PROGRAM
PROGRAM AT ONE GLANCE
Sunday 31/08
17:30-19:30
Registration &
Welcome Reception
Monday 01/09
08:45-09:00
Opening Session
09:00-10:45
Novel
Devices -1
Break
11:15-12:15
Theory -1
Lunch
14:00-15:30
Emerging Materials
Break
16:00-17h45
Industry / Novel Devices-2
Tuesday 02/09
08:45-10:30
COMBS -1
Break
11:00-12:30
Plasmonics
Lunch
14:00-16:00
Sources -1
16:00-18:30
POSTER
SESSION
19:30-00:00
Gala dinner
Wednes. 03/09
08:45-10:45
Polaritons
Break
11:15-12:30
Theory -2
12:30-18:30
Workshop
Excursion
Thursday 04/09
09:00-10:30
COMBS -2
Break
11:00-12:30
Sources-1
Lunch
14:00-15:00
Integration
Break
15:30-16:30
Integration
Friday 05/09
09:00-10:30
Sources -2
Break
11:00-12:00
Sources -2
Lunch
14:00-14:30
Award Ceremony
14:30-16:00
Session under construction
16:00-16:15
Closing session
ITQW 2025 – SCOPE OF THE CONFERENCE
Mid-infrared and THz Sources, Detectors and Components
- Quantum cascade lasers, interband cascade lasers, diode lasers, nonlinear generation, frequency combs in the mid-infrared and THz spectral regions
- Quantum well infrared photodetectors (QWIPs), quantum-dot infrared photodetectors (QDIPs), quantum cascade detectors, type-II superlattice detectors, phase sensitive detection, single photon devices, novel detectors in the mid-infrared and THz spectral regions
- Heterodyne detection, novel detection schemes (plasmonic, 2D materials, antenna-coupled, nano-detectors)
- Mid-IR and THz components: ultra-fast amplitude and phase modulators, Mach-Zender modulators, high-Q resonators for Kerr dissipative combs, low loss semiconductor waveguides
- RF technologies for mid-IR and THz
Physics of intersubband related low-dimensional systems
- Physics of intersubband transitions and scattering mechanisms, and related linear and nonlinear optical properties
- Numerical modeling of intersubband physics and devices
- Novel principles for devices: metamaterials, parity-time symmetric laser systems, topological photonics
- Intersubband polaritons, ultrastrong light-matter coupling in intersubband systems, polariton lasers and condensates, intersubband plasmons
- Landau quantization, high B-field physics, superradiant emission
Mid-infrared and THz Materials
- III-V semiconductor heterostructure quantum wells including III-Nitrides and III-Sb
- Two-dimensional materials (graphene, MoS2, Black Phosphorus, etc.), bandgap engineering using Van der Waals heterostructures
- Wide bandgap, II-VI, Si/Ge for mid-IR photonics
- Zero-D and 1-D low dimensional structures (quantum dots, boxes, nanowires)
- Spintronic THz emitters and devices
- Organic systems
- Mid-IR fibers and fiber lasers
Mid-infrared and THz Applications
- Spectroscopy (sensing, heterodyne receivers, self-mixing)
- Time domain spectroscopy and sub-cycle dynamics
- Imaging (detector arrays, infrared and THz imaging, QCL-based active imaging)
- Near-field spectroscopy and imaging
- High power QCLs
- Communications (free-space laser communication, THz communications)
- Frequency metrology (QCL frequency combs, laser stabilization, ultrafast laser characterization)