GENERAL INFORMATION

REGISTRATION

All participants are kindly asked to register and submit an abstract to catp24.sofia@gmail.com by 05 June 2024. Please fill out our Registration form and Abstract template.

You will be receiving an acceptance notification by 20 June 2024.

CONTRIBUTIONS

The online version of Book of Abstracts can be found here

Please submit the abstract via email, following the instructions given. The for abstract submission is 05 June 2024.

You are kindly asked to uphold the times given.

All participants who have chosen to present a poster at CATP’24 may do so in person (at conference venue: Faculty of Physics). In order to prepare the poster presentation, we inform that the maximal poster dimensions are 95 cm (width) and 130 cm (height).

All posters will participate in The BEST poster award competition. We are happy to announce that the 3 posters will awarded.

We kindy ask poster presenters at CATP’24 to send the .pdf poster file to catp24.sofia@gmail.com prior to attending the conference.

PROGRAMME

List of Chairs to all sessions

Monday – 15.07.2024

Plenary session 9:00 – 11:00 -- Chair Prof. Alexander Dreischuh

Morning key talk session 11:15 – 12:45 -- Dr. Sotir Chervenkov

Afternoon key talk session 13:45 – 15:15 -- Prof. Suzana Topuzoski

Afternoon invited talk session 15:30 – 17:10 -- Dr. Felix Wiesner

Tuesday – 16.07.2024

Plenary session 9:00 – 11:00 -- Dr. Lyubomir Stoyanov

Morning key talk session 11:15 – 12:45 -- Dr. Sotir Chervenkov

Afternoon key talk session 13:45 – 15:15 -- Prof. Suzana Topuzoski

Afternoon invited talk session 15:30 – 18:25 -- Dr. Felix Wiesner

Wednesday – 17.07.2024

Plenary session 9:00 – 11:00 -- Dr. Valerio Gili

Morning key talk session 11:15 – 12:45 -- Assoc. Prof. Hristo Iliev

Afternoon key and invited talk session 13:45 – 15:15 -- Prof. Dragomir Neshev

Afternoon invited talk session 15:30 – 18:25 -- Assoc. Prof. Aleksander Stefanov

PLENARY TALKS (60 mins)

P1. One Talk, Two Stories: Imaging in the Extreme UV and Detecting Vacuum Birefringence – Gerhard G. Paulus (Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany)

P2. Recent Advances and Near Future Upgrades of the FERMI Facility and Laser Systems – Miltcho Danailov (Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste, SS 14 km.163.5 Trieste, Italy)

P3. Diffraction of Laguerre-Gaussian and Cosine-Laguerre-Gaussian Beams by Fork-Shaped Gratings – Suzana Topuzoski (Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje, R. North Macedonia)

P4. Laser Beam Sculpting Using Optical Vortices – Alexander Dreischuh (Faculty of Physics, Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria)

P5. Infrared Vision Through Nonlinear Up-Conversion in Metasurfaces – Dragomir N. Neshev (ARC Centre of Excellence for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems (TMOS), Dept. of Electronics Materials Engineering, Australian National University, ACT, Australia)

P6. Taming Molecules – Production and Applications of Cold and Ultracold Molecules – Sotir Chervenkov (Project SUMMIT, Faculty of Physics, Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria)

KEY TALKS (45 mins)

К1. Spectroscopic Coherence Tomography with Extreme Ultraviolet Light – Felix Wiesner (Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany)

К2. The Role of Low-Energy Electron Recollisions in the Dissociative Multiphoton Ionization of D2 – Sebastian Hell (Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany)

К3. Laser Acceleration of Alpha Particles to Relativistic Velocities. Application to laser nuclear fusion – Lubomir. M. Kovachev (Institute of Electronics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria)

К4. Broad-band Optical Solutions – Aneliya Dakova-Mollova (Institute of Electronics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria)

К5. Unveiling the Potential of Quantum Imaging in the Infrared through “Two-color” Schemes – Valerio Gili (Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering IOF, Jena, Germany)

