Jérôme Faist (* January 23, 1962 in GenevaJérôme Faist: ''High Power Room Temperature Emission Quantum Cascade Lasers at λ = 9 μm''
(PDF; 7,4 MB)) is a Swiss physicist and since 2007 professor at the institute of

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Academic career

Jérôme Faist attended the EPF Lausanne under Franz-Karl Reinhart where he obtained his

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in 1985 and his Ph.D. in

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in 1989. His study focused on vertical-cavity surface emitting lasers and

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s. Following his doctorate, he worked at

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as a

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between 1989 and 1991. In 1991, he switched to

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's group in

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where he first worked as a post-doc and then as a Member of Technical Staff. In his time there, his work focused on intersubband transitions and the development of the

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. In 1994, he succeeded in building an experimental quantum cascade laser using

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collaboratively with Federico Capasso, Deborah Sivco, Carlo Sirtori, Albert Hutchinson and Alfred Y. ChoSupélec
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26/27 March 2009, accessed on 26 Dezember 2012 In 1997, Faist became Full Professor at the

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, where he remained until 2007. His work there focused mainly on mid- and

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intersubband lasers. In his time there, in 1998, Faist founded the

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company Alpes Lasers with the goal to commercialize the quantum cascade laser for scientific, industrial and medical use. In 2007, Faist became professor in the institute of

. Further, Faist also became the head of the FIRST Center for Micro- and Nanoscience at ETH. His current research interests are the development of high performance quantum cascade lasers in the mid and far-infrared and the physics of coherence in intersubband transitions in the presence of strong

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Faist, Jérôme 1962 births Living people Swiss physicists École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne alumni Academic staff of the University of Neuchâtel