Program

MONDAY, 5 JULY 2004

17:00 – 19:30

REGISTRATION, MANUSCRIPTS HANDING-OVER, WELCOME RECEPTION

TUESDAY, 6 JULY 2004

8:30 – 9:00	REGISTRATION
9:00 – 9:10	WELCOME

SESSION 1: LIGHT EMITTERS

9:10 – 9:50	QUANTUM DOT LASERS (INVITED) Victor Ustinov
9:50 – 10:10	InGaAsN SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS FOR OPTICAL FIBER COMMUNICATIONS Anton Egorov, Alexey Kovsh, Daniil Livshits, Victor Ustinov
10:10 – 10:30	EPITAXIAL GROWTH OF QUANTUM DOT HETEROSTRUCTURES ON METAMORPHIC BUFFERS Alexey Zhukov, Alexey Vasilyev, Elizaveta Semenova, Natailia Kryzhanovskaya, Andrey Gladyshev, Mikhail Maximov, Victor Ustinov, Nikolai Ledentsov
10:30 – 11:00	COFFEE
11:00 – 11:20	Si/Ge MULTILAYER STRUCTURES FOR OPTOELECTRONIC APPLICATIONS George Cirlin, Alexander Tonkikh, Vadim Talalaev, Nikolai Zakharov, Peter Werner
11:20 – 11:40	KINETICS OF NANOSTRUCTURE FORMATION ON SEMICONDUCTOR SURFACES Vladimir Dubrovskii, Nickolai Sibirev
11:40 – 12:00	DYNAMIC CHARACTERISTICS AND RELIABILITY OF GAIN-COUPLED InGaAsP LASER DIODES Emilis Šermukšnis, Vilius Palenskis, Juozas Vyšniauskas
12:00 – 12:20	OPTICAL STUDY OF CdSe_xS_1-x CRYSTALS DOPED WITH Cr Vladimir Kasiyan, Zinovi Dashevsky, Roni Shneck, Yuri Korostelin, Alexander Landman
	POSTERS YAG:Nd LASER WITH INTRACAVITY SPATIO-TEMPORAL LIGHT MODULATOR AND TWO-COORDINATE SCANNING OF RADIATION Vladimir Alekseev, Vladimir Kotylev, Vladimir Liber PHOTOREFLECTANCE AND DIFFERENTIAL SURFACE PHOTOVOLTAGE STUDIES OF δ-DOPED GaAs/AlAs MULTIPLE QUANTUM WELLS Bronislovas Čechavičius, Julius Kavaliauskas, Genė Krivaitė, Dalius Seliuta, Gintaras Valušis, Matthew P. Halsall, Matthew J. Steer, Paul Harrison InGaAsP LASER DIODE QUALITY INVESTIGATION AND THEIR NOISE CHARACTERISTICS Vilius Palenskis, Jonas Matukas, Sandra Pralgauskaitė, Ričardas Sobiestijanskas, Emilis Šermukšnis
12:20 – 13:40	LUNCH

