Scientific Calendar Event



Description
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 21 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. 

MAIN TOPICS 
• Fundamental of photonics, electromagnetic optics, waveguides theory 
• Integrated optics, photonics circuits 
• Computational methods for photonic devices design and characterization 
• Wave guide platforms and optoelectronic circuits 
• Technology transfer 
• Photonics in biomedicine and renewable energy 

An ICTP PREPARATORY SCHOOL will be organized the week before the College (from 3 to 7 February 2014) for a limited number of selected participants. The Preparatory School will provide background tutorials and exercises designed to help the participants in following the College lectures. The LAMP (Laser, Atomic and Molecular Physics) program is intended for presentations by the participants. All participants are encouraged to present their own research, either in poster form or as a short oral presentation, and the program will be finalized sufficiently prior to the start of the College. Poster prizes will be awarded, sponsored by the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE)
Go to day
  • Monday, 10 February 2014
    • 08:00 - 18:00
      • 08:00 Registration and Administrative Formalities 1h0' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building, Lobby )
        Those who have already registered for the Preparatory School do not need to register again.
      • 09:00 Opening Ceremony 30' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
      • 09:30 Semiconductor lasers and active devices (1) 1h0' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Eli Kapon (EPF, Lausanne, Switzerland)
      • 10:30 Coffee Break 30' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
      • 11:00 Nonlinear optics in waveguides (1) 2h0' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Ilaria Cristiani (University of Pavia, Italy)
      • 13:00 Lunch Break 1h30' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
      • 14:30 Fiber optical sensors (1) 2h0' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Fabrizio Di Pasquale (Scuola Superiore Sant'Ana, Pisa, Italy)
        Material: lecture notes
      • 16:30 Coffee Break 30' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
      • 17:00 Semiconductor lasers and active devices (2) 1h0' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Eli Kapon (EPF, Lausanne, Switzerland)
  • Tuesday, 11 February 2014
    • 09:00 - 16:30
      • 09:00 Optical susceptibilities in the electric dipole approximation 2h0' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Erwin Marti Panameno (Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla, Mexico)
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
      • 11:30 Nonlinear optics in waveguides (2) 1h0' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Ilaria Cristiani (University of Pavia, Italy)
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
      • 14:00 Semiconductor lasers and active devices (3) 1h0' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Eli Kapon (EPF de Lausanne, Switzerland)
      • 15:00 Coffee Break 30' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
      • 15:30 Fiber optical sensors (2) 1h0' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Fabrizio Di Pasquale (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy)
        Material: lecture notes
  • Wednesday, 12 February 2014
    • 09:00 - 17:30
      • 09:00 Quantum Optics (1) 2h0' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Iacopo Carusotto (CNR-INFM, Trento, Italy)
        Material: lecture notes
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
      • 11:30 Integrated planar waveguide sensors (1) 1h0' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Dan-Xia Xu (National Research Council, Canada)
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
      • 14:00 LAMP Talks 1h30' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
      • 15:30 LAMP Poster Session 2h0' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Refreshments will be served during the poster session.
        Material: POSTER Abstracts
  • Thursday, 13 February 2014
    • 09:00 - 17:30
      • 09:00 Integrated planar waveguide sensors (2) 2h0' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Dan-Xia Xu (National Research Council, Canada)
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
      • 11:30 Quantum optics (2) 1h0' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Iacopo Carusotto (CNR-INFM, Trento, Italy)
        Material: lecture notes
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
      • 14:00 Waveguide theory and photonic circuit design (1) 2h0' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Andrea Melloni (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
        Material: lecture notes
      • 16:00 Coffee Break 30' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
      • 16:30 Photonics for optical communications (1) 1h0' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Milan Dado (University of Zilina, Slovakia)
        Material: lecture notes
  • Friday, 14 February 2014
    • 09:00 - 17:00
      • 09:00 Photonics for optical communications (2) 2h0' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Milan Dado (University of Zilina, Slovakia)
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
      • 11:30 Waveguide theory and photonic circuit design (2) 1h0' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Andrea Melloni (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
