PRELIMINARY LIST
Invited Speakers (confirmed)

Solid-State Lasers:

Pr. U. Keller, (keynote)
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
"High power ultrafast laser oscillators"

Dr U. Weichmann,
Philips Laboratories, Aachen, Germany
"Integrated Green Efficient Lasers for Projection Applications".

Dr L. Glebov,
University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA
“Volume Bragg gratings"

Dr K. Petermann,
University of Hamburg, Germany
"Novel highly Yb-doped thin-disc lasers"

Dr E. Lallier,
Thales Research and Technology, Palaiseau, France
“QPM-GaAs for mid-infrared applications”

Fiber and Waveguide Devices:

Dr M. Digonnet, (keynote)
Stanford University
“State-of-the-art of active fiber amplifiers”

Prof.J.C Knight,
University of Bath, United Kingdom
"Flexible light sources based on photonic crystal fibres".

Dr J.C. Travers,
Imperial College, London, England
“Optical pulse propagation in tapered photonic crystal fibers”

Dr E. Cormier,
University of Bordeaux, France
"High power fs and ps amplifiers based on large mode area rod type fibers: when non-linear propagation helps"

Pr J. Dudley,
University of Franche-Comté, Besançon, France
“Fibre supercontinuum sources”

Special Symposium on "Extreme Light Sources in Measurements and Sensing"

Prof. Margaret Murnane,(keynote)
JILA and Departments of Physics and ECE, University of Colorado at Boulder
"Ultrafast Coherent X-Rays as probes of Molecular and Materials Science"

Pr Jun Ye,
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, USA
"Phase-coherent high-power fiber-laser based optical frequency combs"

Dr Reinhard Kienberger,
Max-Planck Institute, Garching, Germany
"Attosecond metrology with ultra-intense lasers“

Pr Andrew M. Weiner,
Purdue University, USA
"Pulse Shaping at the Line-by-Line Limit"

Summer School “Frontiers in Solid State Light Sources”

Pr A. E. Siegman,
Stanford University, USA
"Fresnel Reflection, Lenserf Reflection, and the Physics of Very Large Mode Area Fiber Lasers"

Pr M. Dawson,
Institute of Photonics, University of Glasgow, Scotland
"Semiconductor disk lasers: a solid-state dye laser ?"

Pr M. Ebrahim-Zadeh,
ICFO, Barcelona, Spain
"Optical Parametric Device Technology and Applications"

Dr B. Willke,
Institute for Gravitational Physics, Hannover, Germany
"Stabilized high-power single frequency solid-state lasers for gravitational waves measurement"

Dr A. Brignon,
Thales Research and Technology, Palaiseau, France
"Technics for improving beam quality of solid state and fiber lasers based on nonlinear interactions and adaptive optics"

Dr. C. P. J. Barty,
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, United States
"Ultrahigh Intensity Laser Design and Applications "

For more details (abstracts and lecturers' biographies), see the Summer School page