Invited Speakers

  • Erik BECKERT (Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering, Jena, Germany)
    “A Space-Suitable, Miniaturized 100 mW DPSS Laser at 532 nm for JAXA’s Phobos Mission”
  • Raoul-Amadeus LORBEER (DLR, German Aerospace Center, Stuttgart, Germany)
    “Compact Laser Pumping and Amplification Concept using a Wedged-Thin-Disk”
  • Yung-Fu CHEN (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)
    “Fast model for optimizing passively Q-switched lasers”
  • Sreenath GUPTA (Argonne National Laboratory, USA)
    “Development of a Laser Igniter for a Syngas Fueled Direct-Fired Supercritical CO2 Cycle”
  • Hideki MORIAI (Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Ishikawa, Japan)
    “Laser Propulsion Research – Conversion of Laser Energy into Thrust in Space”
  • Xavier MATEOS (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain)
    “Structured Materials for Micro-Lasers at 2 μm”
  • Jan HOSTAŚA (CNR-ISTEC, Institute of Science and Technology for Ceramics, Faenza, Italy)
    “2D-Structured Ceramic Laser Gain Media, Laser Waveguides”
  • Gerhard KROUPA (Silicon Austria Labs., Villach, Austria)
    “Fibre Distribution Tests and Recent Applications of the Miniaturized HiPoLas Ignition System”
    – Withdraw –
  • Lukas SCHRÖDER (University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany)
    “Combustion Analysis of a Laser-Based and an Electrical Ignition System for Directly Injected Methane in a Rapid Compression Machine”
  • Takunori TAIRA (RIKEN SPring-8 Center, Hyogo, Japan)
    “Tiny Integrated Lasers towards Giant Micro-photonics”
  • Akio IKESUE (World Lab. Co. Ltd., Nagoya, Japan)
    “Historical Turning Point of Optical Ceramics”
  • Mariastefania DE VIDO (Science and Technology Facilities Council, Swindon, UK)
    “Energy Scaling of High Pulse Rate Diode-Pumped Solid State DiPOLE Laser Amplifiers”
  • Hiroaki MINAMIDE (RIKEN Center for Advanced Photonics, Sendai, Japan)
    “High-Brightness Injection-Seeded Backward Optical Parametric Oscillation in Sub-Terahertz-Wave Frequencies”
  • Hiroaki FURUSE (Kitami Institute of Technology, Hokkaido, Japan)
    “Non-Cubic Fluorapatite Laser Ceramics by Controlling Crystal Grains”
  • Toshiki SUGIMOTO (Institute for Molecular Science, Okazaki, Japan)
    “Development of Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy to Break through the Detection Limit of Nanoscale Interfaces”
  • Koji MORITA (National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Japan)
    “Fabrication of Infrared Transparent Ceramics through Spark-Plasma-Sintering (SPS) Method”
  • Franz KÄRTNER (University of Hamburg, DESY, Hamburg)
    “To be decided!”

LIST OF INVITED SPEAKERS