22 / 27 March 2026
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AGENDA
Welcome to the International SFO Thematic School 2026
Ultrafast sources of coherent light: current research and emerging applications
22 / 27 March 2026
The Houches Physics School, Chamonix Mont Blanc Valley France
Lithium Niobate The Houches Physics School, France
12- 23 May 2025 Limited to 70 attendees
LIDAR June 15-20, 2025
OHP, Observatoire de Haute Provence, France
Limited to 40 attendees
JNOG Montpellier 2025 Sète
07- 10 July 2025
+ 200 participants expected
OPTIQUE BFC 2026 Dijon- Palais des congrès
06- 10 july 2026
+ 670 participants expected
We are honored to welcome the 2023 Nobel Laureate, as a guest lecturer: Anne L ' Huillier is a French-Swedish physicist and a pioneer in the field of ultrafast physics on the attosecond timescale.
PLANNED LECTURES Sources
• Ultrashort pulse generation and propagation
• Spatio-temporal characterization: Spencer Jolly( Université Libre de Bruxelles)
• THz sources: Clara Saraceno( Bochum University)
• Ultra-High Intensity sources: Dimitris Papadopoulos( LULI, Palaiseau)
• AI in photonics and laser sources: John Dudley( FEMTO-ST, Besançon)
Applications
• High harmonic generation and attosecond science: Anne L’ Huillier( Lund University)
• Nonlinear microscopy: Emmanuel Beaurepaire( LOB, Palaiseau)
• Emerging applications of frequency combs: Nathalie Picqué( Max Born Institute, Berlin)
• Laser-based particle acceleration: Jérôme Faure( LOA, Palaiseau)
The Houches School of Physics, founded in 1951 by physicist Cécile DeWitt-Morette, offers highquality education in contemporary physics in an idyllic setting designed to foster reflection. Beyond formal classes, informal idea exchanges during meals or mountain hikes have given birth to new avenues of exploration, fruitful collaborations, and significant scientific advancements. Some young students of the School have become illustrious scientists, such as Pierre Gilles DeGennes, Claude Cohen- Tannoudji, and Françoise Combe, passing on their knowledge to the School ' s students in turn. The SFO, the French Society of Optics, continues this tradition and invites you to participate in the " ULTRAFAST " school. Joining this school offers a unique opportunity to learn, share, and connect with top leaders in the field of Source fundamentals and current developments and applications.
The workshop is devoted to bringing prominent scientists in ultrafast and nonlinear optics together with the goal of, starting from fundamentals, providing overviews of recent research work, covering emerging applications, and devising future directions in the field. It aims at giving to PhD students and post-doctoral researchers a broad coverage, from pulse generation and manipulation to characterization, from the THz domain to the XUV, and describe applications spanning from time-resolved spectroscopy to secondary sources of light and particles. The workshop is motivated by the current blooming of ultrafast sources and applications, triggered by the wide availability of robust and high power femtosecond lasers, and the rapid development of methods to convert them into sources with a wide range of parameters in terms of pulsewidth, central wavelength, or control over the electric field. It will be a unique opportunity to get a unified vision of this research area, and contribute to developing new collaborations and cross-fertilizing the sources and applications communities.
Scientific committee
• Aurélie Jullien( CNRS- INPHYNI- Université Côte d’ Azur, France)
• Marc Hanna( CNRS- IOGS- Université Paris- Saclay, France)
Join these experts and take part in this unmissable SFO thematic school on Ultrafast Sources of Coherent Light.
We expect 70 participants from over 20 countries.
Application( short motivation letter + CV) starts on April 29, 2025.
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