SAIP2013

Session

Photonics

9 Jul 2013, 10:30

Conveners

Photonics: Beam shaping

• Pieter Neethling (Laser Research Institute, University of Stellenbosch)

Photonics: Cold atoms

• Erich Rohwer ()

Photonics: Ultra fast spectroscopy

• Christine Steenkamp ()

Photonics: Bio photonics

• Erich Rohwer (University of Stellenbosch)

Photonics: Laser development

• Lourens Botha ()

Photonics: Spectroscopy

• Pieter Neethling ()

Photonics: Digital laser

• Lourens Botha ()

Photonics: Fibres optics

• Pieter Neethling ()

Photonics: Advances in Laser & optics

• Erich Rohwer ()

Description

Photonics

Contribution list Timetable

16. Creating and decomposing vector Bessel beams

Dr Angela Dudley (CSIR National Laser Centre)

09/07/2013, 10:30

Track C - Photonics

Oral Presentation

79. A coaxial superposition of coherent Gaussian beams

Mr Darryl Naidoo (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research)

09/07/2013, 10:50

Track C - Photonics

Oral Presentation

143. Bessel-Gaussian entanglement

Ms Melanie McLaren (CSIR National Laser Centre)

09/07/2013, 11:10

Track C - Photonics

Oral Presentation

254. Efficient sorting of Bessel beams

Ms Thandeka Mhlanga (CSIR National Laser Centre)

09/07/2013, 11:30

Track C - Photonics

Oral Presentation

217. Beam shaping with a laser amplifier

Dr Igor Litvin (CSIR NLC)

09/07/2013, 11:50

Track C - Photonics

Oral Presentation

32. Cold Atoms at UKZN

Dr Michael Morrissey (University of KwaZulu NAtal)

09/07/2013, 14:10

Track C - Photonics

Oral Presentation

589. DIVISION MEETING

09/07/2013, 14:30

104. Ultrafast photodynamics of charge transfer reactions in Indoline-sensitized ZnO solar cells

Mr Egmont Rohwer (Stellenbosch University)

09/07/2013, 15:40

Track C - Photonics

Oral Presentation

127. Observation of structural dynamics of 1T-TiSe₂ using femtosecond electron diffraction

Ms Aminat Oyiza Suleiman (Laser Research Institute)

09/07/2013, 16:00

Track C - Photonics

Oral Presentation

259. Adaptive quantum coherent control of a multilevel molecular system in the time-frequency domain

Dr Lourens Botha (CSIR:NLC)

09/07/2013, 16:20

Track C - Photonics

Oral Presentation

166. Low Intensity Laser Irradiation (LILI) in combination with Growth Factors in a Co-culture System supports the Differentiation of Mesenchymal Stem Cells

Mr Bernard Mvula (Doctoral Student)

10/07/2013, 09:00

Track C - Photonics

Oral Presentation

135. The Impact of Low Intensity Laser Irradiation on Lung Cancer Stem Cell Viability and Proliferation

Ms Anna Magdalena Crous (Anine)

10/07/2013, 09:20

Track C - Photonics

Oral Presentation

547. Graphene substrates for increased embryonic stem cell optical transfection efficiency

Dr Patience Mthunzi (CSIR - NLC)

10/07/2013, 09:40

Track C - Photonics

Oral Presentation

193. A CW and Actively Q-switched Thulium-doped Fibre Laser

Mr Riaan Stuart Coetzee (SU)

10/07/2013, 10:30

Track C - Photonics

Oral Presentation

479. A 2-crystal high-power CW and Q-switched Nd:YLF laser at 1314nm

Mr Roelf Botha (HartRAO)

10/07/2013, 10:50

Track C - Photonics

Oral Presentation

468. 5 Watt Zinc Germanium Phosphide Optical Parametric Oscillator

Mr Cobus Jacobs (CSIR National Laser Centre)

10/07/2013, 11:10

Track C - Photonics

Oral Presentation

470. Acousto vs. Electro Optic Modulators in Short pulse, high peak power Q-switched lasers

Mr Loyiso Maweza (CSIR)

10/07/2013, 11:30

Track C - Photonics

Oral Presentation

83. An improved Nd:YAG laser pumped setup for vacuum ultra violet spectroscopy of carbon monoxide molecules

Mr Charles Rigby (Laser Research Institute, Stellenbosch University)

10/07/2013, 13:50

Track C - Photonics

Oral Presentation

122. Simultaneous measurement of EFISH in transmission and in reflection from the Si/SiO2 interface of a thin Si membrane.

Mr Wilfrid Ndebeka (Laser Research Institute, University of Stellenbosch)

10/07/2013, 14:10

Track C - Photonics

Oral Presentation

131. The effect of SLM dependent dispersion on spatial beam shaping

Mr Dirk-Mathys Spangenberg (University of Stellenbosch)

10/07/2013, 14:30

Track C - Photonics

Oral Presentation

446. Material characterization using Terahertz time-domain spectroscopy

Mr Shane Smith (Physics Post Graduate Student)

10/07/2013, 14:50

Track C - Photonics

Oral Presentation

276. The digital laser

Mr Sandile Ngcobo (CSIR)

10/07/2013, 15:40

Track C - Photonics

Oral Presentation

63. NON-SPECIALIST: Laser spectroscopy of natural light harvesting: unravel, regulate and control

Dr Tjaart Krüger (University of Pretoria)

10/07/2013, 16:00

Track C - Photonics

Oral Presentation

219. Is long distance free-space quantum communication with the OAM state of light feasible?

Ms Melanie McLaren (CSIR, National Laser Center)

12/07/2013, 09:00

Track C - Photonics

Oral Presentation

205. Fibre Bragg grating Sensor For Real Time Fence Monitoring

Ms Stephanie Mukarugina (University of Johannesburg)

12/07/2013, 09:20

Track C - Photonics

Oral Presentation

438. Hot-Spot Detection and Location over an Optical Fibre

Mr Jean-Jacques Monga Kaboko (University of Johannesburg)

12/07/2013, 09:40

Track C - Photonics

Oral Presentation

427. Improvement of calibration accuracy in fibre optic wavelength for DWDM applications

Dr van Brakel Adriaan (NMISA)

12/07/2013, 10:30

Track C - Photonics

Oral Presentation

504. A Theoretical Model and Simulation of Low-Reflectivity Active Linear Cavity for temperature and vibration sensing

Mr Emmanuel E. Okafor (University of Johannesburg) , Mr Michelin Della Tamin (University of Johannesburg)

12/07/2013, 10:50

Track C - Photonics

Oral Presentation

137. Stability of a laser cavity with non-parabolic phase transformation elements

Dr Igor Litvin (CSIR NLC)

12/07/2013, 11:10

Track C - Photonics

Oral Presentation