LPHYS'07. Chairpersons:
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Fernando Mendoza Santoyo
Centro de Investigaciones en Óptica, León, Mexico
fmendoza@cio.mx -
Pavel P Pashinin
A M Prokhorov General Physics Institute, RAS, Moscow, Russia
ppp@kapella.gpi.ru
16th International Laser Physics Workshop
(León, August 20-24, 2007)
The sixteenth annual International Laser Physics Workshop (LPHYS'07) was held from to in the city of León, Mexico, at the Centro de Investigaciones en Óptica, A.C., hosted by Centro de Investigaciones en Óptica, A.C..
LPHYS'07. Deputy Chairpersons:
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Igor V. Yevseyev
Department of Theoretical Physics, National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Moscow, Russia
LPHYS'07. Steering Committee:
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Dusan Chorvat
International Laser Center, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
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Joseph H. Eberly
University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA
eberly@pas.rochester.edu -
Mikhail V. Fedorov
A.M. Prokhorov General Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
fedorov@ran.gpi.ru -
Sergey A. Gonchukov
National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Moscow, Russia
gonchukov@mephi.ru -
Günter Huber
Hamburg University, Hamburg, Germany
huber@physnet.uni-hamburg.de -
Sergei P. Kulik
Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
sergei.kulik@physics.msu.ru -
Hans G. Limberger
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland
hans.limberger@epfl.ch -
Pavel P Pashinin
A M Prokhorov General Physics Institute, RAS, Moscow, Russia
ppp@kapella.gpi.ru -
Markus Pollnau
University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
m.pollnau@ewi.utwente.nl -
Kirill A. Prokhorov
A.M. Prokhorov General Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
cyrpro@gpi.ru -
Wolfgang Sandner
ELI Delivery Consortium AISBL, Berlin, Germany
sandner@mbi-berlin.de -
Toshiki Tajima
University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA
tajima.toshiki@gmail.com -
Valery M. Yermachenko
National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Moscow, Russia
yermachenko@yandex.ru -
Vyacheslav I. Yukalov
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Moscow Region, Russia
yukalov@theor.jinr.ru -
Aleksey M. Zheltikov
Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA
zheltikov@physics.tamu.edu
LPHYS'07. Plenary Speakers:
Active Q-Switched All-Fiber Lasers
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Miguel V. Andrés
University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain
miguel.andres@uv.es
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Recent Advances in High Power Solid-State Lasers and Their Applications
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Michael J. Damzen
Imperial College London, London, UK
m.damzen@imperial.ac.uk
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Nonlinear Optics in Microstructured Ferroelectrics and Semiconductors
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Martin M. Fejer
Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
fejer@stanford.edu
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Rotating Bose-Einstein Condensates
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Alexander L. Fetter
Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
fetter@stanford.edu
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Recent Progress in High Field Science
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Yoshiaki Kato
The Graduate School for the Creation on New Photonics Industries (GPI), Sizuoka, Japan
y.kato@gpi.ac.jp
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Nonlinear Physics and Gap Solitons in Periodic Photonic Structures
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Yuri Kivshar
Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
ysk@internode.on.net
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Carbom Nanotubes - a New Nonlinear Optical Material
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Vitaly I. Konov
Natural Scienses Center, A.M. Prokhorov General Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia
vik@nsc.gpi.ru
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Application of Laser Spectroscopic Methods for in Vivo Diagnostics in Dermatology
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Jürgen Lademann
Charité - Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany
juergen.lademann@charite.de
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Attosecond Nonlinear Optics
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Margaret Murnane
JILA, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
murnane@jila.colorado.edu
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Successes and Future Challenges in Ultrafast Optical Metrology
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Derryck T. Reid
Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK
murnane@jila.colorado.edu
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Photonic Metamaterials
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Vladimir M. Shalaev
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
shalaev@purdue.edu
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Let There Be White Light: Photonic-Crystal Fiber Light Sources
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Aleksey M. Zheltikov
Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA
zheltikov@physics.tamu.edu
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LPHYS'07. Local Organizing Committee:
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Alexander V. Kir'yanov
Centro de Investigaciones en Óptica, León, GTO, Mexico
kiryanov@cio.mx -
Yuri Barmenkov
Centro de Investigaciones en Óptica, León, GTO, Mexico
yuri@cio.mx -
Elder de la Rosa
Centro de Investigaciones en Óptica, León, GTO, Mexico
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Vicente Aboites
Centro de Investigaciones en Óptica, León, GTO, Mexico
aboites@cio.mx -
Luis Armando Diaz Torres
Centro de Investigaciones en Óptica, León, GTO, Mexico
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Roberto Ortega-Martinez
Centro de Ciencias Aplicadas y Desarrollo Tecnológico, National Autonomous University of Mexico, México City, DF, Mexico
roberto.ortega@ccadet.unam.mx -
Annette Torres
Centro de Investigaciones en Óptica, León, GTO, Mexico
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Carolina Arriola
Centro de Investigaciones en Óptica, León, GTO, Mexico
LPHYS'07. Advisory & Program Committee:
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Pierre Agostini
Nobel Prize Winner
Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
agostini@mps.ohio-state.edu -
Sergey N. Bagayev
Institute of Laser Physics, Russian Academy of Siences, Novosibirsk, Russia
bagayev@laser.nsc.ru -
Vanderlei S. Bagnato
University of São Paulo, São Carlos, SP, Brazil
vander@if.sc.usp.br -
Wilhelm Becker
Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy, Berlin, Germany
wbecker@mbi-berlin.de -
Jens Biegert
Institute of Photonic Sciences, (ICFO), Barcelona, Spain
jens.biegert@icfo.es -
See Leang Chin
Laval University, Québec City, QC, Canada
slchin@phy.ulaval.ca -
Gallieno Denardo
The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy
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Sandro De Silvestri
Politecnico of Milan, Milan, Italy
sandro.desilvestri@fisi.polimi.it -
Evgueni M. Dianov
Fiber Optics Research Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
dianov@fo.gpi.ru -
Gaetano Ferrante
Palermo University, Palermo, Italy
ferrante3@unipa.it -
Costas Fotakis
Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas, Iraklio, Greece
fotakis@iesl.forth.gr -
Marvin D. Girardeau
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
girardeau@optics.arizona.edu -
Miroslav Jelínek
Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic
jelinek@fzu.cz -
Franz X. Kärtner
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
kaertner@mit.edu -
Yoshiaki Kato
The Graduate School for the Creation on New Photonics Industries (GPI), Sizuoka, Japan
y.kato@gpi.ac.jp -
Ursula Keller
ETH Zürich, RAS, Zürich, Switzerland
keller@phys.ethz.ch -
Vitaly I. Konov
Natural Scienses Center, A.M. Prokhorov General Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia
vik@nsc.gpi.ru -
Norbert Kroó
Wigner Physics Research Center, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
kroo.norbert@titkarsag.mta.hu -
Ferenc Krausz
Nobel Prize Winner
Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, Garching bei München, Germany
ferenc.krausz@mpq.mpg.de -
Andrey S. Kurkov
A.M. Prokhorov General Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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Jürgen Lademann
Charité - Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany
juergen.lademann@charite.de -
Vladimir A. Makarov
Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
makarov@ilc.edu.ru -
Deepak Mathur
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India
atmol1@tifr.res.in -
Gennady A. Mesyats
P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
mesyats@sci.lebedev.ru -
Vyacheslav B. Morozov
Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
morozov@phys.msu.ru -
Klaus Petermann
University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
petermann@physnet.uni-hamburg.de -
Guillaume Petite
École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France
guillaume.petite@polytechnique.fr -
Lev P. Pitaevskii
University of Trento, Trento, Italy
lev@science.unitn.it -
Peeter M. Saari
University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
peeter.saari@ut.ee -
René-Paul Salathé
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
rene.salathe@epfl.ch -
Vitalij V. Samartsev
Zavoisky Physical Technical Institute, Kazan, Russia
samartsev@kfti.knc.ru -
Vladimir M. Shalaev
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
shalaev@purdue.edu -
Ivan A. Shcherbakov
A.M. Prokhorov General Physics Institute, RAS, Moscow, Russia
director@gpi.ru 
David P. Shepherd
University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
dps@orc.soton.ac.uk-
Georgy V. Shlyapnikov
Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Modèles Statistiques, Orsay, France
georgy.shlyapnikov@u-psud.fr -
Irina Sorokina
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
sorokina@ntnu.no -
Orazio Svelto
Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy
orazio.svelto@fisi.polimi.it -
Ken-ichi Ueda
Institute for Laser Science, University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan
ueda@ils.uec.ac.jp -
Evgeny A. Vinogradov
Institute of Spectroscopy, RAS, Troitsk, Russia
evinogr@isan.troitsk.ru -
Ian A. Walmsley
Oxford University, Oxford, UK
walmsley@physics.ox.ac.uk -
Ernst Wintner
Photonics Institute, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria
ernst.wintner@tuwien.ac.at -
Eugene Zaremba
Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada
zaremba@sparky.phy.queensu.ca 
