Committees

General Chair

Günter Huber, University of Hamburg, Germany

Local Chair

Klaus Petermann, University of Hamburg, Germany

Programme Chair

Oleg Okhotnikov, Tampere University of Technology, Finland 

Sub-Committee "Solid-State Lasers"

Valdas Pasiskevicius, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden (Chair)

Andrius Baltuska, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Andy Bayramian, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, Livermore, USA

Benoît Boulanger, Institut NÉEL, Grenoble, France

Martin Dawson, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom

Majid Ebrahim-Zadeh, The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Barcelona, Spain

Valentin Petrov, Max-Born-Institut, Berlin, Germany

Irina Sorokina, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

Thomas Südmeyer, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland

Takonuri Taira, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Okazaki, Japan

Mauro Tonelli, University of Pisa, Italy

Sub-Committee "Fibre and Waveguide Devices"

Jens Limpert, University of Jena, Germany (Chair)

Thomas T. Alkeskjold, Crystal Fibre, Birkerød, Denmark

Arnaud Brignon, Thales Group, France

Igor Bufetov, General Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia

Ingmar Hartl, IMRA America Inc., Ann Arbor, USA

Ömer Ilday, University of Bilkent, Turkey

Stuart Jackson, University of Sydney, Australia

Philippe Leproux, University of Limoges, France

Jose Salcedo, Multiwave Photonics, Maia, Portugal

Roy Taylor, Imperial College London, UK

Serjei Turitzin, Aston University, United Kingdom

Steering Committee

Andrew Clarkson, University of Southampton, United Kingdom (Chair)

Patrick Georges, Institut d'Optique Palaiseau, France

Günter Huber, University of Hamburg, Germany (ex officio)

Paolo Laporta, Politecnico di Milano, Italy (QEOD representative)

Richard Moncorgé, University of Caen, France

Oleg Okhotnikov, Tampere University of Technology, Finland (ex officio)

Markus Pollnau, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands