High Power Lasers and Applications Symposium

The symposium aims to host laser scientists, engineers and industrial experts on a beautiful tropical island 1 degree north of the equator, to discuss the most exciting recent development in laser related technologies. Singapore, besides being blessed with its heaven-sent tropical climate and beautiful sunlight, has also recently been blessed by its government to become the next world hub for research with its injection of S$5 billion research grants over five years. On this "Island of Possibilities", this symposium hopes to create a vibrant forum where one can be engaged in a rich marketplace of ideas, an audience of technical experts, experiencing dynamic professional networking and exploring numerous collaboration opportunities in the laser related fields.

Download the Call for Papers.

Authors are invited to submit a full paper in the form of an electronic file in PDF format. Full papers should have a maximum of 4 pages. More details could be found at the paper submission page.

Paper submission closed on 15 Oct 08

The topics includes (but not limited to):

    High power diode pumped solid state lasers
    High power fiber lasers
    Mode-locked lasers
    Ultra-fast frequency comb
    Ultra-fast Chirped Pulse Amplification
    Mid Infra-red lasers
    High Power Semiconductor Lasers
    Laser Beams Combining
    Laser Beam Shaping
    OPO, SHG, QPM, Photo-refractive and other nonlinear optics processes
    Remote chemical and biological laser sensing
    Novel laser materials and ceramics
    Laser material interaction
    Laser surface treatment
    Laser cutting, welding, and wafer dicing
    Laser nano-fabrication/micro-machining techniques
Chair
P.B. Phua (DSO, S'pore)
Co-chairs
Ken Ichi Ueda (Uni. of Electro- Comms. Japan)
K. S. Lai (DSO, S'pore)
Xiong Zhengjun (SIMTech, S'pore)
Hong MingHui (DSI, S'pore)
Luo Xiangang (Chinese Academy of Science, China)
Members
Tan Howe-Siang (NTU, S'pore)
Lim Yuan Liang (DSO, S'pore)
Tang Ding Yuan (NTU, S'pore)

International Advisory Committee

Horst Weber (Tech. Uni. Berlin, Germany)
Erich Ippen (M.I.T, USA)
Lin Li ( Uni. Of Manchester, UK)
J. Mazumder (Uni. of Illinois, USA)
Alexander Kaminskii (Institute of Crystallography, Russia)
Koji Sugioka (RIKEN, Japan)
Andrius Baltuska (Vienna Uni. Of Tech., Austria)
Jean-Pierra Huignard (Thales, France)
Akio Ikesue (World Lab. Co., Ltd., Japan)
Gunnar Rustad (Norwegian Defence Research Establishment, Norway)
Edward Stephens (Northrop Grumman, USA)