Authors are encouraged to submit postdeadline papers. The purpose of postdeadline papers is to give participants the opportunity to hear new and significant results in rapidly advancing areas. The Programme Committee will accept a very limited number of postdeadline papers for presentation at the Conference. Only those papers judged to be truly excellent and compelling will be accepted.
Authors must obtain appropriate approval to have their paper reviewed by and presented to an international audience.

Mode of presentation: Oral only, total 10 minutes per paper.

Deadline for the submissions: 16 July 2006 (midnight)

Absolutely no papers received after this deadline will be considered by the Programme Committee. Only electronic submissions will be accepted.
The postdeadline papers are scheduled for presentation on Thursday pm 14 September 2006.
Authors will be notified whether their papers have been accepted by 21 July 2006. Notification will be sent to the corresponding author as listed on the electronic submission form.

Authors are requested to:

1) Electronically submit their paper at http://www.epsconferences.org/europhoton/

2) Email the copyright form to EPS office
(Please rename your document as the automatic paper code number you receive when submitting summary ex : SSL-1).

Required documents:

1. A 35-word abstract in ASCII text
The use of scientific and engineering symbols and acronyms is not permitted. More than 35 word-abstract will not be accepted.

2. A single page summary in pdf format
Please follow the following layout recommendations
- paper size: A4 (210mm X 297mm); material formatted for 8 ½” x 11” paper will be converted to A4
- margins: left & right = 20mm, top = 37mm, bottom = 19mm
- format: Acrobat (*.pdf) file
- title: use 14pt Times bold letters centred on the page
- list all author’s names, organisation/affiliation & mailing address in 10pt Times italic, grouped by affiliation
- text fonts: use only 10pt Times (roman, bold or italic) symbols
- include equations, drawings, figures and references within the one page limit
- avoid asterisks, acknowledgements, job descriptions or footnotes
- cite references at the end of the summary (maximum of two)
- do not add any page number

Directives for the electronic submission:

1. Creation of an account in order to log on.
In case you formerly submitted a paper to one of EPS conferences, you are pre-registered and just need to ask for your username and password directly on the electronic submission website. These will then be emailed to your address.
In case you are not pre-registered, create a new account, type in a chosen username, your name and full coordinates.
The person who registers will be considered as the “corresponding author” and all further correspondence will only be sent to him/her. The corresponding author will receive an email confirming the chosen username and a password in order to be able to log on and send online his/her paper and all future submissions.
This account can then be used for all further papers you may register.

2. Log on with your username and password.

3. Add a paper (also to be used for the first submission of a paper).
Please type in the title of the paper and the chosen topical area.

Please select your chosen presentation type:
Oral
Poster if Oral not accepted
Poster only
(all other kinds of presentations are not permitted unless you were formally
invited to do so (invited speakers)).

Include your 35-word abstract without any scientific sign and the one page summary. Submit data.

4. Authors’ list
Submit all the authors’ information and add as many authors as required.
The corresponding author is entirely responsible for entering the full and correct list of all the authors. EPS will not make any change.The corresponding author is automatically entered as the first author. This can be modified (green mark).

The corresponding author is authorized to bring any change (single page summary, 35-word abstract, list of authors) until the 19 April 2006. After that deadline the review process will begin and no change can any longer be brought.

These recommendations are intended to avoid technical problems in the transferral of your paper to the conference digest. Failure to follow these recommendations may result in papers being returned to authors. Please note that the EPS will not manipulate or edit papers.
The selected summaries will be published in the technical digest. No additional manuscript will be required. Since contributed papers are selected on the basis of the summary, it should convey the original results in a succinct manner rather than describe the research topic.

Any of the following conditions may result in rejection of a paper:
- failure to submit the paper by the deadline date
- failure to complete the required fields on the web based submission form
- failure to follow the compulsory layout recommendations (a 35-word abstract without scientific signs, a single page summary in pdf format)
- failure to send the copyright form.

Notes:
The given password can be changed: Go to “My profile” and click on “Edit”, change your password and then click on “Submit data”.
Click on “My paper list” to check and view the complete list of your submitted papers. Any change can be brought up to the deadline.