Program

Monday Sept. 8

18:30 Registration
19:00 - 21:00 Welcome reception at Hotel Rebstock

Tuesday Sept. 9

8:30 Registration and welcome coffeee
9:00 Opening
9:10 Laurent Cerutti, University of Montpellier, France
Growth and study of Sb-based Interband Cascade Laser on GaSb, GaAs and Si substrates
9:50 Nicolas Schäfer, nanoplus, Germany
Spectral Engineering of Interband Cascade LEDs for sensing applications in the MIR spectral range
10:10 Andreas Windischhofer, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Efficient Simulation of ICLs via Self-Consistent Transport Modeling
10:30 Anagha Kamath, University of Würzburg, Germany
Mid-infrared photodetection at a 5.31 µm cutoff wavelength using Ga-free InAs/InAsSb superlattice absorbers
10:50 Coffee break
11:10 Paweł Kluczyński, Airoptic, Poland
Tunable laser analyzers for sulfur recovery applications
11:50 Adam Polak, Fraunhofer Centre for Applied Photonics, United Kingdom
Miniaturised Photoacoustic Sensor Platform for Real-Time Detection of Environmental Tracers
12:10 Matthias Bonarens, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
Spatially and temporally resolved emission measurements on a hydrogen-fuelled annular combustion chamber test bench
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Michał Nikodem, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Poland
Gas Sensing inside Hollow-Core Fibers: the Good, the Bad, and the Potential
14:10 Piotr Perehiniec, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Poland
Anti-resonant hollow core fiber – a useful tool in gas sensing
14:30 Sebastian Gryska, Yokogawa Deutschland, Germany
A Practical Guide to Reliable Evaluation of Mid-Infrared Laser Sources for Gas Sensing
14:50 Takuma Sato, nextnano, Germany & Technical University of Munich, Germany
Non-Equilibrium Green’s Function Modeling of Quantum Transport in Sb-based lasers and detectors
15:10 Coffee break
15:30 Peter Geiser, NEO Monitors, Norway
Hydrogen TDLAS for Industrial Process Control and Safety Applications
16:10 Suhita Tawade, Uniphos Envirotronic Pvt, India
Low-Cost Embedded WMS-TDLAS Platform for Ammonia Sensing Using Ambient Water Vapor as Internal Reference
19:00 Conference dinner at Staatlicher Hofkeller Würzburg

Wednesday Sept. 10

10:00 Robert Weih, nanoplus, Germany
Interband Cascade based Lasers and LEDs for Sensing Applications in the MIR
10:40 Maeva Fagot, University of Montpellier, France
Sb-based Interband cascade lasers emitting below 3 µm grown on GaSb and GaAs substrates
11:00 Kamil Pierściński, Łukasiewicz Research Network – Institute of Microelectronics and Photonics, Poland
Short-Wavelength Quantum Cascade Lasers Emitting at 3.8 µm for Mid-Infrared Detection Systems
11:20 Fabian Hartmann, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
Design optimization of resonant cavity-enhanced interband cascade infrared photodetectors
11:40 Coffee break
12:00 Hsiang-Yu Lo, ABB Research Center, Switzerland
Sensitive SO2 detection using a QCL-based ICOS laser analyzer
12:40 Jacek Olszewski, VIGO Photonics, Poland & Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Poland
Design of a Mid-Infrared Ge-Suspended Membrane Waveguide Gas Sensor for CO₂ Detection at 4.26 µm
13:00 Gourab Dutta Banik, Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Germany
Application of OF-CEAS for NH3 impurity measurement in biomethane
13:20 Lunch
14:20 Vijaysekhar Jayaraman, Praevium Research Inc., USA
Wafer-bonded vertical-cavity detectors and emitters in the mid-Infrared
15:00 Marcin Motyka, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Poland
High Contrast Gratings for Infrared Electrode with Exceptionally High Conductivity and Transmission in Mid-Infrared Photonics
15:20 Mikołaj Badura, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Poland
Plasmon-Enhanced InP DBRs for Next-Generation Mid-Infrared VCSELs
15:40 Lorenz Schnegg, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Linearity and Saturation behavior of Interband Cascade Infrared Photodetectors (ICIP) with Gallium-free absorber
16:00 Coffee break
16:20 Lab tours
19:00 - 20:00 Guided city tour with the Würzburg night watchman

Thursday Sept. 11

9:30 Marek Vlk, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Norway
Gas sensing with MIR waveguides at The Arctic University of Norway
10:10 Bartosz Kamiński, Airoptic, Poland & Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
High pressure optical gas sensing in industrial conditions – machine learning approach for concentration prediction
10:30 Przemysław Chmielowski, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Poland
Laser-base gas sensing – simplifying and speeding data analysis using neural networks
10:50 Coffee break
11:10 Borislav Hinkov, Silicon Austria Labs, Austria
(M)IR photonic integrated circuits for QKD-based telecom and on-chip sensing applications
11:50 Ryszard Piramidowicz, VIGO Photonics, Poland & Warsaw University of Technology, & LightHouse, Poland
MIRPIC – mid-IR photonic integrated circuits for gas sensing applications
12:10 Stanisław Stopiński, VIGO Photonics, Poland & Warsaw University of Technology, & LightHouse, Poland
Development of the MIRPIC Process Design Kit
12:30 Tristan Smołka, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Poland
Tunable Bandgap and Ultrafast Carrier Dynamics in Dilute-Bismide III–V Alloys for Mid-Infrared Photonics
12:50 Lunch
13:50 Frédéric Grillot, Laval University, Canada
Advancements in Mid-Infrared Optoelectronics for Free-Space Optical Applications
14:30 Johannes Fuchsberger, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Continuously and Widely Tunable Ring Array Lasers based on QCL and ICL material
14:50 Andreas Bader, nanoplus, Germany
GaInAsSb and type-II superlattice based photodetectors for sensing applications in the eSWIR and MIR spectral range
15:10 Closing remarks
15:20 Lab tours