NICE OPTICS 2016 - SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM WEDNESDAY 26
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NICE OPTICS 2016 - SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM WEDNESDAY 26
NICE OPTICS 2016 - SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM WEDNESDAY 26 OCTOBER __________________________________________________________________________________ 8:00 to 9:00 REGISTRATION __________________________________________________________________________________ ROOM : Massena 9:00 to 11:20 Coherent control of light and scattering phenomena 9:00 Spatiotemporal coherent control of an ultrashort pulse through a multiply scattering medium (Keynote Presentation), Sylvain GIGAN, M. Mounaix, H. Defienne, G. Volpe, O. Katz, LKB, ENS Paris, (France); D. Andreoli, S. Gresillon, ESPCI, Inst. Langevin, Paris (France). 9:20 Pump-Controlled Modal Interactions in Semiconductor Microdisk Lasers (Keynote Presentation), Hui CAO, Seng Fatt Liew, Brandon Redding, Yale Univ. (USA); Li Ge, College of Staten Island (USA). 9:40 Focusing and shaping light through multimode fiber with gain (Keynote Presentation), Vincent KERMENE, Raphaël Florentin, Joël Benoist, Agnès Desfarges-Berthelemot, Dominique Pagnoux, Alain Barthelemy, XLIM, Univ. Limoges (France); Jean-Pierre Huignard, ESPCI, Inst. Langevin, Paris (France). 10:00 Exceptional Points, Principal Modes and Particle-like Scattering States in Multi-mode Waveguides (Keynote Presentation), Stefan ROTTER, Univ. of Vienna (Austria). 10:20 Dynamic light scattering from large particles, Philip BORN, Steffen Reinhold, Johannes Schmitz, Matthias Sperl, Inst. for Mat. Phys. in Space (Germany). 10:35 Optical identification of patterned structure by neural networks, Zaki SABIT F., Bernard Bayard, Univ. Lyon, UJM-Saint-Etienne (France), Stephane Robert, Elkalyoubi Ismail Laboratoires des Technologies de la Microélectronique, Grenoble (France). 10:50 Imposing order into naturally disordered nonlinear photonic structures, Mousa AYOUB, Jörg Imbrock, Cornelia Denz, Inst. of Appl. Phys. and Center for Nonlinear Science (CeNoS), Univ. of Münster (Germany). 11:05 Microfluidic phantom detection with diffuse reflectance imaging technique using microbubbles contrast agents, Homa ASSADI, Aditya Pandya, Raffi Karshafian, Alexandre Douplik, Ryerson Univ., Dept. of Phys. Toronto (Canada) & St. Michael Hospital, Keenan Research Centre of the LKS Knowledge Institute, Toronto (Canada); Cyrus Talebpour, Ryerson Univ., Dept. of Phys. Toronto (Canada); Vaskar Gnyawali, Ryerson Univ., Dept. of Mech. & Industr. Eng., Toronto (Canada) & St. Michael Hospital, Keenan Research Centre of the LKS Knowledge Institute, Toronto (Canada). End of session 11:20 Coffee break 11:20 to 11:50 __________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________ ROOM : Versailles 9:00 to 11:20 Adaptive optics and laser micromachining 9:00Accommodative vision using liquid crystal lenses(Keynote Presentation), Tigran GALSTIAN, Univ. Laval, Québec (Canada). 9:20 Optofluidic laser based on Fabry-Perot resonator in glass chip (Keynote Presentation), Francesco SIMONI, Paolo Spegni, Silvio Bonfandini, Daniele E. Lucchetta, Univ. Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, (Italy); Sara Lo Turco, Luigino Criante, Center for Nano Science and Technology, Milano (Italy). 9:40 Devices and methods for adaptive optics (Keynote Presentation), Stefano BONORA, Inst. of Photonics and Nanotechnology, Padova (Italy). 10:00 Ultrafast laser spatial beam shaping using an optically addressed liquid crystal optical valve (Keynote Presentation), Cyril MAUCLAIR, Manutech-USD, Univ. de Lyon, Univ. Jean Monnet, Saint Etienne (France); Julien Houzet, Univ. de Lyon, Univ. Jean Monnet, Saint Etienne (France). 10:20 Phase-shifted fiber Bragg grating inscribed by fusion splicing technique and femtosecond laser, Yajun JIANG, Jian Xu, Yuan Yuan, Dexing Yang, Dong Li, Jianlin Zhao, Northwestern Polytechnical Univ., Xi’an (China). 10:35 Diffraction efficiency performance improved by holographic grating recorded in asymmetric set-up, Georges HORUGAVYE, Bernard Sabushimike, , Serge Habraken, Univ. of Liege (Belgium). 10:50 Photo-Origami by manipulating the mechanical properties of a Two-Stage polymer “Click-chemistry” materials system, David J. GLUGLA, Marvin D. Alim, Robert R. McLeod, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder (USA). 11:05 Out-of-Plane Surface Relief Gratings for Micro-Structured Liquid Crystal Alignment, Irena DREVENŠEK-OLENIK, Univ. of Ljubljana (Slovenia); Zhichao Ji, Xinzheng Zhang, Wei Li, Bin Shi, , Qiang Wu, Jingjun Xu, Nankai Univ., Tianjin (China). End of session 11:20 Coffee break 11:20 to 11:50 __________________________________________________________________________________ ROOM : Louis XVI 9:00 to 11:25 Lasers and dynamics 9:00 Advancements in Filter-Driven FWM optical Microcombs (Keynote Presentation), Marco PECCIANTI, Andrew Cooper, Luigi Di Lauro, Hualong Bao, Alessia Pasquazi, University of Sussex (UK); Sai T. Chu, Univ. of Hong Kong (China); Brent E. Little, Chinese Academy of Science, Xi’an (China); Dave J Moss, Swinburne Univ. of Technology, Hawthorn (Australia); Roberto Morandotti, INRS-EMT, Québec (Canada). 9:20 Brain-inspired dynamics in a micropillar laser with saturable absorber (Keynote Presentation), Sylvain BARBAY, F. Selmi, F. Lelièvre, A. Golestani, L. Andréoli, I. Sagnes, G. Beaudoin, Univ. Paris-Saclay (France); R. Braive Univ. Paris-Saclay, Univ. Paris-Diderot (France). 