PRELIMINARY LIST

Keynote Speakers

Solid-State Lasers:
Mike Bass, University of Central Florida, USA
"Advanced solid-state lasers with volume Bragg gratings "

Fiber and Waveguide Devices:
Marc Douay, Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, France
"Recent results in photonic fiber lasers"

Special Symposium on " Mid-infrared and Terahertz Light Sources and Applications":
Kodo Kawase, RIKEN, Japan
“THz wave parametric sources and applications”

Invited Speakers

Solid-State Lasers:
Akio Ikesue, Poly-Techno Co., Ltd, Japan
“Progress in the field of ceramic lasers”

Loïc Morvan, Thales, France
“Latest developments and applications of bi-frequency lasers”

Dietmar Kracht, Laser Zentrum Hannover, Germany
“High power lasers with multi-segmented crystals ”

Anne Tropper, University of Southampton, UK
“Mode-locking of surface-emitting semiconductor lasers”

Fiber and Waveguide Devices:
Igor Bufetov, General Phys. Inst. of RAS, Russia
“Highly efficient Raman fiber lasers for near IR region”

Joonen Koponen, Liekki, Finland
“Photodarkening in large mode area fibers”

Roy Taylor, Imperial College, London, UK
“Supercontinuum light sources”

Valdas Pasiskevicius, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
"Optical parametric oscillators and amplifiers with periodically poled ferroelectrics"

Special Symposium on "Mid-infrared and Terahertz Light Sources and Applications ":
Alessandro Tredicucci, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Italy
“THz quantum cascade Lasers”

S.R. Bowman, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, USA
“Rare-earth-doped low frequency materials for mid-infrared lasers”

Sergey Mirov, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
"Optically and possibly electrically pumped Cr and Fe doped mid-IR chalcogenide lasers"

Summer School Lecturers:
D. Shepherd, University of Southampton, UK
“Waveguided light sources”

A. Galvanauskas, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
“High-power fiber lasers”

S. De Silvestri, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
“Frontiers of ultrashort-pulse optics”

P. Georges, Institut d'Optique, Orsay, France
“Ultrashort-pulse laser sources and applications”

K. Vodopyanov, Stanford University, USA
“Frontiers of nonlinear optical light sources”

For more details, see the Summer School page and the lecturers' biographies.