2nd International Workshop on Quantum Cascade Lasers

The 2nd International Workshop on Quantum Cascade Lasers / September 6-9, 2006 / Grand Hotel Rosa Marina / Marina di Ostuni, Brindisi, Italy

The Workshop provides a program of informal scientific exchanges and discussions. Each participant is required to make a 10-minute (15 for scene-setters) presentation and to attend the entire meeting to optimize communications.

Workshop pictures

Tuesday, September 5, 2006

Grand Hotel Rosa Marina. Lunch. Welcoming Reception from 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. Dinner

Wednesday, September 6, 2006
Breakfast: 7:30am - 8:30am
8:40am - 9:00am	Qing Hu and Gaetano Scamarcio: Welcome remarks and introduction
Session 1: Applications and industrial development of QCLs I Chair: Gaetano Scamarcio
9:00am - 9:30am (Scene setter)	Frank Tittel: High resolution spectroscopy and trace-gas detection with thermoelectrically-cooled cw quantum cascade lasers
9:30am - 9:50am	Joel Hensley: Recent Updates in QCL-based Sensing Applications
9:50am - 10:10am	Barry McManus: Comparison of CW and Pulsed Operation with a TE-Cooled Quantum Cascade Infrared Laser for Detection of Nitric Oxide at 1900 cm-1
10:10am - 10:30am	Erwan Normand: QC Laser gas sensing platform for Continuous Emission Monitoring and Homeland Security
10:30am - 11:00am	Coffee break and exhibit
Session 2: Applications and industrial development of QCLs II Chair: Manijeh Razeghi
11:00am - 11:20am	Timothy Day: Miniaturized External Cavity Quantum Cascade Lasers for Broad Tunability in the Mid-Infrared
11:20am - 11:40pm	Johannes Kunsch: Commercial application aspects of QUANTUM CASCADE LASERs
11:40pm - 12:00pm	Qing Hu : Real-time THz imaging using quantum-cascade lasers and focal-plane array cameras
12:00pm - 12:20pm	Jian-Rong Gao: THz heterodyne receivers using quantum-cascade lasers as local oscillators
12:20pm - 12:40pm	Juergen Röpcke: Status, Perspectives and Challenges using QCL for plasma Diagnostics and Process monitoring
12:40pm - 2:00pm	Lunch
2:00pm - 2:20pm	Thomas Nelson: U.S. Air Force Applications for Quantum Cascade Lasers
2:20pm - 2:40pm	Antoine Muller: Room-temperature continuous-wave single-mode quantum cascade lasers
2:40pm - 3:10pm	DISCUSSION SESSION I Chair: Qing Hu
3:10pm - 8:00pm	Afternoon break
8:00pm Typical Apulian dinner at Grand Hotel Rosa Marina

Thursday, September 7, 2006
Breakfast: 7:30 - 8:30am
Session 3: THz Quantum Cascade Laser I Chair: Jérôme Faist
8:40am - 9:10am (Scene setter)	Alessandro Tredicucci: Controlling the emission of THz Quantum Cascade Lasers
9:10am - 9:30am	Benjamin Williams: High-temperature and high-power THz quantum cascade lasers
9:30am - 9:50am	Giacomo Scalari: Terahertz quantum cascade lasers based on intra-well optical transitions
9:50am - 10:10am	Stefano Barbieri: Long wavelength superlattice Terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers
10:10am - 10:30am	Miriam S. Vitiello: Electronic temperatures and electron-lattice relaxation in THz QCLs
10:30am - 11:00am	Coffee break and exhibit
Session 4: THz Quantum Cascade Lasers II Chair: Paul Harrison
11:00am - 11:20am	Edmund Linfield: The MBE growth and fabrication of THz QCLs
11:20am - 11:40pm	Sushil Kumar: Long Wavelength and Surface-emitting Terahertz Quantum-Cascade Lasers
11:40am - 12:00pm	Karl Unterrainer: Phase-resolved stimulated emission from THz quantum cascade lasers
12:00am -12:20pm	Carlo Sirtori: THz sideband generation using Quantum Cascade Lasers
12:20pm - 12:40pm	H. C. Liu: Effect of doping on THz QCL
12:40pm - 1:00pm	Richard Soref: MOCVD Growth Results on GaN/AlGaN Terahertz Quantum-Cascade Laser Structures
1:00 - 1:30pm	DISCUSSION SESSION II Chair: Alessandro Tredicucci
1:30pm -2:40pm	Lunch
2:50pm - 7:30pm	Excursion: An afternoon guided tour of Alberobello (a UNESCO World Heritage Site). It is the capital of the trulli country, and the principal quarters of the old town, Monti and Aia Piccola, are entirely made up of trulli lining the uphill lanes. We will continue our tour to Grottoes of Castellana, one of the most important series of natural underground caves in Italy and Europe.
7:30pm	Conference Banquet: We will move to the city of POLIGNANO A MARE, one of the liveliest tourist resorts in Puglia and birthplace of the singer Domenico Modugno, famous for his world-renowned song "Volare". We will have dinner at Grotta Palazzese, a very exclusive restaurant built in a marine cave overlooking the ocean.

