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The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), in collaboration with the International  Commission for Optics (ICO), the Optical Society of America (OSA), the International Society for Optics and  Photonics (SPIE), the European Optical Society (EOS), the Societa Italiana di Ottica e Fotonica (SIOF), the US  National Academy of Sciences (NAS), and the International Society on Optics Within Life Sciences (OWLS) will  organize a Winter College on Optics: Fundamentals of Photonics - Theory, Devices and Applications,  which will be held at ICTP, Trieste, Italy, from 10 to 22 February, 2014. 

The Winter College consists of four parts. The first one presents foundations of electromagnetic optics, optical  waveguides and photodetectors. The second part is dedicated to integrated optics theory, photonic circuits design,  numerical simulations, special sources for integrated optics ending with special dedication to photonic materials,  assembling and packing techniques. The third part of the course will be dedicated to technological applications of  waveguide platform and optoelectronic circuits. Finally, the fourth part concentrates in particular photonics devices,  non-linear photonics and plasmonics and ending with applications of photonics in biomedicine and renewable energy.

Material

Preparatory School to the Winter College on Optics: Fundamentals of Photonics - Theory, Devices and Applications | (smr 2570)
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  • Monday, 3 February 2014
    • 08:30 - 17:00
      • 08:30 Registration 1h0' ( Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall Area (Lower Level 1) ) 
        All participants are requested to register.  Please allow sufficient time to complete administrative formalities. The shuttle will leave from the AGH at regular intervals during registration to take visitors who have been offered financial support to the Operations Office (EF Building).
      • 09:30 Fourier analysis - Fourier-transform properties. Discrete > Fourier-transform 1h0' ( Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Miguel Alonso Gonzalez (University of Rochester, USA)
        Material: lecture notes
      • 10:30 Coffee Break 30' ( Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall )
      • 11:00 Fourier analysis (contd.) 1h30' ( Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Miguel Alonso Gonzalez (University of Rochester, USA)
      • 12:30 Lunch 1h30' ( Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall )
      • 14:00 Maxwell equations and electromagnetic wave propagation in vacuum 1h30' ( Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Imrana Ashraf (Quaid-I-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan)
        Material: lecture notes
      • 15:30 Coffee Break 30' ( Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria )
      • 16:00 Maxwell equations and electromagnetic wave propagation in vacuum (contd.) 1h0' ( Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Imrana Ashraf (Quaid-I-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan)
        Material: lecture notes
  • Tuesday, 4 February 2014
    • 09:00 - 17:00
      • 09:00 Wave propagation in materials (Refractive index, susceptibility, Lorentz model) 1h30' ( Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Imrana Ashraf (Quaid-I-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan)
        Material: lecture notes
      • 10:30 Coffee Break 30' ( Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall )
      • 11:00 Wave propagation in materials (contd.) 1h30' ( Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Imrana Ashraf (Quaid-I-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan)
        Material: lecture notes
      • 12:30 Lunch 1h30' ( Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall )
      • 14:00 Fundamentals of signal theory (Continuous and discrete signals. Sampling theorem. Aliasing. White and coloured noise) 1h30' ( Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Miguel Alonso Gonzalez (University of Rochester, USA)
        Material: lecture notes
      • 15:30 Coffee Break 30' ( Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria )
      • 16:00 Fundamentals of signal theory (contd.) 1h0' ( Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Miguel Alonso Gonzalez (University of Rochester, USA)
  • Wednesday, 5 February 2014
    • 09:00 - 17:00
      • 09:00 Introduction to lasers (Optical cavities and laser modes) 1h30' ( Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Imrana Ashraf (Quaid-I-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan)
        Material: lecture notes
      • 10:30 Coffee Break 30' ( Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall )
      • 11:00 Introduction to lasers (contd.) 1h30' ( Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Imrana Ashraf (Quaid-I-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan)
      • 12:30 Lunch 1h30' ( Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall )
      • 14:00 Introduction to waveguides and fibers (includes modes, etc.) 1h30' ( Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Miguel Alonso Gonzalez (University of Rochester, USA)
        Material: lecture notes
      • 15:30 Coffee Break 30' ( Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria )
      • 16:00 Introduction to waveguides and fibers (contd.) 1h0' ( Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Miguel Alonso Gonzalez (University of Rochester, USA)
  • Thursday, 6 February 2014
    • 09:00 - 17:00
      • 09:00 Basics of quantum optics and electrodynamics (photons, coherent states, number states) 1h30' ( Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Imrana Ashraf (Quaid-I-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan)
        Material: lecture notes
      • 10:30 Coffee Break 30' ( Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall )
      • 11:00 Mathematica workshop 1h30' ( Adriatico Guest House Informatics Lab. )
        Speaker: Miguel Alonso Gonzalez (University of Rochester, USA)
        Material: Exercise
      • 12:30 Lunch 1h30' ( Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall )
      • 14:00 Mathematica workshop 1h30' ( Adriatico Guest House Informatics Lab. )
        Speaker: Miguel Alonso Gonzalez (University of Rochester, USA)
        Material: Exercise
      • 15:30 Coffee Break 30' ( Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria )
      • 16:00 Basics of quantum optics and electrodynamics (contd.) 1h0' ( Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Imrana Ashraf (Quaid-I-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan)
  • Friday, 7 February 2014
    • 09:00 - 17:00
      • 09:00 Introduction to nonlinear optics 1h30' ( Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Miguel Alonso Gonzalez (University of Rochester, USA)
        Material: lecture notes
      • 10:30 Coffee Break 30' ( Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall )
      • 11:00 Introduction to nonlinear optics (contd.) 1h30' ( Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Miguel Alonso Gonzalez (University of Rochester, USA)
      • 12:30 Lunch 1h30' ( Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall )
      • 14:00 Photonics Explorer Kits exhibition 1h30' ( Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Amrita Prasad (Vrije Universiteit, Brussels, Belgium)
        Material: Presentation
      • 15:30 Coffee Break 30' ( Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria )
      • 16:00 Photonics Explorer Kits exhibition 1h0' ( Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Amrita Prasad (Vrije Universiteit, Brussels, Belgium)
        Material: Presentation
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