The European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and the European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO庐/Europe-EQEC) is considered the largest, most comprehensive and prestigious event in its field. This biennial conference took place fr om Sunday June 21st, 2015 to Thursday June 25th, 2015 in Munich (ICM), Germany. In addition, the participants took advantage of having access to the exhibition LASER World of PHOTONICS. The United Nations having proclaimed 2015 as the International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies, this international conference highlighted new frontiers in lasers, photonics and optical science across a wide range of technical areas. It is the benchmark conference wh ere more than 20 thousand European researchers and about a thousand companies from 60+ countries presented their most groundbreaking results.
NSU researchers, who presented more than 20 reports, were far ahead of other Russian industry, university and research organizations in the number of presentations. Most reports were submitted by the staff of the Laboratory of Nonlinear Photonics headed by Sergey Turitsyn, who in his turn presented the report 鈥淥ptical wave turbulence in fibre lasers鈥� as an invited speaker and headed the session 鈥淪patio-Temporal Dynamics in Nonlinear Optical System鈥�.
In honour of 2015, International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies (IYL 2015), CLEO / Europe-EQEC 2015 welcomed two famous Nobel Laureates for the conference Plenary Talks: Theodor H盲nsch from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit盲t M眉nchen, Munich, Germany (Nobel Prize of Physics 2005) and Serge Haroche from ENS/UPMC/CNRS, Paris, France (Nobel Prize of Physics 2012), as well as Eric Betzig and Stefan Hell (2014 Nobel Laureates of Chemistry), who addressed the latest developments in their fields of research. CLEO庐/Europe reflects a strong international presence in the complementary research traditions of laser science, photonics and quantum electronics. More specifically, CLEO庐/Europe emphasizes applied physics, optical engineering and applications of photonics and laser technology, with EQEC emphasizing basic research in laser physics, nonlinear optics and quantum optics. According to the official information, CLEO庐/Europe showcased the latest developments in a wide range of laser and photonics areas including laser source development, materials, ultrafast science, fibre optics, nonlinear optics, terahertz sources, high-field physics, optical telecommunications, nanophotonics, biophotonics and photonics for defense and security; EQEC featured the fundamentals of quantum optics, quantum information, atom optics, ultrafast optics, nonlinear phenomena and self-organization, plasmonics and metamaterials, fundamental nanooptics, theoretical and computational photonics.
鈥淭he NSU delegation included 9 researchers (with 5 young scientists) and was the most substantial of the Russian delegations present, which reflects the high level of research in the field of photonics at NSU,鈥� says Sergey Kobtsev, the Head of Division of Laser Physics and Innovative Technologies at NSU. 鈥淲e have been participating in this event for more than 10 years, but this year the delegation was the strongest one.鈥�
In addition, an NSU startup Technoscan Lab participated in the exhibition Laser World of Photonics with their laser systems featuring the record-breaking parameters of laser radiation. The systems were highly evaluated by foreign experts and are to be much in demand for cutting-edge research and high technologies. The company found partners in Germany, Switzerland and Hong Kong, who deliver laser equipment, and signed partnership agreements. They also arranged meetings with world leaders in femtosecond laser microprocessing and discussed opportunities of using Technoscan-Lab鈥檚 femtosecond fiber lasers for additive and subtractive technologies.
