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Our team members have attended many presentations related to ultrafast (femtosecond) lasers and their applications. We plan to add brief review of these presentations in the coming weeks.

 1. (CMA1) Tunable Femtosecond Optical Parametric Generator in the Vacuum Ultraviolet Jiaan Zheng, Mark Mero, Pancho Tzankov, Oliver Steinkellner; Max Born Inst. for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy, Germany. CLEO Oral
CMA. Short Wavelength NLO
2. (CMB1) Frequency Doubling in Femtosecond-Written Periodically-Poled Potassium Titanyl Phosphate Waveguides Stuart Campbell1, Robert R. Thomson1, Duncan P. Hand1, Ajoy K. Kar1, Derryck T. Reid1, Carlota Canalias2, Fredrik Laurell2; 1Heriot Watt Univ., United Kingdom, 2Royal Technical Inst., Sweden. CLEO Oral
CMB. Ultrafast Processes
3. (CMB2) Efficient High-Energy Femtosecond Pulse Compression in Quadratic Media with Flattop Beams Jeffrey Moses1, Eihab Alhammali2, Jason M. Eichenholz2, Frank W. Wise1; 1Cornell Univ., USA, 2Newport Corp., USA. CLEO Oral
CMB. Ultrafast Processes
4. (CMI6) A Broadband Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy Using a Femtosecond White-Light Continuum Anton A. Trifonov, Ivan C. Buchvarov, Torsten Fiebig; Boston College, USA. CLEO Oral
CMI. Precision Spectroscopy I
5. (CMT3) Ultrabroadband Femtosecond Continuum Amplification in Crystals of Bismuth Triborate Ivailo Nikolov1, Ivan Buchvarov1, Frank Noack2, Valentin Petrov2, Pancho Tzankov2; 1Sofia Univ., Bulgaria, 2Max-Born-Inst., Germany. CLEO Oral
CMT. Ultrafast Parametric Amplification II
6. (CMU4) Properties of All-Normal-Dispersion Femtosecond Fiber Lasers Andy Chong, William H. Renninger, Frank W. Wise; Cornell Univ., USA. CLEO Oral
CMU. Femtosecond Fiber Oscillators and Applications
7. (QMH4) Cerenkov THz Emission from Femtosecond Filamentation in Air Aurelien Houard1, Ciro D'Amico1, Michel Franco1, Bernard Prade1, Andre Mysyrowicz1, Arnaud Couairon2, Vladimir Tikhonchuk3; 1Lab d'Optique Appliquee, ENSTA - Ecole Polytechnique, France, 2Ctr. de Physique Theorique, CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, France, 3CELIA, Univ. Bordeaux 1, France. QELS Oral
QMH. THz and Other X(2) Effects
8. (CMKK2) Long-Term Femtosecond Timing Link Stabilization Using a Single-Crystal Balanced Cross-Correlator Jungwon Kim1, Florian Loehl2, Jeff Chen1, Zhigang Zhang1, Holger Schlarb2, Franco Wong1, Franz Kartner1; 1MIT, USA, 2DESY, Germany. CLEO Oral
CMKK. Timing Stabilization and Transfer
9. (CTuC5) Resonant Saturable Absorbers for Dispersion Compensation in Compact Femtosecond Lasers Gunter Steinmeyer1, Uwe Griebner1, Florian Saas1, Mathias Moenster1, Wolfgang Richter2; 1Max-Born-Inst., Germany, 2BATOP GmbH, Germany. CLEO Oral
CTuC. Ultrafast Sources I
10. (CTuC6) Diode-Pumped Femtosecond Yb:KYW Laser Incorporating a Quantum-Dot Saturable Absorber Alexander A. Lagatsky1, Fiona Bain1, C.T.A. Brown1, Wilson Sibbett1, D.A. Livshits2, G. Erbert3, E.U. Rafailov4; 1Univ. of St Andrews, United Kingdom, 2NL-Nanosemiconductor GmbH, Germany, 3Ferdinand-Braun-Inst., Germany, 4Univ. of Dundee, United Kingdom.
