ARW No: CBP.NUKR.ARW.983780

LOCATION: Turunc, Turkey DATES: 3 to 6 November 2009

TITLE: NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Terahertz and Mid Infrared Radiation: Basic Research and Applications "TERA - MIR 2009"

NATO Co-Chair: Prof. Mauro F. Pereira

Partner Country Co-Chair: Prof. I. Sukhoivanov

PROGRAMME, TIMETABLE AND ORGANIZATION

Invited Talks - 25 minutes talk + 5 minutes for questions = 30 minutes

Oral Presentations - 12 minutes talk + 3 minutes for questions = 15 minutes

1st day  3 November 2009

9:00 Opening ceremony/organization details

9:30 – 10:00 inv Key speaker -  F.Tittel   -  "Recent Advances in Infrared Semiconductor Based Chemical Sensing

                                                                    Technologies"

10:00 – 10:30 inv Key speaker - J. Cockburn, "Recent Progress in Short Wavelength Quantum Cascade Lasers" 

10:30 - 11:00 inv Key speaker M. Razegui - "Recent performance records for mid-IR quantum cascade lasers"

Coffee Break

11:30 – 12:00 inv Key speaker C.Weber - "Density-matrix theory of quantum cascade lasers: localization

                                                                        effects"

12:00-12:30 upgraded oral Key speaker - Shi Hung Lin - "Double-barrier Superlattice infrared

                                                                      photodetector combined with quantum well infrared photodetector

                                                                      for operation at high temperature and low bias

12:30 – 13:30 – oral presentations I

Is the Stimulated Emission of THz Photons Feasible at the Inverse Population of Lattice

Vibration States?

R. Brazis

            Nanosecond Pulses for Sub-Terahertz Imaging From Avalanching GaAs Bipolar Transistors

S. N. Vainshtein, J. T. Kostamovaara, V. S. Yuferev

Development of (λ~9.4μm) GaAs-Based Quantum Cascade Lasers

Kamil Kosiel, Anna Szerling, Piotr Karbownik, Justyna Kubacka-Traczyk, Emilia Pruszyńska-Karbownik, Maciej Bugajski

Generation of a Narrow Linewidth mm-Wave Signal from Two Phase-Locked DFB Lasers that are Mutually Coupled via Four Wave Mixing

Marco Soldo, Nicholas Gibbons, Guido Giuliani

Lunch  13:30 – 15:00

      15:00-15:30 inv Key speaker G. Nash - "Strained InGaSb/InAlGaSb Quantum Well Midinfrared Laser"

      15:30-16:00 inv Key speaker I. Waldmueller - "Thinking outside the box: THz quantum cascade lasers seen

                                                                             differently"

16:00 – 16:30 inv Key speaker Y. Todorov -  "Cavity Polaritons with Very Large Coupling in the Far and Mid

                                                                         Infrared"

Coffee Break

17:00-18:00 oral presentations II

Challenges for Intersubband Terahertz Emitters and Possible Solutions through Advanced Numerical Simulations

Mauro.F. Pereira

Interperiods Electron Transport Coherences in Quantum-Cascade Structures

M. V. Klymenko, O. V. Shulika, I. A. Sukhoivanov .

Creation of the Cavity of the Tunable Whispering Gallery Modes Mid Infrared Laser

V. V. Sherstnev, E. A. Grebenshchikova, A. M. Monakhov, A. N.Imenkov, A. N. Baranov Yu. P. Yakovlev

 Electrical Injection of Intersubband Polaritons

             P. Jouy, Angela Vasanelli, Y. Todorov, R. Colombelli, U. Gennser and C. Sirtori

18:00 – 20:00 poster session I

20:00  Dinner

2nd day,  4 November

9:00 – 9:30 inv. Key speaker  Q. Hu, "Tunable THz Lasers"    

9:30-10:00 inv. Key speaker J.Faist - "Electron and Photon Engineering in Terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers"

10:00-10:30 inv Key speaker M. Wanke - "Integrated Chip-scale THz Technology"

10:30-11:00 upgraded oral Key speaker  M. Jewaria - "Large Amplitude anharmonic vibrations  driven by

                                                                                           monocycle intense THz pulse"

Coffee Break

 11:30 – 12:00 inv Key speaker H. Altan -  "Plasma Sensing Using THz Waves"

 12:00-12:30 inv Key speaker L. Ozyuzer - "Novel THz Wave Sources: Intrinsic Josephson Junctions"

 12:30-13:00 inv Key speaker P.Jepsen  - "Dynamic Terahertz Photonic Components and Waveguides"

 13:00-14:00 oral presentations III

Clinotrons as Powerful Sources of Terahertz Radiation

D. M. Vavriv

Coherent Superposition of Terahertz Beams from a Phased Linear Photomixer Array

Sebastian Bauerschmidt, Sascha Preu, Stefan Malzer, Gottfried H. Döhler, Lijun Wang, Hong Lu, Arthur C. Gossard

Terahertz Active Media on Intra-Center Transitions: Tuning by Nano-Layers

E. E. Orlova, A. P. Stepanova

           L. Shvartsman and B. Laikhtman - "Can any design support an effective nanostructure lasing for a few

                                                                                       THz?"

Lunch  14:00 – 15:00

15:00-15:30 - inv. Key speaker -C. Pfluegl - "THz Difference-frequency Generation in Quantum Cascade

                                                      Lasers: Challenges and Prospects"

 15:30-16:00 inv   Key speaker - S. Barbieri, "Merging THz Quantum Cascade Lasers with Microwave and

                                                                    Telecom Technologies"

16:00 - 16:30 oral presentation IV

Telecom-Wavelength Compatible THz n-i-pn-i-p Superlattice Photomixers for Spectroscopical Applications

Sascha Preu, Stefan Malzer, Gottfried H. Döhler, Lijun Wang, Hong Lu, Arthur C. Gossard

            Millimeter-Wave Scale Metamaterials

K. B. Alici, E. Ozbay

Coffee Break

17:00-18:00 oral presentations V

Investigating the Glass Transition of Polymers with Terahertz Time-Domain Spectroscopy

T. Jung, S. Wietzke, C. Jansen, M. Reuter, S. Chatterjee, B. Baudrit, M. Bastian, M. Koch

Advancing of Methods and Technique of mm Wavelength Range to THz Frequency Range

V. Vaks, A. Panin, S. Pripolsin, D. Paveliev

Design of High-Energy THz Sources Based on Optical Rectification

J. A. Fülöp, L. Pálfalvi, G. Almási, J. Hebling

            Detection of Explosive Under Covering Soap Using the THz Spectral Dynamics Analysis

            V. A. Trofimov, S. A. Varentsova           

18:00 – 20:00 poster session II

20:00  Dinner

3rd day,  5 November

9:00-9:30 inv Key speaker X.-C. Zhang - "Recent progress of terahertz wave sensing, imaging and applications"

                                                                 to Work all  Together"

9:30-10:00 inv Key speaker A.Krotkus -  "Semiconductor materials for pulsed THz optoelectronics  devices"  

10:00 – 10:30 inv  Key speaker E. Brown - "The THz Challenge: Getting the Science, Technology, and Systems

10:30-11:00 inv Key speaker F.V. Kusmartsev - "Superconducting THz electronics with Josephson vortices"

Coffee Break

11:30-13:30 poster session III

13:30 - 19:00 lunch and flexible discussion time -

19:00 - 20:00 Round table in MIR and THz application in security area problems/possible science for peace

               proposals and closing session

20:00  Dinner

4rd day, 6 October

Departure

List of Poster Presentations Authors in Each Session

Poster I -

Poster II -

Poster III -