Technologists Michal Kamrádek and Ivan Kašík from the Fiber Lasers and Nonlinear Optics research team attended the top event of the world glass society - the ICG (International Commission on Glass) congress from 20 - 24 January 2025 in Kolkata, India. The ICG congresses are held every 3 years; Prague hosted such an event to great acclaim in 1977 and 2013. This year's congress focused on the theme "Glass as an elegant and essential material for a sustainable society". This was reflected in the selection of 12 plenary lectures, 94 invited lectures and 110 other lectures divided into 6 sessions - for a total of 580 participants from 23 countries.
The session "Glasses for Optics and Photonics" was based on a tradition dating back to 1974, when the Modified Chemical Vapor Deposition (MCVD) method for the preparation of optical fiber drawing prepregs, which has been developed in our institute for years, was first presented at this forum. The session was co-chaired by Ivan Kašík together with Andrea Camargo from Berlin and included a lecture by Michal Kamrádek on structured fibers for fiber lasers emitting at two wavelengths and an invited lecture by Ivan Kašík on the method of doping MCVD preforms with nanoparticles developed at ÚFE.
At the same time, on the occasion of the visit to Kolkata, the first working meeting of the bilateral project Mobility Plus CAS-CSIR (CSIR-25-03) of the investigator Michal Kamrádek took place during a visit to the laboratories of the Central Glass and Ceramics Research Institute (CGCRI).
