Seminar INFLPR, Prof. Pierre Agostini, Ohio State University, Thursday 24, September: Exploring the wavelength scaling of laser-atom interactions:

24-25, Septembrie 2009
Seminars at Laser Dept., INFLPR
Visitor: Prof. Pierre Agostini, Ohio State University
Host: General Director INFLPR: Dr. Ing. Rares Medianu

Thursday 24, September
10,00 – 11,00 Welcome meeting at INFLPR
11,00 - 12,30 General Seminar:
Exploring the wavelength scaling of laser-atom interactions:
fundamentals and applications
Prof. Pierre Agostini, Ohio State University
12,30 – 13,00 Discussions
13,00 – 14,00 Lunch offered by the Institute
14,00 – 16,00 Round Table: Short presentations
14,00 – 14,15 Dr. V. Stancalie: Laser Induced Degenerate States
14,15 – 14,30 Dr. G. Buica: Multiphoton Ionization
14,30 – 14,45 Dr. M. Zamfirescu: Optical Microcavities
14,45 – 15,00 Dr. F. Stokker: Laser Spectroscopy of nitrides
15,00 – 15,15 Dr. D. Ursescu: X-ray Lasers
15,15 – 15,30 Dr. C. Ticos: Dusty plasmas at INFLPR
15,30 – 15,45 Coffee break and snacks
15,45 – 18,00 Visit of the Solid State Laboratory
18,00 – 18,30 Transfer to C.O.S. restaurant (9, Pta. Lahovari, tel. 021.211.35.21)
19,00 – Dinner offered by Dr. Aurelia Cionga

Friday 25, September
10,00 – 11,00 Round Table: Short presentations
10,00 – 10,15 S. Amarande: Thermal lensing of bounce lasers
10,15 – 10,30 I. Dancus : Saturated nonlinearities at low intensity level
10,30 – 10,45 R. Banici : Ultra-short pulses characterization
10,45 – 11,00 S. Popescu: Soliton waveguide arrays in LiNbO3
11,00 – 11,15 F. Garoi : Retrieving the amplitude and phase of a wave field
11,15 – 11,30 Coffee break and snacks
11,30 – 12,30 Martin Lisowski (General Seminar)High contrast ultrafast carrier-envelope-phase stabilized laser amplifiers

13,00 – 14,00 Lunch offered by the Institute
14,00 – 16,00 Visit of the Laser Physics Department
16,00 – 18,00 Round Table: Outlook on possible experiments
• Transient reflectivity;
• Plasma mirror;
• Harmonics injection in plasma amplifiers;
• Coherent beam combination
18,00 – 18,30 Transfer to C.O.S. restaurant
19,00 Dinner offered by the Institute