Friday 19/03/2010 |
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15:00-15:45h | Invited lecture Prof. Dr. Georges Boulon, University of Lyon, Claude Bernard/ Lyon1University, France Fifty Years of Advances in Solid-State Laser Materials |
15:45-16:30h | Invited lecture Dr. Peter Moulton, VP/CEO of the Q-Peak, subsidiary of PSI (Physical Sciences, Inc.) Company, Andover, MA, USA 50 years of transition-metal lasers: from ruby to Ti:sapphire |
16:30-17:00h | Coffee-break |
17:00-17:45h | Invited lecture Prof. Dr. Valentin Petrov, Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Ultrafast Spectroscopy, Berlin, Germany Parametric down-conversion devices: the coverage of the mid-infrared spectral range by solid-state laser sources |
17:45-18:30h | Invited lecture
Prof. Dr. Gunter Huber, Institut f. Laser-Physik, Universität Hamburg, Germany
Diode pumped rare earth lasers in the visible spectral region |
Saturday 20/03/2010 |
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9:00-9:45h | Invited lecture Prof. Dr. Takunori Taira, Institute for Molecular Science, Laser Research Center, Okazaki, Japan The promise of giant micro photonics |
9:45-10:30h | Invited lecture Prof. Dr. Jens Biegert, ICREA Professor, ICFO - The Institute of Photonics Sciences, Attoscience and Ultrafast Optics, Barcelona, Spain Ultrafast laser science - from few-cycle pulses to attoscience |
10:30-11:00h | Coffee-break |
11:00-11:45h | Invited lecture Prof. Dr. Mark Dubinskii, US Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, Maryland, USA Solid-State Lasers: Power scaling - nuts and bolts |
11:45-12:30h | Closing lecture Prof. Dr. Irina T. Sorokina, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Mid-infrared vibronic lasers: the 50 years quest |
12:30-13:15h | Discussion session Chairman: Prof. Dr. Carlos Zaldo, Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid CSIC, Spain |
13:15-13:30h | Workshop closing |
13:30h | Lunch |