2011 Conference on Lasers and

Electro-Optics Europe and 12th

European Quantum Electronics

Conference

(CLEO EUROPE/EQEC 2011)

Munich, Germany22 - 26 May 2011

Pages 1-631

4 IEEE IEEE Catalog Number: CFPllECL-PRT

ISBN: 978-1-4577-0533-5

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

PLENARY TALKS

Shining New Light on Old Questions in Quantum Mechanics (Plenary) 1

Ursula Keller

Solid-State Lasers Advances and Prospects (Plenary) 2

Guenter Huber

Quantum Simulations with Cold Atoms, Molecules and Ions (Plenary) 3

Peter Zoller

SOLID-STATE LASERS

First Demonstration of Rare-Earth-Doped Anisotropic Ceramic Laser 4

Jun Akiyama, Tahtnori Taira

Diode Pumped Alkali Lasers History, Current State and Perspectives 5

Boris Zhdanov, Michael Shaffer, Randall Knize

An HBr Oscillator-amplifier Pumped by a High-energy Ho YLF Laser System 6

MJDaniel Esser, Wayne Koen, HencharlJ Strauss, CobusJacobs, Lourens R Botha, Christoph BolligLaser Operation and Spectroscopic Investigations ofTm LuSc03 7

Philipp Koopmann, Samir Lamrinl, Karslen Scholle, Peter Fuhrberg, Klaus Petermann, Giinler Huber

Efficient Gd3t, Lu3t co-doped KY(W04)j:Tm$3+ Channel Waveguide Lasers 8

Koop Van Dalfsen, Shanmugam Aravazhi, Dimilri Gesfots, Kerstin Wdrhoff, Marhis Pollnau

Efficient Laser Operation of Ho LU2O3 at Room Temperature 9

Samir Lamrini, Philipp Koopmann, Michael Schafer, Karslen Scholle, Peter Fuhrberg, Klaus Petermann, Giinler Huber

Influence of Temperature on Emission Cross Section and Laser Operation for Nd YVO< Emitting Around 1064

nm 10

Xavier Delen, Francois Balembois, Patrick Georges

30W Nd GdV04 Oscillator Modelocked with Nonlinear Mirror 11

Gabrielle Thomas, Michael Damzen

Temperature Resolved Measurements ofAbsorption and Emission Cross Sections for Various Yb3+-doped Gain

Media from JOOk to Room Temperature 12

Jorg Kilmer, Joachim Heiit, HartmutLiebclrau, Martin Kahle, Mathias Lenski, Markus Loser, Mathias Siebold

Controllable Direction Switching ofVortex Output in a Nd YVO< Bounce Laser 13

Masahito Okida, Je-YenHuang, Yung-Fit Chen, Takashige Qmatsu

Numerical Simulation of Thermal Effects in Composite Nd YAG Slab Laser Active Medium with Collinear Zig¬zag Pumping 14

Martynas Gabalis, Valdas Girdauskas, Aidas Aleknavicius, Andrejus Michaihvas

High Average Power, Passively Q-switched Stigmatic Bounce Geometry Laser 15

Gabrielle Thomas, Michael Damzen

Stimulated-brillouin-scartering Via Phase-conjugation-mirror for High-average-power Nd YAG Laser Systems 16

Hidetsugu Yoshida, Koji Tsubakimolo, Hisanori Fujita, Noriaki Miyanaga, Yulaka Nagata, Hiroo Kinoshita

High-power Passively Mode-locked Nd GdV04 Laser Using Single-walled Carbon Nanotubcs as Saturable

Absorber 17

Hou-Ren Chen, Young-Gang Wang, Kuei-Huei Lin, Wen-Feng Hsieh

Intracavity Four Wave Mixing using Modulated Optical Feedback in a Diode-pumped Nd YVO4 Laser 18

Herve Gilles, Sylvain Girard, MathieuLaroche, Eric Lacot

Watt-level, Efficient and Radially Polarized Nd YAG Laser .-. 19

Xia Kegui, Li Jianlang

Laser Performances and Spectroscopic Investigation ofYb LuAG Grown by uPD Technique 20

Agnest Antonio, Pirzio Federico, Reali Giancarlo, Yongzhuan Zhang, Veronesi Slcfano, Tonelli Mauro

Lasing Properties ofNew Yb-doped Borate Compounds with Varying Gadolinium and Yttrium Concentration 21

Inka Manek-Hfinninger, Vtronique Jubera, Marie Chavoutier, Dominique Descatnps, Philippe Veber, Matias Velazquez, Alain

Garcia, Lionel Canioni

Thermooptical Distortions in a Nd YAG Slab with a Zigzag Beam Propagation ,22

AndreyLyashedko, Galina Bufetova, Vladimir Seregin, Vladimir Tsvetkov, Ivan Shcherbakov

Steady-state Operation of Pulsed Pumped SelfMode Locked Nd YVOj Laser using Electro-optical Feedback

Control 23

Hristo Iliev, Sergey Gagarsky, Algis Stalnionis, Ivan Buchvarov

1.2-ps CPQ System using an Yb YAG Thin DiskRegenerative Amplifier 24

Martin Delaigue, Sandrme Ricaud, Clemens HSnninger, Eric Mottay

High-efficiency Solar Nd YAG Disc Laser with Optical Fiber Pumping ,25

Bruno Do Couto, DaweiLiang

Na,Nd co-doped Ca2MgSi207 Laser 26

Hiroaki Nakao, Akira Shirakawa, Ken-Ichi Veda, Ladislav Bohaty, Petra Becker, Alexander Kamlnskii

Cavity Dumping of Single 19 ps Pulses from Passively Mode-locked Quasi-continuously Pumped Highly Doped Nd

YAG Laser 27

Vaclav Kubecek, Michal Jelinek, Miroslav Cech. PetrHirsl

Chaotic Mode-locking of Mid-IR Chirped-pulse Oscillator 28

Vladimir Kalashnikov, Evgeni Sorokin, li-ina Sorokina

High Power, Diode Side Pumped Er YAG Lasers 29

Arnc Heinrich, Thomas Bragagna

High Efficiency 2066-nm Laser Based on Tm Lu203 Ceramics 30

Oleg Anlipov, Nikita Zakhawv, Anion Novikov, Valeriy Sharkov

Dynamics of Refractive Index Changes in Tm-dopcd Crystals Tm YAG and Tm YLF, and Ceramics Tm Lu203 31

Andre}' Zinoviev, Remi Soulard, Oleg Anlipov, Richard Moncorge, Eugeniy Ivakin

Temporally Stretched Q-switched Pulses in the 2 um Spectral Range 32

Ingo Rohde, Dirk Theisen-Kunde, Ralf Brinkmann

Numerical Optimization of a High-energy End-pumped Ho YLF Slab Amplifier 33

Oliver Collett, Chrisloph Bollig, Daniel Esser

Spectroscopic, Luminescent And Laser Properties Of Tm3+-doped Mixed NaLaGd Tungstates and Molibdates 34

Fedor Bolschikov, Nikita Zakharov, Polina Ryabochkina, Denis Lis, Kirill Subbotin, Evgeny Zharikov, Oleg Anlipov

High Energy Diode Pumped Er YSGG Laser at 3um Transition 35

Emma Arbabzadah, Simon Chard, Heinmel Amrania, Chris Phillips, Michael Damzen

Delivery of 4.45 urn Fe ZnSe Laser Radiation by Hollow Waveguide 36

Helena Jelinkova, Uichal Nemec,Jan Sulc, Mitsunobu Miyagi, KatsumasaIwai, Hiroyuki Takaku, Maxim Doroshenko, Tasoltan

Basiev, Vitaly Komar, Andriy Gerasimenko

Characterization of Delivered Resonantly Pumped 1645 nm Er YAG Laser Radiation by Hollow Glass Waveguide 37

Michal Nemec, Helena Jelinkova, Mitsunobu Miyagi, Katsumasa Iwai, Hiroyuki Takaku

Automation of the Alignment Process of a Solid State Laser Resonator 38

Christian Brecher, Nicolas Pyschny, Vicente Paul Guerrero Lule

Non-rcsonant Feedback to Enhance Conventional Lasing in Advanced Materials 39

Litis Cerdan, Angel Costela, Inmacttlada Garcia-Moreno, Virginia Martin, Maria Eugenia Perez-Ojeda

High-Power, Single-Frequency Ti Sapphire Laser Pumped by a Continuous-Wave Fiber Laser Green Source 40

Suddapalli Chailanya Kumar, Goutam Kumar Samanta, Kavila Devi, Stefano Sanguinelti, MajidEbrahim-Zadeh

Microsecond Red Laser Pulses Via Overcouplcd Intracavity Second Harmonic Generation 41

Roman Ostrowski

Strategies to Run an Ophthalmological CW Self-Raman Laser in Micro-second Pulsed Laser Regime 42

Alessandro Mota, Giuliano Rossi, Tiago Ortega, Glauco Costal, Yuri Fontes, Fatima Yasuoka, Mario Stefani, Jarbas Castiro,Maria Paiva

Temperature Dependent Output Characteristics ofPr YAP Microchip Lasers at 747 nm and 662 nm Wavelengths 43Martin Fibrlch, Helena Jelinkova, Jan Sulc, Karel Nejezchleb, Vaclav Skoda

Automodulations Observation in an Extended Cavity Ti Sapphire Oscillator - Period Doubling and Chaos 44

Tomaiz Kardas, Wojciech Gadomski, Bozena Ratqjska-Gadomska, Piotr Wasylczyk

Frequency Stable Operation of a Pulsed Solid State Laser Oscillator Based on Gain Grating Holograms 45

Roland Ullmann, Robert Eisner, Axel Heuer, Ralf Menzel, Martin Oslermeyer

Self-Optimization of Robot-based Resistance Soldering for the Assembly of Optical Elements in Solid-State Laser

Systems 46

Alexander Gatej, Nicolas Pyschny, Valentin Morasch, Peter Loosen, Christian Brecher

Rapidly Tunable Intra-cavity Cr3+ LiCAF-PPSLT Optical Parametric Oscillator Based on a Sclf-injection-lockedPump Wave 47

Haroldo J. MacsIre, Adrian J, Torregrosa, Juan Capmany

High Performance Planar Waveguide Lasers for Applications from TV to Space (invited) 48Yoshihito Hirano

First Visible 639 nm SrF2 Pr3+ Ceramic Laser 49Tasoltan Basiev, Vasilii Konyushkin, DmitriiKonyushkin, Maxim Doroshenko, Gunter Huher, Fabian Relchert, Nils-Owe Hansen,

Matthias Fechner

Single-Frequency Continuous-waveDiode-pumped Pr3+BaY2F» Orange Laser 50

David Paboeuf, OussamaMhibik, Fabien Bretenaker, Philippe Goldner, Daniela Parisi, Mauro Tonelli

A Continuous-wave Laser with Wavelength-selectable Output Spanning Green-yellow-red 51AndrewLee, David Spence, James Piper, Helen Pask

Eu3t KGd(WO.i)2 Laser Crystal Stimulated Emission at 703 nm 5D0->7F< Transition 52

Sergei Bagayev, Vladimir Dashkevich, Valentin Orlovich, Sergei Vatnik, Anatolii Pavlyuk, Alexander Yurkln

Highly Efficient, Broadly Tunable 2-um Femtosecond Tm KYW Laser 53Alexander Lagatsky, Tom Brown, Wilson Sibbett, Stephane Calvez, Manin Dawson, James Gupta

Wide-bandwidth Ho YFL Multi-pass Amplifier Pumped by Tnv.Fiber Laser 54Nicola Coluccelli, Gianluca Galzerano, Paolo Laporta, Alberto Di Lieto, Mauro Tonelli

2.08 um Ho KLu(WOj)2 Laser Resonantly Pumped by a Diode Laser 55VenkatesanJambunathan, Xavier Mateos, Maria Cinta Pujol, Joan Josep Carvajal, Magdalena Aguilo, Francesc Diaz, Uwe

Griebner, Valentin Petrov

High Energy 125mJ Ho YAG (2.09 um) MOPA Double Pass Laser System Pumped by cw Thulium Fiber Laser

(1.9 um) 56KarstenSchmidt, Chrisloph Reiter, Heike Voss, Frank Mafimann, Martin Oslermeyer

Quasi-Threc-Lcvel Solid-State Lasers in the Near and Mid Infrared (Invited) 57Marc Eichhorn

The National Ignition Facility and the Goal ofNear-term Laser Fusion Energy (Keynote) 58

Edward Moses

Multi-Slab Architecture for kJ-Class DPSSL System 59

Paul Mason, SaumyabralaBanerjee, Klaus Erlel, Cristina Hernandez-Gomez, Jonathan Phillips, John Collier

Hundred mJ Level, High Contrast OPCPA/Yb YAG Hybrid Laser System 60

Masayuki Suzuki, Hiromitsu Kiriyama, Izuru Daito, Hajime Okada, Paul Bolton, Akira Sugiyama, Kiminori Kondo, Shunichi

Kawanishi, Masatoshi Sato, Yoshinori Tamaoki, Takehiro Yoshii, Junya Maeda, Shinichi Matsuoka, Hirofumi Kan

High-energy, Diode-pumped Yb CaF2 Disk-laser 61

Mathias Siebald, Markus Loeser, Fabian Roeser, Franziska Kroll, Jocrg Koerner, JoachimHein, Ulrich Schramm

Final Developments of the Chemcam Laser Source and Potential Applications for New Planetology Programs 62

Benoit Faure, Eric Durand, Sylvestre Maurice, Didier Bruneau, Franck Montmessin

A Highly-Stabilized Light Source for the Space Gravitational Wave Detector DECIGO and DPF 63

Mitsuru Musha, Shinya Horiuchi, Ken'Ichi Nakagawa, Ken-lchi Veda

Development of a Solid State Laser Amplifier Source for the Third Generation of Gravitational Wave Detectors 64

Chandrajit Basu, Oliver Puncken, Li/tz Wmkelmann, Peter Wefiels, Jtirg Neumann, Dietmar Kracht

Solar NdYAG Laser Beam Quality by a Roof-shaped Pump Cavity 65

JoanaAlmeida, DawelLiang

High Power High-Density Spectral Beam Combining by Volume Bragg Gratings (VBGs) 66

DerrekDrachenberg, Ivan Divliansky, Vadim Smirnov, George Venus, Leonid Glebov

Stabilized 1.5 Microns Dual-frequency Laser Prototype for Optical Generation ofHigh Purity Microwave Signals 67

Gregoire Pillet, Bastien Steinhausser, Loi'c Morvan, Julien Schiellein, Thomas Merlet, Daniel Dolfi

High Average Power Ultrafast Lasers (Invited) 68

Johannes Weitenberg, Peter Rujibiildt, Hans-Dieter Hoffmann, Reinhan Poprawe

50-MW, 12-ps Nd YV04$ Slab Amplifier for OPCPA Pumping 69

Clemens Heese, Andreas E. H. Ochler, Lukas Gallmann, Ursula Keller

12 W, 350 fs Ultrashort Pulses from a Micro-pulling Down Yb YAG Single Crystal Fiber Amplifier 70

Yoatm Zaouter, Igor Martial, Xavier Delen, Nicolas Auhry, Julien Didierjean, Clemens H&nninger, Eric Mottay, Patrick Georges,Frederic Druon, Francois Balembois

Sub-lOOW Phase Conjugate Pico-second Nd YV04 Laser System Based on a Tandem Bounce Amplifier 71

Makolo Ashihara, Kaori Hayashi, Takaham Yoshino, Masahito Okida, Katsuhiko Miyamoto, Takashige Omatsu

High Power Mixed Vanadate Laser and Modclocking with Nonlinear Mirror 72

Gabrielle Thomas, Takashige Omatsu, Michael Damzen

Passively Q-switched Nd YAG/Cr4* YAG All-Ceramics, Composite, Monolithic Micro-Lasers with Multi-Beam

Output for Laser Ignition 73

Nicolaic Pavel, Masaki Tsunekane, Takunori Taira

High Energy, High Peak Power (2.6mj/5.6MW) Or High Average Power (20W) NdYAG Single-crystal Fiber

Amplifier in a Sub-ns kHz System 74

Igor Martial, Francois Balembois, Juien Didierjean, Patrick Georges

High-Brightness 946 nm Nd YAG Planar Waveguide Laser 75

S. P Ng, J. I. Mackenzie

Broadly Tunable and Low-quantum-defect Yb3+-doped Double Tungstate Channel Waveguide Lasers 76

Dimitri Geskus, Shanmugam Aravazhi, Kerstin WorhojJ, Markus Pollnau

Compact Tm KYW Laser Passively g-switched with a PbS-quantum Dot-based Saturable Absorber 77

Maxim Gaponenko, Victor Kisel, Alexander Malyarevlch, Alexei Onushchenko, Konstantin Yumashev, Nikolai Kuleshov

6 MW Peak Power at 532 nm by Using Linearly Polarized Passively Q-switched Microchip Laser 78

Rakesh Bhandari, Takunori Taira

Novel Method for Pulse Control in NdYV04/C'+ YAG Passively Q-switched Microchip Laser 79

Simon Joly, Takunori Taira

Chi-<2)-lens Mode Locking of a 1,3 4 urn Nd GdV04 Laser In-band Pumped by 880nm Laser Diode 80

Hristo Iliev, Ivan Buchvarov, Valentin Petrov

Dual Wavelength and Switchable Laser Operation of Pr3* LiYF4 Crystals at 523 nm and 640 nm 81

Sebastian Miiller, Nils-Owe Hansen, Ortwin Hellmig, Klaus Petermann, Gitnter Huber

Spectroscopy of Ho Lu2Oj with Respect to the Realization of a Visible Laser 82

Matthias Fechner, Fabian Rckhert, Philipp Koopntann, Klaus Petermann, Guenter Huber

Beat Note Stabilization ofa 10-60 GHz Dual Polarization NdYAG Microchip Laser Through Optical Down

Conversion 83

Antoine Rolland, Marc Brunei, Goulc'Hen Loas, Ludovic Frein, Marc Vallet, MehdiAlouini

Four-micron CW Operating Dy PbGa2S4 Laser 84

Jan Sulc, Helena Jelinkova, Maxim E. Doroschenko, Tasollan T. Basiev, Vyacheslav V. Osiko, Vaterit V, Badikov, Dmitrii V.