9:40 Absolute control of optical frequency combs using joint time- frequency self-imaging, Hugues GUILLET de CHATELLUS, Inst. Nat. Rech. Scient. EMT, Varennes, Québec (Canada), Univ. Grenoble (France) ; Luis Romero Cortés, José Azaña, Univ. Grenoble (France). 9:55 Parametric resonances in modulated passive fiber cavities (Keynote Presentation), Stefano TRILLO, Univ. Di Ferrara (Italy ; Matteo Conforti, François Copie, Alexandre Kudlinski, Arnaud Mussot, Univ. Lille, (France). 10:15 Modeling phase-sensitive parametric amplification in complex photonic waveguides (Keynote Presentation), Marco SANTAGIUSTINA, Univ. di Padova (Italy). 10:35 T.b.a. (Keynote Presentation), JorgeTREDICCE, Univ. Buenos Aires (Argentina). 10:55 Characterization of a fiber Talbot laser, Côme SCHNEBELIN, Hugues Guillet de Chatellus, Univ. Grenoble (France). 11:10 Ghost imaging of a multispectral temporal signal, FABRICE DEVAUX, Séverine Denis, Eric Lantz, FEMTO-ST, Univ. Bourgogne Franche-Comté, Besançon (France); Paul-Antoine Moreau, FEMTO-ST, Univ. Bourgogne Franche-Comté, Besançon (France) & Univ. of Bristol (UK). End of session 11:25 Coffee break 11:20 to 11:50 __________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________ PLENARY SESSION ROOM : Massena 11:50 to 12:25 11:50-12:25 Advances in Quantum Nonlinear Optics Robert W. BOYD University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON (Canada); University of Rochester, Rochester, NY (USA); University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland (UK). __________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________ Lunch time 12:25 to 14:00 __________________________________________________________________________________ ROOM : Massena 14:00 to 16:05 Ultrafast phenomena and matter interactions 14:00 Optically driven Extreme Ultraviolet radiation in Solids: Linking Photonics and Electronics (Keynote Presentation), Eleftherios GOULIELMAKIS, Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, Garching (Germany). 14:20 Liquid crystals for tunable nano-plasmonics,-metamaterials and femtoseconds laser pulse modulations (Keynote Presentation), Iam Choon KHOO, Pennsylvania State University (USA). 14:40 Ultrafast dynamic holography (Keynote Presentation), Serguey ODULOV, Alexandr Shumelyuk, Inst. of Phys., Nat. Acad. of Sciences, Kyiv (Ukraine); Stefan Nolte, Felix Freytag, Björn Bourdon, Mirco Imlau, Osnabrück Univ. (Germany). 15:00 Tunable femtosecond delay-line based on liquid crystal cells (Keynote Presentation), Aurélie JULLIEN, Umberto Bortolozzo, Stefania Residori, INLN, Univ. Nice-Sophia Antipolis (France); Stéphanie Grabielle, Nicolas Forget, Fastlite, valbonne (France); Jean-Pierre Huignard, Jphopto, Paris, (France). 15:20 Characterization of the 3rd order optical nonlinearity of graphene with the ultrafast Optical Kerr Effect method, Evdokia DREMETSIKA, Simon-Pierre Gorza, Charles Ciret, Serge Massar, Philippe Emplit, and Pascal Kockaert, OPÉRA-photonique, Univ. libre de Bruxelles (Belgium); Bruno Dlubak, Pierre Seneor, Daniel Dolfi, Unité Mixte de Physique CNRS/Thales, Palaiseau (France); Marie-Blandine Martin, Stephan Hofmann, Univ. of Cambridge (UK). 15:35 Efficiency of THz emission from InAs surfaces at high excitation, Marco PECCIANTI, Luke Peters, Alessia Pasquazi, Univ. of Sussex (UK). 15:50 Femtosecond Near-IR and Mid-IR Pumping, Pavel POLYNKIN, Ali Azarm, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson (USA). End of session 16:05 Coffee break 16:00 to 16:30 __________________________________________________________________________________ ROOM : Versailles 14:00 to 15:45 Advanced metrology, slow-light and atomic oscillators 14:00 Fast Light for Precision Metrology: From Fiber-Optic Sensing to Gravitational Wave Detection (Keynote Presentation), Selim SHAHRIAR, Minchuan Zhous, Zifan Zhou, Joshua Yablon, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, (USA); Jacob Scheuer, Tel Aviv Univ. (Israel). 14:20 Weak Values Precision Measurements (Keynote Presentation), John C. HOWELL, Univ. of Rochester (USA). 14:40 T.b.a. (Keynote Presentation), Fabien KEFELIAN, Observatoire Côte d’Azur, Nice (France). 15:00 High resolution atom interferometry with optical resonators, Isabelle RIOU, Andrea Bertoldi, Benjamin Canuel, Grégoire Lefévre, Sophie Pelisson, Philippe Bouyer, LP2N, Inst. d'Optique d'Aquitaine, Talence (France); Remi Geiger, Arnaud Landragin, Nicolas Mielec, SYRTE, Observatoire de Paris (France). 15:15 Second-order coupling and multi-field interferometry in photonic lattices, Stefano MINARDI, Univ. Jena (Germany) and Astrophys. Inst. Potsdam, (Germany); Romina Diener, Stefan Nolte, Univ. of Jena (Germany); Jan Tepper, Lucas Labadie, Univ. of Cologne (Germany). 15:30 Collective scattering in hybrid nanostructures composed of many high-Q atomic oscillators coupled to an electromagnetic low-Q resonance, Philippe LALANNE, Spyridon G. Kosionis, , LP2N, Univ. of Bordeaux, Talence (France). End of session 15:45 Coffee break 16:00 to 16:30 __________________________________________________________________________________ ROOM : Louis XVI 14:00 to 15:50 Wave interactions and disorder 14:00 Matter Waves in Disordered Potentials: From Localization to Thermalization and Condensation (Keynote Presentation), Christian MINIATURA, UMI 3654, National Univ. of Singapore, Nanyang Tech. Univ. (Singapore), INLN, Univ. Nice-Sophia Antipolis (France). 14:20 Introduction to optical wave turbulence (Keynote Presentation), Antonio PICOZZI, Guy MILLOT, ICB, Univ. Bourgogne Franche-Comté, Dijon (France); Josselin Garnier, Univ. Paris Diderot (France). 14:40 T.b.a. (Keynote Presentation), Pierre SURET, PhLam, Univ. of Lille 1 (France). 