Program

PROGRAM

Days: Sunday, September 15th Monday, September 16th Tuesday, September 17th Wednesday, September 18th Thursday, September 19th Friday, September 20th

Sunday, September 15th

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17:00-20:00 Registration Desk

Registration desk open starting at 5pm. Location: Anacapa Foyer

18:00-20:00 Welcome Reception

Welcome reception with wine and beer and light hors d'oeuvres.

Location: Anacapa Foyer

Monday, September 16th

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08:30-09:30 Session 1: Welcoming remarks and Plenary Talk

Welcoming remarks by the chairs to open the conference, followed by a Plenary Talk by Frank Koppens.

Registration opens at 8:00am.

Chair:

Benjamin Williams

08:30	Benjamin Williams Welcome and Opening Remarks (abstract)
08:45	Frank Koppens Nano-lego for light with (twisted) 2D materials (Plenary Talk) (abstract)

09:30-10:30 Session 2: Nanoscopy

Chair:

Alexander McLeod

09:30	Tobias Gokus, Stefan Mastel, Alexander Govyadinov and Andreas Huber THz near-field imaging and spectroscopy with nanoscale spatial resolution (abstract)
09:45	Andrea Ottomaniello, James Keeley, Pierluigi Rubino, Lianhe H. Li, Edmund H. Linfield, Giles A. Davies, Paul Dean, Alessandro Pitanti and Alessandro Tredicucci Self-mixing optomechanics with nanometer resolution in a Terahertz quantum cascade laser (abstract)
10:00	Qianchun Weng and Susumu Komiyama Terahertz nanoscopy of non-equilibrium carrier dynamics: A thermometric approach (Invited) (abstract)

10:30-10:50 Coffee Break

Location: Anacapa Foyer

10:50-12:20 Session 3: THz quantum cascade lasers

Chair:

Iwao Hosako

10:50	Lutz Schrottke, Xiang Lue, Benjamin Röben, Klaus Biermann, Till Hagelschuer, Heinz-Wilhelm Hübers and Holger Grahn High-performance GaAs/AlAs terahertz quantum-cascade lasers (abstract)
11:05	Yuan Jin, John Reno and Sushil Kumar Multi-watt terahertz distributed-feedback lasers (abstract)
11:20	Asaf Albo, Yuri Flores, Qing Hu and John Reno Advances in Terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers with Room-Temperature Negative Differential Resistance (abstract)
11:35	Martin A. Kainz, Aaron Maxwell Andrews, Sebastian Schoenhuber, Benedikt Limbacher, Michael Jaidl, Dominik Theiner, Hermann Detz, Gottfried Strasser, Gerald Bastard and Karl Unterrainer Mode Switching of a Dual-color Terahertz Quantum Cascade Laser (abstract)
11:50	Martin A. Kainz, Mykhaylo Semtsiv, Georgios Tsianos, Sergii Kurlov, W. Ted Masselink, Sebastian Schoenhuber, Benedikt Limbacher, Hermann Detz, Werner Schrenk, Karl Unterrainer, Gottfried Strasser and Aaron Maxwell Andrews Thermoelectrically Cooled Terahertz Quantum Cascade Laser (abstract)
12:05	Lorenzo Bosco, Martin Franckié, Mattias Beck, Andreas Wacker, Giacomo Scalari and Jerome Faist Thermo-electrically cooled THz Quantum Cascade Lasers (abstract)

12:20-13:30 Buffet Lunch

Location: Anacapa Terrace and Foyer

13:30-15:15 Session 4: THz QCL dynamics and locking

Chair:

