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  • 2019 - OSA Fellows Mircea Guina Tampere University of Technology, Finland For outstanding contributions to the advance of semiconductor lasers, in particular vertical external cavity surface emitting lasers (VECSELs), and leadership in optoelectronics technology, covering epitaxy, applications, and entrepreneurship
  • 2019 - SPIE Fellow

Overview

Mircea Guina is a researcher affiliated with Tampere University in Finland. Their work primarily spans the fields of Engineering and Physics and Astronomy, with significant contributions in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. The scientist's research portfolio includes a strong focus on Biomedical Engineering, Spectroscopy, and Materials Chemistry.

The main research topics addressed by Mircea Guina cover a broad range of photonics and semiconductor-related areas. These include Photonic and Optical Devices, Semiconductor Quantum Structures and Devices, Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices, Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies, and Spectroscopy and Laser Applications. Additionally, their work extends to solar cell performance optimization and Nanowire Synthesis and Applications.

The publication record shows frequent contributions to several respected scientific venues. The primary outlets include arXiv (Cornell University) with 12 publications, Optics Express with 10, Applied Physics Letters with 7, Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells with 6, and Applied Optics with 4.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Mircea Guina over multiple projects include:

  • Joonas Hilska
  • Jukka Viheriälä
  • Eero Koivusalo
  • Antti Tukiainen
  • Teemu Hakkarainen

Notable recent publications by Mircea Guina include:

  • "Room-temperature electron spin polarization exceeding 90% in an opto-spintronic semiconductor nanostructure via remote spin filtering" (2021, Nature Photonics)
  • "SESAM mode-locked Tm:LuYO3 ceramic laser generating 54-fs pulses at 2048 nm" (2020, Applied Optics)
  • "Polarized spectroscopy and SESAM mode-locking of Tm,Ho:CALGO" (2022, Optics Express)
  • "Sub-50 fs pulse generation from a SESAM mode-locked Tm,Ho-codoped calcium aluminate laser" (2021, Optics Letters)
  • "Hybrid silicon photonics DBR laser based on flip-chip integration of GaSb amplifiers and µm-scale SOI waveguides" (2022, Optics Express)

Recognition of their work includes the award of SPIE Fellow in 2019. In the same year, they were also named an OSA Fellow for contributions to semiconductor lasers, particularly vertical external cavity surface emitting lasers (VECSELs), and for leadership in optoelectronics technology encompassing epitaxy, applications, and entrepreneurship.

Best Publications

  • Optically pumped VECSELs: review of technology and progress

    M Guina;A Rantamäki;A Härkönen

  • Semiconductor disk lasers for the generation of visible and ultraviolet radiation

    Stephane Calvez;Jennifer E. Hastie;Mircea Guina;Oleg G. Okhotnikov

  • Tunable Raman Soliton Source Using Mode-Locked Tm–Ho Fiber Laser

    S. Kivisto;T. Hakulinen;M. Guina;O.G. Okhotnikov

  • Subpicosecond thin-disk laser oscillator with pulse energies of up to 25.9 microjoules by use of an active multipass geometry

    Joerg Neuhaus;Dominik Bauer;Jing Zhang;Alexander Killi

  • Semiconductor disk lasers for the generation of visible and ultraviolet radiation

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  • High-efficiency 20 W yellow VECSEL

    Emmi Kantola;Tomi Leinonen;Sanna Ranta;Miki Tavast

  • High-pulse-energy passively Q-switched quasi-monolithic microchip lasers operating in the sub-100-ps pulse regime

    D. Nodop;J. Limpert;R. Hohmuth;W. Richter

  • Nanostructured broadband antireflection coatings on AlInP fabricated by nanoimprint lithography

    J. Tommila;V. Polojärvi;A. Aho;A. Tukiainen

  • High-power semiconductor disk laser based on InAs /GaAs submonolayer quantum dots

    T. D. Germann;A. Strittmatter;J. Pohl;U. W. Pohl

  • SESAM mode-locked Tm:CALGO laser at 2 µm

    Yicheng Wang;Guoqiang Xie;Xiaodong Xu;Juqing Di

  • Sub-10 optical-cycle passively mode-locked Tm:(Lu2/3Sc1/3)2O3 ceramic laser at 2 µm.

    Yicheng Wang;Wei Jing;Pavel Loiko;Yongguang Zhao

  • Optically-pumped dilute nitride spin-VCSEL

    Kevin Schires;Rihab Al Seyab;Antonio Hurtado;Ville-Markus Korpijärvi

  • 87 fs mode-locked Tm,Ho:CaYAlO4 laser at ∼2043 nm.

    Yongguang Zhao;Yicheng Wang;Xuzhao Zhang;Xavier Mateos

  • Variation of lattice constant and cluster formation in GaAsBi

    J. Puustinen;M. Wu;E. Luna;A. Schramm

  • High-power and broadly tunable GaSb-based optically pumped VECSELs emitting near 2 μm

    Jonna Paajaste;Soile Suomalainen;Riku Koskinen;Antti Härkönen

  • Passively Q-switched Tm3+, Ho3+-doped silica fiber laser using a highly nonlinear saturable absorber and dynamic gain pulse compression.

    Samuli Kivistö;Riku Koskinen;Jonna Paajaste;Stuart D Jackson

  • Self-starting stretched-pulse fiber laser mode locked and stabilized with slow and fast semiconductor saturable absorbers

    M. Guina;N. Xiang;A. Vainionpää;O. G. Okhotnikov

  • Modelocked GaSb disk laser producing 384 fs pulses at 2 μm wavelength

    A. Harkonen;C. Grebing;J. Paajaste;R. Koskinen

  • 1-W antimonide-based vertical external cavity surface emitting laser operating at 2-µm

    A Härkönen;M Guina;O Okhotnikov;K Rößner

  • High-speed resonant cavity light-emitting diodes at 650 nm

    M.M. Dumitrescu;M.J. Saarinen;M.D. Guina;M.V. Pessa

  • Mode-locked Bi-doped fiber laser

    Eugeny M. Dianov;Alexandr A. Krylov;Vladislav V. Dvoyrin;Valery M. Mashinsky

  • Perfect magnetic mirror and simple perfect absorber in the visible spectrum

    C. A. Valagiannopoulos;A. Tukiainen;T. Aho;T. Niemi

Frequent Co-Authors

Oleg G. Okhotnikov
Oleg G. Okhotnikov Tampere University
M. Pessa
M. Pessa Tampere University
Uwe Griebner
Uwe Griebner Max-Born-Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy
Xavier Mateos
Xavier Mateos Rovira i Virgili University
Antonella Bogoni
Antonella Bogoni Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies
Levente Vitos
Levente Vitos Royal Institute of Technology
Nicola Calabretta
Nicola Calabretta Eindhoven University of Technology
Mikhail V. Maximov
Mikhail V. Maximov Alferov Federal State Budgetary Institution of Higher Education and Science Saint Petersburg National Research Academic University of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Achim Trampert
Achim Trampert Paul Drude Institute for Solid State Electronics
Hercules Avramopoulos
Hercules Avramopoulos National Technical University of Athens

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