Next Conferences / Exhibitions

• Optatec, Frankfurt, June 17-20, 2008. Visit us on the booth of our representative for Germany MG Optical Solutions.
• 3rd International Workshop on Infrared Plasma Spectroscopy, Greifswald, Germany, July 23-25, 2008. see Website
• International Quantum Cascade Lasers School & Workshop, Monte Verita, Switzerland, September 14-19, 2008. see Website

Conference Papers / slides

• The 2nd International Workshop on Quantum Cascade Lasers (QCL), Brindisi (Italy), session "Applications and industrial developments of QCLs II", Room-Temperature continuous-wave singlemode quantum cascade lasers, September 6-9 2006. PDF file (2.8Mb)
• LACSEA 2006 (Laser Applications to Chemical, Security and Environmental Analysis Meeting), Incline Village (USA), session "New Methods & Instrumentation I ", Singlemode Room-Temperature CW Operation and High Power Pulsed Operation of Quantum Cascade Lasers, February 6 2006. Abstract: PDF file (55kb)
• SPIE Photonics West Optoelectronics 2006, San Jose (USA), session "Novel In-Plane Semiconductor Lasers V", Room-temperature continuous-wave single-mode quantum cascade lasers, January 21 - 26 2006. Presentation slides: PDF file (2.9Mb)
• SPIE Optics/photonics in Security and Defense 2005, Bruges (Belgium), session "Technologies for optical countermeasures II", High-performance mid-infrared quantum cascade lasers, Wednesday September 28 2005. Presentation slides: PDF file (1.9Mb)
• The 8th International Conference on Intersubband Transitions in Quantum Wells, North Falmouth (USA), Continuous-wave single-mode quantum cascade lasers, September 11-16 2005. Presentation slides: PDF file (2.3Mb)
• ForumAcusticum 2005, Budapest (Hungary), session "Photoacoustics", Overview of commercially available and research grade quantum-cascade lasers on TE-cooler, Friday September 2 2005, Presentation slides: PDF file (2.2Mb)
• 5th International Conference on Tunable Diode Laser Spectroscopy (TDLS-2005), Florence (Italy), July 11-15, 2005: "Industrial Analytical Systems based on Tunable Diode-Lasers", Quantum cascade lasers for TDLS, Presentation slides: PDF file (830kb)
• SPIE Photonics West Optoelectronics 2005, session "Novel In-Plane Semiconductor Lasers IV", Continuous-Wave Single-Mode Quantum Cascade Lasers on TE-Cooler Monday January 24 2005
• MRS Fall Meeting in Boston from November 29 - December 3., Stéphane Blaser, "Continuous-wave single-mode bound-to-continuum quantum-cascade lasers on TE-cooler at 5.4um".
• SPIE European symposium on Optics/Photonics in Security & Defence, October 25-28, 2004, London, UK, Conference ED111 Solid state lasers technologies, Invited paper, Stéphane Blaser and Antoine Muller, "Recent progress of mid-infrared and terahertz quantum cascade lasers".
• 34. IR-Kolloquium, Fraunhofer-Institut für Angewandte Festkörperphysik, Freiburg i. B. (Germany), April 21, 2004: Stéphane Blaser and Yargo Bonetti, "Developments in the Field of Quantum Cascade Lasers", Presentation slides: PDF file (caution, large file! 12.2Mb)
• 4th workshop on Quantum cascade lasers, Technology and application, Freiburg (Germany), September 25, 2003. Invited talk, Stéphane Blaser: "High power and single frequency quantum cascade lasers for chemical sensing". Presentation slides: PDF file (1.4Mb)
• Remote Sensing 2003 (September 8-12), Barcelona (Spain), Laser Radar Techniques: Ranging and Atmospheric Lidar session, Stéphane Blaser, Yargo Bonetti, Lubos Hvozdara, Antoine Muller: "High power and single frequency quantum cascade lasers for gas sensing"
• 7th International Conference on Intersubband Transitions in Quantum Wells, ITQW '03 (September 1-5), Evolène (Switzerland): Stéphane Blaser, "High performance distributed-feedback quantum cascade lasers from 4.3 to 16.5 µm". Presentation slides: PDF file (1.0Mb)
• 4th International Conference on Tunable Diode Laser Spectroscopy (TDLS-2003), Zermatt (Switzerland), July 14-18, 2003: Stéphane Blaser, "High power and single frequency quantum cascade lasers for gas sensing". Presentation slides: PDF file (380kb)
• Fraunhofer IPM QC Laser Workshop Freiburg (2001): Mark S. Zahniser, "Atmospheric Trace Gas Measurements With Pulsed Quantum Cascade Lasers: sub-ppb Ammonia Detection", Presentation Slides (PDF 308kB)
• Sensors Expo: Antoine Müller, Cleveland (USA), "Novel Quantum Cascade Laser Based Measurements of Chemicals in Liquid and Gases with 50 Fold Improved Signal to Noise Ratio"

Scientific Papers

• Review of Scientific Instruments: V73, 6, (2002), S. Barbieri, J.-P. Pellaux, E. Studemann, D. Rosser, "Gas detection with quantum cascade lasers: An adapted photoacoustic sensor based on Helmholtz resonance" (PDF 128 kB)
• Applied Physics Letters: V78, 2, (2001), J. Faist, M. Beck, T. Aellen, E. Gini, "Quantum-cascade lasers based on a bound-to-continuum transition" (PDF 208kB)
• Proceedings Sensors Expo: Antoine Müller, M. Beck, J. Faist, R. Schindler, H. Ehmoser, B. Lendl and J.-P. Pellaux, Cleveland (USA), "Novel Quantum Cascade Laser Based Measurements of Chemicals in Liquid and Gases with 50 Fold Improved Signal to Noise Ratio" (PDF 1187 kB)
• Applied Physics Letters: V75, 11, (1999), A. Müller, Mattias Beck, Jérôme Faist, Ursula Oesterle and Marc Illegems, "Electrically tunable room-temperature quantum-cascade lasers" (PDF 53 kB)
• Applied Physics Letters: V75, 5, (1999), D. Hofstetter, J. Faist, M. Beck, A. Müller and U. Oesterle, "Demonstration of High-performance 10.16mm quantum cascade distributed feedback laser fabricated without epitaxial regrowth" (PDF 219 kB)
• Optics Letters, V23, 3, (1998), K. Namjou, S. Cai, E. A. Whittaker, J. Faist, C. Gmachl, F. Capasso, D. L. Sivco and A. Y. Cho, "Sensitive absorption spectroscopy with a room-temperature distributed-feedback quantum-cascade laser" (PDF 229 kB)