleg Pronin

EVALUATION OF THE COHERENT ARTIFACT IN ULTRASHORT LASER PULSES USING D-SCAN AND ITS APPLICATION TO BROADBAND FIBER LASERS...... 324 Benjamín Alonso ; Salvador Torres-Peiró ; Rosa Romero ; Paulo T. Guerreiro ; Héctor Muñoz-Marco ; Pere Pérez-Millán ; Helder Crespo

EXTREMELY HIGH RESOLUTION CHIRP MEASUREMENTS OVER AN OCTAVE BANDWIDTH WITH SPECTRALLY RESOLVED INTERFEROMETRY...... 325 Imre Seres ; Tamás Somoskoi ; Ádám Börzsönyi ; Áron Sipos ; Attila P. Kovács

ALL-PM FIBER THULIUM-DOPED MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASER AND AMPLIFIER BASED ON NONLINEAR LOOP MIRROR ...... 326 Maria Michalska ; Lukasz Gorajek ; Pawel Grzes ; Jacek Swiderski

GENERATION AND CONTROL OF ULTRAFAST 10 μM LASER PULSES FOR DRIVING CHEMICAL DYNAMICS ...... 327 Markus A. Jakob ; Mahesh Namboodiri ; Tim Laarmann

DEPENDENCIES OF PICOSECOND PULSE DRIVEN SUPERCONTINUUM PROPERTIES ON REPETITION RATE ...... 328 Lukáš Roškot ; Ondrej Novák ; Bianka Csanaková ; Jirí Mužík ; Michal Jelínek ; Martin Smrž ; Tomáš Mocek

DEVELOPMENT OF FIGURE-8 VARIABLE PULSE WIDTH FIBER LASER USING COHERENT RESONATOR COUPLING TECHNOLOGY...... 329 M. Miyazaki ; M. Yoshida

MID-INFRARED BROADBAND LONG-PASS FILTER BASED ON GRATING DIFFRACTION...... 330 Daniel Gerz ; Wolfgang Schweinberger ; Thomas P. Butler ; Thomas Siefke ; Martin Heusinger ; Tatiana Amotchkina ; Vladimir Pervak ; Uwe Zeitner ; Ioachim Pupeza

FEMTOSECOND TM-HO CO-DOPED FIBER LASER USING A COSB3-SKUTTERUDITE-BASED PASSIVE MODE-LOCKER...... 331 Jinho Lee ; Yoontaek Kim ; Ju Han Lee

EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATION OF HIGH-THROUGHPUT TRANSMISSION SPECTRUM MEASUREMENT FOR ELECTRO-ABSORPTION MODULATOR USING THE TIME-STRETCH METHOD ...... 332 Hideaki Furukawa ; Takeshi Makino ; Xiaomin Wang ; Tetsuya Kobayashi ; Bahram Jalali ; Dale Capewell ; Wai Sing Man ; Kwong Shing Tsang ; Naoya Wada

A PELLICLE COUPLED OPTICAL RESONATOR ...... 333 Ernst Fill ; Liudmila Voronina ; Nikolai Lilienfein ; Ioachim Pupeza

DISCOVERING MEMORY ABILITY OF RELAXATION OSCILLATIONS IN MODE-LOCKED LASERS...... 334 Xueming Liu ; Yusheng Zhang ; Yudong Cui

CARRIER ENVELOPE PHASE DEPENDENCE OF HIGH HARMONIC GENERATION FROM LONG DURATION MULTI-CYCLE MULTI-TIMESCALE PUMP PULSES ...... 335 Ofer Neufeld ; Avner Fleischer ; Oren Cohen

OVERCOMING AVALANCHE IONIZATION TO GENERATE MULTI-OCTAVE SUPERCONTINUUM PUMPED BY A HO:YLF REGENERATIVE AMPLIFIER...... 336 Siqi Cheng ; Gourab Chatterjee ; Friedjof Tellkamp ; Axel Ruehl ; R. J. Dwayne Miller

PULSE DOUBLETS GENERATED BY A FREQUENCY-SHIFTING LOOP CONTAINING AN ELECTRO- OPTIC AMPLITUDE MODULATOR...... 337 Hongzhi Yang ; Marc Brunel ; Marc Vallet ; Haiyang Zhang ; Changming Zhao

DYNAMIC STUDY OF TALBOT LASERS...... 338 Vincent Billault ; Vincent Crozatier ; Ghaya Baili ; Daniel Dolfi ; Hugues Guillet De Chatellus

CHANNEL SPACING-SWITCHABLE COMB SPECTRA FOR ORTHOGONAL INPUT POLARIZATION STATES USING POLARIZATION-DIVERSIFIED-LOOP...... 339 Seul-Lee Lee ; Jihoon Kim ; Sungwook Choi ; Min Seok Kim ; Do Kyung Kim ; Jin Sil Han ; Yong Wook Lee

DESIGN OF FBG-BASED LINEAR PASSIVE ALL-OPTICAL NOT GATE ...... 340 Saket Kaushal ; José Azaña

INTEGRATED INP-BASED MULTICHANNEL TRANSMITTERS FOR WDM-PON SYSTEM ...... 341 Aleksandra Pasnikowska ; Stanislaw Stopinski ; Ryszard Piramidowicz

MEMS-BASED TUNABLE SINGLE-PASSBAND MICROWAVE PHOTONIC FILTER...... 342 Hussein E. Kotb ; Mohab S. Abdallah ; Hussein Elhehyawy ; Yasser M. Sabry ; Haitham Omran

INTER-CHANNEL INTERFERENCE IN NON-LINEAR FREQUENCY-DIVISION MULTIPLEXED NETWORKS ON FIBRE LINKS WITH LUMPED AMPLIFICATION...... 343 Xianhe Yangzhang ; Domaniç Lavery ; Polina Bayvel

GENERALIZED SPIRAL TRANSFORMATIONS FOR MAPPING VORTEX PHASE TO LINEAR PHASE...... 344 Yuanhui Wen ; Ioannis Chremmos ; Yujie Chen ; Yanfeng Zhang ; Siyuan Yu

BI-DIRECTIONAL FIBER-IVLLC CONVERGENCE WITH PARALLEL/ORTHOGONALLY POLARIZED DUAL-SIDEBAND OPERATION AND TWO RSOAS SCHEME...... 345 Chung-Wei Su ; Zhen-Han Wang ; Wen-Shing Tsai ; Chung-Yi Li ; Hai-Han Lu

DFT-SPREAD HYBRID OFDM-DFMA PONS INCORPORATING DIRECTLY MODULATED DFB LASER- BASED ONUS...... 346 Yixian Dong ; Wei Jin ; Jianming Tang

DETECTOR-FREE BIDIRECTIONAL SYMMETRIC COMMUNICATION SCHEME BASED ON COMPOUND STATES OF TWO MUTUALLY COUPLED DIODE LASERS...... 347 A. Herdt ; M. Weidmann ; R. Phelan ; W. Elsäßer

FROM 4.2GBPS ASYMMETRICAL CLIPPING (ACO)-OFDM TO 8.7GBPS LAYERED-ACO-FBMC WITH INTENSITY-MODULATION DIRECT-DETECTION FOR PONS ...... 348 Samael Sarmiento ; Jose A. Altabas ; Salvatore Spadaro ; Jose A. Lázaro

IMPROVEMENT OF RESOLUTION IN ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM DECOMPOSITION BASED ON BEAM DUPLICATION BY USING A SAGNAC INTERFEROMETER ...... 349 Keisaku Yamane ; Yuho Watanabe ; Kazuhiko Oka ; Yasunori Toda ; Ryuji Morita

LOW NOISE OPTICAL BUFFERING BASED ON NON-DEGENERATE PHASE SENSITIVE PARAMETRIC AMPLIFICATION...... 350 Adonis Bogris

PHASE DISLOCATIONS IN THE NEGATIVE CURVATURE HOLLOW CORE FIBRES ...... 351 Andrey D. Pryamikov ; Grigory K. Alagashev ; Sergei Turitsyn

REALIZATION AND NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF A HIGH POWER AND HIGH EFFICIENCY HOLMIUM DOPED FIBER LASER AT 2.1 μM ...... 352 Julien Le Gouët ; François Gustave ; Pierre Bourdon ; Thierry Robin ; Arnaud Laurent ; Benoit Cadier

KERR OPTICAL FREQUENCY COMBS GENERATED AROUND 2-μM IN A DUAL-PUMPED BRILLOUIN FIBER RING RESONATOR...... 353 M. Deroh ; G. Xu ; H. Maillotte ; T. Sylvestre ; J. C. Beugnot ; B. Kibler

TIME- AND SPECTRAL-DOMAIN DYNAMICS OF 2-μM PULSES IN THE HOLMIUM-DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIER ...... 354 Vladimir Kamynin ; Serafima Filatova ; Irina Zhluktova ; Vladimir Tsvetkov

HIGH ENERGY DISSIPATIVE SOLITON RESONANCE IN A THULIUM-DOPED FIBER LASER AT 1750 NM...... 355 Can Li ; Cihang Kong ; Kenneth K. Y. Wong

A TANDEM-PUMPED, TUNABLE THULIUM-DOPED FIBER LASER IN THE 2.1 μM WAVELENGTH REGION ...... 356 Fang Liu ; Pei Liu ; Xi Feng ; Zhaowei Zhang

COMPARISON OF DIFFERENT MODE-LOCKING METHODS IN THE HO-DOPED FIBER LASER...... 357 S. A. Filatova ; V. A. Kamynin ; N. R. Arutyunyan ; A. S. Pozharov ; E. D. Obraztsova ; V. B. Tsvetkov

ALL-FIBER 2.07 μM DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASER BASED ON ʌ-PHASE-SHIFTED FBG INSCRIBED IN HEAVILY DOPED HOLMIUM FIBER BY FEMTOSECOND LASER PULSES ...... 358 Alexey Wolf ; Mikhail Skvortsov ; Sofia Abdullina ; Vladimir Kamynin ; Irina Zhluktova ; Alexandr Dostovalov ; Vladimir Tsvetkov ; Sergey Babin

EFFICIENT PUMP ABSORPTION IN TWISTED DOUBLE CLAD THULIUM-DOPED FIBERS DRAWN OF CO2 LASER SHAPED PREFORM...... 359 Ali A. Jasim ; Jan Aubrecht ; Pavel Peterka ; Michal Kamrádek ; Ondrej Podrazký ; Filip Todorov ; Ivan Kašík ; Pavel Honzátko

RAMAN SOLITON GENERATION IN HOLMIUM ALL-FIBER MOPA...... 360 Nikolai Tolstik ; Irina T. Sorokina

ALL-FIBER SYSTEM AT 1750 NM DELIVERING 35 FS 230 KW PEAK POWER PULSES ...... 361 Geoffroy Granger ; Hugo Delahaye ; Dominik Franz ; Hamed Merdji ; Sébastien Février

PASSIVE Q-SWITCH AND RECTANGULAR MODE-LOCKED PULSES FROM A DUMBBELL SHAPED HOLMIUM FIBER LASER ...... 362 Debparna Majumder ; Sourav Das Chowdhury ; Mrinmay Pal ; Anirban Dhar ; Atasi Pal

1975 NM LINEARLY-POLARIZED MOFA CPA SYSTEM BASED ON CFBG STRETCHER AND 1+3-PASS CVBG COMPRESSOR CONFIGURATION...... 363 Elizabeth Lee ; Biao Sun ; Jiaqi Luo ; Xia Yu ; Derrick Yong ; Qijie Wang

1 μJ PULSE ENERGY ALL-FIBER THULIUM DOPED MODE-LOCKED MOPA SYSTEM ...... 364 Roland A. Richter ; Nikolai Tolstik ; Irina T. Sorokina

L-BAND AMPLIFIERS BASED ON CLADDING-PUMPED ER-DOPED (YB-FREE) FIBERS WITH AL2O3- SIO2 CORE HIGHLY DOPED BY FLUORINE...... 365 Maxim M. Khudyakov ; Mikhail V. Yashkov ; Denis S. Lipatov ; Nikolay N. Vechkanov ; Alexey N. Abramov ; Aleksey N. Guryanov ; Mikhail E. Likhachev

SINGLE-MODE ER-YB FIBER WITH 20 μM F-P2O5-SIO2 CORE ...... 366 Denis Lipatov ; Aleksey Lobanov ; Aleksey Abramov ; Aleksey Guryanov ; Maxim Khudyakov ; Svetlana Aleshkina ; Konstantin Bobkov ; Mikhail Bubnov ; Tatyana Kochergina ; Mikhail Likhachev

ERBIUM-DOPED ALL-FIBER LASER BASED ON ALPO4 SILICA GLASS...... 367 M.-P. Lord ; O. Boily ; T. Boilard ; G. Gariépy ; S. Grelet ; L. Talbot ; P. Paradis ; N. Grégoire ; S. Morency ; Y. Messaddeq ; M. Bernier

SINGLE-FREQUENCY ER3+ DOPED PHOSPHATE FIBER MOPA ...... 368 Phillip Booker ; Marian Dürbeck ; Nadia G. Boetti ; Diego Pugliese ; Silvio Abrate ; Daniel Milanese ; Michael Steinke ; Jörg Neumann ; Dietmar Kracht

HIGH POWER SPECIALLY-DESIGNED FIBER LASER OPERATING AT 1018 NM USING 20/400 μM YTTERBIUM-DOPED FIBERS ...... 369 Majid Lafouti ; Hamid Latifi ; Hossein Fathi ; Saeid Ebrahimzadeh ; Saeed Sarikhani ; Hassan Sarabi ; Vahid Vatani ; Seyed Hassan Nabavi

MONOLITHIC AMPLIFIER BASED ON A CHIRALLY-COUPLED-CORE FIBER...... 370 Sven Hochheim ; Michael Steinke ; Joona Koponen ; Tyson Lowder ; Steffen Novotny ; Jörg Neumann ; Dietmar Kracht

2.5 MJ NARROW-LINEWIDTH, LINEARLY-POLARIZED PULSE-BURST HIGH-POWER YB-DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIER SYSTEM ...... 371 Huaiqin Lin ; Yujun Feng ; Thomas W. Hawkins ; Zhimeng Huang ; Yutong Feng ; Jonathan H. V. Price ; Liang Dong ; Johan Nilsson

ROBUST ALL-FIBER 200W SINGLE FREQUENCY LASER AT 1064 NM WITH LOW INTENSITY NOISE...... 372 C. Dixneuf ; G. Guiraud ; Y. V. Bardin ; C. Pierre ; J. Boullet ; G. Santarelli ; N. Traynor

ALL-FIBER 100-NS SINGLE-FREQUENCY 0.5MJ ANISOTROPIC MOPA WITH DOUBLE CLAD TAPERED YB-DOPED GAIN FIBER ...... 373 Joona Rissanen ; Teppo Noronen ; Kim Patokoski ; Regina Gumenyuk ; Yuri Chamorovskii ; Juha Toivonen ; Valery Filippov

HIGH ENERGY PULSED OPERATION OF A YB FIBRE MOPA WITH AMPLIFIED SPONTANEOUS EMISSION OUTPUT ...... 374 E. J. Park ; J. S. Park ; H. Jeong ; J. W. Kim

PULSED YB-DOPED PHOSPHO-SILICATE FIBER MOPA SOURCE WITH 25KW PEAK POWER AND EXCELLENT BEAM QUALITY ...... 375 Jayanta K. Sahu ; Di Lin ; Norberto J. Ramírez-Martínez ; Andrey A. Umnikov ; Martín Núñez-Velázquez ; Pranabesh Barua

COHERENT BEAM COMBINING OF FIBER AMPLIFIERS SEEDED BY COMMERCIAL LOW COST DIODE ...... 376 Amin Babazadeh ; Jalil Jafari Dashkasan ; Ebrahim Aghayari ; Ahmad Kamkar ; Vahid Vatani ; Seyed Hasan Nabavi ; Mohammad Karimi

EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENT AND SIMPLE ANALYTICAL ESTIMATION OF SIGNAL GAIN IN YB- DOPED FIBER...... 377 O. V. Shtyrina ; A. Y. Kokhanovskiy ; M. Dyatlov ; S. Efremov ; I. A. Yarutkina ; A. Skidin ; M. P. Fedoruk

SELF-SWEEPING OPERATION OF ND-DOPED FIBER LASER...... 378 Ekaterina K. Kashirina ; Ivan A. Lobach ; Sergey I. Kablukov

ALL-FIBER SINGLE-MODE PM YB-DOPED PRE-AMPLIFIER AT 0.976 μM ...... 379 Svetlana S. Aleshkina ; Denis S. Lipatov ; Leonid V. Kotov ; Valery L. Temyanko ; Vladimir V. Velmiskin ; Tatiana L. Bardina ; Mikhail M. Bubnov ; Alexei N. Guryanov ; Mikhail E. Likhachev

MULTI-WATT LOW NOISE ALL-FIBER 997NM-1017NM TUNABLE LASER...... 380 B. Gouhier ; C. Dixneuf ; A. Hilico ; G. Guiraud ; N. Traynor ; G. Santarelli

915 NM PUMPED 1018 NM YB-DOPED ALL-FIBER HIGH POWER FIBER LASER SYSTEM...... 381 Yakup Midilli ; O. Benjamin Efunbajo ; Bartu Simsek ; Bülend Ortaç

RARE-EARTH DOPED PHOSPHATE OPTICAL FIBRES AND RODS FOR COMPACT PULSED OPTICAL AMPLIFICATION...... 382 Nadia G. Boetti ; Diego Pugliese ; Duccio Gallichi Nottiani ; Davide Janner ; Daniel Milanese

EFFICIENT ER AND ND:TI:LINBO3 RIDGE WAVEGUIDE LASERS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF MID INFRARED SOURCES ...... 383 Dominik Brüske ; Sergiy Suntsov ; Christian E. Rüter ; Detlef Kip

FLUORIDE GLASS PULSED LASER IN MIDDLE INFRARED WAVELENGTH RANGE ...... 384 Mario Christian Falconi ; Dario Laneve ; Caterina Clemente ; Giovanna Ricchiuti ; Antonella Loconsole ; Vincenza Portosi ; Antonio Crudele ; Gianluca Galzerano ; Francesco Prudenzano

2 W SINGLE-MODE VISIBLE LASER OSCILLATION IN PR-DOPED DOUBLE-CLAD STRUCTURED WATERPROOF FLUORO-ALUMINATE GLASS FIBER...... 385 Yasushi Fujimoto ; Masamori Nakahara ; Paul Binun ; Shinji Motokoshi ; Osamu Ishii ; Muneyuki Watanabe ; Masaaki Yamazaki ; Tsutomu Shinozaki ; Tsuyoshi Sato ; Yutaka Yanomori

CASCADED STIMULATED RAMAN SCATTERING IN A CHALCOGENIDE OPTICAL FIBER...... 386 Tonglei Cheng ; Shuguang Li ; Xin Yan ; Takenobu Suzuki ; Yasutake Ohishi

FLUORESCENCE DYNAMICS OF LASERACTIVE NANOCRYSTALS EMITTING IN THE VISIBLE ...... 387 Simon Spelthann ; Jonas Thiem ; Laurie Neumann ; Hans-Hermann Johannes ; Wolfgang Kowalsky ; Dietmar Kracht ; Jörg Neumann ; Axel Ruehl ; Detlev Ristau

OPTIMISATION OF DISPERSION FLATNESS IN NANOSTRUCTURED CORE FIBRES...... 388 Damian Michalik ; Tomasz Stefaniuk ; Dariusz Pysz ; Adam Filipkowski ; Ryszard Buczynski

BISMUTH DOPED FIBER FOR FILTERING APPLICATIONS ...... 389 Deepak Jain ; Naresh K. Thipparapu ; Jayanta K. Sahu

INFRARED 1000-NM-SUPERCONTINUUM BY MEANS OF SELF-FREQUENCY SHIFT OF RAMAN SOLITONS SUPPORTED BY FOUR-WAVE MIXING ...... 390 Marina Zajnulina

MITIGATING SUPERCONTINUUM SHOT-TO-SHOT FLUCTUATIONS IN AN ANOMALOUS DISPERSION HIGHLY NONLINEAR FIBER BY LENGTH OPTIMIZATION...... 391 Robert Lindberg ; Jaroslaw Sotor ; Tadeusz Martynkien ; Valdas Pasiskevicius ; Grzegorz Sobon

DEVELOPMENT OF ALL-GLASS ALL-NORMAL DISPERSION HIGHLY NONLINEAR PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS WITH INTRODUCED BIREFRINGENCE ...... 392 Dominik Dobrakowski ; Anupamaa Rampur ; Grzegorz Stepniewski ; Rafal Kasztelanic ; Alicja Anuszkiewicz ; Dariusz Pysz ; Ryszard Buczynski ; Mariusz Klimczak

HIGHLY BIREFRINGENT NANOSTRUCTURED CORE OPTICAL FIBER COMPATIBLE WITH SMF28 STANDARD...... 393 Damian Michalik ; Tomasz Stefaniuk ; Dariusz Pysz ; Adam Filipkowski ; Ryszard Buczynski

SIGNAL AMPLIFICATION IN CSPBBR3 NANOPARTICLE-DOPED PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS ...... 394 Juan Navarro-Arenas ; Isaac Suárez ; Albert Ferrando ; Andrés F. Gualdrón-Reyes ; I. Mora-Seró ; Fei Gao ; Pu Wang ; Juan Martínez-Pastor ; Zhipei Sun

GENERATION OF MULTI-GIGAHERTZ LASER PULSES IN OPTICAL LATTICE-LIKE CLADDING WAVEGUIDES WITH PDSE2 AS A NEW SATURABLE ABSORBER...... 395 Ziqi Li ; Ningning Dong ; Jun Wang ; Javier Rodríguez Vázquez De Aldana ; Haohai Yu ; Feng Chen

MODELING OF THE ULTRA-STABLE OPERATING REGIME IN FOURIER DOMAIN MODE LOCKED (FDML) LASERS ...... 396 Mark Schmidt ; Tom Pfeiffer ; Christin Grill ; Robert Huber ; Christian Jirauschek

MODE RE-LOCKING IN AN RF DETUNED ACTIVELY MODE-LOCKED FIBER RING LASER...... 397 Shree Krishnamoorthy ; Satyajit Mayor ; Anil Prabhakar

DUAL-WAVELENGTH MODE-LOCKING OF WAVEGUIDE ND:YAG LASER WITH GRAPHENE...... 398 Mariya Ponarina ; Andrey Okhrimchuk ; Michael Smayev ; Petr Obraztsov

4.37 GHZ L-BAND PASSIVELY HARMONIC MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASER BASED ON NONLINEAR POLARIZATION ROTATION...... 399 Yuanda Ling ; Qianqian Huang ; Zhikun Xing ; Zhijun Yan ; Chengbo Mou

COMPACT ONE-OCTAVE SPANNING SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATION BY AMPLIFICATION OF NOISE LIKE PULSES IN YB-DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIER ...... 400 Ebrahim Aghayari ; Kazem Jamshidi Ghaleh ; Mohammad Karimi ; Vahid Vatani ; Seyed Hasan Nabavi

GENERATION OF OPTICAL PULSES WITH 69-NM-WIDE BROADBAND SPECTRUM DIRECTLY FROM A MODE-LOCKED YB-DOPED FIBRE LASER ...... 401 Lei Jin ; Sze Yun Set ; Shinji Yamashita

OPTICAL REPETITION RATE STABILIZATION TECHNIQUES OF ULTRAFAST YB DOPED ALL FIBER OSCILLATOR ...... 402 K. Madeikis ; K. Viskontas ; R. Danilevicius ; T. Bartulevicius ; L. Veselis ; A. Michailovas ; N. Rusteika

AN ALL-FIBER ULTRA-LOW NUMERICAL APERTURE HIGH POWER FIBER MOPA SYSTEM WITH AN OUTPUT POWER ABOVE 500 W...... 403 Yakup Midilli ; Bülend Ortaç

μS PULSED, LOW REPETITION RATE, 30 W FIBER LASER AT 1550 NM...... 404 S. Pavlova ; E. Yagci ; K. Eken ; E. Tunckol ; I. Pavlov

CONTROLLABLE GENERATION OF ULTRASHORT MULTI-BOUND SOLITONS IN A MODE-LOCKED ERBIUM-DOPED RING LASER WITH A HIGHLY-NONLINEAR RESONATOR...... 405 Dmitriy A. Dvoretskiy ; Stanislav G. Sazonkin ; Ilya O. Orekhov ; Igor S. Kudelin ; Alexey B. Pnev ; Valeriy E. Karasik ; Lev K. Denisov

DUAL-WAVELENGTH DUAL-COMB MODE LOCKED ER-DOPED FIBER LASER BASED ON SAGANC FIBER LOOP MIRROR ...... 406 Xing Luo ; Tong Hoang Tuan ; Than Singh Saini ; Hoa Phuoc Trung Nguyen ; Takenobu Suzuki ; Yasutake Ohishi

THE OPTIMIZATION OF COMPACT HIGH ENERGY FIBER CPA SYSTEM FOR BIO-IMAGING APPLICATIONS...... 407 Tadas Bartulevicius ; Laurynas Veselis ; Karolis Madeikis ; Andrejus Michailovas ; Nerijus Rusteika

THE INFLUENCE OF NEGATIVE CAVITY DISPERSION ON TIMING JITTER OF AN ALL-PM SESAM MODE-LOCKED FIBER OSCILLATOR...... 408 K. Viskontas ; K. Madeikis ; R. Danilevicius ; A. Michailovas

EFFECT OF POLARIZATION MODULATION ON THE STABILITY OF A 1.5 μM LASER LOCKED TO A LIBRE CAVITY...... 409 Karim Manamanni ; Vincent Roncin ; Mohamed Sahni ; Frédéric Du-Burck

ON MODELLING OF NPE MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASER IN PRESENCE OF RAMAN SCATTERING...... 410 A. E. Bednyakova ; D. S. Kharenko ; A. P. Yarovikov

COHERENT BEAM COMBINING BY NONCOLLINEAR SUM-FREQUENCY GENERATION...... 411 Julijanas Želudevicius ; Rokas Rutkauskas ; Kestutis Regelskis

SINGLE-MODE OPERATION WITH NO MODE-HOPS OF A 110M LONG BRILLOUIN FIBER LASER WITH NON-RESONANT PUMPING...... 412 Gwennaël Danion ; Ludovic Frein ; Denis Bacquet ; Grégoire Pillet ; Stéphanie Molin ; Loïc Morvan ; Guillaume Ducournau ; Marc Vallet ; Pascal Szriftgiser ; Mehdi Alouini

RAMAN BASED POWER COMBINING AND WAVELENGTH CONVERSION OF MULTIPLE FIBER LASERS — NUMBER SCALING AND LIMITS ON WAVELENGTH SEPARATION ...... 413 V. Balaswamy ; Santosh Aparanji ; V. R. Supradeepa

BRILLOUIN ASSISTED OPTOELECTRONIC SELF-NARROWING OF LASER LINEWIDTH...... 414 Gwennaël Danion ; Marc Vallet ; Ludovic Frein ; Pascal Szriftgiser ; Mehdi Alouini

TOLERANCE ANALYSIS FOR PISTON AND TILT ERROR IN HEXAGONAL LASER PHASED ARRAY ...... 415 Przemyslaw Gontar ; Jan K. Jabczynski

OPTIMIZATION OF SIGNAL CHARACTERISTICS IN FIBER LASER WITH QUASI-DISTRIBUTED GAIN ...... 416 O. V. Shtyrina ; S. A. Efremov ; I. A. Yarutkina ; A. S. Skidin ; A. V. Ivanenko ; M. P. Fedoruk

DIFFERENT LASING REGIMES OF PARITY-TIME SYMMETRIC FIBER RING LASER ...... 417 Sergey Smirnov ; Maxim Makarenko ; Dmitry Churkin

DESIGN AND OPTIMIZATION OF LASERACTIVE NANOPARTICLES FOR FIBER LASERS...... 418 Jonas Thiem ; Simon Spelthann ; Laurie Neumann ; Hans-Hermann Johannes ; Wolfgang Kowalsky ; Dietmar Kracht ; Jorg Neumann ; Axel Ruehl ; Detlev Ristau

COOLING OF ACTIVE FIBERS IN LASING CONDITIONS USING DIFFERENT PASSIVE HEAT DISSIPATION SYSTEMS ...... 419 Nikita Tereshchenko ; Aleksandr Kostrov ; Nikolay Vanyushkin ; Renat Shaidullin ; Oleg Ryabushkin

INVESTIGATION OF LONGITUDINAL TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION IN ACTIVE FIBER UNDER CONDITIONS OF LASER GENERATION USING PIEZOELECTRIC CRYSTAL THERMAL SENSORS...... 420 Aleksandr Kostrov ; Nikita Tereshchenko ; Nikolay Vanyushkin ; Renat Shaidullin ; Oleg Ryabushkin

SELF-HEALING DYNAMICALLY CONTROLLABLE MICRO-COMB ...... 421 Hualong Bao ; Juan Sebastian Totero Gongora ; Maxwell Rowley ; Sai T. Chu ; Brent E. Little ; Roberto Morandotti ; David J. Moss ; Marco Peccianti ; Alessia Pasquazi

DETERMINING THE WAVEGUIDE PROFILE USING THE OVERLAP INTEGRAL...... 422 Alessandro Alberucci ; Chandroth P. Jisha ; Stefan Nolte

PHASE SENSITIVE AMPLIFICATION IN A PERIODICALLY POLED SILICA FIBER...... 423 Nicolas Englebert ; Francesco De Lucia ; Pier-John A. Sazio ; Simon-Pierre Gorza ; François Leo

DEMONSTRATION OF SPATIAL MODE SELECTION IN A COHERENTLY COMBINED FIBER LASER...... 424 Erik Tilseth ; William M. Kunkel ; James R. Leger

INTRA-CAVITY MODE-SELECTIVE COUPLER ASSISTED ULTRAFAST CYLINDRICAL VECTOR FIBER LASER...... 425 Fan Shi ; Teng Wang ; Peikang Cheng ; Zhengqian Luo ; Xianglong Zeng

PHASING AND GUIDANCE PROPERTIES OF MULTI-CORE FIBERS UNDER HEAT LOAD ...... 426 L. Rosa ; S. McKee ; C. Molardi ; F. Poli ; S. Selleri ; L. Vincetti ; A. Cucinotta

EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION OF ANOMALOUS RIN TRANSFER IN RANDOM DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK RAMAN FIBER LASERS ...... 427 Sergio Rota-Rodrigo ; Daniel Leandro ; Giuseppe Rizzelli ; Juan Diego Ania-Castañón ; Giorgio Santarelli ; Manuel Lopez-Amo

2.5 W, NARROW LINEWIDTH, 259.0 NM, RUGGEDIZED DUV FIBER LASER SOURCE FOR REMOTE BENZENE DETECTION...... 428 Louis Desbiens ; Vincent Roy ; Jean-François Gravel ; Yves Taillon

SPECTRAL CORRELATIONS IN RADIATION OF RANDOM DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK RAMAN FIBER LASER...... 429 Ilya Vatnik ; Oleg Gorbunov ; Srikanth Sugavanam ; Dmitry Churkin ; Evgenii Podivilov

DEEP-LEARNING-AIDED THREE-DIMENSIONAL DIRECT LASER WRITING OF THE COMPLETE CONNECTOME OF MUSHROOM BODY FROM AN INSECT BRAIN...... 430 Haoyi Yu ; Wei Shao ; Qiming Zhang ; Flora D. Salim ; Min Gu

HIGH PERFORMANCE OPTICAL RESERVOIR COMPUTING BASED ON SPATIALLY EXTENDED SYSTEMS...... 431 Jaël Pauwels ; Guy Verschaffelt ; Serge Massar ; Guy Van Der Sande

LASER PRINTING OF A NANO-IMAGER TO PERFORM FULL OPTICAL MACHINE LEARNING...... 432 Elena Goi ; Min Gu

HIGH NUMERICAL APERTURE ABERRATION COMPENSATION ENABLED BY AN ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK...... 433 Benjamin P. Cumming ; Min Gu

PHASE NOISE ROBUSTNESS OF A COHERENT SPATIALLY PARALLEL OPTICAL RESERVOIR ...... 434 R. Alata ; J. Pauwels ; G. Van Der Sande ; A. Bouwens ; M. Haelterman ; S. Massar

NONLINEAR ACTIVATION FUNCTION GENERATION BASED ON SILICON MICRORING RESONATORS FOR INTEGRATED PHOTONIC NEURAL NETWORKS...... 435 Mircea Catuneanu ; Ryan Hamerly ; Nirav Annavarapu ; Shahryar Sabouri ; Kambiz Jamshidi

INHIBITORY INTEGRATE AND FIRE NEURON BASED ON QUANTUM-DOT INTRA-BAND TRANSITIONS IN A SEMICONDUCTOR LASER...... 436 Menelaos Skontranis ; George Sarantoglou ; Charis Mesaritakis

TYPE II EXCITABILITY WITH QUANTUM DOT LASERS: CANARDS, BISTABILITIES AND MORE ...... 437 Michael Dillane ; Joshua Robertson ; David Goulding ; Antonio Hurtado ; Bryan Kelleher

CONTROL OF NEUROMORPHIC DYNAMICS IN TWO STATE QUANTUM DOT LASERS ...... 438 M. Dillane ; I. Dubinkin ; N. Federov ; T. Erneux ; D. Goulding ; B. Kelleher ; E. A. Viktorov

NOISE AND CONSISTENCY OF ANALOGUE SPATIO-TEMPORAL PHOTONIC NEURAL NETWORKS ...... 439 Xavier Porte ; Louis Andreoli ; Nadezhda Semenova ; Vladimir Semenov ; Maxime Jacquot ; Laurent Larger ; Daniel Brunner

HOMODYNE SCANNING AND HETERODYNE MULTIPLEX SUM FREQUENCY SPECTROSCOPY IN A SHAPER BASED NONLINEAR MICROSCOPE ...... 440 Niklas Müller ; Tiago Buckup ; Marcus Motzkus

COHERENT ANTI-STOKES RAMAN FOURIER PTYCHOGRAPHY...... 441 Sandro Heuke ; Kevin Unger ; Samira Khadir ; Kamal Belkebir ; Patrick Chaumet ; Hervé Rigneault ; Anne Sentenac

TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY OF DIFFERENT PHENOTYPES OF ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA...... 442 Khushboo Singh ; Diksha Garg ; Arpana Katiyar ; Yashwanti Mudgil ; Aparajita Bandyopadhyay ; Amartya Sengupta

BROADBAND IR-FINGERPRINTING OF HUMAN BLOOD AS A UNIVERSAL TOOL FOR DISEASES DIAGNOSTICS ...... 443 Cristina Leonardo ; Kosmas V. Kepesidis ; Birgit Linkohr ; Liudmila Voronina ; Marinus Huber ; Michael Trubetskov ; Annette Peters ; Christian Gieger ; Ferenc Krausz ; Mihaela Zigman

MID-INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY AND MASS SPECTROMETRY COMBINED TO BUILD A COMPREHENSIVE LUNG CANCER FINGERPRINT OF BLOOD PLASMA...... 444 Liudmila Voronina ; Marinus Huber ; Philipp Geyer ; Johannes Muller ; Cristina Leonardo ; Michael Trubetskov ; Kosmas V. Kepesidis ; Matthias Mann ; Ferenc Krausz ; Mihaela Zigman

LIVE MULTI-COLOR COHERENT RAMAN IMAGING ENABLED BY MILLISECOND WAVELENGTH TUNING ...... 445 Maximilian Brinkmann ; Tim Hellwig ; Carsten Fallnich

HEAT-ASSISTED FEMTOSECOND BREAKDOWN OF PLASMONIC NANOPARTICLES...... 446 Benedek J. Nagy ; Zsuzsanna Pápa ; László Péter ; Christine Prietl ; Joachim R. Krenn ; Péter Dombi

IN-SITU OPTICAL TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT IN MICRO-SCALE DURING ULTRAFAST LASER 3D NANOLITHOGRAPHY...... 447 S. Varapnickas ; J. B. Queiroz ; D. Baziulyte-Paulaviciene ; S. Šakirzanovas ; M. Malinauskas

PLASMONIC HEATING OF GOLD NANOPARTICLES FOR CONTROLLING OF CURRENT ACROSS LIPID MEMBRANES IN MODULATING NEURONAL BEHAVIOR APPLICATIONS...... 448 Mir Hossein Seyed Nazari ; Ahmad Ghorbani ; Faezeh Akbari ; Javad Fahanik Babaei ; Afsaneh Eliassi ; Leila Dragahi ; Hamid Latifi ; Mohammad Ismail Zibaii

SPECTRAL THERMAL BAND GAPS IN THE NEAR FIELD HEAT FLUX ...... 449 G. Pirruccio ; J. E. Pérez-Rodríguez ; R. Esquivel-Sirvent

COMPACT QUANTUM IMAGING BASED ON INDUCED COHERENCE...... 450 Marta Gilaberte Basset ; Josué R. Léon Torres ; Markus Gräfe

MULTI-PULSE FITTING OF TRANSITION EDGE SENSOR SIGNALS FROM A NEAR-INFRARED CONTINUOUS-WAVE SOURCE ...... 451 Jianwei Lee ; Lijiong Shen ; Alessandro Cere ; Christian Kurtsiefer

TOWARDS TERAHERTZ SENSING BASED ON PRECISION MEASUREMENTS OF THE AC-STARK EFFECT WITH COLD TRAPPED HD+ IONS...... 452 Florin Lucian Constantin

MID-INFRARED SENSING BY INDUCED COHERENCE IN A SINGLE NONLINEAR WAVEGUIDE ...... 453 Pawan Kumar ; Sina Saravi ; Thomas Pertsch ; Frank Setzpfandt

QUANTIFICATION OF NV-CENTRES IN DIAMOND FOR ROOM-TEMPERATURE MASER...... 454 Juna Sathian ; Jonathan Breeze ; Ben Breeze ; Angelo Frangeskou ; Gavin Morley ; Neil M. Alford

THE REVOLUTION OF SILICON PHOTONICS ...... 455 Michal Lipson

CHALCOGENIDE GLASS FIBER COMPONENTS FOR THE FABRICATION OF MID-INFRARED OPTICAL SOURCES...... 456 Martin Rochette

TUNABLE ALL-FIBER LASER FOR REMOTE SENSING OF METHANE NEAR 3.4 μM...... 457 Louis-Philippe Pleau ; Vincent Fortin ; Frédéric Maes ; Réal Vallée ; Martin Bernier

HIGH ENERGY PULSES FROM A WAVELENGTH TUNABLE DY:ZBLAN MID-INFRARED FIBER LASER ...... 458 Matthew R. Majewski ; Robert I. Woodward ; Stuart D. Jackson

CHALCOGENIDE GLASS POLARIZATION-MAINTAINING PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBER FOR MID- INFRARED SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATION ...... 459 Amar N. Ghosh ; Marcello Meneghetti ; Christian R. Petersen ; Ole Bang ; Laurent Brilland ; Sebastien Venck ; Johann Troles ; John M. Dudley ; Thibaut Sylvestre

3+ 3+ LONG-WAVE IR LUMINESCENCE OF TB AND SM DOPED GA5GE20SB10SE65 FIBERS ...... 460 Florent Starecki ; Nora Abdellaoui ; Alain Braud ; Jean-Louis Doualan ; Catherine Boussard-Plédel ; Bruno Bureau ; Patrice Camy ; Virginie Nazabal

HYPERCUBE STATES FOR SUB-PLANCK SENSING...... 461 T. J. Weinhold ; L. A. Howard ; J. Combes ; F. Shahandeh ; M. R. Vanner ; M. Ringbauer ; A. G. White

PLUG-AND-PLAY GENERATION AND MANIPULATION OF SQUEEZING ON CHIP...... 462 François Mondain ; Tommaso Lunghi ; Alessandro Zavatta ; Elie Gouzien ; Florent Doutre ; Marc De Micheli ; Sébastien Tanzilli ; Virginia D'Auria

MAXIMISATION OF QUANTUM CORRELATIONS UNDER LOCAL FILTERING OPERATIONS ...... 463 Sabine Wollmann ; Andrés F. Ducuara ; Xiaogang Qiang ; Joel F. Tasker ; Xiaoqi Zhou ; Jianwei Wang ; Callum M. Wilkes ; Thomas Loke ; Sean O'Gara ; Laurent Kling ; Graham D. Marshall ; Raffaele Santagati ; Timothy C. Ralph ; Jingbo B. Wang ; Jeremy L. O'Brien ; Mark G. Thompson ; Paul Skrzypczyk ; Jonathan C. F. Matthews

AN OPTIMAL STRATEGY TO RECOVER NONLOCALITY OF POLARIZATION-ENTANGLED STATE FROM A SPDC SOURCE VIA ENTANGLEMENT SWAPPING RELAY...... 464 Yoshiaki Tsujimoto ; Chenglong You ; Kentaro Wakui ; Mikio Fujiwara ; Kazuhiro Hayasaka ; Shigehito Miki ; Hirotaka Terai ; Masahide Sasaki ; Jonathan P. Dowling ; Masahiro Takeoka

LIGHTWAVE VALLEYTRONICS AT MULTI-TERAHERTZ CLOCK RATES...... 465 Christoph P. Schmid ; Fabian Langer ; Stefan Schlauderer ; Martin Gmitra ; Jaroslav Fabian ; Philipp Nagler ; Tobias Korn ; Christian Schüller ; Peter G. Hawkins ; Johannes T. Steiner ; Ulrich Huttner ; Stefan W. Koch ; Mackillo Kira ; Rupert Huber

FEMTOSECOND STREAKING AND CONTROL OF ELECTRONS FROM A PLASMONIC NANOFOCUSING TAPER BY PHOTOEMITTED CHARGES IN A NANOANTENNA...... 466 G. Hergert ; A. Wöste ; J. Vogelsang ; D. Wang ; P. Groß ; C. Lienau

EXTREME-ULTRAVIOLET PULSES WITH SELF-TORQUE ...... 467 Laura Rego ; Kevin M. Dorney ; Nathan J. Brooks ; Quynh Nguyen ; Chen-Ting Liao ; Julio San Román ; David E. Couch ; Allison Liu ; Emilio Pisanty ; Maciej Lewenstein ; Luis Plaja ; Henry C. Kapteyn ; Margaret M. Murnane ; Carlos Hernández- García

SUBCYCLE OBSERVATION OF LIGHTWAVE-DRIVEN DIRAC CURRENTS IN A TOPOLOGICAL SURFACE BAND...... 468 Stefan Schlauderer ; Johannes Reimann ; Christoph P. Schmid ; Fabian Langer ; Sebastian Baierl ; Konstantin A. Kokh ; Oleg E. Tereshchenko ; Akio Kimura ; Christoph Lange ; Jens Güdde ; Rupert Huber ; Ulrich Höfer

EXCITONIC EFFECTS IN SINGLE LAYER MOS2 PROBED BY BROADBAND TWO-DIMENSIONAL ELECTRONIC SPECTROSCOPY ...... 469 Margherita Maiuri ; Stefano Dal Conte ; Mattia Russo ; Junjia Wang ; Giancarlo Soavi ; Dumitru Dumcenco ; Andras Kis ; Malte Selig ; Sandra Khun ; Marten Richter ; Andreas Knorr ; Andrea C. Ferrari ; Giulio Cerullo

INTEGRATED 2D BEAM-STEERING DEVICE ASSISTED BY FIXED LENS...... 470 Chao Li ; Xianyi Cao ; Kan Wu ; Xinwan Li ; Jianping Chen

INVERSE DESIGN OF COMPACT DIGITAL NANOPHOTONIC POWER DIVIDERS WITH ARBITRARY POWER RATIOS USING MODIFIED ADJOINT METHOD ...... 471 Yuting Zhang ; Xinshu Ren ; Deming Liu ; Max Yan ; Minming Zhang

SURFACE PLASMON OPTOELECTRONICS ON SILICON ...... 472 Pierre Berini

95-FS YB:LU2O3 THIN-DISK LASER OPERATING AT 21 W AVERAGE POWER ...... 473 Norbert Modsching ; Jakub Drs ; Julian Fischer ; Clément Paradis ; François Labaye ; Maxim Gaponenko ; Christian Kränkel ; Valentin J. Wittwer ; Thomas Südmeyer

HIGH-POWER DUAL-COMB THIN-DISK OSCILLATOR...... 474 Kilian Fritsch ; Jonathan Brons ; Maksim Iandulskii ; Ka Fai Mak ; Zaijun Chen ; Ferenc Krausz ; Nathalie Picqué ; Oleg Pronin

THIN-DISK LASER EMITTING BEAMS WITH 980 W OF CW-OUTPUT POWER AND RADIAL POLARIZATION...... 475 Tom Dietrich ; Martin Rumpel ; Cherry-May Mateo ; Christof Pruss ; Wolfgang Osten ; Thomas Graf ; Marwan Abdou Ahmed

THIN DISK LASER OPERATING IN FUNDAMENTAL MODE UP TO A POWER OF 4KW ...... 476 Simon Nagel ; Bernd Metzger ; Tina Gottwald ; Vincent Kuhn ; Alexander Killi ; Sven-Silvius Schad

THIN-DISK MULTIPASS AMPLIFIER DELIVERING RADIALLY POLARIZED ULTRAFAST PULSES WITH AN AVERAGE OUTPUT POWER OF 1 KW...... 477 André Loescher ; Jan-Philipp Negel ; Christoph Röcker ; Frieder Beirow ; Thomas Graf ; Marwan Abdou Ahmed

180 W SINGLE-MODE LASER OPERATION OF AN YB:YAG THIN DISK USING A ROBUST DIRECT- BONDING PROCESS ...... 478 L. Deyra ; R. Bello ; M. J. Milla ; J. Boullet ; P. Heu ; D. Follman ; G. D. Cole ; A. Saci ; J. Brisset ; A. Courjaud

METAMATERIALS, ANAPOLES AND FLYING DONUTS ...... 479 Nikolay I. Zheludev

A DIELECTRIC MAGNETIC NANOANTENNA DESIGNED BY EVOLUTIONARY OPTIMIZATION...... 480 Nicolas Bonod ; Sébastien Bidault ; Geoffrey W. Burr ; Mathieu Mivelle

CONTROL OF LASER INDUCED STRESS FOR DIFFRACTIVE OPTICS IN TRANSPARENT MEDIA...... 481 Qi Sun ; Timothy Lee ; Martynas Beresna ; Gilberto Brambilla

FEMTOSECOND LASER INDUCED OF NANO-GRATINGS ON A THIN GAN LAYER GROWN ON A SAPPHIRE SUBSTRATE...... 482 Aviran Halstuch ; Amiel A. Ishaaya

LOW-LOSS GEOMETRIC PHASE ELEMENTS BY FEMTOSECOND LASER WRITING IN SILICA GLASS...... 483 Masaaki Sakakura ; Yuhao Lei ; Lei Wang ; Yanhao Yu ; Peter G. Kazansky

COMPACT FEMTOSECOND LASER DIRECT WRITTEN INTEGRATED RETARDERS BASED ON EMBEDDED NANOGRATINGS...... 484 Kim A. Lammers ; Max Ehrhardt ; Jean-Philippe Bérubé ; Alessandro Alberucci ; Alexander Szameit ; Réal Vallée ; Stefan Nolte

UNDERSTANDING NANOGRATINGS ELASTIC ANISOTROPY: A STEP TOWARDS FEMTOSECOND LASER-WRITTEN ELASTIC META-CRYSTAL...... 485 Pieter Vlugter ; Yves Bellouard

GUIDING PROSTATE CANCER BIOPSIES USING TIME RESOLVED 3D FLUORESCENCE TOMOGRAPHY COMBINED WITH ULTRASOUND IMAGING...... 486 Charles Handschin ; Coralie Genevois ; Sébastien Vidal ; Guillaume Machinet ; Johan Boullet ; Mathieu Perriollat ; Olivier Redon ; Franck Couillaud ; Nicolas Grenier

MULTI-ELEMENTAL IMAGING OF BREAST CANCER TISSUES USING LASER-INDUCED BREAKDOWN SPECTROSCOPY...... 487 Xiaohui Li ; Sibo Yang ; Xue Chen ; Guodong Yao ; Aichun Liu ; Xin Yu

FIELD-RESOLVED INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY OF HUMAN BLOOD TO TACKLE LUNG, PROSTATE AND BREAST CANCER DETECTION...... 488 Marinus Huber ; Liudmila Voronina ; Wolfgang Schweinberger ; Cristina Leonardo ; Kosmas V. Kepesidis ; Christina Hofer ; Syed A. Hussain ; Michael Trubetskov ; Abdallah M. Azzeer ; Ioachim Pupeza ; Ferenc Krausz ; Mihaela Zigman

RESTORATION OF DAMAGED DENTAL ENAMELS USING NANO-SCALE IRON-CALCIUM PHOSPHATE MINERALS AND FEMTO-SECOND PULSED NEAR-IR LASERS...... 489 A. D. Anastasiou ; S. Strafford ; T. J. Edwards ; M. Malinowski ; C. T. A. Brown ; M. N. Routledge ; A. P. Brown ; M. S. Duggal ; Animesh Jha

FEW-CYCLE LASER FOR THE IN VITRO STUDY OF CELLULAR BIOENERGETICS DURING THERAPEUTIC TREATMENT WITH THE ANTICANCER DRUG DOXORUBICIN IN ITS FREE AND LIPOSOMAL NANOCARRIER FORM...... 490 Rodrigo Ferreira ; Christian Maibohm ; Oscar F. Silvestre ; Rosa Romero ; Helder Crespo ; Jana B. Nieder

CLINICAL STUDY FOR ASSESSING THE USE OF A COMPACT VECSEL-BASED YELLOW (590 NM) LASER SYSTEM IN THE TREATMENT OF VASCULAR LESIONS...... 491 Emmi Kantola ; Toni Karppinen ; Ari Karppinen ; Antti Rantamäki ; IIro Leino ; Jussi-Pekka Penttinen ; Serge Mordon ; Mircea Guina

COMPARISON OF THIN-FILM-TRANSISTOR AND PHOTONIC CRYSTAL PROTEIN SENSORS...... 492 Jian-Jang Huang

MINIATURISED, PLANAR, INTEGRATED BRAGG GRATING SPECTROMETER...... 493 James W. Field ; Sam A. Berry ; Rex H. S. Bannerman ; Devin H. Smith ; James C. Gates ; Corin B. E. Gawith ; Peter G. R. Smith

ON-CHIP PHOTOCURRENT DISPLACEMENT SENSOR BASED ON A WAVEGUIDE-COUPLED NANOMECHANICAL PHOTONIC CRYSTAL CAVITY...... 494 Federico Galeotti ; Ivana Seršic Vollenbroek ; Maurangelo Petruzzella ; Francesco M. Pagliano ; Frank W. M. Van Otten ; Žarko Zobenica ; Hamed Sadeghian Marnani ; Abbas Mohtashami ; Rob W. Van Der Heijden ; Andrea Fiore

PERFORMANCE PARAMETER DECOUPLED HIGH EFFICIENCY MICRO RING LASER CAVITY FOR BIOSENSING ...... 495 Lantian Chang ; Michiel De Goede ; Meindert Dijkstra ; Carlijn I. Van Emmerik ; Sonia M. García-Blanco

COMPARING THE FUNDAMENTAL LIMIT OF DETECTION FOR INTERFEROMETRIC AND RESONANT BIOSENSORS WITH COHERENT PHASE READ-OUT ...... 496 Jonas Leuermann ; Íñigo Molina-Fernández ; Alejandro Ortega-Moñux ; J. Gonzalo Wangüemert-Pérez ; Robert Halir

INTER-PULSE DYNAMICS AT HIGH REPETITION RATES BY FEMTOSECOND IONIZATION IN GAS- FILLED FIBRES...... 497 Felix Köttig ; Johannes R. Koehler ; Francesco Tani ; Philip St. J. Russell

