Highlights of Laser Science (DLS) Talks @ APS 2019 March Meeting
American Physics Society (APS) March meeting is one of the largest physics meetings in the world. In 2019, it was held in Boston, Massachusetts. More than 10,000 talks were presented in this meeting.
To help the community quickly catch up on the work presented in this meting, Paper Digest Team processed all talk abstracts, and generated one highlight sentence (typically the main topic) for each. Readers are encouraged to read these machine generated highlights / summaries to quickly get the main idea of each talk.
This article is on the talks related to Laser Science (DLS).
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TABLE : Laser Science (DLS)
| Title | Authors | Highlight | Session | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | High-resolution spectroscopy of whispering gallery mode optical microcavities in the evanescent field of tapered optical fibers. | Jordan, Nathan; King, Alex; Ogonoski, Addison; Sultania, Pranav; Ma, Marshall; Li, Mucheng; Ren, Yundong; Liu, Yuxiang; Ekinci, Kamil; Andersson, Sean; Svitelski, Oleksiy | We present results on polarized optical spectroscopy of spherical WGM resonant microcavities (D~5-50 micron) made of plastic, and silica and barium titanate glass, performed in air and water. | Session 1: Laser Science |
| 2 | Home-made Spectrometer to Study Whispering Gallery Mode Resonators | Ma, Marshall; Ogonoski, Addison; Sultania, Pranav; Ekinci, Kamil; Andersson, Sean; Svitelskiy, Oleksiy | We designed and built a simple system to excite and detect the WGM resonances of microbeads in atmosphere and in a liquid environment. | Session 1: Laser Science |
| 3 | Efficient, phase-resolved polarization-dependent two-dimensional coherent spectroscopy | Wahlstrand, Jared; Wernsing, Galahad; Lu, Leon; Bristow, Alan | We demonstrate a liquid crystal variable retarder-based control scheme to efficiently capture common polarization configurations of the rephasing four-wave mixing of a semiconductor microcavity, showing that the presence of biexcitons alters the nonlinear response of the exciton polaritons. | Session 1: Laser Science |
| 4 | Coupling length phase matching scenarios in dual-core silica fibers | Su, Jing; Biaggio, Ivan | We describe the corresponding phase matching tuning curves for different choices of pump lasers and discuss the advantages and limitations of the technique. | Session 1: Laser Science |
| 5 | Floquet optical ring resonators | McGarvey-Lechable, Kathleen; Bianucci, Pablo | This work discusses Floquet optical ring resonators (FORRs) on the silicon nitride photonics platform. | Session 1: Laser Science |
| 6 | Exceptional points in microresonator Brillouin laser systems | Lu, Yukun; Lai, Yu-Hung; Suh, Myoung-Gyun; Vahala, Kerry | We theoretically proposed and experimentally demonstrated the existence of exceptional points (EPs) in an on-chip microresonator Brillouin laser system. | Session 1: Laser Science |
| 7 | Spontaneous symmetry breaking in an optical microcavity | Cao, Qi-Tao; Xiao, Yun-Feng | In this work, we report the experimental demonstration of the spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking in a single WG microcavity. | Session 1: Laser Science |
| 8 | Spatiotemporal Mode-Locking is Generalized Mode-Locking | Wright, Logan; Sidorenko, Pavel; Ziegler, Zachary; Isichenko, Andrei; Malomed, Bors; Menyuk, Curtis; Christodoulides, Demetrios; Wise, Frank | Here, we outline a general theory of spatiotemporal mode-locking, showing it to be a generalization of mode-locking, and present new experimental measurements of qualitatively new mode-locked states, comprising nearly 30 million locked modes. | Session 1: Laser Science |
| 9 | Optically pumped lasing from Er-doped GaN epilayers in the infrared region | Wang, Yizhou; Vinh, Ho; Jiang, Hongxing; Lin, Jingyu; Nguyen, Vinh | We report the realization of room-temperature, stimulated-emission in Er-doped GaN epilayers prepared by metal-organic chemical vapor deposition in the infrared region at room temperature. | Session 1: Laser Science |
