AOIM2013

2 Sep 2013, 08:10 → 6 Sep 2013, 23:00 Africa/Johannesburg

STIAS Conference Centre

Andrew Forbes (Chief Researcher and Research Group Leader CSIR - National Laser Centre South Africa Honorary positions at UKZN and U. Stellenbosc)

9th International Workshop on Adaptive Optics for Industry & Medicine Download the Programme & Book of Abstracts Here

The aim of the workshop is to discuss the use of novel adaptive optical elements, concepts and systems as they apply to high power lasers, medical devices, imaging, industrial lasers and microscopy. The International Workshop on Adaptive Optics for Industry and Medicine (AOIM) provides scientists and engineers from both industry and academia with opportunities to explore recent developments, current practices and future trends in adaptive optics and related fields. A key feature of this single-session meeting is the relaxed atmosphere with all participants encouraged to present and discuss their work either as a talk or a poster.

Topics will include:

• Adaptive optical (AO) devices,
• Wavefront sensing and measurement,
• Aberration correction,
• AO in imaging systems,
• Digital holograpy in AOs,
• Spatial light modulators,
• Applications of AOs.

Invited Speakers

1. Prof.David Williams (University of  Rochester, USA)
2. Prof.Stefan Piehler (University of  Stuttgart, Germany)
3. Prof. Martin Booth (University of Oxford, UK)
4. Prof. Juan Bueno (University of  Murcia, Spain)
5. Prof. Gordon Love (University of Durham, UK)
6. Dr Rocio Borrego Varillas (University of  Jaume I,  Spain)
7. Dr Michael Duparre (University of  Jena, Germany)
8. Prof Jesus Lancis Saez (University of  Jaume I, Spain)

Organizing Committee
Chairperson:Prof. Forbes, Andrew(South Africa)

International Organising Committee:

• Alexis Kudryashov (Russia)
• Pablo Artal (Spain)
• Sergio Restaino (USA)
• John Gonglewski (UK)
• Jean Claude Kieffer (Canada)
• Ulrich Wittrock (Germany)

Conference Management - SAIP Office:

• Brian Masara
• Linette White

Important Dates:

• 1 Oct 2012 1st call
• 30 Jan 2013 Abstracts due
• 30 April 2013 Registration for authors
• Extended to 9 August 2013 registration deadline
• 30 July 2013 Payment of registration fees

Registration Fees:

• Delegate Registration Fees = R3500 (€350)
• Student Registration Fees = R3000 (€300)

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Programme & Book Of Abstracts AOIM2013_Programme_&_Abstracts_Book_Final.pdf

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Monday, 2 September

08:25 → 08:30 Welcome Remarks

Speaker: Prof. Andrew Forbes (CSIR)

08:30 → 10:45 Introductory lectures on the core technology

08:30 Basics of AOs and adaptive control

Speaker: Prof. Alexis Kudryashov (Head of the Lab)

09:15 Basics of deformable mirrors

Speaker: Prof. Ulrich Wittrock (University of Applied Sciences Muenster)

10:00 Basics of wavefront sensing

Speaker: Dr Sergio Restaino (Naval Research Laboratory, Remote Sensing Division)

10:45 → 11:15 Tea Break

11:15 → 13:30 Introductory lectures on applications in medicine and health

11:15 AOs in Vision

Speaker: Prof. Pablo Artal (Universidad de Murcia)

12:00 Biomedical imaging with AOs

Speaker: Prof. Gordon Love (Durham University)

12:45 AOs and microscopy

Speaker: Dr Booth Martin (University of Oxford)

13:30 → 14:15 LUNCH

14:15 → 16:30 Introductory lectures on current state-of-the art AO systems

14:15 Turn key AO systems

Speaker: Mr paul bierden (boston micromahcines)

15:00 AOs in ultrafast and ultrahigh power lasers

Speaker: Dr JESUS LANCIS (Universitat Jaume I)

15:45 AOs in high precision materials

Speaker: Dr Booth Martin (University of Oxford)

17:00 → 20:00 Welcome Function Braai & Entertainment

Spit Braai and Traditional Entertainment & Networking

Tuesday, 3 September

08:10 → 10:30 Seesion I : AO in Lasers

09:00 Recent advances in high-power fundamental mode thin-disk lasers using intra-cavity deformable mirrors

Speaker: Mr Stefan Piehler (Institut für Strahlwerkzeuge, Universität Stuttgart)

09:40 Achieving the highest intensity from the Orion Laser Facility

Speaker: Dr Nicholas Hopps (AWE plc)

10:30 → 11:00 TEA BREAK

11:00 → 13:00 Session II : Imaging and Microscopy

11:00 ADAPTIVE OPTICS FROM MICROSCOPY TO NANOSCOPY

Speaker: Dr Booth Martin (University of Oxford)

11:40 Layer-oriented adaptive optics for extended objects

Speaker: Dr Aglae Kellerer (Durham University)

12:00 High resolution in-vivo imaging of the mouse retina using an adaptive optics system with MEMS segmented piston/tip/tilt deformable mirror.

