Program

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9:00	9:15		Opening Remarks	Hitoki Yoneda Institute for Laser Science, The University of Electro-Communications (UEC), Japan
9:15	9:45	ALPS1-B-1 Invited	High Average Power and High Energy Ultrafast Thin-Disk Amplifiers	Catherine Y. Teisset¹, Christoph Wandt¹, Marcel Schultze¹, Sandro Klingebiel¹, Stephan Prinz¹, Sebastian Stark¹, Christian Grebing¹, Jan-Philipp Negel², Helge Höck², Michael Scharun², Thomas Dietz², Dominik Bauer², Aleksander Budnicki², Christian Stolzenburg², Dirk Sutter², Alexander Killi², Thomas Metzger¹ ¹TRUMPF Scientific Lasers GmbH + Co. KG, Germany, ²TRUMPF Laser GmbH, Germany	Our commercial picosecond thin-disk regenerative amplifiers are available with up to 200 mJ-pulses and 1 kW of average power. Preliminary scaling results in multipass show potential for multi-kW systems.
9:45	10:15	ALPS1-B-2 Invited	Graphene and Voltage Reconfigurable Graphene Devices for Femtosecond Pulse Generation in the Near Infrared	Alphan Sennaroglu^{1, 2}, Isinsu Baylam², Ferda Canbaz¹, Nurbek Kakenov³, Coskun Kocabas³, Umit Demirbas⁴, Sarper Ozharars⁵ ¹Laser Research Laboratory, Departments of Physics and Electrical-Electronics Engineering, Koç University, Turkey, ²Koç University Surface Science and Technology Center (KUYTAM), Koç University, Turkey, ³Department of Physics, Bilkent University, Turkey, ⁴Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Antalya Bilim University, Turkey, ⁵College of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Bahçe●ehir University, Turkey	By using graphene and voltage reconfigurable graphene-based fast saturable absorbers, we describe femtosecond pulse generation experiments performed with Cr3+:LiSAF, Cr4+:forsterite, and Ti3+:sapphire tunable solid-state lasers over the 800-1250 nm region.
10:15	10:30	ALPS1-B-3	Kumgang laser: stimulated Brillouin scattering phase conjugate mirrors (SPC-SBS-PCM) for high repetition rate lasers towards the coherent beam combining	Hong Jin Kong, Seongwoo Cha Department of physics, KAIST, Korea	The recent status of the development of a self-phase-controlled stimulated Brillouin scattering phase conjugate mirror (SPC-SBS-PCM) for the high repetition rate and high output energy laser system will be presented.
10:30	11:00	Break

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11:00	11:30	ALPS2-H-1 Invited	Development of depth-sensitive optical spectroscopy	Quan Liu, Joshua Su Weiming, Chao-Mao Hsieh School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore	We will review the development of depth sensitive optical spectroscopy techniques from earlier fiber-optic based probes to non-contact axicon lens based probes in our group and the corresponding numerical methods for optimization.
11:30	11:45	ALPS2-H-2	3D high-resolution spectral-domain optical coherence microscopy at 1700 nm spectral band for deep tissue imaging	Naoki Hayakawa¹, Masahito Yamanaka¹, Hiroyuki Kawagoe¹, Shuichi Makita², Yoshiaki Yasuno², Norihiko Nishizawa¹ ¹Dept. Electronics, Nagoya University, Japan, ²Computational Optics Group, University of Tsukuba, Japan	1700 nm spectral band is useful for deep tissue imaging. We developed spectral-domain optical coherence microscopy (SD-OCM) at 1700 nm spectral band, and demonstrated high-resolution deep tissue imaging of tissue specimens.
11:45	12:00	ALPS2-H-3	Mid Infrared Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy for Radiocarbon Analysis toward Medical Applications	Ryohei Terabayashi¹, Volker Sonnenschein¹, Hideki Tomita¹, Noriyoshi Hayashi¹, Kato Shusuke¹, Shin Takeda¹, Lei Jin¹, Masahito Yamanaka¹, Norihiko Nishizawa¹, Atsushi Sato², Kenji Yoshida², Kohei Nozawa², Tetsuo Iguchi¹ ¹Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University, Japan, ²Drug Development Solutions Center, Sekisui Medical Co. Ltd., Japan	Radiocarbon analysis based on Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy (14C-CRDS) for the applications of drug development has been developed. An overview, status of our current system and some experimental results of 14C-CRDS will be shown.
12:00	13:00	Lunch

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10:45	11:15	ALPS3-A-1 Invited	QPM devices in KTP isomorphs: linear, nonlinear absorption properties and extreme domain aspect-ratios	Carlota Canalias, Andrius Zukauskas, Staffan Tjörnhammar, Anne-Lise Viotti, Charlotte Liljestrand, Valdas Pasiskevicius, Fredrik Laurell Applied Physics department, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Albanova University Center, Sweden	We demonstrate QPM devices in KTP isomorphs with extreme ferroelectric-domain aspect-ratios. The performance of these devices, as well as their linear and nonlinear absorption, are discussed.
11:15	11:30	ALPS3-A-2	Mg:SLT-based nonlinear optical light sources for down conversion	Sunao Kurimura¹, Ryo Okamoto², Shigeki Takeuchi² ¹National Institute for Materials Science, Japan, ²Kyoto University, Japan	Bright light sources with nonlinear parametric process in Mg:SLT are presented with blue-violet light pumping. Combination between GaN laser diodes and waveguide nonlinear devices will be discussed for future compact light sources.
11:30	11:45	ALPS3-A-3	Design of magnetic anisotropy in micro domains for Yb:Fluoroapatite Laser Ceramics	Yoichi Sato, Jun Akiyama, Takunori Taira Institute for Molecular Science, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Japan	According to microdomain designed by quantum mechanical calculations transparent polycrystalline Yb:FAP laser ceramics was synthesized under rotational magnetic field of 1.4T. Small scattering loss of anisotropic ceramics suggests the significance of the orientation control technology.
11:45	12:00	ALPS3-A-4	Vertical cavity lasing from CH3NH3PbCl3 microcrystals under multiphoton excitation	Decheng Yang, Chao Xie, Feng Yan, Siu Fung Yu Department of Applied Physics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China	Photoluminescence (PL) property of CH3NH3PbCl3 microcrystals under single- and multi-photon excitation is studied. The microcrystal is a natural vertical cavity and can support lasing action at orthorhombic phase under multiphoton excitation.
12:00	13:00	Lunch

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13:00	13:30	ALPS4-E1-1 Invited	Paving the Way towards Novel Applied and Fundamental Sciences with ELI-Beamlines	Sergei V. Bulanov^{1, 2} ¹Institute of Physics AS CR, v.v.i (FZU), ELI-Beamlines, Czech Republic, ²National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology (QST), Kansai Photon Science Institute, Japan	The ELI-BL aspires to install and run the world’s most intense laser system. These beamlines will enable ground-breaking research in the fields of physics and material science, in biomedicine, in fundamental science and laboratory astrophysics.
13:30	14:00	ALPS4-E1-2 Invited	Laser-based research technologies at ELI-ALPS	Karoly Osvay, A. Borzsonyi, D. Charalambidis, E. Cormier, L. Fulop, M. Kalashnikov, Ch. Kamperidis, B. Kiss, R. Lopez-Martens, G. Sansone, Z. Várallyay, K. Varju ELI-ALPS, ELI-HU Non-Profit Ltd., Hungary	Laser systems operating in the 100W average power regime provide ELI-ALPS with TW-to-PW peak power pulses for generation of secondary light sources with a duration of tens of attosecond for basic and applied researches.
14:00	14:30	ALPS4-E1-3 Invited	ELI-NP Status and Plan	Kazuo A. Tanaka ELI-NP/IFIN-HH, Romania	ELI-NP has been in the implementation phase now as of 2018. The installation of high-power laser system has been on time.
14:30	15:00	ALPS4-E1-4 Invited	High Power Laser Development and its application for High Energy Density Science	Ryosuke Kodama Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University, Japan
15:00	15:15	Break

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13:00	13:30	ALPS5-I1-1 Invited	Optical frequency combs: From lab-scale to chip-scale	Scott A. Diddams^{1, 2} ¹National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA, ²Department of Physics, University of Colorado, USA	We report on the latest developments in laboratory and chip-scale optical frequency combs and our application to atomic timekeeping, spectroscopy, frequency synthesis and exoplanet searches.
13:30	13:45	ALPS5-I1-2	Er-doped Bi-directional Dual-comb Fiber Laser With Single-walled Carbon Nanotube Film	Shuto Saito¹, Lei Jin¹, Yoichi Sakakibara², Emiko Omoda², Hiromichi Kataura², Norihiko Nishizawa¹ ¹Department of Electronics, Nagoya University, Japan, ²National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan	Bi-directional, Er-doped dual-comb fiber laser was demonstrated using polyimide film dispersed with single-walled carbon nanotube (SWNT). Difference of repetition frequency was temporally stable and it could be tuned continuously by pump power control.
13:45	14:00	ALPS5-I1-3	Evaluation of Broadband Coherence of Bidirectional Mode-Locked Er-Fiber Laser with Two Saturable Absorber Mirrors	Yoshiaki Nakajima^{1, 2}, Yuya Hata¹, Kaoru Minoshima^{1, 2} ¹Department of Engineering Science, Graduate School of Informatics and Engineering, the University of Electro-Communications, Japan, ²Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), ERATO MINOSHIMA Intelligent Optical Synthesizer (IOS) Project, Japan	The broadband coherence of bidirectional mode-locked Er-fiber laser with two saturable absorption mirrors is evaluated. We obtain a signal-to-noise ratio of 35 dB between the narrow linewidth single frequency laser and output.
14:00	14:15	ALPS5-I1-4	All-Polarization-Maintaining Dual-wavelength mode-locked Er-fiber laser with nonlinear amplifying loop mirror	Yoshiaki Nakajima^{1, 2}, Yuya Hata¹, Kaoru Minoshima^{1, 2} ¹Department of Engineering Science, Graduate School of Informatics and Engineering, the University of Electro-Communications, Japan, ²Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), ERATO MINOSHIMA Intelligent Optical Synthesizer (IOS) Project, Japan	All-polarization-maintaining dual-wavelength mode-locked fiber laser with nonlinear amplifying loop mirror has been demonstrated for realizing simple and robust dual-comb spectroscopy using two mutually coherent combs with slightly different repetition rates emitted from the laser cavity.
14:15	14:30	ALPS5-I1-5	Mid-infrared Frequency Comb Based on Er-doped Ultrashort Pulse Fiber Laser System and Tm-doped Fiber Amplifier	Kento Mochizuki¹, T. Masahumi¹, L. Jin¹, M. Yamanaka¹, V. Sonnenschein¹, H. Tomita¹, T. Iguchi¹, A. Sato², K. Hashizume², K. Nozawa², N. Nishizawa¹ ¹Nagoya University, Japan, ²Sekisui Medical Co. Ltd., Japan	We demostrated offset-free mid-infrared frequency comb at 4.3-4.9 μm with difference frequency generation pumped by Er-doped ultrashort pulse fiber laser.
14:30	14:45	ALPS5-I1-6	Canceled
14:45	15:00	ALPS5-I1-7	Nonlinear Parametric Oscillation Phase-matched via High-order Dispersion in High-Q Silica Toroid Microresonators	Shun Fujii, Minori Hasegawa, Ryo Suzuki, Takasumi Tanabe Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University, Japan	We demonstrated optical nonlinear parametric oscillation phase-matched via high-order dispersion in dispersion engineered silica toroid microresonators. The balance between second- and forth-order dispersions allows generation of phase-matched four-wave mixing in broadband wavelength regime.
15:00	15:30	Break

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15:15	15:45	ALPS6-E2-1 Invited	High Harmonic Generation and Attosecond Science at RIKEN	Katsumi Midorikawa RIKEN Center for Advanced Photonics, Japan	Recent progress on high harmonic generation and attosecond science at RIKEN is presented, including novel ultrafast laser technology for generation intense isolated attosecond pulses and MHz repetition rated high harmonics.
15:45	16:15	ALPS6-E2-2 Invited	Laser-driven Particle Acceleration and Ultra-short X-Ray Generation using PW-class High Power Lasers	Tetsuya Kawachi Kansai Photon Science Institute (KPSI), Quantum Beam Science Directorate, National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology (QST), Japan	Recent progress of the study of laser particle acceleration and coherent x-ray generation using ultra-intense lasers in QST-KPSI [1] and future prospect including international collaboration on high power laser science and technology are presented.
16:15	16:45	ALPS6-E2-3 Invited	The ELI-ERIC: status, agreements and basic rules	Florian Gliksohn ELI Delivery Consortium, Belgium
16:45	17:15	ALPS6-E2-4 Invited	Photon Frontier Network Opening Frontiers by Complete Control of Light and Matter	Yoshiaki Kato¹, Ryosuke Kodama², Norikatsu Mio³ ¹The Graduate School for Creation of New Photonics Industries, Japan, ²Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University, Japan, ³Institute for Photon Science and Technology, School of Science, University of Tokyo, Japan	Photon Frontier Network, 10-year program implemented in FY 2008-2017 under MEXT, is composed of the consortia C-PhoST and APSA with participation of ~200 scientists. Several results on coherent control of light and matter are presented.

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15:30	16:00	ALPS7-I2-1 Invited	Ultrafast Photonics for Precision Optical Measurement and Instrumentation	Seung-Woo Kim Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Korea	A practical scheme of constructing a versatile source of narrow-linewidth cw lasers based on the frequency comb of a mode-locked fiber laser is presented along with potential applications for optical metrology and instrumentation.
16:00	16:15	ALPS7-I2-2	Mid-Infrared Frequency Comb Working at 4500 nm Based on Yb-doped Fiber Laser for CRDS Application	Lei Jin¹, V. Sonnenschein¹, R. Terabayashi¹, N. Hayashi¹, S. Sato¹, M. Yamanaka¹, H. Tomita¹, T. Iguchi¹, A. Sato², K. Nozawa², K. Yoshida², N. Nishizawa¹ ¹Dpet. Electronics, Nagoya University, Japan, ²Sekisui Medical Co. Ltd., Japan	An offset free mid-infrared optical frequency comb was generated based on an Yb-doped fiber laser system with tunability of 3900-4700 nm. Cavity ring down spectroscopy measurement was demonstrated with QCL and MIR comb reference.
16:15	16:30	ALPS7-I2-3	No-scanning 3D image detection with sum-frequency generation of optical frequency combs	Yurina Tanaka^{1, 2}, Takashi Kato^{1, 2}, Megumi Uchida^{1, 2}, Akifumi Asahara^{1, 2}, Kaoru Minoshima^{1, 2} ¹The University of Electro-Communications (UEC), Japan, ²Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), ERATO MINOSHIMA Intelligent Optical Synthesizer(IOS) Project, Japan	We demonstrate no-scanning 3D imaging with sum-frequency generation of chirped optical frequency combs with μm-level depth accuracy. By using a spectral filter pair and cameras, 2D color image corresponding to 3D shape image is imaged.
16:30	16:45	ALPS7-I2-4	One-shot three-dimensional imaging with a paired filter and an optical pseudo-Hilbert transform using chirped-frequency combs	Takashi Kato^{1, 2}, Megumi Uchida^{1, 2}, Yurina Tanaka^{1, 2}, Kaoru Minoshima^{1, 2} ¹The University of Electro-Communications (UEC), Japan, ²JST, ERATO MINOSHIMA Intelligent Optical Synthesizer (IOS), Japan	One-shot three-dimensional imaging with chirped-frequency comb interferometry was demonstrated using 2D spectral imaging technique with a paired spectral filter. Non-scanning image measurement of a coin 3D surface profile with 120-pixels square area was demonstrated.
16:45	17:00	ALPS7-I2-5	Simultaneous measurement of refractive index and thickness profiles of solids based on dual-comb spectroscopy	Yue Wang^{1, 2}, Akifumi Asahara^{1, 2}, Ken-ichi Kondo^{1, 2}, Kaoru Minoshima^{1, 2} ¹The University of Electro-Communications (UEC), Japan, ²Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), ERATO MINOSHIMA Intelligent Optical Synthesizer (IOS) Project, Japan	Raster-scanning dual-comb spectroscopy for simultaneously evaluating the profiles of refractive index and thickness of solid samples is demonstrated. Profiles of refractive index and step structure made of glass plates were successfully measured with 10-4 uncertainty.

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13:30	14:00	HEDSj-1Invited	Manipulating Electrons with Intense Laser Pulses	Victor Malka^1,2 ¹Laboratoire d’Optique Appliquée, France, ²Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel	I’ll then show how by controlling the quiver motion of relativistic electrons intense and bright X-rays beam are produced in a compact and elegant way. Finally I’ll show some examples of applications.
14:00	14:30	ALPSj-1Invited	Development and Commissioning of a 20 fs, 4 PW Laser	Junghun Shin¹, Hyung Taek Kim^1,2, Seong Ku Lee^1,2, Jae Hee Sung^1,2, Hwang Woon Lee¹, Jin Woo Yoon^1,2, Cheonha Jeon¹, Chang Hee Nam^1,3 ¹Center for Relativistic Laser Science (CoReLS), Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Korea, ²Advanced Photonics Research Institute, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), Korea, ³Department of Physics and Photon Science, GIST, Korea	A 20 fs, 4 PW Ti:Sapphire laser beamline is developed at CoReLS. Details of the new beamline, and commissioning experiments that include focal spot optimization, double plasma mirror, and laser wakefield electron acceleration is presented.
14:30	15:00	XOPTj-1Invited	European XFEL – New Opportunities for X-ray Science	Robert Krarup Feidenhans’l European XFEL, Germany	The European X-ray Free Electron Laser is the brightest X-ray free electron in the world due to its superconducting accelerator that allows the delivery of up 27000 intense, ultrashort pulses per second.