HIGH-POWER 50-MHZ SOURCE OF WAVEFORM-STABLE, MULTI-OCTAVE INFRARED PULSES ...... 498 Thomas P. Butler ; Jia Xu ; Nikolai Lilienfein ; Nathalie Nagl ; Daniel Gerz ; Christina Hofer ; Christian Gaida ; Tobias Heuermann ; Martin Gebhardt ; Marc Fischer ; Ronald Holzwarth ; Michael Mei ; Jens Limpert ; Ferenc Krausz ; Ka Fai Mak ; Oleg Pronin ; Ioachim Pupeza

MASTERING ULTRAFAST UV LIGHT IN HOLLOW-CORE PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBRES...... 499 David Novoa

CUSTOMIZING SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATION VIA ADAPTIVE ON-CHIP PULSE SPLITTING ...... 500 Benjamin Wetzel ; Michael Kues ; Piotr Roztocki ; Christian Reimer ; Pierre-Luc Godin ; Maxwell Rowley ; Brent E. Little ; Sai T. Chu ; Evgeny A. Viktorov ; David J. Moss ; Alessia Pasquazi ; Marco Peccianti ; Roberto Morandotti

CEP-STABLE GENERATION OF CLOSE TO SINGLE-CYCLE AND ULTRASHORT UV PULSES AT 800 KHZ REPETITION RATE USING A GAS-FILLED HOLLOW-CORE PCF...... 501 Alexey Ermolov ; Christian Heide ; Philip Dienstbier ; Francesco Tani ; Felix Köttig ; Peter Hommelhoff ; Philip St. J. Russell

THE LIGHT CAGE — AN ON-CHIP HOLLOW-CORE WAVEGUIDE IMPLEMENTED BY 3D NANOPRINTING ...... 502 Julian Gargiulo ; Bumjoon Jang ; Guangrui Li ; Stefan A. Maier ; Markus A. Schmidt

COMPOSITE MATERIAL ANTIRESONANT FIBRE OPTICAL MODULATOR WITH >3DB DEPTH...... 503 Adam H. Lewis ; Francesco De Lucia ; Walter Belardi ; Chung-Che Huang ; John R. Hayes ; Francesco Poletti ; Dan W. Hewak ; Pier J. A. Sazio

EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION OF NON-ORTHOGONAL MODES IN TIGHT-BINDING LATTICES...... 504 Lukas J. Maczewsky ; Steffen Weimann ; Mark Kremer ; Matthias Heinrich ; Alexander Szameit

ON THE POSSIBILITY OF STRUCTURAL CHARACTERISATION OF HOLLOW CORE FIBRES USING WHISPERING GALLERY MODES EXCITED BY LASER AND BROADBAND LIGHT ...... 505 Michael A. Bukshtab ; Hans Christian Mulvad ; Radan Slavik ; Francesco Poletti ; David J. Richardson

RECORD LOW LOSS HOLLOW CORE FIBER FOR THE 1μM REGION ...... 506 H. Sakr ; G. T. Jasion ; T. D. Bradley ; Y. Chen ; J. R. Hayes ; I. A. Davidson ; H. C. Mulvad ; L. Xu ; D. J. Richardson ; F. Poletti

A MULTIPLE-WAVEGUIDE MODE-LOCKED CHIP-LASER ARCHITECTURE ...... 507 D. G. Lancaster ; N. Bourbeau Hébert ; W. Zhang ; F. Piantedosi ; T. M. Monro ; J. Genest

LASER PERFORMANCE OF A PLD-GROWN YB:LUAG DOUBLE-CLAD PLANAR WAVEGUIDE...... 508 Sergey V. Kurilchik ; Jake J. Prentice ; Robert W. Eason ; Jacob I. Mackenzie

ULTRAFAST LASER INSCRIPTION AND LASER OPERATION OF Y-BRANCH SPLITTERS IN MONOCLINIC THULIUM-DOPED CRYSTALS ...... 509 Esrom Kifle ; Pavel Loiko ; Carolina Romero ; Javier Rodríguez Vázquez De Aldana ; Viktor Zakharov ; Andrey Veniaminov ; Uwe Griebner ; Valentin Petrov ; Patrice Camy ; Alain Braud ; Magdalena Aguiló ; Francesc Díaz ; Xavier Mateos

3+ LIQUID PHASE EPITAXY GROWTH, SPECTROSCOPY AND FIRST LASER OPERATION OF YB :CAF2 WAVEGUIDES ...... 510 Pavel Loiko ; Rémi Soulard ; Esrom Kifle ; Lauren Guillemot ; Gurvan Brasse ; Abdelmjid Benayad ; Jean-Louis Doualan ; Alain Braud ; Magdalena Aguiló ; Francesc Díaz ; Xavier Mateos ; Patrice Camy

ZINC INDIFFUSED DICED RIDGE PPLN WAVEGUIDES FOR PHOTOREFRACTIVE DAMAGE RESISTANCE AND SPECTRAL ENGINEERING ...... 511 Sam A. Berry ; Lewis G. Carpenter ; James C. Gates ; Peter G. R. Smith ; Corin B. E. Gawith

BENDING THE RULES: QUANTUM EFFECTS IN THE OPERATION OF A MICROSCOPIC HEAT ENGINE IN DIAMOND...... 512 Jonas N. Becker ; James Klatzow ; Patrick M. Ledingham ; Christian Weinzetl ; Krzysztof T. Kaczmarek ; Dylan J. Saunders ; Joshua Nunn ; Raam Uzdin ; Ian A. Walmsley ; Eilon Poem

QUANTUM TEMPORAL IMAGING WITH FINITE TIME APERTURE ...... 513 Dmitri Horoshko ; Giuseppe Patera ; Mikhail Kolobov

FOUR-PORT RESONANT TUNNELLING BOTTLE MICRORESONATOR DEVICE ...... 514 Manuel Crespo-Ballesteros ; Yong Yang ; Misha Sumetsky

EXTREMELY EFFICIENT COUPLING OF SILICA TOROID MICRORESONATOR TO SILICON CHIP WITH PHOTONIC CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDE...... 515 Yuyang Zhuang ; Hajime Kumazaki ; Shun Fujii ; Takasumi Tanabe

ENHANCED WAVELENGTH CONVERSION IN TIO2 MICRORING RESONATORS ...... 516 Meicheng Fu ; Yi Zheng ; Xiaowei Guan ; Xiujian Li ; Lars Hagedorn Frandsen

SIXTH-ORDER 2D MICRORING OPTICAL FILTER WITH SHARP TRANSMISSION ZERO...... 517 Tyler J. Zimmerling ; Yang Ren ; David Perron ; Vien Van

PRECISELY DISPERSION TAILORED CRYSTALLINE MICRORESONATOR WITH A Q EXCEEDING 108 FABRICATED BY COMPUTER-CONTROLLED MACHINING ...... 518 Shun Fujii ; Mika Fuchida ; Hikaru Amano ; Shuya Tanaka ; Ryo Suzuki ; Yasuhiro Kakinuma ; Takasumi Tanabe

MODE-LOCKED OSCILLATION OF CR:ZNS LASER USING A SINGLE WALLED CARBON NANOTUBE FILM WITH RESONANT ABSORPTION AT 2.4 μM ...... 519 Daiki Okazaki ; Hayato Arai ; Esko. I. Kauppinen ; Shohei Chiashi ; Shigeo Maruyama ; Satoshi Ashihara

SUB-60 FS SESAM MODE-LOCKED TM:LUYO3 CERAMIC LASER ...... 520 Yongguang Zhao ; Li Wang ; Zhongben Pan ; Yicheng Wang ; Jian Zhang ; Peng Liu ; Xiaodong Xu ; Deyuan Shen ; Jun Xu ; Soile Suomalainen ; Antti Härkönen ; Mircea Guina ; Pavel Loiko ; Xavie Mateos ; Uwe Griebner ; Valentin Petrov ; Weidong Chen

HIGH QUALITY-FACTOR KERR-LENS MODE-LOCKED TM:SC2O3 LASER BEYOND THE GAIN BANDWIDTH LIMITATION ...... 521 Anna Suzuki ; Masaki Tokurakawa ; Christian Krankel

(TM,HO):YLF LASER PASSIVELY MODE-LOCKED WITH A GRAPHENE SATURABLE ABSORBER...... 522 Marlène Paris ; Aleksey Tyazhev ; Rémi Soulard ; Pavel Loiko ; Jean-Louis Doualan ; Gurvan Brasse ; Alain Braud ; Thomas Godin ; Patrice Camy ; Ammar Hideur

GROWTH, SPECTROSCOPY AND LASER OPERATION OF TM,HO:CNGG: A PROMISING DISORDERED CRYSTAL FOR MODE-LOCKED LASERS ...... 523 Zhongben Pan ; Pavel Loiko ; Yicheng Wang ; Yongguang Zhao ; Hualei Yuan ; Xiaojun Dai ; Huaqiang Cai ; Josep Maria Serres ; Alain Braud ; Jean-Louis Doualan ; Patrice Camy ; Uwe Griebner ; Valentin Petrov ; Magdalena Aguiló ; Francesc Díaz ; Xavier Mateos

SPECTROSCOPY, CONTINUOUS-WAVE AND PASSIVELY Q-SWITCHED LASER OPERATION OF TRANSPARENT TM:LUAG CERAMICS...... 524 Fangxin Yue ; Mengting Chen ; Liza Basyrova ; Pavel Loiko ; Josep Maria Serres ; Yicheng Wang ; Jiang Li ; Venkatesan Jambunathan ; Antonio Lucianetti ; Tomas Mocek ; Shibo Dai ; Zhenqiang Chen ; Sun Yung Choi ; Ji Eun Bae ; Fabian Rotermund ; Magdalena Aguiló ; Francesc Díaz ; Uwe Griebner ; Valentin Petrov ; Xavier Mateos

ORDER OF MAGNITUDE IMPROVEMENT IN FEEDBACK STABILITY OF NANOLASERS BY INCLUSION OF A FANO RESONANCE-BASED MIRROR ...... 525 Thorsten S. Rasmussen ; Jesper Mork

ULTRAFAST SPIN-LASERS FOR OPTICAL DATA COMMUNICATION ...... 526 Markus Lindemann ; Gaofeng Xu ; Tobias Pusch ; Rainer Michalzik ; Martin R. Hofmann ; Igor Zutic ; Nils C. Gerhardt

COLLECTIVE LASER EMISSION IN COUPLED HYBRID INP-ON-SOI NANOCAVITIES ...... 527 Quentin Chateiller ; Dorian Sanchez ; Fabrice Raineri

ROBUST POLARIMETRY WITH A SINGLE METAGRATING...... 528 Nicolas Pedersen ; Kai Wang ; Shaun Lung ; Andrey A. Sukhorukov

SEMI-ANALYTIC MODELING OF CHIRAL METASURFACE STACKS ...... 529 Jan Sperrhake ; Manuel Decker ; Matthias Falkner ; Stefan Fasold ; Thomas Kaiser ; Isabelle Staude ; Thomas Pertsch

RANDOM TOPOLOGICAL DEFECTS-INDUCED SPIN-ENABLED PHOTONIC TRANSPORT BY METASURFACES...... 530 Bo Wang ; Elhanan Maguid ; Michael Yannai ; Vladimir Kleiner ; Erez Hasman

FIRST EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION OF PHOTONIC SPIN HALL EFFECT IN HYPERBOLIC METAMATERIALS AT VISIBLE WAVELENGTHS...... 531 Graciana Puentes ; Osamu Takayama ; Johneph Sukham ; Radu Malureanu ; Andrei V. Lavrinenko

COMPLEX-BIREFRINGENT AND CHIRAL WAVEPLATES WITH METASURFACES ...... 532 Shaun Lung ; Kai Wang ; Khosro Zangeneh Kamali ; Mohsen Rahmani ; Dragomir N. Neshev ; Andrey A. Sukhorukov

3D AUXETIC METAMATERIALS MADE USING MULTIPHOTON POLYMERISATION ...... 533 Ioannis Spanos ; Vasileia Melissinaki ; Maria Farsari

DIRECT LASER WRITING BY 4PI MULTIPHOTON POLYMERIZATION ...... 534 Titas Tickunas ; Vytautas Purlys ; Roaldas Gadonas

CREATION OF TWO-PHOTON ABSORPTION PHOTO-POLYMERIZATION INDUCED HELICAL MICROFIBERS ...... 535 Junhyung Lee ; Yoshihiko Arita ; Reimon Matsuo ; Haruki Kawaguchi ; Katsuhiko Miyamoto ; Kishan Dholakia ; Takashige Omatsu

STITCHLESS SUPPORT-FREE FABRICATION OF FREE-FORM MICROMECHANICAL STRUCTURES USING FEMTOSECOND LASER 3D LITHOGRAPHY...... 536 Linas Jonušauskas ; Dovile Mackeviciute ; Tomas Baravykas ; Tomas Gadišauskas ; Vytautas Purlys

TRUE 3D ADDITIVE-MANUFACTURING OF GLASS-CERAMICS DOWN TO NANOSCALE ...... 537 Darius Gailevicius ; Viktorija Padolskyte ; Greta Merkininkaite ; Lina Mikoliunaite ; Simas Sakirzanovas ; Saulius Juodkazis ; Mangirdas Malinauskas

TEMPORAL CONTROL OF THE COMBINATION OVER ALL SPATIAL AND POLARIZATION MODES PROPAGATING THROUGH A MULTIMODE FIBRE ...... 538 Mickael Mounaix ; Joel Carpenter

2PHOTON FLEXIBLE LENSLESS ENDOSCOPE...... 539 Esben Andresen ; Siddharth Sivankutty ; Viktor Tsvirkun ; Olivier Vanvincq ; Géraud Bouwmans ; Hervé Rigneault

OPTICAL ANTENNA BASED FLUORESCENCE CORRELATION SPECTROSCOPY OF BIOMEMBRANES ...... 540 Pamina M. Winkler ; Raju Regmi ; Valentin Flauraud ; Jürgen Brugger ; Hervé Rigneault ; María F. García-Parajo ; Jérôme Wenger

MUELLER MATRIX MEASUREMENT SYSTEM FOR SKIN POLARIMETRY AS ADDITIONAL MODULE FOR NON-CONTACT DERMATOSCOPY...... 541 Dierk Fricke ; Merve Wollweber ; Bernhard Roth

3D NANOPRINTED HIGH NA ULTRA-COMPACT CATADIOPTRIC LENS FOR EFFICIENT COLLECTION IN FORWARD DETECTION CONFIGURATION MICROSCOPY ...... 542 Andrea Bertoncini ; Siarhei P. Laptenok ; Vijayakumar P. Rajamanickam ; Carlo Liberale

THE NEXT DIMENSION OF DETECTION: BIOMECHANICAL ANALYSIS OF TISSUE USING OPTICAL ELASTOGRAPHY...... 543 Andrea M. Armani ; Alexa W. Hudnut ; Nicholas A. Trasolini ; Lian Lash-Rosenberg ; An Xin ; George F. Hatch ; Cecilia Zurita- Lopez ; Qiming Wang

LOSSY MODE RESONANCE FIBER-OPTIC BIOSENSING ALLOWING ULTRA-LOW DETECTION LIMIT ...... 544 Francesco Chiavaioli ; Pablo Zubiate ; Ignacio Del Villar ; Carlos R. Zamarreño ; Ambra Giannetti ; Sara Tombelli ; Cosimo Trono ; Ignacio R. Matias ; Francisco J. Arregui ; Francesco Baldini

FAST TEMPERATURE SENSORS FOR FIBRE-OPTIC FLOW MEASUREMENT IN INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOLOGY ...... 545 Joanna M. Coote ; Charles A. Mosse ; Elizabeth Carr ; Malcolm C. Finlay ; Adrien E. Desjardins

HIGH SENSITIVITY ALL-FIBRE METHANE SENSOR WITH GAS PERMEABLE TEFLON/CRYPTOPHANE-A MEMBRANE...... 546 Rand Ismaeel ; Alexander Beaton ; Andrei Donko ; Wanvisa Talataisong ; Timothy Lee ; Thierry Brotin ; Martynas Beresna ; Matthew Mowlem ; Gilberto Brambilla

LINEAR CHIRP INSTABILITY MEASUREMENT USING SPIDER ...... 547 Esmerando Escoto ; Günter Steinmeyer

COMMON PULSE RETRIEVAL ALGORITHM: A FAST AND UNIVERSAL METHOD TO RETRIEVE ULTRASHORT PULSES...... 548 Nils C. Geib ; Matthias Zilk ; Thomas Pertsch ; Falk Eilenberger

VIDEO-RATE PHASE RETRIEVALS FROM DISPERSION SCAN TRACES USING ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS...... 549 Sven Kleinert ; Ayhan Tajalli ; Tamas Nagy ; Uwe Morgner

PLASMA-MIRROR FROG USING LIQUID-SHEET WATER JET IN ULTRAVIOLET REGION ...... 550 Tomoyuki Endo ; Masaaki Tsubouchi ; Ryuji Itakura

IN-SITU DIAGNOSTIC OF ULTRASHORT PROBES BASED ON KERR-INDEX TRANSIENT BRAGG GRATING ...... 551 R. Meyer ; C. Xie ; R. Giust ; C. Billet ; B. Morel ; F. Courvoisier

SPATIAL CHARACTERIZATION OF SYNTHESIZED INFRARED SUB-CYCLE PULSES ...... 552 Miguel A. Silva-Toledo ; Fabian Scheiba ; Giulio Maria Rossi ; Roland E. Mainz ; Yudong Yang ; Giovanni Cirmi ; Franz X. Kärtner

GIANT BROADBAND REFRACTION IN THE VISIBLE IN A NANODISORDERED FERROELECTRIC PEROVSKITE...... 553 L. Falsi ; F. Di Mei ; M. Flammini ; D. Pierangeli ; P. Di Porto ; A. J. Agranat ; E. Delre

ENHANCED QUANTUM NANO-SOURCES BASED ON SILICON-VACANCY CENTERS IN EPITAXIALLY GROWN DIAMOND NANO-PYRAMIDS ...... 554 Tzach Jaffe ; Nina Felgen ; Lior Gal ; Lior Kornblum ; Cyril Popov ; Johann Peter Reithmaier ; Meir Orenstein

LIQUID CRYSTAL ALIGNMENT ON THE PATTERNS PRODUCED BY NONLINEAR LASER LITHOGRAPHY...... 555 Ihor Pavlov ; Andriy Rybak ; Andriy Dobrovolskiy ; Zoya Kazantseva ; Alpan Bek ; Ozun Candemir ; Igor Gvozdovskyy

DISPERSION MEASUREMENT OF FEMTOSECOND PULSES THROUGH PHOTONIC BAND-GAP EDGES OF CHOLESTERIC LIQUID CRYSTALS...... 556 Maxim Neradovskiy ; Umberto Bortolozzo ; Stefania Residori ; Aurélie Jullien ; Adriana Scarangella ; Michel Mitov

X-RAY IMAGING OF FUNCTIONAL THREE-DIMENSIONAL PHOTONIC NANOSTRUCTURES WITH 20- NM RESOLUTION...... 557 D. A. Grishina ; C. A. M. Harteveld ; A. Pacureanu ; D. Devashish ; A. Lagendijk ; P. Cloetens ; W. L. Vos

BUILD-UP OF BIDIRECTIONAL ULTRASHORT PULSE LASER GENERATION: FROM Q-SWITCHED INSTABILITIES TO MODE-LOCKING ...... 558 Igor S. Kudelin ; Srikanth Sugavanam ; Maria Chernysheva

HIGH-ENERGY ULTRAFAST YB-FIBER LASER SYSTEM BASED ON A MAMYSHEV REGENERATOR ...... 559 Paul Repgen ; Dieter Wandt ; Uwe Morgner ; Jorg Neumann ; Dietmar Kracht

SQUARE PULSE AND HARMONIC ULTRASHORT PULSE GENERATION IN SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIER-BASED MAMYSHEV OSCILLATOR...... 560 Igor Kudelin ; Maria Chernysheva

ALL-PM FIBRE LASER WITH SWITCHABLE PULSED REGIMES DRIVEN BY ELECTROCHEMICALLY GATED CARBON NANOTUBE SATURABLE ABSORBER...... 561 Yury Gladush ; Aram Mkrtchyan ; Daria Kopylova ; Aleksey Ivanenko ; Boris Nyushkov ; Alexey Kokhanovskiy ; Sergey Kobtsev ; Albert G. Nasibulin

MEASUREMENT OF INTER-SWEEP PHASE STABILITY OF AN FDML LASER WITH A 10 KHZ TUNABLE RING LASER...... 562 Dominic Kastner ; Torben Blomker ; Tom Pfeiffer ; Christin Grill ; Mark Schmidt ; Christian Jirauschek ; Robert Huber

GAIN-MANAGED NONLINEAR FIBER AMPLIFIER ...... 563 Pavel Sidorenko ; Walter Fu ; Frank W. Wise

INTERACTING RYDBERG IONS ...... 564 Chi Zhang ; Fabian Pokorny ; Gerard Higgins ; Andreas Pöschl ; Markus Hennrich

ATOMIC INTERACTION VIA DIFFRACTIVE LIGHT COUPLING...... 565 T. Ackemann ; A. Costa Boquete ; I. Kresic ; G. Baio ; G. R. M. Robb ; G.-L. Oppo ; P. F. Griffin ; G. Labeyrie ; R. Kaiser

SINGLE COLLECTIVE EXCITATION OF ATOMS EVANESCENTLY COUPLED TO A NANOSCALE WAVEGUIDE...... 566 Jérémy Raskop ; Neil V. Corzo ; Aveek Chandra ; Alexandra S. Sheremet ; Baptiste Gouraud ; Jérémy Berroir ; Julien Laurat

ATOMIC VAPOR CONFINED IN A NANOSCALE GEOMETRY: FROM MESOSCOPIC TO COLLECTIVE EFFECTS ...... 567 Tom Peyrot ; James Keaveney ; Yvan R. P. Sortais ; Armen Sargsyan ; I. G. Hughes ; J. J. Greffet ; C. S. Adams ; Antoine Browaeys

ALL-DIELECTRIC NANOHOLE ARRAY FOR HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGING AND ENHANCED SENSITIVITY ...... 568 D. Conteduca ; R. Romão ; E. R. Martins ; T. F. Krauss

FULLY ON-CHIP SINGLE-PHOTON HANBURY-BROWN AND TWISS EXPERIMENT ON A MONOLITHIC SEMICONDUCTOR-SUPERCONDUCTOR PLATFORM ...... 569 Simone Luca Portalupi ; Mario Schwartz ; Ekkehart Schmidt ; Ulrich Rengstl ; Florian Hornung ; Stefan Hepp ; Konstantin Llin ; Michael Jetter ; Michael Siegel ; Peter Michler

INTERFEROMETRIC SENSING WITH GUIDED-MODE RESONANCES...... 570 Isabel A. Barth ; Thomas F. Krauss

ON-CHIP PERIODIC ARRAYS OF OPTICAL TRAPS BASED ON THE SUPERPOSITION OF GUIDED MODES IN SILICON WAVEGUIDES...... 571 Christophe Pin ; Jean-Baptiste Jager ; Manon Tardif ; Emmanuel Picard ; Emmanuel Hadji ; Frédérique De Fornel ; Benoît Cluzel

OPTO-MECHANICAL ULTRASOUND SENSOR BASED ON SENSITIVE SILICON-PHOTONIC SPLIT RIB- TYPE WAVEGUIDE...... 572 Wouter J. Westerveld ; Md. Mahmud-Ul-Hasan ; Roelof Jansen ; Xavier Rottenberg ; Simone Severi ; Veronique Rochus

EFFICIENT SOLID-STATE SINGLE-PHOTON SOURCES BASED ON DIAMOND COLOUR CENTERS COUPLED TO PLASMONIC BULLSEYE RESONATORS...... 573 Martin Zeitlmair ; Nils Hellerhoff ; Philipp Altpeter ; Harald Weinfurter

TITANIUM SAPPHIRE: A DECADE OF DIODE-LASER PUMPING...... 574 Jamie C. E. Coyle ; John-Mark Hopkins ; Alexander A. Lagatsky ; Alan J. Kemp

EFFICIENT TM:YAG AND TM:LUAG LASERS PUMPED BY RED TAPERED DIODES ...... 575 Ersen Beyatli ; Bernd Sumpf ; Götz Erbert ; Umit Demirbas

COOLING EFFECT OF TM CO-DOPING: INCREASE THE SYSTEM EFFICIENCY AND PROSPECTING TO REACH THE 70 K COOLING TEMPERATURE ...... 576 Giovanni Cittadino ; Alberto Di Lieto ; Mauro Tonelli

LED PUMPED TRANSITION METAL LASERS...... 577 Pierre Pichón ; François Balembois ; Frédéric Druon ; Jean-Philippe Blanchot ; Patrick Georges

MONOLITHIC MASTER OSCILLATOR WITH TAPERED POWER AMPLIFIER DIODE LASER AT 1060 NM WITH ADDITIONAL CONTROL SECTION FOR HIGH POWER OPERATION ...... 578 C. Zink ; M. Maiwald ; H. Wenzel ; B. Sumpf ; G. Tränkle

HIGH-POWER III-V-ON-SILICON SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIER (> 50 MW) FOR INTEGRATED MODE-LOCKED LASERS ...... 579 Kasper Van Gasse ; Ruijun Wang ; Gunther Roelkens

FEEDBACK INSENSITIVE EXTERNAL-CAVITY SEMICONDUCTOR RING LASER UTILIZING A WEAK INTRACAVITY ISOLATOR ...... 580 Theodorus Van Schaijk ; Daan Lenstra ; Kevin Williams ; Erwin Bente

NARROW LINEWIDTH INGAN LASER DIODES BASED ON EXTERNAL CAVITY FIBER BRAGG GRATING ...... 581 Mathilde Gay ; Antoine Congar ; Dominique Mammez ; Laurent Lablonde ; Raphaël Butté ; Nicolas Grandjean ; Pascal Besnard ; Stéphane Trebaol

MODE-HOP-FREE TUNING OF A CHIP-BASED HYBRID INTEGRATED INP-SI3N4 LASER...... 582 Albert Van Rees ; Dimitri Geskus ; Edwin J. Klein ; Youwen Fan ; Peter J. M. Van Der Slot ; Klaus-J. Boller

COMPACT DUAL-WAVELENGTH LASERS ON INP GENERIC FOUNDRY PLATFORM ...... 583 Robert Pawlus ; Stefan Breuer ; Martin Virte

IMPACT OF STRAIN ON THE SECOND-HARMONIC GENERATION IN TRANSITION METAL DICHALCOGENIDE MONOLAYERS...... 584 Lukas Mennel ; Valerie Smejkal ; Florian Libisch ; Thomas Mueller

MILLIJOULE LEVEL LASER SYSTEM DELIVERING 1 TO 18 GHZ INTRA-TRAIN REPETITION RATE PICOSECOND PULSES FOR MATERIALS PROCESSING...... 585 Jérôme Lhermite ; Denis Marion ; Lilia Pontagnier ; Pierre Héricourt ; Giorgio Santarelli ; Eric Cormier

GHZ-BURSTS AND ULTRAFAST EXTERNAL MODULATION OF FEMTOSECOND FIBER LASERS WITH KW AVERAGE POWER LEVELS...... 586 Sven Breitkopf ; Marco Kienel ; Armin Hoffmann ; Michael Müller ; Arno Klenke ; Tino Eidam ; Jens Limpert

EFFICIENCY STUDY ON SINGLE PULSE, BURST MODE AND MULTI PULSE ULTRA-SHORT PULSED ABLATION OF PURE COPPER...... 587 Norbert Ackerl ; Konrad Wegener

MECHANISMS OF PULSE TO PULSE PATTERN EVOLUTION OF ULTRAFAST LASER INDUCED PERIODIC SURFACE STRUCTURES OBSERVED UNDER STRUCTURED ILLUMINATION MICROSCOPY ...... 588 Cyril Mauclair ; Alberto Aguilar ; Nicolas Faure ; Jean-Philippe Colombier ; Razvan Stoian

EXPERIMENTAL AND THEORETICAL STUDY OF ULTRASHORT LASER EXCITATION OF NICKEL...... 589 T. Genieys ; M. N. Petrakakis ; G. Tsibidis ; M. Sentis ; O. Utéza

TIME-LAPSE INTRAVITAL IMAGING OF BIOMATERIALS INTEGRATION IN TISSUES USING A MULTICOLOR MULTIPHOTON MICROSCOPE...... 590 Dobryna Zalvidea ; Oscar Castano ; Sandra Baker ; Natalia Castro ; Elisabeth Engel ; Xavier Trepat

A NEW PULSE-SHAPED MULTIPHOTON SINGLE-MOLECULE MICROSCOPE...... 591 David Nobis ; Steven W. Magennis

LASER ILLUMINATION DESIGNS FOR SNAPSHOT MULTI-SPECTRAL-LINE IMAGING ...... 592 Janis Spigulis ; Ilze Oshina ; Margarita Matulenko

IN-MOVIE, SINGLE-FRAME VISUALIZATION OF SHOCK WAVE PROPAGATION FOR THE STUDIES OF LASER MEDICAL PROCEDURES IN OPHTHALMOLOGY ...... 593 Tomaž Požar ; Vid Agrež ; Rok Petkovšek

OPTICAL NEURAL NETWORK BY DISORDERED TUMOR SPHEROIDS ...... 594 D. Pierangeli ; V. Palmieri ; G. Marcucci ; C. Moriconi ; G. Perini ; M. De Spirito ; M. Papi ; C. Conti

CONTINUOUS COUNTING AND SIZING OF AIRBORNE NANOPARTICLES USING HOLLOW-CORE PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBRES ...... 595 Abhinav Sharma ; Shangran Xie ; Richard Zeltner ; Philip St. J. Russell

DETECTION AND TRACKING OF MULTIPLE INDIVIDUAL NANOPARTICLES IN ANTIRESONANT HOLLOW-CORE FIBERS...... 596 Mona Nissen ; Stefan Weidlich ; Ronny Förster ; Yoav Lahini ; Markus A. Schmidt

PHOTOREDUCTION IN OPTOFLUIDIC HOLLOW-CORE PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBER...... 597 Philipp Koehler ; Julian Neises ; Janina Willkomm ; Takashi Lawson ; Daniel Antón-García ; Michael H. Frosz ; Philip St. J. Russell ; Erwin Reisner ; Tijmen G. Euser

THREE DIMENSIONAL PARTICLE TRACKING IN MICROSTRUCTURED GRADED INDEX FIBER ...... 598 Shiqi Jiang ; Jiangbo Zhao ; Stefan Weidlich ; Malte Plidschun ; Markus A. Schmidt

MONITORING THE EVAPORATION DYNAMICS OF A WATER DROPLET INSIDE A MICROCAPILLARY WITH NANOMETRE-SCALE PRECISION...... 599 K. V. Tokmakov ; M. Sumetsky

51 W, MULTI-GW FEW-CYCLE LASER SPANNING 1.2–2.2 μM WAVELENGTH...... 600 M. Gebhardt ; C. Gaida ; T. Heuermann ; C. Jauregui ; J. Antonio-Lopez ; A. Schülzgen ; R. Amezcua-Correa ; J. Rothhardt ; J. Limpert

BROADBAND INFRARED (2.7–20 μM) GENERATION VIA RANDOM QUASI-PHASE-MATCHED INTRA- PULSE DIFFERENCE-FREQUENCY GENERATION...... 601 Jinwei Zhang ; Kilian Fritsch ; Qing Wang ; Ferenc Krausz ; Ka Fai Mak ; Oleg Pronin

2.5–12 μM TUNABLE, 2 μM PUMPED, ZNGEP2-BASED OPG/OPA SYSTEM FOR THE GENERATION OF NARROWBAND, μJ-LEVEL PULSES WITH SUB-20 CM-1 BANDWIDTH...... 602 Matthias Baudisch ; Moritz Hinkelmann ; Dieter Wandt ; Kevin Zawilski ; Peter Schunemann ; Jörg Neumann ; Ingo Rimke

HIGH-POWER AND SUB-TWO-CYCLE 2.5 μM OPTICAL PARAMETRIC CHIRPED PULSE AMPLIFICATION SYSTEM ...... 603 N. Bigler ; J. Pupeikis ; S. Hrisafov ; L. Gallmann ; C. R. Phillips ; U. Keller

HIGHLY EFFICIENT BROADBAND MID-INFRARED GENERATION (2.8–12.5 μM) BASED ON A COMPACT CR:ZNS LASER ...... 604 Qing Wang ; Jinwei Zhang ; Nathalie Nagl ; Vladimir Pervak ; Ferenc Krausz ; Oleg Pronin ; Ka Fai Mak

FABRICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF TAPERED SINGLE-RING HOLLOW-CORE PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBRE...... 605 Riccardo Pennetta ; Michael T. Enders ; Michael H. Frosz ; Francesco Tani ; Philip St. J. Russell

CORE MODAL SPATIAL-STRUCTURING IN INHIBITED-COUPLING HOLLOW-CORE FIBERS...... 606 J. H. Osório ; M. Chafer ; B. Debord ; F. Giovanardi ; M. Cordier ; M. Maurel ; F. Delahaye ; F. Amrani ; L. Vincetti ; F. Gérôme ; F. Benabid

FABRICATION OF NANOHOLE SUSPENDED CORE FIBERS AND THEIR DISPERSION PROPERTIES...... 607 Alexander Härtung ; Jörg Bierlich ; Jens Kobelke ; Adrian Lorenz ; Matthias Jäger

INTEGRATED OPTICAL FIBRE — INVESTIGATING THE VIBRATIONAL RESPONSE USING OPTICAL FREQUENCY DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY ...... 608 Senta L. Scholl ; Rex H. S. Bannerman ; Alexander Jantzen ; Sam A. Berry ; Alan C. Gray ; James C. Gates ; Lewis J. Boyd ; Peter G. R. Smith ; Christopher Holmes

DEVELOPMENT OF 3-D PRINTED SILICA PREFORMS ...... 609 Angeles Camacho-Rosales ; Martín Núñez-Velázquez ; Xiao Zhao ; Shoufeng Yang ; Jayanta K. Sahu

LONG LENGTH/SMALL CORE STEP-INDEX SILICON CORE FIBER FABRICATED BY IMPROVED POWDER-IN-TUBE PROCESS ...... 610 Aymeric Pastre ; Armand Passelergue ; Sébastien Rougier ; André Lecomte ; Mustafa Ordu ; Frédéric Gérôme ; Jean-Marc Blondy ; Christine Restoin

DIODE-PUMPED CRYOGENICALLY COOLED MICROCHIP ALEXANDRITE LASER OPERATING AT 680.4 NM WAVELENGTH...... 611 Martin Fibrich ; Jan Šulc ; Helena Jelínková

567 NS PULSES FROM PASSIVELY Q-SWITCHED ER:YLF LASER GENERATING AT 2.81 μM ...... 612 Richard Švejkar ; Jan Šulc ; Michal Nemec ; Helena Jelínková

EYE-SAFE ER:YAG LASER Q-SWITCHED BY CO:SPINEL SATURABLE ABSORBER...... 613 Michal Nemec ; Jan Šulc ; Helena Jelínková ; Karel Nejezchleb

LONG RUNTIME INVESTIGATION OF AN INJECTION SEEDED Q-SWITCHED HO:YAG LASER WITHOUT ACTIVE STABILISATION...... 614 Günther Renz

KEY TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF 100 J, 100 HZ CRYOGENICALLY-COOLED ACTIVE-MIRROR AMPLIFIER...... 615 Jumpei Ogino ; Shigeki Tokita ; Li Zhaoyang ; Naohiro Yamaguchi ; Shinji Motokoshi ; Masaaki Sakamoto ; Noboru Morio ; Koji Tsubakimoto ; Hidetsugu Yoshida ; Kana Fujioka ; Junji Kawanaka

GAIN ANALYSIS OF A COMPACT HO:YAG SLAB AMPLIFIER, END-PUMPED BY A HIGH POWER TM:YLF SLAB LASER ...... 616 Daniel Morris ; Michael E. Reilly ; M. J. Daniel Esser

CPA LASER SYSTEM BASED ON YB FIBER SEEDER AND TWO CASCADE YB:YAG AMPLIFIER FOR COMPACT OPCPA PUMP SOURCE ...... 617 Laurynas Veselis ; Tadas Bartulevicius ; Karolis Madeikis ; Rokas Danilevicius ; Nerijus Rusteika ; Andrejus Michailovas

CR,FE:ZNMNSE LASER EXCITED BY FLASH-LAMP PUMPED ER:GLASS LASER...... 618 Adam Ríha ; Helena Jelínková ; Michal Nemec ; Miroslav Cech ; Maxim E. Doroshenko ; Nazar O. Kovalenko

TUNABLE AND DUAL WAVELENGTH ALEXANDRITE LASER USING THE CRYSTAL BIREFRINGENCE...... 619 Goronwy Tawy ; Michael J. Damzen

POPULATION LENSING IN ALEXANDRITE LASERS ...... 620 Goronwy Tawy ; Jian Wang ; Michael J. Damzen

SESAM Q-SWITCHED 1534 NM MICROCHIP LASERS: PULSE DURATION, REPETITION RATE, AND PEAK-POWER OPTIMIZATION FOR LIDAR APPLICATION...... 621 Antti Penttinen ; Antti Härkönen ; Mircea Guina

ZERO-DISPERSION PHASE-MATCHED EXTRACAVITY PARAMETRIC RAMAN CACO3 LASER GENERATING 3RD STOKES SINGLE 80-PS PULSE AT 1629 NM UNDER NANOSECOND PUMPING AT 1064 NM...... 622 Sergei N. Smetanin ; Michal Jelínek ; David Vyhlídal ; Miroslav Cech ; Václav Kubecek

EXTENSION OF MID-IR LASING SPECTRAL REGION USING CR:ZNSE AND CR:CDSE COMBINED ACTIVE MEDIUM...... 623 Masaki Yumoto ; Norihito Saito ; Satoshi Wada

860-FEMTOSECOND SYNCHRONOUSLY-PUMPED GDVO4 RAMAN LASER AT 1228 NM WITH 36- PICOSECOND 1063 NM PUMPING ...... 624 Milan Frank ; Sergei N. Smetanin ; Michal Jelínek ; David Vyhlídal ; Vladislav E. Shukshin ; Petr G. Zverev ; Václav Kubecek

SPECTRAL LUMINESCENCE PROPERTIES OF HO3+ IONS IN ACTIVE MEDIA CODOPED WITH TB3+, PR3+ AND YB3+ FOR MID-INFRARED LASER DEVELOPMENT...... 625 Petr G. Zverev ; Vasily A. Konyushkin ; Anatoly A. Sirotkin ; Sergey Y. Rusanov

SYNCHRONOUSLY-PUMPED PICOSECOND RAMAN LASER AT 1169 AND 1222 NM WITH SINGLE AND COMBINED RAMAN MODE SHIFTS IN A CA3(VO4)2 CRYSTAL ...... 626 Sergei N. Smetanin ; Milan Frank ; Michal Jelínek ; David Vyhlídal ; Lyudmila I. Ivleva ; Elizaveta E. Dunaeva ; Irina S. Voronina ; Vladislav E. Shukshin ; Petr G. Zverev ; Václav Kubecek

2+ FE :CD1-XMNXTE (X = 0.1–0.76) LASER GENERATING AT 5.5–6 μM AT ROOM TEMPERATURE ...... 627 Helena Jelínková ; Maxim E. Doroshenko ; Michal Jelínek ; Jan Šulc ; David Vyhlídal ; Miroslav Cech ; Vjatcheslav V. Osiko ; Nazar O. Kovalenko ; Andrey S. Gerasimenko

TEMPERATURE AND PUMPING BEAM RADIUS INFLUENCE ON YB:YAG/CR:YAG MICROCHIP LASER OUTPUT...... 628 Jan Šulc ; Jan Eisenschreiber ; Michal Nemec ; Helena Jelínková ; Karel Nejezchleb ; Václav Škoda

DOUBLE-RING-PUMPED ND:YVO4 LASER WITH A HIGH-ORDER LAGUERRE-GAUSSIAN MODE (LG11) OUTPUT...... 629 T. H. Kim ; D. J. Kim ; J. W. Kim

WIDELY TUNABLE TM:CAF2 LASER IN-BAND PUMPED BY A FIBER LASER AT 1610 NM...... 630 Romain Thouroude ; Hervé Gilles ; Aleksay Tyazhev ; Ammar Hideur ; Pavel Loiko ; Patrice Camy ; Jean-Louis Doualan ; Mathieu Laroche

ER,YB:GDAB/CO:MALO PASSIVELY Q-SWITCHED MONOLITHIC LASER...... 631 K. N. Gorbachenya ; V. E. Kisel ; A. S. Yasukevich ; R. V. Deineka ; V. V. Maltsev ; N. I. Leonyuk ; N. V. Kuleshov

COMPARISON OF ND:YVO4-BASED MONOLITHIC MICROCHIP LASER RESONATORS FOR SINGLE- FREQUENCY STABLE, CW DIODE-PUMPED LASER SOURCES ...... 632 Grzegorz Dudzik ; Karol Krzempek ; Krzysztof M. Abramski

PASSIVELY MODE-LOCKED SELF-FREQUENCY DOUBLING YB:LGSB LASER...... 633 Michal Porebski ; Maciej Kowalczyk ; Lucian Gheorghe ; Madalin Greculeasa ; Alin Broasca ; Flavius Voicu ; Jaroslaw Sotor

DUAL FUNCTION THIN SLAB ULTRAFAST AMPLIFIER PRODUCING 240W OVER A RANGE OF PULSE REPETITION FREQUENCIES...... 634 Ben Fulford ; Jason Lee ; David Birkin

DUAL-WAVELENGTH CHIRPED-PULSE REGENERATIVE AMPLIFIER BASED ON YB:LUAP CRYSTAL ...... 635 A. S. Rudenkov ; V. E. Kisel ; A. S. Yasukevich ; K. L. Hovhannesyan ; A. G. Petrosyan ; N. V. Kuleshov

PICOSECOND CRYSTAL FIBER AMPLIFIER FOR HIGH AVERAGE AND PEAK POWER COMPACT LASERS WITH DIFFRACTION LIMITED OUTPUT...... 636 Kaloyan Georgiev ; Xiaodong Xu ; Jun Xu ; Ivan Buchvarov

A NOVEL DIODE PUMPED ALEXANDRITE RING LASER FOR DOPPLER LIDAR...... 637 Josef Höffner ; Jan Froh ; Alsu Mauer ; Franz-Josef Lübken ; Michael Strotkamp ; Alexander Munk ; Bernd Jungblut

A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF CONTINUOUS WAVE TI:SAPPHIRE, CR:LISAF, CR:LICAF AND ALEXANDRITE LASERS IN THIN-DISK GEOMETRY...... 638 Umit Demibas ; Franz X. Kärtner

ND,GD:SRF2 LASER GENERATING 600 FS PULSES AT 0.9 W OF PUMP POWER...... 639 Václav Kubecek ; Michal Jelínek ; Miroslav Cech ; David Vyhlídal ; Fengkai Ma ; Dapeng Jiang ; Liangbi Su

DIODE-PUMPED TM3+-DOPED SESQUIOXIDE ULTRASHORT PULSE SEED OSCILLATORS FOR HO- AMPLIFIERS ...... 640 N. K. Stevenson ; C. T. A. Brown ; J.-M. Hopkins ; M. D. Dawson ; A. A. Lagatsky

WIDELY-TUNABLE DUAL-WAVELENGTH TM:YLF, TM:LUAG, AND TM:YAG LASERS ...... 641 Ersen Beyatli ; Umit Demirbas

22MJ/50HZ 946NM ND:YAG LASER WITH BANDWIDTH-LIMITED 3NS PULSES ...... 642 Alexei Kornev ; Vasiliy Pokrovskiy ; Aleksandr Kovyarov

LOW-JITTER, NARROW-BANDWIDTH, SINGLE LONGITUDINAL MODE PASSIVELY Q-SWITCHED ND:YAG RING LASER OSCILLATOR WITH EXTERNAL FEEDBACK...... 643 Jacopo Rubens Negri ; Federico Pirzio ; Antonio Agnesi

3+ TM :LUF3-CAF2 DIODE PUMPED LASER IN 1.9 μM REGION ...... 644 Karel Veselský ; Jan Šulc ; Helena Jelínková ; Maxim E. Doroshenko ; Kseniia A. Pierpoint ; Vasilii A. Konyushkin ; Andrey N. Nakladov ; Vjatcheslav V. Osiko

TUNABLE NARROWBAND TM:YAP LASER USING A TRANSVERSALLY CHIRPED VOLUME BRAGG GRATING ...... 645 Quentin Berthomé ; Arnaud Grisard ; Basile Faure ; Grégoire Souhaité ; Eric Lallier ; Antoine Godard ; Vadim Smirnov ; Ruslan Vasilyeu

DMD-BASED EXCITATION OF TRANSVERSE LASER MODES BY SPATIAL PUMP BEAM SHAPING ...... 646 Florian Schepers ; Tim Bexter ; Tim Hellwig ; Carsten Fallnich

3+ MONOLITHIC INTEGRATION OF AL2O3:ER AMPLIFIERS IN SI3N4 TECHNOLOGY ...... 647 Jinfeng Mu ; Meindert Dijkstra ; Sonia M. García-Blanco

THERMALLY DIFFUSION BONDED YB:YAG/SAPPHIRE COMPOSITE ACTIVE ELEMENTS FOR THIN DISK LASERS...... 648 Mikhail Volkov ; Ivan Kuznetsov ; Ivan Mukhin

SINGLE SHOT M2 MEASUREMENT FOR NEAR INFRARED LASER PULSES IN REAL-TIME...... 649 Siva Sankar Nagisetty ; Michal Chyla ; Martin Smrž ; Tomáš Mocek

NEW PHASE MODULATOR WITH LARGE STROKE AND HIGH BANDWIDTH FOR IMPROVED COHERENT COUPLING SCHEMES...... 650 Benjamin Ewers ; Raoul-Amadeus Lorbeer ; Jochen Speiser

MID-IR HYBRID FIBER/CRYSTAL LASER DELIVERING NEAR FOURIER TRANSFORM LIMITED PICOSECOND OPTICAL PULSES WITH FAST WAVELENGTH TUNING...... 651 Alexandre Gognau ; Chems-Eddine Ouinten ; Jean-Bernard Lecourt ; Yves Hernandez ; André Peremans ; Laurent Lamard

STABLE 1100–2400 NM SUPERCONTINUUM IN YAG WITH PICOSECOND PUMPING FOR SIMPLIFIED OPCPA...... 652 Paulius Mackonis ; Augustinas Petrulenas ; Vytenis Girdauskas ; Aleksej M. Rodin

HIGHLY EFFICIENT LASER EMISSION FROM A NOVEL ND:LGSB CRYSTAL ...... 653 Catalina-Alice Brandus ; Cristina Gheorghe ; Stefania Hau ; Alin Broasca ; Madalin Greculeasa ; Flavius Voicu ; Lucian Gheorghe ; Nicolaie Pavel

COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE PUMP BEAM QUALITY EFFECT ON THE SLOPE EFFICIENCY IN KERR-LENS MODE-LOCKED TI:SAPPHIRE LASER...... 654 Muhammad Tahir Jamal ; Anders Kragh Hansen ; Peter Eskil Andersen ; Ole Bjarlin Jensen

TM-DOPING CONCENTRATION INFLUENCE ON TM:GGAG LASING AND TENABILITY AT 2 μM SPECTRAL REGION ...... 655 Jan Kratochvíl ; Pavel Bohácek ; Jan Šulc ; Michal Nemec ; Martin Fibrich ; Helena Jelínková ; Bohumil Trunda ; Lubomír Havlák ; Karel Jurek ; Martin Nikl

NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS OF AMPLIFIED SPONTANEOUS EMISSION IN YB:YAG THIN-DISK AMPLIFIERS ...... 656 Jonas Kruse ; Christian Vorholt ; Jochen Speiser

ALIGNMENT OF HIGHER-ORDER MODE SOLID-STATE LASER SYSTEMS WITH MACHINE LEARNING DIAGNOSTIC ASSISTANCE ...... 657 T. L. Jefferson-Brain ; A. D. Coupe ; M. D. Burns ; W. A. Clarkson ; P. C. Shardlow

TI:SAPPHIRE THIN-DISK LASER WITH PLANO-CONVEX-SHAPED SINGLE-CRYSTAL DIAMOND HEAT SPREADERS...... 658 Jan-Hinnerk Wolter ; Andreas Voss ; Richard Balmer ; Sandrine Ricaud ; Marie Antier ; Christophe Simon-Boisson ; Thomas Graf ; Marwan Abdou Ahmed

PERFORMANCES OF A BUTTERFLY-PACKAGED EXTERNAL CAVITY LASER DIODE WITH CRIGF MIRROR ...... 659 A. Monmayrant ; L. Ferrières ; V. Lecocq ; E. Feuillet ; S. Denet ; O. Gauthier-Lafaye ; B. Faure

TUNABLE SEMICONDUCTOR LASER WITH TWO ACOUSTO-OPTIC FILTERS IN THE EXTERNAL CAVITY ...... 660 Leonid N. Magdich ; Alexander Chamorovskiy ; Vladimir R. Shidlovsky ; Mikhail V. Shramenko ; Sergey D. Yakubovich

DESIGN AND CHARACTERIZATION OF A NEXT-GENERATION MEMS BASED ECDL DEVICE...... 661 Morten Hoppe ; Hanna Rohling ; Sebastian Schmidtmann ; Herve Tatenguem ; Tobias Milde ; Joachim R. Sacher

COHERENCE PROPERTIES OF MULTI-SECTION SEMICONDUCTOR FREQUENCY SWEPT LASERS ...... 662 Natalia Rebrova ; Konstantin Grigorenko ; Anton V. Kovalev ; Evgeny Viktorov ; Svetlana Slepneva ; Guillaume Huyet

HIGH-Q SI3N4 RING RESONATORS FOR LOCKING 780NM GAAS-BASED DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASER...... 663 M. Sinclair ; K. Gallacher ; R. W. Millar ; J. C. Bayley ; O. Sharp ; F. Mirando ; G. Ternent ; G. Mills ; B. Casey ; S. Hild ; D. J. Paul

TIME DOMAIN TRAVELING WAVE MODEL OF A HYBRID LASER FOR SILICON PHOTONICS APPLICATIONS...... 664 Lorenzo Columbo ; Mariangela Gioannini

PRECISE AND EFFICIENT WAVELENGTH CONTROL OF A WIDELY TUNABLE RING-LASER IMPLEMENTED ON A GENERIC FOUNDRY PLATFORM ...... 665 Martin Skënderas ; Thomas Geernaert ; Martin Virte

SINGLE-SIDEBAND HYBRID OPTO-ELECTRONIC OSCILLATOR...... 666 Aurelien Thorette ; Marco Romanelli ; Steve Bouhier ; Frédéric Van Dijk ; M. Alouini ; Marc Vallet

PHOTONIC MICROWAVE SOURCE BASED ON LASER DIODES WITH FILTERED OPTOELECTRONIC FEEDBACK: SWITCHING MODULATION FREQUENCIES ...... 667 Anton V. Kovalev ; Md Shariful Islam ; Grégoire Coget ; David S. Citrin ; Alexandre Locquet ; Evgeny A. Viktorov

GASB-BASED 2.55 μM EXTERNAL CAVITY DIODE LASERS EMPLOYING RULED DIFFRACTION GRATINGS AND EXTERNAL SILICON PHOTONICS VERNIER REFLECTORS ...... 668 Samu-Pekka Ojanen ; Jukka Viheriälä ; Matteo Cherchi ; Nouman Zia ; Eero Koivusalo ; Pentti Karioja ; Mircea Guina

HIGH BRIGHTNESS 2.1 μM DIRECT-DIODE LASER MODULE...... 669 Michael E. Reilly ; Brian K. Flemming ; M. J. Daniel Esser

