FIFTH
‘RIO DE LA PLATA’ WORKSHOP ON LASER DYNAMICS AND NONLINEAR
PHOTONICS
Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay
December 6 to 9, 2011
Scientific Organizers
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Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya Barcelona, Spain |
Igal Brener USA |
Alejandro
Giacomotti Alejandro.Giacomotti@lpn.cnrs.fr Laboratoire
de Photonique et de Nanostructures Marcoussis, France |
First
Announcement (pdf 152 KB)
The aim of this 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 are not limited to:
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.
Invited Speakers
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Sylvain Barbay LPN-CNRS, Marcoussis, France |
Localized states
and excitability in a monolithic VCSEL with saturable
absorber |
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Kamel Bencheikh LPN-CNRS, Marcoussis, France |
Slow light
propagation due to nonlinear interactions in photonic crystal semi-conductors |
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Pascal Besnard Foton-Enssat, CNRS, Lannion cedex, France |
Single-frequency
Quantum Dashed lasers submitted to optical injection |
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Hou-Tong Chen Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Los Alamos National Laboratory,
USA |
Active tuning and
nonlinearity in metamaterials |
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Santiago Costantino University of Montreal, Canada |
Optical protein
patterning, micro-engineering the cellular environment using lasers |
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Cid B. de Araujo Dep. de Fisica, Universidade
Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil |
Enhanced
nonlinear optical response from nanocomposites |
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Ricardo A. Depine Departamento de Física,
FCEN, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina |
Surface plasmon polaritons on metamaterial boundaries |
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Orazio Descalzi Universidad de los Andes, Chile |
Dissipative
explosive solitons |
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Alexander Gaeta School of Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University, USA |
Novel optical
devices based on four-wave mixing |
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Daniel Gauthier Department of Physics, Duke University, Durham, USA |
Spontaneous
symmetry breaking in optical patterns generated by the interaction of light
and matter waves |
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Lendert Gelens Department of Applied Physics and Photonics, Vrije
Universiteit Brussel,
Belgium |
Dynamical behavior
of semiconductor ring lasers: Multistability and
Excitability |
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Damià Gomila IFISC, Universitat de les Illes
Balears, Spain |
From the Townes soliton to Kerr-cavity solitons
and their applications |
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Fritz Henneberger Photonics Group, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany |
Random
Semiconductor Lasers: Scattered versus Fabry-Perot
Feedback |
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Alejandro Hnilo Centro de Investigaciones en
Láseres y Aplicaciones, Bs As, Argentina |
Rogue waves in
self-pulsing lasers |
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Miguel Hoyuelos Departamento de Física,
Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Argentina |
Elliptically
polarized transverse patterns in a cavity with electric and magnetic
nonlinearities |
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Antonio Hurtado Department of Computing and Electronic Systems, University of Essex,
U.K: |
Nonlinear
Dynamics in Long-Wavelength VCSELs subject to polarised
optical injection |
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Francesca Intonti LENS, Universitá
degli studi di Firenze, Italy |
Optical probing
and local modification of photonic crystal molecules |
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Maxime Jacquot Optics Dpt, FEMO-ST Institute, University of
Franche-Comté, Besançon, France |
Delay
electro-optic dynamics for brain inspired information processing |
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Arturo Lezama Universidad de la República,
Montevideo, Uruguay |
Generation of
quantum correlated light beams in an atomic vapor |
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Michal Lipson Nanophotonics Research Group Kavli Institute at Cornell, USA |
Optomechanics in silicon nanostructures |
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Oscar Martinez Universidad de Buenos Aires,
Argentina |
Optical
fabrication beyond the diffraction limit: making it fast, easy and cheap |
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Manuel Matias IFISC, Universitat de les Illes
Balears, Spain |
Spatially
nonlocal bistable media: front propagation and localized
structures |
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Hernan Miguez Instituto de Ciencia de
Materiales de Sevilla, Spain |
Porous Multilayers: Novel Multifunctional Materials for Light
Absorption and Emission Control |
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Mario Molina Universidad de Chile |
Localized modes
and Fano resonances in magnetic metamaterials |
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J. R. Rios Leite Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil |
Instabilities in
Ring Semiconductor Lasers |
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Eckehard Schoell Technische Universitat
Berlin, Germany |
Nonlinear dynamics
of semiconductor quantum dot lasers |
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K. Alan Shore Bangor University, Wales, U. K. |
Design and
applications of electrically-injected nano-spin
lasers |
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Alessandro de Sousa Villar Instituto de Física, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil |
Entanglement
among bright light beams: creation, structure, sudden death |
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Roberta Zambrini IFISC, Universitat de les Illes
Balears, Spain |
Quantum aspects
of synchronization |
Sponsors
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Proceedings
The workshop proceedings
will be published as an IEEE Conference
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Submission to the
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Location
The Workshop will be held
in Colonia del
Sacramento, Uruguay, at the Radisson Hotel.
