Conference Scope Subject Areas:

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 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 ultrastable systems. Non-linear materials. Non-linear optical sources. Metrological applications. Optically-pumped semiconductor lasers.

2. Fiber 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 fibres. 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.

Special Symposium
The Europhoton Conference includes a half-day Special Symposium on "High Power Lasers for Materials Processing". The Symposium will present the status and new developments of high power solid-state lasers for continuous wave and pulsed applications in the field of materials processing.

Participants who have paid the conference fee will receive free entrance to the Special Symposium.

List of Invited Speakers:

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
The Summer School will be held from Sunday, August 29th (afternoon) to Monday, August 30th (evening), 2010. PhD Students and Postdocs who have paid for the conference 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 participants.

The lecture program will be presented by lecturers who are internationally renowned for their research subjets:

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”

Conference Location
The conference will take place at the "University of Hamburg", Hamburg city, Germany.

The full address is the following:
University of Hamburg - Main Building
Edmund-Siemers_Allee, 1
D-20146 Hamburg
Germany