The 2025 edition of the European Semiconductor Laser Workshop will take place at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) from Friday, October 3, to Saturday, October 4, 2025. This timing conveniently follows the ECOC conference in Copenhagen (September 28 – October 2, 2025). DTU is located just 10 km north of Copenhagen, providing an accessible and inspiring venue for the event.

Previous editions of the workshop

2024 - University of Kassel, Germany

2023 - Glasgow University, United Kingdom

2022 - EPFL - CSEM  Neuchatel, Switzerland

2021  - Télécom Paris and Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France  (on-line)

2020 -  Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, The Netherlands (on-line)

2019 -  University College Cork, Ireland

2018 -  Università degli Studi di Bari, Italy 

2017 - Technical University of Denmark DTU, Denmark 

2016 - Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany

2015 -  Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain

2014 -  Laboratory for Photonics and Nanostructures CNRS, Paris, France

2013 -  University of Bristol, United Kingdom

2012 -  Vrije Universiteit Brussel,  Belgium

2011 -  EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland

2010 - University of Pavia, Italy

2009 - Technical University Vienna, Austria

2008 - Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, The Netherlands

2007 -  Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, HHI, Berlin, Germany

2006 - LPMC, Nice, France

2005 - University of Glasgow, Strathclyde University, Glasgow, United Kingdom 

2004 - Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden

2003 - Polytecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy

2002 - Copenhagen, Denmark

2001 - Universiteit Gent, Belgium

2000-  Berlin, Germany

1999 - Paris, France

1998 - El Escorial, Spain

1997 - Pitlochry, United Kingdom

1996 - Lillehammer, Norway

1995 - Veldhoven, The Netherlands

1994 - Torino, Italy

1993 - Rigi, Switzerland

1992 - Potsdam, Germany

1991 - Chantilly, France

1990 - Bruges, Belgium

1989 - Stockholm, Sweden

1988 - Stevenage, United Kingdom

1987 - Tampere, Finland

1986 - Madrid, Spain

1985 - Belgirate, Italy

1984 - Schliersee, Germany

1983 - Joigny, Switzerland

1982 - Saclay, France (named 5th European Workshop on Injection Lasers)

1981 - Stockholm, Sweden

1980 - Harlow, United Kingdom

1979 - Eindhoven(?), The Netherlands

1978 - Reisensburg, Germany

List of workshops from before 2000 kindly provided by prof. Wolfgang Elsaesser - Technische Universität Darmstadt

Page maintained by dr Erwin Bente - Eindhoven University of Technology - Photonic Integration group