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13:30	13:45	ALPS9-G1-1	High-power continuous-wave operation over100W of a single-chip InGaN Laser Diode	Atsunori Mochida¹, Masao Kawaguchi¹, Shinichiro Nozaki¹, Hiroyuki Hagino¹, Koshi Nakamura¹, Shinichi Takigawa¹, Kouji Oomori², Takayuki Yoshida², TakumaKatayama¹, Tsuyoshi Tanaka¹ ¹Sensing Solution Development Center, Engineering Division, Automotive & Industrial Systems Company, Panasonic Corporation, Japan, ²Technology Development Department, Corporate Technology Division, Panasonic Smart Factory Solutions Co., Ltd., Japan	High-power operation over 100W is presented in InGaN laser diodes (LDs). Linear junction-temperature-dependence approximation of wall-plug-efficiency clarifies the relation between thermal saturation and LDs parameters, which enables device design for 100W operation.
13:45	14:00	ALPS9-G1-2	High power Si light emission device using dressed photons	Tadashi Kawazoe¹, Motoichi Ohtsu² ¹Institute of Advanced Laser Technology, Tokyo Denki University, Japan, ²The University of Tokyo, Japan	We fabricated Silicon-electro-luminescence devices e.g., a Si-LED and a Si laser. Their optical output powers of them were more than 1 W (Si-LED) and 10 W (Si-LD).
14:00	14:30	ALPS9-G1-3 Invited	Seeing is Believing!? A super plasmonic probe and a Harry Potter’s invisible cloak	Tsung-Yu Huang¹, Ruei-Han Jiang^{1, 2, 3}, Chi Chen¹, Ding-Zheng Lin³, Jian-Hui Lin¹, Tung Lee¹, He-Chun Chou³, Jen-You Chu², Ta-Jen Yen^{1, 2} ¹Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, ²Department of Materials and Chemical Research Laboratory, Industrial technology and research institute, Taiwan, ³Research Center for Applied Sciences, Academia Sinica Taiwan
14:30	14:45	ALPS9-G1-4	Controlling the phase transition of vanadium oxide using plasmonic metamaterials	James Frame¹, Nicolas Green¹, Wakana Kubo^{2, 3}, Xu Fang¹ ¹Department of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, UK, ²Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan, ³Metamaterials Laboratory, RIKEN, Japan	Thermo-plasmonic engineering at the nanoscale can control macroscopic material properties. We demonstrate utilising plasmonic metamaterials to tune the effective phase transition temperature and electrical conductivity of vanadium oxide thin films.
14:45	15:00	ALPS9-G1-5	Photothermal Electric Effect Triggered by Local Heat under Localized Surface Plasmons	Masaki Kondo, Wakana Kubo Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT), Japan	Photothermal electric effect via plasmonic local heating was observed on the PEDOT:PSS thin film embedding silver nanorod arrays.
15:00	15:30	Break

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15:30	16:00	ALPS10-D1-1 Invited	Effects of back-irradiance on the reliability of GaAs high power diode pump lasers	Paul Orville Leisher¹, Susant K. Patra¹, Matthew C. Boisselle¹, Sezer Sezgin¹, Robert J. Deri¹, Chen Li², Aman K. Jha², Kevin P. Pipe², Jason D. Helmrich³, Devin E. Crawford³, Prabhu Thiagarajan³ ¹Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA, ²University of Michigan, USA, ³Lasertel Incorporated, USA	The effects of back-irradiance on the reliability of 800-nm diode lasers is investigated. The root-cause of failure is shown to be thermal. Device reliability can be predicted using an Arrhenius model for thermal acceleration.
16:00	16:15	ALPS10-D1-2	Demonstration of an asymmetric beam in an on-chip 2D-pattern-projecting lasers	Takahiro Sugiyama, Kazuyoshi Hirose, Yu Takiguchi, Yoshiro Nomoto, So Uenoyama, Yoshitaka Kurosaka Central Research Laboratory, Hamamatsu Photonics K.K., Japan	We successfully demonstrated an asymmetric beam pattern in integrable phase-modulating surface-emitting lasers that showed static, arbitrary, two-dimensional beam pattern from on-chip size whereas symmetric beam pattern in the conventional way.
16:15	16:30	ALPS10-D1-3	More than 350kW Peak Power Pulse Generation of sub-100ps pulse width by using a Very Large Mode Area Er-Doped Fiber Amplifier.	Ryo Kawahara¹, Hiroshi Hashimoto¹, Jeffrey W. Nicholson², Jun Nishina¹, Eisuke Otani¹, Shun-ichi Matsushita¹ ¹Laboratories for Fusion Core Technologies, Furukawa Electric Co. Ltd., Japan, ²OFS laboratories, USA	We demonstrated more than 350kW peak power pulsed generation of 82.7ps pulse width at 100 kHz by using a very large mode ar a Er-doped fiber amplifier (VLMA-EDFA).
16:30	16:45	ALPS10-D1-4	Robust Yb:fiber laser architecture for high repetition rate femtosecond pulse generation	Guanyu Liu, Aimin Wang, Zhigang Zhang State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication System and Networks, School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University, China	We demonstrate a 700MHz repetition rate, 181fs self-starting Yb:fiber laser incorporated with a phase biased nonlinear amplifying loop mirror. Although the fiber is non-polarization maintaining, the mode locking is environmentally stable.
16:45	17:15	ALPS10-D1-5	Spectral-Temporal Dynamics of Soliton Explosion in Passively Mode-Locked Yb Fiber Laser	Masayuki Suzuki, Hiroto Kuroda Faculty of Medicine, Aichi Medical University, Japan	We report on a spectral-temporal dynamics of soliton explosion at a different position of cavity in a passively mode-locked Yb fiber laser with a nonlinear polarization of evolution by using a time-stretched dispersive Fourier transformation.

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15:30	15:45	ALPS11-G2-1	UV-laser irradiation of ZnO seed layer for the growth of well-aligned ZnO nanorods	Qiyan Zhang, Mitsuhiro Honda, Shinji Takayanagi, Yo Ichikawa Graduate school of Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan	We found that UV laser irradiation onto the ZnO seed layer induces crystal orientation of the surface, leads to the growth of densely aligned ZnO nanorods on such laser irradiated layer.
15:45	16:00	ALPS11-G2-2	Magneto – optical Kerr effect enhancement by localized plasmon resonance in Au / Co / Au nanostructure	Yusuke Kikuchi^{1, 2}, Takuo Tanaka^{1, 2} ¹Metamaterials laboratory, RIKEN, Japan, ²School of Materials and Chemical Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan	We measured the magneto – optical Kerr effect in Au / Co / Au nanometer sized plasmonic structure. Our results indicate that localized plasmon resonance enhances the Kerr rotation on Au / Co / Au.
16:00	16:15	ALPS11-G2-3	Metal fine periodic structures on polyimide film fabricated by femtosecond laser writing	Seiya Toriyama¹, Vygantas Mizeikis², Atsushi Ono² ¹Graduate school of Science and Technology, Shizuoka University, Japan, ²Research institute of electronics, Shizuoka University, Japan	We present a new fabrication technique of metal nano-structure on directly polyimide film by employing two-photon induced reduction with femtosecond laser.
16:15	16:30	ALPS11-G2-4	THz Antireflective Structures Fabricated by Femtosecond Laser Processing	Xi Yu, Mahiro Takeuchi, Shingo Ono, Jongsuck Bae Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan	Antireflective Structures on Si substrates are fabricated by femtosecond laser processing. The structure is constituted by periodic grooves at micro order. Their antireflective characteristics are evaluated by THz-TDS (terahertz time-domain spectroscopy).
16:30	17:00	ALPS11-G2-5	Significant suppression of cross talk and enhancement of angular response in color image sensors using a wave-guided color filter array	Kuo-Feng Lin, Chin-Chuan Hsieh VisEra Technologies Company, Taiwan	The sensitivity and signal-to-noise ratio are significantly improved in use of a wave-guided color filter array design as compared with the entombed color filter array with a micro lens array.

