• Advanced Solid State Lasers Conference (ASSL)
• Compact EUV & X-Ray Light Sources (EUVXRAY)
• High-Intensity Lasers and High-Field Phenomena (HILAS)
• Laser Applications Conference (LAC)
• Mid-Infrared Coherent Sources (MICS)

Advanced Solid State Lasers Conference (ASSL)

Materials

Materials are the basis for the technology covered by ASSL and the meeting encompasses advances in optics, materials science, condensed matter physics and chemistry relevant to the development, fabrication, characterization and applications of new materials and components for coherent radiation sources and photonics.

• Advances in crystal growth and fabrication of glasses and ceramics
• Glass and crystal fibers and waveguides
• Materials as gain media for lasers and amplifiers
• Advanced semiconductors and structures for sources and detectors
• Nonlinear materials for frequency conversion
• Electro-optical and magneto-optical materials
• Saturable absorbers and optical limiters
• Advances in mirrors, gratings and other selective components
• Topological photonics, plasmonics, 2D materials
• Advanced coating technologies including surface micro-structuring
• Materials and components for thermal management and damage resistivity
• Modeling and characterization methods of optical properties
• Materials for lighting and laser displays
• Structuring materials with lasers

Sources

Coherent and high brightness radiation sources include lasers and amplifiers in all temporal regimes as well as pump and nonlinear devices, with emphasis on improved power, efficiency, brightness, stability, wavelength coverage, pulse width, cost, environmental impact and application-specific attributes.

• Bulk solid-state lasers based on crystals, ceramics and glasses, including thin-disks
• Fiber and waveguide lasers
• Nonlinear frequency conversion for sources, detection and diagnostics
• High power CW and pulsed lasers in the UV, visible and IR
• Laser-driven THz, IR, visible, UV, XUV and X-ray sources and drivers
• Laser beam combining and power scaling architectures
• Ultrashort-pulse lasers and amplifiers
• Linear and nonlinear pulse compression
• Frequency combs and frequency-stable lasers and parametric sources
• Tunable and new wavelength solid-state lasers
• Semiconductor lasers, edge emitters, VCSELs, VECSELs

Compact EUV & X-Ray Light Sources (EUVXRAY)

Sources and Components

• EUV through hard X-ray sources and components
• Laser and discharge produced plasma sources
• High-harmonic generation sources
• X-ray laser sources
• Compact free-electron lasers
• Inverse Compton scattering sources
• High power laser beam diagnostics tools
• Radio frequency cavities and guns
• Undulators and wigglers
• Magnets and multiband achromats
• Enabling technologies: optics, detectors, beam and wavefront diagnostics, instruments
• Data acquisition, management and processing

Applications

• EUV lithography and mask inspection
• Semiconductor wafer inspection and metrology
• Phase contrast imaging and tomography
• Medical and clinical imaging
• Biological imaging
• Macromolecular crystallography
• Cultural heritage studies
• Non-destructive testing
• Ultrafast and dynamic studies
• Wide field imaging
• Other applications

High-Intensity Lasers and High-Field Phenomena (HILAS)

• Laser technology for HILAS
• Advancement in materials for HILAS
• Attosecond science
• High-field science, methods, science and theory
• High-brightness secondary sources and applications: THz, X-ray, Gamma Ray, particle beams
• Application of AI and machine-learning methods for HILAS
• Ultrafast metrology – methods, technology and applications

Laser Applications Conference (LAC)

• Fusion and energy technologies
• Free space communications and space
• Global security and aerospace
• Environmental and agricultural
• Imaging, biological and medical
• Materials processing and manufacturing
• Packaging applications
• Special applications

Mid-Infrared Coherent Sources (MICS)

Mid-IR and THz Materials

• Active ion-doped crystals and fibers
• Semiconductor materials and structures
• Specialty nonlinear fibers
• Nano/metamaterials
• Bulk and integrated nonlinear crystals

Mid-IR and THz Sources

• Solid-state and fiber lasers
• Semiconductor lasers
• Quantum cascade lasers
• Optically pumped semiconductor lasers
• Gas lasers
• OPO / OPA / OPCPA sources
• Ultrafast lasers
• High intensity mid-IR ultrafast sources
• Structured light sources
• Broadband, broadly tunable, and supercontinuum sources
• Frequency combs and supercontinuum sources
• Synchrotron radiation sources
• Integrated photonics
• THz generation
• Quantum technologies

Mid-IR and THz Applications

• Remote sensing, imaging, astronomy
• Spectroscopy, trace gas detection, breath analysis
• Optical frequency synthesis, comb spectroscopy
• Laser surgery, biomedicine
• Materials processing
• Optical microscopy, biophotonics
• Quantum imaging, sensing, communications