Dissipative solitons, turbulence and extreme events in nonlinear photonics
workshop
The study of the confinement of light in one or more dimensions leading to the formation of conservative and dissipative solitons has revolutionized nonlinear optics and photonics. New classes of ultrafast lasers have also been created, making a wide range of interdisciplinary applications possible. Key studies in the field of optical communications as well as many areas of ultrafast photonics, including laser design, frequency comb generation, and interdisciplinary studies related to the complexity of producing extreme events, turbulence, and spatiotemporal chaos, are now supported by soliton physics. This workshop will cover the most recent advances in the following active areas of study while describing the state of the art, recent developments, new perspectives, and cutting-edge methods:
Spatial and temporal localized structures of light
Laser mode locking
Machine learning and networks with photonic devices
Microresonator frequency comb technologies
High-precision spectroscopy
Generation and propagation of pulses in fiber lasers and optical waveguides
Stability, interaction, and mobility of optical solitons
Extreme events, turbulence, and spatiotemporal chaos in photonic devices
Invited Speakers
Nail Akhmediev (Australian National U. Canberra, Australia)
Lies Bahloul (U. of Science & Tech Houari Boumediene, Algeria)
Uwe Bandelow (Weierstrass Institute, Berlin, Germany)
Stefano Boccaletti (I. of Complex Systems, Florence, Italy)
Amin Chabchoub (Kyoto U., Japan & U. of Sydney, Australia)
Marcel Clerc (U. of Chile, Santiago, Chile)
Lina Grineviciute (FTMC, Vilnius, Lithuania)
Luigi Lugiato (U. of Insubria, Como, Italy)
Boris Malomed (Tel Aviv U., Israel)
Andrey Matsko (California Institute of Technology, USA)
Ziad Musslimani (Florida State U. ,USA)
Arnaud Mussot (U. of Lille, France)
Marco Piccardo (Harvard U., USA)
Nathalie Picqué (Max Planck Institute, Garching, Germany)
Stefania Residori (U. of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, Nice, France)
Nikolay Rosanov (Ioffe Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia)
Dmitry Skryabin (U. of Bath, UK)
Kestutis Staliunas (ICREA, Barcelona, Spain)
Guy Van der Sande (VUB, Brussels, Belgium)
Andrei Vladimirov (Weierstrass Institute, Berlin, Germany)
Stefan Wabnitz (La Sapienza U., Rome, Italy)
Scientific and Organising Committee
Marcel Clerc (U. of Chile, Santiago, Chile)
Saliya Coulibaly (U. of Lille, France)
Pascal Kockaert (ULB, Brussels, Belgium)
Bilal Kostet (ULB, Brussels, Belgium)
René Lefever (ULB, Brussels, Belgium)
Krassimir Panajotov (VUB, Brussels, Belgium)
Majid Taki (U. de Lille, France)
Mustapha Tlidi (ULB, Brussels, Belgium)
Guy Verschaffelt (VUB, Brussels, Belgium)
