Department of Electrical and Electronics EngineeringDepartment of Physics2024-11-0920202159-393010.1364/OME.3961192-s2.0-85086834563https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14288/2854This joint issue of Optics Express and Optical Materials Express features 17 state-of-the art articles written by authors who participated in the international conference Advanced Solid-State Lasers held in Vienna, Austria, from September 29 to October 3, 2019. This introduction provides a summary of these articles that cover numerous areas of solid-state lasers from materials research to sources and from design to experimental demonstration.pdfMaterials science, multidisciplinaryOpticsOtherhttps://doi.org/10.1364/OME.396119530888200015Q2NOIR02245