15:00 Multidimensional Nonlinear Optical Dynamics of Hydrodynamic Origin (Keynote Presentation), Fabio BARONIO, Univ. of Brescia (Italy). 15:20 Bragg Phase-Matched Second-Harmonic Generation in Light-Induced Volume Phase Gratings in Lithium Niobate, Haissam HANAFI, Jörg Imbrock, Eduard Mantler, Mousa Ayoub, Cornelia Denz, CeNoS, Univ. of Muenster (Germany). 15:35 Vector collision between Solitons and Dispersive Waves, Carlos MAS ARABI, Florent Bessin, Arnaud Mussot, Alexandre Kudlinski, Matteo Conforti, PhLAM, Univ. Lille, (France). End of session 15:50 Coffee break 16:00 to 16:30 __________________________________________________________________________________ ROOM : Massena 16:30 to 18:20 Light-induced waveguides 16:30 Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking and Optical Bistability with Spatial Solitons in Nematic Liquid Crystals (Keynote Presentation), Gaetano ASSANTO, Tampere Univ. of Technology, (Finland), NooEL, University ``Roma Tre'' & CNR-ISC, Inst. for Complex Systems, Rome (Italy); Armando Piccardi, Nina Kravets, NooEL, University “Roma Tre”, Rome (Italy); Alessandro Alberucci, Tampere Univ. of Technology, (Finland); Oleksandr Buchnev, Univ. of Southampton, (U.K). 16:50 Light Transfer in Coupled Detuned Photoinduced Waveguides and their Quantum Analogies (Keynote Presentation), Germano MONTEMEZZANI, Hassan Oukraou, Charles Ciret, Virginie Coda, Univ. de Lorraine, LMOPS, Metz & Centrale Supélec, LMOPS, Metz (France); Laura Vittadello, Univ. de Lorraine, LMOPS, Metz (France) & Univ. of Padova (Italy); Andon A. Rangelov, Sofia Univ. (Bulgaria). 17:10 Shock wave dynamics of light propagating in focusing Kerr-like nematic liquid crystals (Keynote Presentation), Eric LOUVERGNEAUX, Hélène Louis, Vincent Odent, PhLam, Univ. of Lille 1 (France); Matteo Conforti, PhLAM/IRCIC, Univ. of Lille 1 (France); Stefano Trillo, Univ. of Ferrara (Italy). 17:30 Particle-like behavior of propagative dissipative optical solitons (Keynote Presentation), Stéphane BARLAND, Bruno Garbin, Giovanna Tissoni, INLN, Univ. Nice-Sophia Antipolis (France); Julien Javaloyes, Univ. de las Islas Baleares, Mallorca (Spain). 17:50 Catastrophic caustic light: From Airy to swallowtail and butterfly beams, Alessandro ZANNOTTI, Falko Diebel, Martin Boguslawski, Cornelia Denz, Inst. of Appl. Phys. and Center for Nonlinear Science (CeNoS), Univ. of Münster (Germany). 18:05 Formation of laser induced photonic whirls in liquid crystals and liquids, Klaudia DRADRACH, Stanislaw BARTKIEWICZ, Adv. Mat. Eng. and Modelling Group, Faculty of Chemistry, Wroclaw Univ. of Science and Tech., Wroclaw (Poland). End of session 18:20 __________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________ ROOM : Versailles 16:30 to 18:20 Optical fiber sensors 16:30 Nanoscale polymer and metal functional coatings improve detection limits in optical fiber sensors (Keynote Presentation), Jacques ALBERT, Dept. of Electr., Carleton Univ., Ottawa, (Canada). 16:50 Optical fiber sensing for acoustic detection (Keynote Presentation), Stéphanie MOLIN, Pascale Nouchi, Daniel Dolfi, Thales Research & Technology France, Palaiseau (France); Arnaud Peigné, Renaud Bouffaron, Martine Doisy, Thales Underwater Systems, Sophia-Antipolis (France); Umberto Bortolozzo, Stefania Residori, INLN, Univ. Nice-Sophia Antipolis (France); Jean-Pierre Huignard, Jphopto, Paris (France). 17:10 Towards a novel "silky" way to detect chemical species using spider threads (Keynote Presentation), Kenny HEY TOW, Desmond M. Chow, Luc Thévenaz, EPFL Swiss Federal Inst. of Tech., Lausanne (Switzerland); Fritz Vollrath, Univ. of Oxford (UK);Isabelle Dicaire, European Space Agency, Noordwijk (The Netherlands)& ICCTT Optech, Montreal (Canada); Tom Gheysens, European Space Agency, Noordwijk (The Netherlands) &Ghent Univ. (Belgium). 17:30 Ubiquitous optical fiber nerves capable of hearing behind the walls (Keynote Presentation), Miguel GONZALZ-HERRAEZ, Univ. of Alcalá (Spain). 17:50 Electrooptics of Blue Phase Liquid Crystal Optical Waveguides, Markus WAHLE, Justus Ebel, Johann Plaschke, Heinz-Siegfried Kitzerow, Paderborn Univ. and Center for Optoelectronics and Photonics, Paderborn (Germany). 18:05 Optical biochemical sensor based on long period fibre grating with graphene oxide nanocoating for haemoglobin detection, Xianfeng CHEN, M. S. Shaikh, Chen Liu, Bangor Univ. (U.K.); Qi Cai, Bangor Univ. (U.K.) & Shanghai Inst. of Microsystem and Information Tech., Chinese Acad. of Sciences (China). End of session 18:20 __________________________________________________________________________________ ROOM : Louis XVI 16:30 to 18:25 Complex structures and defects 1 16:30 Photo patterning and reconfiguring complex molecular orientations in liquid crystals (Keynote Presentation), Qi-Huo WEI, Yubing Guo, Miao Jiang, Chenhui Peng, Sergij Shiyanovskii, Oleg D. Lavrentovich, Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State Univ., Kent (USA). 16:50 Shaping light with Bragg-Berry mirrors (Keynote Presentation), Etienne BRASSELET, Mushegh Rafayelyan, LOMA, Univ. of Bordeaux, Talence (France). 17:10 Multiple Bragg reflections from 2D assemblies of cholesteric liquid crystal micro-shells, Romano RUPP, Univ. of Vienna(Austria);Yong Geng, JungHyun Noh, Jan P.F. Lagerwall, Univ. of Luxembourg (Luxembourg); Irena Dtrevensek-Olenik, Univ. of Ljubljana (Slovenia) & J. Stefan Inst., Ljubljana (Slovenia) & Univ. of Vienna(Austria); Gabriele Lenzini, Interdiscipl. Center for Security and Trust, Univ. of Luxembourg, (Luxembourg). 17:25 Fourier optics of amplitude, phase and polarization-structured singular light fields, Ramon RUNDE, Eileen Otte, Christina Alpmann, Cornelia Denz, Inst. of Appl. Phy., Univ. of Münster (Germany). 