LYOT SPECTRAL FILTER FOR POLARIZATION BEAM COMBINING OF HIGH-POWER, BROAD-AREA DIODE LASERS: MODELING, SIMULATIONS, AND EXPERIMENTS ...... 670 Carsten Brée ; Volker Raab ; Joan Montiel ; Guillermo Garre Werner ; Kestutis Staliunas ; Uwe Bandelow ; Mindaugas Radziunas

HIGH-POWER ALGAINAS/INP DFB LASERS WITH LOW DIVERGENCE ANGLE ...... 671 Yihui Liu ; Jiankun Wang ; Yongguang Huang ; Ruikang Zhang ; Hongliang Zhu ; Lianping Hou

STATE-OF-THE-ART LASER DIODE ILLUMINATORS FOR AUTOMOTIVE LIDAR ...... 672 Arnaud Laugustin ; Celine Canal ; Olivier Rabot

SPATIAL FILTERING IN BROAD AREA DIODE LASERS USING PHOTONIC CRYSTALS ...... 673 S. Gawali ; D. Gailevicius ; V. Purlys ; J. Trull ; C. Cojocaru ; K. Staliunas

CHARACTERISTICS OF INJECTION MICRODISK LASERS WITH INGAAS/GAAS QUANTUM WELL- DOTS ...... 674 Natalia Kryzhanovskaya ; Eduard Moiseev ; Fedor Zubov ; Mikhail Maximov ; Nikolay Kalyuzhnyy ; Sergey Mintairov ; Marina Kulagina ; Alexey Nadtochiy ; Sergey Blokhin ; Konstantin Kudryavtsev ; Sergey Rouvimov ; Alexey Zhukov

SYSTEMATIC DESIGN OF PHOTONIC CRYSTAL CAVITIES WITH ULTRA-LOW MODAL VOLUME CONSIDERING DIFFERENT FABRICATION RESOLUTIONS ...... 675 Fengwen Wang ; Rasmus Ellebæk Christiansen ; Jesper Mørk ; Ole Sigmund

A SIMPLE APPROACH, BASED ON COUPLED MODE THEORY, TO STUDY PHC LASERS...... 676 Marco Saldutti ; Jesper Mork ; Mariangela Gioannini

SYSTEMATICALLY VARYING THE ACTIVE MATERIAL VOLUME IN A PHOTONIC CRYSTAL NANOLASER ...... 677 K. S. Mathiesen ; A. Sakanas ; E. Semenova ; K. Yvind ; J. Mørk

SUBMICRON SIZE ALL-SEMICONDUCTOR VERTICAL CAVITIES WITH HIGH Q ...... 678 Abdullah Demir ; Dogukan Apaydin ; Hamza Kurt

A NRZ-OOK MODULATED 850-NM VCSEL WITH 54 GB/S ERROR-FREE DATA TRANSMISSION...... 679 Ting-Yu Huang ; Junyi Qiu ; Cheng-Han Wu ; Hao-Tien Cheng ; Milton Feng ; Hao-Chung Kuo ; Chao-Hsin Wu

IMPACT OF THE EXCITED STATE ON THE DYNAMICS OF SPIN-POLARIZED QUANTUM-DOT VERTICAL CAVITY SURFACE EMITTING LASERS ...... 680 Panagiotis Georgiou ; Georgia Mourkioti ; Dimitris Alexandropoulos

29GHZ-BANDWIDTH MONOLITHICALLY INTEGRATED EAM-VCSEL ...... 681 Ludovic Marigo-Lombart ; Christophe Viallon ; Alexandre Rumeau ; Alexandre Arnoult ; Stéphane Calvez ; Antoine Monmayrant ; Olivier Gauthier-Lafaye ; Hugo Thienpont ; Krassimir Panajotov ; Guilhem Almuneau

SATELLITE INSTABILITIES IN PASSIVELY MODE-LOCKED VERTICAL-CAVITY SURFACE-EMITTING LASERS...... 682 C. Schelte ; J. Javaloyes ; S. V. Gurevich

BROADBAND LASERS FOR PHOTO-IONIZATION AND TRAPPED-ION OPERATIONS ...... 683 Thomas Fordell ; Thomas Lindvall

TAILORING SINGLE-FREQUENCY VECSELS FOR QUANTUM TECHNOLOGY APPLICATIONS ...... 684 Jussi-Pekka Penttinen ; Shaun Burd ; Mika Mäki ; Emmi Kantola ; Andrew Wilson ; Sanna Ranta ; Panyu Hou ; Dietrich Leibfried ; Mircea Guina

STABLE DFB RIDGE LASER DIODES AT 894NM AT R.T. FOR CESIUM ATOMIC CLOCKS...... 685 M. Krakowski ; P. Resneau ; P. A-Roxo ; C. Theveneau ; A. Larrue ; E. Vinet ; Y. Robert ; J. P. Legoec ; M. Garcia ; O. Parillaud ; B. Gerard

DUAL-WAVELENGTH Y-BRANCH DBR-RW DIODE LASER AT 785 NM WITH ADJUSTABLE SPECTRAL DISTANCE FROM 0 UP TO 1.6 NM ...... 686 Lara Sophie Theurer ; Martin Maiwald ; Jörg Fricke ; Peter Ressel ; Bernd Sumpf ; Günther Tränkle

PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATION OF INGAN BASED QUANTUM WELL STRUCTURES FOR CHEMICAL SENSING...... 687 Faisal Adel ; Haitham Omran ; Martin Schneidereit ; Ferdinand Scholz

MULTI-FREQUENCY DIODE LASER FOR PUMPING CPT RESONANCES...... 688 Alina Isakova ; Konstantin Savinov ; Alexander Dmitriev

INFLUENCE OF SPACER THICKNESS ON THE OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF VERTICALLY STACKED INP/ALGAINP QUANTUM DOT LASERS AT THE SHORT WAVELENGTH...... 689 Zhihua Huang ; Stefan Hepp ; Robert Sittig ; Michael Jetter ; Peter Michler

CHARACTERISTICS OF QD-LD WITH INP(311)B SUBSTRATE ON THICKNESS OF INGAALAS SPACER LAYERS ...... 690 A. Matsumoto ; I. Butler ; T. Umezawa ; S. Nakajima ; R. Hogg ; N. Yamamoto

SUPERLUMINESCENT DIODES BASED ON ASYMMETRIC DOUBLE QUANTUM-WELL HETEROSTRUCTURES...... 691 Stepan N. Ilchenko ; Kirill M. Pankratov ; Vladimir R. Shidlovsky ; Sergey D. Yakubovich

TAPERED MULTI-SECTION SUPERLUMINESCENT DIODE WITH TUNABLE SPECTRAL ASYMMETRY BETWEEN NARROW AND WIDE FACET OUTPUTS ...... 692 Adam F. Forrest ; Michel Krakowski ; Paolo Bardella ; Maria Ana Cataluna

ANNEALING INFLUENCE ON STRUCTURAL AND LUMINESCENCENT PROPERTIES OF ZNSE:FE ...... 693 Andrey Gladilin ; Oleg Uvarov ; Nikolay Il'Ichev ; Vladimir Chegnov ; Olga Chegnova ; Mikhail Chukichev ; Renat Rezvanov ; Viktor Kalinushkin

OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES BASED ON ZNO/ZNMGO...... 694 Borislav Hinkov ; Hanh T. Hoang ; Dominik Winter ; Werner Schrenk ; Maxime Hugues ; Jean-Michel Chauveau ; Gottfried Strasser

TURN-ON TIMESCALE QUENCHING IN TWO STATE QUANTUM WELL LASERS ...... 695 Vladislav V. Dudelev ; Valentin Y. Mylnikov ; Alexey S. Shkol'nik ; Ksenia K. Soboleva ; Vladimir I. Kuchinskii ; Daniil A. Livshits ; Grigorii S. Sokolovskii ; Evgeniy A. Viktorov

GENERATION OF SUB-NANOSECOND 586-NM OPTICAL PULSES BASED ON THE SYNCHRONOUSLY GAIN-SWITCHED LASER DIODES WITH OPTICAL INJECTION LOCKING ...... 696 Jui-Hung Hung ; Yuan Gao ; Hejie Yan ; Kazuo Sato ; Hirohito Yamada ; Lung-Han Peng ; Hiroyuki Yokoyama

EXPERIMENTAL AND THEORETICAL EVIDENCES OF HYSTERESIS IN PASSIVE MODE-LOCKED QUANTUM DOTS LASERS ...... 697 Lorenzo Columbo ; Paolo Bardella ; Dominik Auth ; Christoph Weber ; Stefan Breuer

SELF-INJECTED OPTICAL FREQUENCY COMB QUANTUM DASH LASERS...... 698 Patrick Fiala ; Dominik Auth ; Christoph Weber ; Quentin Gaimard ; Abderrahim Ramdane ; Stefan Breuer

PASSIVELY MODE-LOCKED QUANTUM-WELL SEMICONDUCTOR LASER SUBJECT TO ULTRA- SHORT OPTICAL SELF-FEEDBACK WITH NANOMETRIC FINE-DELAY...... 699 Pascal Sauer ; Dominik Auth ; Christoph Weber ; Andreas Klehr ; Andrea Knigge ; Stefan Breuer

SYMMETRY PROPERTIES AND COEXISTENCE OF THE MODE-LOCKED STATES IN SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS...... 700 Anton V. Kovalev ; Kamel Merghem ; Abderrahim Ramdane ; Evgeny A. Viktorov

SUPERRADIANCE AS A WAY TO THE STEADY-STATE MULTIMODE AND ULTRASHORT PULSED LASING IN CW QUANTUM-DOT HETEROLASERS ...... 701 Vladimir Kocharovsky ; Alexey Mishin ; Vitaly Kocharovsky ; Ekaterina Kocharovskaya ; Alexey Seleznev

SELF-SUSTAINED PULSE OSCILLATIONS IN A QUANTUM DOT LASER MONOLITHICALLY GROWN ON GERMANIUM...... 702 Yueguang Zhou ; Jianan Duan ; Heming Huang ; Chunfang Cao ; Qian Gong ; Frédéric Grillot ; Cheng Wang

REPETITION RATE LOCKING OF MUTUALLY INJECTED MONOLITHIC PASSIVELY MODE-LOCKED SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOT LASERS...... 703 Christoph Weber ; Dominik Auth ; Iraklis Simos ; Christos Simos ; Stefan Breuer

ANALYSIS OF OPTICAL FREQUENCY COMB GENERATION IN GAIN-SWITCHED SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS...... 704 A. Rosado ; A. Pérez-Serrano ; J. M. G. Tijero ; A. Valle ; L. Pesquera ; I. Esquivias

QUASI-LINEAR DISPLACEMENT MEASUREMENT WITH LASER FEEDBACK INTERFEROMETRY ...... 705 D. Choi ; M. J. Wishon ; E. A. Viktorov ; D. S. Citrin ; A. Locquet

PULSE COMPRESSION USING CHIRP OF TRANSISTOR LASERS REGARDLESS OF TYPES OF FIBER DISPERSIONS ...... 706 Chien-Ting Tung ; Shu-Wei Chang ; Chao-Hsin Wu

TAILORING LOCALIZATION FEATURES IN PASSIVELY MODE-LOCKED LASERS WITH V-SHAPED CAVITY GEOMETRY ...... 707 Jan Hausen ; Stefan Meinecke ; Kathy Lüdge

OPTICAL FREQUENCY COMB GENERATION USING QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS SUBJECT TO OPTICAL INJECTION...... 708 Bin-Bin Zhao ; Cheng Wang

RELATIVE INTENSITY NOISE OF 3.4 μM INTERBAND CASCADE LASER ...... 709 Yu Deng ; Yi-Tian Gu ; Bin-Bin Zhao ; Cheng Wang

MODELLING THE SPATIO-TEMPORAL DYNAMICS OF QUANTUM CASCADE LASER FREQUENCY COMBS...... 710 Nikola Opacak ; Gottfried Strasser ; Benedikt Schwarz

HIGH FREQUENCY MODULATION CHARACTERISTICS OF MID-INFRARED RING QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS ...... 711 Borislav Hinkov ; Jakob Hayden ; Rolf Szedlak ; Florian Pilat ; Pedro Martin-Mateos ; Borja Jerez ; Pablo Aecdo ; Gottfried Strasser ; Bernhard Lendl

ABOVE-THRESHOLD MODELING OF RESONANT LEAKY-WAVE COUPLED PHASE-LOCKED ARRAY OF QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS ...... 712 Nikolay N. Elkin ; Anatoly P. Napartovich ; Dmitry V. Vysotsky ; Chris Sigler ; Colin Boyle ; Jeremy D. Kirch ; Thomas Earles ; Dan Botez ; Luke J. Mawst ; Alexey Belyanin

RATE EQUATION MODELING OF INTERBAND CASCADE LASERS ...... 713 Yu Deng ; Cheng Wang

BRIGHTNESS-ENHANCED SOLID-STATE LIGHT SOURCES: FROM KALEIDOSCOPE EFFECT TO UNIFORM ILLUMINATION ...... 714 Juna Sathian ; Wenjun Lian ; Ara Minassian ; Michael J. Damzen

ENHANCING PERFORMANCE OF CE:YAG LUMINESCENT CONCENTRATORS FOR HIGH POWER APPLICATIONS...... 715 Juna Sathian ; Ara Minassian ; Neil M. Alford ; Michael J. Damzen

GENERALIZED LORENTZ MIE THEORY OF REVERSAL OF OPTICAL TRAPPING FORCE ...... 716 Anita Devi ; Arijit K. De

OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES OF SINGLE PROTEIN DETECTION WITH ISCAT...... 717 Francesca Nicoli ; Katharina König ; Mahyar Dahmardeh ; André Gemeinhardt ; Reza Gholami Mahmoodabadi ; Houman Mirzaalian Dastjerdi ; Harald Köstler ; Vahid Sandoghdar

PHOTOTHERMAL GAS DETECTION OF CO2 IN AN INTRACAVITY SOLID-STATE LASER CONFIGURATION ...... 718 Grzegorz Dudzik ; Krzysztof Abramski ; Karol Krzempek

DEVELOPMENT OF SPAD BASED ON THERMOELECTRICALLY CONTROLLED SILICON CARBIDE AVALANCHE PHOTODIODE...... 719 In-Ho Bae ; Seongchong Park ; Kee Suk Hong ; Byeonghwang Park ; Eugene Chong ; Dong-Hoon Lee

PHOTOTHERMAL GAS SENSOR IN AN INTRACAVITY MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASER CONFIGURATION ...... 720 Karol Krzempek ; Grzegorz Dudzik ; Krzysztof Abramski

OPTICAL FIBER PROBE FOR THE SELECTIVE PLASMONIC SENSING OF CATECHOL UTILIZING ZNO DECORATED MWCNTS...... 721 Anisha Pathak ; Banshi D. Gupta

PICOSECOND WIDELY-TUNABLE MID-IR SOURCE FOR GAS DETECTION...... 722 Florent Défossez ; Raphaël Vallon ; Bertrand Parvitte ; Chems-Eddine Ouinten ; Alexandre Gognau ; Jean-Bernard Lecourt ; Yves Hernandez ; Virginie Zéninari

LONG LENGTH FIBRE FABRY-PEROT INTERFEROMETERS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS IN FIBRE CHARACTERIZATION AND TEMPERATURE SENSING...... 723 Meng Ding ; David J. Richardson ; Radan Slavík

LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE BASED TAPERED FIBER OPTIC ETHANOL SENSOR ...... 724 Vivek Semwal ; B. D. Gupta

PUPIL SEGMENTATION IN MICROSCOPY WITH MULTI-ACTUATOR ADAPTIVE LENS ...... 725 Edoardo Paris ; Davide Garoldini ; Martino Quintavalla ; Stefano Bonora

COMBINING MEMS FTIR SPECTROMETER AND WIDENED-SPECTRUM MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASER FOR GAS-SENSING...... 726 Ahmed M. Othman ; Hussein E. Kotb ; Yasser M. Sabry ; Diaa Khalil

PHOTOACOUSTIC OPTICAL FREQUENCY COMB SPECTROSCOPY OF RADIOACTIVE METHANE IN THE MID-INFRARED REGION...... 727 Juho Karhu ; Teemu Tomberg ; Francisco Senna Vieira ; Guillaume Genoud ; Vesa Hänninen ; Markku Vainio ; Markus Metsälä ; Tuomas Hieta ; Steven Bell ; Lauri Halonen

INP, GASB, IC AND QC LASERS USED FOR A COMPARISON OF THE SPECTRAL EXCITATION BEHAVIOR OF METHANE BY SENSOR APPLICATIONS...... 728 Tobias Milde ; Morten Hoppe ; Hervé Tatenguem ; Christian Assmann ; Martin Honsberg ; Wolfgang Schade ; Joachim Sacher

SELF-REFERENCE OPTICAL PHASE DEMODULATION USING NARROW ABSORPTION/GAIN PEAK ...... 729 Serguei Stepanov ; Nayeli Casillas ; Manuel Ocegueda ; Eliseo Hernandez

CONTAMINANT FREE END-CAPPED ACETYLENE PMC FOR SUB-DOPPLER SPECTROSCOPY...... 730 Thomas Billotte ; Matthieu Chafer ; Martin Maurel ; Foued Amrani ; Frédéric Gérôme ; Benoit Debord ; Fetah Benabid

EXTENDED-CAVITY-QUANTUM-CASCADE-LASER-VOLTAGE INTRACAVITY SENSING AND APPLICATION TO ATMOSPHERIC GAS DETECTION ...... 731 Raphaël Vallon ; Laurent Bizet ; Bertrand Parvitte ; Gregory Maisons ; Matthieu Carras ; Virginie Zéninari

USING A CCD CAMERA BASED IMAGING LIDAR TO PROFILE BOUNDARY LAYER AEROSOLS AND DETERMINE CLOUD THICKNESS ...... 732 Amin Kabir ; Nimmi Sharma ; John Barnes ; Chris Oville ; Jalal Butt ; Edward Knowles

ANISOTROPIC FLUORESCENCE EMISSION AT THE SURFACE OF 1D-PHOTONIC CRYSTAL BIOCHIPS ...... 733 E. Sepe ; A. Sinibaldi ; N. Danz ; P. Munzert ; F. Michelotti

FOLLOWING THE MECHANISMS OF A SINGLE WATER DROPLET DRYING BY MEANS OF PHOTONIC RESONANT STRUCTURE ...... 734 Lucas Garnier ; Hervé Lhermite ; Véronique Vié ; Hervé Cormerais ; Octave Pin ; Quentin Liddell ; Bruno Bêche

A HYPERSPECTRAL MICROSCOPE BASED ON A BIREFRINGENT ULTRASTABLE COMMON-PATH INTERFEROMETER...... 735 A. Candeo ; B. E. Nogueira De Faria ; G. Valentini ; A. Bassi ; G. Cerullo ; C. Manzoni

LOSS-INDUCED RESONANT REFRACTIVE INDEX SENSING USING TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTION PHASE SHIFT...... 736 Markus Miller ; Rainer Michalzik ; Karl Joachim Ebeling ; Susanne Menzel

ADJUSTABLE OPTICAL PATH LENGTH COMPACT SPHERICAL MIRRORS MULTIPASS CELL OPTIMIZED WITH GENETIC ALGORITHM...... 737 Arkadiusz Hudzikowski ; Aleksander Gluszek ; Karol Krzempek ; Jaroslaw Sotor

VISCOELASTICITY MEASUREMENTS BY AN OPTOFLUIDIC MICRO-RHEOMETER...... 738 V. Vitali ; G. Nava ; G. Zanchetta ; F. Bragheri ; R. Osellame ; T. Bellini ; I. Cristiani ; P. Minzioni

COHERENT FIBER OPTIC SENSORS FOR IMPACT FEATURE ASSESSMENT IN GLASS FIBER REINFORCED PLASTIC (GFRP) ...... 739 Ilaria Di Luch ; Maddalena Ferrario ; Marco Brunera ; Pierpaolo Boffi ; Alessio Beligni ; Claudio Sbarufatt

EFFECTIVE COUPLING OF A PLASMONIC NANOROD TO A MICROSPHERE RESONATOR...... 740 Mandana Jalali ; Daniel Erni

WHISPERING GALLERY MODE RESONATOR SENSORS REFERENCED TO SATURATED ABSORPTION LINES IN RUBIDIUM ATOMS AND A FS FREQUENCY COMB ...... 741 I. Brice ; A. Atvars ; R. Viter ; J. Alnis

BIRFRINGENCE MEASURMENT OF MAGNETIC FLUID BASED ON TAPERED HI-BI FIBER IN FIBER LOOP MIRROR...... 742 Azam Layeghi ; Mohammad Ismail Zibaii ; Hamid Latifi

ACCURATE AND TRACEABLE DETERMINATION OF RAMAN SHIFTS IN REFERENCE MATERIAL BY CONTINUOUS-WAVE STIMULATED RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY...... 743 Hugo Kerdoncuff ; Mikael Lassen ; Jan C. Petersen

NUMERICAL COMPARISON OF ROBUSTNESS OF MULTIMODE AND MULTICORE FIBRE SENSITIVITY AGAINST FIBRE BENDING...... 744 Madhu Veettikazhy ; Anders K. Hansen ; Dominik Marti ; Kishan Dholakia ; Peter E. Andersen

ANALYSIS OF OPERATION OF PHOTONIC INTEGRATED INTERROGATORS FOR FIBER OPTIC SENSOR NETWORKS ...... 745 Andrzej Kazmierczak ; Mateusz Slowikowski ; Tomasz Osuch ; Stanislaw Stopinski ; Ryszard Piramidowicz

GAS DETECTION USING A MEMS-BASED SWEPT LASER SOURCE ...... 746 John O. Gerguis ; Yasser M. Sabry ; Haitham Omran ; Diaa Khalil

ULTRA-FAST SINGLE TROPONINE-T MOLECULE SENSING ...... 747 Pavel Melentiev ; Lina Son ; Denis Kudryavtsev ; Anton Afanasiev ; Igor Kasheverov ; Victor Tsetlin ; Victor Balykin

OPTICAL TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETER BASED ON APPLICATION SPECIFIC PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUIT...... 748 Stanislaw Stopinski ; Krzysztof Anders ; Slawomir Szostak ; Ryszard Piramidowicz

INVESTIGATING MONOLAYER PROTEIN-PROTEIN BINDING USING SURFACE ENHANCED IR SPECTROSCOPY...... 749 Semih Korkmaz ; Serap Aksu

INLINE MEASUREMENT OF MODAL PHASE DIFFERENCES IN OPTICAL FIBERS ...... 750 Niklas M. Lüpken ; Martin Schnack ; Carsten Fallnich

PHOTOACOUSTIC SPECTROSCOPY SENSOR WITH A SMALL-GAP QUARTZ TUNING FORK...... 751 Ying He ; Yufei Ma ; Yao Tong ; Xin Yu ; Frank K. Tittel

DIGITAL HOLOGRAPHY AT RESTRICTED CONDITIONS AND PHOTON COUNTING APPROACH ...... 752 Hrvoje Skenderovic ; Mario Stipcevic ; Nazif Demoli

N-MATRIX JONES ANALYSIS OF A FIBER-OPTIC CURRENT SENSOR...... 753 A. Madaschi ; M. Brunero ; M. Ferrario ; P. Martelli ; P. Boffi ; M. Martinelli

ALL — FIBER EVANESCENT WAVE SENSORS FOR THE MID-INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY OF LIQUIDS ...... 754 Elena Romanova ; Svetlana Korsakova ; Andrei Rozhnev ; Maksim Sukhanov ; Alexander Velmuzhov ; Tatiana Kotereva ; Vladimir Shiryaev

FIELD-RESOLVED INFRARED TRANSMISSION SPECTROSCOPY OF STRONGLY ABSORBING SAMPLES ...... 755 Marinus Huber ; Wolfgang Schweinberger ; Syed A. Hussain ; Michael Trubetskov ; Christina Hofer ; Mihaela Zigman ; Ferenc Krausz ; Ioachim Pupeza

TIME-DOMAIN MEASUREMENT OF THE COMPLEX CHIRO-OPTICAL SUSCEPTIBILITY BY AN ULTRA-STABLE COMMON-PATH INTERFEROMETER...... 756 A. Perri ; S. Ghosh ; F. Preda ; J. Réhault ; C. Manzoni ; J. Helbing ; G. Cerullo ; D. Polli

OPTICAL GAS SENSING BASED ON FREE CARRIER ABSORPTION IN METAL OXIDES ...... 757 Xia Wu ; Xuyang Zhang ; Sabrina Amrehn ; Thorsten Wagner

"CARTESIAN LIGHT": HOW DOES LIGHT PROPAGATE IN A 3D SUPERLATTICE OF PHOTONIC BANDGAP CAVITIES?...... 758 Sjoerd A. Hack ; Jaap J. W. Van Der Vegt ; Willem L. Vos

CONFOCAL RAMAN MICROSCOPY IN VIS FOR ANALYSING CONFORMATIONAL CHANGES IN CHANNEL PROTEINS...... 759 Ann-Kathrin Kniggendorf ; David Schmidt ; Carsten Zeilinger ; Bernhard Roth

OPTICAL SIGNAL RECORDING FROM OPTOGENETIC STIMULATION OF HUMAN PULP DENTAL CELLS USING TWIN-CORE FIBER OPTIC BIOSENSOR BASED ON MACH-ZENDER INTEROFEROMETER ...... 760 Faezeh Akbari ; Azam Layeghi ; Mir Hossein Seyed Nazari ; Ahmad Ghorbani ; Sara Chavoshi Nejad ; Leila Dragahi ; Orlando Frazao ; Jose Luis Santos ; Hamid Latifi ; Mohammad Ismail Zibaii

DO INFRARED MOLECULAR FINGERPRINTS OF INDIVIDUALS EXIST? LESSONS FROM SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS OF HUMAN BLOOD...... 761 Kosmas V. Kepesidis ; Marinus Huber ; Liudmila Voronina ; Maša Božic ; Michael Trubetskov ; Ferenc Krausz ; Mihaela Zigman

ONLINE DETECTION AND SORTING OF SINGLE-UNIT RECORDING SIGNAL FOR CLOSED LOOP OPTOGENETICS CONTROLLING ...... 762 Ahmad Ghorbani ; Mir Hossein Seyed Nazari ; Faezeh Akbari ; Zahra Fatahi ; Abbas Haghparast ; Leila Dragahi ; Hamid Latifi ; Mohammad Ismail Zibaii

RAMAN SPECTROSCOPIC EVALUATION OF HUMAN MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION ...... 763 Takeo Minamikawa ; Tsunehisa Yamamoto ; Yoshinori Harada ; Yoshihisa Yamaoka ; Hideo Tanaka ; Hitoshi Yaku ; Tetsuro Takamatsu

PHOTOACTIVE FIBER-OPTICS ENDOSCOPE FOR ONCOLOGY...... 764 Sergey Evstropiev ; Konstantin Dukelskii ; Vladimir Demidov ; Nikolay Nikonorov

AVOIDANCE OF CROSS-PHASE MODULATION IN FEMTOSECOND STIMULATED RAMAN SCATTERING...... 765 Thomas Wurthwein ; Niels Irwin ; Carsten Fallnich

PRODUCTION OF DRUG PARTICLES USING PULSED LASER ABLATION IN LIQUID (PLAL) TECHNIQUE...... 766 Eszter Nagy ; Franciska Peták ; Tímea Szucs ; Tomi Smausz ; Judit Kopniczky ; Rita Ambrus ; Piroska Szabó-Révész ; Béla Hopp

THZ PULSES STIMULATE THE TAIL SEGMENT REGENERATION OF THE EARTHWORM EISENIA ANDREI ...... 767 Mahmoud Abufadda ; Anita Erdélyi ; Gergo Krizsán ; János Hebling ; József András Fülöp ; László Molnár

EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION OF PULSE 1550 NM LASER SYSTEM FOR WELDING OF HEART TISSUE ...... 768 K. Litvinova ; M. Chernysheva ; I. Kudelin ; S. Khalimanenko ; F. Leyva

PERFUSION MEASUREMENT ON SKIN MODEL WITH LASCA AFFECTED BY STATIC AND MIXED SCATTERING...... 769 Tomi Smausz ; Bence Kondász

PRODUCTION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF IBUPROFEN PARTICLE LAYER GENERATED BY PULSED LASER DEPOSITION (PLD)...... 770 Tamás Gera ; Tomi Smausz ; Judit Kopniczky ; Rita Ambrus ; Piroska Szabó-Révész ; Béla Hopp

LASCA PERFUSION HISTOGRAM ON TISSUE PHANTOMS COMPOSED OF BIMODAL SPEED DISTRIBUTION SCATTERING CENTERS...... 771 Bence Kondász ; Béla Hopp ; Tomi Smausz

LABEL-FREE OPTICAL READOUT OF BACTERIA DENSITY IN NANOLITER DROPLETS ...... 772 Jakub Boguslawski ; Natalia Pacocha ; Michal Horka ; Yuriy Promovych ; Piotr Garstecki ; Maciej Wojtkowski

FAST MULTIPHOTON MICROSCOPE BASED ON POLYMER ULENSES ARRAY USING A 3D PRINTED MOLD...... 773 Dobryna Zalvidea ; Xavier Trepat ; Elena Rebollo

POINT SPREAD FUNCTION MEASUREMENT OF A HOME-MADE STRUCTURED ILLUMINATION MICROSCOPE USING NON-FLUORESCENT LARGE OBJECT IMAGING ...... 774 Mahdieh Chartab Jabbari ; Amir H. Baradaran Ghasemi ; Mohammad Ghandi Monfared ; Hamid Latifi

280 NM PICOSECOND LASER FOR HIGH SPEED LIFETIME MEASUREMENT OF PROTEINS LIKE HUMAN SERUM ALBUMIN...... 775 Thomas Schönau ; Dietmar Klemme ; Guillaume Delpont ; Kristian Lauritsen ; Rainer Erdmann

PERSISTENT LUMINESCENCE MATERIALS AT VARIOUS SIZES AND THEIR APPLICATIONS...... 776 B. Viana

GENERATION OF VECTOR BESSEL BEAMS AND THEIR APPLICATION FOR LASER MICROPROCESSING OF TRANSPARENT MATERIALS ...... 777 Justas Baltrukonis ; Orestas Ulcinas ; Titas Gertus ; Vytautas Jukna ; Sergej Orlov

WAVELENGTH AND ENERGY SCALING OF DEPOSITED ENERGY DENSITY DURING MICROSTRUCTURING OF TRANSPARENT MATERIALS...... 778 E. A. Migal ; E. I. Mareev ; E. O. Smetanina ; G. Duchateau ; F. V. Potemkin

MACROSCOPIC ELECTRON-HOLE DISTRIBUTION CALCULATED BY THE TIME-DEPENDENT DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY AND MAXWELL EQUATION ...... 779 Tomohito Otobe

NONLINEAR OPTICAL DYNAMICS IN FEMTOSECOND LASER PROCESSING OF ND:YAG WAVEGUIDES ...... 780 Francisco R. Arteaga-Sierra ; Tao Feng ; Christophe Dorrer ; Jie Qiao

IMPROVEMENTS ON CHARACTERIZATION OF THE THRESHOLD AND PRODUCTIVITY IN FEMTOSECOND LASER ABLATION OF BONE...... 781 Mauricio Rico ; Mariano Jubera ; Alejandro San Blas ; Luis Roso ; Aritz Lazkoz ; Juan Arregui

TEMPERATURE EVOLUTION IN THE THIN SILICA FILM ON INDUSTRIAL GLASS DUE TO TREATMENT WITH NS UV LASER ...... 782 Driffa Guerfa ; Cecile Chazot ; Iryna Gozhyk ; Ekaterina Burov ; Matthieu Lancry ; Bertrand Poumellec

IN SITU DIAGNOSTIC FOR MULTI PULSE PROCESSING OF TRANSPARENT MATERIALS ...... 783 F. Zimmermann ; M. Jenne ; S. Hecker ; D. Flamm ; M. Kaiser ; J. Kleiner ; M. Schäfer

NEW TYPE METAL-AZIDES FOR LOW THRESHOLD LASER INITIATION...... 784 Aleksej M. Rodin ; Jonas Sarlauskas ; Jelena Tamuliene ; Ernestas Kuodys

LASER PATTERNING OF ELECTRODE-ELECTROLYTE INTERFACES OF SOLID OXIDE FUEL CELLS (SOFCS)...... 785 Ruth Lahoz ; José A. Cebollero ; Jorge Silva ; Miguel A. Laguna-Bercero ; Angel Larrea

3+ SPECTROSCOPIC AND STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES OF YB -DOPED AND UNDOPED 2D-MOS2 THIN FILMS FOR OPTOELECTRONIC AND PHOTONIC DEVICE APPLICATIONS ...... 786 C. Maddi ; J. R. Aswin ; K. V. Adarsh ; A. J. Scott ; Animesh Jha

LEAN-MIXTURE OPERATION OF A PASSENGER CAR GASOLINE ENGINE IGNITED BY PASSIVELY Q- SWITCHED ND:YAG/CR4+:YAG LASER SPARK PLUGS ...... 787 N. Pavel ; R. Chiriac ; A. Birtas ; N. Boicea ; F. Draghici ; G. Croitoru ; M. Dinca

FEMTOSECOND LASER MICROFABRICATION OF PANCHARATNAM-BERRY PHASE ELEMENTS FOR THE FORMATION OF OPTICAL NEEDLES IN TRANSPARENT MATERIALS ...... 788 Pavel Gotovski ; Sergej Orlov ; Titas Gertus ; Orestas Ulcinas

ULTRAFAST LASER FILAMENT-ASSISTED MICROSTRUCTURING OF POLYMERS ...... 789 Bogusz Stepak ; Arkadiusz Antonczak ; Udo Klotzbach

STRUCTURAL REPRODUCIBILITY ENHANCEMENT OF OPTICAL RESONANCE ARRAYS PRODUCED BY TWO-PHOTON POLYMERIZATION...... 790 Anton Saetchnikov ; Vladimir Saetchnikov ; Elina Tcherniavskaia ; Andreas Ostendorf

DIRECT LASER WRITING OF LARGE SCALE PHOTONIC CRYSTAL SPATIAL FILTERS IN GLASS USING BESSEL BEAMS...... 791 Vytautas Purlys ; Darius Gailevicius ; Kestutis Staliunas

TALBOT EFFECT IN EMBEDDED GRATINGS INSCRIBED WITH FEMTOSECOND LASER IN TRANSPARENT MEDIA ...... 792 Julen J. Azkona ; Miguel Martínez-Calderon ; Mikel Gómez ; Ainara Rodríguez ; Santiago M. Olaizola

FEMTOSECOND WRITING OF WAVEGUIDES AND WAVEGUIDE NETWORK COMPONENTS ...... 793 D. Perevoznik ; U. Morgner

CLEO®/EUROPE-EQEC 2019: A STUDY OF LASER-ENGRAVING SURFACES PORTABILITY ON POLYMER FOR THE AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY ...... 794 Antonin Bouland ; Patrick Durand ; Daniel Farcage ; Marie Géléoc ; Pascal Manscour ; Jean-Philippe Renault

ADDITIVE FIBER OPTIC PROBE TECHNOLOGY FOR PRECISE TRIMMING OF HIGH-PERFORMANCE LITHIUM NIOBATE PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS ...... 795 Aleksandr Tronev ; Mikhail Parfenov ; Petr Agruzov ; Igor Ilichev ; Aleksandr Shamrai

FEMTOSECOND LASER INDUCED SURFACE MICRO-STRUCTURE BUILDING BY MATERIAL EJECTION AND ABLATION ON CU AND AL ...... 796 X. Sedao ; Matthieu Lenci ; Anton Rudenko ; Alina Pascale-Hamri ; Jean-Philippe Colombier ; Cyril Mauclair

AN INCREASE IN REFRACTIVE INDEX CONTRAST IN A WAVEGUIDE INSCRIBED IN TELLURITE GLASS BY MEANS OF SUB-NANOSECOND BURSTS OF FEMTOSECOND PULSES ...... 797 Andrey Okhrimchuk ; Michail Smayev ; Alexey Gladyshev ; Vitaly Dorofeev

FABRICATION OF TUNED LIPSS-BASED METALLIC POLARIZATION GRATINGS...... 798 A. San Blas ; N. Casquero ; M. Martínez-Calderón ; J. Buencuerpo ; L. M. Sanchez-Brea ; J. Del Hoyo ; S. M. Olaizola ; A. Rodríguez ; M. Gómez-Aranzadi

FASTER FEMTOSECOND LASER PROCESSING USING A DUAL-FOCUS SLM EMULATED LENS ...... 799 Liam Barber ; Jeffery Low ; Simon Ashforth ; Claude Aguergaray ; Cather M. Simpson

INFLUENCE OF PRESSURE HISTORY ON JET DYNAMICS IN LIFT PROCESSES: SIMULATION AND EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS...... 800 J. Moreno-Labella ; M. Morales ; D. Munoz-Martin ; A. Márquez ; C. Molpeceres

EFFECT OF FRONT-CONTACT LASER TEXTURING IN THIN-FILM SOLAR CELLS ...... 801 David Canteli ; Ignacio Torres ; Susana Fernandez ; Jose Domingo Santos ; Miguel Morales ; Carlos Molpeceres

INCREASING TWO-PHOTON POLYMERIZATION FABRICATION SPEED OF 3D STRUCTURES FOR CELL INTERACTION STUDIES ...... 802 Christian Maibohm ; Oscar F. Silvestre ; Jérôme Borme ; Maina Sinou ; Kevin Heggarty ; Jana B. Nieder

LASER SLICING™ PROCESS FOR GAN-ON-GAN TECHNOLOGY...... 803 Vladislav Voronenkov ; Natalia Bochkareva ; Ruslan Gorbunov ; Andrey Zubrilov ; Viktor Kogotkov ; Philippe Latyshev ; Yuri Lelikov ; Andrey Leonidov ; Yuri Shreter

STITCH-FREE FABRICATION OF MICROOPTICAL ELEMENTS EMPLOYING FEMTOSECOND LASER 3D LITHOGRAPHY...... 804 Dovile Mackeviciute ; Linas Jonušauskas ; Tomas Baravykas ; Tomas Gadišauskas ; Darius Gailevicius ; Mangirdas Malinauskas

TWO BEAM INITIATION THRESHOLD MEASUREMENTS OF PHOTO-INITIATORS FOR LASER WRITING OF BIOCOMPATIBLE 3D STRUCTURES...... 805 Dimitra Ladika ; Maria Farsari ; David Gray

RAMAN SPASER ...... 806 Vladislav Y. Shishkov ; Evgeniy S. Andrianov ; Alexander A. Pukhov ; Alexey P. Vinogradov ; Alexander A. Lisyansky

PLASMONIC ENHANCEMENT OF GRAPHENE LONG-WAVE INFRARED PHOTODETECTORS VIA BULL'S EYE CONCENTRATOR, OPTICAL CAVITY AND NANOANTENNAS...... 807 Nima Sefidmooye Azar ; Vivek Raj Shrestha ; Kenneth B. Crozier

GENERATION OF BROADBAND DEEP-ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT SOURCE BY RECTANGULAR PLASMONIC NANOHOLES WITH MULTI-RESONANCES...... 808 Liping Shi ; Euclides Almeida ; Uwe Morgner ; Milutin Kovacev

INTRACAVITY SPECTROSCOPY AND SENSORICS WITH PLASMONIC NANOLASER ...... 809 P. Melentiev ; A. Kalmykov ; A. Gritchenko ; A. Afanasiev ; V. Balykin ; A. Baburin ; E. Ryzhova ; I. Filippov ; I. Rodionov ; I. Nechepurenko ; A. Dorofeenko ; I. Ryzhikov ; A. Vinogradov ; A. Zyablovsky ; E. Andrianov ; A. A. Lisyansky

PLASMONIC OPTICAL TRAPPING COMBINED WITH TIME-RESOLVED FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY ...... 810 Quanbo Jiang ; Jean-Benoit Claude ; Jérôme Wenger

SHAPING THE EMISSION PATTERN OF ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODES BY USING PLASMONIC AG NANOPARTICLES ARRAYS ...... 811 S. Hamdad ; A. T. Diallo ; M. Chakaroun ; A. Boudrioua

EVALUATION OF PLAMSONIC ENHANCEMENT AND QUENCHING OF AG NANOPARTICLES IN ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DIODE...... 812 Amadou T. Diallo ; Mahmoud Chakaroun ; Sarah Hamdad ; Samira Khadir ; Juan U. Esparza-Villa ; Agnès Maîtres ; Azzedine Boudrioua

AMPLIFYING SP-ENHANCED SHG WITH NLO POLYMERS GROWN ON AG FILMS...... 813 Atsushi Sugita ; Kanta Mochizuki ; Kohei Kikuchi ; Atsushi Ono ; Wataru Inami ; Yoshimasa Kawata

SYNTHESIS OF GOLD NANODROPLETS WITH FIELD ENHANCEMENT OF 105 AT THEIR TIPS USING A SIMPLE WET-CHEMICAL METHOD ...... 814 Piue Ghosh ; Gayatri Joshi ; Arup Lal Chakraborty ; Ravi Hegde ; Saumyakanti Khatua

INVESTIGATION OF THE LOWER LIMIT OF THE APPLICABILITY OF EFFECTIVE MEDIUM APPROXIMATION FOR HYPERBOLIC METAMATERIALS...... 815 Johneph Sukham ; Osamu Takayama ; Maryam Mahmoodi ; Stanislav Sychev ; Andrey Bogdanov ; Seyed Hassan Tavassoli ; Andrei V. Lavrinenko ; Radu Malureanu

MAGNETIC NEAR-FIELD ENHANCEMENT IN THZ MULTILAYER FANO METAMATERIAL...... 816 Subhajit Karmakar ; R. K. Varshney ; Dibakar Roy Chowdhury

ALL OPTICAL MANIPULATION OF PHOTONIC METASURFACES IN MICROFLUIDIC ENVIRONMENTS...... 817 Andrea Di Falco

MULTILATTICE STRUCTURES FOR DYNAMIC BEAM FORMING AND STEERING ...... 818 A. N. M. Shahriyar Hossain ; Igor Tsukerman

VO2 PHASE CHANGE CONTROL OF AU NANOROD EMISSION ENHANCEMENT OF MAGNETIC DIPOLAR EMITTERS ...... 819 Emilija Petronijevic ; Marco Centini ; Tiziana Cesca ; Giovanni Mattei ; Concita Sibilia

LIGHT MANIPULATION WITH PLASMONIC STRUCTURES USING PHASE CHANGE MATERIALS...... 820 Stephen Cunningham ; John J. Gough ; Stephen Barry Porter ; Plamen Stamenov ; Calin Hrelescu ; A. Louise Bradley

WAVEGUIDE STOPPED LIGHT MEDIATED BY MODE TRANSITIONS ...... 821 Pilar Pujol-Closa ; Jordi Gomis-Bresco ; J. Sebastián Gómez-Díaz ; David Artigas

THE OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF AUZR INTERMETALLIC ALLOYS ...... 822 Hugh Littlehailes ; William Hendren ; Stacey Drakeley ; Robert Bowman ; Fumin Huang

ALL-FIBER SOURCE FOR GENERATION OF TUNABLE BROADBAND FCEO-FREE MID-IR PULSES FOR LASER SPECTROSCOPY APPLICATIONS...... 823 Karol Krzempek ; Aleksander Gluszek ; Dorota Tomaszewska ; Tadeusz Martynkien ; Pawel Mergo ; Jaroslaw Sotor ; Grzegorz Sobon

NOISE EVOLUTION IN ALL-NORMAL DISPERSION SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATION ...... 824 E. Genier ; P. Bowen ; T. Sylvestre ; J. M. Dudley ; P. M. Moselund ; O. Bang

MILLISECOND WAVELENGTH TUNING ACROSS HUNDREDS OF NANOMETERS OF A FIBER OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATOR ...... 825 Tim Hellwig ; Maximilian Brinkmann ; Carsten Fallnich

UV-GRADE SILICA-BASED PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS FOR BROADBAND UV GENERATION OVER 350–395 NM...... 826 S. Perret ; A. N. Ghosh ; G. Fanjoux ; L. Provino ; T. Taunay ; A. Monteville ; D. Landais ; J. M. Dudley ; T. Sylvestre

790NM DIODE PUMPED THULIUM SENSITIZED HOLMIUM-DOPED FIBRE LASER OPERATING BEYOND 2100NM ...... 827 Norberto J. Ramírez-Martínez ; Martín Núñez-Velázquez ; Jayanta K. Sahu

MULTI-WATT OPERATION OF A HOLMIUM DOPED SILICA FIBRE LASER AT 2.2 μM ...... 828 L. G. Holmen ; P. C. Shardlow ; P. Barua ; J. K. Sahu ; N. Simakov ; A. Hemming ; W. A. Clarkson

COLD DAMPING OF A LEVITATED NANOPARTICLE...... 829 F. Tebbenjohanns ; M. Frimmer ; A. Militaru ; V. Jain ; L. Novotny

LÉVITATION AND OPTICAL INTERROGATION OF A FEEDBACK-COOLED NITROGEN VACANCY CENTER IN A PAUL TRAP ...... 830 Andreas W. Schell ; Gerard P. Conangla ; Raúl A. Rica ; Romain Quidant

MOSE2 AND WSE2 EMBEDDED IN BRAGG-CAVITIES WITH HIGH Q-FACTORS ENABLING STRONG EXCITON-POLARITON COUPLING IN 2D-SYSTEMS ...... 831 Heiko Knopf ; Christoph Ruprecht ; Ulrike Schulz ; Christian Schneider ; Falk Eilenberger

SPIN-LAYER- AND SPIN-VALLEY-LOCKING DUE TO SYMMETRY IN DIFFERENTLY-STACKED TUNGSTEN DISULFIDE BILAYERS...... 832 Lorenz M. Schneider ; Jan Kuhnert ; Simon Schmitt ; Ulrich Huttner ; Lars Meckbach ; Tineke Stroucken ; Stephan W. Koch ; Wolfram Heimbrodt ; Shichen Fu ; Xiaotian Wang ; Kyungnam Kang ; Eui-Hyeok Yang ; Arash Rahimi-Iman

DIRECT OPTICAL EVIDENCE OF FREE EXCITONS IN A MONOLAYER QUANTUM MATERIAL AND EFFECTIVE-MASS MEASUREMENTS ...... 833 Lorenz M. Schneider ; Shanence S. Esdaille ; Daniel A. Rhodes ; Katayun Barmak ; James C. Hone ; Arash Rahimi-Iman

RECORD-HIGH POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY CW TAPERED QUANTUM-DOT SUPERLUMINESCENT DIODE ...... 834 Adam F. Forrest ; Michel Krakowski ; Paolo Bardella ; Maria Ana Cataluna

SURFACE-EMITTING SUPERLUMINESCENT DIODE ARRAYS ...... 835 Bruno Jentzsch ; Alvaro Gomez-Iglesias ; Alexander Tonkikh ; Bernd Witzigmann

BLUE SUPERLUMINESCENT DIODE ON C-PLANE GAN BEYOND GIGAHERTZ MODULATION BANDWIDTH FOR VISIBLE LIGHT COMMUNICATION ...... 836 Abdullah A. Alatawi ; Jorge A. Holguin-Lerma ; Chun Hong Kang ; Chao Shen ; Abdulrahman M. Albadri ; Ahmed Y. Alyamani ; Tien Khee Ng ; Boon S. Ooi

DETERMINATION OF THE RESIDUAL AMPLIFIED SPONTANEOUS EMISSION IN SINGLE-MODE SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS...... 837 Bassem Arar ; Christian Kürbis ; Hans Wenzel ; Andreas Wicht

WIDELY TUNABLE WATT-LEVEL MOPA SYSTEMS EMITTING AT 976 NM...... 838 M. Tawfieq ; J. Fricke ; A. Müller ; P. Della Casa ; O. Brox ; H. Wenzel ; B. Sumpf ; G. Tränkle

COHERENT SUPERPOSITION OF PULSED HIGH-BRIGHTNESS TAPERED AMPLIFIERS ...... 839 P. Albrodt ; J. Hamperl ; M. Niemeyer ; P. Crump ; P. Georges ; G. Lucas-Leclin

JOULE-CLASS 500 HZ CRYOGENIC YB:YAG CHIRPED PULSE AMPLIFIER...... 840 Luis E. Zapata ; Simon Schweisthal ; Jelto Thesinga ; Collette Zapata ; Matthias Schust ; Liu Yizhou ; Anne-Laure Calendron ; Mikhail Pergament ; Franz X. Kaertner

MULTI-WATT MULTI-PASS AMPLIFICATION IN A 42-MM-LONG YB:LULIF4 SINGLE CRYSTAL FIBER GROWN BY THE MICRO-PULLING-DOWN METHOD ...... 841 Federico Pirzio ; Shu Jun ; Simone Tacchini ; Giuliano Piccinno ; Alberto Di Lieto ; Mauro Tonelli ; Antonio Agnesi

DIODE — PUMPED EFFICIENT CRYOGENIC YB:Y2O3 TRANSPARENT CERAMIC LASER...... 842 Samuel Paul David ; Venkatesan Jambunathan ; Fangxin Yue ; Antonio Lucianetti ; Tomas Mocek

YB:YAB CRYSTAL BASED CHIRPED PULSE REGENERATIVE AMPLIFIER...... 843 A. S. Rudenkov ; V. E. Kisel ; K. N. Gorbachenya ; A. S. Yasukevich ; V. V. Maltsev ; N. I. Leonyuk ; N. V. Kuleshov

TOWARDS A KW-CLASS PICOSECOND LASER AT 1 KHZ...... 844 S. Petit ; C. Feral ; M. C. Nadeau ; Ph. Balcou ; J. Brandam ; D. Descamps ; J. Lhermite ; D. Marion

TOWARDS SEMICONDUCTOR-BASED METASURFACES ...... 845 G. Brière ; S. Héron ; P. Ni ; S. Chenot ; S. Vézian ; V. Brandii ; B. Damilano ; J. Y. Duboz ; M. Iwanaga ; P. Genevet

INTEGRATED PLASMONIC NANOANTENNA GRATINGS FOR LARGE AREA COHERENT OPTICAL SOURCE...... 846 Benjamin Leroy ; Giovanni Magno ; David Barat ; Laetitia Pradere ; Béatrice Dagens

PROJECTING FREE-SPACE LIGHT WITH ARBITRARY POLARIZATION BY A PHOTONIC CHIP INTEGRATED WITH A METASURFACE...... 847 Alexander Yulaev ; Wenqi Zhu ; Cheng Zhang ; Daron A. Westly ; Henri J. Lezec ; Amit Agrawal ; Vladimir Aksyuk

360° ON CHIP OPTICAL BEAM STEERING BASED ON SUPERPOSITION OF PLANAR SPIRAL ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM WAVES ...... 848 Shihao Zeng ; Yanfeng Zhang ; Jiangbo Zhu ; Zeru Wu ; Yujie Chen ; Siyuan Yu

THREE-DIMENSIONAL VECTORIAL HOLOGRAPHY ...... 849 Haoran Ren

DUAL-COLOR FLUORESCENT MICROSCOPE ON CHIP FOR 3D IMAGING OF SINGLE CELLS...... 850 Federico Sala ; Petra Paiè ; Roberto Memeo ; Roberto Osellame ; Andrea Farina ; Alessio Zippo ; Thomas Vaccari ; Andrea Bassi ; Francesca Bragheri

OPTICAL CONTROL IN A 3D FLOW-FOCUSING MICROFLUIDIC SORTING SYSTEM ...... 851 Yingkai Lyu ; Andrew Glidle ; Huabing Yin

OPTICAL ROUTING OF NANOSPHERES ON PLASMONIC RAILS...... 852 Shengqi Yin ; Fei He ; Nicolas G. Green ; Xu Fang

