3rd MC meeting & 2nd Annual conference
The second working group meeting will be held at the University of Tel Aviv, Israel. Main Topics covered by the meeting are:
WG1- Materials, Fibres, Components and Technology
- SG.1.1 Rare-earth Materials, undoped glasses, and characterization
- SG.1.2 Fibre development and fabrication technology
- SG.1.3 Gratings, filters and passive components
- SG.1.4 Methods for modelocking, tuning
WG2- New laser , amplifier devices and coherent light sources
- SG.2.1 Modelling and Design Tools
- SG.2.2 MIR coherent line sources and continuum sources
- SG.2.3 UV coherent line sources and continuum sources
- SG.2.4 Power scaling issues
WG3- Applications
- SG.3.1 Manufacturing
- SG.3.2 Healthcare and Biomedical Applications
- SG.3.3 Environment, Green Photonics, energy production, sensing and security
An Industrial session and a special session for Early Career Investigator and Women researchers are planned.
Location: Tel Aviv University, Israel
Proceedings: 1 page pdf summary and presentations will be available after the meeting on the Action website aflaser.eu
Contact: Prof. Amiel Ishayaa, ishaaya@bgu.ac.il, Prof. Stefano Taccheo s.taccheo@swansea.ac.uk
Program – DAY 1 March 1st 2017
815 bus pickup from Leonardo Beach Hotel to Meeting Venue.
845 Registration
900 Welcome addresses
Amiel Ishayaa, Conference Chair, Ben Gurion University, Israel
Ady Arie, Head of the School of Electrical Engineering Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Stefano Taccheo, Chair of MP1401 Action, Swansea University, UK
915 WG1 Materials, Fibres, Components and Technology – Introduction by the Chair, Kay Schuster, IPHT, Jena, Germany
930 Romain Dauliat, XLIM Research Institute, France , “High power fiber laser combining an aperiodic fiber microstructuration and the novel synthesis approach Repusil”
945 Philippe Roy, XLIM Research Institute, France , “Implementation of PM/PZ propagation in all solid aperiodic rod type fibres”
1000 Matthias Jäger , IPHT Jena, Germany, “Tapering of rod-type REPUSIL amplifiers for peak power scaling and beam quality improvement”
1015 Peter Miluski, Bialystok University of Technology, Poland “Luminescent polymeric optical fibers for compact light sources”
1030 Joris Lousteau, ORC, UK “Tellurite glasses and fibres for the development of coherent Mid-IR supercontinuum source” (TBC)
1045 Coffee Break
1115 J.-B. Douchez, University of Nice, France, “Loss in rare earth doped optical fibers: a Photo- RadioDarkening Equilibrium Level as a function of the pump power and dose rate”
1130 Lidia Zur, FBK, Trento, Italy, “Silica-tin dioxide glass-ceramic photonic systems”
1145 Letitia Petit, Tampere University of Technology, Finland, “Er doped glass-ceramics”
1200 Dobroslawa Kasprowicz, Poznan University of Technology, Poland, “Up-conversion luminescence of rare earth doped photonic materials ”
1215 LUNCH
1315 WG2 New laser , amplifier devices and coherent light sources – Introduction by the Chair, Irina Sorokina, Trondhaim University, Norway
1330 Elena Romanova , Saratov State University, Russian Federation, “Fabrication and characterization of chalcogenide fiber based optical microcavities”
1345 Robert A. Minasian, The University of Sydney, Australia, “Characterisation of amplitude and phase Brillouin effects in optical fibres using an optical vector network analyser technique”
1400 Ignac Bugar, Photonics institute, TU Wien, Austria ” Mode-locked Ho-doped silica based fibre oscillators operating beyond 2.1 mm”
1415 Mauro Pereira, Shieffield Hallam University, ” The Linewidth of Mid Infrared Coherent Intersubband Sources”
1430 Filip Todorov, UFE Prague, Czech Republic, “Thulium-doped high-power fiber laser with a polarizing diffraction grating on the fiber facet”
1445 Tomas Nemecek “Chromatic Dispersion of Photonic Crystal Fibers for MIR Laser Applications: Measurement, Modelling and Uncertainties”
1500 Yoav Sintov, Soreq, Israel “An overview of the R&D activities in Soreq in the field of fiber lasers”
1515 Coffee Break
1545 OPEN DISCUSSION
1630 Close of the Session & Bus pick up for Hotel
1700 Bus leaves Hotel to Jerusalem Trip & dinner”
Program – DAY 2 March 2nd 2017
815 bus pickup from Leonardo Beach Hotel to Meeting Venue.
