Agenda
8:00
8:20
8:40
9:00
Registration
Welcome:
Herbert Winful
SESSION I: The
Michigan Origins
Gabriel Weinreich
Alan Hill
9:20
Mike Bass
9:40
Paul Maker and
Robert Terhune
10:00
10:20
Coffee Break
SESSION II: The Field
Develops
Nicolaas Bloembergen
10:40
Joe Giordmaine
11:00
Elsa Garmire
11:20
11:40
12:00
12:20
12:40
1:00
POSTER SESSION
POSTER SESSION
Lunch…poster session
Lunch…poster session
Lunch…poster session
SESSION III:
Applications
Marty Fejer
1:20
Mohammed Islam
1:40
Sunney Xie
2:00
Break
Chair
John Ward
Being First
Memories of the
discovery of optical
harmonics and of Peter
Franken
Thinking Big: Working
with Peter Franken
A review of the
nonlinear optics
program at the Ford
Motor Company
Herbert
Winful
Nonlinear optics from
1960 to 1962
The magic angle: from
harmonic generation to
phase matching
The Charles Townes
legacy in nonlinear
optics
Steve
Cundiff
Fifty years of quasiphase matching
All-fiber-integrated,
modulation instabilityinitiated supercontinuum
lasers
Stimulated Raman
Scattering Microscopy
2:20
SESSION IV: The
Future
Margaret Murnane
2:40
Phil Bucksbaum
3:00
Alex Gaeta
3:20
3:40
Tal Carmon
Coffee Reception
4:15
Gerard Mourou: Ta You
Wu Lecture
5:00
6:30
7:00
Cocktail Reception
Banquet
Roberto
Merlin
Nonlinear optics at the
timescale of the electron
Nonlinear laser-matter
interactions at SLAC's
hard x-ray free electron
laser LCLS
Extreme nonlinear
photonics with ultralow
powers
Brillouin cooling
Laser based high-energy
physics