Conference Program

Wednesday, November 20, 2019

Time Event  
08:30 - 09:00 Registration and welcome coffee  
09:00 - 09:15 Opening remarks
Marc Sciamanna, CentraleSupélec
Frédéric Grillot, Télécom ParisTech
 
09:15 - 10:45 Session 1 - Optical feedback
chaired by Frédéric Grillot, Télécom ParisTech
 
09:15 - 09:45 title to be defined (invited)
Sze-Chun Chan
City University of Hong-Kong
 
09:45 - 10:05 Phase-locking and delay-induced instabilities in a dual-frequency fiber laser
Marie Guionie1, Aurélien Thorette1, Marco Romanelli1, Anthony Carré1,
Goulc'hen Loas1, Emmanuel Pinsard2, Laurent Lablonde2, Benoit Cadier2,
Mehdi Alouini1, Marc Vallet1, Marc Brunel1
1) Université de Rennes I, CNRS, FOTON UMR-6082, France
2) iXblue Photonics, France
 
10:05 - 10:25 Frequency stabilization of a quantum cascade laser using strong optical feedback
Bin-Bin Zhao, Xing-Guang Wang, Cheng Wang
ShangaiTech University, China
 
10:25 - 10:45 Emergence of Oscillation Bursts in Two-State Quantum-Dot Lasers
Stefan Meinecke , Jan Hausen , Kathy Lüdge
Institut für Theoretische Physik, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
 
10:45 - 11:15 Coffee break  
11:15 - 12:25 Session 2 - VCSELs
chaired by Marc Sciamanna, CentraleSupélec
 
11:15 - 11:45 Ultrafast spin-VCSELs (invited)
Martin Hoffmann
Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, Germany
 
11:45 - 12:05 Neuromorphic Spiking Dynamics in VCSELs
Joshua Robertson , Matěj Hejda, Julián Bueno, Antonio Hurtado
Institute of Photonics, University of Strathclyde, Scotland, UK
 
12:05 - 12:25 Temporal Localized Structures in mode-locked Vertical External-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers
A. Bartolo1, P. Camelin1, C. Schelte2,3, A. Verschelde1, A. Garnache4,
G. Beaudoin5, I. Sagnes5, G. Huyet1, M. Marconi1, J. Javaloyes2, S. V. Gurevich2,3,
M. Giudici1
1) Université Côte d'Azur, CNRS, Institut de Physique de Nice UMR 7010, France
2) Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain
3) University of Münster, Germany
4) Institut d'Electronique et des Systèmes UMR5214, CNRS, University of Montpellier, France
5) C2N UMR 9001, CNRS, Université Paris Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, France
 
12:25 - 13:30 Lunch break  
13:30 - 15:45 Session 3 -Spatio-temporal dynamics
chaired by Frédéric Grillot, Télécom ParisTech
 
13:30 - 14:15 Controlling spatial coherence and temporal dynamics of complex lasers (keynote)
Hui Cao
Yale University, U.S.A.
 
14:15 - 14:45 Spatio-Temporal Dynamics and Control of Multi-Mode Semiconductor Lasers (invited)
Ortwin Hess
Imperial College, United Kingdom
 
14:45 - 15:05 Mode-Locking of Hermite-Gaussian Modes of a Nanolaser
Yifan Sun1, Sylvain Combrié2, Fabien Bretenaker1,3, Alfredo De Rossi2
1) Laboratoire Aimé Cotton, Université Paris-Sud, ENS Paris-Saclay, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, France
2) Thales Research and Technology, 91120 Palaiseau, France
3) Light and Matter Physics Group, Raman Research Institute, India
 
15:05 - 15:25 Spatio-temporal dynamics of broad-area semiconductor lasers with chaotic ray dynamics
Stefan Bittner1,2, Stefano Guazzotti3, Yongquan Zeng4, Kyungduk Kim1,
Qi Jie Wang4, Ortwin Hess3, Hui Cao1
1) Yale University, USA
2) Chaire Photonique, LMOPS, CentraleSupélec, Metz, France
3) Imperial College London, United Kingdom
4) School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
 
