Participants’ arrival: Participants are expected to arrive on Sunday, the 31st of August.Â
Symposium start: The Symposium will begin on Monday, the 1st of September, at 9:00.
Symposium end: The Symposium will conclude Friday, the 5th of September, at 12:30.

Daily Program
9:00 – 9:30 | Welcome |
9:30 – 10:20 | Akazaki lecture Diagnostics of low-temperature plasmas by laser-aided atomic spectroscopy Uwe Czarnetzki |
10:20 – 10:50 | Coffee break |
10:50 – 11:30 | G1 The advantages and challenges of near infra-red interferometers to measure density profiles in future fusion reactors Graham Naylor |
11:30 – 12:10 | G2 Low cost, all fiber, multi-chord 1.5 micron laser interferometer density measurements Brian Henderson |
12:10 – 12:25 | C1 Recent progress of Polarimeter and Interferometer system on EAST tokamak Hui Lian |
12:30 – 14:30 | Lunch |
14:30 – 14:55 | T5 TALIF and CARS on Magnum-PSI Kay Schutjes |
14:55 – 15:10 | C6 Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy for studying tritium retention in fusion reactors Antti Hakola |
15:10 – 15:25 | C8 Development of V-band frequency steering phased array antenna for Doppler backscattering measurements Seong-Heon Seo |
15:25 – 16:05 | Poster pitches |
16:10 – 16:40 | Coffee break |
16:40 – 18:20 | Poster session 1 |
18:20 – 19:00 | Welcome Apero |
9:00 – 9:40 | G8 Ultra-broadband spectroscopy for plasma diagnostics using supercontinuum light sources Amir Khodabakhsh |
9:40 – 10:05 | T8 Spatiotemporal Evolution of Helium Metastable Atoms in kHz Atmospheric-Pressure Plasma Jets Sanghoo Park |
10:05 – 10:20 | C10 Laser diagnostics for negative ion source optimization: insights form SPIDER at the ITER Neutral Beam Test Facility Riccardo Agnello |
10:20 – 10:50 | Coffee break |
10:50 – 11:30 | G9 Measurements of Atoms, Metastable Species, and Molecular Ions in a Heated Nonequilibrium Plasma Flow Reactor Igor Adamovich |
11:30 – 11:55 | T9 Atomic oxygen measurements with THz absorption spectroscopy, ps- TALIF, and CRDS: A comparison Jean-Pierre van Helden |
11:55 – 12:10 | C11 Spatially and spectrally resolved probing of excited vibrational states in the kinetics of CO2 plasmas using mid-IR Frequency Comb fourier transform absorption spectroscopy Dihya Sadi |
12:10 – 12:25 | C12 Time and state resolved QCLAS and CARS for the study of vibrational kinetics in CO2 and N2 using a nanosecond pulsed discharge Christian Busch |
12:30 – 14:30 | Lunch |
14:30 – 15:10 | G12 Quantum beat measurements of weak magnetic fields in plasmas Tyler Gilbert |
15:10 – 15:25 | C13 Diode laser absorption spectroscopy for H(n=2) detection in a low-pressure hydrogen ECR plasma Richard Engeln |
15:25 – 16:05 | Poster-pitches |
16:10 – 16:40 | Coffee break |
16:40 – 18:20 | Poster session 2 |
9:00 – 9:40 | G3 First results from a real-time Thomson scattering evaluation system in operation at W7-X for the purposes of plasma profile control Ameer Mohammed |
9:40 – 10:05 | T1 New calibration techniques for the Thomson scattering diagnostic of W7-X and beyond Golo Fuchert |
10:05 – 10:20 | C2 Improvement of dual-path multi-pass Thomson scattering system in GAMMA 10/PDX Masayuki Yoshikawa |
10:20 – 10:50 | Coffee break |
10:50 – 11:15 | T2 Real-time Thomson scattering diagnostics and data processing for plasma control on LHD Hisamichi Funaba |
11:15 – 11:30 | C5 Polarimetric Thomson Scattering for high electron temperature measurements: perspectives and challenges Filippo Bagnato |
11:30 – 11:55 | T3 Non-Maxwellian electron distribution function measurements using Thomson scattering in magnetically confined plasmas: conceptual design and data-driven analysis Kentaro Sakai |
11:55 – 12:10 | C3 Dual-wavelength Thomson scattering Ekkehard Pasch |
12:10 – 12:25 | C4 Multi-channel Thomson scattering diagnostic on HL-3 Tokamak Shaobo Gong |
12:30 – 14:00 | Lunch |
14:00 – 15:00 | Board meeting |
15:00 – 18:20 | Social activity |
18:20 – 19:00 | Poster prizes |
19:00 – 22:00 | Social dinner |
22:00 – 1:00 | Post-dinner (Bastide) |
9:00 – 9:40 | G10 Time- and space-resolved measurements for combustion and reacting flows Simone Hochgreb |
9:40 – 10:20 | G11 Capabilities and Pitfalls of Electric Field Measurements via the EFISH Diagnostic Tat Loon Chng |
10:20 – 10:50 | Coffee break |
10:50 – 11:15 | T12 Picosecond Three-Wave Mixing for Absolute Species Number Density Measurements in Flows and Plasmas Marien Simeni Simeni |
11:15 – 11:30 | C15 Electric field and plasma parameter measurements in an APP RF jet by E-FISH Inna Orel |
11:30 – 11:45 | C16 UV-interferometry and shadowgraphy on strongly-coupled dense plasmas generated in supercritical fluids Gunsu Yun |
11:45 – 12:10 | T11 Laser-Aided (and other) Plasma Diagnostics for Wakefield Acceleration at AWAKE Christine Stollberg |
12:10 – 12:25 | C14 In situ Raman Spectroscopy of Water in Contact with Atmospheric-Pressure Plasmas Kasidapa Polprasarn |
12:30 – 14:30 | Lunch |
14:30 – 15:10 | G5 Laser aided diagnostics of JT-60SA Yoshiaki Ohtani |
15:10 – 15:50 | G6 Microwave Diagnostic on W7-X Andreas KrĂ€mer-Flecken |
15:50 – 16:05 | C7 Development of a Coherent Thomson Scattering Diagnostic System Based on Far-Infrared Laser on the HL-3 Tokamak Zhipei Hou |
16:10 – 16:40 | Coffee break |
16.40 – 17:20 | G4 Leveraging Artificial Intelligence for Enhanced Fusion Plasma Diagnosis Azarakhsh Jalalvand |
17:20 – 17:45 | T4 Local measurement of thermalization and acceleration due to magnetic reconnection in high-power laser-produced plasma Taichi Morita |
17:45 – 18:10 | T6 Microwave imaging diagnostic systems on EAST tokamak Jinlin Xie |
9:00 – 9:40 | G7 High-resolution twoâphoton absorption laserâinduced fluorescence (TALIF) for cold plasma diagnostics Cyril Drag |
9:40 – 10:05 | T7 ps-TALIF and streak camera diagnostics for measurements of atomic densities in microplasmas Kristaq Gazeli |
10:05 – 10:20 | C9 Laser-Induced Fluorescence spectroscopy on atomic iodine for space electric propulsion purposes Alfredo Marianacci |
10:20 – 10:50 | Coffee break |
10:50 – 11:15 | T10 Ultrafast four-wave mixing strategies for the detection and quantification of reactive atomic species: hydrogen, oxygen, and fluorines Christopher Kliewer |
11:15 – 11:40 | Closing ceremony |