Friday, September 8, 2006
Breakfast: 7:30 - 8:30am
Session 5: Mid-IR Quantum Cascade Lasers Chair: Carlo Sirtori
8:40am -9:10am (Scene setter)	Manijeh Razeghi: High Power, High Reliability Quantum Cascade Lasers at the Center for Quantum Devices
9:10am - 9:30am	Richard Maulini: Broadly tunable external cavity quantum-cascade lasers
9:30am - 9:50am	Markus Amann: Injectorless quantum-cascade lasers
9:50am - 10:10am	Joachim Wagner: InP-based GaInAs/AlInAs and GaInAs/AlAsSb QC lasers: towards shorter wavelengths and quest for new applications
10:10am - 10:30am	Roland Teissier: Short wavelength (lambda = 3.3 micron) InAs/AlSb QC Lasers
10:30am - 10:50am	Coffee break
10:50am - 11:10am	Jerry Meyer: High-Power Mid-Infrared Interband Cascade Lasers
11:10am - 11:30am	Gregory Belenky: Electrically Tunable Cascade Lasers
Session 6: Modeling and characterization of QCLs Chair: Dan Botez
11:30am - 11:50am	Andreas Wacker: Quantum-mechanical wavepacket transport in Quantum Cascade Lasers
11:50am - 12:10pm	Masamichi Yamanishi: How does Such Narrow Linewidth come out from Quantum Cascade Laser?
12:10pm - 12:30pm	Gaetano Scamarcio: Thermal modeling of Quantum Cascade Lasers
12:30pm - 12:50pm	Paul Harrison: Magnetic field and electro-thermal modeling of quantum cascade lasers and electron transport calculations in quantum dot cascade lasers
12:50pm - 2:10pm	Lunch
2:10pm - 2:30pm	Bernhard Lendl: Quantitative analysis in liquid phase using quantum cascade lasers
2:30pm - 2:50pm	Mikhail Belkin: New directions in quantum cascade laser applications: from optofluidic lasers to plasmonic laser antennas
2:50pm - 3:20pm	Discussion Session III Chair: Karl Unterrainer
3:30pm Excursion - An afternoon guided tour of Bari. We will come to the Basilica of St. Nicholas, and the Castello Normanno-Svevo built over Norman remains. The dinner will be served at the roof garden of the Sheraton Nicolaus Hotel, where we will enjoy the splendid view over the city, as far as the sea.

Saturday, September 9, 2006
Breakfast: 7:30am - 8:30am
Session 7: Novel Phenomena and Physics Chair: Jerry Meyer
8:40am -9:10am (Scene setter)	Jérôme Faist: Quantum cascade lasers: more confinement in sight?
9:10am - 9:30am	Dan Botez: Progress towards Intersubband Quantum-Box Lasers
9:30am - 9:50am	Gottfried Strasser: Vertical second-harmonic emission from QCLs
9:50am - 10:10am	Alexey Belyanin: Nonlinear quantum cascade lasers: new integration designs and new materials
10:10am - 10:30am	Vincenzo Spagnolo: Non equilibrium electrons and phonons in quantum-cascade lasers
10:30am - 10:50am	Coffee break
10:50am - 11:10am	Ariel Gordon: Multimode dynamics and mode locking phenomena in QCLs
11:10am - 11:30am	Hans Sigg: Optical pumping: a possible route for a Si-based intersubband laser?
11:30am - 11:50am	Dan Wasserman: Nonlinear Quantum Cascade Lasers
11:50am - 12:10am	John Cockburn: Intersubband spectroscopy of electronic and optical processes in quantum cascade lasers under operating conditions: experiments and theory
12:10am - 1:00pm	WRAP-UP SESSION (voting record)
1:00pm	Lunch
3:00pm - 8:00pm	Free afternoon break
8:00pm	Gala Dinner: We will enjoy the gala dinner at the suggestive swimming pool of the Grand Hotel Rosa Marina. Sea flavors together with Apulian tradition dishes and a selection of regional wines will be served. An international music show will accompany our dinner.

Sunday, September 10, 2006

8:30am - 10:30am Breakfast

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