Physics of advanced and novel lasers
Solid-state, liquid and gas lasers and applications

Semiconductor lasers and nanotechnology

Resonators, (micro)cavities and beam propagation

THz generation, detection, guidance and control

Laser chemistry and laser material processing and nanofabrication

Nanophotonics, plasmonics, near field optics

Metamaterials, optical invisibility, and transformation optics

Nano-optoelectronics, nano-antennas, nano-sources and confined light emitters
Laser medicine and biophotonics

Ultrafast photonics
Ultra-fast optical processes in molecules and solids

Nonlinear optical materials and devices
Nonlinear effects in active and passive optical devices and systems
Nonlinear effects in plasmonics and nano-optics

High-speed photonic links and optical communications

PBG and photonic crystal devices

Specialty fibers including structured one and fiber lasers

Integrated and nonlinear waveguide photonics

Liquid crystals for advanced optoelectronics and lasers

Quantum information, quantum & optical computing, quantum entanglement

Optical measurement and instrumentation

Organic coherent/incoherent photonics