Amplitude Systemes will present its latest products during the Photonics West and Bios conferences, from January 22 to January 27 in San Francisco, U.S.A.

Amplitude Systemes is sponsoring the Best Student Paper Competition and Ceremony, Frontiers in Ultrafast Optics: Biomedical, Scientific and Industrial Applications XI (Conf. 7925). The competition and award ceremony will be held on Wednesday, January 26, from 8:00 to 10:00 am. The winner and runner-up will be announced at the end of this session and awarded a cash prize.

Amplitude Systemes is a finalist of the Prism Awards, for its industrial fiber laser Tangerine. Winners will be announced on 26 January during a gala celebration at the San Francisco Hilton.

Applications of Amplitude Systemes' lasers will also be featured in the following technical presentations:

• CPA-free picosecond fiber amplifier with >10μJ pulse energy and 300kW peak power - Paper 7925-27, Monday Jan. 24.
• High-energy fibre CPA system based on a single stage rod type fiber amplifier in double pass configuration - Paper 7914-55, Thursday Jan. 27.
  
• Short pulse and high repetition rate diode-pumped Yb:CaF2 regenerative amplifier  - Paper 7912-29, Tuesday Jan. 25.
  
• Diode-pumped, cryogenically cooled Yb:CaF2 for high efficient and high power laser - Paper 7912-65, Thursday, Jan. 27.