Optica Laser Congress and Exhibition

Advanced Solid State Lasers Conference
Applications of Lasers for Sensing and Free Space Communications
Laser Applications Conference

Advanced Solid State Lasers Conference

• Jose Antonio-Lopez, University of Central Florida, CREOL, United States
  Hollow Core Fibers for HP Applications  
• Maria Chernysheva, Leibniz-Institut für Photonische Tech, Germany
  Ultrafast Fiber Lasers  
• Michael Chini, University of Central Florida, United States
  Attosecond Laser & Science  
• Goëry Genty, Tampereen Teknillinen Yliopisto, Finland
  Fiber Solitons  
• Cesar Jauregui, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany
  Mode Instabilites in High-power Fiber Amplifiers  
• Tobias Kippenberg, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland
  Integrated Nonlinear Photonics  
• Susumu Noda, Kyoto University, Japan
  Photonic Crystal Surface Emitting Laser (PSCEL)  
• Clara Saraceno, Ruhr Universitat Bochum, Germany
  Fs Thin disk Lasers or THz Sources  
• John Travers, Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom
  XUV Lasers  

Applications of Lasers for Sensing and Free Space Communications

• Rodrigo Amezcua Correa, University of Central Florida, CREOL, United States
  Photonic Lanterns  for Lidar and Remote Sensing  
• Svetlana Avramov-Zamurovic, US Naval Academy, United States
  Comprehensive Study of the Optical Turbulence Experimentally Generated by Rayleigh–Bénard Natural Convection  
• Matthew Berg, Kansas State University, United States
  Digital Holography of Aerosol Particles  
• Abhijit Biswas, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States
  Deep Space Optical Communication Technology Demonstration  
• Romain Ceolato, Office Natl d'Etudes Rech Aerospatiales, France
  Light-scattering and Lidar  
• Mitchell Cox, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
  Bridging South Africa's Digital Divide Using Low-cost free-space Optical Communication  
• Justin Crepp, University of Notre Dame, United States
  Recovering Telescope Downtime when Using Adaptive Optics Systems in Strong Turbulence Environments  
• Nathan Dostart, NASA Langley Research Center, United States
  Photonic Integrated Circuits for Optical Navigation and Communication in Space  
• Aram Gragossian, NASA Langley Research Center, United States
  A New Concept for Global wind Measurements from Space and Its Impact on Weather Prediction  
• Samantha Gregory, Radiance Technologies Inc., United States
  Laguerre-Gaussian Laser Beam Propagation Through Heat and Wind-induced Optical Turbulence  
• Shoken Ishii, National Inst of Information & Comm Tech, Japan
  2-µm Coherent Lidar for Wind and CO2 Gas Measurement  
• Yoshitaka Jin, National Inst for Environmental Studies, Japan
  Lidar and Interferometry  
• Eric Johnson, Clemson University, United States
  Structuring Light with Higher Order Bessel Beams Integrated in Time (HOBBIT) for Applications in Environmental Sensing and Communication  
• Kentaro Kato, Tamagawa University, Japan
  Quantum Comunication  
• Martin Lavery, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
  Fibre Ethernet Over FSO  
• Julien Madeo, Okinawa Inst of Science & Technology, Japan
  Visualizing excitons with Time-resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy  
• Mikael Mazur, Nokia Bell Labs, United States
  Long-Range Fiber Sensing over Deployed Sub-Sea Cables  
• Aurelie Montmerle Bonnefois, Office Natl d'Etudes Rech Aerospatiales, France
  Challenges and Status of Ground to GEO Satellites Optical Feeder Links  
• Boon Ooi, King Abdullah Univ of Sci & Technology, Saudi Arabia
  Distributed Fiber-optics sensing in the Oil and Gas Industry​​  
• Helen Pask, Macquarie University, Australia
  Raman LiDAR for Ocean Remote Sensing of Temperature and Salinity  
• Takashi Sagawa, Amuse Oneself, Japan
  Tile to be Announced  
• Atsushi Sato, Tohoku Institute of Technology, Japan
  Development of Vivsible and Infrared Pulsed Solid-state Lasers for Lidar Applications  
• Vasanthi Sivaprakasam, US Naval Research Laboratory, United States
  Light Scattering Experiments and Theoretical Work on Single Particles from Laser Beams with Orbital Angular Momentum  
• Leda Sox, Georgia Tech Research Institute, United States
  Atmospheric LIDAR  
• Morio Toyoshima, National Inst of Information & Comm Tech, Japan
  Satellite-to-ground Quantum Communication and Optical Free-space Communications  
• Luat Vuong, University of California Riverside, United States
  Sensing and Free-space Communications with Fractal-structured Beams  
• Kevin Webb, Purdue University, United States
  Super-resolution Imaging with Relative Motion in a Structured Field  
• Stacie Williams, DARPA, United States
  Basic Research Impacts on Laser Technologies  
• Benjamin Witschas, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany
  Airborne Wind Lidar  

Laser Applications Conference

• Antoine Courjaud, Amplitude Laser, France
  Title to be Announced  
• Kim Faernlund, NTT Data XAM Technologies Corporation, Japan
  Title to be Announced  
• Masaki Hashida, Tokai University, 
  Recent Progress of Laser-induced Periodic Nanodot Structures on Solid Surfaces  
• Yoshio Hayasaki, Utsunomiya University, Japan
  Holographic Optical Engine for Material Laser Processing and its Implementation in Industry  
• Yongxiang Hu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 
  Laser Peening of Large-scale Components: Modeling, Optimization and Applications  
• Marc Kirchhoff, TRUMPF Inc, United States
  Hardening for Disk Brakes  
• Yuji Kobayashi, Sintokogio, LTD, Japan
  Outlook for the Contract Business using Laser Peening in Japan  
• Xiaoxu Liu, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan
  Title to be Announced  
• Hiroaki Minamide, RIKEN, Japan
  Backward Terahertz-wave Parametric Oscillator and Its Applications  
• Chiko Otani, RIKEN, Japan
  THz Imaging and Applications  
• Paul Rudy, Blue Laser Fusion Inc., United States
  Title to be Announced  
• akifumi yogo, Institute of Laser Engineering,Osaka, 
  Title to be Announced  
• Mitsuhiro Yoshida, KEK, 
  Challenges in THz Acceleration and Laser Acceleration