We have a great pleasure to announce a lecture of prof. Román Castañeda, University of Colombia, entitled:

Point sources and rays in the phase-space:
Novel tools for optical field modelling

on June 14, 2010, at 16.15 (room 111, Physics Building, 75 Koszykowa Str. in Warsaw).

Abstract:
Modelling and simulations of optical fields in any state of spatial coherence are restricted because of the complexity of their mathematical representation. The use of novel concepts, in the framework of the phase-space representation of the field (sometimes called Wigner Optics), as the spatial coherence wavelets and the marginal power spectrum allows a better understanding of the phenomena and the developing of efficient algorithms for numerical calculations. Such concepts provide a description of the field as emitted by sets of radiant and virtual point sources, distributed on separate layers that can be brought together on a plane in the ordinary space. Dual point sources appears at the positions where radiant and virtual point sources coincide. Each set of sources determine a ray-map for the propagation of the field between specific planes in space. Any point source and its pencil of rays can be accessed individually, which makes the model very useful for optical design. 

Moreover, we would like to inform, that prof. Román Castañeda will give a regular set of lectures on

"The optics of the scalar spatial coherence wavelets".

Lectures will be given daily, starting from June 9 until June 30 (detailed schedule can be found here)

24.05.2010 r.

Szanowni Państwo,

Dotarła do nas bardzo smutna wiadomość o odejściu w dniu dzisiejszym po kilkumiesięcznej ciężkiej chorobie 
ś.p. Prof. Jana RAYSSA

Uroczystości pogrzebowe rozpoczną się we czwartek, 27. maja 2010 r. o godz. 13.00 na UMCS w Lublinie, a o godz. 15.00 na cmentarzu na Majdanku, ul. Droga Męczenników Majdanka 71, 20-325 Lublin.

Prof. Jan Rayss był wielce zaangażowany w powstanie i działalność Polskiego Stowarzyszenia Fotonicznego, a wcześniej Sekcji Polskiej SPIE. Kierował od wielu lat Zakładem Technologii Swiatłowodowej UMCS w Lublinie, jak również był między innymi Inicjatorem i Przewodniczącym Komitetu Naukowego konferencji "Swiatłowody i ich zastosowania" odbywających się cyklicznie od połowy lat 90' na pięknym Roztoczu w Krasnobrodzie, a w 2005 r. zorganizował i przewodniczył konferencji międzynarodowej "Optical Fibers I: Technology" w ramach Kongresu Optyki i Optoelektroniki w Warszawie.
Tych ziemskich aktywności było o wiele więcej.......

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Tomasz Woliński

We have a great pleasure to announce a lecture of prof. George Stegeman, University of Central Florida (UCF) and Center for Research and Education in Optics and Laser (CREOL), Orlando (USA), entitled:

"New era of discreteness and periodicity in optics"

on January 18, 2009 at 16.15 (room 111, Physics Building, 75 Koszykowa Str. in Warsaw). 

Short biography of George Stegeman:
George Stegeman received his PhD from the University of Toronto and is the first recipient of the Cobb Family Chair in Optical Sciences and Engineering. The principal interest of Dr. Stegeman's research group is the experimental study of nonlinear optics in waveguide structures, especially the properties of spatial solitons in various regions of the electromagnetic spectrum. Of particular interest are solitons in photonic crystals, in semiconductor optical amplifiers, in quasi-phase-matched doubling crystals and in the discrete systems afforded by coupled arrays of channel waveguides. He is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America and has received the Hertzberg Medal for Achievement in Physics of the Canadian Association of Physicists and the R. Woods Prize of the Optical Socity of America. 

We have a great pleasure to announce a lecture of prof. Orazio Svelto, Politecnico di Milano (Italia) entitled:

on October 26, 2009 at 16.15 (room 111, Physics Building, 75 Koszykowa Str. in Warsaw).

After the lecture it would be a possibility to interact with prof. Svelto on potential areas of the Italian-Polish cooperation in the field of optics and photonics.

Abstract (PDF)
Short biography of Orazio Svelto (PDF)