Scientific Calendar Event



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  • Monday, 4 February 2013
    • 08:30 - 09:30 Registration and Administrative formalities
      Those who already registered for the Preparatory School do not need to register again.
      Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building, Lobby
      • 08:30 Registration and Administrative formalities 1h0'
    • 09:30 - 10:00 Opening
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      • 09:30 Opening 30'
    • 10:00 - 11:00 Historical Remarks on Laser Science and Applications (1)
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      • 10:00 Historical Remarks on Laser Science and Applications (1) 1h0'
        Speaker: Orazio Svelto (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
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      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:30 - 12:30 Historical Remarks on Laser Science and Applications (2)
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      • 11:30 Historical Remarks on Laser Science and Applications (2) 1h0'
        Speaker: Orazio Svelto (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:30 - 14:30 Lunch Break
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      • 12:30 Lunch Break 2h0'
    • 14:30 - 16:30 Edge emitting semiconductor lasers
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      • 14:30 Edge emitting semiconductor lasers 2h0'
        Speaker: Ivo Montrosset (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 16:30 - 17:00 Coffee Break
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      • 16:30 Coffee Break 30'
    • 17:00 - 18:00 SOA and Superluminescent LED
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      • 17:00 SOA and Superluminescent LED 1h0'
        Speaker: Ivo Montrosset (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
        Material: lecture notes
  • Tuesday, 5 February 2013
    • 09:00 - 11:00 General introduction to solid-state lasers
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      • 09:00 General introduction to solid-state lasers 2h0'
        Speaker: Luca Carra' (Bright Solutions, Pavia, Italy)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
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      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:30 - 12:30 Femtosecond lasers/amplifiers
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      • 11:30 Femtosecond lasers/amplifiers 1h0'
        Speaker: Uwe Morgner (University of Hannover, Germany)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:30 - 14:30 Lunch Break
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      • 12:30 Lunch Break 2h0'
    • 14:30 - 16:30 High power cw, Q-switched, and mode-locked lasers (mainly for industrial applications). From R&D to laser production, roadmap to technological transfer
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      • 14:30 High power cw, Q-switched, and mode-locked lasers (mainly for industrial applications). From R&D to laser production, roadmap to technological transfer 2h0'
        Speaker: Luca Carra' (Bright Solutions, Pavia, Italy)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 16:30 - 17:00 Coffee Break
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      • 16:30 Coffee Break 30'
    • 17:00 - 18:00 Pulse characterization
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      • 17:00 Pulse characterization 1h0'
        Speaker: Uwe Morgner (University of Hannover, Germany)
        Material: lecture notes
  • Wednesday, 6 February 2013
    • 09:00 - 11:00 Nonlinear optics/quasi phase matching
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      • 09:00 Nonlinear optics/quasi phase matching 2h0'
        Speaker: Fredrik Laurell (KTH, Sweden)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
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      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:30 - 12:30 Second harmonic generation, parametric amplification
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      • 11:30 Second harmonic generation, parametric amplification 1h0'
        Speaker: Fredrik Laurell (KTH, Sweden)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:30 - 14:30 Lunch Break
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      • 12:30 Lunch Break 2h0'
    • 14:30 - 15:30 LAMP Talks
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    • 15:30 - 18:00 LAMP Poster Session and Coffee Break
      Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building, Lobby
  • Thursday, 7 February 2013
    • 09:00 - 10:00 Parametric amplifier/OPO
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      • 09:00 Parametric amplifier/OPO 1h0'
        Speaker: Fredrik Laurell (KTH, Sweden)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 10:00 - 11:00 From femtosecond to attosecond pulses
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      • 10:00 From femtosecond to attosecond pulses 1h0'
        Speaker: Sandro De Silvestri (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
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      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:30 - 12:30 "Extreme Light Infrastructure" (ELI) - A distributed laser facility for: attoscience, laser particle acceleration and gamma sources
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      • 11:30 "Extreme Light Infrastructure" (ELI) - A distributed laser facility for: attoscience, laser particle acceleration and gamma sources 1h0'
        Speaker: Sandro De Silvestri (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:30 - 14:30 Lunch Break
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      • 12:30 Lunch Break 2h0'
    • 14:30 - 16:30 Laser Sources for Quantum Optics (entangled photons sources)
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      • 14:30 Laser Sources for Quantum Optics (entangled photons sources) 2h0'
        Speaker: Paolo Mataloni (University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 16:30 - 17:00 Coffee Break
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      • 16:30 Coffee Break 30'
    • 17:00 - 18:00 Femtosecond laser micromachining: introduction (part 1)
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      • 17:00 Femtosecond laser micromachining: introduction (part 1) 1h0'
        Speaker: Roberta Ramponi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
        Material: lecture notes
  • Friday, 8 February 2013
    • 09:00 - 11:00 Quantum Optics applications
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      • 09:00 Quantum Optics applications 2h0'
        Speaker: Paolo Mataloni (University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
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      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:30 - 12:30 FEL
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      • 11:30 FEL 1h0'
        Speaker: Enrico Allaria (Elettra, Italy)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:30 - 14:30 Lunch Break
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      • 12:30 Lunch Break 2h0'
    • 14:30 - 18:00 Visit to Elettra
      Meeting point: Leonardo Main Entrance Hall at 14:30. Please be on time!
