Events
Mid-Infrared Coherent Sources
26 March 2018 – 28 March 2018 Hilton Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
The Mid-IR spectrum covering wavelengths from ~2 µm up to THz has become a region of increased interest in recent years. The region is rich in spectroscopic fingerprints of molecules, which are used to identify pollutants for chemical, environmental and medical diagnostics, for process control, as well as for safety, security and defense applications. This meeting will be focused on the most recent advances in mid-IR to THz science and technology, including the latest developments in solid-state, fiber, and semiconductor materials, novel laser sources, nonlinear frequency conversion techniques and parametric devices, as well as the application of mid-IR and THz sources in remote sensing, spectroscopy, frequency synthesis, imaging, and biomedicine.
High-brightness Sources and Light-driven Interactions Congress
High-Intensity Lasers and High-Field Phenomena
Mid-Infrared Coherent Sources
Compact (EUV & X-ray) Light Sources
Topics
- Materials for mid-IR and THz Sources:
- Active ion-doped dielectric and semiconductor crystals
- Semiconductor materials and structures
- Specialty nonlinear fibers
- Nanomaterials
- Nonlinear optical materials and structures for mid-IR
- Mid-IR and THz Coherent Sources:
- Semiconductor lasers
- Mid-IR and THz quantum cascade lasers
- Optically pumped semiconductor lasers
- Solid-state and fiber lasers
- Optical parametric sources
- Ultrashort pulse lasers and frequency combs
- High-intensity ultrafast sources
- High-power, high-energy sources
- Broadband and continuum sources
- THz generation with ultrashort pulsed lasers and nonlinear optics
- Applications of mid-IR and THz sources in:
- Remote sensing, imaging
- Spectroscopy, trace gas detection, breath analysis
- Optical frequency synthesis, comb spectroscopy
- Laser surgery, biomedicine
- Materials processing
- Optical microscopy, biophotonics
- Nonlinear optics, attosecond physics
Speakers
- Hiromasa Ito, RIKEN, Japan
THz-wave Coherent Sources - Franz Kaertner, Center for Free Electron Laser Science, Germany
High Energy THz Generation and Electron Acceleration - Tobias Kippenberg, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Mid Infrared Kerr Frequency Comb and Coherent Super-Continuum Generation in Silicon Nitride Integrated Waveguides - Christopher Phillips, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Broadband and High Power Mid-Infrared Optical Parametric Amplification via Quasi-phase-matching Devices (Presenting the work of Ursula Keller and her team) - Giacomo Scalari, ETH Zurich
Frequency Combs based on Quantum Cascade Lasers - Carlo Sirtori, Universite Paris-Diderot Paris VII, France
Ultra-fast Modulation of Quantum Cascade Lasers and Infrared Detectors - Peter Tidemand-Lichtenberg, Danmarks Teknishe Universitet, Denmark
Mid-Infrared Imaging using Upconversion – Principles and Applications - Real Vallee, Universite Laval, Canada
The Bright Future of Mid-Infrared Fiber Lasers - Gabriel Ycas, National Inst of Standards & Technology, United States
Mid-Infrared Dual-Comb Spectroscopy for Atmospheric Gas Sensing (Presenting the work of Nathan Newbury and his team)
Committee
- Majid Ebrahim-Zadeh, ICFO -Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques, Spain , Chair
- Irina Sorokina, Norges Teknisk Naturvitenskapelige Univ, Norway , Chair
- Giuseppe Leo, Université Paris-Diderot Paris VII, France , Program Chair
- Benoit Boulanger, Neel Institute, France
- Scott Diddams, National Inst. of Standards & Technology, United States
- Marc Eichhorn, Inst Franco-Allemand Recherches St Louis, France
- Magnus Haakestad, Norwegian Defense Research Establishment, Norway
- Amr Helmy, University of Toronto, Canada
- Juliette Mangeney, Laboratoire Pierre Aigrain, France
- Delphine Marris-Morini, Universite de Paris-Sud, France
- Hiroaki Minamide, RIKEN, Japan
- Sergey Mirov, University of Alabama at Birmingham, United States
- Richard Moncorge, Universite de Caen, France
- Peter Moselund, NKT Photonics Inc, Denmark
- Christian Pedersen, DTU Fotonik, Denmark
- Peter Schunemann, BAE Systems Inc, United States
- Brandon Shaw, US Naval Research Laboratory, United States
- Chaitanya Kumar Suddapalli, ICFO -Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques, Spain
