The 16th Ultrafast Phenomena Conference will take place on
June 9-13 2008
at Stresa (Maggiore Lake) Italy.
Located in a central position along the lakeside roadway Stresa is a renowned
international tourist resort as well as an important place for cultural
manifestations and meetings.
The Conference will cover multi-disciplinary topics from generation of
ultrashort pulses in the picosecond, femtosecond, and attosecond regimes and
their applications to studies of ultrafast phenomena in physics, chemistry,
material science, electronics, biology, engineering, and medical applications.
In addition, submissions involving real world applications of ultrafast
technology are encouraged. A tabletop exhibit featuring leading companies will
be held in conjunction with the meeting.
More information about the conference and site can be found at
http://www.ultraphenomena.org. The meeting is organized by the European
Physical Society (EPS) in cooperation with OSA. Summary and Abstract Deadline:
January 16 2008.
Meeting Topics
New sources, new wavelength regimes, nonlinear frequency conversion
techniques, amplifiers, attosecond pulse generation, pulse shaping, pulse
diagnostics and measurement techniques, and frequency standards.
Ultrafast nonlinear optical processes, kinetics of nonequilibrium processes,
quantum confinement, coherent transients, nonlinear pulse propagation,
novel ultrafast spectroscopic techniques, high intensity physics, X-ray and
plasma physics.
Vibrational and conformational dynamics, energy transfer, kinetics of
laserinduced
chemistry, proton and electron transfer, solvation dynamics,
wavepacket motion and coherent control of reactions.
Ultrafast processes in photosynthesis, vision, heme proteins,
photoisomerization in chromoproteins, wavepacket motion and medical
applications.
Photoconductivity, generation, propagation and detection of ultrafast
electrical signals, terahertz radiation, electro-optical sampling and detectors.
Real world applications of ultrafast technology, including ultrafast
near-field,
nonlinear, and confocal microscopes, high speed communication,
micromachining and more.
Femtosecond Lasers
Trestles
femtosecond Ti:Sapphire laser
Trestles Finesse
femtosecond Ti:Sapphire laser with integrated
DPSS pump laser
Teahupoo Rider
femtosecond amplified Ti:Sapphire laser
Mavericks
femtosecond Cr:Forsterite laser
Tamarack
femtosecond fiber laser (Er-doped fiber)
Buccaneer
femtosecond OA fiber laser (Er-doped fiber) and SHG
Cannon Ultra-broadband
light source
Tourmaline femtosecond
Yb-doped fiber laser
Chata femtosecond Cr:ZnSe laser (2.5 micron) coming soon
Femtosecond pulse measurement instrumentation
Reef
scanning and single shot femtosecond autocorrelators
Avoca SPIDER
Spectral phase interferometry for direct electric-field reconstruction (SPIDER)
Rincon
third order femtosecond cross-correlator (third order autocorrelator TOAC) also
referred to as contrastmeter
Ultrafast Dynamics Research Tools
Beacon
femtosecond fluorescence up-conversion (optical gating) spectrometer
Hatteras
Ultrafast Transient Absorption Spectrometer
High Power Femtosecond Laser Systems
Cortes
800 tabletop 40 TW Ti:Sapphire laser system
Cortes E
- High vacuum laser ablation/deposition system with 2 TW Ti:Sapphire laser
Cortes K
- femtosecond seed laser for Petawatt KrF excimer laser
Cortes O 200TW femtosecond
laser - KD*P CPOPA based amplifier system
Jaws
femtosecond Cr:forsterite Multi-Terawatt Amplified Laser
High-vacuum system
for laser ablation/deposition
Femtosecond Systems and Accessories
Femtosecond
Micromachining
Femtosecond
nanophotonics
Femtosecond NSOM
Pacifica femtosecond
fiber laser based terahertz spectrometer
Pismo pulse
picker (ultrafast electro-optical shutter)
Wavelength conversion: second and third harmonics generators for femtosecond
lasers
Jibe white light
continuum generator
Kirra
Optical Faraday Rotators and Isolators
Deformable mirrors - active elements for adaptive optics systems
ShaH -
the family of fast, accurate and reliable wavefront sensors
Complete adaptive
optics systems
Faraday rotators and
isolators for high-power (up to 1kW) laser beams
SAM - Saturable Absorber
Mirrors
PCA - Photoconductive
antenna for terahertz applications
Passive Q-switches
based on Co2+:ZnS, Cr2+:ZnS and Cr2+:ZnSe
Lithium Niobate
Q-switches
Lithium Tantalate
Q-switches