Europhoton 2012 - 5th EPS-QEOD EUROPHOTON CONFERENCE

This unique conference features the latest breakthroughs in the field of solid-state, fibre and waveguided light sources.

World-reknown researchers discuss the latest developments in the scientific community accompanied by Summer School sessions at the PhD student and postdoctoral level, and by informal breakout sessions for discussion and vendor display viewing. This conference will also features a half-day special Symposium "From Femto-Science to Atto-Science: Sources and Applications" where the prominent keynote and invited speakers will discuss state of the art and future visions of this fascinating field. The fifth in a row, the Europhoton conference has shown to be very popular among the scientists and engineers that have continued to place it on their calendars.

The conference will be held in AlbaNova University Centre close to the main KTH campus, the Stockholm city centre with all main attractions easily accessible by foot or by excellent public transportation.

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"