Optical Parametric Oscillators: 50 years and beyond
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Optical Parametric Oscillators: 50 years and beyond
Wed, 29/11/2017 - 14:30 to 15:30
Location:
Speaker:
Majid Ebrahim-Zadeh
Affiliation:
ICFO – The Institute of Photonic Sciences & ICREA - Catalan Institute of Research and Advanced Studies, Barcelona, Spain
Synopsis:
Coherent laser light sources exploiting nonlinear optics have been a cornerstone of Photonics science and technology for over 50 years. The discovery, understanding and manipulation of nonlinear optical phenomena have led to major scientific and technological breakthroughs, and nonlinear processes have become vital enabling tools not only in Photonics, but also in the broader fields of knowledge in physics, chemistry, biology, and medicine.
In this talk, I will provide an overview of some of the key advances in nonlinear frequency conversion sources, with emphasis on optical parametric oscillators (OPOs) delivering tunable radiation with unsurpassed flexibility from the UV to deep-IR. I will also briefly address some of the main applications as well as commercial realization of frequency conversion technology.
Biography:
Majid Ebrahim-Zadeh is an ICREA Professor at ICFO-The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Barcelona, Spain.
He has been active in the advancement of nonlinear optics and parametric sources for over 25 years. His research has led the realization of new generations of innovative light sources from the UV to mid-IR and from the cw to femtosecond time-scales. He has published over 550 journal and peer-reviewed conference papers, including 85 invited and 13 post-deadline papers at major international conferences. He has edited 2 books and authored 12 major invited book chapters and reviews in volumes such as Science, OSA Handbook of Optics, Springer, Handbook of Laser Technology and Applications, and Laser and Photonics Review. He has been a regular instructor of the short course on OPOs at CLEO/USA since 1997 and at CLEO/Europe since 2007. He has chaired 7 major international conferences and has served over 50 times on the technical, organizing, and steering committees of major conferences. He is an associate editor of Optica, has served as advisory and topical editor of Optics Letters, guest editor of J. Opt. Soc. Am. B, associate editor of Advances in Nonlinear Optics and associate editor of IEEE Photonics Journal, and as OSA Traveling Lecturer. He is the founder, president and chief scientist of Radiantis (www.radiantis.com), and recipient of several honors and award, including Royal Society of London Merit Award (UK), Innova Prize for technology innovation and enterprise (Spain), and Berthold Leibinger Innovation Prize (Germany). He is a Fellow of OSA and SPIE.