S1 — Modern Trends in Laser Physics

Seminar Co-Chairs

Olga Kocharovskaya

Olga Kocharovskaya

Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA

kochar@physics.tamu.edu

Barry M. Garraway

Barry M. Garraway

University of Sussex, Brighton, East Sussex, UK

b.m.garraway@sussex.ac.uk

Programme

Monday, 6 July 2026 · 13:30 – 15:30

Chair: Prof. Luiz Davidovich

13:30 Waveguide QED – from Quantum Nonreciprocity to Dimerized Entanglement (invited talk)
G S Agarwal
13:55 Predicting and Controlling Quantum and Classical Noise Response in Multimode Nonlinear Photonics (invited talk)
N R Rivera
14:20 Uncovering Hidden Spatial Quantum Modes of Squeezed Vacuum (invited talk)
E E Mikhailov, K Wen, C Gabaldon, and I Novikova
14:40 Experimental demonstrations of coherence de Broglie wavelength for superresolution sensing (invited talk)
S Kim and B. S. Ham
15:05 Broadband Characterization of Polarization Mode Dispersion for Quantum Communication Channels (invited talk)
V Rodimin, Y Kurochkin, K Kravtsov, R-M Chua, X Zhang, A Ponasenko, and J A Grieve

Monday, 6 July 2026 · 16:00 – 19:00

Chair: Prof. Girish Agarwal

16:00 What Is a Phase of Matter in a Cavity? (invited talk)
K R A Hazzard
16:25 Hybrid, Atom and Photon Boson Sampling (invited talk)
V V Kocharovsky
16:50 Ultrafast Bright Quantum Light (invited talk)
D Seletskiy, G Demontigny, and S Virally
17:15 Quantum Light-Matter Interfaces with Tweezer Atomic Arrays (invited talk)
E Shahmoon
17:40 Characterizing and Observing Quantum Multipartite Entanglement (invited talk)
H Nha
18:05 Photonic Time Crystals: Transport, Emission, Squeezing (invited talk)
B Min

Tuesday, 7 July 2026 · 13:30 – 15:30

Chair: Prof. Kaden Hazzard

13:30 Relational Quantum Light (invited talk)
J M Rost
13:55 Searching for a Variation of the Fine Structure Constant with Highly Charged Ions (invited talk)
V M Schäfer
14:20 New Tests of Relativity with Optical Ion Clocks (invited talk)
C Sanner
14:45 Ultrafast Kapitza-Dirac Effect in a Femtosecond Enhancement Cavity (invited talk)
T Heldt, H Liang, L Guth, J-H Oelmann, A Agarwal, L Matt, K Z Hatsagortsyan, C H Keitel, T Pfeifer, and J R Crespo López-Urrutia
15:10 Progress Towards Non-Newtonian Gravity Searches with Optically Levitated Force Sensors (invited talk)
S J Borden, A M Dana, K Guy, M B Nguyen, A Grinin, and A A Geraci

Tuesday, 7 July 2026 · 16:00 – 17:30

Chair: Prof. Byoung Ham

16:00 Rydberg Atomic Vector Electrometer (RAVE) for Static Electric Fields (invited talk)
I Novikova, R Behary, W Torg, E E Mikhailov, and S A Aubin
16:20 Dressing Ultra-Cold Atoms for Matter-Wave Bubbles and Rings (invited talk)
B M Garraway
16:45 Certifying Path-Entanglement over Quantum Networks Using Only Quantum Resources (invited talk)
F Atzori, N Lal, C M Nunn, M V Jabir, D Ahn, F Piacentini, I P Degiovanni, M Genovese, I A Burenkov, and S V Polyakov
17:10 Ultrafast Nanoscopy by Deactivated High-Harmonic Generation from Solids (invited talk)
P M Kraus

