Call for papers is open!
Abstracts due 17 July
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25 - 30 January 2025
San Francisco, California, US
The rapid advances in ultrafast laser technology have resulted in widespread availability of robust, practical laser sources for driving novel interaction physics inside of materials. As a result, useful applications for these sources have emerged in many different fields, from micromachining and THz imaging to nonlinear microscopy and semiconductor testing to laser surgery and communications. Now in its twenty-fourth year, this conference is the premier venue for discussing the development of new ultrafast laser sources, the manipulation and characterization of ultrashort pulses as well as their potential for opening new biomedical, scientific, and industrial applications. We anticipate a larger conference than ever that will bring together a multi-disciplinary group consisting of university researchers from diverse fields, as well as scientists and engineers from industry. A program that includes invited and tutorial presentations will provide the context for contributed talks and posters, and for stimulating discussions.

We encourage submission of papers on all aspects of ultrashort pulsed lasers and the novel ultrafast science that drives unique optical interactions for probing and processing all types of materials. We specifically encourage submissions that focus on sustainability through the application of ultrafast lasers in battery development, solar technology, and eco-friendly manufacturing processes. In addition, all graduate and undergraduate students are encouraged to enter their submissions in the Student Competition for best presentation (see below).

General topics include, but are not limited to, the following areas:
STUDENT COMPETITION
Thanks to generous corporate sponsorship, we are happy to announce that a student competition will be held again this year. Due to the great success in previous years, the competition will be a general best student award, taking posters and talks into account. The winner will be announced and awarded a $1000 cash prize to the best student paper with the runner-up students receiving a cash prize as well.

Nominations
To nominate yourself, you must:
  • be a graduate or undergraduate full-time student
  • have conducted the majority of the work to be presented
  • be the submitting author and select “Yes” when asked if you are a full-time student
  • select yourself as the speaker
  • under TOPIC selection, choose “Consider for Best Student Presentation Award”
  • make the oral or poster presentation
  • attend the competition onsite and present a 4-minute summary (see below).

Competition Judging and Requirements
Contributions submitted by graduate and undergraduate students are eligible, whether poster or talk. For the evaluation, the conference chairs and select members of the program committee will judge the students within a devoted oral session of the conference. Here, the students will present a brief summary of their oral or poster paper with a time limit of 4 minutes. Presentations will be judged based on content, scientific impact, organization, quality of presentation, answers to questions from the judging panel and audience members, and presenter's overall mastery of the subject. Candidates for the award need to be the presenting author, a full-time student, and must have conducted the majority of the research presented in the paper.
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Conference LA304

Frontiers in Ultrafast Optics: Biomedical, Scientific, and Industrial Applications XXV

This conference has an open call for papers:
Submit an Abstract
Submission guidelines for authors and presenters
Abstract Due: 17 July 2024
Author Notification: 7 October 2024
Manuscript Due: 8 January 2025
The rapid advances in ultrafast laser technology have resulted in widespread availability of robust, practical laser sources for driving novel interaction physics inside of materials. As a result, useful applications for these sources have emerged in many different fields, from micromachining and THz imaging to nonlinear microscopy and semiconductor testing to laser surgery and communications. Now in its twenty-fourth year, this conference is the premier venue for discussing the development of new ultrafast laser sources, the manipulation and characterization of ultrashort pulses as well as their potential for opening new biomedical, scientific, and industrial applications. We anticipate a larger conference than ever that will bring together a multi-disciplinary group consisting of university researchers from diverse fields, as well as scientists and engineers from industry. A program that includes invited and tutorial presentations will provide the context for contributed talks and posters, and for stimulating discussions.

We encourage submission of papers on all aspects of ultrashort pulsed lasers and the novel ultrafast science that drives unique optical interactions for probing and processing all types of materials. We specifically encourage submissions that focus on sustainability through the application of ultrafast lasers in battery development, solar technology, and eco-friendly manufacturing processes. In addition, all graduate and undergraduate students are encouraged to enter their submissions in the Student Competition for best presentation (see below).