15:25 - 15:45 Optical dam break problem in self-focusing stochastic nonlocal media
Artur Aleksanyan1, Helene Louis1, Jean-François Henninot2, Eric Louvergneaux1
1) Univ. Lille, Laboratoire de Physique des Lasers, Atoms et Molécules, CNRS UMR8523, France
2) Univ. Artois, Unite de Catalyse et de Chimie du Solide (UCCS), CNRS UMR8181, France
 
15:45 - 16:15 Coffee break  
16:15 - 18:05 Session 4-Semiconductor laser physics
chaired by Ortwin Hess, Imperial College London
 
16:15 - 16:45 Threshold dynamics in small lasers : modelling issues, experimental observations and dynamical laser classes (invited)
Gian Luca Lippi
Université Côte d'Azur, CNRS, Institut de Physique de Nice UMR 7010, France
 
16:45 - 17:05 Impact of DBR tuning on a dual-wavelength laser implemented on a generic foundry platform
Robert Pawlus1, Robbe de Mey1, Stefan Breuer2, Martin Virte1
1) Brussels Photonics (B-PHOT), Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
2) Institute of Applied Physics, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
 
17:05 - 17:25 A path to isolator-free integration: suppression of coherence collapse in epitaxial quantum dot lasers on silicon
J.Duan1, H.Huang1, B.Dong1, J.C.Norman2, Z.Zhang3, J.E.Bowers2,3,4, F.Grillot1,5
1) LTCI, Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France
2) Materials Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
3) Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
4) Institute for Energy Efficiency, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
5) Center for High Technology Materials, University of New Mexico, USA
 
17:25 - 17:45 Type II optothermal excitability in optically injected quantum dot lasers
Michael Dillane1,2, Joshua Roberson5, David Goulding2,3,4, Antonio Hurtado5, Bryan Kelleher1
1) Department of Physics, University College Cork, Ireland
2) Tyndall National Institute, University College Cork, Ireland
3) Centre for Advanced Photonics and Process Analysis, Ireland
4) Department of Mathematics, Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland
5) Institute of Photonics, SUPA Department of Physics, University of Strathclyde, UK
 
17:45 - 18:05 Radically Tunable Photonic Oscillators
Yannis Kominis1, Anastassios Bountis2, Vassilios Kovanis3
1) School of Applied Mathematical and Physical Science, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
2) Department of Mathematics, Nazarbayev University, Republic of Kazakhstan
3) Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Tech, USA
 
18:05 - 19:00 End of day 1  
19:00 - 19:00 800 years of Metz cathedral + welcome cocktail  

Thursday, November 21, 2019

Time Event  
08:30 - 10:10 Session 5 - Coupling and synchronization
chaired by Antonio Hurtado, University of Strathclyde
 
08:30 - 09:00 Harmonic Photonic Potential: a design concept for miniaturized laser sources (invited)
Alfredo de Rossi
Thales Research and Technology, France
 
09:00 - 09:30 Self mode-locking and FM combs: An example of Huygens « Odd kind of sympathy » (invited)
Benedikt Schwarz
TU Wien, Austria
 
09:30 - 09:50 Synchronization of mutually delay-coupled non-identical quantum cascade lasers
Thomas Erneux1, Daan Lenstra2, and Jan Danckaert3
1) Université Libre de Bruxelles, Optique Nonlinéaire Théorique, Belgium
2) Institute of Photonics Integration, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
3) Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Physics Department, Belgium
 
09:50 - 10:10 Inter-mode beat frequency agility and phase noise reduction of an optical frequency comb quantum dash laser by time-delayed optical self-injection
P. Fiala1, D. Auth1, C. Weber1, Q. Gaimard2, A. Ramdane2, S. Breuer1
1) Institute of Applied Physics, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
2) CNRS C2N, France
 
10:10 - 10:40 Coffee break  
10:40 - 12:20 Session 6 - Semiconductor laser frequency combs
chaired by Stefan Breuer, TU Darmstadt
 
