Workshop on Novel Laser Technologies and Their Applications

31 August - 01 September 2006, Tampere, Finland

The Workshop aims to bring together experts from laser manufacturing companies and applications developers and to offer a comprehensive perspective on new laser technologies and their market potential. An emphasis will be put on high power lasers and emerging applications. The program includes tutorial lectures, key-note speeches, and product presentations. The Workshop should be an educational and debate forum for technicians, engineers, marketing personnel and managers. The generic scope is to provide training opportunities for companies involved in laser manufacturing and to raise the awareness regarding the potential offered by the latest laser technologies amongst the application developers.

Workshop program: 

Thursday, 31st August 2006            

8:30-9:00       Registration

9:00-9:15       Opening, Prof. Markus Pessa, ORC
9:15-10:45     Introduction to laser diodes, beam quality of lasers and nonlinear   
                     frequency conversion for generation of visible laser radiation,
                     Dr. Rudiger Paschotta, RP Photonics

10:45-11:00   Coffee Break

11:00-12:00   Recent advances in high power semiconductor lasers,
                     Dr. Boris Sverdlov, Bookham
12:00-12:45   Recent advances in high power semiconductor lasers,
                     Dr. Jouko Haapamaa, Coherent Finland 

12:45-13:45   Lunch

13:45-15:15   High power fiber lasers, 
                     Berthold Kessler, IPG Laser GmbH

15:15-15:30   Coffee Break

15:30-16:30   Fibre laser micro machining applications – the latest experiences,
                     Keith Barnes, SPI lasers
16:30-17:00   High-Power VECSEL technology and applications,
                     Dr. Heiko Unold, OSRAM Opto Semiconductors

17:00-19:00   Cocktail Party
                     End of day one

 
Friday, 1st September 2006            

8:45-9:15       Protecting an invention by patenting – processes, requirements,
                     case examples, Jukka Korhonen, Papula-Nevinpat 
9:15-10:30     Material processing at micron and sub-micron levels with pulsed 
                     lasers, Dr. Heather Booth, Exitech 

10:30-10:45   Coffee Break

10:45-11:15   What tunable diode laser and femtosecond fiber laser have in 
                     common?, Dr. Wilhelm Kaenders, TOPTICA
11:15-11:45   High-power range finding lasers,
                     Sami Laaksonen, Modulight
11:45-12:05   Liekki optical engines – modular high performance solutions for fiber
                     laser systems manufacturers and applications labs,
                     Joona Koponen, Liekki 

12:05-13:05   Lunch

13:05-13:50   Optical Coherent Tomography,
                     Prof. Peter Andersen, Risoe National Laboratory  
13:50-14:35   Applications of compact laser sources in biomedicine,
                     Prof. Stefan Andersson-Engels, Lund University, Medical Laser Center
14:35-14:55   Diode and Fiber lasers: complementary products,
                     Dr. Harry Asonen, Corelase 

14:55-15:10   Coffee Break

15:10-15:30   Pros and cons when being a part of Market Leader,
                     Ilkka Tiainen, Coherent Finland
15:30-15:50   New diode laser based monitoring and welding methods,
                     Dr. Taito Alahautala, Cavitar
15:50-16:10   Overview of URANUS EU project, Prof. Oleg Okhotnikov, ORC
16:10:16:30   Overview of Fast Access EU project, Prof. Markus Pessa, ORC 

16:30-16:40   Closing
                     End of day two

Registration

The registration fee is 170 € + vat and includes lecture materials, refreshments and lunches. Members of ORC’s Industry Club and LCC Finland will be granted two registration free places (one for own staff and one for a business partner invited to attend the meeting).

The number of participants is limited. Advanced registration is encouraged.

Click for the registration form


Accommodation and travel instructions

Accommodation is available at Hotel Hermica (walking distance to the workshop venue) http://www.hermica.fi/.

Other accommodation possibilities can be found here http://www.tampere.fi/matkailu/english/restaur.htm.

Travel instructions can be found here http://www.orc.tut.fi/schooltravel.html.

Low cost travelling to Tampere is possible with RyanAir, who flies directly to Tampere From London Stanstead, Frankfurt Hahn and Riga


Events managers and contacts

Dr. Pekka Savolainen, Laser Competence Center Finland
pekka.savolainen@hermia.fi, mobile phone: +358-40 7188033 

Dr. Mircea Guina, Optoelectronics Research Centre
mircea.guina@tut.fi, mobile phone: + 358-40 8490004

The workshop is organized with the support of LCC Finland (Olavi training project) and the EU research projects URANUS and NATAL coordinated by ORC.