Foundations of Nonlinear Optics 2017
University of The Bahamas
All sessions take place in the Harry C. Moore Library Auditorium. Registration
and lunch will take place in the auditorium’s break room.
TUESDAY MAY 23rd
8:30—9:00 Registration and morning coffee
Session 1: Fundamental theory of NLO materials.
Chair: Nathan Dawson | Co-chair: Jacqui Cole
9:00—9:10 Welcome to FoNLO 2017
9:10—9:45 Mark Kuzyk—“Size Matters”
9:50—10:25 Sean Mossman—“A proxy state for truncated sum-over-states”
10:25—10:55 Coffee Break. Supported by Thorlabs
10:55—11:30 Rick Lytel —“Exact fundamental limits of the first and second hyperpolarizabilities”
11:35—12:10 Ethan
Crowell—“Contributions of Exotic Momentum
Dependence to Nonlinear Polarizabilities”
12:10—12:25 Panel Discussion 1
12:25—13:30 Lunch
Session 2: NLO of molecules and nanostructures.
Chair: Amin Kabir | Co-chair: Stefan Knoppe
13:30—14:05 Javier Perez-Moreno—“Generalizing the three-level ansatz to systems with many energy levels”
14:10—14:45 Koen Clays—“Modulated conjugation as a means to break the apparent limit in nonlinear optics”
14:45—15:15 Coffee break. Supported by RMS Insurance Agents & Brokers
15:15—15:50 Dennis Sullivan—“Time-domain Quantum Simulation of Nonlinear Susceptibilities”
15:55—16:30 Alex Lou—“New Directions for Twisted Chromophores”
16:30—16:45 Panel discussion 2
WEDNESDAY MAY 24th
8:30—9:10 Morning coffee
Session 3: NLO materials and measurements. Supported by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology
Chair: Mark Kuzyk | Co-chair: Elisabetta Collini
9:10—9:45 Aleks Rebane—“Cooperativity effects in two-photon
absorption”
9:50—10:25 Robert Boyd—“Nonlinear Optics of Epsilon-Near-Zero Materials”
10:25—10:55 Coffee break. Supported by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology
10:55—11:30 Enno Giese—“Beyond the perturbative description of the nonlinear optical response of low-index materials”
11:35—12:10 Jacqui Cole—“Determining organic non-linear optical properties from nanoscopic structural parameters”
12:10—12:25 Panel discussion 3
12:25—13:30 Lunch. Supported by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology
Session 4: Applications of NLO. Supported by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology
Chair: Koen Clays | Co-chair: Mike Crescimanno
13:30—14:05 Elisabetta Collini—“Role of the environment in non linear optical properties and transport processes of complex systems”
14:10—14:45 Hans-Peter
Wagner—“Real-time holographic imaging
using the phase coherent photorefractive effect”
14:45—15:15 Coffee Break. Supported by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology
15:15—15:50 Amin Kabir—“Influence of electron density and trion formation on the phase-coherent photorefractive effect in ZnSe quantum wells”
15:55—16:30 Ken Singer—“Linear and nonlinear optical properties of
organic cavity polaritons in the ultrastrong
regime”
16:30—16:45 Panel Discussion 4
18:00 Conference Barbecue
THURSDAY MAY 25th
8:30—9:10 Morning coffee
Session 5: NLO properties of systems.
Chair: Javier Perez-Moreno | Co-chair: Sean Mossman
9:10—9:45 Mike Crescimanno—“EIT Amplitude Noise Spectroscopy”
9:50—10:25 Stefan Knoppe—“Nonlinear
Optical Properties of Monolayer-Protected Metal Clusters”
10:25—10:55 Coffee Break.
10:55—11:30 Efim Khazanov—“Renaissance of small-scale self-focusing in femtosecond lasers”
11:35—12:10 Nathan
Dawson—“Nonlinear optical coefficients
and the kinetic energy of electrons”
12:10—12:25 Panel Discussion 5
12:25—12:30 Closing remarks