15th International Laser Physics Workshop
(Lausanne, July 24-28, 2006)

The fifteenth annual International Laser Physics Workshop (LPHYS'06) was held from to in the city of Lausanne, Switzerland, at the École Polytechnique Fédérale De Lausanne, hosted by École Polytechnique Fédérale De Lausanne.

Lausanne

LPHYS'06.  Steering Committee:

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    Dusan Chorvat


    International Laser Center, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
     
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    Joseph H. Eberly


    University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA
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    Mikhail V. Fedorov


    A.M. Prokhorov General Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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    Sergey A. Gonchukov


    National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Moscow, Russia
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    Günter Huber


    Hamburg University, Hamburg, Germany
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    Hans G. Limberger


    Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland
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    Pavel P Pashinin


    A M Prokhorov General Physics Institute, RAS, Moscow, Russia
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    Markus Pollnau


    University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
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    Kirill A. Prokhorov


    A.M. Prokhorov General Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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    Wolfgang Sandner


    ELI Delivery Consortium AISBL, Berlin, Germany
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    Toshiki Tajima


    University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA
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    Herbert Walther


    Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics, Garching, Germany
     
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    Valery M. Yermachenko


    National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Moscow, Russia
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    Igor V. Yevseyev


    Department of Theoretical Physics, National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Moscow, Russia
     
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    Vyacheslav I. Yukalov


    Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Moscow Region, Russia
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    Aleksey M. Zheltikov


    Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA

LPHYS'06.    Plenary Speakers:

  1. New Frontiers in Photonic Crystal Fibres

  2. Multidimensional Fluorescence Imaging

  3. Exact Properties of Strongly Correlated Ultracold Gases in Tight Waveguides

  4. Quantum Communication in Telecom Networks

  5. Clusters in Strong Laser Light: Science and Applications

  6. Recent Progresses in Photonic Crystals

  7. From Surgery to Tweezers - Some Laser Developments in Biophotonics

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      René-Paul Salathé


      Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

  8. Interaction of Light with Single Emitters and Nanoparticles

  9. High Power Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers

LPHYS'06.  Local Organizing Committee:

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    Hans G. Limberger


    Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland
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    Feridun Ay


    University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
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    Yvette Bernard


    Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland
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    Manuelle Borruat


    Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland

  • Manuelle Borruat


    Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland
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    Camelia Borca


    École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

  • Rodrigue Chatton


    Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland
     
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    Dragan Coric


    Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland

  • Florent Gardillou


    Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland
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    Gerard Harbach


    Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland

  • Yari Luchessa


    Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland
     
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    Thomas Sidler


    École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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    Yann Tissot


    Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland

LPHYS'06.  Advisory & Program Committee:

LPHYS'06.  Management Team:

LPHYS'06.    Scientific Seminars:

  • Seminar 1:   Modern Trends in Laser Physics

    Co-chairs:

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      Thomas Feurer

      Institute of Applied Physics, Bern, Switzerland
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      Franz X. Kärtner

      Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
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      Kirill A. Prokhorov

      A.M. Prokhorov General Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

  • Seminar 2:   Strong Field Phenomena

    Co-chairs:

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      Wilhelm Becker

      Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy, Berlin, Germany
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      Jens Biegert

      Institute of Photonic Sciences, (ICFO), Barcelona, Spain
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      Mikhail V. Fedorov

      A.M. Prokhorov General Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

  • Seminar 3:   Biophotonics

    Co-chairs:

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      Vanderlei S. Bagnato

      University of São Paulo, São Carlos, SP, Brazil
      Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA
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      Sergey A. Gonchukov

      National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Moscow, Russia
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      Jürgen Lademann

      Charité - Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany

  • Seminar 4:   Physics of Lasers

    Co-chairs:

  • Seminar 5:   Nonlinear Optics and Spectroscopy

    Co-chairs:

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      See Leang Chin

      Laval University, Québec City, QC, Canada
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      Christos Flytzanis

      École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France
       
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      Vladimir A. Makarov

      Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

  • Seminar 6:   Physics of Cold Trapped Atoms

    Co-chairs:

  • Seminar 7:   Quantum Information and Computation

    Co-chairs:

LPHYS'06.  Proceedings:

Proceedings of the 15th International Laser Physics Workshop (LPHYS'06, Lausanne, July 24-28, 2006) have been published in Laser Physics, vol. 17 (2007). To read all contributed papers please visit http://iopscience.iop.org/lp/.

LPHYS'06.  Sponsors and Endorses: