Invited Speakers
Plenary Speakers
Banquet Speaker
Invited Speakers
Laser Beam Combining Summit
Plenary
Tso Yee Fan, MIT, USA
Wavelength and Coherent Beam Combining for High Brightness Sources
Abstract: Beam combining of laser arrays with high efficiency and good beam quality for power and radiance scaling is a long-standing problem in laser technology. Recently, significant progress has been made using wavelength techniques and coherent techniques.
James Gord, Air Force Research Lab., USA
Development and Application of Ultrafast Laser Spectroscopy for Combustion Sensing
Abstract: Optical measurement techniques are powerful tools for detailed study of combustion chemistry and physics. Ultrafast (picosecond- and femtosecond-pulsed) lasers are driving the enhancement of existing diagnostic techniques and enabling the development of new measurement approaches.
Philip Russell, Max Planck Institute, Germany
Pumping up the pressure: Gas-based nonlinear optics in hollow core photonic crystal fibre
Abstract: Single-mode hollow core PCF provides an ideal environment for studying pressure-controlled nonlinear interactions between laser light and gases. A recent success is the efficient generation of tunable deep-UV pulses from ~50fs, ~1uJ pulses at 800nm.
Jochen Speiser, Institute of Technical Physics, DLR, Germany
Frontiers of Disk Lasers
Abstract: Fifteen years after first commercialization, the Thin Disk Laser covers a broad spectrum of applications. Nevertheless, a lot of challenges remain, e.g. further scaling of power and pulse energy or the search for different suitable laser materials.
Banquet Speaker
Peter Moulton, Q-peak, USA
Life with Solid State Lasers and Nonlinear Optics: Mining for Nuggets
Abstract: I recount nearly 40 years (where did all that time go?) of work in lasers and nonlinear optics, searching for solutions to problems, sometimes finding them, sometimes failing miserably, but managing to have a great time in the process.
Invited
Ultrabroadband Fiber Lasers, Daniele Brida, Univ. of Konstanz., Germany
Quasi-Phase-Matched Gallium Arsenide for Mid Infrared Frequency Conversion, Eric Lallier, Thales, Inc., USA
High power fiber lasers: Fundamentals and Frontiers, Johan Nilsson, Univ. Southampton, USA
Multilayer dispersive optics for ultrafast lasers, Vladimir Pervak, Ludwig Maximilian Univ., Germany
Highly efficient solid-state waveguide lasers, Prof. Markus Pollnau, Univ. of Twente, The Netherlands
GaSb-based 2-3 µm Semiconductor Disk Lasers: Versatile Lasers for High-Power and Narrow Linewidth Emission, Marcel Rattunde, Fraunhofer Institute für Angewandte Festkörperphysik, Germany
Low-dimensional carbon nanostructures for ultrafast bulk solid-state lasers, Fabien Rotermund, Ajou Univ., Korea
Ultrafast thin disk lasers and amplifiers, Dirk Sutter, Trumpf, USA
Laser Beam Combining Summit
Coherent combination of fiber amplified femtosecond pulses, Jens Limpert, U. Jena, Germany
Coherent Beam Combination of High Repetition Rate, Energetic Lasers using Stimulated Brillouin Scattering Phase Conjugate Mirrors
, Hong-Jin Kong, KAIST, Korea
Spectral Beam Combining of Fiber Lasers for Power Scaling, Eric Honea, Lockheed Martin Aculight, USA
kW-class direct diode lasers with comparable brightness to fiber, disk, and carbon dioxide lasers, Robin Huang, TeraDiode Inc, USA
