Welcome!

We would like to invite you to participate in a forthcoming V Workshop on Physics and Technology of Semiconductor Lasers which will be held in Kraków, Poland, 17-20 November 2013.

Our Workshop is an annual meeting that gathers Polish community of semiconductor laser technology and guests from abroad. It is intended to provide a forum for presentation of recent results in the field of physics and technology of semiconductor lasers, as well as to transfer the knowledge and the expertise to younger scientists.

The workshop is organized jointly by the Institute of High Pressure Physics of Polish Academy of Sciences (Unipress) and the Centre of Nanophotonics of Institute of Electron Technology.

The workshop will be organized as a combination of plenary lectures given by worldwide recognized experts and short contributed oral presentations. The organizers especially encourage young scientists to participate in the workshop.

List of invited speakers:

  • Elyahou Kapon (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland)
    • Long wavelength VCSELs and VECSELs made by wafer fusion

  • Sergey Ivanov (Ioffe Physical Technical Institute, Russia:
    • II-VI/III-N micro-chip laser diode converters

  • Lise Lahourcade (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland)
    • Combining MOVPE & low-temperature MBE for efficient green laser diodes

  • Wyn Meredith (Compound Semiconductors Technologies, UK):
    • High performance AlInGaAs transmission lasers for FTTX applications

  • Jim Speck (University of California at Santa Barbara, USA):
    • Progress in nonpolar and semipolar GaN-based laser diodes

  • Grzegorz Sęk (Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland):
    • Type II quantum well structures for mid-infrared emitting interband cascade lasers: challenges, limitations and prospects

  • Zbig Wasilewski (University of Waterloo, Canada):
    • MBE growth and optimization of THz quantum cascade lasers

  • Katsumi Kishino (Sophia University, Japan)
    • Emission characteristics of InGaN-based
    regularly arranged nanocolumn arrays

  • Mike Leszczynski (TopGaN Ltd., Poland):
    • (AlGaIn)N-based laser diodes: future applications and present problems

  • Michael Kneissl (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany):
    • UV Lasers – status and prospects

  • Igor Smetanin (Lebedev Institute, Russia):
    • Excitation of 2D plasma waves in semiconductor quantum well
    and its effect on lasing in InGaN diodes.

  • Keith Wilcox (University of Southampton, UK):
    • High power femtosecond pulse vertical-external-cavity
    surface-emitting lasers

  • Maciej Dems (Lodz University of Technology, Poland):
    • Subwavelength high contrast grating mirrors for applications
    in vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers

  • Jelena Ristic (OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH, Germany):
    • Future Light Sources for Pico Projection

  • Ulrich Schwarz (University of Freiburg, Germany):
    • Picosecond pulse generation in GaN-baser laser diodes

  • James Lott (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany)
    • Progress toward optimizing 850 nm and 980 nm vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs) for optical interconnects


    We are looking forward to welcoming you in Kraków

    Organizing Committee of V Laser Workshop