Colonia del Sacramento was founded in 1680 by the
Portuguese, and it was declared World
Heritage site by UNESCO in
1995. Located on the north bank of the Rio de la Plata estuary, upriver from
Montevideo, Colonia del Sacramento is situated at the
tip of a peninsula. The historic quarter of the city, with the towers of the
Church of the Holy Sacrament and the lighthouse, constitutes a remarkable
testimony, in its plan and its monuments, to the character and the objectives
of a European colonial city at the end of the 17th century.
Hotel information
The workshop
will take place at the Radisson Hotel of
Colonia del Sacramento (W. Barbot
283). The hotel is conveniently located by the River Plate (see map), one
block from the historic part of the city, and it has a panoramic restaurant, a
lobby bar, an outdoor swimming pool overlooking the River Plate, two hot baths
and a Jacuzzi tub.
To make your reservation, please contact the Hotel Radisson directly,
indicating your arrival and departure days, accompanying person if any, and
mention "Laser and Optics Workshop participant". Contact information:
reservas@radissoncolonia.com
Please
make your hotel reservation as soon as possible as it could be very busy due to
a long holiday weekend in Argentina.
In front of Hotel Radisson
there is a nice budget hostal: Posada del Rio (W. Barbot 258) which
is a good option for more economic accommodation in single and double rooms
with private toilets.
Special rates for the Workshop
participants are (per room per night
including breakfast, in superior or standard category, depending on
availability):
Single
room occupancy, U$S 117
Double room occupancy, U$S
130
Arrival information
Colonia del
Sacramento is located in the coast of the Rio de la Plata estuary, about 1 hour
by boat from Buenos Aires (Argentina), and about 2 hours by bus (177
kilometers) from Montevideo (Uruguay).
·
By Boat
From the Buenos Aires port Buquebus
has daily ferries to Colonia del Sacramento (US$20,
2½ hours) and high-speed buque-aviones (US$35,
one hour). If you flight to Buenos Aires, a bus or a remiss with Manuel Tienda
Leon will take you from the airport to the port, where you can then take
the boat to Colonia del Sacramento. The hotel is a 15
min. walk from Colonia port (see map), and
there are plenty of taxis at the port waiting for the boats that arrive from
Buenos Aires.
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By Bus
An alternative way is to
fly to
Currency: The local
currency is “pesos uruguayos: You can change
money at the airport. Also, notice that is an English-speaking tourist
information office at the airport.
How to get to TRES CRUCES
BUS STATION from AEROPUERTO INTERNACIONAL DE CARRASCO:
When you exit the airport,
you will find a bus station right in front of the arrival terminal. Take the
brown and orange bus of the COPSA company (www.copsa.com.uy) that says
‘MONTEVIDEO’ at the front. The bus runs about every 15 minutes. Ask
the bus driver if the bus stops at TERMINAL TRES
CRUCES to be sure. It will stop at the corner of the bus station
(“Goes” and “Acevedo Dias” streets). You have to buy
the ticket in the bus. The bus ticket costs about 2.5dollars (30 pesos uruguayos), the bus driver will only take pesos uruguayos currency. During rush hour the bus from the
airport to the bus station can take about 1 hour. If you prefer to take a taxi
from the airport to Tres Cruces, then is safe to take
a taxi and there will be taxis at the airport exit. The cost is approximately
50 dollars.
From TRES CRUCES there are
frequent buses to Colonia. Bus timetable: http://www.trescruces.com.uy/horarios.php
Some useful contact phone
numbers
Embassy of the United
States in Uruguay: 2418 77 77
Police: 911
Medical Emergency (SEMM):
159
Airport (flight schedule
check): 2604 02 72
Request a Cab in
Montevideo: 141
Other useful information
Currency exchange: 1 dollar
~ 20 pesos
Usual Tip: 10% (less for
cab fares)
ATM withdrawal: Use the BanRed ATMs (green color) if you have a VISA/ MasterCard
check card. International ATM withdrawal fees apply (3-5 dollars depending on
your bank).
Registration Fees
The registration fee has to
be paid cash at the conference registration desk (prices in US
dollars). It includes the coffee breaks, welcome cocktail and the book of
abstracts.
Regular:
U$S 250
Reduced (students): U$S 100
Deadlines
Registration and Abstract
submission: October
14, 2011
Acceptance: October
24, 2011
Proceedings manuscript
submission December
6, 2011
To Register
Please 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
and second workshops were held in Colonia del
Sacramento, in December 2003 and 2005; the third workshop was held in Punta del
Este (Uruguay) in December 2007, and the fourth workshop, in Piriapolis (Uruguay) in December 2009.
These workshops
were 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.
First
Workshop (Colonia 2003) Second Workshop
(Colonia 2005)
Third
Workshop (Punta del Este 2007) Fourth Workshop (Piriapolis 2009)