11. (CTuJ4) Injection-Locked Femtosecond Ti:sapphire Lasers Qudsia Quraishi1, Leo Hollberg1, Scott Diddams1, Yohei Kobayashi2, Kenji Torizuka2; 1NIST, USA, 2AIST, Japan. CLEO Oral
CTuJ. Control and Characterization of Frequency Combs
12. (CTuJ7) Self-Zooming Stable Stage with Sub-nm Resolution Using Femtosecond Comb Mariko Kajima, Hirokazu Matsumoto; Natl. Inst. of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan. CLEO Oral
CTuJ. Control and Characterization of Frequency Combs
13. (PTuB5) Chemical and Biological Warfare Agent and Explosives Detection Based on Femtosecond Pulse-Shaping Technology Marcos Dantus, Igor Pastirk; Biophotonic Solutions Inc., USA. PhAST Oral
PTuB. Threat Agent Detection and Identification Methods
14. (QTuE1) Spectrally Resolved Femtosecond Maker Fringes Technique Lino Misoguti1, Ismael Andre Heisler1, Sergio Carlos Zilio1, Ernesto Valdes Rodriguez2, Cid Bartolomeu de Araujo2; 1Univ. of Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2Univ. Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil. QELS Oral
QTuE. Nonlinear Femtosecond Phenomena
15. (JTuA64) Er:Yb-Doped Waveguide Amplifier Fabricated in Oxyfluoride Silicate Glass Using Femtosecond Laser Inscription Nicholas D. Psaila1, Robert R. Thomson1, Henry T. Bookey1, Ajoy K. Kar1, Nicola Chiodo2, Roberto Osellame2, Giulio Cerullo2, Animesh Jha3, Shaoxiong Shen3; 1Heriot-Watt Univ., United Kingdom, 2Politecnico di Milano, Italy, 3Univ. of Leeds, United Kingdom. Poster
JTuA. Poster Session I
16. (CTuV4) Bio-Imaging with Femtosecond Laser Induced Ionization Microscopy Youbo Zhao, Yanmei Liang, Jianjun Yang, Mingwei Wang, Xiaonong Zhu; Inst. of Modern Optics, Nankai Univ., China. CLEO Oral
CTuV. Novel Microscopy
17. (PTuD2) Compact, High Performance Femtosecond Laser Ablation System Eric Mottay1, Antoine Courjaud1, Patrick Chabassier2, Christophe Pecheyran3, Fanny Claverie3, Olivier Donard3; 1Amplitude Systemes, France, 2Novalase, France, 3Univ. de Pau, France. PhAST Oral
PTuD. Industrial Applications of Ultrafast Lasers
18. (PTuD3) The Impact of Ultrashort Femtosecond Pulse-Shaping Technology for Micromachining Marcos Dantus; Michigan State Univ., USA. PhAST Oral
PTuD. Industrial Applications of Ultrafast Lasers
19. (PTuD4) High Speed Production of Periodical Nanostructures Using Femtosecond Laser Radiation Dirk Wortmann, Ralph Wagner, Jens Gottmann; Lehrstuhl fur Lasertechnik, Germany. PhAST Oral
PTuD. Industrial Applications of Ultrafast Lasers
20. (PTuD5) Advanced Femtosecond Lasers in Manufacturing Hitoshi Sekita; Cyber Laser, Inc., Japan. PhAST Oral
PTuD. Industrial Applications of Ultrafast Lasers
21. (CTuFF5) Femtosecond Pulse Shaping Using a 2-D Liquid Crystal Spatial Light Modulator Eugene Frumker, Yaron Silberberg; Weizmann Inst. of Science, Israel. CLEO Oral
CTuFF. Ultrafast Pulse Shaping
22. (CTuFF6) Pulse Shaping of Octave Spanning Femtosecond Laser Pulses Bingwei Xu, Yves Ceollo, Vadim V. Lozovoy, D.Ahmasi Harris, Marcos Dantus; Michigan State Univ., USA. CLEO Oral
CTuFF. Ultrafast Pulse Shaping
23. (CTuII3) Mode-Locked and Single-Longitudinal-Mode Waveguide Lasers Fabricated by Femtosecond Laser Pulses in Er:Yb-Doped Phosphate Glass Roberto Osellame1, Giuseppe Della Valle2, Nicola Chiodo2, Giulio Cerullo2, Stefano Taccheo2, Paolo Laporta3, Orazio Svelto2, Uwe Morgner4, Alex Rozhin5, Andrea C. Ferrari5; 1IFN-CNR., Italy, 2Dept. di Fisica, Politecnico di Milano, Italy, 3Dept. di Fisica - Politecnico di Milano, Italy, 4Inst. fuer Quantenoptik, Univ. of Hannover, Germany, 5Engineering Dept., Cambridge Univ., United Kingdom. CLEO Oral
CTuII. Waveguide Devices
24. (CTuII5) Femtosecond Laser Inscription of Optical Waveguides in Bismuth Ion Doped Glass Nicholas D. Psaila1, Robert R. Thomson1, Henry T. Bookey1, Ajoy K. Kar1, Nicola Chiodo2, Roberto Osellame2, Giulio Cerullo2, Graeme Brown3, Shaoxiong Shen4, Animesh Jha4; 1Heriot-Watt Univ., United Kingdom, 2Politecnico di Milano, Italy, 3Gemfire Europe, United Kingdom, 4Univ. of Leeds, United Kingdom. CLEO Oral
CTuII. Waveguide Devices
