DSS2015-final-lr

SESSION 17LOCATION: CONV. CTR. ROOM 336 .......... FRI 10:30 AM TO 12:50 PMTHz PhotonicsSession Chair: Michael K. Rafailov, The Reger Group (USA)10:30 am: Terahertz electronics for sensing and imaging applications(Invited Paper), Michael Shur, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (USA) . . [9467-82]10:50 am: A compact THz imaging set-up at 750 microns (Invited Paper),Linda E. Marchese, Marc Terroux, Alain Bergeron, INO (Canada) .....[9467-83]11:10 am: Collection efficiency for millimeter and submillimeter-waveantenna-coupled detection (Invited Paper), Brian A. Lail, Yuancheng Xu,Florida Institute of Technology (USA) ...........................[9467-84]11:30 am: CMOS mm-wave system-on-chip for sensing and communication(Invited Paper), Adrian J. Tang, Jet Propulsion Lab. (USA) and Univ. of California,Los Angeles (USA)..........................................[9467-85]11:50 am: Applications and challenges for MMW and THz sensors(Invited Paper), John N. Sanders-Reed, The Boeing Co (USA)........[9467-86]12:10 pm: Video rate imaging at 1.5 THz via frequency upconversion to thenear-IR (Invited Paper), Patrick F. Tekavec, Vladimir G. Kozlov, Ian McNee,Microtech Instruments, Inc. (USA); Yun-Shik Lee, Oregon State Univ. (USA);Konstantin L. Vodopyanov, CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics, Univ.of Central Florida (USA)......................................[9467-87]12:30 pm: High power MWIR quantum cascade lasers and their use in intracavityTHz room temperature generation (Invited Paper), Mariano Troccoli,AdTech Optics, Inc. (USA)...................................[9467-102]Lunch Break ..................................Fri 12:50 pm to 1:50 pmSESSION 18LOCATION: CONV. CTR. ROOM 336 .............FRI 1:50 PM TO 3:30 PMMid-IR Laser PhotonicsSession Chair: Michael K. Rafailov, The Reger Group (USA)1:50 pm: Solution-processed chalcogenide glass: a pathway toward novelmaterials and architectures for mid-IR photonics (Invited Paper),Craig B. Arnold, TAG Optics, Inc. (USA) .........................[9467-88]2:10 pm: Approaches to generation of tunable mid-IR ultrafast pulseswith fiber sources (Invited Paper), Alexander Sell, TOPTICA Photonics AG(Germany); Igor Pastirk, TOPTICA Photonics Inc. (USA); Andreas Brodschelm,Robert Herda, TOPTICA Photonics AG (Germany); Thomas Puppe, TOPTICAPhotonics Inc. (Germany); Armin Zach, TOPTICA Photonics AG(Germany) ................................................[9467-89]2:30 pm: Long wavelength mid-infrared from mixing two colorsfrom a fiber amplifier (Invited Paper), Donna Strickland, Univ. of Waterloo(Canada) .................................................[9467-90]2:50 pm: Mid-IR lasers based on transition metal doped II-VIsemiconductors (Invited Paper), Sergey B. Mirov, The Univ. of Alabama atBirmingham (USA) and IPG Photonics - Mid-Infrared Lasers (USA); Vladimir V.Fedorov, Dmitry V. Martyshkin, The Univ. of Alabama at Birmingham (USA);Igor S. Moskalev, Mike B. Mirov, Sergey Vasilyev, IPG Photonics - Mid-InfraredLasers (USA); Valentin P. Gapontsev, IPG Photonics Corp. (USA).....[9467-92]3:10 pm: Recent progress in quantum cascade external cavity lasersystems optimized for mid-IR sensing applications (Invited Paper), David B.Arnone, Leigh J. Bromley, David B. Caffey, William B. Chapman, Timothy Day,Allen Priest, Daylight Solutions Inc. (USA); Charles C. Harb, The Univ. of NewSouth Wales (Australia) .....................................[9467-100]Coffee Break ...................................Fri 3:30 pm to 3:50 pmSESSION 19LOCATION: CONV. CTR. ROOM 336 .........FRI 3:50 PM TO 4:20 PMQuantum Cascade Lasers and SpectroscopySession Chair: Michael K. Rafailov, The Reger Group (USA)3:50 pm: Quantum cascade laser frequency combs for spectroscopy(Keynote Presentation), Jérôme Faist, ETH Zürich (Switzerland) ...[9467-93]CONFERENCE 9467LOCATION: CONV. CTR. ROOM 336SESSION 20LOCATION: CONV. CTR. ROOM 336 ............FRI 4:20 PM TO 6:20 PMLaser Chemical DetectionJoint Session with Conferences 9467, 9455, 9486Session Chair: Michael K. Rafailov, The Reger Group (USA)4:20 pm: Broadband mid-IR frequency comb source for standoff chemicaldetection (Invited Paper), Konstantin L. Vodopyanov, CREOL, The College ofOptics and Photonics, Univ. of Central Florida (USA)...............[9467-94]4:40 pm: Standoff trace detection of explosives with Infrared hyperspectralimagery (Invited Paper), Frank Fuchs, Stefan Hugger, Jan-Philip Jarvis, QuankuiK. Yang, Ralf Ostendorf, Christian Schilling, Wolfgang Bronner, RaschidDriad, Rolf Aidam, Joachim Wagner, Fraunhofer-Institut für AngewandteFestkörperphysik (Germany) ..................................[9467-95]5:00 pm: Ozone alteration for background references using QCL basedmid-infrared standoff spectroscopy (Invited Paper), Inseok Chae, Univ ofAlberta (Canada); Charles W. Van Neste, Thomas G. Thundat, Univ. of Alberta(Canada) .................................................[9467-96]5:20 pm: Toward the realization of a compact chemical sensor platformusing quantum cascade lasers (Invited Paper), Ellen L. Holthoff, Paul M.Pellegrino, Logan S. Marcus, U.S. Army Research Lab. (USA)........[9467-97]5:40 pm: Detection of trace explosives on relevant substrates using amobile platform for photothermal infrared imaging spectroscopy(PT-IRIS) (Invited Paper), Christopher A. Kendziora, Robert Furstenberg,Michael R. Papantonakis, Viet Nguyen, Jeff M. Byers, R. Andrew McGill, U.S.Naval Research Lab. (USA) ...................................[9467-98]6:00 pm: Standoff detection of chemical and biological threats usingminiature widely tunable QCLs (Invited Paper), Petros Kotidis, Erik R. Deutsch,Anish K. Goyal, Block Engineering, LLC (USA) ....................[9467-99]SESSION 21LOCATION: CONV. CTR. ROOM 336 ............FRI 6:20 PM TO 6:40 PMQuantum Cascade LasersJoint Session with Conferences 9467, 9455, 9486Session Chair: Michael K. Rafailov, The Reger Group (USA)6:20 pm: Recent results on performance optimization of QCLs forconsumption, spectral coverage and power (Invited Paper), Antoine Müller,Richard Maulini, Stéphane Blaser, Alfredo Bismuto, Tobias Gresch, RomainTerazzi, Alpes Lasers SA (Switzerland) .........................[9467-101]DEFENSE + SECURITY+1 360 676 3290 · help@spie.org · (Twitter) #DSS 83