The 2nd Symposium on Infrared Materials and Technologies

Working Agenda
Syposium on Infrared Materials and Technologies

Monday, November 21, 2005

• 7:00 a.m.
  Registration
• 7:45 a.m.
  Welcome/Introduction

• 8:00 a.m.
  New Frontiers in Quantum Cascade Laser Research
  Federico Capasso, Harvard University
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• 8:30 a.m.
  Advances in Materials for Infrared Laser Sources
  Ken Hopkins, Air Force Research Laboratory
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• 9:00 a.m.
  Absorption and Luminescence Studies of Nonlinear Optical Materials: CdGeAs2 and ZnGeP2
  Nancy Giles, West Virginia University
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• 9:20 a.m.
  Break - continental breakfast
• 9:40 a.m.
  Integrated Multimaterial Fibers for Transport and Device Applications
  Yoel Fink, MIT
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• 10:00 a.m.
  Semiconductor Wires in Microstructured Optical Fibers for Infrared Optoelectronics
  John Badding,Pennsylvania State University
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• 10:40 a.m.
  The Synthesis of Low Loss Negative Index Metamaterials for Applications in the Infrared and Beyond
  Douglas Werner, Pennsylvania State University
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• 11:00 a.m.
  Properties of Negative Refractive Index Metamaterials and Prospects for IR Realization
  Steven Cummer, Duke University
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• 11:20 a.m.
  A Narrow Bandwidth, Tunable Terahertz Source and its Applications
  Peter Powers
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• 11:40 a.m.
  Development and Application of Chemical Sensing Instrumentation Based on Novel Infrared Light Sources
  Tom Kulp, Sandia National Laboratory
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• 12:00 p.m.
  Lunch - Gardens Restaurant
• 1:20 p.m.
  Tunable Infrared Laser Sources for Atmospheric Sensing: Development and Application
  Dirk Richter, National Center for Atmospheric Research
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• 1:40 p.m.
  Tunnel Quantum Dot Infrared Photodetector for High Temperature Applications
  Pallab Bhattacharya, University of Michigan
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• 2:00 p.m.
  Mid-Infrared Quantum Cascade Lasers for High Temperature Applications
  Manijeh Razeghi, Northwestern University
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• 2:20 p.m.
  Multi-wavelength and nonlinear Quantum Cascade Lasers
  Claire Gmachl, Princeton University
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• 2:40 p.m.
  Break
• 3:20 p.m.
  Resonant-phonon Terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers
  John Reno, Sandia National Laboratory
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• 3:40 p.m.
  Mid-IR Interband Cascade Lasers and their Applications
  Rui Yang, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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• 4:00 p.m.
  Antimonide Type-II "W" Diode Lasers for the Mid-IR
  Jerry Meyer, Naval Research Laboratory
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• 4:20 p.m.
  Development of High-power Room-temperature Continuous Wave Operation of Type-I In(Al)GaAsSb/GaSb Diode Lasers
  Jongjin George, David Sarnoff Research Center
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• 4:40 p.m.
  Room Temperature Operation in 17xx - 21xx nm High Power Broad Area Laser Diodes
  Ernest Sirkin, Applied Optronics
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• 5:00 p.m.
  Cash Bar
• 6:00 p.m.
  Dinner

Tuesday, November 22, 2005

• 7:30 a.m.
  Registration

• 8:00 a.m.
  Fiber-bulk Hybrid Lasers
  Andrew Clarkson
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• 8:30 a.m.
  Hyperspectral IR Imaging
  Joe Pellegrino
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• 9:00 a.m.
  Three and Four Micrometer Wavelength Lasers in Barium Yttrium Fluoride
  Hans Jenssen
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• 9:20 a.m.
  Break - continental breakfast
• 9:40 a.m.
  Mid-IR Coherent Sources Based on Orientation-Patterned GaAs (OP-GaAs)
  Martin Fejer
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• 10:20 a.m.
  Fiber Laser Pumped Mid-Infrared OPOs
  Mark Bowers
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• 10:40a.m.
  Mid-Infrared Supercontinuum Generation in Fibers
  Mohammed Islam
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• 11:00 a.m.
  Widely-tunable, Monochromatic, and High-power THz Sources
  Yujie Ding
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• 11:20 a.m.
  Advances in Optically and Possibly Electrically Pumpable Transition Metal Doped II-VI mid-IR Lasers
  Sergey Mirov
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• 11:40 a.m.
  Tellurite Glasses and Fibers for Ir Lasers and Amplifiers
  Jean Toulouse
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• 12:00 p.m.
  Lunch - Gardens Restaurant

• 1:00 p.m.
  Quantum Dot Infrared Photodiodes and MWIR Avalanche Photodiodes
  Joe Campbell
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• 1:20 p.m.
  Single Photon Detectors Beyond Avalanche Reach: a Nanotechnology Solution
  Hooman Mohseni
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• 1:40 p.m.
  Break
• 2:20 p.m.
  Nanophotonics for Infrared Detectors
  Steven Brueck
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• 2:40 p.m.
  Infrared Focal Plane Arrays based on Quantum Dots and Strain Layer Superlattices
  Sanjay Krishna
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• 3:00 p.m.
  Structural and Temporal Characterization of VOx for Uncooled IRFPA Applications
  Mark Horn
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• 3:20 p.m.
  Applications of HgTe/CdTe Superlattices in Infrared Detectors
  Chris Grein
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• 3:40 p.m.
  Closing Comments