Orientation and dinner for US delegates
Coffee and Registration
Welcome and overview of the workshop scope
Derryck Reid (Heriot-Watt University)
The state-of-the art and grand challenges of mid-infrared technology and applications
Frank Tittel (Rice University)
Multiplexed intra-pulse quantum cascade laser spectrometer measurements of NO2 and its dimer N2O4
Geoffrey Duxbury (University of Strathclyde)
Sensing of industrial emissions using infrared DIAL
Tom Gardiner (National Physical Laboratory)
Infrared sensing of hazardous chemicals
Christopher Howle (DSTL)
Silica hollow core microstructured fibres for mid-IR applications
Jonathan Shephard (Heriot-Watt University)
Coffee
Quantum cascade laser arrays: broadband and bright light sources for sensing and stand-off detection
Federico Capasso (Harvard University)
Fibre Laser Pumped Sources and Technology for the Mid-IR
David Richardson (Optoelectronic Research Centre, Southampton University)
Mid-IR laser and supercontinuum sources using ZnSe and chalcogenide glasses
Ajoy Kar (Heriot Watt University)
Commercial applications using mid-IR quantum cascade lasers
Richard Cooper (Cascade Technologies)
Mid-IR lasers based on transition metal doped II-VI semiconductors
Sergey Mirov (University of Alabama at Birmingham)
Lunch
Terahertz Metamaterial Detectors and Imaging
David Cumming (University of Glasgow)
Terahertz Technology at RAL
Brian Ellison (STFC-Rutherford Appleton Lab.)
Infrared photon counting with superconducting detectors
Robert Hadfield (Heriot-Watt University)
THz detectors for astronomy and other applications
Wayne Holland (UK Astronomy Technology Centre)
Coffee
Infrared and THz Techniques Enabled by the Synchrotron Source
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G.Lawrence Carr (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
Terahertz Anistropy Measurements of Molecular Crystals
Andrea Markelz (University at Buffalo)
Thickness measurement using THz interferometry
Dinh Nguyen (Heriot-Watt University)
Title to be advised
Philip Taday (TeraView)
Investigation of the Frohlich hypothesis with high intensity terahertz radiation
Peter Weightman (University of Liverpool)
The THz Research Program at the Jefferson Lab Free Electron Laser Facility
Gwyn Williams (Jefferson Lab)
Terahertz frequency imaging systems
Edmund Linfield (University of Leeds)
Wine reception, with posters and exhibitors
Dinner
M Squared Lasers, Cascade Technologies
THz Wavefront Imaging using the Hartmann Test
John Molloy (National Physical Laboratory)
Mid-IR chalcogenide fibres, components and sources
Gary Stevens (Gooch and Housego)
Producing octave-wide combs and few-cycle pulses in the mid-infrared: frequency divide-and-conquer approach
Konstantin Vodopyanov (Stanford University/CREOL, Univ. Cent. Florida)
Asynchronous mid-infrared frequency combs and spectroscopy
Zhaowei Zhang (Heriot-Watt University)
THz Schottky diode development in the UK
Byron Alderman (Teratech Components Limited)
Room-temperature electrically-pumped THz semiconductor sources
Mikhail Belkin (University of Texas at Austin)
Enhanced single cycle THz pulse generation and applications in nonlinear THz photonics
Daniele Faccio (Heriot-Watt University)
Advances in intracavity-pumped, optical parametric oscillators and their application in remote sensing and imaging
Nils Hempler (M Squared Lasers)
Femtosecond Tm-doped crystalline lasers in the 2-2.1 μm range
Alexander Lagatsky (University of St Andrews)
Diamond heat sinking and temperature dependent behaviour of terahertz antennas for cw photomixing
Thorsten Ackemann (University of Strathclyde)
Coffee
European Union Horizon 2020 programme
Stephen Alexander (UK Framework 7 helpdesk office)
Marie Curie Actions – European funding for fellowships
Eva Day (HWU EC office)
Introduction to the EPSRC ICT Theme
Richard Gunn (EPSRC CHIST-ERA representative) and Susan Peacock (EPSRC Photonics portfolio manager)
Introduction to Scottish Development International
Mike Shiel (SDI)
Introduction to the Electronics, Sensors and Photonics Knowledge Transfer Network
Alastair Wilson (ESPKTN)
Introduction to the EOARD
John Gonglewski (EOARD)
SUPA Industrial Placement Scheme
Roy Clarke (Director, SUPA Knowledge Transfer)
Lunch
Facilitated discussion: conclusions and next steps
Coffee (workshop ends)