900 WG3&SIG1 -Application and Industrial Session, Introduction by Chairs Gianluca Valentini, Politecnico di Milano, Italy and Matej Komanec, Prague University, Czech Republic
915 Jonathan Griffiths, University of Lincoln, UK ” Suitability of Fibre Laser Sources for Applications Involving Laser-Induced Breakdown”
930 Ivan Petryshynets, SAS, Slovakia, ” The wear resistance improvement of hot work tool steel via laser surface hardening ”
945 Damjen Klobcar, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, “Fibre laser welding of advanced high strength steels”
1000 Stefano Taccheo, Swansea University, UK ” Fiber lasers for biomedical applications”
1015 Bruno Sfe, Israel Center for Advanced Photonics, Tel Aviv , Israel, ” The Israel Center for Advanced Photonics ”
1030 Ran Marom, Elbit-systems Ltd. Israel” Fiber Lasers at Elop ”
1045 Irina Sorokina, ATLA Lasers AS, Trondheim, Norway, “Fiber Based Tunable 2-3 um femtosecond lasers and frequency combs for industrial and scientific applications”
1100 Coffee Break
1125 Mats Blomquist, Coherent, Sweden, “Maximum performance, Minimum loss – How Coherent (former Optoskand) products optimize the beam delivery from your high-power lasers”
1140 Doron Barnes, Spectra-Physics Tel-Aviv, Israel, ” Pulsed Fiber Lasers for Mobile Device Manufacturing and Clean Energy Applications”
1155 Udi Ben Ami, Optisiv , Israel “TBD”
1210 Early Career Researcher and Women Researcher Session Introduction by Chairs Anna Lukoviak, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wroclaw, Poland and Silvia Soria, IFAC-CNR Florence, Italy
1220 Tutorial: Roberta Ramponi, Politecnico di Milano & CNR-IFN, Italy ” Femtosecond laser micromachining: an enabling tool for quantum technologies ”
1250 Verica Pavlic, Institute of Dentistry, Banja Luka, Bosnia&Herzegovina, ” Use of the lasers in dentistry”
1305 Antreas Theodosiou, Frederick University/Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus, ” Selective FBG mode excitation in MM POF using fs laser inscription method ”
1320 LUNCH
1410 Nerea Otero Ramundo, Laser Applications Centre – “Direct fabrication with ultrashort pulsed laser of solid microneedles on metallic moulds for injection moulding”
1425 Mary Kostantaki, Foundation for Research and Technology- Hellas, Greece, “Optical fibre grating sensors targeting medical applications ”
1440 Svetlana Korsakova, Saratov State University, Russian Federation, ” Evanescent wave spectroscopy in the mid-IR with the use of multimode chalcogenide fibers and FTIR spectrometer”
1455 Jean-Charles Beugnot, FEMTO-ST Institute, France, ” Chalcogenide microwires for nonlinear photonic devices ”
1510 Ramona Galatus, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, ” plasmonic phenomena and fluorescent fiber”
1515 Conclusions
& Coffee Break
1530 MC Meeting (MC members and WG Chairs only)
1530 Lab Tour (Conference Attendees)
1730 END OF MC Meeting/Lab Tour: Bus pick up and return of all participants to the Hotel