FOURTH ‘RIO DE LA PLATA’ WORKSHOP
ON LASER DYNAMICS AND NONLINEAR PHOTONICS
Piriapolis, Uruguay, 8-11
December, 2009
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Scientific Organizers
Cristina
Masoller Igal
Brener
Cristina.masoller@upc.edu ibrener@sandia.gov
Universitat
Politecnica de Catalunya Sandia
National Laboratories
Spain USA
The aim of the Workshop is to keep the
scientific community working on nonlinear phenomena in lasers, optics and photonics
in general updated with the most recent developments and tendencies in the
field. We hope that the Workshop will provide the opportunity to interchange
ideas in a relaxed environment, contributing in this form to the development of
new scientific collaborations. Emphasis will be put in the participation of
Latin-American scientists.
The topics covered by the Workshop include
(but not limited to):
- Dynamics of lasers and
optical amplifiers, noise and instabilities
- Vertical-cavity
surface-emitting lasers, quantum-dot lasers, quantum cascade lasers
- Light-polarization
dynamics
- Transverse spatial
patterns, solitons and localized structures
- Photonic crystals
- Novel nonlinear optical
materials and phenomena
- Metamaterials and
plasmonics
- Nonlinearities in
nanophotonics
Invited Speakers
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Uwe
Bandelow Weierstrass Inst. Applied Analysis &
Stochastics Berlin, Germany |
Nonlinear and nonlocal models for ultrashort
optical pulses |
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Stefano
Beri Department of Applied Physics and Photonics,
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium |
The stochastic and nonlinear dynamics of
semiconductor ring lasers |
|
Martine
Chevrollier Departamento de Física, Universidade
Federal da Paraíba, João Pessoa, Brazil |
Levy flights of photons scattered in resonant
atomic vapors |
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Diego Dalvit Theoretical Division,
Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, USA |
Towards Casimir force repulsion using
metamaterials |
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Cornelia
Denz Institut für Angewandte Physik Muenster, German |
Nonlinear wave propagation in optically-induced
complex photonic lattices |
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Cid B. de Araujo Departamento de Fisica,
Universidade Federal de
Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil |
Surface-plasmons enhanced nonlinear spectroscopy
of random media |
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Ricardo A. Depine Departamento de
Física, FCEN, UBA, Argentina |
Surface polaritons at the boundary of a
corrugated metamaterial |
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Alfredo
Dubra Center of Visual Science Rochester University, New York, USA |
Latest advances in retinal imaging |
|
Jason Gallas Universidade Federal do
Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil |
On the coexistence of pulsating states and steady
states in injection-locked semiconductor lasers |
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Athanasios
Gavrielides Nonlinear Optics Center, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA |
Delay Dynamics of two diode lasers coupled by
orthogonal modes: metastable square waves |
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Jean-Jacques
Greffet Laboratoire EM2C, UPR 288 du CNRS, Ecole Centrale Paris, France |
Contribution of surface phonon polaritons to
radiative heat transfer at the nanoscale |
|
Fritz
Henneberger Photonics Group, Humboldt University of Berlin,
Germany |
Random semiconductor lasers: cavity versus
stochastic feedback |
|
Alejandro Hnilo Centro de
Investigaciones en Láseres y Aplicaciones, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
Quantum paradoxes and time series analysis |
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Miguel Hoyuelos Departamento de
Física, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Argentina |
Cavity equations for a positive or negative
refraction index material with electric and magnetic non-linearities |
|
Laurent
Larger Optics Laboratory, University of
Franche-Comté, Besançon, France |
Broadband electro-optic phase chaos: dynamical
features, and efficient 10Gb/s chaos communication |
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Kathy
Lüdge Institut fur Theoretische Physik Technische Universitat Berlin, Germany |
Nonlinear dynamics of semiconductor quantum-dot lasers
with delayed optical feedback |
|
Roberto
Merlin Physics Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
Michigan, USA |
Metamaterials, optical magnetism and the
Landau-Lifshitz permeability argument |
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Riccardo
Meucci Istituto Nazionale di Ottica Applicata Firenze, Italia |