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9:00	9:30	ALPS12-C1-1 Invited	PW-class multi Hz laser generating ultra-high contrast pulses and interaction with aligned nanostructures	Jorge J. Rocca¹, Yong Wang¹, Shoujun Wang¹, Alex Rockwood¹, Bradley M. Luther¹, Reed Hollinger¹, Alden Curtis¹, Chase Calvi^{1, 2}, M.G. Capeluto², V.N. Shlyaptsev¹, A. Pukhov³, V. Kaymak³, C. S. Menoni¹ ¹Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Department of Physics ,Colorado State University, USA, ²FCEyN,University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, ³Heinrich-Heine –Universität Düsseldorf, Germany	We have demonstrated 0.85PW, 30fs laser pulses at 3.3Hz repetition rate from a Ti:Sapphire laser and we have focused ultra-high contrast second harmonic pulses to an intensity of 6.5x1021W/cm² to study relativistic interactions with nanostructures.
9:30	9:45	ALPS12-C1-2	New Architectures for PW-Scale High Peak Power Lasers Scalable to Near-MW Average Powers	Craig William Siders, A.J. Bayramian, K.D. Chesnut, A.C. Erlandson, E. Feigenbaum, T.C. Galvin, W.A. Molander, H.T. Nguyen, M.L. Rehak, P.A. Rosso, E.F. Sistrunk, K.I. Schaffers, T.M. Spinka, C. L. Haefner Advanced Photon Technologies, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, NIF & Photon Science Directorate, USA	Laser architectures based upon multi-pulse extraction and continuous-wave laser diode pumping are scalable to near-MW peak power while maintaining application-enabling PW-class peak power.
9:45	10:00	ALPS12-C1-3	Generation of the Ultraintense Laser Pulse by Focusing the 4 PW Laser	Jin Woo Yoon^{1, 2}, Seong Ku Lee^{1, 2}, Jae Hee Sung^{1, 2}, Hwang Woon Lee¹, Il Woo Choi^{1, 2}, Cheonha Jeon¹, Junghun Shin¹, Chang Hee Nam^1,3 ¹Center for Relativistic Laser Science, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Korea, ²Advanced Photonics Research Institute, GIST, Korea, ³Dept. Of Physics and Photon Science, GIST, Korea	The highest peak intensity of 0.73×1023 W/cm² was achieved by focusing the 4 PW laser pulse using an f/1.6 OAP.
10:00	10:15	ALPS12-C1-4	Meter-size 575x1015mm Gold-coated Gratings for 10PW-class lasers	Arnaud Cotel HORIBA Scientific, France	We present the latest results of Meter-size gratings production for 10PW-class laser pulse compression. More than 10 Gold-coated 1480gr/mm gratings in size 575x1015mm have already been manufactured and characterized.
10:15	10:30	ALPS12-C1-5	High quality and high damage threshold optics with ozone mixed gas grating	Yurina Michine, Hitoki Yoneda Institute for Laser Science, University of Electro-Communications, Japan	High diffraction efficient and spatial mode cleaner’s transient grating is created with ozone mixed gas pumped by UV lasers. This also has high damage threshold. It opens new high fluence laser optics in air.
10:30	10:45	ALPS12-C1-6	Multiple-Plate Pulse Compression for Generation of Few-Cycle, CEP-Stable, Intense Mid-Infrared Pulses	Peiyu Xia, Faming Lu, Nobuhisa Ishii, Teruto Kanai, Jiro Itatani Institute for Solid State Physics, The University of Tokyo, Japan	Pulse compression of femtosecond mid-infrared pulses is demonstrated using YAG and Si plates. With this multiple-plate compression scheme, we produce sub-two-cycle, CEP-stable, intense pulses (21.0 fs, 45 μJ) with octave-spanning spectrum around 3.5 μm.
10:45	11:00	Break

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9:00	9:30	ALPS13-D2-1 Invited	Development of direct visible pulse fiber laser	Shota Kajikawa¹, Minoru Yoshida¹, Osamu Ishii², Masaaki Yamazaki², Yasushi Fujimoto³ ¹Faculty of Science and Engineering, Kindai University, Japan, ²Sumita Optical Glass, Inc., Japan, ³Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Chiba Institute of Technology, Japan	A Pr-doped double-clad structured waterproof fluoride glass fibre (Pr:DC-WPFGF) was successfully drawn. Visible pulse oscillation in a Pr:DC-WPFGF with a graphene and SESAM as saturable absorbers (SAs) were reported.
9:30	9:45	ALPS13-D2-2	Characterization of Transition-Metal-Doped Saturable Absorbers for Passive Q-switching of Visible Lasers	Hiroki Tanaka^{1, 2}, Elena Castellano-Hernández², Christian Kränkel^{2, 3}, Fumihiko Kannari¹ ¹Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Keio University, Japan, ²Center for Laser Materials, Leibniz Institute for Crystal Growth, Germany, ³Institute of Laser-Physics, Universität Hamburg, Germany	A detailed characterization of Co2+-doped oxide crystals as visible saturable absorbers is presented. Absorption recovery times, and ground- and excited-state absorption cross sections of a variety of samples are accurately determined.
9:45	10:00	ALPS13-D2-3	Ultrafast Thulium-Doped Fiber Amplifier for Multiphoton Microscopy	Yutaka Nomura^{1, 2}, Takao Fuji¹ ¹Institute for Molecular Scienc, Japan, ²JST-PRESTO, Japan	A broadband amplifier system covering 1.7 to 2.0 μm is developed using thulium-doped fibers. Spectral broadening within the amplifier fiber enabled generation of 50 fs pulses at an average power of 4.2 W.
10:00	10:15	ALPS13-D2-4	Femtosecond-Laser-Written Ho:KGd(WO4)2 Waveguide Lasers at 2.06 μm	Esrom Kifle¹, Pavel Loiko², Xavier Mateos¹, Javier Rodríguez Vázquez de Aldana³, Airan Ródenas^{1, 4}, Magdalena Aguiló¹, Francesc Díaz¹, Viktor Zakharov², Andrey Veniaminov², Uwe Griebner5, Valentin Petrov⁵ ¹Física i Cristal·lografia de Materials i Nanomaterials (FiCMA-FiCNA)-EMaS, Dept. Química Física i Inòrganica, Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV), Spain, ²ITMO University, Russia, ³Aplicaciones del Láser y Fotónica, University of Salamanca, Spain, ⁴Istituto di Fotonica e Nanotecnologie, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (IFN-CNR), Italy, ⁵Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy, Germany	A circular cladding (60 μm) channel waveguide is femtosecond-laser-written in monoclinic 5 at.% Ho:KGd(WO4)2. Under in-band pumping at 1950 nm, the Ho waveguide laser generated 212 mW at 2055 nm with a slope efficiency of 67 %.
10:15	10:30	ALPS13-D2-5	Point-by-Point inscription of fiber Bragg grating by a Femtosecond laser for 2.8 μm fiber laser	Kenji Goya¹, Hiyori Uehara¹, Satoshi Hattori², Daisuke Konishi², Masanao Murakami², Shigeki Tokita¹ ¹Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University, Japan, ²Mitsuboshi Diamond Industrial Co., Ltd., Japan	We demonstrate stable and efficient 2.8 μm fiber laser owing to point-by-point femtosecond laser inscription of fiber Bragg grating in an erbium-doped ZBLAN fiber.
10:30	10:45	ALPS13-D2-6	Efficient CW and Q-switched operation of Er:Lu2O3 ceramic laser at 2.8 μm	Hiyori Uehara¹, Shigeki Tokita¹, Junji Kawanaka¹, Daisuke Konishi³, Masanao Murakami³, Seiji Shimizu³, Ryo Yasuhara² ¹Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University, Japan, ²National Institute for Fusion Science, Japan, ³Mitsuboshi Diamond Industrial Co., Ltd., Japan	Room temperature CW operation with output power of 2.6 W and passively Q-switched operation with pulse energy of 9.4 μJ have been demonstrated by an Er:Lu2O3 ceramic at 2.85 μm wavelength.
10:45	11:00	Break

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11:00	11:30	ALPS14-C2-1 Invited	Current status of 10 PW laser and 100 PW laser project	Yuxin Leng, Xiaoyan Liang, Ruxin Li, Zhizhan Xu State Key Laboratory of High Field Physics, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China	We’ll report the new progress of implementing a 10PW laser facility, including the generation of a 5.4PW/24fs laser pulses from a Ti:Sapphire crystal based CPA laser system and the design of a 100PW laser system.
11:30	11:45	ALPS14-C2-2	Development of Cryogenically Cooled Helium Gas Circulation System for Cooling Active Medium of 100 J Class Laser Amplifier	Yasuki Takeuchi¹, Yoshio Mizuta¹, Takashi Sekine, Takashi Kurita¹, Masateru Kurata¹, Yuma Hatano¹, Takaaki Morita¹, Yuki Kabeya¹, Kazuki Kawai¹, Yuki Muramatsu¹, Takuto Iguchi¹, Yoshinori Tamaoki¹, Koichi Iyama¹, Yujin Zheng¹, Shigeki Tokita², Junji Kawanaka², Yoshinori Kato¹ ¹Industrial Development Center, Central Research Laboratory, Hamamatsu Photonics K.K., Japan, ²Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University, Japan	1-kW class cryostat cooled He-gas flowing system to demonstrate cooling method of laser medium has been developed. A cooling capacity was estimated over 1.4 kW with mass flow rate of 100 g/s at 150 K.
11:45	12:00	ALPS14-C2-3	Development of a 10-J, 10-Hz Cryogenically-Cooled Yb:YAG Ceramics Active-MirrorLaser Amplifier System	Takaaki Morita¹, Takashi Sekine¹, Yasuki Takeuchi¹, Yuuma Hatano¹, Takashi Kurita¹, Yoshinori Tamaoki¹, Koichi Iyama¹, Yuki Kabeya¹, Masateru Kurata¹, Takuto Iguchi¹, Yoshio Mizuta¹, Kazuki Kawai¹, Yuki Muramatsu¹, Yoshinori Kato¹, Shigeki Tokita², Junji Kawanaka² ¹Industrial Development Center, Central Research Laboratory, Hamamatsu Photonics K.K., Japan, ²Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University, Japan	A cryogenically cooled Yb:YAG ceramics active-mirror laser amplifier for 10-J at 10-Hz output laser system has been developed. A laser diode module with 25-kW peak power was tested as a pump source for this amplifier.
12:00	12:15	ALPS14-C2-4	High energy cryogenically cooled Yb:YAG/Cr:YAG microchip laser	Xiaoyang Guo^1,2, Shigeki Tokita¹, Junji Kawanaka¹ ¹Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University, Japan, ² Department of Electronic Science and Engineering, Kyoto University, Japan	We have developed a diode pumped cryogenically cooled Yb:YAG/Cr:YAG passively Q-switched microchip laser. A maximum energy of 12.1 mJ with 3.7 MW peak power was obtained
12:15	12:30	ALPS14-C2-5	Heat Capacitive Active Mirror and Top-Cap Effect	Ken-ichi Ueda^1,2,3,4 ¹Institute for Laser Science, UEC-Tokyo, ² Inst. Laser Engineering, Osaka Univ., ³, Hamamatsu Photonics, ⁴ JST PRESTO	A novel concept “Heat Capacitive Active Mirror HCAM” has been developed for the plane wave generation without thermal-lens. HCAM design allows to keep the maximum temperature and thermal-lens-effect in the same level to the thin disk laser without top-cap.
12:30	13:00	Break

