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, ...)
* Laser physics and modelling (static and dynamic properties, noise, carrier dynamics, feedback phenomena, nonlinear effects, chaos, …)
* High power lasers
* Short pulse lasers (for OTDM applications, THz generation, …)
* Surface emitting lasers (VCSELs, VECSELs, grating-coupled surface emitting lasers, …)
* Long and short wavelength lasers (quantum cascade lasers, violet, blue, green, red lasers, frequency doubled lasers, …)
* Lasers for telecommunication (DFBs, 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 optical amplifiers
* All-optical processing using semiconductor lasers and amplifiers