17:40 Influence of multiple polarization singularities on the focal fields, Lei HAN, Peng Li, Sheng Liu, Yi Zhang, Huachao Cheng, Jianlin Zhao, Northwestern Polytech. Univ., Xi'an (China). 17:55 Tailored singularity structures: from wind roses to flower gardens, Eileen OTTE, Christina Alpmann, Cornelia Denz, Inst. of Appl. Phys., Univ. of Muenster (Germany). 18:10 Dynamical Centrosymmetry Breaking in Graphene, David N. CARVALHO, Fabio Biancalana, Heriot-Watt Univ., Edinburgh (UK). End of session 18:25 __________________________________________________________________________________ THURSDAY 27 OCTOBER __________________________________________________________________________________ ROOM : Massena 8:30 to 10:15 Acousto-optics and Brillouin effects 8:30 Dynamical generation of sound in photonic cavities and waveguides (Keynote Presentation), Vincent LAUDE, Jean-Charles Beugnot, FEMTO-ST, Univ. de Bourgogne Franche-Comté, Besançon (France). 8:50 Optoacoustics in photonic microwires and microstructured fibers (Keynote Presentation), Hervé MAILLOTTE, J.C. Beugnot, J.C. Tchahame, K. Phan Huy, V. Laude, T. Sylvestre, FEMTOST Inst., CNRS UMR 6174, Univ. de Bourgogne Franche-Comté, Besançon (France). 9:10 T.b.a. (Keynote Presentation), Giuseppe STRANGI, Case Western Reserve Univ. (USA). 9:30 Temperature and strain dependence of Brillouin frequency shift in polymer-coated chalcogenide optical microwires, J-C. BEUGNOT, C. Jeannin, J. C. Tchahame, A. Godet, A. Ndao, T. Sylvestre, Inst. FEMTO-ST, Univ. of Bourgogne Franche-Comté, Besançon (France); R. Ahmad, M. Rochette, McGill Univ., Montreal (Canada). 9:45 Schaefer-Bergmann Diffraction for Characterization of Acousto-optic Materials, Kelvin WAGNER, Jonathan Pfeiffer, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder (USA). 10:00 Control of surface Brillouin scattering in photonic crystal fibers, Joël Cabrel TCHAHAME, Jean-Charles Beugnot, Kien Phan Huy, Vincent Laude, Thibaut Sylvestre, Inst. FEMTO-ST, Univ. of Bourgogne Franche-Comté, Besançon (France); Alexandre Kudlinski, PhLam, Univ. of Lille 1 (France). End of session 10:15 Coffee break 10:45 to 11:15 __________________________________________________________________________________ ROOM : Versailles 8:30 to 10:50 Self-organized and advanced materials 8:30 Electro-optics of oblique helicoidal cholesterics (Keynote Presentation), Oleg D. LAVRENTOVICH, Olena Iadlovska, Alireza Moheghi, Jie Xiang, Sergij Shiyanovskii, Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State Univ., Kent (USA). 8:50 Templated Liquid Crystalline Structures for Lasers, Tuneable Gels and Optoelectronic Devices (Keynote Presentation), Stephen MORRIS, Univ. of Oxford, Oxford (UK). 9:10 Dynamic Polymer/Liquid Crystal Thin Films (Keynote Presentation), Timothy J. BUNNING, T.J. White, D.R. Evans, K.M. Lee, M. Rumi, V. Tondiglia, Air Force Research Laboratory, Dayton, OH, (USA); L. De Sio, N. Taburyan, BEAM, Inc., Winter Park, FL (USA). 9:30 Multi-functional and photoaddressable hybrid liquid crystals (Keynote Presentation), Malgosia KACZMAREK , Matthew Proctor, Elena Mavrona, Phys. and Astr., Univ. of Southampton (UK); Giampaolo D’Alessandro, Math. Sciences, Univ. of Southampton (UK); Vassili Fedotov, Oleksandr Buchnev, Optoelectronics Res. Centre, Univ. of Southampton (UK); Luciano De Sio, Nelson Tabiryan, Beam Engineering for Advanced Measurements Co, Orlando (USA). 9:50 Defect Structure Studies to Determine the Primary Photorefractive Centers Responsible for Enhanced Beam Coupling in KNbO3:Fe, Dean R. EVANS, Air Force Res. Lab., Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio (USA); Sergey A. BASUN, Air Force Res. Lab., Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio & Azimuth Corporation, 4027 Colonel Glenn Hwy. OH (USA). 10:05 Systematic variation of high index writing chemistry in two stage holographic photopolymers, Marvin ALIM, Materials Science & Engineering Program, Univ. of Colorado Boulder (USA); Robert McLeod, Materials Science & Engineering Program & Dept. of Elect. Eng., Univ. of Colorado Boulder (USA); Christopher Bowman, Materials Science & Engineering Program & Dept. of Chem. Eng., Univ. of Colorado Boulder (USA); David Glugla, Amy Sullivan, Dept. of Chem. Eng., Univ. of Colorado Boulder (USA). 10:20 Using Transmissive Photonic Band Edge Shift to Detect Explosives, Noorhayati IDROS, Univ. of Cambridge, Cambridge (UK) & Inst. Nano Electr. Eng., Univ. Malaysia Perlis (Malaysia); Daping Chu, Electrical Eng. Div., Univ. of Cambridge (UK); Man Yi Ho, Electrical Eng. Div., Univ. of Cambridge (UK) & Schlumberger Cambridge Research (Malaysia); Varun Kamboj, Harvey Beere, David Ritchie, Cavendish Lab. Phys. Dep., Univ. of Cambridge (UK); Hua Xu, Zhong-Zhe Gu, State Key Lab. of Bioelectronics, Southeast Univ., Nanjing (China). 10:35 Battery-free Optical Sensors based on Photonic Polymer Films, Monali MOIRANGTHEM, Albertus P.H.J. Schenning, Functional Organic Materials & Devices, Eindhoven Univ. of Technology (The Netherlands). End of session 10:50 Coffee break 10:45 to 11:15 __________________________________________________________________________________ ROOM : Louis XVI 8:30 to 10:50 Meta and structured materials 1 8:30 Planar Optics with Metasurfaces (Keynote Presentation), Patrice GENEVET, CRHEA, CNRS, Valbonne (France); Francesco Aieta, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto & Harvard Univ., Cambridge (USA); Daniel Wintz, R Khorasaninejad, Antonio Ambrosio, Harvard Univ., Cambridge (USA); Mikhail Kats, Harvard Univ., Cambridge & Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison (USA); Federico Capasso, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto (USA) & CRHEA, CNRS, Valbonne (France). 