25. (JWA31) Ti:Sapphire-Pumped Infrared Femtosecond Optical Parametric Oscillator Based on BiB3O6 Masood Ghotbi, Adolfo Esteban-Martin, Majid Ebrahim-Zadeh; ICFO, Spain. Poster
JWA. Poster Session II
26. (JWA42) Plasma Density inside Femtosecond Laser Filaments in Air Jens Bernhardt1, Weiwei Liu1, Francis Theberge1, Marc Chateauneuf2, Jacques Dubois2, See Leang Chin1; 1Ctr. d’Optique, Photonique et Laser (COPL), Univ. Laval, Canada, 2Defense Res. and Development Canada, Valcartier, Canada. Poster
JWA. Poster Session II
27. (JWA61) Controlling the Excited State Charge Transfer in DMABN Using Shaped Femtosecond Pulses Christine L. Kalcic, D. Ahmasi Harris, Marcos Dantus; Michigan State Univ., USA. Poster
JWA. Poster Session II
28. (JWA118) Diode Laser MOPA System for the Generation of 920 nm Femtosecond Pulses with 65 W Peak Power Thorsten Ulm, Harry Fuchs, Richard Wallenstein; Technical Univ. of Kaiserslautern, Germany. Poster
JWA. Poster Session II
29. (JWB4) 3-D Photofabrication by Femtosecond Laser Pulses and Its Applications in Photonics and Biomedicine Aleksandr Ovsianikov, Boris N. Chichkov; Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V., Germany. Joint Oral
JWB. Regional Overviews of the Status of Laser Applications
30. (CWB5) High-Power Femtosecond Optical Parametric Amplifier in the Near-IR Based on BiB3O6 Valentin Petrov1, Frank Noack1, Pancho Tzankov1, Masood Ghotbi2, Majid Ebrahim-Zadeh2, Ivailo Nikolov3, Ivan Buchvarov3; 1Max-Born-Inst., Germany, 2ICFO, Spain, 3Sofia Univ., Bulgaria. CLEO Oral
CWB. Ultrafast Optical Parametric Amplifiers
31. (JWC2) A 355 TW Femtosecond Ti:sapphire Laser Facility with Three Stage Amplifiers Zhi Y. Wei1, Zhaohua Wang1, Jie Zhang1, Peng Wang1, Weijun Ling2, Jiangfeng Zhu1, Jinrong Tian1; 1Beijing Natl. Lab for Condensed Matter Physics, Inst. of Physics, Chinese Acad. of Sciences, China, 2Xian Inst. of Optics and Precision Mechanics, Chinese Acad. of Sciences, China. Joint Oral
JWC. Large High-Intensity Lasers
32. (JWC3) Generation and Characterization of Femtosecond Petawatt Ti:Sapphire Laser Xiaoyan Liang1, Yuxin Leng1, Cheng Wang1, Lihuang Lin1, Chuang Li1, Baozhen Zhao1, Yunhua Jiang1, Xiaoming Lu1, Mingyun Hu1, Haihe Lu1, Dingjun Yin1, Yongliang Jiang1, Chunmei Zhang1, Xingqiang Lu2, Hui Wei2, Jianqiang Zhu2, Ruxin Li1, Zhizhan Xu1; 1State Key Lab of High Field Laser Physics, Shanghai Inst. of Optics and Fine Mechanics, China, 2Joint Lab of High Power Laser Physics, Shanghai Inst. of Optics and Fine Mechanics, China. Joint Oral
JWC. Large High-Intensity Lasers
33. (QWB3) High Resolution Two Photon Excitation Spectroscopy by Pulse Shaping an Ultrabroad Bandwidth Femtosecond Laser Bingwei Xu, Yves Coello, Vadim V. Lozovoy, Marcos Dantus; Michigan State Univ., USA. QELS Oral
QWB. Pulse Shaping
34. (QWE1) Multi-THz Conductivity and Lattice Dynamics during a Femtosecond Insulator-Metal Transition in VO2 Carl Kubler1, Henri Ehrke1, Rupert Huber1, Alfred Leitenstorfer1, Rene Lopez2,3, Andrej Halabica2, Richard F. Haglund, Jr.2; 1Univ. of Konstanz, Germany, 2Vanderbilt Univ., USA, 3Univ. of North Carolina, USA. QELS Oral
QWE. Dynamics of Magnetic and Strongly Correlated Materials
35. (QWE3) Femtosecond Opto-Magnetism Alexey Kimel, A. Kirilyuk, Th. Rasing; Radboud Univ. Nijmegen, The Netherlands. QELS Oral
QWE. Dynamics of Magnetic and Strongly Correlated Materials
36. (QWE6) Ultrafast Structure and Polarization Dynamics in Nanolayered Perovskites Studied by Femtosecond X-ray Diffraction Clemens von Korff Schmising1, Matias Bargheer1, Mareike Kiel1, Nikolai Zhavoronkov1, Michael Woerner1, Thomas Elsaesser1, Ionela Vrejoiu2, Dietrich Hesse2, Marin Alexe2; 1Max Born Inst., Germany, 2Max-Planck-Inst. fur Mikrostrukturphysik, Germany. QELS Oral
QWE. Dynamics of Magnetic and Strongly Correlated Materials
37. (CThA3) Temperature Measurement of Aluminum Nanoparticles in Femtosecond Laser Ablation Plume Using Spatiotemporally Resolved XAFS Technique Katsuya Oguri, Yasuaki Okano, Tadashi Nishikawa, Hidetoshi Nakano; NTT Basic Res. Labs, Japan. CLEO Oral
CThA. Fundamentals of Femtosecond Laser/Material Interactions
