Conference Schedule
SUNDAY
MONDAY
Applied Laser Spectroscopy
09:15 Sune Svanberg -
09:45 Pamela Chu and J.T. Hodges - National
Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, USA - "Developing
intrinsic spectroscopic standards for quantitative gas analysis" - Invited
Talk
10:15
Coffee Break @ Exhibition & Poster Session 1
10:55 G. Wysocki, R. Lewicki, F.K. Tittel - Widely
tunable external cavity quantum cascade lasers for high resolution spectroscopy
and chemical sensing
11:15 C. Dyroff, P. Weibring, A. Fried, D.
Richter, J. Walega, A. Zahn, W. Freude, B. Jänker, P. Werle - Stark-enhanced
diode-laser spectroscopy of formaldehyde using a modified Herriott-type
multipass cell
11:35 A. Foltynowicz, F. Schmidt, W. Ma, O. Axner -
Fiber-laser-based NICE-OHMS and trace gas detection
11:55 T. Laurila, H. Cattaneo, R. Hernberg –
Diode-laser based photoacoustic detection of carbon dioxide and oxygen using
micromechanical cantilever pressure transducer
12:15 C. Bauer, U. Willer, A.K. Sharma, C. Romano,
T. Schossig, W. Schade, S. Blaser, L. Hvozdara, and A. Mueller - Potentials and
limits of mid-infrared laser spectroscopy for the detection of explosives
12:35 G.A.D. Ritchie - Applications of new sources
of mid-infrared radiation in sensitive spectroscopy
13:00
Lunch
Industry Session 1
Session
Chairman: Peter Werle – FZK, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, D
14:15 Vertilas GmbH - Markus Ortsiefer, Recent
developments and prospects of long-wavelength VCSELs for TDLS applications
14:30 Nanoplus GmbH - Johannes Koeth, Long
wavelength DFB laser-diodes for remote gas sensing
14:45 Laser 2000 GmbH - Anselm Deninger, Tunable
lasers for infrared and terahertz spectroscopy
15:00
15:15
Coffee Break @ Exhibition & Poster Session 1
16:00 Alpes Lasers SA - Antoine Mueller, Advanced
quantum cascade lasers for spectroscopic applications
16:15 Daylight Solutions, Inc. - Tim Day, Applied
spectroscopic results using broadly tunable miniaturized external cavity
quantum cascade lasers for the mid-infrared
16:30 Tiger Optics LLC - Peter Woods, Developments
and applications using continuous-wave cavity ring-down spectroscopy (CRDS)
18:00
Opening Ceremony at Palazzo Vecchio with guided tour
Invited Evening
Lecture at Palazzo Vecchio
Christopher R. Webster - Jet Propulsion
Laboratory,
TUESDAY
Life
Sciences, Medicine and Agriculture
Session Chairman: Peter Hering -
09:15 F.J.M. Harren - Institute for Molecules and
Materials, Nijmegen, NL - "Laser applications in life science, sensitive
chemical sensing in biology and agriculture" - Overview Talk
09:45 L. Harper, T.K. Flesch, J. Tulip -
University of Georgia, USA - "Agricultural trace-gas emissions
determination using open-path lasers and inverse dispersion analysis" -
Invited Talk
10:15
Coffee Break @ Exhibition & Poster Session 1
10:55 M. Mürtz - University of Düsseldorf, D -
"Breath Diagnostics using Laser Spectroscopy" – Invited Talk
11:25 R. Cicchi, D. Massi, V. DeGiorgi, T. Lotti
and F.S. Pavone - LENS, University of Florence, I - "Tissue imaging with
non linear laser microscopy" - Overview Talk
11:55 J.H. Frank, A.D. Elder, J. Swartling, A.R.
