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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), Società Italiana di Ottica e Fotonica (SIOF), the International Society on Optics Within Life Sciences (OWLS), will organize a Winter College on Optics: Frequency Combs, which will be held at ICTP, Trieste, Italy, from 15 to 26 February, 2016.
 
DIRECTORS: K. Corwin (Kansas State University, U.S.A.), M. Marangoni (Politecnico di Milano, Italy), P. Maslowski (The Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland)
 
LOCAL ORGANIZERS: J. Niemela (ICTP, Italy), M. Danailov (Elettra, Trieste)

CONFIRMED LECTURERS:
G. Galzerano (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
H. Margolis (National Physics Laboratory, U.K.)
D. Brida (University of Konstanz, Germany)
M. Marangoni (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
I. Hartl (DESY - Hamburg, Germany)
T. Allison (Stony Brook University - New York, U.S.A.)
N. Newbury (NIST, Boulder, U.S.A.)
P. Del'Haye (National Physics Laboratory, U.K.)
E. Kerstel (Universite Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France)
D. Lisak (Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika, Torun, Poland)
P. De Natale (Istituto Nazionale di Ottica - CNR, Florence, Italy)
I. Coddington (NIST, Boulder, U.S.A.)
K. Corwin (Colorado University, U.S.A.)
T. Ban (Institute of Physics, Zagreb, Croatia)
P. Maslowski (Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika, Torun, Poland)
I. Coddington (NIST, Boulder, U.S.A.)
W. Ubachs (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
M. Zawada (Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika, Torun, Poland)
M. Nisoli (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
 
As a coherent bridge between the radiofrequency and the optical frequency domain, frequency combs have revolutionized the field of optical frequency metrology and paved the way to a new generation of atomic clocks based on ultra-narrow optical transitions. Their fine, discrete, stable, reproducible and controllable spectral structure, readily referable to the primary microwave standard, also makes combs ideal tools for high-resolution molecular spectroscopy and sensing of multiple trace gases. The Winter School in Optical Frequency Combs responds to the need to provide physicists with a comprehensive overview on their properties, their synthesis and their main applications, with a specific focus on molecular spectroscopy and trace gas sensing. The school is particularly targeted to young researchers, especially at the Ph.D. and postdoc level who either work in this area or hope to do so.

MAIN TOPICS
• Optical Frequency combs: the history of a Nobel prize
• Introduction to stable phase sources, optical clocks and coherent frequency transfer
• Optical frequency combs across the spectrum
• Molecular spectroscopy and trace gas sensing: an overview
• Linking old and new: High precision comb-assisted spectroscopy
• Interaction of the femtosecond pulse train with an atomic or molecular sample - direct frequency comb spectroscopy
• Frequency combs for broadband spectroscopy and trace gas detection
• Testing the limits (tests of fundamental physics, attosecond timing, etc.)

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.
 
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).

Material

Winter College on Optics: Optical Frequency Combs - from multispecies gas sensing to high precision interrogation of atomic and molecular targets | (smr 2811)
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  • Monday, 15 February 2016
    • 08:30 - 18:00
      Location: Leonardo Building - Budinich Lecture Hall
      • 08:30 Registration and administrative procedures 2h0' ( Leonardo Building - Lobby ) 
        Registration will be at 8:30 and will last only 30 minutes.
The remaining time will be needed to complete 
administrative formalities at the Enrico Fermi Building. 
Please all be on time to fulfill these formalities.