38. (CThJ1) Femtosecond Laser Nanomachining Applications in Fused Silica Rod S. Taylor, Cyril Hnatovsky, Eli Simova, Rajeev Pattathil, Jiaren Liu, David M. Rayner, Paul B. Corkum; Natl. Res. Council, Canada. CLEO Oral
CThJ. Nanostructures in Femtosecond Laser Processing
39. (CThJ3) Self-Assembled Nanostructures and Two-Plasmon Decay in Femtosecond Processing of Transparent Materials Peter G. Kazansky1, Erica Bricchi1, Yasuhiko Shimotsuma2, Kazuyuoki Hirao2; 1Optoelectronics Res. Ctr., Univ. of Southampton, United Kingdom, 2Kyoto Univ., Japan. CLEO Oral
CThJ. Nanostructures in Femtosecond Laser Processing
40. (CThJ4) Single and Multi-Scan Femtosecond Laser Writing for Selective Chemical Etching of Glass Micro-Channels Stephen Ho, Mi Li Ng, Shane M. Eaton, Peter R. Herman, James S. Aitchison; Univ. of Toronto, Canada. CLEO Oral
CThJ. Nanostructures in Femtosecond Laser Processing
41. (CThJ6) Tunable Tungsten Nano-Gratings Deposited by a Single Femtosecond Laser Beam on Dielectrics Mingzhen Tang, Haitao Zhang, Jerry McCoy, Tsing-Hua Her; Univ. of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA. CLEO Oral
CThJ. Nanostructures in Femtosecond Laser Processing
42. (CThM3) Dual Wavelength Femtosecond Laser Materials Processing Masanao Kamata, Susumu Tsujikawa, Tetsumi Sumiyoshi, Hitoshi Sekita; Cyber Laser Inc., Japan. CLEO Oral
CThM. Ultrafast Beams and Materials Processing
43. (CThM4) Low Insertion Loss Waveguides in Lithium Niobate Using Multi-Scan Femtosecond Waveguide Inscription Henry T. Bookey1, Robert R. Thomson1, Nicholas D. Psaila1, Ajoy K. Kar1, Nicola Chiodo2, Roberto Osellame2, Giulio Cerullo2; 1School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Heriot Watt Univ., United Kingdom, 2Inst. di Fotonica e Nanotechnologie del CNR - Dept.o di Fisica del Politecnico di Milano, Italy. CLEO Oral
CThM. Ultrafast Beams and Materials Processing
44. (QThD6) Measurement of Transient Susceptibility Tensor Created by Rotational Wave Packets Excited by Arbitrarily Polarized Femtosecond Laser Pulses Klaus K. Hartinger, Randy A. Bartels; Colorado State Univ., USA. QELS Oral
QThD. High-Field and Molecular Dynamics
45. (JThD2) Femtosecond Time-Resolved Imaging Interferometry: A Technique to Investigate Ultrafast Phenomena in Solids Vasily V. Temnov1, Klaus Sokolowski-Tinten2, Ping Zhou2, Dietrich von der Linde2; 1Experimentelle Physik IIb, Germany, 2Univ. Duisburg-Essen, Germany. Poster
JThD. Poster Session III
46. (JThD6) Broadband 2 GHz Femtosecond Ti:Sapphire Laser Flavio C. Cruz, Giovana T. Nogueira; Univ. Estadual de Campinas, Brazil. Poster
JThD. Poster Session III
47. (JThD13) Reducing the Fast Carrier-Envelope Phase Jitter of Amplified Femtosecond Laser Pulses Eric W. Moon, Chengquan Li, Zuoliang Duan, Jason Tackett, Kristan L. Corwin, Brian R. Washburn, Zenghu Chang; Kansas State Univ., USA. Poster
JThD. Poster Session III
48. (JThD34) Monitoring Vibrational Wave Packet Dynamics via Direct Femtosecond Pump-Probe Measurements Dmitry Pestov, Ariunbold Gombojav, Xi Wang, Robert K. Murawski, Vladimir A. Sautenkov, Yuri V. Rostovtsev, Anil Patnaik, Alexei V. Sokolov, Marlan O. Scully; Inst. for Quantum Studies and Depts. of Physics and Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M Univ., USA. Poster
JThD. Poster Session III
49. (JThD36) Femtosecond Dynamics of the Laser-Induced Solid-to-Liquid Phase Transition in Aluminum Maria Kandyla, Tina Shih, Eric Mazur; Harvard Univ., USA. Poster
JThD. Poster Session III
50. (JThD89) Synthesis of Monodispersed DLC Nanoparticles in Intense Optical Field by Femtosecond Laser Ablation of Liquid Benzene Takahiro Nakamura, Yuzuru Mochidzuki, Shunichi Sato; Inst. of multidisciplinary research for advanced materials, Tohoku Univ., Japan. Poster
JThD. Poster Session III
51. (JThD90) Microbend Gratings Fabricated in Glass Substrates via Direct Writing with Near-Infrared Femtosecond Pulses Jung-Ho Chung, Yu Gu, James G. Fujimoto; MIT, USA. Poster
JThD. Poster Session III
