ILA COURSES DURING NLS-2002 AT Thiruvananthapuram
In
conjunction with the National Laser Symposium-2002, which is being held at SCTIMST, Thiruvananthapuram from 14th
to 16st November 2002, Indian Laser Association is announcing the following
short courses. The courses will be held on
13th November 2002.
1.
“Thermal Lensing and Z-scan” by
Prof. V P
N Nampoori,CUSAT, Cochin and Dr. K. S. Bindra, CAT, Indore
(0915 to 1730 hrs with 1.0 hr lunch
break)
2.
“Laser tissue Interaction
with practical demonstrations”, by
Prof. V. B. Kartha, MAHI, Manipal
and Prof. S. Ganesan (to be
confirmed), Anna University, Chennai (0915
to 1730 hrs with 1.0 hr lunch break)
Course fees and schedule:
Fees for course No. 1 and course
No.2 (inclusive of simple veg lunch):
For Students and all ILA members: Rs. 200/-.
All others - Rs. 400/-.
Course
No.1 will consists of six to seven lectures. Course No. 2 will consists of four
to five lectures and practical demonstration. Both the courses will run in
parallel. The details of course no.1 & 2 are given in the annexure.
Financial
assistance :
For
attending the symposium some TA/DA assistance to deserving students of
universities and colleges is provided by the Organizing Committee of NLS-2002.
The students desirous of attending the ILA courses also can apply to the
Secretary, NLS - 2002 for TA/DA assistance. However, the decision about the
assistance is entirely in the hands of NLS Organizing Committee.
Registration
for the ILA courses and Lodging / Boarding:
To register for
the ILA courses kindly send by e-mail or post an application in the enclosed
format to the Co-Secretary NLS-2002 – Prof. Pillay on the address given
below. A copy may be sent to me, if possible. Application along with the bank
draft or a cheque for the course fee must reach Dr. Pillay before
1th November, 2002. The demand draft or cheque should be payable at Indore to “Indian Laser Association, Indore”. For
outstation cheques please add Rs. 52/- for bank charges. In case a course is cancelled
for any reason the corresponding fee will be sent back to the applicant.
For lodging and boarding arrangements, please contact on or before 14thOctober,
2002 the Co-Secretary NLS-2002
– Prof. Pillay. The charges for these will be as applicable to all participants
of NLS-2002.
Please
give a wide publicity to these courses in your Institutes.
(S. M. Oak)
General Secretary –II
Indian Laser Association, Indore
APPLICATION FOR
ILA COURSES-2002
1.
Full Name:
2.
Address & email for
correspondence:
3.
Course of interest:
4.
Status (student /ILA
member/ Non member):
5.
ILA Life Membership No.
(if applicable):
6.
Course fee – DD/
cheque details:
7.
Require boarding and
lodging: (Yes / No)
8.
Sent application to
Co-Secretary in case (7) is “Yes”? :
Yes / No
Contact address of Co-Secretary NLS-2002
for sending application for ILA courses and boarding and lodging arrangements:
Dr.V.P.M.
Pillai ( Co-Secretary )
Deptt.
of Optoelectronics, University of Kerala, Kariyavattom,
Thiruvananthapuram
– 695 581,
Kerala
E-mail
: vpmpillai9@rediffmail.com
Tel:
0471 - 412167 (O) 446909 (R)
Fax
: 0471 – 307158
A brief
description of the course content.
Basic theory andeExperimental techniques of Thermal lens
effect:
Limitation of Conventional
Spectroscopic Techniques- radiative and nonradiative relaxations- a catalogue of thermo optic effect – mirage
effect, photoacoustic effect, photothermal dispalcement .Generation of
refractive index gradient in the medium due to optical absorption,
Experimental technique- data deduction , Single and dual beam
techniques
Applications of Thermal lens effect :
Thermal lens spectroscopy-
detection of weak absorption, overtone spectroscopy, detection of two photon absorption, Evaluation of absolute
fluorescence quantum efficiency. Evaluation of thermal diffusivity using TL
technique, Chemical Kinetics, Energy transfer studies in dye mixtures, design
of threshold logic gates
Z-scan Theory and Experiment:
Z-scan
technique: Introduction, theory, comparison with other conventional techniques,
important experimental considerations, estimation of nonlinear optical
coefficients, measurement of response time of nonlinearity, application of z-scan
and importance of nonlinear optical
materials in devices/lasers.
Some of the topics which are
planned to be covered are:
Basic interaction processes such as absorption, scattering, fluorescence, thermal effects, acoustic pulses, tissue
evaporation,
molecular orientation effects, etc. The course will give
details of interaction with different
types of lasers, different types of
tissues, molecular and particle effects, depth effects, precision measurement of tissue parameters etc.