AUTONOMOUS PHOTONIC BIOSENSOR BASED ON GUIDED MODE RESONANCE ...... 853 Alexander Drayton ; Christopher Reardon ; Thomas F. Krauss

BREATH SIGNATURES OF CEREBRAL PALSY PATIENTS REVEALED WITH MID-INFRARED FTIR SPECTROSCOPY...... 854 Kiran Sankar Maiti ; Susmita Roy ; Renée Lampe ; Alexander Apolonski

WRITING IN PHOTOREFRACTIVE CRYSTALS BY BIO-LENSES ...... 855 Lisa Miccio ; Jaromir Behal ; Martina Mugnano ; Simonetta Grilli ; Biagio Mandracchia ; Francesco Merola ; Pasquale Memmolo ; Pietro Ferraro

ROOM TEMPERATURE MAGNETIC FIELD LEARNING WITH OPTICALLY READOUT SINGLE NV- CENTERS ...... 856 Antonio A. Gentile ; Raffaele Santagati ; Sebastian Knauer ; Simon Schmitt ; Stefano Paesani ; Chris Granade ; Nathan Wiebe ; Christian Osterkamp ; Liam P. McGuinness ; Jianwei Wang ; Mark G. Thompson ; John G. Rarity ; Fedor Jelezko ; Anthony Laing

PICOMETRE RESOLUTION MEASUREMENT OF PLASMONIC DYNAMICS IN METAL NANOSTRUCTURES USING FREQUENCY COMB ...... 857 Duy Anh Nguyen ; Byung Jae Chun ; Young-Jin Kim

3+ ZNGA2O4:CR NANOPHOSPHORS FOR THERMOMETRY AT NANOSCALE ...... 858 E. Glais ; C. Chanéac ; B. Viana

IMPRINTED POLYMER INVERSE OPALS FOR THE DETECTION OF NANOPARTICLES...... 859 Sarra Gam-Derouich ; Céline Bourdillon ; Soraya Lakhdar Chaouche ; Laurent Coolen ; Agnès Maître ; Claire Mangeney ; Catherine Schwob

MOBILE BASED IN SITU DETECTION OF LIVE/DEAD AND ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANT BACTERIA BY SILVER NANORODS ARRAY SENSOR FABRICATED BY GLANCING ANGLE DEPOSITION ...... 860 S. K. Gahlaut ; Neeti Kalyani ; C. Sharan ; P. Mishra ; J. P. Singh

HARMONIC CONCATENATION OF 1.5-FEMTOSECOND-PULSES IN THE DEEP UV...... 861 Jan Reislöhner ; Christoph Leithold ; Adrian N. Pfeiffer

GENERATION OF ULTRABROADBAND PHASE-LOCKED PULSE PAIRS IN THE ULTRAVIOLET BY ACHROMATIC SHG...... 862 P. Malevich ; R. Borrego-Varillas ; L. Ganzer ; C. Manzoni ; P. J. Kabacinski ; E. Riedle ; G. Cerullo ; J. Hauer

CHARACTERIZATION OF 8 FS DEEP-UV PULSES USING XPW DISPERSION SCAN ...... 863 Ayhan Tajalli ; Thomas K. Kalousdian ; Martin Kretschmar ; Sven Kleinert ; Uwe Morgner ; Tamas Nagy

DUAL SELF-DIFFRACTION DISPERSION-SCAN AND ITS APPLICATION TO THE SIMULTANEOUS MEASUREMENT OF TWO ULTRASHORT ULTRAVIOLET PULSES PRODUCED BY A SPATIALLY INHOMOGENEOUS MULTIPLATE CONTINUUM...... 864 Miguel Canhota ; Rosa Weigand ; Helder Crespo

SOLITON SELF-COMPRESSION AND UV DISPERSIVE WAVE EMISSION IN COMPACT HOLLOW CAPILLARY SYSTEMS...... 865 Christian Brahms ; Teodora Grigorova ; Federico Belli ; John C. Travers

20-W ULTRAVIOLET FEMTOSECOND GHZ BURST LASER...... 866 Guillaume Bonamis ; Jorge Sanabria ; Eric Audouard ; John Lopez ; Inka Manek-Hönninger ; Eric Mottay ; Clemens Hönninger

HIGH-PERFORMANCE MID-INFRARED CRYSTALLINE BRAGG MIRRORS AT 4.5 μM...... 867 Georg Winkler ; Lukas Perner ; Gar-Wing Truong ; Dominic Bachmann ; Aline S. Mayer ; Jakob Fellinger ; Tobias Zederbauer ; David Follman ; Christoph Deutsch ; Garrett D. Cole ; Oliver H. Heckl

DIRECT FEMTOSECOND LASER INSCRIPTION OF HIGHLY REFLECTIVE AND LOW LOSS MID- INFRARED FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS ...... 868 Gayathri Bharathan ; Toney Teddy Fernandez ; Martin Ams ; Robert I. Woodward ; Darren D. Hudson ; Alex Fuerbach

PROPAGATION LOSS MEASUREMENT USING ULTRA-BROADBAND CHIRPED BRAGG GRATINGS IN INTEGRATED UV WRITTEN WAVEGUIDES...... 869 Rex H. S. Bannerman ; Paolo L. Mennea ; Devin H. Smith ; Peter G. R. Smith ; James C. Gates

LASER-BASED FABRICATION OF MICROMECHANICAL DIAPHRAGMS FOR PRESSURE SENSING USING BRAGG GRATINGS ...... 870 Alexander Jantzen ; Paul C. Gow ; Senta L. Scholl ; Lewis J. Boyd ; Peter G. R. Smith ; Christopher Holmes

LIGHT AND SLOW-NEUTRON DIFFRACTION PROPERTIES OF HOLOGRAPHIC NANODIAMOND COMPOSITE GRATINGS ...... 871 Yasuo Tomita ; Akihisa Kageyama ; Yuko Iso ; Koichi Umemoto ; Jürgen Klepp ; Christian Pruner ; Martin Fally

NUMERICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON THE IR FEMTOSECOND LASER AND PHASE MASK- BASED GRATING INSCRIPTION IN PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS ...... 872 Tigran Baghdasaryan ; Thomas Geernaert ; Adriana Morana ; Emmanuel Marin ; Sylvain Girard ; Mariusz Makara ; Pawel Mergo ; Hugo Thienpont ; Francis Berghmans

THE JOURNEY FROM MANIPULATING SINGLE QUANTUM SYSTEMS TO QUANTUM INFORMATION PROCESSING ...... 873 Peter Knight

SHAPING OF COHERENT STATE SUPERPOSITIONS VIA DETERMINISTICALLY CREATED SCHRÖDINGER-CAT STATES ...... 874 Severin Daiss ; Bastian Hacker ; Stephan Welte ; Armin Shaukat ; Stephan Ritter ; Lin Li ; Gerhard Rempe

ATOMIC PROTECTED FROM DECOHERENCE BY STRONG COUPLING TO A FIBER-BASED OPTICAL CAVITY ...... 875 Mohamed Baghdad ; Pierre-Antoine Bourdel ; Francesco Ferri ; Arthur La Rooij ; Sylvain Schwartz ; Jakob Reichel ; Romain Long

ELECTRO-OPTIC FREQUENCY COMB GENERATION IN LITHIUM NIOBATE WHISPERING GALLERY MODE RESONATORS ...... 876 Alfredo Rueda ; Florian Sedlmeir ; Gerd Leuchs ; Madhuri Kuamri ; Harald G. L. Schwefel

WIDELY TUNABLE REGENERATIVE TALBOT LASER...... 877 Vincent Billault ; Vincent Crozatier ; Muriel Schwarz ; Gilles Feugnet ; Ghaya Baili ; Pascale Nouchi ; Daniel Dolfi ; Hugues Guillet De Chatellus

VERSATILE AMPLITUDE AND PHASE FILTERING IN AN OPTICAL TAPPED DELAY LINE STRUCTURE...... 878 Jianqi Hu ; Simon J. Fabbri ; Chen-Bin Huang ; Camille-Sophie Brès

ANALYSIS OF EXTERNAL CW OPTICAL INJECTION FOR TIMING JITTER REDUCTION OF ACTIVELY MODE-LOCKED LASERS...... 879 Vincent Billault ; Vincent Crozatier ; Ghaya Baili ; Pascale Nouchi ; Daniel Dolfi ; Hugues Guillet De Chatellus

POLARIZATION DEPENDANCE ENGINEERING OF CHALCOGENIDE OPTICAL FIBER COUPLERS ...... 880 Mohsen Rezaei ; Martin Rochette

INVESTIGATION OF GRATING ASSISTED MODE-SELECTIVE FEW-MODE FUSED FIBER COUPLERS ...... 881 K. Bremer ; S. Schlangen ; S. Böhm ; F. Wellmann ; M. Steinke ; J. Neumann ; B. Roth ; L. Overmeyer

DETECTING AND QUANTIFYING PULSE TRAIN INSTABILITIES WITH D-SCAN ...... 882 Esmerando Escoto ; Daniel Gerth ; Bernd Hofmann ; Günter Steinmeyer

EXCITON RELAXATION PATHWAYS IN CDSE NANORODS REVEALED BY TWO-DIMENSIONAL ELECTRONIC SPECTROSCOPY ...... 883 Franco V. A. Camargo ; Tetsuhiko Nagahara ; Yuval Ben-Shahar ; Mattia Russo ; Uri Banin ; Giulio Cerullo

CONICAL INTERSECTION DYNAMICS OF PYRIMIDINE NUCLEOSIDES TRACKED WITH SUB-20-FS UV PULSES ...... 884 Rocio Borrego-Varillas ; Artur Nenov ; Lucia Ganzer ; Irene Conti ; Aurelio Oriana ; Ines Delfino ; Cristian Manzoni ; Marco Garavelli ; Giulio Cerullo

EFFECT OF POINT MUTATIONS ON THE ULTRAFAST PHOTO-ISOMERIZATION OF ANABAENA SENSORY RHODOPSIN...... 885 D. Agathangelou ; Y. Orozco-Gonzalez ; M. Del Carmen Marin Pérez ; J. Brazard ; H. Kandori ; K. H. Jung ; N. Ferré ; J. Leonard ; M. Olivucci ; S. Haacke

SUPERFILAMENT SPATIAL DYNAMICS AND ENERGY DEPOSITION UNDER VARIOUS FOCUSING CONDITIONS ...... 886 Dmitrii V. Pushkarev ; Ekaterina V. Mitina ; Daria S. Uryupina ; Nikita A. Zhidovtsev ; Georgii A. Gospodinov ; Roman V. Volkov ; Olga G. Kosareva ; Andrei B. Savel'ev

WAVELENGTH SCALING OF THZ EMISSIONS BY TWO-COLOR FILAMENTS IN AIR...... 887 L. Bergé ; A. Nguyen ; K. J. Kaltenecker ; J. C. Delagnes ; B. Zhou ; E. Cormier ; N. Fedorov ; R. Bouillaud ; D. Descamps ; I. Thiele ; S. Skupin ; P. U. Jepsen

HIGH PEAK POWER LASER DIODES FOR EYE SAFE LIDAR WITH INTEGRATED WAVELENGTH LOCKING ELEMENT...... 888 Jukka Viheriälä ; Antti T. Aho ; Heikki Virtanen ; Jarno Reuna ; Jari Lyytikäinen ; Mircea Guina

WAVELENGTH STABILIZED 905 NM DIODE LASERS IN THE 100 W CLASS FOR AUTOMOTIVE LIDAR...... 889 A. Knigge ; A. Klehr ; A. Liero ; J. Fricke ; A. Maaßdorf ; A. Zeghuzi ; H. Wenzel ; G. Tränkle

EFFICIENT NARROW STRIPE RIDGE WAVEGUIDE LASERS FOR SINGLE-SPATIAL MODE OPERATION UP TO 2.5 W...... 890 M. Wilkens ; G. Erbert ; H. Wenzel ; A. Maaßdorf ; J. Fricke ; P. Ressel ; A. Knigge ; P. Crump

NARROWER FAR FIELD AND HIGHER EFFICIENCY IN 1 KW DIODE-LASER BARS USING IMPROVED LATERAL STRUCTURING ...... 891 M. M. Karow ; D. Martin ; P. Della Casa ; G. Erbert ; P. Crump

EFFICIENT, HIGH POWER PUMPS FOR MID-IR SOLID STATE LASERS ENABLED BY 200 K OPERATION OF 808 NM DIODE LASERS...... 892 P. Crump ; C. Frevert ; A. Maaßdorf ; S. Knigge ; G. Erbert ; G. Tränkle

OPTIMIZATION OF 808 NM DBR RW LASER BARS FOR OPERATION AT LOW NOISE AND HIGH RELIABILITY ...... 893 Karl Häusler ; Hans Wenzel ; Jörg Fricke ; Sabrina Kreutzmann ; Andrea Knigge

NONLINEAR OPTICS WITH NANOMATERIALS...... 894 Zhipei Sun

HOT ELECTRONS MODULATION OF THIRD HARMONIC GENERATION IN GRAPHENE...... 895 Giancarlo Soavi ; Gang Wang ; Habib Rostami ; Andrea Tomadin ; Osman Baici ; Ioannis Paradisanos ; Eva A. A. Pogna ; Giulio Cerullo ; Elefterios Lidorikis ; Marco Polini ; Andrea C. Ferrari

THERMALLY-INDUCED NONLINEAR SPATIAL SHAPING OF INFRARED FEMTOSECOND PULSES IN NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS ...... 896 Vittorio Maria Di Pietro ; Aurélie Jullien ; Umberto Bortolozzo ; Nicolas Forget ; Stefania Residori

OPTICALLY ENGINEERED NONLINEAR PHOTONIC STRUCTURES IN FERROELECTRICS ...... 897 K. Switkowski ; S. Liu ; W. Krolikowski ; Y. Sheng

HIGHLY POLARIZED OPTICAL HARMONIC GENERATION INTO ZERO-ORDER DIFFRACTION FROM GRADIENT SEMICONDUCTOR METASURFACES ...... 898 Giuseppe Marino ; Carlo Gigli ; Davide Rocco ; Ivan Favero ; Aristide Lemaître ; Costantino De Angelis ; Giuseppe Leo

SECOND-HARMONIC GENERATION IN LITHIUM NIOBATE METASURFACES ...... 899 Anna Fedotova ; Mohammadreza Younesi ; Jürgen Sautter ; Michael Steinert ; Reinhard Geiss ; Thomas Pertsch ; Isabelle Staude ; Frank Setzpfandt

NONLINEAR MIE-RESONANT META-OPTICS AND METASURFACES ...... 900 Yuri Kivshar

ENGINEERING THE ENHANCEMENT OF NONLINEAR OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF 2D STRUCTURES ...... 901 A. Rodríguez Echarri ; Joel D. Cox ; Renwen Yu ; F. Javier García De Abajo

EFFICIENT NONLINEAR METASURFACES USING MULTIRESONANT HIGH-Q PLASMONIC ARRAYS ...... 902 Mikko J. Huttunen ; Orad Reshef ; Timo Stolt ; Ksenia Dolgaleva ; Robert W. Boyd ; Martti Kauranen

ELASTIC INTERCONNECTION OF OPTICAL FIBERS USING SELF-WRITTEN WAVEGUIDES...... 903 Georgios Violakis ; Athanasios Bogris ; Stergios Pispas ; Benoit Loppinet ; Stavros Pissadakis

TOWARDS FEMTOSECOND LASER WRITTING OF NON-CONVENTIONAL WAVEGUIDE BRAGG GRATINGS IN SILVER-CONTAINING GLASSES ...... 904 R. Laberdesque ; Y. Petit ; H. Fares ; A. Abou-Khalil ; S. Danto ; I. Manek-Honninger ; T. Cardinal ; L. Canioni

INTEGRATED WAVEGUIDES AND BRAGG GRATINGS UV WRITTEN WITH 213NM LIGHT ...... 905 Paul C. Gow ; Rex H. S. Bannerman ; James C. Gates ; Paolo L. Mennea ; Christopher Holmes ; Alexander Jantzen ; Peter G. R. Smith

PERIODIC POLING WITH SHORT PERIOD FOR THIN FILM LITHIUM NIOBATE WAVEGUIDES ...... 906 Mohammadreza Younesi ; Pawan Kumar ; Badrudin Jakob Stanicki ; Reinhard Geiss ; Wei-Kun Chang ; Yen-Hung Chen ; Frank Setzpfandt ; Thomas Pertsch

BLOCH-SURFACE-WAVES CONTROLLING DEVICES FABRICATED BY TWO-PHOTON POLYMERIZATION ...... 907 Kirill R. Safronov ; Dmitry N. Gulkin ; Ilya M. Antropov ; Ksenia A. Abrashitova ; Vladimir O. Bessonov ; Andrey A. Fedyanin

SILICON MICROCAVITY IN THE VISIBLE RANGE ENABLED BY CURVED SLOTTED MICROMIRRORS...... 908 Mohab S. Abdallah ; Haitham Omran ; Yasser Sabry ; Frédéric Marty ; Tarik Bourouina

LABEL-FREE PHYTOPLANKTON ANALYSIS BY HIGH-THROUGHPUT QUANTITATIVE PHASE IMAGING CYTOMETRY AND MACHINE LEARNING ...... 909 Queenie T. K. Lai ; Kelvin C. M. Lee ; Kenneth K. Y. Wong ; Kevin K. Tsia

POCKELS LINEAR ELECTRO-OPTIC MICROSCOPY (PLEOM) FOR CELL BIOLOGY ...... 910 Pamèla Didier ; Bassam Hajj ; Rasta Ghasemi ; Franck André ; Joseph Zyss ; Isabelle Ledoux ; Clément Lafargue

TWO-COLOR SUPPRESSION OF STIMULATED RAMAN SCATTERING...... 911 Thomas Wurthwein ; Niels Irwin ; Carsten Fallnich

LABEL-FREE MULTIPHOTON MICROSCOPY IN HUMAN TISSUE ENABLED BY AN ER:FIBER-LASER BASED TUNABLE SOURCE...... 912 Hsiang-Yu Chung ; Rüdiger Greinert ; Markus Glatzel ; Franz X. Kärtner ; Guoqing Chang

A 1880 KM LONG INTERFEROMETRIC OPTICAL FIBRE LINK PTB-MPQ-PTB FOR CHRONOMETRIC LEVELLING WITH A TRANSPORTABLE OPTICAL CLOCK...... 913 A. Kuhl ; G. Vishnyakova ; T. Waterholter ; S. Koke ; R. Holzwarth ; G. Grosche

10-20 LEVEL OF ACCURACY FOR OPTICAL FREQUENCY RATIO MEASUREMENTS ...... 914 Michele Giunta ; Wolfgang Hönsel ; Matthias Lezius ; Marc Fischer ; Thomas Udem ; Ronald Holzwarth

POLARIZATION-INSENSITIVE COHERENT RECEIVING IN OPTICAL FIBER LINKS FOR FREQUENCY METROLOGY ...... 915 Stefano Paracchino ; Cecilia Clivati ; Paolo Savio ; Vittorio Curri ; Roberto Gaudino ; Davide Calonico

DELLIGHT: DEFLECTION OF LIGHT BY LIGHT IN VACUUM ...... 916 Scott James Robertson ; Xavier Sarazin ; François Couchot

SPECTRAL BROADENING OF A 500W, 5MJ FEMTOSECOND LASER ...... 917 Steffen Hädrich ; Peter Simon ; Tamas Nagy ; Andreas Blumenstein ; Robert Klas ; Joachim Buldt ; Lars-Henning Stark ; Sven Breitkopf ; Péter Jójárt ; Zoltán Várallyay ; Károly Osvay ; Tino Eidam ; Jens Limpert

POST-COMPRESSION OF PULSES FROM AN YB AMPLIFIER TO 25FS AT 40MJ ...... 918 G. Fan ; P. A. Carpeggiani ; Z. Tao ; E. Kaksis ; T. Balciunas ; G. Coccia ; V. Cardin ; F. Légaré ; B. E. Schmidt ; A. Baltuška

CEP-STABLE 100 KHZ NONLINEARLY COMPRESSED YDFA SOURCE FOR HHG...... 919 M. Natile ; L. Lavenu ; F. Guichard ; M. Hanna ; Y. Zaouter ; R. Chiche ; X. Chen ; J. F. Hergott ; W. Bouta ; H. Merdji ; P. Georges

MULTI-PIXEL INTERDIGITATED PHOTOCONDUCTIVE DEVICES FOR TERAHERTZ POLARIZATION CONTROL AND IMAGING ...... 920 Connor D. W. Mosley ; Michael Staniforth ; Arturo Hernandez Serrano ; James Lloyd-Hughes

DSTMS-BASED ULTRABROADBAND TERAHERTZ TIME-DOMAIN SPECTROSCOPY...... 921 Uros Puc ; Tobias Bach ; Vincent Michel ; Marko Zgonik ; Carolina Medrano ; Mojca Jazbinsek

ENHANCING THZ EMISSION USING A SHALLOW-BOUNCE CONFIGURATION ...... 922 Ran Li ; Yameng Zheng ; David J. Spence ; Helen M. Pask ; Andrew J. Lee

TERAHERTZ FREQUENCY DOMAIN SPECTROSCOPY USING HILBERT TRANSFORMATION...... 923 Dominik Walter Vogt ; Miro Erkintalo ; Rainer Leonhardt

NONLINEAR OPTICS EXPLOITING THE SPATIAL DIMENSION ...... 924 Siddharth Ramachandran

KILOWATT-LEVEL PARAMETRIC WAVELENGTH EXCHANGE USING OAM MODES...... 925 Erik N. Christensen ; Xiao Liu ; Karsten Rottwitt ; Siddharth Ramachandran

RECONSTRUCTION OF GUIDED HELICAL BLOCH MODES IN TWISTED CORELESS PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBRE USING BESSEL BEAMS ...... 926 P. Roth ; G. K. L. Wong ; M. H. Frosz ; G. Ahmed ; P. St. J. Russell

OPTICAL SHIELDING OF ULTRACOLD 39K-CS COLLISION...... 927 Ting Xie ; Andrea Orban ; Olivier Dulieu ; Nadia Bouloufa-Maafa

ULTRAFAST DEEP AND VACUUM ULTRAVIOLET GAS-FILLED HOLLOW-CORE FIBRE SOURCES FOR TIME-RESOLVED PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY ...... 928 Federico Belli ; Nikoleta Kotsina ; Shou-Fei Gao ; Ying-Ying Wang ; Pu Wang ; John C. Travers ; Dave Townsend

INFLUENCE OF DIFFERENT GASES ON IONISATION-INDUCED REFRACTIVE INDEX CHANGES IN GAS-FILLED HOLLOW-CORE PCF...... 929 Johannes R. Koehler ; Felix Köttig ; Francesco Tani ; Philip St. J. Russell

SOLITON-PLASMA INTERACTIONS AND DISPERSIVE-WAVE EMISSION BEYOND TWO-PHOTON RESONANCES IN GAS-FILLED HOLLOW CAPILLARY FIBRES ...... 930 Teodora Grigo Rova ; Christian Brahms ; Federico Belli ; John C. Travers

SINGLE-SHOT TIME-RESOLVED PHASE AND INTENSITY MEASUREMENT OF BREATHERS IN THE NONLINEAR STAGE OF MODULATION INSTABILITY ...... 931 Alexandre Lebel ; Alexey Tikan ; Stéphane Randoux ; Pierre Suret ; François Copie

SINGLE COLOR EVENT HORIZON IN A PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBRE...... 932 Surajit Bose ; Oliver Melchert ; Ihar Babushkin ; Mrinmay Pal ; Günter Steinmeyer ; Uwe Morgner ; Ayhan Demircan

EXTREME EVENTS PREDICTION IN OPTICAL FIBRE MODULATION INSTABILITY USING MACHINE LEARNING...... 933 Lauri Salmela ; Mikko Närhi ; Juha Toivonen ; Coraline Lapre ; Cyril Billet ; John M. Dudley ; Goëry Genty

GASB-BASED SWEPT-WAVELENGTH LASERS FOR SPECTROSCOPIC SENSING APPLICATIONS IN THE 1.7–2.5 MICRON SPECTRAL RANGE ...... 934 Augustinas Vizbaras ; Ieva Šimonyte ; Augustinas Trinkunas ; Arunas Miasojedovas ; Tadas Buciunas ; Andreas De Groote ; Mindaugas Greibus ; Greta Naujokaite ; Valentinas Andrulis ; Daan Martens ; Serge Droz ; Nicolas Torcheboeuf ; Dmitri Boiko ; Žilvinas Dambrauskas ; Antanas Gulbinas ; Kristijonas Vizbaras

DESIGN STRATEGIES FOR POWER SCALING OF GASB-BASED SUPERLUMINESCENT DIODES FOR 2 – 3 μM WAVELENGTH RANGE...... 935 Nouman Zia ; Jukka Viheriälä ; Eero Koivusalo ; Antti Aho ; Mircea Guina

RING INTERBAND CASCADE LASERS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING ...... 936 Hedwig Knötig ; Borislav Hinkov ; Martin Holzbauer ; Rolf Szedlak ; Hermann Detz ; Robert Weih ; Sven Höfling ; Werner Schrenk ; Johannes Koeth ; Johannes P. Waclawek ; Bernhard Lendl ; Gottfried Stasser

ACTIVATED AUGER PROCESSES AND THEIR WAVELENGTH DEPENDENCE IN TYPE-I MID- INFRARED LASER DIODES ...... 937 Timothy D. Eales ; Markus-C. Amann ; Igor P. Marko ; Barnabas A. Ikyo ; Alf R. Adams ; Alexander Andrejew ; Kristijonas Vizbaras ; Leon Shterengas ; Gregory Belenky ; Igor Vurgaftman ; Jerry R. Meyer ; Stephen J. Sweeney

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY FOR DIFFERENT BARRIER COMPOSITIONS OF TERAHERTZ QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS ...... 938 Martin A. Kainz ; Sebastian Schönhuber ; Benedikt Limbacher ; Aaron M. Andrews ; Hermann Detz ; Gottfried Strasser ; Karl Unterrainer

ALL-OPTICAL SWITCHING IN MICRORESONATORS USING THE KERR NONRECIPROCITY...... 939 Leonardo Del Bino ; Niall Moroney ; Michael T. M. Woodley ; François Copie ; Jonathan M. Silver ; Shuangyou Zhang ; Pascal Del'Haye

THIRD HARMONIC GENERATION IN HIGHLY-DOPED SILICA GLASS MICRO RING RESONATOR...... 940 Yuhua Li ; Jianguo Zhao ; Roy Davidson ; Leiran Wang ; Shao Hao Wang ; Brent E. Little ; Sai T. Chu

CRITICAL DYNAMICS OF A NONLINEAR ENHANCED MICRORESONATOR GYROSCOPE ...... 941 Jonathan Silver ; Leonardo Del Bino ; Michael Woodley ; Shuangyou Zhang ; Andreas Svela ; George Ghalanos ; Niall Moroney ; Pascal Del'Haye

FEMTOSECOND-DRIVEN UP-CONVERSION IN A RADIALLY POLED LINBO3 MICRORESONATOR ...... 942 Mikhail Roiz ; Christoph S. Werner ; Ingo Breunig ; Markku Vainio

RADIALLY-POLED STOICHIOMETRIC LITHIUM TANTALATE MICRORESONATORS FOR NONLINEAR-OPTICAL APPLICATIONS ...... 943 Macit Uluda ; Jan Szabados ; Ingo Breunig ; Karsten Buse

THIRD ORDER DISPERSION IN OPTICAL TIME DELAYED SYSTEMS: THE CASE OF MODE-LOCKED VERTICAL EXTERNAL-CAVITY SURFACE-EMITTING LASERS ...... 944 C. Schelte ; P. Camelin ; G. Huyet ; M. Marconi ; M. Giudici ; I. Sagnes ; G. Beaudoin ; A. Garnache ; J. Javaloyes ; S. Gurevich

DARK PULSES IN A LONG RING LASER...... 945 Svetlana Slepneva ; Uday Munivenkatappa ; Alexander Pimenov ; Evgeny Viktorov ; Andrei G. Vladimirov ; Guillaume Huyet

SYMMETRY BREAKING: BALANCING ASYMMETRIES...... 946 Bruno Garbin ; Julien Fatome ; Gian-Luca Oppo ; Stuart G. Murdoch ; Miro Erkintalo ; Stephane Coen

EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION OF CHIMERA-LIKE STATES IN A PASSIVE KERR RESONATOR ...... 947 Alexander U. Nielsen ; Michel Ferré ; Marcel G. Clerc ; Stéphane Coen ; Stuart G. Murdoch ; Miro Erkintalo

LIGHT BULLETS IN PASSIVELY MODE-LOCKED LASERS: DYNAMICS AND INSTABILITIES...... 948 Svetlana Gurevich

PHOTONIC INTEGRATED MICROWAVE OSCILLATOR BASED ON SILICON NITRIDE SOLITON MICROCOMB ...... 949 Junqiu Liu ; Jijun He ; Erwan Lucas ; Arslan S. Raja ; Rui Ning Wang ; Maxim Karpov ; Hairun Guo ; Romain Bouchand ; Tobias J. Kippenberg

INTEGRATED ECHELLE GRATINGS AS COMPACT SPECTROMETER FOR VIS AND NIR ASTRONOMY ...... 950 Yu Wang ; Jiajun Luo ; Kai Sun ; Bernhard Roth ; Ziyang Zhang

TESTS OF FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS USING RAMSEY-COMB SPECTROSCOPY ON THE HYDROGEN MOLECULE...... 951 Charlaine Roth ; Laura S. Dreissen ; Elmer L. Gründeman ; Julian J. Krauth ; Maxime Favier ; Edcel J. Salumbides ; Wim Ubachs ; Kjeld S. E. Eikema

STIMULATED RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY OF H2 WITH ABSOLUTE FREQUENCY CALIBRATION...... 952 M. Lamperti ; L. Rutkowski ; H. Józwiak ; S. Wójtewicz ; D. Gatti ; P. Wcislo ; F. Thibault ; R. Gotti ; P. Maslowski ; G. Cerullo ; D. Polli ; M. Marangoni

DOUBLE-HETERODYNE DETECTION OF SPECTRAL HOLE IN RARE EARTH DOPED CRYSTAL FOR LASER FREQUENCY STABILIZATION AND OPTO-MECHANICAL SENSING ...... 953 Nicolas Galland ; Nemanja Lucic ; Hector Álvarez-Martínez ; Shuo Zhang ; Bess Fang ; Rodolphe Le Targat ; Alban Ferrier ; Philippe Goldner ; Signe Seidelin ; Yann Le Coq

MEASUREMENT OF MOLECULAR TRANSITION FREQUENCIES WITH THE UNCERTAINTIES LOWER THAN 10-17 ...... 954 Masatoshi Kajita

IMAGING RYDBERG STATES OF ATOMS AND MOLECULES WITH A WEAK DC FIELD ...... 955 Seyedreza Larimian ; Xiaochun Gong ; Wenbin Zhang ; Andrius Baltuška ; Markus Kitzler ; Heping Zeng ; Jian Wu ; Xinhua Xie

SUB-CYCLE SEPARATION OF IONIZATION BURSTS IN THE DOUBLE IONIZATION OF H2...... 956 Václav Hanus ; Sarayoo Kangaparambil ; Martin Kirchner ; Seyedreza Larimian ; Xinhua Xie ; Markus Schöffler ; André Staudte ; Gerhard Paulus ; Andrius Baltuska ; Markus Kitzler

HETERONUCLEAR LIMIT OF STRONG-FIELD IONIZATION: LASER-INDUCED FRAGMENTATION OF HEH+ ...... 957 Philipp Wustelt ; Florian Oppermann ; Lun Yue ; Max Möller ; Thomas Stöhlker ; Manfred Lein ; Stefanie Gräfe ; A. Max Sayler ; Gerhard G. Paulus

OPTICAL ATTOCLOCK USING TERAHERTZ RADIATION...... 958 I. Babushkin ; A. J. Galan ; V. Vaicaitis ; A. Husakou ; F. Morales ; A. Demircan ; J. R. C. Andrade ; U. Morgner ; M. Ivanov

HOMOGENEOUS, BOUND-TO-CONTINUUM THZ QCL ACTIVE REGION DESIGN FEATURING 1.65 THZ EMISSION BANDWIDTH IN CW...... 959 A. Forrer ; D. Stark ; M. Franckie ; T. Olariu ; M. Beck ; J. Faist ; G. Scalari

OBSERVATION OF SELF MODE-LOCKING IN TERAHERTZ QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS THROUGH INTRA-CAVITY SELF-DETECTION ...... 960 H. Li ; W. Wan ; Z. Li ; J. C. Cao ; S. Lepillet ; J. F. Lampin ; S. Barbieri

A BROADBAND POLARIZATION-ROTATING VIVALDI ANTENNA FOR BEAM FOCUSING OF TERAHERTZ QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS ...... 961 U. Senica ; E. Mavrona ; T. Olariu ; A. Forrer ; M. Beck ; J. Faist ; G. Scalari

MODELING SELF-STARTING HARMONIC MODE LOCKING IN TERAHERTZ QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS...... 962 Michael Riesch ; Valentino Pistore ; Feihu Wang ; Sukhdeep Dhillon ; Christian Jirauschek

OPTICAL PUMP — THZ PROBE STUDY OF SI-GAAS:CR WITH LONG CHARGE CARRIER LIFETIME...... 963 Irina Kolesnikova ; Daniil Kobtsev ; Ruslan Redkin ; Sergey Sarkisov ; Oleg Tolbanov ; Anton Tyazhev

FREQUENCY CONVERSION OF BROADBAND MID-IR CARBON MONOXIDE LASER RADIATION INTO THZ RANGE ...... 964 A. A. Ionin ; I. O. Kinyaevskiy ; Y. M. Klimachev ; Y. A. Mityagin ; A. M. Sagitova ; S. A. Savinov ; D. V. Sinitsyn

ON THE ROLE OF THE PHASE IN FIELD-RESOLVED SPECTROSCOPY OF MOLECULAR VIBRATIONS...... 965 Michael Trubetskov ; Marinus Huber ; Mihaela Zigman ; Ferenc Krausz ; Ioachim Pupeza

A COMPARISON OF PHOTOCONDUCTIVE SEMICONDUCTORS WITH LONG AND SHORT CHARGE CARRIER LIFETIMES FOR PULSED AND CW TERAHERTZ GENERATION AND DETECTION...... 966 Daniil Kobtsev ; Irina Kolesnikova ; Ruslan Redkin ; Sergey Sarkisov

DESIGN OF A THZ-BASED SUB-100-FS ELECTRON SOURCE ...... 967 Szabolcs Turnár ; Bálint Kovács ; József András Fülöp ; Gábor Almási ; János Hebling ; Zoltán Tibai

DUAL-LASING CHANNEL OF A HIGH-TEMPERATURE TERAHERTZ QUANTUM CASCADE LASER...... 968 Martin A. Kainz ; Sebastian Schönhuber ; Benedikt Limbacher ; Aaron M. Andrews ; Hermann Detz ; Gottfried Strasser ; Karl Unterrainer

POLARIZATION CHARACTERIZATION BY THE LONGITUDINAL COMPONENT OF A FOCUSED TERAHERTZ FIELD...... 969 Xinke Wang ; Yingjie Shang ; Yan Zhang

ACTIVE METASURFACE DEVICES FOR TERAHERTZ WAVE FRONT MODULATION ...... 970 Yan Zhang ; Jingying Guo ; Teng Wang ; Xinke Wang

CHEMICAL SENSING USING TERAHERTZ TIME DOMAIN SPECTROSCOPY ...... 971 Khushboo Singh ; Aparajita Bandyopadhyay ; Amartya Sengupta

OPTICAL PUMP-TERAHERTZ PROBE STUDIES ON SILICON AND ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS...... 972 Peng Han ; Xinke Wang ; Tianyu Chen ; Hui Zhang ; Yan Zhang

CHERENKOV GENERATION OF WIDEBAND TERAHERTZ RADIATION USING A SUB-MICRON LINBO3 SLAB WAVEGUIDE ...... 973 B. N. Carnio ; A. Y. Elezzabi

NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS OF THZ GENERATION WITH TWO-COLOR MID-INFRARED LASER PULSE AND RELATIVE PHASE CONTROL...... 974 Roland Flender ; Adam Borzsonyi ; Balint Kiss ; Viktor Chikan

THEORETICAL INVESTIGATION OF THE OPTIMAL NONLINEAR CRYSTAL THICKNESS FOR THZ GENERATION FROM TWO-COLOR LASER PULSE IONIZED GAS UNDER DIFFERENT LASER PULSE PARAMETERS ...... 975 Roland Flender ; Adam Borzsonyi ; Viktor Chikan

SURFACE-FIELD TERAHERTZ EMISSION ENHANCEMENT VIA 2D-MATERIALS...... 976 Luke Peters ; Jacob Tunesi ; Sean Ogilvie ; Juan S. Totero Gongora ; Matthew Large ; Alessia Pasquazi ; Alan Dalton ; Marco Peccianti

THZ TIME-DOMAIN REFLECTION SPECTROSCOPY OF KTIOPO4 ...... 977 Kjell Mølster ; Hugo Laurell ; Trygve Sørgård ; Carlota Canalias ; Valdas Pasiskevicius ; Fredrik Laurell ; Ulf Österberg

OPTICALLY-INDUCED DYNAMIC TERAHERTZ METAMATERIALS ...... 978 J. Tunesi ; L. Peters ; J. S. Totero Gongora ; A. Pasquazi ; A. Fratalocchi ; M. Peccianti

NOVEL SELF-REFERENCING TIME-DOMAIN THZ ELLIPSOMETER FOR MEASUREMENT OF SAMPLES IN AQUEOUS ENVIRONMENTS ...... 979 Shane Smith ; Erich Rohwer ; Pieter Neethling

SEMICONDUCTORS AS HIGHLY EFFICIENT SINGLE AND MULTICYCLE TERAHERTZ SOURCES ...... 980 Gergo Krizsán ; Nelson M. Mbithi ; Gyula Polónyi ; György Tóth ; Mátyás Mechler ; János Hebling ; József A. Fülöp

GENERATION OF ELLIPSOIDAL LASER PULSES WITH PERIODIC INTENSITY MODULATION FOR PHOTOINJECTORS...... 981 I. V. Kuzmin ; S. Y. Mironov ; E. I. Gacheva ; A. K. Potemkin ; E. A. Khazanov ; M. Krasilnikov ; F. Stephan

SINGLE-LAYERED METASURFACES AS SPECTRALLY TUNABLE TERAHERTZ HALF- AND QUARTER-WAVEPLATES...... 982 Won Tae Kim ; Seojoo Lee ; Ji-Hun Kang ; Bong Joo Kang ; Q. Han Park ; Fabian Rotermund

THZ BASED ELECTRON ACCELERATION USING THE COMBINATION OF METALLIC HORN-GUN AND DIELECTRIC LASER ACCELERATOR ...... 983 Bálint Kovács ; Szabolcs Turnár ; József András Fülöp ; Gábor Almási ; János Hebling ; Zoltán Tibai

SPURIOUS-FREE THZ FREQUENCY MEASUREMENT USING MODULATOR-BASED OPTICAL COMB SOURCE...... 984 Isao Morohashi ; Norihiko Sekine ; Akifumi Kasamatsu ; Iwao Hosako

TERAHERTZ TIME-DOMAIN SPECTROSCOPY OF HEALTHY AND CARIOUS DENTAL TISSUES ...... 985 Daniela S. Lopes ; Wellington S. Souza ; Renato E. De Araujo ; Anderson S. L. Gomes

TERAHERTZ GENERATION SETUPS USING SEGMENTED TILTED-PULSE-FRONT EXCITATION ...... 986 György Tóth ; László Pálfalvi ; József A. Fülöp ; Levente Tokodi ; Gergo Krizsán ; Nicholas H. Matlis ; Gábor Almási ; János Hebling

DESIGN OF A WAVEGUIDE STRUCTURE-BASED ELECTRON SOURCE USING THZ PULSES...... 987 Szabolcs Turnár ; Bálint Kovács ; József András Fülöp ; Gábor Almási ; János Hebling ; Zoltán Tibai

TERAHERTZ SUPERCONTINUUM IN THE BIATOMIC PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBER...... 988 Vikas Kumar ; R. K. Varshney ; Sunil Kumar

TERAHERTZ FOR NON-DESTRUCTIVE QUALITY CONTROL OF LASER ASSISTED PLASTICS-METAL JOINTS...... 989 Dinh Nguyen ; Anne Henrottin ; Jérôme Patars ; Yves Hernandez

BROADBAND TERAHERTZ GENERATION FROM MID-INFRARED 3.9 μM OPCPA AND ORGANIC CRYSTALS...... 990 Claudia Gollner ; Edgar Kaksis ; Corinne Brodeur ; Valentina Shumakova ; Andrius Baltuska ; Audrius Pugzlys ; Mostafa Shalaby

LOW-VOLTAGE TUNING OF THE TERAHERTZ PASSBAND TRANSMISSION USING A TUNGSTEN- DOPED VO2-BASED METAMATERIAL...... 991 Sang-Pil Han ; Jun-Hwan Shin ; Minje Song ; Sungil Kim ; Minhyup Song

ULTRA-THIN TERAHERTZ SPATIAL PHASE MODULATOR BASED ON METAMATERIAL-ENHANCED LIQUID-CRYSTAL CELL...... 992 O. Buchnev ; N. Podoliak ; K. Kaltenecker ; M. Walther ; M. Kaczmarek ; V. A. Fedotov

HIGH EFFICIENCY, HIGH ENERGY FEW-CYCLE DRIVER AT 1-μM ...... 993 Loïc Lavenu ; Michele Natile ; Florent Guichard ; Xavier Délen ; Yoann Zaouter ; Marc Hanna ; Patrick Georges

MULTI-SCALE SYMMETRIES AND SELECTION RULES IN HIGH HARMONIC GENERATION ...... 994 Gavriel Lerner ; Liran Hareli ; Georgiy Shoulga ; Ofer Neufeld ; Eliyahu Bordo ; Alon Bahabad ; Oren Cohen

MULTIPLE PLATE CONTINUUM AND DISPERSION COMPENSATION DRIVEN BY OPTICAL PARAMETRIC CHIRP PULSE AMPLIFIER AT 1.55 μM...... 995 Chia-Lun Tsai ; Yi-Hsun Tseng ; An-Yuan Liang ; Jhan-You Guo ; Ming-Wei Lin ; Shang-Da Yang ; Ming-Chang Chen

TAILORING CAUSTICS IN HIGH-HARMONIC GENERATION WITH PHASE-CONTROLLED MULTI- COLOUR FIELDS ...... 996 Sambit Mitra ; Shubhadeep Biswas ; Johannes Schötz ; Benjamin Förg ; William Okell ; Gautam A. Kavuri ; Maximilian Högner ; Ioachim Pupeza ; Pawel Wnuk ; Matthias F. Kling

FILAMENTATION-BASED TRANSIENT DYNAMIC STUDIES VIA THIRD-HARMONIC GENERATION IN GASES ...... 997 C. Jusko ; L. Shi ; A. Sridhar ; E. Appi ; U. Morgner ; M. Kovacev

ATTOSECOND SOFT X-RAY BEAMLINE FOR DISPERSIVE ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY OF SOLID- STATE SYSTEMS ...... 998 Daniel E. Rivas ; Nicola Di Palo ; Themistoklis P. H. Sidiropoulos ; Stefano Severino ; Maurizio Reduzzi ; Thomas Danz ; Manuel Valdivares ; Pierluigi Gargiani ; Eric Pellegrin ; Jens Biegert

PHOTOELECTRON CIRCULAR DICHROISM AT THE FEW-CYCLE LIMIT IN THE TUNNEL IONIZATION REGIME ...... 999 Vaclav Hanus ; Sarayoo Kangaparambil ; Martin Kirchner ; Seyedreza Larimian ; Xinhua Xie ; Andrius Baltuska ; Markus Kitzler

CHIRPED PULSE PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIER PRODUCING 5-TW, 2.1-CYCLE, CEP-STABLE PULSES AT 1 KHZ REPETITION RATE...... 1000 Tomas Stanislauskas ; Ignas Balciunas ; Rimantas Budriunas ; Gediminas Veitas ; Darius Gadonas ; Jonas Adamonis ; Andrejus Michailovas ; Ádám Börzsönyi ; Szabolcs Tóth ; Janos Csontos ; Károly Osvay

EFFICIENT EXCITATION AND CONTROL OF ATOMIC SYSTEMS WITH UNIPOLAR HALF-CYCLE XUV ATTOSECOND PULSES...... 1001 R. M. Arkhipov ; A. V. Pakhomov ; M. V. Arkhipov ; I. Babushkin ; A. Demircan ; U. Morgner ; N. N. Rosanov

CPA-FREE HIGH REPETITION RATE FEW-CYCLE OPCPA...... 1002 T. Binhammer ; O. Puncken ; S. Rausch ; B. Schulz ; M. Frede ; U. Morgner

HIGH-HARMONIC PROBE FOR RELATIVISTIC LASER-MATTER INTERACTIONS DRIVEN BY ULTRASHORT PULSES IN THE MID-INFRARED...... 1003 Dmitry A. Sidorov-Biryukov ; Aleksandr V. Mitrofanov ; Evgeny A. Stepanov ; Aleksandr A. Voronin ; Mikhail V. Rozhko ; Pavel B. Glek ; Sergey V. Ryabchuk ; Anton Shutov ; Andrei B. Fedotov ; Aleksei M. Zheltikov

MODELING FEMTOSECOND LASER-INDUCED ELECTRON DYNAMICS IN DIELECTRICS BY MEANS OF OPTICAL BLOCH EQUATIONS...... 1004 Evgeniya Smetanina ; Pedro Gonzalez De Alaiza Martinez ; Illia Thiele ; Benoit Chimier ; Antoine Bourgeade ; Guillaume Duchateau

LIGHT-WAVEFORM-SENSITIVE MULTIPHOTON ABSORPTION IN SOLIDS...... 1005 Muhammad Qasim ; Vladislav S. Yakovlev

THEORETICAL INVESTIGATION OF RESONANT HIGH-HARMONIC GENERATION IN TRANSITION METAL PLASMA...... 1006 Imam S. Wahyutama ; Takeshi Sato ; Kenichi L. Ishikawa

ANGULARLY RESOLVED RABBITT AT 2Ȧ : ATTOSECOND PULSES MEASUREMENT & ATTOSECOND SIGNATURE IN THE 1S3P RESONANCE OF HELIUM...... 1007 V. Loriot ; A. Marciniak ; G. Karras ; M. Hervé ; A. Scognamiglio ; E. Constant ; F. Lépine

HIGH-HARMONIC GENERATION FROM CRYSTALLINE SOLIDS UNDER CARRIER ENVELOPE PHASE CONTROLLED PULSE...... 1008 Yasushi Shinohara ; Shoken Yamamura ; Kenichi L. Ishikawa

QUASI-PHASE MATCHING IN HIGH HARMONIC GENERATION USING STRUCTURED PLASMAS ...... 1009 Michael Wöstmann ; Victor Kärcher ; Helmut Zacharias

DECRYPTION OF HARMONICS: HOW SPECTRAL INTERFEROMETRY REVEALS THE STRUCTURE OF XUV PULSE TRAINS...... 1010 Dmitrii Kormin ; Guangjin Ma ; Istvan Földes ; Laszlo Veisz

HIGH VACUUM COMPATIBLE WAVE FRONT SENSOR FOR FOCAL SPOT DIAGNOSTICS AND OPTIMIZATION ...... 1011 Ivan Doudet ; Benoit Wattellier ; Loïc Meignien

POLARIZATION CONTROL OF HIGH-HARMONIC PULSES GENERATED IN GAPLESS GRAPHENE ...... 1012 Roberto Boyero-García ; Óscar Zurrón-Cifuentes ; Carlos Hernández-García ; Antonio Picón ; Luis Plaja

REAL-TIME OBSERVATION OF ELECTRON AND NUCLEAR DYNAMICS IN NITRIC OXIDE WITH HIGH HARMONICS IN THE WATER WINDOW...... 1013 Nariyuki Saito ; Hiroki Sannohe ; Nobuhisa Ishii ; Teruto Kanai ; Jiro Itatani

SIMPLE ROUTE TO ENHANCEMENT OF SOFT X-RAY HIGH HARMONIC GENERATION SOURCES ...... 1014 Barry D. Bruner ; Talya Arusi-Parpar ; Michael Krüger ; Nirit Dudovich

SINGLE-SHOT CARRIER-ENVELOPE PHASE (CEP) MEASUREMENTS AND THE FOCAL PHASE EFFECT IN STRONG-FIELD IONIZATION ...... 1015 Yinyu Zhang ; Danilo Zille ; Dominik Hoff ; Philipp Wustelt ; Slawomir Skruszewicz ; A. Max Sayler ; Gerhard G. Paulus

EXTREME EVENTS GENERATION VIA CASCADED STIMULATED BRILLOUIN SCATTERING IN SELF- PULSING FIBER LASERS ...... 1016 D. Boukhaoui ; D. Mallek ; A. Kellou ; H. Leblond ; F. Sanchez ; T. Godin ; A. Hideur

ION ENERGY AND CHARGE STATE DISTRIBUTION IN PICO- AND FEMTOSECOND LASER- PRODUCED PLASMAS ...... 1017 Tiago De Faria Pinto ; Alex Bayerle ; Jan Matthijssen ; Dmitry Kurilovich ; Aneta Stodolna ; Oscar Versolato ; Kjeld Eikema ; Stefan Witte

QUANTUM COHERENT CONTROL OF SLOW ELECTRON WAVE PACKETS WITH LIGHT...... 1018 Nahid Talebi ; Christoph Lienau

MAPPING MID-INFRARED DISPERSION LANDSCAPE ONTO NEAR-INFRARED AND VISIBLE THROUGH FILAMENTATION OF LASER PULSES AT 3.9 μM IN AIR ...... 1019 Pavel Polynkin ; Claudia Gollner ; Valentina Shumakova ; Audrius Pugzlys ; Andrius Baltuska

INTERSYSTEM CROSSING IN THIOBASES PROCEEDS BY A DARK INTERMEDIATE STATE ...... 1020 Rocio Borrego-Varillas ; Danielle C. Teles-Ferreira ; Artur Nenov ; Irene Conti ; Lucia Ganzer ; Cristian Manzoni ; Ana Maria De Paula ; Marco Garavelli ; Giulio Cerullo

SPATIO-TEMPORAL CHARACTERIZATION OF THE ELECTRIC FIELD OF BREATHERS IN AN OPTICAL FIBER...... 1021 Corentin Naveau ; Pascal Szriftgiser ; Alexandre Kudlinski ; Matteo Conforti ; Stefano Trillo ; Arnaud Mussot

ISOMERIZATION DYNAMICS OF WILD TYPE AND MUTATED ANABAENA SENSORY RHODOPSIN MAPPED BY TIME-RESOLVED COHERENT RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY...... 1022 Partha Pratim Roy ; Rei Abe-Yoshizumi ; Yoshitaka Kato ; Hideki Kandori ; Tiago Buckup

GENERATION OF SINGLE-CYCLE PULSES IN MODE-LOCKED LASER WITH SUB-TERAHERTZ REPETITION RATE...... 1023 R. M. Arkhipov ; M. V. Arkhipov ; I. Babushkin ; N. N. Rosanov

PRESSURE OPTIMIZATION OF STRONG FIELD LOW ORDER HARMONICS GENERATED IN XENON MICROPLASMA IN TIGHT FOCUSING REGIME ...... 1024 E. A. Migal ; F. V. Potemkin ; V. M. Gordienko

