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High Intensity Lasers and High field Phenomena (HILAS)

19 March - 21 March 2012, Laser Optics Berlin, Berlin, Germany



Invited Speakers

High Harmonic Spectroscopy of Molecular Isomers, Ravi Bhardwaj, University of Ottawa, Canada

Carrier-envelope Phase Double Stabilization Setup with sub-10 Attosecond Timing Jitter, Bastian Borchers, Max Born Inst., Germany

Science on the Texas Petawatt Laser and Technology Development Toward an Exawatt Laser, Markus Drescher, Univ. of Hamburg, Germany

XUV-driven Electronic Correlation Probed with Strong THz Light Fields, Todd Ditmire, Univ. of Texas at Austin, USA

When does an Electron Exit a Tunneling Barrier?, Nirit Dudovich, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

Towards Complete Space-time Reconstruction of Attosecond Pulses, Eugene Frumker, Joint Laboratory of Attosecond Science of Ottawa and NRC, Canada

Attosecond Physics with Sub-Optical-Cycle Waveforms of Light, Eleftherios Gouliemakis, Max-Planck-Institut for Quantum Optics, Germany

Two-color Pumped OPCPA System with µJ Pulse Energy and a Spectral Bandwidth of 1.5 octaves from VIS to NIR, Anne Harth, Universität Hannover, Germany

A Mid-IR, High Repetition Rate, Few-Cycle Laser Source for High-Field Physics Experiments, Michael Hemmer, ICFO - The Institute of Photonics Sciences, Spain

Attosecond Strong-field Electron Wavepacket Interferometry, Markus Kitzler, Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria

Attosecond Electron Emission and Acceleration from Nanoparticles in Strong Fields, Mathias Kling, MPQ, Germany

High Repetition Rate Few-cycle OPCPA for Generation of Isolated Attosecond Pulses, Manuel Krebs, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany

Optical Field Waveform Generation and Characterization, Andy Kung, Inst of Atomic and Molecular Science, Taiwan

FEL induced molecular dynamics: time-resolved and in 3D, Robert Moshammer, Max-Planck-Institut for Quantum Optics, Germany

Attosecond Lighthouses: A New Tool for Ultrafast Science and Metrology, Fabien Quere, CEA Saclay, France

Protein Crystal Structure Determination and Radiation Damage at a Dose of 3 GGy using a Free-Electron Laser, Ilme Schlichting, Max-Planck-Institut for Quantum Optics, Germany

Collimated-Beam Third- and Fifth-Harmonic Generation by Mid-Infrared Ultrashort Pulses, Aleksei Zheltikov, Moscow State Univ., Russia

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