DETAILED PROVISIONAL PROGRAM

◊ Monday 1st September

08:45-09:00 — OPENING Session

09:00-10h45— Session NOVEL DEVICES -1
09:00 – INVITED – Broadband Terahertz pulse generation at high average power
Clara Saraceno
09:30 – Tailoring Absorption and Nonlinear Transduction in Graphene Terahertz Detectors
Alessandro Tredicucci (1), Lorenzo Alborghetti (1), Benedetta Bertoni (1), Leonardo Vicarelli (1), Simone Zanotto (2), Stefano Roddaro (1), Marco Cautero (3), Leonardo Gregorat (4), Giuseppe Cautero (5), Maria Cojocari (6), Georgy Fedorov (6), Polina Kuzhir (6), Alessandro Pitanti (1,2)
(1) Dipartimento di Fisica « E. Fermi », Università di Pisa, (2) NEST Lab, CNR Istituto Nanoscienze & Scuola Normale Superiore, (3) Department of Physics, Università degli Studi di Trieste, (4) Department of Engineering and Architecture, Università degli Studi di Trieste, (5) Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste, (6) University of Eastern Finland
09:45 – Phaser – An Integrated Photon Source and Phase Shifter in the Terahertz Range
Dominik Schock (1,2), Michael Jaidl (1,2), Dominik Theiner (1,2), Florian Pilat (3), Aaron Maxwell Andrews (2,3), Rahul Yadav (4), Gottfried Strasser (2,3), Benedikt Schwarz (2,3), Sascha Preu (4), Marie Ertl (1,2), Anna Invernici (1,2), Lucas Grandits (1,2), Elias Plankenbichler (1,2), Daniel Saleh (1,2), Juraj Darmo (1,2), Karl Unterrainer (1,2)
(1) Photonics Institute, TU Wien, (2) Center for Micro- and Nanostructures, TU Wien, (3) Institute of Solid State Electronics, TU Wien, (4) Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, TU Darmstadt
10:00 – Patch-antenna enhanced charge sensitive infrared detectors
Yanko Todorov, Thomas Krieguer
LPEM
10:15 – Ultra-fast quantum-well mid-infrared photodetectors: time-resolved photocurrent and  optical saturation by femtosecond laser excitation
Prannay Balla (1), Victor Merupo (1), Djamal Gacemi (2), Carlo Sirtori (2), Jean-François Lampin (2), Emilien Peytavit (1), Stefano Barbieri (1)
(1) IEMN, (2) LPA, ENS-PSL Research University
10:30 – Graphene-based two-terminal devices for autocorrelating ultrafast mid-infrared pulses
Nina Pettinger, Johannes Schmuck, Xiao Yi Zhou, Sebastian Loy, Sergey Zherebtsov, Christoph Kastl, Alexander Holleitner
Walter Schottky Institut & Munich Center for Quantum Science and Technology

10:45-11h15 — Break

11:15-12h15 — Session THEORY -1
11:15 – Coherent optical control of chiral Quantum Hall edge states
Alexey Belyanin (1), Ashutosh Singh (1), Maria Sebastian (1), Mikhail Tokman (2)
(1) Texas A&M University [College Station], (2) Ariel University
11:30 – Fermionic quantum theory of non-linear phenomena in theultra-strong coupling regime
Thomas Krieguer
LPEM
11:45 – MonacoQC: A multi-domain simulation framework for quantum cascade lasers
Michael Rinderle, Niklas Pichel, Michael A. Schreiber, Lukas Seitner, Michael Haider, Christian Jirauschek
TUM School of Computation, Information and Technology, Technical University of Munich
12:00 – Maxwell-Density Matrix Modeling of Tapered Waveguide Geometries for THz QCL Frequency Combs
Michael Schreiber, Lukas Seitner, Johannes Stowasser, Michael Rinderle, Michael Haider, Christian Jirauschek
TUM School of Computation, Information and Technology, Technical University of Munich