Speaker: Dr Robert J. Zawadzki (UC Davis)

12:20 Modal deformable mirror optimization in sensorless Optical Coherence Tomography

Speaker: Dr Stefano Bonora (CNR-IFN)

12:40 Superpenetration Multiphoton Microscopy Enabled Through MEMS DM Technology

Speaker: Mr paul bierden (boston micromahcines)

13:00 → 14:00 LUNCH BREAK

14:00 → 15:30 Session III: Wavefront Sensing Techniques

14:00 Impact of wavefront aberrations in ultrafast nonlinear optics

Speaker: Dr Rocío Borrego-Varillas (Universitat Jaume I, Universidad de Salamanca)

14:40 Modal decomposition for wavefront reconstruction

Speaker: Mr Christian Schulze (Institute of Applied Optics, Abbe Center of Photonics, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany)

15:30 → 16:00 TEA BREAK

16:00 → 18:20 Session IV: Adaptive Control

16:00 Wavefront correction in large-scale glass laser LFEX

Speaker: Prof. Takahisa JITSUNO (Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University, JAPAN)

16:40 Multi-conjugated adaptive optics for intense femtosecond lasers

Speaker: Dr Gilles Cheriaux (Laboratoire d'Optique Appliquée)

17:00 Characterization and application of a deformable mirror for pulse shaping in the Mid-Infrared

Speaker: Mr Stefano Bonora (CNR-IFN, LUXOR, via Trasea 7, 35131, Padova, Italy)

17:20 Ultrafast time compensated monochromator with deformable diffraction gratings

Speaker: Dr Stefano Bonora (CNR-IFN)

17:40 High resolution wavefront control using a photocontrolled deformable mirror in closed loop

Speaker: Dr Stefano Bonora (CNR-IFN)

18:00 Real-time high speed adaptive optical system for imaging and laser beam control

Speaker: Prof. Alexis Kudryashov (Head of the Lab)

Wednesday, 4 September

08:10 → 10:30 Session V: AO Techniques

08:30 Adaptive Lenses for Displays & Vision

Speaker: Prof. Gordon Love (Durham University)

09:10 Results on the high power testing of screen-printed deformable mirrors

Speaker: Dr Claudia Reinlein (Fraunhofer IOF, Jena)

09:30 Design optimization of an actuator pattern for a unimorph deformable mirror

Speaker: Mr Michael Appelfelder (Friedrich Schiller Univ. of Jena, Inst. of App. Physics)

09:50 Large Scale Deformable Mirror Based on Bimorph and Stack Actuators

Speakers: Prof. Alexis Kudryashov (Active Optics NightN Ltd.) , Dr Vadim Samarkin (Active Optics NightN Ltd.)

10:10 Recent Advances in MEMS Deformable Mirror Technology

Speaker: Mr paul bierden (boston micromahcines)

10:30 → 11:00 TEA BREAK

11:00 → 13:00 Session VI: Vision

11:00 Functional Imaging of Single Cells in the Living Eye

Speaker: Prof. David Williams (Dean for Research in Arts, Science, and Engineering Director, Center for Visual Science William G. Allyn Professor of Medical Optics)

11:40 Dynamic plenoptic perception with adaptive mirror

Speaker: Mr Thiago D. O. Moura (Graduate Program in Electrical Engineering - Federal University of Minas Gerais - Av. Antônio Carlos 6627, 31270-901, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil)

12:00 The use of Zernike and Q-Polynomials combined for the Representation of Intraocular-Lens Topologies

Speaker: Mr Rodolfo Costa (Graduate Program in Electrical Engineering - Federal University of Minas Gerais)

12:20 Aberration correction with adaptive optics for lowering the threshold energy for femtosecond laser induced optical breakdown in a water based eye model

Speaker: Mrs Anja Hansen (Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V.)

12:40 Dynamic generation of scattering for high resolution adaptive optics in the eye

Speaker: Dr Enrique-Josua Fernandez (Universidad de Murcia)

13:00 → 14:00 LUNCH BREAK

14:00 → 16:00 A parametric study of the contributing factors influencing femtosecond pulse shape transfer via difference frequency mixing.

Speaker: Ms Nicolene Botha (NLC)

14:00 → 16:00 Artificial model of human eye aberrations proceeded in real-time

Speaker: Ms Anna Lylova (Student)

14:00 → 16:00 Biomedical applications of optics

Speaker: Dr Patience Mthunzi (CSIR - NLC)

14:00 → 16:00 Compensation of the two-stage phase-shifting algorithms with respect to detuning and harmonics

Speaker: Dr Daniel Malacara-Doblado (Centro de Investigaciones en Optica, A. C.)

14:00 → 16:00 Computational Testbench and Flow Chart for Wavefront Sensors

Speaker: Dr Davies W. de Lima Monteiro (Department of Electrical Engineering Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais – UFMG, Brazil)

14:00 → 16:00 Free-motion measurement of the beam propagation factor by means of a spatial light modulator.

