LPHYS'26.    Program:

Seminar 5: Nonlinear Optics & Spectroscopy

Co-chairs:

Seminar 5 covers recent trends, novel applications, and theoretical and experimental developments in the fields of nonlinear optics and spectroscopy. Specific topics of interest include intense laser-matters interactions and associated phenomena, short-pulse laser filamentation and self-action effects, laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS), frequency-comb spectroscopy, chemometrics, laser-generated plasmas, and novel optical sources, nonlinear materials, structures, and interactions.

Schedule:

  1. Thursday, 9 July, 2026
  2. S5.1 (13:30 – 15:30)Chairs: Pavel Polynkin (USA) and Anton Husakou (Germany)
    1. 13:30 – 13:50 Q Gutierrez, A Houard, T Clark (LOA, ENSTA Paris, CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, 91762 Palaiseau, France, Palaiseau, France)Optical Emission Spectroscopy of a Femtosecond Laser Induced Filament Plasma for the Guiding of HV Discharge in Air (invited talk) Abstract 
    2. 13:50 – 14:05 J Späthe, S Hell, M Wünsche (Institute of Optics and Quantum Electronics, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Jena, Germany), R Klas (Instiitute of Applied Physics, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Jena, Germany), J Rothhardt (Instiitute of Applied Physics, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Jena, Germany; Helmholtz Institut Jena, Jena, Germany), C Ott (Quantum Dynamics and Control, Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg, Germany), G G Paulus (Institute of Optics and Quantum Electronics, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Jena, Germany; Institute of Optics and Quantum Electronics, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Jena, Germany), S Fritzsche (Helmholtz Institut Jena, Jena, Germany), M Kübel (Institute of Optics and Quantum Electronics, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Jena, Germany; Institute of Optics and Quantum Electronics, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Jena, Germany) High-Harmonic Source for Coincidence Spectroscopy nf Non-Linear XUV Photoionization Abstract 
    3. 14:05 – 14:35 D Sapkota, N Batista, Y Zhang, J Agnes, D Dempsey, G Nagar, B Shim (Physics, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY, USA) Single-Shot Visualization and Improved Modeling of Long-Range Laser Filamentation in Molecular Gases and Air (invited talk) Abstract 
  3. S5.2 (16:00 – 18:00)
    1. 16:00 – 16:25 A Husakou (Theory Department, Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy, Berlin, Germany), I Babushkin (Institut für Quantenoptik, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Hannover, Germany)Quantum-Classical Description of Photoionization (invited talk) Abstract 
    2. 16:25 – 16:55 A Dogariu (Texas A&M University, College Station, USA) Thermal Non-Equilibrium in a Femtosecond Laser Filament using CARS (invited talk) Abstract 
    3. 16:55 – 17:25 N Cabello, S Nakamura (Toyota Technological Institute, Nagoya, Japan), Y Zhao (Graduate School of Engineering, Muroran Institute of Technology, Muroran, Japan), T Fuji (Toyota Technological Institute, Nagoya, Japan) Ultrabroadband Mid-Infrared Supercontinuum Generation at 5 kHz by Electric Field Assisted Two-Color Filamentation in Air (invited talk) Abstract 
    4. 17:25 – 17:40 F Castro, D Dumani (Escuela de Ingeniería Eléctrica, Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica) A Dual-Wavelength Spectroscopic Framework for Contrast-Agent Detection in Photoacoustic Imaging Abstract