Detailed program – COFIL 2026

Monday 20 July

1. Introduction – Chair: A. Mysyrowicz
	9h30	André Mysyrowicz, Laboratoire d’optique Appliquée, France	Welcome address
A01	9h40	See Leang Chin, Laval University, Quebec, Canada	History of filamentation
A02	10h20	Pierre Agostini, the Ohio State University, USA	Birth of attosecond pulses at LOA
	11h00	Coffee break
2. LWIR filamentation – Chair: P. Polynkin
A04	11h30	Audrius Pugzlys TU Wien, Austria	9.3-um high-energy femtosecond OPCPA and first filamentation-related experiments with this new source
	12h00	Lunch
3. Plasma and gas optics – Chair: S. Tzortzakis
A05	14h00	Heping Zeng East China Normal University, China	Filamentary Plasma Gratings Induced Molecular Bond Rupture
A06	14h30	Matthew Edwards Stanford University, USA	Plasma Optics from Crossed Femtosecond Lasers
A07	15h00	Shuai Yuan University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, China	Multidimensional Filamentary Plasma Grating
A08	15h30	Devdigvijay S. Singh Stanford University, USA	Control of Terawatt-Class Filamentation Using Holographic Gaseous Lenses
	15h50	Coffee break
4. High repetition rate filamentation – Chair: C. Saraceno
A09	16h10	Martin Richardson (L. Smith) University of Central Florida, USA	GHz bursts of filaments, their properties and applications
A10	16h40	Tie-Jun Wang SIOM, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai China	Recent Progress on High Repetition Rate Femtosecond Laser Filamentation in Air from SIOM
A11	17h10	Malte Schroeder Ruhr University Bochum, Germany	Time-Resolved Measurements of Cumulative Effects in Gas Dynamics Induced by High-Repetition-Rate Femtosecond Laser Filamentation

Tuesday 21 July

5. Simulations – Chair:
A12	Olga Kosareva, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia	Simulation of the filamentation process with high time and space resolution
A13	Vladimir T. Tikhonchuk University of Bordeaux, France	Modeling the gain in N₂⁺
A14	Arnaud Couairon CPHT, CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, IP Paris, France	Investigating Spatio-Temporal Dynamics and Self-Steepening in Multi-Pass Cells
	Coffee break
A15	Albina Tropina Texas A&M University, USA	Dynamics of laser plasmas: energy coupling, theory and applications
A16	Ihar Babushkin, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany	Cavities Flying at the Speed of Light: Trapping Photons Inside Optical Pulses
	Lunch
Px	Poster session (see list on page 7)
6. Filamentation in solids – Chair: F. Courvoisier
A17	Francois Courvoisier, Université Marie et Louis Pasteur and CNRS, Besançon, France	Microphysics of Bessel pulse generated nanoplasmas
A18	Maxime Chambonneau Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany	Double-pulse filamentation in the bulk of silicon
A19	Stelios Tzortzakis, University of Crete, FORTH,and TAMUQ, Greece	Filamentation-enabled materials nanoengineering and THz applications
	Coffee break
A20	Miroslav Kolesik, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA	From first principles to accurate, computationally efficient material models for optical filamentation in solid-state media
A21	Vytautas Jukna, Laser Research Center, Vilnius University, Lithuania	Heat Accumulation Effects in MHz Supercontinuum Generation in Bulk
A22	Alejandro Aceves, Southern Methodist University, USA	Light filaments in YAG crystals and ceramics

