Program

Participants’ arrival: Participants are expected to arrive on Sunday, the 31st of August.

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 Petra Bilkova and Paolo Ricci

	Session Chair: Petra Bilkova
9:30 – 10:20	Akazaki lecture The Art of Measuring Electric Fields in Plasmas Uwe Czarnetzki
10:20 – 10:50	Coffee break

	Session Chair: Petra Bilkova
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 Laser Diagnostics of Electrical Discharges in Nitrogen and Air-Nitrogen Mixtures: Advances and Challenges Paolo F. Ambrico
12:10 – 12:25	C1 Recent progress of Polarimeter and Interferometer system on EAST tokamak Hui Lian
12:30 – 14:30	Lunch

	Session chair: Jean Pierre van Helden
14:30 – 14:55	T1 TALIF and CARS measurements on Fusion-relevant linear plasma devices Kay Schutjes
14:55 – 15:10	C2 Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy for studying tritium retention in fusion reactors Antti Hakola
15:10 – 15:25	C3 Development of Cotton-Mouton Effect Interferometer / Polarimeter on EAST Minyong Shen
15:25 – 16:05	Poster pitches
16:10 – 16:40	Coffee break
16:40 – 18:20	Poster session 1
	1. Correcting birefringence distortion in optical fiber current sensors using 3D signal analysis method Seongmin Choi 2. Flashlamp drive system for high-rep-rate Nd:YAG laser Daniel Den Hartog 3. Preliminary Neutronics Analysis of the Diagnostic Port Plug in Burning Plasma Device Bo Hong (by Hui Lian) 4. Commissioning of the edge Thomson scattering diagnostic system on Versatile Experiment Spherical Torus Yong-Seok Hwang 5. Relative calibration correction using fast LEDs to enhance the reliability of Thomson Scattering diagnostic on KSTAR Jung-Hwa Kim 6. Measurement of collective Thomson scattering for electron and ion features on SNU X-pinch device Jongmin Lee 7. Investigation of Error Sources in the CO₂ Dispersion Interferometer on EAST and Implications for Future System Design Haiqing Liu 8. Optical path upgrade of the terahertz multi-channel polarization interferometer on KTX Wenzhe Mao 9. Developments in phase-contrast imaging on TCV for electron-scale fluctuation measurements Vincent Masson 10. High-Temporal-Resolution MHD Stability Analysis Using Neural Network-Based Kinetic Profile Reconstructions on the COMPASS tokamak Michal Odložilík 11. Preliminary Investigation of a Water Vapor Discharge in a Hall Thruster via Optical Emission Spectroscopy (OES) and Laser-Induced Fluorescence (LIF) Fabiano Perini 12. Real-time digital Lock-In Amplifier Implementation for dispersion interferometer diagnostic on EAST tokamak Yuan Yao 13. Collective Thomson Scattering Measurement of Flow Profiles on a Sheared-Flow-Stabilized Z Pinch William Young
18:20 – 19:00	Welcome Apero

	Session chair: Ivo Furno
9:00 – 9:40	G3 Ultra-broadband spectroscopy for plasma diagnostics using supercontinuum light sources Amir Khodabakhsh
9:40 – 10:05	T2 Spatiotemporal Evolution of Helium Metastable Atoms in kHz Atmospheric-Pressure Plasma Jets Sanghoo Park
10:05 – 10:20	C4 Rovibrational state-resolved spectroscopy of N2-H2-CH4 plasmas using frequency comb-based absorption techniques Ibrahim Sadiek
10:20 – 10:50	Coffee break

	Session chair: Frederick Skiff
10:50 – 11:30	G4 Measurements of Atoms, Metastable Species, and Molecular Ions in a Heated Nonequilibrium Plasma Flow Reactor Igor Adamovich
11:30 – 11:55	T3 Atomic oxygen measurements with THz absorption spectroscopy, ps- TALIF, and CRDS: A comparison Jean-Pierre van Helden
11:55 – 12:10	C5 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	C6 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

