14th Laser Ceramics Symposium LCS218 | International Symposium on Transparent Ceramics for Photonic Applications is an annual international conference since 2005 The aim of the symposium is to provide a forum for material scientists chemists and physicists to discuss the state of the art of optical transparent ceramics including basic aspects and promising applications and to give an insight into future advances and research possibilities in this field The previous LCS events were held in Poland 2005 Japan 2006 France 2007 China 2008 Spain 2009 Germany 2010 Singapore 2011 Russia 2012 and 2017 South Korea 2013 Poland 2014 China 2015 and France 2016 It is our honor and pleasure to organize the 14th LCS LCS2018 in Japan in the city of Okazaki The symposium program will include invited talks as well as contributed oral and poster presentations We hope that the symposium will bring together leading experts from around the world will stimulate active discussions andlcs2018.jp