
Programme
The 15th MIOMD conference will be held in an online format. Owing to the large geographical spread of the speakers and delegates, we will run the majority of the conference in an asynchronous format using pre-recorded presentations. In addition, our plenary presentations will be delivered live as webinars.
We are delighted to be able to confirm the following eminent speakers. Our speakers cover a wide range of topics from mid-infrared materials growth and fabrication, through to devices and systems applications.
Confirmed plenary speakers
All plenary talks will be live and running on British Summer Time (GMT +1).

III-V/Si photonic integrated circuits and their applications in spectroscopy
Gunther Roelkens - IMEC, Univ. Gent
Wednesday 1 September at 2:15pm - 3:15pm
Biography
Gunther Roelkens received a degree in electrical engineering from Ghent University, Belgium, in 2002 and a PhD from the same university in 2007, at the Department of Information Technology (INTEC), where he is currently full professor. In 2008, he was a visiting scientist in IBM TJ Watson Research Center, New York.
His research interest includes the heterogeneous integration of III-V semiconductors and other materials on top of silicon waveguide circuits, electronic/photonic co-integration and miniaturized sensing systems. He was holder of an ERC starting grant (MIRACLE), to start up research in the field of integrated mid-infrared photonic integrated circuits.

Metamaterial enhanced THz devices
Carlo Sirtori - ENS
Thursday 2 September at 2pm - 3pm
Biography
Carlo Sirtori joined Bell Labs in 1990 where he started his research career on quantum devices and made important contributions in the field of low dimensional semiconductor quantum structures such as the invention and the development of the “Quantum Cascade Laser”.
In 1997, he joined THALES Research & Technology (TRT) in France and in 2000 he became the head of the “Semiconductor Laser Group”. In 2002, he was appointed Full Professor at the University Paris Diderot and since 2018 he has moved to Ecole normale superieure, as the holder of the ENS-THALES Chair of the Centre of Quantum Devices.
Carlo Sirtori is the author of more than 280 articles in peer reviewed journals and has given some 150 invited talks at international conferences. He has received several prestigious awards such as the Fresnel Prize (European Physical Society) or the “Quantum Devices Award”. In 2010 he was awarded an ERC-advanced-grant for his pioneering research on light matter interaction.

Chip-based comb spectroscopy
Alex Gaeta - Columbia University
Thursday 2 September at 3pm - 4pm
Biography
Alex Gaeta received his PhD in 1991 in Optics from the University of Rochester. He joined the faculty in the Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics at Columbia University in 2015, where he is the David M. Rickey Professor. Prior to this, he was a professor in the School of Applied and Engineering Physics at Cornell University for 23 years.
He has published more than 250 papers in quantum and nonlinear optics. He co-founded PicoLuz, Inc. and was the founding Editor-in-Chief of Optica. He is a Fellow of the OSA, APS, and IEEE, and was awarded the 2019 Charles H. Townes Medal from the OSA.

Power and brightness scaling of quantum-cascade lasers using reduced cascade number with tapered broad-area emitters
Ted Masselink - HU Berlin
Friday 3 September at 2pm - 3pm
Biography
W. Ted Masselink is professor of physics at the Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany, specialising in the physics of optoelectronic devices and device-related materials. His group works in the areas of molecular-beam epitaxy, quantum cascade lasers, quantum-dot light emitters based on GaP/InP, Integration of III-V on Si for electronic applications, and electronic noise in sub-micrometer strained and metamorhphic structures.
He has authored or co-authored over 300 refereed publications and 16 distinct patent disclosures. Masselink was previously at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York and received a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in Urbana.
Confirmed invited speakers
Speaker | Organisation | Talk title |
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Amy Liu | IQE | Progress in MBE production technology for GaSb-based IR photodetector structures |
David Lackner | Fraunhofer ISE, Freiburg | Development of metamorphic buffer layers for MOCVD growth on GaAs |
Francois Julien | Université Paris Saclay | Quantum cascade detectors based on wide band-gap semiconductors |
Giacomo Scalari | ETH Zürich | THz ultrastrong coupling with Landau polaritons: Non-local effects and single meta-atom spectroscopy |
Hiromi Fujita | Asahi Kasei Microdevices Corporation | Development of highly mismatched AlInSb/GaAs mid-infrared LEDs/PDs and its application to gas sensing |
Hon Ki Tsang / Yi Wang | Chinese University of Hong Kong | Hybrid integration of 2D materials for photonic devices |
Jacopo Frigerio | Politecnico di Milano | Heavily doped Ge-on-Si: a promising material platform for mid-infrared plasmonics |
Jaime Gomez-Rivas | Eindhoven University of technology | Broadband THz near-field microscopy |
Jana Jagerska | University of Tromso | Nanophotonic waveguides with high field confinement in air for on-chip trace gas sensing |
John Prineas | University of Iowa | Advances in materials and structures for high efficiency mid-infrared light emitting diodes |
Mikhail Belkin | WSI, TU-Munich | Mid-infrared photonic integration on InP |
Milos Nedeljkovic | University of Southampton | Silicon photonic photodetectors, sensors, and spectrometers for the mid-infrared |
Mircea Guina | Tampere University | Broadband light sources at 2-3 µm region based on GaSb/SOI hybrid integration |
Natalie Wheeler | University of Southampton | Hollow core antiresonant fibres for mid-infrared beam delivery and applications |
Roland Teissier | University of Montpellier | Long wavelength mid-IR QCLs: state of the art, physics and applications |
Sergey Morozov | Institute for Physics of Microstructures of Russian Academy of Sciences | Mid-IR stimulated emission in HgCdTe QW heterostructures with dielectric and "phonon" waveguides |
Stefan Hugger | Fraunhofer IAF, Freiburg | MOEMS external cavity QCLs for spectroscopic sensing |
Yi Zhou | Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics | Progress on mid wavelength interband cascade photo devices based on InAs substrate @ SITP |