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Jérôme Faist

Jérôme Faist

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Physics

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114
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53195
World Ranking
1011
National Ranking
21

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to quantum cascade lasers and infrared QCLs
  • 2016 - OSA Fellows Jérôme Faist ETH Zürich, Switzerland For the design, demonstration and pioneering development of the quantum cascade laser, a revolutionary semiconductor device that emits coherent electromagnetic radiation in the wavelength range from about 3 to 300 microns.

Overview

Jérôme Faist is affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland and has an extensive publication record in the fields of engineering, physics, and chemistry. Their research covers several subfields, including atomic and molecular physics and optics, electrical and electronic engineering, spectroscopy, atmospheric science, and biomedical engineering.

The scientist's primary research topics focus on spectroscopy and laser applications, advanced fiber laser technologies, photonic and optical devices, semiconductor lasers and optical devices, laser design and applications, terahertz technology and applications, and strong light-matter interactions.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Jérôme Faist include Mattias Beck, Giacomo Scalari, Filippos Kapsalidis, Mathieu Bertrand, and Urban Senica.

Jérôme Faist has contributed to numerous scientific publications in notable venues. Common publication venues consist of arXiv (Cornell University), Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, Optics Express, EPJ Web of Conferences, and the Repository for Publications and Research Data at ETH Zurich.

Selected recent papers include:

  • Engineering quantum materials with chiral optical cavities, 2020, Nature Materials
  • Quantum Electrodynamic Control of Matter: Cavity-Enhanced Ferroelectric Phase Transition, 2020, Physical Review X
  • Mid-infrared frequency comb from a ring quantum cascade laser, 2020, Optica
  • Dissipative Kerr solitons in semiconductor ring lasers, 2021, Nature Photonics
  • Terahertz waveform synthesis in integrated thin-film lithium niobate platform, 2023, Nature Communications

Their contributions have been recognized through awards such as the IEEE Fellow in 2020, for work related to quantum cascade lasers and infrared QCLs, and the OSA Fellow honor in 2016 for the design, demonstration, and pioneering development of the quantum cascade laser, a semiconductor device emitting coherent electromagnetic radiation in the wavelength range from about 3 to 300 microns.

Best Publications

  • Quantum cascade laser

    Mattias Beck;Jérôme Faist;Antoine Muller

  • Lasing in direct-bandgap GeSn alloy grown on Si

    S. Wirths;R. Geiger;R. Geiger;N. von den Driesch;G. Mussler

  • Continuous wave operation of a mid-infrared semiconductor laser at room temperature.

    Mattias Beck;Daniel Hofstetter;Thierry Aellen;Jérôme Faist

  • High-Power Directional Emission from Microlasers with Chaotic Resonators

    Claire Gmachl;Federico Capasso;E. E. Narimanov;Jens U. Nöckel

  • Mid-infrared frequency comb based on a quantum cascade laser

    Andreas Hugi;Gustavo Villares;Stéphane Blaser;H. C. Liu

  • Ultrastrong Coupling of the Cyclotron Transition of a 2D Electron Gas to a THz Metamaterial

    G. Scalari;C. Maissen;D. Turčinková;D. Hagenmüller

  • High power mid‐infrared (λ∼5 μm) quantum cascade lasers operating above room temperature

    Jérôme Faist;Federico Capasso;Carlo Sirtori;Deborah L. Sivco

  • GaAs/AlxGa1−xAs quantum cascade lasers

    Carlo Sirtori;Peter Kruck;Stefano Barbieri;Philippe Collot

  • Distributed feedback quantum cascade lasers

    Jérome Faist;Claire Gmachl;Federico Capasso;Carlo Sirtori

  • Dual-comb spectroscopy based on quantum-cascade-laser frequency combs

    Gustavo Villares;Andreas Hugi;Stéphane Blaser;Jérôme Faist

  • Analysis of enhanced light emission from highly strained germanium microbridges

    M. J. Süess;M. J. Süess;R. Geiger;R. A. Minamisawa;G. Schiefler;G. Schiefler

  • Controlling the sign of quantum interference by tunnelling from quantum wells

    Jérôme Faist;Federico Capasso;Carlo Sirtori;Ken W. West

  • Quantum cascade lasers

    Jérôme Faist

  • Sensitive absorption spectroscopy with a room-temperature distributed-feedback quantum-cascade laser

    K. Namjou;S. Cai;E. A. Whittaker;J. Faist

  • Short wavelength (λ∼3.4 μm) quantum cascade laser based on strained compensated InGaAs/AlInAs

    Jérôme Faist;Federico Capasso;Deborah L. Sivco;Albert L. Hutchinson

  • Nonparabolicity and a sum rule associated with bound-to-bound and bound-to-continuum intersubband transitions in quantum wells

    Carlo Sirtori;Federico Capasso;Jérôme Faist;Sandro Scandolo

  • Quantum cascade lasers operating from 1.2to1.6THz

    Christoph Walther;Milan Fischer;Giacomo Scalari;Romain Terazzi

  • Quantum-cascade lasers based on a bound-to-continuum transition

    Jérôme Faist;Mattias Beck;Thierry Aellen;Emilio Gini

  • The Quantum Cascade Laser

    Federico Capasso;Jerome Faist

  • Terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers

    JérÔme Faist;Lassaad Ajili;Giacomo Scalari;Marcella Giovannini

Frequent Co-Authors

Mattias Beck
Mattias Beck ETH Zurich
Federico Capasso
Federico Capasso Harvard University
Carlo Sirtori
Carlo Sirtori École Normale Supérieure
Alfred Y. Cho
Alfred Y. Cho Nokia (United States)
Albert L. Hutchinson
Albert L. Hutchinson Nokia (United States)
Daniel Hofstetter
Daniel Hofstetter University of Neuchâtel
Deborah L. Sivco
Deborah L. Sivco Princeton University
David A. Ritchie
David A. Ritchie University of Cambridge
Hans Sigg
Hans Sigg Paul Scherrer Institute
Claire F. Gmachl
Claire F. Gmachl Princeton University

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