Eighth Russian Workshop on Fibre Lasers

The eighth Russian Workshop on Fibre Lasers was held in Novosibirsk, Russia on 3–7 September 2018. The previous workshops took place in Novosibirsk (2007, 2012, 2014 and 2016), Saratov (2008), Ufa (2009) and Ulyanovsk (2010). The 2017 Workshop was organised by the Institute of Automation and Electrometry (IAE), Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) (Novosibirsk); the Fiber Optics Research Center (FORC), RAS (Moscow); and the Institute of Computational Technologies, Siberian Branch, RAS. The objectives of the workshop were to highlight recent advances in fibre lasers and their applications and ensure an exchange of views between Russian-speaking scientists working at leading Russian and foreign research, technology and education centres.