Real-time Measurements, Rogue Phenomena, and Single-Shot Applications IX

Rapid dynamics in diverse physical systems may often be seeded from noise or arise from highly inhomogeneous disordered environments. Optical solitons and rogue waves in nonlinear media, laser mode locking, soliton molecule interactions, electron bunches in accelerators, and optical-triggered phases in materials are events that carry important information about the system from which they emerge. They may also seed practical applications in lasers and optical communication and sensing. Attempts to understand the underlying dynamics of complex systems are often frustrated by the scarcity of events and by the inability to perform experiments under controlled conditions. In many cases, a large number of single-shot measurements must be done continuously over long time in order to capture the rare event. Such a feat is not possible with traditional pump and probe techniques as they operate in equivalent time as opposed to real time. Moreover, it may be extremely time consuming to model such dynamics with digital simulations, and accuracies are limited by knowledge of the initial conditions. Ultrafast and real-time instruments make it possible to collect large data sets, even for rare events, in a relatively short time period. The knowledge gained from observing rare events in ultrafast systems provides valuable insight into extreme value phenomena that occur over much slower timescales, including those that have a closer connection with human experience. The real-time measurement of fast single-shot events with large record lengths is one of the most challenging problems in the fields of instrumentation and measurement. Notwithstanding the sensitivity and speed requirements needed for single-shot real-time measurements, such instruments also create a big data problem associated with continuous recording at high data rates.

The aim of this conference is to create a forum for presentation of the latest developments in real-time optical instrumentation and complex optical dynamics and to facilitate the exchange of ideas in this new and promising field of science and technology.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• high-throughput ultrafast spectroscopy and imaging
• rapid terahertz waveform sampling
• electron bunch characterization in accelerators
• laser dynamics and ultrashort pulse characterization
• optical rogue waves
• real-time detection of optical-triggered phase transitions
• high-speed Raman spectroscopy
• time-stretch instruments
• single-shot electro-optical sampling
• real-time metrology
• complex systems
• dissipative solitons
• soliton interactions and molecules
• dual-comb spectroscopy and imaging
• instabilities in linear and nonlinear systems
• time-bandwidth engineering
• real-time optical data analytics
• real-time data compression
• mathematical and analytical techniques.