ILA Short Courses on Laser Related Topics

On 3rd & 4th December 2006
at
Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology, Indore.

Preceding the sixth DAE-BRNS National Laser Symposium, NLS-6, at RRCAT, Indore during 5-8 Dec, 2006, Indian Laser Association (ILA) is organising short courses on Lasers Applications & related topics on 3th and 4th Dec. 2006.

Objectives:

Who could attend?

Course Fees:
Fees per course per participant is:
Rs. 200 for ILA members/ ILA corporate member
Rs. 400 for Non ILA members.
Rs. 600 for participants from Industry.

In addition, approximately Rs. 150 per day per person will have to be paid towards lodging and boarding for duration of stay, 3h and 4th Dec.’ 06.

Interested participants may fill the registration form enclosed herewith and send it to

Dr. S.R. Mishra,
General Secretary II, ILA,
R&D Block-A, RRCAT,
P. O. CAT, Indore- 452 013

Please enclose a DD of the course fee drawn in favour of “Indian Laser Association”, payable at State Bank of India, Sukhniwas Branch, Indore (Code 8484); latest by 27th Nov. 2006.

** Kindly note that course will be conducted only if minimum number of registered participants is 10 per course.



Contact for further information :

Email: srm@cat.ernet.in, General Secretary II.
phone : 0731-2488377, Fax : 0731-3488300
or Visit our web site: www.ila.org.in

Course contents are:

No. Title Coordinator Date and Time
I Growth and optical characteristics of nanostructures. DrL.M.Kukreja RRCAT December 3, 2006, 9:30 to 17:30 hrs
II Generation, detection and measurements of ultrashort laser pulses Dr S. M. Oak, RRCAT December 4, 2006, 9:30 to 17:30 hrs

In order to have closer interaction with the Course Coordinators, the number of participants will be limited to 30 per course.

Contents of ILA Short Courses

Course I: “Growth and Optical Characteristics of Nanostructures”
Date: December 3, 2006

Coordinator: L. M. Kukreja

1. Fundamentals: Low dimensional mesoscopic structures, Quantum confinement effects on band structures, Density of states of different nanostructures, Oscillator strength, and Surface plasmon resonances etc.

2. Growth: Top down and bottom up approaches, Growth modes, Metalorganic chemical vapor deposition, Molecular beam epitaxy, Pulsed laser deposition, Atomic layer deposition, and Wet chemical methods.

3. Characterization: Optical characterization using Photoabsorption spectroscopy, Photoluminescence (PL) and PL excitation spectroscopy, Photo-reflectance and Raman, Structural characterization using X-ray techniques, electrical characterization using Hall and quantum Hall measurements,

4. Applications: Quantum well lasers and photodetectors, Sensors, Low dimensional electron systems etc.

Course II: “Generation, Characterization and Amplification of Ultra-short Laser Pulses”
Date: December 4, 2006

Coordinator: S. M. Oak



1. Basics: The basic physics of mode-locking process and technology of generation of ultrashort laser pulses.

2. Femtosecond pulse generation: The physics of self phase modulation, self focusing, Kerr lens mode-locking and fsec pulse generation.

3. Detection: Auto correlation and other techniques for detection and measurement of ultrafast pulse parameters.

4. Advanced pulse diagnostics techniques: Intensity Correlation Techniques (and variants like PICASO, SPIDER, Interferometric techniques

5. Ultrashort Pulse Amplification: Problems of short pulse amplification, chirping, CPA technique, GVD, set-ups to get positive / negative GVD, double-pass and bow-tie amplifiers

6. OPCPA technique: Optical parametric amplification, collinear/noncollinear phase matching, properties of idler, salient features of OPCPA, gain characteristics, problems in OPCPA and its limitations.





REGISTRATION FORM




ILA Short Courses
On 3rd & 4th December 2006
at
Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology, Indore.

(Please send two recent photographs of yourself with registration form for making identity-card for entry in RRCAT.)


Name: Mr./Ms_____________________ Age: _____ yrs.
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Institution:_______________________
Address:______________________________________________________

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Category: ILA member/ Non ILA member/ Industrial participants

I am interested in attending (please make a ring around your option):

Course-I, Course-II Both

(a) Course fee Rs. _____________________________



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Total (a+b): Rs.______________________________



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