The EPS-QEOD Prize for Research in Laser Science and Applications is

• Prof. R. J. Dwayne Miller, The Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter and University of Toronto

"for Achieving the Fundamental Limit to Minimally Invasive Surgery with Complete Biodiagnostics for Surgical Guidance."

Dear Colleagues,

The postdeadline submission for the Europhoton 2016 is now open and possible until Friday, July 1st, 08:00 PM (GMT+1, local time on site). Only oral submissions will be accepted.
 

For postdeadline paper submission, topical information and preliminary program, please visit the offical site of the conference: http://www.europhoton.org

Europhoton 2016 will bring together a multi-disciplinary group of world-renowned researchers and scientists, industrials, and students to discuss the latest breakthroughs in the field. The conference will feature high-quality scientific presentations and invited speakers from a wide range of topics, including:

SOLID STATE LASERS

Keynote Speaker: 

Scott Diddams, NIST, USA 

Advances in optical frequency combs and their applications

Invited Speakers:

Dietmar Kracht, Lazerzentrum Hannover, Germany 

High-power single-mode cw lasers for gravitational wave detection

Xavier Délen, Institute of Optics, France 

High-power single-crystal fiber amplifiers

Guina Mircea, Tampere University, Finland 

Progress in development of gain and saturable absorber mirrors for semiconductor disc lasers

Peter Schunemann, BA Systems, USA

Advances in nonlinear optical materials for mid-infrared solid-state laser sources

G. K. Samanta, Physical Research Laboratory, India

Structured laser beams and novel applications 

FIBER AND WAVEGUIDE DEVICES

Keynote Speaker: 

Siddharth Ramachandran, Boston University, ECE Department, Photonics Center, Boston, MA, USA

Intermodal nonlinear fiber optics: a new pathway to power scalable sources

Invited Speakers: 

Olivier Vanvincq, Université Lille 1, France

Active and passive solid-core microstructured fibers for laser applications

Thomas Gottschall, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany

All-fiber optical parametric oscillator for bio-medical imaging

Pu Zhou, National University of Defense Technology, China 

Multi-kW-level near-diffraction-limited coherent polarization beam combining of fiber laser sources

Tso Yee Fan, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA

Beam combining of fiber amplifiers

Jean-Emmanuel Broquin, L'Institut de Microélectronique Electromagnétisme et Photonique et le Laboratoire d'Hyperfréquences et de Caractérisation (IMEP-LaHC), France

Rare-earth-doped waveguide amplifiers and lasers (tentative title)

SPECIAL SYMPOSIUM NOVEL LASER-MATTER INTERACTION REGIMES

Franz Kaertner, University of Hamburg, Germany

THz Linear Acceleration and Compact X-ray Sources

Robin Marjoribanks from University of Toronto, Canada

Energy partition and dynamics of absorption and ablation in burst-mode (>100 MHz) ultra-fast pulsed laser ablation in biotissues

SUMMER SCHOOL on FRONTIERS OF SOLID-STATE LIGHT SOURCES

Chris Barty, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, Livermore, USA

Giulio Cerullo, Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Fisica, Milano, Italy

Micro/nanostructuring with ultrashort laser pulses

See Leang Chin, Center for Optics, Photonics and Laser (COPL)
Laval University, Quebec City, Canada

Femtosecond laser filamentation and some applications

Paul B. Corkum, Joint Attosecond Science Laboratory, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

Attosecond technology: exploiting extreme nonlinear optics

Altamantas Galvanauskas, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

High Brightness Fiber Laser Technologies

Ursula Keller, Department of Physics, Institute for Quantum Electronics, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Semiconductor saturable absorber mirror (SESAM)

During Europhoton 2016 the second Prize for Research in Laser Science and Applications will be awared.

We look forward to welcoming you in Vienna. You will find more details on the conference programme on the website at: http://www.europhoton.org.

The EPS Conferences Department,

conferences@eps.org

The conference is organized by the Technical University of Vienna and the European Physical Society in cooperation with its Quantum Electronics and Optics Division (QEOD).