Badikov

High-power Fibre-laser-pumpcd Er YAG Laser with Top-hat Output Beam 85

Jl Won Kim, Jacob I, Mackenzie, John R. Hayes, William A. Clarkson

Radially-polarized, Q-switched Pulses from a Side-pumped Nd YV04 Compact Stigmatic Bounce Laser with a

Photonic Crystal Output Coupler 86

Takashige Omatsu, Koki Iwamatsu, Simon P. Chard, Ara Minassian, Michael J. Damzen

High-energy Q-switched ErYAG Laser with Laguerre-Gaussian (LGqi) Mode Output 87

Ji Won Kim, Jacob I. Mackenzie, John R. Hayes, William A. Clarkson

Geometric Frustration in Large Arrays of Coupled Lasers 88

Micha Nixon, Eitan Ronen, Asher A. Friesem, Nir Davidson

Maintaining Radial-polarization and Beam-quality in Muli-kw Rod-based Lasers Through the Use of

Polycrystalline Nd YAG Rods 89

Inon Moshc, Steven Jacket, Yaakov Lumer, Avi Meir, Revilal Feldman, Yehoshua ShimonyConical Refraction Beam Evolution 90

DavidCarnegie, Grigorii Sokolovski, Todor Kalkandjiev, Edik Rafailov

Cryogenic Yb YAG Total-Reflection Active-Mirror Lasers (Invited) 91

Junji Kawanaka, Hirouki Furuse, Daniel Attach, Yasuki Takeuchi, Akira Yoshida, Toshiyuki Kawashima, Hirofumi Kan

Yb CaFj Laser at Cryogenic Temperature 92

Sandrine Ricaud, Dmitris Papadopoulos, Patrice Camy, Jean-Louis Dotmlan, Richard Moncorge, Anloine Courjaud, Eric Mottay,Patrick Georges, Frederic Drtton

Cryogenic-cooled Yb: YAG Amplifier for ns-pulses Obtaining High Optical Efficiencies 93

Jorg Korner, Hartmut Liehetrau, Joachim Hein, Martin Kahle, Markus Loser, Ualhias Siebold

Alternative Approaches for Highly Efficient Diode-Pumped Lasers 94

Martin Kahte, Joachim Hein, Jiirg Korner, Hartmut Liehetrau, Mathias Lenski, Reinhard Seifert

Disk Laser Delivering 50 mJ with 400 ns Latency 95

Karsten Sclmhmann, Aldo Antognini, AdolfGiesen, Thomas Graf, Tobias Nebel, RandalfPohl

Octave-Spanning Supcrcontinuum from an Efficient Gigahertz Femtosecond Yb KGW Laser with 2.2-W AveragePower 96

Selina Pekarek, Christian Fiebig, Katrin Paschke, GStz Erbert, Thomas Siidmeyer, Ursula Keller

Yb CaGdA10M Thin Disk Laser in Continuous-wave 97

Sandrine Ricaud, Birgit Weichelt, Philippe Goldner, Bruno Viana, Marwan Abdou-Ahned, Andreas Voss, Thomas Graf, Daniel

Ritz, Eric Mottay, Patrick Georges, Frederic Druon

CW and Modclocked Operation of an Yb (Sc,Y,Lu)203 Thin-Disk Laser 98

CyrillRoman Emmanuel Baer, Clara Jody Saracenn, Oliver Hubert Heckl, Matthias Galling, Thomas Siidmeyer, Kolja Beil,

Christian Krdnkel, Klaus Peterinann, Giinter Huber, Ursula Keller

High Gain Yb CaF2 Amplifier Pumped by a High Brightness Ytterbium Doped Fiber Laser Operating at 976nm 99

Guillaume Machine!, Jerome Lhermite, Dominique Descamps, Giedrius Andriukaitis, Audrhts Pugzlys, Daniel Adam, Andrius

BaltuSka, Eric Cormier

Scalability ofMode-locked Thin-disk Oscillators Issues and Scenarios of Destabilization 100

Oleg Pronin, Vladimir Kalashnikov, Vladimir Pervak, Catherine Teisset, Mikhail Larionov, Jens Rauschenberger, Alexander

Apolonski, Ernst Fill, Ferenc Krausz

New Thin Disk Laser Materials Yb ScYLO and Yb YLF 101

Kolja Beil, Sttsanne T. Fredrich-Thornton, Christian Krankel, Klaus Petermann, Danlela Parisi, Maura Tonelll, Giinter Huber

Continuous-wave Second-StokcsSelf-Raman Nd GdV04 Laser 102

JipertgLin, Andrew J, Lee, Helen M. Pask

Low-loss Synthetic Single-crystal Diamond Raman Gain Measurement and High Power Raman Laser at 1240 nm 103

Vasili Savilskl, David Burns, Alan Kemp

Optical Parametric Oscillators Spanning the Ultraviolet to Mid-Infrared (Invited) 104

Majid Ebrabim-Zadeh

Ring Cavity Solid-state Raman Lasers Generating in Visible and Eye-safe Spectral Regions 105

Ruslan Chulkov, Vladimir Dashkevich, Pavel Apanasevich, Valentin Orlovtch

All-Solid-Statc, Narrowband, Pulsed Sodium D2 Resonance Light Source 106

Norihllo Sallo, Tomohiro Tsukihana, Takuya Kawahara, Satonori Nozawa, Tetsuya Kawabata, Takuo Tsuda, Toshiro Koizumi,Satoshi Wada

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS

The Transistor Laser (Invited) 107

Milton Feng, Nick Holonyak

Impact of Nonlinear Carrier-carrier Scattering on Gain Dynamics and Nonlinear Optical Properties of QuantumDot Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers 108

Niels Majer, Kathy Lildge, Eckehard Schdll

Birefringence and Spin Controlled Ultrafast Polarization Oscillations in Vertical-cavity Surface-emitting Lasers 109

M. Y. Li, H, Jaehme, H. Soldat, N. C. Gerhardl, M. R. Hofmann, T. Ackemann

Up to 9 Gbit/s Data Transmission with Monolithically Integrated VCSELs and PIN Photodiodes 110Alexander Kern, Dietmar Wahl, Sujoy Paul, MohammadTanvir Haidar, Rainer Blood, Wolfgang Schwarz, Rainer Michalzik

5 GHz Modulation of650 nm VCSEL 111Robert Rafibach, MarcusEichfelder, Michael Jetter, Peter Michler

Wavelength Multistability in Ring and Fabry-Perot Lasers The Effect of Spatial Hole Burning 112

Antonio Perez-Serrano, Julien Javaloyes, Salvador Balle

An Asymmetric Integrated Extended Cavity 20GHz Mode-locked Quantum Well Ring Laser Fabricated in the

JcPPIX Technology Platform 113M. Saeed Tahvili, Yohan Barbarin, XaveerJ, M, Leijtens, Tjibbe De Vrles, BanySmalbrugge, Jeroen Both, Huub P. M. M

Ambrosius, Meint K. Smit, Erwin A. J. MBentc

All-optical Signal Processing Functions Using Semiconductor Ring Lasers (invited) 114

Siyuan Yu, Bel Li

Bichromatic Emission and Coexisting Multimode Dynamics in Ring Lasers 115Antonio Perez-Serrano, Julien Javaloyes, Salvador Balle

Direct Modulation of Bistable Semiconductor Ring Lasers 116

Xinlun Cai, Gabor Mezosi, Marc Sorel, Zhuorcm Wang, Nan Chi, Pisu Jiang, MuhammadMemon, Siyuan Yu

Measurement of the Spectral Amplitude and Phase ofa Free-running 40 GHz Quantum-dash Modclockcd Laser

Diode 117Stuart Murdoch, Regan Watts, Yiqing Xu, Ramon Maldonado-Basilio, Jostle Parra-Cetina, Slywester Latkowski, Pascal Landais,Liam Barry

Extended Ground-state and Excited-state Carrier Dynamics Control in a Mode-locked Two-section Quantum Dot

Laser Joining Absorber Reverse-bias and Resistor Self-clcctro-optic Effect (SEED) Emission-state Regimes 118

Stefan Breuer, Lukas Drzewietzkl, Wolfgang Elsasser

Passively Mode-locked Monolithic Two-section Gain-guided Tapered Quan-tum-dot Lasers I. Ultrashort and

Stable Pulse Generation 119

Lukas Drzewietzki, Myke Ruiz, Stefan Breuer, Michael Tran, Yannick Robert, Mattia Rossetli, TianhongXu, Paolo Bardella,

Wolfgang Elsdfier, MichelKrakowski, Ivo Montrosset, Igor Krestnikov

Passively Mode-locked Monolithic Two-section Gain-guided Tapered Quantum-dot Lasers II. Record 15 Watt

Peak Power Generation 120Daniil I. Nikitichev, Myke Ruiz, Ying Ding, Michael Tran, Yannick Robert, Michel Krakowski, Mattia Rossetti, Paolo Bardella, Ivo

Montrosset, Igor Krestnikov, Daniil Livshits, MariaAna Cataluna, Edik U. Rafailov

Strong Asymmetry of Mode-locking Pulses in Quantum-dot Semiconductor Lasers 121

Mindaugas Radzhmas, Andrei G, Vladimirov, EvgenyA. Viktorov, Gerrit Fiol, Holger Schrneckebier, Dieter Bimberg

320 GHz Time-Domain Multiplexed Pulses From Quantum-Dash Mode-Locked Semiconductor Laser Diodes 122Ramon Maldonado-Basilio, Sylwester Latkowski, Pascal Landais

Quantum Cascade Lasers Recent Advances and Future Prospects (Keynote) 123

Claire Gmachl

Quantum Cascade Ring Lasers Unidirectional Operation and Coupled Ring Tuning 124

Chidi Nshii, Charlie Ironside, MarcSorel, Thomas Slight, Shiyong Zhang, Dmitry Revin, John Cockburn

Frequency Noise ofFree-running Room Temperature Quantum Cascade Lasers 125

Lionel Tombez, Joab Di Francesco, Stephane Schilt, Gianni Di Domenico, Daniel Hofstetter, Pierre Thomann

Strain-balanced Quantum Cascade Lasers Influence of Growth Temperature on Interface Roughness and Laser

Performance 126

Alfredo Blsmuto, Romain Terazzi, Manias Beck, Jerome Falsi

Polarization Dynamics Of VCSELS with Optical Feedback And Crossed Polarization Rcinjection 127Mathias Marconi, Massimo Giudici, Stephane Barland, Julien Javaloyes, Salvador Balle

Spatial "rocking" in Broad Emission Area Semiconductor Lasers 128

MindaugasRadziunas, Kestutis Staliunas

Experimental Characterization ofBubbling in Delay-Coupled Semiconductor Lasers 129

Xavier Porte, Jordl Tiana-Alsina, Konstantin Hicke, Carine Torrent, Jordi Garcla-Ofalvo, Ingo Fischer

Single-Mode Quantum-Dash Laser Submitted to Optical Injection Nonstandard Behaviour with Respect to the

Slave Pump 130

Zhenyu Hao, Pascal Besnard

Dynamics ofCoupled Mode-Locked Quantum Dot Semiconductor Lasers (Invited) 13]

GuiUaunte Huyet, Tatiana Habruseva, Natalia Rebrova, Stephen Hegarty, Dmitrii Rachinskil, Andrei Vladimirov, Evgeniy Viktoro v

Generation ofHigh Power (> 7W) Yellow-Orange GalnNAs Semiconductor Disk Laser 132

Tomi Leinonen, Janne Puustinen, Ville-MarkusKorpijdrvi, Antti Hdrkonen, Mircea Guina, Ryan Epstein

Generation of UV Laser Llight via intra-cavity Frequency Doubling of an AlGalnP-VECSEL 133Thomas Schwarzbdck, HermannKahle, Marcus Eichfelder, Wolfgang-Michael Schulz, Mrobert RoJSbach, Michael Jetter, Peter

Michler

PbSc Quantum Well VECSEL on Si 134

Matthias Fill, MohamedRahim, AmirKhiar, FerdinandFelder, HansZogg

Narrow Linewidth 2um GaSb-based Semiconductor Disk Laser 135

MarcelRattunde, Sebastian Kaspar, Benno Rosener, Tino Topper, Christian Manz, Klaus Kdhler, Oliver Ambacher, Joachim

Wagner

Mid-Infrared Continuously Tunable Single Mode VECSEL 136

AmirKhiar, FerdinandFelder, Mohamed Rahim, Matthias Fill, Fabian Hobrecker, Hans Zogg

2.5 um Semiconductor Disk Laser with 130 nm Tuning Range 137

Jari Nikkinen, JonnaPaajaste, Riku Koskitten, Soile Suontalainen, O/eg Okhotnikov

Density-Activated Defect Recombination as a Possible Explanation for the Efficiency Droop in GaN-Based LightEmitters 138

Jorg Hader, Jerome V. Moloney, Stephan W. Koch

Near-UV Laser Diodes for External Cavity Lasers 139

Wolfgang Scheibenzuber, Ulrich Schwarz

Efficiency-optimized 973nm High Power Broad Area DFB Lasers with Overgrown Aluminium-free Gratings for

Peak Power Conversion of 63% 140

Christoph Matthias Schultz, Paul Crwnp, Hans Wenzel, Sleffen Knlgge, OiafBrox, Andre Maafidorf, Frank Bugge, Golz Erbert

Picosecond Pulses with More Than 60 W Peak Power Generated by a Single-stage All-semiconductor Master-

oscillator Power-amplifier System 141

Sven Schwerfeger, AndreasKlehr, ArminLiero, Thomas Hoffmann, Hans Wenzel, Gdtz Erbert

Octave-Spanning Supcrcontinuum from an Efficient Gigahertz Femtosecond Yb KGW Laser with 2.2-W AveragePower 142

Selina Pekarek, Christian Fiebig, Katrln Paschke, GStz Erbert, Thomas Sudmeyer, Ursula Keller

Compact 1064 nm ps-light Source on a Micro Bench with Free Adjustable Repetition Rate and nJ Pulse Energy 143

Andreas Klehr, Armin Liero, Thomas Hoffmann, Sven Schwerlfiger, Hans Wenzel, Golz Erherl, Wolfgang Heinrich, Giinlher

Trdnkle

Ge-on-Si Lasers for Silicon Photonics (Invited) 144

Jifeng Liu, Lionel C. Kimerling, Jurgen Michel

Flexible Distributed Feedback Colloidal Quantum Dot Laser Patterned by a Submicron Grating Structure 145

Yujie Chen, Benoil Guilhahert, Johannes Herrnsdorf, Yanfeng Zhang, Allan Mackintosh, Richard Pethrick, Nicolas Laurand,Martin Dawson

Integrated Tunable Quantum Dot Laser for Optical Coherence Tomography in the 1.7nm Wavelength Region 146

Bauke W. Tilma, Yuqing Mao, Jimji Kolani, Barry Smalbrugge, Huub P. M. M. Ambrosius, Peter J. Thijs, Xaveer J. M. Leijtens,Richard Notzel, Meint K. Srnit, Erwin A. J. M. Bente

Semiconductor Mode-locked Lasers with Integrated Dispersion Control 147

Michael J. Strain, PiotrM. Stolarz, Marc Sorel

Singlemode Tunable VCSELs with Integrated MEMS Technology 148

Benjamin Kbgel, Pierluigi Debernardi, Pelter Westbergh, Asa Haglund, Johan Gustavsson, JSrgen Bengtsson, Erik Haglund,Anders Larsson

Reduced Photon Bunching in Cooled Quantum Dot Supcrlumincscent Diodes 149

Martin Blazek, Wolfgang ElsaflerPhotonic Crystal Nanolascrs, Modulation and Coherence Characteristics 150

Remy Braive, Richard Hostein, David Elvira, Xavier Hachair, SylvainBarbay, ho Abram, Isabelle Sagnes, Gregoire Beaudoin,Luc Le Gratiet, Anne Talneau, Isabelle Robert-Philip, Alexios Beveralos

A Coupled Quantum Dot Laser Amplifier Using Raman Transitions Between Spin Singlet and Triplet States 151Jeroen Elzerman, Kathrina Weiss, Javier Miguel Sanchez, Atac Imamoglu

Direct Observation of Slow Light in the Noise Spectrum of a Laser 152

Abdelkrim El Amili, Bernardo-Xavier Miranda, Fabienne Goldfarb. Ghaya Baili, Gregoire Beaudoin, Isabelle Sagnes, Fahien

Bretenaker, Mehdi Alouini

Measurement of Phase-Correlation between Optical Modes of Semiconductor Lasers 153Marcello Simonetla, Marco Soldo, Marco Zanola, Michael J. Strain. Marc Sorel, Guido Giuliani'

Intensity and Frequency Noise in high power highly coherent VcCSELs 154

Alexandre Laurain, Mikhael Myara, Isabelle Sagnes, Arnaud Garnache

Ultrashort Pulse Surface-Emitting Semiconductor Lasers (Invited) 155

Anne Tropper

Femtosecond VECSELs with up to 1 W Average Output Power 156Martin Hoffmann, OliverD. Sieber, Valentin J. Wittwer, Wolfgang P. Pallmann, Igor L. Krestnikov, Sergey S. Mikhrin, DaniilA.