SESSION 2: METHODS AND APPLICATIONS IN PARTICULAR AREAS

13:00 – 14:00	APPLICATION OF MULTI-WAVELENGTH M-LINES SPECTROSCOPY FOR OPTICAL ANALYSIS OF SOL-GEL DERIVED WAVEGUIDING THIN FILMS Yu-Chun Wu, Maricela Villanueva-Ibanez, Cécile Le Luyer, Jun Shen, Jacques Mugnier
14:00 – 14:20	TWO APPROACHES TO ASSESS PHOTON PATH LENGTH DISTRIBUTION OF PULP Juha Saarela, Matti Törmänen, Kyösti Karttunen, Risto Myllylä
14:20 – 14:40	FLEXIBLE ELECTROCHROMIC FOILS: SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND APPLICATIONS Andris Azens, Esteban Avendaño, Jonas Backholm, Lars Berggren, Greger Gustavsson, Gunnar Niklasson, Richard Karmhag, Arne Roos, Claes-Göran Granqvist
14:40 – 15:00	INFORMATION METROLOGY OF ACOUSTO-OPTIC TUNABLE FILTERS Boris Gurevich, Sergey Andreyev, Andrey Belyaev, Vyacheslav Chelak, Japar Ismailov
15:00 – 15:20	DEVELOPMENT OF THERMAL SENSOR BASED ON PbSnTe THIN FILMS IN MEMS DESIGN Zinovi Dashevsky, Eli Rabih, Moshe P. Dariel
	POSTERS CHARACTERISTIC REFLECTION ANGLES OF NANOSCOPIC LAYERED MEDIA AND OPTICAL PROBING OF ULTRATHIN DIELECTRIC FILMS Peep Adamson HOT CARRIER PHOTOCAPACITIVE EFFECT Steponas Ašmontas, Jonas Gradauskas, Algirdas Sužiedëlis, Edmundas Širmulis, Antanas Urbelis BROMINE RESONANCE LAMPS AND THEIR SPECTRUM IN UV AND VUV Uldis Gross, Jānis Jansons, Edgars Šmaliņš, Arnolds Ūbelis CHARACTERIZATION OF Sm²⁺ CENTERS IN Ba₁₂F₁₉Cl_5-xBr_x CRYSTALS BY ⁵D₀–⁷F₀ LUMINESCENCE AND SPECTRAL HOLE BURNING Peeter Vois, Artur Suisalu, Anatoli Kuznetsov, Raivo Jaaniso, Hans Bill SMART TERMOCHROMIC GLAZING FOR ENERGY SAVING WINDOW APPLICATIONS Ruben Arutjunjan, Tatjana Markova, Ilia Halopenen, Ivan Maksimov, Anatolii Tutunnikov, Oleg Yanush
15:20 – 15:50	COFFEE
15:50 – 16:30	LAST TIME TO PUT ALL POSTERS ON DISPLAY