        Material: lecture notes
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
      • 14:00 Visit to Elettra 3h0' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Meeting Point: Leonardo Building Main Entrance Hall at 14:00. Please be on time!
  • Monday, 17 February 2014
    • 08:45 - 17:30
      • 08:45 Introduction to waveguide optics 1h15' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Jiri Ctyroky (Czech Academy of Sciences)
        Material: lecture notes
      • 10:00 Integrated planar waveguide structures and devices: design and applications (1) 1h0' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Alejandro Ortega Monux (University of Malaga, Spain)
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
      • 11:30 Photonics in surface cleaning processes (1) 1h0' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Luis Ponce (National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico)
        Material: lecture notes
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
      • 14:00 Subwavelength silicon photonics and waveguide spectrometers (1) 2h0' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Pavel Cheben (National Research Council, Canada)
        Material: lecture notes
      • 16:00 Coffee Break 30' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
      • 16:30 Silicon photonics (1) 1h0' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Lorenzo Pavesi (University of Trento, Italy)
        Material: lecture notes
  • Tuesday, 18 February 2014
    • 09:00 - 21:00
      • 09:00 Silicon photonics (2) 2h0' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Lorenzo Pavesi (University of Trento, Italy)
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
      • 11:30 Integrated planar waveguide structures and devices: design and applications (2) 1h0' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Alejandro Ortega Monux (University of Malaga, Spain)
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
      • 14:00 Subwavelength silicon photonics and waveguide spectrometers (2) 1h0' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Pavel Cheben (National Research Council, Canada)
        Material: lecture notes
      • 15:00 Photonics in surface cleaning processes (2) 1h0' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Luis Ponce (National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico)
        Material: lecture notes
      • 16:00 Coffee Break 30' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
      • 16:30 ICO/ICTP Awards Ceremony 1h30' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Group photograph
      • 19:00 ICO Reception 2h0' ( Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria )
        All College participants are invited
  • Wednesday, 19 February 2014
    • 08:45 - 18:00
      • 08:45 Photonic materials and measurement techniques (1) 1h30' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Jarmila Mullerova (University of Zilina, Slovakia)
        Material: lecture notes
      • 10:15 Introduction to waveguide optics (2) 1h15' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Jiri Ctyroky (Czech Academy of Sciences)
        Material: lecture notes
      • 11:30 Coffee Break 30' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
      • 12:00 Waveguide modulators and photodetectors (1) 1h0' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Laurent Vivien (Université Paris Sud and CNRS, France)
        Material: lecture notes
      • 13:00 Lunch Break 1h30' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
      • 14:30 Photonic assembly and packaging (1) 2h0' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Sonia Garcia Blanco (University of Twente, Holland)
        Material: lecture notes
      • 16:30 Coffee Break 30' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
      • 17:00 Photonic materials and measurement techniques (2) 1h0' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Jarmila Mullerova (University of Zilina, Slovakia)
  • Thursday, 20 February 2014
    • 09:00 - 17:45
      • 09:00 Waveguide modulators and photodetectors (2) 2h0' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Laurent Vivien (Université Paris Sud and CNRS, France)
        Material: lecture notes
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
      • 11:30 Photonic assembly and packaging (2) 1h0' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Sonia Garcia Blanco (University of Twente, Holland)
        Material: lecture notes
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
      • 14:00 Simulations laboratory (1) 2h0' ( Adriatico Guest House Informatics Lab. )
        Speaker: Aitor V. Velasco (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)
        Material: lecture notes
      • 16:00 Coffee Break 15' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall )
      • 16:15 LAMP Session 1h30' ( Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall )
  • Friday, 21 February 2014
    • 09:00 - 12:30
      • 09:00 Simulations laboratory (2) 2h0' ( Adriatico Guest House Informatics Lab. )
        Speaker: Aitor V. Velasco (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)
        Material: lecture notes
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30' ( Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1) )
      • 11:30 Discussion and Closing Activities 1h0' ( Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall )