Nonlinear Photonics (NP)

OSA Topical Meeting and Tabletop Exhibit

Collocated with:

Access Networks and In-house Communications (Access)
Bragg Gratings, Photosensitivity and Poling in Glass Waveguides (BGPP)
Optical Sensors (Sensors)
Signal Processing in Photonic Communications (SPPCom)

Technical Conference: June 21-24, 2010
Karlsruhe-Messe und Kongress (Conference Center)
Karlsruhe, Germany

Submissions Deadline: January 20, 2010, 12:00 p.m. noon, EST (17.00 GMT)
Housing Deadline: May 21, 2010
Pre-Registration Deadline: May 24, 2010

2010 Meeting Chairs

Jonathan Knight, Univ. of Bath, UK, General Chair
Michael Cada, Dalhousie Univ., Canada, General Chair
Wieslaw Krolikowski, Australian Natl. Univ., Australia, Program Chair
Frank Wise, Cornell Univ., USA, Program Chair
Karsten Rottwitt, Danmarks Tekniske Univ., Denmark, Program Chair

Topics to be Covered

Temporal Effects

• Nonlinear effects in fibers:
  • Stimulated Raman Scattering (SRS) and Brillouin Scattering (SBS)
  • Cross phase modulation
  • Four-wave mixing
  • Self-phase modulation
  • Third-harmonic generation
  • Two-photon absorption
• Nonlinear pulse propagation in fiber:
  • Nonlinear pulse broadening and modulational instabilities
  • Pulse compression, and pulse train generation
  • Self similar pulse propagation
• Temporal solitons in fibers:
  • Generation of bright and dark solitons
  • Stability of soliton trains, and soliton control
  • Polarization effects, Soliton-noise interaction
  • Dispersion management
  • Application in transmission systems
• Cascaded and second order nonlinearities:
  • Second harmonic
  • X-waves
  • Frequency conversion
  • Quasi phase matching

Computational Analysis, Design and Modeling of Dissipative and Conservative Systems

• FDTD:
  • Full vector solutions to Maxwell’s equations with nonlinearities
  • Pseudo spectral computations
  • Novel algorithms for solutions
• Dissapative solitons and ultra-short pulse modelling:
  • Going beyond the slowly varying envelope approximation
  • Modelling of super continuum generation
  • Pulse compression effects
• Active device modelling:
  • Laser models
  • Mode locking, new techniques
  • Comparison with experiments
• System modelling:
  • Stochastic modelling for communication systems and error estimates
  • Effects of polarization and amplifiers
  • Novel modulation formats

Poling, Spatial and Periodic Nonlinear Effects

• Spatial optical solitons, self-trapping, and self-guiding effects:
  • Generation of bright and dark solitons via second order, third order and photorefractive effects
  • Longitudinal and transverse stability of solitary waves, modulation instability and spatio-temporal effects
  • Nonlinear effects in disordered media
  • Interaction of spatial solitons
  • Nonlinear guided modes in waveguides and at nonlinear interfaces, self-trapping effects in waveguide arrays and discrete spatial solitons
• Nonlinear effects in periodic structures:
  • Bragg gratings in semiconductor waveguides
  • Nonlinear effects in photonic crystals and Bragg gratings
  • Bragg solitons, gap solitons and solitons in photonic crystals
  • Devices based on nonlinear interactions in gratings
  • Spatial pattern formation in nonlinear cavities and waveguides
• Active and dissipative effects:
  • Nonlinear amplifiers and amplifier solitons
  • Spatial solitons in cavities containing nonlinear materials, vortex solitons
  • Parabolic and self-similar pulses and lasers
  • Nonlinear modes and solitons in trapped Bose-Einstein Condensates and optical lattices; nonlinear guidedwave atom-optics
  • Waveguide and glass poling
  • Physics and chemistry of poling
  • Advances in thermal and uv-assisted poling of fibres and waveguides
  • Devices based on poled glass

All-Optical Devices and Applications

• Nonlinear Devices and Systems
  • All-Optical Communications Devices and Systems
  • All-Optical Wavelength Conversion
  • All-Optical Signal Regeneration
  • Ultrafast Switching and Packet-Switching
  • All-Optical Signal Processing and Logic Functions (Flip-flop,...)
  • Optical storage and memory
  • Slow Light Phenomena
  • Entangled Photons (e.g. Quantum Cryptography, fiber-based EPR sources,...)
  • Other devices and systems
  • Nonlinear Measurement and Detection
  • FROG / SPIDER
  • Optical sampling
  • Multiphoton microscopy
  • All-Optical Monitoring
  • Nonlinear guided wave spectroscopy

• Novel Nonlinear Materials and Structures
  • Novel Nonlinear Materials
  • Highly nonlinear fibers (e.g. novel glasses, photonic crystal fibers, poled fibers and non-silica glasses)
  • Nonlinear crystals (materials with improved photorefractive effects,...)
  • Photonic crystals
  • Nonlinear semiconductors (SOAs, LDs,...)
  • QD-materials
  • Polymers and organics for waveguides
  • Quasi-phase matched structures: cascaded nonlinearities, designer gratings
  • Metamaterials
  • Fabrication of micro and nano-structured materials, Bragg gratings, micro-ring resonators, and optimized nonlinear materials