Preparatory School to the Winter College on Optics: Optical Frequency Combs

Administration

Description

An ICTP PREPARATORY SCHOOL will be organized the week before the College (from 8 to 12 February 2016) 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.

Winter College webpage

Material

Final List of Participants Pre-arrival general information announcement

Preparatory School to the Winter College on Optics: Optical Frequency Combs | (smr 2810)

Go to day

Monday, 8 February 2016

08:30 - 17:00

Location:

Adriatico Guest House - Giambiagi Lecture Hall

08:30 Registration fomalities 1h0' ( Adriatico Guest House - Giambiagi 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 Introduction to Electromagnetic Theory I 1h0'

Speaker:	Imrana Ashraf (Quaid-I-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan)
Material:	Slides

10:30 Coffee break 30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria )

11:00 Introduction to Fourier Theory I 1h30'

Speaker:	Miguel Alonso Gonzalez (University of Rochester, USA)
Material:	Slides

12:30 Lunch break 1h0' ( Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria )
13:30 Introduction to Fourier Theory II 1h30'

Speaker: Miguel Alonso Gonzalez (University of Rochester, USA)
15:00 Coffee break 30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria )

15:30 Fourier optics Lab Introduction 30'

Speaker:	Anna Consortini (University of Florence, Italy)
Material:	Slides

16:00 Fourier optics Lab Session I 1h0' ( Informatics Laboratory - Adriatico )

Groups 1 and 2

Speaker:	Anna Consortini (University of Florence, Italy)
Material:	Slides

16:00 Laboratory Session I on Spectroscopy 1h0' ( ICTP MLab - Multidisciplinary Laboratory )
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Group 3
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Speaker: HUMBERTO CABRERA MORALES (Istituto Venezolano de Investigationes Cientificas, Venezuela))

Tuesday, 9 February 2016

09:00 - 17:30

Location:

Adriatico Guest House - Giambiagi Lecture Hall

09:00 Introduction to Electromagnetic Theory II 1h30'

Speaker:	Imrana Ashraf (Quaid-I-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan)
Material:	Slides

10:30 Coffee break 30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria )

11:00 Signal Analysis: Wiener-Khinchin, noise, SNR, averaging 1h30'

Speaker:	Miguel Alonso Gonzalez (University of Rochester, USA)
Material:	Slides

12:30 Lunch break 1h30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria )

14:00 Introduction to Quantum Mechanics I 1h30'

Speaker:	Imrana Ashraf (Quaid-I-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan)
Material:	Slides

15:30 Coffee break 30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria )
16:00 Laboratory Session II on Spectroscopy 1h0' ( ICTP MLab - Multidisciplinary Laboratory )
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Group 1
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Speaker: HUMBERTO CABRERA MORALES (Istituto Venezolano de Investigationes Cientificas, Venezuela)

16:00 Fourier optics Lab Session II 1h30'

Groups 3, 4 and 5

Speaker:	Anna Consortini (University of Florence, Italy)
Material:	Slides

Wednesday, 10 February 2016

09:00 - 17:30

Location:

Adriatico Guest House - Giambiagi Lecture Hall

09:00 Introduction to Quantum Mechanics II 1h30'

Atomic line broadening

Speaker:	Imrana Ashraf (Quaid-I-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan)
Material:	Slides

10:30 Coffee break 30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria )
11:00 Pulse propagation in materials and waveguides I 1h30'

Speaker: Miguel Alonso Gonzalez (University of Rochester, USA)
12:30 Lunch break 1h30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria )
14:00 Pulse propagation in materials and waveguides II 1h30'

Speaker: Miguel Alonso Gonzalez (University of Rochester, USA)
15:30 Coffee break 30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria )

16:00 Energy levels of molecules I 1h30'

Speaker:	Humberto Cabrera Morales (Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientificas, Venezuela)
Material:	Slides

Thursday, 11 February 2016

09:00 - 16:00

Location:

Adriatico Guest House - Giambiagi Lecture Hall

09:00 Energy levels of molecules II 1h30'

Line broadening. Basics of the cavity ring down spectroscopy. Some applications in Microscopy to increase the sensitivity.

Speaker:	Humberto Cabrera Morales (Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientificas, Venezuela)
Material:	Slides

10:30 Coffee break 30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria )

11:00 Introduction to Nonlinear Optics I 1h30'

Speaker:	Miguel Alonso Gonzalez (University of Rochester, USA)
Material:	Slides

12:30 Lunch break 1h30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria )
14:00 Laboratory Session III on Spectroscopy 2h0' ( ICTP MLab - Multidisciplinary Laboratory )
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Groups 2, 4 and 5.

"Cavity ring down spectroscopy combined with Microscopy to increase sensitivity. Determination of the absorption coefficient in pure liquids: water, ethanol."
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Speaker: Humberto Cabrera Morales (Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientificas, Venezuela)

Friday, 12 February 2016

10:00 - 15:30

Location:

Adriatico Guest House - Giambiagi Lecture Hall

10:00 Introduction to Nonlinear optics II 2h0'

Speaker: Miguel Alonso Gonzalez (University of Rochester, USA)
12:00 Lunch break 1h30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria )

13:30 Mathematica Simulation Workshop 2h0'

Speaker:	Miguel Alonso Gonzalez (University of Rochester, USA)
Material:	Mathematica file