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First Round of Abstract Submission Ends: Jan 30, 2026
Extended Early Bird Ends: Jul 20, 2025

Keynote Speakers

Prof. Alina Karabchevsky
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Title: Photonic Hooks and Metasurface Nanophotonics: Manipulating Light On-Chip
Professor Karabchevsky, is the Director of the Integrated Photonics Centre, which focuses on the interaction of light and matter on optical chips and designing innovative interfaces for developments such as single-photon sources and doctor-in-your-pocket devices on a chip. She leads the Integrated Photonics track and teaches Introduction to Signal Processing course (grad), Introduction to Fiber Optics course (post-grad), Integrated Photonics course (post-grad). Dr Karabchevsky secured more than $7 million USD in funding over the past nine years. More than 14 patents protect her inventions. She has also been involved in disseminating knowledge by editing an Elsevier book entitled “On-Chip Photonics: Principles, Technology and Applications” 2024. She has held several academic positions, starting as a Teaching Assistant in 2007-2008 at Achva Academic College. Over the years, she progressed through various roles, including Lab Instructor (2009-2011) and External Lecturer at Ben Gurion University of the Negev (2011-2012), as well as an External Lecturer at ORT Braude College (2009-2011). She served (2012-2015) as a Research Fellow at the Optoelectronics Research Center, University of Southampton, UK. In 2015 Dr Karabchevsky joined Ben-Gurion University as a Lecturer. Subsequently, she served as a tenured Assistant Professor (2018-2021), Associate Professor (2021-2023) and later a Full Professor (2023-present) in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Dr. Karabchevsky founded the SPIE students chapter the first in the Middle East, in November 2010, a member of IEEE (since 2020) and IPS (since 2019). She is Chair of the Women in Engineering Affinity Group, IEEE Section (since 2020). She has various editorial roles, including Editor for Advanced Photonics Research Journal (Wiley) and Guest Editor for Sensors Journal (since 2020). She has received numerous awards, including 2019 and 2017 recognized as one of the Top 100 Official authors in Physical Sciences of Scientific Reports journal, 2014 'Brilliance in Research' award of Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton, UK, 2012 President’s Award for 'Outstanding Woman in Science,' which included a monetary prize of $45,000, 2011 Best Paper at the SPIE Optics and Photonics Conference in San Diego.
In addition to her editorial roles for top journals such as Advanced Photonics Research and Sensors, Dr Karabchevsky has been instrumental in organizing and chairing significant international conferences, including the International Conference and Exhibition on Optics and Electro-Optics (OASIS) and the 7th Nano Israel Conference (Nano.IL.2020), where she served as the Bio-Nano Medicine Session Chair. She served on numerous international expert panels, including those of the Research Council of Canada, the European Commission, and other national and international organizations.
Prof. Lei Zhou
Fudan University, China
Title: Metasurfaces as a versatile platform to manipulate light waves
Lei Zhou received his Ph.D. in 1997 at Fudan University, and worked as a postdoctoral researcher in Tohoku University (1997-2000) and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (2000-2004). He joined physics department of Fudan University in 2004,became the departmental chair from 2020 to 2023, and is now the vice president of Fudan University. He received the “Distinguished Young Scholar Fund” from the NSF of China in 2007, became a "Chang-Jiang" distinguished professor in 2010. He is a fellow of OPTICA, APS and COS. He won the second prize of National Natural Science of China in 2019. He is a funding co-editor-in-chief of Photonics Insights, a managing editor of Nanophotonics (2019-2025), and serves in editorial boards of Phys. Rev. Mater., Opto-Electronic Science, and Frontier of Physics. His research interests focus on metamaterials, plasmonics and nanophotonics.
Dr. Haidong Liang
National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore
Title: Quantum emitters in hBN and entangled photon-pair source in rBN
Dr. Haidong Liang is a Senior Research Fellow at Centre for Ion Beam Applications (CIBA) in National University of Singapore (NUS). His expertise lies in ion beam applications, material modification, and the development of quantum emitters in materials such as hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), diamond and SiC.
Dr. Liang received his Ph.D. in Physics from the National University of Singapore in 2013. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from Nanjing University, China, in 2009.
