invited speakers

Joshua Abell

Naval Research Laboratory, USA
Single-Mode Interband Cascade Lasers for Chemical Sensing

Jerome Faist

Institute for Quantum Electronics, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Quantum cascade lasers mid-infrared frequency combs

Christian Grasse

Walter Schottky Institute, Technical University of Munich, Germany
GaSb- and InP-based devices for mid-infrared gas sensing applications

Peter Kaspersen

Norsk Elektro Optikk AS, Norway
Potentials of mid-infrared spectroscopy in emission control

Pawe� Kluczynski

Airoptic, Poznan, Poland
New gas sensing applications in Mid-IR

Grzegorz S�k

Institute of Physics, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
GaSb-based structures for mid-infrared emitting lasers: optical study

Frank Tittel

Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University, USA
Mid-Infrared Semiconductor Laser based Trace Gas Sensor Technologies: Recent advances and Applications

Dorian Sanchez

Institut d'Electronique du Sud, University of Montpellier 2, France
Single mode cw operation of monolithic GaSb-VCSELs

Manijeh Razeghi

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Northwestern University, USA
Recent progress in MIR laser sources at CQD/EECS/NU

Hans-Joachim Wagner

Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics, Freiburg, Germany Broadband tunable external-cavity QCL for spectroscopy of liquids and surface contaminations

Rui Q. Yang

School of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Oklahoma, USA
InAs-based interband cascade lasers