• Photonics West 2011 - VECSEL Conference

The preliminary program for the VECSEL Conference being held at Photonics West 2011 is now available - read more ...

• Lasers: Illuminating New Frontiers in Medicine

Dr Maria Ana Cataluna of Dundee University opened the 2010 Cafe Science event program with a talk on the use of ultrafast lasers for biomedical imaging and minimally-invasive treatments. The talk was held at the Dundee Science Centre and clips have been posted on YouTube - click here to view .

• Towards Compact, Affordable Ultrafast Lasers

Dr Bojan Resan of Time-Bandwidth Products recently presented a seminar on Compact, Affordable, Ultrafast Lasers at the Institute of Physics in Zagreb ... read more

• LaserFest

LaserFest is a yearlong celebration in 2010 commemorating the 50th anniversary of the invention of the laser. The goal of LaserFest is to demonstrate the history and importance of lasers through a series of events, outreach activities and education programs. These efforts bring the story of lasers to the general public and key communities in honour of the accomplishments of laser scientists, engineers, inventors and entrepreneurs.

For more details see www.LaserFest.org

• Compact Quantum Dot based lasers for biomedical applications

Compact Quantum Dot based lasers for biomedical applications Charis Messaritakis (National and Kapodestrian Univ. of Athens) presented an overview of FAST-DOT and the highlights of the first year at the 4th Concertation Meeting in Photonics in Athens, Greece on 11th September 2009

For more details see ftp://ftp.cordis.europa.eu/pub/fp7/ict/docs/photonics/20090910-concertation-meeting-fast-dot_en.pdf

and http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/photonics/concertation100909_en.html

• Photonics for Life Sciences at the University of Dundee

Dr Maria Ana Cataluna (University of Dundee) presented an overview of FAST-DOT at a Meeting for Early Career Scientists with the Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government in Edinburgh on 17th February 2009.

For more details see http://fast-dot.eu/media/MACataluna_RSEd%20090217.pdf

• Multi-level transitions in ultrafast quantum dot lasers

Dr Maria Ana Cataluna presented an overview of FAST-DOT at the 3rd Concertation meeting in Photonics in Florence, Italy on 13th February 2009.

For more details see ftp://ftp.cordis.europa.eu/pub/fp7/ict/docs/photonics/concfeb09-13-multileveltransitions-cataluna_en.pdf

and http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/photonics/concertation120209_en.html

• FAST-DOT COMPACT ULTRAFAST LASER SOURCES BASED ON NOVEL QUANTUM DOT STRUCTURES

Dr Edik Rafailov (Project Coordinator) presented an overview of FAST-DOT at the EU-Russia Information and Brokerage Event in Moscow, Russia on : 22nd October 2008

For more details see http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/events/moscow2008/docs/presentations/photonics/rafailov.pdf

and http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/events/moscow2008/index_en.htm

• FAST-DOT COMPACT ULTRAFAST LASER SOURCES BASED ON NOVEL QUANTUM DOT STRUCTURES

Dr Edik Rafailov (Project Coordinator) presented an overview of FAST-DOT at the 2nd Concertation Meeting - FP7 Projects in Barcelona, Spain on 18th September 2008

For more details see ftp://ftp.cordis.europa.eu/pub/fp7/ict/docs/photonics/20080918-presentation-concertation-fastdot_en.pdf

and http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/photonics/concertation180908_en.html