His early research focused on micro- and nanofabrication of silicon using ion beams, with applications in photonic devices. In recent years, he has expanded the research scope of his laboratory in the field of ion beam applications, opening new directions for frontier research and technology development using accelerators—particularly in quantum light sources, quantum sensing, and optoelectronic functional materials. He has published over 20 papers in Science Advances, Physical Review Letters, Nature Communications and ACS Nano etc..
Prof. Guanying Chen
Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Title: Will Update Soon
Guanying Chen received his B.S. degree in applied physics and Ph.D. degree in optics from Harbin Institute of Technology in 2004 and 2009, respectively. He is currently a Distinguished Professor at Harbin Institute of Technology, China. His interests include lanthanide luminescence, lanthanide biophotonics, and solar cells. He has published more than 170 peer-reviewed papers in journals like Nat. Photon., Nat. Commun., JACS, etc.
Prof. Zhaoyang Li
Shanghai Institute of Optics and fine Mechanics (SIOM), CAS, China
Title: Technology development for Exawatt lasers
Zhaoyang Li is a professor at Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics (SIOM) with interests in the Petawatt (PW) laser technology and engineering. He, as a core member, contributed to the development of China’s first high-energy PW laser (Shenguang II upgraded picosecond PW), the design of China’s/world’s first 10-PW laser (Shanghai super-intense Ultrashort Laser Facility), the optimization of the Japan’s/world’s highest energy PW laser (Japan LFEX), the optical design of the PW beamline in Japan’s next-generation super-laser (Japan J-EPoCH), and the development of China’s/world’s first 100-PW laser (Station of Extreme Light). Many technologies he invented have been applied in the famous PW laser facilities worldwide.
Prof. Shulin Sun
Fudan University, China
Title: Will Update
Shulin Sun received his Ph. D. degree in Physics Department of Fudan University in 2009. From 2010 to 2013, he was Postdoctoral Fellow of National Taiwan University. In 2013 he joined Department of Optical Science and Engineering of Fudan University and has been a full professor since 2019. His research interests include metamaterials, plasmonics, and photonic crystals. He published 90+ papers, including Nature Materials, Nature Communications, Nano Letters, Advances in Optics and Photonics, Light: Science and Applications, which have been totally cited over 11000 times. He won the Second Class Prize of National Natural Science Award in 2019, the Rising Star of Light in 2020, the Highly Cited Chinese Researchers in 2020-2024. He is responsible for National Key Research and Development Program of China, National Natural Science Foundation of China and other projects.
Prof. Morio Toyoshima
National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan
Title: Recent Trends of Space Laser Communications for Beyond 5G/6G
Morio Toyoshima joined Communications Research Laboratory (CRL; currently, NICT) in 1994, and conducted ETS-VI satellite optical communication experiment. He joined JAXA to develop OICETS satellite from 1999 to 2003. He studied for one year in Vienna University of Technology in 2004. After he returned to NICT, he conducted OICETS-to-ground laser communication experiments in 2006. He developed Small Optical TrAnsponder (SOTA) and conducted Micro-satellite-to-ground quantum communication experiments. He developed the communication payloads for ETS-9 satellite. He is now Director General of Wireless Networks Research Center in NICT since 2021. He received Ph.D. in electronic engineering from University of Tokyo in 2003.
Prof. Gian Luca Lippi
France
Title: Will Update
Gian Luca Lippi received a Laurea degree in Fisica from the University of Florence, Italy, in 1984, a Ph.D. degree from Bryn Mawr College, USA, in 1990, and a Habilitation degree from the Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France, in 1998. He is a Distinguished Professor in the Physics Department, Université Côte d’Azur (UCA). Since 1994, he has been a member of the Institut de Physique de Nice (formerly Institut Non Linéaire de Nice). From 1990 to 1993, he was an active Postdoctoral Fellow with the Institut für Angewandte Physik (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany) first as Alexander-von Humboldt Fellow, then with DFG support. He has authored and co-authored over 80 articles in refereed journals, 25 conference proceedings, and more than 150 contributions to conferences (45 invited presentations). His research covers laser dynamics, nonlinear dynamics in optical systems, laser-matter interactions, particle trapping, physical properties of nanolasers, and biophotonics mainly from an experimental point of view but including modeling aspects. He has been the Director of the French Doctoral School in Sciences and the European Doctorate EDEMOM, a Former International Consultant for the Project Laser Trapped Mirror Proposal (MSMT, NASA), a project evaluator for INTAS (EU), EPSRC (U.K.), ANR (F) and SNSF (CH) programs, and a referee for all the main physics journals. He is currently a member of the Scientific Council of the Academy 4 at UCA and Co-Chair of the LPHYS Conference series (Seminar 4).
