Topics

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