Topics in the area of ISLC 2008:
Novel laser materials, structures, and technologies
(nanostructures, quantum wells-wires-dots, photonic crystals, microcavities, microdisks, plasmonics, quantum cascades, nitrides, GaInNAs, antimonides, Si-based emitters, etc.)
Laser physics
(static and dynamic properties, noise, spontaneous emission, quantum effects, optical gain, strained materials, carrier dynamics, feedback phenomena, nonlinear effects, etc.)
High power lasers
(pump lasers, laser arrays, single-mode lasers, high-brightness designs, master-oscillator power amplifiers, unstable resonator lasers, etc.)
Surface emitting lasers
(vertical cavity surface emitting lasers, grating coupled surface emitting lasers, angled facets, arrays, etc.)
Long and short wavelength lasers
(quantum cascade lasers, Sb-based lasers, UV-violet-blue-green lasers, frequency doubled lasers, etc.)
High speed lasers
(digital and analog modulation, pulse generation, mode-locking, Q-switching, injection locking, etc.)
Lasers for WDM applications
(tunable lasers, wavelength selectable arrays, fiber grating lasers, etc.)
Laser integrated devices
(hybrid and/versus monolithic approaches, PICs, OEICs, functionality, grating integrated lasers, lasers on Si, etc.)
Design and modeling
(numerical models, interdependencies of electrical-optical-thermal effects, design of novel structures, etc.)
Laser fabrication
(epitaxial growth, etching and deposition, passivation, yield, reproducibility, reliability, temperature sensitivity, feedback sensitivity, cost, etc.)
Semiconductor amplifiers
(high power amplifiers, broad-band amplifiers, multi-wavelength amplification, polarization independent designs, pattern effects, all-optical signal regeneration, time domain demultiplexing, wavelength conversion, etc.)