Livshits, Matthias Golling, Yohan Barbarln, Thomas Siidmeyer, Ursula Keller

Pulse Generation in a Semiconductor Disk Laser with Frequency-Shifted Feedback 157

Esa Saarinen, Jari Nikkinen, Oleg Okhotnikov

10-GHz MIXSEL A High Power Integrated Ultrafast Semiconductor Disk Laser 158Valentin J. Wittwer, Benjamin Rudin, Deran J, H. C, Maas, Martin Hoffmann, Oliver D. Sieber, Yohan Barbarin, Matthias Golling,Thomas Suedmeyer, Ursula Keller

Monitoring the Temperature Distribution in High-Power VECSELs 159

Sangam Chalterjee, Alexey Chernikov, Jens Herrmann, Maik Scheller, Martin Koch, Bernardelte Kunert, Wolfgang Stolz, SiephanW. Koch, Tsuei-Lian Wang, Yushi Kaneda, J. Michael Yarborough, JSrg Hader, Jerome V. Moloney

Passively Mode-Locked Semiconductor Laser for Coherent Population Trapping in 87Rb 160

Giuseppe Tandoi, Krishna Seunarine, Charles N. Ironside, A. Catrina Biyce, Stewart D. McDougall, Wyn Meredith, Andre N,

Luiten

Reconfigurable Repetition Rate in Colliding-Pulse Mode Locked Lasers 161

Giuseppe Tandoi, Charles N. Ironside. A. Catrina Biyce

Investigation of Passive Electric and Optical-feedback Stabilization of a Passively Mode-locked Tapered Two-section Quantum-dot Laser 162

Lukas Drzewietzkl, Stefan Breuer, Wolfgang Elsdfier, Michel Krakowski, Igor Krestnikov

In As Quantum-dots Laser Utilizing GaAs Wl Type Photonic-crystal Slab Line-defect Waveguide 163

Hisaya Oda, Naaki Hamada, Akio Yamanaka, Nobuhlko Ozaki, Naokilkeda, YoshimasaSugtmoto

Coupled Ring Resonator Geometry for Efficient Second Harmonic Generation 164Danilo Skoczowsky, Andreas Jechow, RalfMenzel

The Excitonic Capture Path in Electrically Pumped Quantum Dots Using Time-resolved Amplified SpontaneousEmission 165

Jordi Gomis-Bresco, Sabine Dommers-Vdlkel, Oliver SchSps, Yuecel Kaplan, Olga Dyatlova, Dieter Bimberg, Ulrike Waggon

Analysis and Characterisation ofExperimental Real-Time Series of a Semiconductor Laser under OpticalInjection 166

Kevin Schires, Antonio Hurtado, Ian Henning, MikeAdams

Physical Modeling of Mechanical and Thermal Properties of 980 nm High-Power Laser Diodes on CompositeSubmounts 167

Julien Leclech, Daniel T. Cassidy, Francois Laruelle, Mauro Bettiati, Jean-Pierre Landesman

High Performance Single-Mode 1060 nm DFB Laser Diodes 168

Evgeny Zibik, Julien Boucart, Achim Thies, Ian Davies, Chris Button, Narbert Lichtenstein

Narrow-linewidth High-power Semiconductor-based Laser Module,

169

Stefan Spiefiberger, Max Schiemangk, Alexander Salm, Andreas Wicht, Hans Wenzel, GblzErbert, Giinlher Trdnkle

Tuning Wavelength and Linewidth of an External Cavity Diode Laser using anActive Control Scheme Based on

Polarization Spectroscopy 170Thorsten Fiihrer, Thomas Walther

Hybrid-integrated ECDL for Precision Rubidium Spectroscopy in Space 171

Erdenetsetseg Luvsandamdln, Gregor Mttra, Andreas Wicht, AlexanderSahm, Gotz Erbert, Gunlher Trdnkle

Single-frequency Optically Pumped Semiconductor Vertical External Cavity Laser at 852nm for Cs Atomic Clock 172

Fabiola A. Camargo, Isabelle Sagnes, Arnaud Garnache, Patrick Georges, Gaelle Litcas-Leclin

Development and Spectral Characterisation of Discrete Mode Laser Diodes (DMLDs) emitting at 780 nm for

Rubidium Atomic Clocks 173

Florian Gruet, Thejesh Bandi, Gaetano Mileti, John O'Carroll, Brian Kelly, RichardPhelan, James O'Gorman

Multiple Gain Element GainNAs Disk Laser Generating Narrow Band (2.6 Mhz) Radiation at 1178 Nm 174Antti Hlirkonen, Tomi Leinonen, Ville-Markus Karpijarvi, Janne Pnustinen, Mircea Guina

Modulation Response of Quantum Dot Nano-LEDs and Nano-lasers 175

Troels Suhr, Niels Gregersen, Michael Lorke, Jesper Mark

Fastly tunable External-Cavity Diode-Lasers Controlled by Electro-Absorption Modulators 176

Hendrik Ja'htne, Mike Baiters, Dieter Jdger, Martin Hofmann

Performance Optimization of Electrically-injected Nano-spin VCSELs 177K. Alan Shore

Tailored Intensity Distributions with High Power VCSEL Systems 178

Holger Moench, Stephan Gronenhom, Michael Miller, Peter Loosen

Temperature Dependent Dynamics in a 1550nm VCSELs Subject To Polarised Optical Injection 179

Nadir Khan, Kevin Schires. Antonio Hurtado, Jan Henning, Michael Adams

Dual-frequency Operation of a Vertical External Cavity Semiconductor Laser for Coherent Population TrappingCesium Atomic Clocks 180

Jessica Barrlenlos, Fabiola Camargo, Sylvie Janlcot, Isabelle Sagnes, Arnaud Garnache, Ghaya Baili, Lo'ic Morvan, Patrick

Georges, GaSlle Litcas-Leclin

Stability Analysis of Spin-Polarized VCSELs 181

Rihab Ks Al Seyab, Dimitris Alexandropoulos, Ian D Pfenning, Mike JAdams

Polarization-Stable Single-Mode VCSELs for Cs-based Miniature Atomic Clocks 182

AhmedAl-Santanelt, MohammadT. Haidar, Dletmar Wahl, Rainer Michabik

All-optical Inverter based on Polarization Switching in Long-wavelength VCSELs 183

Ana Qttirce, Jose Ramon Cuesta, Antonio Hurtado, Kevin Schires, Angel Valle, Luis Pesquera, lan Henning, Michael Adams

Gain and Reflectance Measurements of a 1050nm VECSEL Chip 184

Sebastian Haupt, Michael Furllsch, Hans Lindberg, Ines Pietzonka, Urn Stratifi, Gerd Bacher

Polarisation-Resolved Real-Time Series of the Dynamics of a 1550 nm-VCSEL under Orthogonal Optical Injection 185Kevin Schire,?, Antonio Hurtado, Ian Henning, MikeAdams

Spectral Characterisation ofVCSELs Emitting at 894.6 Nm for Cpt-based Miniature Atomic Clocks 186

Florian Gruet, Laura Bimboes, Danijela Miletlc, Chrisloph Affolderbach, Gaetano Mileti, AhmedAl-Samaneh, Dietmar Wahl,

Rainer Michalzik

Power Scaling and Heat Management in High-Power VECSELs 187

Sangam Chatterjee, A/exey Chernikov, Jens Herrmann, Maik Scheller, Martin Koch, Bernardelle Kunert, Wolfgang Stolz, StephanW. Koch, Tsuei-Lian Wang, Yushi Kaneda, J. Michael Yarborough. Jorg Hader, Jerome V. Moloney

Free-Running Quantum Dot SESAM Modelocked VECSEL with Record-Low Timing Jitter 188

Valentin J. Wittwer, Christian A. Zaugg, Wolfgang P. Pallmann, Andreas E. H. Oehler, Benjamin Rudin, Martin Hoffmann,Matthias Galling, Yohan Barbarin, Thomas Suedmeyer, Ursula Keller

Fast Absorption Recovery and Wavelength Conversion in 1.5um AlInGaAs MQW lasers 189

Richard Green, Mohsin Haji, Lianping Hou, Gabor Mezosi, Rafal Dylewicz, Tony KellyThe Impact of Thermal Management of Saturable Absorber on the Performance of Mode-Locked Semiconductor

Disk Lasers 190

Antti Rantamdki, Jari Lyytikainen, Jari Nikkinen, Oleg Okhotnikov

Frequency Chirp Characterization of a Gain-switched Semiconductor Laser Using Photonic Differentiation Based

on Polarization Interferometry 191

Antonio Consoli, Jose Manuel Tijero, Jose Azaiia, Yong Woo Park, Ignacio Esquivias

Shoe Box All Semiconductor High Power Femtosecond Laser System 192

Jan C. Balzer, Tobias Schlauch, Martin R. Hofmann, Andreas Klehr, Gotz Erbert

Saturation ofAbsorption and Gain in a Quantum Dot Diode with Continuous-wave Driving 193

Thorslen Ackemann, Alessio Tierno, Christopher G. Leburn, C. Tom A. Brown

Integrated Optical Comb Generation for Coherent Communications using Injection Locked Semiconductor

Lasers 194

William Colter, David Goulding, Brendan Roycrofl, Brian Corbell, Frank Peters

Post-Growth Fabrication of a DFB Laser Array with High Precision Wavelength Spacing 195

Marco Zanola, Michael J, Strain, Guido Giuliani, Marc Sorel

Very Narrow Lincwidth ofHigh Power DFB Laser Diode for Cs Pumping 196

Charles Cayron, Michael Trail, Yannick Robert, Alain Enard, Eric Vine!, Michel Garcia, Michel Lecomle, Laurent Teisseire,Olivier Parillaud, MichelKralowski

Dynamics ofSemiconductor Lasers with Polarization Rotated Feedback and its Applications for Fast Random Bit

Generation 197

Neus Oliver, Miguel C. Soriano, DavidSttkow, Ingo Fischer

Observation of a Novel Type of Optical Modes in VCSELs 198

Grigorii Sokolovskii, Vladislav Dudelev, AndreyMonakhov, Alexey Savenko, Sergey Blokhtn, Anton Deryagin, Svellana

Zololovskaya, AlexanderKttzmenkov, Sergey Losev, Victor Luchinin, Nikolai Maleev, Edik Rqfailov, Wilson Sibbetl, Vladimir

Kuchinskii

Transitions Between Regular and Chaotic Behavior in Polarization-stabilized Vertical-cavity Surface-emittingLasers 199

Andreas Molitor, Wolfgang Elsdjier

Tuning dynamics of a > 70 nm continuously tunable MEMS-VCSEL with a hybrid curved mirror 200Karolina Zogal, Christian Gierl, Hooman Davani, Christian Grasse, Markus Maine, Peter Meissner, Markus Amann

Passive Mode-locking in Quantum Well Fabry-pVerot Lasers 201Mien Javaloyes, Piotr Slolarz, Lianping Hon, Marc Sorel, Catrina Bryce, Salvador Balle

80-ghz AlGalnAs/inp 1.55 urn Colliding-pulse Mode-locked Laser with Low Divergence Angle and Timing Jitter 202Lianping Hon, Mohsin Haji, Chong Li, Jehan Akbar, John Marsh, Ann Bryce

Active-mode-locked Terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers (invited) 203

Slefano Barbieri, Marco Ravaro, Pierre Gellie, Giorgio Sanlarelli, Chrisiophe Manquesl, Carlo Sirtori, Surqj P. Khanna, SdmundH. Linfteld, A. Giles Davies

Passive Harmonic Mode-locking of Discrete Mode Diode Lasers 204David Bitauid, Simon Osborne, Stephen O'Brien

A Low Jitter Passively Mode Locked Laser Diode at 40 GHz Using Regenerative Feedback Via an Optical Fiber

Loop 205Mohsin Haji, Anthony Kelly, Lianping Hon, Ann Bryce, John Arnold, Charles Ironside

TERAHERTZ SOURCES AND APPLICATIONS

Ultrafast Gain Switching ofTHz Quantum Cascade Lasers THz pulse amplification and Injection Seeding(Invited) 206

Sukhdeep Dhillon, NathanJukam, Dimilri Oustinov, Rakchanok Rnngsawang, Jean Maysonnave, Julien Madeo, Pierrick Cavallie,Slefano Barbieri, Pascal Filloux, Carlo Sirtori, Xavier Marcadel, Jerome Tignon

THz Time Domain Spectroscopy ofCoupled Cavity THz Quantum Cascade Lasers with Metal-Metal Waveguide 207Michael Marti, Juraj Darmo, Daniel Dielze, Chrisloph Deutsch, Martin Brandstetler, Alexander Bern, Aaron Maxwell Andrews,Pavel Klang, Werner Schrenk, Gottfried Slrasser, Karl Unterrainer

Ultra-broadband THz Semiconductor Laser Based on Heterogeneous Quantum Cascade Gain Medium 208Dana Turcinkova, Giacomo Scalari, Maria Ines Amanti, Fabrizio Castellano, Manias Beck, Jerome Faist

Active Photonic Crystal Terahertz Laser Operating in Upper Bands 209Alexander Bern, Chrisloph Deutsch, Martin Brandstetler, Aaron Maxwell Andrews, Pavel Klang, Hermann Detz, Werner Schrenk,Gottfried Slrasser, Karl Unterrainer

Scattering Processes in Terahertz InGaGs/inAlAs Quantum Cascade Lasers 210Milan Fischer, Giacomo Scalari, Kemal Celebi, Maria Amanti, Chrisloph Wallher, ManiasBeck, Jerome Faisl

THz stop bands by using Metal Slits in Tapered Parallel-Plate Waveguide 211Eui Su Lee, Young Bin Ji, Tae-ln Jeon

Temperature Controllable Terahertz Time-Domain Reflection Spectroscopy ofAqueous Systems 212Wenchao Qiao, Arne Thoma, Thomas Dekorsy

Continuous- wave Terahertz Tomography with Phase Unwrapping 213Wenfeng Sun, Xinke Wang, Ye Cui, Yan Zhang

Superconducting Waveguides for Terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers 214Martin Brandstetler, Alexander Bern, Chrisloph Deutsch, Karl Unterrainer, Pavel Klang, HermannDetz, Werner Schrenk, AaronAndrews, GottfriedSlrasser

Terahertz Plasma Oscillations in Corbino Field-effect Transistors, 215

Oleksiy Sydoruk, Richard Syms, Laszlo SolymarSpecific Features of Terahertz Radiation Emitted from Laser Sparks Induced in Gases by Femtosecond LaserPulses with Linear Polarization 216

Daniil Fadeev, Nina Zharova, Vyacheslai' Mironov

Autowave of Electron Population Depletion and Sub Terahertz Self-modulations of Light Absorption and IntrinsicStimulated Emission in GaAs 217

Igor Bronevoi

Polarization-Independent Broadband Terahertz Modulator 218Sanaz Zarei

Terahertz Spectroscopy of Beta- Barium Borate Crystals 219Oleg Khasanov, Sebastien Vidal, Jerome Degert, Jean Oberle, Eric Freysz, Olga Fedotova, Grigoiy Rusetsky

Tunable THz Source with Less Than 100 GHz Bandwidth 220Tobias Bach, Gorazd Poberaj, Marko Zgonik, Carolina Medrano, Peler Gunter

Triple-wavelength Cr3+ LiCAF Solid-state Laser for Simultaneous Generation of Two Independently Tunable THzWaves

221Haroldo J. Maestre, Adrian J. Torregrosa, Juan Capmany

Diode-pumped Terahertz Laser Source Based on Stimulated Polariton Scattering 222Helen Pask, Yabai He, Andrew Lee

Progress on InGaAs/GaAsSb based Terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers 223Chi'tstoph Deutsch, Hermann Detz, Alexander Bern, Michele Nobile, Aaron Maxwell Andrews, Pavel Klang, Werner Schrenk,Gottfried Slrasser, Karl Unterrainer

Metasurfaces Coupled to Terahertz Intersubband Transitions 224Daniel Dietze, Juraj Darmo, Gottfried Slrasser, Karl Unterrainer

Watching the Dance of Ions and Molecules in the THz (invited) 225Martina Havenilh

Nondestructive Rapid Measurementof GaAs, GaN, SiC, and Si Semiconductors using One Tunable Terahertz

Source 226

Akihide Hamano, Yoshinobu Takatsu, Seigo Ohno, Hiroaki Minamide, Hiromasa Ito, Yoshiyuki Usuki

Non-Contact Multilayer Thickness Measurements with Reflection-Mode Terahertz Time-Domain Spectroscopy 227

Volker Feige, Stephan Nix, Frank Ellrich, Joachim Jonuscheit, Rene BeigangNonlinear Spectroscopy Using Intense THz Pulses with Amplitudes Exceeding 1 MV/cm (invited) 228

Koichiro Tanaka

Magnetic-Field Induced Broadband THz Absorption Change in a Multiferroic Hcxaferrite at Room Temperature 229

Eiichi Matsubara, Yohei Onishi, Taishi Ishikura, Tstiyoshi Kimura, MasaakiAshida

Terahertz Real Time Focal Plane Imaging 230

Yan Zhang, Xinke Wang, Ye Cui, Wenfeng Sun

Field-resolved Four-wave Mixing with Multi-THz Transients in InSb (Invited) 231

Friederike Junginger, Bernhard Mayer, Sebastian Mahrlein, Christian Schmidt, OlafSchubert, Alexander Sell, Alexej Pashkin,

Alfred Leitenstorjer, RupertHuber

Development ofReal-time Near-field THz Microscope 232

Atsusbi Doi, Francois Blanchard, Tomoko Tanaka, Koichiro Tanaka

Efficient Optical Up-Convcrsion by Coherent Sum-Frequency Generation for Highly Sensitiv Terahertz Detection 233

Florian Sedlmeir, Harold G. L. Schwefel, Dmitry V. Strekalov, Sebastian Bauerschmidl, Sascha Preu, Stefan Maker, Gottfried H.

Dohler, Gerd Leuchs

Continuous Wave Intracavity Terahertz Source 234

Maik Scheller, Joe M. Yarborough, Jerome V. Moloney, MahmoudFallahi, Martin Koch, Stephan W. Koch

Terahertz Emitter Based on the Lateral Photo-dember Effect Excited with an Er Fiber Laser 235

GregorKlatt, Bernhard Stirrer, Daniel Stephan, OlafSchubert, Milan Fischer, Jerome Faisl, Alfred Leitenstorfer, Rupert Huber,

Thomas Dekorsy

New Generation of the Electro-Optic Terahertz Detectors 236

Juraj Darmo, Daniel Dielze, Michael Marti, Karl Unterrainer

Terahertz Generation Control by Metal Substrate in Sandwich Structure with Thin LiNbOj 237

Sergey Bodrov, Igor Ilyakov, Boris Shishkin, Audrey Stepanov

APPLICATIONS OF NONINEAR OPTICS

Nonlinear Photonics in Carbon Nanotubes and Graphenes (Invited) 238

Shinji Yamashita

Tilted Fiber Bragg GratingAssisted Nonlinear Effects in Carbon Nanotubc-Coated Optical Fibers 239

Guillermo E. Villanueva, Michael B. Jakubinek, Benoit Simard, Claudia J. Oldn, Fere Pirez-Millan, Jacques Albert

Spetro-temporal Characterisation of Incoherent Supercontinuum Subnanosecond Laser Emission for Multiplex-CARS Microspectroscopy 240

AnnalisaDe Angelis, Philippe Leproux, Vincent Couderc, Delia Arnaud-Cormos, Philippe LevequeCoherent Raman Microscopy with a Fiber-Format Femtosecond Oscillator 241

Alessio Gambetta, VikasKumar, Giulia Grancini, Dario Polli, Cristian Manzoni, Roberta Ramponi, Giulio Centllo, Marco

Marangoni

Chirped-pulse Interferometry for Dispersion-cancelled OCT 242

Robert Prevedel, Kurl Schreiter, Rainer Kalienbaek, Jonathan Lavoie, Devon Biggerstaff, Kevin Resell

Following a Chemical Reaction Using High Harmonic Spectroscopy (Invited) 243

Hans-Jakob Worner, Jullen Bertrand, Daniil Kartashov, Paul Corkum, David Villeneuve

High-energy Dcep-UV Temporal Pulse Shaping by Chirp-assisted Broadband Frequency Conversion 244

Carlo Vlcario, Alexandre Trisorio, Chrisloph P. Hauri, G. Arlsholm

Long Hollow Fibers for Strong, Spatially Uniform Spectral Broadening of Ultrashort Pulses 245

Tamas Nagy, Peter Simon

High Stability 100 kHz Mid-IR OPCPA with Passive CEP Stability 246

Alexandre Thai, Olivier Chains, Philip K. Bates, Jens Blegerl

Keldysh-sealing in the Waveform Control of the Dissociative Ionization ofD2 247

Irina Znakovskaya, Philipp Von Den Hoff, Gilad Marcus, Sergey Zherebtsov, Xun Gu, Yunpei Deng, Boris Bergues, Marc J. J.