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      • 14:30 Visit to Elettra 3h30'
  • Monday, 11 February 2013
    • 09:00 - 10:00 Mid-IR, fiber lasers (1)
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      • 09:00 Mid-IR, fiber lasers (1) 1h0'
        Speaker: Stefano Taccheo (Swansea University, UK)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 10:00 - 11:00 Femtosecond laser micromachining (part 2)
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      • 10:00 Femtosecond laser micromachining (part 2) 1h0'
        Speaker: Roberta Ramponi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
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      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:30 - 12:30 Femtosecond laser micromachining (part 3)
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      • 11:30 Femtosecond laser micromachining (part 3) 1h0'
        Speaker: Roberta Ramponi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:30 - 14:30 Lunch Break
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      • 12:30 Lunch Break 2h0'
    • 14:30 - 16:30 Photonics devices and applications
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      • 14:30 Photonics devices and applications 2h0'
        Speaker: Valerio Pruneri (ICFO, Spain)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 16:30 - 17:00 Coffee Break
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      • 16:30 Coffee Break 30'
    • 17:00 - 19:00 Mid-IR, fiber lasers (2)
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      • 17:00 Mid-IR, fiber lasers (2) 2h0'
        Speaker: Stefano Taccheo (Swansea University, UK)
        Material: lecture notes
  • Tuesday, 12 February 2013
    • 09:00 - 11:00 Laser Industrial production
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    • 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
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      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:30 - 12:30 Sensing applications (1)
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      • 11:30 Sensing applications (1) 1h0'
        Speaker: Sune Svanberg (Lund University, Sweden)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:30 - 14:30 Lunch Break
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      • 12:30 Lunch Break 2h0'
    • 14:30 - 15:30 Sensing applications (2)
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      • 14:30 Sensing applications (2) 1h0'
        Speaker: Sune Svanberg (Lund University, Sweden)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 15:30 - 16:30 Nonlinear sources/QCLs for frequency combs (including mid-IR to THz) (1)
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      • 15:30 Nonlinear sources/QCLs for frequency combs (including mid-IR to THz) (1) 1h0'
        Speaker: Paolo De Natale (INO-CNR, Italy)
    • 16:30 - 16:45 Poster Prizes (sponsored by SPIE)
      • 16:30 Poster Prizes (sponsored by SPIE) 15'
    • 16:45 - 18:15 ICO/ICTP Gallieno Denardo Award Ceremony
      Group photo
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      • 16:45 ICO/ICTP Gallieno Denardo Award Ceremony 1h30'
    • 19:00 - 21:00 ICO Reception
      All College participants are invited
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
      • 19:00 ICO Reception 2h0'
  • Wednesday, 13 February 2013
    • 09:00 - 11:00 Nonlinear sources/QCLs for frequency combs (including mid-IR to THz) (2)
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      • 09:00 Nonlinear sources/QCLs for frequency combs (including mid-IR to THz) (2) 2h0'
        Speaker: Paolo De Natale (INO-CNR, Italy)
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
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      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:30 - 12:30 Biomedical applications (1)
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      • 11:30 Biomedical applications (1) 1h0'
        Speaker: Katarina Svanberg (Lund University Hospital, Sweden)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:30 - 13:30 Lunch Break
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      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h0'
    • 13:30 - 14:30 African Laser, Atomic, Molecular and Optical Sciences Network (LAM Network) Meeting
      All African and International LAM Coordinators are kindly invited to participate to this meeting
      • 13:30 African Laser, Atomic, Molecular and Optical Sciences Network (LAM Network) Meeting 1h0'
    • 14:30 - 15:30 Biomedical applications (2)
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      • 14:30 Biomedical applications (2) 1h0'
        Speaker: Katarina Svanberg (Lund University Hospital, Sweden)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 15:30 - 16:30 Interferometric concepts
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      • 15:30 Interferometric concepts 1h0'
        Speaker: Fernando Mendoza (CIO, Mexico)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 16:30 - 17:00 Coffee Break
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      • 16:30 Coffee Break 30'
    • 17:00 - 18:00 Interferometric applications in metrology
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      • 17:00 Interferometric applications in metrology 1h0'
        Speaker: Fernando Mendoza (CIO, Mexico)
        Material: lecture notes
  • Thursday, 14 February 2013
    • 09:00 - 11:00 Ultrafast spectroscopy/Raman spectroscopy
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      • 09:00 Ultrafast spectroscopy/Raman spectroscopy 2h0'
        Speaker: Guglielmo Lanzani (CNST-IIT, Italy)
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
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      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:30 - 12:30 Fourier techniques and phase retrieval techniques (1)
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      • 11:30 Fourier techniques and phase retrieval techniques (1) 1h0'
        Speaker: Fernando Mendoza (CIO, Mexico)
    • 12:30 - 14:30 Lunch Break
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      • 12:30 Lunch Break 2h0'
    • 14:30 - 16:30 Fourier techniques and phase retrieval techniques (2)
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      • 14:30 Fourier techniques and phase retrieval techniques (2) 2h0'
        Speaker: Fernando Mendoza & Malgorzata Kujawinska (CIO, Mexico & WUT, Poland)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 16:30 - 17:30 LAMP talks
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  • Friday, 15 February 2013
    • 09:00 - 10:00 Data capture and tomographic reconstruction of phase microobjects
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      • 09:00 Data capture and tomographic reconstruction of phase microobjects 1h0'
        Speaker: Malgorzata Kujawinska (WUT, Poland)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 10:00 - 11:00 Laser safety
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      • 10:00 Laser safety 1h0'
        Speaker: V. Lakshminarayanan (University of Waterloo, Canada)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
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      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:30 - 12:30 Discussion and Closing Activities
      Attendance certificates will be distributed
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      • 11:30 Discussion and Closing Activities 1h0'