The International Quantum Cascade Laser School and Workshop 2014 aims to be a think-tank where top researchers in the field will report on recent exciting developments and brainstorm on promising new directions ranging from questions of basic device physics to applications.

Fundamental physics aspect of Quantum Cascade Lasers as well as technological improvements and applications will be addressed. Key features of the workshop will be international participation, industrial exhibition and an educational tilt for PhD students.

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Giacomo Scalari – ETHZ (Switzerland)

Miriam Serena Vitiello – CNR (Italy)

Benjamin Williams – UCLA (USA)

• Device physics and modeling

• Material systems and Growth

• High power / high efficiency

• Tunability

• Terahertz emission

• Short wavelength

• Interband Cascade Lasers

• Linewidth stability and frequency noise

• Microcavities, waveguides, novel resonators

• Beam shaping and beam steering

• Ultra short pulse QCL (mode locking)

• Multiwavelength QCL (broadband devices)

• Non-linear effects

• Novel systems and phenomena

• Applications: imaging, sensing, metrology…

• Commercial prospects