NSERC CREATE Training Program in Extreme Photonics

由激光和光纤引发的光子学革命已经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子产业提供了一个机会，使其多样化并探索电信以外的机会。越来越需要在光子学的科学和应用方面培训科学家、工程师和技术人员。我们提出了一个极端光子学的培训计划-激光科学的一个新前沿，使时间和空间的细分到阿秒持续时间和纳米尺寸。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提供了新的机会;因此，拟议的倡议福尔斯完全属于所有四个优先领域。该提案汇集了物理学家，工程师和医学研究人员，以创建一个集成的，多学科的极端光子学培训计划，这将是加拿大独一无二的。利用大学的教授和研究人员在光子学的网络，我们将提供（1）2个新的极端光子学课程在研究生水平-极端光子学和先进的量子光学课程，将是强制性的所有创建学生;（2）一个四年级的本科水平的激光和应用的跨学科课程;（3）期刊俱乐部，帮助学生养成阅读和评价科学文献的习惯，批判性思维和提高科学沟通能力;（4）研究培训职位，以鼓励科学家和工程师进入我们的实验室作为博士生或PDF，并获得新的光子技术的经验;（5）将邀请来自加拿大和世界各地的主要演讲者介绍attoscience，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。沿着极端光子学的前沿沿着进行综合全面的培训。

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.