Luis Cerdán received the Licenciatura degree in physics and the M.S. degree in fundamental physics from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, in 2006 and 2007, respectively. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in solid state dye lasers at the Instituto de Química Física Rocasolano, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Madrid, under the supervision of Prof. Costela and Prof. García-Moreno. He spent three months working on organic distributed feedback lasers at the School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, Scotland, in 2009, under the supervision of Dr. Turnbull. His current research interests include simulation and experimental characterization of integrated laser systems.