Invited Speakers
Plenary Speakers
Banquet Speaker
Invited Speakers
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
Pulsed Fiber Laser Development at LLNL, Jay Dawson, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, USA
Generation of Low Phase Noise RF Signals into the Millimeter Wave Regime Using a Dual-Wavelength Fiber Laser with Stimulated Brillouin Scattering Gain, Michael Dennis, John Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratories, USA
Fiber Lasers for Underwater, Airborne and Space Lidar Application, Shantanu Gupta, FiberTek, USA
Frequency Converted Fiber Laser Tunable from 600nm To 4600nm, Angus Henderson, Lockheed Martin Aculight, USA
Amplitude Systems: High Power Femtosecond Fiber Laser for Industrial Applications, Clemens Honninger, Amplitude Systemes, France
Recent Trends on Industrial Femtosecond Fiber Lasers, Nam Seong Kim, EO Technics, South Korea
Short Pulse Fiber Laser Research at NRL, Tariq Manzur, Naval Research Lab, USA
Supercontinuum Mid-IR Sources going beyond the Silica Transmission Window, Peter M. Moselund, NKT Photonics, Denmark
High Power Fiber Lasers for Defense Applications, Mike O'Connor, IPG Photonics, USAÂ
Lasers for Industrial Production Processing: Tailored Tools with Increasing Flexibility, Wolfram Rath; Rofin-Sinar, Laser GmbH, Germany
Progress on High Power Narrow Linewidth Fiber Amplifiers, Bryce Samson, Nufern,USA
High Power UV Sources for Laser Direct Imaging, Damien Sangla, EOLITE Systems, France
mJ-level 2um Transform-Limited Nanosecond Pulses Based on Highly Tm-doped Germanate Fibers, Wei Shi, NP Photonics, USA
