Monday, June 13, 2016

Time Event  
07:45 - 08:45 Conference Reception Desk Open - Reception of attendees (Hotel Lobby, Ground Floor)  
08:45 - 09:00 Welcome and opening remarks (Salon Baie des Anges) - Mourad BENABDESSELAM, Conference Chair  
09:00 - 10:40 Doped Optical Fibers and Sensors (Salon Baie des Anges) - Chair: Antonino ALESSI - Invited: Jayanta K. SAHU  
09:00 - 09:50 › Recent Advances in Bi-doped Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers - Jayanta SAHU, Optoelectronics Research Center  
09:50 - 10:15 › Validation of the McCumber theory in a wide temperature range for Er3+ emission cross section calculation in optical fibers - Ayoub LADACI, LAboratoire Hubert Curien, Politecnico di Bari (ITALY), iXBlue (FRANCE)  
10:15 - 10:40 › Contribution of in situ cathodoluminescence and photoluminescence under 2.5 MeV electrons in amorphous silica - Nadège Ollier, Laboratoire des Solides Irradiés  
10:40 - 11:00 Coffee break (Salon Baie des Anges)  
11:00 - 12:15 Doped Optical Fibers and Sensors (Salon Baie des Anges) - Continued. Chair: Mohamed BOUAZAOUI  
11:00 - 11:25 › Steady photo-darkening of thulium alumino-silicate fibers pumped at 1.07 µm: Quantitative effect of lanthanum, cerium and thulium. - Jean-François Lupi, Laboratoire de physique de la matière condensée  
11:25 - 11:50 › Boson peak in pure and Ge-doped core optical fibers - Antonino Alessi, LAboratoire Hubert Curien  
11:50 - 12:15 › Comparison between two sensing technologies based on Rayleigh scattering in optical fibers: Optical Frequency Domain Reflectometry and Tunable Wavelength Coherent Optical Time Domain Reflectometry - Isabelle PLANES, LAboratoire Hubert Curien [Saint Etienne], Agence Nationale pour la Gestion des Déchets Radioactifs  
12:15 - 14:00 Lunch (Hotel Rooftop Terrace)  
14:00 - 16:05 Synthesis and Radiation Effects (Salon Baie des Anges) - Chair: Bernard DUSSARDIER  
14:00 - 14:50 › Cosolvent-free sol–gel synthesis of monolithic silica glasses and highly-transparent silica–REPO4 glass-ceramics - Koichi Kajihara, Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Urban Environmental Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University  
14:50 - 15:15 › SOL-GEL DERIVED SILICA GLASSES FOR THE ACHIEVEMENT OF FIBER-BASED DEVICES. - Mohamed BOUAZAOUI, Univ-Lille, CNRS, UMR 8523 - PhLAM - Physique des Lasers Atomes et Molécules,  
15:15 - 15:40 › Development of a plasma chemical vapor deposition process for the fabrication of ytterbium-doped optical fibers - Alexandre Barnini, Institut de Recherche de Chimie Paris  
15:40 - 16:05 › Fiber-draw-induced elongation and break-up of particles inside the core of a silica-based optical fiber - Manuel Vermillac, Laboratoire de physique de la matière condensée  
16:05 - 16:30 Coffee break (Salon Baie des Anges)  
16:30 - 18:10 Synthesis and Radiation Effects (Salon Baie des Anges) - Continued. Chair: Nadège OLLIER  
16:30 - 16:55 › Optical fibers in nuclear reactor at high neutron and gamma fluences: structural modifications and defects - Adriana Morana, LAboratoire Hubert Curien  
16:55 - 17:20 › Heavy ions radiation effects on optical fibers - Imène REGHIOUA, LAboratoire Hubert Curien  
17:20 - 17:45 › Radiation effects on N-doped silica optical fibers - Diego Di Francesca, LAboratoire Hubert Curien  
17:45 - 18:10 › X-rays preconditioning effects on the induced refractive index change in femtosecond laser fabrication of embedded waveguides in silica glasses - Maxime Royon, LAboratoire Hubert Curien [Saint Etienne]  
18:10 - 19:10 Welcome Reception - Cocktail (Hotel Rooftop Terrace)  