10:40 - 11:10 Quantum cascade laser frequency comb: control of the phases and dual comb applications (invited)
Jérôme Faist
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
 
11:10 - 11:40 Modelling self-generation of optical frequency combs in quantum dot lasers (invited)
Mariangela Gioannini
Polito di Torino, Italy
 
11:40 - 12:00 Compact Semiconductor Comb Stabilization by Injection Locking with an Ultra-Stable Laser
Karim Manamanni, Amine Chaouche-Ramdane, Omar Sahni, Vincent Roncin, Frédéric Du-Burck
Laboratoire de Physique des Lasers, UMR CNRS 7538, Université Paris 13, Sorbonne-Paris-Cité, France
 
12:00 - 12:20 Broad optical spectrum generation and tailoring the comb properties by injection of a frequency comb
Y.Doumbia1,2, T. Malica1,2, D. Wolferberger1,2, K. Panajotov3,4, M. Sciamanna1,2
1) Chaire Photonique, LMOPS, CentraleSupélec, Metz, France
2) Université de Lorraine, CentraleSupélec, LMOPS, Metz, France
3) Brussels Photonics Group (B-PHOT), Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
4) Institute of Solid State Physics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
 
12:20 - 13:30 Lunch break  
13:30 - 15:45 Session 7 -Applications of laser nonlinear dynamics
chaired by Marc Sciamanna
 
13:30 - 14:15 Optoelectronic Oscillators and Networks (keynote)
Rajarshi Roy
University of Maryland, U.S.A.
 
14:15 - 14:45 Photonic Physical Unclonable Functions for Authentication, True Random Number Generation and Cryptographic Key Generation on Demand (invited)
Dimitri Syvridis
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
 
14:45 - 15:05 Characteristics of Chaos-Modulated Pulses in a Pulsed MOPA for Chaos Lidar Applications
Jun-Da Chen, Hsin-Lin Ho, Han-Ling Tsay, Chung-Chih Lee, Fan-Yi Lin
Institute of Photonics Technologies, Department of Electrical Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
 
15:05 - 15:25 VCSELs polarization dynamics for improved performance of photonic reservoir computing
Jérémy Vatin1,2, Damien Rontani1,2, Marc Sciamanna1,2
1) Chaire Photonique, LMOPS, CentraleSupélec, Metz, France
2) Université de Lorraine, CentraleSupélec, LMOPS, Metz, France
 
15:25 - 15:45 Photonic Microwave Harmonic Down-Conversion Using an Optically Injected Semiconductor Laser
Pei Zhou, Nianqiang Li
School of Optoelectronic Science and Engineering, Soochow University, China
 
15:45 - 16:15 Coffee break  
16:15 - 17:45 Session 8- Semiconductor laser modulation dynamics
chaired by Fan-Yi Lin, National Tsing Hua University
 
16:15 - 16:45 Influence of weak side modes on the modulation and noise of semiconductor lasers (invited)
Richard Schatz
KTH, Sweden
 
16:45 - 17:05 Broadband chaos obtained by laser diode with phase-conjugate feedback
Guillaume Bouchez1,2, Tushar Malica1,2, Delphine Wolfersberger1,2,
Marc Sciamanna1,2
1) Chaire Photonique, LMOPS, CentraleSupélec, Metz, France
2) Université de Lorraine, CentraleSupélec, LMOPS, Metz, France
 
17:05 - 17:25 Stepwise Radio Frequency Switching in a Semiconductor Laser with Optoelectronic Feedback
Md Shariful Islam1,2, Grégoire Coget2, Anton V. Kovalev3, Evgeny A. Viktorov3, David S. Citrin1,2, Alexandre Locquet1,2
1) Georgia Tech-CNRS UMI 2958, France
2) Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
3) ITMO University, Russia
 
17:25 - 17:45 Pulse train dynamics in an excitable microcavity laser with delayed optical feedback
V. A. Pammi1, S. Terrien2, N.G.R. Broderick2, B. Krauskopf2, S. Barbay1
1) Centre de Nanosciences et de Nanotechnologies – C2N, CNRS, Univ. Paris Sud, Univ. Paris Saclay, France
2) The Dodd-Walls Centre for Photonic and Quantum Technologies, The University of Auckland, New Zealand
 
