School on Nonlinear Optics and Nanophotonics

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Start time: November 25Ends on: December 6Venue: IFT-UNESP. São Paulo, Brazil

Organizers: Cristina Masoller (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain), Hilda A. Cerdeira (ICTP-SAIFR, Brazil), and Yuri Kivshar (Australia National University)

Lecturers:

– Thorsten Ackemann (University of Strathclyde, Scotland, UK)
–Laser solitons, VCSEL, patterns and dynamics

– Cid de Araujo (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil)–
–Nonlinear optical processes in condensed matter

– Marcel Clerc (Universidad de Chile)
–Spatiotemporal chaotic localized states in optics

– Alexander Gaeta (Cornell University, USA)
—Nonlinear photonics in chips

– Dan Gauthier (Duke University, USA)
—Tailoring the group velocity and group velocity dispersion

– Michal Lipson (Cornell University, USA)
—Nanophotonic structures for extreme nonlinearities on-chip

– Mario Molina (Universidad de Chile)
—Discrete photonics in waveguide arrays

– Miguel C. Soriano (Universitat IIles Balear, Spain)
—Dynamics and applications of delay-coupled semiconductor lasers

– Sergei Turitsyn (Aston University, UK)
—Nonlinear effects and technologies in optical communication systems

This is the first of a series of events on Topics in Nonlinear Science: Fundamentals and Applications, locally coordinated by Hilda A. Cerdeira.

Description: This school on Nonlinear Optics and Nanophotonics will cover the physics of nonlinear optical systems including photonic cyrstals and photonic lattices; Nonlinear optics at the nanoscale; Active optical media and laser dynamics; Nonlinear effects in optical communication systems; Metamaterials; Complex dynamics of quantum optical systems.
The school will end with a one day Workshop and precede the 6th Rio de la Plata Workshop on Laser Dynamics and Nonlinear Photonics, which will be held in Montevideo, Uruguay, from December 9-12, 2013.

Application Deadline, September 25

Announcement

List of Participants: Updated on Nov 13

General Information: General Information Sheet – Useful information specially for those who are not from São Paulo city.

Poster Presentation: Participants who are presenting poster MUST BRING THE POSTER PRINTED. The poster size should be at most 1m x 1m.

The prize for the best poster was awarded to Wilton Júnior de Melo Kort-Kamp, title: “Tuning plasmonic cloaks with an external magnetic field”

Accommodation: Participants whose accommodation has been arranged and paid by the institute will stay at Paulista Flat. Each participant whose accommodation has been arranged by the institute has received the details about the accommodation individually.

Registration: We ask ALL PARTICIPANTS to arrive at IFT-UNESP (Rua Dr. Bento Teobaldo Ferraz, 271 Bloco 2 4th floor, in front of Terminal Barra-Funda) on Nov 25 between 8:00 am –9:00 am in order to complete the registration form and to collect the school material. You can find arrival instructions at http://www.ictp-saifr.org/?page_id=195.

Upon registration, participants who are receiving financial support, please bring a photocopy of your ID or passport.

BOARDING PASS – All participants, whose travel has been provided or will be reimbursed by the institute, should bring the boarding pass upon registration, and collect an envelope to send the return boarding pass to the institute.

Emergency number: 982 338 671 (from São Paulo city); +55 11 982 338 671 (from abroad), 11 982 338 671 (from outside São Paulo).

Ground transportation instructions:

Ground transportation from the Airport to Paulista Flat

Ground transportation from Paulista Flat to the institute

Files:

Student evaluations of school:

Student evaluations

Photos of school:

Photos of school

Preliminary Programme: PDF version updated on Dec 3

Programme

FIRST WEEK: November 25 to 29
Monday, November 25
8:00 – 9:30	Registration
9:30 – 11:00	Kivshar
11:00 – 11:30	Coffee break
11:30 – 13:00	Araujo
13:00 – 14:30	Lunch
14:30 – 16:00	Presentation of topics for Hands-on-activities – Kivshar
16:00 – 16:30	Coffee break
16:30 – 19:00	Hands-on activity – Convenor: Araujo

Tuesday, November 26
9:00 – 10:00	Araujo
10:00 – 11:00	Clerc
11:00 – 11:30	Coffee break
11:30 – 13:00	Turitsyn
13:00 – 14:30	Lunch
14:30 – 16:00	Hands-on activity – Convenor: Clerc
16:00 – 16:30	Coffee break
16:30 – 17:30	Discussion of common questions – Convenor: Turitsyn
17:30 – 19:00	Hands-on-activity