Vrakking, Ferenc Krausz, ReinhardKienberger, Regina De Vivie-Riedle, Matthias Kling

Wave-Particle Duality and Tunable Steering of Solitons in Kerr media 248

ChandrothPamilan Jisha, Alessandro Albenwci, Ray-Kuang Lee, GaetanoAssanto

Femtosecond Pulse Written Quasi Phase Matching Element in x-cut Lithium Niobate 249

Jens Thomas, Vinzenz Hilbert, Reinhard Geiss, Andreas Tiinnermann, Stefan Nolte

Broadly Tunable CW Grecn-to-red Laser Source Based on FrequencyDoubling of a Quantum-dot External

Cavity Diode Laser in a PPKTP Waveguide 250

Ksenia A. Fedorova, MariaA. Cataluna, Philip R. Battle, Igor L. Krestnikov, Daniil A, Livshits, Edik U. Rafaibv

Nonlinear Optical Diode Based on Nonreciprocal Cross-phase Modulation in Coupled Microcavities 251

Victor Grigoriev, Fabio Biancalana

High Index Glass CMOS Compatible All-optical Chips for Telecom and Optical Interconnects (Invited) 252

David Moss, AlessiaPasquazi, Marco Peccianti, Luca Razzari, DavidDuchesne, Marcello Ferrera, Sai Chu, Brent Little, Roberto

Morandotti

Toward Sub-Cycle Field Shaping by Molecular Modulation in Gasses and Solids Raman Coherence at Work

(Invited) 253

Alexei Sokolov

Linear Precompensation of Phase-modulated Nanosecond Pulse Distortions in Second-harmonic Generation 254Sebastien Vidal, Jacques Luce, Denis Penninckx

Four-wave Mixing Based Mid-span Phase Conjugation using slow light engineered Chalcogcnide and siliconphotonic crystal waveguides 255

Majid Ebnali-Heidari, Homed Saghaei, ChristelleMonat, Christian Grille!

Influence ofModulation and Shape ofLaser Pump Pulses on Stimulated Brillouin Scattering in Self-focusingRegime in Silica

256Sarah Mauger, Luc Beige, Stefan Shipin

Imaging in Focusing Kerr Media Using Digital Reverse Propagation 257Alexandre Goy, Demetri Psaltis

Nonlinear Propagation Effects on High-Power Optical-Vortex Pulses in Anisotropic Crystals 258Masalo Suzuki, Yasunori Toda, Ryuji Morita

Vortex Solitons and Charge Flipping in Ncmatic Liquid Crystals 259Yana hdebskaya, Anton Desyatnikov, Gaetano Assunto, Yuri Kivshar

LightPropagation in Nonlinear Photonic Lattices Based on Complex Nondiffracting Beams 260Patrick Rose, Martin Boguslawski, Falko Diehcl, Julian Becker, Cornelia Denz

Discrete Solitons in Photonic Lattices with Topological Defects 261Matthias Hcinrich, Robert Keil, Felix Dreisow, Andreas Tiinnermann, Stefan Nolte, Alexander Szameil

Dynamics of Light Bullets in Two-Dimensional Arrays of Waveguides 262Stefano Minardi, Folk Eilenberger, Yarsolav Kartosbov, Alexander Szameit, Ulrich Rupke, Jens Kobelke, Kay Schuster, HartmutBartalt, Lluis Tomer, Stefan Nolte, Andreas Tiinnermann, FalkLederer, Thomas Perlsch

Generating Ultra-Short High-Energy Pulses using Dissipative Soliton Resonance Pulse Compression Schemes 263Wonkeun Chang, Philippe Grelu, Adrian Ankiewlcz, Jose M. Soto-Crespo, Nail Aklmtediev

Dispersion-Managed Fibers for All-Optical Regeneration at 160 Gbit/s 264Sy Dat he, Thierry Chartier, Mathilde Gay, Marcia Costa ESilva, Laurent Bramerie, Michel Joindot, Jean-Claude Simon, ThanhNam Nguyen

Fibcr-Lascr-Pumped, High-Power, Continuous-Wave, Singly-Resonant Optical Parametric Oscillator based on

MgO sPPLT265

Suddapalii Chaitanya Kumar, Mujid Ebrahitn-Zadeh

Singly Resonant Continuous-Wave Optical Parametric Oscillator with Tunable Output above4 urn and LowOscillation Threshold

266Mikael Sillanen, Tami Leinonen, Mircea Guina, Laurl Haloncn

Dispersion Compensation with a Grism-based Dispersive Line for Fiber Delivery of Sub-30 fs Pulses at 830 nm 267Claire Lefort, Meri Kalashyan, Tigran Mansuryan. DonaldPeyrot, Levon Mourodlan, Frederic Louradour, Alain Barthele'rnyTaper Designs for Semiconductor Filled Fibres

268Neil Broderick, Anna Peacock

High Intensity Pulse Self-compression in Short Hollow Core Capillaries 269Thomas J Butcher, Patrick N Anderson, Peter Horak, Jeremy G Frey, iVilliam S Brocklesby

Activated Escape from Polarization Pulling in Fibre Raman Amplifiers 270Sergey Sergeyev, Sergei Turilsyn

Tunable Multiplication of the Repetition Rate of an Optical Pulse Train Using Dynamic Brillouin Gratings inOptical Fibers

271Sanghoon Chin, Nikolay Primerov, Salvador Sales, Luc Thevenaz

PCF Infrared Continuum for Multiwavelcngth Two Photon Microscopy 272Claudio De Mauro, Domenico Alfteri, Marco Arrigoni, David Armstrong, Francesco Saverio PavoneTheoretical Study of Dispersive Wave Generation in Ar-Fillcd Hollow-Core PCF above the Plasma Threshold 273

Wonkeun Chang, Alexander Nazarkln, John Trovers, Philipp Hdlzer, Johannes Nold, Nicolas Y. Joly, Philip St. J. Russell

Supercontinuum Generation in Photonic Crystal Fibers Made from Borosilicate Glasses 274Marina T, Nery, J. C. Ferreira, Enver F. Chillcce, Luis C. Barbosa, Flavio C. Cruz

Group-Acceleration Matching in Tapered Optical Fibers for Maximising the Power in the Blue-Edge of aSupercontinuum

275Simon Toft Sorensen, Alex Judge, CarstenL. Thomsen, OleBangImproved Parametric Generation of Light in Optical Fibers

276Cesar Jauregtii, Dirk Nodop, Jens Limpert, Andreas Tiinnermann

OPCPA Using Pump Beams Shaped by Diffractive Optical Elements ..277Alexandre Thai, Enrique Tafahuerce, Pedro Andres, Philip KBales, Jens BiegertMid-ir Optical Parametric Oscillator Based on LiGaSj

278Aleksey Tyazhev, Vilaly Vcdenyapin, Geargi Marchev, Alexander Yellsseyev, Ludmila Isaenka, Marina Starikova, Sergei Lobanov,Valentin Pctrov

Generation of Eye-Safe Radiation in Passively Q-Switchcd Laser with Three Stokes Intracavity RamanConversion

279Pavel Shpak, Sergei Voitikov, Ruslan Chulkov, Pavel Apanasevich, Valentin Orlovich, Alexander Grabtchikov, Anurag Kttshsvaha,Neena Salti, Lalila Agrawal, Anil Maini, Sergei Kruk1.5 W Output Two-Color Femtosecond Optical Parametric Oscillator Pumped by a 7.4 W Femtosecond Yb KGWLaser

280Robin Hegenbarth, Andy Steimnann, Jdnos Hebling, Harold GiessenA Frequency-swept Source for Broadband Mid-infrared Spectroscopy 281Alissa Silva, Ian LindsayHigh Energy, Sub-nanosecond, 0.5-kHz, Mid-IR OPO based on PPSLT Pumped at 1064 nm 282Alexander Gaydardzhiev, Danail Chuchumishev, Ivan Buchvarov, Dimitar Shumov, Stuart Samuelson

Mid-Infrared Optical Parametric Generation in CdSiP2 283Olivier Chains, Peter Schunemaim, Kevin Zawilski. Jem Biegert, Majid' Ebrahim-Zadeh

The kHz Level Stabilization ofan Intraeavity Doubled Continuous Wave Optical Parametric Oscillator UsingPound-Drever-Hall Scheme 284

Oussama Mhibik, David Paboeuf, Cyril Drag, Fabien Bretenaker

Quasi-Continuous-Wave Intraeavity KGW Raman Laser Generation at Different Wavelengths 285

Vladimir Dashkevich, Anton Kananovich, HenrykSzymczak, Valentin Orlovich

Wavelength Conversion ofa Broadband ASE Source Based on Intra-cavity Difference-frequency-mixing in aC^LiCAF-PPSLT Laser 286

Adrian J. Torregrosa, Haroldo Macstre, Juan Capmany

Narrowband PPKTP Source for Polarization Entangled Photons 287

Siddarth Joshi, Felix Anger, Antia Lamas-Linares, Christian Kurlsiefer

Full-scanning Nonlinear Fourier-transform Spectroscopy ofD2 Using High-order Harmonic Radiation 288

Yusuke Furukawa, Yasuo Nabekawa, Eiji J. Takohashi, Tomoya Okino, Kaorv Yamanouchi, Katsumi Midorikawa

Plasma Filament Decay in an External Electric Field 289

Sergey Bodrov, Alexey Murzanev, Maxim Tsarev, AndreyStepanov

Universality in Relativistic Aspirations ofHelmholtz Soliton Pulses 290

Gemma Lancaster, Mark Lttndie, Timothy Hodgkinson, James Christian, Graham McDonald

Tunable Self-focusing and Self-steering of Nematicons 291

Alessandro Albemcci, Armando Piccardi, Marco Peccianti, Malgosia Kaczmarek, Gactano Assanto

Tunable Multiple Soliton Generation in Kerr Media 292

Chandroth Pannian Jisha, Alessandro Albemcci, Ray-Kuang Lee, Gaetano Assanto

Fast Writing of Soliton Waveguides with Blue-Violet Lasers in Lithium Niobate for Coupling ofFemtosecond

Infrared Laser Pulses 293

Silvlu T. Popescu, Adrian Petris, Valentin I. Vlad, Eugenio Fazio

Group Velocity Control in Reconfigurable Phase-shifted Superstructures 294

Sebastian Kroesen, Wolfgang Horn, Cornelia Denz

Second Harmonic Generation from Single Nanoparticles 295

Amos Schiatheitn, Alois Renn, Michele Celebrano, VahidSandoghdarAchromatic Transient-grating for FROG Characterization 296

Elsa Baynard, Stephane Faure, Valirie Blanche!

Nonlinear Optics ofRandomly Structured Strontium Tetraborate 297Aleksandr Aleksandrovsky, Andrey Vyitnishev, AleksandreZaitsev, Anton Ikonnikov, Gennadiy Pospelov, Vitally Slabko

90 nm Resolution Reconstruction from a Polychromatic Signal Using Monochromatic Phase Retrieval Techniques 298

Aaron D. Parsons, Richard T. Chapman, Benjamin Mills, Thomas J. Butcher, Jeremy G. Frey, William S. BrockleshyInfluence of the Acceptance Bandwidth on Frequency Doubling ofps Pulses in a ppMgO LN Ridge Waveguide 299

Daniel Jedrzejczyk, Sina Riecke, Reiner Gather, Kristian Laurilsen, Katrin Paschke, Gotz Erbert

Spectral Study ofPropagation Losses of GaAs/AlOx Nonlinear Waveguides 300Marc Savanier, Filippo Ghiglieno, Sara Ducci, Ivan Favero, Giuseppe Leo

Acrylonitrile-Containing Methyl Methacrylate Polymers as New Host Materials for second-order NLO polymers 301

Atsushi Sugita, Takahiro Kato, Masashi Morimoto, Yasuaki Tamaki, Yasumasa Kawata, Shigeru Tasaka

All - Optical Spatial Light Modulator using CdTe Quantum Dots 302

Joan Dancus, Valentin 1. Vlad, Adrian Petris, Nikolai Gaponik, Vladimir Lesnyak

Four-wave-mixing Efficiency and Conversion Bandwidth in Silicon-nanocrystals Slot Waveguides Fabricated byPECVD 303

Andrea Trita, CosimoLacava, Ilaria Cristiani, Jean-Philippe Colonna, Pauline Gaulier, Jean-MarcFedeli

Hybrid III-V/Silicon on Insulator Nonlinear Nanophotonics (Invited) 304

Fabriee Raineri, Alexandre Bazin, Yacine Halioua, Timothy Karle, Paul Monnier, Isabelle Sagnes, Rama Raj

Horizontally Slotted Electro-optic Silicon Waveguides Featuring an Organic Crystalline Slot Material 305

Harry Figi, Denise H. Bale, Attila Szep, Larry R. Dalton, Antao Chen

Spatiotemporal Nonlinear Optics in Arrays ofSubwavelength Waveguides 306

Andrey V. Gorbach, Wei Ding, Owain K. Staines, Charles E. DeNobriga, Gareth D. Hohbs, William J. Wadsworlh, Jonathan C.

Knight, Dmitry V. Skryabin, Antonio SamarelH, Mark Sorel, Richard M. De La Rue

High Average Power Temporal Pulse Compression in a Xe-Filled Kagome-Type Hollow-Core Photonic CrystalFiber 307

ClaraJ Saraceno, OliverHHeckl, Cyrill R EBaer, Thomas Suedmeyer, Y11 Cheng, Ylng Y Wang, Fetah Benabid, Ursula Keller

Supercontinuum Generation in a Photonic Crystal Fiber Pumped by a Gain-switched High-power Fiber Laser 308

Casper Larsen, Peter M. IV. Skovgaard, Danny Noordegraaf, Kim P. Hansen, Kent E. Mattsson, Oh Bang

Spatiotemporal Dynamics ofRaman Coherence in Hydrogen-filled Hollow Core Photonic Crystal Fibers 309

Anton Husakou, Yingying Wang, Brian Mangan, Fetah Benabid

Supercontinuum pulse-to-pulse fluctuations in a photonic bandgap fiber 310Olivier Vanvincq, Benoit Barviau, Arnaud Mussot, Geraud Bouwmans, Yves Quiquernpois. Alexandre Kudlinski

Switching Characteristics ofForward SIPS in Photonic Crystal Fiber 311

MyeongSooKang, Anna Butsch, Philip Russell

Transition Dynamics in Optical Fiber Amplifiers Operating in the Normal Dispersion Regime 312

Brandon Bale, Kamal Hammani, Christophe Finot, Sonia Boscolo

Three-Wave Stimulated Raman Scattering in Hydrogen- Filled Photonic Crystal Fiber 313MariaZiemienczuk, Andreas M. Walser, AmirAbdohand, Alexander Nazarkin, Clemens F. Kaminski, Philip St. J. Russell

Solitons Propagating in Liquid-core Photonic Crystal Fibers 314

Claudio Conii, Fabio Biancalana, MarkusA. Schmidt, Philip St. J. Russell Linearons

Reduced Amplitude Noise in Supcrcontinuum Generated in Tapered PCFs 315

Uffe Moeller, Simon T. Soerensen, Peter M. Mosehmd, Jeppe Johansen, Carslen L. Thomsen, OleBangControl ofSupcrcontinuum Pulse-to-pulse Fluctuations by Fiber Tapering 316

Benait Barviau, Alexandre Kudlinski, Arnaud Mussot

Gap Solitons in Inhomogcncous High-index Photonic Bandgap Fibers 317

Jesper LaegsgaardMulti-watt Level Output Power from a Dispersion-shifted Fiber Optical Parametric Oscillator Tunable Over 450

nm 318

Yiqing Xu, Ka Fai Mak, Smart Murdoch

Improving Mid-infrared Supcrcontinuum Generation Efficcncy by Pumping a Fluoride Fiber Directly Into theAnomalous Regime at 1995nm 319

Mathieu Duhant, William Renard, Guillaume Canal, Frederic Smektala, Johan Troles, Pierre Bourdon, Christophe Planchat

Optimized 4-um OPO with Intracavity OPA Based on a Dual-Grating PPLN Crystal 320

Anloine Godard, Myriam Raybaut, Michel Lefebvre, Anne-Marie Michel, Michel Pealat

Picosecond Tunable Mode Locking of a Cr":ZnSe Laser with a Frequency-doubling Nonlinear Mirror 321

Jean-Bapliste Dherbecourt, Adrien Denoeud, Jean-Michel Melkonian, Myriam Raybaut, Anloine Godard, Michel Lefebvre,Emmanuel Rosemher

Characterization of High-energy Optical-parametric Oscillation by Using Periodically Poled Mg-dopcd CongruentLiTaOj 322

Hideki Ishizuki, Tahtnori Taira

All-fiber Raylcigh Ring Mirror with an Optical Control of the Resonance 323

lrina Pelukhova, Andrei Foliadi, Oleg Anlipov, Krassimir Pannjotov, Hugo Thienponl, Patrice MigretSimple Method for Measuring the Zero-dispersion Wavelength in Optical Fibers 324

Maxime Drogues, Benoit Barviau, Alexandre Kudlinski, GeraudBouwmam, ArnaudMu.isot

Bistability and Excitability in 2D Photonic Crystal Nanocavltics 325Alejandro Yacomolti, Maia Brunslein, Isahellc Sagnes, Fabrice Raineri, Ariel Levenson

Enhanced Four Wave Mixing in Slow Light GalnP Photonic Crystals Waveguides and 40Gbit/s Transmission

Assessment 326Kevin Lengle, Laurent Bramerie, Mathilde Gay, Jean Claude Simon, Sylvain Combrie, Pierre Colman, Alfredo De Rossi

Loss Saturation in Dispersion-Engineered Slow Light Waveguides 327Thomas White, Andre)' Sukhortikov

Time-Resolved Ultrafast All-Optical Switching in Directional Couplers with Second-Order Nonlinearity 328

Alexander Solntsev, Dragomir Neshev, Roland Schiek

Vectorial Second Harmonic Generation Imaging of Gold Nanocones 329

Godofredo Bautisia, Mikko J, Hultunen, Jouni Mdkitalo, Juha M. Konllo, Jaime Simonen, Marlti Kauranen

The Origin of Second Harmonic Generation Hotspots in Chiral Optical Mctamaterials 330Venisislm' Valev, Alejandro Silhanek, Xuezhi Zheng, Vladimir Volskiy, Claudiu Biris, Nicolae Panoiu, Ben De Clercq, Marcel

Ameloot, Oleg Aklsipetrov, Guy Vandenbosch, Victor Moshchalkov, Thieny Verbiesl

Low-threshold Optical Parametric Oscillations in a Whispering Gallery Mode Resonator 331

JosefV. Fllrst, Dmitry V. Strekalov, DominiqueFJser, Andrea Aiello, UlrlkL. Andersen, Christoph Marquardt, GerdLeuchs

Broadband, Rapidly Tunable, BiB306 Femtosecond Optical Parametric Oscillator Directly Pumped by a Ti

sapphire 332Adolfo Esteban-Marlin, Venkata Ramaiah-Badarla, Valentin Petrov, Majid Ebrahim-Zadeh

Optimum Output Coupling in Optical Oscillators Using Antircsonant Ring Interfcrometry 333

Adolfo Esteban-Martin, Suddapalli Chaitanya Kumar, Majid Ebrahim-Zadeh

Independently Tunable, Dual-Wavelength Source Based on Two-Crystal, Continuous-Wave, Singly ResonantOptical Parametric Oscillator 334

Goutam K. Sainanta, Majid Ebrahim-Zadeh

Higher-order Cascaded Processes in Continuous-wave Optical Parametric Oscillators 335