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11:00	11:30	ALPS15-F1-1 Invited	Liquid Crystal Based Devices for THz Applications	Lei Wang¹, Makoto Nakajima², Yanqing Lu³ ¹College of Electronic and Optical Engineering & College of Microelectronics, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China, ²Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University, Japan, ³College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nanjing University, China	We first developed a large birefringence liquid crystal material in terahertz range. Then broadband tunable terahertz waveplate driven with porous graphene and graphene-assisted high efficiency tunable terahertz metamaterial absorber using this material were demonstrated.
11:30	11:45	ALPS15-F1-2	Liquid phase growth of Ge doped GaSe and GaSe1-xTex bulk crystals at low temperature for highly efficient THz wave source	Yohei Sato, Chao Tang, Tadao Tanabe, Yutaka Oyama Department of materials science, Tohoku University, Japan	In order to efficiently generate THz wave, GaSe crystal is grown by low temperature liquid phase growth. Ge doped GaSe and GaSe1-xTex crystals are grown for improvement of transparency and mechanical strength, respectively.
11:45	12:00	ALPS15-F1-3	Laser-matter interaction in picosecond pulsed second-harmonic generation by periodically poled LiTaO3: Experiment and theory	Oleg A. Louchev, Satoshi Wada Center for Advanced Photonics, RIKEN, Japan	We present results of combined experimental-theoretical study of laser-matter interaction in picosecond pulsed second-harmonic generation by periodically-poled LiTaO3 crystal. Modified two-temperature excitation-relaxation model allows exact simulation of laser excitation and after-pulse relaxation continuing ≈50 ps.
12:00	12:15	ALPS15-F1-4	Efficient Terahertz Emission from the Co/Pt Ferromagnetic Heterostructure Based on Inverse Spin Hall Effect	Hongsong Qiu, Kosaku Kato, Kazumasa Hirota, Nobuhiko Sarakura, Masashi Yoshimura, Makoto Nakajima Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University, Japan	We demonstrated new efficient terahertz emitter of Co/Pt heterostructure due to inverse spin Hall effect. The radiation mechanism was investigated in detail and new model which includes the effect of spin diffusion length was proposed.