Juncheng Cao

13:30	Francesco Cappelli, Luigi Consolino, Malik Nafa, Roberto Eramo, Iacopo Galli, Davide Mazzotti, Pablo Cancio, Saverio Bartalini and Paolo De Natale Phase analysis and full phase control of chip-scale infrared frequency combs (abstract)
13:45	Christian Georg Derntl, Dominik Theiner, Giacomo Scalari, Mattias Beck, Jérôme Faist, Karl Unterrainer and Juraj Darmo Spectrally resolved gain dynamics in THz quantum cascade lasers (abstract)
14:00	Elise Uyehara, Wendao Xu, Ali Khalatpour and Qing Hu Offset phase-locking of two THz quantum cascade lasers for high dynamic range heterodyne imaging (abstract)
14:15	Valentino Pistore, Feihu Wang, Michael Riesch, Hanond Nong, Pierre-Baptiste Vigneron, Raffaele Colombelli, Olivier Parillaud, Christian Jirauschek, Juliette Mangeney, Jerome Tignon and Sukhdeep Dhillon Active harmonic modelocking and self-starting harmonic emission in THz QCLs (abstract)
14:30	Martin Wienold, Tasmim Alam, Xiang Lü, Lutz Schrottke, Holger T. Grahn and Heinz-Wilhelm Hübers Light-induced frequency tuning and stabilization of terahertz quantum-cascade lasers (abstract)
14:45	Yohei Sakasegawa, Shin'Ichiro Hayashi, Shingo Saito and Norihiko Sekine Terahertz transmission responses of quantum cascade lasers over a wide range of incident electric field amplitude (abstract)
15:00	Hua Li, Ziping Li, Wenjian Wan, Kang Zhou, Xiaoyu Liao, Sijia Yang, Chenjie Wang and Juncheng Cao Compact terahertz multiheterodyne dual-comb spectroscopy based on self-detection quantum cascade lasers (abstract)

15:00-19:00 Free Time

Free time to enjoy the resort's pools, golf, and other amenities - or just to explore the local area.

19:00-20:30 Session 5: 2D Materials

Chair:

Frank Koppens

19:00	Michael Gensch Terahertz High Harmonic Generation in Dirac Materials (Invited) (abstract)
19:30	Alessandra Di Gaspare, Eva A. A. Pogna, Francesco Pisani, Osman Balci, Allison Cadore, Cinzia di Franco, Leonardo Viti, Andrea C. Ferrari, Gaetano Scamarcio and Miriam S. Vitiello Tunable gated graphene-on-polyimide Terahertz Modulators (abstract)
19:45	Alexey Belyanin, Mikhail Tokman, Qianfan Chen, Yongrui Wang, Ryan Kutayiah, Zhongqu Long, Maria Erukhimova and Ivan Oladyshkin Infrared and terahertz optics and plasmonics of Weyl semimetals (abstract)
20:00	Alexander McLeod Fundamental limits to graphene plasmonics in hBN heterostructures (Invited) (abstract)

Tuesday, September 17th

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08:30-10:25 Session 6: Polaritons 1

Focused Workshop on Polaritons and Strong Coupling Phenomena

A mix of tutorial (45 min), invited (30 min) , extended (20 min) , and regular (15 min) talks.

Chair:

Raffaele Colombelli

08:30	Alessandro Tredicucci When light is more than a perturbation: what are intersubband polaritons? And how can we use them? (Tutorial) (abstract)
09:15	Chih-Feng Wang, Terefe Habteyes, Ting Shan Luk, John Klem, Hou-Tong Chen, Oleg Mitrofanov and Igal Brener Near-filed Spectroscopy of Intersubband Polaritons in the Single Nanoantenna Regime (Extended) (abstract)
09:35	Mathieu Jeannin, Djamal Gacemi, Angela Vasanelli, Lianhe Li, Edmund Linfield, Carlo Sirtori and Yanko Todorov Ultra-strong light-matter coupling and perfect absorption with three-dimensional THz metamaterial (Extended) (abstract)
09:55	Francesco Paolo Mezzapesa, Juergen Raab, Christoph Lange, Leonardo Viti, Lianhe Li, Giles Davies, Edmund Linfield, Rupert Huber and Miriam Serena Vitiello Terahertz saturable absorber mirrors based on intersubband polaritons (abstract)
10:10	Raktim Sarma, Nishant Nookala, Domenico de Ceglia, Luca Carletti, John Klem, Mikhail Belkin and Igal Brener Strong Light-Matter Interaction and Extreme Nonlinearities in Hybrid Dielectric Metasurfaces (abstract)

10:30-10:50 Coffee Break

Location: Anacapa 5-8 (with Exhibit)

10:50-12:15 Session 7: Polaritons 2

Focused Workshop on Polaritons and Strong Coupling Phenomena

Chair:

Igal Brener

10:50	Christoph Lange, Joshua Mornhinweg, Maike Halbhuber, Andreas Bayer, Dominique Bougeard and Rupert Huber Subcycle dynamics of ultrastrongly light-matter coupled structures (Invited) (abstract)
11:20	Giacomo Scalari, Gianlorenzo Paravicini-Bagliani, Shima Rajabali, Felice Appugliese, Johan Andberger, Janine Keller, Nicola Bartolo, Crisitiano Ciuti, Thomas Ihn, Klaus Ensslin, Mattias Beck and Jerome Faist Vacuum field controlled magnetotransport and upper branch broadening in Landau polaritons (Extended) (abstract)
11:40	Erika Cortese, Ngoc-Linh Tran, Jean-Michel Manceau, Giorgio Biasiol, Iacopo Carusotto, Raffaele Colombelli and Simone De Liberato Cavity-mediated bound excitons (Extended) (abstract)
12:00	Cassia Naudet-Baulieu, Nicola Bartolo, Giuliano Orso and Cristiano Ciuti Dark vertical conductance of cavity-embedded semiconductor heterostructures (abstract)

12:20-13:30 Buffet Lunch

Location: Anacapa Terrace and Foyer

14:00-15:55 Session 8: Polaritons 3

Focused Workshop on Polaritons and Strong Coupling Phenomena

Chair:

Giacomo Scalari

14:00	Iacopo Carusotto Intersubband polaritons: new perspectives towards Bose-Einstein condensation, quantum fluids of light, and quantum optics (Invited) (abstract)
14:30	Christopher J. Winta, Daniel C. Ratchford, Ioannis Chatzakis, Chase T. Ellis, Nikolai C. Passler, Jonathan Winterstein, Pratibha Dev, Ilya Razdolski, Joseph G. Tischler, Igor Vurgaftman, Michael B. Katz, Neeraj Nepal, Matthew T. Hardy, Jordan A. Hachtel, Juan Carlos Idrobo, Thomas L. Reinecke, Alexander J. Giles, D. Scott Katzer, Nabil D. Bassim, Rhonda M. Stroud, Martin Wolf, Alexander Paarmann and Joshua D. Caldwell Controlling the Infrared Dielectric Function through Atomic-Scale Heterostructures (Extended) (abstract)
14:50	Pb Vigneron, Stefano Pirotta, Iacopo Carusotto, Nl Tran, G Biasiol, Jean-Michel Manceau, Adel Bousseksou and Raffaele Colombelli Quantum well infrared detectors in the strong light-matter coupling regime (Extended) (abstract)
15:10	Jacopo Nespolo and Iacopo Carusotto A generalized Gross-Pitaevskii model for intersubband polariton lasing (abstract)
15:25	Jacques Hawecker, Pierre Baptiste Vigneron, Jean-Michel Manceau, Juliette Mangeney, Jérome Tignon, Lianhe Li, Edmund Linfield, Giles Davies, Rafaelle Colombelli and Sukhdeep Dhillon Time resolved spectroscopy of THz intersubband polaritons at small k vector (abstract)
15:40	Chris Deimert, Paul Goulain, Jean-Michel Manceau, Adel Bousseksou, Wojciech Pasek, Taehyun Yoon, Na Young Kim, Raffaele Colombelli and Zbigniew Wasilewski Room temperature THz intersubband transitions in continuously-graded AlGaAs parabolic quantum wells (abstract)

16:00-18:00 Session 9: Poster Session and Reception

Poster Session with Beer/Wine reception. Exhibit is open.

