Dan Botez
University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Biography
Dan Botez is Philip Dunham Reed Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Wisconsin (UW) - Madison. In 1976, he obtained a PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from University of California, Berkeley. He has carried out and led research in semiconductor lasers at RCA Labs, Princeton, NJ and TRW Research Center, Redondo Beach, CA before joining, in 1993, the faculty at UW-Madison. His research interests lie in three areas of semiconductor-laser physics: high-power, coherent edge-emitting lasers; high-power, coherent grating-coupled surface-emitting lasers; and quantum cascade lasers. The first two are based on one- and two-dimensional, high-index-contrast, photonic-crystal structures, respectively, for insuring both long-range spatial coherence and stable operation under continuous-wave (CW) driving conditions. The third involves electron transitions between the sub-bands of multi-quantum-well structures and is focused on achieving high-efficiency CW operation in the mid-infrared wavelength range: 3-10 microns, via multi-dimensional conduction-band engineering