Ingo Breunig, Rosita Stiwade, Jens Kiessling, Karsten Buse

Tunable Parametric Oscillation in Radially Poled Whispering Gallery Resonators 336Tobias Becbnann, Heiko Linnenbank, Karsten Buse, Ingo Breunig

OPTICAL MATERIALS. FABRICATION AND CHARACTERISATION

Direct Refractive Index Measurement Technique to Observe Waveguide Dispersion Characteristics of Short

Waveguides Utilising the Higher Order Modes of Integrated Bragg Grating Structures 337Helen L Rogers, Christopher Holmes, James C Gates, Peter G R Smith

Characterization ofInGaAs and InGaAsN saturable absorber mirrors for high power mode locked sub-ps thin-disk lasers 338

Farina Schdttiger, Dominik Bauer, Dirk Sutter, Jaime Putistinen, Mircea Guina, Thomas DekorsyTemperature Dependence ofLaser-Induced Damage Thresholds for Dielectric and Metal Coatings 339

Katsuhiro Mikami, Shinji Motokoshi, Masayukl Fujiia, Takahisa Jilsuno, KazuoA Tanaka, Hiroshi Azechi

Nano-engineered Bismuth-doped Silica Glasses and Origin ofNear Infrared Photolumincsccncc 340

Igor Razdobreev, Hicham El Hamzaoui, MahamedBouazaoui, Vladimir Arion

Photo-induced Nonlinear Optical Properties of BiB306 Glasses and Composites Containing BiB306 GlassNanoparticles Embedded in Polymers 341

Andrzej Majchrowski, Zygmunt Mierczyk, Ivan V. Kllyk

Cz-Growth of Ferroelectric LaBGeOs Single Crystals 342

Shintaro Miyazawa, Toshiki Kanarnori, Satoshi Ichikawa, HideoNakae

Self-assembling Active Soft NanoPhotonics on the Kilometre Scale (Invited) 343

Jeremy Baamberg, Chris Finlayson, David Snoswell, Andreas Kontogeorgos, Andrew Haines, Qibin Zhao, Peter Spahn, Goetz

Hellmann Extruding Opals

Size-dependent Recombination Dynamics in ZnO Nanowires 344

Juan Sebastian Reparaz, Frank Gilell, Markvs R. Wagner, Axel Hoffmann, Albert Cornet, Joan Ramon Morante

ZnO-based Nanowires for Hybrid Low-voltage LED 345

Oleg Lupan, Thierry Pauporte, Bruno Viana

Second Harmonic Generation in GaP Nanopillars 346

Reza Sanatinia, Marcin Swillo, Srinivasan Anand

Observation of Higher-Order Optical Nonlinearities in Photopolymerizabie Semiconductor CdSe Quantum Dot-

Polymcr Nanocomposites 347

Yasuo Tomita, Xiangming Liu, Yusuke Adachi, Jura Qshima

Rare-earth Doped Double Tungstate Crystals for Solid-state Bulk, Thin-disk and Waveguide Lasers (invited) 348

Valentin Petrov

Growth and Characterization of Highly Yb3+doped KY(W04)2 Thin Layers 349

Shanmugam Aravazhi, Dimitri Geskus, Koop Van Dalfsen, DetlefGunther, Markits Pollnau

Optical and Magneto-optical Properties ofNeodymium and Erbium doped Gallium Nitride Epilayers 350

Nathaniel Woodward, H. X. Jiang, J. Y. Lin, J. M. Zavada, E. Readinger, V. Dierolj

Excitation Quenching in Er3+-doped A1203 Amplifiers 351

Laura Agazzi, Kerstin Wdrhoff, Markus Pollnau

Red, Green and Violet Up-convcrsion in Erbium Doped Telluride Glasses 352

KrzysztofAnders, Anna Jttsza, MichalMalinowski, Dariitsz Pysz, RyszardSiepien, Ryszard Piramidowicz

Physical Properties and Crystal Microstructure of the Single Crystal Fibres Made from Rare-earth Oxides 353

Valerii Voronov, Alexander Veber, Lyttdmila Jskhakova, Vilalii Kashin, Sergey Rusonov, Vladimir Tsvetkov

Structure and Spectral-luminescent Properties of Nanostructured CaF2-TmF3 Ceramics a Potential Active

Medium for 2 ujbi Lasers 354

Polina Ryabochklna, FedorBolschikov, Andrey Lyapin, Alexander Malov, Marina Kruglova, Evgeniy Chuprunov, VyacheslavOsiko, Pavel Fedorov, Sergey Kouznetzov, Sergey Ushakov, Evgeny Garibln

Material Preparation and Optical Properties ofHo-dopcd KPb2Cls and KPb2Br5 for applications as mid-IR gainmedia 355

UweHommerich, Olusola Oyebola, Eiei Brown, Althea Bluiett, Sudhir Trivedi

Ir Luminescence from Subvalcnt Bismuth in Phosphate Glass and Glass-ceramic Matrices a New Insight Into the

Nature of Luminescent Bi Species 356

Alexey Romanov, Zukhra Fattakhova, Denis Zhigunov, LeonidBuchnev, Vladimir Korchak, Vladimir Sulimov

Investigation ofThermal Effects in Nd YAG Ceramics Under High Heat Load 357

Mateusz Kaskow, Lukasz Gorajek, JanK, Jabczynski, Jacek Kwiatkowski, Waldemar Zendzian

Ho-doped Tellurite Glasses for Emission in the Mid Infrared Wavelength Region 358

Daniel Milanese, Joris Luosteau, Laercio Gomes, Madia Boetti, Silvio Abrate, Stuart Jackson

Superfiuorescence and Random Quasi-phase-matching in Pulsed Laser Deposited Nd YAG 359

Mathias Hoffmann, Mark Gyamfi, Stefan Schrameyer, HolgerBlaschke, Detlev Ristau, Uwe Morgner

Optical Properties ofGGG Thin Films Doped with NiJ+ and Co2+

ions 360

KrzysztofKopczynski, Jerzy Sarnecki, Jaroslaw Mlynczak, Michal Malinowski, Ryszard Piramidowicz, Zygmunt Mierczyk, Maria

Maciejewska, Magdalena Nakielska

Fluorescence Properties of Pr YSZ Doped Polymer Nanocomposites ,361

Ryszard Piramidowicz, AnnaJusza, KrzysztofAnders, JanuszD. Fidelus, Marek Godlewski, Sergey Yatsunenko

Photoluminescencc Centers in Gamma-irradiated Bismuth-doped Glasses 362

Boris Denker, Boris Galagan, Sergei Sverchkav, Ilya Shulman, Evgeniy Dianov

Thermal Expansion Coefficients Anisotropy of Monoclinic Potassium (Rare-earth) Double Tungstates K/?e(WO,i)

2{fle=Gd,Y,Lu,Yb) 363

Pavel Loiko, Konstantin Yumashev, Nikolai Kuleshov, Galina Rachkovskaya, Anatoly Pavlyuk

Transient Saturation Spectroscopy for Measuring the Lifetime ofHyperfine Sublevels in ""Er3* Ions Doped in a

Silicate Glass Fiber 364

Daisuke Hashimoto, Kaoru Shimizu

Optical Properties and Faraday Effects on Terbium Gallium Garnet Ceramics for Faraday Rotator 365

Hidetsugu Yoshida, Koji Tsubakimoto, Yasusi Fujimoro, Hisanori Fujita, Noriaki Miyanaga, Hoshiteru Nozawa, Hideki Yagi,

Takagiinl Yanagitani, Yutaka Nagata, Hiroo Kinoshita

Optical Characterisation of Carbon-Nanohorn Based Nanofluids for Solar Energy and Life Science Applications 366

Elisa Sani, Luca Mercatelli, Giovanni Zaccanti, Fahrizio Martelli, Paola Di Nlnni, Simona Barison, CesarePagura, Annalisa

Giannini, DavidJafrancesco, Daniela Fontani, FrancoFrancini

Effect of Porosity on the Laser Induced Damage Threshold of Sol-gel SiOj and Zr02 Single Layer Films 367

Yuanjun Gtto, ShaoboHe, Xiaotao Zu, Xiaodong Yuan, Haibin Lv, Xiaodong Jiang

Intrinsic Spectral Selectivity in Ultra-High Temperature Ceramics for Solar Applications 368

Luca Mercatelli, Elisa Sani, Paola Sansoni, Annalisa Giannini, Franco Francini, Diletta Sciti

Study on UV absorption edge ofMgO doped LiNbOj and CTVE excitons 369

Feifei Xin, GuoquanZhang, Yongzhe Zhang, Yongfa Kong, JingjunXu

Accurate Measurements ofRefractive Indices ofUndoped and Mg-doped Stoichiometric LiNb03 and Litao3 370

Ichiro Shqji, Daisuke Gunji, Masashi Hakamata, Tatsuo Fukui, Yasunori Furukawa

Variable Stripe Length Method for Optical Gain Measurements Characteristic Lengths 371

Luis Cerddn, Angel Costela, Inmaculada Garcia-Moreno

Intrinsic Defects Pinned at the Domain Wall in LithiumNiobate 372

Greg Stone, Hendrik Steigerwald, Karsten Base, Wolfgang Sohler, Venkalraman Gopalan, Simon Phillpot, Volkmar Dierolf

SHG Capabilities of RECOB (RE - Y, Gd) Oxyborate Crystals 373

Pascal Loiseau, Takunori Taira, GerardAka

Photoacoustic Detection of WeakAbsorption in Lithium Niobate 3 74

NikJas Waasem, Stephan Fieberg, Daniel Haerlle, Frank Kiihnemann, Karsten Buse

Temperature Effect on the Brillouin Gain Spectra of Highly Doped Aluminosilicate Fibers 375

Francesco H. Moimtfort, Seongwoo Yoo, Alexander J. Boyland, Andrew S. Webb, Johan Nilsson, Jayanta K. Saint

Optical Bistability in Colloidal Solution of Er-Yb Doped LaF3 Nanocrystals 376

Egor Pobegatov, Peter Agruzov, Igorlllcliev, Alexander Shamray

A Novel Evaporation Method of Porphyrin/Alq3 Mixture for OLED Fabrication 377

SeyedHoseinRazavi, Ezeddin Mohajerani, Alt Khabazi, Hashem Shahroosvand, MohammadJanghooH, Isa AhmadAlidokht,

Hose'm Jaslmsaz

Titanium free Optical Waveguides in Lithium Niobate produced by Etching During Indiffusion of Titanium

(EDIT) 378

Tristan Craslu, Vijay Sivan, Thach Nguyen, Arnan Mitchell

Er3*-dopcd Glass-polymer Composite Thin Films Fabricated Using Combinatorial Pulsed Laser Deposition 379

Zhanxiang Zhao, Gin Jose, MehrdadIrannejad, Paul Steenson, Nikos Bamiedakis, Richard Penty, Ian White

Direct Opal Fabrication From Silver-coated Silica Microspheres 380

Michaela K. Micko, Matthias Brendle, Judith M. Dawes

Characterisation of Optical Waveguides in BGO Crystals Fabricated by N+ Ion Implantation 381

Stefano Pelli, Sitnone Bemeschi, Gualtiero Nttnzi Conti, Silvia Soria, Giancarlo Cesare Righini, Istvan Banyasz, Krisztidn Lengyel,Agnes Peter, Andrea Watterich, Tivdar Lohner, Miklds Fried, Zsolt Zolnai

Transient Raman Response of Novel Chalcogenide Micro-structured Optical Fibre 382

Tomas Kohoutek, Xin Yan, Tetsuro Shiosaka, Shinlaro Mizuno, Spyros Yannopoulos, Takenobu Suzuki, Yasutake Ohishi

Tellurite/Phosphate Composite Microstructured Optical Fiber with High Nonlinearity and Flattened Dispersion 383

Xin Yan, Meisong Liao, Tong Huang Titan, Takenobu Suzuki, Yasutake Ohishi

Highly Birefringcnt Microstructured Fibers with Low Mode Field Asymmetry 384

Alexander Denisov, Andrei Levchenko, Sergei Semjonov, Evgucni Dianov

Partial Power Recovery of Bend-induced Loss Using a Hybrid Index-guiding Photonic Crystal Fiber,

385

Christos Markos, Kyriakos Vlachos, George Kakarantzas

Gratings in Liquid Crystal Golden Nanosuspensions due to Thermal Nonlinearity 386

Elena Ouskova, Dariya Lysenko, Yuriy Reznikov, Stanishv Ksiondzyk, Liliana Cseh, GeorgMehl, Victor Reshentnyak

Aulostercoscopic Display Using a Holographic Splitter in Polymer Dispersed Liquid Crystals 387

WeiChiaSu, Chien Yue Chen, Hsin Wei Ho

Light Interaction with Nematic Liquid Crystals Doped with Azocompounds of Different Molecular Weight 388

Ivan Budagovsky, Dminy Pavlov, Sergei Shvetsov, Mikhail Smayev, Alexander Zolotko, Nataliya Boiko, Mikhail Barnik

Dcphasing Relaxation of Localized Surface Plasmons Investigated by Persistent Hole Burning Role of the

Stabilizing Molecules in Nanocolloids 389

Leonardo DeS. Menezes, Euclides Almeida, Augusto C. L. Moreira, Antonio M, Brito-Silva, CidB. DeAraujo

Investigation of Coherent Acoustic Phonons in THz Quantum Cascade Laser Structures 390

Mike Hettkh, Axel Bmchausen, James Lloyd-Hughes, Raphael Gebs, Albrechl Bartels, Milan Fischer, Manias Beck, Giacomo

Scalari, Jerome Falsi, Thomas Dekorsy

Improving Efficiency ofQuantum Dot Infrared Photodetcctor by using Photonic Crystal Framework in the Active

Layer 391Zhihui Chen, Ying Fu, Zhongyuan Yu

ARROW Guiding Silicon Photonic Crystal Fibres (invited) 392

Noel Healy, Justin Sparks, Ronrui He, Pier Sazio, John Badding, Anna Peacock

SF6 Glass Hollow-core Photonic Crystal Fibre 393

Xin Jiang, Tijmen Euser, Amir Abdolvand, Fehim Babic, Nicolas Joly, Philip Russell

Polarization Noise Induced by Photon-Phonon Interaction in Hollow-Core Photonic Crystal Fibres 394

Wenjia Zhong, Bettina Heim, Dominique Elser, Christoph Marquardt, Gerd Leuchs

Nonlinear Absorption and Self-Phase Modulation in Silicon Optical Fibres 395

Priyanth Mehla, Noel Healy, Justin Sparks, Todd Day, Pier Sazio, John Badding, AnnaPeacock

Novel Bend-Resistant Design of Single-Mode Microstructured Fibers 396Victor Shevandin, Vladimir Demidov, Konstantin Dukelskii

Electromcchano-optically Tuned Ring Resonator in Silicon on Insulator, Monolithically Integrated with a

Microcantilcvcr, 397

Lasse J, Kauppinen, Shahina M. C. Abdulla, Gijs J. M. Krijnen, MarkusPollnau, Rene' M. DeRldder

Distributed Bragg Reflector High-Q Cavities and Lasers in Alj03 on Silicon 398

Edward Bernhardi, Henk Van Wolferen, Kerslin Wdrhoff, Reni DeRldder, Markus Pollnau

Experimental Observation ofWhispering Gallery Modes in Novel Silicon Microcylindrical Resonators 399Natasha Vukovic, Noel Healy, Peter Horak, GanapathyMunigan, Justin Sparks, Pier Sazio, John Badding, Anna Peacock

Optical Characterization ofLiNb03 Whispering Gallery Mode Micro-Resonators Fabricated by Surface Tension

Reshaping ; 400

Charlie Ying, GanapathyMunigan, Gilberlo Brambilla, Collin Sones, Elisabeth Soergel, James Wilkinson, Robert Eason, MichalisZervas, Sakellaris Mailis

Visible Light Trimming of Coupled Ring-Resonator Filters in As2S3 Chalcogenide Glass Technology 401Antonio Canciamilla, Francesco Marichettl, Nathan Carlie, J, DavidMusgraves, Bogdan Zdyrko, IgorLuzinov, Kathleen

Richardson, Juejun Hit, Vivek Singh, Ami Agarwal, Lionel C. Kimerllng, AndreaMellani

Real-space Distribution of Cavity Modes in Single ZnO Nanowires 402

Frank Giiell, Alejandro R. Goiii, Julia Lopez- Vidrier, Josep Oriol Osso, Luis Alberto Perez, Eduardo Coronado, Albert Cornet,

Joan Ramon Morante

Domain Walls in lithium Niobatc and Lithium Tantalate Local Structure and Properties (Invited) 403Venkatraman Gopalan, Volkmar Dierolf,Long-Qing Chen, Simon Phillpot

Domain Patterning by Strongly Absorbed UV-light in LiNb03 Crystals 404

Hendrik Steigerwald, Yong Jun Ying, Robert W. Kason, Boris Slurman, Sakelaris Mailis, Elisabeth Soergel, Karsten Buse

Electro-Optic Coefficient Enhancement in Poled LiNbOj Waveguides 405Charlie Ying, Grigoris Zisis, Andrew Naylor, Pranabendu Gangopadhyay, Collin Sones, Elisabeth Soergel, Robert Eason,Sakellaris Mailis

Photorefractivity, Electro-opticaJ Coefficients and Refractive Indices of Zr-dopcd LiNbOj Crystals 406

Giovanni Nava, Wenbo Yan, Paolo Minzioni, Daniela Grando, Jacopo Parravicini, Nicola Argiolas, Marco Bazzan, Maria Vittoria

Ciampolilh, C'mzia Sada, Luca Sooner, Anna Maria Zallron, llaria Cristiani, Vittoria DegiorgioNonlinear Optics with Lithium Niobatc Nanocrystals .....407

Bastion Knabe, Manuel Peter, Daniel Schiltze, Matthias Ackermann, Karsten Buse

Degradation Recoverable DFB Lasers Based on P597 PDMS/PTFEMA 408

Hiroaki Yoshioka, Ryo Goto, Soichiro Omi, Yu Yang, Yuji Oki

Highly Photostable Lasing in an Organic Crystal of Thiophcne/Phcnylene Co-Oligomer 409

Koji Watanabe, Takeshi Yamao, Keniehi Yamashita, Shu Hotta, Kunishige Oe

Low Threshold All-organic Composite Laser 410

Benoit Guilhabert, Nicolas Laurand, Allan R. Mackintosh, Yujie Chen, Johannes Herrnsdorf, Alexander Kanibalotsky, Peter J.

