ARW No: ISEG.NUKR.ARW 984431
LOCATION: Cesme, Izmir, Turkey
DATES: 3 to 6 November 2012
TITLE: NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Detection of Explosives and CBRN (Using Terahertz)
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
Day 1 - 3rd November 2012
9:00 Opening ceremony/organization details
9:30 – 10:00 inv Key speaker - F.Capasso - "Quantum Cascade Lasers: Past, Present and Future"
10:00 – 10:30 inv Key speaker - H.Altan - "Terahertz Imaging and Point Detection"
10:30 - 11:00 inv Key speaker J.Faist - "Polaritons and quantum cascade emitters"
Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:00 inv Key speaker- M.Razhegui - "State of the art infra red laser diodes with high power, high WPE, single mode, CW operation at RT"
12:00-13:00 oral presentations I- 20 minutes each- to be selected among contributed papers
Lunch 13:00 – 1500
15:00-15:30 inv Key speaker F.Tittel - "Mid Infrared laser based gas sensor technologies for environmental monitoring, medical diagnostics, industrial and security applications"
15:30-16:00 inv Key speaker M.Guina - "Recent advances in the development of high power mid-IR VECSELs"
16:00 – 16:30 inv Key speaker S.M. Wang - "Dilute bismides for MIR applications"
Coffee Break
17:00-17.30 inv Key speaker Elliot Brown- "THz Biomedical Imaging: Phenomenology, System Design, and Performance"
17:30-18:30 Oral Presentations II - 20 minutes each - to be selected among contributed papers (15 minutes talk + 5 min questions)
18:30 – 20:30 poster session I
Dinner 20:30
Day 2 - 4th November 2012
9:00 – 9:30 inv. Key speaker Q. Hu - "High-performance THz QCLs and applications"
9:30-10:00 inv. Key speaker A.Wacker - "Unfolding of free carrier absorption for THz radiation in heterostructures"
10:30-11:00 inv Key speaker E.Linfield - "Coherent imaging with terahertz quantum cascade lasers"
10:30-11:00 inv Key speaker H.Beere - "Progress in THz QCL wafer growth"
Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:00 inv Key speaker C.Sirtori - "THz emitters based on strong light-matter interaction"
12:00- 13:00 Oral presentations III 20 minutes each - to be selected among contributed papers
Lunch 13:00 – 15:00
15:00-15:30 - inv Key speaker L. Shvartsman - "Bipolar THz-lasing structures based on InAs-GaSb coupled quantum wells and their potential for security checks"
15:30-16:00 inv Key speaker J.Cockburn - "Short wavelength InGaAs/AlAs (Sb) quantum cascade lasers; recent advances"
16:00 - 16:30 inv Key speaker J.Hebling - "Towards generation of mJ-level ultrashort THz pulses by optical reflection"
Coffee Break
17:00-18:00 oral presentations IV 20 minutes each- to be selected among contributed papers
18:00 – 20:00 poster session II
Dinner 20:00
Day 3 - 5th November 2012
9:00-9:30 inv Key speaker R.Morandotti - "THz nonlinear optics"
9:30-10:00 inv Key speaker V.Vaks - "Sub-THz spectroscopy for security related gas detection"
10:30 – 11:00 inv Key speaker X.C.Zhang - "Development of handheld battery operated THz devices for explosive detection"
Coffee Break
11:30-12:00 inv Key speaker A.Krotkus - "Highly mismatched III-V alloye for THz optoelectronic applications"
12:00-12:30 inv Key speaker S.Lynch - "Quantum manipulation of donor Rydberg states in silicon using coherent THz Radiation"
12:30-13:00 inv Key speaker W.Knap - "Silicon technology for security imaging/screening up to 1 THz"
13:30-14:00 inv Key speaker M.Ibrahim - "Fullerene as Halogen Sensor: Modelling Approach"
Lunch 14:00 - 15:00
15:00 - 20:00 Half a day devoted to formulating conclusions and recommendations starting with a roundtable in MIR and THz application in security area problems/possible science for peace proposals
Dinner 20:00
Day 4 - 6th November 2012
Departure