MOLECULAR MECHANISM OF NON-PHOTOCHEMICAL QUENCHING IN LHCSR3 PROTEIN OF CHLAMYDOMONAS REINDHARTII ...... 1025 Gabriel José De La Cruz Valbuena ; Franco Valduga De Almeida Camargo ; Rocío Borrego Varillas ; Federico Perozeni ; Cosimo D'Andrea ; Matteo Ballottari ; Giulio Cerullo

INTERFEROMETRIE DELAY TRACKING FOR MECHANICALLY CHOPPED MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETERS ...... 1026 Wolfgang Schweinberger ; Lenard Vamos ; Jia Xu ; Syed A. Hussain ; Christoph Baune ; Sebastian Rode ; Ioachim Pupeza

SPINS DYNAMICS ACROSS METAL-INSULATOR TRANSITION IN FE3O4 FILMS ...... 1027 Jayash Panigrahi ; Erwan Terrier ; Sunglae Cho ; Valérie Halté

SUB-BANDGAP STATES IN LEAD-HALIDE PEROVSKITES REVEALED BY TWO-DIMENSIONAL ELECTRONIC SPECTROSCOPY ...... 1028 Franco V. A. Camargo ; Tetsuhiko Nagahara ; Johannes M. Richter ; Richard H. Friend ; Giulio Cerullo ; Felix Deschler

SPATIAL-TEMPORAL SPLITTING AND LOCALIZATION OF FEMTOSECOND PULSE UNDER FILAMENTATION IN LIF ...... 1029 Sergey Chekalin ; Victor Kompanets ; Alexander Dormidonov ; Valéry Kandidov

A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON IONIZATION-INDUCED DISSOCIATION OF METHANE, IRRADIATED BY 800 NM AND 400 NM LASER FIELDS...... 1030 Lazaros Varvarezos ; Alexander Achner ; Rene Wagner ; Daniel E. Rivas ; John T. Costello ; Michael Meyer ; Patrik Grychtol

CHARACTERIZATION OF THIN METAL FILMS BY ULTRAFAST LASER INDUCED ULTRASOUND...... 1031 Hao Zhang ; Alessandro Antoncecchi ; Stephen Edward ; Paul Planken ; Stefan Witte

PHASE AND POWER EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF SEEDED MODULATION INSTABILITY IN PASSIVE FIBER RING CAVITIES...... 1032 Florent Bessin ; Corentin Naveau ; Matteo Conforti ; Pascal Szriftgiser ; Alexandre Kudlinski ; Arnaud Mussot

DARK FREQUENCY COMB FORMATION IN THIN SILICON NITRIDE NORMAL DISPERSION MICRORESONATOR ...... 1033 Shahryar Sabouri ; Rabia Riaz ; Mircea Catuneanu ; Kambiz Jamshidi

COEXISTENCE OF INTENSITY PATTERN TYPES IN BROADBAND FOURIER DOMAIN MODE LOCKED (FDML) LASERS ...... 1034 Mark Schmidt ; Tom Pfeiffer ; Christin Grill ; Robert Huber ; Christian Jirauschek

RAMAN RESPONSE INDUCES MOVING CAVITY SOLITONS IN OPTICAL RESONATORS ...... 1035 M. Tlidi ; S. Coulibaly ; M. G. Clerc

GENERATING NOVEL WAVEGUIDES FOR STIMULATED BRILLOUIN SCATTERING WITH GENETIC ALGORITHMS ...... 1036 Jesper Håkansson ; Dries Van Thourhout

SPONTANEOUS SYMMETRY BREAKING AND NONLINEAR POPULATION INVERSION GRATING IN A LOW-Q CW LASER...... 1037 Vladimir Kocharovsky ; Igor Koryukin ; Ekaterina Kocharovskaya ; Vitaly Kocharovsky ; Ivan Ryabinin ; Sergey Tarasov

POLARIZATION PROPERTIES OF CAVITY SOLITONS IN KERR RESONATORS...... 1038 Etienne Averlant ; Krassimir Panajotov ; Mustapha Tlidi

RANDOM MODE COUPLING ASSISTS KERR BEAM SELF-CLEANING IN A GRADED-INDEX MULTIMODE OPTICAL FIBER ...... 1039 Oleg S. Sidelnikov ; Evgeniy V. Podivilov ; Mikhail P. Fedoruk ; Stefan Wabnitz

DELAY-INDUCED DYNAMICS OF PINNED CAVITY SOLITON IN AN INHOMOGENEOUS KERR RESONATOR...... 1040 F. Tabbert ; S. V. Gurevich ; K. Panajotov ; M. Tlidi

GENERATION OF ROGUE-LIKE PULSES VIA STIMULATED SOLITON COLLISION IN DISPERSION OSCILLATING OPTICAL FIBER ...... 1041 Andrei Koniukhov ; Alexey Sysoliatin ; Leonid Melnikov

EFFECT OF INITIAL CHIRP ON SOLITON PULSE COMPRESSION IN THE IONIZATION REGIME ...... 1042 Ying Wan ; Wonkeun Chang

SWIFT-HOHENBERG EQUATION WITH THIRD ORDER DISPERSION FOR OPTICAL RESONATORS...... 1043 M. Tlidi ; B. Kostet ; A. Hariz ; L. Bahloul ; L. Cherbi ; M. Clerc ; M. Ferré ; K. Panajotov

CONTROLLING THE TEMPORAL TRAJECTORY OF SOLITONS IN SILVER NANOPARTICLE DOPED FIBRE ...... 1044 Surajit Bose ; Günter Steinmeyer ; Uwe Morgner ; Ayhan Demircan

NONLINEAR FOURIER TRANSFORM FOR ANALYSIS OF COHERENT STRUCTURES IN DISSIPATIVE SYSTEMS...... 1045 I. S. Chekhovskoy ; O. V. Shtyrina ; M. P. Fedoruk ; S. B. Medvedev ; S. K. Turitsyn

NONLINEAR SCULPTURING OF OPTICAL PULSES IN FIBRE SYSTEMS ...... 1046 Sonia Boscolo ; Ilya Gukov ; Alessandro Tonello ; Christophe Finot

TUNABLE SELF-PULSATIONS IN A QUANTUM-DOT EXTERNAL-CAVITY LASER EMITTING ACROSS THE EXCITED STATE ...... 1047 Stephanie White ; Maria Ana Cataluna

PHASE EVOLUTION OF PEREGRINE-LIKE SOLITONS IN NONLINEAR FIBER OPTICS ...... 1048 Gang Xu ; Kamal Hammani ; Amin Chabchoub ; John M. Dudley ; Bertrand Kibler ; Christophe Finot

MULTIMODE SOLITONS IN HOLLOW-CORE FIBRES: DYNAMICS AND FEATURES...... 1049 Boris López-Zubieta ; Aurora Crego ; Enrique Conejero Jarque ; Íñigo J. Sola ; Julio San Roman

RADIALLY AND ANGULARLY ACCELERATING OPTICAL WAVE-PACKETS...... 1050 Apostolos Brimis ; Konstantinos G. Makris ; Dimitris G. Papazoglou

SPACE-TIME EVOLUTION OF NOISE-DRIVEN MODULATION INSTABILITY IN OPTICAL FIBERS EXPERIMENTS...... 1051 Adrien Kraych ; Dmitry S. Agafontsev ; Stephane Randoux ; Pierre Suret

TWO DIMENSIONAL EXPERIMENTAL AIRY BEAM PROPAGATION BEHAVIOR IN BIASED PHOTOREFRACTIVE MEDIUM ...... 1052 Thomas Bouchet ; Nicolas Marsal ; Marc Sciamanna ; Delphine Wolfersberger

KERR FREQUENCY COMB GENERATION AND SOLITON DYNAMICS CAUSED BY FORWARD- BACKWARD WAVE INTERACTION IN WGM MICRORESONATORS...... 1053 N. M. Kondratiev ; A. V. Cherenkov ; V. E. Lobanov

SPATIAL KERR BEAM SELF-CLEANING IN YB-DOPED MULTIMODE FIBER TAPER...... 1054 A. Niang ; T. Mansuryan ; K. Krupa ; A. Tonello ; M. Fabert ; P. Leproux ; D. Modotto ; G. Millot ; V. Couderc ; S. Wabnitz

GIANT PULSE AT 2 μM IN POLARIZATION MAINTAINING SILICA STEP-INDEX FIBER ...... 1055 P. Morin ; S. Boivinet ; J.-P. Yehoussi ; T. Berberian ; F. Druon ; S. Vidal ; G. Machinet ; Y. Zaouter ; J. Boullet

DIRECT MEASUREMENT OF CROSS-PHASE MODULATION IN MICRORESONATORS ...... 1056 George N. Ghalanos ; Jonathan M. Silver ; Leonardo Del Bino ; Niall P. Moroney ; Michael T. M. Woodley ; Andreas Svela ; Shuangyou Zhang ; Pascal Del'Haye

EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCES OF NON-HERMITIAN MODE-LOCKING IN FIBRE LASER...... 1057 A. G. Kuznetsov ; I. D. Vatnik ; A. M. Perego ; D. V. Churkin ; K. Staliunas

SOLITON COMBS GENERATION DUE TO PARAMETRIC UP AND DOWN CONVERSION IN A MICRORING RESONATOR WITH QUADRATIC NONLINEARITY...... 1058 Alberto Villois ; Dmitry Skryabin

LOCALIZED STRUCTURES IN DISPERSIVE DOUBLY RESONANT OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS ...... 1059 P. Parra-Rivas ; L. Gelens ; F. Leo

SYMMETRY BREAKING OF OPTICAL VORTEX IN BACTERIORHODOPSIN SUSPENSIONS...... 1060 Keigo Masuda ; Taiki Yoshizawa ; Tomoki Akiyama ; Yoshiko Okada-Shudo ; Takeshi Murata ; Kehei Toyoda ; Katsuhiko Miyamoto ; Takashige Omatsu

IMPACT OF HIGH-ORDER EFFECTS ON SOLITON EXPLOSIONS IN THE COMPLEX CUBIC-QUINTIC GINZBURG-LANDAU EQUATION...... 1061 Svetlana Gurevich ; Christian Schelte ; Julien Javaloyes

SURFACE AND BULK HARMONIC GENERATION IN THE OPAQUE REGION OF GAAS...... 1062 L. R. Suñé ; J. Trull ; M. Scalora ; R. Vilaseca ; C. Cojocaru

KERR BEAM SELF-CLEANING IN THE TELECOM BAND ...... 1063 Yann Leventoux ; Geoffroy Granger ; Alexandre Parriaux ; Mathieu Jossent ; Laure Lavoute ; Dmitry Gaponov ; Alessandro Tonello ; Katarzyna Krupa ; Marc Fabert ; Guy Millot ; Sébastien Février ; Stefano Wabnitz ; Vincent Couderc

PURE-QUARTIC SOLITONS FROM A DISPERSION MANAGED FIBRE LASER ...... 1064 Antoine F. J. Runge ; Darren D. Hudson ; C. Martijn De Sterke ; Andrea Blanco-Redondo

OBSERVATION OF SOLITON EXPLOSIONS IN AN ANOMALOUS-DISPERSION FIBRE LASER...... 1065 Zhi-Wei Wei ; Meng Liu ; Shu-Xian Ming ; Ai-Ping Luo ; Wen-Cheng Xu ; Zhi-Chao Luo

MULTIPLE SWITCHABLE GENERATION BETWEEN NOISE-LIKE PULSE AND DISSIPATIVE SOLITON IN AN ER-DOPED FIBER LASER BASED ON NONLINEAR POLARIZATION ROTATION ...... 1066 Xi Cheng ; Qianqian Huang ; Chuanhang Zou ; Chengbo Mou ; Baohua Qin ; Zhijun Yan ; Lin Zhang

THRESHOLD EFFECTS AND METASTABILITY IN SOLITARY REFRACTIVE INDEX WELLS ...... 1067 Oliver Melchert ; Ihar Babushkin ; Uwe Morgner ; Ayhan Demircan

REVERSIBLE AND IRREVERSIBLE TRANSFORMATIONS OF 3D-TANGLE LASER SOLITONS ...... 1068 Nikolay N. Rosanov ; Sergey V. Fedorov ; Nikolay A. Veretenov

DESYNCHRONIZATION OF PULSED DRIVING IN THE FORMATION OF SOLITON KERR FREQUENCY COMBS...... 1069 Ian Hendry ; Bruno Garbin ; Stuart G. Murdoch ; Stephane Coen ; Miro Erkintalo

SPONTANEOUS SYMMETRY BREAKING, OSCILLATIONS, AND CHAOTIC REGIMES IN BIDIRECTIONALLY-PUMPED RING RESONATORS...... 1070 Michael T. M. Woodley ; Jonathan M. Silver ; Lewis Hill ; François Copie ; Leonardo Del Bino ; Shuangyou Zhang ; Gian-Luca Oppo ; Pascal Del'Haye

INFRARED ELECTRIC-FIELD SAMPLED FREQUENCY COMB SPECTROSCOPY...... 1071 Scott A. Diddams

DUAL-COMB SPECTROSCOPY OF ACETYLENE WITH A SINGLE, FREE-RUNNING MIXSEL GENERATING TWO FREQUENCY COMBS ...... 1072 J. Nürnberg ; C. G. E. Alfieri ; Z. Chen ; D. Waldburger ; M. Golling ; N. Picqué ; U. Keller

COMPUTATIONAL HIGH-RESOLUTION DUAL-COMB SPECTROSCOPY WITH A FREE-RUNNING ALL- FIBER LASER...... 1073 Lukasz A. Sterczewski ; Aleksandra Przewloka ; Wawrzyniec Kaszub ; Jaroslaw Sotor

STATIC AND DYNAMIC MEASUREMENTS IN AN ELECTRICAL DISCHARGE USING MID-INFRARED DUAL-COMB SPECTROSCOPY ...... 1074 M. A. Abbas ; A. Khodabakhsh ; J. Mandon ; Q. Pan ; F. J. M. Harren

DIRECT FREQUENCY COMB SPECTROSCOPY WITH AN IMMERSION GRATING ...... 1075 Kana Iwakuni ; Thinh Q. Bui ; Justin F. Niedermeyer ; Takashi Sukegawa ; Jun Ye

DETERMINATION OF THE DIPOLE ORIENTATION OF A SINGLE DEFECT IN HEXAGONAL BORON NITRIDE USING VECTOR BEAM...... 1076 Hideaki Takashima ; Keita Ishihara ; Hironaga Maruya ; Toshiyuki Tashima ; Andreas W. Schell ; Toan Trong Tran ; Igor Aharonovich ; Shigeki Takeuchi

INVESTIGATION OF THE SPECTROSCOPIC PROPERTIES OF SINGLE DEFECTS IN HEXAGONAL BORON NITRIDE ...... 1077 Andreas W. Schell ; Hideaki Takashima ; Toan Tron Tran ; Igor Aharonovich ; Mikael Svedendahl ; Romain Quidant ; Shigeki Takeuchi

INTRAVALLEY SPIN-FLIP RELAXATION DYNAMICS IN SINGLE-LAYER WS2 ...... 1078 Z. Wang ; A. Molina-Sanchez ; P. Altmann ; D. Sangalli ; D. De Fazio ; G. Soavi ; U. Sassi ; F. Bottegoni ; F. Ciccacci ; M. Finazzi ; L. Wirtz ; A. C. Ferrari ; A. Marini ; G. Cerullo ; S. Dal Conte

NANOSTRUCTURED MOS2 MONOLAYERS FOR SPATIAL CONTROL OF SECOND-HARMONIC GENERATION...... 1079 Franz J. F. Löchner ; Rajeshkumar Mupparapu ; Michael Steinert ; Antony George ; Andrey Turchanin ; Thomas Pertsch ; Isabelle Staude ; Frank Setzpfandt

NONLINEAR MICROSCOPY OF LEAD IODIDE NANOSHEETS ...... 1080 Jingshi Yan ; Qingdong Ou ; Qiaoliang Bao ; Dragomir N. Neshev

COUPLING 2D MATERIALS TO AN ELASTOMER WAVEGUIDE...... 1081 Filip Auksztol ; Daniele Vella ; Ivan Verzhbitskiy ; Kian Fong Ng ; Yi Wei Ho ; James A. Grieve ; José Viana-Gomes ; Goki Eda ; Alexander Ling

LARGE AREA SURFACE-EMITTING PHOTONIC CRYSTAL QUANTUM CASCADE LASER ...... 1082 Zhixin Wang ; Yong Liang ; Bo Meng ; Yanting Sun ; Giriprasanth Omanakuttan ; Emilio Gini ; Mattias Beck ; Ilia Sergachev ; Sebastian Lourdudoss ; Jérôme Faist ; Giacomo Scalari

SUB-10-KHZ LINEWIDTH QUANTUM CASCADE LASER ACHIEVED BY STABILIZATION TO A SHORT FREE-SPACE DELAY LINE ...... 1083 Atif Shehzad ; Pierre Brochard ; Renaud Matthey ; Thomas Südmeyer ; Stéphane Schilt

QUANTUM-CASCADE LASERS WITH U-SHAPED RESONATOR: SINGLE FREQUENCY GENERATION AT ROOM TEMPERATURE ...... 1084 Vladislav V. Dudelev ; Andrey V. Babichev ; Dmitriy A. Mikhailov ; Andrey G. Gladyshev ; Sergey N. Losev ; Elena A. Kognovitskaya ; Innokenty I. Novikov ; Andrey V. Lyuretskiy ; Sergey O. Slipchenko ; Nikita A. Pikhtin ; Leonid Y. Karachinsky ; Anton Y. Egorov ; Grigorii S. Sokolovskii

WAVELENGTH STABILIZED EXTERNAL CAVITY QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS USING CAVITY RESONATOR INTEGRATED GRATING FILTERS...... 1085 A. Monmayrant ; S. Augé ; G. S. Gluchko ; A.-L. Fehrembach ; E. Popov ; T. Antoni ; S. Pelloquin ; A. Arnoult ; G. Maisons ; O. Gauthier-Lafaye

ADVANCES IN MOEMS-BASED EXTERNAL CAVITY QCLS...... 1086 Y. V. Flores ; M. Haertelt ; S. Hugger ; L. Butschek ; C. Schilling ; A. Merten ; M. Schwarzenberg ; A. Dreyhaupt ; J. Grahmann ; M. Rattunde ; R. Ostendorf

PLASMONIC DOPPLER GRATING AND PHOTOLUMINESCENCE-DRIVEN BROADBAND DIRECTIONAL OPTICAL NANOANTENNAS...... 1087 Jer-Shing Huang ; Kel-Meng See ; Fan-Cheng Lin ; Tzu-Yu Chen ; You-Xin Huang ; Chen-Hsien Huang ; A. T. Mina Yesilyurt

CONTROLLING LIGHT POLARIZATION FROM HELICAL TRAVELLING-WAVE NANOANTENNAS...... 1088 Mengjia Wang ; Roland Salut ; Huihui Lu ; Miguel A. Suarez ; Nicolas Martin ; Thierry Grosjean

INTEGRATED PLASMONIC TWEEZERS FOR EFFICIENT NANOPARTICLE TRAPPING ...... 1089 Aurore Ecarnot ; Giovanni Magno ; Xavier Leroux ; Béatrice Dagens ; V. Yam

ANTENNA TAPERING STRATEGY FOR NEAR-FIELD ENHANCEMENT OPTIMIZATION IN TERAHERTZ GOLD NANOCAVITIES...... 1090 V. Aglieri ; X. Jin ; A. Rovere ; R. Piccoli ; R. Morandotti ; R. Macaluso ; A. Toma ; L. Razzari

ANALOG HAWKING EFFECT ENHANCED BY 4TH-ORDER DISPERSION PHASE MATCHING ...... 1091 Scott James Robertson ; Charles Ciret ; Simon-Pierre Gorza ; Serge Massar ; Renaud Parentani

OBSERVATION OF BRANCHED FLOW OF LIGHT...... 1092 Anatoly Patsyk ; Miguel A. Bandres ; Uri Sivan ; Mordechai Segev

CLEO®/EUROPE-EQEC 2019 ROTATING SPACETIME AND WAVE AMPLIFICATION IN SUPERFLUIDS OF LIGHT...... 1093 Maria Chiara Braidotti ; Radivoje Prizia ; Calum Maitland ; Angus Prain ; Francesco Marino ; Daniele Faccio

DYNAMICS OF PHOTON FLUID FLOWS DRIVEN BY OPTICAL PISTONS...... 1094 Abdelkrim Bendahmane ; Gang Xu ; Matteo Conforti ; Alexandre Kudlinski ; Arnaud Mussot ; Stefano Trillo

BURIED MICROCHANNELS IN ALUMINO-BOROSILICATE GLASS BY FEMTOSECOND LASER PULSES AND CHEMICAL ETCHING...... 1095 Andrea Crespi ; Roberto Osellame ; Francesca Bragheri

NON-VOLATILE MICROFLUIDICS CONTROLLED SWITCH FABRICATED IN FUSED SILICA BY FEMTOSECOND LASER INSCRIPTION ...... 1096 A. Radosavljevic ; A. Desmet ; J. Missinne ; S. Tuccio ; V. Panapakkam ; K. Saurav ; C. Lerma Arce ; J. Watté ; D. Van Thourhout ; G. Van Steenberge

LASER INSCRIPTION OF MICROFLUIDIC DEVICES IN THE BULK OF FUSED SILICA...... 1097 Argyro N. Giakoumaki ; Vibhav Bharadwaj ; Roberta Ramponi ; Giacomo Bergamini ; Shane M. Eaton

HIGH PERFORMANCE THERMAL EMITTERS BASED ON LASER ENGINEERED SURFACES...... 1098 Svetlana A. Zolotovskaya ; Stefan Wackerow ; Holger Neupert ; Michael J. Barnes ; Lorena V. Cid ; Benoit Teissandier ; Amin Abdolvand

ACHIEVEMENT OF VERY SMOOTH CAVITY SIDEWALLS BY UV PICOSECOND LASER MICROMACHINING ...... 1099 A. Sikora ; G. Coustillier ; T. Sarnet ; M. Sentis

LASER ENGINEERED SURFACE STRUCTURES FOR CUSTOM DESIGN OF SECONDARY ELECTRON YIELD...... 1100 David Bajek ; Stefan Wackerow ; Monika Sitko ; Sergio Calatroni ; Beniamino Di Girolama ; Amin Abdolvand

A RECONFIGURABLE SILICON GENERATOR OF FOUR-PHOTON ENTANGLED STATES...... 1101 Caterina Vigliar ; Jeremy C. Adcock ; Raffaele Santagati ; Joshua W. Silverstone ; Mark G. Thompson

SILICON QUANTUM PHOTONICS IN THE SHORT-WAVE INFRARED: A NEW PLATFORM FOR BIG ...... 1102 Joshua W. Silverstone ; Lawrence M. Rosenfeld ; Dominic A. Sulway ; Benjamin D. J. Sayers ; Jake Biele ; Gary F. Sinclair ; Döndü Sahin ; Laurent Kling ; Jonathan C. F. Matthews ; Mark G. Thompson ; John G. Rarity

NONLINEAR QUANTUM DEVICES ...... 1103 Christine Silberhorn

PHOTON-PAIR SOURCE WORKING IN A SILICON-BASED DETECTOR USING A MICRO/NANOFIBER ...... 1104 Jin-Hun Kim ; Yong Sup Ihn ; Heedeuk Shin ; Yoon-Ho Kim

A MODULAR SOURCE OF ENTANGLED PHOTON PAIRS IN FEMTOSECOND-LASER WRITTEN WAVEGUIDE CIRCUITS...... 1105 S. Atzeni ; A. S. Rab ; G. Corrielli ; E. Polino ; M. Valeri ; P. Mataloni ; N. Spagnolo ; A. Crespi ; F. Sciarrino ; R. Osellame

TRANSFER OF ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM IN HIGH HARMONIC GENERATION USING TWO DRIVING BEAMS ...... 1106 Thierry Ruchon ; Céline Chappuis ; Romain Géneaux ; David Bresteau ; Olivier Gobert ; Giovanni De Ninno ; David Gauthier ; Thierry Auguste

POLARIZATION AND VORTEX CONTROL OF EXTREME-ULTRAVIOLET ATTOSECOND PULSES THROUGH SIMULTANEOUS CONTROL OF SPIN AND ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM...... 1107 Kevin M. Dorney ; Laura Rego ; Emilio Pisanty ; Nathan J. Brooks ; Julio San Román ; Chen-Ting Liao ; Jennifer Ellis ; Dimitriy Zusin ; Christian Gentry ; Quynh Nguyen ; Justin M. Shaw ; Maciej Lewenstein ; Antonio Picón ; Luis Plaja ; Henry C. Kapteyn ; Margaret M. Murnane ; Carlos Hernández-García

ELECTRIC-DIPOLE BASED CHIRAL SENSITIVITY IN HIGH HARMONIC GENERATION BY DYNAMICAL SYMMETRY BREAKING SPECTROSCOPY ...... 1108 Ofer Neufeld ; David Ayuso ; Piero Decleva ; Mikhail Ivanov ; Olga Smirnova ; Oren Cohen

OPTIMIZATION AND FABRICATION OF TWO-QUANTUM WELL THZ QCLS OPERATING ABOVE 200 K...... 1109 Martin Franckié ; Lorenzo Bosco ; Mattias Beck ; Elena Mavrona ; Jérôme Faist

OPTICALLY TUNABLE TERAHERTZ QUANTUM CASCADE RANDOM LASERS ...... 1110 Sebastian Schönhuber ; Benedikt Limbacher ; Martin A. Kainz ; Aaron M. Andrews ; Hermann Detz ; Gottfried Strasser ; Juraj Darmo ; Karl Unterrainer

N-TYPE GE/SIGE QUANTUM CASCADE HETEROSTRUCTURES FOR THZ EMISSION ...... 1111 D. Stark ; L. Persichetti ; M. Montanari ; C. Ciano ; L. Di Gaspare ; M. De Seta ; M. Zoellner ; O. Skibitzki ; G. Capellini ; M. Ortolani ; L. Baldassarre ; M. Virgilio ; T. Grange ; S. Birner ; K. Rew ; D. J. Paul ; J. Faist ; G. Scalari

HYPERSPECTRAL SINGLE-PIXEL RECONSTRUCTION AT THZ FREQUENCIES USING TIME- RESOLVED NONLINEAR GHOST IMAGING ...... 1112 L. Olivieri ; J. S. Totero Gongora ; V. Cecconi ; R. Tucker ; A. Pasquazi ; M. Peccianti

SINGLE-SHOT 2-D BURST ULTRAFAST THZ IMAGING UTILIZING SF-STAMP...... 1113 Kazuki Takasawa ; Yuki Yamaguchi ; Hirofumi Nemoto ; Takakazu Suzuki ; Masahiko Tani ; Hideaki Kitahara ; Dmitry S. Bulgarevich ; Fumihiko Kannari

FULL-FIELD, ROOM-TEMPERATURE TERAHERTZ IMAGING AT KILOHERTZ FRAME RATES USING ATOMIC VAPOUR ...... 1114 Lucy Downes ; Andrew R. Mackellar ; Cyril Bourgenot ; Charles S. Adams ; Kevin Weatherill

FIRST DEMONSTRATION OF VUV RAMSEY-COMB EXCITATION BASED ON HHG; TOWARDS 1S-2S HE+ EXCITATION ...... 1115 E. L. Gründeman ; L. S. Dreissen ; C. Roth ; J. J. Krauth ; M. Favier ; K. S. E. Eikema

2 2 DIRECT FREQUENCY-COMB-DRIVEN RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY OF THE 3D D3/2 - 3D D5/2 TRANSITION IN CA+ IONS: ISOTOPE SHIFTS AND THE SEARCH FOR NEW PHYSICS BEYOND THE STANDARD MODEL ...... 1116 C. Solaro ; S. Meyer ; K. Fisher ; M. V. Depalatis ; M. Drewsen

PRECISE COMB-BASED FOURIER TRANSFORM SPECTROSCOPY FOR LINE PARAMETER RETRIEVAL ...... 1117 Alexandra C. Johansson ; Lucile Rutkowski ; Piotr Maslowski ; Anna Filipsson ; Thomas Hausmaninger ; Gang Zhao ; Ove Axner ; Aleksandra Foltynowicz

FREQUENCY COMB GENERATION AT 2 μM WITH ELECTRO-OPTIC MODULATORS FOR SPECTROSCOPIC APPLICATIONS...... 1118 Alexandre Parriaux ; Kamal Hammani ; Guy Millot

GAS SENSING OVER PLASMONIC NANOSTRUCTURES BASED ON A FREQUENCY COMB ...... 1119 Young-Jin Kim ; Duy Anh Nguyen ; Byung Jae Chun ; Seungchul Kim

CAVITY ENHANCED LIGHT-MATTER INTERACTION IN A GRAPHENE PHOTODETECTOR ...... 1120 Simone Schuler ; Dries Van Thourhout ; Alberto Montanaro ; Simone Marconi ; Vito Sorianello ; Marco Romagnoli ; Stefan Wachter ; Kenji Watanabe ; Takashi Taniguchi ; Thomas Mueller

EFFICIENT EXTRACTION FROM A MULTI-PASS YB:YAG AMPLIFIER VIA MULTI-PULSE AMPLIFICATION...... 1121 M. Hemmer ; H. Olgun ; U. Demirbas ; Y. Hua ; A.-L. Calendron ; H. Çankaya ; F. Kärtner

EFFICIENT OPERATION OF A HIGH ENERGY YB:YAG DPSSL AMPLIFIER ...... 1122 Paul Mason ; Saumyabrata Banerjee ; Jodie Smith ; Thomas Butcher ; Jonathan Phillips ; Klaus Ertel ; Stephanie Tomlinson ; Mariastefania De Vido ; Mike Tyldesley ; Cristina Hernandez-Gomez ; Chris Edwards ; John Collier

160-MJ CRYOGENICALLY-COOLED YB:YLF AMPLIFIER SYSTEM AT 1019 NM...... 1123 Huseyin Cankaya ; Umit Demibas ; Mikhail Pergament ; Michael Hemmer ; Yi Hua ; Luis E. Zapata ; Franz X. Kärtner

HIGH AVERAGE POWER, MULTITERAWATT FEMTOSECOND LASER CHAIN ENABLING 1019 W/CM2 AT 100 HZ...... 1124 Raphaël Clady ; Laurent Charmasson ; Amélie Ferré ; Olivier Utéza ; Marc Sentis

HO:YAG AMPLIFIER WITH DISPERSION CONTROL AND SPECTRAL SHAPING IN A SINGLE VOLUME BRAGG GRATING ...... 1125 Ignas Astrauskas ; Tobias Flöry ; Audrius Pugžlys ; Andrius Baltuška

HIGH REPETITION RATE, WAVELENGTH-TUNABLE MID-IR SOURCE DRIVEN BY PS-PULSES FROM A HO:YLF AMPLIFIER AT 2 μM...... 1126 Moritz Hinkelmann ; Dieter Wandt ; Uwe Morgner ; Jörg Neumann ; Kevin Zawilski ; Peter Schunemann ; Dietmar Kracht

ERBIUM DOPED NANOPARTICLE-POLYMER COMPOSITE THIN FILMS FOR INTEGRATED PHOTONICS ...... 1127 Eric Kumi Barimah ; Sri Rahayu ; Marcin W. Ziarko ; Nikolaos Bamiedakis ; Ian H. White ; Richard V. Penty ; Girish Kale ; Gin Jose

OBSERVATION OF ELASTIC ANISOTROPY IN STRAINED OPTICAL NANOFIBERS USING BRILLOUIN SPECTROSCOPY...... 1128 Adrien Godet ; Jacques Chrétien ; Thibaut Sylvestre ; Jean-Charles Beugnot ; Kien Phan Huy

COUPLING IDEALITY OPTIMIZATION OF HIGH-Q DEUTERATED SILICON NITRIDE MICRORESONATOR ...... 1129 Zihan Xu ; Zeru Wu ; Yujie Chen ; Yanfeng Zhang ; Siyuan Yu

EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION OF SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION ENABLED BY LONGITUDINAL COMPONENTS IN INDIUM GALLIUM PHOSPHIDE NANOWIRES ...... 1130 Nicolas Poulvellarie ; Utsav Dave ; Koen Alexander ; Charles Ciret ; Simon-Pierre Gorza ; Fabrice Raineri ; Sylvain Combrié ; Alfredo De Rossi ; Gunther Roelkens ; Bart Kuyken ; François Leo

A HYPERSPECTRAL CAMERA BASED ON A BIREFRINGENT ULTRASTABLE COMMON-PATH INTERFEROMETER...... 1131 Antonio Perri ; Barbara E. Nogueira De Faria ; Danielle C. Teles Ferreira ; Fabrizio Preda ; Dario Polli ; Ana Maria De Paola ; Daniela Comelli ; Gianluca Valentini ; Giulio Cerullo ; Cristian Manzoni

HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGING OF BIO-INSPIRED TILTED CHOLESTERIC LIQUID CRYSTAL STRUCTURES ...... 1132 Aurélie Jullien ; Adriana Scarangella ; Umberto Bortolozzo ; Stefania Residori ; Michel Mitov

SUB-NANOSECOND PULSED FIBER LASER FOR 532NM TWO-PHOTON EXCITATION FLUORESCENCE (TPEF) MICROSCOPY OF UV TRANSITIONS ...... 1133 Daniel Weng ; Hubertus Hakert ; Torben Blömker ; Jan Philip Kolb ; Matthias Strauch ; Matthias Eibl ; Philipp Lamminger ; Sebastian Karpf ; Robert Huber

MULTIPHOTON MICROSCOPE WITH A RAPID BROADBAND CARS MODALITY ...... 1134 Faris Sinjab ; Kazuki Hashimoto ; Venkata Ramaiah Badarla ; Yu Nagashima ; Takuro Ideguchi

FLUORESCENCE-BASED SENSORS AND PRECONCENTRATION TECHNIQUES FOR BURIED EXPLOSIVES DETECTION...... 1135 Ross N. Gillanders ; James M. E. Glackin ; Janja Filipi ; Nikola Kezic ; Ifor D. W. Samuel ; Graham A. Turnbull

A FUNCTIONAL MAPPING FOR PASSIVELY MODE-LOCKED SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS...... 1136 C. Schelte ; S. V. Gurevich ; J. Javaloyes

BIFURCATION STRUCTURE OF LOCALIZED PATTERNS AND SPIKES IN DISPERSIVE KERR CAVITIES...... 1137 P. Parra-Rivas ; D. Gomila ; L. Gelens ; E. Knobloch

DISORDER-INDUCED ACCELERATION OF CONDENSATION IN MULTIMODE FIBERS...... 1138 Adrien Fusaro ; Josselin Garnier ; Katarzyna Krupa ; Guy Millot ; Antonio Picozzi

OBSERVATION OF LOCAL SYMMETRY IN A PHOTONIC SYSTEM ...... 1139 Nora Schmitt ; Steffen Weimann ; Christian Morfonios ; Malte Röntgen ; Matthias Heinrich ; Peter Schmelcher ; Alexander Szameit

DIRECTIONALITY FIELDS GENERATED BY A LOCAL HILBERT TRANSFORM IN OPTICS ...... 1140 K. Staliunas ; W. W. Ahmed ; R. Herrer ; M. Botey ; Z. Hayran ; H. Kurt

STRUCTURING THE THREE ELECTRIC FIELD COMPONENTS OF LIGHT...... 1141 F. Maucher ; S. Skupin ; S. A. Gardiner ; I. G. Hughes

SEMICONDUCTOR-SUPERCONDUCTOR QUANTUM OPTOELECTRONICS ...... 1142 Dmitry Panna ; Shlomi Bouscher ; Krishna Balasubramanian ; Shimon Cohen ; Dan Ritter ; Alex Hayat

HECTOMETER REVIVALS OF QUANTUM INTERFERENCE ...... 1143 M. Rambach ; W. Y. S. Lau ; S. Laibacher ; V. Tamma ; A. G. White ; T. J. Weinhold

FREQUENCY-DOMAIN LINEAR INTERFEROMETER WITH SPECTRALLY SHAPED PHOTONS...... 1144 Aruto Hosaka ; Masaya Tomita ; Yoshiaki Tsujimoto ; Shintaro Niimura ; Akihito Omi ; Kentaro Wakui ; Mikio Fujiwara ; Yutaka Shikano ; Masahiro Takeoka ; Fumihiko Kannari

SINGLE-PHOTON INDUCED CORRELATION WITH INTEGRATED QUANTUM FREQUENCY COMBS ...... 1145 Yanbing Zhang ; Michael Kues ; Piotr Roztocki ; Christian Reimer ; Bennet Fischer ; Benjamin Maclellan ; Lucia Caspani ; Brent E. Little ; Sai T. Chu ; David J. Moss ; Roberto Morandotti

ENTANGLEMENT GENERATION BY DELOCALIZED SINGLE-PHOTON ADDITION...... 1146 Nicola Biagi ; Luca S. Costanzo ; Marco Bellini ; Alessandro Zavatta

CONTROLLABLE PHOTON-PAIR SPECTRAL CORRELATIONS ...... 1147 M. Cordier ; B. Debord ; F. Gérôme ; P. Delaye ; F. Benabid ; I. Zaquine

ATTOSECOND SOFT X-RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY IN GRAPHITE ...... 1148 Nicola Di Palo ; Themistoklis P. H. Sidiropoulos ; Daniel E. Rivas ; Stefano Severino ; Maurizio Reduzzi ; Bárbara Buades ; Thomas Danz ; Eric Pellegrin ; Claus Ropers ; Jens Biegert

ATTOSECOND ELECTRON LOCALIZATION AND SCREENING DYNAMICS IN METALS...... 1149 Mikhail Volkov ; Shunsuke A. Sato ; Fabian Schlaepfer ; Lamia Kasmi ; Nadja Hartmann ; Matteo Lucchini ; Lukas Gallmann ; Angel Rubio ; Ursula Keller

OPTICALLY DRIVEN ATTOSECOND ELECTRON DYNAMICS IN III-V SEMICONDUCTORS...... 1150 Fabian Schlaepfer ; Matteo Lucchini ; Shunsuke A. Sato ; Mikhail Volkov ; Lamia Kasmi ; Nadja Hartmann ; Angel Rubio ; Lukas Gallmann ; Ursula Keller

PETAHERTZ MAGNETIZATION DYNAMICS...... 1151 Julia Anthea Gessner ; Florian Siegrist ; Marcus Ossiander ; Christian Denker ; Yi-Ping Chang ; Malte C. Schröder ; Alexander Guggenmos ; Yang Cui ; Jakob Walowski ; Ulrike Martens ; John K. Dewhurst ; Ulf Kleineberg ; Markus Münzenberg ; Sangeeta Sharma ; Martin Schultze

EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION OF ULTRAFAST THZ ABSORPTION MODULATION IN A GRAPHENE- BASED METASURFACE...... 1152 Anastasios D. Koulouklidis ; Anna C. Tasolamprou ; Christina Daskalaki ; Charalampos P. Mavidis ; George Kenanakis ; George Deligeorgis ; Zacharias Viskadourakis ; Polina Kuzhir ; Maria Kafesaki ; Eleftherios N. Economou ; Costas M. Soukoulis ; Stelios Tzortzakis

HIGH PERFORMANCE ULTRAFAST THULIUM-DOPED FIBER LASERS...... 1153 J. Limpert ; Martin Gebhardt ; Christian Gaida ; Tobias Heuermann ; Ziyao Wang ; Cesar Jauregui

ULTRAFAST HOLMIUM-DOPED FIBER LASER WITH METALLIC CARBON NANOTUBE-BASED SATURABLE ABSORBERS ...... 1154 Maria Pawliszewska ; Anna Duzynska ; Mariusz Zdrojek ; Jaroslaw Sotor

TM-DOPED NONLINEAR FIBER AMPLIFIER EMITTING 50 FS PULSES AND 20 W OF AVERAGE POWER AT 2 μM WAVELENGTH ...... 1155 Tobias Heuermann ; Martin Gebhardt ; Christian Gaida ; Jens Limpert

ULTRAFAST TM-DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIER WITH 1 KW AVERAGE OUTPUT POWER ...... 1156 Christian Gaida ; Martin Gebhardt ; Tobias Heuermann ; Ziyao Wang ; Fabian Stutzki ; Cesar Jauregui ; Jens Limpert

COMPACT THULIUM FCPA SYSTEM DELIVERING 11 MW, 530 FS PULSES ...... 1157 D. Gaponov ; L. Lavoute ; N. Ducros ; M. Paris ; A. Hideur ; S. Février

CONTROL OF LIGHT-MATTER INTERACTION IN TWO-DIMENSIONAL MATERIALS ...... 1158 Vinod Menon

ACOUSTIC PLASMONS IN ATOMICALLY-THIN HETEROSTRUCTURES...... 1159 A. Rodríguez Echarri ; Joel D. Cox ; F. Javier García De Abajo

NONLINEAR ENHANCEMENT WITH GRAPHENE HETEROSTRUCTURES...... 1160 I. Alonso Calafell ; L. A. Rozema ; D. Alcaraz Iranzo ; A. Trenti ; F. H. L. Koppens ; P. Walther

TERAHERTZ POLARISATION MODULATOR BY ELECTRONIC CONTROL OF GRAPHENE LOADED CHIRAL METAMATERIAL DEVICE ...... 1161 Nikita W. Almond ; Stephen J. Kindness ; Wladislaw Michailow ; Binbin Wei ; Lukas Jakob ; Philipp Braeuninger-Weimer ; Stephan Hofmann ; Harvey E. Beere ; David A. Ritchie ; Riccardo Degl'Innocenti

LOSSES AND FUNDAMENTAL INTERACTION PROPERTIES OF THZ META-ATOMS STRONGLY COUPLED TO INTERSUBBAND TRANSITIONS...... 1162 Moritz Wenclawiak ; Aaron Maxwell Andrews ; Gottfried Strasser ; Karl Unterrainer ; Juraj Darmo

SPATIAL AKHMEDIEV BREATHERS IN SLAB WAVEGUIDES ...... 1163 Roland Schiek ; Fabio Baronio

EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATION IN OPTICAL FIBERS OF MULTIPLE FERMI-PASTA-ULAM-TSINGOU RECURRENCES THEORY ...... 1164 Corentin Naveau ; Pascal Szriftgiser ; Alexandre Kudlinski ; Matteo Conforti ; Stefano Trillo ; Arnaud Mussot

FERMI-PASTA-ULAM-TSINGOU RECURRENCE IN SPATIAL OPTICAL DYNAMICS...... 1165 D. Pierangeli ; M. Flammini ; L. Zhang ; G. Marcucci ; A. J. Agranat ; P. G. Grinevich ; P. M. Santini ; C. Conti ; E. Delre

MODULATIONAL INSTABILITY OF A PLANE WAVE IN THE PRESENCE OF LOCALIZED PERTURBATIONS: EXPERIMENTS IN NONLINEAR FIBER OPTICS ...... 1166 Adrien E. Kraych ; Pierre Suret ; Gennady El ; Stéphane Randoux

MULTISCALE DISSIPATIVE STRUCTURES DRIVEN BY MODULATION AND POLARIZATION INSTABILITIES ...... 1167 Hani J. Kbashi ; Marina Zajnulina ; Amos M. Garcia ; Sergey V. Sergeyev

BRIGHTNESS ENHANCEMENT IN NON-HERMITIAN VCSELS ...... 1168 Waqas W. Ahmed ; Ramon Herrero ; Muriel Botey ; Ying Wu ; Kestutis Staliunas

HIGH-EFFICIENCY HIGH-REPETITION-RATE GAIN-SWITCHED OPERATION AROUND 3 μM IN CR2+:CDSE SINGLE-CRYSTAL LASER PUMPED BY FIBER-LASER-PUMPED HO3+:YAG LASER AT 2.1 μM ...... 1169 Oleg Antipov ; Ilya Eranov ; Mikhail Frolov ; Yuri Korostelin ; Vladimir Kozlovsky ; Yan Skasyrsky

GROWTH AND CHARACTERIZATION OF HIGH-MELTING SESQUIOXIDES FOR 3 μM LASERS...... 1170 A. Uvarova ; C. Guguschev ; C. Krankel

RARE-EARTH DOPED SESQUIOXIDE CERAMICS FOR HIGHLY EFFICIENT MID-INFRARED LASERS ...... 1171 Jun Wang ; Danlei Yin ; Peng Liu ; Jie Ma ; Ying Wang ; D. Y. Tang

PASSIVELY MODE-LOCKED HIGH-REPETITION RATE ER:YLF LASER AT 2.81 μM GENERATING 72 PS PULSES ...... 1172 Richard Švejkar ; Jan Šulc ; Michal Nemec ; Helena Jelínková

PASSIVELY Q-SWITCHED ER:YAP SINGLE CRYSTAL LASER AT 2.92 μM USING GRAPHENE SATURABLE ABSORBER ...... 1173 Hiroki Kawase ; Hiyori Uehara ; Ryo Yasuhara

INTEGRATED SELF-INJECTION LOCKED SOLITON MICROCOMB SOURCE...... 1174 Andrey S. Voloshin ; Arslan S. Raja ; Sofya E. Agafonova ; Hairun Guo ; Junqiu Liu ; Alexander S. Gorodnitskiy ; Maxim Karpov ; Nikolay G. Pavlov ; Erwan Lucas ; Nikita M. Kondratiev ; Artem E. Shitikov ; John D. Jost ; Michael L. Gorodetsky ; Tobias J. Kippenberg

ADIABATIC FREQUENCY CONVERSION IN NON-CENTROSYMMETRIC HIGH-Q OPTICAL MICRORESONATORS ...... 1175 Yannick Minet ; Luis Reis ; Karsten Buse ; Ingo Breunig

THERMO-OPTICAL PULSING IN A RESONATOR-BASED LASER...... 1176 Maxwell Rowley ; Benjamin Wetzel ; Luigi Di Lauro ; Juan Sebastian Totero Gongora ; Hualong Bao ; Jonathan Silver ; Leonardo Del Bino ; Pascal Del'Haye ; Marco Peccianti ; Alessia Pasquazi

PHOTONIC CHIP-BASED SOLITON MICROCOMB DRIVEN BY A COMPACT ULTRA-LOW-NOISE LASER...... 1177 Arslan S. Raja ; Junqiu Liu ; Nicolas Volet ; Rui Ning Wang ; Jijun He ; Erwan Lucas ; Romain Bouchand ; Paul Morton ; John Bowers ; Tobias J. Kippenberg

FREQUENCY COMB GENERATION AND CONVERSION IN NON-CENTROSYMMETRIC OPTICAL MICRORESONATORS ...... 1178 Jan Szabados ; Ingo Breunig ; Karsten Buse

EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION OF OPTICAL FREQUENCY COMBS IN DOUBLY RESONANT SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION ...... 1179 Iolanda Ricciardi ; Simona Mosca ; Maria Parisi ; Pasquale Maddaloni ; Paolo De Natale ; Miro Erkintalo ; Francois Leo ; Tobias Hansson ; Ady Arie ; Stefan Wabnitz ; Maurizio De Rosa

ENHANCING MAGNETIC LIGHT EMISSION WITH OPTICAL NANOANTENNAS ...... 1180 Maria Sanz-Paz ; Cyrine Ernandes ; Juan Uriel Esparza ; Geoffrey W. Burr ; Niek F. Van Hulst ; Agnès Maitre ; Lionel Aigouy ; Nicolas Bonod ; Thierry Gacoin ; Maria F. Garcia-Parajo ; Sébastien Bidault ; Mathieu Mivelle

FIELD-RESOLVED RESPONSE OF PLASMONIC ANTENNAS...... 1181 M. P. Fischer ; N. Maccaferri ; K. Gallacher ; J. Frigerio ; G. Pellegrini ; G. Isella ; A. Leitenstorfer ; D. J. Paul ; P. Biagioni ; D. Brida

ALL-DIELECTRIC AND MAGNETOPLASMONIC NANOANTENNA SURFACES FOR THE DYNAMIC CHIROPTICS...... 1182 Evgeniya Smetanina ; Irina Zubritskaya ; Esteban Pedrueza Villalmanzo ; Nicolò Maccaferri ; Paolo Vavassori ; Alexandre Dmitriev

QUANTUM STORAGE OF FREQUENCY-MULTIPLEXED HERALDED SINGLE PHOTONS...... 1183 Alessandro Seri ; Dario Lago-Rivera ; Giacomo Corrielli ; Andreas Lenhard ; Roberto Osellame ; Margherita Mazzera ; Hugues De Riedmatten

HIGH EFFICIENCY QUANTUM MEMORY IN MULTIPLEXED LARGE-OD COLD ATOMIC ENSEMBLE ...... 1184 Mingtao Cao ; Felix Hoffet ; Kun Huang ; Pierre Vernaz-Gris ; Alexandra S. Sheremet ; Julien Laurat

FAST PHOTON STORAGE IN A FIBER-BASED ATOM-CAVITY SYSTEM...... 1185 Deepak Pandey ; Tobias Macha ; Eduardo Uruñuela ; Hannes Pfeifer ; Wolfgang Alt ; Dieter Meschede

SPATIAL SPIN-WAVE MODULATOR IN MULTIMODE COLD RUBIDIUM QUANTUM MEMORY ...... 1186 Adam Leszczynski ; Michal Lipka ; Mateusz Mazelanik ; Michal Parniak ; Michal Dabrowski ; Wojciech Wasilewski

TOWARDS STORAGE OF SUB-MEGAHERTZ SINGLE PHOTONS IN GRADIENT ECHO MEMORY...... 1187 W. Y. Sarah Lau ; Anthony C. Leung ; Karun V. Paul ; Aaron D. Tranter ; Geoff T. Campbell ; Till J. Weinhold ; Ping Koy Lam ; Andrew G. White ; Ben C. Buchler

QUANTUM PHENOMENA IN THE ELECTRODYNAMICS OF NANOPLASMONIC STRUCTURES...... 1188 N. Asger Mortensen

COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING OF METASURFACES FOR STRONGLY DIVERGENT BEAMS...... 1189 Jade Martínez-Llinàs ; Clément Henry ; Daniel Andrén ; Ruggero Verre ; Mikael Käll ; Philippe Tassin

COMPLETELY POSITIVE TRACE PRESERVING NUMERICAL METHODS FOR LONG-TERM GENERALIZED MAXWELL-BLOCH SIMULATIONS ...... 1190 Michael Riesch ; Christian Jirauschek

INVERSE PHOTONIC DESIGN OF FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS THAT FOCUS BLOCH SURFACE WAVES...... 1191 Yannick Augenstein ; Andreas Vetter ; Babak Vosoughi Lahijani ; Hans Peter Herzig ; Myun-Sik Kim ; Carsten Rockstuhl

FOKUS II — SPACE FLIGHT OF A VACUUM COMPATIBLE DUAL FREQUENCY COMB SYSTEM ...... 1192 M. Lezius ; B. Probster ; O. Mandel ; M. Giunta ; R. Holzwarth

PHASE LOCKING OF A TUNABLE OEO TO AN OPTICAL FREQUENCY COMB FOR MICROWAVE SYNTHESIS FROM AN OPTICAL REFERENCE ...... 1193 Antoine Rolland ; Naoya Kuse ; Martin E. Fermann

RETRIEVING THE PHASE RELATION OF A QUANTUM CASCADE LASER FREQUENCY COMB AND RECONSTRUCTING ITS EMISSION PROFILE ...... 1194 Francesco Cappelli ; Luigi Consolino ; Giulio Campo ; Iacopo Galli ; Davide Mazzotti ; Annamaria Campa ; Mario Siciliani De Cumis ; Pablo Cancio Pastor ; Roberto Eramo ; Markus Rösch ; Mattias Beck ; Giacomo Scalari ; Jerome Faist ; Paolo De Natale ; Saverio Bartalini