К6. Diatomic molecules. Beyond the Born-Oppenheimer approximation. – Asen Pashov (Faculty of Physics, Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria)

К7. Annihilation Upconversion in Lamellar Micelles – Stanislav Balushev (Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany)

К8. Amplitude Vortex Structures in Dispersive Nonlinear Media – Valeri Slavchev (Institute of Electronics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria)

К9. Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy Studies of Nanocarrier-based Drug Delivery Systems – Kaloian Koynov (Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany)

К10. Laser-matter Interactions: Applications in Micro- and Nanostructuring – Nikolay Nedyalkov (Institute of Electronics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria)

К11. Advances in Yb CPA Lasers towards Extremely Short Output Pulses. Prospectives, and New Applications in Ultrafast Spectroscopy – Ivan Buchvarov (Faculty of Physics, Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria)

INVITED TALKS (25 mins)

I1. High-harmonics Generation in Zinc Oxide – Tzveta Apostolova (Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria)

I2. Correlative Fluorescence and Soft X-Ray Microscopy in the Water Window Region in an Integrated Lab-based Setup – Sophia Kaleta (Helmholtz Institute, Jena, Germany)

I3. Multi-Instrument Study of a Wintertime Atmospheric Desert-Dust Load Event over Sofia, Bulgaria – Zahari Peshev (Institute of Electronics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria)

I4. The Monomethine Group as a Strategic Fragment for the Synthesis of Dyes with Sensory Properties – Aleksey Vasilev (Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy, Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria)

I5. Interferometric Determination of the Gouy Phase of Zeroth-order Gauss-Bessel beams – Aleksander Stefanov (Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria)

I6. Data-poor Machine Learning with Application to Biophotonics – Christina Andreeva (Faculty of Automatics, Technical University, Sofia, Bulgaria)

I7. Industrial Laser Soldering System Based on CW Diode Laser – Hristo Iliev (Faculty of Physics, Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria)

I8. Tunable Device for Arbitrary Polarization Control – Hristina Hristova (Faculty of Physics, Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria)

I9. From Far-Field to Near-Field and Back: Interplay of the Valley-Pseudospin in 2D Semiconductors with a Resonant Plasmonic Nanoantenna – Tobias Bucher (Institute of Solid-State Physics, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany)

I10. Silicon Optical Metasurfaces for Lasers and Optical Communications – Kaloyan Georgiev (Faculty of Physics, Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria)

I11. Nanomechanical Properties of Epitaxially Grown GaAs1-xPx Layers for Nonlinear Optical Applications – Ginka Exner (Faculty of Physics and Technology, Plovdiv University, Plovdiv, Bulgaria)

I12. Yb:CALYO 1 kHz - 1 MHz Amplifier. A Breakthrough in Obtaining the Shortest Pulse Duration form 1 micron CPA lasers – Lyuben Petrov (Faculty of Physics, Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria)

I13. Generation of Signal Waves with GHz Spectral Shift and Coherent GHz Wave. Influence of the Initial Polarization of Laser Pulse – Daniela Georgieva (Faculty of Applied Mathematics and Informatics, Technical University, Sofia, Bulgaria)

I14. Electron-Beam Processing of Metals and Alloys – Techniques and Trends – Stefan Valkov (Institute of Electronics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria)

I15. Laser Based Texturing for Enhancing “High-Traffic” Surfaces Antimicrobial Activity – Albena Daskalova (Institute of Electronics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria)

I16. Quasi-Phase Matching and Crystal Segmentation for Robust Optical Parametric Amplification – Andon Rangelov (Faculty of Physics, Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria)

I17. Towards Adequate Modeling of the Interaction of Attosecond Pulses with Correlated Electrons – Ivan P. Christov (Faculty of Physics, Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria)

POSTER PRESENTATIONS

P1. Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Spectroscopy (CARS) for Characterization of Transparent – Polymers – Ivan L. Stefanov (Faculty of Physics, Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria)

