Claire F. Gmachl

Associate Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering
E-Quad B326
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544

Education:
1995 Ph.D. (Electrical Engineering) Technical University of Vienna, Austria;
1991 M.Sc. (Physics) University of Innsbruck, Austria;

Employment and Appointments:
9/2003 - … Associate Professor, Department for Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, NJ
2002 - 2003 Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, NJ
1998 - 2002 Member of Technical Staff, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, NJ
1996 - 1998 Post-doctoral Member of Technical Staff, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, NJ
1995 - 1996 Assistant Professor, Department of Solid State Electronics, Technical University of Vienna, Austria
1993 - 1994 Member of Technical Staff at the Center of Microstructures, Technical University of Vienna, Austria
1992 - 1994 Member of Technical Staff at the Walter Schottky Institute, Technical University of Munich, Garching, Germany

Areas of research:
Quantum cascade lasers for analytic spectroscopy, wireless and optical communications applications
Microcavity lasers with chaotic resonators
Nonlinear optics in semiconductor heterostructures
Group-III nitride devices

Students and Post-doctoral staff supervised:
2 Post-doctoral member of staff supervised at Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies
9 Students supervised at Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies

Bibliography:
more than 125 articles in reviewed scientific journals;
more than 25 patents filed, 15 thereof granted;
more than 35 invited presentations at international conferences and seminars;
more than 35 contributed presentations at international conferences and seminars;
co-edited SPIE Proc. Vol. 4651, 2002, and Vol. 4995, 2003

Professional Activities:
Frequent reviewer to numerous Journals (IEEE, IEE, Applied Physics Letters, Phys. Rev., others)
Conference Chair "Intersubband Transitions in Quantum Wells" ITQW 2005
Conference Co-Chair "Novel In-Plane Semiconductor Lasers I (2002), II (2003), III (2004)" Photonics West
Conference Program Committee Member: HCIS 13, 2003; PNC 03, 2003; IEEE/LEOS 2002 & 2003

Professional Memberships: Senior Member IEEE (2000);
Materials Research Society (1998), SPIE-International Society for Optical Engineering (1998), New York Academy of Science (1998), American Physical Society (1996), Optical Society of America (1996), American Association for the Advancement of Science (1995), IEEE and Laser and Electro-Optics Society (1994), Austrian Physical Society (1990)

Honors:
"The Snell Premium" award of the IEE, UK, August 2003
Bell Labs "Distinguished Member of Staff", December 2002
MIT's Technology Review magazine "TR100", May 2002
IEEE/LEOS Distinguished Lecturer '02 - '03, April 2002
"Commendation for Excellence in Technical Communications", Laser Focus World Magazine, 9/2001
"Outstanding Performer Award" under the DARPA/MTO PWASSP Program, US DoD, July 2001
"NASA Group Achievement Award", co-recipient, NASA, Washington D.C., 2000
"Solid State Physics Award" of the Austrian Physical Society, Austria, 1996
"1995 Christian Doppler Award" for engineering sciences including environmental sciences, Austria, 1996
Graduation "sub auspicies praesidentis" by the president of Austria, Vienna, Austria, 1996

Recent Collaborators: A. Belyanin (Texas A&M), J. Bruno (Maxion Technologies), F. Capasso (Harvard), A. Y. Cho (Lucent Technologies), J. Meyer (Naval Research Lab), E. E. Narimanov (Princeton), H. M. Ng (Lucent Technologies), O. Painter (Caltech), J. Schultz (Pacific Northwest National Lab), F. Tittel (Rice), W. Weber (Ford Motor Company), and many more.

Selected Publications:

Claire Gmachl, Alexey Belyanin, Deborah L. Sivco, Milton L. Peabody, Nina Owschimikow, A. Michael Sergent, Federico Capasso, and Alfred Y. Cho
"Optimized Second-Harmonic Generation in Quantum Cascade Lasers"
IEEE J. Quantum Electron. 39 (11), in print (2003)

Nina Owschimikow, Claire Gmachl, Alexey Belyanin, Vitaly Kocharovsky, Deborah L. Sivco, Raffaele Colombelli, Federico Capasso, and Alfred Y. Cho
"Resonant Second-Order Nonlinear Optical Processes in Quantum Cascade Lasers"
Phys. Rev. Lett. 90(4), 043902-1-4 (2003)

C. Gmachl, A. Soibel, R. Colombelli, D. L. Sivco, F. Capasso, and A. Y. Cho
"Minimal Group Refractive Index Dispersion and Gain Evolution in Ultra-Broadband Quantum Cascade Lasers"
IEEE Photon. Techn. Lett. 14 (12), pp. 1671 - 1672 (2002)

Claire Gmachl, Axel Straub, Raffaele Colombelli, Federico Capasso, Deborah L. Sivco, A. Michael Sergent, and Alfred Y. Cho
"Single-mode, Tunable Distributed-Feedback and Multiple-Wavelength Quantum Cascade Lasers"
IEEE J. Quantum Electron. 38, 569 - 581 (2002) invited paper

Claire Gmachl, Evgueni E. Narimanov, Federico Capasso, James N. Baillargeon, Alfred Y. Cho
"Kolmogorov Arnold Moser transition and laser action on scar modes in semiconductor diode lasers with deformed resonators"
Opt. Lett. 27, pp. 824 - 826 (2002)

C. Gmachl, D. L. Sivco, R. Colombelli, F. Capasso, and A. Y. Cho
"Ultra-broadband semiconductor laser"
Nature 415, pp. 883 - 887 (2002)

Claire Gmachl, Federico Capasso, Deborah L. Sivco, and Alfred Y. Cho
"Recent progress in quantum cascade lasers and applications"
Reports on Progress in Physics 64, pp. 1533 - 1601 (2001)