PHOTOLUMINESCENCE IN RARE EARTHS:
PHOTONIC MATERIALS AND DEVICES (PRE'10)
Firenze, Italy, 28 - 30 April 2010

WORKSHOP  SUMMARY


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 third edition was held in Florence, Italy, on April 28 - 30, 2010, with a large participation and a high-level scientific program. More than 110 scientists from 18 Countries have attended the Workshop.

The main promoters of the Workshop have been 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.

A photo gallery is now accessible.

During PRE'10 it was decided that next edition of the Workshop (PRE'12) will be held in Kyoto, Japan, in the Spring 2012.

PREVIOUS WORKSHOPS

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).
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, with some 80 participants.
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.