12:15-14:00 — Lunch

14:00-15:30 — Session EMERGING MATERIALS
14:00 – INVITED – Colloidal quantum dots for infrared sensing
Etienne Lhuillier
14:30 – Determining Bandgaps in 2D transition metal dichalcognide PtSe2
Martin Micica (1), Sabrine Ayari (1), Minoosh Hemmat (1), Mehdi Arfaoui (1,2), Daniel Vala (3,4), Kamil Postava (3), Hadrien Vergnet (1), Jérôme Tignon (1), Juliette Mangeney (1), Shasha Guo (5), Xuechao Yu (6), Qi Jie Wang (7), Zheng Liu (5), Sihem Jaziri (2,8), Francesca Carosella (1), Robson Ferreira (1), Sukhdeep Dhillon (1)
(1) Laboratoire de physique de l’ENS – ENS Paris, (2) Laboratoire de Physique de la Matière Condensée, Département de Physique, Université Tunis El Mana, (3) Department of Materials Engineering and Recycling, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, (4) Department of Optics, Palacký University Olomouc, (5) School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, (6) Key Laboratory of Multifunctional Nanomaterials and Smart Systems, Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics, (7) School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering & School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, The Photonics Institute, Nanyang Technological University, (8) Laboratoire de Physique des Matériaux:, Université de Cartage
14:45 – Structural and optical characterization of mid-infrared-active hole-doped Si1–xGex parabolic quantum wells
Marco Faverzani (1),  Davide Impelluso  (1), Stefano Calcaterra (1), Giovanni Capellini  (2,3), Paolo Biagioni (1), Giovanni Isella (1), Jacopo Frigerio (1)
(1) Dipartimento di Fisica [Politecnico Milano], (2) Dipartimento di Scienze [Roma], (3)  IHP – Leibniz-Institut für innovative Mikroelektronik
15:00 – Terahertz Electronic and Spin currents in Wafer-Scale Van der Waals Bi2Se3/WSe2 Heterostructures and Polymorphs
Adrien Wright (1), Martin Micica (1), Sylvain Massabeau (2), Sabrine Ayari (1), Enzo Rongione (1,2), Mario Oliveira (3), Sajid Husain (2), Thibaud Denneulin (4) , Rafal E. Dunin-Borkowski (4), Juliette Mangeney (1), Jérôme Tignon (1), Romain Lebrun  (2), Hanako Okuno (3), Olivier Boulle  (3), Alain Marty  (3), Frédéric Bonell (3), Francesca Carosella (1), Henri-Yves Jaffrès (2), Robson Ferreira (1), Jean-Marie George (2), Matthieu Jamet (3), Sukhdeep Dhillon  (1)
(1) LPENS, (2) Laboratoire Albert Fert (ex-UMPhy Unité mixte de physique CNRS/Thales), (3) Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CEA, CNRS, Spintec, (4) Ernst Ruska Centre for Microscopy and Spectroscopy with Electrons and Peter Grünberg Institute, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH
15:15 – Terahertz manipulation of exciton complexes in 2D semiconductors
Tommaso Venanzi (1), Marzia Cuccu (2), Edith Wietek (2), Xiaoxiao Sun (3), Raul Perea-Causin (4), Samuel Brem (5), Daniel Erkensten (5), Taniguchi Takeshi (6), Kenji Watanabe (6), Ermin Malic (5), Manfred Helm (3,2), Stephan Winnerl (3), Alexey Chernikov (2)
(1) Center for Life Nano- and Neuro-Science, IIT, (2) Techical University of Dresden [Germany], (3) HZDR [Germany], (4) Stockholm University, (5) Philipps University of Marburg, (6) National Institute for Materials Science [Japan]

