Invited Speakers

The preliminary list of invited speakers includes:

Banquet Speaker

John L. Hall^1,2, ¹NIST, USA, ²Univ. of Colorado, USA.

John L. Hall of NIST and the University of Colorado, will present during the 2009 ASSP Conference Banquet. Hall and Theodor W. Hänsch were awarded half the Nobel Prize for their contributions to the development of laser-based precision spectroscopy, including the optical frequency comb technique. An optical frequency comb is generated by a laser specially designed to produce a series of extremely short—a few billionths of a second—equally spaced pulses of light.

Invited Speakers

Semiconductor Disk Lasers: Recent Developments in Bulk and Micro-Lasers, Martin Dawson; Univ. of Strathclyde, UK.

Optical Parametric Oscillators for the Visible and Ultraviolet, Majid Ebrahim-Zadeh; ICFO, The Inst. of Photonic Sciences, Spain.

Diode Lasers for Pumping Solid State Laser: Overview of Current Technology and Means for Scaling of Power and Brightness, Stefan Heinemann; Fraunhofer USA, Ctr. for Laser Technology, USA.

High Performance Micro Green Laser for Laser TV, Yoshihito Hirano; Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Japan.

Fourier Domain Mode Locking (FDML): A New Laser Operating Regime and Applications for Biomedical Imaging, Profilometry, Ranging and Sensing, Robert Huber; Ludwig Maximilians Univ. of Munich, Germany.

> 20 µJ Femtosecond Thin Disk Lasers, Jörg Neuhaus^1,2; ¹Univ. of Konstanz, Germany, ²TRUMPF-Laser GmbH + Co. KG, Germany.

Spatially Structured Light in Optical Fibers for High-Power Lasers, Siddharth Ramachandran; OFS Labs, USA.

Roundtable Summit Speakers

Albrecht O. Bartels^1,2
1Univ. of Konstanz, Germany, ²Gigaoptics GmbH, Germany
Ultrastable Optical and Microwave Frequency Synthesis with GHz Femtosecond Lasers

Nathan R. Newbury
NIST, USA
Coherent Measurements with Fiber-Laser Frequency Combs

Ronald Holzwarth^1,2
Menlo Systems GmbH, Germany, ²Max Planck Inst. of Quantum Optics, Germany
Novel Frequency Combs for Applications Beyond the Optics Lab

Andrew Weiner
Purdue Univ., USA
Line by Line Pulse Shaping and Arbitrary Optical Waveform Generation