Organizers : Benoît Boulanger, Robert W. Boyd & Patricia Segonds
Covered thematics:
- Classical linear optics and perturbative nonlinear optics
Lecturers: Ady Arie (Il), Benoît Boulanger (Fr), Robert Boyd (Us/Ca), Marty Fejer (USA), Fredrik Laurell (Se), Gerd Leuchs(De),Guy Millot (Fr)- Basic equations, nonlinear susceptibilies, the primary interactions
- Tensor calculation, symmetries
- Birefringent phase-matching in bulk crystals
- Adiabatic frequency conversion, quasi-phase-matching in bulk crystals, waveguides and photonic crystals
- Mode-matching and nonlinear optics in optical fibers
- Whispering gallery modes & frequency combs in micro and nanocavities
- Quantum nonlinear optics
Lecturers: Alain Aspect (Fr), Robert W. Boyd (Us/Ca), Maria Chekhova (De), Claude Fabre (Fr), Gerd Leuchs(De), Miles J. Padgett (UK), Sébastien Tanzilli (Fr)- Operators
- Correlations
- Entanglement
- Squeezing
- Orbital Angular Momentum
- Extreme nonlinear optics
Lecturers: Paul Corkum (Ca), Gérard Mourou (Fr)- Fundamentals
- High harmonic generation
- Nonlinear media
Lecturers: Gérard Aka (Fr), Benoît Boulanger (Fr), Marty Fejer (USA), Fredrik Laurell (Se), Isabelle Ledoux Rak (Fr), Martti Kauranen (Fi), Valentin Petrov (Ge), Patricia Segonds (Fr), Valérie Veniard (Fr)- Material engineering for nonlinear optics
- Modeling of optical nonlinearities
- Characterization of nanostructures, surfaces and bulk crystals
- Parasitic effects
- Performances & spectral domains from ultra-violet to infrared
- Parametric devices and applications
Lecturers: Ady Arie (Il), Andrius Baltuska (Au), Majid Ebrahim-Zadeh (Es), Antoine Godard (Fr), Marie-Claire Schanne-Klein (Fr), Thomas Südmeyer (Ch), Hugo Zbinden (Ch)- Optical parametric generators, amplificators & oscillators
- Ultra short pulse laser technologies
- Gas detection, LIDAR
- Biophotonics
- Quantum information
- Nonlinear holography
- Novel high power sources and their challenges, CEP-stabilization, applications in metrology
Registration:
Please download the application file by clicking on the thumbnail below, fill it, and send it to Les Houches NLO registration
Les Houches NLO Registration file
Sponsors:
- Société Française d’Optique (SFO)
- CNRS
- Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France (UJF)
- UNESCO International Year of Light 2015 (Light 2015)
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