Winter College on Fibre Optics, Fibre Lasers and Sensors

University of Southampton, UK High-power fibre lasers and amplifiers - part 1 10:00 - 11:00A. CLARKSON / Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC), University of Southampton, UK High-power fibre lasers and amplifiers - part 2 11:00 - 11:30 --- Coffe Break --- 11:30 - 12:30K. THYAGARAJAN / Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India Fundamentals of waveguide modes - part 3 12:30 - 14:30 --- Lunch Break --- 14:30 - 15:30R.<br><br> PASCHOTTA / RP Photonics Consulting GmbH, Zurich, Switzerland Ultrashort pulse fibre sources - part 1 15:30 - 16:30R. PASCHOTTA / RP Photonics Consulting GmbH, Zurich, Switzerland Ultrashort pulse fibre sources - part 2 09:00 - 10:00A. CLARKSON / Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC), University of Southampton, UK High-power fibre lasers and amplifiers - part 3 10:00 - 11:00J.<br><br> KNIGHT / University of Bath, UK Photonic crystal fibres - Theory and applications - part 1 11:00 - 11:30 --- Coffe Break --- 11:30 - 12:30J. KNIGHT / University of Bath, UK Photonic crystal fibres - Theory and applications - part 2 12:30 - 14:30 --- Lunch Break --- 14:30 - 15:30H. L.<br><br> FRAGNITO / IFGW, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil Nonlinear effects in optical fibres and applications - part 1 15:30 - 16:30ICO - ICTP Prize Award and Seminar 18:00 - 21:00 --- ICO Reception --- 09:00 - 10:00H. L. FRAGNITO / IFGW, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil Nonlinear effects in optical fibres and applications - part 2 Tuesday, 13 February 2007 (Room:Main Building Main Lecture Hall) 13 February 2007 Wednesday, 14 February 2007 (Room:Main Building Main Lecture Hall) 14 February 2007 Thursday, 15 February 2007 (Room:Main Building Main Lecture Hall) 15 February 2007 10:00 - 11:00J.<br><br> KNIGHT / University of Bath, UK Photonic crystal fibres - Theory and applications - part 3 11:00 - 11:30 --- Coffe Break --- 11:30 - 12:30A. GOMES / Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil Spectroscopy of rare-earth-doped glasses - part 1 12:30 - 13:30 --- Lunch Break --- 13:30 - 14:30LAM Network Meeting 14:30 - 15:30M. DANAILOV / Sincrotrone Trieste, Italy Applications of fibre lasers in Free Electron Laser facilities 15:30 - 16:50LAMP Seminars Fluorescent two-photon nanolithography (Darío KUNIK - Departamento de Física, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina) 20' Raman spectroscopy of silicon nanoparticles (Davor RISTIC - Ruder Boskovic Institut, Zabreb, Croatia) 20' Analysis of the fundamental mode properties in photonic crystal fibers (Mourad ZGHAL - Engineering School of Communication of Tunis, University of Carthage, Tunisia) 20' Generation of phase - conjugated beam by stimulated Brillouin Scattering (Mahmood HOSSEINI FARZAD - Physics Department, Shiraz University, Iran) 20' 3 09:00 - 10:00H.<br><br> L. FRAGNITO / IFGW, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil Nonlinear effects in optical fibres and applications - part 3 10:00 - 11:00A. GOMES / Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil Spectroscopy of rare-earth-doped glasses - part 2 11:00 - 11:30 --- Coffe Break --- 11:30 - 12:30A.<br><br> GOMES / Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil Spectroscopy of rare-earth-doped glasses - part 3 12:30 - 14:30 --- Lunch Break --- 14:30 - 18:00Visit to ELETTRA - SINCROTRONE 09:00 - 10:00M. IBSEN / Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC), University of Southampton, UK Fibre Bragg gratings - Theory, fabrication and applications - part 1 10:00 - 11:00M. IBSEN / Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC), University of Southampton, UK Fibre Bragg gratings - Theory, fabrication and applications - part 2 11:00 - 11:30 --- Coffe Break --- Friday, 16 February 2007 (Room:Main Building Main Lecture Hall) 16 February 2007 Monday, 19 February 2007 (Room:Main Building Main Lecture Hall) 19 February 2007 11:30 - 12:30W.<br><br> MARGULIS / Acreo AB, Stockholm, Sweden Passive fibre components - part 1 12:30 - 14:30 --- Lunch Break --- 14:30 - 15:30S. BIGO / Alcatel Research and Innovation, Marcoussis, France Optical fibre telecommunications - part 1 15:30 - 16:30S. BIGO / Alcatel Research and Innovation, Marcoussis, France Optical fibre telecommunications - part 2 16:30 - 18:00 (Room: Main Building, Lobby) POSTER SESSION 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 (David FIGUEIRA - UNICAMP - BRASIL) Surface Plasmon Resonance on a Few-mode Waveguide (Jorge Alberto GOMEZ LOPEZ - Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellin, Colombia) Self-Q-switched Ytterbium-doped all-fiber laser (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 (Milan S.<br><br> 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 (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 (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.<br><br> 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) 4 09:00 - 10:00M. IBSEN / Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC), University of Southampton, UK Fibre Bragg gratings - Theory, fabrication and applications - part 3 10:00 - 11:00W. MARGULIS / Acreo AB, Stockholm, Sweden Passive fibre components - part 2 11:00 - 11:30 --- Coffe Break --- Tuesday, 20 February 2007 (Room:Main Building Main Lecture Hall) 20 February 2007 11:30 - 12:30W.<br><br> MARGULIS / Acreo AB, Stockholm, Sweden Passive fibre components - part 3 12:30 - 14:00 --- Lunch Break --- 14:00 - 14:30CEI (Central European Initiative) Round Table 14:30 - 15:30S. BIGO / Alcatel Research and Innovation, Marcoussis, France Optical fibre telecommunications - part 3 15:30 - 16:30H. J.<br><br> KALINOWSKI / Federal University of Technology, Paraná, Brazil Fibre optic sensors: basic principles and most common applications - part 1 16:30 - 17:50LAMP Seminars Temporal phase-shifting in digital holography (Christian REMMERSMANN - Laboratory of Biophysics, Muenster, Germany) 20' Optimizing Color Reproduction of a Topometric Measurement System (Mattias WESTHAEUSER - Laboratory of Biophysics, Muenster, Germany) 20' Mode coupling in strained and unstrained step-index plastic optical fibers (Svetislav M. SAVOVIC - Institute of Physics, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Kragujevac, Serbia) 20' Experimental Characterization of Fibre Collimators for Low Loss Coupling and Component Qualification (Ruby RAHEEM - University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK) 20' 5 09:00 - 10:00A. G.<br><br> MIGNANI / CNR - Institute of Applied Physics 'Nello Carrara', Sesto Fiorentino (Firenze), Italy Spectroscopy-based and chemical sensors - part 1 10:00 - 11:00B. CULSHAW / University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK Distributed fibre sensors - part 1 11:00 - 11:30 --- Coffe Break --- 11:30 - 12:30B. CULSHAW / University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK Distributed fibre sensors - part 2 12:30 - 14:30 --- Lunch Break --- 14:30 - 15:30H.<br><br> J. KALINOWSKI / Federal University of Technology, Paraná, Brazil Fibre optic sensors: basic principles and most common applications - part 2 15:30 - 17:30LAMP Seminars Photonic Crystals Fibers: Telecom to Sensing Applications (Shailendra K. VARSHNEY - Division of Media and Network Technologies, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, H) 20' Optical Amplifiers - with a focus on EDFA and FRA (Padmanaban RAMESH BABU - Department of Physics, VIT University, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India) 20' Designing and realization of an end pumped tunable narrow band Cr4+: YAG laser (Ebrahim SAFARI - Faculty of Physics, University of Tabriz, Iran) 20' Design of a flash pumped solid state laser (Mohammad Baha ALSOUS - Department of Physics, AECS, Damascus, Syria) 20' Development of Laser spectrometers for characterizing biological sensor films (Alaa Addin MANI - Department of Physics, AECS, Damascus, Syria) 20' Wednesday, 21 February 2007 (Room:Main Building Main Lecture Hall) 21 February 2007 Characterization of ultra bright LEDs for the application in digital holography (Stephan STUERWALD - Laboratory of Biophysics, Muenster, Germany) 20' Non linear Optical Characterization of Metallic Nanospheres in a thin Film Sample (Alejandro ESPINOSA CALDERON - NanoBioPhotonics group, Universidad de Guanajuato, Salamanca, Mexico) 20' 6 09:00 - 10:00B.<br><br> CULSHAW / University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK Distributed fibre sensors - part 3 10:00 - 11:00A. G. MIGNANI / CNR - Institute of Applied Physics 'Nello Carrara', Sesto Fiorentino (Firenze), Italy Spectroscopy-based and chemical sensors - part 2 11:00 - 11:30 --- Coffe Break --- 11:30 - 12:30A.<br><br> MENDEZ / MCH Engineering, LLC, Alameda, USA FBG-based sensors: working principles and applications - part 1 12:30 - 14:30 --- Lunch Break --- 14:30 - 15:30H. J. KALINOWSKI / Federal University of Technology, Paraná, Brazil Fibre optic sensors: basic principles and most common applications - part 3 15:30 - 17:30LAMP Seminars Determination of refractive index profile of planar waveguides by wedge technique (Ahmad DARUDI - Department of Physics, University of Zanjan, Iran) 20' QPM devices based on electrooptically controlled PPLN structures (Adrian Jose TORREGROSA - Signal Theory and Communications Division, Universidad Miguel Hernandez, Elche, Spain) 20' Tunable infrared source using a microstructured fiber (Martin Eduardo MASIP - Laboratorio de Electronica Cuantica.<br><br> Departamento de Física, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina) 20' Investigation of Macrobending Losses of Singlemode Fibers (Pengfei WANG - Applied Optoelectronics Center, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland) 20' Hyperfine structure studies of Lanthanum by laser optogalvanic spectroscopy (Yasmin NIGHAT - National Institute of Laser and Optronics, NILOR, Islamabad, Pakistan) 20' Prism Coupling Technique (Bassam ABBAS - Physics Department, AECS, Damascus, Syria) 20' Tunable Erbium-doped Fiber Laser for Sensor Applications (Ivan S. SHELEMBA - Institute of Automation and Electrometry, Novosibirsk, Russia) 20' Design and Fabrication of high damage threshold dielectric Optical Thin Film (Mahmood NASIR - Optics laboratories, Islamabad, Pakistan) 10' 09:00 - 10:00A. G.<br><br> MIGNANI / CNR - Institute of Applied Physics 'Nello Carrara', Sesto Fiorentino (Firenze), Italy Spectroscopy-based and chemical sensors - part 3 10:00 - 11:00A. MENDEZ / MCH Engineering, LLC, Alameda, USA FBG-based sensors: working principles and applications - part 2 Thursday, 22 February 2007 (Room:Main Building Main Lecture Hall) 22 February 2007 Friday, 23 February 2007 (Room:Main Building Main Lecture Hall) 23 February 2007 11:00 - 11:30 --- Coffe Break --- 11:30 - 12:30A. MENDEZ / MCH Engineering, LLC, Alameda, USA FBG-based sensors: working principles and applications - part 3 12:30 - 13:00CONCLUSIONS printed on:24th Aug 2010<br><br>

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