Venkitaraman, A.D. Jeyasekharan, C.F. Kaminski – "Application of
supercontinuum lasers to confocal microscopy" - Overview Talk
12:30
Lunch
Afternoon: 14:00 – EXCURSION
and dinner in Villa di Artimino
WEDNESDAY
Environmental Research and Biogeochemistry
Session Chairman: Franz Meixner - Biogeochemistry Department, Max Planck
Institute,
09:15 H.P. Schmid - Institute for Meteorology and
Climate Research,
09:45 M.S. Zahniser - Aerodyne Research,
Billerica, USA - "Infrared laser applications to field measurements of
trace gas sources and fluxes in environmental research" – Invited Talk
10:15
Coffee Break @ Exhibition & Poster Session 1
10:55 S. Hunsmann, K. Wunderle, S. Wagner, U.
Rascher, U. Schurr, V. Ebert - High resolution measurements of absolute water
transpiration rates from plant leaves via 1.37 µm tunable diode-laser absorption
spectroscopy
11:15 R. Orghici, U. Willer, M. Gierszewska, S. Waldvogel, and
W. Schade - Evanescent field sensors for monitoring of diluted CO2
during sequestration in aquifers and for detection of explosives
11:35 W. Zhao, X. Gao, T. Wu, W. Chen, W. Zhang -
Applications of integrated cavity output spectroscopy in environment science
11:55 L. Joly, C. Robert, B. Parvitte, G. Durry,
V. Catoire, V. Zeninari - Measurements of atmospheric CH4 and N2O
with a new-design long-path room-temperature quantum cascade laser spectrometer
12:15 C. Fittschen, J. Thiebaud, A. Aluculesei, C.
Schoemaecker - Kinetic study of the degradation of aromatic hydrocarbons by
simultaneous detection of OH and HO2 radicals by laser photolysis
coupled to LIF and cw-CRDS
12:45
Lunch
Industry Session 2
Session
Chairman: Peter Werle – FZK, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, D
14:00 Aerodyne Research, Inc. - Barry McManus,
Compact quantum cascade laser instrument for rapid, high sensitivity
measurements of atmospheric trace gases: ammonia detection at 10.3 μm
14:15 Picarro, Inc. - Eric Crosson, Real time
ultra-trace monitoring of ethylene production via cavity ring down spectroscopy
(CRDS) for preclimacteric fruit in ozone treated regular and controlled
atmospheres
14:30 Southwest Sciences, Inc. - Daniel Oh,
VCSEL-based trace gas monitoring with industrial applications
14:45 Los Gatos Research, Inc. -
15:00 NovaWave, Inc. - Hans-Jürg Jost, DFG based MIR gas analyzer
15:15
Coffee Break @ Exhibition & Poster Session 2
16:00 Norsk Electro Optikk AS - Peter Kaspersen,
New developments in laser spectroscopy at Norsk Elektro Optikk A/S
16:15 TDL Sensors ltd. - Robert Holdsworth,
Industrial trace gas analyzers
16:30 Loccioni Group - Claudio Loccioni, Laser
boiler test: an industrial application
16:45 Neoplas control GmbH - Jürgen Röpcke, On
further developments of the Q-MACS technology for online process control and
trace gas measurements in research and industry
17:00 Siemens AG - Stefan Bichlmeier,
Industrialization trends of tunable diode-laser spectroscopy
18:30
Conference Dinner at
Castello di Vincigliata
THURSDAY
Plasma and Combustion Diagnostics
Session Chairman: Clemens Kaminski -
Department of Chemical Engineering,
09:15 J. Röpcke - Institute for Low-Temperature
Plasmaphysics, Greifswald, D - "On recent progress in diagnostics of
molecular plasmas using mid infrared diode-lasers in research and
industry" – Overview Talk
09:45 V. Ebert - Institute for Physical Chemistry,
Heidelberg, D - "Advanced near-infrared diode-laser based in situ sensors
for full-scale technical combustion processes" – Overview Talk
10:15
Coffee Break @ Exhibition & Poster Session 2
10:55 R. Hernberg, T. Laurila, R. Oikari, A.