Location: Anacapa Foyer, Terrace, and Anacapa 5-8

16:00	Eleanor Nuttall, Yingjun Han, Nick Brewster, Matthew Oldfield, Lianhe Li, Alexander Giles Davies, Edmund Linfield, Brian Ellison, Paul Dean, Daniel Stone, Julia Lehman and Alexander Valavanis Analysis of deuteration reactions using self-mixing in a terahertz quantum-cascade laser (abstract)
16:00	Yezhezi Zhang, Alex Song, Deborah Sivco and Claire Gmachl Loss Compensation Scheme Using Metamaterials with a Quantum Cascade Structure (abstract)
16:00	Hiroaki Yasuda, Norihiko Sekine, Akifumi Kasamatsu and Iwao Hosako Epitaxial growth of InGaSb layers on GaSb substrates for fabrication of InGaSb-based THz-QCLs (abstract)
16:00	Ziping Li, Wenjian Wan, Kang Zhou, Xiaoyu Liao, Juncheng Cao and Hua Li On-chip dual-comb semiconductor-based terahertz sources under double microwave injections (abstract)
16:00	Michael Riesch and Christian Jirauschek Modeling and Simulation of Mode Locking in Quantum Cascade Lasers (abstract)
16:00	Bagolini, Montanari, Ciano, Persichetti, Di Gaspare, Capellini, Zoellner, Skibitzki, Stark, Scalari, Faist, Paul, Grange, Birner, Baldassarre, Ortolani, De Seta and Michele Virgilio Optically pumped n-type Ge/SiGe asymmetric coupled quantum wells for THz emission (abstract)
16:00	Borislav Hinkov, Jakob Hayden, Rolf Szedlak, Pedro Martin-Mateos, Borja Jerez, Pablo Acedo, Bernhard Lendl and Gottfried Strasser High frequency modulation of mid-IR ring and ridge DFB Quantum Cascade Lasers (abstract)
16:00	David Burghoff, Ningren Han and Jae Ho Shin Performing coherent dual comb spectroscopy with an incoherent signal (abstract)
16:00	Martin Franckie, Johannes Popp, Michael Haider, Christian Jirauschek and Jerome Faist Numerical Optimization of Mid-IR QCL Frequency Combs (abstract)
16:00	Esam Zafar, Olivier Auriacombe, Thomas Rawlings, Nick Brewster, Matthew Oldfield, Yingjun Han, Lianhe Li, Edmund Linfield, Alexander Giles Davies, Brian Ellison, Paul Dean and Alexander Valavanis Electromagnetic modelling of a terahertz-frequency quantum-cascade laser integrated with dual diagonal feedhorns (abstract)
16:00	Chao Xu, Siyi Wang, Hosung Kim, Zbigniew Wasilewski and Dayan Ban A 3.3 THz patch antenna terahertz photodetector (abstract)
16:00	Owen Dominguez, Leland Nordin, Junchi Lu, Daniel Wasserman and Anthony Hoffman Multimode, mid-infrared optical antennas with a near-monochromatic response (abstract)
16:00	Irfan Khan, Evan P. Gies, Ryan K. Roeder and Anthony J. Hoffman Far-Infrared Optical Modes in ZnO Nanoparticles (abstract)
16:00	Volker Sorger, Hasan Göktaş, Gökhan and Rishi Maiti Electrical-Driven Light Emitting Tunnel Junction (abstract)
16:00	Laurent Boulley, Adel Bousseksou, Thomas Maroutian, Raffaele Colombelli, Andrey Babichev, Anton Egorov and Grigorii Sokolovskii Tunable Mid-Infrared Metasurfaces on III-V semiconductors (abstract)
16:00	Tudor Olariu, Mattias Beck, Jerome Faist and Giacomo Scalari Dispersion measurements of Terahertz Quantum Cascade Fabry-Perot cavities and VECSELs (abstract)
16:00	Claire Abadie, Stefano Pirotta, Lianhe Li, Xavier Lafosse, Bruno Paulillo, Edmund Linfield, Alexander Giles Davies and Raffaele Colombelli THz sub-wavelength detectors and lasers based on LC resonators (abstract)
16:00	Denizhan Ekin Önder, Alex Arash Sand Kalaee, Andreas Wacker, Emmanuel Dupont and David O. Winge Oscillating E-field Domains in Quantum Cascade Lasers with Chaotic Bias Output (abstract)
16:00	Li Wang, Tsung-Tse Lin, Ke Wang, Thomas Grange and Hideki Hirayama Experimental and theoretical study of piezoelectric polarization in GaN/AlGaN terahertz quantum cascade lasers (abstract)