Chaotic dynamics in class B-lasers: Experiments, models and applications |
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Paulo Nussenzveig Instituto de
Física, Universidade de
São Paulo, Brazil |
Three-Color
Entanglement |
|
John F. O'Hara Los Alamos National
Laboratory New Mexico, USA |
Terahertz technology progress with dynamic
metamaterials |
|
Marcos Oria Lab. de Fisica Atomica
e Lasers Universidad Federal da
Paraiba, Joao Pessoa, Brazil |
Frequency dynamics of semiconductor lasers |
|
Rafael
Piestun University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA |
Diffraction unlimited 3D imaging - Foundations of
a revolution in far-field optical nanoscopy |
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J. R. Rios Leite Departamento de Fisica,
Universidade Federal de
Pernambuco, Brazil |
Advances and retards in the synchronism of
chaotic lasers with feedback |
|
Jorge R. Tredicce Institut
Non-Linéaire de Nice, Université de
Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France |
Cavity Soliton Laser |
|
Alejandro Yacomotti Laboratoire de
Photonique et de Nanostructures, LPN-CNRS, Marcoussis, France |
Nonlinear and ultrafast 2D Photonic Crystals |
|
Roberta
Zambrini Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Physics and
Complex Systems, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain |
Nonlocality and off-axis feedback in tranversally
multimode optical devices |
Sponsors:
Co-sponsoring societies:
Co-sponsoring
journals:
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The European Physical Journal
D |
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Location:
The Workshop will be held in Piriapolis, at the
Argentino Hotel Casino & Resort (http://www.argentinohotel.com),
a traditional hotel that has been recently renovated and has thermal marine
swimming pools. Piriapolis was the first summer resort established in Uruguay,
and is now a peaceful and charming coastal resort, similar to Punta del Este
but quieter. It has a wide range of white sand beaches and a wonderful shore
with european style. The city is surrounded by pines, eucalyptus and hills;
there is also an animal reservation with native flora. Piriapolis is located
100 km east of Montevideo (nearly an hour by car) and 30 km west from Punta del
Este, and is a city that offers an unbeatable conjunction of sea, nature, peace
and good services. Temperatures during December range from 25 to 30 oC,
with mostly sunny days.
To make your
hotel reservation, please contact the hotel directly, indicating your arrival and departure days, accompanying person if
any, and mention "Laser and Optics Workshop participant". Contact
information: phone: 00598 43 22791; reservas@argentinohotel.com
Special rates for the Workshop participants are (per person per night):
Single room occupancy, full board: U$S 89; half-board: U$S 74
Double room occupancy, full board: U$S 77; half-board: U$S 63
Arrival information:
By Plane: in December several
companies fly directly from
By bus: From
Proceedings:
A new topical issue, in the
form of a focus section dedicated to "Laser Dynamics and Nonlinear
Photonics", is in preparation in The European Physical Journal D (EPJD), a
journal which covers disciplines relevant to Atomic, Molecular, Optical and
Plasma Physics. Manuscripts are expect to be full-lengths papers (no page quota
imposed) and to satisfy the usual publication criteria of EPJD (be
scientifically correct; contain sufficiently material; constitute a significant
advance, and be accessible to the general readership of the journal). Full
papers should be submitted no later than the end of November 2009 via:
https://articlestatus.edpsciences.org/is/epjd/ or directly to EPJD at
epjd@edpsciences.org
During registration via
http, please use the pull-down menu "Special Issue" to indicate that
your contribution should be considered as a part of the topical issue called
"Laser Dynamics and Nonlinear Photonics".
The style files for EPJD
can be found at http://www.epj.org/makro.html.
General information about
this journal is available on http://www.epj.org/
Registration Fees:
The registration fee has to
be paid cash at the conference registration desk (prices in US
dollars). It includes the welcome cocktail, coffee breaks and the book of
abstracts.
Regular participants: U$S
200
Students: U$S 100
Deadlines:
Registration deadline:
October 9, 2009
Acceptance: October 23,
2009
Registration:
To register, please send an
email with the following information to cristina.masoller@upc.edu
Name:
Institution:
Email:
Position:
Title of Contribution:
Abstract:
Type of Contribution:
Oral
Poster
Previous workshops were held in Colonia del
Sacramento, Uruguay, in December 2003 and 2005, and in Punta del Este, in
December 2007