52. (JThD99) Application of Near Field Optical Microscopy to the Study of Femtosecond Laser Micro-structured Nd:YAG crystals. Jorge Lamela1, Francisco Jaque1,2, Gustavo Torchia2, C. Mendez2, I. Arias2, L. Roso2, Airan Rodenas1, Daniel Jaque1; 1Univ. Autonoma de Madrid, Spain, 2Grupo de Optica, Dept. de Fisica Aplicada, Facultad de Ciencias Fisicas, Spain. Poster
JThD. Poster Session III
53. (JThD101) Increase of Ablation Rate Using Burst Mode Femtosecond Pulses Jiyeon Choi, Robert Bernath, Mark Ramme, Martin Richardson; College of Optics/CREOL, Univ. of Central Florida, USA. Poster
JThD. Poster Session III
54. (JThD124) High Current Permanent Discharges in Air Induced by Femtosecond Laser Filamentation Aurelien Houard1, Ciro D'Amico1, Yi Liu1, Yves-Bernard Andre1, Michel Franco1, Bernard Prade1, Estelle Salmon2, Pascal Pierlot3, Louis-Marie Cleon3, Andre Mysyrowicz1; 1Lab d'Optique Appliquee, ENSTA - Ecole Polytechnique, France, 2LASIM, Univ. Lyon 1, CNRS, France, 3Agence d'Essai Ferroviaire, SNCF, France. Poster
JThD. Poster Session III
55. (JThD138) Spectral Broadening of Femtosecond Laser Pulses Using a Hollow Fiber with Symmetric Pressure Gradient Samuel Bohman1,2, Masanori Kaku1, Akira Suda1, Shigeru Yamaguchi2, Katsumi Midorikawa1; 1RIKEN, Japan, 2Tokai Univ., Japan. Poster
JThD. Poster Session III
56. (JThD139) Accurate Contrast-Ratio Characterization of Femtosecond and Chirped Picosecond Pulses Using the Decorrelation of Third-Order Correlation Trace Kyung-Han Hong, Jae Hee Sung, Tae Jun Yu, Il Woo Choi, Hyung Taek Kim, Young-Chul Noh, Do-Kyeong Ko, Jongmin Lee; Advanced Photonics Res. Inst., GIST, Republic of Korea. Poster
JThD. Poster Session III
57. (CThS2) Integration of Optical Waveguides and MicrofluidicChannels Fabricated by Femtosecond Laser Irradiation Valeria Maselli1, Roberto Osellame2, Rebeca Martinez Vazquez2, Paolo Laporta1, Giulio Cerullo1; 1Dept. di Fisica - Politecnico di Milano, Italy, 2Inst. di Fotonica e Nanotecnologie - CNR, Italy. CLEO Oral
CThS. Waveguide Writing with Ultrashort Lasers
58. (CThS3) Femtosecond Laser Fabrication of Directional Couplers and Mach-Zehnder Interferometers Yu Gu, Jung-Ho Chung, James G. Fujimoto; MIT, USA. CLEO Oral
CThS. Waveguide Writing with Ultrashort Lasers
59. (CThS4) Submicron-Period Waveguide Bragg Gratings Direct Written by an 800-nm Femtosecond Oscillator Jung-Ho Chung, Yu Gu, James G. Fujimoto; MIT, USA. CLEO Oral
CThS. Waveguide Writing with Ultrashort Lasers
60. (CThS5) Femtosecond Laser Written Waveguide Arrays with Tailored Supermodes Michael N. Nguyen, Kenneth H. Church; Oklahoma State Univ., USA. CLEO Oral
CThS. Waveguide Writing with Ultrashort Lasers
61. (CThS6) Refractive Index Modifications in Chalcogenide Films Induced by Sub-Bandgap Near-IR Femtosecond Pulses Troy P. Anderson1, Nathan Carlie2, Laeticia Petit2, Juejun Hu3, A. Agarwal3, J.J. Viens3, Jiyeon Choi1, L. C. Kimmerling3, Kathleen Richardson2, Martin Richardson1; 1Univ. of Central Florida, USA, 2Clemson Univ., USA, 3MIT, USA. CLEO Oral
CThS. Waveguide Writing with Ultrashort Lasers
62. (CThS7) Depth-Independent, Low-Loss Waveguides Formed by High-Repetition Rate Femtosecond Fiber Laser Shane M. Eaton, Wei-Jen Chen, Haibin Zhang, Mi Li Ng, Peter R. Herman; Univ. of Toronto, Canada. CLEO Oral
CThS. Waveguide Writing with Ultrashort Lasers
63. (CThX1) Nearly Three-Octave-Spanning Frequency Comb from a Phase-Controlled Femtosecond Ti:sapphire Laser and Synchronously Pumped Optical Parametric Oscillator Jinghua Sun, Barry J. S. Gale, Derryck T. Reid; Heriot-Watt Univ., United Kingdom. CLEO Oral
CThX. Optical Combs Technology I
64. (CThX3) High-Resolution Spectroscopy with Femtosecond Optical Combs Jason Stalnaker1, S. A. Diddams1, T. M. Fortier1,2, V. Gerginov1, Y. Le Coq1, V. Mbele1,3, C. W. Oates1, D. Ortega4, C. E. Tanner5, L. Hollberg1; 1NIST, USA, 2Los Alamos Natl. Lab, USA, 3School of Physics, Univ. of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, 4Gleb Wataghin Physics Inst., State Univ. of Campinas, Brazil, 5Univ. of Notre Dame, USA. CLEO Oral
CThX. Optical Combs Technology I