	Session chair: Earl Scime
14:30 – 15:10	G5 Quantum beat measurements of weak magnetic fields in plasmas Tyler Gilbert
15:10 – 15:25	C7 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
	14. Ghost-Imaging Laser-Absorption Spectroscopy of Pulsed Helicon-Wave Plasmas for Two-Dimensional Mapping of Metastable Helium Atoms Mitsutoshi Aramaki 15. Femtosecond TALIF of atomic hydrogen in RAID Marcelo Baquero-Ruiz 16. Cavity ring-down spectroscopy study of the kinetics of oxygen atoms, ozone and negative ions in RF capacitively-coupled plasmas in O2 Jean-Paul Booth 17. EHD-driven air entrainment affects the evolution of APPJ Hyeondo Cho 18. Rapid E-FISH measurements Nikita Lepikhin 19. Laser-Induced Fluorescence spectroscopy on atomic iodine for space electric propulsion purposes Alfredo Marianacci 20. Spectrally-Resolving the Emission of Laser-Induced Fluorescence Jacob McLaughlin, Costel Biloiu 21. Laser-collision induced fluorescence for determination of rate coefficients in helium plasma towards improvements of collisional-radiative modeling Vanni Meier 22. Real-time measurement of azimuth Doppler shift induced by transverse flow velocity Hiroki Minagawa 23. Laser absorption in the mid-IR for absolute density measurements of nitrogen containing molecules in low pressure-low temperature plasmas Sofia Perina 24. Noise reduction and sensitivity enhancement of laser absorption spectroscopy by fast Fourier transform Koichi Sasaki 25. Laser Induced Fluorescence Using Frequency Modulated Light Earl Scime 26. Thomson scattering plasma characterization on the Resonant Antenna Ion Device Franciszek Sobczuk 27. Dispersion interferometer for the measurements of laser produced plasma Kenji Tanaka 28. Different Re-excitation of Laser Induced Plasma for Enhancement and Prolongation of Spectral Emission – towards Precise Depth Profile Analysis Pavel Veis, Matej Veis 29. Electron Characteristics of a Dual-Frequency Atmospheric-Pressure Plasma Jet Daehee Wi 30. Implementation of asymmetric optical vortex laser-induced fluorescence method using a spatial light modulator Shinji Yoshimura 31. Progress and Plans for Quantum-enhanced Optical Diagnostics: Multi-photon Absorption and Atomic Magnetometry Michael Zepp

		Session chair: Petra Bilkova
	9:00 – 9:40	G6 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	T4 New calibration techniques for the Thomson scattering diagnostic of W7-X and beyond Golo Fuchert
	10:05 – 10:20	C8 Improvement of dual-path multi-pass Thomson scattering system in GAMMA 10/PDX Masayuki Yoshikawa
	10:20 – 10:50	Coffee break
		Session chair: Ahmed Diallo
	10:50 – 11:15	T5 Real-time Thomson scattering diagnostics and data processing for plasma control on LHD Hisamichi Funaba
	11:15 – 11:30	C9 Polarimetric Thomson Scattering for high electron temperature measurements: perspectives and challenges Filippo Bagnato
	11:30 – 11:55	T6 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	C10 Dual-wavelength Thomson scattering Ekkehard Pasch
	12:10 – 12:25	C11 Evaluation of the reliability of Rayleigh scattering as absolute calibration method for the Thomson scattering diagnostic at W7-X Jannik Wagner
	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)

	Session chair: Koichi Sasaki
9:00 – 9:40	G7 Time- and space-resolved measurements for combustion and reacting flows Simone Hochgreb
9:40 – 10:20	G8 Capabilities and Pitfalls of Electric Field Measurements via the EFISH Diagnostic Tat Loon Chng
10:20 – 10:50	Coffee break

	Session chair: Marien Simeni Simeni
10:50 – 11:15	T7 Picosecond Three-Wave Mixing for Absolute Species Number Density Measurements in Flows and Plasmas Marien Simeni Simeni
11:15 – 11:30	C12 Electric field and plasma parameter measurements in an APP RF jet by E-FISH Inna Orel
11:30 – 11:45	C13 UV-interferometry and shadowgraphy on strongly-coupled dense plasmas generated in supercritical fluids Gunsu Yun
11:45 – 12:10	T8 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

	Session chair : Kenji Tanaka
14:30 – 15:10	G9 Laser aided diagnostics of JT-60SA Yoshiaki Ohtani
15:10 – 15:50	G10 Microwave Diagnostic on W7-X Andreas Krämer-Flecken
15:50 – 16:05	C15 Development of V-band frequency steering phased array antenna for Doppler backscattering measurements Seong-Heon Seo
16:10 – 16:40	Coffee break

	Session chair : Young-chul Ghim
16.40 – 17:20	G11 Multimodal Super-Resolution Diagnostics for Physics Discovery with Application to Fusion Azarakhsh Jalalvand
17:20 – 17:45	T9 Local measurement of thermalization and acceleration due to magnetic reconnection in high-power laser-produced plasma Taichi Morita
17:45 – 18:10	T10 Microwave imaging diagnostic systems on EAST tokamak Jinlin Xie

	Session chair : Jean-Paul Booth
9:00 – 9:40	G12 High-resolution two‑photon absorption laser‑induced fluorescence (TALIF) for cold plasma diagnostics Cyril Drag
9:40 – 10:05	T11 ps-TALIF and streak camera diagnostics for measurements of atomic densities in microplasmas Kristaq Gazeli
10:05 – 10:20	C16 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

	Session chair : Cyril Drag
10:50 – 11:15	T12 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