SAIP2016

Session

Photonics

5 Jul 2016, 10:00

Kramer Law building

Conveners

Photonics: Laser development

• Hencharl Strauss (CSIR (National Laser Centre))

Photonics: SIlver medalist talk

• Andrew Forbes (CSIR)

Photonics: Ultrafast photonics

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

Photonics: Spectroscopy

• Christine Steenkamp (University of Stellenbosch)

Photonics: Bio Photonics

• Gurthwin Bosman (Stellenbosch University)

Photonics: Photonics

• Erich Rohwer (University of Stellenbosch)

Photonics: Beams

• Melanie McLaren (University of Witwatersrand)

Photonics: Ion trapping

• Angela Dudley (CSIR National Laser Centre)

Photonics: Photonics

• Erich Rohwer (University of Stellenbosch)
• Pieter Neethling (Laser Research Institute, University of Stellenbosch)
• Hencharl Strauss (CSIR (National Laser Centre))
• Melanie McLaren (University of Witwatersrand)

Photonics: Photonics

• Hencharl Strauss (CSIR (National Laser Centre))
• Melanie McLaren (University of Witwatersrand)
• Andrew Forbes (CSIR)
• Erich Rohwer (University of Stellenbosch)

Contribution list Timetable

292. Development of a large mode area (LMA), high-power, thulium-doped fibre laser

Mr Daniel Morris (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research)

05/07/2016, 10:00

Track C - Photonics

Oral Presentation

516. Simulaser, a graphical laser simulator based on Matlab Simulink

Mr Cobus Jacobs (CSIR National Laser Centre)

05/07/2016, 10:20

Track C - Photonics

Oral Presentation

421. The interaction of high power cw laser beams with weakly absorbing optical elements

Mr Rocky Ramokolo (CSIR, National Laser Centre)

05/07/2016, 11:10

Track C - Photonics

Oral Presentation

544. SILVER MEDALLIST LECTURE: Manipulating Structured Light

Dr Angela Dudley (CSIR National Laser Centre)

05/07/2016, 11:30

Track C - Photonics

Oral Presentation

296. Ultrafast mapping of structural changes in organic radical salts

Mr A. Bart Smit (Stellenbosch University)

05/07/2016, 14:00

Track C - Photonics

Oral Presentation

158. Supercontinuum Generation in Highly Birefringent Photonic Crystal Fibers

Mr James Jena (National University of Science and Technology)

05/07/2016, 14:20

Track C - Photonics

Oral Presentation

394. PIRANA, an all optical time-domain ptychographic pulse characterisation method

Mr Dirk-Mathys Spangenberg (University of Stellenbosch)

05/07/2016, 14:40

Track C - Photonics

Oral Presentation

401. Supercontinuum characterisation and compression

Mr Ruan Viljoen (Stellenbosch University)

05/07/2016, 15:00

Track C - Photonics

Oral Presentation

513. Investigating the optical properties of ANDi-PCFs for nonlinear imaging application

Mr George Okyere Dwapanyin (Stellenbosch University)

05/07/2016, 15:20

Track C - Photonics

Oral Presentation

233. A Tunable Vacuum Ultraviolet Light Source and High Intensity Saturation of the Nonlinear Medium

Dr Charles Rigby (Laser Research Institute, Stellenbosch University)

06/07/2016, 09:40

Track C - Photonics

Oral Presentation

239. Excitation spectroscopy with vibration selective detection for self-absorption free rovibronic spectra of CO

Mr Andre de Bruyn (Laser Research Institute, Stellenbosch University)

06/07/2016, 10:00

Track C - Photonics

Oral Presentation

512. Integrated optical tweezer and fluorescence microscope.

Ms Anneke Erasmus (Stellenbosch University)

06/07/2016, 10:20

Track C - Photonics

Oral Presentation

362. The efficiency of Hypericin used in Photodynamic Therapy Treatment with low intensity laser irradiation to induce the cell death of human breast cancer cells (MCF7).

Ms KIRO NDIVITO (University of Johannesburg)

06/07/2016, 11:10

Track C - Photonics

Oral Presentation

415. Photobiomodulation of Isolated Lung Cancer Stem cells

Ms Anine Crous (Student at University of Johannesburg)

06/07/2016, 11:30

Track C - Photonics

Oral Presentation

225. Exciton dynamics of individual plant light-harvesting complexes as revealed by fluorescence lifetime and intensity shifts.

Mr Joshua Botha (University of Pretoria)

06/07/2016, 11:50

Track C - Photonics

Oral Presentation

146. Development of a free space, LED illuminated Spectral Domain Optical Coherence Tomography setup

Mr Nyasha Suliali (National University of Science & Technology)

06/07/2016, 14:00

Track C - Photonics

Oral Presentation

440. Experimental characterization of a metamaterial optical polarizer in the quantum regime.

Mr Solomon A. Uriri (Center for Quantum Technology, School of Chemistry and Physics, University of KwaZulu-Natal, 4000, Durban, South Africa)

06/07/2016, 14:20

Track C - Photonics

Oral Presentation

443. Single-photon probing of plasmonic waveguides

Mr Jason Francis (UKZN)

06/07/2016, 14:40

Track C - Photonics

Oral Presentation

528. Division Meeting: Photonics

Prof. Erich Rohwer (University of Stellenbosch)

06/07/2016, 15:00

Track C - Photonics

Oral Presentation

120. Hyper-entanglement for secure communication

Mr Isaac Nape (Structured Light Lab, School of Physics, University of Witwatersrand)

07/07/2016, 09:40

Track C - Photonics

Oral Presentation

148. Quantum transport with vector beams

Mr Bienvenu Ndagano (University of the Witwatersrand)

07/07/2016, 10:00

Track C - Photonics

Oral Presentation

214. A beam quality measure for vector beams

Ms Hend SROOR (University of The Witwatersrand)

07/07/2016, 10:20

Track C - Photonics

Oral Presentation

481. Towards quantum feedback measurements with trapped Yb+ ions

Dr Ncamiso Khanyile (Department of Physics, Stellenbosch University)

07/07/2016, 11:10

Track C - Photonics

Oral Presentation

495. NON-SPECIALIST LECTURE: Trapped ions for new frontiers in precision measurement

Dr Hermann Uys (National Laser Centre, CSIR/Department of Physics, Stellenbosch University)

07/07/2016, 11:30

Track C - Photonics

Oral Presentation

451. Modelling of a 2 micron cladding-pumped cw Tm-doped silica fibre laser

Dr Lorinda Wu (CSIR-NLC)

08/07/2016, 09:40

Track C - Photonics

Oral Presentation

387. Development of high-power and high-energy solid-state lasers and amplifiers

Dr Hencharl Strauss (CSIR (National Laser Centre))

08/07/2016, 10:00

Track C - Photonics

Oral Presentation

285. 14 W Mid-Infrared Optical Parametric Oscillator based on Zinc Germanium Phosphate

Dr Wayne Koen (CSIR National Laser Centre)

08/07/2016, 10:20

Track C - Photonics

Oral Presentation

178. Holographic toolkit for optical communication beyond orbital angular momentum

Dr Carmelo Rosales-Guzman (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg)

08/07/2016, 11:10

Track C - Photonics

Oral Presentation

327. Orthonormal polynomials for centred non-uniform rotationally symmetric pupils

Dr Cosmas Mafusire (University of Pretoria)

08/07/2016, 11:30

Track C - Photonics

Oral Presentation