Speaker: Dr Jesús Lancis (Universidad Jaume I)

14:00 → 16:00 Imaging of solid aerosols produced by optical catapulting

Speaker: Mr Mahmoud Mohamed (The National Institute of Laser Enhanced Science)

14:00 → 16:00 Imaging the expression of Channelrhodopsin-2 as a directly light-gated cation-selective membrane channel in HEK 293 cells

Speaker: Dr Ahmed El-Hussein M.Kamel (The National Institute of Laser Enhanced Science, Cairo University)

14:00 → 16:00 Localization and image reconstruction of inclusions embedded in biological tissue (turbid media) by means of adaptive optical system

Speaker: Mr Ilya Galaktionov (Student)

14:00 → 16:00 Optical Design and Optimization of Adaptive Automobile Headlight with Liquid Optical Element and Freeform

Speaker: Prof. YiChin Fang (Head of Department)

14:00 → 16:00 Producing Kaleidoscope Modes using the Digital Laser

14:00 → 16:00 Propagating aberrated laser beams

Speaker: Dr Cosmas Mafusire (CSIR National Laser Centre)

14:00 → 16:00 Utilizing speckle decorrelation for tomographic wavefront sensing (with one wavefront sensor)

Speaker: Dr Aglaé Kellerer (University of Durham)

14:00 → 16:00 Wide field wavefront sensing on extended scenes and possible applications

Speaker: Dr Roberto Ragazzoni (INAF - Astronomical Observatory of Padova - Italy)

17:00 → 20:00 Wine Tasting & Cocktail Function

Thursday, 5 September

08:30 → 10:30 Session VII : Imaging and Microscopy

08:30 Advances in adaptive optics nonlinear microscopy for applications in medical and life sciences

Speaker: Dr Juan M. Bueno (Universidad de Murcia)

09:10 Adaptive optics for multi-photon microscopy using direct and sensorless measurement

Speaker: Mr Tim van Werkhoven (Leiden Observatory, Leiden University)

09:30 Constrained optimisation for fast wavefront sensorless adaptive optics in microscopy

Speaker: Mr Jacopo Antonello (DCSC, Delft University of Technology)

09:50 Active spatial polarization control for microscope objectives

Speaker: Mr Frederik Schaal (Universität Stuttgart, Institut für Technische Optik, Germany)

10:10 Correction for distortions in holographic nanointerferometers

Speaker: Prof. Vladimir Venediktov (St.-Petersburg State University)

10:30 → 11:00 TEA BREAK

11:00 → 13:00 Session VIII : Spatial Light Modulators

11:00 Shaping ultrafast pulsed beams in space and time with programmable spatial light modulators

Speaker: Dr JESUS LANCIS (Universitat Jaume I)

11:40 All-digital holographic tool for real-time mode excitation and ~analysis in optical waveguides

Speaker: Dr Michael Duparré (Institute of Applied Optics, University Jena)

12:00 Phase generation in white light with a 6-Pi Liquid Crystal on Silicon (LCoS) device

Speakers: Dr Enrique Josua Fernandez (Lab Optica, IUI Optica y Nanofisica, U Murcia) , Prof. Pablo Artal (Lab Optica, IUI Optica y Nanofisica, U Murcia) , Dr Pedro Prieto (Lab Optica, IUI Optica y Nanofisica, U Murcia)

12:20 A novel technique to generate and temporally shape multiple pulsed laser beams using 2D-SLMs

Speaker: Mr Dirk-Mathys Spangenberg (University of Stellenbosch)

12:40 Real-time dynamic control of laser modes

Speaker: Mr Sandile Ngcobo (CSIR)

13:00 → 14:00 LUNCH BREAK

14:00 → 15:20 Session IX: Space

14:00 -Strehl ratio, divergence, M2 factor –What is good for describing the propagation of a diffracted laser beam?

Speaker: Prof. Kamel AIT-AMEUR (CIMAP-ENSICAEN,Caen, France)

14:20 Adaptive Optics in Astronomy: deblurring the atmosphere

Speaker: Dr David Buckley (Southern African Large Telescope)

14:40 Overview and perspectives of Active and Adaptive Optics for Space Optical Applications

Speaker: Mr Pascal Hallibert (ESA-ESTEC)

15:00 Manufacturing and Testing of Unimorph Deformable Mirrors for Space Telescopes

Speaker: Prof. Ulrich Wittrock (University of Applied Sciences Muenster)

15:20 → 15:50 TEA BREAK

15:50 → 17:30 Session X: Propagation and Turbulance

15:50 Quantum Communications along Optical Links with Strong Turbulence

Speaker: Prof. Villoresi Paolo (Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova,)

16:30 Adaptive Optics for Horizontal Propagation Applications

Speaker: Dr Sergio Restaino (Naval Research Laboratory, Remote Sensing Division)

16:50 Free Space prop without the free space

Speaker: Christian

17:10 Quantum communication with OAM entangled photons

Speaker: Mr Alpha Hamadou Ibrahim (CSIR, National Laser Center)

Friday, 6 September

08:30 → 16:00 Group Tour - Table Mountains

Buses depart 08:30 from STIAS
Return 4:30

Buses Depart again at 5:30 for Dinner at Moyo

18:00 → 22:00 Banquet Dinner at Moyo Restaurant