Workshop: Organization of the 2013 OSA Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) Topical Meeting, in Paris, France, Oct. 27-Nov.1, 2013

目的：支持科学和工程领域的学生和年轻专业人士参加将于2013年10月27日至11月1日在法国巴黎举行的2013年OSA先进固态激光器（ASSL）会议。知识价值：美国光学学会的专题会议为培育不断发展的科学技术提供了必要的场合、环境和加强。提议的努力是通过资助科学和工程方面的学生和年轻专业人员来支持ASSL会议的材料部。会议涵盖了材料科学，凝聚态物理和化学相关的发展，表征和新的光学应用的进展。报告将涉及大块晶体、玻璃和陶瓷、微结构材料，如光纤、平面波导和周期性图案非线性晶体。会议的跨学科性质将在这些领域之间提供概念和技术的交叉施肥。更广泛的影响：ASSL会议旨在汇集来自学术界，政府和工业界的国际研究人员，展示和评估当前最先进的固态激光器。会议将通过分享成果、方法、启发新思想和发起新的合作，帮助推动该领域的发展。科学与工程领域的学生和年轻专业人员的参与将由国家科学基金资助，以部分支付旅费。一份技术摘要将以印刷和CD-ROM两种格式提供，其中将包括一般程序信息、论文摘要摘要和会议期间提交的所有论文的3页摘要。

Objective:To support participation of students and young professionals in science and engineering at the 2013 OSA Advanced Solid-State Lasers (ASSL) meeting which will be held in Paris, France, October 27-November 1, 2013.Intellectual Merit: Topical meetings of the Optical Society of America provide the occasion, the environment, and the reinforcement necessary to nurture evolving science and technologies. The proposed effort is to support the Materials Division of the ASSL meeting through funding of students and young professionals in science and engineering. The meeting encompasses advances in materials science, condensed matter physics, and chemistry relevant to the development, characterization and new optical applications. Presentations will address bulk crystals, glasses and ceramics, micro-structured materials such as optical fibers, planar waveguides, and periodically patterned non-linear crystals. The interdisciplinary nature of the meeting will provide cross fertilization of concepts and techniques between these fields.Broader Impact: The ASSL meeting aims to bring together international researchers from academia, government and industry to present and assess the current state-of-the-art of solid state lasers. The meeting will help to advance the field through sharing of results, methods, inspiring of new ideas, and initiation of new collaborations. Participation of students and young professionals in science and engineering will be fostered based on NSF funds to partially cover travel expenses. A technical digest will be available in both printed and CD-ROM format and will contain general program information, abstracts of the paper summaries, and the 3-page summaries of all papers presented during the meeting.