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13:00	14:30	ALPSp-1	Vertically-oriented Graphene for Field-Effect Transistor Photodetector	Jiawei Yang, Baolu Guan Key Laboratory of Optoelectronics Technology, Ministry of Education, Faculty of Information Technology, Beijing University of Technology, China	In this paper, a field-effect transistor (FET) photodetector is demonstrated using vertically-oriented graphene sheets grown on the glass substrate, and the corresponding responsivity can reach 0.47A/W.
		ALPSp-2	Structure of non-temperable low-E glass determined by synchrotron radiation	Sang Joon Park¹, Hyung Wook Choi², Samgmo Kim², Chung Wung Bark² ¹Dept. Chemical and Biological Engineering, Gachon University, Korea, ²Dept. Electrical Engineering, Gachon University, Korea	By using laser annealing, we found the enhancement of low-E properties and the reduction of unit cell volume was obverted rather than the reduction of FWHM of Ag(111) on the metal layer.
		ALPSp-3	SERS on Antirabbit IgG: Preliminary results	Juan Carlos Martínez-Espinosa¹, Teodoro Córdova-Fraga², Gustavo Basurto-Islas², Octavio Jimenez-Gonzalez², Jacqueline Torres-Ramirez¹, Ana Pamela Andrade-Pérez¹, Jesús Bernal-Alvarado², Angélica Hernández-Rayas², Mauricio Sánchez-Barajas³ ¹Instituto Politécnico Nacional-UPIIG, México, ²Departamento de Ingeniería Física – DCI, Universidad de Guanajuato campus León, México, ³Hospital General de Zona con Medicina Familiar No 21 León Sur, Universidad de Guanajuato campus León., México	In this work we present preliminary results about the Surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy of theGoat IgG antirabbit antigen. We suggest continuing with this protocol by using others antigens forcancer study.
		ALPSp-4	High gain single crystal fiber amplifier for hybrid femtosecond laser system	Elena Sall, Sergey Chizhov, Byunghak Lee, Bosu Jeong, Jun Wan Kim, Duchang Heo, Chur Kim, Seol Won Park, Guang-Hoon Kim Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute, Korea	We report a comparative study of femtosecond pulses amplification in hybrid laser system with different single crystal fiber (SCF) amplifier modules. Two SCF modules from Fibercryst and Shasta Crystals were tested in double-pass scheme. High gain 71 and 62 respectively were achieved.
		ALPSp-5	Longitudinally Excited CO2 Laser Driven by Fast-High Voltage Solid State Switch	Noor Shahira binti Masroon¹, Shigeyasu Ohashi¹, Masaya Tei¹, Miyu Tanaka¹, Kazuyuki Uno², Hitoshi Nakano¹ ¹Kindai University, Japan, ²University of Yamanashi, Japan	Longitudinally excited CO2 laser driven by fast-high voltage solid state switch has been developed, which consists of avalanche transistor circuit and series-connected of IGBTs. Simple, compact and affordable gas laser has been realized.
		ALPSp-6	Development of Nanosecond Pump Source for Optically Synchronized OPCPA	Yasuhiro Miyasaka, Hiromitsu Kiriyama, Maki Kishimoto, Michiaki Mori, Masaki Kando, Kiminori Kondo Kansai Photon Science Institute (KPSI), National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology (QST), Japan	We are developing a nanosecond green laser from Ti:sapphire oscillator pulses for reducing timing jitter of OPCPA. 1064nm pulses are generated by spectrum extension and amplified to 15mJ in LD-pumped regenerative amplifier at 10Hz.
		ALPSp-7	Reducing amplified spontaneous emission of a cryogenic disk amplifier through geometrical optimization of the gain medium	Reza Amani¹, Jan Cvrček¹, Jitka Černohorská¹, Martin Smrž¹, Akira Endo¹, Tomáš Mocek¹ ¹HiLASE Centre, Institute of Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic, ²Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic	We report geometrical optimization of a cryogenic Yb:YAG disk towards reducing amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) in a 100 mJ, 1 kHz chirped pulse amplification chain with potential scalability to a pulse energy beyond 1 J.
		ALPSp-8	Temperature Dependence Evaluation of Absorption in YAG Cladding Materials for High Power Solid-State Lasers	Koichi Hamamoto¹, Shigeki Tokita¹, Hidetsugu Yoshida¹, Noriaki Miyanaga¹, Junji Kawanaka¹ ¹Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University, Japan, ²Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd., Japan	To suppress parasitic oscillation or amplified spontaneous emission in high power lasers, gain material with cladding is used. We evaluated temperature dependence of absorption properties of some YAG ceramics cladding materials.
		ALPSp-9	Research of Diamond Transmission Gratings Used for of High Power Laser Pulse Compression	Shuwei Fan, Tianfei Zhu, Hongxing Wang Institute of Wide Band Gap Semiconductors, School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China	The diamond transmission grating is designed based on rigorous coupled-wave theory. The simulation results demonstrate that the highest diffraction efficiency was over 99% at wavelength 800nm. Studies show the design has a larger process tolerance.
		ALPSp-10	Sub-100-fs Pulse Generation from a Tm,Ho:CALYO Laser Mode-Locked by SWCNTs	Yongguang Zhao¹, Yicheng Wang¹, Zhongben Pan^{1, 3}, Ji Eun Bae⁴, Sun Young Choi⁴, Fabian Rotermund⁴, Wei Zhou², Xiaodong Xu², Deyuan Shen², Jun Xu⁵, Xavier Mateos^{1, 6}, Pavel Loiko⁷, Uwe Griebner¹, Valentin Petrov¹ ¹Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy, Germany, ²Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Laser Materials and Devices, Jiangsu Normal University, China, ³Institute of Chemical Materials, China Academy of Engineering Physics, China, ⁴Department of Physics, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Korea, ⁵School of Physics Science and Engineering, Institute for Advanced Study, Tongji University, China, ⁶Física i Cristal·lografia de Materials i Nanomaterials (FiCMA-FiCNA)-EMaS, Dept. Química Física i Inòrganica, Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV), Spain, ⁷ITMO University, Russia	We report on a mode-locked Tm,Ho:CALYO laser employing SWCNTs as a saturable absorber. Transform-limited 96-fs pulses are generated at ~2077 nm for a repetition rate of ~82.5 MHz corresponding to an average output power of 54 mW.
		ALPSp-11	177 fs Pulses From Kerr-Lens Mode-Locked Yb:Lu2O3 Ceramic Thin-Disk Laser	Shotaro Kitajima¹, Akira Shirakawa¹, Hideki Yagi², Takagimi Yanagitani² ¹Institute for Laser Science, University of Electro-Communications, Japan, ²Takuma Works, Konoshima Chemical Co., Ltd., Japan	The first Kerr-lens mode-locked Yb:Lu2O3 ceramic thin-disk laser was demonstrated. The shortest pulse duration was 177 fs with 3.2 W output power. The output power of 17 W with 588 fs pulses was also demonstrated.
		ALPSp-12	Measurement of Carrier Dynamics of the Graphite by Time-Resolved ARPES	Kento Toume^{1, 2}, Katsuya Oguri¹, Hiroki Mashiko¹, Keiko Kato¹, Yoshiaki Sekine¹, Hiroki Hibino, ^{1, 3}, Akira Suda², Hideki Gotoh¹ ¹NTT Basic Research Laboratories, Japan, ²Tokyo University of Science, Japan, ³Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan	We demonstrate the Tr-ARPES based on the high-order harmonic source with sub-10 fs pulse duration. We measured the Tr-ARPES spectra at the Dirac point of the graphite at various time delays.
		ALPSp-13	Electron Temperature of High-Pressure Argon Plasma by Focusing Femtosecond Laser	Kohsuke Tsuchida, Norio Tsuda, Jun Yamada Aichi Insitute of Technology, Japan	The electron temperature of high-pressure argon plasma generated by the femtosecond laser is obtained from the plasma emission by two methods. The measurement result and the theoretical calculation result are compared.
		ALPSp-14	Patterning Oxidation of Copper Substrate by Femtosecond Laser Irradiation	Xi Yu¹, Masaaki Sudo², Fumihiro Itoigawa¹, Shingo Ono¹ ¹Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan, ²IMRA America Inc., Japan	Patterning oxidation of copper substrate was performed by irradiating femtosecond laser pulses to surface of copper substrate. Shape transformation was observed by SEM, CLSM. Formation of copper oxide was confirmed by Raman, EDX, and XRD.
		ALPSp-15	Optical Properties of Saturable Absorber for Temporal Contrast Improvement of Ultra-High Intensity Laser	Koichi Ogura, Yasuhiro Miyasaka, Yuji Fukuda, Akito Sagisaka, Alexander S. Pirozhkov, Hiromitsu Kiriyama Kansai Photo Science Institute, National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, Japan	We report on evaluation of optical properties of saturable absorber, including damage threshold, transmittance efficiency, transmission spectral bandwidth, beam profile and long-term operation for temporal contrast improvement using saturable absorber after compressor.
		ALPSp-16	Polarization and Laser Properties of Resonators with Corner-Cube and Axicon Retro-Reflectors	Haik Chosrowjan¹, Seiji Taniguchi¹, Hidetsugu Yoshida², Noriaki Miyanaga² ¹Institute for Laser Technology, c/o Technical Research Center, Kansai Electric Power Company, Japan, ²Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University, Japan	Polarization properties from CCR and AL retro-reflected beams have been studied. Cryogenic Yb:YAG laser output characteristics when a flat mirror, CCR or AL is used as a high-reflection element in a resonator, have been elucidated.
		ALPSp-17	Amplification Property of Ce/Cr/Nd:YAG Ceramic Laser Using White-light Pump Source	Taku Saiki¹, T. Nakamachi¹, T. Hayashi¹, R. Matsushita¹, T. Ichiuji¹, H. Furuse², S. Motokoshi⁴, Y. Fujimoto³, M. Nakatsuka^{3, 4} ¹Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering Science, Kansai University, Japan, ²Kitami Institute of Technology, Japan, ³Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University, Japan, ⁴Institute for Laser Technology, Japan	Effective fluorescence lifetime of Nd ion for Ce3+/Cr3+/Nd:YAG ceramic was prolonged by increasing the temperature of the ceramic laser material owing to cross-relaxation effect. The ceramic laser material has worked as a CW laser amplifier.
		ALPSp-18	White-Light Whispering-Gallery-Mode Lasing from Lanthanide-Doped Upconversion NaYF4 Hexagonal Microrods	Ting Wang¹, Huan Yu², Chun kit Siu¹, Jianbei Qiu², Xuhui Xu¹, Siu Fung Yu¹ ¹Department of Applied Physics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China, ²College of Materials Science and Engineering, Kunming University of Science and Technology, China	Through the proper tuning of sensitizer (Yb3+) and activators (Er3+, Tm3+) concentration in the host matrix, we realize white-light lasing from a Yb3+-Er3+-Tm3+ tri-doped hexagonal β-NaYF4 microrod under near-infrared excitation at room temperature.
		ALPSp-19	Assessment on Power-scaling of Ti:sapphire Lasers Pumped by Blue-diode Lasers	Naoto Sugiyama, Hiroki Tanaka, Fumihiko Kannari Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Keio University, Japan	Kerr-lens mode-locking of direct-diode-pumped Ti:sapphire laser is demonstrated using 478- and 520-nm LDs. The influence of the blue-pump-induced loss on Ti:sapphire lasers is measured.
		ALPSp-20	Power scaling of a passively Q-switched diode-pumped Pr3+:YLF laser	Shogo Fujita, Hiroki Tanaka, Naoto Sugiyama, Fumihiko Kannari >Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Keio University, Japan	We demonstrate a Pr3+:YLF laser with to 6.7- and 3.7-W output power at 640 and 607 nm, respectively. Passive Q-switching is also obtained using Cr4+:YAG and Co2+:MgAl2O4 saturable absorbers.
		ALPSp-21	Development of compact and high efficient UV laser system	Y. Fujimoto¹, M. Nakahara², P. Binun², S. Motokoshi³, O. Ishii⁴, M. Watanabe⁴, M. Yamazaki⁵, T. Shinozaki², T. Sato², H. Yanomori² ¹Chiba Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Japan, ²Kimmon Koha co., Ltd., Japan, ³Institute of Laser Technology, Japan, ⁴Production Engineering Section, Optical Glass Production Department, Sumita Optical Glass, Inc., Japan, ⁵Glass Research Division, R&D Department, Sumita Optical Glass, Inc., Japan	This paper presents that we are developing a compact and high efficient continuous-wave UV laser system with a Pr-doped double-clad structured waterproof fluoro-aluminate glass fiber laser as a fundamental laser beam.
		ALPSp-22	Compact pulsed Yb-doped fiber laser and intra-cavity cascaded Raman spectrum generation	Yanrong Song, Zikai Dong, Runqin Xu, Jinrong Tian College of Applied Sciences, Beijing University of Technology, China	A compact mode locked Yb-doped fiber laser is demonstrated withnonlinear polarization rotation technique.There are no physical filter and polarization controller. A broadband continuum spectrum is generated by intra-cavity cascaded Raman scattering effect.
		ALPSp-23	Off-peak Raman fiber laser at the wavelength of 1629 nm	Anna Suzuki, Eisuke Fujita, Masaki Tokurakawa Institute for Laser Science, University of Electro-Communications, Japan	We report Raman fiber laser at 1629 nm with the maximum output power of 2W and spectral bandwidth of 2 nm. The operation was very stable with output power fluctuation of less than 1%.
		ALPSp-24	Research on Ohmic contact of VCSEL based on Cr/ Au alloy of non-magnetic materials	Yanling Guo, Baolu Guan Laboratory of Optoelectronics Technology, Ministry of Education, Faculty of Information Technology, Beijing University of Technology, China	In this paper, the VCSEL based on the non-magnetic Cr/Au alloy eliminates the effect the magnetic sensitivity of the magnetic, and it has low ohmic contact resistivity of 2.5×10-6 ohmic cm² and high reliability.
		ALPSp-25	Clean pump generation for in-line phase sensitive amplification using carrier phase recovery and injection locking	Masato Kato¹, Takeshi Umeki², Koji Enbutsu², Masaki Asobe¹ ¹Tokai University, Japan, ²NTT Device Technology Laboratories, NTT Corporation, Japan	Carrier phase of a QPSK signal was extracted by using multi-stage frequency mixing in a multiple QPM LiNbO₃ waveguide. We demonstrate residual intensity modulation can be suppressed by using injection locking.
