European Semiconductor Laser Workshop 2022 | ESLW 2022

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Learn about recent advances in physics and applications of semiconductor lasers through invited talks given by renowned scholars and industrial companies, as well as through contributed presentations by active researchers in this field. This will be a dynamic workshop in which participants will be able to discuss potential collaborative ideas with researchers and industry from around the globe. More information will follow soon on the workshop website.

Venue, Date & Time

The event was held on Friday 16 and Saturday 17 September 2022., and took place at EPFL and CSEM:

• On Friday, 16 September, 2022, at EPFL Microcity site, Rue de la Maladière 71C, 2002 Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
• On Saturday, 17 September, 2022, at CSEM, Rue Jaquet Droz 1, 2002 Neuchâtel, Switzerland

Workshop scope

The topics include but are not limited to:

• Dynamical phenomena in semiconductor lasers (feedback, optical injection, noise)
• Long wavelength lasers (quantum cascade lasers, interband cascade lasers)
• Photonic crystal semiconductor lasers, nanoscale semiconductor lasers
• All-optical processing using semiconductor lasers and amplifiers
• Novel material systems, structures, and technologies
• Short pulse lasers and mode-locked lasers
• Semiconductor laser comb generation
• Optical millimeter-wave generation
• Semiconductor optical amplifiers
• Organic semiconductor lasers
• Lasers for telecommunication
• Photonic integrated circuit lasers
• Laser integrated devices
• Surface emitting lasers
• High power lasers
• High-speed lasers
• Lasers on silicon

Workshop Committee

• Dmitri L. Boiko, CSEM, Switzerland
• Raphaël Butté, EPFL, Switzerland
• Gaëlle Lucas-Leclin, Institut d'optique, ParisTech, France
• Frédéric Grillot, Telecom Paris, France
• Wolfgang Elsäßer, Institut für Angewandte Physik, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
• Johann Peter Reithmaier, Uni Kassel, Germany
• Åsa Haglund, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
• Mariangela Gioannini, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
• Maria Ana Cataluna, Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom
• Nicolas Volet, UV Medico and Aarhus University, Denmark

Program

Keynote lecture (confirmed)

• Jesper Mørk, Technical University of Denmark (Denmark), Semiconductor nanolasers exploiting extreme dielectric confinement

Invited talks (confirmed)

• Vizbaras Augustinas, Brolis Sensor Technology (Lithuania), GaSb/Si widely tunable laser spectrometer-on-chip for 1.9-2.4 micron range
• Sven Bader, TRUMPF Photonic Components (Germany), Polarization-stabilized VCSEL arrays
• Richard A. Hogg, University of Glasgow (UK), Photonic crystal-based lasers
• Sven Höfling, University of Würzburg (Germany), Interband cascade lasers with reduced intersubband absorption 

Sponsors

Alpes Lasers | HÜBNER Photonics

The Institute of Physics of Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) is pleased to be one of the contributors to the workshop awards.

Thank you for your participation

Thank you for your active participation and inputs in the 2022 edition of the European Semiconductor Laser Workshop, ESLW 2022, held in Neuchâtel, Switzerland.

We thank you all for bringing your expertise and experience around the table and engaging in great scientific inputs and for numerous fruitful discussions.

We also thank all of our sponsors for their substantial support and interest in the conference. Thanks a lot to all the members of the committee, to all the speakers and poster presenters for their scientific contributions, and congratulation to the three winners of the best student prizes.

We look forward to seeing you all again at the next ESLW meeting in the UK. 

Some memories

ESLW 2022 family

Previous ESLW meetings

(historically compiled by Wolfgang Elsäßer)