16:30 – 18:30

CITY WALK

WEDNESDAY, 7 JULY 2004

SESSION 3: INORGANIC MATERIALS

9:00 – 9:40	PHOTON MULTIPLICATION IN WIDE-GAP BAM AND SAM ALUMINATES (INVITED) Aleksandr Lushchik, Cheslav Lushchik, Peeter Liblik, Aarne Maaroos, Vitali Nagirnyi, Fjodor Savikhin
9:40 – 10:00	INFLUENCE OF RADIATION DEFECTS ON EXCITONMAGNON INTERACTIONS IN NICKEL OXIDE Nina Mironova-Ulmane, Vera Skvortsova, Alexei Kuzmin, Ilmo Sildos
10:00 – 10:20	INORGANIC CLAY-BASED NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIAL FOR NONLINEAR OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES Jérémie Teyssier, Ronan Le Dantec, Christine Galez, Jacques Bouillot, Yannick Mugnier, Jean-Claude Plenet
10:20 – 10:40	HARDENING AND LONG-RANGE STRESS EFFECTS IN LIF CAUSED BY HIGH-FLUENCE IRRADIATIONS WITH ENERGETIC Bi, Ni, Kr, AND S IONS Ilze Manika, Jânis Maniks, Kurt Schwartz, Christina Trautmann
10:40 – 11:10	COFFEE
11:10 – 11:30	FORMATION OF NANOHILLS ON SURFACE OF 6H-SIC(N) AT EARLY STAGE OF LASER ABLATION Arturs Medvids, Petro Lytvyn
11:30 – 11:50	APPLICATION OF SYNCHROTRON RADIATION IN PHOTOLUMINESCENCE STUDIES OF ZrO₂ AND HfO₂ THIN FILMS Marco Kirm, Jaan Aarik, Hugo Mändar
11:50 – 12:10	SOL-GEL PREPARATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF YTTRIUM GALLIUM GARNETS Asta Leleckaitė, Sigita Urbonaitė, Kaia Tõnsuaadu, Aivaras Kareiva
	POSTERS OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF CRYSTALLINE Al₂O₃ THIN FILMS GROWN BY ATOMIC LAYER DEPOSITION Jaan Aarik, Aarne Kasikov, Teet Uustare, Hugo Mändar, Marco Kirm SOL-GEL PROCESSED IRON-CONTAINING SILICA FILMS ON Si Irena Šimkienė, Julija Sabataitytė, Jurgis Babonas, Alfonsas Reza, Rita Szymczak, Henryk Szymczak, Marek Baran, Mirosław Kozlowski, Stanisław Gierlotka INFLUENCE OF SMALL ADDITIONS OF Eu ON INTENSITY OF RAYLEIGH SCATTERING IN PHOSPHATE GLASSES Tatyana Bocharova, Garegin Karapetyan, Alexey Mironov, Natalya Taglitseva FERROELECTRIC SOLID SOLUTIONS ON THE BASIS OF LEAD COMPLEX NIOBATES Karlis Bormanis, Maruta Dambekalne, Maija Antonova, Maris Livinsh, Marite Kalnberga DIELECTRIC POLARIZATION OF FERROELECTRIC (Pb,Sr,Bi)TiO₃ SOLID SOLUTIONS Karlis Bormanis, Anna Kalvane, Andris Sternberg, Anver Burkhanov, Arkadij Shilnikov, Vasilij Latovin PRODUCTION OF TRANSPARENT PLZT CERAMICS Maruta Dambekalne, Maija Antonova, Maris Livinsh, Małgorzata Ploñska, Zygmunt Surowiak, Karlis Bormanis STRUCTURAL AND OPTICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF SPRAYED ZnS THIN FILMS Tatjana Dedova, Olga Kijatkina, Arvo Mere, Olga Volobujeva, Malle Krunks VUV LUMINESCENCE OF AS-GROWN AND ELECTRON IRRADIATED CORUNDUM SINGLE CRYSTALS Marco Kirm, Vachagan Harutunyan, Vladimir Makhov, Sebastian Vielhauer, Georg Zimmerer INFLUENCE OF AMBIENT GAS ON PHOTOLUMINESCENCE OF RARE-EARTH IONS IN SOL-GEL DERIVED METALDIOXIDE FILMS Valter Reedo, Sven Lange, Valter Kiisk, Tanel Tätte, Ilmo Sildos THERMO-OPTICAL INVESTIGATION OF SODIUM-BISMUTH TITANATE SINGLE CRYSTAL Guntis Liberts, Ģirts Ivanovs, Andrejs Firsovs, Edmunds Tamanis STRUCTURAL PECULIARITIES OF PHOSPHATE GLASSES FOR FIBER OPTIC APPLICATIONS Anatolii Anan'ev, Viktor Bogdanov, Leonid Maksimov, Vyacheslav Rusan, Sergei Smerdin, Oleg Yanush HARDENING IN LiF IRRADIATED WITH SWIFT Kr IONS AND RECOVERY OF PROPERTIES UNDER ANNEALING Ilze Manika, Jānis Maniks, Pēters Kūlis, Lasma Gailīte STRUCTURAL STUDY OF ZrO₂ AND HfO₂ THIN FILMS GROWN BY ATOMIC LAYER DEPOSITION Ahti Niilisk, Jaan Aarik, Sergey Tkachev, Murli H. Manghnani, Hugo Mändar PHOTOSTIMULATED RECOMBINATION PROCESSES IN X-RAY IRRADIATED CsCdF₃:Mn CRYSTALS Anatoly Sharakovsky, Maris Springis, Uldis Rogulis, Ivars Tale SnO₂ ON SAPPHIRE: AMORPHOUS, POLYCRYSTALLINE AND EPITAXIAL FILMS Aivar Tarre, Arnold Rosental, Teet Uustare, Aarne Kasikov
12:10 – 13:30	LUNCH

SESSION 4: OPTICAL RECORDING

13:30 – 13:50	APPLICATION OF AMORPHOUS CHALCOGENIDE THIN FILMS IN OPTICAL RECORDING TECHNOLOGIES Jānis Teteris
13:50 – 14:10	HOLOGRAM RECORDING KINETICS IN THE MEDIA WITH DIFFERENT RECORDING MECHANISMS Simon Gurevich, Boris Gurevich, Nasypbeck Jamankyzov, Kubanychbek Jumaliev, Japar Ismailov
14:10 – 14:30	ANGULAR SELECTIVITY OF THIN GRATINGS Andris Ozols, Māra Reinfelde
	POSTERS PHOTOTHERMIC RECORDING IN DATA STORAGE SYSTEMS Alfonsas Peckus, Boris Gurevich, Nasypbek Jimankyzov, Japar Ismailov ASYMMETRIC RELIEF REFLECTION GRATINGS IN AsSSe THIN FILMS Ilona Kuzmina, Jānis Teteris HOLOGRAPHIC RECORDING OF SUBWAVELENGTH STRUCTURES IN AMORPHOUS CHALCOGENIDE THIN FILMS Māra Reinfelde, Jānis Teteris
14:30 – 15:00	COFFEE

