2011 - 2011 Fifth "Rio De La Plata" Workshop on Laser Dynamics and Nonlinear Photonics

The aim of this Workshop is to keep the scientific community working on nonlinear phenomena in lasers, optics and photonics in general updated with the most recent developments and tendencies in the field. We hope that the Workshop will provide the opportunity to interchange ideas in a relaxed environment, contributing in this form to the development of new scientific collaborations. Emphasis will be put in the participation of Latin-American scientists.
The topics covered by the Workshop include, but are not limited to:

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Lasers: General laser theory; Semiconductor lasers; Microcavity and microdisk lasers; Photonic crystal lasers; Laser design and operation; Dynamical laser instabilities; Noisy laser behavior; Spatial pattern formation; Laser applications; Laser spectroscopy.

Nonlinear optics: Phase conjugation; Beam trapping, self-focusing and defocusing; Self-phase modulation; Optical frequency converters; Optical bistability, multistability, and switching; Dynamics of nonlinear optical systems; Optical instabilities, optical chaos and complexity; Optical spatio?temporal dynamics; solitons; nonlinear guided waves and waveguides.

Optical materials and nanophotonics: Nonlinear optical crystals; Photorefractive and semiconductor materials; Photonic bandgap materials; metamaterials and plasmonics; Nonlinear behavior in nanophotonics.