Topics

Laser Optics 2012 Topic Descriptions

Solid-State Lasers and Nonlinear Frequency Conversion

Diode pumped solid-state lasers and amplifiers • Upconversion lasers • Novel pump sources and techniques • Cavity design • High power operation • beam quality improvements • Microchip lasers • Lasers with pulse compression • Narrow linewidth lasers • Advances in fi ber lasers • Amplitude and frequency stabilization • Nonlinear frequency conversion

High Power Gas Lasers

CO2/CO lasers • Iodine lasers • Slab gas lasers • Chemical lasers • Excimer lasers • Extreme-UV light sources • Advances in gas lasers

Semiconductor Materials, Lasers and Applications

• Novel laser structures and devices  • Quantum-well, wire, and dot lasers • MID-IR, Quantum Cascade and THz lasers • Type-II quantum-well and superlattice lasers • Q-switched and Mode-locked lasers • Ultrashort pulse lasers • VCSELs and VECSELs • UV/Visible diode lasers and LEDs • Lasers on silicon • Optical coherent tomography • Multi photon imaging • Novel applications

Laser Beam Control

Wavefront correction • Adaptive optics • Phase conjugation • Dynamic holography • Laser cavities • Stabilization and control of laser beam direction • Laser imaging • Coherent and non-coherent summation of laser beams • Singular laser optics

Super-Intense Light Fields and Ultra-Fast Processes

Generation of high-power, super short pulses • Problems of «Fast Ignition» for the ICF • Laser plasma X-ray sources • Fast particle generation and acceleration by laser pulses • Femtosecond laser technology and applications • Physics of ultrafast phenomena • Ultrafast devices and measurements

Nanophotonics and Biophotonics

Nonlinear optics of nanostructures • Spectroscopy of nanostructures • Optical power limiting • Metamaterials • Nanoplasmonics

• Nanostructures for solar energy utilization • Photodynamiсprocesses in biology and nanophotonics • Nanoimaging and bioimaging • Biosensing

Lasers in environmental monitoring

Laser remote sensing technologies and methods • Lidar techniques and measurements for atmospheric remote sensing • Oil spill and ocean monitoring • Urban remote sensing • Laser sensing for geology • Remote sensing for agriculture and ecosystems • Space-based lidar  for global observations

Nonlinear Photonics: Fundamentals and Applications

• Nonlinear optical devices • Tunable, active, and nonlinear optical metamaterials • Conservative and dissipative optical solitons • Supercontinuum generation • Fiber optics and telecommunications

Lasers and Medical Applications

6th International Symposium

on High-Power Fiber Lasers and Their Applications

2nd International Symposium 

on Light in Conservation of Artworks (L'ICONA 2012)

6th International Conference

on Laser Optics for Young Scientists and Engineers