Book description
In this monograph, the authors address the physics and engineering
together with the latest achievements of efficient and compact ultrafast
lasers based on novel quantum-dot structures and devices. Their approach
encompasses a broad range of laser systems, while taking into
consideration not only the physical and experimental aspects but also
the much needed modeling tools, thus providing a holistic understanding
of this hot topic. Eugene Avrutin has been working in the field of
theory, numerical modelling, and computer-added design of semiconductor
optoelectronic devices since 1986. Having previously been a researcher
at the A. F. Ioffe Institute, St Petersburg (till 1993), and a research
assistant in the University of Glasgow (1994-1999), he has held an
academic position at the University of York since 2000. He has published
two book chapters, more than 70 peer-reviewed journal papers and over a
hundred conference papers, many of them in the field of fast and
ultrafast laser sources and/or reduced dimensionality semiconductors.
Maria Ana Cataluna is a lecturer and a Royal Academy of
Engineering/EPSRC Research Fellow at the University of Dundee (UK). She
has been committed to research in ultrafast laser physics and technology
development since 2000, having previously worked at the Instituto
Superior Tecnico, Portugal (2000-2002), at the University of St.
Andrews, UK (2003-2007), subsequently joining the University of Dundee
in 2007. She was awarded the IEEE Photonics Society Graduate Student
Fellowship (2007), for her work on innovative mode-locking regimes in
ultrafast quantum-dot based lasers. She has published more than 50
papers in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings and three
invited book chapters.
Edik Rafailov has been engaged in the research and development of
high-power cw and ultrashort pulse lasers, nonlinear and integrated
optics since 1987. In 2005 he moved to Dundee University as a lecturer
and established a new Photonics and Nanoscience group. In 2008 he became
a reader and two years later a professor. He was previously a senior
researcher at Ioffe Institute, St Petersburg (1987-1997) and a research
fellow at the University of St. Andrews (1997-2005). He has authored and
co-authored over 220 articles in refereed journals and conference
proceedings, three invited chapters and numerous invited talks to CLEO,
SPIE and LEOS. He also holds 8 UK and two US patents. Professor Rafailov
is the coordinator of projects funded by EU FP7 program and EPSRC. His
current research interests include novel high-power CW, short,
ultrashort-pulse and high-repetition rate lasers; generation of
UV/visible/IR and THz radiation, nano-structures; nonlinear optics and Biophotonics.
