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Summer School
The Europhoton Conference includes a Summer School on " Frontiers of Solid-State Light Sources ".

The Summer School will be held from Sunday, September 10 (afternoon) - Monday, September 11 (evening), 2006.

PhD Students and Postdocs who have paid the conference fee are especially invited to attend the Summer School. They will receive free entrance to the School.
The same rule will be applied for the full paying conference participants.

The schedule of the Summer School can be found here.
The lecture program will be presented by the following lecturers who are internationally renowned for their research subjects:

Lecturers

D. SHEPHERD, University of Southampton, UK
"Waveguided light sources"

D. Shepherd was born in Weymouth, England, in 1964. He studied physics at the University of Southampton, obtaining his B.Sc. in 1985 and his Ph.D in 1989 for research on the development of short-pulse sources at 1.5µm, including early work on Yb:Er fibre lasers. He then joined the newly founded Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) at the University of Southampton, carrying out research on the fabrication and laser operation of planar waveguide devices. By 2004 he had become a Reader at the ORC with research interests spanning waveguide lasers and fabrication techniques, high-power slab lasers, short-pulse optical parametric oscillators, femtosecond pulse shaping, and adaptive control. He has published more than 80 peer-reviewed journal papers and 2 book chapters, mostly concerned with planar laser devices. This work has included waveguides fabricated by ion-implantation, liquid-phase epitaxy, pulsed laser deposition, ion-indiffusion, ion-exchange, contact bonding, flame hydrolysis deposition, and optical writing. Dr Shepherd is currently a topical editor for Applied Optics, and serves as a member of the U.K. EPSRC college.

Almantas Galvanauskas, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
"High-power fiber lasers"

Almantas Galvanauskas was born in Vilnius, Lithuania, in 1963. He received
his diploma in physics from Vilnius University, Lithuania, in 1986 and
his Ph.D. degree in physics from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden in 1992, for the thesis work on ultrafast optoelectronics with semiconductor diode lasers.

During 1993 - 2001, he has been with IMRA America Inc., Ann Arbor, MI, where he was leading pioneering R & D efforts on high-energy and high-power femtosecond fiber laser technology. Since 2002 he is an Associate Professor at the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department and the Center for Ultrafast Optical Science at the University of Michigan. His current research interests are in fiber laser technology and applications, ultrafast science, nonlinear optics, and high-intensity laser plasma generation.

S. De SILVESTRI, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
"Frontiers of ultrashort-pulse optics"

S. De Silvestri was born in 1951, he received the degree in nuclear engineering from Politecnico of Milan in 1976. From 1977 to 1987 he was researcher scientist with the National Research Council. In 1987 he become a member of the Faculty of Politecnico of Milan as associate professor in Physics and in 1994 he was promoted to full professor in the same university. He is presently director of the Department of Physics. He has done extensive research activities in the field of lasers and their applications. His interests are: (i) non linear effects, induced by extremely short (few optical cycles) laser pulses (ii) study of electron dynamics in quantum confined systems as semiconductors and metals nanoparticles; (iii) exciton dynamics in semiconductor etherostructures. He is author of more than 150 papers in international journals.). He is presently director of the European Large Scale Infrastructure “Center for Ultrafast Science and Biomedical Optics (CUSBO)”, within the program of providing access to europen reasearch groups. He is also director of the “Centre of Ultrafast and Ultraintense Optical Science” (ULTRAS) of CNR-INFM. He is Fellow of the Optical Society of America and he is member of the organising committee of several international congress in the field of photonics and ultrafast phenomena.

P. GEORGES, Institut d'Optique, Orsay, France
"Ultrashort-pulse laser sources and applications"

P. Georges was born in Metz, France, in September 1962. He received the engineering degree from the Ecole Supérieure d’Optique in 1985 and his Ph.D degree in 1989 from the University of Paris-Sud for his work on colliding pulses mode locked dye lasers at different wavelengths and pulses compression. He is currently “Directeur de Recherches” at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). He now leads the “Solid State Lasers and Applications” team from the Laboratoire Charles Fabry de l’Institut d’Optique in Orsay, France.
His current research topics cover new diode-pumped solid-state lasers based on crystal, fibre or semiconductor laser materials, ultrafast lasers, high brightness laser diodes, spectral and coherent combining. He is also working on applications of picosecond and femtosecond lasers in physics (characterization of buried interfaces by surface SHG), metrology (optical frequency standard, atom cooling) and biophotonic (fluorescence lifetime imaging, two photons multifocal microscopy). He has published around 110 peer-reviewed journal papers and holds or applied for 6 patents. He is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA) and has served on the program committees of several conferences (ASSP, Cleo US, Cleo Europe). He has received the “Young Researcher” Prize from the French Ministry of Defence and the Fabry-de-Gramont Prize from the French Optical Society.

K. VODOPYANOV, Stanford University, USA
"Frontiers of nonlinear optical light sources"

K. Vodopynaov obtained his Masters degree from Moscow Physico-Technical Institute, PhD from Lebedev Physical Institute (1983), and DSc (Habilitation) from General Physics Institute (1993), both in Moscow, Russia. He was an Alexander-von-Humboldt Fellow at the University of Bayreuth, Germany (1990-92), a Royal Society Fellow and a lecturer at Imperial College, London, UK (1992-98). In 1998 he moved to the United States and became head of the laser group at Inrad, Inc., NJ, USA (1998-2000), and director of mid-IR systems at Picarro, Inc.,CA (2000-2003). At present he is a Senior Research Scientist at Ginzton Lab. at Stanford University. Dr. Vodopyanov is member of program committees for several international laser conferences. He was elected a Fellow of the UK Institute of Physics (1997) and a Fellow of the Optical Society of America (1998). He developed a new class of compact broadly tunable (3-20 microns) laser sources, based on nonlinear-optical frequency conversion in bulk, nano- and micro-structured semiconductors, and used them for the spectroscopic study of carrier dynamics and intersubband transitions in semiconductors, as well as for the ultrasensitive detection of molecules. His present research interests include mid-IR frequency down conversion and terahertz wave generation using new micro-structured materials, laser spectroscopy and spectrally-resolved atomic force microscopy.

Thomas Krauss, St. Andrews University, UK
"2D Photonic Crystal Structures"

Prof TF Krauss FioP, FRSE is recognised as one of the leading researchers in the field of photonic crystals in Europe and worldwide. He started the photonic crystal activity in 1993 and was the first to demonstrate a 2D photonic bandgap in a semiconductor waveguide structure in 1996. He led the IST-FP5 project "PICCO" that developed photonic circuits based on photonic crystals. He is involved in FP6 "Funfox" and the FP6 NoE "ePIXnet", where his group is responsible for the nanostructuring activity. Prof Krauss presents invited talks and lectures at international meetings at a rate of 8-12 per year. He contributes strategically to the advancement of the field, e.g. via symposia at ECOC, IPR, MRS and PECS. He was chairman of the forthcoming winter school on photonic integration, held at Pontresina, Switzerland, in March 2006.