Invited Speakers
Category A: Novel optical materials/structure and applications
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           Weidong Chen (Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) Progress of few-cycle Kerr-lens mode-locked Ytterbium lasers 
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           Valdas Pasiskevicius (KTH, Sweden) Advances in backward-wave nonlinear optical devices 
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           Hansuek Lee (KAIST, Korea) Ultra-low-loss Chalcogenide Glass Optical Waveguides and Resonators for On-chip Mid-infrared Photonics 
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           Xavier Mateos (University Rovira i Virgili, Spain) Growth, spectroscopy and anisotropic properties of Tm3+ and Yb3+ doped MgWO4 crystals 
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           Mariusz Stefański (Institute of Low Temperature and Structure Research, Poland) Synthesis, optical properties and application potential of powdered, micrometric and fully inorganic halide perovskites doped with Yb3+ ions 
Category B: High average power lasers and applications
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	 Gary Quinn (STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK) Development and demonstration of a nanosecond diode pumped solid state laser operating at 10 J, 100 Hz and future applications 
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	 Michael Müller (Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany) High-power holmium-based solid-state ultrafast lasers 
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	 Alexander Weigel (Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Germany) Multi-octave-spanning Field-resolved Infrared Spectroscopy Based on Single-Cycle Cr:ZnS Oscillators 
Category C: High peak power lasers, high pulse energy lasers and applications
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           Saumyabrata Banerjee (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA) High energy, High Rep. Rate Laser Development at Advanced Photon Technologies, LLNL 
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           Zenghu Chang (Laboratory for Infrared-driven Intense-field Science, Canada) Intense mid-infrared lasers for attosecond X-ray sources and strong field physics 
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           Mohammad MIRZAIE (CoReLS, APRI-GIST, Korea) Strong-field QED research with multi-PW lasers 
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           Yuxin Leng (SIOM, China) Ultra-intense and ultra-short laser and its applications 
Category D: Novel solid state / fiber / diode lasers and applications
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           Ian R Coddington (NIST, USA) Agricombs – measuring greenhouse gas emissions using dual fiber laser comb spectroscopy(tentative) 
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           Wenlong Tian (Xidian University, China) High power Kerr lens mode locked solid state laser 
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           Rodrigo Amezcua Correa (CREOL, USA) Multi-kW transmission through hollow-core fibers(tentative) 
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           Tetsuya Takeuchi (Meijo University, Japan) High-efficiency GaN-based vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers 
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           Yang Feng (SIOM, China) Phase modulation and demodulation for high power single frequency lasers 
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           Yongmin Jung (ORC, University of Southampton, UK) All-fiber beam shaping technologies for advanced material processing 
Category E: Short wavelength light sources and applications
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           Ichiro Inoue (University of Hamburg, Germany) Unique Machine Modes of Hard X-ray Free-Electron Lasers and their Applications 
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           Taran Driver (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, USA) Generation, Measurement and Application of Isolated Attosecond X-Ray Pulses at the LCLS 
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           Takashi Tanaka (RIKEN SPring-8 Center, Japan) Technical Challenges in SACLA: toward a Practical X-ray Laser Facility 
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           Nozomi Tanaka (Osaka University, Japan) Intense extreme ultraviolet and vacuum ultraviolet radiation sources for controlling of material surface contamination 
Category F: Terahertz devices, nonlinear optics and applications
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           Shoji Yoshida (Tsukuba University, Japan) Nanoscale Exciton Dynamics of 2D Semiconductor Studied by THz-STM 
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           Martin Philip John Lavery (University of Glasgow, UK) Encyped Thz Security Keys Leveraging Orbital Angular Momentum Encoding 
Category G: Novel optical devices, metamaterials, structure and applications
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           Mana Toma (Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan) Substrate based colorimetric biosensors using plasmonic metasurface 
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           Takuya Iida (Osaka Metropolitan University, Japan) High-throughput Analytical Methods Based on Light-induced Acceleration of Biochemical Reactions toward Quantum Biology 
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           Haruka Takekuma (Kyoto University, Japan) Visible plasmon properties of colloidal intermetallic compound nanoparticles 
Category H: Optical devices and techniques for bio and medical applications
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           Chulhong Kim (Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea) MULTI-MODAL IMAGING: PHOTOACOUSTIC IMAGING PLUS MORE 
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           Takao Fuji (Toyota Technological Institute) Short-wavelength infrared ultrafast lasers based on fluoride fibers 
Category I: Optical frequency combs / Frequency stabilized lasers and applications
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           Esther Baumann (NIST, USA) Adaptive Dual-Comb Spectroscopy Platform for Customized Step-Scan and Apodized Sampling Patterns 
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           Shu-Wei Huang (University of Colorado Boulder, USA) Single-cavity dual-comb fiber laser 
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           Akira Ozawa (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Quantenoptik, Germany) Extreme ultraviolet optical frequency combs and applications 
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           Stephan Amann (Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy, Germany) Three-Dimensional Imaging Using Optical Frequency Combs 
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           Qi-Fan Yang (Peking University, China) Ultralow-noise microwave synthesis using optical microresonators 
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           Shuangyou Zhang (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark) Hz-level Broadband Spectrometer for High-Order Dispersion Soliton 
Category J: Quantum optics and their applications
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           Omar S. Magaña-Loaiza (Louisiana State University, USA) Isolating Bosonic, Fermionic and Vacuum Dynamics of Plasmonic Waves 
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           Mark Sadgrove (Tokyo University of Science, Japan) Nanofiber photonics using electron beam methods 
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           Takafumi Ono (Kagawa University, Japan) Applications of Silicon Photonics to Quantum Circuits and Their Integration with Machine Learning 
ALPS-HEDS-XOPT Joint Session
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           M. R. Edwards (Stanford University) Gas Optics for Inertial Fusion Energy Lasers 
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           Nicholas Hartley (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, USA) HED Science with XFELs – Results and Future Directions 
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           Stefan Vogt (Argonne National Lab, USA) The Upgraded APS – Status, Early Results, and Opportunities 