General topics include, but are not limited to, the following areas:
  • emerging ultrafast laser technologies and novel systems
  • ultrafast laser source engineering for industrial and biomedical use
  • manipulating ultrashort pulse propagation and nonlinear effects in materials
  • novel interactions of ultrashort pulses with materials
  • surface micro/nano-machining with ultrafast lasers
  • ultrafast laser processes inside of transparent materials
  • advances in direct writing of integrated photonic, opto-mechanical, and lab-on-chip devices
  • interactions and modification of biological tissues
  • surgical applications of ultrashort pulsed lasers for soft and hard tissues
  • novel medical applications of ultrafast lasers
  • generation and detection of THz radiation
  • generation and application of EUV and x-ray ultrashort pulses
  • novel characterization and measurement techniques for ultrashort pulses
  • ultrashort pulse delivery of burst-trains and shaped beams for manipulating interaction physics
  • ultrafast laser processing for a sustainable development.

STUDENT COMPETITION
Thanks to generous corporate sponsorship, we are happy to announce that a student competition will be held again this year. Due to the great success in previous years, the competition will be a general best student award, taking posters and talks into account. The winner will be announced and awarded a $1000 cash prize to the best student paper with the runner-up students receiving a cash prize as well.

Nominations
To nominate yourself, you must:
  • be a graduate or undergraduate full-time student
  • have conducted the majority of the work to be presented
  • be the submitting author and select “Yes” when asked if you are a full-time student
  • select yourself as the speaker
  • under TOPIC selection, choose “Consider for Best Student Presentation Award”
  • make the oral or poster presentation
  • attend the competition onsite and present a 4-minute summary (see below).

Competition Judging and Requirements
Contributions submitted by graduate and undergraduate students are eligible, whether poster or talk. For the evaluation, the conference chairs and select members of the program committee will judge the students within a devoted oral session of the conference. Here, the students will present a brief summary of their oral or poster paper with a time limit of 4 minutes. Presentations will be judged based on content, scientific impact, organization, quality of presentation, answers to questions from the judging panel and audience members, and presenter's overall mastery of the subject. Candidates for the award need to be the presenting author, a full-time student, and must have conducted the majority of the research presented in the paper.
Submit an Abstract
Conference Chair
Peter R. Herman
Univ. of Toronto (Canada)
Conference Chair
Roberto Osellame
CNR-Istituto di Fotonica e Nanotecnologie (Italy)
Conference Chair
Adela Ben-Yakar
The Univ. of Texas at Austin (United States)
Program Committee
Craig B. Arnold
Princeton Univ. (United States)
Program Committee
Yves Bellouard
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland)
Program Committee
Daniel Flamm
TRUMPF Laser- und Systemtechnik GmbH (Germany)
Program Committee
Alexander Heisterkamp
Leibniz Univ. Hannover (Germany)
Program Committee
Eric Mazur
Harvard Univ. (United States)
Program Committee
Eric P. Mottay
h-nu (France)
Program Committee
Beat Neuenschwander
Berner Fachhochschule Technik und Informatik (Switzerland)
Program Committee
Stefan Nolte
Friedrich-Schiller-Univ. Jena (Germany)
Program Committee
Aleks Ovsianikov
Technische Univ. Wien (Austria)
Program Committee
Jan Siegel
Instituto de Óptica "Daza de Valdés" (Spain)
Program Committee
Koji Sugioka
RIKEN Ctr. for Advanced Photonics (Japan)
Program Committee
Mitsuhiro Terakawa
Keio Univ. (Japan)
Program Committee
Alfred Vogel
Univ. zu Lübeck (Germany)
Program Committee
Dvir Yelin
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (Israel)
Additional Information

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What you will need to submit

  • Presentation title
  • Author(s) information
  • Speaker biography (1000-character max including spaces)
  • Abstract for technical review (200-300 words; text only)
  • Summary of abstract for display in the program (50-150 words; text only)
  • Keywords used in search for your paper (optional)
  • View call for papers for award requirements
Note: Only original material should be submitted. Commercial papers, papers with no new research/development content, and papers with proprietary restrictions will not be accepted for presentation.