Those who have already registered for the Preparatory School do not need to register again.
      • 10:30 Welcoming and introduction 15'
      • 10:45 The frequency comb (r)evolution 1h45'
        Speaker: Thomas Udem (Max-Planck-Institut fur Quantenoptik - GERMANY)
        Material: Slides
      • 12:30 Lunch break 1h30' ( Leonardo Building - Cafeteria )
      • 14:00 Oscillators: frequency stability and noise analysis - part 1 1h30'
        Speaker: Gianluca Galzerano (Istituto di Fotonica e Nanotecnologie del CNR - ITALY)
        Material: Slides
      • 15:30 Coffee break 30'
      • 16:00 Oscillators: frequency stability and noise analysis - part 2 1h30'
        Speaker: Gianluca Galzerano (Istituto di Fotonica e Nanotecnologie del CNR - ITALY)
  • Tuesday, 16 February 2016
    • 09:00 - 17:30
      Location: Leonardo Building - Budinich Lecture Hall
      • 09:00 Atomic clocks and frequency transfer - part 1 1h30'
        Speaker: Helen Margolis (National Physical Laboratory – UK)
        Material: Slides
      • 10:30 Coffee break 30'
      • 11:00 Atomic clocks and frequency transfer - part 2 1h30'
        Speaker: Helen Margolis (National Physical Laboratory – UK)
      • 12:30 Lunch break 1h30' ( Leonardo Building - Cafeteria )
      • 14:00 Nonlinear optics in the short pulse regime: basics and practice - part 1 1h30'
        Speaker: Marco Marangoni (Politecnico di Milano - ITALY)
        Material: Slides
      • 15:30 Coffee break 30'
      • 16:00 Nonlinear optics in the short pulse regime: basics and practice - part 2 1h30'
        Speaker: Marco Marangoni (Politecnico di Milano - ITALY)
  • Wednesday, 17 February 2016
    • 09:00 - 19:00
      Location: Leonardo Building - Budinich Lecture Hall
      • 09:00 Building a fibre mode-locked laser - part 1 1h30'
        Speaker: Daniele Brida (Universitat Konstanz - GERMANY)
        Material: Slides
      • 10:30 Coffee break 30'
      • 11:00 Building a fibre mode-locked laser - part 2 1h30'
        Speaker: Daniele Brida (Universitat Konstanz - GERMANY)
      • 12:30 Lunch break 1h30' ( Leonardo Building - Cafeteria )
      • 14:00 Understanding noise sources and stabilization strategies in frequency combs - part 1 1h30'
        Speaker: Nathan Newbury (National Institute for Standards and Technology - USA)
        Material: Slides
      • 15:30 Coffee break 30'
      • 16:00 Understanding noise sources and stabilization strategies in frequency combs - part 2 1h30'
        Speaker: Nathan Newbury (National Institute for Standards and Technology - USA)
        Material: Slides
      • 17:30 Poster session 1h30' ( Leonardo Building - Lobby ) 
        Refreshments will be served during the poster session.
  • Thursday, 18 February 2016
    • 09:00 - 19:00
      Location: Leonardo Building - Budinich Lecture Hall
      • 09:00 Kerr combs 2h0'
        Speaker: Pascal Del'Haye (National Physical Laboratory – UK)
      • 11:00 Coffee break 30'
      • 11:30 Extreme Ultraviolet Frequency Combs: Principles and Applications - part 1 1h0'
        Speaker: Thomas Allison (Stony Brook University - USA)
        Material: Slides
      • 12:30 Lunch break 1h30' ( Leonardo Building - Cafeteria )
      • 14:00 Extreme Ultraviolet Frequency Combs: Principles and Applications - part 2 1h30'
        Speaker: Thomas Allison (Stony Brook University - USA)
        Material: Slides
      • 15:30 Coffee break 30' ( )
      • 16:00 LAMP talks session 1h30' 
        - Souleymane DIALLO (Femto-ST Institute, France)
Kerr comb generation and modeling through whispering gallery resonator (10')

- Ioana Ruxandra IVASCU (University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania)
Pollutant trace gas detection performed by laser based photoacoustic spectroscopy (10')

- Grzegorz KOWZAN (Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland)
Broadband CO2 measurements with VIPA spectrometer in the near-infrared (10')

- Enoch Kirwa ROTICH (Kabianga University, Kenya; Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South Africa)
MeerKAT Telescope Optical fibre Network; Timing and Frequency Reference perspective (10')

- Pezhman SASANPOUR (Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences; IPM, Iran)
Nonlinear Upconversion Based on Enhancement of Third Harmonic Generation in Gold Nanomatryoshka; A Nonlinear FDTD Analysis (10')

- Yuchen WANG (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Femtosecond Ti: Sapphire ring laser with a stabilized pulse repetition rate of 250 MHz (10')