17:45 - 17:45 End of day 2  
19:00 - 19:00 Visit of Museum « La Cour d’Or » - Gala dinner  

Friday, November 22, 2019

Time Event  
08:30 - 10:00 Session 9 - Optical injection and feedback
chaired by Thomas Erneux, Université Libre de Bruxelles
 
08:30 - 09:00 Digital pulse modulation of strongly injection-locked whistle-geometry ring lasers (invited)
Marek Osinski
University of New Mexico, USA
 
09:00 - 09:20 Low-frequency fluctuations in an Interband Cascade Laser subjected to optical feedback
Andreas Herdt1, Adonis Bogris2, Robert Weih3, Michael v. Edlinger3,
Dimitris Syvridis4, Johannes Koeth3, Wolfgang Elsäßer1
1) Institut für Angewandte Physik, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
2) Department of Informatics and Computer Engineering, University of West Attica, Greece
3) Nanoplus Nanosystems and Technologies GmbH, Germany
4) Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
 
09:20 - 09:40 Unveiling complexity in the temporal dynamics of a semiconductor laser subjected to phase-conjugate feedback
Tushar Malica1,2, Guillaume Bouchez1,2, Delphine Wolfersberger1,2,
Marc Sciamanna1,2
1) Chaire Photonique, LMOPS, CentraleSupélec, Metz, France
2) Université de Lorraine, CentraleSupélec, LMOPS, Metz, France
 
09:40 - 10:00 Extreme events in mid-infrared quantum cascade lasers : from randomness to advanced controllability
O. Spitz1,2, A. Herdt3, J. Wu4,5, M. Carras2, C. W. Wong4, W. Elsäßer3, F. Grillot1,4,6
1) LTCI, Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France
2) mirSense, Centre d’intégration NanoInnov, France
3) Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
4) Fang Lu Mesoscopic Optics and Quantum Electronics Laboratory, University of California Los Angeles, USA
5) College of Electronics and Information Engineering, Southwest University, China
6) Center for High Technology Materials, University of New-Mexico, USA
 
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break  
10:30 - 11:30 Session 10 - Innovative laser structures
chaired by Frédéric Grillot, Télécom ParisTech
 
10:30 - 10:50 Design of hybrid lasers for Silicon Photonics: trade-off between efficiency and tolerance to optical feedback
Mariangela Gioannini1, Lorenzo Columbo1, Sebastian Romero-Garcia2,
Dominic Siriani2, Jock Bovington2
1) Dipartimento di Elettronica e Telecomunicazioni, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
2) Cisco Systems, USA
 
10:50 - 11:10 An organic laser diode model: a comparison between numerical and experimental dynamical responses in the high-current density nanosecond pulse regime below threshold
Amani Ouirmi1,2, Alex Chamberlain Chime1,2,3, Mahmoud Chakaroun1,2,
Alexis P. A. Fischer1,2, Daan Lenstra4
1) Université Paris 13, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Laboratoire de Physique des Lasers, UMR CNRS 7538, France
2) Université Paris 13, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Centrale de Proximité en Nanotechnologies de Paris Nord, France
3) Université de Dschang, IUT-FV, Cameroon
4) Institute of Photonics Integration, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
 
11:10 - 11:30 Passively mode-locked symmetric ring laser with dual saturable absorber in InP generic foundry platform
D. Auth1,2, M.-C. Lo2,3, C. Weber1, P. Fiala1, P. Sauer1, G. Carpintero2, S. Breuer1
1) Institute of Applied Physics, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
2) Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
3) University College London, UK
 
11:30 - 12:30 Session 11 - Nature Photonics
chaired by Marc Sciamanna
 
11:30 - 12:00 The art of writing a good paper and advice on publishing in Nature journals (invited)
Oliver Graydon
Nature Photonics
 
12:00 - 12:30 Nature Photonics best student presentation award + closing remarks  
12:30 - 12:30 End of IS-PALD conference  
  
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