Advances in Spectroscopy for Lasers and Sensing

1. Spectroscopy of photonic atoms: a means for ultra-sensitive specific sensing of bio-molecules
Stephen Arnold, Ophir Gaathon

2. Laser sources for high resolution sensing
Giuseppe Baldacchini

3. Relaxation and decoherence: what's new?
Ralph v. Baltz

4. Challenges for current spectroscopy: detection of security threats
Norman P. Barnes

5. Sources for threat detection
Norman P. Barnes

6. Yb3+-doped CaF2 fluoride as an example of our research approach in solid-state laser-type crystals
Georges Boulon

7. Terahertz sensing and measuring systems
John W. Bowen

8. Ultrafast spectroscopy of biological systems
Selma Schenkl, Goran Zgrablic, Frank Mourik, Stefan Haacke, Majed Chergui

9. Luminescence spectroscopy of solids: localized systems
John Collins

10. Laser spectrometers for atmospheric analysis
Francesco D'Amato

11. Sensitive detection techniques in laser spectroscopy
W. Demtroeder, M. Keil, Th. Platz, H. Wenz

12. Luminescence spectroscopy of solids: delocalized systems
Baldassare Bartolo

13. Laser induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS)
R. Fantoni, L. Caneve, F. Colao, L. Fornarini, V. Lazic, V. Spizzichino

14. Optical spectroscopy of semiconductor quantum structures
Heinz Kalt

15. ZnO rediscovered – once again!?
C. Klingshirn, R. Hauschild, H. Priller, J. Zeller, M. Decker, H. Kalt

16. Coherent spectroscopy of semiconductor nanostructures
V. G. Lyssenko, J. Erland ostergaard

17. Dynamics of upconversion in laser crystals
Gonul Ozen

18. Waveguide fabrication methods in dielectric solids
Markus Pollnau

19. Spectral properties of films
Alexander P. Voitovich

20. Basic physics of semiconductor laser
Tobias Voss, Jürgen Gutowski

21. Judd-Ofelt theory: principles and practices
Brian M. Walsh

22. Periodic dielectric and metallic photonic structures
Martin Wegener

23. Cooling and trapping of atoms
Carl E. Wieman

24. Non-linear propagation of femtosecond terawatt laser pulses in air and applications
Jean-Pierre Wolf

25. Spectroscopy of the gap states in Ge based on its neutron transmutation doping kinetics
Andrei G. Zabrodskii

26. The status of unified theories of fundamental interactions
Giovanni Costa

27. Angular momentum of the human body
John Bartolo

28. Climate change and global security
George J. Goldsmith

29. Seminars
F. Messina, M. Cannas, R. Boscaino, Lineke Sneppen, Freek Ariese, Cees Gooijer, Arjan Wiskerke, Wim Ubachs, Wolfgang Loeffler, M. Trzebiatowska-Gusowska, J. Baran, M. Sledz, M. Drozd, A. Pietraszko, Solomon Bililign, K. C. Agarwal, B. Daniel, M. Hetterich, C. Klingshirn, Samuel Chung, Eric Mazur, Tina Shih, Maria Kandyla

30. Posters
A. Atanassov, G. Zlateva, M. Baleva, Lars Wischmeier, Chegnui Bekeny, Tobias Voss, Alexandru Popescu, Daniel Walldorf, Kai Schorstein, Thomas Walther, M. Marinova, Andrea Gnoli, Marcofabio Righini, Arno Vredenborg, Wim G. Roeterdink, Maurice H. M. Janssen, E. Salumbides, S. Hannemann, E. Reinhold, I. Labazan, S. Witte, R. Zinkstok, K. Eikema, W. Ubachs, Jacek P. Goc, Adam Bartczak, Marek Zaparucha, J. Trojan-Piegza, E. Zych, J. Niittykoski, J. Hölsa, L. Davydenko, I. Babich, Y. Plyuto, A. D. Langeveld, J. A. Moulijn, W. Gawelda, B. Sobanek, V. T. Pham, M. Kaiser, Y. Zaushitsyn, A. Tarnovsky, D. Grolimund, S. L. Johnson, R. Abela, M. Chergui, C. Bressler, R. Pazik, D. Hreniak, W. Strek, A. Speghini, M. Bettinelli, V. Diez Blanco, J. Siegel, J. Solis, L. Bonacina, P. Larrégaray, F. Mourik, V. Troncale, D. Seliuta, Olga Goncharova, Cristina Gaspar de Oliveira, Paulo Coelho de Oliveira, Cristina Gaspar Oliveira, Salvatore Almaviva, Giuseppe Baldacchini, Francesca Bonfigli, Rosa Maria Montereali, Maria Aurora Vincenti, Lineke Sneppen, James Carey, Brian Tull, Michael Sheehy, Eric Diebold, Eric Mazur

Nyckelord: Physics, Electromagnetism, Optics and Lasers, Quantum Optics, Quantum Electronics, Nonlinear Optics, Optical Spectroscopy, Ultrafast Optics, Atomic and Molecular Structure and Spectra, Solid State Physics and Spectroscopy