Advanced Solid State Lasers Conference (ASSL)
Materials
Materials are the basis for the technology covered by ASSL, and the meeting encompasses advances in optics, materials science, condensed matter physics and chemistry relevant to the development, characterization and applications of new materials and components for any kind of coherent radiation sources and photonics. These include crystals, glasses and ceramics, as well as functionalized composite materials, from fibers and waveguides to engineered structures with pre-assigned optical properties. Materials used for fabrication of basic sources components are also a core part of the meeting.
- Materials as gain media for lasers and amplifiers
- Advances in crystal growth and fabrication of glasses and ceramics
- Glass and crystal fibers and waveguides
- Advanced semiconductors for sources and detectors
- Nonlinear materials for frequency conversion
- Electro-optical and magneto-optical materials
- Saturable absorbers
- Advances in mirrors, gratings and other selective components
- Novel approaches and materials for lasers — topological photonics, plasmonics, 2D materials
- Advanced coating technologies including surface micro-structuring
- Materials and components for thermal management and high damage threshold
- Modeling and characterization methods of optical properties
- Materials for lighting and laser displays
- Structured materials with lasers
Sources
Coherent and high brightness radiation sources include lasers as well as pump and nonlinear devices. Emphasis is on advances in science and technology for improved power, efficiency, brightness, stability, wavelength coverage, pulse width, cost, environmental impact or other application-specific attributes.
- Bulk solid-state lasers based on crystals, ceramics and glasses
- Fiber and waveguide lasers
- Optical sources based on nonlinear frequency conversion
- High power CW and pulsed lasers in the UV, visible and IR
- Laser-driven THz, IR, visible, UV, XUV and X-ray sources and drivers
- Laser beam combining and power scaling architectures
- Short-pulse lasers and ultrashort-pulse lasers
- Nonlinear pulse compression
- Frequency combs and frequency-stable lasers
- Tunable and new wavelength lasers
- Semiconductor lasers, edge emitters, VCSELs, VECSELs, arrays
- Spatial mode control in solid state lasers
- Application specific solid state laser architectures
