Wednesday 26 April, 13:30 to 17:10 hrs
Workshop Chair: Ivan Kašík, Institute of Photonics and Electronics of the CAS (Czech Republic)

Coherent Fiber Source Technology Workshop contains a series of invited lectures on specialty optical fibers and their applications in fiber laser devices, mainly in 2 µm spectral region.

The Workshop is associated with the Specialty Optical Fiber Conference and with the NATO SET-294 research task group Advanced Mid-Infrared Laser Technology.

Session 1: 13:30 to 15:20
Session Chair: Ivan Kašík, Institute of Photonics and Electronics of the CAS (Czech Republic)

13:30 to 14:15
Career paths are not always straight: how one woman engineer wound her way to specialty fibers (Invited Presentation)
Women in Optics: making a difference
Join us for an insightful and inspirational lecture by Leslie Rusch, COPL Univ. Laval (Canada)

14:15 to 14:40
Recent progress on 2 µm fiber laser (Invited Presentation)
Anne Dhollande, Directed Photonics and Applications Group, ISL (France)

14:40 to 15:00
Nanoparticle-doping method for specialty optical fibers preparation (Invited Presentation)
Michal Kamrádek, Czech Academy of Sciences (Czech Republic)

15:00 to 15:20
New crystal materials developed by Crytur for 2-micron solid state lasers
Karel Nejezchleb, Crytur (Czech Republic):


15:20 to 15:50: Coffee Break


Session 2: 15:50 to 17:10
Session Chair: Ivan Kašík, Institute of Photonics and Electronics of the CAS (Czech Republic)

15:50 to 16:20
Rare-earth-doped soft glass optical fibers for coherent light sources (Invited Presentation)
Nadia Boetti, LINKS Foundation (Italy)

16:20 to 16:50
Pair-induced quenching in holmium-doped optical fibers (Invited Presentation)
Lars Holmen, FFI (Norway)

16:50 to 17:10
Technology supporting triple-clad high-power fiber laser design
Luka Perpar Samsa, Plasil (Slovenia)


Following the Workshop, registered participants are invited to a lab tour to the laboratory for fabrication of specialty optical fibres for fibre lasers and optical fibre sensors, part of the Institute of Photonics and Electronics (ÚFE) of the Czech Academy of Sciences.

More information about the tour can be found at: Optical Fibre Lab Tour
Sign up and tour details will be available onsite, at SPIE Registration Desk.
(Note: Number of participants is limited; sign up (onsite) for the lab visit is required.)