ALPS'12 Program

Advance Lasers and Photon Source '12
Thursday, April 26
9:00~9:15 Opening Conference Center Room 301
Opening Remarks K. Midorikawa
9:00 Depty Director, RIKEN Advanced Science Institute, Japan
9:15~12:15 ALPS1:Ultrafast Laser Conference Center Room301
Chair: F. Kannari,  Program Co-Chair of ALPS'12,  Keio Univ, Japan
ALPS1-1 Development of an Yb:YAG Chirped-Pulse Oscillator
9:15 S. Uemura and K. Torizuka
AIST, Japan
ALPS1-2 Submicrojoule Femtosecond Multicolor Pulse Generation by a Fiber-Laser-Pumped OPCPA for Optical Field Synthesis
9:30 D. Yoshitomi 1,2), X. Zhou 3), Y. Kobayashi 4), H. Takada 1,2), and K. Torizuka 1,2)
1) AIST, Japan, 2) JST CREST, Japan, 3) KEK, Japan, 4) The Univ. of Tokyo, Japan
ALPS1-3 Generation of Ultrafast Mid-infrared Radiation by Difference-frequency between Synchronized Picoseconds Lasers
9:45 H. Xuan, Y. Zou, and Z. Wei
Beijing National Laboratory, CAS
ALPS1-4 Picosecond Intracavity Pumped OPO with Optimized Signal and Pump Beams Overlapping
10:00 A. Zavadilová 1), V. Kubecek 1), J - C. Diels 2), and J. Sulc 1)
1) Czech Technical Univ. in Prague, 2) Univ. of New Mexico, USA
ALPS1-5 Integrated Spectral Shearing Interferometer
10:15 H. Tomita and H. Nishioka
The University of Electro-Communications, Japan

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Chair: C. P. J. Barty,  Program Committee Member, Lawrence Livermore National Lab., USA
ALPS1-6 (Invited) Amplify Femtosecond Ti:sapphire Laser to 1.16PW with High Contrast Ratio
10:45 Z. Wei, Z. Wang, C. Liu, Q. Zhang, H. Teng, H. Han, and Z. Shen
Beijing National Laboratory, CAS
ALPS1-7 High Energy Double Pulses Ring Regenerative Amplifier
11:15 W. Zhang, H. Teng, and ZY. Wei
Beijing National Laboratory, CAS
ALPS1-8 Demonstration of a YCOB-based OPCPA at Multi-joule Level
11:30 X. Liang 1), L. Yu 1), Jin-Feng Li 1), Y. Zheng 2), A. Wu 2), X. Lu 1), C. Wang 1), Y. Leng 1), R. Li 1), and Z. Xu 1)
1) Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, CAS, 2) Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, CAS
ALPS1-9 Application of Self-diffraction Process in the Cleaning and Measurement of Femtosecond pulse
11:45 J. Liu 1,2,3) and T. Kobayashi 1,2,3,4,5)
1) Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, CAS, 2) Univ. of Electro-Communications, Japan, 3) JST CREST, Japan, 4) National Chiao-Tung Univ., Taiwan, 5) Osaka Univ., Japan
ALPS1-10 Ultrafast Chirped-pulse Amplification using an Identical Positive Dispersive Media as Both Pulse Stretcher and Compressor
12:00 Y. Akahane, K. Ogawa, and K. Yamakawa
JAEA, Japan

12:15~14:30 Lunch Break and ALPS2:Poster Session(ALPSp2-1~30) Poster Session: Conference Center Room 315

