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Conference Topics

1. Extreme light

• High intensity laser plasma interaction
• Laser particle acceleration
• Secondary processes with laser accelerated particle beams
• Nuclear photonics & Compton sources
• Ultrarelativistic field physics
• Ultra-high intensity & high reprate laser facilities

2. Ultrafast phenomena in ionized gases, semiconductors and metals

• Strong-field and ionization-induced phenomena
• Instabilities and high-frequency phenomena in ionized gases
• Non-linear phenomena in low-temperature plasmas and semiconductors
• Kinetic processes in plasmas and metals
• Hot electrons in nanoplasmonics
• Ultrafast spectroscopy and imaging of optical, electronic and hot-carrier dynamics
• Ultrafast spectroscopy and imaging of structural dynamics, including electron-phonon relaxation, coherent phonons and phase transitions

3. Ultrafast laser technologies in micro-optics, nanophotonics, integrated optics and optoelectronics

• Femtosecond laser inscription of nano- and micro-optical elements in dielectrics: physical mechanisms of sub-wavelength structuring
• Laser technologies in optoelectronics
• Femtosecond laser fabrication in bulk and planar integrated optics: waveguides, Bragg gratings, sensors, amplifiers, photodetectors
• Ultrafast nanophotonics: plasmonics, dielectric nanostructures, metasurfaces, quantum emitters, nanocrystals, ...
• Novel effects and technologies in diamond photonics
• Ultrafast laser technologies with artificial intelligence

4. Frequency combs in spectroscopy and optical clocks

• Absolute optical frequency measurements
• Femtosecond frequency combs for direct spectroscopy of ions and atoms
• UV and HUV frequency combs
• Frequency combs in astrophysics
• Time and frequency transfer
• Optical frequency combs applications

5. Ultrafast optical technologies and nonlinear optical phenomena

• Femtosecond and picosecond laser: solid-state, semiconductor, parametric, fiber, and hybrid laser systems
• Optical devices: dispersion management, stretchers/compressors, phase control and stabilization, optoelectronic systems and switchers
• Measurement and characterization of ultrashort pulses: autocorrelators and streak cameras, frequency-resolved optical gating (FROG), spectral phase interferometry
• Nonlinear optical phenomena: stimulated scattering processes, harmonics, sum and difference frequency generation, supercontinuum and self-phase modulation, self-focusing and filamentation, multi-photon processes and nonlinear absorption
• Nonlinear optical devices from the UV to THz range and IR: novel nonlinear materials, optical parametric amplifiers and generators, Raman converters

6. Ultrafast laser technologies in biomedicine

• Propagation of ultrashort laser pulses in highly scattering biological tissues
• Ultrafast spectroscopy of biomolecules: photophysical processes and diagnostics
• Multiphoton microscopy and tomography
• Fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy
• Ultrafast laser fabrication of bionanomaterials
• Femtosecond laser biosensing
• Ultrafast laser therapy