PHOTOLUMINESCENCE IN RARE EARTHS:

PHOTONIC MATERIALS AND DEVICES (PRE'10)

Firenze, Italy, 28 - 30 April 2010

PRESENTATION


This Workshop aims at providing a forum for material scientists, chemists and physicists where to debate about the state of the art and the perspectives of the photonic materials based on rare earth ions. Both fundamental photoluminescence properties and application-oriented materials investigations will be considered.

The main promoters of the Workshop are  FOTONICA.IT (Italian Committee for the Promotion of Optical Science and Technology), the CNR Institute of Applied Physics (IFAC) and the CNR Institute of Photonics & Nanotechnology (IFN), under the sponsorship of the Italian Society of Optics & Photonics (SIOF).
The Workshop is also supported by the Technical Committee on Glasses for Optoelectronics (TC-20) of the International Commission on Glass.

The first edition of the Workshop was held in Trento in May 2005 and was attended by more than 60 experts from 8 Countries (see the photo gallery), who presented original contributions in the area of rare-earth materials and processes. A special session was devoted to the mechanism of optical losses in low-phonon-energy glasses for IR fibers.
Several papers presented during the 1st PRE Workshop were published in a special issue of OPTICAL MATERIALS (Volume 28, issue 11, August 2006). The Guest Editors of that issue were Giancarlo C. Righini, Maurizio Ferrari and Bernard Champagnon.

The second edition of the Workshop was also held in Trento, on May 31st - June 1st, 2007. The Workshop sessions were held in the Congress Room of the Center for Scientific and Technological Research (ITC-IRST, now Fondazione Bruno Kessler - FBK), which is a public research center of the Autonomous Province of Trento, and were attended by almost 80 experts.
Again, several papers presented during the 2nd PRE Workshop were published in a special issue of OPTICAL MATERIALS (Volume 31, issue 9, July 2009). The Guest Editors of that issue were Giancarlo C. Righini, Maurizio Ferrari and Setsuhira Tanabe.

The third edition, which was originally planned for September 2009, has now been moved to April 2010. The location as well will be new, moving from Trento to Florence.
  The final Call for Papers is available. ______
Plan to participate !!

 

Note: PRE'10 participates to the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the laser, which was invented in 1960.