FREQUENCY NOISE AND PHASE-LOCKING OF A QUANTUM CASCADE LASER-PUMPED, 1.073 TERAHERTZ MOLECULAR LASER USING A 1560NM FREQUENCY COMB ...... 1195 Stefano Barbieri ; Jean-Francois Lampin ; Giorgio Santarelli ; Antoine Pagies ; Sophie Eliet ; Jeffrey Hesler ; Wolfgang Hansel ; Ronald Holzwarth

+ DISSOCIATION OF LASER-INDUCED HIGHLY-EXCITED CO 2 ...... 1196 Hongtao Hu ; Seyedreza Larimian ; Sonia Erattupuzha ; Jin Wen ; Andrius Baltuška ; Markus Kitzler ; Xinhua Xie

OBSERVATION OF ULTRAFAST DYNAMICS IN CO2 HIGHLY EXCITED STATES...... 1197 M. Lucchini ; M. Murari ; G. D. Lucarelli ; F. Frassetto ; L. Poletto ; T. Schnappinger ; R. De Vivie-Riedle ; M. Nisoli

UNEXPECTED LONG-LIVED HIGHLY EXCITED PAHS FOLLOWING XUV EXCITATION ...... 1198 Marius Hervé ; Victor Despré ; Pablo Castellanos ; Gabriel Karras ; Alexandre Marciniak ; Vincent Loriot ; Eric Constant ; Alexander G. G. M. Tielens ; Alexander I. Kuleff ; Franck Lépine

ULTRAFAST RELAXATION PROCESSES IN ETHYLENE CATION INVESTIGATED BY SUB-15-FS EXTREME-ULTRAVIOLET PULSES...... 1199 M. Lucchini ; M. Murari ; G. D. Lucarelli ; F. Frassetto ; L. Poletto ; D. Mendive-Tapia ; H. Köppel ; M. Nisoli

TIME-RESOLVED PHOTOELECTRON AND PHOTOION IMAGING OF MOLECULAR DYNAMICS USING LOW-ORDER HARMONIC GENERATION...... 1200 Vít Svoboda ; Chuncheng Wang ; Miguel A. Silva-Toledo ; Hans Jakob Wörner

PROBING MOLECULAR INFLUENCE ON PHOTOEMISSION DELAYS...... 1201 Shubhadeep Biswas ; B. Förg ; J. Schötz ; W. Schweinberger ; L. Ortmann ; T. Zimmermann ; L.-W. Pi ; D. Baykusheva ; H. A. Masood ; I. Liontos ; A. M. Kamal ; N. G. Kling ; A. F. Alharbi ; M. Alharbi ; A. M. Azzeer ; H. J. Wörner ; A. S. Landsman ; M. F. Kling

NEAR-INFRARED WAVELENGTH DEPENDENCE OF VERDET CONSTANT IN TB2ZR2O7 TRANSPARENT CERAMICS ...... 1202 Ryo Yasuhara ; Akio Ikesue

3+ 3+ DEEP RED AND NEAR INFRARED PERSISTENT LUMINESCENCE IN YB , CR CO-DOPED ZNGA2O4 NANO GLASS CERAMICS ...... 1203 Victor Castaing ; Atul D. Sontakke ; Alberto J. Fernández Carrión ; Mathieu Allix ; Bruno Viana

2+ A NOVEL SATURABLE ABSORBER: TRANSPARENT GLASS-CERAMICS BASED ON CO :LI(AL,GA) 5O8 SPINEL NANOCRYSTALS ...... 1204 Olga Dymshits ; Pavel Loiko ; Vladimir Vitkin ; Irina Alekseeva ; Marina Tsenter ; Alexander Khubetsov ; Anton Polishchuk ; Anna Volokitina ; Josep Maria Serres ; Xavier Mateos ; Alexander Zhilin

RARE-EARTHS ACTIVATED POLYMER COMPOSITE FIBERS — TECHNOLOGY AND CHARACTERIZATION...... 1205 Ryszard Piramidowicz ; Anna Jusza ; Krzysztof Anders ; Ludwika Lipinska ; Pawel Mergo

QUANTUM DOT LASERS EPITAXIALLY GROWN ON SI ...... 1206 John E. Bowers

HIGH-EFFICIENCY, ALL-DIELECTRIC METASURFACES DOWN TO THE DEEP ULTRAVIOLET ...... 1208 Cheng Zhang ; Shawn Divitt ; Qingbin Fan ; Wenqi Zhu ; Amit Agrawal ; Ting Xu ; Henri J. Lezec

ULTRA-THIN PLASMONIC METASURFACES BASED ON CARBON NANOMEMBRANES...... 1209 Yunus Denizhan Sirmaci ; Stefan Fasold ; Christof Neumann ; Zian Tang ; Thomas Pertsch ; Andrey Turchanin ; Isabelle Staude

FAR-FIELD WAVEFRONT OPTIMIZATION OF THE OPTICAL NEAR-FIELD IN NANOSCALE DISORDERED PLASMONIC METASURFACES ...... 1210 Gauthier Roubaud ; Sébastien Bidault ; Sylvain Gigan ; Samuel Gresillon

METASURFACES CAN SENSE SPATIAL COHERENCE OF LIGHT...... 1211 T. Frank ; O. Buchnev ; T. Cookson ; M. Kaczmarek ; P. Lagoudakis ; V. A. Fedotov

CONTINUOUS BEAM STEERING VIA CONTROLLING LIGHT WITH LIGHT ON A DIELECTRIC METASURFACE ...... 1212 Fei He ; Kevin F. Macdonald ; Xu Fang

EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATION OF EDGE DETECTION BY DIELECTRIC METASURFACES...... 1213 Andrei Komar ; Lei Xu ; Rifat A. Aoni ; Mohsen Rahmani ; Andrey E. Miroshnichenko ; Dragomir N. Neshev

OPTICAL SOLITON MOLECULAR COMPLEXES IN ULTRAFAST FIBER LASERS ...... 1214 Nithyanandan Kanagaraj ; Zhiqiang Wang ; Aurélien Coillet ; Patrice Tchofo-Dinda ; Philippe Grelu

THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES OF BREATHER WAVE MOLECULES...... 1215 Gang Xu ; Andrey Gelash ; Amin Chabchoub ; Vladimir Zakharov ; Bertrand Kibler

ACTIVE CONTROL OF FEMTOSECOND SOLITON MOLECULES...... 1216 Felix Kurtz ; Claus Ropers ; Georg Herink

STOCHASTIC SOLITON QUANTIZATION IN MODE-LOCKED FIBRE LASER...... 1217 Hani J. Kbashi ; Sergey V. Sergeyev

HIGH-POWER SINGLE-FREQUENCY 620 NM LASER BASED ON DIAMOND RAMAN AND INTRACAVITY FREQUENCY DOUBLING...... 1218 Xuezong Yang ; Ondrej Kitzler ; David J. Spence ; Robert J. Williams ; Zhenxu Bai ; Soumya Sarang ; Lei Zhang ; Yan Feng ; Richard P. Mildren

9 W AVERAGE POWER, 150 KHZ REPETITION RATE DIAMOND RAMAN LASER AT 1519 NM, PUMPED BY A YB FIBRE AMPLIFIER...... 1219 Lukasz Dziechciarczyk ; Zhimeng Huang ; Giorgos Demetriou ; Dan Cheng ; Shankar Pidishety ; Yujun Feng ; Yutong Feng ; Guozheng Wang ; Huaiqin Lin ; Sheng Zhu ; Di Lin ; Thomas W. Hawkins ; Liang Dong ; Alan Kemp ; Johan Nilsson ; Vasili Savitski

ALL PASSIVE KGW/TM:YAP RAMAN LASER ...... 1220 Eytan Perez ; Uzziel Sheintop ; Gilad Marcus ; Salman Noach

SHAPING OF PICOSECOND PUMP PULSES BY SHG DEPLETION FOR WIDE-BANDWIDTH TW-CLASS NOPCPA...... 1221 Paulius Mackonis ; Aleksej M. Rodin ; Augustinas Petrulenas ; Vytenis Girdauskas

DUAL-FREQUENCY LASER FOR THE GENERATION OF RAPIDLY TUNABLE HIGH PURITY RADIOFREQUENCY SIGNALS...... 1222 Vincent Crozatier ; Bastien Steinhausser ; Loïc Ménager ; Loïc Morvan ; Pascale Nouchi ; Daniel Dolfi

CHARACTERIZATION OF SUPERCONTINUUM PULSES GENERATED USING A 2μM THULIUM-BASED REGENERATIVE AMPLIFIER...... 1223 Seyed Ali Rezvani ; Kazuhiko Ogawa ; Yutaka Nomura ; Takao Fuji

PHASE MANIPULATION WITH NONLINEAR METASURFACES...... 1224 Nitipat Pholchai ; Thomas Zentgraf

LEARNING SPATIOTEMPORAL NONLINEARITIES IN GRADED-INDEX MULTIMODE FIBERS WITH DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS...... 1225 Ugur Tegin ; Babak Rahmani ; Eirini Kakkava ; Navid Borhani ; Christophe Moser ; Demetri Psaltis

ALL-OPTICAL TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL SHAPING IN AN INLINE TWO-MODE FIBER INTERFEROMETER...... 1226 Niklas M. Lüpken ; Martin Schnack ; Carsten Fallnich

ADAPTIVE KERR-ASSISTED TRANSVERSE MODE SELECTION IN MULTIMODE FIBERS ...... 1227 Etienne Deliancourt ; Marc Fabert ; Alessandro Tonello ; Katarzyna Krupa ; Agnès Desfarges-Berthelemot ; Vincent Kermene ; Alain Barthélémy ; Daniele Modotto ; Guy Millot ; Stefan Wabnitz ; Vincent Couderc

OPTICAL VORTEX GENERATION FROM AN ANTI-RESONANT-RING PICOSECOND OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATOR...... 1228 Varun Sharma ; S. Chaitanya Kumar ; G. K. Samanta ; M. Ebrahim-Zadeh

REVISITING THE PHOTON-DRAG EFFECT IN METAL FILMS...... 1229 Jared H. Strait ; Glenn Holland ; Wenqi Zhu ; Cheng Zhang ; Amit Agrawal ; Domenico Pacifici ; Henri J. Lezec

PROBING NANOSCALE OPTICAL FIELDS AND PHASE-SHAPING ELECTRON BEAMS BY INELASTIC ELECTRON-LIGHT SCATTERING ...... 1230 Armin Feist ; Thomas Rittmann ; Tyler Harvey ; Katharina E. Priebe ; Christopher Rathje ; Ofer Kfir ; Jan-Wilke Henke ; Sergey V. Yalunin ; Sascha Schäfer ; Claus Ropers

ULTRAFAST DYNAMICS THROUGH A CONICAL INTERSECTION IN AN ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC THIN FILM PROBED BY TWO-DIMENSIONAL ELECTRONIC SPECTROSCOPY ...... 1231 Ephraim Sommer ; X. Trung Nguyen ; Lynn Gross ; Thomas Frauenheim ; Elena Mena-Osteritz ; Peter Bäuerle ; Christoph Lienau ; Antonietta De Sio

ULTRAFAST ALL-OPTICAL TUNING OF FANO RESONANT HALIDE PEROVSKITE NANOPARTICLES...... 1232 L. Carletti ; P. Franceschini ; A. Perri ; F. Preda ; D. Polli ; A. Tognazzi ; C. De Angelis ; F. Banfi ; S. Pagliara ; G. Ferrini ; A. P. Pushkarev ; S. V. Makarov ; C. Giannetti

ULTRAINTENSE FEMTOSECOND MAGNETIC NANOPROBES DRIVEN BY AZIMUTHALLY POLARIZED LASER BEAMS...... 1233 Manuel Blanco ; Ferran Cambronero ; María Teresa Flores-Arias ; Enrique Conejero Jarque ; Luis Plaja ; Carlos Hernández- García

A NUCLEAR QUANTUM MEMORY ENABLED BY STRAIN ...... 1234 E. Denning ; D. Gangloff ; G. Éthier-Majcher ; C. Lang ; J. H. Bodey ; D. M. Jackson ; J. Mørk ; C. Le Gall ; M. Atatüre

STORAGE OF A SINGLE PHOTON IN A HIGHLY NON-LINEAR MEDIUM BASED ON RYDBERG ATOMS ...... 1235 Auxiliadora Padrón-Brito ; Pau Farrera ; Emanuele Distante ; David Paredes-Barato ; Georg Heinze ; Hugues De Riedmatten

ENERGY-TIME ENTANGLEMENT BETWEEN A PHOTON AND A SPIN-WAVE IN A MULTIMODE SOLID-STATE QUANTUM MEMORY...... 1236 Kutlu Kutluer ; Emanuele Distante ; Bernardo Casabone ; Stefano Duranti ; Margherita Mazzera ; Hugues De Riedmatten

RB VAPOR CELL QUANTUM MEMORY FOR SINGLE PHOTONS ...... 1237 Janik Wolters ; Gianni Buser ; Roberto Mottola ; Chris Müller ; Tim Kroh ; Richard Warburton ; Oliver Benson ; Philipp Treutlein

TRAPPING A FREE-PROPAGATING SINGLE PHOTON IN AN ATOMIC ENSEMBLE ...... 1238 U. Shin Kim ; Yong Sup Ihn ; Chung Hyun Lee ; Yoon-Ho Kim

THZ EMISSION DRIVEN BY IONIZATION PRESSURE IN RELATIVISTIC PLASMAS...... 1239 L. Bergé ; J. Déchard

NEW SIMPLE COMPOSITE ALGORITHM FOR SOLVING MULTIDIMENSIONAL TWO-FLUID PLASMA EQUATIONS ...... 1240 Benoit Morel ; Remo Giust ; Kazem Ardaneh ; Remi Meyer ; Francois Courvoisier

A 3D FULL-VECTOR FINITE ELEMENT MODEL FOR WAVEGUIDE-BASED PLASMONIC SENSORS IN THE INFRARED...... 1241 G. Renversez ; G. Demésy

RAPID AND ACCURATE CALCULATION OF VECTOR PHOTONIC BAND-STRUCTURE IN REGULAR ARRAYS OF COUPLED WAVEGUIDES ...... 1242 Yang Chen ; Philip St. J. Russell

ULTIMATE QUANTUM NOISE LIMIT OF FREQUENCY COMB MEASUREMENTS...... 1243 Ruoyu Liao ; Youjian Song ; Günter Steinmeyer

TRAIN OF ULTRASHORT MID-INFRARED PULSES WITH SUB-MRAD CARRIER-ENVELOPE PHASE STABILITY ...... 1244 Syed A. Hussain ; Wolfgang Schweinberger ; Theresa Buberl ; Christina Hofer ; Ioachim Pupeza

BROADBAND LASER FREQUENCY COMB BASED ON ELECTRO-OPTIC MODULATION FOR ASTRONOMICAL SPECTROGRAPH CALIBRATION...... 1245 Ewelina Obrzud ; Monica Rainer ; Avet Harutyunyan ; Bruno Chazelas ; Massimo Cecconi ; Adriano Ghedina ; Emilio Molinari ; Stefan Kundermann ; Victor Brasch ; Steve Lecomte ; Francesco Pepe ; François Wildi ; François Bouchy ; Tobias Herr

TOWARDS A VISIBLE TO MID-INFRARED ASTROCOMB FOR THE EXTREMELY LARGE TELESCOPE ...... 1246 Yuk Shan Cheng ; Dong Xiao ; Richard A. McCracken ; Derryck T. Reid

HOT-CAVITY SPECTROSCOPY OF DARK PULSE KERR COMBS IN MICRORESONATORS...... 1247 Elham Nazemosadat ; Attila Fülöp ; Óskar B. Helgason ; Pei-Hsun Wang ; Yi Xuan ; Dan E. Leaird ; Minghao Qi ; Enrique Silvestre ; Andrew M. Weiner ; Victor Torres-Company

ADVANCED DISPERSION ENGINEERING OF DISPERSIVE WAVES IN SI3N4 MICRORESONATORS...... 1248 Anton Lukashchuk ; Fabien Gremion ; Maxim Karpov ; Junqiu Liu ; Tobias J. Kippenberg

CONTROLLED ASYMMETRIC PHOTOELECTRON EMISSION USING ELECTRON WAVEPACKET INTERFERENCE ...... 1249 Sara Mikaelsson ; Yu-Chen Cheng ; Saikat Nandi ; Lisa Rämisch ; Chen Guo ; Anne Harth ; Jan Vogelsang ; Miguel Miranda ; Cord L. Arnold ; Anne L'Huillier ; Mathieu Gisselbrecht

INTERFEROMETRIC ATTOSECOND LOCK-IN MEASUREMENT OF EXTREME ULTRAVIOLET CIRCULAR DICHROISM ...... 1250 Omer Kneller ; Doron Azoury ; Michael Krüger ; Barry D. Bruner ; Oren Cohen ; Yann Mairesse ; Nirit Dudovich

POLARIZATION-RESOLVED HIGH HARMONIC SPECTROSCOPY OF INTERLOCKED ATTOSECOND BURSTS...... 1251 Eliyahu Bordo ; Ofer Kfir ; Sergey Zayko ; Ofer Neufeld ; Avner Fleischer ; Claus Ropers ; Oren Cohen

XUV COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY WITH NANOSCALE RESOLUTION DRIVEN BY HIGH HARMONIC GENERATION...... 1252 Silvio Fuchs ; Martin Wünsche ; Jan Nathanael ; Johann J. Abel ; Julius Reinhard ; Felix Wiesner ; Slawomir Skruszewicz ; Christian Rödel ; Gerhard G. Paulus

SPATIOTEMPORAL COUPLING OF ATTOSECOND PULSES ...... 1253 Cord L. Arnold ; Hampus Wikmark ; Chen Guo ; Jan Vogelsang ; Peter W. Smorenburg ; Hélène Coudert-Alteirac ; Jan Lahl ; Jasper Peschel ; Piotr Rudawski ; Hugo Dacasa ; Stefanos Carlström ; Sylvain Maclot ; Mette B. Gaarde ; Per Johnsson ; Anne L'Huillier

TRACING THE PHASE OF FOCUSED BROADBAND LASER PULSES...... 1254 Dominik Hoff ; Michael Krüger ; Lothar Maisenbacher ; A. Max Sayler ; Gerhard G. Paulus ; Peter Hommelhoff

DIRECT LASER SYNTHESIS OF TWO-DIMENSIONAL TRANSITION METAL DICHALCOGENIDES ...... 1255 Omar Adnan Abbas ; Adam Henry Lewis ; Nikos Aspiotis ; Chung-Che Huang ; Ioannis Zeimpekis ; Dan Hewak ; Pier Sazio ; Sakellaris Mailis

SI/SIO2 DISPERSIVE OPTICS PAVES THE WAY TO ULTRAFAST MID-INFRARED LASERS ...... 1256 Vladimir Pervak ; Tatiana Amotchkin ; Qing Wang ; Oleg Pronin ; Ka Fai Mak ; Michael Trubetskov

NONLINEAR REFRACTION AND NONLINEAR ABSORPTION IN LAYERED TRANSITION METALS DICHALCOGENIDES ...... 1257 Leonardo De S. Menezes ; Manoel L. Da Silva Neto ; Melissa Maldonado ; Cid B. De Araujo ; Ali M. Jawaid ; Allyson J. Ritter ; Richard A. Vaia ; Anderson S. L. Gomes

STUDY OF TM-DOPED ALUMINOSILICATE FILMS FOR INTEGRATION OF LASERS ON A SOI SILICON PHOTONICS PLATFORM ...... 1258 Colin J. Mitchell ; Amy S. K. Tong ; James S. Wilkinson ; Jacob I. Mackenzie

INTEGRATION OF METAL-GAAS-METAL PHOTODETECTORS ON SI USING THIN GE BUFFER LAYERS FOR APPLICATIONS IN VISIBLE PHOTONICS...... 1259 Ghada Dushaq ; Mahmoud Rasras

LOW-COST FABRICATION OF POLYMER BASED MICRO-OPTICAL DEVICES FOR APPLICATION IN ILLUMINATION, SENSING, AND OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS...... 1260 Muhammad Shaukat Khan ; Maik Rahlves ; Roland Lachmayer ; Bernhard Roth

27-FS, 166-MW PULSES AT 98 W AVERAGE POWER FROM HIGHLY EFFICIENT THIN-DISK OSCILLATOR DRIVEN NONLINEAR COMPRESSOR ...... 1261 Chia-Lun Tsai ; Frank Meyer ; Alan Omar ; Yicheng Wang ; An-Yuan Liang ; Chih-Hsuan Lu ; Shang-Da Yang ; Clara J. Saraceno

MILLIWATT-CLASS MHZ REPETITION-RATE THZ SOURCE DRIVEN BY A SUB-100 FS HIGH-POWER THIN-DISK LASER ...... 1262 F. Meyer ; N. Hekmat ; T. Vogel ; A. Omar ; S. Mansourzadeh ; F. Fobbe ; M. Hoffmann ; Y. Wang ; C. J. Saraceno

FULLY PHASE STABILIZED QUANTUM CASCADE LASER FREQUENCY COMB ...... 1263 Saverio Bartalini ; Luigi Consolino ; Malik Nafa ; Francesco Cappelli ; Katia Garrasi ; Francesco P. Mezzapesa ; Miriam S. Vitiello ; Lianhe Li ; A. Giles Davies ; Edmund H. Linfield ; Paolo De Natale

MID-INFRARED FREQUENCY COMB FROM A RING QUANTUM CASCADE LASER ...... 1264 Bo Meng ; Mattias Beck ; Jérôme Faist

BIREFRINGENT SURFACE GRATINGS FOR ULTRAFAST SPIN-VCSELS ...... 1265 Tobias Pusch ; Pierluigi Debernardi ; Markus Lindemann ; Nils C. Gerhardt ; Martin R. Hofmann ; Rainer Michalzik

QUANTITATIVE PHASE MICROSCOPY WITH MOLECULAR VIBRATIONAL SENSITIVITY ...... 1266 Miu Tamamitsu ; Keiichiro Toda ; Ryoichi Horisaki ; Takuro Ideguchi

A SILICON PHOTONIC DESIGN CONCEPT FOR A CHIP-TO-FIBRE ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM MODE-DIVISION MULTIPLEXER...... 1267 Jan Markus Baumann ; Kasper Ingerslev ; Yunhong Ding ; Lars Hagedorn Frandsen ; Leif Katsuo Oxenløwe ; Toshio Morioka

THE FIRST QUANTUM INTERFERENCE IN THE MID-INFRARED IS ON A SILICON CHIP ...... 1268 Lawrence M. Rosenfeld ; Dominic A. Sulway ; Mark G. Thompson ; John G. Rarity ; Joshua W. Silverstone

BIREFRINGENT CAVITIES: EFFECTS AND APPLICATIONS OF A NEW PARADIGM IN CQED...... 1269 Thomas D. Barrett ; Thomas H. Doherty ; Ben Yuen ; Axel Kuhn

HARPER-HOFSTADTER TOPOLOGICAL LASER WITH FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT GAIN ...... 1270 Matteo Secli ; Iacopo Carusotto

PT-SYMMETRY IN TWO SYNTHETIC DIMENSIONS...... 1271 A. L. M. Muniz ; M. Wimmer ; A. Bisianov ; R. Morandotti ; U. Peschel

GENERATING QUANTUM STATES OF SURFACE PLASMON-POLARITON PAIRS WITH A NONLINEAR NANOPARTICLE...... 1272 Nikita Olekhno ; Mihail Petrov ; Ivan Iorsh ; Andrey A. Sukhorukov ; Alexander Solntsev

HYBRID METAL-POLYSTYRENE METASURFACES: CIRCULAR DICHROISM EVIDENCED BY MEANS OF PHOTO-ACOUSTIC TECHNIQUE...... 1273 Emilija Petronijevic ; Grigore Leahu ; Roberto Li Voti ; Alessandro Belardini ; Carlo Scian ; Niccolò Michieli ; Tiziana Cesca ; Giovanni Mattei ; Concita Sibilia

AMPLIFIED SPONTANEOUS EMISSION (ASE) FROM ULTRA-LARGE PEPTIDE-BASED STRUCTURES FILLED WITH GAIN MEDIA ...... 1274 Pamela Didier ; Nadezda Lapshina ; Joseph Zyss ; Tal Ellenbogen ; Clément Lafargue

TRANSVERSE PERIOD MODULATED PHOTONIC CRYSTALS FOR SUPER-COLLIMATION ...... 1275 Darius Gailevicius ; Vytautas Purlys ; Ruslan Lymarenko ; Victor Taranenko ; Martynas Peckus ; Roaldas Gadonas ; Kestutis Staliunas

EFFECTS OF SCATTERING BY INHOMOGENEOUS MEDIA ON THE PERFORMANCE OF INTEGRATED GRATING COUPLERS ...... 1276 R. Marchetti ; G. Raccone ; I. Cristiani ; P. Minzioni

COMPLETE LOCALIZATION OF LIGHT AND TUNABLE BOTTLE MICRORESONATORS INTRODUCED BY BENDING OF AN OPTICAL FIBER...... 1277 Daria Bochek ; Ilya Vatnik ; Dmitry Churkin ; Misha Sumetsky

ENHANCED DIRECT OPTICAL EXCITATION OF AN NV CENTER VIA NANOFIBER BRAGG-CAVITY: A NUMERICAL SIMULATION...... 1278 Toshiyuki Tashima ; Hideaki Takashima ; Shigeki Takeuchi

DESIGN ALGORITHM FOR ADIABATIC PHOTONIC COMPONENTS USING A CONSTANT COUPLING APPROACH...... 1279 Islam Abdo ; Andreas Boes ; Thach Nguyen ; Guanghui Ren ; Arnan Mitchell

MICROWAVE POWER DEPENDENT RESONANCE SHIFTS IN SILICON RING MODULATORS FOR CONTINUOUS WAVELENGTH TUNING AND BANDWIDTH SCALING OF ON-CHIP, ELECTRO-OPTIC, OPTICAL FREQUENCY COMBS...... 1280 K. P. Nagarjun ; Piyush Raj ; Vadivukkarasi Jeyaselvan ; Shankar Kumar Selvaraja ; V. R. Supradeepa

OPTICAL RESONANCES IN A 3D SUPERLATTICE OF PHOTONIC BAND GAP CAVITIES ...... 1281 Manashee Adhikary ; Ravitej Uppu ; Sjoerd A. Hack ; Cornelis A. M. Harteveld ; Willem L. Vos

AN OPTICAL PROBE OF A 3D PHOTONIC BAND GAP...... 1282 Manashee Adhikary ; Ravitej Uppu ; Cornelis A. M. Harteveld ; Willem L. Vos

TUNNELING OF WAVES IN THE GAP OF A PHOTONIC CRYSTAL ...... 1283 Ravitej Uppu ; Manashee Adhikary ; Cornells A. M. Harteveld ; Ad Lagendijk ; Willem L. Vos

WHISPERING GALLERY MICROLASER FABRICATION USING ER3+ DOPED SILICA BASED ON DIP COATING ...... 1284 Zeinab Chenari ; Hamidreza Navvab ; Hamid Latifi

ADIABATIC TRANSITIONS BETWEEN SUPERSYMMETRIC STRUCTURES AS A TOOL TO DESIGN INTEGRATED PHOTONIC DEVICES ...... 1285 Gerard Queraltó ; Verònica Ahufinger ; Jordi Mompart

ELECTRON MULTI-INJECTOR: A STRATEGY FOR IMPROVING QUANTUM EFFICIENCY OF INFRARED PHOTODETECTORS...... 1286 Simone Bianconi ; Hooman Mohseni

MAGNETO-PLASMONIC EFFECTS FOR NON-RECIPROCAL WAVEGUIDES...... 1287 Sevag Abadian ; Giovanni Magno ; V. Yam ; Béatrice Dagens

LARGE Q-FACTORS IN SMALL WGM RESONATORS...... 1288 Nirmalendu Acharyya ; Gregory Kozyreff

ANOMALOUS TRANSPARENCY IN PHOTONIC CRYSTALS AND ITS DEPENDENCE ON THE REFRACTIVE INDEX DIFFERENCE ...... 1289 Tigran Baghdasaryan ; Thomas Geernaert ; Hugo Thienpont ; Francis Berghmans

OPTICAL PULSES PROPAGATING WITHIN SNAP MICRORESONATORS ON THE SURFACE OF OPTICAL FIBERS ...... 1290 Zhiyong Han ; Emile Klotz ; Hya D. Vatnik ; Dmitry V. Churkin

PHOTONIC CRYSTAL SPATIAL FILTERS FABRICATED BY PHYSICAL VAPOUR DEPOSITION ...... 1291 Darius Gailevicius ; Lina Grineviciute ; Ceren Babayigit ; Emre Bor ; Mirbek Turduev ; Vytautas Purlys ; Tomas Tolenis ; Hamza Kurt ; Kestutis Staliunas

ANTI-STOKES CRYOLUMINESCENCE IN NANOMATERIALS ...... 1292 Anna Kudryavtseva ; Aleksey Belyanin ; Vladimir Borisov ; Maxim Karpov ; Mikhail Shevchenko ; Nikolay Tcherniega ; Konstantin Zemskov

ZERO-BIREFRINGENCE SILICON SLOT WAVEGUIDES WITH L-RAILS...... 1293 Shafeek A. Samad ; Srinivas Talabattula

INTERMODAL GROUP DELAY IN MULTIMODE WAVEGUIDES ON LNOI AND SOI FOR OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS ...... 1294 Archana Kaushalram ; Srinivas Talabattula

NANOCELLULOSE-BASED RANDOM LASER...... 1295 Gleice Germano ; Yan Dalton Machado ; Lucas Martinho ; Greice K. B. Costa ; Susete N. Fernandes ; M. Helena Godinho ; Jake Fontana ; Anderson S. L. Gomes ; Isabel C. S. Carvalho

INTEGRATED SINGLE PHOTON SOURCE OF INAS QUANTUM DOT WITH SILICON-BASED PHOTONIC CIRCUITS...... 1296 Young-Ho Ko ; Won Seok Han ; Kap-Joong Kim ; Byung-Seok Choi ; Kyu Young Kim ; Je-Hyung Kim ; Chun Ju Youn ; Jong-Hoi Kim ; Jung Jin Ju

ON CHIP SUB-WAVELENGTH GRATING FABRY-PEROT CAVITY, TOWARD INTEGRATED CAVITY OPTOMECHANICS APPLICATIONS ...... 1297 Boris Taurel ; Pierre Labeye ; Jean-Marc Fedeli ; Laurent Duraffourg

PROPERTIES OF BROADBAND SOLITON MICROCOMBS IN PULSE-DRIVEN INTEGRATED MICRORESONATORS ...... 1298 Miles Anderson ; Romain Bouchand ; Junqiu Liu ; Ewelina Obrzud ; Tobias Herr ; Tobias J. Kippenberg

MICRO-/NANOSTRUCTURE-STABILIZED LIQUID-CRYSTALLINE BLUE-PHASE...... 1299 Ying-Lung Daniel Ho ; Mike P. C. Taverne ; Pisu Jiang ; Shun-An Jiang ; Jia-De Lin ; Chia-Rong Lee ; John G. Rarity

LARGE-PARAMETER-SPACE OPTIMIZATION OF PHOTONIC CRYSTAL SLAB CAVITIES...... 1300 J. P. Vasco ; V. Savona

STRUCTURAL DESIGN FOR BROADBAND LIGHT MANAGEMENT IN A BIOLOGICAL EXAMPLE...... 1301 Bertram Schwind ; Helge-Otto Fabritius ; Xia Wu

INVESTIGATION OF LOW-INDEX WAVEGUIDING IN INVERSE ROD-CONNECTED DIAMOND PHOTONIC CRYSTALS...... 1302 Mike P. C. Taverne ; Ying-Lung Daniel Ho ; Chen-Hsuan Fang ; Xu Zheng ; Lifeng Chen ; John G. Rarity

SPATIOTEMPORAL STABILIZATION OF PT-SYMMETRIC BAS LASERS ...... 1303 Judith Medina Pardell ; Ramon Herrero ; Muriel Botey ; Kestutis Staliunas

FEMTOSECOND LASER ASSISTED FABRICATION OF VISIBLE WAVELENGTH ALL-DIELECTRIC NANO-MEMBRANE METASURFACES ...... 1304 Martynas Beresna ; Behrad Gholipour ; Timothy Lee ; Kevin F. Macdonald ; Nikolay I. Zheludev ; Gilberto Brambilla

SPECTRAL PROPERTIES OF VACUUM ENERGY AND SPONTANEOUS EMISSION IN FABRY-PEROT MICRO-/NANO-RESONATORS...... 1305 Daniel Repp ; Markus Pollnau

PERIODIC REVIVAL OF FRUSTRATED TWO-PHOTON CREATION VIA INTERFERENCE...... 1306 Dong-Gil Im ; Yosep Kim ; Yoon-Ho Kim

PHOTON-PAIR PARASITES: MENACE OR NUISANCE? ...... 1307 Jacob G. Koefoed ; Jesper B. Christensen ; Karsten Rottwitt

HYPER-ENTANGLEMENT IN TIME AND FREQUENCY ...... 1308 Piotr Roztocki ; Christian Reimer ; Stefania Sciara ; Mehedi Islam ; Luis Romero Cortes ; Yanbing Zhang ; Bennet Fischer ; Sébastien Loranger ; Raman Kashyap ; Alfonso Cino ; Sai T. Chu ; Brent E. Little ; David J. Moss ; Lucia Caspani ; William J. Munro ; José Azaña ; Michael Kues ; Roberto Morandotti

SHORT-WAVE INFRARED CORRELATED PHOTONS FROM SILICON WAVEGUIDES ...... 1309 Lawrence M. Rosenfeld ; Dominic A. Sulway ; Mark G. Thompson ; John G. Rarity ; Joshua W. Silverstone

HIGHLY CORRELATED PHOTON-PAIR GENERATION FROM A SILICON WAVEGUIDE INTEGRATED WITH ON-CHIP PUMP-REJECTION FILTERS...... 1310 Jong-Moo Lee ; Wook-Jae Lee ; Min-Su Kim ; Jung Jin Ju

TIME-ENERGY ENTANGLED PHOTON PAIRS FROM DOPPLER-BROADENED ATOMIC ENSEMBLE VIA COLLECTIVE TWO-PHOTON COHERENCE ...... 1311 Jiho Park ; Taek Jeong ; Heonoh Kim ; Han Seb Moon

ENTANGLED PHOTON PAIRS GENERATED FROM ATOMIC THREE-LEVEL SYSTEMS AND THEIR CROSS CORRELATION FUNCTIONS...... 1312 Kwang Jun Ahn

COUPLING DISTANT QUANTUM DOTS USING A PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FANO STRUCTURE ...... 1313 Yi Yu

3D LASER WRITING AROUND LIFETIME-LIMITED QUANTUM EMITTERS ...... 1314 Maja Colautti ; Pietro Lombardi ; Sofia Pazzagli ; Sara Nocentini ; Diederik Wiersma ; Francesco Cataliotti ; Costanza Toninelli

QUANTUM STATES OF HERALDED PHOTONS ...... 1315 Dmitri Horoshko ; Stephan De Bièvre ; Giuseppe Patera ; Mikhail Kolobov

PHOTON CORRELATIONS IN PT-SYMMETRIC WAVEGUIDE SYSTEMS...... 1316 F. Klauck ; L. Teuber ; M. Ornigotti ; M. Heinrich ; S. Scheel ; A. Szameit

SPATIALLY SEPARATED GENERALIZED TWO-MODE SQUEEZED VACUUM STATES IN LOSSY COUPLED RESONATOR OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES...... 1317 H. Seifoory ; L. G. Helt ; J. E. Sipe ; M. M. Dignam

GE-ON-SI HIGH EFFICIENCY SPADS AT 1310 NM...... 1318 Derek C. S. Dumas ; Jaroslaw Kirdoda ; Peter Vines ; Kateryna Kuzmenko ; Ross W. Millar ; Gerald S. Buller ; Douglas J. Paul

EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION OF A QUANTUM CHESHIRE CAT USING A WEAK MEASURING DEVICE...... 1319 Yosep Kim ; Dong-Gil Im ; Yong-Su Kim ; Sang-Yun Lee ; Sang-Wook Han ; Sung Moon ; Yoon-Ho Kim ; Young-Wook Cho

THE ROLE OF DETECTOR POSITION IN QUANTUM GHOST DIFFRACTION...... 1320 Andres Vega ; Elkin Santos ; Sina Saravi ; Thomas Pertsch ; Frank Setzpfandt

NONLINEAR QUANTUM SPECTROSCOPY ENHANCED BY PARITY-TIME SYMMETRY ...... 1321 Pawan Kumar ; Sina Saravi ; Thomas Pertsch ; Frank Setzpfandt ; Andrey A. Sukhorukov

OPTOMECHANICAL SELF-STRUCTURING OF COLD ATOMS WITH STRUCTURED LIGHT ...... 1322 Giuseppe Baio ; Gordon R. M. Robb ; Alison M. Yao ; Gian-Luca Oppo

DEEP LASER COOLING OF ATOMS ON NARROW-LINE OPTICAL TRANSITIONS IN POLARIZED FIELDS: SCALING LAW ...... 1323 Roman Ilenkov ; Oleg Prudnikov ; Alexei Taichenachev ; Valery Yudin

DEVELOPMENT AND QUALIFICATION OF MINIATURIZED, UHV-COMPATIBLE OPTICAL SYSTEMS FOR INTEGRATED ATOMIC QUANTUM TECHNOLOGIES ...... 1324 Marc Christ ; Andreas Wicht ; Markus Krutzik

TELECOM LASER LOCK ON ACETYLENE LINE FOR APPLICATIONS IN COLD ATOMS EXPERIMENTS...... 1325 Adèle Hilico ; Vincent Mancois ; Romain Veyron ; Fetah Benabid ; Philippe Bouyer ; Simon Bernon

DEVELOPMENT OF AN XUV FREQUENCY COMB FOR PRECISION SPECTROSCOPY OF HIGHLY CHARGED IONS...... 1326 Jan-Hendrik Oelmann ; Janko Nauta ; Alexander Ackermann ; Patrick Knauer ; Ronja Pappenberger ; Steffen Kühn ; Julian Stark ; José R. Crespo López-Urrutia ; Thomas Pfeifer

OPTICAL TRANSITIONS OF THE MOLECULAR IODINE FOR PROBING VARIATIONS OF FUNDAMENTAL CONSTANTS...... 1327 Florin Lucian Constantin

DEVELOPMENT OF A FIBRE-BASED ACETYLENE OPTICAL FREQUENCY STANDARD AT 1.54 μM...... 1328 Karim Manamanni ; Vincent Roncin ; Mohamed Sahni ; Frédéric Du-Burck

FISHER INFORMATION WITH CONTINUOUS VARIABLE QUANTUM RESOURCES ...... 1329 George S. Atkinson ; Euan J. Allen ; Giacomo Ferranti ; Jonathan C. F. Matthews

LASER COOLING OF ATOMS WITH AN OPTICAL FREQUENCY COMB ...... 1330 D. Aumiler ; N. Šantic ; D. Buhin ; D. Kovacic ; I. Krešic ; T. Ban

HIGHLY FLAT OPTICAL FREQUENCY COMB BASED ON THE TIME LENS PRINCIPLE...... 1331 Thanh Tuan Tran ; Minje Song ; Minhyup Song ; Dongsun Seo

IMPROVEMENT OF THE STABILIZATION LOOPS PERFORMANCES OF A DF-VECSEL DEDICATED TO CESIUM CPT CLOCKS APPLICATION BY FULLY-CORRELATED MULTI-MODE PUMPING...... 1332 Grégory Gredat ; Hui Liu ; Ghaya Baili ; François Gutty ; Isabelle Sagnes ; Fabienne Goldfarb ; Fabien Bretenaker

EXTENSION OF THE ION OPTICAL CLOCK TO MULTI-ION SYSTEMS ...... 1333 Kazuhiro Hayasaka

OPTIMIZATION OF ACOUSTO-OPTIC FREQUENCY COMBS ...... 1334 K. Nithyanandan ; L. Djevarhidjian ; V. Duran ; C. Schnébelin ; H. Guillet De Chatellus

IODINE-STABILIZED 633 NM DIODE LASERS FOR METROLOGY AND INTERFEROMETRY ...... 1335 Florian Krause ; Uwe Sterr ; Erik Benkler ; Christian Nölleke ; Patrick Leisching

COMB-BASED FOURIER-TRANSFORM SPECTROMETRY FOR BROADBAND MEASUREMENTS OF ABSORPTION AND DISPERSION ...... 1336 Dominik Charczun ; Grzegorz Kowzan ; Akiko Nishiyama ; Przemyslaw Staniszewski ; Agata Cygan ; Daniel Lisak ; Ryszard S. Trawinski ; Piotr Maslowski

BEAM POINTING DETECTION BY INTERFERENCE WITH A FREQUENCY-SHIFTED HIGHER-ORDER MODE...... 1337 Florian Schepers ; Tim Brüggenkamp ; Tim Hellwig ; Carsten Fallnich

DEVELOPMENT OF POLARIZATION-SENSITIVE DUAL-COMB SPECTROSCOPY FOR ANISOTROPIC MATERIALS...... 1338 Kana A. Sumihara ; Sho Okubo ; Kenichi Oguchi ; Hajime Inaba ; Shinichi Watanabe

KAPITZA PENDULUM EFFECT WITH OVERCLOCKED RAMAN COMB SOLITONS IN A MICRORING RESONATOR...... 1339 D. N. Puzyrev ; N. V. Alexeeva ; I. V. Barashenkov ; B. A. Malomed ; C. Milian ; D. V. Skryabin

ULTRA-STABLE OPTICAL OSCILLATOR TRANSFER TO THE UV FOR PRIMARY THERMOMETRY ...... 1340 Alessia Sorgi ; Roberto Eramo ; Pablo Cancio Pastor

HIGH-POWER BROADBAND MIDINFRARED DUAL COMB SPECTROSCOPY ...... 1341 Kevin F. Lee ; Gengji Zhou ; Grace C. Kerber ; Marco Cassinerio ; Jie Jiang ; M. E. Fermann ; Steven T. Cundiff

THERMALLY STABILIZED, ENERGY EFFICIENT, ALL-FIBER OPTICAL FREQUENCY COMB ...... 1342 Aleksander Gluszek ; Zbigniew Laszczych ; Arkadiusz Hudzikowski ; Jaroslaw Sotor ; Grzegorz Sobon

SPECTRAL INTERLEAVING WITH QUANTUM CASCADE LASER FREQUENCY COMBS ...... 1343 Michele Gianella ; Akshay Nataraj ; Béla Tuzson ; Filippos Kapsalidis ; Stéphane Schilt ; Thomas Südmeyer ; Jérôme Faist ; Lukas Emmenegger

OPTICAL FREQUENCY COMB GENERATION INDUCED BY GAIN-THROUGH-LOSSES MODULATION INSTABILITY IN PASSIVE OPTICAL CAVITIES ...... 1344 Florent Bessin ; Auro M. Perego ; Kestutis Staliunas ; Sergei K. Turitsyn ; Alexandre Kudlinski ; Matteo Conforti ; Arnaud Mussot

MONOLITHICALLY INTEGRATED ON-CHIP DUAL MODE-LOCKED LASERS IN INP-BASED GENERIC FOUNDRY PLATFORM ...... 1345 Mu-Chieh Lo ; Robinson Guzmán ; Jessica Cesar ; Muhsin Ali ; Alberto Zarzuelo ; Guillermo Carpintero

AN IODINE-STABILIZED LASER USING A 1542-NM LIGHT SOURCE ...... 1346 Kohei Ikeda ; Chaoyun Chen ; Kazumichi Yoshii ; Sho Okubo ; Ken Kashiwagi ; Masato Wada ; Hajime Inaba ; Feng-Lei Hong

SCRUTINIZING THE EQUIDISTANCE OF FREQUENCY COMB SOURCES...... 1347 Esmerando Escoto ; Günter Steinmeyer

SCANNING OF A DISSIPATIVE KERR-MICRORESONATOR SOLITON COMB FOR DIRECT OPTICAL FREQUENCY COMB SPECTROSCOPY ...... 1348 Naoya Kuse ; Tomohiro Tetsumoto ; Martin E. Fermann

ROBUST OFFSET LOCKING OF LASER FREQUENCY WITH ELECTRONICALLY TUNABLE LC CIRCUITS FOR SUB-MILLIHERTZ UNCERTAINTY ...... 1349 Taro Hasegawa ; Yuhei Seishu

SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION IN A PHASE-MATCHED SUB-MICRON SIO2-LINBO3-AIR SLAB WAVEGUIDE...... 1350 B. N. Carnio ; A. Y. Elezzabi

GATE-TUNABLE ULTRAFAST OPTICAL RESPONSE OF SINGLE-LAYER GRAPHENE...... 1351 Eva A. A. Pogna ; Osman Balci ; Paolo Pedrinazzi ; Michele Guizzardi ; Andrea Tomadin ; Giancarlo Soavi ; Marco Polini ; Andrea C. Ferrari ; Giulio Cerullo

NANOSCALE OPTICAL DIAGNOSTICS OF 2D TMDS ...... 1352 Sotiris Psilodimitrakopoulos ; Leonidas Mouchliadis ; Ioannis Paradisanos ; Andreas Lemonis ; George Kioseoglou ; Emmanuel Stratakis

EXFOLIATION OF CENTIMETRE-SIZED TRANSITION METAL DICHALCOGENIDE MONOLAYERS ...... 1353 Matej Velicky ; Gavin Donnelly ; William Hendren ; Declan Scullion ; Elton Santos ; Robert Bowman ; Fumin Huang

CONTROL OF NONLINEAR OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF THE CARBON NANOTUBES SATURABLE ABSORBER WITH ELECTROCHEMICAL GATING...... 1354 Yuriy Gladush ; Aram Mkrtchyan ; Daria Kopylova ; Aleksey Ivanenko ; Boris Nyushkov ; Sergey Kobtsev ; Alexander Khegai ; Mikhail Melkumov ; Maria Burdanova ; Michael Staniforth ; James Lloyd-Hughes ; Albert G. Nasibulin

WAVE MIXING IN GRAPHENE NONLINEAR RESONATORS UTILIZING COUPLED-MODE THEORY ...... 1355 Thomas Christopoulos ; Odysseas Tsilipakos ; Georgios Sinatkas ; Emmanouil E. Kriezis

WIDEBAND GRAPHENE ELECTRO-OPTIC MODULATOR ON 1D PHOTONIC CRYSTAL CAVITY ...... 1356 Thomas Wood ; Jérémy Lhuillier ; Pierre Demongodin ; Malik Remiche ; Bertrand Vilquin ; Pedro Rojo Romeo ; Ali Belarouci ; Ségolène Callard ; Christelle Monat

GRAPHENE NANORIBBONS: FROM PHOTOPHYSICAL PROPERTIES TOWARDS DEVICES...... 1357 Seyed Khalil Alavi ; Boris V. Senkovskiy ; Markus Pfeiffer ; Danny Haberer ; Felix R. Fischer ; Klaus Meerholz ; Yoichi Ando ; Alexander Grüneis ; Klas Lindfors

ULTRAFAST CHARGE TRANSFER AND VALLEY DYNAMICS IN WSE2/MOSE2 HETEROSTRUCTURE ...... 1358 Stefano Dal Conte ; Zilong Wang ; Patrick Altmann ; Wei Li ; Lavinia Ghirardini ; Michele Celebrano ; Sandro De Silvestri ; Deji Akinwande ; Giulio Cerullo

PROBING THE ORIENTATION OF FLUORESCENT NANOPLATELETS FOR VERTICAL ORIENTATION ...... 1359 F. Feng ; L. T. Nguyen ; M. Nasilowski ; C. Lethiec ; B. Dubertret ; L. Coolen ; A. Maître

VECTOR HELICAL BLOCH MODES IN N-FOLD ROTATIONALLY SYMMETRIC WAVEGUIDING STRUCTURES: SPIN AND AZIMUTHAL ORDER ...... 1360 Philip St. J. Russell ; Yang Chen ; Paul Roth ; Gordon K. L. Wong

CONTINUOUS WAVE AMPLIFIED SPONTANEOUS EMISSION IN PHASE-STABLE TRIPLE CATION LEAD HALIDE PEROVSKITE THIN FILMS...... 1361 Isabel Allegro ; Philipp Brenner ; Ofer Bar-On ; Marius Jakoby ; Bryce S. Richards ; Ulrich W. Paetzold ; Ian A. Howard ; Jacob Scheuer ; Uli Lemmer

GROWTH OF LARGE-AREA, UNIFORM, FEW-LAYER TUNGSTEN DISULPHIDE BY THERMAL DECOMPOSITION OF AMMONIUM TETRATHIOTUNGSTATE ...... 1362 Omar Adnan Abbas ; He Wang ; Adam Henry Lewis ; Neil Sessions ; Nikos Aspiotis ; Chung-Che Huang ; Ioannis Zeimpekis ; Dan Hewak ; Sakellaris Mailis ; Pier Sazio

INVESTIGATION OF PHOTOLUMINESCENCE PROPERTIES OF 2D-NANOPARTICLES TO BE USED AS FLUORESCENCE MARKERS IN MICROSCOPY...... 1363 Athira Kuppadakkath ; Heiko Knopf ; Tobias Bucher ; Isabelle Staude ; Thomas Pertsch ; Falk Eilenberger

NOVEL STURABLE ABSORBER BASED ON 2D NANOMATERIAL, MXENE SOLUTION ...... 1364 Jeong Je Kim ; Chong Min Koo ; Sang Bae Lee ; Kwanil Lee

ENHANCED ENERGY DENSITY AND OPTICAL ABSORPTION IN A 3D PHOTONIC BAND GAP CAVITY WITH FINITE SUPPORT ...... 1365 D. Devashish ; O. S. Ojambati ; Shakeeb B. Hasan ; J. J. W. Van Der Vegt ; Willem L. Vos

SLOW AND STOPPED LIGHT IN A TIME-DEPENDENT MOIRÉ GRATING...... 1366 Thomas E. Maybour ; Peter Horak

CONTROL OF SPACE-TIME TRAJECTORIES OF NOISE-DRIVEN OPTICAL EXTREME EVENTS IN METAMATERIAL WAVEGUIDES...... 1367 Gang Xu ; Jim McNiff ; Allan Boardman ; Bertrand Kibler

CONICAL REFRACTION WITH LAGUERRE-GAUSSIAN BEAMS: FROM RAMAN SPOT TO ‘ANTI- RAMAN’ DOUGHNUT DISTRIBUTION...... 1368 Valentin Y. Mylnikov ; Edik U. Rafailov ; Grigorii S. Sokolovskii

GENETICALLY OPTIMIZED PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FOR SPATIAL FILTERING OF REINJECTION INTO BROAD-AREA DIODE LASERS ...... 1369 Carsten Brée ; Volker Raab ; Darius Gailevicius ; Vytautas Purlys ; Joan Montiel ; Guillermo Garre Werner ; Kestutis Staliunas ; Andreas Rathsfeld ; Uwe Bandelow ; Mindaugas Radziunas

LASER-INDUCED BREAKDOWN IN DIELECTRICS: STRONG ELECTRON SUPERHEATING...... 1370 Oleg A. Louchev ; Satoshi Wada

HOMOGENIZATION OF LAYERED MEDIA: THE ROLE OF MAGNETOELECTRIC COUPLING ...... 1371 A. N. M. Shahriyar Hossain ; Igor Tsukerman ; Yidong Chong

INVERSE DESIGN OF ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM MODE DEMULTIPLEXER BY COMBINING WAVEFRONT MATCHING METHOD AND GRADIENT DESCENT ALGORITHM ...... 1372 Zhongzheng Lin ; Yuanhui Wen ; Yujie Chen ; Yanfeng Zhang ; Siyuan Yu

STRUCTURED AUXILIARY MESH (SAM) ALGORITHM FOR OPTO-THERMAL SIMULATION OF LASER-BASED LIGHTING SYSTEMS ...... 1373 Elisavet Chatzizyrli ; Andreas Wienke ; Roland Lachmayer ; Jörg Neumann ; Dietmar Kracht