8:50 Second-order nonlinear optics of metasurfaces (Keynote Presentation), Martti KAURANEN, Robert Czaplicki, Jouni Makitalo, Kalle Koskinen, Antti Kiviniemi, Depart. of Phys., Tampere Univ. of Tech., Tampere (Finland); Joonas Lehtolahti, Janne Laukkanen, Markku Kuittinen, Depart. of Phys. and Math., Univ. of Eastern Finland, Joensuu (Finland). 9:10 Advanced plasmonic metamaterials for ultrasensitive biosensing (Keynote Presentation), Andrei V. KABASHIN, Aix Marseille Univ., Marseille (France). 9:30 T.b.a. (Keynote Presentation), Alfredo DE ROSSI, Thales Research and Technology, Palaiseau (France). 9:50 3D Plasmonic Crystal Metamaterials for Ultra-sensitive Biosencing, Artem DANILOV, Andrei Aristov, Andrei Kabashin, Aix Marseille Univ., Marseille (France); Maria Manousidaki, Maria Farsari, FORTH, Heraklion (Greece). 10:05 Optical and Magnetic Characterization of Transition Metal Ion Doped ZnO Microspheres Synthesized via Laser Ablation, Parvathy ANITHA, Nilesh J. Vasa, Dept. of Eng. Design, Indian Inst. of Tech. Madras, Chennai (India); M.S. Ramachandra RAO, Dept. of Phys., Indian Inst. of Tech. Madras, Chennai (India). 10:20 High-Q lithium-niobate microdisk resonators: fabrication and electro-optic modulation, Fang BO, Jie Wang, Zhenzhong Hao, Feng Gao, Guoquan Zhang, Jingjun Xu, The MOE Key Laboratory of Weak Light Nonlinear Photonics, Nankai Univ., Tianjin (China). 10:35 Low-loss Ta2O5 waveguide and its application for Si photonics, Chao-Kuei LEE, ChunLung Wu, Yi-Jen Chiu, An-Kuo Chu, National Sun Yat-sen Univ., Kaohsiung (China). End of session 10:50 Coffee break 10:45 to 11:15 __________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________ PLENARY SESSION ROOM : Massena 11:15 to 12:25 __________________________________________________________________________________ 11:15 – 11:50 Learning from examples in optics Demetri PSALTIS Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Lausanne (Switzerland). __________________________________________________________________________________ 11:50 – 12:25 Two-dimensional Electronic Spectroscopy from the Visible to the Ultraviolet Giulio CERULLO, Rocio Borrego Varillas, Aurelio Oriana, Cristian Manzoni IFN-CNR, Dipartimento di Fisica, Politecnico, Milano (Italy). __________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________ Lunch time 12:25 to 14:00 __________________________________________________________________________________ ROOM : Salon Royal 14:00 to 15:15 POSTER SESSION __________________________________________________________________________________ Coffee break 15:15 to 15:45 __________________________________________________________________________________ 15:45 Excursion to St Paul de Vence __________________________________________________________________________________ FRIDAY 28 OCTOBER __________________________________________________________________________________ ROOM : Massena 8:30 to 10:15 Photo-addressable media and holography 8:30 Photopolymerizable Nanocomposite Materials for Light and Neutron Optics (Keynote Presentation), Yasuo TOMITA, Eiji Hata, Keisuke Momose, Xiangming Liu, Dept. of Eng. Science, Univ. of Electro-Communications, Tokyo (Japan); Jürgen KLEPP, Martin FALLY, Faculty of Phys., Univ. of Vienna (Austria); Christian PRUNER, Dept. of Mat. Science, Univ. of Salzburg, (Austria). 8:50 Collective Photo-Heating of Nematic Liquid Crystals doped with Gold Nanoparticles (Keynote Presentation), Cesare UMETON, Luigia Pezzi, Giovanna Palermo, Depart. of Phys., Univ. of Calabria, Arcavacata di Rende & CNR - NANOTEC, LICRYL, U.O.S. Cosenza (Italy); Luciano De Sio, Nelson Tabiryan, Beam Engineering for Advanced Measurements Co., Orlando (USA); Alessandro Veltri, Colegio de Ciencias e Ingeniera, Univ. San Francisco de Quito, Quito (Ecuador);Tiziana Placido, Angela Agostiano, Univ. Bari, Dip. Chimica, Bari & CNR - IPCF Ist. per i Processi Chimici e Fisici, Sezione si Bari (Italy); Roberto Comparelli, Maria Lucia Curri , IPCF Ist. per i Processi Chimici e Fisici, Sezione si Bari (Italy). 9:10 Multiscale models of particle suspensions in liquid crystals (Keynote Presentation), Giampaolo D’ALESSANDRO, Tom P. Bennett, Math. Sciences, Univ. of Southampton (UK); Keith R. Daly, Eng. Sciences, Univ. of Southampton (UK). 9:30 Highly Sensitive Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering Nanosensors for detection of Bacteriophages, Lucia PETTI, M. Rippa, R. Castagna, Inst. of Appl. Sciences and Intelligent Systems “E. Caianiello” of CNR, Pozzuoli (Italy); M. Pannico, P. Musto, Inst. for Polymers, Composites and Biomaterials of CNR, Pozzuoli (Italy); R. Paradiso, G. Borriello, Ist. Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Mezzogiorno, Portici (Italy). 9:45 Beam coupling in deformed helix cholesteric liquid crystals, Victor RESHETNYAK, Phys. Faculty, Taras Shevchenko National Univ. of Kyiv (Ukraine); Dean R. Evans, Air Force Research Lab., Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton (USA). 10:00 Optimization of the liquid crystal light valve for signal beam gain, Konstantin SHCHERBIN, Igor Gvozdovskyy, Inst. of Phys., National Academy of Sciences, Kiev, Ukraine; Dean R. Evans, Air Force Res. Lab., Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio (USA). End of session 10:15 Coffee break 10:45 to 11:15 __________________________________________________________________________________ ROOM : Versailles 8:30 to 10:45 Bio-sensors and light interactions in biological media 8:30 Light Interaction with the Capillary Bed in Human Skin (Keynote Presentation), Alexei A. KAMSHILIN, ITMO Univ., St. Petersburg (Russia). 