PROMOTED: Quantum Cascade Lasers (QCL-IR): Enabling Emerging Research in Materials and Life Sciences

First realized in 1994 by Bell Labs, quantum cascade lasers (QCLs) enable rapid advancements in academic, industrial, and defense applications. QCLs are now available in a diverse range of commercial systems from high-power fixed wavelength sources to narrow-linewidth and rapidly, broadly tunable lasers. QCLs have now also been adopted in novel QCL instrumentation providing unique capabilities for liquid/gas analysis and chemical imaging microscopy.

Koren details the latest advancements in life sciences and materials sciences research enabled by today’s solutions. He will cover the operating principles of quantum cascade lasers, the fundamentals of infrared vibrational spectroscopy, the advantages of QCLs in applications, novel research from 2021, and the next-generation applications and technology.

About the presenter
Brock Koren is an executive with over 25 years of experience in high-technology companies. He received Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from California State University, Long Beach. He is currently the director of sales and business development for DRS Daylight Solutions, the world’s leading provider of best-in-class mid-infrared, quantum cascade laser sources for the life sciences, research, industrial, and defense industries. Koren was most recently the vice president of sales and marketing and product management for Gamma Scientific, a manufacturer of light measurement instruments for display testing, LED testing, light meters, light sources, and spectrometers.