1. Solid-State Lasers
Novel laser material concepts. Growth, characterisation, and spectroscopic investigations of solid-state laser materials. Rare-earth-ion and transition-metal-ion lasers. Upconversion, tunable, and ultrafast solid-state lasers. Second and higher harmonic generation and optical parametric conversion of solid-state lasers. Modelling of solid-state lasers and resonators. Demonstration of novel pump sources and resonator geometries. Thermal and thermo-optical effects in solid-state lasers. High-power, diode-pumped, and ultrastable systems. Non-linear materials. Non-linear optical source. Metrological applications. Optically-pumped semiconductor lasers.

2. Fiber and Waveguide Devices

Novel fiber and waveguide concepts. Fiber materials, fabrication, and characterisation. CW and pulsed Fiber lasers. Bragg-grating fiber lasers. Amplification in doped fibers. Waveguide fabrication and characterisation. Waveguide lasers and amplifiers. Rare-earth doped amplifiers. Raman amplifiers. High-power fiber and waveguide lasers. Power-scaling concepts for fiber and waveguide lasers. Ultrafast fiber and waveguide sources. Photonic crystal and fiber light sources. Waveguided broadband and super-continuum light sources. Non-linear materials. Non-linear source.THz radiation generation. MIR and FIR optical sources. Microcavity lasers.