16:00	Boyu Wen, Chao Xu, Siyi Wang, Sm Shazzad Rassel, Manasa Kaniselvan, Chris Deimert, Zbigniew Wasilewski and Dayan Ban Novel 4-well THz QCL with hybrid injection/extraction channels (abstract)
16:00	Ming Lyu, Loren Pfeiffer, Ken West and Claire Gmachl Long-wave Infrared (λ∼14-20μm) GaAs/Al0.33Ga0.67As Quantum Cascade Lasers (abstract)
16:00	Sara Kacmoli, Yezhezi Zhang, Mei Chai Zheng, Abanti Basak, Deborah Sivco and Claire Gmachl Low Inversion Active Region Design for Quantum Cascade Superluminescent Emitters (abstract)
16:00	F Joint, G Gay, Pierre-Baptiste Vigneron, T Vacelet, Stefano Pirotta, R Lefevre, Y Jin, Lianhe Li, Ag Davies, Eh Linfield, Y Delorme and Raffaele Colombelli Highly Sensitive and Compact THz heterodyne receiver based on HEB and QCL at 2.7 THz (abstract)
16:00	Alsu Zubairova, Martin Wienold and Heinz-Wilhelm Hübers QCL-pumped terahertz gas laser at 66 µm (abstract)
16:00	Natalie Rozman, Nicholas Caira, Kebin Fan and Willie Padilla High-Quality Factor Bound-States-in-the-Continuum Modes for THz Biosensing (abstract)
16:00	Anthony Kim, Christopher Curwen, Luyao Xu, John Reno and Benjamin Williams Terahertz polarization imaging using quantum cascade laser (abstract)
16:00	Francesco Pisani Simulative Investigation of Graphene Intersubband Polaritons (abstract)
16:00	Hayashi, Saito and Sekine Optical Heterodyne Detection of Quasi-CW Terahertz-wave from THz-QCL (abstract)
16:00	Sebastian Schoenhuber, Martin A. Kainz, Benedikt Limbacher, Dominik Theiner, Michael Jaidl, Aaron Maxwell Andrews, Hermann Detz, Gottfried Strasser, Juarj Darmo and Karl Unterrainer Optical Tuning of Terahertz Quantum Cascade Random Lasers (abstract)
16:00	Moritz Wenclawiak, Benedikt Limbacher, Christian Georg Derntl, Aaron Maxwell Andrews, Gottfried Strasser, Karl Unterrainer and Juraj Darmo Superradiant meta-atoms strongly coupled to intersubband transitions (abstract)
16:00	Heinrich A.M. Leymann, Jacopo Nespolo and Iacopo Carusotto Coulomb induced nonlinear response of intersubband transitions (abstract)
16:00	Zeineb Loghmari, Roland Teissier, Michael Bahriz and Baranov Alexei Dual single-frequency far infrared (17.5 and 19.5 µm) emission from InAs-based distributed feedback double metal waveguide quantum cascade laser (abstract)
16:00	Ileana-Cristina Benea-Chelmus, Yannick Salamin, Francesca Fabiana Settembrini, Yuriy Fedoryshyn, Wolfgang Heni, Delwin L. Elder, Larry Dalton, Juerg Leuthold and Jerome Faist Integrated ultrasensitive broadband terahertz field detectors in silicon photonics (abstract)
16:00	Joosun Yun and Hideki Hirayama Level broadening by dipole scattering in AlGaN/ AlGaN superlattice structures (abstract)
16:00	Andrew Paulsen and Qing Hu Integrated Silicon Horn used in a THz-QCL Amplifier (abstract)
16:00	Kai Xi Wang, Stephen Hughes and Dayan Ban Influence of electron-phonon scattering in quantum dot cascade lasers (abstract)
16:00	B. J. Pandey, K. P. Clark, F. Abbas, E. Fuchs, K. Lascola, D. Hinojos, K. Hodges, D. I. Robbins, J.-F Veyan, Q. Gu and K. Roodenko Infrared Scanning Near-Field Optical Microscopy for Thermal Profiling of Quantum Cascade (abstract)
16:00	Johannes Hillbrand, Dominik Auth, Marco Piccardo, Federico Capasso, Gottfried Strasser, Stefan Breuer and Benedikt Schwarz Frequency comb dynamics of ultrafast quantum dot lasers (abstract)
16:00	Sebastian Gies, Raktim Sarma, Michael Goldflam, John Klem and Igal Brener Light-matter interaction in the near-infrared between a plasmonic metasurface and InAs/AlSb semiconductor heterostructures (abstract)
16:00	Paris Blaisdell-Pijuan, Claire Gmachl, Sankaran Sundaresan and Bruce Koel Broadband Mid-Infrared Scattering of Highly-Porous Alumina Catalytic Support (abstract)

