Solid State Lasers (SSL)

• · Novel laser material concepts.
• · Growth, characterisation, and spectroscopic investigations of solid-state laser materials.
• · Rare-earth-ion and transition-metal-ion lasers.
• · Up conversion, tuneable, and ultrafast solid-state lasers.
• · Second and higher harmonic generation and optical parametric conversion of solid-state lasers.
• · Modelling of solid-state lasers and resonators.
• · Demonstration 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.
• · Laser technology for fusion

Fibre and Waveguide Devices (FWD)

• · Novel fibre and waveguide concepts.
• · Fibre materials, fabrication, and characterisation.
• · CW and pulsed fibre lasers.
• · Low noise fibre lasers.
• · Bragg-grating fibre lasers.
• · Waveguide fabrication and characterisation.
• · Waveguide lasers and amplifiers.
• · Rare-earth doped amplifiers.
• · Raman amplifiers.
• · High-power fibre and waveguide lasers.
• · Power-scaling concepts 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.
• · Laser technology for fusion.