8:50 Lasers inside cells and biodegradable implantable lasers (Keynote Presentation), Matjaž HUMAR, J. Stefan Institute & Faculty of Math. and Phys. Univ. of Ljubljana, (Slovenia) & Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Cambridge (USA). 9:10 Optical biopsy and tissue characterization with circularly polarized light (Keynote Presentation), Igor MEGLINSKI, Alexander Bykov, Alexey Popov, Opto-Electronics and Measurement Techniques Unit, Univ. of Oulu (Finland); Alexander Doronin, Dept. of Computer Science, Yale Univ., New Haven (USA). 9:30 Holographic Imaging of Pulsatile Blood Flow, Michael ATLAN, Mathias Fink, CNRS UMR 7587, Inst. Langevin. INSERM U 979, UPMC, UP 7, ESPCI ParisTech, Paris (France); Michel Paques, José-Alain Sahel, Inst. de la Vision, INSERM UMR-S 968, CNRS UMR 7210, UPMC, Paris (France). 9:45 A Blue LED photohaemostasis device for superficial wounds treatment, Francesca ROSSI, Giada Magni, Francesca Tatini, Gaetano De Siena, Roberto Pini, Inst. of Appl. Phys. “Nello Carrara”, Nat. Res. Council, Sesto Fiorentino (Italy); Riccardo Cicchi, Nat. Inst. of Optics, Nat. Res. Council, Florence (Italy) & European Lab. for Non-linear Spectroscopy (LENS), Sesto Fiorentino (Italy); Domenico Alfieri, Light4Tech Firenze S.r.L., Scandicci (Italy); Stefano Bacci, Dept. of Human Anatomy, Histology, and Legal Medicine, Univ. of Florence (Italy); Francesco S. Pavone, European Lab. for Non-linear Spectroscopy (LENS), Sesto Fiorentino (Italy) & Dept. of Phys., Univ. of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino (Italy). 10:00 Potential application of up-conversion luminescent particles for eco-photonics, Alexey POPOV, Alexander Bykov, Elena Volkova, Irina Yanina, Igor Meglinski, Optoelectronics and Measurement Techniques Laboratory, Univ. of Oulu, Oulu (Finland). 10:15 Microencapsulated Fluorescent Biomarkers for Ecological Monitoring of Ancient Lake Baikal, Anton GURKOV, Ekaterina Shchapova, Daria Bedulina, Ekaterina Borvinskaya, Boris Baduev, Maxim Timofeyev, Irkutsk State Univ., Irkutsk (Russia); Igor Meglinski, Irkutsk State Univ., Irkutsk (Russia) & Univ. of Oulu, Oulu (Finland). 10:30 Unconventional ratiometric-enhanced optical sensing of oxygen by mixed-phase TiO2, S. Lettieri, D.K. Pallotti, Inst. of Appl. Sciences and Intelligent Systems, National Research Council (ISASI-CNR), Pozzuoli (Italy); P. Maddalena, Dipartimento di Fisica “E. Pancini”, Univ. Napoli “Federico II”, Napoli (Italy). End of session 10:45 Coffee break 10:45 to 11:15 __________________________________________________________________________________ ROOM : Louis XVI 8:30 to 10:25 Meta and structured materials 2 8:30 From Molecules to Meta-Molecules for Nonlinear Optics (Keynote Presentation), Joseph Zyss, Laboratoire de Photonique Quantique et Moléculaire et Institut d’Alembert Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan, Univ. Paris-Saclay (France). 8:50 Plasmonic Controlled Nonlinear Interaction (Keynote Presentation), Alexandre BOUHELIER, Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne CNRS, Univ. de Bourgogne Franche-Comté, Dijon (France). 9:10 Fabrication of nano-sized domain structures in Mg-doped LiNbO3, Xiaojie WANG, Fang Bo, Shaolin Chen, Jing Chen, Yongfa Kong, Jingjun Xu, Guoquan Zhang, The MOE Key Laboratory of Weak Light Nonlinear Photonics, Nankai Univ., Tianjin (China). 9:25 Surface Activation by Ozone or ALD-grown SiO2 for Hybrid Bonding on Silicon, Anne TALNEAU, Isabelle Sagnes, Gilles Patriarche, Laboratoire de Photonique et de Nanostructures, Marcoussis (France). 9:40 Cavity-Enhanced Organic Laser Holograms, Markas SUDZIUS, Tim Wagner, Hartmut Froeb, Karl Leo, Institut für Angewandte Photophysik, Technische Universität Dresden (Germany). 9:55 All-polymer whispering gallery mode sensor, Ann Britt PETERMANN, Bernhard Roth, Merve Meinhardt-Wollweber, Hannover Centre for Optical Technologies (HOT), Leibniz Univ. Hannover (Germany); Uwe Morgner, Inst. of Quantum Optics, Leibniz Univ. Hannover (Germany). 10:10 Optical properties of Ge-As-Se glasses, Li WANG, Siwei Xu, College of Appl. Sciences, Beijing Univ. of Tech., Beijing (China); Rongping Wang, Laser Physics Centre, Research School of Physical Science and Eng., Australian National Univ., Canberra (Australia). End of session 10:25 Coffee break 10:45 to 11:15 __________________________________________________________________________________ ROOM : Massena 11:15 to 13:00 Optical fibers, interferometry and slow-light 11:15 Physics and applications of population dynamic gratings in rare-earth doped optical fibers (Keynote Presentation), Serguei STEPANOV, CICESE, Ensenada (Mexico). 11:35 Slow-Light Microcavities (Keynote Presentation), Yannick DUMEIGE, Vincent Huet, Alphonse Rasoloniaina, Pierre Guilleme, Philippe Rochard, Patrice Feron, FOTON (CNRS UMR 6082), Univ. de Rennes, ENSSAT, Lannion (France); Michel Mortier, IRCP (CNRS UMR 8247), Chimie ParisTech, PSL Research University, Paris (France); Ariel Levenson, Kamel Bencheikh, Alejandro Yacomotti, LPN (CNRS UPR 20), Marcoussis (France). 11:55 Optical information processing based on electromagnetically induced transparency in solids (Keynote Presentation), Guoquan ZHANG, Zhixiang Li, Jianji Liu and Jingjun Xu, The MOE Key Laboratory of Weak Light Nonlinear Photonics, School of Physics and TEDA Appl. Phys. Inst., Nankai University, Tianjin (China). 