Prof. Li Qian
University of Toronto, Canada
Title: To be Confirmed
Li Qian is a Canada Research Chair and a professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada. Her research focuses in both classical and quantum optics. In classical optics, her group develops advanced metrology and sensing systems. In quantum optics, Her research focuses on experimental quantum key distribution in fiber networks, and entanglement generation in periodically poled silica fibres. This technology has now been commercialized by OZ Optics. She served as a topical editor of JOSA B, and has served on the committees of various conferences, including OFC, CLEO, QCRYPT, Photonics North, BGPP, etc. She is the steering committee Chair of QCRYPT 2024. She has published over 200 journal and conference papers, and is a Fellow of Optica.
Prof. Cuiwei He
JAIST, Japan
Title: Will Update
Cuiwei He received the Ph.D. degree in optical wireless communication from Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, in 2017. From 2017 to 2020, he worked as a Research Fellow with Monash University. From 2020 to 2021, he was a Postdoctoral Research Assistant with the Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, U.K. He is currently an Senior Lecturer with the School of Information Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST). His research interests include visible light communication, visible light positioning, and optical wireless communication.
Dr. Ana Espinosa
ICMM-CSIC, Spain
Title: Will Update
A. Espinosa (ICMM-CSIC, Spain) received her PhD in Materials Physics in 2010 from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain). In 2014, she was awarded a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship at the Laboratoire MSC (Paris, France) to investigate nanotherapies for cancer treatment. Her research focuses on the development of multifunctional nanomaterials for biomedical applications, particularly in photothermal, magnetic, and X-ray-activated therapies. She has also developed innovative methodologies to monitor the local temperature of photothermal nanomaterials under NIR light within tissue environments, using X-ray spectroscopic techniques.
Prof. Zhensheng Tao
Fudan University, China
Title: High-order Sideband Near-field Microscopy inside Dielectric Optical Resonators
Dr. Zhensheng Tao received his Ph.D. from Michigan State University in 2014, and subsequently worked as a postdoctoral researcher in JILA, University of Colorado Boulder, from 2014 to 2018. He joined Department of Physics at Fudan University in 2018. His research focuses on ultrafast optics and light-matter interactions, particularly the non-equilibrium dynamics driven by intense laser fields. Dr. Tao was recognized as an “Oriental Scholar” Distinguished Professor of Shanghai in 2017 and awarded a Humboldt Fellowship in 2018. He has published over 50 papers in leading journals, including Science, Nature Nanotechnology, Science Advances, and Physical Review Letters.
Prof. ZHENG Hongyu
Shandong Univ of Tech, China
Title: Laser surface melting for hardness and wear resistance enhancement
Professor ZHENG gained his B.Eng in Mechanical Engineering from Tsinghua University in 1985, and Ph.D in Laser Materials Processing from Imperial College London in 1990. Prior to joining Shandong University of Technology (SDUT), he was a principal scientist in the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A-STAR) of Singapore leading a research team in laser materials processing. Prof. ZHENG was awarded the IES Prestigious Engineering Achievement Award of Singapore and was an elected Fellow of the International Society of Nano-Manufacturing (ISNM) since 2014. His current research interests include ultrafast laser-matter interactions, micro-/nano- processing mechanisms, surface engineering and in-process monitoring.
