Invited Speakers

Yasuhiko Arakawa, University of Tokyo, Japan, Nonlinear Optics in Quantum Dot-photonic Crystal Nanocavity Coupled Systems, Invited

Jeremy Baumberg, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, Microcavity Polaritonics: Optically-steering Interacting Quantum Liquids on a Chip, Invited

Francesco Bonaccorso, Cambridge University, United Kingdom, Graphene Nonlinear Optics, Invited

Robert Boyd, University of Ottawa, Canada, Nonlinear Optics: The Enabling Technology for Quantum Information Science, Invited

Jake Bromage, University of Rochester, United States, Noncollinear Optical Parametric Amplifiers for Ultra-intense Lasers, Invited

Tal Carmon, University of Michigan, United States, New Directions in Optomechanics: Brillouin Cooling and Microfluidic Optomechanics, Invited

Giulio Cerullo, Politecnico di Milano, Italy, Ultra-Broadband Optical Parametric Amplifiers: towards Single-Cycle Carrier-Envelope-Phase Stable Pulses, Invited

Paolo De Natale, Istituto Nazionale di Ottica , Italy, Frequency-Comb-Assisted Laser Sources from the Mid-IR to the THz Range, Invited

Amy Foster, Johns Hopkins University, United States, Highly Efficient Parametric Nonlinear Optics using On-chip Amorphous Silicon Photonics, Invited

Daniel Gauthier, Duke University, United States, Transverse Optical Patterns for Low-light-level Optical Switching, Invited

Chunlei Guo, The Institute of Optics, United States, The Black and Colored Metals and Applications, Invited

Hideki Hirori, Kyoto University, Japan, Ultra-intense Terahertz Pulse Generation and Application to Nonlinear THz Spectroscopy, Invited

Takayoshi Kobayashi, University of Electro-Communications, Japan, Applications of Cascaded Four-wave Mixing to Contrast Enhancement and Characterization of Femtosecond Pulse and Multicolor Source, Invited

Shunsuke Kono, Sony Corporation, Japan, Blue Femtosecond Laser Diode Systems, Invited

Paulina Kuo, National Inst of Standards & Technology, United States, Demonstration of second-harmonic generation by 4-bar-quasi-phasematching in a GaAs microdisk cavity, Invited

Ping Lam, Australian National University, Australia, Quantum Nonlinear Optics Using Optical Memory, Invited

Paul Lett, National Inst of Standards & Technology, United States, Noiseless Amplification of Images By Four-wave Mixing, Invited

Christoph Marquardt, Max-Planck-Inst Physik des Lichts, Germany, Whsipering Gallery Mode Optical Parametric Oscillators, Invited

Toshio Morioka, NTT Network Innovation Laboratories, Denmark, Ultrahigh Capacity Optical Communications Beyond Pb/s, Invited

Gérard Mourou, Ecole Polytechnique, France, Laser Ascent to Sub Atomic Physics and Applications, Invited

Mordechai Segev, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Israel, Photonic Topological Insulators, Invited

Olga Smironova, Max Born Institute, Germany, Attosecond Spectroscopy of Tunneling, Invited

Takunori Taira, Institute for Molecular Science, Japan, Large-Aparture PPMgLN for High Energy Parametric Process, Invited

Chuanshan Tian, Fudan University, China, Structure of Water Interfaces Studied by Phase Sensitive Sum Frequency Vibrational Spectroscopy, Invited

Peter Tidemand-Lichtenberg, Danmarks Tekniske Universitet, Denmark, Up-conversion Based Continuous-wave Mid-infrared Detection, Invited

Thomas Volz, ETH Zurich, Australia, Ultrafast Single-photon Non-linearities on a Semiconductor Chip, Invited

Nikolay Zheludev, University of Southampton, United Kingdom, Nonlinear Optics with Metamaterials, Invited