15:30-16h00 — Break

16:00-17:45 — Session INDUSTRY and NOVEL DEVICES -2
16:00 – INVITED – Title to come
M. Carras
16:30 – Advances in free-space ultra-fast mid-infrared modulators
Luca Lucia (1), Gia Long Ngo (1), Mario Malerba (1), Stefano Pirotta (1), Guy Aubin (1), Giulio Carotta (2), Li Lianhe (3), Edmund Linfield (3), Stefano Barbieri (4), Mathieu Jeannin (1), Jean-Michel Manceau (1), Adel Bousseksou (1), Raffaele Colombelli (1)
(1) Centre de Nanosciences et de Nanotechnologies, (2) University of Pisa [Italy], (3) University of Leeds, (4) IEMN
16:45 – Coupled graphene double quantum dot as a two-level system at THz frequencies
Solen Coeymans , Alexis Wietzke, Simon Messelot, Ismael Abdourahamane, Aurélien Schmitt, Jérôme Tignon, Sukhdeep Dhillon, Matthieu Delbecq, Takis Kontos, Juliette Mangeney
Laboratoire de physique de l’ENS – ENS Paris
17:00 – Graphene-based Fabry-Perot integrated THz detector with ultra-high responsivity
Ronny De La Bastida (1), Enzo Rongione (1), Karuppasamy Pandian Soundarapandian (2), Anand Nivedan (1), Ioannis Vangelidis (3), David Saleta Reig (1), Kenji Watanabe (4), Takashi Taniguchi (4), Elefterios Lidorikis (3,5), Frank Koppens (2,6), Sebastian Castilla (2), Klaas-Jan Tielrooij (1,7)
(1) Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, (2) Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques, (3) University of Ioannina, (4) National Institute for Materials Science [Japan], (5) URCI, (6) Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies, (7) Eindhoven University of Technology
17:15 – Interband detectors based on InAs/AlSb quantum cascade detectors
Stefania Isceri, Andreas Windischhofer, Miriam Giparakis, Rolf Szedlak, Werner Schrenk, Gottfried Strasser, Benedikt Schwarz, Aaron Maxwell Andrews
TU Wien
17:30 – Linearity and Saturation Behavior of Interband Cascade Infrared Photodectors (ICIP) under High-Power QCL Excitation
Elena Arigliani (1), Johannes Fuchsberger (1), Mikolaj Piotrowski (1), Andreas Windishhofer (1), Florian Pilat (1), Robert Weih (2), Rolf Szedlak (1), Benedikt Schwarz (1)  

◊ Tuesday 2nd September

08:45-10:30 — Session COMBS -1
08:45 – INVITED – THz coherent photonics with planarized quantum cascade lasers
Giacomo Scalari
09:15 – Fast and compact absorption spectroscopy enabled by Quantum Walk Combs
Ina Heckelmann
ETH Zurich
09:30 – Frequency comb shaping through staggered phase flux in fast gain lasers
Diego Piciocchi, Alexander Dikopoltsev, Ina Heckelmann, Mattias Beck, Giacomo Scalari, Jérôme Faist  
ETH Zürich
09:45 – From Fast Gain Dynamics to a Quantum Walk in an Interband Cascade Laser
Florian Pilat (1), Johannes Fuchsberger (1), Theodore Letsou (2), Andreas Windischhofer (1), Vito F. Pecile (3, 4), Sandro Dal Cin (1), Maximilian Beiser (1), Robert Weih (5), Johannes Koeth (5), Oliver H. Heckl (3), Federico Capasso (2), Benedikt Schwarz (1)  
(1) Institute of Solid State Electronics, TU Wien, (2) Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, (3) Faculty Center for Nano Structure Research, Christian Doppler Laboratory for Mid-IR Spectroscopy, University of Vienna, (4) Vienna Doctoral School in Physics, University of Vienna, (5) Nanoplus Nanosystems and Technologies GmbH
10:00 – Mid-Infrared Frequency Combs and Pulse Generation based on Single Section Interband Cascade Lasers
Pavel Abajyan (1), Baptiste Chomet (2,1), Daniel Andres Diaz Thomas (2), Mohammadreza Saemian (1), Martin Micica (1), Juliette Mangeney (1), Jérôme Tignon (1), Alexei Baranov (2), Konstantinos Pantzas (3), Isabelle Sagnes (3), Carlo Sirtori (1), Laurent Cerutti (2), Sukhdeep Dhillon (1) 
(1) LPENS, (2) IES, (3) C2N
10:15 – On-chip Quantum Walk frequency combs devices
Johannes Fuchsberger (1), Theodore Letsou (2), Nikola Opacak (1), Dmitry Kazakov (2), Benedikt Schwarz (1), Federico Capasso (2) 
(1) TU Wien, (2) Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