65. (CThY4) Femtosecond Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy of Trinitrotoluene Yamac Dikmelik, Caroline McEnnis, James B. Spicer, Paul J. Dagdigian; Johns Hopkins Univ., USA. CLEO Oral
CThY. Remote Sensing I
66. (CThHH2) Coherent Synthesis Using Carrier-Envelope Phase Controlled Pulses from a Dual-Color Femtosecond Optical Parametric Oscillator Jinghua Sun, Barry J. S. Gale, Derryck T. Reid; Heriot-Watt Univ., United Kingdom. CLEO Oral
CThHH. Optical Combs Technology II
67. (CPDB8) Low-loss Waveguides Fabricated in KGd(WO4)2 by High Repetition Rate Femtosecond Laser Clark A. Merchant1, Shane M. Eaton1, Rajiv Iyer1, Amr S. Helmy1, Peter R. Herman1, J. Stewart Aitchison1, Cyril Hnatovsky2, Rod S. Taylor2; 1Univ. of Toronto, Canada, 2Inst. for Microstructural Sciences, Natl. Res. Council (NRC), Canada. CLEO PDP
CPDB. CLEO Postdeadline Session II
68. (QPDA5) Soft X-Ray Driven Femtosecond Molecular Dynamics Arvinder S. Sandhu1, Etienne Gagnon1, Predrag Ranitovic2, Ariel Paul1, C. Lewis Cocke2, Margaret M. Murnane1, Henry C. Kapteyn1; 1JILA, Univ. of Colorado and NIST, USA, 2Kansas State Univ., USA. QELS PDP
QPDA. QELS Postdeadline Session
69. (CFD5) Efficient Broadband Raman Generation in Crystals Driven by Dual-Frequency Femtosecond Laser Fields Miaochan Zhi, Xi Wang, Alexei V. Sokolov; Texas A&M Univ., USA. CLEO Oral
CFD. Stimulated NLO Processes
70. (CFE5) Characterization of Index Changes in Silicone- and Nonsilicone-Based Hydrogel Polymers Induced by Femtosecond Micromachining Li Ding1, Richard I. Blackwell2, Jay F. Kunzler2, Wayne H. Knox1; 1Univ. of Rochester, USA, 2Bausch & Lomb, USA. CLEO Oral
CFE. Hollow Waveguides
71. (CFF2) Looped Time-Lens Compression for Generation of 3.5 nJ Femtosecond Pulses from a CW Laser James van Howe, Jennifer Lee, Chris Xu; Cornell Univ., USA. CLEO Oral
CFF. Ultrafast Pulse Characterization I
72. (CFR2) Variable Pressure Hollow-Core Band-Gap Fiber Cell Produced Using Femtosecond Laser Micromachining Christopher J. Hensley, Daniel H. Broaddus, Chris B. Schaffer, Alexander L. Gaeta; Cornell Univ., USA. CLEO Oral
CFR. Ultrashort Pulse Microfabrication and Ablation
73. (CFR3) Heat Accumulation Effects in Femtosecond Laser Ablation of ITO Thin Films for DEP Trapping Devices M. Y. Xu, S. A. Hosseini, H. Zhang, S. M. Eaton, L. D. Lilge, P. R. Herman; Univ. of Toronto, Canada. CLEO Oral
CFR. Ultrashort Pulse Microfabrication and Ablation
74. (CFR4) Combining 5-D Microscopy with 3-D Femtosecond Laser Nanoprocessing Jianzhao Li, Peter R. Herman, Shane Eaton, Haibin Zhang, Amir H. Najadmalayeri, Abbas Hosseini; Univ. of Toronto, Canada. CLEO Oral
CFR. Ultrashort Pulse Microfabrication and Ablation
75. (QFD5) Chiral-Selective Excitation of Lattice Vibrations in Carbon Nanotubes Using Femtosecond Pulse Shaping Kiju Yee1, Ji-Hee Kim1, Yong-Sik Lim2, Erik H. Haroz3, Kang-Jeon Han1, Junichiro Kono3, Robert H. Hauge3, Richard E. Smalley3; 1Chungnanm Natl. Univ., Republic of Korea, 2Konkuk Univ., Republic of Korea, 3Rice Univ., USA. QELS Oral
QFD. Dynamics of Dots, Wires and Tubes



1. (CMA4) Ultrafast X-Ray Studies Roger Falcone; Univ. of California at Berkeley, USA. CLEO Oral
CMA. Short Wavelength NLO
2. (CMB5) Ultrafast Mirrorless Optical Parametric Oscillator in Periodically Poled KTiOPO4 via Extended Phase Matching Ye Pu, Jie Wu, Mankei Tsang, Demetri Psaltis; Caltech, USA. CLEO Oral
CMB. Ultrafast Processes
3. (CMJ6) Ultrafast Pump-Probe Experiment Based on Extremely Broadband Second-Harmonic Generation Yen-Cheng Lu, Hsiang-Chen Wang, Cheng-Yen Chen, C. C. Yang; Natl. Taiwan Univ., Taiwan. CLEO Oral
CMJ. Parametric Devices
4. (CMDD3) Ultrafast Imaging of Wakefields Michael Downer1, N. Matlis1, S. Kalmykov1, G. Shvets2, S. Reed2, S. Bulanov2, V. Chvykov2, G. Kalintchenko2, T. Matsuoka2, P. Rousseau2, V. Yanovsky2, A. Maksimchuk2; 1Univ. of Texas at Austin, USA, 2Ctr. for Ultrafast Optics, Univ. of Michigan, USA. CLEO Oral
CMDD. Nonlinear Ultrafast Propagation
5. (CTuY5) Wavelength Dependence of the Ultrafast Third-Order Nonlinearity of Silicon Mark A. Foster, Alexander L. Gaeta; Cornell Univ., USA. CLEO Oral
CTuY. Silicon-Based Optical Materials