P2. Second Harmonic Generation by Bessel-Gaussian Beams – Lyubomir Stoyanov (Faculty of Physics, Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria)

P3. Experimental Determination of the Gouy Phase of Even Hermite-Gaussian laser modes – Maria Mincheva (Faculty of Physics, Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria)

P4. Top-Hat Beam Generation and Refocusing Using SLM Modulator – Maya Zhekova (Faculty of Physics, Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria)

P5. Laser-Induced Optical Phase Effects in Ion-Implanted Polymeric Nanolayers – Nasko N. Gorunski (Faculty of Physics, Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria)

P6. Gouy Phase Determination of Different Laser Modes Using Single-Lens Interferometer Techniques – Petko Drenkov (Faculty of Physics, Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria)

P7. Annihilation of Low-Charged Optical Vortex Beam and Studying of Their Gouy Phase – Edmon Lazarov (Faculty of Physics, Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria)

P8. Investigation of the B1Π, v’=4 ← X1Σ+, v”=0 band in KRb – Iriney Vasilev (Faculty of Physics, Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria)

P9. Investigation of the Fine and Hyperfine Structure of the c3Σ+ State in KRb – Velizar Stoyanov (Faculty of Physics, Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria)

P10. Picosecond Laser Ablation of Metals in Air and Water Environment – Anna Dikovska (Institute of Electronics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria)

P11. Laser Light Diffraction Through Electro-Optically Oriented Films – Georgi B. Hadjichristov (Institute of Solid-State Physics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria)

P12. Lidar Remote Sensing of Desert Aerosol Loads over Sofia, Bulgaria – Liliya Vulkova (Institute of Electronics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria)

P13. Roughness and Wettability Control of Laser Textured Glass for Development of Antibacterial Surfaces – Liliya Angelova (Institute of Electronics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria)

P14. Characterization of Metal-Doped β-TCP Scaffolds Modified by Ultra-Short Laser for Improved Antibacterial Performance – Marco Oliveira (Institute of Electronics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria)

P15. Impact of Canadian Forest Fire Smoke on the Atmospheric Aerosol Features over Sofia, Bulgaria, Characterized by Sun Photometer and Lidar – Stefan Dosev (Institute of Electronics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria)

P16. Optical Investigations of Surface Plasmonic Resonance of Complex Liquids – Boyko Katranchev (Institute of Solid-State Physics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria)

P17. Photoactive Spirooxazines for Laser-based Sensing of Heavy-metal Ions in Solutions – Stela Minkovska (Institute of Catalysis, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria)

P18. Optical Characterization of Squaraine Dye Sensitized TiO2/GO Nanocomposites for Photocatalytic Application – Petya Karakashkova (Institute of Catalysis, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria)

P19. Electromagnetic Cloak of Invisibility with Metamaterials – Viktor Pavlov (Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy, Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria)

P20. Fluorescence and Raman Spectroscopy of Essential Oils – Alexandra Zhelyazkova (Institute of Electronics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria)

VENUE

Faculty of Physics Address: Faculty of Physics, Sofia University, James Boucher 5, Sofia, Bulgaria.

Transport connections:

• Tram Line 10: stop “Milin kamyk”
• Bus Lines 67, 94, 102: stop “Seminariya” + 5 min by foot
• Subway Line 2: station “James Bourchier” + 10 min by foot

ORGANIZING AND SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

Organizing committee:

• Lyubomir Stoyanov
• Maya Zhekova
• Ivan Stefanov
• Alexander Dreischuh
• Aleksander Stefanov

• Prof. Dragomir Neshev
• Prof. Ivan Christov
• Prof. Suzana Topuzoski
• Prof. Asen Pashov
• Dr. Sotir Chervenkov

CONTACTS

Contact us: catp24.sofia@gmail.com

LOC:

Lyubomir Stoyanov

Alexander Dreishuh

Maya Zhekova