Workshop "Complex Optics and Modelocking: Synergies on the Horizon"

Modelocking enables the generation of ultrashort pulses of light from laser cavities, a breakthrough that has led to four Nobel Prizes. The process of generating ultrashort pulses is so seamless and reliable that it is easy to overlook that modelocking is a self-organized phenomenon, arguably one of the most impactful in science. Thousands of frequency modes within a laser cavity spontaneously lock their phases, producing pulses that are orders of magnitude shorter than the cavity itself.

Historically focused on uniform pulse trains, modelocking research now explores frontiers like spatiotemporal modelocking, designer soliton molecules, ultra-high repetition rates, and novel pulse patterns, requiring managing of vastly more degrees of freedom and controlling novel instabilities.

Meanwhile, a revolution in complex optics offers new methods for mastering numerous spatial modes and their fluctuations, promising synergies with modelocking that could advance laser physics, complex systems, and numerous applications, including biological imaging, pattern formation beyond the diffraction limit, and material processing.

This workshop will bring together experts in modelocking, complex optics, and related fields to explore these synergies and emerging opportunities.

Time: 22 November 2024
Location: ID 3 / 653

Postal Address

Ruhr University Bochum
Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology
Nonlinearity Engineering
Postbox ID 3
Universitätsstraße 150
D-44801 Bochum

Contact

Administration Office
Room: ID 1/347
Phone: (+49) (0) 234 32 - 27645
Email: office-nle(at)rub.de
RUB campus map & travel instructions

Professor

Prof. Dr. Ömer Ilday
Room: ID 1/341 
Phone: (+49) (0) 234 32 - 29914
Email: oemer.ilday(at)rub.de

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