Workshop program
The LCP workshop will start on April 26 at 13h and end on Friday 28 at noon. The program for Wednesday 26th, Thursday 27th and Friday 28th of April can be found below.
The full program with the list of talks and posters is available in pdf-format here.
| Wednesday April 26, 2006 | ||
| 9:00 | Registration | |
| 9:30 | Welcome message | |
| Session 1 | ||
| 9:50 | Invited | "Elastic anchoring and gliding of nematic liquid crystals on polymer layers", I. Jánossy |
| 10:30 | Oral | "Photoaligning Technology for Display and Photonics Applications", V. G. Chigrinov |
| 10:50 | Oral | "Photo-induced alignment technology for 3-D surface profiles of LCD substrates", A. Muravsky |
| 11:10 | Coffee break | |
| Session 2 | ||
| 11:40 | Oral | "Ultra-weak azimuthal anchoring of a nematic liquid crystal on a planar orienting photopolymer", M. Nobili |
| 12:00 | Oral | "Isotropic Photonic Band-gap Liquid Crystals with Spherical Symmetry", J. Yamamoto |
| 12:20 | Oral | "Light-induced second harmonic generation by femtosecond laser pulses in nematic liquid crystal", V. Enikeeva |
| 12:40 | Lunch break | |
| Session 3 | ||
| 14:00 | Invited | "Linear and nonlinear light propagation in liquid crystalline photonic lattices", G. Assanto |
| 14:40 | Oral | "Experimental analysis of non-locality associated with spatial soliton propagation in bias free nematic liquid crystal cell", J. F. Henninot |
| 15:00 | Oral | "Spatial Solitons in Twisted Nematic Layer", M. A. Karpierz |
| 15:20 | Oral | "All-Optical Zener-Tunneling in Liquid Crystalline Waveguide Lattices", A. Fratalocchi |
| 15:40 | Oral | "Observation of the out-coupling of a nematicon", J. Beeckman |
| 16:00 | Poster session A (list with posters) | |
| 18:00 | Reception at the city hall | |
| Thursday April 27, 2006 | ||
| Session 4 | ||
| 9:10 | Invited | "Polarised colour separation by diffractive gratings based on liquid-crystalline materials", D.K.G. de Boer |
| 9:50 | Oral | "Strongly overmodulated diffraction gratings in holographic polymer-dispersed liquid crystals", M.A. Ellabban |
| 10:10 | Oral | "Development and characterization of materials intended for Holographic Polymer Dispersed Liquid Crystal (H-PDLC) systems", H. Bensaid |
| 10:30 | Oral | "Tunable diffraction gratings from SmC* liquid crystals: Principles, problems and surprises", M. Krueger |
| 10:50 | Coffee break | |
| Session 5 | ||
| 11:20 | Invited | "Photonic liquid crystal fibers - a new challenge for fiber optics and liquid crystals photonics", T.R. Wolinski |
| 12:00 | Oral | "Light propagation solid-core photonic liquid crystal fibers analyzed by the Finite Difference Method", K. Szaniawska |
| 12:20 | Oral | "Planar photonic crystals infiltrated with liquid crystals: tuning of the optical properties", R. Ferrini |
| 12:40 | Oral | "Optical tunability and switching in photonic crystals with infiltrated liquid-crystal defects", A.E. Miroshnichenko |
| 13:00 | Lunch break | |
| Session 6 | ||
| 14:00 | Invited | "Phase modulating LCOS for optical interconnects", N. Collings |
| 14:40 | Oral | "Polarization properties of near-infrared light confined in nematic liquid crystal channel waveguides embedded in SiO2/Si grooves", D. Donisi |
| 15:00 | Oral | "Reconfigurable Optical Multiplexer Based on Liquid Crystal for Polymer Optical Fiber", P. C. Lallana |
| 15:20 | Oral | "Optical measurements on a new reconfigurable liquid crystal wave plate", C. Desimpel |
| 15:40 | Poster session B (list with posters) | |
| Session 7 | ||
| 17:10 | Invited | "Liquid crystal shutters for welding applications", L. Dupont |
| 17:50 | Oral | "Lasing From A Nematic Liquid Crystal In The Plane Waveguide Geometry", L. M. Blinov |
| 18:20 | Boat trip (± 40 min.) | |
| 20:00 | Workshop dinner | |
| Friday April 28, 2006 | ||
| Session 8 | ||
| 9:10 | Invited | "Ferroelectric particles in liquid crystals; physics and applications", Y. Reznikov |
| 9:50 | Oral | "2D and 3D Modelling of Liquid Crystal Hydrodynamics Including Order Parameter Changes", E. Willman |
| 10:10 | Oral | "Induced modulation instability and recurrence in nematic liquid crystals", X. Hutsebaut |
| 10:30 | Oral | "Surface-Mediated Non-Linear Optical Effects in Liquid Crystals", T. J. Sluckin |
| 10:50 | Coffee break | |
| Session 9 | ||
| 11:20 | Invited | "Photosensitive, hybrid liquid crystal structures for photonic processing", M. Kaczmarek |
| 12:00 | Oral | "LEDs-controlled reversible smooth tuning of lasing in azoxy-based cholesteric liquid crystal", A. Mazzulla |
| 12:20 | Oral | "General properties of lasing effect in chiral liquid crystals", S.P. Palto |
| 12:40 | Oral | "Cholesteric elastomers as mechanically tunable photonic band gap materials", J. Schmidtke |
| 13:00 | Closing remarks | |
| 13:10 | Lunch break | |
| 14:00 | Free excursion to Bruges with a bus. (For those interested) | |
| 17:30 | Return in Gent | |
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