Workshop Scope

The topics include but are not limited to:

  • Dynamical phenomena in semiconductor lasers (feedback, optical injection, noise) 
  • Long wavelength lasers (quantum cascade lasers, interband cascade lasers) 
  • Photonic crystal semiconductor lasers, nanoscale semiconductor lasers 
  • All-optical processing using semiconductor lasers and amplifiers 
  • Novel material systems, structures, and technologies 
  • Short pulse lasers and mode-locked lasers 
  • Semiconductor laser comb generation 
  • Optical millimetre wave generation 
  • Semiconductor optical amplifiers 
  • Organic semiconductor lasers 
  • Lasers for telecommunication 
  • Photonic integrated circuit lasers 
  • Laser-integrated devices 
  • Surface-emitting lasers 
  • High-power lasers 
  • High-speed lasers 
  • Lasers on silicon 

Keynote/Invited Speakers

The keynote presentation will be delivered by Prof. Eric Tournie from the University of Montpellier, France.

Invited speakers:

  • Sylvie Menezo, SCINTIL Photonics, France
  • Una Marvet, Alter Technology, UK
  • Dag Schmidt, Menlo Systems, Germany
  • Paul Crump, Ferdinand-Braun-Institut, Berlin, Germany
  • Kouichi Akahane, NICT, Japan

Agenda

 

Saturday 30th September

8:00-8:30am

Arrival with tea/coffee and pastries

8:30-8:40am

Welcome/introductions

Scott Watson

8:40-9:10am

Keynote: Integration of Mid-IR lasers and Si photonics circuits

Eric Tournie

9:10-9:30am

Monolithic III-V/Si lasers and amplifiers integrated on the backside of advanced Silicon Photonics wafers

Sylvie Menezo

9:30-9:50am

Limits to power in GaAs-based broad area lasers

Paul Crump

9:50-10:10am

Highly stacked quantum dot lasers operating in the telecom band

Kouichi Akahane

10:10-10:30am

Tea/coffee break

10:30-10:45am

Demonstration of high resolution FMCW LiDAR using fully photonic integrated widely tunable laser at 2 microns

Jannis Holzer

10:45-11:00am

Ultra-stable 10 GHz optical clocks based on injection mode-locked semiconductor lasers

Mohanad Al-Rubaiee

11:00-11:15am

Development of Mid-Infrared Light Emitting Diodes

Peter Carrington

11:15-11:30am

1.3 µm optically pumped quantum dot photonic crystal laser designed at bounded states in the continuum

Danqi Lei

11:30-11:35am

Short break

11:35-11:50am

Eight-channel DFB laser array based on four phase-shifted sampled bragg gratings

Yiming Sun

11:50-12:05pm

Demonstration of a 200 GHz grid spacing 16-channel CW-WDM-MSA compliant DFB laser array with output power above 70 mW

Stuart Smyth

12:05-12:20pm

Optically pumped edge-emitting lasers for photovoltaics at extreme concentrations

Brian Corbett

12:20-12:35pm

Wide-band GaSb/Si tunable laser devices for 2.X µm biomedical spectroscopy

Kristijonas Vizbaras

12:35-1:35pm

Lunch break/poster session

1:35-1:55pm

Optical frequency combs for precision metrology

Dag Schmidt

1:55-2:15pm

Laser systems for quantum applications

Una Marvet

2:15-2:30pm

kHz-level linewidth distributed feedback laser at 778.1, 780.24 and 795 nm emission wavelength for Rb quantum systems

Eugenio Di Gaetano

2:30-2:45pm

Novel technique for measuring linewidth enhancement factor enabled by photonic integration

Julian Konig

2:45-3:00pm

Implementation of an FPGA-based laser lock box with high-bandwidth and auto-relocking features: Application to sub-kHz external cavity diode lasers

Joachim Sacher

3:00-3:15pm

Room temperature low threshold nanobeam lasers using InGaAs/GaAs nanowires on silicon-on-insulator grown by MOCVD

Bogdan Petrin Ratiu

3:15-3:35pm

Tea/coffee break

3:35-3:50pm

Large-area semiconductor lasers for neural network computing

Xavier Porte

3:50-4:05pm

VCSEL-based photonic spiking neural network with highly efficient training

Joshua Robertson

4:05-4:20pm

Lowering the coherence of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers using chaotic cavity designs

Boon S. Ooi

4:20-4:35pm

Towards TAMSELs: Tamm-assisted meta-surface emitting lasers

Talal Alshammari

4:35-4:40pm

Short break

4:40-4:55pm

High temperature operating InAs/GaAs quantum dot lasers with co-doping technique

Mingchu Tang

4:55-5:10pm

Beam quality improvement in broad area high power 970 nm diode lasers by modified current density profile

Shailesh Kumar Khamari

5:10-5:25pm

Static and dynamic characterisation of 369 nm GaN Fabry-Perot laser diodes

Nicola Parry

5:25-5:40pm

Novel photonic filter feedback method for time delay signature suppression of chaos generated in semiconductor lasers

Yanhua Hong

5:40-5:55pm

Non-linear dynamics from a laser diode with both optical feedback and optical injection

Lucas Oliverio

5:55-6:05pm

Closing remarks

Scott Watson

6:30pm

Bus to Clydeside Distillery

7:00pm

Conference Dinner & Whisky Tasting at Clydeside Distillery