6. (CTuDD2) All Optical Ultrafast Broadband Silicon Switch Po Dong, Stefan F. Preble, Michal Lipson; School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell Univ., USA. CLEO Oral
CTuDD. Silicon Photonics
7. (QWE4) Ultrafast Observation of the Coexistence of Antiferromagnetism and Superconductivity in a High-Tc Superconductor Elbert E. M. Chia1, Jian-Xin Zhu1, Diyar Talbayev1, In-Sun Jo2, Kyu-Hwan Oh2, Sung-Ik Lee2, Antoinette J. Taylor1, Richard D. Averitt1; 1Los Alamos Natl. Lab, USA, 2Pohang Univ. of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea. QELS Oral
QWE. Dynamics of Magnetic and Strongly Correlated Materials
8. (QWE6) Ultrafast Structure and Polarization Dynamics in Nanolayered Perovskites Studied by Femtosecond X-ray Diffraction Clemens von Korff Schmising1, Matias Bargheer1, Mareike Kiel1, Nikolai Zhavoronkov1, Michael Woerner1, Thomas Elsaesser1, Ionela Vrejoiu2, Dietrich Hesse2, Marin Alexe2; 1Max Born Inst., Germany, 2Max-Planck-Inst. fur Mikrostrukturphysik, Germany. QELS Oral
QWE. Dynamics of Magnetic and Strongly Correlated Materials
9. (CWJ2) Ultrafast Optical Response of InAs Quantum Dots for Photoconductive Applications Amartya Sengupta1, Prashanth C. Upadhya1, Mohammed Lachab1, Wenhui Fan1, John E. Cunningham1, A. G. Davies1, Edmund H. Linfield1,2, Mohammed Missous2; 1Univ. of Leeds, United Kingdom, 2Univ. of Manchester, United Kingdom. CLEO Oral
CWJ. Ultrafast Dynamics and Optical Switching
10. (CWJ3) Ultrafast Carrier Dynamics in an InAs/InGaAs Quantum-Dots-in-a-Well Mid-Infrared Photodetector Rohit P. Prasankumar1, Ram S. Attaluri2, Richard D. Averitt1, Andreas Stintz2, Sanjay Krishna2, Antoinette J. Taylor1; 1Los Alamos Natl. Lab, USA, 2Univ. of New Mexico, USA. CLEO Oral
CWJ. Ultrafast Dynamics and Optical Switching
11. (CWJ5) Multi-Fiber-Channel, Ultrafast, All-Optical Switch Utilizing a 2-D Fresnel Lens Array Darren Wu1, Waleed Mohammed1, Pradeep Srinivasan2, Eric G. Johnson2, Li Qian1, Peter W.E. Smith1; 1Univ. of Toronto, Canada, 2College of Optics and photonics/CREOL, Univ. of Central Florida, USA. CLEO Oral
CWJ. Ultrafast Dynamics and Optical Switching
12. (CWJ6) Ultrafast Organic Photonic Crystal Optical Switching Xiaoyong Hu, Ping Jiang, Hong Yang, Gong Qihuang; Peking Univ., China. CLEO Oral
CWJ. Ultrafast Dynamics and Optical Switching
13. (QWG5) Ultrafast Radiative Decay of Confined Excitons due to Long-Range Coherent Coupling with Radiation Wave Masayoshi Ichimiya1,2, Masaaki Ashida2,1, Hideki Yasuda2,3,1, Hajime Ishihara3,1, Tadashi Itoh2,1; 1CREST, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Japan, 2Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka Univ., Japan, 3Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka Prefecture Univ., Japan. QELS Oral
QWG. Laser Cooling and Other Effects in Semiconductors
14. (CThA1) Ultrafast Micro and Nanomachining Gerard Mourou; Ecole Polytechnique de Paris, France. CLEO Oral
CThA. Fundamentals of Femtosecond Laser/Material Interactions
15. (QThA1) Ultrafast Spectroscopy on Photonic Metamaterials Martin Wegener1, Stefan Linden1, Costas Soukoulis2; 1Karlsruhe Univ., Germany, 2Ames Lab and Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State Univ., USA. QELS Oral
QThA. Novel Dynamic Measurements in Metals
16. (CThJ5) Solid-Phase Generation of Silicon Nanoparticles by Ultrafast Laser Irradiation Amir H. Nejadmalayeri1, Philip Scrutton1, Jacky Mak1, Amr S. Helmy1, Peter R. Herman1, Jonas Burghoff2, Stefan Nolte2, Andreas Tuennermann2, Joerg Kaspar3; 1Univ. of Toronto, Canada, 2Friedrich-Schiller Univ., Germany, 3Fraunhofer-Inst. fur Werkstoff und Strahltechnik, Germany. CLEO Oral
CThJ. Nanostructures in Femtosecond Laser Processing
17. (CThM5) Ultrafast p-Si Field Emitter Array Photocathode Chin-Jen Chiang1, Kendrick X. Liu2, Jonathan P. Heritage1; 1Univ. of California at Davis, USA, 2NRL, USA. CLEO Oral
CThM. Ultrafast Beams and Materials Processing
18. (JThD2) Femtosecond Time-Resolved Imaging Interferometry: A Technique to Investigate Ultrafast Phenomena in Solids Vasily V. Temnov1, Klaus Sokolowski-Tinten2, Ping Zhou2, Dietrich von der Linde2; 1Experimentelle Physik IIb, Germany, 2Univ. Duisburg-Essen, Germany. Poster