Tuesday, June 14, 2016

Time Event  
09:00 - 10:40 Atomic Structure, Defect Generation/Transformation, Modeling, PART 1 (Salon Baie des Anges) - Invited: Uwe MEIERHENRICH  
09:00 - 09:50 › Rosetta – Landing and Science on a Cometary Nucleus - Uwe Meierhenrich, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis  
09:50 - 10:15 › Poroelastic behavior of vitreous silica under rare gas compression - Marie Foret, Laboratoire Charles Coulomb  
10:15 - 10:40 › FEL-based experimental techniques for the study of condensed matter - Riccardo Mincigrucci, Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A  
10:40 - 11:00 Coffee break (Salon Baie des Anges)  
11:00 - 12:15 Atomic Structure, Defect Generation/Transformation, Modeling, PART 1 (Salon Baie des Anges) - Continued. Chair: Linards SKUJA  
11:00 - 11:25 › Surface organic groups effect on O2 diffusion in silica nanoparticles - Simonpietro Agnello, Dipartimento di Fisica e Chimica, Università degli Studi di Palermo  
11:25 - 11:50 › Microchannel Damage of Silica Glass Resulting from Accelerated Test - Rostislav Khrapko, Corning Incorporated - Julie Casey, Corning Incorporated - Eric Eva, Carl Zeiss Semiconductor Manufacturing Technologies AG  
11:50 - 12:15 › Hydrogen-induced rupture of strained Si─O bonds in amorphous silicon dioxide - El-Sayed Al-Moatasem, University College, London  
12:15 - 14:00 Lunch (Hotel Rooftop Terrace)  
14:00 - 16:05 Atomic Structure, Defect Generation/Transformation, Modeling, PART 2 (Salon Baie des Anges) - Invited: Alfredo PASQUARELLO  
14:00 - 14:50 › How accurately can defect levels be determined through advanced electronic-structure methods? - Alfredo PASQUARELLO, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne  
14:50 - 15:15 › Atomic scale investigation of local strain effect on the primary stages of silicon oxidation process using a coupling between Activation Relaxation Technique and first principles calculations - Nicolas Salles, LAAS CNRS, Université de Toulouse, CNRS  
15:15 - 15:40 › Intrinsic Luminescence in Sodium Silicate Glass with Ab Initio Modelling - Konstantinos Konstantinou, University College London - London's Global University  
15:40 - 16:05 › Molecular Dynamics simulations of hydrogen and oxygen on SiO2 surfaces - Maria Rutigliano, Italian National Researcher Council  
16:05 - 16:25 Coffee break (Salon Baie des Anges)  
16:30 - 18:00 POSTER SESSION (Salon Baie des Anges)  
16:30 - 18:00 › Barium silicate as a new robust high-k dielectric for CMOS transistors - Julian Koch, Institut für Festkörperphysik, ATMOS, Leibniz Universität Hannover  
16:30 - 18:00 › Carbon-dots embedded in mesoporous silica for solid state applications. - Carlo Maria Carbonaro, Department of Physics, University of Cagliari  
16:30 - 18:00 › Circular dichroism photo-induced by femtosecond laser in silica glass - Jing TIAN, Université Paris Saclay  
16:30 - 18:00 › Electron aided defect creation in amorphous SiO2 - El-Sayed Al-Moatasem, University College, London  
16:30 - 18:00 › First-principles calculations of EPR parameters of P-related defects in SiO2 - Luigi Giacomazzi, CNR-IOM Democritos  
16:30 - 18:00 › Laser-assisted processing of nanocrystalline Eu0.05Y0.95Ti2O7 thin films for photonic applications - Jan Mrazek, Institute of Photonics and Electronics, v.v.i.  
16:30 - 18:00 › Loss in Ytterbium Doped optical Fibers: cross-effects of the pump power and dose rate on the Photo-Radio-Darkening Equilibrium Level - Jean-Bernard Duchez, Laboratoire de physique de la matière condensée  
16:30 - 18:00 › Luminescence of Nitrogen-doped-silica-core Fibers Pumped by Femtosecond UV Laser Pulses - Oleg Butov, Kotel'nikov Institute of Radioengineering and Electronics of RAS  
16:30 - 18:00 › Luminescence of sintered silica nanoparticles under vacuum-uv excitation - Marco Cannas, Dipartimento di Fisica e Chimica, Università di Palermo  
16:30 - 18:00 › Mixed temperature and radiation effects on fluorine-doped optical fibers - Serena Rizzolo, LAboratoire Hubert Curien - Sylvain Girard, LAboratoire Hubert Curien - Marco Cannas, Dipartimento di Fisica e Chimica, Università degli studi di Palermo  
16:30 - 18:00 › Optical and electrical response of germanosilicate glass-based films nanostructured by alkali-assisted incorporation of gallium oxide - Roberto Lorenzi, University of Milano Bicocca  
16:30 - 18:00 › Presentation and Preliminary Results of DROÏD Project: Development of a Distributed Optical Fibre Dosimeter - Gwendal Beauvois, Laboratoire Procédés, Matériaux et Energie Solaire  
16:30 - 18:00 › Raman spectroscopy of v-SiO2 under rare gas compression - Marie Foret, Laboratoire Charles Coulomb  
16:30 - 18:00 › Recoating of Fiber Bragg Gratings with metals - Kirill Tomyshev, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Kotel'nikov Institute of Radioengineering and Electronics of RAS  
16:30 - 18:00 › The influence of annealing on the NIR luminescence lifetime in Bi-doped silica optical fibers - Alexey Bazakutsa, Kotel'nikov Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics of RAS - Konstantin Golant, Kotel'nikov Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics of RAS  
16:30 - 18:00 › Ultraviolet absorption and Urbach rule for oxide nanoparticles - Anatoly Zatsepin, Ural Federal University  
16:30 - 18:00 › Use of thulium-doped LaF3 nanoparticles to lower the phonon energy of the thulium's surrounding in silica-based optical fibers - Manuel Vermillac, Laboratoire de physique de la matière condensée  
18:00 - 20:00 Sightseeing tour on open top deck bus - Discover the city of Nice and enjoy its fantastic and unique views from open top deck buses!  
20:00 - 23:00 Banquet  

