Nonlinear optics has become a hot topic in the last few years, again due to strong involvement in many current areas of photonics. Starting from the generation of new frequencies for laser applications, nonlinear optics now covers a field extending from ultrashort pulses and extreme wavelengths generation up to novel resonator structures. Nonlinear optics has especially become important in waveguiding, in micro-structured fibres, supercontinuum generation, and in high-precision spectroscopy. Also, transverse nonlinear optics leads to fascinating new effects. Among these, optically-induced photonic lattices show a great increase in importance for adaptive photonic crystals. Moreover self-sustained patterns and cavity solitons have opened new avenues for the exploitation of self-organized light-matter interactions towards innovative information processing architectures. Nonlinear optics is always closely connected to materials that are suited for applications. Currently, organic as well as nanoparticle-dispersed random materials present fields of growing interest, mainly due to easy fabrication and a variety of applications ranging from optical data storage via waveguiding up to ultra-short wavelengths and pulses, such as e.g. terahertz nonlinear optics.
This conference will address various aspects of basics and applications in modern nonlinear optics. It will be held in collaboration with the European STREP project FunFACS.
Nonlinearities in waveguiding, photonic fibres and photonic crystals)
Solitons and photonic lattices
Transverse nonlinear optics
Fundamentals, functionalities and applications of cavity solitons (European STREP project FunFACS). Please click here to download further information on this special session within TOM 6.
The deadline for submission of abstracts has been extended to Monday, 16 June 2008 at 12 noon (CET).
Notification to authors: 10 July 2008 (+++ post-poned to Monday, 14 July - the EOS apologizes for the delay +++)
Prospective authors are invited to submit their abstract in one of the listed topics. The abstract shall cover a minimum of half a page and a maximum of two pages and shall be submitted online with the responsible author’s contact data. The EOS guidelines for abstracts can be downloaded at www.myeos.org/abstractguidelines. Should you work with Latex-files, please click here to download the guidelines and the template.
How to submit an abstract
step 1: click on the link submit an abstract (on the top of this page)
step 2: follow the instructions and fill in the required data
All attendees of the EOS Annual Meeting receive a 20% discount on the publication rate for the e-journal of the EOS: the Journal of the European Optical Society - Rapid Publications (JEOS:RP, http://www.jeos.org/). The paper submitted to JEOS: RP must be an original contribution that is connected to one of the topical meetings and must be submitted no later than 01 December 2008. The special publication fee for attendees of this event is 280 euros (instead of 350 euros).
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