SIXTH
‘RIO DE LA PLATA’ WORKSHOP ON LASER DYNAMICS AND NONLINEAR
PHOTONICS
Montevideo, Uruguay, December 9-12, 2013
Final program
here (updated: 7/12/2013)
Workshop
proceedings in IEEExplore
Proceedings: DEADLINE
EXTENDED TO JANUARY 9, 2014
Arrival information
There are frequent buses
from the airport to the main Bus Station in Montevideo (Tres Cruces, about 45 minutes from the
airport), from where you can take a taxi to the hotel. The hotel is located at Rambla. Mahatma Gandhi in the corner with Parva Domus (map, phone: ++598
2710-2000). A taxi from the airport to the hotel will cost about 60-70 dollars
depending on traffic. The hotel provides a service to transfer from and to the
airport, at a cost of 50 dollars each trip. To book this transfer, please send
an email to Mr. Andres Muttoni at gventas@hotelcaladivolpe.com.uy with your name, arrival day, time, and flight
number.
You can change cash at the
airport, and you can also change (probably more conveniently) at a Money
Exchange in Punta Carretas Shopping Center, located about 200 meters from
the hotel.
Organizing co-chairs
|
Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya Barcelona, Spain |
Igal Brener USA |
Alejandro
Giacomotti Alejandro.Giacomotti@lpn.cnrs.fr Laboratoire
de Photonique et de Nanostructures Marcoussis, France |
Description
Recent advances in
nonlinear physics are revolutionizing the field of nanophotonics,
which in turn is producing great advances in medicine, biology, communications,
etc. This workshop aims at achieving a blend of application-oriented research
and the fundamental nonlinear science that supports it, with the goal of a
cross-fertilization of ideas. The workshop will provide the participants an opportunity to discuss
the latest advances, tendencies and challenges in the field. Participants will
be able to interchange ideas in a relaxed environment, which will provide an
excellent networking opportunity for developing new collaborations.
Funding Agencies
Technical Sponsor
Themes
The topics covered by the workshop include:
Lasers: General
laser theory; Semiconductor lasers; Microcavity and microdisk lasers; Photonic crystal lasers; Laser design and
operation; Dynamical laser instabilities; Noisy laser behavior; Spatial pattern
formation; Laser applications; Laser spectroscopy.
Nonlinear optics: Phase
conjugation; Beam trapping, self-focusing and defocusing; Self-phase
modulation; Optical frequency converters; Optical bistability,
multistability, and switching; Dynamics of nonlinear
optical systems; Optical instabilities, optical chaos and complexity; Optical spatio–temporal dynamics; solitons;
nonlinear guided waves and waveguides.
Optical materials and nanophotonics: Nonlinear optical
crystals; Photorefractive and semiconductor materials; Photonic bandgap materials; metamaterials
and plasmonics; Nonlinear behavior in nanophotonics.
Related school and workshop in Sao Paulo
A two-week School on Fundamentals and Applications of Nonlinear
Dynamics focusing on Photonics applications will be held in Sao Paulo, Brasil, from November 25 to December 5, 2013. The school is
funded by the International Centre for Theoretical Physics -South American
Institute for Fundamental Research (http://www.ictp-saifr.org/)
and is aimed at young PhD students and postdocs. The
school will be followed by a one-day workshop in Sao Paulo (Friday December 6).
The organizers of the school and workshop are Cristina Masoller,
Hilda Cerdeira, Yuri Kivshar.
More information about the courses, application procedure and deadlines
can be found at: http://www.ictp-saifr.org/?page_id=3616.
