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The field of intersubband transitions in quantum wells has experienced an impressive growth in the nineties. Novel and exciting phenomena are discovered and explored, leading to new applications promoting the fast growing market in IR sensing and imaging. The quantum cascade laser, also discovered during the last decade, is going to dominate the market of MIR laser sources. These lasers are unique because its emission wavelength is tuned by band structure engineering and not the band gap of the host material, giving prospect for expansion of the presently available wavelength range (68 µm to 3 µm) notably into the 1.5 µm telecommunication range and opening a promising path to develop laser sources in optically “dead” materials, such as Silicon.
Keeping with the tradition of this conference series, we aim to provide a forum for young scientists to learn about the rich field of the physics of intersubband transitions. We will give a platform to the researchers in fundamental science to keep up with the latest developments, and we intent to keep ongoing the fruitful interaction between fundamental research and applied science.
Sessions will be organized on • Intersubband detectors and QC lasers • Intersubband emission in the far-infrared and THz range • Silicon based detectors and emitters • Superlattices, Blochoscillators, and intersubband transitions in wires and quantum dots • Ultra fast effects and intersubband relaxation • Nonlinear, coherent and many-body effects • Applications of coherent phenomena in quantum wells (optical computing), and last but not least • non-standard QW systems such as metals, and, • applications of intersubband devices for the telecommunication band at 1.5 µm.
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