Wednesday, September 18th

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08:45-09:30 Session 10: Plenary Talk - Jerome Faist

Chair:

Daniel Wasserman

08:45

Jerome Faist

Phonon-polariton lasers: optical and Raman emission (Plenary Talk) (abstract)

09:30-10:30 Session 11: Frequency Combs 1

Chair:

Alessandro Tredicucci

09:30	Katia Garrasi, Francesco Paolo Mezzapesa, Luca Salemi, Valentino Pistore, Sukhdeep Dhillon, Luigi Consolino, Saverio Bartalini, Paolo De Natale, Lianhe Li, Giles Davies, Edmund Linfield and Miriam Serena Vitiello Quantum cascade lasers frequency combs at Terahertz frequencies (abstract)
09:45	Nikola Opačak, Gottfried Strasser and Benedikt Schwarz Modelling the intra-cavity dynamics behind phase locking of quantum cascade laser frequency combs (abstract)
10:00	David Burghoff, Ningren Han, Filippos Kapsalidis, Nathan Henry, Mattias Beck, Jacob Khurgin, Jerome Faist and Qing Hu Microelectromechanical control of the state of quantum cascade laser frequency combs (abstract)
10:15	Dmitry Kazakov, Marco Piccardo, Benedikt Schwarz, Maximilian Beiser, Yongrui Wang, Michele Tamagnone, Wei-Ting Chen, Alexander Zhu, Alexey Belyanin and Federico Capasso Frequency comb generation in ring injection lasers by defect engineering (abstract)

10:30-10:50 Coffee Break

Location: Anacapa 5-8 (with Exhibit)

10:50-12:35 Session 12: Mid-IR QCLs and ICLs

Chair:

Jerome Faist

10:50	Alexei Baranov, Hoang Nguyen-Van, Zeineb Loghmari, Laurent Cerutti, Jean-Baptiste Rodriguez, Julie Tournet, Gregoire Narcy, Guilhem Boissier, Gilles Patriarche, Michael Bahriz, Eric Tournié and Roland Teissier InAs-based quantum cascade lasers directly grown on silicon (Invited) (abstract)
11:20	Seungyong Jung, Daniele Palaferri, Feng Xie, Yae Okuno, Christopher Pinzone, Kevin Lascola and Mikhail Belkin Monolithic integration of mid-infrared quantum cascade lasers coupled with low-loss passive InGaAs waveguides (abstract)
11:35	Hedwig Knötig, Borislav Hinkov, Robert Weih, Sven Höfling, Werner Schrenk, Johannes Koeth, Johannes P. Waclawek, Bernhard Lendl and Gottfried Strasser Continuous-Wave Operation of Ring Interband Cascade Lasers (abstract)
11:50	Colin Boyle, Jeremy Kirch, Luke Mawst, Yuri Flores and Dan Botez Impact of Interface-Roughness Scattering-Induced Carrier Leakage on High-Power, Mid-IR QCL Performance (abstract)
12:05	Zhixin Wang, Yong Liang, Bo Meng, Yanting Sun, Giriprasanth Omanakuttan, Emilio Gini, Mattias Beck, Ilia Sergachev, Sebastian Lourdudoss, Jérôme Faist and Giacomo Scalari Large Area Surface-Emitting Photonic Crystal Quantum Cascade Laser (abstract)
12:20	Matthew Suttinger, Rowel Go, Ahmad Azim, Enrique Sanchez, Jonathan Brescia, Dagan Hathaway and Arkadiy Lyakh Enhanced Midwave Quantum Cascade Laser Average Power with High Duty Cycle Pulsed Operation (abstract)

13:00-20:00 Excursion/Free Time

Excursion to Old Creek Ranch Winery and then to Ventura Beach. See www.itqw2019.com/social-program

Thursday, September 19th

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09:00-09:10 Session 13: Industry Presentation

Special industry presentation.

