General Information

Topics within the focus of the workshop include:

· Novel laser materials, structures, and technologies (nanostructures, quantum wells, quantum wires, quantum dots, photonic crystals, microcavities, quantum cascades, nitrides, etc.)

· Laser physics (static and dynamic properties, noise, carrier dynamics, feedback phenomena, nonlinear effects, …)

· High power lasers

· Short pulse lasers (for OTDM applications, THz generation, …)

· Surface emitting lasers (VCSELs, grating-coupled surface emitting lasers, …)

· Long and short wavelength lasers (quantum cascade lasers, violet, blue, green, red lasers, frequency doubled lasers, …

· Lasers for WDM applications (wavelength tunable lasers, wavelength selectable arrays, fibre grating lasers, …)

· Laser integrated devices (monolithic and hybridly integrated devices, integration-related issues, modulators to be integrated with lasers, …)

· Semiconductor laser amplifiers