UFNO’2009
PROGRAM FOR 14.09.2009
Section ULTRAFAST LASERS
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Arrival and Registration
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15:00-15:15 |
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Conference Opening Session |
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15:15-15:45 |
V. Petrov |
INVITED TALK: Femtosecond optical parametric generators and amplifiers for the near infrared based on BiB3O6 |
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15:45-16:15 |
M. Danailov |
INVITED TALK: Ultrafast laser applications to Free Electron Lasers |
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16:15-16:45 |
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COFFEE BREAK |
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16:45-17:00 |
L. Ionel |
Spatial and temporal aspects in ultra-short coherent beam combination |
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17:00-17:15 |
D. Ursescu |
TEWALAS, 20-TW femtosecond laser facility |
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17:15-17:30 |
M. Kalashnikov |
Limits of the temporal contrast for CPA lasers with beams of high aperture |
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20:00 |
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WELCOME PARTY |
UFNO’2009
PROGRAM FOR 15.09.2009
Section SPECTROSCOPY
Section NONLINEAR PHENOMENA AND APPLICATIONS
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9:00-9:30 |
M. Motzkus |
INVITED TALK: Single-beam nonlinear Raman spectroscopy with shaped fs pulses for microscopy and microanalytics |
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9:30-10:00 |
G. Paulus |
INVITED TALK: High accuracy, real time, single-shot measurement of absolute carrier-envelope phase and pulse duration for few-cycle laser pulses |
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10:00-10:15 |
I. Andriyash |
Quasi-mono-energetic ions from laser heated thin multispecies target |
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10:15-10 :45 |
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COFFEE BREAK |
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10:45-11:00 |
K. Koynov |
2D nonlinear photonic quasi-crystals: Design, characterization and applications |
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11:00-11:15 |
A. Zlenko |
Spectroscopic investigations of dispersion-shifted fiber with active thin Bi-doped ring and high nonlinear refractive index |
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11:15-11:30 |
I. Uzunov |
Stochastic motion in continuous nonlinear dynamical system that describes optical switching |
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12:00-14:00 |
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LUNCH |
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14:00-14:30 |
D. Neshev |
INVITED TALK: Supercontinuum generation by an optical vortex |
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14:30-15:00 |
W. Krolikowski |
INVITED TALK: Transverse second harmonic generation in periodic and random media |
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15:00-15:30 |
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COFFEE BREAK |
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15:30-15:45 |
K. Valev |
Asymmetric second harmonic generation from gold nanostructures of Ancient Greek design |
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15:45-16:00 |
V. Gerdjikov |
Bose-Einstein condensates with F=1 and F=2 and multi-component NLS models |
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16:00-16:15 |
A. Davoyan |
Generation of plasmon-polariton spatial solitons |
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16:15-16:30 |
I. Uzunov |
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16:30-16:45 |
J. Fulop |
Applications of tilted-pulse-front excitation |
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16:45-17:00 |
L. Kovachev |
Femtosecond pulses in air: linear and nonlinear regime |
UFNO’2009
PROGRAM FOR 16.09.2009
Section NONLINEAR PHENOMENA AND APPLICATIONS
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9:00-9:30 |
Z. Samson |
INVITED TALK: Ultrafast control of surface plasmon propagation |
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9:30-10:00 |
A. Arie |
INVITED TALK: Switching, deflection and beam shaping by spatially modulated nonlinear structures |
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10:00-10:15 |
S. Alisauskas |
Optical parametric amplifier of chirped pulses pumped by two and three beams |
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10:15-10:30 |
N. Teper |
Forming of Rydberg wave packet under the action of the pulse of Ti:Sapphire laser |
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10:30-11:00 |
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COFFEE BREAK |
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11:00-11:30 |
K. Osvay |
INVITED TALK: Extreme Light Infrastrucure: architecture and major challenges |
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11:30-12:00 |
T. Fiebig |
INVITED TALK: Photonics with ultrafast laser pulses – From DNA to semiconductor nanorods |
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12:00-12:15 |
S. Alisauskas |
Efficient 4-fold self-compression of 1.5-mJ infrared pulses to 19.8 fs |
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12:00-14:00 |
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LUNCH |
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14:00-14:15 |
F. Rebentrost |
Time-domain calculation of surface nonlinear susceptibilities |
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14:15-14:30 |
R. Cherif |
Supercontinuum generation in a large mode area photonic crystal fibre |
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14:30-15:00 |
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COFFEE BREAK |
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15:00-15:30 |
T. Popmintchev |
INVITED TALK: Phase matching of high harmonic generation in the soft and hard X-ray regions of the spectrum |
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15:30-16:00 |
H. Yoneda |
INVITED TALK: Observation of saturable absorption of Sn metal film with intense EUV laser pulse |
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16:00-16:15 |
A. Tarasevitch |
Two beam high order harmonic generation from solid targets |
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16:15-16:30 |
E. Efimenko |
Ionization-induced dynamics of ultrashort laser pulses focused in a dense gas |
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16:30-18:00 |
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POSTER SESSION I: UFL+SP / 11 posters / |
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20:00-….. |
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CONFERENCE DINNER |
UFNO’2009
PROGRAM FOR 16.09.2009
16:30h – 18:00h
POSTER SESSION I: Ultrafast Lasers and Spectroscopy
/ 11 posters /
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UFL-P1 |
A. A. Rangelov, N. V. Vitanov and B. W. Shore |
Rapid adiabatic passage without level crossing |
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UFL-P2 |
N. Gorunski, N. Dimitrov, A. Dreischuh |
Spatial chirp of ultrashort beam/pulse and correct interferometric autocorrelation |
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UFL-P3 |
Wei Li, Cheng-Xin Yu, Shi-Bing Liu |
Quantum theory of Cherenkov radiation in an anisotropic absorbing media |
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UFL-P4 |
H.Iliev, A. Stalnionis, D. Draganov, I. Buchvarov |
Mode-locking of electro-optically feedback controlled CW pumped Nd:YVO4 laser |
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UFL-P5 |
A. Gaydardzhiev, I. Buchvarov, A. Trifonov, T. Fiebig |
High-energy, high-power MOPA system with side-pumped slab amplifiers |
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UFL-P6 |
A.Gaydardzhiev, A. Stalnionis, I. Buchvarov |
Generation of a train of ps-pulses from a diode pumped Nd-laser using electro-optical negative feedback |
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UFL-P7 |
H.Iliev, I. Buchvarov, V. Petrov, D. Chuchumishev |
Diode pumped passively mode-locked laser using second harmonic generation in periodically polled structures |
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SP-P1 |
S. Kasarova, N. Sultanova, T. Petrova, V. Dragostinova and I. Nikolov |
Optical properties of thin polymer films |
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SP-P2 |
I. L. Stefanov, V. G. Ivanov G. B. Hadjichristov |
Laser-induced thermo-lens in ion-implanted optically-transparent polymer |
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SP-P3 |
G. B. Hadjichristov, I. L. Stefanov, S. S. Stanimirov and I. K. Petkov |
Femtosecond laser spectroscopy of europium complexes in solutions |
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SP-P4 |
P. Todorov, K. Vaseva, S. Cartaleva, S. Saltiel, D. Sarkisyan, D. Slavov |
High resolution laser spectroscopy of Cs vapor layers with thickness variation around the light wavelength |
UFNO’2009
PROGRAM FOR 17.09.2009
Section ATTOSECOND SCIENCE
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9:00-9:30 |
L. Gallman |
INVITED TALK: Quantum path interferences in high-harmonic generation: spatial structure and spectral signature of ionization effects |
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9:30-10:00 |
T. Fordell |
INVITED TALK: Characterization and applications of attosecond pulse trains |
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10:00-10:30 |
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COFFEE BREAK |
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10:30-11:00 |
P. Tzallas |
INVITED TALK: On the generation and characterization of intense attosecond pulses |
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11:00-11:15 |
J. Kruse |
Comparative study of attosecond metrology methods: RABITT vs. 2nd order autocorrelation |
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11:15-11:30 |
S. Rykovanov |
Controlling the surface harmonic generation |
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11:30-11 :45 |
M. Behmke |
Characteristics of Surface Harmonics Generated with 10 Hz Tabletop Laser Systems |
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11:45-12:00 |
D. Hemmers |
Multi-color Interferometry of Laser-generated XUV Harmonic Radiation |
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12:15-14 :00 |
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POSTER SESSION II: NLPaA / 8 posters / |
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14:30-….. |
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CONFERENCE EXCURSION |
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UFNO’2009
PROGRAM FOR 17.09.2009
12:15h – 14:00h
POSTER SESSION II: Nonlinear Phenomena and Applications
/ 8 posters /
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NLPaA-P1 |
L. Pálfalvi, K. Lengyel, Á. Péter, J. A. Fülöp, T. Reiter, J. Hebling |
Nonlinear optical characterization of LiNbO3 by the Z-scan method |
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NLPaA-P2 |
Z. D. Genchev |
Frequency conversion in regular and stochastic quasi-phase matched structures |
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NLPaA-P3 |
I. Ivanov, S. Saltiel |
Phase modulation in the process of high harmonic generation |
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NLPaA-P6 |
K. Hussain, S. K. Varshney, G. Contestabile, M. Presi, E. Ciaramella, and P. K. Datta |
Modeling of Wavelength Conversion of NRZ and RZ signals using Cross Gain Modulation in SOA |
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NLPaA-P7 |
N. Minkovski, S. Kourtev, S. M. Saltiel, L. Canova, A. Jullien, and O. Albert |
Nonlinear optical transformation of the polarization state of circularly polarized light with holographic-cut cubic crystals |
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NLPaA-P8 |
M. Mero, A. Sipos, G. Kurdi, and K. Osvay |
Broadband sum frequency mixing between the signal and idler output of a high-power optical parametric chirped pulse amplifier |
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NLPaA-P9 |
P. Hansinger, A. Dreischuh, G. G. Paulus |
Spatial control of multiple filamentation using optical vortices |
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NLPaA-P10 |
G. Maleshkov, D. N. Neshev, A. Dreischuh |
Crossed one-dimensional dark beams with step phase dislocations in self-focusing Kerr nonlinear media |
UFNO’2009
PROGRAM FOR 18.09.2009
Section HOT TOPICS
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9:35-9:50 |
P. Petkova |
Circular dichroism in magnesium sulfite hexahydrate doped with cobalt |
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9:50-10:00 |
SPIE |
SPIE Best Student Paper Awards |
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10:00-10:30 |
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COFFEE BREAK |
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10:30-11:00 |
N. Vitanov |
INVITED TALK: Selective excitation of multiple atomic states by single intense chirped femtosecond laser pulse |
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11:00-11:30 |
K. Staliunas |
INVITED TALK: Light propagation in gain/loss modulated materials |
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11:30-12:00 |
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12:00-12:15 |
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CONFERENCE CLOSING SESSION |
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12:15-…… |
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DEPARTURE |