10:30-11h00 — Break

11:00-12:15 — Session PLASMONICS
11:00 – INVITED – Giant Optical Nonlinearities at Telecom Wavelengths using III-Nitride-based Polaritonic Metasurfaces
Jaeyeon Yu (1) , Zain Abdin (2), Anthony Rice (3), Sadhvikas Addamane (3), Patrick Quach (4), Alexey Belyanin (5), Oana Malis (2) , Igal Brener (1), Raktim Sarma (1)
(1) CINT, Sandia National Laboratories, (2) Purdue University, (3) Sandia National Laboratories, (4) University of Paris-Sud Institut d’Electronique Fondamentale, (5) Texas A&M University
11:30 – Terahertz AlGaN/GaN plasmonic crystals in linear and nonlinear regimes
Pavlo Sai (1,2), Vadym Korotyeyev (1,3), Serhii M. Kukhtaruk (1,3,4), Maksym Dub (1,2), Martin Mittendorff  (5), Wojciech Knap (1,2) 
(1) Institute of High Pressure Physics PAS [Poland], (2) CENTERA, CEZAMAT, Warsaw University of Technology, [Poland], (3) V. Ye. Lashkaryov Institute of Semiconductor Physics (ISP), NASU [Ukraine], (4) Department of Theoretical Physics, V.E. Lashkaryov Institute of Semiconductor Physics [Ukraine], (5) Universität Duisburg-Essen [Germany]
11:45 – Dual-resonant plasmonic nanocavities for ultra-broadband nonlinear mid-IR molecular spectroscopy
Xie Zhiyuan, Christophe Galland
EPFL
12:00 – Revealing terahertz conductivity dynamics in a single InAs nanowire with resonance-amplified aperture-type near-field spectroscopy
Sarah Norman (1), Greg Chu (2), Kun Peng (3), James Seddon (1), Lucy L Hale (4), Hark Hoe Tan (5), Chennupati Jagadish (5), Ralf Mouthaan (2), Jack Alexander-Webber (2), Hannah J Joyce (2), Michael B Johnston (3), Thomas Siday (6), Oleg Mitrofanov (1)  
(1) UCL Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering [UK], (2) Department of Engineering [UK], (3) Department of Physics [UK], (4) Institute of Quantum Electronics [ETH Zürich], (5) Department of Electronic Materials Engineering, Australian National University, (6) School of Physics and Astronomy

