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First ' Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay, 1-5
December,
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Scientific Organizers: C.
Masoller
(Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay)
H. G. Solari
(Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Topics covered by the Workshop: laser theory, dynamic and noise
properties, optical feedback and optical injection, multimode behavior,
vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers, polarization and
transverse-mode effects, cavity solitons, chaotic synchronization and
applications to secure communication systems, laser arrays.
The purpose of the Workshop is to keep the scientific community working
on nonlinear phenomena on lasers and optics, updated with the most
recent developments and tendencies in the area. We hope that the
Workshop will provide the opportunity to interchange ideas in a relaxed
environment, contributing in this form to the possible nucleation of
new inter-institutional collaborating groups and encouraging the
development of scientific collaborations at an international level.
Emphasis will be put in the participation of Latin-America young
scientists.
The conference will take place in Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay.
Located in the north bank of the Rio de la Plata estuary, downriver
from Buenos Aires, upriver from Montevideo, Colonia del Sacramento is a
small charming city founded in 1680 and declared World Heritage City by
UNESCO. Temperatures during December range from 25 to 30 Celsius
degrees, with mostly sunny and fresh days.
Invited Speakers :
Wolfgang Elsäßer
Quantum Noise Properties of Vertical Cavity Emitting
Devices
Darmstadt University of Technology
Germany
William Firth
Optical
Patterns and Cavity Solitons
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
Scotland, U.K.
A. Gavrielides
External cavity modes
of semiconductor lasers with phase-conjugate feedback
Nonlinear Optics Center
Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
Giovanni Giacomelli
Experimental Study of
Stochastic Phenomena in Vertical Cavity Lasers
Istituto Nazionale di Ottica
Firenze, Italy
Pierre Glorieux
Noise reveals spatio-temporal dynamics of the Kerr
Slice with simple feedback
Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille
Villeneuve d'Ascq, France
Alejandro Hnilo
Kerr lens mode locked lasers as
dynamical systems
CEIPAL (CITEFA-CONICET)
Argentina
Deb Kane
Semiconductor
Laser Systems for Optical Frequency Comb and Chaos Generation
Macquarie University
Sydney, Australia
Marc Lefranc
Instabilities and chaos in
an optical parametric oscillator
Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille
Villeneuve d'Ascq, France
Daan Lenstra
Dynamics and
Noise in Semiconductor Lasers: a complex marriage
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Arturo Lezama
Noise atomic spectroscopy
Instituto de Fisica, Facultad de Ingenieria
Montevideo, Uruguay
J.M. Liu
Optical Patterns and Cavity Solitons
University of California at Los Angeles
USA
L. Lugiato
Cavity Solitons and all that
Università degli Studi dell’Insubria
Italy
J. V. Moloney
TW Femtosecond Optically
Turbulent Atmospheric Light Strings
The University of Arizona
USA
Mario A. Natiello
Laser
with Injected Signal: An overview
Lund University
Sweden
Ulrich Parlitz
Chaos and synchronization
in laser systems
Drittes Physikalisches Institut
Universitat Gottingen, Germany
Antonio Politi
Recoil induced laser action
Istituto Nazionale di Ottica
Firenze, Italy
J. R. Rios Leite
Chaotic Diode Lasers with Low Frequency
Fluctuations: Statistics of Pulses and Synchronism
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
Brazil
K.A. Shore
Synchronization
of chaotic external cavity laser diodes for secure optical
communication networks
University of Wales, Bangor
Wales, U.K.
Jorge R. Tredicce
Multimode
semiconductor lasers
Institut Non-Linéaire de Nice
France
Ramon Vilaseca
Cavity solitons in class-C lasers
Universitat Politècnica de
Catalunya
Spain
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Registration Deadline:
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Registration fee - Regular participants: U$S 100
Registration fee - Students: U$S 20
These fees account for access to scientific sessions, conference dinner
and book of abstracts.
The registration fee should be paid cash at the Registration Desk.