SESSION 5: SOLAR CELLS

15:00 – 15:40

ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC MATERIALS, PRINCIPLES AND DEVICE PHYSICS (INVITED)
Jean-Michel Nunzi

15:40 – 16:20

PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN EU NEW MEMBER AND CANDIDATE STATES (INVITED)
Stanisław Pietruszko, Petko Vitanov, Jaromir Rehak, Enn Mellikov, Olga Volobujeva, Miklós Pálfy, Pēteris Shipkovs, Algirdas Galdikas, Laurentiu Fara, Vladimír Šály, Franko Nemac

POSTERS

TAILORING COMPOSITION AND PROPERTIES OF CuInSe₂ MATERIALS FOR SOLAR CELL APPLICATION
Marit Kauk, Kristi Timmo, Liina Kaupmees, Mare Altosaar, Jaan Raudoja

GLASS/ITO/In(O,S)/CuIn(S,Se)₂ SOLAR CELL WITH CONDUCTIVE POLYMER WINDOW LAYER
Julia Kois, Sergei Bereznev, Jaan Raudoja, Enn Mellikov, Andres Öpik

DEVICE CHARACTERISTICS OF CuInSe₂ BASED SOLAR CELLS
Jüri Krustok, Mati Danilson, Andri Jagomägi, Maarja Grossberg, Jaan Raudoja

MATERIALS AND TECHNOLOGIES FOR PHOTOVOLTAIC APPLICATIONS FROM ESTONIA
Enn Mellikov, Mare Altosaar, Marit Kauk, Jüri Krustok, Malle Krunks, Tiit Varema

DEVELOPMENT OF POROUS TiO₂ THIN FILMS BY SOL-GEL PROCESS
Ilona Oja, Julija Sabataityte, Olga Volobujeva, Malle Krunks

THURSDAY, 8 JULY 2004

SESSION 6: MOLECULAR PHOTONICS

9:00 – 9.40	CREATING ORDER FROM DISORDER: DESIGNING RARE-EARTH-ION DOPED INORGANIC CRYSTALS FOR QUANTUM GATE OPERATIONS (INVITED) Mattias Nilsson, Lars Rippe, Stefan Kröll
9:40 – 10:00	SPONTANEOUS EMISSION RATES OF A SINGLE IMPURITY MOLECULE IN DEPENDENCE ON ITS ORIENTATION IN BIAXIAL HOST CRYSTAL Inna Rebane
10:00 – 10:20	LENNARD-JONES MODEL OF DISORDER IN SOLIDS Indrek Renge
10:20 – 10:40	CONFERENCE PHOTOGRAPHING
10:40 – 11:10	COFFEE
11:10 – 11:30	REQUIREMENTS TO IMPURITY ACTIVATED SOLIDS AS MATERIALS FOR OPTICAL DATA STORAGE AND PROCESSING Karl Rebane
11:30 – 11:50	SENSING OF PHYSICAL FIELDS BY PERSISTENT SPECTRAL HOLE BURNING Jaak Kikas, Karl Rebane
11:50 – 12:10	ANOMALOUS OPTICAL SPECTRA OF CENTERS WITH SOFT PHONON DYNAMICS IN EXCITED STATE Vladimir Hizhnyakov, Vadim Boltrushko
12:10 – 13:30	LUNCH