Skabara, Martin D. Dawson

Efficiency and Photostability Optimization in Pcrylene-doped Polymer Distributed Feedback Lasers and

Amplifiers 411

Luis Cerddn, Gonzalo Durdn-Sampedro, Inmaculada Garcla-Moreno, Angel Costela, Ja\>ier DeAbajo

Crystal Orientation and Defects ofOpal Films Made by the Capillary Deposition Method 412Mulda Muldarlsnur, Frank Marlow

Quasi-Epitaxial Single-Crystalline Organic OH1 Films with High Electro-Optic Activity on Inorganic Structures

for Large-Scale Photonic Integration 413

Mojca Jazbinsek, Seong-Ji Kwon, Peter Gilnler

Titanium Dioxide Coated Photoinduccd Surface ReliefGrating As a Resonant Waveguide Grating 414

Tapani Alasaarela, Arri Priimagi, Benfeng Bai, Ari Tervonen, Seppo Honkanen

Light Turning Mirrors for Hybrid Integration of Optical Waveguides in SiON Technology and CMOS based

Photo-detectors 415

Fehmi Civilci, Alfred Driessen, Hugo J. W. M. Hoekstra

Direct Laser Writing ofMicrooptical Structures Using a Germanium-containing Hybrid Photopolymer 416

Mangirdas Malinauskas, Albertas Zukauskas, Vytautas Purlys, ElminaKambouraki, Arune Gaidukeviciute, Ioanna Sakellari,

Stavros Pissadakis, Roaldas Gadonas, Maria Vamvakaki, Maria Farsari

Fabrication of Multilayer Crystalline Rib Waveguides by a Combined Multi-step Pulsed Laser

Deposition/precision Machining Technique 417

/Catherine S/oyan, Lewis Carpenter, Timothy May-Smith, Christopher Holmes, James Gates, Peter Smith, Robert Eason

Self-induced Patterning of PDMS Microstructures by Photorefractive Effect on Lithium Niobate Crystals 418Lisa Miccio, Melania Paturzo, Andrea Finizio, Pietro Ferraro

Physically Micromachined Silica-on-silicon Integrated Corner Mirrors 419

Lewis G. Carpenter, Helen L. Rogers, Christopher Holmes, James C. Gates, Peter G. R. Smith

Linear and NonlincarOptical Properties of Gold nanoparticle-dopcd Photonic Crystal Fiber 420

Laurent Bigot, Hicham El Hamzaoui, Antoine Le Rouge, Fernand Chassagneux, Giraud GeraudBouwmans, Bruno Capoen,Mohamed Buuazaoui

Polarizing Very-Large-Modc-Arca Bragg fiber 421

Svetlana Aleshkina, Mikhail Likhachev, AndreyPryamikov, Dmitty Gaponov, Alexander Denisov, Mikhail Bttbnov, Mikhail

Salganskii, Alexei Guryanov, Sebaslien Fevrier

Direct Bragg Grating Writing in a Hybrid PDMS/Silica photonic Crystal Fiber 422

George Kakarantzas, Antonio Diez, Jose L, Cruz, Christos Markos, Miguel V. Andres, Kyriakos Vlachos

Engineering Mode-gaps in Photonic Crystal Waveguides for Filtering Applications 423

Naeem Shahid, Mingyu Li, Shagiifla Naureen, Marcin Swillo, Srinivasan Anand

Heterogeneous Hybrid Plasmonic-Photonic Crystals for Enhanced Light- Matter Interaction 424

Sergei Romanov, Alexander Korovin, Vlf Pescltel

ULTRAFAST OPTICS AND APPLICATIONS

Demonstration ofWaveguide Regime for Chalcogenide Hollow-core Optical Fiber with Negative Curvature of

Core Boundary from Mid- to Far-infrared 425

Alexey Kosolapov, AndreyPryamikov, Maxim Astapovich, Vladimir Shiryaev, Gennady Snopatin, Victor Platnichenko. Alexander

Birhtkov, Mikhail Churbanov, Evgeny Dianov

Efficient Hollow Fiber Compression Scheme for 1.6 mJ, Waveform-controlled, Sub-5fs Pulses Generation 426

Xiaowei Chen, Arnaud Malvache, Aurelien Ricci, Vladimir Pervak, Jem Rauschenberger, Aurelie Jullien, Rodrigo Lopez-Martens

Hollow Fiber Pulse Compression of Multi-millijoule, 200-fs Pulses from a cw-Diodc-Pumped Single-Stage Yb CaF2MOPA 427

Daniil Kartashov, Giedrius Andriukaitis, Duian Lorenc, Audrius Pugzlys, Andrius BaltuSka, Linas Giniunas, Romualdas Danielius,

Jens Limpert

Carrier-envelope Phase Stabilization of a Grating Based Chirped Pulse Amplified Laser at 17 mJ, 1 KHz Using

Regenerative and Cryo-coolcd Amplifiers 428

Jean-Francois Hergotl. Pierre-Maty Paul, Olivier Tcherbakoff, Philippe Demengeot, Michel Perdrix, Fabien Lepelil, David

Garzella, Delphine Guillaumet, Michel Comle, Olivier Gobert, Pascal D'Oliveira

Towards Single Shot Carrier-envelope Phase Stabilization for Multi KHz Ultrafast Amplifiers 429

Vincent Crozatier, Nicolas Forget, Thomas Oksenhendler

Few-cycle Pulse Generation in a Dispersion-shifted Silica Fiber with Erbium-doped Laser System 430

Elena Anashkina, Alexei Andrianov, Sergei Mwavyev, ArkadyKim

Sub-20 Fs Energetic Ncar-IR Pulses Generated with Cascaded Soliton Compression in Short Lithium Niobate

Crystals 431

Binbin Zhou, Andy Chang, Frank W. Wise, Morten Bache

Multi-threaded Parallel Numerical Modellung of Femtosecond Pulse propagation in Laser Machining 432

Mandana Baregheh, Vladimir Mezenlsev, Holger Schmitz

Spatio-temporal Rogue Events in Femtosecond Filamentation 433

Donatas Majus, Vytaulas Jukna. Gintaras Valiulis, Daniele Faccio, Audrius Dubietis

Single-beam CARS Spectroscopy Using a Soliton Stokes Pulse and a Spectrally-compressed Pump Pulse from a

PCF 434

Kazuhiro Tada, Naoki Karasawa

Transporting Shaped Pulses Through an Optical Fiber in the Nonlinear Regime for Selective Excitation of Two-

photon Transitions 435

Monika Pawlowska, Alexander Palas, GeorgAchazi, Nona Rahmal, Atbrechl Lindinger

Space-time Coupling of Shaped Ultrafast Ultraviolet Pulses from an Acousto-optic Programmable Dispersive

Filter 436

Ayhan Tajalli, David McCabe, Dane Austin, Beatrice Chatel

Design of Time-preserving Grating Monochromators for Ultrashort Extreme-ultraviolet Pulses 437

Luca Poletto, Fabio Frassetto

Failure of the Linear Raman Gain Approximation in Supcrcontinuum Generation 438

Miro Erkintalo, GoSty Genly, Benjamin Wetzel, John Dudley

Efficient Spectral Conversion and Temporal Compression ofFemtosecond Pulses in SF6 439

Zhavoronkov Nickolai

Sub-femtosecond K-Shcll Excitation Through Laser-Induced Electron Re-collision 440

Gilad Marcus, Wolfram Helml, Xun Gu, Yunpei Deng, Robert Hartmann, Takayoshi Kobayashi, Lothar Strueder, Reinhard

Kienberger, Ferenc Krausz

Simple and Compact Carrier-Envclopc-Phasc Stabilized Ti sapphire Laser 441

Jinghua Sun, Derryck Reid, Lukasz Kornaszewski, William Miller, Graeme Malcolm

Carrier-envelope Phase Control by Linear Electro-optic Effect in LiNbOj 442

Olivier Goberl, Pierre-Mary Paul, Jean-Francois Hergolt, Olivier Tcherbakoff, Fabien Lepelil, Frangois Viala, Michel Comle

Asynchronous Modelocked Yb KYW Lasers for Dual-comb Spectroscopy 443

Zhaowai Zhang, Tom Gardiner, Derryck Reid

Adaptive Wavefront Diagnostics of Ultrashort Pulses with Programmable Microaxicons 444

Martin Bock, Christoph Schwanke, SusantaKumar Das, Roland Beutner, Michael Diehl, Carsten Fischer, Ruediger Gmmvald

Adaptive Generation of Bessel-likc Beams by Reflective Multi-electrode Piezo-axicons 445

Jens Brtmne, Martin Bock, Alexander Treffer, Ulrike Wallrabe, Ruediger Grtmwald

Modification ofCoherent Acoustic Phonon Lifetimes in Thin Gold Films by Self-assembled Molecular Monolayers 446

Mike Hetlich, Axel Bruchhausen, Stephen Riedel, Simon Verleger, Tobias Geldliauser, Richa Chauhan, Oliver Rislow, Daniel

Issenmann, Johannes Boneberg, Paul Leiderer, Elke Scheer, JUrg Dual, Thomas Dekorsy

Extremely White Supercontinuum Generation in Three-hole Suspended-core Fiber 447

Igor Shavrin, Peter Tvarozek, Martin KoyH, Kay Schuster, Siejfen Novotny, Hanne Ludvigsen

Complete Measurement of 8 fs Pulses with Wideband SPIRIT 448

Lluis Martlnez-Ledn. Tigran Mansuryan, Meri Kalashyan, Jerome Lhermite, Frediric Louradour, Christophe Hazera, Stephane

Petit, Eric Cormier, Alain Barlheldmy

High-power Ti Sapphire Oscillator for a MHzEUV Source 449

Enikoe Seres, Christian Spielmaim

Direct Spatial-temporal Discrimination of Modes in a Photonic Lightwave Circuit Using Photon ScanningTunnelling Microscopy 450

Sam A. Berry, James C. Gates, William S. Brocklesby

Sub-12fs Pulses Characterization by Self-referenced Spectral Intcrferometry 451

Stdplianie Grabielle, Antoine Mottlet, Nicolas Forget, Vincent Crozatier, Sebastian Coudreau, Olivier Gobert, Christian

Cornaggia, Thomas Oksenhendler

Transmission Bragg-grating Grisms for Pulse Compression 452

Nicolas Forget, Vincent Crozatier, Pierre Tourtiois

Self-referenced Spectral Intcrferometry in the UV Domain 453

Stephanie Grabielle, Sebastien Coudreau, Vincent Crozatier, Nicolas Forget, Fabien Lepetit, Olivier Gobert, Thomas

Oksenhendler

Fundamental and Harmonic Mode-locking with Pulse Repetition Rate Between 200 MHz and 6.8 GHz in a

Quantum-dot External-cavity Laser 454

YingDing, Daniil Nikiticltev, Igor Krestnikov, Daniil Livshits, Maria Ana Catahma, Edik Rafailov

High-Power Ultrafast Laser Source with 300 MHz Repetition Rate for Trapped-Ion Quantum Logic 455

Andreas Jechow, Matthew Petrasiunas, Mick Pullen, John Canning, Michael Stevenson, Paul Westbrook, Kenneth Feder, David

Kielpinski

Dissipative Dispersion-Managed Soliton 2 pm Tm-Ho Fiber Laser 456

Regina Gumenyuk, Ismo Vartiainen, Heinmo Tuovinen, Oleg Okbolnikov

Direct Space-to-Time Femtosecond Pulse Shaping based on 2D Phase-Only Spatial Light Modulator 457

Tigran Mansuryan, Meri Kalashyan, JeromeLhermite, Alain Barthelemy, Vincent Kermene, Frederic Loitradour

Picosecond Pulses from an FDML Laser 458

Christoph Eigenwillig, Wolfgang Wieser, Benjamin Biedermann, Thomas Klein, Robert Huber

Studies and Realization of an Experimental Set-up for Micro Airy Beams Generation 459

Arnauiy Mathis, Maxime Jacquot, Francois Cowvoisier, Luc Froehly, John M. DudleyVariable Ultrafast Fiber Bragg Grating Inscription with a Phase Mask and a Deformed Wave Front 460

Christian Voigtldnder, RiaBecker, Jens Thomas, Daniel Richter, Andreas Tiinnermann, Stefan Nolle

Supcrfluorescence Dynamics of OPCPAs in the Saturation Regime 461

Jeffrey Moses, Cristian Manzoni, Giulio Cemllo, Franz X. Kdrtner

Development and Characterization of Stable Fiber-Based Mid-Infrared Sources (Invited) 462

RandyA. Barlels

All Passively Phase-Locked Er Fiber Laser System 463

DavidFehrenbacher, Gilnlher Krauss, Daniele Brida, Claudius Riek, Alexander Sell, Rupert Huber, Alfred LeilenstorferPulse Train Amplitude Modulation due to Continuum Resonances in GHz Soliton Fiber Lasers 464

IngmarHard, Albert Romann, Thomas R. Schibli, Martin E. Fermann

Coherent Tm-Fibcr Raman-Soliton Amplifier 465

Jie Jiang, Axel Ruehl, IngmarHarll, Martin Fermann

Properties ofa microjoule-class fiber oscillator mode-locked with a SESAM 466

Caroline Lecaplain, Billend Ortac, Guillaume Machine!, Johan Boullel, Martin Batimgartl, Thomas Schreiber, Eric Cormier,Ammar Hideur

Ultrabroad Bandwidth Signal Generation Based on Frequency-to-time Mapping in the Temporal Fresncl Regime 467

Victor Torres-Company, Daniel Leaird, Andrew Weiner

Supcrcontinuum Generation in Laser Host Materials with Pulse Durations Over the Entire Femtosecond Regime 468

Maximilian Bradler, Eberhard Riedle

Laser-driven Parametric Amplification of Soft X-rays (invited) 469

Jozsef Seres, Enikoe Seres, DanielHochhaus, Boris Ecker, Bastion Aurand, Daniel Zimmer, Bernhard Zielbauer, BjSrn Landgraf,Vincente Bagnottd, Thomas Kuchl, Christian Spielmann

Compact and Tunable Sub-20 fs Laser Source for Ultrafast Nonlinear Applications 470

BerndMetzger, AndySte'mmann, Gelon Albrecht, HaraldGiessen

Sub-two Cycle Pulse Generation with All Normal Dispersion Photonic Crystal Fiber and Linear ChirpCompensation 471

Jan Rothhardl, Alexander Heidi. Alexander Hartung, Hartmul Bartelt, Erich Rohwer, Jens Limpert, Andreas Tiinnermann

All-Optical Transistor Using an Optical Event Horizon 472

Jens Bethge, Carsten Bree, Shalva Amiranashvili, Frank Noack, Giinter Steintneyer, Ayhan Demircan

Tailored Accelerating Beam Profiles Through a Caustic-based Approach to Wavefront Design 473

Luc Froehly, Remo Giust, Francois Courvoisier, Amaury Mathis, Maxime Jacquot, Luca Furfaro, John Michael Dudley

The Spectrum ofTHz Radiation from Plasma Produced by Strong Multicolor Optical Fields 474

Ihar Babushkin, Stefan Skupin, Christian Koehler, Luc Berge, Joachim Herrmann

Direction ofTHz Emission by Ionizing Two-Color Pulses 475

Christian KiShler, Eduardo Cabrera-Granado, Ihar Babushkin, Joachim Herrmann, Stefan Skupin, Luc Berge

Carrier-envelope Phase in Pulse Compression Mediated by Filamcntation 476

Luc Berge, Charles-Louis Saulez, Christian Kdhler, Stefan Skupin

Towards High Energy 10 fs Laser Pulse Via Regenerative Pulse Shaping 477

Pierre-MaryPaul, Fabien Pie, Luc Vigroux, FranckFalcoz, Federico Canova, Gilles Riboulei

Waveform Characterization of Few-Cycle Laser Pulses in Real-Time using Above-Threshold Ionization 478

Arthur Sayler, Tim Rathje, MaxMoller, Dominik Hoff, Gero Stihenz, Walter Midler, Christian Kiirbis, Klaus RtlMe, Gerhard

Pauhts

Carrier-envelope Phase Stabilization of a Soliton-effect Compressed Sub-two-cycle Pulse Source 479

AlexandraAgra Amorhn, Luis M. Bernardo, Franz X. Kdrtner, Helder M. CrespoCharacterization of Ultrashort Laser Pulses with a Terahertz Streak Camera 480

Olaf Schubert, Claudius Riek, Friederike Junglnger, A lexander Sell, A Ifred Leilenstorfer, Rupert Huber

Precise Phase Shaping and Characterization of the Mid-infrared Femtosecond Pulses 481

SatoshiAshihara, Ytita Hirasawa, KaoriEnomoto

Theoretical and Experimental Analysis ofSpatiotemporal Field Coupling of Ultrashort Pulses Diffracted byCircular Amplitude Apertures 482

Benjamin Alonso, Omel Mendoza-Yero, Inigo J. Sola, Oscar Varela, Gladys Minguez-Vega, Jesus Lands, Vicent Climent, Luis

Roso

Two-photon Absorption As Convenient Method for 20 fs Pulse Length Measurement in the Deep UV 483

NilsKrebs, Christian Homann, PeterLang, Alexandra Waritschlager, Eberhard Riedle

High-Power Mid-Infrared Optical Parametric Chirped-Pulse Amplifier Based on Aperiodically Poled MgLiNbOj 484

Clemens Hease, Christopher R. Phillips, Lukas Gallmann, Martin M. Fejer, Ursula Keller

Compact OPCPA System Generating CEP-stabilized Two-cycle Pulses with Repetition Rates up to 500 kHz 485

Marcel Schultze, Thomas Binhammer, MoritzEmons, Tino Lang, UweMorgner

Demonstration of Phase Matching Bandwidth Extension in Cavity-Enhanced Optical Parametric Chirped Pulse

Amplification 486

AleemSiddiqui, Kyung-Han Hong, Jeffrey Moses, Jonathan Cox, Franz X. Kdrtner

Self Frequency Shift Near 2 um in Periodically Poled Lithium Niobate Waveguides 487

Christopher R. Phillips, Jie Jiang, Carsten Langrock, lngmar Harll, Martin M. Fejer, Martin Fermann

Tuneable Broadband Optical Parametric Oscillator Pumped by an Yb KLu(W04)2S Thin-Disk Laser Oscillator 488

Tina Lang, Thomas Binhammer, Stefan Rausch, Guida Palmer, Marcel Schultze, Uwe Margner

650-nJ Pulses from a Cavity-Dumped Yb Fiber-Pumped Ultrafast Optical Parametric Oscillator 489

Tobias P. lamour, Derryck T. Reid

Generation ofHigh Energy, Sub-20-fs Vacuum UV Pulses by Noncollinear Four-wave-mixing in Argon 490

Marcus Beutler, Masood Chotbi, Frank Noack

High Energy, Sub-20 Fs Pulses in the Deep Ultraviolet by Using Filamentation in Argon 491

Masood Ghotbi, Peter Trabs, Marcus Beutler

Filamentation-based Polarization Pulse Shaping for High Order Harmonic Generation 492

Matteo Negro, Caterina Vozzi, Francesco Calegari, SandroDc Silvestri, Salvatore Stagira

Chirp Controlled Pulse Self-compression in Filaments and Its Spatio-temporal Characterization 493

Oscar Vareta, Benjamin Alonso, Julio San Roman, lUigo J. Sola, Luis Rosa

Filamentation of Beam Shaped Femtosecond Laser Pulses in Gases and Liquids (Invited) 494