12:15-14:00 — Lunch

14:00-16:00 — Session SOURCES -1
14:00 – INVITED – Free space data transmission at 1 Gb/s with a terahertz laser
Jayaprasath Elumalai (1), Mohammed Salih (1), Martyn Fice (2), Adam Brown (1), Lianhe Li  (1), Edmund H. Linfield  (1), Alwyn Seeds  2, @  , A. Giles Davies (1), Joshua R. Freeman (1)  
(1) University of Leeds, (2) University College, London
14:30 – 1.6-THz Radiation for Cancer Therapy
Joo-Hiuk Son
University of Seoul
14:45 – Atomic scale microscopy by ultrashort THz-driven Atom Probe Tomography
Angela Vella, Michella Karam, Matteo De Tullio, Ivan Blum, Floran Exertier, Jonathan Houard  
Institut de Recherche sur les Matériaux Avancés
15:00 – Combining mid-IR photonics and frequency metrology methods for high-precision vibrational spectroscopy of polyatomic molecules
Raphaël Hahn (1), Agathe Bonifacio (1), Marylise Saffre (2), Wenling Dong (1), Yuhao Liu (1), Sahil Viel (1), Minh Nhut Ngo (4), Olivier Lopez (1), Etienne Cantin (1), Quyang Lin (2), Jean-François Lampin (2), Emilien Peytavit (2) , Stefano Barbieri (2), Anne Amy-Klein (1), Mathieu Manceau (1), Benoit Darquié (1) 
(1) Laboratoire de Physique des Lasers, (2) IEMN
15:15 – Free-space data transmission for optical communications using a high-speed ridge Quantum Cascade Detector
Nour Nawfal (1,2), Thomas Poletti (2), Salvatore Pes (1), Claire Theveneau (1), Axel Evirgen (1), Virginie Trinité (1), Louiza Hamidouche (1), Quentin Levesque (1), Johan Abautret (3), Mathieu Carras (3), Gregory Maisons (3), Djamal Gacemi (4), Michel Garcia (1), Olivier Parillaud (1), Carlo Sirtori (4), Jean-Luc Reverchon (1), Frédéric Grillot (2,5)  
(1) 3-5 Lab, Thales, (2) Télécom ParisTech, (3) MirSense, (4) École normale supérieure Paris, (5) Center for High Technology Materials
15:30 – High-resolution spectroscopy of molecules confined in gas cells of sub-wavelength thickness
Hippolyte Mouhanna, Guadalupe Garcia-Arellano, Joao Carlos De Aquino Carvalho, Natalia De Melo, Frédéric Du-Burck, Isabelle Maurin, Benoit Darquié, Athanasios Laliotis  
Laboratoire de Physique des Lasers
15:45 – Remote sensing with photonics chaos operating in the long-wave infrared atmospheric window
Sara Zaminga, Thomas Poletti, Frèdèric Grillot
Institut Polytechnique de Paris

16:00-18:30 — POSTER SESSION

19:30-00:00 — Gala

◊ Wednesday 3rd September

08:45-10:45 — Session POLARITONS
08:45 – INVITED – Astronomy and the mid-IR spectral range
Luca Labadie
09:15 – Cavity Modification of Magnetoplasmon modes in Strongly Coupled Cavities
Lucy Hale (1), De Bernardis Daniele (2), Stephan Lempereur (3), Jean-Michel Manceau (3), Raffaele Colombelli (3), Lianhe Li (4), A. Giles Davies (4), Edmund Linfield (4), Iacopo Carusotto (5), Faist Jérôme (6), Giacomo Scalari (1)
(1) ETH Zürich, (2) CNR-INO, (3) C2N, (4) University of Leeds, UK, (5) Pitaevskii BEC Center, INO-CNR and Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Trento
09:30 – Exploration of the absorption saturation process in mid-IR multisubband polaritonic systems
Raffaele Riccio
C2N
09:45 – Cyclotron emission from Dirac-Landau polaritons
Benjamin Benhamou-Bui
Laboratoire Charles Coulomb
10:00 – Hybridization of terahertz phonons and magnons in disparate and spatially-separated material specimens
Marcin Bialek (1), Yanko Todorov (2), Kamil Stelmaszczyk (1), Dorota Szwagierczak (3), Beata Synkiewicz-Musialska (3), Jan Kulawik (3), Norbert Pałka (4), Marek Potemski (5), Wojciech Knap (5)
(1) Institute of High Pressure Physics [Warsaw], (2) LPENS, (3) Institute of Microelectronics and Photonics [Poland], (4) Military University of Technology, (5) Warsaw University of Technology
10:15 – Polariton quantum blockade via strong cavity coupling to intersubband ionizing transitions
Miguel Oliveira, Cristiano Ciuti
Laboratoire Matériaux et Phénomènes Quantiques
10:30 – Ultra-Strong Coupling in the THz Range Using SiGe Quantum Wells and Plasmonic Microcavities
Fritz Berkmann (1), Tommaso Venanzi (2,3), Leonetta Baldassarre (3), Elena Campagna (4), Enrico Talamas-Simola (4), Luciana Di Gaspare (4), Cedric Corley Wiciak (5), Giovanni Capellini (5), Giuseppe Nicotra (6), Gianfranco Sfuncia (6), Andrea Notargiacomo (7), Ennio Giovine (7), Sara Cibella (7), Michele Virgilio (8), Giacomo Scalari (9), Monica De Seta (4), Michele Ortolani (10)
(1) Brandenburg University of Technology, (2) Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), Center for Life Neuro and Nano Sciences Rome [Italy], (3) Department of Physics, Sapienza University of Rome [Italy], (4) Dipartimento di Scienze, Università di Roma, (5) IHP – Leibniz-Institut für innovative Mikroelektronik, (6) IMM-CNR, Catania, (7) Institute for Photonics and Nanotechnologies IFN-CNR, Rome, (8) Department of Physics Enrico Fermi, Università di Pisa, (9) Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, Institute of Quantum Electronics, (10) Sapienza University [Italy]