JThD. Poster Session III
19. (JThD5) Ultrafast Dynamics of Sub-Threshold Modes in Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers Botao Zhang1, Albert P. Heberle1,2; 1Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Univ. of Pittsburgh, USA, 2Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Univ. of Pittsburgh, USA. Poster
JThD. Poster Session III
20. (JThD10) Improved Acousto-Optic Modulator for Ultrafast Laser Pulse Shaping Chien-Hung Tseng1, Martin G. Cohen2, Thomas C. Weinacht1; 1Physics Dept., SUNY at Stony Brook, USA, 2Laser Teaching Ctr., SUNY at Stony Brook, USA. Poster
JThD. Poster Session III
21. (JThD23) Polarization-Dependence of Ultrafast Optical Nonlinearities of Bragg-Spaced Quantum Wells Nai H. Kwong1, Dan T. Nguyen1, Rolf Binder1, Arthur L. Smirl2; 1Univ. of Arizona, USA, 2Univ. of Iowa, USA. Poster
JThD. Poster Session III
22. (JThD27) Ultrafast Intervalley Transitions in GaN Single Crystals Shuai Wu1, P. Geiser2, J. Jun2, Janusz Karpinski2, Roman Sobolewski1; 1Univ. of Rochester, USA, 2Solid State Physics Lab, ETH, Switzerland. Poster
JThD. Poster Session III
23. (JThD92) Temperature Dependence of Ultrafast Laser Ablation Efficiency of Crystalline Silicon Ji Sang Yahng, Sae Chae Jeoung; KRISS, Republic of Korea. Poster
JThD. Poster Session III
24. (JThD93) Inscription of Optical Waveguides with Ultrafast Bessel Beams Veronique Zambon, Rosalie Forest, Nathalie McCarthy, Michel Piche; Universite Laval, Canada. Poster
JThD. Poster Session III
25. (JThD135) The Effect of Focal Geometry on Radiation from Atomic Ionization in Ultrastrong/Ultrafast Laser Field Isaac Ghebregziabiher, Barry C. Walker; Univ. of Delaware, USA. Poster
JThD. Poster Session III
26. (CPDB7) Direct Writing of High Strength Bragg Grating Waveguides in Fused Silica by an Externally Modulated Ultrafast Fiber Laser Haibin Zhang, Shane M. Eaton, Peter R. Herman; Univ. of Toronto, Canada. CLEO PDP
CPDB. CLEO Postdeadline Session II
27. (CPDB9) Amplitude and Phase Shaping of Ultrafast Laser Pulses with a Single High-Resolution Linear Liquid Crystal Array Philip Schlup, Jesse Wilson, Randy A. Bartels; Colorado State Univ., USA. CLEO PDP
CPDB. CLEO Postdeadline Session II
28. (CFF1) Guided-Wave Temporal Imaging Based Ultrafast Recorders Corey V. Bennett1, Bryan D. Moran1, Carsten Langrock2, Martin M. Fejer2, Morten Ibsen3; 1Lawrence Livermore Natl. Lab, USA, 2Stanford Univ., USA, 3Univ. of Southampton, United Kingdom. CLEO Oral
CFF. Ultrafast Pulse Characterization I
29. (CFF7) Pulse Phase Reconstruction Using Optical Ultrafast Differentiation Fangxin Li, Yongwoo Park, Jose Azana; Inst. Natl. de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS), Canada. CLEO Oral
CFF. Ultrafast Pulse Characterization I
30. (QFB5) Ultrafast Enhancement of Ferromagnetism via Photoexcited Holes in GaMnAs Jigang Wang1,2, I. Cotoros1,2, K. M. Dani1,2, D. S. Chemla1,2, X. Liu3, J. K. Furdyna3; 1Lawrence Berkeley Natl. Lab, USA, 2Univ. of California at Berkeley, USA, 3Univ. of Notre Dame, USA. QELS Oral
QFB. Spin Dynamics
31. (QFB6) Ultrafast Spin Dynamics in Manganese Doped GaN Nils Janssen1, Tim Thomay1, Markus Beyer1, Alfred Leitenstorfer1, Ulrich Rudiger1, Rudolf Bratschitsch1, Tobias Graf2, Mario Gjukic2, Martin S. Brandt2; 1Dept. of Physics and Ctr. for Applied Photonics, Univ. of Konstanz, Germany, 2Walter Schottky Inst., Technische Univ. Munchen, Germany. QELS Oral
QFB. Spin Dynamics
32. (CFO6) Shaped Ultrafast Laser Pulses in the Deep Ultraviolet Brett J. Pearson, Thomas C. Weinacht; Stony Brook Univ., USA. CLEO Oral
CFO. Ultrashort Pulse Characterization II
33. (QFD6) Ultrafast Carrier Dynamics in Semiconductor Nanowires Rohit P. Prasankumar1, George T. Wang2, Teresa Clement3, Sukgeun G. Choi1, Samuel T. Picraux1,3, Antoinette J. Taylor1; 1Los Alamos Natl. Lab, USA, 2Sandia Natl. Labs, USA, 3Arizona State Univ., USA. QELS Oral
QFD. Dynamics of Dots, Wires and Tubes

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