| 10 | A new high-efficiency regime for gas-phase terahertz lasers: Experiment and ab-initio theory | Wang, Fan; Chevalier, Paul; Amirzhan, Arman; Piccardo, Marco; Capasso, Federico; Johnson, Steven; Everitt, Henry | In this work, we present both a new theoretical description and experimental validations of molecular gas optically pumped far infrared (OPFIR) lasers that have much higher efficiency than traditional OPFIR lasers with much more compact volumes. | Session 1: Laser Science |
| 11 | A White Random Laser | Hsu, Yun-Tzu; Chang, Shu-Wei; Liao, Wei-Cheng; Liao, Yu-Ming; Hou, Cheng-Fu; Chen, Ying-Huan; Tai, Chia-Tse; Su, Chen-You; Lin, Tai-Yuan; Chen, Yang-Fang | In this work, a white random laser (White-RL) with high-purity and high-stability is designed, fabricated, and demonstrated via the cost-effective materials (e.g., organic laser dyes) and simple methods (e.g., all-solution process and self-assembled structures). | Session 1: Laser Science |
| 12 | High-order harmonic generation from hybrid lead halide perovskites | Hirori, Hideki; Xia, Peiyu; Shinohara, Yasushi; Otobe, Tomohito; Sanari, Yasuyuki; Tahara, Hirokazu; Ishi, Nobuhisa; Itatani, Jiro; Ishikawa, Kenichi; Aharen, Tomoko; Ozaki, Masashi; Wakamiya, Atsushi; Kanemitsu, Yoshihiko | Here, we studied the crystal orientation dependence of HHG intensity for hybrid organic–inorganic halide perovskites, which is well reproduced by the calculations based on an ab-initio approach. | Session 1: Laser Science |
| 13 | Time- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy using ultrafast XUV source at around 20 eV | Liu, Yangyang; Beetar, John; Hosen, Md Mofazzel; Dhakal, Gyanendra; Sims, Christopher; Kabir, Firoza; Dimitri, Klauss; Regmi, Sabin; Chini, Michael; Neupane, Madhab | Here, we will present the full characterization of the harmonic light source, as well as first time-resolved measurements in topological materials. | Session 1: Laser Science |
| 14 | Ultrafast relaxation of laser-excited flat nanoislands and nanoparticles investigated by ultrafast electron diffraction | Esmail, Ahmed; Xiong, Hui; Elsayed-Ali, Hani | By controlling the temperature and laser fluence during the annealing of thin Bi films, we prepare polycrystalline flat nanoislands and nanoparticles and investigate their relaxation dynamics. | Session 1: Laser Science |
| 15 | Ultra-high speed laser-surgery with ultrafast bursts of pulses | Ilday, Fatih | We recently demonstrated (Ilday et al., Nature 2016) ablation-cooled laser-material, whereby ultrafast pulses are sent in bursts, each containing hundreds of pulses separated by merely 100s of picoseconds, such that there is no time for heat to diffuse away from the processing region. | Session 1: Laser Science |
| 16 | Tri-comb Spectroscopy | Cundiff, Steven; Lomsadze, Bachana; Smith, Brad | Inspired by developments in dual-comb spectroscopy, we developed comb-based MDCS, improving the spectral resolution by over an order of magnitude, which we demonstrated by resolving the hyperfine split transitions in a rubidium vapor [2]. | Session 2: Optical Frequency Comb Spectroscopy |
| 17 | Widely tunable cavity-enhanced ultrafast spectroscopy and the dynamics of hydrogen bond networks. | Allison, Thomas; Silfies, Myles; Bautista, Jose; Kowzan, Grzegorz; Chen, Yuning | In this talk I will discuss our progress in developing widely tunable cavity-enhanced ultrafast spectrometers operating from the ultraviolet to the mid-infrared and their application to the ultrafast dynamics of elementary hydrogen bond networks. | Session 2: Optical Frequency Comb Spectroscopy |
| 18 | Multi-comb coherent control for material studies | Minoshima, Kaoru; Asahara, Akifumi | In this study, we focused on the coherent controllability with multi-comb and realized generation and coherent detection of the raid polarization modulation of ultrashort pulse train. | Session 2: Optical Frequency Comb Spectroscopy |
| 19 | Soliton microresonator frequency combs | Kippenberg, Tobias | In this talk the Physics of dissipative solitons is reviewed, as discovered in crystalline resonators. | Session 2: Optical Frequency Comb Spectroscopy |
| 20 | Dual Comb Spectroscopy for Emissions Measurements | Waxman, Eleanor; Cossel, Kevin; Giorgetta, Fabrizio; Swann, William; Truong, Gar-Wing; Cermack, Michael; Hesselius, Daniel; Coddington, Ian; Newbury, Nathan | Here we present a near-infrared dual frequency comb spectroscopy system that we use for trace gas measurements. | Session 2: Optical Frequency Comb Spectroscopy |