Invited Speakers:

Dr. Alfred Y. Cho, Lucent Technology, USA
"Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) Growth of Quantum Cascade Lasers"

Professor Ronald K. Hanson, Stanford University, USA
"Diode Lasers for Combustion Sensing and Control"

Professor Jerome Faist, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland
"Room Temperature Quantum Cascade Lasers for gas and Liquid Spectroscopy"

Professor Claude Alibert, Universite Montpellier, France
"Gas Analysis Using Room Temperature Diode Lasers in the 2-2.5 Micron Range"

Dr. Maxim Spiridonov, General Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia
"Precision Lineshape Measurements Using Near Infrared Diode Lasers"

Dr. Trevor J. Sears, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA
"Diode Laser Spectroscopy of Molecular Free Radicals"

Dr. Andrei Berezin, General Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia
"Trace Gas Detection with Near Infrared Diode Lasers"

Dr. Yuriy Selivanov, Lebedev Institute, Moscow, Russia
"Recent Developments in Lead Salt Based Nanostructures for Infrared Lasers"

Dr. Thomas Giesen, Physikalisches Institut, University of Cologne, Germany
"High resolution IR-Spectroscopy of Small Carbon Clusters"

Dr. Carlo Sirtori, Thompson-CSF, Orsay, France
"Recent Development on GaAs Based Quantum Cascade Lasers"

Dr. Jan Peter Toennies, Max-Planck-Institut fur Stromungsforschung, Goettingen, Germany
"Superfluid He-Droplets: An Ultracold and Very Gentle Matrix for High Resolution Spectroscopy of Atom, Molecules and Clusters"

Dr. Harold Linnartz, Institut fur Physickalische Chemie, University of Basel Switzerland
"Tunable Diode Laser Spectroscopy of Molecular Ions and Ionic Complexes"

Dr. Haruo Nagai, Anritsu Corporation, Atsugi, Kanagawa, Japan
"Development on Gas Detection Systems using InGaAsP/InP Laser Diodes in 1.6-2µm wavelength region"