Prof. Boris Fainberg
Tel-Aviv University, Israel
Title: Hartree Approach to High-Temperature Exciton Superfluorescence and Polariton Luminescence under Strong Interaction with Phonons
Prof. Boris Fainberg has completed his PhD from the State Optical Institute named for S.I.Vavilov (St.-Petersburg, Russia) where he then worked as an associate professor. Then he moved to the School of Chemistry at Tel-Aviv University where he worked as a senior scientist. In 1998 he joined to the staff of the Holon Institute of technology (HIT) (Israel) as an associate professor. He was a visiting professor at the Tel-Aviv University (2000-2022); Institute of Atomic and Molecular Science of the Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan; Institute of Physics and Chemistry of Materials, CNRS, Strasbourg, France; Humboldt University of Berlin; University of Augsburg, Germany; Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA; and also a research professor at ITMO University, St. Petersburg, Russia. His research interests include four-photon spectroscopy, coherent optical control, molecular electronics, nanophotonics, plasmonics, polaritonics and superradiance. Currently, he is a professor of physics of Faculty of Sciences, HIT.
Prof. Jun-long Kou
Nanjing University, China
Title: Forward and inverse design of nanophotonic devices
Prof. Jun-long Kou received his bachelor's degree from Nanjing University and his Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology. He has been engaged in passive and active optoelectronic materials and devices with micro-nano structure control, mainly used in the fields of optical sensing, optical communication, energy, automotive radar, and biomedical applications. From 2019 to 2022, Junlong Kou worked at leading international semiconductor companies, engaging in the research and development and application of semiconductor lasers and modulator chips, accumulating a wealth of industry-academia-research experience. In 2021, he was selected as a National Young Talent, and in 2022, he was selected as a Zijin Scholar. He has won awards such as the First Prize of Jiangsu Province Science and Technology, the Nanjing University Youth May 4th Medal, the Chinese Optical Society Wang Daheng College Student Optics Award, and the Excellent Master's Degree Thesis of Jiangsu Province. Professor Kou has published more than 50 peer-reviewed papers in renowned optoelectronics journals such as the Nature series, IEEE series, OPTICA series, ACS series, and Physical Review series. His research findings have been reported by Nature Photonics; he has applied for and been granted 1 U.S. patent and 20 Chinese patents, with 1 transferred; and he has written 2 book chapters. His work has been cited nearly 2000 times, with an H-index of 17. He is a senior member of the Chinese Optical Engineering Society, a senior member of the Chinese Optical Society, and a member of OPTICA/IEEE/SPIE. He serves as a young editorial board member for CHIP and Infrared and Laser Engineering.
Prof. Tun Cao
Dalian Univ. of Tech, China
Title: Non-Volatile Dynamically Switchable Color Display Via Chalcogenide Stepwise Cavity Resonators
Dr. Tun Cao is Dean and Professor at the School of Optoelectronics Engineering and Instrumentation Science, Dalian University of Technology, China. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Bristol, UK. Dr. Cao leads the Laboratory of Advanced Micro-Nano Photonics Technologies and Applications. His research interests include materials evolutionary design, optical materials engineering, active plasmonics and photonics, nanotechnology, and optical mechanics. Dr. Cao has published over 140 SCI papers, including 9 journal covers, authored a scientific book, contributed to book chapters, and holds 43 patents. He has delivered keynote and invited talks at major international conferences and serves as an editorial board member or topic editor for several leading journals. Dr. Cao is a Fellow of Optica and the International Association of Advanced Materials, a Senior Member of IEEE, and has received numerous prestigious awards such as the Silver Award at the Geneva Inventions Salon (2025) and several provincial and national honors.
Dr. Rosalba Gaudiuso
University of Bari "A. Moro", Italy
Title: To be Confirmed
Rosalba Gaudiuso is an Associate Professor of General and Inorganic Chemistry at University of Bari "A. Moro", Italy. She obtained a PhD in Chemical Sciences from the same university and worked in research institutions in Italy, the USA and Canada, before returning to her alma mater. Her research focuses on laser-induced plasmas and their applications in analytical spectroscopy (in particular, LIBS, Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy) and material science, aiming to address fundamental issues in plasma chemistry, to develop novel experimental methods to tackle those issues, and to apply these methods to real-world problems of interest in biomedicine, cultural heritage science, and geochemistry, among other fields. Her recent and ongoing research projects involve developing experimental and computational LIBS-based methods for early diagnosis of asymptomatic diseases, micro-destructive analysis of historical objects, and highly sensitive elemental analysis by designing plasmonic and non-plasmonic sensing platforms.