Wednesday, November 27
9:00 – 10:00	Turitsyn
10:00 – 11:00	Soriano
11:00 – 11:30	Coffee break
11:30 – 13:00	Clerc
13:00 – 14:30	Lunch
14:00 – 15:00	Colloquium – Yuri Kivshar: Shaping light with metamaterials
15:00 – 15:30	Coffee Break
15:30 – 16:30	Hands-on activity
16:30 – 17:30	Discussion of common questions – Convenor: Clerc
17:30 – 19:00	Hands-on activity –

Thursday, November 28
9:00 – 10:00	Turitsyn
10:00 – 11:00	Kivshar
11:00 – 11:30	Coffee break
11:30 – 13:00	Soriano
13:00 – 14:30	Lunch
14:30 – 16:00	Hands-on activity – Convenor: Turitsyn
16:00 – 16:30	Coffee break
16:30 – 17:30	Discussion of common questions – Convenor: Soriano
17:30 – 19:00	Hands-on activity –

Friday, November 29
9:00 – 10:00	Soriano
10:00 – 11:00	Kivshar
11:00 – 11:30	Coffee break
11:30 – 13:00	Clerc
13:00 – 14:30	Lunch
14:30 – 16:00	Hands-on activity – Presentations – Convenor: Kivshar
16:00 – 16:30	Coffee break
16:30 – 19:00	Hands-on activity– Presentations

Saturday and Sunday
FREE

SECOND WEEK: December 2 to 6
Monday, December 2
9:00 – 10:00	Masoller
10:00 – 11:00	Lipson
11:00 – 11:30	Coffee break
11:30 – 13:00	Gaeta
13:00 – 14:30	Lunch
14:30 – 16:00	Hands-on activity –– Convenor: Masoller
16:00 – 16:30	Coffee break
16:30 – 17:30	Discussion of common questions – Convenor: Lipson
16:30 – 19:00	Hands-on activity

Tuesday, December 3
9:00 – 10:00	Gauthier
10:00 – 11:00	Lipson
11:00 – 11:30	Coffee break
11:30 – 13:00	Molina
13:00 – 14:30	Lunch
14:30 – 16:00	Hands-on activity – Convenor: Gauthier
16:00 – 16:30	Coffee break
16:30 – 17:30	Discussion of common questions – Convenor: Gaeta
17:30 – 19:00	Hands-on activity –

Wednesday, December 4
9:00 – 10:00	Ackemann
10:00 – 11:00	Gaeta
11:00 – 11:30	Coffee break
11:30 – 13:00	Gauthier
13:00 – 14:30	Lunch
14:30 – 16:00	Hands-on activity – Convenor: Ackemann
16:00 – 16:30	Coffee break
16:30 – 17:30	Discussion of common questions – Convenor: Molina
17:30 – 19:00	Hands-on activity

Thursday, December 5
9:00 – 10:00	Molina
10:00 – 11:00	Masoller
11:00 – 11:30	Coffee break
11:30 – 13:00	Ackemann
13:00 – 14:30	Lunch
14:30 – 16:00	Hands-on activity – Presentations – Convenor: Masoller
16:00 – 16:30	Coffee break
16:30 – 19:00	Hands-on activity – Presentations

Friday, December 6
9:00 – 9:45 – 9:45 – 10: 30	Thorsten Ackemann – Dynamics and mode-locking of solitons in vertical-cavity semiconductor lasers with frequency-selective feedback Sergei Turitsyn – Ultra-long fibre lasers: Science and Applications
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee break
11:00 – 11:45 11:45 – 12:30	Cristina Masoller – Extreme intensity pulses in semiconductor lasers with optical injection or feedback. Mario Molina – Bulk and Surface localized optical modes in the continuous band
12:30 – 14:00	Lunch
14:00 – 14:20 – 14:20 – 14:40 14:40 – 15:00 15:00 – 15:20	Felippe Barbosa: Beyond spectral homodyne detection: complete quantum measurement of spectral modes of light Vitalie Eremmev: Quantum theory of an open-cavity laser considering the pumping statistics Andrés Aragoneses: Complex symbolic dynamics of semiconductor laser with optical feedback Nilo Koscheck: Importance and use of the “frequency Comb” in ON DSHO
15:20 – 15:40	Coffee break
15:40 – 16:40	Vanderlei Bagnato – Biophotonics Closing address and Delivery of Prize to the best Poster
	Farewell Party