1. Optical Pulses in Nonlinear Waveguides:

• Parametric and stimulated scattering:

• Nonlinear pulse shaping and modulational instabilities

• Pulse compression, and pulse train generation

• Self-similar pulse propagation

• Supercontinuum generation

• Rogue waves

• Optical shock waves

• Self- and cross-phase modulation

• Parametric mixing

• Harmonic generation

• Polarization attraction

• Nonlinear multiphoton absorption

• Temporal solitons:

• Generation of bright and dark solitons

• Stability and control of solitons

• Polarization effects

• Soliton-noise interactions

• Mechanisms for dispersive wave generation

• Dispersion management

• Ultra-short pulse modelling:

• Going beyond the slowly varying envelope approximation

• Modelling of supercontinuum generation

• Variational and perturbative methods

2. Spatial and Temporal Nonlinear Interactions in Classical and Quantum Photonics

• Spatial optical solitons, self-trapping, and self-guiding effects:

• Bright, dark, and vortex solitons in various nonlinear media

• Stability of spatial and spatio-temporal solitons, solitary waves, and modulation instability

• Nonlinear effects in disordered media

• Interaction of spatial solitons

• Nonlinear modes in waveguides

• Nonlinear surface waves and topological states

• Self-trapping effects in waveguide arrays and discrete spatial solitons

• Spatio-temporal effects:

• Spatio-temporal solitons

• Dispersive shock waves

• Filamentation and collapse

• X waves and non-diffracting beams

• Multimode fiber solitons

• Spatio-temporal beam dynamics in waveguide arrays

• Optical turbulence

• Nonlinear wave interactions in quantum photonics:

• Generation of photons with spatial and temporal entanglement

• Coherent photon conversion and single-photon interactions

• Quantum-classical correspondence in nonlinear wave mixing

3. Nonlinear Cavities, Active Photonics with Gain and Dissipation, and Light-Matter Interactions

• Nonlinear interactions in optical cavities and microresonators:

• Spatial pattern formation in nonlinear cavities and waveguides (transverse and longitudinal)

• Dissipative solitons in cavities containing nonlinear materials (transverse and longitudinal)

• Mode locking dynamics

• Vortex solitons, optical turbulence and rogue waves

• Parabolic and self-similar pulses

• Nonlinear dynamics of semiconductor lasers, VCSELs and VECSELs

• Optical frequency comb generation

• Random lasers

• Nonlinear effects in photonic crystals and interactions in periodic structures:

• Bragg gratings in semiconductor waveguides

• Nonlinear effects in photonic crystals and Bragg gratings

• Bragg solitons, gap solitons and dissipative solitons in photonic crystals

• Devices based on nonlinear interactions in gratings

• Waveguides and resonators with gain and loss:

• Nonlinear effects in parity-time symmetric structures

• Nonlinear optical switching and unidirectional phenomena

• Supersymmetry and lasers

• Nonlinear amplifiers and amplifier solitons

• Short pulse and quasi-CW fiber lasers

• Opto-mechanical interactions in waveguides and resonators

• Nonlinear optoacoustic interactions

• Optomechanics, stimulated Brillouin and Raman scattering

• Frequency conversion and synchronization

• Nonlinear light-matter interactions and Bose-Einstein condensation:

• Exciton-polaritons in semiconductor microcavities and waveguides

• Cold atoms and Bose-Einstein Condensates in optical lattices and cavities

• Nonlinear modes and light-matter solitons

• Active devices and lasers modelling:

• Models for lasers and amplifiers

• Mode locking, new techniques

4. Nonlinear Nanophotonics, Plasmonics, and Metamaterials

• Nonlinear properties of plasmonic materials

• Nonlinearity enhancement

• Surface nonlinearity

• Nonlocal effects

• Ultrafast phenomena

• Self-sustained waves in plasmonic structures

• Nonlinear scattering by nanoparticles

• Harmonic generation

• Frequency mixing

• Optical trapping and manipulation

• Nonlinear metamaterials and metasurfaces

• Nonlinear interactions and propagation in metamaterials

• Nonlinear enhancement in all-dielectric structures

• Dispersion engineering and nonlinear phase matching

• Nonlinear effects in 2D materials

• Nonlinear interactions in graphene and other mono-atomic-layer materials

• Topologocal phenomena

• Finite difference time domain simulations:

• Full vector solutions to Maxwell’s equations with nonlinearities

• Pseudo spectral computations

• Novel algorithms for nanophotonic simulations

5. All-Optical Nonlinear Devices and Applications

• Nonlinear Devices and Systems

• All-optical communications devices and systems

• All-optical wavelength conversion and signal regeneration

• Ultrafast switching and packet-switching

• All-optical signal processing and logic functions

• Optical storage and memory

• Slow-light phenomena

• Optical beam cleaning

• Dielectric and plasmonic metadevices

• Microwave photonics

• Application of cascaded and second order nonlinearities:

• Second harmonic generation

• Frequency conversion

• Quasi-phase-matching

• Quantum Information

• Quantum cryptography

• Quantum computing

• Quantum photonic chips

• Teleportation

• Measurements and microscopy

• Nonlinear measurement and detection

• Ultrashort pulse characterization (e.g., FROG, SPIDER)

• Optical sampling

• Multiphoton microscopy

• All-optical monitoring

• Nonlinear guided wave spectroscopy

• Novel Nonlinear Materials and Structures:

• Highly nonlinear fibers (e.g. novel glasses and microstructured fibers)

• Nonlinear crystals (including photorefractive effects)

• Nonlinear semiconductors (SOAs, LDs, VCSELs, VECSELs)

• Quantum-dot materials

• Graphene and other 2D materials

• Polymers and organics for waveguides

• Physics and chemistry of poling including thermal and UV-assisted poling of fibres

• System modelling:

• Stochastic effects in communication systems and error estimates

• Advanced modulation formats

• Nonlinearities in spatial and mode division multiplexing fiber systems

• Mitigation of fiber nonlinearity impairments in coherent transmission systems

• Optical networks