Prof. Salman Noach
Hebrew University, Israel
Title: Novel Ablative 2um laser and its potential medical applications
Professor Salman Noach received his PHD in physics at 2003 from the Hebrew University Jerusalem ISRAEL. After few years of industrial experience, he returned back to academy at 2007, as a faculty member at the electro-optics department at Jerusalem College of Technology. There he founded the Solid State Lasers Laboratory. The lab is mainly engaged in applied research and development of CW and pulsed solid-state lasers, nonlinear optics, Raman wavelength shifting and Optical amplifiers in the SWIR and mid IR range. The results of the lab research were the object of 50 publications in high-ranked journals in the optics and laser community and two patents. He is a senior member of OPTICA and member of SPIE. Since 2021 he is a CTO of Laser Team Medical startup company develop the first ablative laser at 1.94 micron.
Prof. Zhanshan Wang
Tongji University, China
Title: Laser Coating Technology
Zhanshan Wang, founder of the Institute of Precision Optical Engineering Technology, member of the National key Research and development technical expert group; He is a professor of Tongji University, China. He is mainly engaged in high-performance thin film, micro and nano optics, precision imaging, X-ray optics and technology research; He is a SPIE Fellow of the International Society of Optics and Photonics, a member of the Council of the Chinese Optical Society, and a special professor of the Ministry of Education. He has published more than 200 SCI papers including Light and Optical Letters, and more than 100 authorized patents. In 2019, he won the second prize of the National Technology Invention Award, the first prize of the Chinese Society of Instrumentation Technology Invention Award in 2021, and the first prize of the Ministry of Education Technology Invention Award in 2015.
Dr. Toshiki Yamada
National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan
Title: Terahertz wave detection by the Stark effect and Pockels effect of electro-optic polymers and its applications
Dr. Toshiki Yamada studied Material chemistry and physics at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan and graduated as MS in 1994, and received his PhD degree in 1996 at the same institution. After two and half year as a JST-CREST researcher at Kyushu University, Japan. He obtained the position of National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan and he is now a research manager. His research interests include electro-optic materials, teraherz technology and science, nonlinear optics, and optical integrated devices. He has published more than 150 research articles in SCI(E) journals.
Prof. Wei Chen
Nanjing University, China
Title: Generation and Control of Complex Space–Time Structured Light Fields
Wei Chen is an Assistant Professor at Nanjing University. His research focuses on ultrafast optics, nonlinear optics, and micro/nano photonics, with specific interests in space–time control of optical fields, structured light generation using nonlinear photonic crystals, and nonlinear dynamics in femtosecond fiber lasers. He has published over 30 SCI papers. He serves as a Guest Editor for Photonics and Chinese Optics Letters, and is a member of the Topical Advisory Panel for Photonics.
Prof. Anhui Liang
Yango University, China
Title: My 40 Years of Research on Natural Biological Diodes,Natural Biological Transistors, and Natural Biological Optical Fibers
Professor Anhui Liang is a national high level talent of China and the second level professor, Deputy Director of University Academic Committee, YanGo University and Dean of Electronic Information and Interdisciplinary Research Institute. He held several high level positions in USA and China, e.g. Tyco Submarine Systems Ltd. (a part of former Bell Labs) in USA； Chief Scientist, FiberHome Technologies Group， which was with about 38000 of staffs; Deputy Director of University Academic Committee, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications; Head of Optical Engineering Disciplinary, Guangdong University of Science & Technology etc. He has made significant contributions in the fields of quantum mechanics, optical fiber communications, vision, nerves and AI etc. He is China Overseas Chinese Contribution Award recipient (2014); Yearly Person of “Scientific Chinese”(2015). He has made significant contributions in 9 questions which were among 125 questions: exploration and discovery listed by the famous journal Science. His contributions have been reported in famous national media broadly. Their interview by Baidu Scholar received 180 millions of internet exposures in the first month of the video release in 2021. There have been 700 thousands of audiences in his 8 super-large online scientific lectures.
