Nonlinear Frequency Generation and Conversion: Materials and Devices XXIV

The purpose of this conference is to provide a forum for discussing advances in nonlinear optics. Areas of emphasis include new devices and techniques for improved nonlinear frequency conversion, new effects and demonstrations based on nonlinear optics, as well as novel nonlinear optical materials.

Topics include:

DEVICES AND TECHNIQUES

• nonlinear processes in bulk crystals, fibers, waveguides, thin films, and gases
• parametric frequency up and down conversion
• sources based on parametric processes
• sum and difference frequency generation, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th harmonic generation
• high harmonic generation
• optical parametric chirped pulse amplifiers
• frequency combs and spectroscopy
• supercontinuum generation
• stimulated Raman and Brillouin scattering
• four-wave mixing and other 3rd and higher-order nonlinear processes
• THz generation based on nonlinear conversion, THz spectroscopy, and imaging
• epsilon-near-zero materials
• nonlinear plasmonics.

NONLINEAR MATERIALS

• bulk inorganic and organic nonlinear materials
• engineered nonlinear materials including quasi-phase-matched oxides and semiconductors
• nanostructures, photonic bandgap structures
• nonlinear fibers, waveguides and thin films
• new measurements and measurement techniques of nonlinear optical and other material properties relevant to nonlinear frequency conversion.