Wednesday 22 July

7. Plasmas and discharges – Chair: A. Houard
A23	9h30	Arthur Dogariu, Texas A&M University, USA	Femtosecond Filament Diagnostics: from Velocimetry to Thermal Non-Equilibrium
A24	10h10	Takashi Fuji University of Tokyo, Japan	Electric-field-induced second-harmonic generation using high-intensity femtosecond laser pulses
A25	10h40	Quentin Gutierrez, LOA, ENSTA, CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, IP Paris, France	Optical emission spectroscopy of a femtosecond laser induced filament
	11h00	Coffee break
A26	11h20	Jean-Claude Diels, The University of New Mexico, USA	Study of the impact of runaway electrons on laser induced discharges
A27	11h50	Zhehao Pei, Hefei University of Technology, China	Accumulation of Lightning Protection Practice and Development Exploration of New Active Lightning Triggering Technologies
A28	12h20	Thomas Clark, LOA, ENSTA, CNRS, Ecole polytechnique	Streamer discharges assisted by femtosecond laser filamentation in air
	12h40	Lunch break
8. Lasing – Chair: Yi Liu
A29	14h30	Jinping Yao, SIOM, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China	Cascaded amplification and backward radiation of air lasing
A30	15h00	Chengyin Wu, Peking University, Beijing, China	Mechanisms of NO(A,B-X) Fluorescence in Femtosecond Laser Filamentation
A31	15h30	Maria Richter, Max-Born-Institute, Berlin, Germany	Universal ultrafast lasing in excited atomic states
	16h00	Coffee break

Thursday 23 July

9. Terahertz – Chair: W. Liu
A35	9h30	Clara Saraceno, Bochum university, Germany	Repetition rate scaling of plasma-based THz sources
A36	10h00	Luc Bergé, CELIA, University of Bordeaux and CEA, France	Frequency-dependent polarization states of terahertz waveforms produced by two-color laser filaments
A37	10h30	Georgy Rizaev, Lebedev Physical Institute of RAS, Russia	Characteristics of Terahertz Emission from Single-color Ultraviolet Laser Filaments
	10h50	Coffee break
10. High repetition rate filamentation (2) – Chair: C. Saraceno
A39	11h20	Olivier Zabiolle, Amplitude Laser, France	Emerging laser technologies providing Terawatt peak power and high average power in Amplitude
A40	11h40	Corentin Lechevalier, LULI, CNRS, ecole polytechnique	Ultrafast filamentation in the air at 333 kHz
A41	12h00	Yaoxiang Liu, SIOM, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai	Thermal Turbulence to Structured Airflow: Dynamics and Active Control of High-Repetition-Rate Laser Filaments
	12h20	Lunch break
11. Applications of filaments – Chair: J. P. Wolf
A42	14h00	Jean-Pierre Wolf, University of Geneva, Switzerland	Applications of near-IR and visible filamentation
A43	14h40	Ya Cheng, East China Normal University, China	Futuristic industrial applications enabled by the extreme optical nonlinearity
A44	15h10	Weiwei Liu, Nankai University, China	Recent advance in filamentation based remote-sensing technique
	15h40	Coffee break
A45	16h00	Pavel Polynkin, The University of Arizona, Tucson, USA	Air Waveguiding with Ultrafast Structured Beams
A46	16h30	Igor Jovanovic, University of California, Berkeley, USA	Cumulative Effects of Ultrafast Laser Filamentation in Cloud Media
A47	17h00	Lea Bernardot, ONERA The french Aerospace Lab, France	Application of femtosecond laser filamentation to one-dimensional FLEET velocimetry in supersonic jet flows

	19h00 22h00	Conference Diner

Friday 24 July

12. Structured light – Chair: O. Kosareva
A48	9h30	Yi Liu, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, China	From filamentation to spatiotemporal vortex and Skyrmions: Generation in the UV and EUV regime
A49	10h00	Natalia Litchinitser, Duke University, USA	Structuring spatiotemporal states of polarization
A50	10h30	Zuoqiang Hao, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250358, China	Measurement techniques for the self-focusing critical power of femtosecond pulses.
	11h00	Coffee break
13. Applications of filaments (2) – Chair: T. Clark
A51	11h20	Huailiang Xu, Jilin University, China	Remote filament fabrication and application
A52	11h50	Lashae Smith, University of Central Florida, USA	Long Distance Propagation and Applications of Filaments
A53	12h10	Ali Rasteragi (JC Diels) The University of New Mexico, USA	Enhanced Spectral Accuracy and Resolution in Atmospheric-Pressure Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy Using Self-Absorption Dips
	12h30	Lunch break