Sunday, September 14, 2008

16:00 - 19:00	Registration
19:00 - 20:00	Federico Capasso (tutorial)
		"QC lasers: past, present, future"
20:00   Dinner

Monday, September 15, 2008

08:30 - 09:30	Jerome Faist, replacement for John Cockburn (tutorial)
		"Fundamental of QCL: active regions"
09:30 - 10:30   Qing Hu (tutorial)
		"Resonant phonon-based THz quantum-cascade lasers and real-time T-rays imaging"
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee break
11:00 - 12:00	Karl Unterrainer (tutorial)
		"Time domain spectroscopy of quantum cascade lasers" 
12:00 - 12:20	William Charles
		"Growth and Characterization of Zn(x)Cd(1-x)Se/Zn(x')Cd(y')Mg(1-x'-y')Se
		Quantum Cascade Emitters"
12:20 - 12:40	Simeon Katz 
		"Low-threshold Injectorless Quantum Cascade Lasers" 
12:40 - 14:00	Lunch
14:00 - 16:30	Break-out session
16:30 - 16:50	Wilfried Maineult 
		"Directional beam pattern from a double metal Quantum Cascade Laser with a
		TEM-Horn Antenna"
16:50 - 17:10	Aji Anappara 
		"Femtosecond build-up of ultrastrong light-matter interaction"
17:10- 17:30	Michael Wanke 
		"On-chip Integration of Terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers into Lithographically
		Micromachined Waveguides"
17:30 - 18:30	Alessandro Tredicucci (tutorial)
		"Intersubband polaritonics"
18:30 - 20:30	Dinner
20:30 - 21:00	Wolfgang Parz (invited) 
		"Exploration of the Complex Refractive Index and its Derivatives in a Mid
		Infrared Quantum Cascade Laser by Ultrafast Spectroscopy"
21:00 - 21:20	Dimitri Oustinov 
		"Investigation of the spectral gain narrowing in THz Quantum Cascade Lasers of
		various active region sizes"
21:20 - 21:40	Miriam Vitiello
		"Hot electrons in THz quantum cascade lasers"

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

08:30 -  09:30	Carlo Sirtori (tutorial) 
		"Non-linear optics and microcavities"  
09:30 - 10:00	Franz Kaertner (invited) 
		"Instabilities and mode-locking in QC lasers"
10:00 - 10:30	Christian Jirauschek (invited) 
		"Carrier transport modeling in quantum cascade lasers"
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30	Lukas Mahler (invited) 
		"Tuning a distributed feedback THz quantum cascade laser with an external
		microcavity"
11:30 - 12:00	Yannick Chassagneux (invited) 
		"THz photonic-crystal lasers with boundary-conditions control"
12:00 - 12:20	Alexander Benz 
		"Photonic Crystal Mode Quantum-Cascade Lasers"   
12:20 - 12:40	Hua Zhang 
		"High Performance Pillar Type Photonic Crystal Quantum Cascade Lasers
		at THz Frequency"
12:40 - 14:00	Lunch
14:00 - 16:45	Break-out session
16:45 - 17:30	Poster Flash I
17:30 - 19:00	POSTER I
19:00 - 20:30	Dinner
20:30 - 	Break-out session 

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

08:30 - 09:30	Ted Masselink (tutorial) 
		"Limits and Opportunities at the Short-wave end of QCLs: Taking Advantage
		of Strained Materials"
09:30 - 10:00	Dan Wassermann (invited) 
		"Room Temperature Intersublevel Electroluminesence from Self Assembled
		Quantum Dots" 
10:00 - 10:30	Giacomo Scalari (invited) 
		"Magnetic confinement on THz quantum cascade structures"
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30	Mikhail Belkin (invited) 
		"Designing THz QCL sources for operation above cryogenic temperatures"
11:30 - 11:50	Michele Nobile 
		"Nonlinear wave-mixing in twin-waveguide GaAs/AlGaAs quantum-cascade lasers" 
11:50 - 12:10	Richard Maulini 
		"High power, high wallplug efficiency room temperature continuous wave
		quantum cascade lasers"
12:10 - 12:30	Alfredo Bismuto 
		"Large cavities Quantum Cascade Lasers with InP interstacks"
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch
14:00		Excursion

Thursday, September 18. 2008

08:30 - 09:00	Kale Franz (invited) 
		"Short Injector Regions for Improved Quantum Cascade Laser Performance"
09:00 - 09:30	Andreas Hugi (invited)
		"Broadband external-cavity quantum cascade laser"
09:30 - 10:00	Manijeh Razeghi (invited) 
		"High performance QC lasers: Latest achievements and future trends"
10:00 - 10:30	Matthew P. Fraser (invited) 
		"Use of QCL-based Trace Gas Sensors to Study Air Quality and Atmospheric
		Chemistry"
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30	Gerard Wysocki (invited) 
		"External Cavity Quantum Cascade Lasers: Recent Advances and Applications"
11:30 - 12:00	Lukas Emmenegger (invited) 
		"High precision isotope ratio analysis of CO2 and N2O using quantum cascade
		laser absorption spectroscopy"
12:00 - 12:30	Boris Mizaikoff (invited) 
		"Liquid sensing with QC lasers"
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch
14:00 - 16:45	Break out session
16:45 - 17:30	Poster Flash II
17:30 - 19:00	POSTER II
19:00 - 	Dinner         

Friday, September 19, 2008

08:30 - 09:00	Erwan Normand (invited) 
		"Application and standardization of QC Lasers in high volume gas sensing
		solutions"
		(talk given by S.Nicholson)
09:00 - 09:30	Timothy Day (invited) 
		"Commercially Available Broadly Tunable External Cavity Quantum Cascade Lasers"
09:30 - 10:00*	Tadatake Edamura (invited) 
		"Quantum Cascade Lasers Developed at HAMAMATSU and Their Applications"
10:00 - 10:30	John Bruno (invited)  
		"Recent Progress on QC Laser Development at Maxion Technologies, Inc"
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30	Mark Zahniser (invited)
		"Atmospheric Trace Gas Measurements Using QC Laser Spectroscopy"
11:30 - 12:00	Stephane Blaser (invited) 
		"MOVPE grown single-mode quantum cascade lasers"
12:00 - 12:30	Paolo De Natale (invited) 
		"Frequency metrology with Quantum Cascade Lasers"
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch
14:00 - 14:20	Laurent Diehl 
		"Coherent Coupling of Multiple Transverse Modes in a Quantum Cascade Laser" 
14:20 - 14:40	Roland Teissier 
		"Quantum Cascade Lasers emitting at 3.3um"
14:40 - 15:00	Leonard Hoffmann 
		"Quantum Cascade Laser with Mach-Zehnder-type Cavity" 
15:00 - 15:20	Christian Pfluegl 
		"High Power (1.6W) Continuous-Wave Room Temperature Quantum Cascade Lasers" 
15:20 - 15:40	Frank Tittel 
		"Advanced Infrared Semiconductor Laser based Chemical Sensing  Technologies"
15:40 - 16:00	Tanya Myers 
		"Trace Gas Detection with Quantum Cascade Lasers for both Point and Stand-off
		Detection"