Frontiers in Modern Optics.

Title Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Course group shot -- Dialogues about geometry and light -- Tutorial on nonlinear optics -- Introduction to nonlinear optics -- Second-order nonlinear optical processes -- Second-harmonic generation (SHG) -- Mathematical description -- Sum frequency generation (SFG) -- Mathematical description -- Difference Frequency Generation (DFG) -- Optical parametric oscillation (OPO) -- Parametric downconversion -- Phase-matching -- Third-order nonlinear optical processes -- Third-harmonic Generation (THG) -- Intensity dependent refractive index -- Effect of material symmetry -- Nonlinear optics with focussed Gaussian beams -- Origin of third-order nonlinear response -- Quantum-mechanical explanation of nonlinear optical susceptibility -- Non-resonant electronic nonlinearities -- Molecular orientation effect -- Thermal effects -- Measurement of optical nonlinearity: Z-scan -- Self-action effects -- Self-focussing -- Optical solitons -- Self-trapping and spatial solitons -- Temporal solitons -- Small-scale filamentation -- Local-field effects -- Lorentz local field -- Nanocomposite materials for nonlinear optics -- Layered composite materials -- Metal-dielectric photonic crystals -- Counterintuitive consequence of local-field effects -- Nonlinear plasmonics -- Slow and fast light -- Slow light using SBS -- Slow light by coherent population oscillations -- Slow and fast light in Erbium-Doped Fibre Amplifiers (EDFAs) -- Spontaneous and stimulated light scattering -- Stimulated light scattering -- Stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) -- Stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) -- Recent progress in weak value amplification and direct measurement -- Introduction -- Weak value amplification -- Direct measurement -- Experimental weak measurements -- Weak value amplification in angular position and OAM variables.

Compressive direct measurement of the transverse wave function -- Direct measurement of a 27-dimensional OAM state -- Full characterization of polarization states of light via direct measurement -- Optical airy beams and bullets -- Introduction -- Diffraction -- Non-diffracting beams -- Non-diffracting accelerating beams -- Acceleration dynamics of the Airy beams -- Experimental realization of Airy wavepackets -- Self-reconstruction of Airy beams -- Applications of Airy beams -- Optical Airy bullets -- Airy plasmons -- Applications and perspectives for Airy beams -- Symmetries in optics -- Introduction -- PT symmetry in optics -- Supersymmetry (SUSY) -- Conclusion -- Full-color, computational ghost video -- Ghost imaging: from quantum to classical to computational -- Computational imaging with a commercial light projector -- Experiment setup -- 2D reconstructions -- 3D reconstructions -- Full-color, single-pixel video -- Implementation of orthogonal sampling -- A real-time computational video system using single-pixel detectors -- Conclusion -- Light in a twist: Orbital angular momentum -- What is orbital angular momentum -- Orbital angular momentum generation -- Experiments with and applications of orbital angular momentum -- Quantum interference and imaging -- Introduction -- Interference and path information -- Basic concept -- Application to an optical interference experiment -- A quantum imaging experiment -- Novelty of the imaging experiment -- Conclusion -- Nonlinear photonics in chip-based structures -- Introduction -- Brief review of nonlinear optics -- Nonlinear processes in nanowaveguides -- Four-wave mixing in silicon nanowaveguides -- Optical parametric oscillators -- Conclusion -- Silicon photonics -- Introduction -- Ultra low loss waveguides and ring resonators -- Losses -- Fabrication -- Electro-optics modulation.

Breaking the reciprocity of light -- Multimode photonics -- Optofluidics -- Optomechanics -- Characterization of ultrashort laser pulses and carrier-envelope phase stabilization -- Ultrashort laser pulses -- Pulse characterization -- Autocorrelation and decorrelation -- Frequency-resolved optical gating -- Spectral interferometry for direct electric field reconstruction -- Beyond FROG and SPIDER -- Multiphoton intrapulse interference phase scan -- Dispersion scan -- Coherent artifact -- Carrier-envelope phase -- CEP measurement of oscillator pulses -- f-to-2f interferometry -- CEP characterization -- A bottleneck in CEP measurements ?Shot Noise -- Stabilization of the CEP -- Feedback stabilization -- Feed-forward stabilization -- CEP in Ti:sapphire based CPA systems -- Detection and control of the CEP in the slow loop -- Improvements in CEP detection of amplified systems -- Supercontinuum generation in optical fibers -- Introduction -- Pulse propagation in nonlinear fibers -- Representation of optical pulses -- Linear regime -- Nonlinear regime -- Nonlinear effects -- Optical Kerr effect -- Self phase modulation -- Cross-phase modulation -- Four-wave mixing (FWM) -- Stimulated Raman scattering -- Supercontinuum generation with short pulses -- Solitons -- Soliton fission -- Dispersive wave generation -- Soliton self-frequency shift -- Anomalous dispersion pumping -- Normal dispersion pumping -- Spectrogram representation -- Nonlinear instabilities and extreme events -- Modulation instability -- Solitons on finite background -- Noise-seeded modulation instability -- Rogue solitons -- Coherence -- Conclusion -- Filamentation and selfinduced beam propagation effects -- Timeline -- Self-channeling -- Self-guiding -- Moving foci -- Moving foci (extended) -- Spatial replenishment -- Multiple filamentation.

Robustness, Bessel beam and spatio-temporal couping in filamentation -- Robust propagation of a light filament -- Bessel beams -- X-waves -- Spatio-temporal coupling and conical emission -- Intensity clamping -- Intensity clamping occurs when plasma defocusing balances Kerr selffocusing -- Intensity clamping occurs when one detects the formation of a plasma channel -- Intensity clamping occurs when the blue cutoff of supercontinuum generation remains constant with pulse energy -- Applications of femtosecond filamentation -- Guided discharge -- Bulk microstructuring of glass with laser filaments -- Generation of few cycle IR pulses and isolated attosecond pulses -- Supercontinuum light detection and ranging techniques -- Other applications -- List of participants.

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