ELECTROMAGNETIC APPROACH IN DESIGN OF THE FIBER-BASED EVANESCENT WAVE SENSORS FOR THE MID-INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY...... 1374 Svetlana Korsakova ; Elena Vinogradova ; Elena Romanova ; Andrei Rozhnev

DESIGN OF NONPARAXIAL ACCELERATING BEAMS BASED ON WIGNER DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION ...... 1375 Zhibin Liu ; Shuqing Lin ; Yuanhui Wen ; Yujie Chen ; Yanfeng Zhang ; Siyuan Yu

SCATTERING OF ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES BY CANTOR SCREENS: RAYLEIGH-SOMMERFELD INTEGRALS ON COMPLEX DOMAINS ...... 1376 James M. Christian ; Holly A. J. Middleton-Spencer

STABILITY CONDITION PREDICTION OF INTEGRATED OPTO-MECHANICAL PHASESHIFTERS USING FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS ...... 1377 Mohamed Ashour ; Eva M. Weig ; Jan N. Caspers

DYNAMICS OF TEMPERATURE FIELD OF ULTRASHORT LASER PULSE WITH GAUSSIAN AND TUBULAR FORM IN METAL ...... 1378 Alexander Fedotov ; Yaraslau Okrut ; Yana Tsitavets

PROPAGATION OF LASER BEAMS BY DECOMPOSITION INTO GAUSSIAN BEAMLETS ...... 1379 Anda-Maria Talposi ; Daniel Ursescu

OPTIMIZATION OF SUBBAND ELECTRON TEMPERATURE EFFECT ON A QUANTUM CASCADE LASER CHARACTERISTICS...... 1380 Chen Peng ; Yuankun Sun ; Tao Chen ; Zeren Li

ELECTROMAGNETIC DIFFRACTION BY FRACTAL DUSTS, TRIANGLES AND CARPETS: A KIRCHHOFF APPROACH TO CIRCULATION...... 1381 James M. Christian ; Holly A. J. Middleton-Spencer

CONTRAST OF VISIBILITY IN WATER AND AIR...... 1382 Zhongping Lee ; Shaoling Shang

ALL-FIBER ALL-NORMAL-DISPERSION FEMTOSECOND LASER WITH NONLINEAR MULTIMODAL INTERFERENCE-BASED SATURABLE ABSORBER...... 1383 Ugur Tegin ; Bülend Ortaç

DELIVERING TRANSVERSE-MODE SWITCHING BASED ON ALL-FIBER FEMTOSECOND LASER ...... 1384 Fan Shi ; Jiafeng Lu ; Linghao Meng ; Peikang Cheng ; Xianglong Zeng

SPATIOTEMPORAL MODE-LOCKING IN MULTIMODE FIBER LASERS...... 1385 Frank Wise

HIGH POWER SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATION IN GRADED-INDEX MULTIMODE FIBERS ...... 1386 Ugur Tegin ; Bülend Ortaç

FIBER LASER PUMP REFLECTOR BASED ON VOLUME BRAGG GRATING...... 1387 L. Talbot ; T. Boilard ; M. Bernier

TAILORED DISORDER FOR THE LIGHT MANAGEMENT IN PHOTOVOLTAICS ...... 1388 Stefan Nanz ; Aimi Abass ; Evgeniia Slivina ; Peter M. Piechulla ; Alexander Sprafke ; Ralf B. Wehrspohn ; Carsten Rockstuhl

RAPID HOT CARRIER RELAXATION AND MOBILITY INCREASE IN SN- AND PB-CONTAINING HALIDE PEROVSKITE SEMICONDUCTORS...... 1389 M. Monti ; J. M. Woolley ; E. Butler-Caddle ; M. Staniforth ; A. Wijesekara ; R. M. I. Bandara ; I. Jayawardena ; S. R. P. Silva ; R. A. Hatton ; J. Lloyd-Hughes

UP-CONVERSION THRESHOLD UNDER CONCENTRATED SUNLIGHT...... 1390 Georgios E. Arnaoutakis ; Jeffrey M. Gordon ; Eugene A. Katz ; Dmitry Busko ; Bryce S. Richards

LUMINESCENT SOLAR POWER — QUANTUM SEPARATION BETWEEN FREE-ENERGY AND HEAT FOR COST-EFFECTIVE BASE-LOAD SOLAR ENERGY GENERATION...... 1391 Shimry Haviv ; Natali Revivo ; Nimrod Kruger ; Carmel Rotschild

SIMULTANEOUS OBSERVATION OF TURBULENCE AND SPIN GLASS IN A PHOTONIC SYSTEM: THEORY AND EXPERIMENT...... 1392 Anderson S. L. Gomes ; Leonardo De S. Menezes ; Iván R. R. González ; Ernesto P. Raposo ; Antônio M. S. Macedo

DIRECT MEASUREMENT OF NONLINEAR TRANSMISSION MATRICES OF RANDOM SCATTERING MEDIA...... 1393 Adam Fleming ; Claudio Conti ; Andrea Di Falco

OPTICAL CONTROL OF COUPLING IN PHASE-LOCKED POLARITON DYADS...... 1394 Sergey Alyatkin ; Julian Töpfer ; Alexis Askitopoulos ; Helgi Sigurösson ; Wolfgang Langbein ; Pavlos Lagoudakis

SPIRAL BANDWIDTH OF FOUR-WAVE MIXING IN RUBIDIUM VAPOUR...... 1395 Rachel F. Offer ; Dalius Stulga ; Erling Riis ; Sonja Franke-Arnold ; Aidan S. Arnold

INVERSION SYMMETRY BREAKING IN COLD ATOMIC SPIN PATTERNS ...... 1396 Ivor Krešic ; Gordon Robb ; Guillaume Labeyrie ; Gian-Luca Oppo ; Robin Kaiser ; Thorsten Ackemann

GLASS INTEGRATED OPTICS: 50 YEARS AND STILL GROWING STRONG ...... 1397 Giancarlo C. Righini ; Simone Berneschi ; Andrea Chiappini ; Alessandro Chiasera ; Maurizio Ferrari ; Gualtiero Nunzi Conti ; Stefano Pelli

NUMERICAL TECHNIQUES FOR MODELLING INTEGRATED OPTICAL CIRCUITS...... 1398 Francesco Prudenzano

CHALLENGES IN THE MINIATURIZATION OF MID-IR SENSORS FULLY INTEGRATED ON SI...... 1399 Sergio Nicoletti ; Jean-Marc Fédéli ; Maryse Fournier ; Pierre Labeye ; Pierre Barritault ; Adrien Marchant ; Alain Glière ; Alexandre Teulle ; Jean Guillaume Coutard ; Laurent Duraffourg

PULSE TIMING AND AMPLITUDE STABILITY OF A MONOLITHIC PASSIVELY MODE-LOCKED QUANTUM DOT LASER AT 1310 NM DIRECTLY GROWN ON SILICON...... 1400 Dominik Auth ; Songtao Liu ; John E. Bowers ; Stefan Breuer

PULSE SHAPING IN MULTI-SECTION TAPERED SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM-DOT PASSIVELY MODE-LOCKED LASERS ...... 1401 Stefan Meinecke ; Lukas Drzewietzki ; Christoph Weber ; Benjamin Lingnau ; Stefan Breuer ; Kathy Lüdge

STABILIZED MODE-LOCKED TAPERED MONOLITHIC LASER DIODE WITH 200PJ PULSE ENERGY FOR SPACE METROLOGY APPLICATIONS...... 1402 N. Torcheboeuf ; S. Kundermann ; M. Krakowski ; P. Resneau ; M. Garcia ; E. Vinet ; Y. Robert ; C. Theveneau ; M. Lecomte ; O. Parillaud ; B. Gerard ; D. L. Boiko

A MICRO-INTEGRATED MODE-LOCKED EXTENDED-CAVITY DIODE LASER EMITTING IN THE WAVELENGTH RANGE AROUND 780 NM ...... 1403 Heike Christopher ; Andreas Wicht ; Achim Peters ; Günther Tränkle

ALL-OPTICAL CONTROL OF SELF-MODE-LOCKED QUANTUM DASH LASERS FOR IMPROVED RF LINEWIDTH, TIMING JITTER AND ENVIRONMENTAL SENSITIVITY ...... 1404 Haroon Asghar ; Ehsan Sooudi ; John Gerard McInerney

OPTICAL FREQUENCY COMB GENERATION FROM SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS USING OPTICAL INJECTION AND PULSED GAIN SWITCHING ...... 1405 A. Rosado ; A. Pérez-Serrano ; J. M. G. Tijero ; A. Valle ; L. Pesquera ; I. Esquivias

TOPOLOGICAL PHOTONICS...... 1406 Mordechai Segev

REALIZATION OF A PHOTONIC TOPOLOGICAL Z2-INSULATOR ...... 1407 Lukas J. Maczewsky ; Bastian Höckendorf ; Mark Kremer ; Tobias Biesenthal ; Matthias Heinrich ; Andreas Alvermann ; Holger Fehske ; Alexander Szameit

DIRECT OBSERVATION OF TOPOLOGICAL EDGE STATES IN SILICON PHOTONIC CRYSTALS...... 1408 Nikhil Parappurath ; Filippo Alpeggiani ; L. Kuipers ; Ewold Verhagen

DISORDER-RESISTANT HELICAL WAVEGUIDING IN ONE DIMENSION ...... 1409 Jung-Yun Han ; Clemens Gneiting ; Daniel Leykam

MAPPING THE NEAR-FIELD INTERACTION OF SILICON NANODISC ARRAYS BY AUTOMATED DUAL-TIP SCANNING NEAR-FIELD OPTICAL MICROSCOPY...... 1410 Najmeh Abbasirad ; Dennis Arslan ; Jonas Berzins ; Stefan Fasold ; Isabelle Staude ; Frank Setzpfandt ; Thomas Pertsch

NEAR-FIELD THZ PHOTOCURRENT NANOSCOPY OF INAS NANOWIRES FET ...... 1411 Eva A. A. Pogna ; Leonardo Viti ; Maria C. Giordano ; Katia Garrasi ; Simone Biasco ; Daniele Ercolani ; Lucia Sorba ; Miriam S. Vitiello

NANOSCALE MID-INFRARED NEAR-FIELD TOMOGRAPHY OF TOPOLOGICAL INSULATOR SURFACES ...... 1412 Fabian Mooshammer ; Fabian Sandner ; Markus A. Huber ; Martin Zizlsperger ; Helena Weigand ; Markus Plankl ; Christian Weyrich ; Martin Lanius ; Jörn Kampmeier ; Gregor Mussler ; Detlev Grützmacher ; Jessica L. Boland ; Tyler L. Cocker ; Rupert Huber

SINGLE-MOLECULE EXCITATION-EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY AT ROOM TEMPERATURE BASED ON A COMMON-PATH INTERFEROMETER ...... 1413 Antonio Perri ; Fabrizo Preda ; Erling Thyrhaug ; Stefan Krause ; Giulio Cerullo ; Tom Vosch ; Jürgen Hauer ; Dario Polli

HIGH-RESOLUTION, THREE-DIMENSIONAL INVESTIGATION OF PROTEIN DIFFUSION AND TRAFFICKING IN THE LIVE HELA CELL VIA INTERFEROMETRIE SCATTERING MICROSCOPY (ISCAT) ...... 1414 Richard Taylor ; Reza Gholami Mahmoodabadi ; Alexandra Schambony ; Vahid Sandoghdar

LASER-SCANNING OPTICAL-FREQUENCY-COMB SPECTROMICROSCOPY...... 1415 S. Nakano ; T. Minamikawa ; E. Hase ; A. Asahara ; T. Mizuno ; H. Yamamoto ; K. Minoshima ; T. Yasui

QUANTITATIVE PHASE IMAGING USING A FREQUENCY COMB FOR SPECKLE-LESS CELLULAR MOTION MEASUREMENT...... 1416 Jeeranan Boonruangkan ; Hamid Farrokhi ; Samuel Kwok ; Tom Carney ; Young-Jin Kim

EXPLOITING THE OPTICAL REFLECTION MATRIX FOR OCT SIGNAL ENHANCEMENT ...... 1417 Jonas Kanngiesser ; Maik Rahlves ; Bernhard Roth

IN FLOW MANIPULATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF CANCER CELLS BY COHERENT COMPUTATIONAL MICROSCOPY...... 1418 L. Miccio ; V. Bianco ; P. Memmolo ; F. Merola ; M. Magnano ; M. Vilione ; P. Maffettone ; P. Ferraro

SIGN-ALTERNATING DISPERSION PATTERNING FOR SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATION ...... 1419 Haider Zia ; Niklas M. Lüpken ; Tim Hellwig ; Carsten Fallnich ; Klaus-J. Boiler

MULTIPASS SPECTRAL BROADENING WITH TENS OF MILLIJOULE PULSE ENERGY...... 1420 Martin Kaumanns ; Vladimir Pervak ; Dmitrii Kormin ; Vyacheslav Leshchenko ; Alexander Kessel ; Yu Chen ; Thomas Nubbemeyer

POST PROCESSING DISPERSION TRIMMING FOR ON-CHIP MID-INFRARED SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATION...... 1421 Alberto Della Torre ; Milan Sinobad ; Barry Luther-Davis ; Pan Ma ; Stephen Madden ; Sukanta Debbarma ; Khu Vu ; David J. Moss ; Arnan Mitchell ; Jean-Michel Hartmann ; Jean-Marc Fedeli ; Christelle Monat ; Christian Grillet

TAILORABLE SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATION IN LIQUID-COMPOSITE-CORE FIBERS...... 1422 Mario Chemnitz ; Nico Walther ; Ramona Scheibinger ; Kay Schaarschmidt ; Markus A. Schmidt

HIGHER-ORDER MODE TEMPERATURE-TUNABLE SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATION IN LIQUID- CORE OPTICAL FIBERS...... 1423 Ramona Scheibinger ; Mario Chemnitz ; Kay Schaarschmidt ; Markus A. Schmidt

MULTI-OCTAVE LIGHT SOURCE WITH TUNABLE SPECTRAL PROFILE: FROM SUPERCONTINUUM TO RAMAN COMB SPECTRAL-STRUCTURE...... 1424 D. Kergoustin ; F. Amrani ; B. Debord ; F. Gérôme ; F. Benabid

WIRELESS TERAHERTZ COMMUNICATIONS ...... 1425 W. Freude ; T. Harter ; S. Ummethala ; S. Muehlbrandt ; M. Blaicher ; S. Wolf ; M. Weber ; F. Boes ; H. Massler ; A. Tessmann ; Y. Kutuvantavida ; J. N. Kemal ; S. Nellen ; L. Hahn ; B. Globisch ; M. Walther ; T. Zwick ; S. Randel ; C. Koos

INVESTIGATION OF NANOPARTICLE-ASSISTED LASER TISSUE SOLDERING BY TERAHERTZ RADIATION...... 1426 Junliang Dong ; Holger Breitenborn ; Diego Caraffini ; Riccardo Piccoli ; Alexander O. Govorov ; Luca Razzari ; Rafik Naccache ; Fiorenzo Vetrone ; Roberto Morandotti

TWO-COLOUR SURFACE OPTICAL RECTIFICATION: ROUTE TO ALL-OPTICAL CONTROL OF TERAHERTZ EMISSION FROM QUASI-2D STRUCTURES ...... 1427 Juan S. Totero Gongora ; Luke Peters ; Jacob Tunesi ; Matteo Clerici ; Alessia Pasquazi ; Marco Peccianti

10 W CEP-STABLE FEW-CYCLE SOURCE AT 2 μM WITH 100 KHZ REPETITION RATE ...... 1428 Marcel Neuhaus ; Harald Fuest ; Maximilian Seeger ; Johannes Schötz ; Michael Trubetskov ; Peter Russbueldt ; Hans-Dieter Hoffmann ; Eberhard Riedle ; Zsuzsanna Major ; Vladimir Pervak ; Matthias F. Kling ; Pawel Wnuk

HIGH-POWER SINGLE-CYCLE MID-INFRARED TRANSIENTS GENERATED VIA INTRA-PULSE DIFFERENCE-FREQUENCY MIXING AT 2 μM ...... 1429 T. P. Butler ; D. Gerz ; C. Hofer ; J. Xu ; C. Gaida ; T. Heuermann ; M. Gebhardt ; L. Vamos ; W. Schweinberger ; J. A. Gessner ; T. Siefke ; M. Heusinger ; U. Zeitner ; A. Apolonskiy ; N. Karpowicz ; J. Limpert ; F. Krausz ; I. Pupeza

TOWARDS A SUB-9 FS, 3 MJ, CEP-STABLE MULTIPASS TI:SAPPHIRE AMPLIFIER...... 1430 Mikayel Musheghyan ; Fabian Lucking ; Zhao Cheng ; Harald Frei ; Andreas Assion

ALL-YTTERBIUM FRONTEND FOR HIGH-ENERGY FIELD SYNTHESIZERS...... 1431 Ayman Alismail ; Haochuan Wang ; Gaia Barbiero ; Hanieh Fattahi

DISPERSION CONTROL OF AN OVER-OCTAVE SPANNING SHORTWAVE INFRARED SPECTRUM FOR THE AMPLIFICATION OF SINGLE-CYCLE PULSES...... 1432 Yu-Chieh Lin ; Yasuo Nabekawa ; Katsumi Midorikawa

FEW-CYCLE MIDWAVE-IR OPCPA WITH 32 GW PEAK POWER AT A 1 KHZ REPETITION RATE...... 1433 Lorenz Von Grafenstein ; Martin Bock ; Uwe Griebner ; Thomas Elsaesser

FABRICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF HIGH-QUALITY FACTOR SILICON WGM MICRORESONATORS ...... 1434 Artem E. Shitikov ; Nikita M. Kondratiev ; Valery E. Lobanov ; Andrey S. Voloshin ; Igor A. Bilenko

ANALYSIS OF VARIOUS APPROACHES FOR THE FABRICATION OF DIFFRACTIVE OPTICAL ELEMENTS...... 1435 Antoine Bourgade ; Julien Le Meur ; Yoran-Eli Pigeon ; Kevin Heggarty ; Thomas Begou ; Julien Lumeau

SILICON NITRIDE RING RESONATORS WITH 0.123 DB/M LOSS AND Q-FACTORS OF 216 MILLION FOR NONLINEAR OPTICAL APPLICATIONS ...... 1436 Matthew W. Puckett ; Jiawei Wang ; Debapam Bose ; Grant M. Brodnik ; Jianfeng Wu ; Karl Nelson ; Daniel J. Blumenthal

3D μ-PRINTED POLYMER WHISPERING-GALLERY-MODE MICROCAVITY LASER SENSOR ARRAY ...... 1437 Xia Ouyang ; Yangxi Zhang ; Jijun He ; Zengtian Liang ; A. Ping Zhang ; Hwa-Yaw Tam

BRILLOUIN GAIN CHARACTERIZATION BY CAVITY RINGDOWN SPECTROSCOPY ...... 1438 Ananthu Sebastian ; Stéphane Trebaol ; Pascal Besnard

PERMANENT OPTIMIZATION OF LARGE-FSR DUAL-MICRORING BANDPASS FILTERS...... 1439 Timo Lipka ; Ilja Gomberg ; Hoc Khiem Trieu

SINGLE-FREQUENCY SUB-KW-PEAK-POWER COMBINED ER/ER-YB-FIBERS AMPLIFIER WITH A HIGH PUMP-TO-SIGNAL CONVERSION EFFICIENCY ...... 1440 M. M. Khudyakov ; D. S. Lipatov ; A. N. Gur'yanov ; M. M. Bubnov ; M. E. Likhachev

UP-SCALING THE POWER OF PULSED SINGLE FREQUENCY FIBRE AMPLIFIERS FOR COHERENT LIDAR APPLICATIONS...... 1441 François Gustave ; Pierre Bourdon ; Julien Le Gouët ; Anne Durécu ; Laurent Lombard ; Hermence Jacqmin ; Agnès Dolfi- Bouteyre

DUAL-POLARIZATION DFB FIBER LASER STABILIZED BY FREQUENCY-SHIFTED FEEDBACK...... 1442 Marie Guionie ; Aurélien Thorette ; Marco Romanelli ; Emmanuel Pinsard ; Laurent Lablonde ; Benoît Cadier ; Marc Vallet ; Marc Brunel

LASING AND GAIN PROPERTIES OF MULTICOMPONENT OPTICAL FIBERS WITH HEAVILY ER- DOPED PHOSPHATE CORE AND SILICA CLADDING ...... 1443 Boris Denker ; Boris Galagan ; Vladimir Kamynin ; Anastasiya Ponosova ; Sergey Sverchkov ; Sergey Semjonov ; Vladimir Tsvetkov

SPECTRAL RESPONSE OF DISTRIBUTED-FEEDBACK RESONATORS WITH A CONTINUOUSLY DISTRIBUTED PHASE SHIFT...... 1444 Cristine Calil Kores ; Nur Ismail ; Edward H. Bernhardi ; Fredrik Laurell ; Markus Pollnau

ALL-FIBER BI-DOPED LASER CONTINUOUSLY TUNABLE FROM 1317–1375NM ...... 1445 Naresh Kumar Thipparapu ; Siyi Wang ; Andrey A. Umnikov ; Pranabesh Barua ; Jayanta K. Sahu

GRAPHENE METAMATERIAL FOR HIGH ABSORPTION OF UNPOLARIZED LIGHT OVER MORE THAN THREE OCTAVES OF BANDWIDTH...... 1446 Han Lin ; Björn C. P. Sturmberg ; Keng-Te Lin ; Yunyi Yang ; Xiaorui Zheng ; Teck K. Chong ; C. Martijn De Sterke ; Baohua Jia

SLOW LIGHT TO REDUCE THE ENERGY DISSIPATION OF MACH-ZEHNDER MODULATORS IN SILICON PHOTONICS ...... 1447 Marco Passoni ; Dario Gerace ; G. Chinna R. Devarapu ; Liam O'Faolain ; Lucio C. Andreani

FLEXIBLE PERIODIC HALF-CYLINDER PHOTONIC PLATE AS A LIGHT RECYCLING DEVICE APPLICABLE TO LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS ...... 1448 Guillermo Martínez-Denegri ; Johann Toudert ; Mariia Kramarenko ; Silvia Colodrero ; Quan Liu ; Gregory Kozyreff ; Jordi Martorell

DYNAMICS OF OPTICALLY INJECTED KERR GIRES-TOURNOIS INTERFEROMETERS...... 1449 J. Javaloyes ; C. Schelte ; S. Gurevich

OBSERVATION OF LASER-CAVITY SOLITONS IN MICRO-RESONATORS ...... 1450 Hualong Bao ; Andrew Cooper ; Maxwell Rowley ; Luigi Di Lauro ; Juan Sebastian Totero Gongora ; Sai T. Chu ; Brent E. Little ; Gian-Luca Oppo ; Roberto Morandotti ; David J. Moss ; Benjamin Wetzel ; Marco Peccianti ; Alessia Pasquazi

SWITCHING DYNAMICS OF DARK SOLITONS IN KERR MICRORESONATORS ...... 1451 Elham Nazemosadat ; Attila Fülöp ; Óskar B. Helgason ; Pei-Hsun Wang ; Yi Xuan ; Dan E. Leaird ; Minghao Qi ; Enrique Silvestre ; Andrew M. Weiner ; Victor Torres-Company

WIDEBAND TUNABILITY OF KERR PARAMETRIC OSCILLATION IN AN MGF2 MICRORESONATOR ...... 1452 Noel Lito B. Sayson ; Toby Bi ; Vincent Ng ; Hoan Pham ; Luke S. Trainor ; Harald G. L. Schwefel ; Stéphane Coen ; Miro Erkintalo ; Stuart G. Murdoch

UNIVERSAL MULTIPARTITE D-LEVEL ENTANGLEMENT WITNESSES FOR REALISTIC MEASUREMENT SETTINGS...... 1453 Stefania Sciara ; Christian Reimer ; Michael Kues ; Piotr Roztocki ; Alfonso Cino ; David J. Moss ; Lucia Caspani ; William J. Munro ; Roberto Morandotti

A MULTI-COPY APPROACH TO CHARACTERIZATION...... 1454 Radim Hošák ; Robert Stárek ; Radim Filip ; Miroslav Ježek

EXPERIMENTAL MULTIPHASE ESTIMATION IN AN INTEGRATED RECONFIGURABLE MULTI-ARM INTERFEROMETER...... 1455 Emanuele Polino ; Martina Riva ; Mauro Valeri ; Raffaele Silvestri ; Giacomo Corrielli ; Andrea Crespi ; Nicolò Spagnolo ; Roberto Osellame ; Fabio Sciarrino

EXPERIMENTAL DEVICE-INDEPENDENT CERTIFICATION OF A SIC-POVM...... 1456 Massimiliano Smania ; Piotr Mironowicz ; Mohamed Nawareg ; Marcin Pawlowski ; Adan Cabello ; Mohamed Bourennane

REFUTING OBSERVER-INDEPENDENCE IN QUANTUM THEORY...... 1457 Massimiliano Proietti ; Alexander Pickston ; Francesco Graffitti ; Peter Barrow ; Dmytro Kundys ; Cyril Branciard ; Martin Ringbauer ; Alessandro Fedrizzi

EXPERIMENTAL VIOLATION OF BELL'S INEQUALITY FOR TEMPORAL ORDERS ...... 1458 Lee A. Rozema ; Giulia Rubino ; Francesco Massa ; Mateus Araújo ; Magdalena Zych ; Caslav Brukner ; Philip Walther

SPECTRUM COLLAPSE AND KERR FREQUENCY COMB GENERATION WITH MULTI-FREQUENCY LASER DIODES SELF-INJECTION LOCKED TO HIGH-Q OPTICAL MICRORESONATOR ...... 1459 R. R. Galiev ; N. G. Pavlov ; N. M. Kondratiev ; V. E. Lobanov ; A. S. Voloshin ; A. S. Gorodnitskiy ; S. Koptyaev ; I. A. Bilenko ; M. L. Gorodetsky

LOW-LOSS RF CAVITY FOR QUANTUM CASCADE LASER FREQUENCY COMBS ...... 1460 Filippos Kapsalidis ; Matthew Singleton ; Mattias Beck ; Jérôme Faist

LOW RF-POWER INJECTION-LOCKING AND BEATNOTE CONTROL OF TERAHERTZ QUANTUM CASCADE LASER FREQUENCY COMBS ...... 1461 P. Taeschler ; A. Forrer ; D. Stark ; T. Olariu ; M. Beck ; J. Faist ; G. Scalari

INTERBAND CASCADE LASERS FOR MONOLITHIC AND BATTERY DRIVEN DUAL-COMB SPECTROMETERS ...... 1462 Benedikt Schwarz ; Johannes Hillbrand ; Maximillian Beiser ; Aaron Maxwell Andrews ; Gottfried Strasser ; Hermann Detz ; Anne Schade ; Robert Weih ; Sven Höfling

COMPRESSED PULSES FROM A MID-INFRARED QUANTUM CASCADE LASER...... 1463 Matthew Singleton ; Mattias Beck ; Jérôme Faist

EXPLORING TOPOLOGICAL PHOTONICS IN SYNTHETIC DIMENSIONS...... 1464 Hannah M. Price ; Tomoki Ozawa ; Nathan Goldman ; Oded Zilberberg ; Iacopo Carusotto

SUPERSYMMETRIC TRANSFORMATIONS OF PHOTONIC TOPOLOGICAL SYSTEMS ...... 1465 Gerard Queraltó ; Mark Kremer ; Lukas Maczewsky ; Matthias Heinrich ; Verònica Ahufinger ; Jordi Mompart ; Alexander Szameit

TOPOLOGICAL CYLINDRICAL RESONATORS AND OPTICAL FIBERS ...... 1466 Laura Pilozzi ; Claudio Conti

INDUCING TOPOLOGICAL EFFECTS IN LOCALLY RESONANT METAMATERIALS ...... 1467 Simon Yves ; Geoffroy Lerosey ; Fabrice Lemoult

FLOQUET TOPOLOGICAL METALS ...... 1468 Lavi K. Upreti ; Pierre Delplace

UNIDIRECTIONAL LAUNCHING OF FEMTOSECOND SURFACE PLASMON PULSES BY SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION ...... 1469 Sergio G. Rodrigo

ALL-OPTICAL ULTRAFAST CONTROL OF SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION IN ALGAAS NANOPILLARS ...... 1470 Michele Celebrano ; Eva A. A. Pogna ; Lavinia Ghirardini ; Francesco Rusconi ; Paolo Biagioni ; Andrea Mazzanti ; Giuseppe Della Valle ; Lamberto Duò ; Luca Carletti ; Davide Rocco ; Carlo Gigli ; Giuseppe Marino ; Giuseppe Leo ; Costantino De Angelis ; Giulio Cerullo ; Marco Finazzi

SYMMETRY-FORBIDDEN SECOND-HARMONIC GENERATION IN A FULLY CENTRO-SYMMETRIC PLASMONIC NANOCIRCUIT ...... 1471 Tzu-Yu Chen ; Julian Obermeier ; Thorsten Schumacher ; Fan-Cheng Lin ; Jer-Shing Huang ; Markus Lippitz ; Chen-Bin Huang

TAILORING SECOND-HARMONIC GENERATION IN PLASMONIC RADIAL TRIMERS USING CYLINDRICAL VECTOR BEAMS...... 1472 Godofredo Bautista ; Christoph Dreser ; Xiaorun Zang ; Dieter P. Kern ; Martti Kauranen ; Monika Fleischer

COHERENT CONTROL OF THE NON-INSTANTANEOUS RESPONSE OF PLASMONIC NANOSTRUCTES...... 1473 Eyal Bahar ; Uri Arieli ; Haim Suchowski

SECOND-HARMONIC GENERATION IN (111) GALLIUM ARSENIDE NANOANTENNAS ...... 1474 Jürgen D. Sautter ; Lei Xu ; Andrey Miroshnichenko ; Mykhaylo Lysevych ; Daria A. Smirnova ; Irina Volkovskaya ; Rocio Camacho-Morales ; Khosro Zangeneh Kamali ; Fouad Karouta ; Kaushal Vora ; H. Hoe Tan ; Martti Kauranen ; Isabelle Staude ; Chennupati Jagadish ; Dragomir N. Neshev ; Mohsen Rahmani

BROADBAND MULTI-SPECIES TRACE GAS DETECTION BY UP-CONVERTING MID-INFRARED SUPERCONTINUUM LIGHT INTO THE NEAR-INFRARED ...... 1475 Khalil Eslami Jahromi ; Qing Pan ; Amir Khodabakhsh ; Frans Harren

OPEN-PATH MID-INFRARED REMOTE SENSING OF ATMOSPHERIC GASES USING A BROADBAND OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATOR ...... 1476 Oguzhan Kara ; Frazer Sweeney ; Marius Rutkauskas ; Carl Farrell ; Christopher G. Leburn ; Derryck T. Reid

UPGRADING A LASER-BASED SPECTROMETER FOR THE MAPPING OF GAS-PHASE CO2 IN THE HEADSPACE OF CHAMPAGNE GLASSES...... 1477 B. Parvitte ; A.-L. Moriaux ; R. Vallon ; C. Cilindre ; G. Liger-Belair ; V. Zéninari

MULTI-SPECIES ENVIRONMENTAL GAS SENSING USING DRONE-BASED FOURIER-TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY ...... 1478 M. Rutkauskas ; M. Asenov ; S. Ramamoorthy ; D. T. Reid

MID-INFRARED MULTI-SPECIES TRACE GAS SENSING USING A SUPERCONTINUUM LIGHT SOURCE ...... 1479 Qing Pan ; Khalil Eslami Jahromi ; Amir Khodabakhsh ; Frans J. M. Harren

MID-INFRARED PHOTON COUNTING BY INTRA-CAVITY UP-CONVERSION FOR LIDAR ...... 1480 Max Widarsson ; Markus Henriksson ; Patrick Mutter ; Carlota Canalias ; Valdas Pasiskevicius ; Fredrik Laurell

TYPE I QUASI-PHASE MATCHING IN A PERIODICALLY POLED RB-DOPED KTIOPO4 RIDGE WAVEGUIDE...... 1481 Cristine Calil Kores ; Patrick Mutter ; Hoda Kianirad ; Carlota Canalias ; Fredrik Laurell

NONLINEAR GENERATION OF ULTRAFAST, HIGHER ORDER VECTOR VORTEX BEAMS...... 1482 Ravi Kiran Saripalli ; Anirban Ghosh ; N. Apurv Chaitanya ; G. K. Samanta

DYNAMIC RANGE OF AN UPCONVERSION DETECTION MODULE FOR MWIR LASER SPECTROSCOPY...... 1483 Sebastian Wolf ; Patrick Reiser ; Jens Kießling ; Frank Kühnemann

OPTICALLY PROBED TIME DYNAMICS OF X(2) GRATING INSCRIPTION IN SIN WAVEGUIDES ...... 1484 Edgars Nitiss ; Tianyi Liu ; Tobias J. Kippenberg ; Davide Grassani ; Camille-Sophie Brès

CAVITY OPTO-MECHANICS IN LIQUID DROPLETS ...... 1485 Antonio Giorgini ; Saverio Avino ; Pietro Malara ; Paolo De Natale ; Gianluca Gagliardi

DEMONSTRATION OF A TITLED-PULSE-FRONT PUMPED PLANE-PARALLEL SLAB TERAHERTZ SOURCE...... 1486 Priyo S. Nugraha ; Gergo Krizsán ; Csaba Lombosi ; László Pálfalvi ; György Tóth ; Gábor Almási ; József A. Fülöp ; János Hebling

THZ PULSE GENERATION EMITTED FROM SLANT-STRIPE-TYPE PPLN VIA OPTICAL RECTIFICATION EFFECT ...... 1487 Junichi Hamazaki ; Yoh Ogawa ; Norihiko Sekine ; Akifumi Kasamatsu ; Iwao Hosako

TERAHERTZ WAVE GENERATION IN AIR BY FEMTOSECOND OPTICAL VORTEX PULSES...... 1488 Maksym Ivanov ; Illia Thiele ; Stefan Skupin ; Danas Buozius ; Virgilijus Vaicaitis

50MW AVERAGE POWER GAS-PLASMA THZ GENERATION DRIVEN BY A FIBER LASER...... 1489 Joachim Buldt ; Cesar Jauregui ; Michael Müller ; Lars Henning Stark ; Jens Limpert

OPTICAL RECTIFICATION OF A 100-W AVERAGE POWER MODELOCKED OSCILLATOR IN CRYOGENICALLY-COOLED GAP...... 1490 Negar Hekmat ; Frank Meyer ; Samira Mansourzadeh ; Farhad Asiani ; Felix Fobbe ; Martin Hoffmann ; Yicheng Wang ; Clara J. Saraceno

HIGH-POWER 0.33 MW BROADBAND THZ SOURCE DRIVEN BY AN ULTRAFAST YB-BASED THIN- DISK LASER OSCILLATOR ...... 1491 Jakub Drs ; Norbert Modsching ; Clément Paradis ; Christian Kränkel ; Valentin J. Wittwer ; Olga Razskazovskaya ; Thomas Südmeyer

INFLUENCE OF THE DOPPLER EFFECT ON THE CARRIER-ENVELOPE PHASE...... 1492 Tianli Feng ; Pascal Rustige ; Günter Steinmeyer

SUB-20 FS - 10.5 W VISIBLE PULSE GENERATION FROM YB-DOPED FIBER LASER...... 1493 D. Descamps ; F. Guichard ; S. Petit ; A. Comby ; L. Lavenu ; Y. Zaouter

DISPERSIVE FOURIER TRANSFORM BASED SINGLE-SHOT CEP DRIFT MEASUREMENT AT ARBITRARY REPETITION RATE ...... 1494 M. Kurucz ; Sz. Tóth ; R. Fiender ; L. Haizer ; B. Kiss ; B. Perseille ; E. Cormier

DEPLETION BASED THIN-DISK CEP STABILIZATION ...... 1495 J. R. C. Andrade ; S. Kleinert ; A. Tajalli ; C. M. Dietrich ; F. Placzek ; B. Kreipe ; U. Morgner

ACTIVE F-TO-2F INTERFEROMETER FOR CARRIER-ENVELOPE PHASE LOCKING ...... 1496 Ruoyu Liao ; Youjian Song ; Minglie Hu ; Günter Steinmeyer

TOWARDS A CEP-STABLE 10-MJ-LEVEL MID-IR OPCPA AT 7 μM ...... 1497 U. Elu ; D. Sánchez ; T. Steinie ; K. Zawilski ; P. Schunemann ; G. Matras ; C. Simon-Boisson ; J. Biegert

AN INTRODUCTION TO ATTOSECOND PULSES AND ATTOSECOND PHYSICS ...... 1498 Anne L'Huillier

ELECTRON WAVEFUNCTIONS PROBED BY ALL-OPTICAL ATTOSECOND INTERFEROMETRY ...... 1499 M. Krüger ; D. Azoury ; O. Kneller ; S. Rozen ; B. D. Bruner ; A. Clergerie ; B. Fabre ; B. Pons ; Y. Mairesse ; N. Dudovich

HIGH HARMONIC CROSS-CORRELATION BETWEEN TWO CHANNELS OF A PARAMETRIC WAVEFORM SYNTHESIZER...... 1500 Giulio Maria Rossi ; Roland E. Mainz ; Yudong Yang ; Fabian Scheiba ; Miguel A. Silva Toledo ; Giovanni Cirmi ; Franz X. Kärtner

DIODE-PUMPED MULTIMODE RAMAN FIBER LASERS...... 1501 Sergey A. Babin

RAMAN-FREE SWITCHING BETWEEN DISSIPATIVE SOLITON RESONANCES IN FIBER FIGURE OF EIGHT LASER...... 1502 Alexey Kokhanovskiy ; Evgeny Kuprikov ; Aleksey Ivanenko ; Sergey Smirnov ; Sergey Kobtsev ; Sergey Turitsyn

ACHIEVING HIGH-POWER, ULTRA-HIGH SPECTRAL PURITY CASCADED RAMAN FIBER LASERS THROUGH LOW INTENSITY-NOISE PUMP SOURCES ...... 1503 V. Balaswamy ; B. S. Vikram ; Piyush Raj ; M. R. Harshitha ; Divya Nair ; V. R. Supradeepa

29 W DIFFRACTION LIMITED MONOLITHIC YTTERBIUM DOPED FIBER LASER SYSTEM OPERATING AT 976 NM IN THE CONTINUOUS WAVE REGIME...... 1504 Nicolas Valero ; Christophe Feral ; Jérôme Lhermite ; Stephane Petit ; Romain Royon ; Yves-Vincent Bardin ; Johan Boullet ; Antoine Proulx ; Yves Taillon ; Eric Cormier

HIGH SLOPE EFFICIENCY AND HIGH POWER 813-NM TM3+: ZBLAN FIBER MOPA FOR THE LATTICE LASER OF SR OPTICAL LATTICE CLOCK...... 1505 Eiji Kajikawa ; Tomohiro Ishii ; Takashi Kubo ; Kazuhiko Ogawa ; Mitsuru Musha

ULTRA-FAST LASER PRINTING OF IR-RESONANT PLASMONIC METASURFACES...... 1506 A. Kuchmizhak ; D. Pavlov ; A. Porfirev ; M. Lapine

SECOND-HARMONIC GENERATION IN MONOLITHIC LITHIUM NIOBATE METASURFACES...... 1507 Luca Carletti ; Cheng Li ; Jürgen Sautter ; Isabelle Staude ; Costantino De Angelis ; Tao Li ; Dragomir N. Neshev

TOPOLOGICAL AND GEOMETRICAL EFFECTS IN THE BULK HALL RESPONSE OF DRIVEN- DISSIPATIVE PHOTONIC LATTICES ...... 1508 Tomoki Ozawa ; Iacopo Carusotto

OBSERVATION OF PHOTONIC LANDAU LEVELS IN STRAINED HONEYCOMB LATTICES ...... 1509 O. Jamadi ; E. Rozas ; M. Milicevic ; G. Salerno ; T. Ozawa ; I. Carusotto ; L. Le Gratiet ; I. Sagnes ; A. Lemaître ; A. Harouri ; J. Bloch ; A. Amo

MULTI- REGISTERS OF INDIVIDUALLY ADDRESSABLE SOLID-STATE DEFECT CENTERS...... 1510 Eric Bersin ; Michael Walsh ; Sara Mouradian ; Matthew Trusheim ; Kevin Chen ; Tim Schröder ; Dirk Englund

FEMTOSECOND LASER INSCRIPTION OF INTEGRATED DIAMOND QUANTUM PHOTONICS FOR QUANTUM INFORMATION AND SENSING ...... 1511 Vibhav Bharadwaj ; John Patrick Hadden ; María Ramos Vázquez ; Argyro N. Giakoumaki ; Ottavia Jedrkiewicz ; Rakshyakar Giri ; Federico Gorrini ; Luca Basso ; Belén Sotillo ; Thien Le Phu ; Paul E. Barclay ; Roberta Ramponi ; Angelo Bifone ; Shane M. Eaton

FABRICATION OF HIGH QUALITY QUANTUM EMITTERS IN DIAMOND NANOSTRUCTURES...... 1512 Michael Walsh ; Eric Bersin ; Sara Mouradian ; Noel Wan ; Dirk Englund

ELECTRICALLY DRIVEN SINGLE-PHOTON SOURCES BASED ON COLOR CENTERS IN SILICON CARBIDE: PURSUING GIGACOUNT-PER-SECOND EMISSION RATES...... 1513 Dmitry Y. Fedyanin ; Igor A. Khramtsov ; Andrey A. Vyshnevyy

PLANAR OPTICAL ANTENNAS AS EFFICIENT SINGLE-PHOTON SOURCES FOR FREE-SPACE AND FIBER-BASED OPERATION IN QUANTUM OPTICS AND METROLOGY...... 1514 P. Lombardi ; H. Schauffert ; M. Colautti ; S. Pazzagli ; M. Agio ; C. Toninelli

TEMPORAL LOCALIZED STRUCTURES IN MODE-LOCKED VERTICAL EXTERNAL-CAVITY SURFACE-EMITTING LASERS ...... 1515 P. Camelin ; C. Schelte ; A. Verschelde ; A. Garnache ; G. Beaudoin ; I. Sagnes ; G. Huyet ; J. Javaloyes ; S. V. Gurevich ; M. Giudici

BREAKING THE LIMIT OF LASER CHAOS BANDWIDTH USING PHASE CONJUGATE FEEDBACK ...... 1516 Guillaume Bouchez ; Delphine Wolfersberger ; Marc Sciamanna

SPATIO-TEMPORAL DYNAMICS OF MICROLASERS WITH CHAOTIC RAY DYNAMICS ...... 1517 Stefan Bittner ; Stefano Guazzotti ; Yongquan Zeng ; Kyungduk Kim ; Qi Jie Wang ; Ortwin Hess ; Hui Cao

RESERVOIR COMPUTING USING VCSEL POLARIZATION DYNAMICS...... 1518 Jeremy Vatin ; Damien Rontani ; Marc Sciamanna

PHASE SYNCHRONIZATION OF MONOLITHIC DUAL DFB LASERS FOR MICROWAVE PHOTONICS: EXPERIMENT VS MODEL...... 1519 Aurelien Thorette ; Marco Romanelli ; Frederic Van Dijk ; Marc Vallet

POLARISATION-RESOLVED INVESTIGATIONS OF THE PICO- AND NANOSECOND DYNAMICS OF BROAD AREA DISTRIBUTED BRAGG REFLECTOR LASERS UNDER VERY HIGH-CURRENT PULSE EXCITATION ...... 1520 A. Klehr ; A. Liero ; H. Wenzel ; A. Zeghuzi ; A. Maaßdorf ; J. Fricke ; A. Knigge

EFFICIENT 2-W AVERAGE POWER 206 NM DEEP-ULTRAVIOLET GENERATION FROM 100-KHZ PICOSECOND PULSES ...... 1521 Benjamin Willenberg ; Fabian Brunner ; Christopher R. Phillips ; Ursula Keller

A 12.6 – 15 μM MID-IR SOURCE BASED ON DIFFERENCE FREQUENCY GENERATION IN ORIENTATION-PATTERNED GAAS...... 1522 Mohammad Khaled Shakfa ; Marco Lamperti ; Davide Gatti ; Marco Marangoni ; Aamir Farooq

ULTRA-COMPACT LOW-NOISE BROAD-BAND UPCONVERSION DETECTOR AT 6 μM...... 1523 Ajanta Barh ; Peter Tidemand-Lichtenberg ; Christian Pedersen

HIGH-ORDER HARMONIC ANALYSIS OF ANISOTROPIC PETAHERTZ PHOTOCURRENTS IN SOLIDS ...... 1524 Aleksandr A. Lanin ; Eugeny A. Stepanov ; Aleksandr V. Mitrofanov ; Dmitry A. Sidorov-Biryukov ; Andrei B. Fedotov ; Aleksei M. Zheltikov

SCANNING RESONANT NANO-ANTENNA HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGING AND EMISSION CONTROL OF HBN DEFECT PHOTON EMISSION...... 1525 Nicola Palombo Blascetta ; Dmitri. K. Efetov ; T. Taniguchi ; K. Watanabe ; Niek F. Van Hulst

EXTREME MULTIEXCITON EMISSION FROM DETERMINISTICALLY ASSEMBLED SINGLE EMITTER SUBWAVELENGTH PLASMONIC PATCH ANTENNA...... 1526 A. R. Dhawan ; J. U. Esparza ; M. Nasilowski ; L. Coolen ; B. Dubertret ; P. Senellart ; A. Maître

PLASMON BASED SUPPRESSION OF SURFACE TRAP STATES AND ENHANCED BAND-EDGE EMISSION RATE IN A SINGLE CDTE QUANTUM DOT...... 1527 Assegid M. Flatae ; Francesco Tantussi ; Gabriele C. Messina ; Francesco De Angelis ; Mario Agio

FIELD-RESOLVED INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY OF BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES ...... 1528 Ioachim Pupeza ; Marinus Huber ; Michael Trubetskov ; Wolfgang Schweinberger ; Syed A. Hussain ; Christina Hofer ; Kilian Fritsch ; Lenard Vamos ; Nicholas Karpowicz ; Vladimir Pervak ; Oleg Pronin ; Abdallah Azzeer ; Mihaela Zigman ; Ferenc Krausz

SPECTRAL SUPERRESOLUTION IN FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED (FTIR) SPECTROSCOPY ...... 1529 Erga Lifshitz ; Uri Arieli ; Shahar Katz ; Assaf Levanon ; Michael Mrejen ; Haim Suchowski

PROBING MOLECULES NEXT TO SURFACES ...... 1530 J. Lukusa Mudiayi ; T. Mashimo ; I. Maurin ; B. Darquié ; D. Bloch ; A. Laliotis

SPECTRAL GHOST IMAGING FOR SPECTROSCOPY AND OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY...... 1531 Caroline G. Amiot ; Piotr Ryczkowski ; Ari T. Friberg ; John M. Dudley ; Goëry Genty

BROADBAND DUAL-COMB SPECTROSCOPY OF METHANE WITH A FREE-RUNNING ERBIUM CHIP LASER...... 1532 Philippe Guay ; Nicolas Bourbeau Hébert ; Vincent Michaud-Belleau ; David G. Lancaster ; Jérôme Genest

ACHROMATIC INTERFEROMETRIC SUBTRACTION OF OPTICAL FIELDS...... 1533 Theresa Buberl ; Philipp Sulzer ; Alfred Leitenstorfer ; Ferenc Krausz ; Ioachim Pupeza

EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATION AND NUMERICAL STUDY OF PLASMON-SOLITON WAVES...... 1534 Gilles Renversez ; Mahmoud M. R. Elsawy ; Mathieu Chauvet ; Tintu Kuriakose ; Tomaz Halenkovic ; Virginie Nazabal ; Petr P. Nemec

SELF-WRITTEN Y-JUNCTIONS USING SPATIAL SOLITONS...... 1535 Alessandro Alberucci ; Chandroth P. Jisha ; Jeroen Beeckman ; Frederik Van Acker ; Kristiaan Neyts ; Stefan Nolte

BUILDUP OF NOISE-LIKE PULSES IN ULTRAFAST FIBER LASERS ...... 1536 Nithyanandan Kanagaraj ; Zhiqiang Wang ; Aurélien Coillet ; Patrice Tchofo-Dinda ; Philippe Grelu

OPTICAL SELF-LOCALIZATION BASED UPON THE PANCHARATNAM-BERRY PHASE...... 1537 Chandroth P. Jisha ; Alessandro Alberucci ; Jeroen Beeckman ; Stefan Nolte

PURE-QUARTIC SOLITONS IN THE PRESENCE OF QUADRATIC DISPERSION ...... 1538 Kevin K. K. Tam ; T. J. Alexander ; Andrea Blanco-Redondo ; C. Martijn De Sterke

CONTINUOUS WAVE THZ SOURCE BASED ON AN ELECTRICALLY TUNABLE MONOLITHIC TWO- COLOR SEMICONDUCTOR DIODE LASER ...... 1539 Jared O. Gwaro ; Carsten Brenner ; Bernd Sumpf ; Andreas Klehr ; Jörg Fricke ; Martin R. Hofmann

THZ TRANSCEIVER WITH 6.5 THZ BANDWIDTH...... 1540 Robert B. Kohlhaas ; Simon Nellen ; Lars Liebermeister ; Steffen Breuer ; Martin Schell ; Björn Globisch

ROOM-TEMPERATURE CW WIDELY-TUNABLE THZ-GENERATING LASER...... 1541 Ksenia A. Fedorova ; Heyang Guoyu ; Christian Kriso ; Fan Zhang ; Wolfgang Stolz ; Arash Rahimi-Iman

REALTIME COHERENT CW THZ SYSTEM: PHASE MODULATION WITHOUT PHASE MODULATOR...... 1542 Lars Liebermeister ; Simon Nellen ; Robert B. Kohlhaas ; Steffen Breuer ; Martin Schell ; Björn Globisch

ROOM-TEMPERATURE 1 TO 7.5 THZ METROLOGICAL GRADE TERAHERTZ SPECTROMETER...... 1543 Michele De Regis ; Luigi Consolino ; Saverio Bartalini ; Paolo De Natale

REALIZATION OF POLARIZATION CONTROL IN HIGH-ORDER HARMONIC GENERATION...... 1544 Pei-Chi Huang ; Po-Yao Huang ; Kuang-Yu Chang ; Ming-Chang Chen

A COMPACT TUNABLE NARROW-BANDWIDTH AND HIGH-PHOTON-FLUX TURNKEY XUV SOURCE FOR EXPERIMENTS WITH HIGHLY CHARGED IONS AT STORAGE RINGS ...... 1545 Vinzenz Hilbert ; Maxim Tschernajew ; Robert Klas ; Jens Limpert ; Jan Rothhardt

SINGLE SHOT TEMPORAL CHARACTERIZATION OF SASE XUV FEL PULSES ...... 1546 Rosen Ivanov ; Ivette Bermudez ; Günter. Brenner ; Jia Liu ; Stefan Düsterer

A SPECTRALLY RESOLVED SINGLE-SHOT WAVEFRONT SENSOR FOR BROADBAND HIGH- HARMONIC GENERATION SOURCES ...... 1547 Xiaomeng Liu ; Matthijs Jansen ; Anne De Beurs ; Kjeld Eikema ; Stefan Witte

HIGH HARMONIC GENERATION IN ARRAYS OF CDSE QUANTUM DOTS ...... 1548 Daniil Kartashov ; Richard Hollinger ; Valentina Shumakova ; Alexander Schleusener ; Christian Reichardt ; Julius Irrek ; Andrius Baltuška ; Audrius Pugžlys ; Maria Wächtler ; Christian Spielmann