10:45-11h15 — Break

11:15-12:30 — Session THEORY -2
11:15 – The electrostatic origin of the breakdown of the Integer Quantum Hall Effect in Split-Ring Cavities
Marcello Andolina
11:30 – Non-Equilibrium Green’s Function Modeling of Quantum Transport in Interband Cascade Lasers
Takuma Sato (1,2), Stefan Birner (1), Thomas Grange (3)
(1) Nextnano GmbH, (2) Technical University of Munich, (3) Nextnano Lab
11:45 – Optimizing THz QCL resonator geometries for high-performance applications
Valentino Pistore, Xiang Lü, Klaus Biermann, Lutz Schrottke
Paul-Drude-Institut für Festkörperelektronik
12:00- Predictive Modeling of Interband Cascade Lasers: A Computational Approach to Design and Optimization
Andreas Windischhofer, Benedikt Schwarz, Nikola Opačak
TU Wien
12:15 – QCLopt: Toolkit for design, scaling and optmisation of Thz photonic and acoustic heterostructure gain media
Aleksandar Demic
University of Leeds

12:30 — Lunch boxes

12:30-18:00 — Excursion

◊ Thursday 4 September

09:00-10:30 — Session COMBS -2
09:00 – INVITED – Nonlinear integrated photonics with quantum cascade lasers
Dmitry Kazakov
09:30 – Liquid combs: broadband lasing with equidistance but without stability
Mithun Roy (1), Tianyi Zeng (2,3), Zhenyang Xiao (1), Chao Dong (1), Sadhvikas Addamane (4), Qing Hu (3), David Burghoff (1)  
(1) University of Texas at Austin, (2) Harvard University, (3) Massachusetts Institute of Technology, (4) Sandia National Laboratories
09:45 – Optical frequency comb emission from metasurface quantum-cascade VECSEL at fundamental and sub-harmonic injection
Marco Raffa (1), Ina Heckelmann (1), Yu Wu ( 2), Sadhvikas Addamane (3), Jerome Faist (1), Benjamin Williams (2), Giacomo Scalari (1)
(1) Quantum optoelectronics group, ETH Zurich, (2) Department of electrical and computer engineering, UCLA, (3) Sandia National Laboratories
10:00 – Quantum Walk Combs with a double waveguide integration
Alessio Cargioli, Miguel Montesinos Ballester, Mattias Beck, Jerome Faist
ETH Zurich, Institute for Quantum electronics
10:15 – Sub-harmonic injection of a quantum walk comb ring THz QCL
Valerio Digiorgio, Marco Raffa, Paolo Micheletti, Alexander Dikopoltsev, Mattias Beck, Jérôme Faist, Giacomo Scalari
Institute for Quantum Electronics, ETH Zurich

