Invited Speakers

Nazar Kovalenko (Helmut Schmidt University, Germany)
“Polycrystalline and Single-crystal Cr:ZnS Materials for Ultrafast Lasers: Challenges and Prospects”
Chunhui Yang (Harbin Institute of Technology)
“The growth of ZGP crystals and their applications in Mid-IR nonlinear optics”
Lijuan Liu (Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry)
“Progress in KBe2BO3F2 crystal growth, device fabrication, and deep-UV lasers generation”
Maksym Buryi (The Institute of Plasma Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech)
“Role of Er Doping in Paramagnetic Point Defect-Driven Morphology and Luminescence of ZnO Nanorods”
Kheirreddine Lebbou (Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France)
“Large Ti-doped sapphire crystal grown by Kyropoulos technology for high power laser chain”

Takeshi Higashiguchi (Utsunomiya University, Japan)
Enhao Li (Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, China)
“Holmium-doped high-power lasers and their potential applications in driving LPP-EUV light sources”
Marcus Seidel (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Germany)
“Peak-power scaling of nonlinear pulse compression with multi-pass cells”

Ye Tian (Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, China)
“Intense Terahertz Sources for the Time-Resolved Control of Phonon and Electron Dynamics”
Kyung Taec Kim (Gwangju Institute of Science & Technology, Korea)
“Ultra-high-fidelity temporal metrology of laser pulses based on tunneling ionization”
Hiroyuki Harada (Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Japan)
“High Intensity Proton Accelerator Driven by Laser Technology”
Leily Kiani (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA)
“Demonstration of a 1 TW peak power, joule-level ultrashort Tm:YLF laser”

Satoshi Ashihara (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
“Mid-Infrared Solid-State Lasers for Advanced Vibrational Spectroscopy”
Minglie Hu (Tianjin University, China)
“High-Performance Deep-Ultraviolet Picosecond and Femtosecond Lasers”
Richard Mildren (Macquarie University, Australia)
Masamori Endo (Tokai University, Japan)
“Fully Planar Solar-Pumped Fiber Lasers: Current Status and Future Prospects”
Michal Chyla (HiLASE Centre, Institute of Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czechia)
“Advances in High Average Power Laser Technology at HiLASE Centre”

Kentaro Sakai (National institute for fusion science, Japan)
“Development of a mid-infrared laser for next-generation EUV light sources”
Thanh-Hung Dinh (National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST), Japan)
“Compact Coherent EUV Light Source: Recent Developments and Applications at QST-KPSI”

Bong Joo Kang (Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KRICT), Korea)
“Time-resolved THz Stark spectroscopy of molecules in solution”
Tsuneyuki Ozaki (Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS), Canada)
“Interplay of THz Nonlinearities in InSb in the Strong-Field THz Regime”
Auro Perego (Aston University, UK)

Cheng Zhang (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China)
“Ultraviolet Light Beam Shaping by Dielectric Metasurfaces”
Vygantas Mizeikis (Shizuoka University, Japan)
“Realization of form birefringence through femtosecond laser printing”
Shuhei Ichikawa (Osaka University, Japan)
“Circularly Polarized InGaN Light Emitters Integrated with Metasurface”

Robert Murray (Imperial College London, UK)
“2.94 µm Laser Ablation Ambient Mass Spectrometry Imaging For Cellular Scale Metabolic Imaging”
Yoshinori Harada (Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Japan)
“Cryo-Raman Spectroscopy Reveals Cardiac Cycle–Linked Redox Dynamics”

Jianqi Hu (The University of Hong Kong, China)
“Towards self-referenced optical frequency combs on chip”
Tobias Herr (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Germany)
“Frequency combs in nanostructured microresonators”
Birgitta Bernhardt (Institute of Experimental Physics Graz University of Technology, Austria)
“Dual comb spectroscopy with novel frequency comb sources”
Martin Fermann (IMRA America, USA)
“Precision harmonically modelocked frequency combs”
Michele Giunta (Menlo systems, Germany)
“Advances in Precision Frequency Metrology with Optical Frequency Combs”
Kaiyi Wu (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
“Stabilized microcombs for high precision metrology applications”

Paul-Antoine Moreau (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan)
“Quantum Imaging, Fundamental and Practical Uses”
Kai-Chi Chang (University of California, USA)
“High-dimensional Quantum Information Processing and Communication via Quantum Frequency Combs”
Warit Asavanant (OptQC Corp., Japan)
“Development of Optical Quantum Computer”

Ludovic Lecherbourg (Laboratoire d’Optique Appliquée (LOA), France)
“Laser-based X-ray sources for x-ray spectroscopy in the warm dense regime”
Tao Sun (Northwestern University, USA)
“Operando synchrotron x-ray studies of additive manufacturing”

Atsushi Kosuge (Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Japan)
“Applications of Laser Technologies in Nuclear Reactor Decommissioning: Laser Decontamination and Underwater Laser Cutting”
Tatsushi Hamaguchi (Kyushu University, Japan)
“Toward Fusion Applications of VCSEL Arrays: A New Photonic-band Perspective”
Hiroki Tanaka (Leibniz-Institut für Kristallzüchtung (IKZ))
“Direct-Diode-Pumped Solid-State Lasers in the Visible Spectral Range”
Tetsuya Takeuchi (Meijo University, Japan)
“GaN-based vertical cavity surface emitting lasers toward high power”
Yoshitaka Mori (EX-Fusion Inc., Japan)
“Challenges in Blue-Violet Semiconductor Laser Drivers for Initial Laser Fusion Energy”
Takashi Sekine (Hamamatsu Photonics K.K., Japan)
Kentaro Iwami (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan)
“Metasurface-based Wavefront Shaping: From Uniform Illumination to High-Power Laser Applications”