Wednesday, June 15, 2016

Time Event  
09:00 - 10:40 Optical and Electronic Properties (Salon Baie des Anges) - Chair: Diego DI FRANCESCA  
09:00 - 09:50 › Conversion of blue luminescent defects in silica nanoparticles: combined effects of UV radiation and controlled atmosphere - Marco Cannas, Dipartimento di Fisica e Chimica, Università di Palermo  
09:50 - 10:15 › Interstitial Chlorine Molecules in SiO2 Glass - Linards Skuja, Institute of Solid State Physics, University of Latvia  
10:15 - 10:40 › Optical and Structural Characterization of Ordered Mesoporous Silica - Carlo Maria Carbonaro, Department of Physics, University of Cagliari  
10:40 - 11:00 Coffee break (Salon Baie des Anges)  
11:00 - 12:15 Optical and Electronic Properties (Salon Baie des Anges) - Continued  
11:00 - 11:25 › Luminescence of Phosphorus Doped Silica Glasses - Anatoly Trukhin, Institute of Solid State Physics University of Latvia  
11:25 - 11:50 › Green luminescent centers in C-doped SiO2 nanoparticles produced by pulsed electron beam evaporation - Luisa Spallino, Ural Federal University, Dipartimento di Fisica e Chimica, Università degli Studi di Palermo  
11:50 - 12:15 › Optical properties of peroxy link defects from first principles - Blaž Winkler, University of Nova Gorica  
12:15 - 12:30 Concluding remarks, closing (Salon Baie des Anges) - Mourad BENABDESSELAM, Conference Chair  
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch (Hotel Rooftop Terrace)