Prof. Maurizio Burla
Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Title: Photonics and plasmonics for sub-THz communications
Maurizio Burla received his received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from the University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy, in 2005 and 2007, respectively, and his PhD degree from the University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands in 2013. From 2012 to 2015 he has been a FQRNT Research fellow at INRS-EMT, Montreal, Canada, working on integrated-waveguide technologies for ultrafast all-optical signal processing and microwave photonics. In 2015 he moved to the Institute of Electromagnetic Fields, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, to work on microwave plasmonics and THz wireless communications. From 2017 to 2021 he led an SNF Ambizione project at ETH during which he demonstrated plasmonic modulators with record bandwidth and used them to realize high dynamic range analog optical links operating at sub-THz frequencies with bandwidths in excess of 100 GHz. Since 2022 he has been the Chair of the High Frequency Technologies and Photonics at TU Berlin, Berlin, Germany. Prof. Burla received several best paper awards at the IEEE International Topical Meeting on Microwave Photonics for his research contributions on programmable integrated photonic and plasmonic devices for sub-THz signal processing. He received an ERC Starting Grant to develop his vision on flexible THz signal processing using photonics integrated circuits at TU Berlin.
Prof. Sébastien Tanzilli
France
Title: An Entanglement-based Quantum-safe network across Nice metropolitan area
Sébastien Tanzilli is a Research Prof. at CNRS, working with the Institut de Physique de Nice at Université Côte d’Azur, where he leads the team “Quantum Photonics & Information (QPI*)”. ST has a 25-year experience in fundamental quantum optics and photonics-based quantum information science, with more than 90 publications in international journals with peer review (h-index 40). His major achievements in photonics quantum technologies encompass entanglement-based quantum-network and quantum-sensor developments. Those research lines include high-precision optical material qualification for laser system applications, as well as telecom-compliant quantum light sources, coherent frequency transducers, and optical quantum-relay-memory nodes for synchronising quantum networks.
Moreover, ST has organised or been involved in scientific committees of more than 20 national and international conferences and workshops. From the institutional side, ST is currently a Deputy Scientific Director at CNRS headquarter, in charge of Quantum Science & Technologies, and he coordinates the National Research program in this field.
* https://inphyni.univ-cotedazur.eu/research/photonics
Dr. hab. inż.Beata Brożek-Płuska
Lodz University of Technology, Poland
Title: Multimodal Investigation of Therapeutic Molecules Effects in Colon Cells via Raman Imaging, AFM, and Femtosecond Laser Spectroscopy
Beata Brożek-Płuska, Ph.D., DSc., Eng., is a graduate of Lodz University of Technology (1998), where she also earned her doctoral degree (2002) and habilitation (2014). She currently serves as the Head of the Laboratory of Laser Molecular Spectroscopy at the Institute of Applied Radiation Chemistry, Lodz University of Technology, Poland.
Dr. Brożek-Płuska's scientific interests lie primarily in the biomedical applications of advanced spectroscopic techniques. Her work places particular emphasis on Raman spectroscopy and imaging, infrared (IR) spectroscopy including nanoIR, and femtosecond laser spectroscopy. She has also employed atomic force microscopy (AFM) to explore mechanobiological markers associated with carcinogenesis.
Her recent research is dedicated to the identification of Raman spectroscopic biomarkers that enable differentiation between normal and cancerous cells and tissues of the human digestive tract-both under physiological conditions and in response to pharmacological agents.
As principal investigator, she has led several nationally funded research projects. Her extensive publication record highlights how Raman imaging at the single-cell level, when integrated with fluorescence microscopy, AFM, and chemometric analysis, offers profound insights into cellular biochemistry and facilitates real-time monitoring of drug–cell interactions at the subcellular scale.
Prof. Hervé Leblond
University of Angers, France
Title: Solitons, cnoidal waves and nonlinear index in a two-level medium
Hervé Leblond studied Mathematics and Physics at the École Normale Supérieure, Paris. He received his PhD degree at the University of Montpellier in 1994. He has been working at the University of Angers since 1996, nowadays as Professor, in the Photonics Laboratory (LPhiA). After his early works on nonlinear wave propagation in ferromagnetic media, and multiple scale asymptotic methods, he then turned to nonlinear optics. He was being interested in spatial and spatio-temporal waves structures such as optical vortices, but in fiber lasers too, investigating multiple pulse structures. He also focused on few-cycle pulses, developing non-slowly varying envelope models.