Invited Speakers

Topic 1: Wave mixing and its applications
Germano-Montemezzani, University of Lorraine, France
Title: Direct and indirect waves interaction in dynamic gratings and photorefractive waveguides

Stanislav M. Shandarov, Tomsk State University of Control Systems and Radioelectronics, Russia
Title: Impact of piezoelectric and flexoelectric effects on the wave mixing in photosensitive crystals

Topic 2: Nonlinear light-matter interaction and its applications
Karsten-Buse, Fraunhofer IPM, Germany
Title: Continuous-Wave Optical Parametric Oscillation Tunable up to 8 μm Wavelength

Yasuo-Tomita, Univ of Electro-Communications, Japan
Title: High order optical nonlinearities in nanocomposite films dispersed with semiconductor quantum dots at high concentrations

Topic 3: Material engineering and photonic micro-structures
Jonathan Spanier, Drexel University, USA
Title: to be announced

Fang Bo, Nankai University, China
Title: Fabrication and nonlinear effects in ithium niobate microdisk resonators on a chip

Tatyana-Volk, Shubnikov Institute of Crystllography of the Russian Academy of Science, Russia.
Title: Micro- and nanodomain patterning in LiNbO3-based optical waveguides and thin layers.

M. Zgonik, University of Ljubljana and Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia.
Title: SHG in periodically structured AlN waveguides

Topic 4: Photorefractive lattice photonics
Eugenio DelRe, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy.
Title: Spontaneous three-dimensional supercrystals in composite ferroelectrics: linear and nonlinear waves in a nonlinear lattice

Chaohong Lee, Sun Yat-Sen University, China
Title: to be annouced

Topic 5: Digital photorefractive photonics
George Barbastathis, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, USA.
Title: Real-time multi-plane imaging with volume holograms

S. Residori1, Université Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France.
Title: Phase modulation detection with liquid crystal light valve and digital holography

Guohai Situ, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, China.
Title: Nonlinear optical image encryption

Topic 6: Novel photorefractive effects, materials and applications
Michel GROSS, Universitée Montpellier Place Eugène Bataillon, France.
Title: Selection of the tagged photons by off axis heterodyne holography in ultrasound-modulated optical tomography

Romano Rupp, Nankai University and Univ. Wien, China and Austria
Title: Perspectives for photorefractive materials in neutron physics

Mercedes-Carrascosa, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
Title: Optoelectronic tweezers based in photorefractive space charge fields: recent achievements and challenges