Pavel Polynkin

Dispersive Optics Paving the Way to Sub-cycle Optical Pulses (invited) 495

Vladimir Pervak, Alexander Apolonskiy, Ivan Angelov, Olga Ruzskazovskaya, Eleflherios Goulieltnakis, Fereitc Krattsz

High Average Power Ultrashort Pulses with >S GW Peak Power 496

Stejfen Hadrich, Henning Carslens, Jan Rothhardt, Jens Limpert, Andreas Tiinnennann

High Efficient XPW Generation for High Contrast High Energy Ultrashort Laser Pulses 497

Lourdes Patricia Ramirez, Dimitris N. Papadopoulos, Alain Pellcgrina, PascalMonot, Attrelien Ricci, Aurelle Jullien, Xiaowel

Chen, Jean Philippe Rouseau, Rodrigo Lopez-Martens, Patrick Georges, FredericDnion

HIGH-FIELD LASER PHYSICS AND ATTOSECOND TECHNOLOGIES

Ultra-fast Writing of Self-organized Bubble Networks Using Femtosecond Laser Exposure in the Cumulative

Regime 498

Yves Bellouard, Max-Olivier Hanglcr

Sub-cycle Double Ionization Dynamics ofArgon and Neon 499

Boris Bergues, Matthias Kilbel, Nora Johnson, Kelsie Belsch, Robert Jones, Gerhard Pauks, Robert Moshammer, Joachim

Ullrich, Ferenc Krattsz, Matthias Kling

High Energy Proton Ejection from Hydrocarbon Molecules Driven by Highly Efficient Field Ionization 500

Stefan Roilher, Xinhua Xie, Daniil Kartashov, Li Zhang, Marbis Schiiffter, Huailiang Xu, Alshushi Iwasaki, Tomoyo Okino, Kaoru

Yamanouchi, Andrius Baltuska, Marktis Kitzler

Recent Experiments at LCLS Multidimensional Imaging ofX-ray Induced Ultrafast Reactions (invited) 501

A rtent Rudenko

Sub-cycle Time-resolved Single Photon Ionization 502

Aart VerhoefAlexander Mitrofanov, Maria Kribmova, NikolayKabachnik, Armin Scrinzi, Marktis Dresclter, Andrius Baltuska

Breakdown of the Independent Electron Approximation in Sequential Double Ionization 503

Claudia Cirelli, Adrian N Pfeiffer, Mathias Smolarski, Reinhard Ddrner, Ursula Keller

High-harmonic Generation from Solid Targets at 1 KHz Using Waveform-controlled Few-cycle Pulses 504

Atltonin Borol, Arnaud Malvache, Xiaowei Chert, Aure'lie Jullien, Patrick Audebert, Jean-Paul Geindre, Ge'rardMourau, Fabicn

Qttere, Rodrigo Lopez-MartensObservation of few-cycle, strong-field phenomena in surface plasmon fields 505

Peter Dombi, Scott In'ine, Peter Racz, Miklos Lenner, Norbert Krod, Gyozo Farkas, Alexander Mitrofanov, Andrius Baltuska,Takaa Fuji, Ferenc Krausz, Abdul Elezzabi

Femtosecond XUV Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Ultrafast Magnetization Dynamics in Gadolinium and Terbium 506Robert Carley, BjOrn Frietsch, Kristian Ddbrieh, Martin Teichmantt, Cornelius Gahl, Olaf Schwarzkopf, Philippe Wernet, FrankNoack, Martin Weinell

Efficient On-axis Third Harmonic Generation in a Light Filament 507Emilia Schulz, Daniel S. Steingrttbe, Tobias Vockerodt, Thomas Binhammer, Uwe Morgner, Milutin Kovaccv

Laser-induced Water Condensation in Air (invited) 508Jer&tne Kasparian, Philipp Rohwetter, Kami! Stelmaszczyk, Zuoqiang Hao, Stefano Henin, Noe'lle Lascoux, Walter MNakaetna,Yannick Petit, Manuel Qtteijler, Rami Salame', Estelle Salmon, Ludger Waste, Jean-Pierre Wolf

Attosecond Dynamic Imaging Ideas, Results, and Hopes (Tutorial) 509

Misha Ivanov

Controlling and Reading Interference Structures Created by Strong Field Ionizing Attosecond Electron Wave

Packets 510Xinhua Xie, Stefan Roilher, Daniil Kartashov, Li Zhang, Entll Persson, Stefanie Grafe, Marktis Schbfflcr, Joachim Burgddrfer,Andrius Baltuska, Marktis Kitzler

Single-Shot Ultrafast Electron Diffraction Using Electrons Accelerated by an Intense Femtosecond Laser Pulse 511

Shuji Sakabe, Shigeki Tokita, Masaki Hashida, Kazuto Olani, Shunstike Inotie, Toshihiko Nishoji

Quantum-path Interferomctry for High-harmonic Generation 512Dane R. Austin, lan A, Walmstey

Single Attosecond Pulse from Terahertz Assisted High-order Harmonic Generation 513Emeric Balogh, Katalin Kovdcs, JdzsefA. FilWp, P6ter Dombi, Gyozo Farkas, Jdnos Hebling, Valer Tosa, Katalin Varju

High-flux capillary based XUV source via the direct engineering of a laser induced ionization profile 514Patrick Anderson, Thomas Butcher, Peter Horak, Jeremy Frey, William Brocklesby

Yield Enhancement in Multicolour High-Order Harmonic Generation Superposition of Multiple Un-Related

Frequencies 515

DavidHoffmann, Thomas Siege!, Ricardo Torres, Leonardo Brugnera, Lake Chipperfield, Amelle Zair, Immacolala Procino,Emma Springate, Edmund Turcu, Jonathan Underwood, Jonathan Marangos

XUV to SXR Enhancement in HHG with a Quasi-Static Electric Field 516

Carles Serrat, Jens Biegert

Angle-Dependent High-Order Harmonic Generation from a Single N2 and 02 Molecule 517

Kazamichi Yoshii, GodaiMiyaji, Kenzo MiyazakiStable Relativistic UV Self-Channeling in Multi-Layer Gel Targets 518

AlexB. Borisov, Charles K. Rhodes

High Power Enhancement Cavities for Generation of XUV and X-Ray Radiation ofHigh Brilliance 519

Jan Kaster, hachim Pupeza, Tino Eidam, Christoph Jocher, Ernst Fill, Jens Limpert, RonaldJiolzwarlh, Birgitta Bernhardt,

Thomas Udem, Theodor W. Hdnsch, Andreas Tiinnermann, Ferenc Krausz

Spatially Resolved Characterization of Sub-4-fs Laser Pulses Using Spatially Encoded Spectral ShearingInterferometry 520

Tobias Witting, Felix Frank, Chris Arrell, William Okell, Jon Marangos, John Tisch

Generation of Sub-lSfs Pulses with Multi-terawatt Peak Power at 100-HzRepetition Rate 521

Yasuo Nabekawa, Yusuke Furukawa, AbdolrezaAmani Eilanlou, Kenichi L. Ishikawa, Hiroyttki Takahashi, Eiji J. Takahashi,

Kalsumi Midorikawa

Incommensurate Frequency Waveform Synthesis by Optical Parametric Amplification 522

Tadas Balchmas, Stefan Haessler, Giedrius Andriukaitis, Oliver D. Muecke, Audrius Pugzlys, Andrius Baltuska, Richard Squibb,Leszek Frasinski, Jon Marangos, John W. G. Tisch, Linos Giniunas, Romas Danielitts, RonaldHolzwarth

Millijoule-lcvcl CEP Stable 1.8 um 1.6 Cycle Laser Pulses 523

Francois Legare, Bruno E Schmidt, Andrew DShiner, Philippe Lassonde, DavidM Villeneuve, PaulB Corkum, Jean-Claude

Kieffer

A System for Doing Surface Science with Attosecond Pulses 524

Christopher Arrell, Eva Skopolova, Dangyuan Lei, Thorslen Uphies, Yamrick Sonnefraud, William Okell, Felix Frank, Tobias

Witting, Stefan Maier, Jon Marangos, John Tisch

Measuring the Influence ofthe Coulomb Binding Potential on the Trajectories of Strong-field Driven Electronic

Wave Packets 525

Xinhua Xie, Stefan Roither, Daniil Kartashov, Emil Persson, LI Zhang, Stefanie Grafe, MarkusSchdffler, Matthias Lezhts, Joachim

BurgdSrfer, Andrius Baltuska, MarkusKitzler

Direct Optical Observation of Attosecond Electron Wavepacket Interference 526

Lukas Gallmann, Mirko Holler, Florian Schapper, Ursula Keller

From OPA To OPCPA Boosting Laser Pulses To Extreme Intensities (Keynote) 527

Algis Piskarskas, Rytis Butkus

Sub-Optical-Cyclc Waveform Synthesis ofLight 52S

Eleftherios Goulielmakis, Adrian Wirth, Ivanka Grguras, MohammedHassan, Justin Gagnon, Antoine Moulet, Tran TrungLuu,Vladimir Pervak, FerencKrausz

Seeding of Extreme Ultraviolet Free Electron Laser with High-order Harmonic 529

Eiji Takahashi, Tadashi Togashi, Katsumi Midorikawa, Makoto Aoyama, Koichi Yamakawa, Takahiro Sato, Atsushi lwasaki,

ShigekiOwada, Kaoru Yamanouchi, Tom Hara, Shinichi Matsubara, Takashi Ohshima, Yuji Otake, Hitoshi Tanaka, Takashi

Tanaka, Hiromitsu Tomizawa, Takahiro Watanabe, Makina Yabashi, Tetsuya Ishikawa

Scientific Study of ELI Attosecond Light Pulse Source 530

Peter Dombi, Islvan B. Foldes, JozsefA. Fulop, Janos Hebling, Karoly Osvay, Gabor Szabo, Katalin Varju

Revealing the Giant Resonance in Xe Via HHG with Sub-two Cycle 1.8 um Laser Pulses 531

Bruno Etigen Schmidt, Andrew Shiner, Carlos Trallem-Herrero, Hans Jakob Wdrner, Serguei Patchkovskii, Jean-Claude Kieffer,Paul Corkum, David Villeneuve, Francois Legare

Efficient Attosecond Pulse Generation by Gating HHG with Sub-cycle Ionization Dynamics 532

Francesco Calegari, Federico Ferrari, Maiteo Lucchini, Caterlna Vozzi, Salvatore Stagira, Giuseppe Sansane, Mauro Nisnli

Optimization of High Harmonic Generation Driven by an Ytterbium-doped Fiber Chirped Pulse Amplification at

a Repetition Rate of 100 kHz 533

Amdlie Cabasse, Guillaume Machine!, Antoine Dubrouil, Eric Cormier, Eric Constant

Phase-matched Harmonic Generation Beyond the Water Window with a Mid-IR Parametric Amplifier 534

Giedrius Andriukaitis, Tadas Balciunas, Andrius Pugzlys, Andrius Baltuska, Tenio Popmintchev, Ming-Chang Chen, Margaret M.

Murnane, Hemy C Kapleyn

Direct Generation of Highly Phase-matched Isolated Attosecond Pulses Using Multi-m J, Carrier-envelope Phase

Stabilized, Few-cycle Laser Pulses,

.....535

Tsuneto Kanal, YuxiFu, Yasuhiro Kamba, Samuel Bohman, Hiroshi Yoshida, Takuya Kauai, Shigeru Yamaguchi, Eiji Takahashi,Yasuo Nabekawa, Akira Suda, Katsumi Midorikawa

OPTICAL SENSING AND METROLOGY

Gating of High-order Harmonic Emission Driven by a Two-color Mid-IR Optical Parametric Amplifie 536

Caterlna Vozzi, MaiteoNegro, Katalin Kovacs, Valer Tosa, Carlo Altacci, Rqffaele Velotta, Fabio Frassetto, Paolo Vilbresi, Luca

Poletto, Sandro De Silvestri, Salvatore StagiraStandoff Spectroscopy via Remote Generation of Backward Lasing and/or Gain SweptSuperradiance in Air

(Invited) 537

Marian Scully

Optofluidic Integrated Bragg Grating Chemical Sensor Utilising a Sodium-selective Receptor Surface to Enhance

Detection 538

RichardMParker, James C Gates, Martin C Grossel, Peter G R Smith

High Speed Pump-Probe Spectroscopy of SI3N4-based Micromechanical Systems 539

Oliver Ristow, Mike Hettich, Axel Bruchhausen, Stefan Bdchle, Artur Erbe, Elke Scheer, Thomas Dekorsy

Performance Improvement on Fiber-Based CW Modulation Laser Absorption Spectrometer System for CO;

Sensing 540

Shumpei Kameyama, Masaharu Imaki, Yoshihita Hirano, Shinichi Ueno, Daisuke Sakaizawa, Shuji Kawakami, Masakatsu

Nakajima

An Integrated Bragg Grating Oxygen Sensor Using A Hydrophobic Sol-gel Layer Doped with An Organic Dye 541

Dominic J. Wales, Richard M. Parker, James C. Gales, Martin C. Grossel, Peter G. R. Smith

Erbium-doped Sodium-lead and Tungsten-lead Metaphosphate Glasses for Temperature Sensing 542

Ricardo Momberg, Roger Gomes, GaBl Poirier, Fabia Cassanjes, Jandir Hickmann, March Alencar

Performance comparison between Raman and Brillouin intensity based sub metre spatial resolution temperature

compensated disstributcd strain sensor 543

MohammadBelal, Trevor Newson

Mid-infrared Waveguide Evanescent Field Chemical Sensor for Liquids 544

Yn-Chi Chang, Vincent Paeder, Luhos Hvozdara, Philip Wagli, Alexandra Homsy, Jean-MichelHarlmann, Hans Peter Herzig

Mid-infrared Photoacoustic Sensing of Glucose in Keratinocyte Solutions 545

Jonas Kallmann. Tobias Rosskopf, Julien M. Rey, Joachim Luginhiihl, Ernst Reichmann, Markus W. Sigrist

Infrared Spectroscopic Determination ofDrugs in Saliva... 546

Keratin M.-C. Hans, Susanne Mllller, Markus W. Sigrist

Photochemical Synthesis of Biphasic Gold-Silver Nanoalloys for Optical Fiber Surface-Enhanced Raman

Scattering Sensor 547

Changxi Yang, Ting Liu

Mid-IR Imaging of Doped Silicon Gratings at a Dccananometcr Scale 548

Zahreh Sedaghat, Aurelien Brnyant, Michel Kazan, Julien Vaillant, Sylvain Blaize, Nevine Rochal, Nicolas Chevalier, Enric

Garcia-Caudel, Pierre Morin, Pascal RoyerMid-infrared Laser-induced Breakdown Spectroscopy Emissions from Energetic Materials 549

Clayton Yang, Ei Brown, UweHommerich, Sudhir Trivedi, Peter Snyder, Alan Samuels

High Temperature, Robust Herriott Cell for Sensitive NH3 Spectroscopy to Optimize NO, Removal 550

Deran Johannes Henricus Carolina Maas, Barbara Panella, Hubert Braendle

Analysis and Simulation of Optical Response of Au-nanoparticle-fixed Beads for Optical Sensors of Microscopic

Local Environment 551

Shiho Tokonami, Taichi Hamada, Yojiro Yamamolo, Hidenobu Nakao, Hiroshi Shiigi, Tsutomu Nagaoka, TakuyaHda

Biosensor for Human Blood Types Determination Based on Chirped Photonic Fiber 552

Julia Skibina, Anion Malinin, Anaslasija Zanishevskaja, Vakry Tuchin, Valentin Befogtaov, Mikhail Chainikov, Valery

Dubrovsky, Aleksey Dolmashkin

Application of Artificial Neural Networks in Analysis of the LIBS Spectrum 553

Asiyeh Moosavi, Hosseln SaghafifarRemote Gas Leak Detection Using a Portable Mini-Lidar Based on a Doubly-Resonant OPO 554

Berlrand Hardy, Myriam Raybaul, Antoine Godard, Ajmal K. Mohamed, Jean-Michel Melkonian, Michel Lefebvre

Photoacoustic Gas Detection with LED QEPAS 555

Stefan Bbltger, Martin Angelmahr, Wolfgang Schade

Fluorescence/depolarization LIDAR for Mid-range Stand-off Detection of Biological Agents 556

Zygmunl Mlerczyk, KrzyszlofKopczynski, MarekZygmunt, Jacek Wojlanowski, Jaroslaw Mlynczak, Andrzej Gawlikowski, AndrzejMlodzianko, Wieslaw Piotrowski, Andrzej Gietka, Piolr Knysak, Tadeusz Drozd, Michal Muzal, MiroslawaKaszczuk, Roman

Ostrowski, Marcin Jakubaszek

Combining Physical Micro-machining and Direct UV Writing to Fabricate Novel Planar Tilted Bragg GratingRefractometers 557

Christopher Holmes, Lewis G. Carpenter, James C. Gates, Ian J. G. Sparrow, Peter G. R. Smith

UV-Written Bragg Gratings in a Flat-fiber Platform as a Bending and Twisting Sensor 558

Sumiaty Ambran, Christopher Holmes, James C. Gales, Andrew S. Webb, Jayanla K. Sahu, Peter G. R. Smith

Pump Induced Refractive Index Changes in Gamma-irradiated Yb-dopcd Optical Fibers 559

Irina Petukhova, Andrei Fotiadi, Alexey Shubin, Alexander Tomashuk, Sergey Novikov, Igor Zolotovskiy, Oleg Antipov, Krassimir

Panajotov, Hugo Thlenpont, Patrice Megrcl

Application ofTemporal Superresolution for Measuring Fast Single-Shot Optical Waveforms 560

Naum BergerMulti-Channel Adaptive Interferometer Based on Orthogonal Wave Mixing in Photorefractive Crystal 561

Roman Romashko, Michail Beznik, Yuri Kulchin, Alexei Kamshilin

Intcrferometry for Picometer-level Dimensional Stability Measurements 562

Dirk Voigl, Jonathan Ellis, Ad Verlaan, Rob Bergmans, Jo Spronck, Robert Munnig Schmidt

Metrological Interfcromctric Tool for Guided-wave Optic Components 563Anne-Francoise Obalon, Jimmy Dubard

Dual-comb Spectroscopy with Adaptive Sampling 564

Takuro Ideguchi, Anlonin Poisson, Guy Guelachvili, Theodor Hfinsch, Nathalie PicqudCold Atom Sagnac Interferometer 565

Sven Abend, Peter Berg, Michael Gilowski, Christian Schubert, Gunnar Tackmann, Wolfgang Erlmer, Ernst M, Rase!