12:15 Slow light with backward-wave four-wave mixing, Konstantin SHCHERBIN, Inst. of Phys., National Academy of Sciences, Kiev (Ukraine); Pierre Mathey, Lab. Interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne, UMR 6303 CNRS-Univ. de Bourgogne Franche-Comté, Dijon (France). 12:30 Mach-Zehnder interferometric photonic crystal fiber for low acoustic frequency detections, Dnyandeo PAWAR, Ch. N. Rao, Ravi Kant Choubey, S.N. Kale, Dept. of Appl. Phys., Defence Institute of Advanced Technology (DU), Girinagar, Maharashtra, (India). 12:45 Two-Beam Coupling in a Hybrid Photorefractive Cell with Bent-Core Liquid Crystals, Igor PINKEVYCH, Victor Reshetnyak, Faculty of Physics, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (Ukraine); Dean R. Evans, Air Force Research Laboratory, Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (USA). End of session 13:00 Lunch time 13:00 to 14:30 __________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________ ROOM : Versailles 11:15 to 12:40 Ultrasound imaging, photo-acoustics and polarization control 11:15 Ultrafast acousto-optic imaging of thick scattering media with ultrasound plane-waves excitation (Keynote Presentation), François RAMAZ, Jean-Baptiste Laudereau, Mickaël Tanter, JeanLuc Gennisson, Institut Langevin - Ondes et Images, CNRS UMR 7587, ESPCI Paris, PSL Research Univ., Paris (France); Alexander Grabar, Uzhgorod National Univ., Inst. of Solid State Phys. and Chem., Uzhgorod (Ukraine). 11:35 Photoacoustic imaging with speckle illumination (Keynote Presentation), Emmanuel BOSSY, Institut Langevin, ESPCI Paris CNRS, Paris (France) & Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Physique, Univ. Grenoble Alpes/CNRS (France). 11:55 Ultrasound transducer influence on Grueneisen relaxation effect in photoacoustic imaging, Maxim CHERKASHIN, Carsten Brenner, Markus Finkeldey, Benjamin Doepke, Nils C. Gerhardt, Martin R. Hofmann, Photonics and Terahertz Technology, Ruhr-Univ. Bochum (Germany). 12:10 Transmission Mueller Polarimetry and Differential Decomposition: Thickness Dependence of the Depolarization and Polarization Properties of Isotropic and Anisotropic Turbid Media, Sang Hyuk YOO, Tatiana Novikova, Enric Garcia-Caurel, Razvigor Ossikovski, LPICM, CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, Univ. Paris-Saclay (France); Alexander Bykov, Alexey Popov,Igor Meglinski, Univ. of Oulu (Finland). 12:25 Longitudinal modulation on polarization state of quasi-Bessel beams, Peng LI, Yi Zhang, Sheng Liu, Lei Han, Huachao Cheng, Jianlin Zhao, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an (China). End of session 12:40 Lunch time 13:00 to 14:30 __________________________________________________________________________________ ROOM : Louis XVI 11:15 to 13:15 Dynamical systems and pattern formation 11:15 Photo-isomerization induces patterns: rolls, crown splash, labyrinth, and foam textures (Keynote Presentation), Marcel G. CLERC, Dept. de Física, FCFM, Universidad de Chile, Santiago (Chile). 11:35 Patterns and Self-Organization in Cold Atoms (Keynote Presentation), Guillaume LABEYRIE, Abdoulaye Camara, Robin Kaiser, INLN, Univ. Nice-Sophia Antipolis (France); Enrico Tesio, Pedro Gomes, Ivor Kresic, William Firth, Gian-Luca Oppo, Gordon Robb, Aidan Arnold, Thorsten Ackemann, SUPA and Dept. of Phys., Univ. of Strathclyde, Glasgow (UK). 11:55 Nonlocal Nonlinear Optics (Keynote Presentation), Fabian MAUCHER, Joint Quantum Centre (JQC) & Dept. of Math. Sciences, Durham Univ. (UK). 12:15 The formation and characteristics of linear periodic structures induced by the single light beam irradiation, Joanna NOGA, Anna Sobolewska, Stanislaw Bartkiewicz, Adv. Mat. Eng. and Modelling Group, Faculty of Chemistry, Wroclaw Univ. of Science and Tech., Wroclaw (Poland). 12:30 Negative electrorheological effect of MBBA in the presence of electro-convection, Tomoyuki NAGAYA, Yuki Satou, Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Eng., Oita Univ., Oita (Japan); Yoshitomo Goto, Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Eng., Oita Univ. (Japan) & Dept. of Childhood Education, Beppu Univ. Junior College (Japan); Yoshiki Hidaka, Dept. of Appl. Quantum Phys. and Nuclear Eng., Kyushu Univ., Fukuoka (Japan); Hiroshi Orihara, Division of Appl. Phys., Hokkaido Univ., Sapporo (Japan). 12:45 Route to chaos from a mid-infrared quantum-cascade laser (Keynote Presentation), Marc SCIAMANNA, LMOPS, Centrale Supélec, Univ. Paris-Saclay & Univ. de Lorraine, Metz (France); Louise Jumpertz, Télécom ParisTech, Univ. Paris-Saclay & mirSense, Orsay (France); Kevin Schires, Télécom ParisTech, Univ. Paris-Saclay (France); Mathieu Carras, mirSense, Orsay (France); Frédéric Grillot, Télécom ParisTech, Univ. Paris-Saclay (France)& Univ. of New-Mexico, Albuquerque (USA). 13:00 Nonlinear Dynamics of Airy beam interactions, Delphine WOLFERSBERGER, Noémi Wiersma, Nicolas Marsal, Marc Sciamanna, LMOPS, CentraleSupélec, Univ. Paris-Saclay & LMOPS, CentraleSupélec, Univ. de Lorraine, Metz (France). End of session 13:15 Lunch time 13:00 to 14:30 __________________________________________________________________________________ ROOM : Massena 14:30 to 17:10 Time-resolved spectroscopy and ultrafast phenomena 14:30 Multi-timescale pump-probe spectroscopy using arbitrary detuning asynchronous optical sampling (Keynote Presentation), Laura ANTONUCCI, X. Solinas, A. Bonvalet, M. H. Vos, L. Daniault, M. Joffre, Lab. d’Optique et Biosciences, Ecole Polytechnique, CNRS, INSERM, Univ. Paris-Saclay, Palaiseau (France). 14:50 Fast acousto-optic delay line for real-time spectroscopy (Keynote Presentation), Nicolas FORGET, FASTLITE, Valbonne (France). 