19-21 January 2015, OPCPA Training Course, Bordeaux, France
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- 19-21 January 2015, OPCPA Training Course, Bordeaux, France
- 2015-01-19T09:00:00-01:00
- 2015-01-21T18:00:00-01:00
- When Jan 19, 2015 09:00 AM to Jan 21, 2015 06:00 PM (Etc/GMT+1 / UTC-100)
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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
Pr. Eric CORMIER, CELIA, Bordeaux University, Scientific Director of PYLA
Coordination
Sonia GEAY, PYLA
+33 (0)5 57 01 74 00
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