POSTER SESSION

13:30 – 16:30

STARTS WITH SHORT ORAL PRESENTATIONS LIMITED TO TWO MINUTES AND ONE TRANSPARENCY, REFRESHMENTS OFFERED

17:30 – 22:30

SIGHTSEEING TOUR TO SOUTH ESTONIA AND BANQUET

FRIDAY, 9 JULY 2004

SESSION 7: BIOMEDICAL OPTICS

9:00 – 9:40	BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS OF OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY (INVITED) Mikhail Kirillin, Jukka Hast, Risto Myllylä, Alexander Priezzhev
9:40 – 10:20	OPTICAL NON-INVASIVE MONITORING OF SKIN BLOOD PULSATIONS (INVITED) Jānis Spīgulis
10:20 – 10:40	VISION IN UNFAVORABLE VIEWING CONDITIONS Maris Ozolinsh, Gatis Ikaunieks
10:40 – 11:00	ASSESSMENT OF EYE DOMINANCE STABILITY Maris Ozolinsh, Karina Anisko, Gunta Krumina
	POSTERS PHOTONIC VASCULAR DIAGNOSTICS BY FOUR-CHANNEL PHOTPLETHYSMOGRAPHY Renars Erts, Indulis Kukulis, Jānis Spīgulis COMPARISON OF PULSED PHOTOACOUSTIC TECHNIQUE AND OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY FROM THE VIEWPOINT OF BIOMEDICAL SENSING Matti Kinnunen, Zuomin Zhao, Risto Myllylä STEREOVISION ESTIMATION IN CONDITIONS OF BLURRING SIMULATION Gunta Krmina, Maris Ozolinsh, Ivars Lâcis, Vsevolod Lyakhovetskii NON-INVASIVE IMAGING OF IN VIVO MICROVASCULAR SYSTEM IN FINGERTIPS USING OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY Boris Kudimov, Adrian Podoleanu SCATTERING EFFCTS IN VISION BY POLYMER DISPERSED LIQUID CRYSTALS Maris Ozolinsh, Juan M. Bueno, Esther Berrio, Pablo Artal, Andriy Kozachenko
11:00 – 11:30	COFFEE

SESSION 8: ORGANIC MATERIALS

11:30 – 12:10	OPTICALLY INDUCED NANOSCALE EFFECTS AND NANOMANIPULATION IN CASE OF ORGANIC THIN FILMS (INVITED) Ludwig Brehmer, Peter Karageorgiev
12:10 – 12:30	NEW CLASSES OF ORGANIC CHROMOPHORES FOR TWO-PHOTON ABSORPTION APPLICATIONS Aleksander Rebane
12:30 – 12:50	OPTICALLY INDUCED SWITCHING OF DICYCLOHEXYLAMINO SUBSTITUTED AZOBENZENE DERIVATIVES IN THIN ORDERED FILMS Inta Muzikante, Egils Fonavs, Lilita Gerca, Burkhard Stiller, Ludwig Brehmer, Elga Markava, Daina Gustina
12:50 – 13:10	STABILITY OF LUMINESCENCE DECAY PARAMETERS IN OXYGEN-SENSITIVE POLYMER FILMS DOPED WITH Pd-PORPHYRINS Raivo Jaaniso, Tea Avarmaa, Artur Suisalu, Aare Floren, Anni Ruudi, Kristi Õige
	POSTERS MONOLAYERS OF DITHIOL DERIVATIVE OF DMABI ON Au(111): CHARACTERIZATION AND SIMULATION Daiga Cepite, Agris Klimkâns, Inta Muzikante, Burkhard Stiller, Ludwig Brehmer ELECTRIC FIELD INDUCED REORIENTATION OF POLAR MOLECULES IN A POLYMETHYLMETHACRYLATE FILM STUDIED BY ELECTROABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY Erko Jalviste, Nobuhiro Ohta OPTICAL AND PHOTOELECTRICAL PROPERTIES OF SELF-ASSEMBLED MONOLAYERS OF DIPOLAR MOLECULES Inta Muzikante, Egils Fonavs, Lilita Gerca, Saulius Jursenas, Ramûnas Valiokas, Renata Karpicz, Leonas Valkunas POLYMER FILM DOPED WITH SOLVATOCHROMIC DYE FOR HUMIDITY MEASUREMENT Marju Kleemann, Artur Suisalu, Jaak Kikas INFLUENCE OF UV-VIS LIGHT ON PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF THIN FILMS OF AZOBENZENE DERIVATIVES Andrey Tokmakov, Lilita Gerca, Aivars Vembris, Egils Fonavs, Inta Muzikante, Burkhard Stiller, Ludwig Brehmer, Elga Markava, Daina Gustina ALL OPTICAL POLING AND STUDIES OF NONLINEAR OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF DMABI MOLECULES IN POLYMER MATRIX Aivars Vembris, Mārtiņš Rutkis, Andrey Tokmakov, Inta Muzikante, Aleksandra Apostoluk, Jean-Michel Nunzi OPTICALLY ACTIVE MOLECULAR MAGNETS Michel Gruselle, Bernard Malézieux, Carine Guyard-Duhayon, Rene Clément, Sophie Besnard, Patrick Gredin, Kaia Tõnsuaadu
13:10 – 14:20	LUNCH
14:20 – 17:30	LABORATORY TOUR

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