The Symposium preliminary topics are as follows:
1. New trends in laser physics
High-energy capacity active elements and scaling ● Laser beam combining and metasurfaces ● Nuclear and gamma-ray lasers ● Novel laser architectures and dielectric media ● Machine learning in photonics ● Compact and chip-scale high-power laser systems
2. High-resolution spectroscopy and atomic clocks
Optical atomic clocks (ion and neutral) ● Nuclear optical clocks ● High-Q resonators and lineshape synthesis ● Extreme ultraviolet frequency combs ● Precision laser spectroscopy ● Trapped ions and Coulomb crystals ● Miniaturized clock systems ● Optical pumping and laser stabilization ● Coherent population trapping
3. Physics of ultracold atoms, ions, and molecules
Ultracold neutral atoms and molecules ● Laser cooling of molecular ions ● Ultracold plasma and photoionization ● Quantum many-body systems ● Polar molecules and qudit-based systems
4. Atom interferometers, magnetometers and other quantum sensors
Atomic interferometry and equivalence principle tests ● High-sensitivity atomic magnetometry ● Quantum sensors for biomedicine and geology ● Magnetoencephalography signal processing ● Planar elements and integrated cold-atom sensors ● Quantum gravimetry and inertial navigation
5. Quantum optics and quantum information
Quantum computing and algorithms ● Quantum communication and repeaters ● Quantum spectroscopy and correlated photons ● Quantum properties of light and measurements ● Solid-state quantum systems (NV centers) ● Fundamental limits of quantum computing ● Rydberg atoms and neutral-atom quantum processors ● Quantum simulation of condensed matter systems
6. Extreme Light Fields and Nonlinear Optics
Laser-plasma interactions and magnetic structuring ● High-power nanosecond and femtosecond pulses ● Nonlinear optical media and materials ● Fluorescence imaging in nonlinear media ● Attosecond science and ultrafast phenomena
7. Nanophotonics
Nanophotonics of low-dimensional materials (carbyne, van der Waals crystals) ● Topological photonics and vortex solitons ● Waveguide arrays and aperiodic structures ● Photosensitive liquid crystals and optical nonlinearities ● Optical manipulation of microparticles ● Novel phases of light and matter
8. Fiber optics and fiber lasers
Random fiber lasers ● Cryogenic fiber-based photonic devices ● Fiber microcavities and multi- parameter sensing ● Fiber-format Raman spectroscopy ● High-energy all-fiber amplifiers and photonic crystal fibers ● Fiber systems for quantum communications
9. Applications of laser radiation from THz to UV in biomedicine, technology and other fields
Terahertz time-domain spectroscopy (THz-TDS) ● Biomedical applications of terahertz radiation ● Physical mechanisms of UV laser-tissue interaction and precision ablation ● Laser cleaning technologies and physical mechanisms ● Industrial and technological applications of laser radiation ● Laser medicine and precision surgery
10. Laboratory space plasma physics with lasers
Laboratory modeling of space plasma ● Large-scale plasma devices ● Active space experiments and simulations ● Laser-driven plasma physics ● Plasma flow instabilities ● Space weather and magnetospheric physics
11. Spectroscopy and optics of planetary atmospheres
Exoplanet atmosphere spectroscopy ● Search for observable biosignatures ● Space telescope applications ● Planetary atmospheric modeling and observations