10:30-11h00 — Break

11:00-12:30 — Session SOURCES -1
11:00 – INVITED – Quantum- and interband-cascade laser operation at the standard quantum limit and beyond
Francesco Cappelli
11:30 – A HCN terahertz molecular laser pumped by a QCL
Alexandra Khabbaz (1), Roland Teissier (2), Gaël Mouret (3), Jean-Francois Lampin (1)
(1) IEMN, (2) MirSense, (3) Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie de l’Atmosphère, Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale
11:45 – Amplified Feedback and Spontaneous Emission Injection in Quantum Cascade Ring Laser Systems
Radhika Bhuckory, Sara Kacmoli, Claire Gmachl
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering [Princeton]
12:00 – Coupling Measurements in Terahertz Quantum Cascade Random Lasers
Anna Invernici (1,2), Michael Jaidl (1,2), Marie Christine Ertl (1,2), Miriam Giparakis (1,2), Dominik Schock (1,2), Lucas Aaron Grandits (1,2), Daniel Saleh (1,2), Elias Johannes Plankenbichler (1,2), Aaron Maxwell Andrews (2,3), Juraj Darmo (1,2), Karl Unterrainer (1,2) 
(1) Photonics Institute, TU Wien, (2) Center for Micro- and Nanostructures, TU Wien, (3) Institute of Solid State Electronics, TU Wien
12:15- Direct Measurement of Current-Dependent Optical Losses in Interband Cascade Lasers
Mikolaj Piotrowski, Andreas Windischhofer, Johannes Fuchsberger, Elena Arigliani, Mauro David, Kristina Herzanova, Josephine Nauschütz, Robert Weih, Rolf Szedlak, Gottfried Strasser, Benedikt Schwarz
TU Wien

12:30-14:00 — Lunch

14:00-16:30 — Session INTEGRATION
14:00 – Bias-modulated third harmonic generation from highly doped InGaAs semiconductor through field effect
Raffaella Polito (1), Andrea Rossetti (2) , Tommaso Venanzi (3), Huatian Hu (4), Andrea Notargiacomo (1), Antonio Valletta (5), Francesco Mattioli (1), Adel Bousseksou (6), Grégoire Beaudoin  6, Isabelle Sagnes (6), Raffaele Colombelli (6), Markus Ludwig (2), Daniele Brida (2), Cristian Ciraci (4), Valeria Giliberti (3), Marialilia Pea (1), Michele Ortolani (1,3,7) 
(1) Istituto di Fotonica e Nanotecnologie, (2) Department of Physics and Materials Science, University of Luxembourg, (3) Center for Life Nano- and Neuro-Science, IIT, (4) Center for Biomolecular Nanotechnologies, IIT, (5) Istituto per la microelettronica e microsistemi, (6) C2N, (7) Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma
14:15 – High quality factors (Q>5E5) mid-infrared resonators III-V semi-conductors photonic integrated platform
Luca Lucia, Gia Long Ngo, Mathilde Urbain, Isabelle Sagnes, Grégoire Beaudoin, Mathieu Jeannin, Jean-Michel Manceau, Raffaele Colombelli, Adel Bousseksou
C2N
14:30 – High speed mid-infrared integrated modulator based on SiGe photonic circuits
Javier Huertas Pedroche (1), Victor Turpaud (1), Luca Lucia (1), Adel Bousseksou (1), Hamza Dely (1), Gia Long Ngo (1), Stefano Calcaterra (2), Davide Impelluso (2), Afonso De Cerdeira Oliveira (2), Victor Merupo (3), Emilien Peytavit (3), Jean-Francois Lampin (3), Stefano Barbieri (3), Jacopo Frigerio (2), Raffaele Colombelli (1), Giovanni Isella (2), Delphine Marris-Morini (1)
(1) C2N, (2) INFM-Dipartimento di Fisica-Politecnico di Milano, (3) Institute of Electronics, Microelectronics and Nanotechnology
14:45 – Integrated Photonic Transceivers for Free Space Optical Communications in NIR and MIR Spectral Ranges
Stanislaw Stopinski (1,2,3), Aleksandra Pasnikowska (1), Krzysztof Anders (1,2,3), Lukasz Kustosz (1), Mariusz Rojewski (1), Anna Jusza (1,3), Agnieszka Siemion (1), Rafal Ciechanski (2)  
(1) Warsaw University of Technology [Warsaw], (2) VIGO Photonics, (3) LightHouse 

