From 5^th to 7^th of February, ALPhANOV will attend the Photonics West exhibition in San Francisco. During this event, seven scientific talks, one of which invited, and one poster will be presented by ALPhANOV engineers.

ALPhANOV’s engineers will present their latest work on laser sources, laser processes and fiber components during Photonics West 2019. We will be also glad to welcome you during BiOS the 2^nd and 3rd of February at our booth #8339 and at the French Pavillon during Photonics West exhibition from 5^th to 7^th of February at our booth #1059 F.

Saturday, February 2^nd 2019

Session 1: Novel Applications of Lasers and Light in Biomedicine | 8:00 – 10:00

• Biofabrication of a vascular network by ultra-short laser pulses, Isabel Verit, ALPhANOV (France) and INSERM, Univ. of Bordeaux (France)

Tuesday, February 5^th 2019

Session 2: Supercontinuum Sources | 10:30 – 12:00

• 3 W Mid-IR supercontinuum extended up to 4.6 μm based on an all-PM thulium doped fiber gain-switch laser seeding an InF3 fiber, Jean-Paul Yehouessi, Sebastien Vidal, ALPhANOV (France); Jean-Yves Carree, Laurine Bodin, Samuel Poulain, Le Verre Fluore (France); Guillaume Huss, LEUKOS (France); Johan Boullet, ALPhANOV (France)

Session 4 : Frontier in Laser Micromachining | 8:00 – 10:20

• Glass drilling using ultrafast pulses with variable delay in the femtosecond and picosecond range, Kevin Gaudfrin, ALPhANOV (France) and Univ. Bordeaux (France) and Ctr. Lasers Intenses et Applications (France); John Lopez, Guillaume Duchateau, Univ. de Bordeaux (France) and Ctr. Lasers Intenses et Applications (France); Rainer Kling, ALPhANOV (France); Konstantin Mishchik, Amplitude Systemes (France)

Poster session: 18:00 – 20:00

• 180 W single mode laser operation of an Yb:YAG thin disk using a robust direct-bonding process, Ramatou Bello, Loïc Deyra, Maria Milla-Rodrigo, Johan Boullet, ALPhANOV (France); Paula Heu, David Follman, Garett Cole, Crystalline Mirror Solutions, LLC (USA); Abdelhak Saci, Jean-Gabriel Brisset, Antoine Courjaud, Amplitude Systèmes (France)

Wednesday, February 6^th 2019

Session 7: High Power/Energy Laser Components and Packaging I | 8:30 – 10:00

• Photonic crystal fiber-based components for high power industrial Fs laser applications (Invited Paper), Johan Boullet, Simon Boivinet, Christophe Pierre, Guillaume Machinet, Hugo Lecommandoux, Emmanuel Chalumeau, Cyril Vincont, Kevin Robin, Michael Berisset, ALPhANOV (France)
   

Session 9: High Power/Energy Laser Components and Packaging III | 13:30 – 15:20

• Ultra-high brightness, low insertion loss, kW-class co and contra propagative 6+1:1 combiner, Yves-Vincent Bardin, Christophe Pierre, Johan Boullet, ALPhANOV (France)
   

Session 11: Ultrafast Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers II | 16:00 – 17:50

• Sub-50 fs 3.5 nJ pulses at 792 nm generated by frequency doubling of an all-PM fiber laser for Ti:sapphire injection, Simon Boivinet, Philippe Morin, Jean-Paul Yehouessi, Sebastien Vidal, Guillaume Machinet, Johan Boullet, ALPhANOV (France)

Thursday, February 7^th 2019

Session 10: High Speed Laser Beam Engineering Systems | 10:40 – 12:10

• Beam Engineering for high throughput material processing with high power, femtosecond lasers, Girolamo Mincuzzi, Alice Rebiere, Baptiste Le Goaec, Marc Faucon, Rainer Kling, ALPhANOV (France)