14:30~17:30 ALPS3:X-ray Sources and high order Harmonics Conference Center Room 301
Chair: F. Kannari,  Program Co-Chair of ALPS'12,  Keio Univ, Japan
ALPS3-1 (Invited) Development of a PW Ti:Sapphire Laser and its Applications to High Field science
14:30 Tae Moon Jeong
Advanced Photonics Research Institute, Korea
ALPS3-2 Generation of Coherent Deep Ultraviolet Light below 200 nm by Fourth- harmonic a Ti:sapphire Laser with High Repetition
15:00 Y. Zhang 1), Y. Okada-Shudo 1), M. Watanabe 1), M. Hyodo 2), X. Wang 3), Y. Zhu 3), C. Chen 3), T. Kanai 4), and S. Watanabe 5)
1) The Univ. of Electro-Communications, Japan, 2) National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan, 3) Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, CAS, 4) Univ. of Tokyo, Japan, 5) The Tokyo Univ. of Science, Japan
ALPS3-3 Demonstration of Higher Contrast in a High Intensity Double CPA, Double Absorber Laser System
15:15 H. Kiriyama 1), T. Shimomura 1), H. Sasao 1), Y. Nakai 1), M. Tanoue 1), S. Kondo 1), S. Kanazawa 1), M. Mori 1), Y. Fukuda 1), M. Kando 1), S. Bulanov 1), K. Nagashima 1), K. Kondo 1), A. Sugiyama 1), P. R. Bolton 1), and N. Miyanaga 2)
1) JAEA, Japan, 1) Osaka Univ., Japan
ALPS3-4 Pulse Compression of Phase-Matched High Harmonic Pulses from a Time-Delay Compensated Monochromator
15:30 H. Igarashi, A. Makida, M. Ito, and T. Sekikawa
Hokkaido Univ., Japan
ALPS3-5 Rotation-free Holographic Imaging with Extended Arc Reference
15:45 P. Lan, E. J. Takahashi, and K. Midorikawa
RIKEN ASI, Japan
ALPS3-6 (Invited) Mono-Energetic Gamma-ray Light Sources and the Dawn of Nuclear Photonics
16:00 Christopher P. J. Barty
Lawrence Livermore National Lab., USA
ALPS3-7 (Invited) SACLA: SPring-8 Angstrom Compact free electron Laser
16:30 T. Ishikawa
RIKEN SPring-8 Center, Japan
ALPS3-8 The Near Field and Far Field In Situ Characterization of Soft X-ray Laser Beam by Submicron-resolution LiF Crystal X-ray Detector
17:00 A. Faenov 1,2), T. Pikuz 1,2) Y. Fukuda 1), M. Tanaka 1), M. Kishimoto 1), M. Ishino 1), M. Nishikino 1), M. Kando 1), T. Kawachi 1), M. Nagasono 3), H. Ohashi 3,4), M. Yabashi 3,4), K. Tono4), Y. Senba4), T. Togashi4), T. Ishikawa3), A. Mitrofanov2), A. Vinogradov5), and Y. Kato6)
1) JAEA, Japan, 2) Joint Institute for High Temperatures, RAS, 3) RIKEN SPring-8, Japan, 4) JASRI, Japan, 5) P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute, RAS, 6) The Graduate School for the Creation of New Photonics Industries, Japan
ALPS3-9 Development of Spatially Coherent 13.5 nm High-order Harmonics for EUV Mask Metrology
17:15 Y. Nagata 1,2,3), T. Harada 2,3), M. Nakasuji 2,3), H. Kinoshita 1,2,3), and K. Midorikawa 1)
1) RIKEN ASI, Japan, 2) JST CREST, Japan, 3) Univ. of Hyogo, Japan

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Friday, April 27
9:00~12:15 ALPS4: Fiber Lasers, Solid State Lasers Conference Center Room 301
Chair: T. Moseck,  Institute of Physics ASCR, Czech
ALPS4-1 Recent Progress on Direct Solid-state Visible Lasers by Rare Earth Doped Waterproof Fluoro-aluminate Fibers
9:00 Y. Fujitomo 1), J. Nakanishi 2), T. Yamada 2), O. Ishii 3), and M. Yamazaki 3)
1) Osaka Univ., Japan, 2) NIDEK Co. Ltd., Japan, 3) Sumita Optical Glass, Inc., Japan
ALPS4-2 Q-switch Laser in Visible Region with Pr3+-doped Fluoride-glass Fiber and LiYF4 Pumped by GaN Diode Lasers
9:15 F. Kannari, J. Kojou, Y. Watanabe, and R. Abe
Keio Univ., Japan
ALPS4-3 Investigation of High Efficiency Fiber-coupled Laser Diode Modules for Fiber Laser Pumping
9:30 J. Maeda, T. Morita, K. Endo, K. Torii, M. Miyamoto, H. Miyajima, and H. Yoshida
Hamamatsu Photonics K. K., Japan
ALPS4-4 A Novel Concept of Coherent Beam Combining (CBC) Technique for Applications in High Power Multichannel Laser Amplifier Systems
9:45 H. Chosrowjan 1), H. Furuse 1), J. Kawanaka 2), N. Miyanaga 2), M. Fujita 1), K. Hamamoto 3), T. Yamada 3), and Y. Izawa 1)
1) Institute for Laser Technology, Japan, 2) Osaka Univ., Japan, 3) Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Japan
ALPS4-4 Picosecond Intracavity Pumped OPO with Optimized Signal and Pump Beams Overlapping
10:00 A. ZavadilovÁ 1), V. Kubecek 1), J - C. Diels 2), and J. Sulc 1)
1) Czech Technical Univ. in Prague, 2) Univ. of New Mexico, USA
ALPS4-5 (Invited) Coherent Combination of Femtosecond Fiber Lasers
10:15 J. Limpert
Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany

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Chair: T. Taira,  Program Committee Member, IMS, Japan
ALPS4-6 Development of 100-W Class CW Solar-pumped Laser
10:45 T. H. Dinh, T. Ohkubo, and T. Yabe
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
ALPS4-7 Magnesium Energy Cycle Based on Solar Pumped Laser
11:00 B. Bagheri 1) and S. Uchida 2)
1) The Univ. of Tokyo, Japan, 2) Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
ALPS4-8 Laser Processing of CFRP Composites in China
11:15 G. Shuili and Z. Shikun
Beijing Aeronautical Manufacturing Technology Research Institute, China
ALPS4-9 The HiLASE Project: a High Average Power, Diode-pumped Lasers Development
11:30 T. Mocek 1), A. Lucianetti 1), A. Endo 1), M. Divoký 1), M. Smrž 1), M. Sawicka 1), M. Chyla 1), P. Sikocinski 1), T. Miura 1), J. Pilař 1), O. Slezák 1), L. Gemini 1), J. Vanda 1), H. Vohníková 1), P. Severová 1), V. Kmetík 1), J. Novák 2), M. Fibrich 2), G. Korn 2), and B. Rus 2)/span>
1) HiLASE Project, Institute of Physics ASCR, Czech, 2) ELI Beamlines Project, Institute of Physics ASCR, Czech
ALPS4-10 Design of 10 kW-class Laser System Based on Multiple-TRAM Configuration with Cryogenic Yb:YAG Ceramics
11:45 H. Furuse 1), J. Kawanaka 2), N. Miyanaga 2), H. Chosrowjan 1), M. Fujita 1), S. Ishii 3), K. Takeshita 3), and Y. Izawa 1)
1) Institute for Laser Technology, Japan, 2) Osaka Univ., Japan, 3) Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Japan
ALPS4-11 First Laser Oscillation of Solar-pumped Fiber
12:00 S. Mizuno 1), H. Ito 1), K. Hasegawa 1), T. Suzuki 2), Y. Ohishi 2)
1) Toyota Central R&D Labs., Inc., Japan, 2) Toyota Technological Institute

                                   ----- Lunch Break (12:15-13:30) -----


13:30~17:30 ALPS5: THz Sources Conference Center Room 301
Chair: H. Nishioka,  Program Co-Chair of ALPS'12,  The University of Electro-Communications, Japan
ALPS5-1 Ultrashort Pulse Generation of Fiber FM Laser
13:30 D. T. Nguyen, J. Abou, and A. Morimoto
Ritsumeikan Univ., Japan
ALPS5-2 Dynamics of Dispersion-Managed Er-doped Ultrashort-Pulse Fiber Laser Using Carbon-Nanotube Saturable Absorber
13:45 N. Nishizawa 1), Y. Nozaki 1), and Y. Sakakibara 2,3)
1) Nagoya Univ., Japan, 2) AIST, Japan, 3) JST CREST, Japan
ALPS5-3 High-power, Ultrashort Pulse Generation from Dispersion Managed, Passively Mode-locked Er-doped Fiber Laser using Single-wall Carbon Nanotube
14:00 Y Nozaki1), N. Nishizawa 1), E. Itoga 2), H. Kataura 2,3), and Y. Sakakibara 2,3)
1) Nagoya Univ., Japan, 2) AIST, Japan, 3) JST CREST, Japan
ALPS5-4 Characterization of CsLiB6O10 Crystal Grown in Dry Atmosphere
14:15 T. Moritani 1,2), M. Yoshimura 1,2), Y. Takahashi 1,2), Y. Fukushima 1,2), Z. Lu 1,2), M. Imade 1), K. Matsuki 3), S. Iida 2,3), S. Imai 2,3), Y. Kaneda 1,2,4), T. Sasaki 1,2), and Y. Mori 1,2)
1) Osaka Univ., Japan, 2) JST CREST, Japan 3) Advanced Mask Inspection Technology, Japan, 4) The Univ. of Arizona, USA
ALPS5-5 High-peak-power, Single-longitudinal-mode and Tunable Terahertz-wave Generation Pumped by a Microchip Nd:YAG Laser
14:30 S. Hayashi 1), K. Nawata 1), T. Taira 2), H. Minamide 1), and K. Kawase 1,3)
1) RIKEN ASI, Japan, 2) IMS, Japan, 3) Nagoya Univ., Japan
ALPS5-6 (Invited) Spectral Engineering with Aperiodic Quasi-phase matching
14:45 M. Fejer
Stanford Univ., USA

                                   ----- Coffee Break (15:15-15:45)-----

ALPS5-7 (Invited) Terahertz Nonlinear Spectroscopy with Intense Half-Cycle Pulses
15:45 K. Tanaka
Kyoto Univ., Japan
ALPS5-8 Tunable Picosecond Terahertz Parametric Oscillator Using Noncollinear Pump-Enhanced Idler-Resonant Cavity
16:15 Y. Takida, T. Ohira, Y. Tadokoro, H. Kumagai, and S. Nashima
Osaka City Univ., Japan
ALPS5-9 Intense THz Emission from Argon Cluster Interact with Femtosecond Laser Pulses
16:30 M. Hashida 1), F. Jahangiri 1), T. Nagashima 2), S. Tokita 1), M. Hangyo 2), and S. Sakabe 1)
1) Kyoto Univ., Japan, 2) Osaka Univ., Japan
ALPS5-10 Towards An Ultra-fast, Sensitive and Noncryogenic THz detector: Design Considerations and Initial Experiments
16:45 F. Qi, K. Nawata, T. Notake, H. Kawamata, T. Matsukawa, and H. Minamida
1) RIKEN ASI, Japan

17:00~17:15 Closing Conference Center Room 301
Closing Remarks
17:00 N. Miyanaga, Steering Committee Co-Chair, ILE, Osaka Univ., Japan