Relative Calibration Techniques for Characterising Single Photon Detectors 566Silke Peters, Waldemar Schmunk, Mark Rodenberger, Heltnuth Hofer, Stefan Kiick

New Optical Fiber Based Microrcsonators Theory and Applications (Invited) 567

Misha Sumelsky

Investigation ofThermal Effects on Embedded Microcoil Resonators 568

George Chen, Timothy Lee, Yongmin Jung, MohammadBelal, Gilberw Brambilla, Neil Broderick. Trevor Newson

Plasmonic Properties of Copper Nanoparticles Deposited on Tilted Fiber Bragg Gratings 569

Li-Yang Shao, Jason Coyle, Sean Barry, Jacques Albert

Monitoring of Catalytic Reactions in Photonic Crystal Fiber 570

Ana Cubillas, Matthias Schmidt, Michael Scharrer, Tijmen G. Euser, Bastian Etzold, Nicola Taccardi, Peter Wasserscheid, Philip

St. J. Russell

Characterization of the influence of strain on the optical properties ofwaveguides and microresonators in silicon-

on-insulator technology 571

Wouter Westerveld, Peter Harrnsma, Rmtd Schmits, Erik Tabak, Jose Pozo, Paul Urbach, Mirvais Ynusefl

Visualizing Coherent Phonon Propagation in the 100 GHz Range a Broadband Picosecond Acoustics Approach 572

Emanuele Pontecarvo, Dario Polli, Michele Ortolan!, Marco Ferretli, Giancarlo Rtiocco, Giulio Cerullo, Tullio Scopigno

Surface profilometry and low coherence interfcrometry by electronically controlled optical sampling 573

Stefan Kray, Felix Spoler, Thomas Hellerer, Heinrich Kurz

Quantitative Optical Coherence Tomography for Characterization ofMicroscopic Structures with VaryingRefractive Index 574

Janarthanan Rasakanthan, Mandana Baregheh, Mykhaylo Dubov, Vladimir Mezenlsev, Graham Smith, Kale Sugden, Peter D.

Woolliams, Peter H. Tomlins

Optical Encryption with Compressive Ghost Imaging 575

Vicente Durdn, Pere Clemente, Victor Torres-Company, Enrique Tajahuerce, JesusLands, Pedro Andres

Transmission Matrix in Optics Taking Advantage of Transmission Channels for Image Transmission in

Disordered Materials 576

Sebastien Popoff, Geqffroy Lerosey, Mathias Fink, Claude Boccara, Sylvain Gigan

Fibercd Interference Scanning Optical Microscopy for Living Cell Imaging 577

Jochen Fick, Herve Guillou, Catherine Villard, Joel Chewier, Serge Huant

DNA Immobilisation and Hydrogel Matrix Formation in Suspended-Core Optical Fibre 578

Monika Rutowska, Fatima Garcia Gunning, Waclaw Vrbanczyk, Andrew Ellis

Optical Detection of Molecular Species at Sub-ppt Concentration Levels (invited) 579

Davide Mazzotti, Saverio Bartalini, Simone Borri, Pablo Cancio, facopo Galli, Giovanni Giusfredi, Paolo DeNatale

Fluorescence Spectroscopy in Photonic Crystal Fiber 580

Garelh Williams, Tijmen Euser, Jocelyn Chen, Philip Russell, Anita Jones

Long Distance Measurement with Sub-micrometer Accuracy Using a Frequency Comb Laser 581

Mounir Zeitouny, Moxi Cui, Nandini Bhattacharya, Paul Urbach, Steven Van Den Berg, Augustus Janssen

Pulse-shaper Assisted Spatio-temporal Ultrashort Pulse Characterisation 582

Seth L Cousin, Juan MBueno, NicolasForget, Dane R Austin, Jens Biegert

Closed-Loop Adaptive Optics with a single Spatial Light Modulator 583

Raul Martlnez-Cuenca, Vicente Durdn, Jesus Lands, Zbigniew Jaroszewicz, Justo Arines, Salvador Bard

Integrated Arrayed Waveguide Grating Spectrometer for Measuring Raman Spectra 584

Nttr Ismail, Fel Sun, Kerstin Worhoff, Alfred Driessen, Rene M.De Ridder, MarkusPollnau

Studying Photon Number Distribution ofNV-Ccntre-Emission in Diamond 585

Waldemar Schmunk, Marco Gramegna, Giorgio Brida, Ivo Pietro Degiovanni, Marco Genovese, Helmuth Hofer, Stefan Kilck,

Lapo Lolli, Matleo G. A, Paris, Silke Peters, Mauro Rajteri, Andreas Ruschhaupt, Emanuele Taralli, Paolo Traina

Broadband Quantum Cascade Lasers for Mid-Infrared White Light Applications 586

Andreas Hugi, Stephane Blaser, Mattias Beck. Jerome Faist

Ultra-long Range Distributed Fibre Sensing Using Virtually Transparent Propagation (invited) 587

Miguel Gonzalez-Herraez, Sonia Martin-Lopez, Mercedes Alcon-Camas, Pedro Corredera, Luc Thevenaz, Juan Diego Ania-

Castaiion

Photonic Crystal Fiber Sensor Array Based on Cladding Mode Resonance 588

Guillermo Alejandro Cardenas Sevilla, Vittoria Finazzi, Joel Villatoro, Valeria Pruneri

A Vectorial Magnetometer Utilising a Microstructured Optical Fibre Bragg Grating Infiltrated by a Ferrofluid 589

Alessandro Candiani, Walter Margulis, Carola Sterner, Maria Konstantaki, Paul Childs, StavrosPissadakis

High Frequency Current Sensing using Optical Fiber Micro-wire 590

George Chen, MohammadBelal, Yongmin Jung, Gilberto Brambilla, Trevor Newson

OPTICAL TECHNOLOGIES FOR COMMUNICATIONSAND DATA STORAGE

Amplitude Noise Reduction in Multilevel QAM Formats Using a Nonlinear Amplifying Loop Mirror with a

Saturable Amplifier 591

Tobias Roethlingshoefer, Georgy Onishchukov, Bernhard Schmauss, GerdLeuchs

Effect ofAmplitude Noise on Multi-Level Phase Regeneration 592

MorltzLenz, Georgy Onishchukov, Bernhard Schmauss, GerdLeuchs

Potential and Practical Implementations ofPhase Sensitive Amplifiers for All-Optical Signal Regeneration(Invited) 593

Francesco Parmigiani, JosephKakande, Radan Slavik, Periklis Petropoulos, David JRichardson

DQPSK Optical Packet Switching using an SG-DBR laser 594

Tarn N. Huynh, Kai Shi, FrankSmyth, Liam P. Barry

Direct Modulation Optical OFDM Performance Enhancement by External Optical Injection 595

Colin Browning, Kai Shi, Frank Smyth, Barry Cardiff, Prince Anandarajah, Liam Barry

Pulse Shaping-Assisted Nonlinear Spectral Broadening 596

Xin Yang, David J. Richardson, Periklis Pelropoulos

Optical Comb Generation and Expansion by Gain Switched Discrete Mode Laser Diode 597

Sylwesler Lalkowski, Yiqing Xu, Smart Murdoch, Liam Barry, Prince Anandarajah

Patterning Effects in Ultrafast All-Optical Photonic Crystal Nanocavity Switches 598

Mikkel Heuck, Philip Trosi Krislensen, Jesper Mark

Intra-cavity Frequency Shifted Laser Pumps for Non-degenerate and Partially Coherent Bragg-scattering FWMin Nonlinear Fiber 599

Katarzyna Krupa, Michela Bettemana, Atessandro Tonello, Daniele Uodatto, Gahriele Manili, Vincent Coudcrc, Philippe Di Bin,

Stefan Wabnilz, Alain Barlhelemy

High-Frcqucncy RIN Transfer in Fibre Optic ParametricAmplifiers 600

Zohreh Lali-Dasljerdi, Take Lund-Hansen, Ning Kang, Karsten Rottwlll, Micheal Galili, Chiristophe Peucheret

Q-factor Dependent Kerr Switching of Semiconductor Microcavities 601

Emre Yilce, Georgios Clistis, Julien Claudon, Maela Bazin, Jean-Michel Gerard, Wiliem L Vos

Coherent All-optical Switching in a Bistable Wavcguidc-cavity-waveguidc System 602

Philip Trost Krislensen, Mikkel Heuck, Jesper Mark

Optimization of 2- and 4-dimensional Modulation Constellations for Optical Adaptive Transmission Using the

Genetic Algorithm 603

AhmedS. Abdelhainid, Michael H. Eiselt

Digital Key Chaos-communication Systems with Delay Time Concealment 604

Romain Modeste Nguimdo, Pere Colet, Laurent Larger, Luis PesqueraTellurite Composite Microstructured Fibers with Tailed Chromatic Dispersion for Nonlinear Applications 605

ZhongchaoDuan, Meisong Liao, Xin Yan, Chihiro Kilo, Takenobu Suzuki, Yasutake Ohishl

Nonlinear Distortion of 16QAM Constellations in Intradyne Coherent Receiver 606

Takahidc Sakamoto, Akito Chiba, Tetsuya Kawanishi

Theory of Fiber Optic Co- and Counter-pumped Raman Polarizers 607

Stefan Wabnilz, Victor Kozlov, Javier Nuiio, Juan Diego Ania-Castafion

Theory of Fiber Optic Lossless Polarizers 608Stefan Wabnilz, Victor Kozlov, Javier Nllilo

2.56xlOn Hz/s Frequency Chirp Signal Generation Using DSB-SC Optical Modulation with out Optical Filters 609

Atsushi Kama, Shlnnosuke Honda, Ryula Yamanaka, Hideyuki Sotobayashi, Tetsuya Kawanishi

Creation of Multi-Carrier Millimeter-Wave Signal Using Mach-Zchnder-Modulator-Bascd Flat Comb Generator 610Isao Morohashi, Takahide Sakamoto, Tetsuya Kawanishi, Iwaa Hosako

Field Experiment Optical Chaos Communication @ lOGb/s Demonstrating Electro-optic Phase Chaos Principles 611MaximeJacquot, Roman Lavrov, JeremyOden, Yanne Chembo, ModesleNguimdo, Pere Colet, Laurent Lurger

A Lidnard Optoelectronic Oscillator with Time-Delayed Feedback 612Bruno Romeira, Kris Seunarine, Charles Ironside, Julien Javaloyes, Anthony Kelly, Jose Figueiredo

Reduced Lorentzian linewidth for monolithic widely tunable C-band lasers utilising InGaAlAs/InP active region 613Samuel Davies, Neil Whitbread,Andrew Ward, Robert Griffin, Michael Wale, Martin Arnold

Inducing a Detector Efficiency Mismatch to Hack a Commercial Quantum Key Distribution System 614Nitin Jain, Lars Lydersen, Chrisloffer Wittmann, Carlos Wiechers, Dominique Elser, Chrisloph Marquardt, Vadim Makarov, GerdLeuchs

Improved Accuracy of a Fourier-domain Optical Processor with Feedback... 615Smart Murdoch, Regan Watts, Richard Provo, RayXu, Liam Barry

Optical Linear Feedback Shift Register 616Mirco Scaffardi, Gianluca Berrett'mi, An Nguyen, Francesco Bontetnpi, Antonella Bogoni

All-Optical Modulation Converter for On-Off Keying to Duobinary and Alternate-Mark Inversion at 42.6 Gbps 617James M. Dailey, Mark J. Power, Roderick P. Webb, Robert J. Manning

Electronically-Tuned Optical Delay Lines in Silicon 618Saeed Khan, Sasan Fathpour

All-optical Signal Processing Using Slow Light Enhanced Nonlincarities in Silicon Waveguides (invited) 619Bill Corcoran, Christelle Monat, MarkPelusi, Christian Grillet, Thomas Wlilte, Juntao Li, Liam O'Faolain, Thomas Krauss, DavidMoss, Benjamin Eggleton

Dynamic Compensation of Two-Photon Absorption Induced Distortions in Silicon Photonics Filters 620Carlo Ferrari, Francesco Morichelti, Antonio Canciamilla, Marc Sorcl, Andrea Melloni

Integrated All-optical SSB Modulator Using Photonic Hilbcrt Transformer with Planar Bragg Gratings 621Chaatan Sima,James Gates, Helen Rogers, Christopher Holmes, Michalis Zervas, Peter Smith

FIBRE AND GUIDED WAVE LASERS AND AMPLIFIERS

Dual Wavelength Passively Mode-locked Raman Fiber Laser Pumped by Semiconductor Disk Lasers 622Alexander Chamorovskiy, Jussi Rautiainen, Jari Lyytiktiinen, Oleg G. Okhotnikov

High-harmonic km-long Self-pulsed Raman Fiber Laser 623AnneBoucon, Benoit Baiviau, Julien Fatome, Chrislophe Finot, Thibaut Sylvestre, Min Won Lee, Philippe Grelit, Guy Millol

A Fiber Based Synchronously Pumped Tunable Raman Laser in the NIR 624Shaif-Ul Alain, Dejiao Lin, Peh Teh, KangChen, David Richardson

Multi-stage Er-doped Fiber Amplifier for Gain-switched Laser Diodes 625

Laura Abrardi, Lauryna Petravicinte Loetscher, Sergio Vincenzo Marchess, ThomasFeurer

High Energy Pulsed Eye-safe Fiber Amplifier 626Eric Lallier, Dominique Papillon-Ruggeri

Theoretical and Experimental Comparison of Different Configurations ofTapered Fiber Lasers 627Juho Kerttula, Valery Filippov, Yuri Chamorovskii, V. Ustimchik, Konstantin Golant, Oleg Okholnikov

High Power Fused Single Mode Optical Fiber Coupler 628

Thomas Theeg, Kaiharina Hausmann, MaikFrede, Hakan Sayinc, Jorg Neumann, Dietmar Kracht

Reducing Loss in Practical Single Ring Antircsonant Hollow Core Fibres 629John R. Hayes, Francesco Poletti, David J. Richardson

Ultrafast Laser Direct-Write Inscription of Monolithic Fibre and Waveguide Lasers (Invited) 630Michael with ford

Polarization-maintaining Ytterbium-doped Fibre with an Aluminosilicate Inner-cladding Fabricated Using In-situ

Doping Technique ,631

Seongwoo Yoo, Andrew S. Webb, Alexander J. Boyland, Robert J. Standish, Anirban Dhar, Jayanta K. Sahu

Giant Gain in a Rare-earth-ion-doped Waveguide 632Dimitri Geskus, Shanmugam Aravazhi, Sonia Garcia Blanco, Murkus Pollnau

Phase-Matching and Gain of Deep-UV Dispersive-Wave Generation 633John C. Trovers, Philipp Hdizer, Wonkeun Chang, Johannes Nold, Alexander Nazarkin, Nicolas Joly, Philip St. J. Russell

Internally-Frcquency-Doubled Yb Fiber Laser with 15 W CW Green Output 634

Rafal Cieslak, William Andrew Clarkson

High Average Power Supcrcontinuum Sources (Invited) 635John Trovers, EdmundKelleher, Benjamin Chapman, Sergei Popov, Roy Taylor

Dynamic Waveguide Properties of Active Fibers Under High Power Operation 636FabianStutzki, Florian Jansen, Cesar Jauregiti, Jens Limperl, Andreas Tilnnennann

Brillouin Lasing with Incoherent Feedback in Optical Fibers 637

Andrei Fotiadi, Elena Preda, Patrice Megret

Sub-200-fs Microjoulc Pulses from an All-fiber CPA System 638Dirk Morlag, Thomas Theeg, Katharina Hausmann, Lars Gruner-Nielsen, Kim G. Jespersen, Dieter Wandt, Uwe Morgner,DietmarKracht, Jorg Neumann

Ytterbium Fiber System using a Dispersion Compensating Fiber Stretcher 639Aart Verhoef, Alma Fernandez, Kim Jespersen, Lingxiao Zhu, Lars Griiner-Nielsen, Almantas Galvanauskas, Andrius Baltuska

High Gain Fiber Optical Parametric Chirped Pulse Amplification of Femtosecond Pulses at 1 urn 640

ArnaudMussol, Damien Bigourd, Lame Lago, Alexandre Kudlinskl, Emmanuel Hugonnot

Rod-type Fiber Amplifier for Pulse Compression of High Power Thin-Disk Lasers 641

Oliver H. Heckl, Clara J. Saraceno, Cyril! R, E. Baer, Thomas Siidmeyer, Ursula Keller

40 W Narrow-bandwidth Ps Yb-doped Fiber Laser at 976 nm and Frequency Conversion to 488 nm 642

Guillaume Machinet, Jerome Lhermite, Eric Cormier

All-fiber Optically Synchronized Hybrid Er/Yb Laser System for High Power Femtosecond Pulse Generation 643

Alexey Andrianov, Elena Anashkina, Sergey Muravyev, ArkadyKim

High Power lOOfs Fiber Oscillator 644

Martin Baumgartl, Florian Jansen, Fabian Stutzki, Cesar Janregui, Jens Limpert, Andreas Tunnermann

8 Watts Actively Mode-Locked Ytterbium Doped Fiber Laser Delivering IS ps pulses at 40 MHz 645

Pierre Deslandes, Damien Sangla, Mathias Perrin, Julien Saby, Francois Salln, Eric Freysz

Highest Peak Power from a Normal-Dispersion Yb-Fiber Oscillator with Anomalous Dispersion Higher-Order-Mode Fiber 646

AlmaFernandez, Lingxian Zhu, Aart Verhoef, Kim Jespersen, Dusan Lorenc, Lars Gruner-Nielsen, Andrius Baltuska

0.5 uj Femtosecond Pulses from a Giant-chirp Ytterbium Fiber Oscillator 647

Nikolai Chichkov, Christian Hapke, Katharina Hausmann, Thomas Theeg, Dieter Wandt, Uwe Morgner, Dietmar Kracht, JSrgNeumann

500 nJ Femtosecond Fiber Laser at 976 nm 648

JeromeLhermite, Guillaume Machinet, Caroline Lecaplain, Romain Rayon, Ammar Hideur, Eric Cormier

High-energy AU-normal-dispcrsion Graphcne Mode-locked Yb-doped Fiber Laser 649

Jiang Liu, Sida Wu, Quan-Hong Yang, Pu Wang

High Power Ultrafast Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers Design, Performance and Potential (Keynote) 650Jens Limpert

Comparison Between Multiple Quantum Wells and Carbon Nanotubes to Generate High Power in Mode-locked

Fiber Oscillator 651

Amilie Cabasse, Gilles Martel, Trung Nguyen, Jean-Louis Oudar, Sylvain Maine, Yann Bailie, Brigitte Attal-Tretout

Liquid-Nitrogen-Coolcd High-Concentration Erbium-Doped Fibre Laser 652

Ruth Stelnborn, Tlan/u Yao, Andrew Webb, Jayanta Sahu, Johan Nilsson

Athcrmal Ho3+-Doped Amplifier with Two Pumps 653Galina Nemova, Raman Kashyap

697 W 12 pm Linewidth of Fiber Generated and Amplified Spontaneous Emission (ASE) at 1 um 654

Oliver Schmidt, Christian Wirth, Stephan Rhein, Miroslaw Rekas, Andrea Kliner, Thomas Schreiber, Ramona Eberhardt, Andreas

Tilnnennann

Spectral Characterization of a Narrow Linewidth, Single-frequency 780 nm Fiber Laser Source for Atom CoolingApplications 655

Alain Mugnier, Eric Lemercier, Ronan Lebref, MathieuJacquemet, David Purenr