19-21 January 2015, OPCPA Training Course, Bordeaux, France

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Training session organized by University Bordeaux, CELIA and PYLA. Sponsored by CNRS and Laserlab Europe

Venue: Institut d'Optique d'Aquitaine - Rue François Mitterrand - 33400 Talence

Objectives

  • Acquire the basic concepts in optics and non-linear optics and understand parametric processes
  • Learn how to simulate and design parametric stages (SHG, OPO, OPA, OPCPA)
  • Get an overview of state of the art achievements with OPCPAs
  • Build a network of users within the European community and exchange knowledge and how-to among the participants. Initiate collaborations.

Duration

  • Lectures: 2 days. Hands on training: 1 day

Prerequisites

  • Degree in lasers and optics

Target audience

  • Users or designers of high intensity/high energy/high average power lasers based on optical parametric processes
  • Technicians, Engineers, Researchers
  • Undergraduate and PhD students

Dates

  • Lectures: 19-20 January 2015
  • Lab work: 21 January 2015 (limited to 20 people)

Teachers

  • A. Baltuska (TU Wien)
  • J. Biegert (ICFO Barcelona)
  • D. Bigourd (FEMTO-ST, Besançon)
  • E. Cormier (CELIA, Bordeaux)
  • JC. Delagnes (CELIA, Bordeaux)
  • F. Druon (IOGS Palaiseau)
  • J. P. Goossens (CEA Cesta)
  • F. Legaré (INRS Montreal)
  • J. Limpert (IAP Jena)
  • C. Manzoni (Politecnico Milano)
  • G. Mennerat (CEA Saclay)
  • S. Weber (CEA Saclay)

Programme

Basic concepts:

  • Ultrashort pulse propagation, dispersion, CEP
  • Principles of linear and non-linear optics. Second or third order susceptibility. Phase matching. Nonlinear processes (SHG, DFG, OPA, ..., SPM, XPM, XPW, 4WM ...)
  • Architectures involving parametric amplification processes associated with second order (3 wave mixing) and third order (4WM)
  • Non-linear materials (crystals, glass, fibers, ...)
  • Simulating parametric processes (SNLO, Commod Pro, MIT, 2D, 3D, ...)

 OPA based systems:

  • High energy and high average power SHG
  • MidIR ultrashort pulses at 160 kHz (Nd-YVO4 pump source)
  • 2 cycles at 2 μm at 100 kHz (Yb-fiber pump source)
  • High-energy OPCPA at 3.9 μm (Nd-YAG pump source)
  • 4.5 fs 20 GW at 800 nm (Yb-fiber pump source)
  • OPCPA front-end for PETAL 10 PW laser (Nd:glass pump source)
  • Fiber OPA (Yb-fiber pump source and non-linear medium)
  • Fourier Domain OPA (Ti:Sapphire pump source)
  • Visible OPA
  • High-intensity / high-energy OPCPA
  • High–contrast OPCPA front-end

Lab work:

  • Simulations
  • Frequency doubling, phase matching, angular-spectral-temperature acceptance,
  • Supercontinuum generation and DFG
  • CEP control and measurement
  • OPA
  • Fiber OPA
  • 4WM
  • ...

Registration fees

Lectures (2 days) Lectures + Lab work* (3 d.)
Full registration 600 € 840 €
Academic 340 € 480 €
Undergraduate & PhD students 250 € 350 €

French VAT included (20%)
* Lab work is limited to 20 people (the 20 first applications will be registered. If 15 more applications are received, an additional training day will be organized)

Training session chair

, CELIA, Bordeaux University, Scientific Director of PYLA

Coordination

, PYLA
+33 (0)5 57 01 74 00

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