Topics

1. Solid State Lasers
Novel laser material concepts. Growth, characterisation, and spectroscopic investigations of solid-state laser materials. rare-earth-ion and transition-metal-ion lasers. Upconversion, tunable, and ultrafast solid-state lasers. second and higher harmonic generation and optical parametric conversion of solid-state lasers. Modelling of solud-state lasers and resonators. Demontration of novel pump sources and resonator geometries. Thermal and thermo-optical effects in solid-state lasers. High-power, diode-pumped, and ultra-stable systems. Non-linear materials. Non-linear optical sources. Metrology applications. Optically-pumped semiconductor lasers. Mid-infrared sources and materials.

2. Fibre and waveguide Devices
Novel fibre and waveguide concepts. Fibre materials, fabrication, and characterisation. CW and pulsed fibre lasers. bragg-grating fibre lasers. Amplification in doped amplifiers. Raman amplifiers. High-power fibre and waveguide lasers. Power-scaling conceps for fibre and waveguide lasers. Ultrafast fibre and waveguide sources. Photonic crystal and fibre light sources. waveguided broadband and super-continuum light sources. Non-linear materials. non-linear optical sources. Microcavity lasers.

3. The Europhoton Conference includes a half day Special Symposium on "From Femto-Science to Atto Science: Sources and Applications"