Nikolay V. Znamensky
Russian Research Center “Kurchatov Institute”, Moscow, Russia
nvz@kiae.ru
LPHYS'07. Management Team:
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Alexander V. Yevseyev
, Director
Astro Science Ltd., Canada
lphys07@lasphys.com
LPHYS'07. Scientific Seminars:
Seminar 1: Modern Trends in Laser Physics
Co-chairs:
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Thomas Feurer
Institute of Applied Physics, Bern, Switzerland
thomas.feurer@iap.unibe.ch -
Franz X. Kärtner
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
kaertner@mit.edu -
Kirill A. Prokhorov
A.M. Prokhorov General Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
cyrpro@gpi.ru
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Seminar 2: Strong Field Phenomena
Co-chairs:
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Wilhelm Becker
Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy, Berlin, Germany
wbecker@mbi-berlin.de -
Jens Biegert
Institute of Photonic Sciences, (ICFO), Barcelona, Spain
jens.biegert@icfo.es -
Mikhail V. Fedorov
A.M. Prokhorov General Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
fedorov@ran.gpi.ru
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Seminar 3: Biophotonics
Co-chairs:
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Vanderlei S. Bagnato
University of São Paulo, São Carlos, SP, Brazil
vander@if.sc.usp.br -
Sergey A. Gonchukov
National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Moscow, Russia
gonchukov@mephi.ru -
Jürgen Lademann
Charité - Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany
juergen.lademann@charite.de
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Seminar 4: Physics of Lasers
Co-chairs:
Sergey V. Garnov
A.M. Prokhorov General Physics Institute, RAS, Moscow, Russia
garnov@kapella.gpi.ru-
Roberto Ortega-Martinez
Centro de Ciencias Aplicadas y Desarrollo Tecnológico, National Autonomous University of Mexico, México City, DF, Mexico
roberto.ortega@ccadet.unam.mx -
Ivan A. Shcherbakov
A.M. Prokhorov General Physics Institute, RAS, Moscow, Russia
director@gpi.ru
Seminar 5: Nonlinear Optics and Spectroscopy
Co-chairs:
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See Leang Chin
Laval University, Québec City, QC, Canada
slchin@phy.ulaval.ca -
Christos Flytzanis
École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France
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Vladimir A. Makarov
Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
makarov@ilc.edu.ru
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Seminar 6: Physics of Cold Trapped Atoms
Co-chairs:
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Lev P. Pitaevskii
University of Trento, Trento, Italy
lev@science.unitn.it -
Vyacheslav I. Yukalov
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Moscow Region, Russia
yukalov@theor.jinr.ru -
Eugene Zaremba
Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada
zaremba@sparky.phy.queensu.ca
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Seminar 7: Quantum Information and Computation
Co-chairs:
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Marco Genovese
L'Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica , Turin, Italy
m.genovese@inrim.it -
Sergei P. Kulik
Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
sergei.kulik@physics.msu.ru -
Leong Chuan Kwek
Center for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
cqtklc@nus.edu.sg
Round Table: Standardization of Quantum Key Distribution Systems
Co-chairs:
Mohamed Ridza Wahiddin
International Islamic University Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
mridza@iium.edu.my-
Hugo Zbinden
University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
hugo.zbinden@physics.unige.ch 
Sergey Molotkov
Institute of Solid State Physics, RAS, Chernogolovka, Russia
sergei.molotkov@gmail.com
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Seminar 8: Fiber Laser Technology
Co-chairs:
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Yuri Barmenkov
Centro de Investigaciones en Óptica, León, GTO, Mexico
yuri@cio.mx -
Alexander V. Kir'yanov
Centro de Investigaciones en Óptica, León, GTO, Mexico
kiryanov@cio.mx
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LPHYS'07. Proceedings:
Proceedings of the 16th International Laser Physics Workshop (LPHYS'07, León, August 20-24, 2007) have been published in Laser Physics, vol. 18 (2008). To read all contributed papers please visit http://iopscience.iop.org/lp/.
LPHYS'07. Organizers:
A.M. Prokhorov General Physics Institute
, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, RussiaCentro de Investigaciones en Óptica, A.C.
, León, GTO, MexicoLaser Physics
, international journalLaser Physics Letters
, international journalInternational Laser Center
, Moscow State University, Moscow, RussiaRussian Research Center "Kurchatov Institute"
, Moscow, Russia
LPHYS'07. Sponsors and Endorses:
Russian Foundation for Basic Research
, Moscow, RussiaCentro de Investigaciones en Óptica, A.C.
, León, GTO, MexicoInternational Laser Center
, Moscow State University, Moscow, RussiaAstro Ltd.
, CanadaConsejo de Ciencia y Tecnologia del Estado de Guanajuato
, León, GTO, MexicoAir Force Office of Scientific Research
, Arlington, VA, USAThe Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
, Trieste, ItalyConsejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología
, México City, DF, MexicoEmbassy of the United Mexican States in Russian Federation
, Moscow, RussiaAcademia Mexicana de Óptica, A.C.
, León, GTO, Mexico