Highlights include conferences on fiber, solid state, disk, and ultrafast lasers plus the world's largest concentration of semiconductor laser/LED content at one event. Applications include lasers for free-space communications, industrial, and biomedical use.New for 2012: Conference on High Power Laser Materials Processing: Lasers, Beam Delivery, Diagnostics, and ApplicationsPlan now to present your research in: + Laser Source Engineering + Nonlinear Optics                                                                        + Semiconductor Lasers and LEDs + Laser Micro-/Nanoengineering + Laser Applications + Green Photonics Virtual Symposium