Photonics Webinar | Quantum Cascade Lasers: Recent Progress and Novel Applications

School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT, Leeds, UK;
Aleksandar Demić is a Lecturer at the School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Leeds, UK. He holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering and specializes in quantum device modeling, numerical simulation, and semiconductor physics. His research combines theoretical physics and advanced software development, with experience in C++, Python, and high‑performance computing. His work has contributed to the optimisation of terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers and the design of the first intersubband Quantum Cascade Saser. He has authored several peer‑reviewed publications and is currently expanding his research interests toward interdisciplinary directions involving quantum devices and high‑performance computing.

Laboratory for Nanoscale Optics John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Harvard University, USA;
Urban Senica is presently a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University in the group of Prof. Marko Lončar, where he conducts research on integrated nonlinear photonics with thin-film lithium niobate and semiconductor lasers. He completed his Ph.D. in Physics at ETH Zurich under the supervision of Prof. Giacomo Scalari and Prof. Jérôme Faist, where he developed an integrated photonics platform based on planarized terahertz quantum cascade lasers, frequency combs, microwave and passive components, for which he was awarded the ETH Medal. His previous research experience includes working on nanowire lasers at TU Munich, radiation-hard semiconductor particle detectors at CERN, and silicon solar cells at the University of Ljubljana.