CDSAGENDA V.5 Winter College on Fibre Optics, Fibre Lasers and Sensors

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PREPARATORY_SCHOOL
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Monday, 12 February 2007

Room: Main Building Main Lecture Hall

12 February 2007

08:30
09:30

REGISTRATION

01h00'

Room: Main Building Lobby

09:30
10:00

OPENING

30'

10:00
11:00

Fundamentals of waveguide modes - part 1

01h00'

lecture_notes

K. THYAGARAJAN
Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India

11:00
11:30

Coffe Break

30'

11:30
12:30

Fundamentals of waveguide modes - part 2

01h00'

lecture_notes

K. THYAGARAJAN
Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India

12:30
14:30

Lunch Break

02h00'

14:30
15:30

Fundamentals of fibre lasers and amplifiers - part 1

01h00'

lecture_notes

R. PASCHOTTA
RP Photonics Consulting GmbH, Zurich, Switzerland

15:30
16:30

Fundamentals of fibre lasers and amplifiers - part 2

01h00'

lecture_notes

R. PASCHOTTA
RP Photonics Consulting GmbH, Zurich, Switzerland

Tuesday, 13 February 2007

Room: Main Building Main Lecture Hall

13 February 2007

09:00
10:00

High-power fibre lasers and amplifiers - part 1

01h00'

lecture_notes

A. CLARKSON
Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC), University of Southampton, UK

10:00
11:00

High-power fibre lasers and amplifiers - part 2

01h00'

lecture_notes

A. CLARKSON
Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC), University of Southampton, UK

11:00
11:30

Coffe Break

30'

11:30
12:30

Fundamentals of waveguide modes - part 3

01h00'

lecture_notes

K. THYAGARAJAN
Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India

12:30
14:30

Lunch Break

02h00'

14:30
15:30

Ultrashort pulse fibre sources - part 1

01h00'

lecture_notes

R. PASCHOTTA
RP Photonics Consulting GmbH, Zurich, Switzerland

15:30
16:30

Ultrashort pulse fibre sources - part 2

01h00'

lecture_notes

R. PASCHOTTA
RP Photonics Consulting GmbH, Zurich, Switzerland

Wednesday, 14 February 2007

Room: Main Building Main Lecture Hall

14 February 2007

09:00
10:00

High-power fibre lasers and amplifiers - part 3

01h00'

lecture_notes

A. CLARKSON
Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC), University of Southampton, UK

10:00
11:00

Photonic crystal fibres - Theory and applications - part 1

01h00'

lecture_notes

J. KNIGHT
University of Bath, UK

11:00
11:30

Coffe Break

30'

11:30
12:30

Photonic crystal fibres - Theory and applications - part 2

01h00'

lecture_notes

J. KNIGHT
University of Bath, UK

12:30
14:30

Lunch Break

02h00'

14:30
15:30

Nonlinear effects in optical fibres and applications - part 1

01h00'

lecture_notes

H. L. FRAGNITO
IFGW, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil

15:30
16:30

ICO - ICTP Prize Award and Seminar

01h00'

motivation

18:00
21:00

ICO Reception

03h00'

Thursday, 15 February 2007

Room: Main Building Main Lecture Hall

15 February 2007

09:00
10:00

Nonlinear effects in optical fibres and applications - part 2

01h00'

lecture_notes

H. L. FRAGNITO
IFGW, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil

10:00
11:00

Photonic crystal fibres - Theory and applications - part 3

01h00'

lecture_notes

J. KNIGHT
University of Bath, UK

11:00
11:30

Coffe Break

30'

11:30
12:30

Spectroscopy of rare-earth-doped glasses - part 1

01h00'

lecture_notes

A. GOMES
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil

12:30
13:30

Lunch Break

01h00'

13:30
14:30

LAM Network Meeting

01h00'

14:30
15:30

Applications of fibre lasers in Free Electron Laser facilities

01h00'

lecture_notes

M. DANAILOV
Sincrotrone Trieste, Italy

15:30
16:50

LAMP Seminars

01h20'

Fluorescent two-photon nanolithography 20'	Darío KUNIK (Departamento de Física, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Raman spectroscopy of silicon nanoparticles 20'	Davor RISTIC (Ruder Boskovic Institut, Zabreb, Croatia)
Analysis of the fundamental mode properties in photonic crystal fibers 20'	Mourad ZGHAL (Engineering School of Communication of Tunis, University of Carthage, Tunisia)
Generation of phase - conjugated beam by stimulated Brillouin Scattering 20'	Mahmood HOSSEINI FARZAD (Physics Department, Shiraz University, Iran)

Friday, 16 February 2007

Room: Main Building Main Lecture Hall

16 February 2007

09:00
10:00

Nonlinear effects in optical fibres and applications - part 3

01h00'

lecture_notes

H. L. FRAGNITO
IFGW, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil

10:00
11:00

Spectroscopy of rare-earth-doped glasses - part 2

01h00'

lecture_notes

A. GOMES
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil

11:00
11:30

Coffe Break

30'

