NSERC CREATE Training Program in Extreme Photonics

激光和光纤引发的光子学革命改变了我们的日常生活。最近高科技行业的低迷为加拿大的光电子行业提供了一个多元化的机会，并探索电信以外的机会。对科学家、工程师和技术人员进行光子学科学和应用方面的培训的需求越来越大。我们提出了一个极端光子学的培训计划，这是激光科学的一个新前沿，能够将时间和空间细分到阿秒持续时间和纳米维度。极端光子学为下一代成像、诊断、材料处理以及仪器和设备技术带来了新的机遇；因此，拟议的倡议完全属于所有四个优先领域。该提案将物理学家、工程师和医学研究人员聚集在一起，创建一个在加拿大独一无二的综合、多学科的极端光子学培训计划。利用大学的光子学教授和研究人员网络，我们将提供(1)研究生水平的2门新的极端光子学课程-极端光子学和高级量子光学课程，这将是所有CREATE学生的必修课；(2)关于激光和应用的4年级本科跨学科课程；(3)一个期刊俱乐部，帮助学生养成阅读和评估科学文献、批判性思维和提高科学交流技能的习惯；(4)研究培训职位，鼓励科学家和工程师以博士生或PDF的身份进入我们的实验室，获得新的光子学技术经验；(5)将邀请来自加拿大和世界各地的主要演讲者介绍在光学、激光光源、自适应光学、量子光学/信息、纳米光子学、非线性光纤光学、成像和光学传感器等领域的最新进展。(6)一年一度的暑期班，将在极端光子学的前沿提供密集、综合和全面的培训。

The photonics revolution, unleashed by lasers and optical fibers, has transformed our daily life. Recent downturn in High-Tech sector provided an opportunity for photonics industry in Canada to diversify and explore opportunities beyond telecommunications. There is a growing need to train scientists, engineers and technicians in the science and applications of photonics. We propose a training program in extreme photonics - a new frontier in laser science that enables sub-division of time and space to attosecond durations and nanometer dimensions. Extreme photonics fuels new opportunities for next generation imaging, diagnostic, material processing, and instrumentation and device technologies; thus the proposed initiative falls well within all of the four priority areas. The proposal brings together physicists, engineers and medical researchers to create an integrated, multidisciplinary training program in extreme photonics that will be unique in Canada. Using the university's network of professors and researchers in Photonics we will offer (1) 2 new courses in Extreme Photonics at the graduate level - Extreme photonics and Advanced quantum optics courses that will be mandatory to all CREATE students; (2) a 4th year level undergraduate cross-disciplinary course on lasers and applications; (3) a journal club to help students develop the habit of reading and evaluating the scientific literature, critical thinking and improving scientific communication skills; (4) research-training positions to encourage scientists and engineers to enter our laboratories as PhD students or PDFs and gain experience with new photonics technologies; (5) key speakers from Canada and around the world will be invited to present the latest progress in the areas of attoscience, laser light sources, adaptive optics, quantum optics/information, nanophotonics, nonlinear fiber-optics, imaging and optical sensors (6) an annual summer school that will provide intensive, integrated and comprehensive training along the frontiers of extreme photonics.