Manninen - Institute of Physics, Tampere University of Technology, FI
"Measuring toxic heavy metals in combustion - challenges and
approches" – Invited Talk
11:25 I.S. Burns, J. Hult, C.F. Kaminski -
Spatially-resolved flame thermometry at kHz repetition-rates using diode lasers
11:45 M. Muolo, M. Giannini and C. Pappalettere -
Detection of HCl in combustion chamber using 1.74μm DFB laser-diode
12:05 J.P. van Helden, S.E Elliott, R. Peverall,
G.A.D. Ritchie, G. Hancock - Detection of O2(a1Δg)
molecules in inductively coupled O2 plasma
12:25 K.A. Keen, A.M. Parkes, E.D. McNaghten, P.A.
Martin - Trace gas detection using a novel cantilever-based photoacoustic
spectrometer with multiplexed optical fibre-coupled diode-lasers and fibre
amplification
12:45 E.A. Fallows, J.H. Miller - Development of a
multiple gas analyzer using cavity ringdown spectroscopy for use in advanced
fire detection
13:15
Lunch
Airborne Atmospheric Research
Session Chairman: Alan Fried -
14:25 A. Zahn - Institute for Meteorology and
Climate Research,
14:55 H. Fischer, H. Bozem, C.L. Schiller, C.
Gurk, R. Königstedt, U. Parchatka, J. Lelieveld - Max Planck Institute for
Chemistry, Mainz, D – "Airborne measurements of HCHO, CO and CH4
using cw quantum cascade laser spectroscopy" - Invited Talk
15:25 G. Diskin, G.W. Sachse, J.R. Podolske - NASA
Langley Research Center, Langley, USA - "Airborne measurements of
atmospheric trace species using diode-laser absorption spectroscopy" -
Invited Talk
15:55
Coffee Break @ Exhibition & Poster Session 2
16:35 P. Weibring, D. Richter, J.G. Walega, A.
Fried - Demonstration of an ultra sensitive airborne difference frequency
spectrometer: performance characterization and ambient measurements of
Formaldehyde
16:55 R. Jimenéz, B.C. Daube, S. Park, E.A.
Kort, S.C. Wofsy - A pulsed QC-laser based dual-spectrometer instrument for fast
response, high accuracy, high precision airborne measurements of CO2,
CO, CH4 and N2O
17:15 S. Viciani, F. D'Amato, P.Mazzinghi, P.
Werle, F. Castagnoli, M. De Pas, M. Giuntini, A. Montori, Ravegnani, and A.
Ulanovsky - In-flights performances of a tunable diode-laser spectrometer for
airborne measurement of Carbon Monoxide during tropical campaigns
17:35 G. Durry, N. Amarouche, L. Joly, B.
Parvitte, E. Rivière, V. Zeninari - Development of a small balloon-borne
instrument for the study of water vapor in the upper troposphere and lower
stratosphere
17:55 M. Loewenstein, J. Lopez, H.J. Jost - Argus: A compact, dual channel, mid-IR tunable diode-laser spectrometer for use on multiple airborne platforms
FRIDAY
Stable Isotope Ratio Infrared Spectroscopy
Session Chairman: Livio Gianfrani - Department of Environmental
Sciences,
09:15 Erik Kerstel - Center for Isotope Research,
09:45 Elisabeth Moyer - Dept. of Chemistry and
Chemical Biology, Harvard University, USA - "The Harvard integrated cavity
output spectroscopy (ICOS) isotope instrument" - Invited Talk
10:15
Coffee Break @ Exhibition & Poster Session 2
10:55 L. Emmenegger, B. Tuzson, M.S. Zahniser,
M.J. Zeeman, J. Mohn - EMPA Materials Science & Technology, Dübendorf, CH -
"Continuous measurement of CO2 isotopic ratios by infrared
spectroscopy using FTIR and QCL instruments" – Invited Talk
11:25 R. Wehr, A. Castrillo, L. Gianfrani -
Long-path absorption spectrometers for determining δ13C in CO2 at field
sites
11:45 L. Croizé, D. Mondelain, C. Camy-Peyret -
Tunable diode-laser spectrometer for atmospheric measurement of the isotopic
ratio 13CO2/12CO2
12:05 J. Cousin, W. Chen, E. Fertein, M.