11:30
12:30

Spectroscopy of rare-earth-doped glasses - part 3

01h00'

lecture_notes

A. GOMES
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil

12:30
14:30

Lunch Break

02h00'

14:30
18:00

Visit to ELETTRA - SINCROTRONE

03h30'

Monday, 19 February 2007

Room: Main Building Main Lecture Hall

19 February 2007

09:00
10:00

Fibre Bragg gratings - Theory, fabrication and applications - part 1

01h00'

M. IBSEN
Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC), University of Southampton, UK

10:00
11:00

Fibre Bragg gratings - Theory, fabrication and applications - part 2

01h00'

M. IBSEN
Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC), University of Southampton, UK

11:00
11:30

Coffe Break

30'

11:30
12:30

Passive fibre components - part 1

01h00'

lecture_notes

W. MARGULIS
Acreo AB, Stockholm, Sweden

12:30
14:30

Lunch Break

02h00'

14:30
15:30

Optical fibre telecommunications - part 1

01h00'

lecture_notes

S. BIGO
Alcatel Research and Innovation, Marcoussis, France

15:30
16:30

Optical fibre telecommunications - part 2

01h00'

lecture_notes

S. BIGO
Alcatel Research and Innovation, Marcoussis, France

16:30
18:00

POSTER SESSION

01h30'

Room: Main Building, Lobby

Fiber optic Fabry-Pertot pressure sensor with low sensitivity to temperature changes for downhole application	Seyed Hashem AREF (Laser and Plasma research Institute, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran)
Periodic Pulse train Conformation Based on the temporal Radon-Wigner Transform	Christian Ariel CUADRADO LABORDE (Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina)
Development of Silicon Microstructures for light emission poster	David FIGUEIRA (UNICAMP - BRASIL)
Surface Plasmon Resonance on a Few-mode Waveguide article poster	Jorge Alberto GOMEZ LOPEZ (Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellin, Colombia)
Self-Q-switched Ytterbium-doped all-fiber laser poster	Alexander KIR’YANOV (CIO-Centro de Investigaciones en Optica, A.C., Leon, Gto, Mexico)
Modeling of light propagation in step-index polymer optical fibers with random imperfections by ray tracing poster	Milan S. KOVACEVIC (Faculty of Science, Department of Physics, Kragujevac, Serbia)
Effect of Erbium-Ytterbium in the sensitivity of the sensors of temperature based on optic fibers of Er3+-Yb3+: BaF2 -P205	Alejandrina MARTINEZ (CIO-Centro de Investigaciones en Optica, A.C., Leon, Gto, Mexico)
Tapered Holey Fiber with Selective Transmission for Sensing Applications poster	Vladimir Petrovich MINKOVICH (CIO-Centro de Investigaciones en Optica, A.C., Leon, Gto, Mexico)
A Novel Micro-Opto-Electro-Mechanical (MOEM) Vibration Sensor based on Racetrack Resonator	Prasant Kumar PATTNAIK (Department of Electrical Communication Engineering, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India)
Comparison between analytical and numerical method for estimating the thermal lensing effect in the end-pumped solid states lasers and apply the results to designing of which type lasers poster	Ebrahim SAFARI (University Tabriz, Iran)
Optical Fiber Radiation Divider for Ratiometric Measurement	Yunus M. SAYYED (Department of Instrumentation Science, University of Pune, India)
Electrochemical Solid State Gas Sensors: An Overview	P. T. SHEDMAKE (Department of Physics, RTM Nagpur University, India)
Trap Detectors for Measurements of Infrared Radiation Power in Optical Fibres	Dmytro Nokolayevich TATYANKO (National Scientific Center "Institute of Metrology", Kharkov, Ukraine)

Tuesday, 20 February 2007

Room: Main Building Main Lecture Hall

20 February 2007

09:00
10:00

Fibre Bragg gratings - Theory, fabrication and applications - part 3

01h00'

M. IBSEN
Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC), University of Southampton, UK

10:00
11:00

Passive fibre components - part 2

01h00'

lecture_notes

W. MARGULIS
Acreo AB, Stockholm, Sweden

11:00
11:30

Coffe Break

30'

11:30
12:30

Passive fibre components - part 3

01h00'

lecture_notes

W. MARGULIS
Acreo AB, Stockholm, Sweden

12:30
14:00

Lunch Break

01h30'

14:00
14:30

CEI (Central European Initiative) Round Table

30'

14:30
15:30

Optical fibre telecommunications - part 3

01h00'

lecture_notes

S. BIGO
Alcatel Research and Innovation, Marcoussis, France

15:30
16:30

Fibre optic sensors: basic principles and most common applications - part 1

01h00'

lecture_notes

H. J. KALINOWSKI
Federal University of Technology, Paraná, Brazil

16:30
17:50

LAMP Seminars

01h20'

