ETHZ/D-PHYS/IQE/QOG
Expert in Quantum Cascade Lasers
Faist
ETHZ
IrSens
Integrated sensing platform for gases and liquids in the near and mid-infrared range

EPFL/IC/LAP/AQUA
Expert in SPAD Sensors. Silicon detectors and signal processing
Edoardo Charbon
EPFL
EMPA
Expert in Gas spectroscopy
Lukas Emmenegger
EMPA
EPFL/STI/IMT/OPT 
Expert in micro-optics and photonic crystal-based sensors
Hans Peter Herzig
EPFL
UniNE/Institut de Physique
Expert in mid-infrared III-V detectors
Daniel Hofstetter
UniNE
EPFL/STI/IMT/SAMLAB
Expert in Micro-fluidics
Alexandra Homsy
EPFL
EPFL/SB/IPEQ/LPN
Expert in VCSELs
Eli Kapon
EPFL
FHNW/IGN
Expert in nonlinear optics
Herbert Looser
FHNW
ETHZ/D-PHYS/IQE/LSSL
Expert in Gas and liquid spectroscopy
Markus Sigrist
ETHZ

Project Description

In the context of increasing demand  for sensitive, selective, fast and portable  detectors for trace components  in gases and liquids, e.g due to increasing concerns  about atmospheric pollutants, and to needs for improved medical screening capabilities for early detection of diseases and drug abuse, the project goal was to build, low cost and robust  platform based on optical spectroscopy  in the near- and mid-infrared range. 

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Notable publications

Microfluidic Droplet-Based Liquid-Liquid Extraction and On-Chip IR Spectroscopy Detection of Cocaine in Human Saliva
Philip Waegli, Yu-Chi Chang, Alexandra Homsy, Lubos Hvozdara, Hans Peter Herzig, and Nico F. de Rooij



Waegli, Philip; Chang, Yu-Chi; Homsy, Alexandra; Hvozdara, Lubos; Herzig, Hans Peter; de Rooij, Nico
Analytical Chemistry

Transverse mode discrimination in long-wavelength wafer-fused vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers by intra-cavity patterning
Volet, Nicolas; Czyszanowski, Tomasz; Walczak, Jaroslaw; Mutter, Lukas; Dwir, Benjamin; Mickovi?, Zlatko; Gallo, Pascal; Caliman, Andrei; Sirbu, Alexei; Mereuta, Alexandru
Optics Express

Binary subwavelength structures that act simultaneously as antireflective and diffractive structure for the mid-infrared wavelength range
Smolik, G.; Herzig, H.P.
EOS Topical Meeting on Diffractive Optics


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Posters from 2016


IrSens and MIXSEL NANOTERA Results Valorization at RTI-Research S.A.
Vladimir Iakovlev, Alexei Sirbu and Sergei Mikhailov

Posters from 2014


Multi-Color Laser Spectroscopy with a Dual-Wavelength QCL
Jana Jagerska, Pierre Jouy, Béla Tuzson, Herbert Looser, Andreas Hugi, Markus Mangold, Jérôme Faist, Lukas Emmenegger

3D Time-Of-Flight Cameras based on Single Photon Avalanche Diode
Lucio Carrara, Pierre-Yves Cattin

Ge-on-Si photodetector array for sensitive infrared imaging
Mahdi Aminian, Amir Sammak, Lis Nanver, Edoardo Charbon

Posters from 2013


IrSens: QCL based MIR spectroscopy for fluids and gases
Pierre Jouy, Jerome Faist

Multifunctional magnetic-photoluminescent-photocatalytic nanostructures for biomedical applications
Mireille Crittin, Michel Schaer, Katarzyna Pierzchala, Caroline Calderone, Reinaldo Digigow, Alke Fink, Laszlo Forró, and Andrzej Sienkiewicz

IR-N-ox: Multicomponent Trace Gas Spectroscopy using a Twin Quantum Cascade Laser
Jana Jágerská, Pierre Jouy, Béla Tuzson, Jérôme Faist, Lukas Emmenegger

Posters from 2012


Posters from 2011


    

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