Wednesday, 8 July 2026 · 13:30 – 15:30

Chair: Prof. Ralf Röhlsberger

13:30 Theoretical Aspects of Developing the Th-229 Nuclear Clock (invited talk)
A Derevianko
13:55 Laser Spectroscopy of the 229Th Nuclear Transition - Current Status and Applications (invited talk)
L von der Wense
14:20 Gravitational Photon Echo Using Thorium-229 Nuclear Clock Transition (invited talk)
W-T Liao
14:40 Quantum Memory for Hard X-Ray Photons (invited talk)
X Zhang and O A Kocharovskaya
15:05 Coherent 181Ta Time-Domain Nuclear Resonant Scattering at 6.2 keV (invited talk)
S Sadashivaiah, B Pandit, B Marx-Glowna, R Loetzsch, T Wunderlich, Y Wang, L Bocklage, B Detlefs, C Sahle, and R Röhlsberger

Wednesday, 8 July 2026 · 16:00 – 19:00

Chair: Prof. Andrei Derevianko

16:00 New Results jf Incoherent Diffraction Imaging (IDI) for X-Ray Structure Analysis (invited talk)
J von Zanthier
16:25 From Multiexcitation to Superradiant Burst in Resonant Nuclear X-Ray Emission (invited talk)
X J Kong
16:50 Electron-Nuclear Resonance as the Alternative Path to Nuclear Clocks (invited talk)
F F Karpeshin, K V Chekirda, E Yu Korzinin, Y A Kustikov, A A Neklyudova, A N Pronin, and L F Vitushkin
17:15 Nuclear Quantum Dynamics at X-Ray Free-Electron Lasers
M Gerharz and J Evers
17:40 Parametric Mössbauer Radiation: General Diffraction Geometry and Coherent Amplification (invited talk)
Z-A Peng, C H Keitel, and J Evers
18:05 Compact X-Ray Free Electron Laser Development and Applications (invited talk)
A Sandhu
18:30 Towards Quantum Imaging with X-rays at LCLS (invited talk)
J M Baxter

Thursday, 9 July 2026 · 13:30 – 15:30

Chair: Prof. Denis Seletskiy

13:30 Quantum Nature of High Harmonic Generation (invited talk)
H Merdji
13:55 Frontiers in Petahertz Electronics
C Heide
14:15 Ultrafast Quantum and Classical Nonlinear Nanophotonic Circuits (invited talk)
A Marandi
14:40 Controlling Multimode Gaussian States of Light in Nonlinear Micro-Resonators (invited talk)
E Lustig
15:05 Nano-Particle Matter-Wave Interferometry for Ultra-Sensitive Rotation Sensing and Test of Quantum Gravity (invited talk)
S M Shahriar and J Li

Thursday, 9 July 2026 · 16:00 – 19:00

Chair: Prof. Ido Kaminer

16:00 Exceptional Points in Lasing Systems: From Loss-Induced Lasing to Laser Mode Braiding (invited talk)
L Yang
16:25 Laser-Controlled Nonadiabatic Processes in Excited-State Molecules
S Kotochigova
16:45 Optical Two-Dimensional Coherent Spectroscopy of Color-Center Arrays in Diamond (invited talk)
H B Li
17:05 Disorder-Promoted Synchronization and Coherence in Coupled Laser Networks (invited talk)
A N Montanari, A E D Barioni, and A E Motter
17:25 Distributed Random Lasing Sensors (invited talk)
J P von der Weid, P Tovar, and W Margulis

Friday, 10 July 2026 · 13:30 – 15:30

Chair: Prof. Barry Garraway

13:30 Towards Entanglement of Free-Electron Pairs and Free-Electron–Bound-Electron Systems (invited talk)
A K Karnieli
13:55 Characterizing Polarization of Nonlinear Thomson Scattering (invited talk)
J Peatross, M Ballif, K Barr, N Sá, Y Sun, and M Ware
14:15 Coherence and Structural Information in Intense X-Ray–Driven Systems (invited talk)
P J Ho, A Venkatesh, C Knight, S Kuschel, T Gorkhover, and L Young
14:40 Ultrafast Optical Nonlinearity of Transparent Conducting Oxides (invited talk)
Y Sivan

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