Invited Speakers
“Solid-State Lasers”
T.Y. Fan (Keynote), Lincoln Laboratory, USA
“Cryogenic Yb-doped solid state lasers”
Ady Arie, Tel Aviv University, Israel
“Nonlinear generation and control of accelerating Airy beams”
Richard P. Mildren, Macquarie University in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
“Visible diamond lasers”
Sergey B. Mirov, University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
“Progress in Cr2+:II-VI ceramic lasers”
F. Rotermund, Ajou University, S. Korea
“Single-walled carbon nanotube universal saturable absorbers for bulk solide-state laser mode-locking”
“
Fibre and Waveguide Devices”
Martin Fermann (Keynote), IMRA, America, USA
“Ultrafast Fiber Laser Technology"
Ishwar D. Aggarwal, NRL, USA
“Chalchogenide photonic crystal fibers for Mid-IR supercontinuum sources"
Greg Goodno, Northrop Grumman, USA
“High Power single frequency, phase-stabilized Tm fiber amplifier"
Alfred Leitenstorfer, University of Konstanz, Germany
“5fs pulses from an Er-fibre laser via coherent synthesis of two supercontinua"
Siddharth Ramachandran, Boston University, USA
"Fiber Light sources using structured beams"
Special Symposium “High Power Lasers for Materials Processing”
Reinhart Poprawe (Keynote, EPS Invited Speaker) ILT, Aachen, Germany
“New lasers enabling next generation micro-processing”
Harry Asonen, Corelase, Finland
“Fibre lasers in materials processing”
Juan Chilla, Coherent Inc, USA
“High power optically pumped semiconductor lasers”
Adolf Giesen, DLR, Germany
“High power thin disk lasers”
Summer School “Frontiers of Solid-State Light Sources”
Giulio Cerullo, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
“Ultrashort parametric pulse amplification”
John Dudley, FEMTO-ST, Besançon, France
“Fundamentals of nonlinear optics in fibers and application”
Franz Kärtner, MIT, Cambridge, USA
“Ultrabroadband femtosecond laser oscillators and applications”
Ernst-Bernhard Kley, University of Jena, Germany
“Micro- and nanooptics for photonics”
Wolfgang Sohler, University of Paderborn, Germany
“Integrated optics based on lithium niobate"
Anne Tropper, ORC, Southampton, UK
“Optically pumped semiconductor lasers”
Laserfest - Public Evening Lecture
Robert L. Byer, Stanford University, USA
“50 years of lasers; meeting the challenges of the 21st century”