Summer School

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"Frontiers of Solid-State Light Sources"

The Summer School will be held from Sunday, August 29^th (afternoon) to Monday, August 30^th (evening), 2010.

PhD Students and Postdocs who have paid for the conference are especially invited to attend the Summer School. They will receive free entrance to the School. The same rule will be applied for the full paying participants.

The lecture program will be presented by lecturers who are internationally renowned for their research subjets:

  Anne Tropper, ORC, Southampton, UK

Time of presentation: Sunday, 29 August 2010, 14:00-14:45 and from 15:00-16:00

“Optically pumped semiconductor lasers”

Abstract:
Optical pumping allows semiconductor lasers to reconcile the conflict between high power and good beam quality that characterses injection pumped devices. This tutorial will explain how optically pumped vertical-external-cavity surface-emetting quantum well and quantum dot lasers have attained new milestones in output power, spectral coverage and ultra-short pulse generation.

John Dudley, FEMTO-ST, Besançon, France

Time of presentation: Sunday, 29 August 2010, 16:30-17:15 and from 17:30-18:30

“Fundamentals and applications of nonlinear fibre optics”

Abstract:
Reasearch in nonlinear fiber optics is currently undergoing dramatic expansion, motivated both by advances and developments in new classes of optical fiber, and the availability of sophisticated numerical modelling techniques. In this tutorial, we will review the fundamentals and present a survey of selected recent work in this field.

Franz Kärtner, MIT, Cambridge, USA

Time of presentation: Monday, 30 August 2010, 08:15-09:00 and from 09:15-10:15

“Ultrabroadband femtosecond laser oscillators and applications”

Abstract:
We review the operating principles, technologies and applications of ultra-broadband femtosecond laser oscillators. The dynamics of these lasers is governed by dispersion managed soliton formation stabilized by Kerr-lens Mode Locking resulting in sub-two cycle pulses with octave-spanning spectra. Various applications from frequency metrology to seeding of optical parametric chirped pulse amplifiers will be discussed.

Giulio Cerullo, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Time of presentation: Monday, 30 August 2010, 10:45-11:30 and from 11:45-12:45

“Ultrashort parametric pulse amplification”

Abstract:
We reveiw the use of optical parametric amplifiers (OPAs) for the generation of broadly tunable few-optical-cycle light pulses. we show that the key ingredient for broad gain bandwidths is group-velocity matching between signal and idler pulses. we also discuss how OPAs can gnerate pulses with stable carrier-enevelope phase.

Ernst-Bernhard Kley, University of Jena, Germany

Time of presentation: Monday, 30 August 2010, 14:00-14:45 and from 15:00-16:00

“Micro- and Nanolithography for Photonics”

Abstract:
Micro and nanooptics is expected to give new contributions to the miniaturization and qualification of systems in all aread of our life. the lecture gives illustrative explanation of its functionalities as well as the technological challenges for its realization. Application examples demonstrate the advantage that can be taken from this type of optics.

Wolfgang Sohler, University of Paderborn, Germany

Time of presentation: Monday, 30 August 2010, 16:30-17:15 and from 17:30-18:30

“Integrated optics based on lithium niobate: waveguide lasers and nonlinear frequency converters”

Abstract:
After a brief review of the state-of-art of integrated optics in Lithium Niobate (LN) Ti:Er:LiNbO₃ waveguide lasers with emission wavelenghts in the range 1530 nm < λ < 1603 nm are discussed in more detail. Moreover, quasi-phase matched nonlinear frequency converters with waveguides in periodically poled LN are presented together with potential applications.