15:00-15h30 — Break

15:30 – Mid-IR photonic integrated circuits for sensing and free-space communication: state-of-the-art and perspectives
Ryszard Piramidowicz
Warsaw University of Technology & VIGO Photonics SA & LightHouse sp. z o.o
15:45 – Optical waveguides for mid-IR sensing: redefining design paradigms
Jacek Olszewski (1,2), Adrian Ślipek (1,3), Andrzej Połatyński (3,4), Krzysztof Anders (1,3), Stanisław Stopiński (1,3), Ryszard Piramidowicz (1,3)
(1) VIGO Photonics S.A., (2) Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Department of Optics and Photonics, (3) Warsaw University of Technology, Institute of Microelectronics and Optoelectronics, (4) VPIphotonics GmbH
16:00 – Mid-infrared pulse compression on SiGe photonic integrated circuit
Annabelle Bricout (1), Philipp Täschler (2), Mathieu Bertrand (2), Barbara Schneider (2), Victor Turpaud (1), Stefano Calcaterra (3), Davide Impelluso (3), Afonso De Cerdeira Oliveira (3), Jacopo Frigerio (3), Jean-René Coudevylle (1), Samson Edmond (1), Carlos Ramos (1), Laurent Vivien (1), Giovanni Isella (3), Jerome Faist (2), Delphine Marris-Morini (1)  

◊ Friday 5 September

09:00-11:45 — Session SOURCES -2
09:00 – INVITED – Chalcogenide-based micro-sensor for pollutants monitoring
Virginie Nazabal
09:30 – Frequency and intensity noise characterization of an external-cavity quantum cascade laser
Irene La Penna (1), Tecla Gabbrielli (1,2), Cristina Rimoldi (1,2) , Davide Mazzotti (3,4,5), Luigi Consolino (1,2), Simone Borri (4,5), Paolo De Natale (4,3),  Francesco Cappelli (1,2) 
(1) European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy, (2) Instituto Nazionale di Ottica [Firenze], (3) ppqSense, (4) CNR-INO, (5) LENS
09:45 – Generation and Modulation of Fully Circular Polarized THz Radiation from Two-Color Gas Plasma
Anna Martinez (1), Angela Vella (2), Domenico Paparo (3), Luc Bergé (4), Jonathan Houard (2)
(1) University of Naples Federico II, (2) INSA Rouen Normandie, (3) ISASI, (4) CELIA
10:00 – Highly stable intense terahertz source at 100 kHz repetition rate
Leo Guiramand (1), Alexandre Fahy (1), Anna Martinez (2), Said Idlahcen (1), Jonathan Houard (3), Thomas Godin (1), Xavier Ropagnol (4), François Blanchard (4), Angela Vella (3), Ammar Hideur (1)  
(1) INSA Rouen Normandie, (2) University of Naples Federico II, (3) Institut de Recherche sur les Matériaux Avancés, (4) Ecole de Technologie Supérieure [Canada]
10:15 – InGaAs/AlInAs two-well THz QCL lasing up to 188K with reduced electrical dissipation
Sebastian Gloor, David Stark, Mattias Beck, Jerome Faist, Giacomo Scalari
ETH Zurich

10:30-11h00 — Break

11:00 – Experimental assisted extraction of thin AlAs barriers’ effective thickness and composition in THz QCLs
Asaf Albo
Ariel University [Israël]
11:15 – Watt-level polarization maintaining Er3+: ZBLAN fiber laser at 3.5 µm wavelength
Hatim Saad  (1), Kirill Eremeev (1), Tristan Guezennec (1), Saïd Idlahcen (1), Marie Guionie (1), Pierre-Henry Hanzard (1), Thomas Godin (1), Thibaud Berthelot (2), Solenn Cozic (2), Samuel Poulain (2), Ammar Hideur (1)  
(1) CORIA, (2) Le Verre Fluoré
11:30 – Electrical THz pulses for electronic transport characterization
P-B Vigneron
11:45 – Talk to be confirmed

12:30-14:00 — Lunch

14:00-14:30 — AWARD Ceremony

14:30-16:00 — Session Under construction

16:00-16:30 — CLOSING Session