U. of T. Modern Optics Mini-Workshop '02

(last updated 15 December 2002)


This workshop is composed of twenty-minute talks (including four minutes for discussion) on topics of current research interest in quantum optics and related areas, given as part of the course requirements for students in Physics 485F / 1860F.

Other interested parties are welcome to attend.

This year, the workshop will be split into two parts: On Saturday, December 14th, 2002 the workshop will run from 10:00 am to 3:40 pm, with two short breaks and a longer one for lunch. One Thursday, December 19th, 2002 it is expected to run from 1:30 pm to 5:30 pm. It will take place in room 134 of McLennan Physical Labs.

The grades will be based primarily on the oral presentation and the handling of questions, but a portion will be reserved to reflect participation in the discussions after other speakers' talks.

The announcement for this workshop, and general information, can be found here.

The tentative workshop program follows.

Each talk should last roughly 16 minutes, leaving 4 minutes for questions.

A projector is available in the room if you come with your presentation on a laptop, but in the case of technical problems, you are still responsible for the presentation, so it is recommended to come with a backup (transparencies or just the confidence to give your talk at the blackboard).
SATURDAY Dec 14th, 10 am - 3:30 pm
10:10 a.m. Ryan Bolen: Dynamical Behaviour of the 3-level laser
10:30 a.m. Rob Adamson: Random Lasers
10:50 a.m. David Deak: MEMS-tunable VCSEL
11:10 a.m. COFFEE BREAK
11:25 a.m. Matthias Prall: Laser Cooling and Atom Trapping
11:45 a.m. Keith Leong: Bessel Beams
12:05 p.m. Artan Kaso: Electromagnetically Induced Transparency and Slow Light
12:25 p.m. LUNCH BREAK
1:30 p.m. Ladan Abolghasemi: Photonic Crystal Slow-Light Enhancement of Nonlinear Phase Sensitivity
1:50 p.m. Jim Mellard: Optical Frequency Metrology
2:10 p.m. Dave Sutherland: Military Laser Applications
2:30 p.m. COFFEE BREAK
2:45 p.m. Marcius Extavour: Polymer Lasers
3:05 p.m. Philip Scrutton: Experimental Tests of Bell's Inequality
THURSDAY December 19th, 1:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Part one: make-ups for Saturday's AWOLs:
1:30 p.m. Ryan Bolen: Dynamical Behaviour of the 3-level laser
1:50 p.m. Stella Kim: Ultrafast laser pulses and dispersion compensation
Part two: (talks originally scheduled for Thursday)
2:10 p.m. Jean-Michel Menard: Mode-Locked Fibre Lasers
2:30 p.m. COFFEE BREAK
2:40 p.m. Shengjun Yang: FROG
3:00 p.m. Shahla Alavi: CW diode-pumped solid-state laser with an intracavity fibre Bragg grating
3:20 p.m. James Bauer: Nonlinear Optics
3:40 p.m. Mohamed Abdelghani: Quantum Cascade Laser
4:00 p.m. COFFEE BREAK
4:20 p.m. Ignacio Franco: Coherent control with symmetry-breaking electrical fields
4:30 p.m. Sebastian Pfotenhauer: Interaction of matter with high-intensity laser fields
4:50 p.m. Kathy Rouhi: Laser applications in medicine and surgery
5:10 p.m. Christoph Hebeisen: The Practical Implementation of Quantum Key Distribution



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