International
Summer School

Matthias Jäger
Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technologies, Jena, Germany
“Strategies for the spectral extension of fiber lasers”

Christian Kränkel
Leibniz Institute of Crystal Growth, Berlin, Germany
a) “Fluoride crystals as host materials for visible lasers”
b) “Rare-earth doped fluoride crystals for solid-state laser cooling”

Markus Pollnau
University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom
a) “Thermal equilibrium and relation between Boltzmann, Fermi-Dirac, and Bose-Einstein distributions”
b) “Rare-earth-doped channel-waveguide amplifiers and lasers”
c) “Fundamental Laser linewidth and rare-earth-doped narrow-linewidth lasers”

Heike Ebendorff-Heidepriem
University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia
a) “Rare-earth ions as indicators for local structure”
b) “Rare-earth ions for temperature measurement”

Maurizio Ferrari
Institute for Photonics and Nanotechnologies, Trento, Italy
a) “Photonic glass ceramics: advances and perspectives”
b) “Flexible photonics: an exciting new research field”

Alessandra Toncelli
University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
a) “Rare-earth-doped nanoparticles”
b) “MID-infrared transitions of rare-earth ions”

Rafael Valiente
University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain
“Photoluminescence of lanthanide ions: beyond the atomic behavior”