		ALPSp-26	Terahertz Time Domain Spectroscopy for Radiative Eigenmodes in Metallic Slit Array	Thanh Nhat Khoa Phan¹, Dazhi Li², Kosaku Kato¹, Masahiko Tani³, Masashi Yoshimura¹, Masaki Hashida⁴, Yanyu Wei5, Makoto Nakajima¹ ¹Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University, Japan, ²Institute for Laser Technology, Japan, ³University of Fukui, Japan, ⁴Advanced Research Center for Beam Science, ICR, Kyoto University, Japan, ⁵School of Physical Electronics, University of Electronics Science and Technology of China, China	We studied the interaction between terahertz wave and the metallic slit array. Through calculation and experiment, we found various eigenmodes, which can help in improving the efficiency of Free Electron Laser based on Smith-Purcell effect.
		ALPSp-27	Programmable Optical Linear Circuit using Wavelength-Division-Multiplexed Quantum States	Akihito Omi, Aruto Hosaka, Masaya Tomita, Shintaro Niimura, Fumihiko Kannari Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Keio University, Japan	We propose a novel scheme of multistage quantum pulse gate realizing universal linear optical circuits. Arbitral mode mixing can be realized by 4-f optical loop system and sum frequency generation.
		ALPSp-28	Modal Analysis and Characterization of Photon-Number Statistics of Supercontinuum laser Pulses	Shintaro Niimura, Aruto Hosaka, Masaya Tomita, Akihito Omi, Fumihiko Kannari Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Keio University, Japan	We experimentally characterize second-order photon-number statistics in a supercontinuum pulse. By modal analysis of photon-number covariance matrix, we reveal mode structure of a supercontinuum pulse and find photon-number squeezed states from the noisy supercontinuum pulse.
		ALPSp-29	Maker Fringe Measurements of Ultra-Precisely Processed N-Benzyl-2-Methyl-4-Nitroaniline Organic Crystal	Takashi Notake¹, Masahiro Takeda^{2, 3}, Takuya Hosobata², Yutaka Yamagata^{2, 3}, Hiroaki Minamide¹ ¹Teraphotonics Team, RIKEN, Japan, ²Ultrahigh Precision Optics Technology Team, RIKEN, Japan, ³Adavanced Manufacturing Support Team, RIKEN, Japan	An ultra-high-precision lathe is applied to process fragile organic BNA crystals precisely. Nonlinear optical coefficients and the associated dispersions of BNA can be measured accurately by using the precisely processed thin BNA slab samples.
		ALPSp-30	Fabrication of 1 & 4 inch size transparent Nd:YAG ceramics and Laser Oscillation	Yoshiki Yamazaki¹, Makoto Mikami¹, Yuichi Kozawa², Shunichi Sato² ¹JX Nippon Mining & Metals Corporation Isohara Works, Japan, ²Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Matirials, Tohoku University, Japan	We fabricated Nd:YAG ceramics with 1 and 4 inch diameters. The YAG ceramics were highly transparent with the transmittance of 84% including surface reflection. Laser oscillation of the Nd:YAG ceramics was achieved.
		ALPSp-31	High-efficiency ring beam converter with axicon mirrors	Yuya Shimoji, Godai Miyaji Department of Applied Physics, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan	We have designed and fabricated a new beam converter from a Gaussian beam to a ring beam, which can efficiently generate a nondiffracting beam.
		ALPSp-32	High aspect ratio nanometer size channel machining with phase corrected femtosecond Bessel beams.	Kosuke Iida, Yurina Michine, Hitoki Yoneda Institute for Laser Science, University of Electro-Communications, Japan	High aspect channel formations with diameter in submicron range are obtained with ultra-short-pulse Bessel (UB) beam and phase controlled UB machining system.
		ALPSp-33	Absorption Enhancement in Solar Cells with Metamaterial Perfect Absorbers	Tomihisa Isegawa¹, Takayuki Okamoto², Wakana Kubo¹ ¹Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan, ²RIKEN, Japan	Organic thin-film solar cells with metamaterial perfect absorbers are investigated. Metamaterial perfect absorbers confine incident light into the photoelectric conversion layer, resulting in an increase of absorption by a factor of 18%.
		ALPSp-34	Selective coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering microscopy employing dual-wavelength nanofocused ultrafast plasmon pulses	Keita Tomita, Yasuhiro Kojima, Fumihiko Kannari Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Keio University, Japan	We demonstrate selective CARS measurements of graphene and multi-walled carbon nanotubes with nanofocused SPP pulses at 800 and 400 nm using an aluminum tapered tip.
		ALPSp-35	Optical gain of multi stacked InGaAs quantum dots using VSL method	Keishiro Goshima¹, Norio Tsuda¹, Keisuke Inukai¹, Takeru Amano², Takeyoshi Sugaya² ¹Electronics Engineering, Aichi Institute of Technology, Japan, ²National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan	A Quantum dot laser (QD laser) is expected to have a low threshold current density, high thermal stability, and high modal gain. In our study we carried out the optical gain of multi-stacked QDs different thin barrier layers using a variable stripe length (VSL) method. Optical gain increased with decreasing barrier layer due to quantum mechanical coupling.
		ALPSp-36	Single-shot Ultrafast Imaging with Burst Pulses of 100-ps Interval	Hirofumi Nemoto, Takakazu Suzuki, Yuki Yamaguchi, Ryohei Hida, Fumihiko Kannari Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Keio University, Japan	We generate frequency chirped 100-ps-interval pulse trains for ultrafast burst imaging. Employing those pulses to sequentially timed all-optical mapping photography utilizing spectral filtering (SF-STAMP), we realize single-shot burst imaging with sub-nanosecond time window.
		ALPSp-37	Development of rigid-endoscope optical coherence tomography system using two-dimensional KTN optical scanner	Masato Ohmi¹, Eunjoo Choi¹, Takayuki Komatsu², Shogo Yagi² ¹Course of Allied Health Science, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Japan, ²NTT Advance Technology Corporation, Japan	We developed novel rigid-endoscope OCT with KTN optical probe for a diagnosis in the orthopedic fields. System demonstrates that biological image was measured by using KTN scanner for having degree of freedom in sample arm.
		ALPSp-38	Multifocal spectral-domain optical coherence tomography based on Bessel beam for Biological Imaging	Luying Yi, Liqun Sun State Key Laboratory of Precision Measurement Technology & Instruments, Department of Precission Instruments, Tsinghua University, China	The multifocal spectral-domain optical coherence tomography based on Bessel beam is proved not only to increase the depth of the imaging, but also to reduce the demand for high spectral resolution of spectrometer.
		ALPSp-39	Velocity and Distance Simultaneous Measurement by Digital Processing of Self-Coupling Signal	Keiichi Shibata, Noriio Tsuda, Jun Yamada Aichi Institute of Technology, Japan	The simultaneous measurement sensor of distance and velocity by using self-coupling effect of the semiconductor laser has been studied. The velocity and distance can have been simultaneously measured by digital signal processing of self-coupling signal.
		ALPSp-40	A Simplified Heterodyne Surface Plasmon Resonance Sensor	Michihiro Uchiumi¹, Fumiya Kai¹, Ozora Ushijima¹, Kohei Shimogama¹, Kazuyoshi Koga¹, Kyouichi Deki², Nobuaki Tominaga² ¹Inf. Syst. Crs, Div. of Hum. and Welfare Eng., Dept. Creative Eng., Natl Inst. Of Technol. Ariake Coll., Japan, ²Environ. Sci. Crs, Div. of Environ. and Energy Eng., Dept. Creative Eng., Natl Inst. Of Technol. Ariake Coll., Japan	We developed a simplified surface plasmon sensor using a stabilized transverse Zeeman He-Ne laser. It is shown that the surface plasmon sensor with a simple configuration is sensitive.
		ALPSp-41	Spectroscopic Ellipsometry-based Biosensor for Monitoring Microalgae Growth	Siti N. Alfath¹, Riza A.N. Khasanah¹, Asmida Herawati¹, Edi Suharyadi¹, Eko A. Suyono², Iman Santoso¹, Takeshi Kato³, Satoshi Iwata⁴ ¹Department of Physics, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia, ²Faculty of Biology, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia, ³Department of Electronics, Nagoya University, Japan, ⁴Institute of Materials and System for Sustainability, Nagoya University, Japan	Monitoring microalgae growth has been successfully measured by spectroscopic ellipsometry based biosensor on the surface of gold and chromium thin film. The investigation shows the phase difference increased during the growth, representing the population increased.
		ALPSp-42	Bidirectional Mode-locked Er:fiber Laser with Two Semiconductor Saturable Absorber Mirrors	Yuya Hata¹, Yoshiaki Nakajima¹, Kaoru Minoshima^{1, 2} ¹The University of Electro-Communications (UEC), Japan, ²Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), ERATO MINOSHIMA Intelligent Optical Synthesizer (IOS) Project, Japan	We developed a bidirectional mode-locked Er:fiber laser with two semiconductor saturable absorber mirrors and nonlinear polarization rotation. A symmetrical cavity configuration performed remarkable broad optical spectra in both directions with high relative stability.
		ALPSp-43	High-accuracy corrections of large and fast air refractive index fluctuations using two-color interferometry with optical frequency combs	Yoshihisa Ikisawa¹, Tomohiro Makino¹, Yoshiaki Nakajima¹, Guanhao Wu³, Kaoru Minoshima^{1, 2} ¹The University of Electro-Communications (UEC), Japan, ²Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), ERATO MINOSHIMA Intelligent Optical Synthesizer (IOS) Project, Japan, ³Tsinghua University, China	We significantly extended the applicable range of corrections of environmental air refractive index variations using two-color interferometry with optical frequency combs. The developed technique will enhance the practical applicability of high-accuracy optical distance measurements.
		ALPSp-44	10W amplification of 750-MHz Yb:fiber laser frequency comb for sub-100 fs pulse duration	Hirotaka Ishii¹, Bo Xu¹, Yuxuan Ma^{1, 3}, Isao Matsushima¹, Yoshiaki Nakajima¹, Thomas Schibli⁴, Zhigang Zhang³, Kaoru Minoshima^{1, 2} ¹Department of Engineering Science, Graduate School of Informatics, The University of Electro-Communications (UEC), Japan, ²Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), ERATO MINOSHIMA Intelligent Optical Synthesizer (IOS) Project, Japan, ³State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication System and Networks, Peking University, China, ⁴Dep. of Physics, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA	We developed a polarization-maintaining high power fiber amplifier based on a 750-MHz self-referenced Yb:fiber frequency comb. An average output power of 10 W was achieved.
		ALPSp-45	Dual-Comb Interferometry Based on Synthetic-Wavelength for High-Speed and High-Precision Distance Measurement	Zebin Zhu¹, Kai Ni², Qian Zhou², Guanhao Wu^{1, 2} ¹State Key Laboratory of Precision Measurement Technology and Instruments, Department of Precission Instruments, Tsinghua University, China, ²Division of Advanced Manufacturing, Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University, China	We propose a dual-comb ranging system based on synthetic-wavelength interferometry. It can realize absolute distance measurement with ~2.7m ambiguity range, ~3nm precision within ~10ms averaging time.
		ALPSp-46	Tunable single-frequency continuous-wave optical parametric oscillator in the near-IR and mid-IR	Sophie Kröger¹, Edlef Büttner², Andreas Steiger³, Ralf Müller³ ¹Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft, Germany, ²APE Angewandte Physik & Elektronik GmbH, Germany, ³Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Germany	A high power single-frequency continuous-wave optical parametric oscillator is presented; special compact resonator with new tuning concept.
		ALPSp-47	Broadband achromatic metalens in the visible	Mu Ku Chen¹, Pin Chieh Wu¹, Vin-Cent Su⁴, Hui-Hsin Hsiao³, Yi-Chieh Lai¹, Hsin Yu Kuo¹, Bo Han Chen¹, Yu Han Chen¹, Din Ping Tsai^{1, 2} ¹Research Center for Applied Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, ²Department of Physics, National Taiwan University, Taiwan, ³Institute of Biomedical Optomechatronics Taipei Medical University, Taiwan, ⁴Department of Electrical Engineering, National United University, Taiwan	We demonstrated a high efficiency GaN based achromatic metalens working in transmission type. The working wavelength is from 400 to 660 nm. For optical imaging, we show the full-colour images taken by our achromatic metalens.
		ALPSp-48	Dependence of temporal Contrast on Optics Surface Roughness in the Stretcher and Compressor	Hiromitsu Kiriyama¹, Yuji, Mashiba¹, Yasuhiro Miyasaka¹, Makoto R. Asakawa² ¹Kansai Photon Science Institute (KPSI), National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology (QST), Japan, ²Faculity of Science and Engineering, Kansai University, Japan	Surface roughness of tens of nanometers on stretcher and compressor optics causes random spectral phase noise, which reduces the temporal coherence of the main pulse and generates a noisy structure around the main pulse.
		ALPSp-49	Surface Cleaning and Modification of Thin Target Films by CW laser for Laser-driven Heavy Ion Acceleration	Kotaro Kondo¹, Mamiko Nishiuchi¹, Hironao Sakaki¹, Nicholas P. Dover¹, Hiromitsu Kiriyama¹, Masahiko Ishino¹, Takumi Miyahara¹, Yukinobu Watanabe², Masaki Hashida³, Mitsuhiro Kusaba⁴, Masaki Kando¹, Kiminori Kondo¹ ¹Kansai Photon Science Institute, National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology (QST), Japan, ²Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Engineering Science, Kyushu University, Japan, ³Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University, Japan, ⁴Department of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineering, Osaka Sangyo University, Japan	A test bench has been developed for surface cleaning and modification of thin film targets by CW laser irradiation. QMS detects gas emissions during the irradiation and polyimide films are carbonized by irradiation in vacuum.

Start	End	Session No.	Title	Speaker	Description
9:15	9:45	ALPS16-F2-1 Invited	Strong dc Precursors of Intense Laser Pulses in Electro-Optic Crystals	Michael I. Bakunov¹, Alexey V. Maslov¹, Maxim V. Tsarev¹, Evgeny S. Efimenko², Sergey A. Sychugin¹ ¹University of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, ²Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia	We show that simultaneous optical rectification and multiphoton absorption of an ultrashort laser pulse in an electro-optic crystal can generate a strong dc electromagnetic precursor ahead of the laser pulse.
9:45	10:00	ALPS16-F2-2	Effects of delayed feedback rates on THz wave generation using laser chaos	Fumiyoshi Kuwashima¹, Takuya Shirao¹, Kazuyuki Iwao¹, Naoya Sakaue¹, Siori Gouda¹, Takurou Sirasaki¹, Masahiko Tani², Kazuyoshi Kurihara³, Kohji Yamamoto², Osamu Morikawa⁴, Hideaki Kitahara², Makoto Nakajima⁵ ¹Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Fukui University of Technology, Japan, ²Research Center for Development of Far-Infrared Region, University of Fukui, Japan, ³Fac. of Educ., Univ. of Fukui, Japan, ⁴Chair of Liberal Arts, Japan Coast Guard Academy, Japan, ⁵Institute of Laser engineering, Osaka Univ., Japan	The generation of a stable THz wave is investigated from a photoconductive antenna excited using a chaotic oscillation in multimode semiconductor laser with optical delayed feedback by an external mirror.
10:00	10:15	ALPS16-F2-3	Resonant tunnelling diodes versus semiconductor laser with feedback: confronting their oscillating dynamics	Andreas Karsaklian Dal Bosco¹, Safumi Suzuki², Masahiro Asada², Hiroaki Minamide¹ ¹RIKEN Center for Advanced Photonics, Tera-Photonics Research Team, Japan, ²Tokyo Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Japan	We propose a confrontation of the dynamical properties of oscillating dynamics observed in Resonant Tunnelling Diodes (RTD) and semiconductor lasers subjected to feedback in terms of frequency distribution and evolution with several experimental parameters.
10:15	10:30	ALPS16-F2-4	High-speed measurement of terahertz waveform using Yb-doped fiber laser	Masaaki Tsubouchi, Keisuke Nagashima National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology (QST), Kansai Photon Science Institute (KPSI), Japan	We have realized high-speed measurement of the terahertz (THz) waveform with the 100 kHz Yb-doped fiber laser for intense THz light generation and the vibrating retroreflector for fast scan of the optical delay.
10:30	11:00	Break

Start	End	Session No.	Title	Speaker	Description
11:00	11:15	ALPS17-C3-1	Complete characterization of an optical waveform by luminescence from gas plasma	Nariyuki Saito, Nobuhisa Ishii, Teruto Kanai, Jiro Itatani The Institute for Solid State Physics, The University of Tokyo, Japan	We propose and demonstrate a new all-optical technique for complete waveform characterization of optical pulses using luminescence from gas plasma, which is based on simple physics and an easy setup.
11:15	11:45	ALPS17-C3-2 Invited	Femtosecond XUV Absorption Spectroscopy Elucidates the Origins of Multimode Vibrational Coherences Induced by Intense Laser Fields	Zhi-Heng Loh Division of Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore	Femtosecond XUV absorption spectroscopy is used to investigate vibrational coherences created in neutral and ionized iodomethane by intense laser pulses. Contributions to wave packet generation from bond softening, R-selective depletion, and displacive excitation are resolved.
11:45	12:30		Award Ceremony & Closing Remarks	Fumihiko Kannari Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Keio University, Japan