COMPARATIVE STUDY OF HIGH ORDER HARMONIC GENERATION IN MONOLAYER-THICK SEMICONDUCTORS ...... 1549 Richard Hollinger ; Valentina Shumakova ; Antony George ; Zian Tang ; Christian Spielmann ; Andrius Baltuška ; Audrius Pugžlys ; Andrey Turchanin ; Daniil Kartashov

ATTOSECOND SOFT-X-RAY SPECTROSCOPY IN A TRANSITION METAL DICHALCOGENIDE ...... 1550 Bárbara Buades ; Iker Leon ; Nicola Di Palo ; Daniel E. Rivas ; Themistoklis P. H. Sidiropolous ; Stefano Severino ; Maurizio Reduzzi ; Seth L. Cousin ; Michael Hemmer ; Caterina Cocchi ; Eric Pellegrin ; Javier Herrero Martin ; Samuel Mañas-Valero ; Eugenio Coronado ; Thomas Danz ; Claudia Draxl ; Mitsuharu Uemoto ; Kazuhiro Yabana ; Martin Schultze ; Simon Wall ; Antonio Picon ; Jens Biegert

1.9 FS DEEP-UV PULSES FROM THIRD-HARMONIC GENERATION IN ARGON ...... 1551 Vincent Wanie ; Mara Galli ; Diogo Pereira Lopes ; Erik P. Månsson ; Andrea Trabattoni ; Lorenzo Colaizzi ; Krishna Saraswathula ; Andrea Cartella ; Fabio Frassetto ; Luca Poletto ; François Légaré ; Salvatore Stagira ; Mauro Nisoli ; Rebeca Martinez Vazquez ; Roberto Osellame ; Francesca Calegari

CAVITY-ENHANCED NONCOLLINEAR HIGH-HARMONIC GENERATION ...... 1552 Maximilian Högner ; Tobias Saule ; Stephan Heinrich ; Nikolai Lilienfein ; Dominik Esser ; Michael Trubetskov ; Vladimir Pervak ; Ioachim Pupeza

3.5 KW FOUR-CHANNEL COHERENTLY COMBINED ULTRAFAST FIBER LASER ...... 1553 Michael Mueller ; Arno Klenke ; Albrecht Steinkopff ; Evgeny Shestaev ; Andreas Tünnermann ; Jens Limpert

170 W MULTICORE FIBER BASED FEMTOSECOND CPA SYSTEM...... 1554 Arno Klenke ; Michael Müller ; Henning Stark ; Andreas Tünnermann ; Jens Limpert

AI CONTROLLED TILED APERTURE COHERENT BEAM COMBINING ...... 1555 Henrik Tünnermann ; Akira Shirakawa

HIGH-POWER ELECTRO-OPTICALLY CONTROLLED DIVIDED-PULSE AMPLIFICATION ...... 1556 Henning Stark ; Joachim Buldt ; Michael Müller ; Arno Klenke ; Andreas Tünnermann ; Jens Limpert

MODAL PROPERTIES OF YB-DOPED 4-CORE FIBERS UNDER HEAT LOAD ...... 1557 Federica Poli ; Jesper Lægsgaard ; Annamaria Cucinotta ; Stefano Selleri

A FOCAL-RATIO-DEGRADATION (FRD) RESISTANT MULTIMODE FIBRE LINK USING MODE- SELECTIVE PHOTONIC LANTERNS ...... 1558 A. Benoît ; S. Yerolatsitis ; K. Harrington ; T. A. Birks ; R. R. Thomson

QUANTUM NANO-JEWELRY: PLASMONIC ADDRESSING OF SINGLE-PHOTON EMITTERS IN HIGH- QUALITY DIAMOND NANOSTRUCTURES ...... 1559 Tzach Jaffe ; Nina Felgen ; Lior Gal ; Cyril Popov ; Johann Peter Reithmaier ; Meir Orenstein

ELECTRON-DRIVEN PHOTON SOURCES FOR SPECTRAL INTERFEROMETRY USING ELECTRON MICROSCOPES ...... 1560 N. Talebi ; S. Meuret ; S. Guo ; M. Hentschel ; A. Polman ; H. Giessen ; P. A. Van Aken

TOWARDS NEAR-FIELD COUPLING OF SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS ACROSS FEW- NANOMETER GAPS BETWEEN TWO LATERALLY TAPERED GOLD WAVEGUIDES ...... 1561 Vladimir Smirnov ; Sven Stephan ; Michael Westphal ; Heiko Kollmann ; Daniel Emmrich ; André Beyer ; Armin Gölzhäuser ; Christoph Lienau ; Martin Silies

PLASMON-PLASMON COUPLING PROBED BY ULTRAFAST, STRONG-FIELD PHOTOEMISSION WITH <7 Å SENSITIVITY ...... 1562 Z. Pápa ; J. Budai ; I. Márton ; P. Wróbel ; T. Stefaniuk ; Z. Márton ; P. Rácz ; P. Dombi

TOPOLOGICAL INTERFACE STATES IN A POLARITON SSH LATTICE: LINEAR AND NONLINEAR REGIMES ...... 1563 P. St-Jean ; N. Pernet ; A. Lemaître ; I. Sagnes ; A. Harouri ; L. Legratiet ; S. Ravets ; A. Amo ; J. Bloch

QUANTUM INTERFERENCE OF TOPOLOGICALLY PROTECTED PHOTONIC STATES IN A LASER- WRITTEN WAVEGUIDE ARRAY ...... 1564 J. L. Tambasco ; G. Corrielli ; R. J. Chapman ; A. Crespi ; O. Zilberberg ; R. Osellame ; A. Peruzzo

INTERACTION OF TOPOLOGICAL STATES OF SOUNDS AND LIGHT WITH SOLID-STATE EMITTERS AS A QUANTUM HYBRID PLATFORM...... 1565 Marc-Antoine Lemonde ; Vittorio Peano ; Peter Rabl ; Dimitris D. Angelakis

OPTIMAL DESIGN STRATEGY OF NON-ABELIAN GEOMETRIC PHASES BASED ON QUANTUM METRIC...... 1566 Mark Kremer ; Lucas Teuber ; Alexander Szameit ; Stefan Scheel

DEMONSTRATION OF DEVICE-INDEPENDENT CERTIFICATION OF A 398 M LINK FOR FUTURE QUANTUM NETWORKS ...... 1567 Kai Redeker ; Robert Garthoff ; Tim Van Leent ; Wei Zhang ; Harald Weinfurter ; Jean-Daniel Bancal ; Pavel Sekatski ; Nicolas Sangouard ; Wenjamin Rosenfeld

NETWORK INTEGRATION AND COHERENT OPERATION OF TELECOM ENTANGLED LIGHT SOURCES BASED ON SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS...... 1568 J. Huwer ; T. Müller ; Z. Xiang ; M. Anderson ; R. M. Stevenson ; J. Skiba-Szymanska ; M. B. Ward ; I. Farrer ; A. Krysa ; J. Heffernan ; D. A. Ritchie ; A. J. Shields

AN ENTANGLEMENT-BASED WAVELENGTH MULTIPLEXED QUANTUM COMMUNICATION NETWORK...... 1569 Sören Wengerowsky ; Siddarth Koduru Joshi ; Fabian Steinlechner ; Hannes Hübel ; Rupert Ursin

REMOTE STATE PREPARATION AND QUANTUM STEERING BASED ON HYBRID ENTANGLEMENT OF LIGHT...... 1570 Tom Darras ; Adrien Cavailles ; Hanna Le Jeannic ; Jeremy Raskop ; Kun Huang ; Giovanni Guccione ; Julien Laurat

PULSE DYNAMICS IN SESAM-FREE ELECTRICALLY-PUMPED VECSEL ...... 1571 Nikolai B. Chichkov ; Amit Yadav ; Tasnim Munshi ; Ksenia Fedorova ; Anton V. Kovalev ; Evgeny A. Viktorov ; Edik U. Rafailov

NONLINEAR LENSING PHENOMENA IN SEMICONDUCTOR DISK LASERS...... 1572 Christian Kriso ; Sascha Kress ; Tasnim Munshi ; Marius Grossmann ; Roman Bek ; Michael Jetter ; Peter Michler ; Wolfgang Stolz ; Martin Koch ; Arash Rahimi-Iman

DOUBLE-SIDE PUMPED MEMBRANE EXTERNAL-CAVITY SURFACE-EMITTING LASERS (MECSELS): TOWARDS A "SOLID-STATE LASER"-LIKE GAIN PUMP CONFIGURATION...... 1573 Hermann Kahle ; Jussi-Pekka Penttinen ; Hoy-My Phung ; Patrik Rajala ; Antti Tukiainen ; Sanna Ranta ; Mircea Guina

THERMAL NOISE IN OPTICALLY PUMPED DF-VECSELS ...... 1574 Grégory Gredat ; Hui Liu ; Fabien Bretenaker

ROOM-TEMPERATURE CONTINUOUS-WAVE ELECTRICALLY PUMPED 3.3 MICRON VERTICAL CAVITY LASER ...... 1575 Vijaysekhar Jayaraman ; Stephen Segal ; Fredrick Towner ; Kevin Lascola ; Borys Kolasa ; Demis John ; Anthony Cazabat ; Christopher Burgner

25 GHZ SMALL-SIGNAL MODULATION BANDWIDTH WITH A 7-ELEMENT ELECTRICALLY- PARALLEL VERTICAL-CAVITY SURFACE-EMITTING LASER ARRAY ...... 1576 Nasibeh Haghighi ; Philip Moser ; James A. Lott

DEMONSTRATION OF DISTRIBUTED QUANTUM SENSING USING NONLINEAR OPTICS...... 1577 X. Guo ; C. R. Bream ; J. Borregaard ; S. Izumi ; M. V. Larsen ; J. S. Neergaard-Nielsen ; U. L. Andersen

TEMPORAL GHOST IMAGING WITH WAVELENGTH CONVERSION...... 1578 Han Wu ; Piotr Ryczkowski ; Ari Friberg ; John M. Dudley ; Goëry Genty

THIRD HARMONIC GENERATION WITH ULTRASHORT PULSES IN A C2CL4 FILLED LIQUID CORE FIBER ...... 1579 Kay Schaarschmidt ; Mario Chemnitz ; Ramona Scheibinger ; Markus A. Schmidt

REFRESHED OPTO-ACOUSTIC MEMORY ...... 1580 Birgit Stiller ; Moritz Merklein ; Khu Vu ; Pan Ma ; Stephen J. Madden ; Benjamin J. Eggleton

OPTICAL CAVITY-LESS 40-GHZ PICOSECOND PULSE GENERATOR IN THE VISIBLE WAVELENGTH RANGE...... 1581 Gang Xu ; Vincent Pêcheur ; Julien Fatome ; Mathieu Chauvet ; Bertrand Kibler

QUANTUM-CORRELATED PHOTONS FROM SEMICONDUCTOR FIBER-CAVITY POLARITONS...... 1582 Guillermo Muñoz-Matutano ; Andrew Wood ; Mattias Johnsson ; Xavier Vidal ; Ben Baragiola ; Andreas Reinhard ; Aristide Lemaitre ; Jaqueline Bloch ; Alberto Amo ; Gilles Nogues ; Benjamin Besga ; Maxime Richard ; Thomas Volz

CAVITY EXCITON-POLARITON CONDENSATES IN ENGINEERED POTENTIAL LANDSCAPES AT ROOM TEMPERATURE...... 1583 F. Scafirimuto ; D. Urbonas ; T. Stöferle ; R. F. Mahrt

MODIFYING THE OPTICAL PHONON RESPONSE OF NANOCRYSTALS INSIDE TERAHERTZ PLASMONIC NANOCAVITIES ...... 1584 Xin Jin ; Andrea Cerea ; Gabriele C. Messina ; Andrea Rovere ; Riccardo Piccoli ; Francesco De Donato ; Francisco Palazon ; Andrea Perucchi ; Paola Di Pietro ; Roberto Morandotti ; Stefano Lupi ; Francesco De Angelis ; Mirko Prato ; Andrea Toma ; Luca Razzari

INHOMOGENEOUS BROADENING OF A POLARITONIC MODE IN THE ULTRASTRONG COUPLING REGIME...... 1585 Shima Rajabali ; Giacomo Scalari ; Janine Keller ; Mattias Beck ; Jérôme Faist

COHERENT COUPLING OF SINGLE MOLECULES TO MICRORESONATORS...... 1586 Alexey Shkarin ; Dominik Rattenbacher ; Jan Renger ; Tobias Utikal ; Stephan Götzinger ; Vahid Sandoghdar

GRAPHENE NEAR-FIELD INTERACTIONS FOR THE OBSERVATION OF DNA HYBRIDIZATION IN AQUEOUS ENVIRONMENT WITH NANOSCALE RESOLUTION ...... 1587 Ricardo M. R. Adão ; Rui Campos ; Edite Figueiras ; Pedro Alpuim ; Jana B. Nieder

TIME-RESOLVED CONTINUOUS-FILTERING VERNIER SPECTROSCOPY IN A FLAME ...... 1588 Francisco Senna Vieira ; Chuang Lu ; Florian M. Schmidt ; Aleksandra Foltynowicz

ENHANCEMENT OF QEPAS SENSITIVITY BASED-ON QUARTZ RESONANCE FREQUENCY TRACKING...... 1589 Herve Tatenguem ; Andreas Sacher ; Morten Hoppe ; Tobias Milde ; Joachim Sacher

BIOCHEMICAL KINETIC PARAMETERS EVALUATION BY RESONATOR-BASED MULTIPLEXED SENSOR ...... 1590 Anton Saetchnikov ; Elina Tcherniavskaia ; Vladimir Saetchnikov ; Andreas Ostendorf

PROBING LIVING CELLS BY TERAHERTZ ATTENUATED TOTAL REFLECTION. APPLICATION TO PERMEABILIZATION DYNAMICS ...... 1591 G. Gallot ; X. Zheng ; M. Grognot ; A. Azan ; T. Garcia-Sanchez ; L. Descamps ; L. M. Mir

PHASE-CODED BRILLOUIN OPTICAL CORRELATION DOMAIN ANALYSIS FOR EXTREME TEMPERATURE SENSING ...... 1592 J. Morosi ; I. Di Luch ; M. Ferrario ; P. Boffi

WAVEFRONT METROLOGY DEVELOPMENTS USING ADAPTIVE OPTICS AND DEBRIS SHIELD WAVEFRONT MEASUREMENTS ...... 1593 Vicentiu Iancu ; Georgios Kolliopoulos ; Yoshihide Nakamiya ; Viorel Nastasa ; Daniel Ursescu

HIGHLY EFFICIENT FREQUENCY SHIFTING FROM TEMPORALLY MODULATED EPSILON-NEAR- ZERO SURFACES...... 1594 Vincenzo Bruno ; Stefano Vezzoli ; Clayton Devault ; Vladimir M. Shalaev ; Alexandra Boltasseva ; Matteo Clerici ; Marcello Ferrera ; Daniele Faccio

DYNAMICS OF KERR-LIKE OPTICAL FREQUENCY COMBS GENERATED VIA PHASE-MISMATCHED SECOND-HARMONIC GENERATION ...... 1595 Miro Erkintalo ; Zongda Li ; Pedro Parra-Rivas ; François Leo

LOCKING OF DOMAIN WALLS AND QUADRATIC FREQUENCY COMBS IN DOUBLY RESONANT OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS ...... 1596 P. Parra-Rivas ; L. Gelens ; T. Hansson ; S. Wabnitz ; F. Leo

SOLITON ENHANCEMENT CAVITIES ...... 1597 N. Lilienfein ; M. Högner ; C. Hofer ; T. Saule ; M. Trubetskov ; V. Pervak ; E. Fill ; C. Riek ; A. Leitenstorfer ; J. Limpert ; F. Krausz ; I. Pupeza

OPTICAL CONTROL OF SPATIAL RIEMANN WAVES AND BURGERS' EQUATION DYNAMICS ...... 1598 Domenico Bongiovanni ; Benjamin Wetzel ; Pengzhen Yang ; Yi Hu ; Yujie Qiu ; Jingjun Xu ; Stefan Wabnitz ; Zhigang Chen ; Roberto Morandotti

TWO-COLOR MID-INFRARED LASER FILAMENTS PRODUCE TERAHERTZ PULSES WITH EXTREME EFFICIENCY ...... 1599 Anastasios D. Koulouklidis ; Claudia Gollner ; Valentina Shumakova ; Vladimir Y. Fedorov ; Audrius Pugžlys ; Andrius Baltuška ; Stelios Tzortzakis

PHASE-LOCKED PROGRAMMABLE FEMTOSECOND PULSE BURSTS FROM A REGENERATIVE AMPLIFIER ...... 1600 Tobias Flöry ; Edgar Kaksis ; Audrius Pugžlys ; Andrius Baltuška ; Gergö Krizsán ; Gyula Polónyi ; József Fülöp

GENERATION OF >50 KW NARROW-LINE RADIATION AT 5.7 THZ FROM SEEDED KTP OFF-AXIS THZ PARAMETRIC OSCILLATOR...... 1601 Ming-Hsiung Wu ; Wei-Che Tsai ; Yu-Chung Chiu ; Yen-Chieh Huang

TERAHERTZ-INDUCED ELECTRON EMISSION FROM A GOLD SURFACE...... 1602 Shaoxian Li ; Priyo S. Nugraha ; Ashutosh Sharma ; Csaba Lombosi ; Zoltán Ollmann ; István Márton ; Gyozo Farkas ; János Hebling ; Péter Dombi ; József A. Fülöp

LOW LOSS SUSPENDED SILICON WAVEGUIDE AND PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FOR THZ REGIME ...... 1603 Elias Akiki ; Mattias Verstuyft ; Guillaume Ducournau ; Benjamin Walter ; Estelle Mairiaux ; Marc Faucher ; Jean-François Lampin ; Mathias Vanwolleghem ; Bart Kuyken

GENERATION OF BROAD-BAND CIRCULARLY POLARISED SUPERCONTINUUM IN CHIRAL PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBRE...... 1604 R. Sopalla ; G. K. L. Wong ; N. Y. Joly ; X. Jiang ; M. H. Frosz ; G. Ahmed ; P. St. J. Russell

GIGAWATT PEAK POWER PULSES IN THE 5–9 μM WINDOW DRIVEN BY AN YB AMPLIFIER ...... 1605 Ignas Astrauskas ; Giedre Archipovaite ; Valentina Shumakova ; Guangyu Fan ; Tan Lihao ; Edgar Kaksis ; Eric Cormier ; Tadas Balciunas ; Audrius Pugžlys ; Andrius Baltuška

METASURFACE-ENABLED FOURIER-TRANSFORM OPTICAL PULSE SHAPER ...... 1606 Shawn Divitt ; Wenqi Zhu ; Cheng Zhang ; Lu Chen ; Henri J. Lezec ; Amit Agrawal

ULTRAFAST SINGLE-SHOT BURST IMAGING IN A FEW-NANOSECOND WINDOW USING A SPECTRALLY SWEEPING LASER PULSE TRAIN...... 1607 Hirofumi Nemoto ; Takakazu Suzuki ; Kazuki Matsushita ; Kazuki Takasawa ; Fumihiko Kannari

SPATIO-TEMPORAL WIDE-FIELD IMAGING WITH 50 FS RESOLUTION BASED ON FREQUENCY UPCONVERSION...... 1608 Džiugas Kimbaras ; Matthias F. Kling ; Rytis Butkus ; Pawel Wnuk

EXTREME INFRARED NONLINEAR OPTICS OF WIDE-BANDGAP SOLIDS DRIVEN BY GIGAWATT FE:ZNSE LASER SYSTEM ...... 1609 F. V. Potemkin ; E. A. Migal ; A. V. Pushkin ; B. G. Bravy ; V. M. Gordienko

FEMTOSECOND LASER ASSISTED FIELD EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY OF A SINGLE QUANTUM DOT ...... 1610 Maxime Duchet ; Sorin Perisanu ; Eric Constant ; Anthony Ayari ; Vincent Loriot ; Franck Lepine ; Stephen Purcell

SUB-CYCLE METALLIZATION OF SIO2 NANOPARTICLES PROBED VIA CARRIER-ENVELOPE PHASE DEPENDENT ELECTRON ACCELERATION...... 1611 Q. Liu ; S. Zherebtsov ; F. Süßmann ; J. Passig ; L. Seiffert ; V. Mondes ; A. Kessel ; S. Trushin ; C. Graf ; E. Rühl ; J. Tiggesbäumker ; K. H. Meiwes-Broer ; M. I. Stockman ; T. Fennel ; M. F. Kling

ULTRAFAST SPIN DYNAMICS RESOLVED WITH HIGH-HARMONIC GENERATION MICROSCOPY ...... 1612 Sergey Zayko ; Ofer Kfir ; Michael Heigl ; Michael Lohmann ; Murat Sivis ; Manfred Albrecht ; Claus Ropers

ULTRAFAST EXTREME-ULTRAVIOLET PHOTOEMISSION SPECTROSCOPY AT 18.4 MHZ ...... 1613 Stephan Heinrich ; Tobias Saule ; Johannes Schötz ; Nikolai Lilienfein ; Maximilian Högner ; Oliver De Vries ; Marco Plötner ; Johannes Weitenberg ; Dominik Esser ; Jan Schulte ; Peter Russbueldt ; Jens Limpert ; Matthias Kling ; Ulf Kleineberg ; Ioachim Pupeza

RETAINING 3D LASER PULSE SHAPE AT SUM FREQUENCY GENERATION PROCESSES...... 1614 I. V. Kuzmin ; S. Y. Mironov ; E. I. Gacheva ; A. K. Potemkin ; E. A. Khazanov

EFFECT OF ANNEALING ON NONLINEAR OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF 70% DEUTERATED DKDP CRYSTAL AT 355 NM...... 1615 Dongting Cai ; Xiaobo Pan ; Xinguang Xu ; Zhengping Wang ; Xun Sun

NONLINEAR-OPTICAL LABEL-FREE MULTIMODAL IMAGING OF NEURONS, ASTROCYTES AND GLIOVASCULAR INTERFACES ...... 1616 Matvey S. Pochechuev ; Aleksandr A. Lanin ; Artem S. Chebotarev ; Ilya V. Kelmanson ; Vsevolod V. Belousov ; Andrei B. Fedotov ; Aleksei M. Zheltikov

THERMAL EFFECTS IN A SINGLE-FREQUENCY OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATOR PUMPED BY A MASTER OSCILLATOR FIBER AMPLIFIER LASER ...... 1617 Thomas Hamoudi ; Jean-Baptiste Dherbecourt ; Xavier Délen ; Antoine Godard ; Patrick Georges ; Jean-Michel Melkonian ; Myriam Raybaut

ADAPTIVE SPECTRAL PHASE OPTIMIZATION OF HIGH REPETITION RATE ELECTRO-OPTIC FREQUENCY COMBS FOR ENHANCED NONLINEAR SPECTRAL BROADENING ...... 1618 B. S. Vikram ; Roopa Prakash ; Shankar Kumar Selvaraja ; V. R. Supradeepa

LITHIUM-NIOBATE-BASED CAVITY RESONATOR-INTEGRATED GUIDED-MODE RESONANCE FILTERS ...... 1619 Stéphane Calvez ; Antoine Monmayrant ; Oliver Gauthier-Lafaye

GE/SIGE ASYMMETRIC QUANTUM WELLS FOR SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION IN THE MID- INFRARED ...... 1620 Jacopo Frigerio ; Andrea Ballabio ; Chiara Ciano ; Andrea Mancini ; Leonetta Baldassarre ; Jonas Allerbeck ; Joel Kuttruff ; Giovanni Isella ; Daniele Brida ; Michele Virgilio ; Michele Ortolani

TAILORED SPONTANEOUS FOUR-WAVE MIXING IN SINUSOIDALLY-TAPERED FIBRES...... 1621 Mohammed F. Saleh

NONLINEAR FREQUENCY CONVERSION OF BROADBAND MID-IR LASER RADIATION...... 1622 Andrey Ionin ; Igor Kinyaevskiy ; Yurii Klimachev ; Andrei Kotkov ; Andrei Kozlov ; Leonid Seleznev ; Dmitry Sinitsyn

PEAK POWER ENHANCEMENT OF YB:YAG LASER PULSES BY SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION WITH TIME PREDELAY IN BORATE CRYSTALS...... 1623 Martin Duda ; Ondrej Novák ; Hana Turcicová ; Michal Chyla ; Václav Kubecek ; Martin Smrž ; Tomáš Mocek

OPTIMIZATION OF THE EFFICIENT SINGLE PASS TWO-STAGE DFG OF ER AND YB FIBER LASERS RADIATION INTO MID-INFRARED REGION ...... 1624 A. S. Gulyashko ; I. A. Larionov ; V. A. Tyrtyshnyy

NONLINEAR CHIROPTICAL RESPONSE OF GAAS NANOWIRES PARTIALLY COVERED BY AU...... 1625 Alessandro Belardini ; Joel Collins ; David C. Hooper ; Emilija Petronijevic ; Teemu Hakkarainen ; Eero Koivusalo ; Marcelo Rizzo Piton ; Soile Soumalainen ; Mircea Guina ; Ventsislav K. Valev ; Concita Sibilia

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF OPTICAL DAMAGE IN ADVANCED BARIUM CHALCOGENIDES NONLINEAR CRYSTALS AT 1-μM AND 2-μM...... 1626 Nadezhda Y. Kostyukova ; Andrey A. Boyko ; Evgeniy Y. Eryshin ; Dmitry B. Kolker ; Oleg L. Antipov ; Ilya D. Eranov ; Lyudmila I. Isaenko ; Dmitry V. Badikov ; Valery V. Badikov

COMPARISON OF SC FIBERS FOR FS TI:SAPPHIRE BASED HYPERSPECTRAL CARS MICROSCOPY ...... 1627 K. P. Herdzik ; K. N. Bourdakos ; D. J. Richardson ; Peter Horak ; J. H. V. Price ; S. Mahajan

EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF ULTRAFAST SOLITONIC ALL-OPTICAL SWITCHING IN A HIGH INDEX CONTRAST DUAL-CORE OPTICAL FIBER...... 1628 M. Longobucco ; I. Astrauskas ; A. Pugzlys ; D. Pysz ; F. Uherek ; A. Baltuska ; R. Buczynski ; I. Bugar

POLARIZATION MODULATION INSTABILITY IN ALL-NORMAL DISPERSION MICROSTRUCTURED OPTICAL FIBERS WITH QUASI-CONTINUOUS 1064 NM PUMP...... 1629 A. Loredo-Trejo ; Y. López-Diéguez ; L. Velázquez-Ibarra ; A. Díez ; E. Silvestre ; M. V. Andrés

QUADRATIC SOLITONS AND THEIR INTERACTION WITH DISPERSIVE WAVES IN LITHIUM NIOBATE NANO-WAVEGUIDES ...... 1630 William Rowe ; Andrey V. Gorbach ; Dmitry V. Skryabin

TUNABLE NEAR 3-μM DIFFERENCE FREQUENCY GENERATION USING YTTERBIUM AND BROADBAND SEED ERBIUM FIBER LASERS ...... 1631 I. A. Larionov ; A. S. Gulyashko ; V. A. Tyrtyshnyy

PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBER INFILTRATED WITH CARBON TETRACHLORIDE FOR SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATION...... 1632 Van Thuy Hoang ; Rafal Kasztelanic ; Adam Filipkowski ; Mariusz Klimczak ; Dariusz Pysz ; Grzegorz Stepniewski ; Khoa Dinh Xuan ; Ryszard Buczynski

TEMPERATURE NONCRITICAL PHASE MATCHING FOR BORATE CRYSTALS ...... 1633 Sergey Gagarskiy ; Sergey Grechin ; Pioter Druzhinin ; Kiyoshi Kato ; David Kochiev ; Nobihuro Umemura

IMPACT OF THE ELECTRICAL CONFIGURATION ON THE THERMAL POLING OF OPTICAL FIBRES WITH EMBEDDED ELECTRODES: THEORY AND EXPERIMENTS...... 1634 Francesco De Lucia ; Rex Bannerman ; James Gates ; Martin Miguel Angel Nunez Velazquez ; Jayanta Sahu ; Nicolas Englebert ; Francois Leo ; Simon-Pierre Gorza ; Pier Sazio

TUNABLE MID-INFRARED CONTINUOUS-WAVE OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATOR BASED ON FAN-OUT GRATING PPLN PUMPED AT 1064 NM ...... 1635 Jae-Keun Yoo ; In-Ho Bae ; Sun Do Lim ; Seung Kwan Kim ; Dong-Hoon Lee

DEVELOPMENT OF PERIODICALLY POLED LITHIUM NIOBATE ZINC-INDIFFUSED RIDGE WAVEGUIDES AT BLUE WAVELENGTHS...... 1636 Alan C. Gray ; Lewis G. Carpenter ; Sam A. Berry ; James C. Gates ; Christopher Holmes ; Peter G. R. Smith ; Corin B. E. Gawith

GREEN-PUMPED OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATOR BASED ON FAN-OUT-GRATING PERIODICALLY-POLED MG-DOPED CONGRUENT LITAO3...... 1637 Sukeert ; S. Chaitanya Kumar ; M. Ebrahim-Zadeh

A TELLURITE ALL-SOLID HYBRID MICROSTRUCTURED FIBER WITH ULTRA-SMALL CHROMATIC DISPERSION FLUCTUATION...... 1638 Hoa Phuoc Trung Nguyen ; Hoang Tuan Tong ; Than Singh Saini ; Xing Luo ; Takenobu Suzuki ; Yasutake Ohishi

OPTICAL COMPUTING OF MATHEMATICAL DERIVATIVES USING DISPERSION AND COHERENT DETECTION ...... 1639 Madhuri Suthar ; Bahram Jalali

COHERENT MID-IR SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATION USING TAPERED CHALCOGENIDE STEP- INDEX FIBER ...... 1640 Than Singh Saini ; Hoa Phuoc Trung Nguyen ; Xing Luo ; Tong Hoang Tuan ; Takenobu Suzuki ; Yasutake Ohishi

SLOW LIGHT USING PHOTOREFRACTIVE BEAM FANNING...... 1641 Nacera Bouldja ; Marc Sciamanna ; Delphine Wolfersberger

PICOSECOND DEEP ULTRAVIOLET PULSES GENERATED IN EXCESS OF THE 1030 NM FUNDAMENTAL BEAM ...... 1642 Hana Turcicova ; Ondrej Novak ; Martin Duda ; Lukas Roskot ; Jiri Muzik ; Martin Smrz ; Tomas Mocek

PIEZOELECTRIC RESONANCE LASER CALORIMETRY OF LBO CRYSTALS AT LOW AIR PRESSURES...... 1643 Irina Shebarshina ; Alexey Kozhevnikov ; Andrey Korolkov ; Alexey Konyashkin ; Oleg Ryabushkin

IN SITU FABRICATION OF FAR-DETUNED MID-INFRARED OPTICAL FIBER WAVELENGTH CONVERTERS ...... 1644 Imtiaz Alamgir ; Nurmemet Abdukerim ; Martin Rochette

TOWARDS OPTIMIZED PHOTON-PAIR SOURCES FOR TWO-PHOTON TRANSITIONS ...... 1645 Aleksa Krstic ; Sina Saravi ; Markus Gräfe ; Thomas Pertsch ; Frank Setzpfandt

POLARIZATION ORGANISATION HIDDEN IN THE MIDDLE POINT OF AN OPTICAL FIBER...... 1646 Adrien Fusaro ; Nicolas Berti ; Massimiliano Guanosi ; Hans-Rudolf Jauslin ; Antonio Picozzi ; Julien Fatome ; Dominique Sugny

COMPARISON OF SEED SOURCES FOR A HIGH-POWER, PICOSECOND MID-IR OPTICAL PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIER: OPTICAL PARAMETRIC GENERATION VERSUS SUPERCONTINUUM ...... 1647 Bianka Csanaková ; Lukáš Roškot ; Ondrej Novák ; Jirí Mužík ; Helena Jelínková ; Martin Smrž ; Tomáš Mocek

MAGIC CROSSING POINTS OF TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT CASCADED FREQUENCY CONVERSIONS IN NONLINEAR PHOTONIC CRYSTALS ...... 1648 S. Mohand Ousaid ; J. Y. Han ; K. H. Chang ; M. W. Lee ; M. Chakaroun ; L.-H. Peng ; A. Boudrioua

USING BESSEL BEAMS TO INDUCE PROGRAMMABLE VOLUME INTEGRATED OPTICAL CIRCUITRY...... 1649 Feifei Xin ; Mariano Flammini ; Fabrizio Di Mei ; Ludovica Falsi ; Davide Pierangeli ; Aharon J. Agranat ; Eugenio Delre

MEASUREMENT OF THE THIRD ORDER NONLINEAR SUSCEPTIBILITY OF A PARATELLURITE SINGLE CRYSTAL USING MULTIPLEX CARS...... 1650 Lovasoa Zakaniaina Rajaofara ; Erwan Capitaine ; Philippe Leproux ; Hideaki Kano ; Tomokatsu Hayakawa ; Philippe Thomas ; Jean-René Duclère ; Vincent Couderc

FEMTOSECOND COHERENT ANTI-STOKES RAMAN SCATTERING MEASUREMENT OF GAS TEMPERATURE SIMULTANEOUSLY FROM H2, N2 AND CO2...... 1651 Yang Ran ; Stefan Nolte ; Andreas Tünnermann ; Roland Ackermann

CONTINUUM GENERATION IN HIGHER-ORDER MODES OF PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS...... 1652 Jesper Lægsgaard

INTENSE STIMULATED RAMAN SCATTERING IN CO2-FILLED HOLLOW CORE FIBER ...... 1653 Katarzyna Krupa ; Kilian Baudin ; Alexandre Parriaux ; Gil Fanjoux ; Guy Millot

FEMTOSECOND-LASER-WRITTEN WAVEGUIDES IN PERIODICALLY POLED MGO-DOPED STOICHIOMETRIC LITHIUM TANTALATE FOR FREQUENCY CONVERSION ...... 1654 Shunsuke Watanabe ; Junji Hirohashi ; Koichi Imai ; Masayuki Hoshi ; Satoshi Makio

QUASI-PHASE-MATCHED THIRD HARMONIC GENERATION IN PERIODIC STACKS OF POLYMER BILAYERS...... 1655 Myoungsik Cha ; Jiung Kim ; Pavan Kumar ; Heejoo Choi ; Kyung-Jo Kim ; N. Peyghambarian

ZN:MGO:PPLN WAVEGUIDES FOR RB COLD ATOM TRAP BASED QUANTUM GRAVITOMETRY IN A CUBESAT ...... 1656 Lewis G. Carpenter ; Sam A. Berry ; Thomas H. Legg ; Mark C. Farries ; Chloe J. Watson ; Rex H. S. Bannerman ; Alan C. Gray ; Christopher Holmes ; James C. Gates ; Peter G. R. Smith ; Corin B. E. Gawith

CHARACTERIZATION OF BROADBAND SPONTANEOUS PARAMETRIC DOWN-CONVERSION IN PERIODICALLY POLED MATERIALS...... 1657 Chiara Lindner ; Sebastian Wolf ; Jens Kießling ; Frank Kühnemann

ANISOTROPIC DISPERSIVE SHOCK WAVES IN HIGHLY NONLINEAR M-CRESOL/NYLON ...... 1658 Giulia Marcucci ; Phillip Cala ; Graham Siggins ; Weining Man ; Claudio Conti ; Zhigang Chen

VALIDATION OF ÉCHELLE-BASED QUANTUM-CLASSICAL DISCRIMINATOR WITH NOVELTY SPAD ARRAY SENSOR...... 1659 Valentin Mitev ; Laurent Balet ; Nicolas Torcheboeuf ; Leonardo Gasparini ; Matteo Perenzoni ; Bänz Bessire ; André Stefanov ; Alexander Mikhalychev ; Dmitri Mogilevtsev ; Dmitri Boiko

EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATION OF ENTROPIC STEERING...... 1660 Sabine Wollmann ; Ana C. S. Costa

EXPERIMENTAL WITNESS OF GENUINE MULTIPHOTON INDISTINGUISHABILITY...... 1661 Daniel J. Brod ; Ernesto F. Galvao ; Niko Viggianiello ; Fulvio Flamini ; Nicolò Spagnolo ; Fabio Sciarrino

TOMOGRAPHY OF QUANTUM DOTS IN A NON-HERMITIAN PHOTONIC CHIP ...... 1662 Simon J. U. White ; Kai Wang ; Toan Trong Tran ; Mehran Kianinia ; James Titchener ; Markus Grafe ; Sarah Fischbach ; Sven Rodt ; Jin-Dong Song ; Stephan Reitzenstein ; Igor Aharonovich ; Andrey A. Sukhorukov ; Alexander Szameit ; Alexander S. Solntsev

FOUR-PORT INTERFERENCE DEVICE ON AN INTEGRATED PHOTONICS PLATFORM BASED ON TILTED BRAGG GRATINGS...... 1663 Mathias J. Weisen ; James C. Gates ; Corin B. E. Gawith ; Peter G. R. Smith ; Peter Horak

OPERATIONAL DESCRIPTION OF SINGLE-PHOTON DETECTORS INCLUDING TIMING-JITTER EFFECTS ...... 1664 Élie Gouzien ; Bruno Fedrici ; François Mondain ; Alessandro Zavatta ; Sébastien Tanzilli ; Virginia D'Auria

FREQUENCY-MULTIPLEXED SINGLY-RESONANT PHOTON PAIRS FROM A QUADRATIC NONLINEAR WAVEGUIDE RESONATOR ...... 1665 Rikizo Ikuta ; Ryoya Tani ; Masahiro Ishizaki ; Shigehito Miki ; Masahiro Yabuno ; Hirotaka Terai ; Nobuyuki Imoto ; Takashi Yamamoto

SUPERCONDUCTING SINGLE-PHOTON DETECTOR FOR LITHIUM NIOBATE INTEGRATED QUANTUM PHOTONIC AT TELECOM WAVELENGTHS...... 1666 Petr Agruzov ; Andrey Ionov ; Sergey Chekmazov ; Sergey Bozhko ; Igor Ilichev ; Aleksandr Tronev ; Mikhail Parfenov ; Aleksandr Shamrai

3+ 3+ COOPERATIVE STATES OF ND ION PAIRS AND CLUSTERS IN ND :LAF3 CRYSTAL...... 1667 Yurii Orlovskii ; Elena Vinogradova ; Vladimir Hiznyakov

PLASMONIC QUANTUM WALK IN GOLD STRIP PARALLEL WAVEGUIDES ...... 1668 Naoto Namekata ; Ryo Kobayashi ; Takuya Naka ; Akiko Tada ; Daiji Fukuda ; Shuichiro Inoue

CIRCUIT QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMIC MODEL OF A RESONANTLY PHASE-MATCHED JOSEPHSON TRAVELING WAVE PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIER ...... 1669 Michael Haider ; Yongjie Yuan ; Jesus Abundis Patino ; Johannes A. Russer ; Peter Russer ; Christian Jirauschek

TOWARD COUPLING COLOR CENTERS IN SINGLE CRYSTAL DIAMOND TO TWO-DIMENSIONAL MATERIALS...... 1670 Oliver Opaluch ; Richard Nelz ; Michel Challier ; Mariusz Radtke ; Abdallah Slablab ; Zaiquan Xu ; Igor Aharonovich ; Elke Neu

METHOD FOR QUANTUM KEY ESTABLISHMENT THROUGH A MULTIMODE FIBER...... 1671 Lyubov V. Amitonova ; Tristan B. H. Tentrup ; Ivo M. Vellekoop ; Pepijn W. H. Pinkse

MINIATURIZED DEVICES FOR FREE SPACE QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION; IN YOUR POCKET AND IN SPACE...... 1672 David Lowndes ; Stefan Frick ; Andy Hart ; John Rarity

A GHOST COMMUNICATION SCHEME BASED ON 2ND ORDER POLARIZATION CORRELATIONS ...... 1673 M. Rosskopf ; T. Mohr ; W. Elsäßer

NONLOCAL DISPERSION COMPENSATION IN MULTI-SEGMENT DEPLOYED TELECOMMUNICATIONS FIBER...... 1674 James A. Grieve ; Yicheng Shi ; Hou Shun Poh ; Christian Kurtsiefer ; Alexander Ling

SIMULATION OF A TELECOM-PROVIDER DRIVEN REFERENCE QKD-NETWORK...... 1675 Andreas Poppe ; Matthias Gunkel ; Felix Wissel ; Paul Schilder ; David Witt ; Momtchil Peev

HIGHLY EFFICIENT ULTRA-BROADBAND ENTANGLED PHOTON-PAIR GENERATION USING A CHIRPED PPSLT RIDGE WAVEGUIDE ...... 1676 Bo Cao ; Ryo Okamoto ; Mamoru Hisamitsu ; Katsuhiko Tokuda ; Shigeki Takeuchi

ENTANGLEMENT GENERATION BY CONVERSION OF POSITION CORRELATION INTO POLARIZATION ENTANGLEMENT...... 1677 Alexander Lohrmann ; Chithrabhanu Perumangatt ; Alexander Ling

POLARIZATION MEASUREMENT OF TIME-ENERGY ENTANGLEMENT...... 1678 Chithrabanu Perumangatt ; Alexander Lohrmann ; Alexander Ling

BIPHOTON SHAPING WITH CASCADED ENTANGLEMENT SOURCES ...... 1679 A. Riazi ; E. Y. Zhu ; C. Chen ; A. V. Gladyshev ; P. G. Kazansky ; J. E. Sipe ; L. Qian

JOINT TOPOLOGICAL AND POLARIZATION ENTANGLEMENT ENABLES NOISE-RESISTANT OPTICAL INFORMATION PROCESSING...... 1680 Alexander V. Sergienko ; David S. Simon ; Shuto Osawa

REMOVING PHASE AMBIGUITY IN FIBER-BASED INTERFEROMETERS FOR COHERENT TIME-BIN OPERATIONS...... 1681 Piotr Roztocki ; Mehedi Islam ; Christian Reimer ; Bennet Fischer ; Stefania Sciara ; Yanbing Zhang ; David J. Moss ; Michael Kues ; Roberto Morandotti

FIELD TRIAL OF A FINITE-KEY QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM IN THE METROPOLITAN FLORENCE AREA...... 1682 Davide Bacco ; Ilaria Vagniluca ; Beatrice Da Lio ; Nicola Biagi ; Adriano Della Frera ; Davide Calonico ; Costanza Toninelli ; Francesco S. Cataliotti ; Marco Bellini ; Leif K. Oxenløwe ; Alessandro Zavatta

QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION EXPLOITING A FARADAY ROTATOR AND A SINGLE SPAD...... 1683 P. Martelli ; M. Brunero ; A. Fasiello ; F. Rossi ; A. Tosi ; M. Martinelli

TOWARDS A SUBURBAN QUANTUM NETWORK LINK ...... 1684 Tim Van Leent ; Robert Garthoff ; Kai Redeker ; Paul Koschmieder ; Wei Zhang ; Wenjamin Rosenfeld ; Harald Weinfurter

A PS-PULSE LASER FOR ULTRAFAST ENTANGLEMENT GENERATION AT 42.66 GHZ REPETITION RATE ...... 1685 Sophie Zeiger ; Fabian Laudenbach ; Bernhard Schrenk ; Michael Hentschel ; Hannes Hübel

NEW INSIGHTS ON QUANTUM RANDOM NUMBER GENERATION (QRNG) BY PHASE DIFFUSION ...... 1686 Brigitta Septriani ; Oliver De Vries ; Markus Gräfe

DIRECT QUANTUM ERROR DETECTION IN SPATIALLY MULTIPLEXED TRANSMISSION...... 1687 Kai Wang ; Falk Eilenberger ; Alexander Szameit ; Andrey A. Sukhorukov

QUANTUM-CLASSICAL IMAGE DISTILLATION...... 1688 Hugo Defienne ; Matthew Reichert ; Jason W. Fleischer ; Daniele Faccio

ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM IN PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS ...... 1689 Alex Turpin ; Gerard Pelegrí ; Joan Polo ; Jordi Mompart ; Verònica Ahufinger

A TOPOLOGICALLY ROBUST FORMATION OF BROADBAND VORTICES PROPAGATING AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT...... 1690 A. Zdagkas ; V. Savinov ; N. Papasimakis ; Nikolay I. Zheludev

GENERATION OF PHOTON PAIRS IN WAVEGUIDE ARRAYS SUPPORTING TOPOLOGICALLY PROTECTED GUIDED MODES ...... 1691 Nicola Bergamasco ; Marco Liscidini

BULK MODE RESONANCES IN FLOQUET TOPOLOGICAL INSULATORS BASED ON COUPLED MICRORING RESONATOR LATTICES ...... 1692 Shirin Afzal ; Vien Van

ANDERSON LOCALIZATION IN SYNTHETIC PHOTONIC LATTICE WITH STATIC RANDOM COUPLING DISORDER ...... 1693 Artem V. Pankov ; Ilya D. Vatnik ; Dmitry V. Churkin ; Stanislav A. Derevyanko

SWITCHING QUASI-FLAT MODES AT THE INTERFACE BETWEEN DETUNED ANOMALOUS FLOQUET TOPOLOGICAL INSULATORS...... 1694 F. Piccioli ; L. J. Maczewsky ; M. Kremer ; M. Heinrich ; A. Szameit

EXISTENCE LOCI OF BOUND STATES IN THE CONTINUUM IN THE PARAMETER SPACE OF ANISOTROPIC PLANAR STRUCTURES...... 1695 Samyobrata Mukherjee ; Jordi Gomis-Bresco ; Pilar Pujol-Closa ; David Artigas ; Lluis Torner

EXPERIMENTAL REALISATION OF PT-SYMMETRIC FLAT BANDS...... 1696 Tobias Biesenthal ; Mark Kremer ; Matthias Heinrich ; Alexander Szameit

EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATION OF A NON-QUANTIZED SQUARE-ROOT TOPOLOGICAL INSULATOR USING PHOTONIC AHARONOV-BOHM CAGES ...... 1697 Mark Kremer ; Ioannis Petrides ; Eric Meyer ; Matthias Heinrich ; Oded Zilberberg ; Alexander Szameit

EXPERIMENTAL REALIZATION OF TWO-DIMENSIONAL PT-SYMMETRIC GRAPHENE: BULK PROPERTIES AND EDGE STATES...... 1698 Mark Kremer ; Tobias Biesenthal ; Lukas J. Maczewsky ; Matthias Heinrich ; Ronny Thomale ; Alexander Szameit

THEORETICAL ANALYSIS OF A NON-QUANTIZED SQUARE-ROOT TOPOLOGICAL INSULATOR USING PHOTONIC AHARONOV-BOHM CAGES...... 1699 Mark Kremer ; Ioannis Petrides ; Eric Meyer ; Matthias Heinrich ; Oded Zilberberg ; Alexander Szameit

ANTENNA IMPEDANCE FOR FRET: A THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL FRAMEWORK FOR STUDYING DIPOLE-DIPOLE INTERACTIONS WITH MICROWAVE ANTENNAS...... 1700 Kaizad Rustomji ; Redha Abdeddaim ; Marc Dubois ; Boris Kuhlmey ; C. Martijn De Sterke ; Jérôme Wenger ; Stefan Enoch

SPECTROSCOPIC ELLIPSOMETRY OF SURFACE PLASMONS ...... 1701 J. Budai ; Z. Pápa ; J. Csontos ; P. Dombi

ULTRAFAST ALL-OPTICAL SWITCHING IN III-V SEMICONDUCTOR RESONANT NANOSTRUCTURES...... 1702 Viacheslav Snigirev ; Alexander Shorokhov ; Dmitry Gulkin ; Vladimir Bessonov ; Irina Soboleva ; Andrey Fedyanin

NANOSTRUCTURED CONTROL OF INTERACTIONS OF QUANTUM EMITTERS BEYOND ELECTRIC DIPOLE APPROXIMATION ...... 1703 Miriam Kosik ; Oleksandr Burlayenko ; Karolina Slowik

PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL WATER SPLITTING WITH COBALT OXIDE COATED GOLD NANORODS UNDER VISIBLE EXCITATION...... 1704 Piue Ghosh ; Ashish Kar ; Arup Lal Chakraborty ; Sudhanshu Sharma ; Arnab Dutta ; Saumyakanti Khatua

SPECTROSCOPIC PROBING OF RETARDATION EFFECTS IN THE CASIMIR-POLDER INTERACTION: A THEORETICAL STUDY...... 1705 J. C. De Aquino Carvalho ; P. Pedri ; M. Ducloy ; A. Laliotis

INVESTIGATION OF ELECTRICAL TRANSPORT IN SEMICONDUCTOR HETEROSTRUCTURE DEVICES COUPLED STRONGLY TO THE LIGHT FIELD ...... 1706 B. Limbacher ; M. A. Kainz ; S. Schönhuber ; M. Wenclawiak ; C. Derntl ; Aaron M. Andrews ; H. Detz ; A. Schwaighofer ; B. Lendl ; G. Strasser ; J. Darmo ; K. Unterrainer

VIBRATIONAL LADDER-CLIMBING AND MOLECULAR GROUND-STATE DISSOCIATION DRIVEN BY MID-INFRARED CHIRP-PULSED PLASMONIC NEAR-FIELDS ...... 1707 Ikki Morichika ; Atsunori Sakinai ; Satoshi Ashihara

NONLINEAR SPLITTING OF OPTICAL TRAP OF METALLIC NANOPARTICLES...... 1708 Anita Devi ; Shruthi S. Nair ; Arijit K. De

A THEORETICAL STUDY OF COLLECTIVE RABI SPLITTING IN NANO-LASERS AND — LEDS ...... 1709 Emil C. André ; Igor E. Protsenko ; Alexander V. Uskov ; Jesper Mørk ; Martijn Wubs

HARMONIC GENERATION IN MIE-RESONANT GAAS NANOWIRES ...... 1710 Domenico De Ceglia ; Luca Carletti ; Andrea Galtarossa ; Maria A. Vincenti ; Costantino De Angelis ; Michael Scalora

ULTRAFAST TWO-DIMENSIONAL ELECTRONIC SPECTROSCOPY OF MILLIMETER-SIZED HALIDE PEROVSKITE SINGLE CRYSTALS ...... 1711 X. Trung Nguyen ; Daniel Timmer ; Yevgeny Rakita ; David Cahen ; Antonietta De Sio ; Christoph Lienau

ANALYTICAL MIE THEORY OF VECTOR COMPLEX SOURCE VORTICES AND ITS APPLICATION FOR THE INVESTIGATION OF PLANAR CHIRAL STRUCTURES ...... 1712 Sergej Orlov ; Justas Berškys ; Klemensas Laurinavicius

CHARACTERIZATION OF DIELECTRIC SOLIDS WITH SINGLE QUANTUM EMITTERS: FROM MEASURING AT THE NANO-SCALE TO MAPPING AT MICRO- AND MACRO-LEVEL ...... 1713 Maxim Gladush ; Alexey Gorshelev ; Ivan Eremchev ; Jürgen Köhler ; Lothar Kador ; Andrei Naumov

TIME RESOLVED FOUR-WAVE MIXING IN NANOCOMPOSITES...... 1714 O. M. Fedotova ; O. K. Khasanov ; Viktor Nikiforov ; Vitaly Samartsev

IN-SITU PHOTOLUMINESCENCE KINETICS OF LEAD HALIDE PEROVSKITES UNDER SUNLIGHT EXCITATION ...... 1715 Georgios E. Arnaoutakis ; Nataliya Samoylova ; Mark V. Khenkin ; Renjun Guo ; Eugene A. Katz

ABSORPTION ENHANCEMENT OF A THIN SILICON FILM WITH A 3D PHOTONIC BAND GAP CRYSTAL BACK REFLECTOR ...... 1716 D. Devashish ; R. Saive ; J. J. W. Van Der Vegt ; Willem L. Vos

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