Fourmentin, D. Boucher - Simultaneous measurements of multiple gas species and
the 13C/12C isotope ratio in CO2 from a
wood-based combustion emission by laser absorption spectroscopy
12:25
Closing remarks
12:45
Lunch
Poster Session 1
Applied Spectroscopy, Lifesciences, Medicine and Agriculture
Monday 09:00 –
Wednesday 12:45
1.
R. Agishev - Application of fused CWFM-lidar and TDLS
approaches to open-path range-resolved gas leaks detection
2.
H. Suzuki, M. Asobe, O. Tadanaga, T. Umeki, T. Yanagawa, Y.
Nishida - Beyond the limitations of conventional mid-IR DFG lasers for trace
gas sensing in industry and research
3.
H. Beese, W. Grählert, P. Kaspersen, A. Bohman - TraceScout
- an advanced sensor system for in-line monitoring of special gases in
semiconductor industry
4.
F. K. Tittel, Y. A.
Bakhirkin, R.F.Curl, A. A. Kosterev, R. Lewicki, S. So, and G.
Wysocki - Recent advances and applications of semiconductor laser based
gas sensor technology
5.
Z. Cao, Xiaoming Gao, Ling Han, Lunhua
Deng, Wanguo Liang, Changqing Xu, Weidong Chen, Weijun Zhang, Zhiben Gong - Ultra-broadband
difference-frequency generation in waveduide PPLN crystal in the mid-infrared
6.
S. G. Baran, G. Hancock, N.J. van Leeuwen, G.A.D. Ritchie -
Use of optical feedback CEAS for atmospheric detection
7.
C. L. Bell, G. Hancock, N.J. Van Leeuwen, G.A.D. Ritchie -
Pressure broadening and shift measurements of ammonia lines with a selection of
broadening gases
8.
L. Ciaffoni, B. Cummings, R. Peverall, G.A.D.
Ritchie -
Cavity enhanced absorption methods for trace gas detection
9.
10. N. J. van Leeuwen -
Potential of NICE-OHMS for ultra-sensitive atmospheric spectroscopy
11. V. L. Kasyutich, R.J.
Holdsworth, P.A. Martin - Phase-shift off-axis cavity-enhanced absorption
spectrometer for nitrogen dioxide
12. K. Wunderle, T.
Fernholz, V. Ebert - New, Automated, Software-based Selection of Optimized
Absorption Lines for TDLAS-based
Concentration Measurement
13. K. Wunderle S. Wagner,
V. Ebert - Compact, high-sensitivity water vapor absorption spectrometer using
new 2.6 µm room-temperature DFB diode lasers
14. B. Sumpf, A. Klehr, G.
Erbert, G. Tränkle - Application of 940 nm high power DFB lasers in high
resolution spectroscopy using a robust and compact sensor unit
15. R. Fontana, M. C.
Gambino, E. Pampaloni, L. Pezzati - Laser micro-profilometry for applications
in the cultural heritage field
16. M. Myara, A.
Bouchier, J.P. Perez, P. Signoret, and A. Garnache - Design and noise properties of
free-running kHz-linewidth broadly-tunable single-frequency external-cavity
VCSELs
17. K. Al Naimee, R. Meucci,
F.T. Arecchi, I. Leyva and I.P. Marino - Control and synchronization of
polarization dynamics by optical feedback
18. T. Fritsch, C.V.
Suschek, P. Hering, M. Mürtz - QCL-based detection of UV-induced nitric oxide
formation from aqueous solutions
19. F. Di Francesco, C.
Loccioni - Development of a CO2 triggered alveolar air sampler
20. E. Crosson, Teng Teeh
Lim - An ultra-sensitive, six-species trace gas analyzer for continuously
monitoring concentrated animal feeding operations
21.
M. Scotoni, D. Bassi, A. Salviati, S.
Iannotta, A.Boschetti - Gassification process monitoring by photoacoustic
diode-laser spectroscopy
22. K. Duffin, W.
Johnstone, A.J. McGettrick and G. Stewart - Tunable diode-laser spectroscopy
for industrial process applications
Poster Session 2
Earth Science, Atmospheric Research, Isotopes, Plasma & Combustion
Wednesday 14:00 – Friday 12:30
1.