- Takunori Taira, Institute for Molecular Science, Japan
- Angela Vasanelli, University Paris Diderot, France
- Konstantin Vodopyanov, University of Central Florida, CREOL, United States
Plenary Session
Federico Capasso
Harvard University, USA
Quantum Cascade Laser Renaissance
Parametric effects and ultrafast gain dynamics in QCLs lead to single mode instability, multimode operation and to a new regime, the “harmonic” state, which are opening up new frontiers in frequency combs and RF Photonics
About the Speaker
Federico Capasso is the Robert Wallace Professor of Applied Physics at Harvard University, which he joined in 2003 after 27 years at Bell Labs where his career advanced from postdoctoral fellow to Vice President for Physical Research. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) and a foreign member of the Accademia dei Lincei. His awards include the IEEE Edison Medal, the American Physical Society Arthur Schawlow Prize in Laser Science, the King Faisal Prize, the SPIE Gold Medal, the AAAS Rumford Prize, the IEEE Sarnoff Award, the Materials Research Society Medal, the Franklin Institute Wetherill Medal, the European Physical Society Quantum Electronics Prize, the Rank Prize in Optoelectronics, the Optical Society Wood Prize, the Berthold Leibinger Future Prize, the Julius Springer Prize in Applied Physics, the Institute of Physics Duddell Medal, the Jan Czochralski Award for lifetime achievements in Materials Science, and the Gold Medal of the President of Italy for meritorious achievement in science.
Britt Turkot
Intel Corp, USA
Compact Sources and Chip-Making
In the past year, EUV LPP exposure sources have reached satisfactory power levels, achieving the long-established milestone of 250W. With EUV exposure tools, the source remains the leading cause of system down-time, including both routine scheduled maintenance as well as unplanned corrective actions. The nature of LPP source design leads to contamination, exposure dose errors, and the need for additional power to mitigate such effects. Compact sources offer possible opportunities in support of chip-making, including not only the option to replace the exposure source but also to provide sources for mask metrology (both lens and lens-less) as well as to support materials research and development.
About the Speaker
Britt joined the Photolithography department at Intel’s Portland Technology and Development organization in 1996 after completing her B.S. degree in Metallurgical Engineering and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Britt has been involved in many aspects of lithography development in PTD, including her current role as program manager of Intel’s EUV lithography program along with development of scanner reticle and frame graphics as well as the integration of new lithography tool platforms into Intel factories.
Andreas Tünnermann
Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering, Germany
Perfomance Scaling of Ultrafast Lasers via Coherent Combination
Coherent combination of ultrashort laser pulses emitted from spatially-separated amplifiers is a promising power-scaling technique for ultrafast laser systems concerning peak power and average power. In this presentation, the status and prospects of coherently combined fiber-CPA systems will be discussed.
About the Speaker
Andreas Tünnermann is Director of the Fraunhofer Institute of Applied Optics and Precision Engineering and Chair for the Insitute of Applied Physics at Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena. His main research interests include scientific and technical aspects associated with the tailoring of light. Research topics are the design and manufacturing of novel micro- and nano-optical photonic devices using high-end microlithography and its application for generation, amplification, steering and switching of light. In particular, his work on high power diode pumped fiber and waveguide lasers is widely recognized.
He is a member of the German Physical Society, European Physical Society and acatech, as well as a fellow of OSA and SPIE. His research activities on applied quantum electronics have been awarded with the Röntgen-Award, WLT-Award, Otto-Schott-Award, Leibinger Innovation Award and the Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz-Award. Most recently, he received a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant.
