History
PRE is the acronym indicating the series of International Workshops on Photoluminescence of Rare-Earth: Photonic Materials and Applications, begun in Trento, Italy, in May 2005, on the initiative of Maurizio Ferrari and Giancarlo C. Righini. These Workshops are sponsored by the TC20 Committee (Photonic Glasses and Optical Fibers) of the International Commission on Glass (ICG).
All the Workshops have been quite successful and keep providing excellent opportunities for discussions between researchers working on photoluminescence of rare-earth ions in various materials and devices, as well as on their applications.
Here there are some data about the past PREs (the number of contributions includes all types of presentation, namely invited, oral, and poster). Since 2016, dr. Righini has been appointed Honorary Chair of the PRE Workshops.
PRE’05 (Trento, Italy)
Co-chairs: Bernard Champagnon, Maurizio Ferrari, Giancarlo C. Righini
Attendance: over 70 people, from 9 Countries - 47 presentations
PRE’07 (Trento, Italy)
Co-chairs: Maurizio Ferrari, Giancarlo C. Righini, Setsuhisa Tanabe
Attendance: over 70 people, from 9 Countries - 57 presentations
PRE’10 (Florence, Italy)
Co-chairs: Maurizio Ferrari, Giancarlo C. Righini, Setsuhisa Tanabe
Attendance: 126 people from 20 Countries - 96 presentations
PRE’12 (Kyoto, Japan)
Co-chairs: Setsuhisa Tanabe, Giancarlo C. Righini, Maurizio Ferrari
Attendance: 167 participants from 21 Countries - 140 presentations
PRE’14 (San Sebastian, Spain)
Co-chairs: Rolindes Balda, Joaquìn Fernández, Maurizio Ferrari
Attendance: 110 participants from 23 Countries - 122 presentations
PRE’16 (Greenville, USA)
Co-chairs: Luiz G. Jacobsohn, John Ballato
Attendance: 65 participants from 11 Countries - 59 presentations
PRE’17 (Roma, Italy)
Co-chairs: Dominik Dorosz, Maurizio Ferrari, Laeticia Petit
Attendance: 140 participants from 28 Countries - 137 presentations
PRE’19 (Nice, France)
Co-chairs: Wilfried Blanc, Pieter Dorenbos, Fiorenzo Vetrone
Attendance: more than 140 participants from 26 countries - 147 presentations
After each Workshop, a Special Issue of a journal (so far, it was Optical Materials) was published, that included a number of selected papers, peer-reviewed according to the standard journal’s procedure:
PRE’05: Optical Materials, Volume 28, Issue 11, August 2006
Preface, by G. C. Righini, M. Ferrari, B. Champagnon
PRE’07 Optical Materials, Volume 31, Issue 9, July 2009
Preface, by G. C. Righini, M. Ferrari, S. Tanabe
PRE’10: Optical Materials, Volume 33, Issue 2, December 2010
Preface, by G. C. Righini
PRE’12: Optical Materials, Volume 35, Issue 11, September 2013
Preface, by S. Tanabe, G. C. Righini, M. Ferrari
PRE’14: Optical Materials, Volume 41, March 2015
Preface, by R. Balda, J. Fernández, M. Ferrari
Preface, by Luiz G. Jacobsohn and John Ballato
PRE’17: Optical Materials, Volume 87, January 2019
Preface, by D. Dorosz, G. C. Righini, M. Ferrari, L. Petit
Editorial, by W. Blanc, P. Dorenbos, F. Vetrone, G. C. Righini
The story continues: see you in Cancún, Mexico, in August 2022, and in Poland in September 2022.