SUNDAY 7/25/99 |
| Buses arrive |
2:00-11:00 pm | Registration |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:00-7:15 pm | Welcome to Colby-Sawyer |
7:15 pm | Ultrafast Optics and Photonics |
| Discussion Leader: Wayne Knox (Bell Labs)
- Franz Kaertner (University of Karlsruhe), "Pushing the Limits of Femtosecond Optics"
- Takayoshi Kobayashi (Univ. of Tokyo), "Tunable sub-9-fs pulse generation in the visible and near infrared"
- Pete Delfyett (CREOL), "Hybrid WDM-TDM optical pulse generation from modelocked semiconductor laser sources - physics and applications"
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9:45 pm | Opening Reception |
MONDAY 7/26/99 |
7:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Future Applications |
| Discussion Leader: Margaret Murnane (University of Michigan)
- Eric Mazur (Harvard), "Materials Processing Using Ultrashort Laser Pulses"
- Stefan Nolte (Laser Zentrum Hannover), "Precision Micro-machining with Femtosecond Laser Pulses"
- Tom Baer (Arcturus), "Future Applications in Biology and Medicine"
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12:30 pm | Lunch |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm | Photonic Crystals |
| Discussion leader: Disk Slusher (Bell Labs)
- Shanhui Fan (MIT), "Photonic crystals: new opportunities for manipulating light"
- Axel Scherer (Caltech), "Photonic Crystal Defect Lasers"
- Shawn Lin (Sandia National Laboratory), "Silicon 3D photonic Crystal and its optoelectronic applications"
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TUESDAY 7/27/99 |
7:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Fiber Lasers and Applications |
| Discussion leader: Yaron Silberberg (Weizmann Institute)
- Martin Fermann (IMRA), " Fiber lasers and their applications in ultrafast optics"
- David Hanna (Southampton University), "New sources combining high power fibre lasers and quasi-phase-matched nonlinear materials"
- Andy Stentz (Bell Labs - Lucent), "High Power Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers for Telecommunications"
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12:30 pm | Lunch |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm | Nonlinear Optics in Communications |
| Discussion Leader: Vladimir Grigoryan (University of Maryland Baltimore County)
- Valeria DaSilva (Corning), "The impact of optical nonlinearities in high speed WDM systems"
- Ekaterina Golovchenko (Tyco Submarine Systems Labs ), "Nonlinear Effects in Long-Haul, Dispersion-Managed WDM Fiber-optic Transmission Links"
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9:15 pm | POSTERS I |
WEDNESDAY 7/28/99 |
7:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Terahertz Radiation, Nonlinear Spectroscopy, and Applications |
| Discussion leader: Nobuhiko Sarukura (Institute for Molecular Science)
- Dan Grischkowsky (Oklahoma State University), "Unique Applications enabled by Optoelectronic THz Techniques, THz Time-Domain Spectroscopy (THz-TDS) and THz Impulse Ranging"
- Toni Taylor (Los Alamos National Laboratory), "Terahertz Spectroscopy: Technology and Applications"
- Ron Shen (University of California Berkeley), "Selective Recent Applications of Surface Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy"
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12:30 pm | Lunch |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm | Extreme Nonlinear Optics: X-Ray Generation I |
| Discussion leader: Ivan Christov (Sofia University)
- Roger Falcone (University of California Berkeley), "Time-Resolved X-Ray Scattering Studies of Ultrafast Material Structure Dynamics"
- Bob Schoenlein (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), "Generation of Femtosecond X-rays via Laser Electron-Beam Interaction"
- Thomas Brabec (Technical University of Vienna), "Routes towards increasing the efficiency of high harmonic generation"
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THURSDAY 7/29/99 |
7:30 am | Breakfast |
8:30 am | X-Ray Generation II |
| Discussion leader: Hiroshi Takuma (JAERI)
- Erik Johnson (Brookhaven National Laboratory), "X-Ray Generation using Free-Electron Lasers"
- Todd Ditmire (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), "Nuclear fusion from explosions of femtosecond laser-heated deuterium clusters"
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10:40 am | Nonlinear Photon & Matter-Wave Optics with Bose-Einstein Condensates |
| Discussion Leader: Henry Kapteyn (University of Michigan)
- Lene Hau (Rowland Institute), "Light speed reduction to 38 miles/hour in a Bose-Einstein condensate"
- Kris Helmerson (National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD), "Nonlinear Matter-Wave Optics With Bose-Einstein Condensates"
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12:30 pm | Lunch |
6:00 pm | Banquet |
7:30 pm | After Banquet Session |
| Discussion Leader: Andy Weiner (Purdue University)
- Business meeting
- Art Ashkin (Bell Laboratories), "Optical Trapping and Manipulation of Small Neutral Particles and Some Applications to Nonlinear Optics"
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9:15 pm | POSTERS II |
FRIDAY 7/30/99 |
7:30 am | breakfast |
9:00 am | buses depart for airport |