A. TINNY INTEGRATED LASERS

• Integrated power lasers: modelling and simulations, design, realization and characterization.
• Miniature lasers for high power, giant-pulse generation; power-scalable laser architectures; solid-state micro-chip lasers.
• Design of laser resonators, thermal management and beam quality control.
• Pumping methods of solid-state lasers, size reduction and miniaturization solutions.

B. OPTICAL MATERIALS FOR TINNY INTEGRATED LASERS

• Laser crystals and glasses; ceramic materials as laser media.
• Nonlinear laser crystals.
• Spectroscopic characterization of solid-state gain media.
• Composite materials for laser applications, bonding techniques, laser optics.

C. LASER INDUCED PHENOMENA BY POWER MINIATURE LASERS

• Laser acceleration.
• Laser induced breakdown, laser ignition process, plasma imaging, spectroscopic characterization.
• Nonlinear optics.
• Interaction of laser radiation with matter.

D. APPLICATION OF TINNY INTEGRATED LASERS

• Laser ignition for green generation (transportation, stationary natural-gas engines, aerospace applications).
• Laser diagnostics in reacting flows.
• Processing with laser radiation (laser peening, ultrafast laser processing, femtosecond machining), optical communications.
• Accessing new wavelength domains (intracavity wavelength conversion, visible and ultra-violet generation, THz generation and application).

E. GIANT MICRO-PHOTONICS

• Laser ceramics, processing for laser ceramics.
• New technics for evaluation of properties in laser ceramics.
• Package for tinny lasers.
• Bonding techniques for laser materials.