Chair:

Heinz-Wilhelm Huebers

09:00

Bob Shine, Dave Caffey and Jeremy Rowlette

Markets and Applications of Commercial Quantum Cascade Laser Based Systems (Industry Presentation) (abstract)

09:15-10:15 Session 14: Spectroscopy and Sensing

Chair:

Heinz-Wilhelm Huebers

09:15	Pierre Jouy, Andreas Hugi, Markus Geiser, Raphael Horvath, Christopher Strand, Nico Pinkowski, Yiming Ding and Ronald K. Hanson Dual comb spectroscopy with QCLs: shock tube applications and challenges for QCL frequency comb sources (abstract)
09:30	Florian Pilat, Benedikt Schwarz, Hermann Detz, Aaron Maxwell Andrews, Bettina Baumgartner, Bernhard Lendl, Gottfried Strasser and Borislav Hinkov QCLD-based lab-on-a-chip for µ-fluidic sensing (abstract)
09:45	Quankui Yang Hetero-cascading Quantum Cascade Lasers and their Application in Realtime Spectroscopy (abstract)
10:00	Alexandra Werth, Yasin Kaya, Kalil Shaw, Noah Apthorpe, James Lee, Nsomma Alilonu, Sofia Inglessis and Claire Gmachl Implementation of quantum cascade laser spectroscopy and multivariate analysis for noninvasive glucose monitoring (abstract)

10:15-10:50 Coffee Break

Location: Anacapa 5-8 (with Exhibit)

10:50-12:20 Session 15: Frequency Combs 2

Chair:

David Burghoff

10:50	Benedikt Schwarz, Johannes Hillbrand, Maximilian Beiser, Nikola Opacak, Aaron Maxwell Andrews, Hermann Detz, Gottfried Strasser, Anne Schade, Robert Weih and Sven Höfling Towards monolithic and battery driven mid-infrared dual-comb spectrometers (Invited) (abstract)
11:20	Lukasz Sterczewski, Mahmood Bagheri, Clifford Frez, Chadwick Canedy, Igor Vurgaftman, Mijin Kim, Chul Soo Kim, Charles Meritt, William Bewley and Jerry Meyer Injection locking of interband cascade laser frequency combs (abstract)
11:35	Bo Meng, Mattias Beck and Jérôme Faist Mid-Infrared Frequency Comb from a Ring Quantum Cascade Laser (abstract)
11:50	Johannes Hillbrand, Aaron Maxwell Andrews, Hermann Detz, Harald Schneider, Gottfried Strasser, Federico Capasso and Benedikt Schwarz Actively mode-locked mid-infrared quantum cascade laser (abstract)
12:05	Andres Forrer, David Stark, Martin Franckié, Tudor Olariu, Mattias Beck, Jérôme Faist and Giacomo Scalari Injection locking and bi-stable operation of a homogeneous bound-to-continuum THz Quantum Cascade Laser spanning up to 1.65 THz (abstract)

12:20-13:30 Buffet Lunch

Location: Anacapa Terrace and Foyer

14:30-16:00 Session 16: Metasurfaces and Topological Photonics

Chair:

Carlo Sirtori

14:30	Mercedeh Khajavikhan Topological and Supersymmetric Laser Arrays (Invited) (abstract)
15:00	Leland Nordin, Kun Li, Andrew Briggs, Evan Simmons, Seth Bank, Viktor Podolskiy and Daniel Wasserman Enhanced Emission from a Long Wavelength Infrared Emitter (abstract)
15:15	Yue Shen, Christopher Curwen, Luyao Xu and Benjamin Williams THz time-domain characterization of amplifying quantum cascade metasurface (abstract)
15:30	Ali Basiri, Jing Bai, Xiahui Chen, Jiawei Zuo, Pouya Amrollahi, Joe Carpenter, Zachary Holman, Chao Wang and Yu Yao Circularly Polarized Light Detection Based on Efficient Chip-Integrated Metasurface (abstract)
15:45	Nishant Nookala, Sander Mann, Stephen March, Seth Bank, John Klem, Igal Brener, Andrea Alù and Mikhail Belkin Optical power limiting from intersubband polaritonic metasurfaces (abstract)

16:00-16:20 Coffee Break

Location: Anacapa 5-8 (with Exhibit)

16:20-17:35 Session 17: New Intersubband Materials

Chair:

Gottfried Strasser

16:20	Arnaud Jollivet, Maria Tchernycheva, Enrico Di Russo, Lorenzo Rigutti, Miguel Montes Bajo, Julen Tamayo Arrola, Adrian Hierro, Borg Vinter, Nolwenn Le Biavan, Maxime Hugues, Jean-Michel Chauveau and Francois Julien Room temperature excitonic transitions induced by intersubband absorption in m-plane ZnO/ZnMgO quantum wells. (abstract)
16:35	Thomas Grange, David Stark, Giacomo Scalari, Jérôme Faist, Luca Persichetti, Monica De Seta, Luciana Di Gaspare, Giovanni Capellini, Douglas Paul, Michele Ortolani, Stefan Birner and Michele Virgilio Comparing III-V and group-IV terahertz quantum cascade lasers using non-equilibrium Green’s functions (abstract)
16:50	Trang Nguyen, Alexander Senichev, Brandon Dzuba, Yang Cao, Michael Manfra and Oana Malis Non-polar strain-balanced AlGaN/InGaN superlattices for infrared optoelectronic devices (abstract)
17:05	Monica De Seta, Michele Montanari, Chiara Ciano, Luca Persichetti, Luciana Di Gaspare, Michele Virgilio, Giovanni Capellini, Marvin Zoellner, Oliver Skibitzki, David Stark, Giacomo Scalari, Jerome Faist, Douglas J. Paul, Thomas Grange, Stefan Birner, Oussama Moutanabbir, Samik Mukherjee, Leonetta Baldassarre and Michele Ortolani High-quality n-type Ge/SiGe multilayers for room temperature THz emission (abstract)
17:20	David Stark, Luca Persichetti, Michele Montanari, Chiara Ciano, Luciana Di Gaspare, Monica De Seta, Marvin Zoellner, Oliver Skibitzki, Giovanni Capellini, Michele Ortolani, Leonetta Baldassarre, Michele Virgilio, Thomas Grange, Stefan Birner, Kirsty Rew, Douglas Paul, Jérôme Faist and Giacomo Scalari Si-based n-type Quantum Cascade Structures for THz Emission (abstract)

19:00-22:00 Banquet

Banquet will be held at the Ojai Valley Inn and Spa in the Hacienda Ballroom.

Friday, September 20th

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09:00-10:30 Session 18: Detection

Chair:

Daniel Wasserman

09:00	David Ting Type-II superlattice unipolar barrier infrared detectors (Invited) (abstract)
09:30	Azzurra Bigioli, Djamal Gacemi, Daniele Palaferri, Yanko Todorov, Angela Vasanelli and Carlo Sirtori Mixing properties of room temperature patch-antenna receivers in a mid-infrared (9 um) heterodyne system (abstract)
09:45	Changyun Yoo, Mengchen Huang, Jonathan Kawamura, Ken West, Boris Karasik, Loren Pfeiffer and Mark Sherwin Tunable Antenna-Coupled Intersubband Terahertz (TACIT) Mixers (abstract)
10:00	Borislav Hinkov, Arnaud Jollivet, Hanh T. Hoang, Stefano Pirotta, Maria Tchernycheva, Raffaele Colombelli, Maxime Hugues, Nolwenn Le Biavan, Miguel Montes Bajo, Adrian Hierro, Jean-Michel Chauveau, Gottfried Strasser and Francois H. Julien Quantum cascade detectors based on non-polar ZnO/ZnMgO quantum wells (abstract)
10:15	Johannes Hillbrand, Sandro Dal Cin, Aaron Maxwell Andrews, Hermann Detz, Erich Gornik, Benedikt Schwarz and Gottfried Strasser High bandwidth quantum cascade detectors (abstract)

10:30-10:50 Coffee Break

10:50-12:20 Session 19: New Physics

Chair:

Mark Sherwin

10:50	Ileana-Cristina Benea-Chelmus, Francesca Fabiana Settembrini, Giacomo Scalari and Jerome Faist Electric field correlation measurements on the electromagnetic vacuum state (Invited) (abstract)
11:20	Takuma Tsurugaya, Kenji Yoshida and Kazuhiko Hirakawa Ultranarrow intersublevel transitions in carbon nanotube quantum dots (abstract)
11:35	Jacob Khurgin Malleable Polaritons: Wannier Exciton-Plasmon Coupling (abstract)
11:50	Haoliang Qian, Shilong Li and Zhaowei Liu Large optical nonlinearities in metallic quantum wells (abstract)
12:05	Aniela Dunn, Caroline Poyser, Aleksandar Demic, Paul Dean, Alexander Valavanis, Dragan Indjin, Mohammed Salih, Iman Kundu, Lianhe Li, Andrey Akimov, Alexander Giles Davies, Edmund Linfield, John Cunningham and Anthony Kent High-speed modulation of a terahertz-frequency quantum-cascade laser using coherent acoustic phonon pulses (abstract)