- T. Jeremie ZOUEU (National Polytechnic Institute of Yamoussoukro, Ivory Coast)
Low cost and effective optical tools to address biomedical, agricultural and environmental issues through an African Spectral Imaging Network (AFSIN) (10')
      • 17:30 Coffee break 30'
      • 18:00 Poster session 1h0' ( Leonardo Building - Lobby ) 
        Refreshments will be served during the poster session.
  • Friday, 19 February 2016
    • 09:00 - 17:30
      Location: Leonardo Building - Budinich Lecture Hall
      • 09:00 Molecular spectroscopy: basics - part 1 1h30'
        Speaker: Erik Kerstel (Université Joseph Fourier - FRANCE)
        Material: Slides
      • 10:30 Coffee break 30'
      • 11:00 Molecular spectroscopy: basics - part 2 1h30'
        Speaker: Erik Kerstel (Université Joseph Fourier - FRANCE)
      • 12:30 Lunch break 1h30' ( Leonardo Building - Cafeteria )
      • 14:00 Optical spectroscopy techniques - part 1 1h30'
        Speaker: Daniel Lisak (Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika - POLAND)
        Material: Slides
      • 15:30 Coffee break 30'
      • 16:00 Optical spectroscopy techniques - part 2 1h30'
        Speaker: Daniel Lisak (Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika - POLAND)
  • Monday, 22 February 2016
    • 09:00 - 17:30
      Location: Leonardo Building - Budinich Lecture Hall
      • 09:00 Frequency combs from the Mid-Infrared to the Terahertz - part 1 1h30'
        Speaker: Ingmar Hartl (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron - GERMANY)
      • 10:30 Coffee break 30'
      • 11:00 Frequency combs from the Mid-Infrared to the Terahertz - part 2 1h30'
        Speaker: Ingmar Hartl (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron - GERMANY)
      • 12:30 Lunch break 1h30' ( Leonardo Building - Cafeteria )
      • 14:00 Comb-assisted spectroscopy - part 1 1h0'
        Speaker: Paolo De Natale (Istituto Nazionale di Ottica del CNR - ITALY)
        Material: Slides
      • 15:00 Coffee break 1h0'
      • 16:00 Comb-assisted spectroscopy - part 2 1h30'
        Speaker: Paolo De Natale (Istituto Nazionale di Ottica del CNR - ITALY)
  • Tuesday, 23 February 2016
    • 09:00 - 20:45
      Location: Leonardo Building - Budinich Lecture Hall
      • 09:00 Coherent comb-matter interaction - part 1 1h0'
        Speaker: Ticjiana Ban (Institute of Physics Bijenička - CROATIA)
        Material: Slides
      • 10:00 Coffee break 30'
      • 10:30 Coherent comb-matter interaction - part 2 2h0'
        Speaker: Ticjiana Ban (Institute of Physics Bijenička - CROATIA)
      • 12:30 Lunch break 1h30' ( Leonardo Building - Cafeteria )
      • 14:00 Direct Comb spectroscopy on Gas-filled optical fibers 1h0'
        Speaker: Kristan Corwin (Kansas State University, U.S.A.)
        Material: Slides
      • 15:00 Coffee break 30'
      • 15:30 ICO/ICTP Gallieno Denardo Award Ceremony 1h30'
        Material: Link to the official Award webpage Photos
      • 19:00 ICO Reception 1h45' ( Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria )
  • Wednesday, 24 February 2016
    • 09:00 - 19:30
      Location: Leonardo Building - Budinich Lecture Hall
      • 09:00 Cavity-enhanced direct comb spectroscopy 2h0'
        Speaker: Piotr Maslowski (Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika - POLAND)
      • 11:00 Coffee break 30'
      • 11:30 Dual-comb spectroscopy - part 1 1h0'
        Speaker: Ian Coddington (National Institute for Standards and Technology - USA)
      • 12:30 Lunch break 1h30' ( Leonardo Building - Cafeteria )
      • 14:00 Dual-comb spectroscopy - part 2 1h30'
        Speaker: Ian Coddington (National Institute for Standards and Technology - USA)
      • 15:30 Coffee break 30'
      • 16:00 From phase stable pulses to the attosecond science 2h0'
        Speaker: Caterina Vozzi (Istituto di Fotonica e Nanotecnologie, CNR - ITALY)
        Material: Slides
      • 18:00 Detection of Gravitational Waves with laser interferometers 1h30'
        Speaker: Eric Genin (the European Gravitational Observatory, Italy)
        Material: Slides
  • Thursday, 25 February 2016
    • 09:00 - 19:30
      Location: Leonardo Building - Budinich Lecture Hall
      • 09:00 Precision spectroscopy of molecular hydrogen in search for new physics - part 1 1h30'
        Speaker: Wim Ubachs (Vrije Universiteit - THE NETHERLANDS)
        Material: Slides
      • 10:30 Coffee break 30'
      • 11:00 Precision spectroscopy of molecular hydrogen in search for new physics - part 2 1h30'
        Speaker: Wim Ubachs (Vrije Universiteit - THE NETHERLANDS)
      • 12:30 Lunch break 1h30' ( Leonardo Building - Cafeteria )
      • 14:00 Frequency comb spectroscopy outside the laboratory - part 1 1h30'
        Speaker: Ronald Holzwarth (Menlo Systems Gmbh - GERMANY)
      • 15:30 Coffee break 30'
      • 16:00 Frequency comb spectroscopy outside the laboratory - part 2 1h30'
        Speaker: Ronald Holzwarth (Menlo Systems Gmbh - GERMANY)
      • 17:30 Coffee break 30'
      • 18:00 Menlo Systems comb exhibition - CONFIRMED - 1h30'
        Speaker: Ronald Holzwarth (Menlo Systems Gmbh - GERMANY)
  • Friday, 26 February 2016
    • 09:00 - 14:00
      Location: Leonardo Building - Budinich Lecture Hall
      • 09:00 Optical lattice atomic clocks - part 1 1h30'
        Speaker: Michal Zawada (Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika - POLAND)
        Material: Slides
      • 10:30 Coffee break 30'
      • 11:00 Optical lattice atomic clocks - part 2 1h30'
        Speaker: Michal Zawada (Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika - POLAND)
      • 12:30 Feedback Session & Closing Remarks 30'
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