Invited Speakers


Category A: Novel optical materials/structure and applications

  • 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

  • Valdas Pasiskevicius (KTH, Sweden)

    Advances in backward-wave nonlinear optical devices

  • Hansuek Lee (KAIST, Korea)

    Ultra-low-loss Chalcogenide Glass Optical Waveguides and Resonators for On-chip Mid-infrared Photonics

  • Xavier Mateos (University Rovira i Virgili, Spain)

    Growth, spectroscopy and anisotropic properties of Tm3+ and Yb3+ doped MgWO4 crystals

  • 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

  • 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

  • Michael Müller (Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany)

    High-power holmium-based solid-state ultrafast lasers

  • 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

  • Saumyabrata Banerjee (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA)

    High energy, High Rep. Rate Laser Development at Advanced Photon Technologies, LLNL

  • Zenghu Chang (Laboratory for Infrared-driven Intense-field Science, Canada)

    Intense mid-infrared lasers for attosecond X-ray sources and strong field physics

  • Mohammad MIRZAIE (CoReLS, APRI-GIST, Korea)

    Strong-field QED research with multi-PW lasers

  • Yuxin Leng (SIOM, China)

    Ultra-intense and ultra-short laser and its applications

Category D: Novel solid state / fiber / diode lasers and applications

  • Ian R Coddington (NIST, USA)

    Agricombs – measuring greenhouse gas emissions using dual fiber laser comb spectroscopy(tentative)

  • Wenlong Tian (Xidian University, China)

    High power Kerr lens mode locked solid state laser

  • Rodrigo Amezcua Correa (CREOL, USA)

    Multi-kW transmission through hollow-core fibers(tentative)

  • Tetsuya Takeuchi (Meijo University, Japan)

    High-efficiency GaN-based vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers

  • Yang Feng (SIOM, China)

    Phase modulation and demodulation for high power single frequency lasers

  • Yongmin Jung (ORC, University of Southampton, UK)

    All-fiber beam shaping technologies for advanced material processing

Category E: Short wavelength light sources and applications

  • Ichiro Inoue (University of Hamburg, Germany)

    Unique Machine Modes of Hard X-ray Free-Electron Lasers and their Applications

  • Taran Driver (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, USA)

    Generation, Measurement and Application of Isolated Attosecond X-Ray Pulses at the LCLS

  • Takashi Tanaka (RIKEN SPring-8 Center, Japan)

    Technical Challenges in SACLA: toward a Practical X-ray Laser Facility

  • 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

  • Shoji Yoshida (Tsukuba University, Japan)

    Nanoscale Exciton Dynamics of 2D Semiconductor Studied by THz-STM

  • 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

  • Mana Toma (Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan)

    Substrate based colorimetric biosensors using plasmonic metasurface

  • Takuya Iida (Osaka Metropolitan University, Japan)

    High-throughput Analytical Methods Based on Light-induced Acceleration of Biochemical Reactions toward Quantum Biology

  • Haruka Takekuma (Kyoto University, Japan)

    Visible plasmon properties of colloidal intermetallic compound nanoparticles

Category H: Optical devices and techniques for bio and medical applications

  • Chulhong Kim (Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea)

    MULTI-MODAL IMAGING: PHOTOACOUSTIC IMAGING PLUS MORE

  • Takao Fuji (Toyota Technological Institute)

    Short-wavelength infrared ultrafast lasers based on fluoride fibers

Category I: Optical frequency combs / Frequency stabilized lasers and applications

  • Esther Baumann (NIST, USA)

    Adaptive Dual-Comb Spectroscopy Platform for Customized Step-Scan and Apodized Sampling Patterns

  • Shu-Wei Huang (University of Colorado Boulder, USA)

    Single-cavity dual-comb fiber laser

  • Akira Ozawa (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Quantenoptik, Germany)

    Extreme ultraviolet optical frequency combs and applications

  • Stephan Amann (Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy, Germany)

    Three-Dimensional Imaging Using Optical Frequency Combs

  • Qi-Fan Yang (Peking University, China)

    Ultralow-noise microwave synthesis using optical microresonators

  • Shuangyou Zhang (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)

    Hz-level Broadband Spectrometer for High-Order Dispersion Soliton

Category J: Quantum optics and their applications

  • Omar S. Magaña-Loaiza (Louisiana State University, USA)

    Isolating Bosonic, Fermionic and Vacuum Dynamics of Plasmonic Waves

  • Mark Sadgrove (Tokyo University of Science, Japan)

    Nanofiber photonics using electron beam methods

  • Takafumi Ono (Kagawa University, Japan)

    Applications of Silicon Photonics to Quantum Circuits and Their Integration with Machine Learning

ALPS-HEDS-XOPT Joint Session

  • TBD (ALPS)

    TBD

  • Nicholas Hartley (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, USA)

    HED Science with XFELs – Results and Future Directions

  • Stefan Vogt (Argonne National Lab, USA)

    The Upgraded APS – Status, Early Results, and Opportunities

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