15:10 Optical real-time fractional Fourier transformation, Côme SCHNEBELIN, Hugues Guillet de Chatellus, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, LIPHY, Grenoble (France). 15:25 Design and Modelization of a convex grating for hyperspectral imager: spectral optimization based on free form profile, Bernard SABUSHIMIKE, Georges Horugavye, Pierre Piron, Serge Habraken, Holography and Optical laboratory (HOLOLAB), Univ. of Liège (Belgium); Jean François Jamoye, Vincent Moreau, AMOS, Liège Science Park, Angleur (Belgium). 15:40 Nonlinear diffuse reflectance spectroscopy of nanopowders, Christian KIJATKIN, Mirco Imlau, School of Phys., Osnabrück Univ. (Germany); Anke Duettmann, School of Phys. & Inst. of Chemistry of New Materials, Osnabrück Univ. (Germany); Karsten Koempe, Inst. of Chemistry of New Materials, Osnabrück Univ. (Germany); Laura Olah, Éva Tichy)Racs, Zsuzsanna Szaller, Zsolt Kis, Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest (Hungary). 16:55 Compact Mid-Infrared Optical Parametric Oscillator for Spectroscopic Applications, Ville ULVILA, Lauri Halonen, Lab. of Phys. Chem., Dept. of Chem., Univ. of Helsinki (Finland); Markku Vainio, Lab. of Phys. Chem., Dept. of Chem., Univ. of Helsinki (Finland) & VTT MIKES Metrology, Espoo (Finland). End of session 17:10 Coffee break 16:45 to 17:30 __________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________ ROOM : Versailles 14:30 to 16:45 Phase imaging and microscopy 14:30 Applications of Quantitative Phase Imaging in Microscopy (Keynote Presentation), Benoit WATTELLIER, PHASICS, Parc Technologique de Saint Aubin, (France). 14:50 T.b.a. (Keynote Presentation), Pietro FERRARO, Inst. of Appl. Sciences & Intelligent Systems, (Italy). 15:10 Precision analysis in polarization-resolved second-harmonic generation microscopy limited by photon noise (Keynote Presentation), Philippe REFREGIER, Valentine Wasik, Frédéric Galland, Hervé Rigneault, Sophie Brasselet, Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, Centrale Marseille, Institut Fresnel, Marseille (France) 15:30 Quantitative Phase Microscopy for Characterizing Embedded Refractive Index Structures within a Diffusion-Based Photopolymer, David J. GLUGLA, Marvin D. Alim, Robert R. McLeod, Dept. of Electr. Eng. Univ. of Colorado, Boulder (USA). 15:45 Molecular Contrast Optical Coherence Tomography Imaging Using a Polymer Encapsulated Methylene Blue Contrast Agent, Brian E. APPLEGATE, Wihan Kim, Jorge Palma, Javier A. Jo, Dept. of Biomedical Eng., Texas A&M Univ., College Station (USA); Ploy Charoenphol, Dept. of Mech. Eng., Texas A&M Univ., College Station (USA). 16:00 Efficient second-harmonic probing of collagen in histological slides using Bessel beam excitation, Nelly VUILLEMIN, Pierre Mahou, Marie-Claire Schanne-Klein, Willy Supatto, Emmanuel Beaurepaire, LOB, Ecole polytechnique, CNRS, INSERM, Univ. Paris-Saclay, Palaiseau (France); Delphine Débarré, LOB, Ecole polytechnique, CNRS, INSERM, Univ. Paris-Saclay, Palaiseau (France) & LIPhy, Univ. Joseph Fourier, CNRS, 38402 St Martin d’Hères (France); Thierry Gacoin, PMC, Ecole polytechnique, CNRS, Univ. Paris-Saclay, Palaiseau (France); Pierre-Louis Tharaux, PARCC, INSERM, European Georges Pompidou Hospital, Paris (France). 16:15 Biomechanical cellular properties obtained by the holographic optical stretcher, Robert MEISSNER, Cornelia Denz, Inst. of Appl. Phy., Univ. of Münster (Germany). 16:30 Advanced wavefront reconstruction method for off-axis digital holography, Igor SHEVKUNOV, Nikolay Petrov, Dept. of Photonics and Optical Information Technology, ITMO Univ., St. Petersburg (Russia); Vladimir Katkovnik, Karen Egiazarian, Dept. of Signal Processing, Technology Univ. of Tampere (Finland). End of session 16:45 Coffee break 16:45 to 17:30 __________________________________________________________________________________ ROOM : Louis XVI 14:30 to 16:30 Complex structures and defects 2 14:30 Optical imaging of nematic structures with complex topology (Keynote Presentation), Slobodan ZUMER, University of Ljubljana (Slovenia). 14:50 Cholesteric liquid crystal microlenses and mirrors as man-made materials and in living matter (Keynote Presentation), Michel MITOV, Gonzague Agez, Chloé Bayon, Centre d’Elaboration de Matériaux et d’Etudes Structurales, CEMES, Toulouse (France). 15:10 Geometric phase in soft-matter optics (Keynote Presentation), Raouf BARBOZA, Marcel G. Clerc, Dept. de Física, FCFM, Universidad de Chile, Santiago (Chile); Umberto Bortolozzo, Stefania Residori, INLN, Univ. Nice Sophia Antipolis (France). 15:30 Interplay between material and optical chirality during self-induced optical vortex generation in liquid crystals, Nina KRAVETS, Etienne Brasselet, Univ. Bordeaux,CNRS, LOMA, UMR 5798, Talence (France). 15:45 Pancharactnam-Berry phase used for realizing spin-dependent propagation and polarization measurement, Sheng LIU, Lei Han, Peng Li, Yi Zhang, Jianlin Zhao, Key Lab. of Space Appl. Phys. and Chem., and Shaanxi Key Lab. of Optical Information Tech., School of Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an (China). 16:00 Smart optical vortex coronagraphy using liquid crystal defects, Artur ALEKSANYAN, Etienne Brasselet, Univ. Bordeaux,CNRS, LOMA, UMR 5798, Talence (France). 16:15 Topological diversity of chiral liquid crystals microvolumes, Tatiana ORLOVA, Etienne Brasselet, LOMA, Univ. of Bordeaux, Talence (France); Sarah Jane Aßhoff, Tadatsugu Yamaguchi, Nathalie Katsonis, MESA+Inst. for Nanotech., Univ. of Twente (The Netherlands). End of session 16:30 Coffee break 16:45 to 17:30 __________________________________________________________________________________