Schedule
28 July - 01 August 2025
Yerevan State University
Yerevan, Armenia
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Arrival Day |
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07:30 – 09:00 |
Breakfast, ibis Yerevan Center |
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Programming |
Lecture Hall |
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09:00 – 09:15
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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
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09:15 – 10:15
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Nanosecond, Picosecond and Femtosecond Lasers and Industrial Applications Jim Kafka Spectra-Physics / MKS, Emeritus Fellow, USA |
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10:15 – 10:30 |
Break |
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10:30 – 11:15 |
Photonics Technologies for the Development of a Sustainable Eco-System in Outer Space Henry Helvajian The Aerospace Corporation, USA |
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11:15 – 11:30 |
Break |
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11:30 – 12:15 |
Nonlinear Optical Materials and their Characterization Eric Van Stryland CREOL, College of Optics and Photonics, USA |
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12:15 - 14:00 |
Lunch and Small Group Lab Tours |
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14:00 – 14:45 |
Nonlinear Optical Materials and their Characterization Eric Van Stryland CREOL, College of Optics and Photonics, USA |
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14:45 – 15:00 |
Break |
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15:00 – 15:45 |
How to Choose the Right Optics for your Application Ulrike Fuchs asphericon, Germany |
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15:45 – 16:00 |
Break |
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16:00 – 16:45 |
Laser Beam Shaping Ulrike Fuchs asphericon, Germany |
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16:45 – 18:00 |
Poster Session I |
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18:00 – 20:00 |
Opening Reception & Dinner |
Day 2 Opening
9:00 - 9:15
Quantum Cascade Lasers: 30 Years of Light-matter Quantum Engineering
Carlo Sirtori, École Normale Supérieure - PSL, France
9:15 - 10:15
Break
10:15 - 10:30
Third Order Nonlinear Optics
Martijn de Sterke, University of Sydney, Australia
10:30 - 11:15
Break
11:15 - 11:30
Ultrafast Nonlinear Optics: Basic Concepts
Cristian Manzoni, Polytechnic University of Milan/National Research Council, Italy
11:30 - 12:15
Lunch and Small Group Lab Tours
12:15 - 14:00
Reconfigurable Integrated Photonic-Electronic Circuits
Mher Ghulinyan, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
14:00 - 14:45
Break
14:45 - 15:00
Introduction to On-chip Laser Integration
Kasper Van Gasse, University of Ghent, Belgium
15:00 - 15:45
Break
15:45 - 16:00
Solitons
Martijn de Sterke, University of Sydney, Australia
16:00 - 16:45
Poster Session II
16:45 - 18:00
Dinner
18:00 - 19:00
Day 3 Opening
9:00 - 9:15
Lasers in Metrology and Materials Processing to Support the Changing Eco-System of Outer Space
Henry Helvajian, The Aerospace Corporation, USA
9:15 - 10:15
Break
10:15 - 10:30
Temporal Contrast of Multi-Petawatt CPA Laser Systems
Ioan Dancus, Extreme Light Infrastructure - Nuclear Physics Center (ELI-NP), Romania
10:30 - 11:15
Break
11:15 - 11:30
Ultrafast Nonlinear Optics: Few-optical Cycle Pulses from Near-IR to UV
Cristian Manzoni, Polytechnic University of Milan/National Research Council, Italy
11:30 - 12:15
Group Photo, Lunch and Small Group Lab Tours
12:15 - 14:00
Social Activity & Dinner (More details coming in June)
14:00 - 20:00
Day 4 Opening
9:00 - 9:15
Ultrafast dynamics of high energy density matter
Ravindra Kumar, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India
9:15 - 10:15
Break
10:15 - 10:30
Fundamentals of Femtosecond Laser Microfabrication
Shane Eaton, CNR - Institute of Photonics and of Nanotechnologies, Italy
10:30 - 11:15
Break
11:15 - 11:30
Femtosecond Laser Inscription of Fiber Bragg Gratings
Tigran Baghdasaryan, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
11:30 - 12:15
Lunch and Small Group Lab Tours
12:15 - 14:00
Titanium-Sapphire Lasers on Chip
Kasper Van Gasse, University of Ghent, Belgium
14:00 - 14:45
Break
14:45 - 15:00
On-chip Frequency Comb Sources and Multi-color Lasers
Pablo Marin-Palomo, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
15:00 - 15:45
Break
15:45 - 16:00
Widely tunable lasers on Indium Phosphide generic integration platform
Stefano Tondini, Technology University Eindhoven, Netherlands
16:00 - 16:45
Break
16:45 -17:00
Laser power stabilization for gravitational wave detection
Marina Trad-Nery, VIRGO, Côte d'Azur Observatory, France
17:00 - 17:45
Photonics Outreach
Astghik Chalyan, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
17:45 - 18:30
Dinner
18:30 - 20:00
Day 5 Opening
9:00 - 9:15
High Average Power Lasers and Nonlinear Down Conversion to the THz
Clara Saraceno, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
9:15 - 10:15
Break
10:15 - 10:30
Applications of ultrafast lasers for the generation of electron sources and precision microfabrication
Arsham Yeremyan, CANDLE SRI, Armenia
10:30 - 11:15
Break
11:15 - 11:30
Fluoride is the New Silica: Unlocking the Mid-IR Frontier in Fiber Lasers
Maria Chernysheva, Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology, Germany
11:30 - 12:15
Lunch and Small Group Lab Tours
12:15 - 14:00
Spectral and temporal versatility of fibre based laser sources
Maria Chernysheva, Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology, Germany
14:00 - 14:45
Break
14:45 - 15:00
Femtosecond Laser Microfabrication of Quantum Technologies
Shane Eaton, CNR - Institute of Photonics and of Nanotechnologies, Italy
15:00 - 15:45
Break
15:45 - 16:00
Ultrafast Lasers for Multi-photon Microscopy
Jim Kafka, Spectra-Physics / MKS, USA
16:00 - 16:45
Break
16:45 -17:00
Writing grant applications
Tatevik Chalyan, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
17:00 - 17:45
Closing
17:45 - 18:30
Dinner
18:30 - 20:00
Hotel check-out and departure
