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
Planar waveguides and WGMs, Gualtiero Nunzi Conti, CNR, Italy
Recent progress in red LEDs with Eu-doped GaN, Yasufumi Fujiwara, Osaka University, Japan
Frontiers of Disk Lasers, Jochen Speiser, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. in der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft, Institut für Technische Physik, Germany
Chalcogenide optical fibers, Dan Hewak, ORC, GB
Periodically Oriented GaN for 2nd Harmonic Generation, Jennifer Hite, Naval Research Lab USA
Fabrication of waveguide structures for laser, Ajoy Kar, Heriot-Watt University, GB
Telluride Glasses for Infrared Optical Sensing, Pierre Lucas, University of Arizona, USA
Non-Si microstructured optical fibers, Tanya Monro, University of Adelaide, Australia
Fluoride transparent ceramics, Michel Mortier, Chimie de la Matière Condensée, France
Gas Filled Photonic Crystal Fibers, Wolfgang Rudolph, University of New Mexico, USA
Mid-IR fiber sources, Brandon Shaw, Naval Research Lab, USA
High-energy Laser Amplifiers using Ultra-broad Emitting Yb-doped Materials, Mathias Siebold; Radiation PhysicsHelmholtz-Centre Dresden-Rossendorf
Electronic and optical properties of Ce3+ doped garnet ceramics, Setsu Tanabe, Kyoto University, Japan
Active nanofibers and nanowires for lasers and sensors, Limin Tong, Zhejiang University, China
Growth and laser properties of advanced laser crystals, Jun Xu, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, China
