PROGRAM

 

 

 

Classical linear optics and perturbative nonlinear optics

Ady Arie (Il), Benoît Boulanger (Fr), Robert Boyd (Us/Ca), Marty Fejer (USA),

Fredrik Laurell (Se), Gerd Leuchs (De),Guy Millot (Fr)

 

  • Basic equations, nonlinear susceptibilities, the primary interactions
  • Tensor calculation, symmetries
  • Birefringent phase-matching in bulk crystals
  • Adiabatic frequency conversion, quasi-phase-matching in bulk crystals, waveguides and photonic crystals
  • Mode-matching and nonlinear optics in optical fibers
  • Whispering gallery modes & frequency combs in micro and nanocavities

 

Quantum nonlinear optics

Alain Aspect (Fr), Robert W. Boyd (Us/Ca), Maria Chekhova (De), Claude Fabre (Fr),

Gerd Leuchs (De), Miles J. Padgett (UK), Sébastien Tanzilli (Fr)

  • Operators
  • Correlations
  • Entanglement
  • Squeezing
  • Orbital Angular Momentum

 

 

Extreme nonlinear optics

Paul Corkum (Ca), Gérard Mourou (Fr)

 

  • Fundamentals
  • High harmonic generation

 

Nonlinear media

Gérard Aka (Fr), Benoît Boulanger (Fr), Marty Fejer (Us), Martti Kauranen (Fi), Fredrik Laurell (Se),  Isabelle Ledoux-Rak (Fr)

Valentin Petrov (Ge),Patricia Segonds (Fr), Valérie Veniard (Fr)

 

  • Material engineering for nonlinear optics
  • Modeling of optical nonlinearities
  • Characterization of nanostructures, surfaces and bulk crystals
  • Parasitic effects
  • Performances & spectral domains from ultra-violet to infrared

 

Parametric devices and applications

Ady Arie (Il), Andrius Baltuska (Au), Majid Ebrahim-Zadeh (Es), Antoine Godard (Fr), Marie-Claire Schanne-Klein (Fr),

Thomas Südmeyer (Ch), Hugo Zbinden (Ch)

  • Optical parametric generators, amplificators & oscillators
  • Ultra short pulse laser technologies
  • Gas detection, LIDAR
  • Biophotonics
  • Quantum information
  • Nonlinear holography
  • novel high power sources and their challenges, CEP-stabilization, applications in metrology

 

Parametric devices and applications

Ady Arie (Il), Andrius Baltuska (Au), Majid Ebrahim-Zadeh (Es), Antoine Godard (Fr), Marie-Claire Schanne-Klein (Fr),

Thomas Südmeyer (Ch), Hugo Zbinden (Ch)

 

  • Optical parametric generators, amplificators & oscillators
  • Ultra short pulse laser technologies
  • Gas detection, LIDAR
  • Biophotonics
  • Quantum information
  • Nonlinear holography
  • Novel high power sources and their challenges, CEP-stabilization, applications in metrology