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Schedule

Arrival Day

15:00 – 18:00 Hotel Check-In
ibis Yerevan Center, Yerevan, Armenia
19:00 – 21:00 Dinner
Caucasus Tavern
07:30 – 09:00 Breakfast, ibis Yerevan Center
Programming Lecture Hall
09:00 – 09:15 School Opening
Program Chairs:
Tatevik Chalyan
Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium
Heidi Ottevaere
Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium
Mushegh Rafayelyan
Yerevan State University, Armenia
Optica President:
Jim Kafka
Spectra-Physics / MKS, Emeritus Fellow, USA
09:15 – 10:15 Nanosecond, Picosecond and Femtosecond Lasers and Industrial Applications
Jim Kafka
Spectra-Physics / MKS, Emeritus Fellow, USA
10:15 – 10:30 Break
10:30 – 11:15 Photonics Technologies for the Development of a Sustainable Eco-System in Outer Space
Henry Helvajian
The Aerospace Corporation, USA
11:15 – 11:30 Break
11:30 – 12:15 Nonlinear Optical Materials and their Characterization
Eric Van Stryland
CREOL, College of Optics and Photonics, USA
12:15 - 14:00 Lunch and Small Group Lab Tours
14:00 – 14:45 Nonlinear Optical Materials and their Characterization
Eric Van Stryland
CREOL, College of Optics and Photonics, USA
14:45 – 15:00 Break
15:00 – 15:45 How to Choose the Right Optics for your Application
Ulrike Fuchs
asphericon, Germany
15:45 – 16:00 Break
16:00 – 16:45 Laser Beam Shaping
Ulrike Fuchs
asphericon, Germany
16:45 – 18:00 Poster Session I
18:00 – 20:00 Opening Reception & Dinner
07:30 - 09:00 Breakfast, ibis Yerevan Center
Programming Lecture Hall
09:00 - 09:15 School Opening
09:15 – 10:15 Quantum Cascade Lasers
Carlo Sirtori
École Normale Supérieure - PSL, France
10:15 – 10:30 Break
10:30 – 11:15 Third Order Nonlinear Optics
Martijn de Sterke
University of Sydney, Australia
11:15 – 11:30 Break
11:30 – 12:15 Ultrafast Nonlinear Optics: Basic Concepts
Cristian Manzoni
Polytechnic University of Milan/National Research Council, Italy
12:15 – 14:00 Lunch and Small Group Lab Tours
14:00 – 14:45 Reconfigurable Integrated Photonic-Electronic Circuits
Mher Ghulinyan
Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
14:45 – 15:00 Break
15:00 – 15:45 Introduction to On-chip Laser Integration
Kasper Van Gasse
University of Ghent, Belgium
15:45 – 16:00 Break
16:00 – 16:45 Solitons
Martijn de Sterke
University of Sydney, Australia
16:45 – 18:00 Poster Session II
18:00 – 19:30 Dinner
07:30 - 09:00 Breakfast, ibis Yerevan Center
Programming Lecture Hall
09:00 – 09:15 School Opening
09:15 – 10:15 Lasers in Metrology and Materials Processing to Support the Changing Eco-System of Outer Space
Henry Helvajian
The Aerospace Corporation, USA
10:15 – 10:30 Break
10:30 – 11:15 Temporal Contrast of Multi-Petawatt CPA Laser Systems
Ioan Dancus
Extreme Light Infrastructure - Nuclear Physics Center (ELI-NP), Romania
11:15 – 11:30 Break
11:30 – 12:15 Ultrafast Nonlinear Optics: Few-optical Cycle Pulses from Near-IR to UV
Cristian Manzoni
Polytechnic University of Milan/National Research Council, Italy
12:15 – 14:00 Group Photo, Lunch and Small Group Lab Tours
14:00 – 20:00 Social Activity & Dinner
07:30 - 09:00 Breakfast, ibis Yerevan Center
Programming Lecture Hall
08:30 – 08:45 School Opening
08:45 – 09:45 Ultrafast dynamics of high energy density matter
Ravindra Kumar
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India
09:45 – 10:00 Break
10:00 – 10:45 Fundamentals of Femtosecond Laser Microfabrication
Shane Eaton
CNR - Institute of Photonics and of Nanotechnologies, Italy
10:45 – 11:00 Break
11:00 – 11:45 Femtosecond Laser Inscription of Fiber Bragg Gratings
Tigran Baghdasaryan
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
11:45 – 14:30 Lunch and Tour of The Matenadaran
14:30 – 15:15 Titanium-Sapphire Lasers on Chip
Kasper Van Gasse
University of Ghent, Belgium
15:15 – 15:30 Break
15:30 – 16:15 On-chip Frequency Comb Sources and Multi-color Lasers
Pablo Marin-Palomo
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
16:15 – 16:30 Break
16:30 – 17:15 Widely Tunable Lasers on Indium Phosphide Generic Integration Platform
Stefano Tondini
Technology University Eindhoven, Netherlands
17:15 – 17:30 Break
17:30 – 18:15 Laser Power Stabilization for Gravitational Wave Detection
Marina Trad-Nery
VIRGO, Côte d'Azur Observatory, France
18:15 - 19:00 Photonics Outreach
Astghik Chalyan
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
19:00 – 20:00 Dinner
07:30 - 09:00 Breakfast, ibis Yerevan Center
Programming Lecture Hall
09:00 – 09:15 School Opening
09:15 – 10:15 High Average Power Lasers and Nonlinear Down Conversion to the THz
Clara Saraceno
Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
10:15 – 10:30 Break
10:30 – 11:15 Applications of Ultrafast Lasers for the Generation of Electron Sources and Precision Microfabrication
Arsham Yeremyan
CANDLE SRI, Armenia
11:15 – 11:30 Break
11:30 – 12:15 Fluoride is the New Silica: Unlocking the Mid-IR Frontier in Fiber Lasers
Maria Chernysheva
Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology, Germany
12:15 – 14:00 Lunch and Small Group Lab Tours
14:00 – 14:45 Spectral and Temporal Versatility of Fiber Based Laser Sources
Maria Chernysheva
Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology, Germany
14:45 – 15:00 Break
15:00 – 15:45 Femtosecond Laser Microfabrication of Quantum Technologies
Shane Eaton
CNR - Institute of Photonics and of Nanotechnologies, Italy
15:45 – 16:00 Break
16:00 – 16:45 Ultrafast Lasers for Multi-photon Microscopy
Jim Kafka
Spectra-Physics / MKS, USA
16:45 – 17:00 Break
17:00 – 17:45 Writing Grant Applications
Tatevik Chalyan
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
17:45 – 18:30 Closing Remarks
18:30 – 20:00 Dinner
07:30 - 09:00 Breakfast, ibis Yerevan Center
09:00 - 12:00 Hotel Check-out and Departure
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