Important Deadlines
Registration and Abstract
submission: October 11, 2013
Acceptance: November
1, 2013
Proceedings manuscript
submission November
29, 2013
Invited Speakers
|
Thorsten Ackermann University of Strathclyde,
Scotland |
Optomechanical self-organization in cold atomic gases |
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Uwe Bandelow Weierstrass Institute (WIAS), Berlin, Germany |
Solitons on a background, rogue waves, and classical soliton
solutions of the Sasa-Satsuma equation |
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Sylvain Barbay LPN-CNRS, Marcoussis,
France |
Self-pulsing and fast excitable response in micropillar
and nano-lasers with saturable absorber |
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Stephane Barland Institut Non-Lineaire de Nice, Valbonne,
France |
Buffering optical data with topological localized structures |
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Kamel Bencheikh LPN-CNRS, Marcoussis,
France |
Quantum theoretical aspects
of triple photons states produced by a khi(3)
process |
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Peter Bienstman Ghent University, Belgium |
Towards integrated optical spiking neural networks: delaying spikes on
chip |
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Andrea Bragas Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires,
Argentina |
Nonlinear emission of polariton cavity modes
in ZnO single nanocombs |
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Marcel Clerc Universidad de Chile |
Harnessing optical vortex lattices in nematic liquid crystals |
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Cid B. de Araujo Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brasil |
High-order nonlinearities in homogeneous and nanostructured systems |
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Goery Genty Tampere University Technology, Tampere,
Finland |
From nonlinear instabilities to rogue waves in
optics |
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Alejandro Hnilo Centro de Investigaciones en Láseres y Aplicaciones, Bs As,
Argentina |
Optical rogue waves in the solid state laser with
a saturable absorber |
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Antonio Hurtado Essex University, UK |
Optical Injection in 1310nm-QD DFB Lasers:
analysis and applications |
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Julien Javaloyes Palma de Mallorca, Spain |
Vectorial temporal solitons with
delay in VCSELs |
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Bernd Krauskopf The Universtity of
Auckland, New Zealand |
Mode structure of a semiconductor laser with
feedback from two external filters |
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Kathy Lüdge Technische Universität Berlin, Germany |
Optical instabilities in quantum-dot lasers: what
makes them different to quantum-well lasers |
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Cleber Mendonça Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brasil |
Femtosecond pulses in nonlinear optics: multi-photon
absorption and pulse shaping |
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Junji Ohtsubo Shizuoka University, Japan |
Filament dynamics and synchronization in
broad-area semiconductor lasers |
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Francesco Pedaci Centre de Biochimie Structurale,
Montpellier, France |
Excitability in optical torque tweezers |
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J. R. Rios Leite Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil |
Dynamics in a Ring Diode Laser |
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K. Alan Shore Bangor University, Wales, U. K. |
Ultra-wide frequency bi-stability in VCSELs |
|
Jorge Tredicce Institut Non-Lineaire de Nice, Valbonne,
France |
How a crisis produces an extreme event |
Proceedings: DEADLINE
EXTENDED TO JANUARY 9, 2014
The
workshop proceedings will be published as an IEEE Conference Proceeding within
the IEEE Conference Publications Program (CPP) and will be included in the IEEE Xplore
database. CPP will handle the worldwide post-conference distribution,
assuring wide distribution of the conference proceedings by providing
abstracting and indexing of all the papers for inclusion in worldwide
databases.
Manuscripts
should be submitted as IEEE Xplore-compatible PDFs.
Submission
to the Conference Proceeding will be open from September 15 to November 29, 2013. Papers should be prepared online
using the IEEE PDF eXpress service, and submitted
online as IEEE Xplore-compatible PDFs. A minimum of 2 pages is required. Please
follow these instructions to submit your manuscript:
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the conference.
Follow
this link
for the proceedings of the 5th Workshop.
Location: Montevideo, Uruguay
Venue: Cala di Volpe Boutique hotel
(http://www.hotelcaladivolpe.com.uy/english/)
Special prices for the
conference participants are 125USD for
standard single room and 130USD for standard double room. Prices are per
day and include breakfast and taxes.
For reservations please
contact the hotel directly by email (reservas@hotelcaladivolpe.com.uy)
and indicate that you are a participant of the Rio de la Plata Workshop.
Registration Fees
The registration fee has to
be paid cash at the conference registration desk (prices in US dollars).
The registration will include the welcome cocktail, the coffee breaks and lunchs during the workshop and the book of abstracts.
Regular
participant:
U$S 400
Invited
speakers:
U$S 150
Reduced
(students)
U$S 100
To Register
Send an email with the
following information to cristina.masoller@upc.edu,
cristina.masoller@gmail.com
Name:
Institution:
Email:
Position:
Title of
Contribution:
Abstract
(about 200 words, no equations or figures):
Type of
Contribution: Oral or Poster
History of the ‘Rio de la Plata’ Workshop
The first,
second and fifth workshops were held in Colonia del Sacramento, in December
2003, 2005 and 2011; the third workshop was held in Punta del Este (Uruguay) in
December 2007, and the fourth workshop, in Piriapolis
(Uruguay) in December 2009. The workshop has been sponsored by the Optical Society of America (OSA), the Photonics Society, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR),
the Office of Naval Research Global (ONRG),
and the Commission on Quantum Electronics of the International
Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP). The proceedings of the 4th
Workshop were published in a Topical Issue of the European
Physical Journal D; the proceedings of the 5th Workshop were published by
IEEE conference publications (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/mostRecentIssue.jsp?punumber=6153635).
First
Workshop (Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay 2003) Second Workshop
(Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay 2005)
Third
Workshop (Punta del Este, Uruguay 2007) Fourth Workshop (Piriapolis, Uruguay 2009)
Fifth Workshop
(Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay 2011)