E. Crosson, S. Richarson, K. Davis, N. Miles - Cavity
ringdown analyzer for carbon dioxide and methane atmospheric inversion
measurements
2.
F. D´Amato, P. Mazzinghi, M. Romano, S. Viciani, A. Corti,
M. Carpentieri - A case study for dispersion models: methane emission from the
landfill of
3.
L. Joly, F. Gibert, G. Durry, B. Parvitte, V. Zeninari - A
near-infrared sensor for the near-ground measurement of atmospheric CO2:
Intercomparison with Lidar and other sensors
4.
J. Cousin, W. Chen*, M. Fourmentin, D. Boucher - A compact
laser instrument based on difference-frequency generation for trace gas
detection of VOCs
5.
N. Akikusa, T. Edamura, A. Sugiyama, T. Ochiai,
K. Fujita, K. Uehara and H. Kan - NO detection using double lock-in detection technique
with a quantum cascade laser
6.
G.D. Stancu, N. Lang, J. Röpcke, M. Reinicke, A.
Steinbach,
7.
M. Muolo, D. de Blasiis*, C. Bonserio, C. Pappalettere -
Sensors network system for in-line analysis and disposal of CO2
laser steels cutting fumes
8.
M. Muolo, Marco Giannini and Carmine Pappalettere - Laser
diode sensor for the measurement of temperature under different pressure
conditions
9.
S. Welzel, L. Gatilova, A. Rousseau, J. Röpcke - Time
resolved absorption spectroscopic studies on the kinetics of a pulsed DC
discharge using quantum cascade lasers
10. R.J. Holdsworth, V.L.
Kasyutich, P.A. Martin, N.A Martin, C.A Taig, J.S. Young - Molecular oxygen
sensor based upon direct absorption and a vertical-cavity surface-emitting
laser at 765 nm
11. H. Bozem, H. Fischer,
C.L. Schiller, C. Gurk, R. Königstedt, U. Parchatka, J. Lelieveld - Airborne in-situ trace gas measurements during
12. C.L. Schiller, H.
Bozem, C. Gurk, R. Königstedt, U. Parchatka, J. Lelieveld, H. Fischer - Performance and
Design of TRISTAR: A compact three laser
quantum cascade laser spectroscopy instrument for airborne measurements
13. C.L. Schiller, J.
F. Gouin, K. Anlauf, R. Staebler, G.W. Harris - Airborne Measurements of CO and
NH3 during ICARTT 2004 using TDLAS
14. S. te Lintel Hekkert, J.
De Gouw, C. Warneke - CO2 laser-based trace gas ethylene detector for airborne
measurements over
15. L. Joly, V.
Zeninari, B. Parvitte, G. Durry - TDLAS: an instrument based on near-infrared diode laser
technology for the in situ monitoring of the Martian atmosphere
16. M. Ciofini, E. Favilla,
A. Lapucci,
17. M. A. Zondlo, M.E.
Paige, and J.A. Silver - Flight testing and laboratory calibrations of the
HIAPER VCSEL hygrometer
18. V. Kasyutich, Philip A.
Martin, Robert J. Holdsworth - 12CO2/13CO2
ratio measurement by off-axis cavity-enhanced absorption spectroscopy
19. G.E. Kidd - A
theoretical analysis of marijuana grow house detection by TDLAS using the H218O/H216O
isotope ratio
20. J. B. McManus, M.S.
Zahniser, D.D. Nelson, S.C. Herndon, B. Tuzson and
L. Emmenegger
- Long-term continuous monitoring of atmospheric CO2 stable isotopic
ratios using a 4.3 μm pulsed QC
21. B. Tuzon, M.S. Zahniser,
D.D. Nelson, J.B. McManus, L. Emmenegger - Cryogenic free QCLAS for
simultaneous and continuous mixing ratio measurements of CO2
isotopologues in ambient air
