March 30st - April 1st, 2009 Sun Hall Hotel, Larnaca, Cyprus Download the Spring School Flyer

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Sunday, March 29, 2009
In the evening all participants are invited at the Get Together Party!

Monday, March 30, 2009: BASICS

08.30-09.00	Introduction and Spring School Outline	Michael Komodromos and Kyriacos Kalli
09.00-11.00	Optical fibre basics (Part 2)	Moshe Tur (Tel Aviv Univ.)
11.00-11.30	COFFEE & COOKIE BREAK
11.30-13.30	Photonic crystal fibres	Sébastien Février (XLIM)
13.30-15.00	LUNCH BREAK
15.00-17.00	Non-linear effects in optical fibres (Part 2)	Miguel Gonzalez (Univ. Alcala) & Thibaut Sylvestre (FEMTO)
17.00-17.30	REFRESHMENT BREAK
17.30-19.30	Amplification and lasing in optical fibres	Michel Marhic (Swansea Univ.)

Tuesday, March 31, 2009: ADVANCED BASICS

09.00-11.00	Scattering in optical fibres (Part 2)	Luc Thevenaz (EPFL) & Marc Wuilpart (FPMs)
11.00-11.30	COFFEE & COOKIE BREAK
11.30-13.30	Supercontinuum generation	John Dudley (FEMTO)
13.30-15.00	LUNCH BREAK
15.00-17.00	Highly doped optical fibre technology	Mircea Hotoleanu (Optoel)
17.00-17.30	REFRESHMENT BREAK
17.30-19.30	Fibre lasers	Roy Taylor (Imperial College)

Wednesday, April 1, 2009: APPLICATIONS

09.00-11.00	Optical fibre point sensors	Francis Berghmans (Vrije Univ. Brussel)
11.00-11.30	COFFEE & COOKIE BREAK
11.30-13.30	Distributed optical fibre sensors (Part 2 )	Luc Thevenaz (EPFL) & Marc Wuilpart (FPMs)
13.30-15.00	LUNCH BREAK
15.00-17.00	Polymer Optical Fibre Based Sensors	Kyriacos Kalli (Cyprus Univ. of Technology)
17.00-17.30	REFRESHMENT BREAK
17.30-18.00	Final remarks
19.30-	BANQUET

Michael Komodromos, Frederick University
Kyriakos Kalli, Cyprus University of Technology

You may contact the local organizers at: school@cost299.org