Temporal phase-shifting in digital holography 20'	Christian REMMERSMANN (Laboratory of Biophysics, Muenster, Germany)
Optimizing Color Reproduction of a Topometric Measurement System 20'	Mattias WESTHAEUSER (Laboratory of Biophysics, Muenster, Germany)
Mode coupling in strained and unstrained step-index plastic optical fibers 20' presentation	Svetislav M. SAVOVIC (Institute of Physics, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Kragujevac, Serbia)
Experimental Characterization of Fibre Collimators for Low Loss Coupling and Component Qualification 20'	Ruby RAHEEM (University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK)

Wednesday, 21 February 2007

Room: Main Building Main Lecture Hall

21 February 2007

09:00
10:00

Spectroscopy-based and chemical sensors - part 1

01h00'

lecture_notes

A. G. MIGNANI
CNR - Institute of Applied Physics 'Nello Carrara', Sesto Fiorentino (Firenze), Italy

10:00
11:00

Distributed fibre sensors - part 1

01h00'

lecture_notes

B. CULSHAW
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK

11:00
11:30

Coffe Break

30'

11:30
12:30

Distributed fibre sensors - part 2

01h00'

lecture_notes

B. CULSHAW
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK

12:30
14:30

Lunch Break

02h00'

14:30
15:30

Fibre optic sensors: basic principles and most common applications - part 2

01h00'

lecture_notes

H. J. KALINOWSKI
Federal University of Technology, Paraná, Brazil

15:30
17:30

LAMP Seminars

02h00'

Photonic Crystals Fibers: Telecom to Sensing Applications 20'	Shailendra K. VARSHNEY (Division of Media and Network Technologies, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, H)
Optical Amplifiers - with a focus on EDFA and FRA 20'	Padmanaban RAMESH BABU (Department of Physics, VIT University, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India)
Designing and realization of an end pumped tunable narrow band Cr4+: YAG laser 20'	Ebrahim SAFARI (Faculty of Physics, University of Tabriz, Iran)
Design of a flash pumped solid state laser 20'	Mohammad Baha ALSOUS (Department of Physics, AECS, Damascus, Syria)
Development of Laser spectrometers for characterizing biological sensor films 20'	Alaa Addin MANI (Department of Physics, AECS, Damascus, Syria)
Characterization of ultra bright LEDs for the application in digital holography 20'	Stephan STUERWALD (Laboratory of Biophysics, Muenster, Germany)
Non linear Optical Characterization of Metallic Nanospheres in a thin Film Sample 20' presentation	Alejandro ESPINOSA CALDERON (NanoBioPhotonics group, Universidad de Guanajuato, Salamanca, Mexico)

Thursday, 22 February 2007

Room: Main Building Main Lecture Hall

22 February 2007

09:00
10:00

Distributed fibre sensors - part 3

01h00'

lecture_notes

B. CULSHAW
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK

10:00
11:00

Spectroscopy-based and chemical sensors - part 2

01h00'

lecture_notes

A. G. MIGNANI
CNR - Institute of Applied Physics 'Nello Carrara', Sesto Fiorentino (Firenze), Italy

11:00
11:30

Coffe Break

30'

11:30
12:30

FBG-based sensors: working principles and applications - part 1

01h00'

lecture_notes

A. MENDEZ
MCH Engineering, LLC, Alameda, USA

12:30
14:30

Lunch Break

02h00'

14:30
15:30

Fibre optic sensors: basic principles and most common applications - part 3

01h00'

lecture_notes

H. J. KALINOWSKI
Federal University of Technology, Paraná, Brazil

15:30
17:30

LAMP Seminars

02h00'

Determination of refractive index profile of planar waveguides by wedge technique 20'	Ahmad DARUDI (Department of Physics, University of Zanjan, Iran)
QPM devices based on electrooptically controlled PPLN structures 20' presentation	Adrian Jose TORREGROSA (Signal Theory and Communications Division, Universidad Miguel Hernandez, Elche, Spain)
Tunable infrared source using a microstructured fiber 20'	Martin Eduardo MASIP (Laboratorio de Electronica Cuantica. Departamento de Física, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Investigation of Macrobending Losses of Singlemode Fibers 20' presentation	Pengfei WANG (Applied Optoelectronics Center, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland)
Hyperfine structure studies of Lanthanum by laser optogalvanic spectroscopy 20'	Yasmin NIGHAT (National Institute of Laser and Optronics, NILOR, Islamabad, Pakistan)
Prism Coupling Technique 20'	Bassam ABBAS (Physics Department, AECS, Damascus, Syria)
Tunable Erbium-doped Fiber Laser for Sensor Applications 20'	Ivan S. SHELEMBA (Institute of Automation and Electrometry, Novosibirsk, Russia)
Design and Fabrication of high damage threshold dielectric Optical Thin Film 10'	Mahmood NASIR (Optics laboratories, Islamabad, Pakistan)